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Nonhlanhla Dube

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.
Professor Sjoerd Beugelsdijk

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
Willem de Boer

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.
Assistan professor Anna Minasyan

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...

A typical example of small-scale entrepreneurship

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...

Stasi office 

How do founders’ personal backgrounds affect their firms’ likelihood to engage in R&D cooperation? Evidence from individuals’ exposure to authoritarian regimes.

Date:25 January 2022

How does the experience of living in an authoritarian regime affect the decision-making of an individual in their later life as a founder and leader of a firm in the context of a liberal market economy? Researchers from the Department of Innovation...

Assistant professors Joost van den Brake (photo: Reyer Boxem) and Stefan Berger

Multiple teams, multiple roles? Why it is best to wear the same hat in each team.

Date:18 January 2022

It is more and more common for employees to be a member of multiple teams at the same time. In multiple projects, committees, or medical teams, for instance. Multiple team membership (MTM) is often unavoidable, but also has considerable disadvantages....

Assistant Professor Björn Mitzinneck (photo: Reyer Boxem)

Energy transition: organizational knowledge for effective multi-stakeholder collaboration can be a key ingredient

Date:09 December 2021

At the end of last year, dr Björn Mitzinneck, dr Tom Boot and dr Christiaan van der Kwaak received a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council ( NWO ) worth up to €250,000. The grants provide the laureates with the opportunity to further develop their own...

Assistant Professor Christiaan van der Kwaak (photo: Reyer Boxem)

How unconventional monetary policies affect financial stability

Date:30 November 2021

At the end of last year, dr Christiaan van der Kwaak, dr Tom Boot and dr Björn Mitzinneck received a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council ( NWO ) worth up to €250,000. The grants provide the laureates with the opportunity to further develop their own...

Associate professor Tom Boot (photo: Reyer Boxem)

Which economic forecasts do we trust?

Date:26 November 2021

At the end of last year, dr Tom Boot, dr Christiaan van der Kwaak and dr Björn Mitzinneck received a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council ( NWO ) worth up to €250,000. The grants provide the laureates with the opportunity to further develop their own...