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Seven out of ten transfers of family businesses to succeeding generations don’t end well because founders hold onto too much control. As a result, the next generation can’t do business effectively, or new directors are too cautious to keep the business profitable. But improvements can be achieved by drawing up plans at an early stage, continuing to invest in innovation and remaining decisive. These are the key conclusions of Nieuw bloed, nieuwe koers (New blood, new course)

In his dissertation ‘Big Data in Management Research: Exploring New Avenues’ ERIM’s Colin Lee explores the opportunities that Big Data brings for management scholars and describes three distinct projects that show how Big Data can be utilized in management research.

In her dissertation ‘Others. Essays on interpersonal and consumer behavior’, ERIM’s Irene Consiglio investigates how consumers rarely realize how much principles governing the way they interact with other people may affect not only their interpersonal behavior, but even their consumer behavior.

In her dissertation ‘Gender and Leadership Aspiration: The impact of the organizational environment’, ERIM’s Claudia Erlemann focuses on assessing the potential impact of the organizational environment, including formal and informal elements, as well as relevant actors and their respective impact on leadership aspiration.

Connecting with the real world is often a criticism of business schools. Presenting research through an innovative and succinct format has become an art form at Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) Erasmus University, “one of Europe’s leading business schools with 30 research centers and over 250 senior researchers and 100 PhD students.

In his dissertation ‘Behavioral Operations in Logistics’ ERIM’s Jelle de Vries aims to contribute to theory and practice by investigating which behavioral factors and individual characteristics of workers and managers influence the outcomes of logistical processes, and to what extent.

When do business leaders stand up against ethical transgressions in their company and when do they allow others to get away with it? New research by Associate Professor Pieter Desmet, and by ERIM member, Assistant Professor Niek Hoogervorst from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) suggests that managers who believe their company operates in strongly competitive markets might more readily see unethical decisions simply as ‘acceptable business practices’.

A partnership to boost academic research into organisations, strategy and governance at family businesses has been formed by Dutch co-operative bank Rabobank, global top-five accounting firm BDO and the Erasmus Centre for Family Business (ECFB) based at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).

Assistant Professor Pamala Wiepking of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) Department of Business-Society Management is winner of the 2016 Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Early Career Emerging Scholars Award.

How jobs and employment opportunities in the future may change with the emergence of disruptive technologies in the digital age has been described in the Future of Jobs Report 2016 from the World Economic Forum (WEF).