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In her dissertation ‘Employee Engagement In Corporate Social Responsibility; A collection of essays’, ERIM’s Lonneke Roza addresses three main research areas. First, it investigates who engages in CSR and to what extend they differ from those who are privately involved and those who are unengaged in social initiatives. Secondly, this dissertation reveales the barriers for those who refrain from such behavior and how organizations can take measures to lower these barriers, and consequently increase engagement rates. The third part of the dissertation takes multi-level perspectives on the outcomes of employee engagement in CSR, both from a business and NPO perspective.

In his dissertation ‘Innovation, Status, and Networks’, ERIM’s Pengfei Wang investigated how innovation strategy, status, and network structure jointly affect the performance and behavioral propensity of firms.

ERIM Associate Member Pamala Wiepking and RSM PhD Candidate Lonneke Roza won the AOM Emerald Best International Symposium Award at the Academy of Management (AOM) Conference 2016 in Anaheim, California.

ERIM congratulates Dr. P.Y.E. (Edith) Leung (Department of Business Economics, Erasmus School of Economics) and Dr. C.J.P. (Christophe) Lembregts (Department of Marketing Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University), both Associate Members of ERIM, with winning this prestigious grants!

In her dissertation ‘Network Design and Robust Scheduling in Liner Shipping’, ERIM’s Judith Mulder proposes methods to design liner networks that maximize profit for the liner companies and methods to minimize total costs by reallocating buffer times and determining recovery policies specifying how to react on incurred delays.

In his dissertation ‘Indicators for risk detection in Dutch Education, Quality management, financial ratios and vertical integration’ ERIM’s Jos Verkroost examines the effectiveness of indicators which are used by the Education Inspectorate of the Ministry of Education to supervise school boards in the Netherlands.

In her dissertation ‘Sustainable Electric Vehicle Management using Coordinated Machine Learning’, ERIM’s Konstantina Valogianni investigates how intelligent algorithms can support electricity customers in their complex decisions within the electricity grid.

In her dissertation ‘Price Discovery, Liquidity Provision, and Low-Latency Trading’, ERIM’s Darya Yuferova discusses three empirical papers in the field of market microstructure. These papers investigate the impact of increased interconnectedness of the financial markets and the vast trading speed improvements on two important functions of financial markets: price discovery and liquidity provision.

In her dissertation ‘Money or Ethics. Multinational corporations and religious organisations operating in an era of corporate responsibility’, ERIM’s Katinka van Cranenburgh provides insight into the struggles of Multinational Organisations and Religious Organisations and builds on theory that can be used by business and investment managers that have an influence on society through the means of their activities.

In her dissertation ‘Governing for Stakeholders: How Organizations May Create or Destroy Value for their Stakeholders’, ERIM’s Pushpika Vishwanathan explores how organizations balance the interests of multiple stakeholders in corporate governance. The thesis consists of three studies, each focusing on a unique empirical context that involves the balancing of conflicting stakeholder interests.