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In her dissertation, 'IoT – Inducing Organizational Transformation?', Katharina Badenhausen dove into coordination and communication between firms in a supply chain. She focused on how firms can adopt new software-based systems to provide companies with the opportunity to improve how they govern, coordinate, and execute intra- and interorganisational process.

In his dissertation 'Cooperation, Reliability, and Matching in Inland Freight Transport', Alberto Giudici explored inland container and bulk transport, which focused on the intercontinental journey connecting production areas to port, ports to warehouses, and the last-mile distribution. He theorised three solutions addressing the improvement of transport performance in terms of capacity, technology, and infrastructure.

In his dissertation 'Essays in Financial Accounting', Jeroen Koenraadt evaluated the current financial disclosure mechanisms in place, finding sub-optimal levels of quality brought forward through market frictions and an overly complex process. He explored ways financial disclosures can be improved and how regulation and discovery is perceived. His research contributes to a profound field that is constantly changing and under scrutiny.

In his dissertation 'The Mind with a Touch of Madness? Mental Health and Well-being Of Entrepreneurs', Plato Leung developed an insight into the mental health of entrepreneurs. He evaluated the psychiatric symptoms of entrepreneurs throughout their career suggesting key personality and psychiatry traits of the entrepreneur. His research pierces into an emerging field of study and opens up questions for further research regarding the well-being, upbringing, and emotional capacity of modern entrepreneurs.

In his dissertation 'READY, SET, GO(AL)! New Directions in Goal-Setting Research', Jorrit Alkema dove into the long contested field of employee motivation with his research into goal setting. He adds to the already compelling and accepted theoretical developments of goal setting research with his own through experiment focal experiments to provide remarkable additions to contemporary GST.

Nienke's dissertation 'Statistical Modeling Approaches for Behavioral and Medical Data', employs modern statistical models in the field of fundamental economic behavior and medical sciences with the aim to generate more reliable inferences and more accurate predictions than would have been the case with established methods.

In his dissertation 'Corporate Bond Markets: Investor Preferences and Intermediary Frictions', Antti Yang demonstrated that sustainable investors may contribute to a more liquid and resilient market. He also identified hedging costs as a friction that is relevant for asset pricing.

In his dissertation 'A Network Perspective on Corporate Entrepreneurship: How Workplace Relationships Influence Entrepreneurial Behavior', Stefan Breet developed and tested a theoretical framework that provides a network perspective on corporate entrepreneurship (the NPCE framework). The NPCE framework shows when and why the social context plays a decisive role in the corporate entrepreneurship process. The results of three empirical studies provide support for the NPCE framework and demonstrate that the social context can evoke entrepreneurial and conservative behavior. The key implication of this finding for future corporate entrepreneurship research is that the omission of the social context leads to an incomplete understanding of the corporate entrepreneurship process.

In his dissertation 'Leading for Performance in Adversity Managing Failure, Negative Emotions, and Self-Threats' Erik Waltré investigated what leaders can do to help followers perform better in adversity, such as failure, negative emotions, and perceptions of self-threat. In jobs with more adverse experiences, working risks coming at the expense of both well-being and – paradoxically – performance. In those situations, leading for performance requires leaders to help followers deal more effectively with adverse experiences, and to minimize the distress that may otherwise be evoked by them. The prevalence of adverse situations inherent to many jobs highlights the importance for leaders in those situations to help followers minimize the negative consequences of adversity. Inspired by this challenge, the aim of this treatise is to investigate the role of leadership in assisting followers exposed to such adversity.

In his dissertation 'Mind the Gap: The role of psychic distance and supplier’s reputation in international buyer-supplier relationships' Silviu Tierean investigated the effects of the psychic distance on supplier selection and quality of the business-to-business relationships, and assessed whether the corporate reputation of the supplier firm can reduce the negative effects of distance.