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Erasmus University hosts launch UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2011 Global FDI flows are expected to recover to pre-crisis level this year, according to the UNCTADS’s World Investment Report 2011. As Rob van Tulder’s SCOPE centre is a long-time partner of the report series, the Dutch launch of the 2011 report was hosted by Erasmus University.
03-07-2011
Collaboration results in NWO-WOTRO subsidy The Erasmus School of Economics has won a €700k NWO-WOTRO subsidy for a 4-year project entitled: ‘Escaping the Middle-income country trap: targeted and pragmatic policies for technological upgrading and worker-inclusive industrial strategies as drawn from a firm-level analysis of the Philippines & Thailand’. Professor Rob van Tulder, Academic Director of the SCOPE centre for international business and sustainable development, will play an important role in the project.
10-03-2011
Lucas Meijs Editor for Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly The Association for Research in Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action [ARNOVA] has announced the transition in editorship for its flagship Journal, Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly [NVSQ]. A new team of editors consists of, among others, Lucas Meijs. He will assume leadership of the Journal beginning July 1, 2010.
02-02-2010
Max Havelaar Lecture 2009 On 4 November, the third Max Havelaar lecture took place at Erasmus University. This year’s motto was ‘Chains for Change'. Speakers with a range of perspectives gave their vision and ambitions about the way that supply chains can change the world.
15-11-2009
Launch of the World Investment Report 2009 How have foreign direct investment (FDI) flows reacted to the financial and economic crisis? How do traditional and new foreign investors – transnational corporations (TNCs) – affect agriculture, the basis of livelihood in many developing countries? These are two major issues analysed in the World Investment Report 2009 (WIR09). WIR09 was officially released at Erasmus University on Thursday, September 17th, 2009.
29-09-2009
Jordan Otten comments on voluntary code of conduct for bankers In the New York Times of September 9, 2009, Jordan Otten comments on the newly adopted Dutch bankers’ code of conduct to strengthen risk management and put new constraints on executive bonuses, primarily by limiting them to the amount of a banker’s fixed compensation. He said that the Netherlands was likely to push ahead with tougher measures, even if other countries do not follow. He said he worried that, in the end, any moves would prove more symbolic than real.
15-09-2009
Lucas Meijs in Eén Vandaag on volunteer work Lucas Meijs appeared as expert professor on Dutch television in Eén Vandaag and commented on the increase in both offer and demand of volunteer work. He commented on the reasons behind this increase of people interested in doing volunteer jobs and the offer of this type of community service.
15-09-2009
Gail Whiteman in Business Week on climate change as a management and business school challenge Gail Whiteman, associate professor of Business-Society Management, argues on Business Week.com that climate change is indeed the biggest management challenge of the century, maybe the millennium. She adds that sadly, most business schools, despite all their talk about sustainability programs and green buildings, are not paying enough attention.
24-04-2009
Agricultural Innovation in Asia On Thursday, January 15, Govert Gijsbers has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Agricultural Innovation in Asia: Drivers, Paradigms and Performance”. This dissertation addresses the issue of agricultural innovation in Asia. Agricultural production and productivity in many Asian countries have grown rapidly over the past decades. Yet, important challenges are ahead. Growing incomes lead to rapid changes in consumption patterns: not only do people eat more food, they also demand more animal products and, fruits and vegetables. While demand is growing the resource base from which to feed a growing and more affluent population is declining: good agricultural land is lost to erosion, urbanization, industrial development and recreation.
16-01-2009
Thesis by Mignon van Halderen sheds light on Identity Expressions & Reputation Management On Friday 11 January 2008, Mignon van Halderen has defended her PhD thesis, entitled “Organizational Identity Expressiveness: Principles for Expressing the Organizational Identity in order to Manage External Stakeholders’ Perceptions of a Company.” Her supervisor is Prof.dr. Cees B.M. van Riel, who is Professor of Corporate Communication at RSM Erasmus University. Van Halderen’s thesis research took place as part of the Erasmus Doctoral Programme in Business and Management, organized by ERIM – the research and training institute connected to both RSM Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics.
21-01-2008
 
 
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