PhD Defence: Clint Pennings
In his dissertation ‘Advancements in Demand Forecasting: Methods and Behavior’ ERIM’s Clint Pennings focuses on reducing or minimizing forecast errors in the retail industry.
In his dissertation ‘Advancements in Demand Forecasting: Methods and Behavior’ ERIM’s Clint Pennings focuses on reducing or minimizing forecast errors in the retail industry.
ERIM member Dennis Huisman, Professor of Public Transport Optimization at Erasmus School of Economics, invented a new procedure for solving major disruptions on the rail network quickly which NS and rail manager ProRail will launch.
Basak Manders has been awarded the 2016 Quality Management Research Award for her PhD thesis entitled Implementation and Impact of ISO 9001, that she completed at Erasmus Research Institute of Management, Erasmus University (ERIM) in 2015. This award is presented each year by the Netherlands’ Network for Quality Management (NNK) and the Dutch Academy for Quality (DAQ) for management research that is conducted excellently, and is ground-breaking and innovative. In her research, Manders demonstrates that ISO 9001 leads to operational and market benefits in the majority of cases.
In his dissertation ‘Management of Emerging Technologies and the Learning Organization: Lessons from the Cloud and Serious Games Technology’ ERIM’s Andreas Alexiou looks into how specific organizational capabilities contribute to the successful management of emerging technologies. Furthermore, his study explores the potential of an emerging learning technology in facilitating learning and training in organizations.
In his dissertation ‘Unlocking Business Model Innovation’ ERIM’s Jaco Smit finds a new perspective, in an empirical investigation of the effect of the process on arguably the most fundamental part of an organisation, its people.
Professor Stefan Stremersch about his bestseller ‘Kiezen voor winst’ (choosing Profit).
In her dissertation ‘Empirical Essays in International Economics’ Tinbergen’s Irena Mikolajun uses recent econometric techniques to empirically assess key aspects surrounding events in the international arena, such as the recession, the Arab spring, and the Maidan Revolution
In his dissertation ‘Revitalizing Brands and Brand Portfolios: Essays on Brand and Brand Portfolio Management Strategies’ ERIM’s Baris Erman Depecik explores the effectiveness of some of the most commonly utilized ‘revitalization’ strategies.
In his dissertation ‘The Adaptive Organization: The Socio-Cognitive Antecedents of Ambidexterity and Individual Exploration’ ERIM’s Pepijn van Neerijnen focuses on the influence of socio-cognitive factors such as reflexivity, transactive memory systems, and paradoxical cognition as antecedents to organizational ambidexterity and individual exploration
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?