Publications
How do sustainable port practices influence local communities' perceptions of ports? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ensuring circular strategy implementation: The development of circular economy indicators for ports Vrije Universiteit Brussel University of Antwerp
Port clusters are expected to play a significant role in the transition towards a circular economy, both at the level of facilitating regional and global transport within circular production chains, as well as hosting circular activities in port areas. There is strong evidence that significant investments in the circular economy (CE) are being made in port areas, albeit without much knowledge on their impacts. To ensure an efficient use of ...
Public Procurement as a Safeguard for Competition: The Case of Smart City Services Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Through the adoption of the European Union’s Digital Strategy, the European Commission aims to tackle pressing issues specific to markets of data-intensive services. One of these issues is the substantial and durable competitive advantage that emerges from having exclusive access to large sets of data. The Digital Markets Act proposal, a prime pillar of the Digital Strategy, allows for the identification of gatekeepers. These gatekeepers ...
Determinants of Sustainability Reporting in the Present Institutional Context: The Case of Port Managing Bodies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Economic Impact of Standards in Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel
While several past studies have measured the impact of standards on indicators such as output and productivity for a variety of countries, a quantitative analysis that focuses on Belgium has not been performed yet. Based on a dataset containing sector level data spanning 25 years (1994-2018), the authors find that, next to capital investment and the number of patents, standards make a statistically significant, positive and substantial ...
A typology of Smart City services Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation within the European Union intensifies regulatory requirements in terms of data protection for Smart City services. In particular, the mandatory Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) process constitutes a complex managerial challenge. To reduce the complexity, this study develops a typology of Flemish Smart City services based on DPIA costs. Our explorative case study, based on ...
Beyond Data Controllership: Merits of a Generic DPIA by Hardware and Technology Suppliers Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sustainability Reporting for Inland Port Managing Bodies: A Stakeholder-Based View on Materiality Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sustainability reporting has been marked by a rise in importance in recent years as it has proved to be an important management tool in the understanding of where an organization is situated along the sustainability pathway. However, industries have shown different behaviors towards embracing this practice. In this paper, we turn our attention to the port industry, using the metropolitan inland Port of Brussels (Belgium) as a case study. ...
The internationalization of port managing bodies in concept and practice Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper aims to establish a framework being conceptually able to explain a variety of internationalization strategies and related activities employed by port managing bodies (PMBs), as defined by the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) in 2018, considering their hybrid nature. Having identified a potential to further the existing literature on port policy and strategy in general and port internationalization strategy in specific, the ...