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26-01-2012
Ting Li runner-up in Aart Bosman Prize Assistant Professor Ting Li won second place in the Aart Bosman Prize competition for her ‘perfectly-executed’ PhD thesis 'Informedness and Customer-Centric Revenue Management' (2009), which provides organisations with tools to better deal with the information society and its challenges.
21-11-2011
The funny side of academic research: Mirjam Tuk Wins Ig Nobel Prize Need to make a rational decision? Have another drink! People with a full bladder take more rational decisions. It might make you laugh and that is why this remarkable finding was awarded an lg Nobel Medicine Prize.
02-11-2011
On the Psychology of Displaying Ethical Leadership: A Behavioral Ethics Approach Given the abundance of recent high-profile ethical scandals, it is not surprising that social scientists have increasingly turned their attention to the subject of ethical leadership. After all, leaders are expected to not only act ethically themselves, but also to promote ethical behaviour among their employees.
04-10-2011
Structure and Cooptition in Urban Networks Over the past decades, demographic changes, advances in transportation and communication technology, and the growth of the services sector have had a significant impact on the spatial structure of regions. To what extent are regions becoming more polycentric and spatially integrated? Are relationships between cities in polycentric, spatially integrated regions complementary rather than competitive?
29-09-2011
Health and Marketing: Essays on Physician and Patient Decision-Making Patient-physician relationships are changing fast. Even though patients are increasingly seen as active participants in medical decision-making and are expected to help physicians choose the best medications to treat their own illnesses, there are many questions regarding the role each party should have in the deliberation process and choice of medical treatment.  In his dissertation entitled Health and Marketing: Essays on Physician and Patient Decision-Making, awarded cum laude, Nuno Camacho addresses key consequences of this changing context and of the interaction between patients and physicians.
25-07-2011
The Effectiveness of Pharmaceutical Marketing How can pharmaceutical firms successfully market their products to doctors and patients? In his PhD thesis, Eelco Kappe extensively answers this question, providing insights both for academics and marketing managers.
18-07-2011
CEO Narcissism: Measurement and Impact Narcissism forms an essential element for effective leadership and is as such an important personal characteristic for CEOs. In her dissertation entitled CEO Narcissism: Measurement and Impact, Antoinette Rijsenbilt describes the objective measurement of CEO narcissism and its impact on organizational outcomes.
07-07-2011
Project-level Governance, Monetary Incentives and Performance in Strategic R&D Alliances Strategic R&D alliances between firms have brought us new products like the coffee machine Senseo and the antiviral drug Tamiflu. Still, many R&D alliances fail. In his PhD project, Mahmut Ozdemir took a closer look at the governance mechanisms of alliances. He found that the positive effects of relatively higher monetary incentives are usually offset by the negative effects of intense project-level governance.
07-07-2011
Contingencies: Learning Numerical and Emotional Associations in an Uncertain World Contrary to the academic consensus, Bart de Langhe argues it’s fair to judge managers and other decision makers on the quality of their decisions, instead of the process through which they arrive at them. It’s one of the key findings from his excellent PhD research, which deals with human cognition, especially the ability to detect and learn systematic associations between cues and outcomes. Bart de Langhe was awarded cum laude for his dissertation.
10-06-2011
Nationality Heterogeneity and Interpersonal Relationships at Work Employees often have valuable ideas for improving their organisation, but do not share them with their supervisors. This creates an unfortunate paradox for managers; business is often too complex for ‘figuring it out from the top’ so many managers rely on the input of employees, especially those with different cultural backgrounds with novel ideas for improving business because of their unique experiences and views. Unfortunately, these employees are often in the minority in the workplace, and can be too afraid to speak up.
10-06-2011
The Entrepreneurial Process: An International Analysis of Entry and Exit Under which conditions do individuals decide to become entrepreneurs? And when do they decide to cease their entrepreneurial activities? In his dissertation, Peter van der Zwan answers these questions. His findings are relevant for policy makers who seek to stimulate entrepreneurship.
10-06-2011
In Money we Trust? Trust Repair and the Psychology of Financial Compensations Given the widespread use of financial compensations as a response to harm, it seems strange that until now, not much has been known empirically about their effectiveness and their ability to restore trust between people in economic relations. In his PhD dissertation In Money we Trust? Trust Repair and the Psychology of Financial Compensations, Pieter Desmet analyses the psychological processes that victims experience when they are confronted with harm and subsequently, when they receive compensation.
13-05-2011
The Dynamics of Formal Organization: Essays on Bureaucracy and Formal Rules Rules and bureaucratic formalities are a very recognizable and striking part of many organizations, despite numerous predictions by scholars and public figures of the rise of radically different forms of organization that would render bureaucracy obsolete. When dealing with organizations, we all experience situations when we might wonder why particular bureaucratic rules have suddenly changed, or why a rule can remain unchanged for a very long time.
02-05-2011
Behavioral Finance and Agent-Based Artificial Markets A research into individual investors and their behavior has received a lot of consideration during the past, and is increasingly in the focus of interest of many scientists, not being confined only to economists. However, the particular way of looking at an individual investor has been subject to a great paradigmatic shift with the inclusion of the findings and the methodology of psychology into the financial studies. Despite many ongoing debates, this has slowly led to the establishment of behavioral economics and behavioral finance as widely recognized subdisciplines. In his dissertation, entitled Behavioral Finance and Agent-Based Artificial Markets, Milan Lovric analyzes market-wise implications of investor behavior and their irrationalities by means of agent-based simulations of financial markets.
