In his dissertation ‘Practice Oriented Algorithmic Disruption Management in Passenger Railways’ ERIM’s Joris Camiel Wagenaar addresses a question railway companies face on a daily basis, namely how to deal with a disruption? How can you handle a disruption such that the passenger service is upheld as much as possible?
In his dissertation ‘Individual Characteristics, Contextual Factors and Entrepreneurial Behavior’ ERIM’s Pourya Darnihamedani contributes to our understanding of the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship. His thesis concerns research topics involving entrepreneurship, in general, and innovative entrepreneurship, in particular.
In his dissertation ‘Stochastic Models for Order Picking Systems’ ERIM’s Jelmer Pier van der Gaast develops new stochastic models for the performance evaluation of two state-of-the art order picking systems: zone picking and polling-based milkrun picking.
It is with deep regret that we have learned of the sudden death of our colleague Leo Kroon.
INFORMS Decision Analysis Society (DAS) has awarded the Publication Award for best decision analysis paper or book published in 2014 to ERIM member Peter Wakker, professor of decisions under uncertainty at Erasmus School of Economics, together with assistant professor Vitalie Spinu, and Amit Kothiyal, researcher at Max Planck Institute for Human Development, for their paper Average Utility Maximization: A Preference Foundation.
In her dissertation ‘Employee Engagement In Corporate Social Responsibility; A collection of essays’, ERIM’s Lonneke Roza addresses three main research areas. First, it investigates who engages in CSR and to what extend they differ from those who are privately involved and those who are unengaged in social initiatives. Secondly, this dissertation reveales the barriers for those who refrain from such behavior and how organizations can take measures to lower these barriers, and consequently increase engagement rates. The third part of the dissertation takes multi-level perspectives on the outcomes of employee engagement in CSR, both from a business and NPO perspective.
In his dissertation ‘Innovation, Status, and Networks’, ERIM’s Pengfei Wang investigated how innovation strategy, status, and network structure jointly affect the performance and behavioral propensity of firms.
ERIM Associate Member Pamala Wiepking and RSM PhD Candidate Lonneke Roza won the AOM Emerald Best International Symposium Award at the Academy of Management (AOM) Conference 2016 in Anaheim, California.
ERIM congratulates Dr. P.Y.E. (Edith) Leung (Department of Business Economics, Erasmus School of Economics) and Dr. C.J.P. (Christophe) Lembregts (Department of Marketing Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University), both Associate Members of ERIM, with winning this prestigious grants!
In her dissertation ‘Network Design and Robust Scheduling in Liner Shipping’, ERIM’s Judith Mulder proposes methods to design liner networks that maximize profit for the liner companies and methods to minimize total costs by reallocating buffer times and determining recovery policies specifying how to react on incurred delays.
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