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PhD graduate Daniel Fernandes and Prof. Stefano Puntoni from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and two co-authors received the C.W. Park Award for Outstanding Contribution for their paper published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology (JCP). The article is based on Fernandes’ dissertation about the effectiveness of reminders. The award was announced at the annual conference of the Society for Consumer Psychology (SCP) in Savannah, Georgia, USA in March 2019.

On Friday, the 22nd of February 2019, Tom Mom, Endowed Professor of Strategic Growth and Implementation in the department of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship delivered his inaugural address entitled ‘Strategic Growth and Implementation: Thriving in a Disruptive Landscape.

In his dissertation ‘In Pursuit of Supplier Knowledge: Leveraging capabilities and dividing responsibilities in product and service contexts’ Robert Suurmond studies the integration of supplier knowledge through the lenses of dynamic capabilities and the division of responsibilities in the contexts of products and services.

In his dissertation ‘Multinational Enterprises and Limits to International Growth: Links between Domestic and Foreign Activities in a Firm’s Portfolio’ Guus Hendriks studies several limits and aims to restore balance in the international business literature by addressing some of the biases built over time.

Tom Mom, Professor of Strategic Growth and Implementation at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) will deliver his inaugural address on Friday 22 February at Erasmus University Rotterdam. In Strategic Growth and Implementation: Thriving in a Disruptive Landscape he will address how managers can continuously develop new directions for strategic growth in a competitive and fast changing landscape, and how they can become more proficient in implementing new initiatives to capture value. He will propose three important future avenues for practice and research: understanding ambidexterity as a managerial capability, integration and interactions in the organisation, and the world of scale-ups as an exciting context to understand new practices of growth and implementation.

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.