06-04-2011
Configurations of Inter-Firm Relations in Management Innovation: A Study in China’s Biopharmaceutical Industry While the global biopharmaceutical industry maintains its promise of a bright future, it remains economically underperforming and continues to burn capital at an unprecedented pace. Experts argue that one reason for this staggering underperformance lies in the absence of appropriate managerial instruments that allow to fully exploit the potentials of the available scientific approaches. In his PhD dissertation Configurations of Inter-Firm Relations in Management Innovation: A Study in China’s Biopharmaceutical Industry, Johannes Meuer argues that the situation in the biopharmaceutical industry in China is unique. Its rapidly changing institutional infrastructure, the large number and diversity of organisations, and their intensive reliance on each other to access unique scientific competencies, make for an environment that induces firms to challenge existing and experiment with new management techniques.
31-03-2011
Extreme Dependence in Asset Markets Around the Globe In the last two decades several major financial crises occurred, including the 1994 Peso crisis, the 1997-1998 Asian crisis, the burst of the internet bubble in 2001-2002, and more recently the 2008-2009 credit crisis. During these financial crises the dependence between asset prices increases to levels exceeding those observed during tranquil periods. Due to this increased dependence, different markets tend to crash together during crises period. This has some important implications for practice. In his thesis, Extreme Dependence in Asset Markets Around the Globe, Thijs Markwat shows that the dependence between large stock returns is higher than the dependence between small to moderate stock returns.
31-03-2011
ERIM Awards Ceremony 2010: and the awards go to… At the annual ERIM Awards Ceremony, ERIM honoured its best researchers of the joint institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics. The prizes are divided into different academic disciplines such as the Dissertation Award, the Book Award and the Impact Award.
16-12-2010
Johannes Meuer wins AESE’s Case Writing Competition Johannes Meuer, PhD candidate at ERIM and member of the China Business research centre, is the winner of the AESE Case Writing Competition 2010 with his case study “A Grand Entrance: Li Ning’s Emergence as a Global, Chinese Brand”.
29-11-2010
Three ERIM researchers on 2011 Marketing Science Institute Young Scholars List The top industry group of the Marketing Science Institute (MSI) has identified three ERIM members as the likely leaders of the next generation of academics: Berk Ataman, Stefano Puntoni, and Dennis Fok. They were named ‘2011 Young Scholars’.
11-11-2010
HRH Princess Máxima addresses Christiaan Huygens Award winner Martijn de Jong During the award ceremony for the Christiaan Huygens Award, Martijn de Jong was addressed by Her Royal Highness, Princess Máxima of the Netherlands. In her speech, HRH Princess Máxima referred to De Jong’s research as ‘levelling boundaries between countries, cultures, and scientific disciplines.’
01-11-2010
Twan Dollevoet wins Student Research Paper Contest on Management Science in Railroad Applications Twan Dollevoet, PhD Candidate at ERIM, has won first place at the Student Research Paper Contest on Management Science in Railroad Applications.
25-10-2010
Martijn de Jong picks up national science prize for economics Hot on the heels of the EUR Research prize that he received on September 6, Martijn de Jong, Associate Professor of Marketing, has been awarded the 10,000 Euro Christiaan Huygens science prize in the field of economic sciences.
14-09-2010
Dr. Wendy van der Valk receives Emerald / EFMD Highly Commended Award Van der Valk’s doctoral dissertation, entitled "Buyer-Seller Interaction in Ongoing Service Exchange" has been selected for a Highly Commended Award in the category Operations Management by the EFMD. The dissertation was awarded because of its high relevance for the field of Service Operations Management. In her dissertation, Van der Valk states that in business-to-business services, customers and suppliers must discuss what is needed and make the necessary adjustments on an ongoing basis. Currently, most organisations that have purchased services are paying too little attention to the practical impact that these services are having on their own customers
22-08-2008
NWO-VENI grant for Wilco van den Heuvel On August 6, NWO announced to award a NWO-VENI grant to Wilco van den Heuvel for his project: Reducing the Price of Anarchy in Supply Chains. Wilco receives the sum of € 208.000,-, starting in February 2009 until February 2012. The NWO-VENI is a grant for young researchers up to 3 years after their defense. A while ago, van den Heuvel, assistant professor at the Econometric Institute, also received an EUR Fellowship.
19-08-2008
Jeroen Derwall receives European Finance and Sustainability Research Award An article published in Le Monde on 22 January 2008, entitled "Le Prix de la recherché: Finance et développement durable", includes an interview with ECCE member Jeroen Derwall, winner of the 2008 European Finance and Sustainability Research Award. In the interview (in French) Jeroen Derwall outlines the conclusions from the six studies that comprise his doctoral research on investing based on ESG principles. Derwall is the first two-time winner of the award. In 2006 "The Eco-Efficiency Premium Puzzle" received the award for best published article.
05-02-2008
EUR Fellowship for Wilco van den Heuvel Wilco van den Heuvel have been awarded a postdoc fellowship, he is one of the recipients of an EUR fellowship. Van den Heuvel is member of ERIM and assistant professor at the Econometric Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
21-12-2007
Honour to the third power for Erik Kole: NWO Veni Grant, ERIM Award & Nokia-EBF PhD Award ERIM Associate Member Erik Kole (Finance) gathered in as much as three awards from different institutions since November 30. It started with the Nokia-EBF PhD Award he received for his thesis entitled: ‘On Crises, Crashes and Co-movements’. On December 13, he was presented the ERIM Dissertation Award, during the annual ERIM Awards, again for his thesis. At the same event, Rector Magnificus Professor Steven Lamberts announced Erik Kole has been awarded the VENI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for his research proposal "Consequences of Abrupt Events for Investors in Financial Markets". This grant of EUR 208.000 will be used to finance Kole’s current position.
19-12-2007
 
 
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