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In his dissertation ‘The Effectiveness of Organizational Controls: A meta-analytic review and an investigation in NPD outsourcing’ Vikrant Sihag extends on the behavioral and performance consequences of exercising organizational controls, both, in general and NPD outsourcing.

In his dissertation ‘Optimizing the Performance of Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems’ Tim Lamballais Tessensohn studies the performance of robotic mobile fulfillment systems by solving decision problems related to warehouse design, inventory and resource allocation, and real-time operations.

In his dissertation ‘Essays on Factor Investing’ Georgi Kyosev focuses on the implications of factor investing for the efficiency of financial markets, the underlying drivers of factor premiums, the way factor investing strategies are implemented, and the added value for the end investors.

In his dissertation ‘Multi-objective Optimization Methods for Allocation and Prediction’ Qing Chuan Ye focuses on two different aspects of auctions and employs techniques and methods from both operations research and computer science.

In his dissertation ‘International stock markets: Essays on the determinants and consequences of financial market development’ José Albuquerque de Sousa discusses the determinants and consequences of financial market development in an international context.

In his dissertation ‘The Value of Happiness in Entrepreneurship’ Fan Jia focuses on the volitional effect of happiness on entrepreneurial action enacted on different phases of new business creation process.

In his dissertation ‘Praise the Lord! Infusing Values and Emotions into Neo-Institutional Theory’ Hendra Wijaya extends the neglected yet essential concepts of values and emotions into the phenomenological foundations of neo-institutional theory.

Energy information systems are important to secure resilient and sustainable cities. Dr Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokfhal from the Erasmus Centre for Future Energy Business at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) has won a grant to recruit faculty to research how municipalities can facilitate their efforts towards reaching sustainability goals, until 2021. The award from ERA-Net Smart Energy Systems was granted to a consortium of RSM with Danish and Swedish municipalities and other international universities.

In his dissertation ‘Market Risks and Strategies in Power Systems Integrating Renewable Energy’ Derck Koolen assesses the integration of intermittent renewable energy sources in relation to agents' risk preferences and decision strategies in short-term sequential power markets via a multi-method approach.

In his dissertation ‘Challenges of Early Stage Entrepreneurs: The Roles of Vision Communication and Team Membership Change’ Timo van Balen provides numerous practical and academic contributions to the fields of entrepreneurship, impression management, vision communication, and team dynamics.