Peter van der Zwan
Associate Professor
- Name
- Dr. P.W. van der Zwan
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 8560
- p.w.van.der.zwan@law.leidenuniv.nl

Dr. Peter van der Zwan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business Studies at Leiden Law School. He is also Head of the Department of Business Studies.
Peter has extensive teaching experience in business-related and quantitative courses. He is a former fellow of the Leiden Teachers’ Academy.
Peter publishes mainly quantitative work in the area of entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on the outcomes of entrepreneurial behaviour—including exit and failure, and both monetary and non-monetary value creation, with wellbeing as a central theme. His research has been published in many international peer-reviewed journals such as Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Small Business Economics.
Peter holds an MSc in Econometrics (2007) and a PhD in Economics (2011) from Erasmus University Rotterdam. He joined Leiden University in 2017.
Associate Professor
- Faculty of Law
- Institute of Tax Law and Economics
- Business Studies
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