Introducing new professor Mellie Pullman
| Date: | 22 April 2022 |
Mellie Pullman has recently been appointed as professor of Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the research programme Operations Management and Operations Research (OPERA). Pullman worked at universities in the United States and the United Kingdom...
CONTRAST part 2 - Economic evaluations of stroke care treatments
| Date: | 14 April 2022 |
Chi Nguyen is a PhD students who ispart of the CONTRAST project. Her research will focus on the economic evaluations of stroke care treatments and their organization in the Netherlands. She works along with PhD student Willemijn Maas from the UMCG.
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets
| Date: | 12 April 2022 |
The notion of knowledge spillovers has been very influential in shaping research and in motivating innovation policies all over the globe, yet it isn’t the only manner in which knowledge (from R&D) diffuses in the current innovation landscape. Knowledge also often diffuses through voluntary technology transfers. FEB-researcher Pere Arque-Castells and Daniel Spulber, a colleague from Northwestern University (US, Illinois), take both channels into account and study their implications on innovation policies and the innovation landscape as a whole.
CONTRAST - a multi-disciplinary research into organizing regional actue stroke care
| Date: | 07 April 2022 |
FEB researchers Durk-Jouke van der Zee and Erik Buskens joined forces with their colleagues Maarten Lahr and Maarten Uyttenboogaart from the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) to work on new solutions for organizing regional acute stroke care, thereby participating in externally funded projects.
Polarization in the Netherlands - part two
| Date: | 31 March 2022 |
Last week on our blog, we featured the book Sjoerd Beugelsdijk wrote about polarization in the Netherlands. Beugelsdijk was one of Juliette de Wit’s supervisors during her PhD research. Her PhD thesis also looks at the same topic. She found three different profiles that capture the way the Dutch identify with the Netherlands. And it seems that we have more in common than we think.
Mission impossible: operations management in complex, extreme, and hostile environments
| Date: | 28 March 2022 |
Although knotty crisis situations are increasing in frequency, duration, and impact, their implications for operations management remain ill-understood. Having read a lot about the great failures of humanitarian organizations in responding to major disasters, Nonhlanhla Dube set out to investigate exactly how badly they performed in terms of timeliness in delivering assistance where it is needed. The researcher, who is affiliated both to FEB and Lancaster University, studied the response of international humanitarian organizations from the viewpoint of supply chain resilience.
Polarization in the Netherlands - part one
| Date: | 24 March 2022 |
Polarization is a hot topic. Sjoerd Beugelsdijk wrote a book about it (De Verdeelde Nederlanden) and it has been discussed extensively in Dutch media. The Volkskrant recently gave his book 5 stars
Sport as medicine for health and health inequalities
| Date: | 15 March 2022 |
Sport participation seems to be an important means to improve health, decrease health inequalities and reduce average health care costs, Willem de Boer’s research shows. The sports economist, who is affiliated with both FEB and the HAN University of Applied Sciences, studied different types of physical activity and the ways in which they affected health outcomes, health inequalities and health care costs.
Fear of war and preference for sons
| Date: | 03 March 2022 |
With the Russian invasion into the Ukraine, Anna Minasyan’s forthcoming publication gives insight into parents' preference of having sons rather than daughters when facing a (possible) war. This preference is usually realized either through sex-selective...
Towards effective support for small businesses in developing countries
| Date: | 27 January 2022 |
Small-scale entrepreneurship in developing countries is viewed as one of the most prominent solutions to alleviate poverty and reduce unemployment among young people and women. To promote small-scale entrepreneurship, governments, microfinance...