Andrea Naghi, Assistant Professor at Erasmus School of Economics and ERIM Associate Member, is awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for her proposal ‘Competing Forecasts’. This prestigious EU Horizon2020 grant to the amount of 170,000 euro is meant to encourage the mobility of researchers across national borders within the European Union.
The greater the influence of non-family members on the strategy of a family business, the better the company does internationally, and the higher the revenue it generates abroad. Family businesses set themselves apart in the global arena by their long-term orientation and their focus on sustainable business relations. International success is contingent on such factors as a well-functioning labour market and a high level of interpersonal trust in the country in question.
Gabriele Jacobs, Endowed Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Culture at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and ERIM Member will deliver her inaugural address Organisational Behaviour and Culture - Insights from and for Public Safety Management on Friday 9 March 2018. She will argue that factors such as understanding diversity, embracing complexity and building new alliances are key for the development of inclusive security solutions with multiple stakeholder groups and within diverse cultural contexts.
Professor Henk Volberda from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and ERIM Fellow won the Flexibility Excellence Award 2017 from the Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management Society (GIFT). It was the first time the recognition was awarded. Prof. Volberda received the prize at the institute’s annual conference in New Delhi, India.
In her dissertation ‘Bloody business: Multinational investment in an increasingly conflict-afflicted world’, ERIM’s Caroline Witte evaluates the causes of political conflict and its consequences for investments by multinational enterprises (MNEs).
In his dissertation ‘Algorithms for Multiclass Classification and Regularized Regression’, Erim’s Gertjan van den Burg presents several new algorithms for both multiclass classification and regularized regression problems.
In her dissertation ‘Financing and Regulatory Frictions in Mergers and Acquisitions’, ERIM’s Eden Zhang studies how financial frictions and regulatory costs affect mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
In his dissertation ‘Marketing Analytics for High-Dimensional Assortments’ ERIM’s Bruno Jacobs presents model-based methods that can be used to model purchase decisions in high dimensional product assortments.
In his dissertation ‘Choices in Pension Management’, ERIM's Gosse Alserda scrutinizes the complexity of choices in pension organization.
In her dissertation ‘Assessing Asset Pricing Anomalies’ Wilma de Groot wants to gain more and better insight into possible explanations for well-known asset pricing anomalies.
ERIM
is the joint research institute of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
