Our Mission
To distill corpora of massively complex human and organizational behavior aiming to discover behavioral structures and regularities through theorizing and theory building – all contributing to a richer, theoretically explicated understanding of such behaviors.

Our Vision
TBRP is recognized as a global leader in pursuit of newness and theory building through inter-disciplinary, inter-sectoral, inter-technology and international, impact focused, relevant doctoral training and research.

TBRP is an inter-disciplinary, inter-sectoral, inter-technology and international Research Programme in Newness and Theory Building with critical mass, the highest academic standards, peer review, evaluation and monitoring, international teams training and supervising doctoral candidates and integral engagement of non-academic partners that fosters innovative, multi- and cross-disciplinary, relevant and creative research exposed to and integrated with industry and public and not-for-profit sectors.

Through harnessing the research strengths, facilities and senior academic personnel of TBRP members, TBRP, as a Collaborative Research Network of the Aalborg University Business School, provides an unrivaled resource for the training of the doctoral candidates. TBRP is led by Romeo V. Turcan who founded it in 2012.

Newness, uncertainty and theory building are the foundation pillars of TBRP. In our society of rapid change, seeking to cope with complex, large scale new challenges to economic, social and political development, there is an urgent need for a new perspective in high level research and doctoral training to address how best to interpret and respond to escalating new local, regional, international and global challenges. The volume of data and sources of information for evidence based research is daunting, reinforcing the need for effective new ways to improve understanding and interpretation, build new theories, and understand theory building process.

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training
Since its inception, TBRP Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training continues to have successful impact in translating theoretical level research into employability in private and public sectors, including outside academia of doctoral students. It offers a number of high quality, interdisciplinary doctoral and supervisor training programmes as well as developed 'in-house'  strategies for theorizing and theory building.

Interdisciplinary Research
Underpinning the quality of the interdisciplinary doctoral training are the high level inter-disciplinary, inter-sectoral, inter-technology and international research projects that are innovative in their multi-dimensional focus on the dynamic, emerging and complex social, economic technological and policy challenges of rapid change, mass data and contested evidence bases. 

Funding Portfolio
Since its foundation in 2012, TBRP has attracted, as main applicant, EU funding of over 8 million EUR, and acted as a coordinator of 5 EU funded - research and capacity building - projects.

Publications
TBRP contributes with its inter-disciplinary, inter-technology and inter-sectoral outputs, aimed at academic and non-academic community, to a richer, theoretically explicated understanding of massively complex human and organizational behavior.