In his dissertation ‘Firms and the State: An Examination of Corporate Political Activity and the Business-Government Interface’ Omar El Nayal focuses on researching a particular form of CPA, namely the appointment of politicians to firms’ boards of directors.
New ideas in business and management are arriving at a great rate, and it takes great thinkers to signpost them for others to follow. Ying Zhang, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Chinese Economy and Business and Associate Dean of China Business at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) has been recognised as one of them. She is included in a list of the top 30 thinkers to watch in the coming year by www.thinkers50.com. It recognises her work that argues for the necessity of cross-sector collaboration between business, education research, and social-economic circumstance.
In her dissertation ‘A Temporal Perspective on Social Comparisons in Organizations’ Susan Reh aims to advance our knowledge of the effects of social comparisons by taking a temporal perspective on the social comparison process
In his dissertation ‘Setting the Stage for Innovation: Balancing Diverse Interests Through Standardisation’ Paul Wiegmann shows how standardisation helps balance diverse interests and create foundations for new technologies.
In his dissertation ‘Essays on Financial Coordination’ Lingtian Kong investigates research on instances when the invisible hand fails to motivate the players to act optimally for the common good of the society.
In his dissertation ‘Empirical Studies on the Role of Financial Information in Asset and Capital Markets’ Pooyan Ghazizadeh investigates several aspects of the role financial accounting information plays in asset and capital markets.
In her dissertation ‘Dynamic Decision Making under Supply Chain Competition’ Xishu Li studies the impact of uncertainty and competition on a firm’s decision making in the field of operations management.
In her dissertation ‘Financing Sustainable Innovation: From a principal-agent to a collective action perspective’ Helen Toxopeus explores how to enable finance for sustainable innovation, with a focus on banks and crowdfunding platforms.
In her dissertation ‘Essays at the Intersection of Psychology, Biology, and Entrepreneurship', Indy Bernoster contributes to the field of entrepreneurship by focusing on the psychology of the entrepreneur, using concepts like overconfidence, optimism, positive affect, and negative affect, as well as the biology of the entrepreneur, using concepts like behavior and electrophysiology.
In his dissertation ‘Raising capital: On pricing, liquidity, and incentives’, Rogier Hanselaar extends current knowledge of primary market functioning. It aims to be of use as an input in the continuous debate on how we can best shape our financial markets to provide greater affluence for society.
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is the joint research institute of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
