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The Impact of Managerial Diversity on Strategic Renewal
In his PhD thesis “Essays on Upper Echelons & Strategic Renewal: A Multilevel Contingency Approach”, Mariano L.M. Heyden finds that top management teams make different decisions because different elements of knowledge, experience, and skill sets are activated in relation to different challenges.
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 15-05-2012
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Managing Entrepreneurial Orientation
Internal entrepreneurs are of great relevance to firms’ innovation and growth. So how do companies make optimal use of their entrepreneurial talent? In his PhD dissertation entitled “Managing Entrepreneurial Orientation” Sebastiaan van Doorn looks at the strategies that best support entrepreneurial activities of existing firms.
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15-05-2012
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Eric van Heck receives Outstanding Paper Award from Emerald Literati Network
Every year Emerald invites each journal’s Editorial Team to nominate what they believe has been that title’s Outstanding Paper and up to three Highly Commended Papers from the previous 12 months. This year Prof.dr.ir. Eric van Heck’s article entitled
“Understanding transition performance during offshore IT outsourcing” published in
Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal has been chosen as an
Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012.
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02-05-2012
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Animal Spirits and Extreme Confidence: No Guts, No Glory?
For any organisation it is important to be aware of managerial biases, such as extreme confidence about corporate performance. In her dissertation entitled Animal Spirits and Extreme Confidence: No Guts, No Glory?, Mariska Douwens-Zonneveld constructs an alternative measure of company confidence, which is based on deeds rather than words.
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29-03-2012
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Steering consumer decision-making processes
Internet as a combined communication and sales channel has blurred the borders between abstract messages that are traditionally communicated via advertisements, commercials and billboards and concrete messages that are traditionally communicated by promotions on the shop floor. This leads to questions like: “What is the best message to communicate on the introductory page of a webshop? Is it effective to communicate an abstract message (e.g. “Yoghurt is healthy”), or is it more effective to communicate about specific products (e.g. “Products X, Y and Z are healthy”)?
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22-03-2012
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KNAW grant for storage systems research by René de Koster
René de Koster, Professor of Logistics and Operations Management, and Professor Yugang Yu (USTC) have won a grant of € 48,000 for their joint research project into storage systems, from the China Exchange Programme of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW).
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05-03-2012
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Vici Grant for Professor Ingolf Dittmann
Ingolf Dittmann, Professor in Finance in the Erasmus School of Economics received a Vici grant of one and a half million Euros from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for his research proposal entitled “Inferring Preferences from Managerial Compensation Data”.
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09-02-2012
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Dean Erasmus School of Economics receives Thai honorary doctorate
Professor Philip Hans Franses, professor of Applied Econometrics and Marketing, dean of the Erasmus School of Economics, was awarded an honorary doctorate by Chiang Mai University, one of the largest universities of Thailand. Franses is the first Dutchman to receive a Thai honorary doctorate.
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06-02-2012
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The right conditions for generating good ideas in business
Leadership, learning and exchanging knowledge and ideas for social networks all contribute to an organisation being able to capitalise on its potential to innovate from within. In his PhD dissertation entitled
Idea Management: Perspectives from Leadership, Learning, and Network Theory, Dirk Deichmann explores the factors that create the right conditions for people within organisations to continuously generate good quality ideas that can move the organisation forward.
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05-02-2012
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PhD Vacancies in Management
Ambitious young researchers are invited to apply for ERIM’s advanced PhD programme in Management.
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26-01-2012
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“Short” positions impact market participants, prices and portfolio allocations
Short selling leads to price inflation beyond the most optimistic valuation in that it can be attributed to the prospect of the future securities lending income. In her PhD dissertation T
he Long and Short Side of Real Estate, Real Estate Stocks, and Equity, Melissa Porras Prado focuses on the interaction between “Long” and “Short” positions and their impact on market participants, prices and portfolio allocations. Porras Prado argues that the business of securities lending is a lucrative one for funds with large portfolios of stocks, and investors are willing to pay the premium associated with lending fees.
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18-01-2012
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Profit or Professionalism? Designing Professional Service Firms
Given the economic crisis, Professional Service Firms (PSFs) with public functions in sectors such as law, accounting and architecture are starting to behave more like ‘regular’ organisations, adjusting their structures and processes to be able to merge, diversify and internationalise. Historically, PSFs were organised around their public function. Now they have a double objective; providing public services such as a well-run legal system and reliable corporate audits, and at the same time making profits. But these two objectives, the public and private, can sometimes be at odds.
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09-01-2012
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Does your brain urge you to take risks in order to be like others?
How do our brains make daily choices and judgments? How does the surrounding context influence this process? In her PhD thesis entitled
Context Effects in Valuation, Judgment and Choice: A Neuroscientific Approach, Kaisa Hytönen investigates these questions in risky and social settings. Her findings imply that prior experiences influence subsequent choices by changing the balance between emotional and deliberative brain processes. Results from her study also suggest that people learn to behave as others do quite automatically.
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04-01-2012
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Unique ERIM Highly Distinguished Promotor Awards
On December 15, before moving to the traditional ERIM awards at the ERIM Awards Ceremony, Professor Henk Schmidt asked the attention for two of ERIM's senior colleagues that achieved a milestone in their career; both Professors
Philip Hans Franses and
Rommert Dekker have delivered their 25
th PhD earlier this year.
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21-12-2011
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