In his dissertation ‘Behavioral Operations in Logistics’ ERIM’s Jelle de Vries aims to contribute to theory and practice by investigating which behavioral factors and individual characteristics of workers and managers influence the outcomes of logistical processes, and to what extent.
When do business leaders stand up against ethical transgressions in their company and when do they allow others to get away with it? New research by Associate Professor Pieter Desmet, and by ERIM member, Assistant Professor Niek Hoogervorst from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) suggests that managers who believe their company operates in strongly competitive markets might more readily see unethical decisions simply as ‘acceptable business practices’.
A partnership to boost academic research into organisations, strategy and governance at family businesses has been formed by Dutch co-operative bank Rabobank, global top-five accounting firm BDO and the Erasmus Centre for Family Business (ECFB) based at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).
Assistant Professor Pamala Wiepking of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) Department of Business-Society Management is winner of the 2016 Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Early Career Emerging Scholars Award.
How jobs and employment opportunities in the future may change with the emergence of disruptive technologies in the digital age has been described in the Future of Jobs Report 2016 from the World Economic Forum (WEF).
In his dissertation ‘The use of cognitive factors in explaining entrepreneurship: some empirical results’, ERIM’s Willem Rietdijk studies novel factors that may explain entrepreneurship better.
The article The Taming of Desire: Unspecific Postponement Reduces Desire for and Consumption of Postponed Pleasures that was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. “It’s human to give in to temptation. New Year’s resolutions and willpower frequently crumble when up against favourite snacks and drinks… They suggest a novel solution: it’s better to tell yourself you can have it ‘some other time’ instead of ‘no, not at all’.
In his dissertation ‘Biases in Project Escalation: Names, Frames & Construal Levels’, ERIM’s Nick Benschop studies several biases which thus far have remained (mostly) unexplored as causal factors of project escalation.
In his dissertation ‘The Rhetoric of Investment Theory. The Story of Statistics and Predictability’, ERIM’s Thomas Pistorius gives attention to a lot of ideas to change finance: the alternative statistical theory of Mandelbrot, bubble theory, political finance, the analysis of rhetoric, the analysis of culture, innovative practices, ethics in the form of virtue and value ethics, and the history of finance.
In her dissertation ‘Mind the Gap between Demand and Supply: A behavioral perspective on demand forecasting’, ERIM’s Stefanie Protzner aims to provide new insights into the role of human judgment in demand forecasting.
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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.
