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In her dissertation 'What’s in a Word: Economic Applications of Text Mining Methods’ Myrthe van Dieijen demonstrates how text can be used to both shape and answer research questions in business and economics research.

Top research in management is a foundational pillar of Erasmus University, said Rector Magnificus Prof. Rutger Engels when he congratulated the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) on its 20th anniversary at an annual awards dinner recently. ERIM is a joint research institute of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE). Prof. Engels commended ERIM for the part it played in elevating the state of management research at EUR to its current level.

PhD candidate Gizem Yalcin won an award for her research activities in the field of marketing management, which she conducts at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM). It was announced at the conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM) in Montréal, Canada in November 2019.

The Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) recognised the best research articles, book, dissertation and young researchers at the ERIM Awards ceremony at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam on 28 November 2019. The award ceremony was part of an anniversary event, which celebrated 20 years of ERIM.

In his dissertation 'Operational Strategies for On-demand Delivery Services’ Alp Arslan focusses on the operational problems arising in on-demand delivery services, and he explores how to improve these services with help of the sharing economy and online platforms.

Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Assistant Professor at Erasmus School of Economics, has received the best paper award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Are today’s ‘grand challenges’ under-researched? That’s what assistant professor Corinna Frey-Heger suspected when she joined RSM’s department of Business-Society Management in 2018. She wanted to research a subject that moved her, and so she focused on displacement of people. Although the refugee crisis had not yet become an issue when she started her doctoral research, it did become more serious, particularly in Europe. Corinna went on to win the Grigor McClelland award in July 2019 and the EGOS Best Student Paper Award in 2018 for her research into the global displacement crisis.

In his dissertation 'Strengthening corporate leadership research: The relevance of biological explanations’ Krishnan Nair applies insights from the evolutionary sciences to study topics related to corporate governance and politics.

On Friday, the 04th of October 2019, Prof. Henk de Vries, Endowed Professor of Standardisation Management in the Department of Technology and Operations Management, presented his inaugural address entitled ‘Standardisation Management’.

In her dissertation ‘On Getting Along and Getting Ahead: How Personality Affects Social Network Dynamics’, Evgenia Dolgova studies how personality and interpersonal perceptions contribute to social network dynamics. It presents two studies that advance our understanding on how friendship unfolds within the organizations.