ERIM's Recent PhD Graduations


Congratulations to our full-time and part-time PhD candidates who have successfully defended their dissertations so far this year! Find out more about these candidates’ dissertations and defenses below: Gelly Fu, Ainara Novales, Wilco Legierse, Joydeep Paul, Mark van der Giessen, Jaime Caballero Santin, Max Renault and Jasper Heeren.


Gelly Fu, 13 January: “Agency Problems in the Mutual Fund Industry”.

Read more about this dissertation here.

Ainara Novales, 11 February: “Thriving with Digitized Products: How firms leverage their generative capacity via experimentation, learning, and collaboration”.

Read more about this dissertation here.

Wilco Legierse, 25 February: “The Timing and Pricing of Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from the Low Countries”.

Read more about this dissertation here.

Joydeep Paul, 10 March: “Online Grocery Operations in Omni-channel Retailing: Opportunities and Challenges”.

Read more about this dissertation here.

Jaime Caballero Santin, 11 March: “Stunted Innovation: How large incumbent companies fail in the era of Supply Chain digitalization”.

Read more about this dissertation here.

Mark van der Giessen, 8 April: “Co-creating Safety and Security: Essays on bridging disparate needs and requirements to foster safety and security”.

Read more about this dissertation here.

Max Renault, 14 April: “All for One and One for All: How Teams Adapt to Crises”.

Read more about this dissertation here.

Jasper Heeren, 22 April: “Management Innovation in the Military, Practice Adaptation Processes and Innovation Performance Consequences: solving the paradox between institutional pressure, rational motivation and implementation misfit.”

Read more about this dissertation here.