Projects
Bureaucracy by Design? EU Office Interiors as an Interface Between Architectural “Hardware” and Managerial “Software”, 1951-2002 KU Leuven
Our research project will explore the history of European Union office buildings in Luxembourg, Brussels, and Strasbourg. By focusing on office interiors (1950s – early 2000s), we will not only add to research on the histories of office architecture and cultures of office work, but also to research on the history of European integration. We will develop an analytical framework which approaches the office as a space determined by architectural ...
Functional biodiversity in a changing sedimentary environment: implications for biogeochemistry and food webs in a managerial setting Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
What happens to our seafloor ecosystem when local sediment hardens or refines due to human intervention? That is the question in the FaCE-It project. Southern North Sea sediments are hardening as a result of the construction of wind turbines, where the foundation provides a diverse substrate for marine fauna. Sediment fining results from a combination of sand mining, bottom (trawl) fishing, dumping ...
Mapping the Managerial Mind: How, when, and for whom do managers design motivating work? KU Leuven
The PhD project is part of a larger research project on job design. Job design pertains to the content and organization of one’s work tasks, activities, relationships and responsibilities. The way jobs are designed matters: Numerous studies have shown that enriched jobs with many job resources (e.g., autonomy, feedback, opportunities to learn) and reasonable job demands (e.g., workload, role conflict) contribute to employee well-being, health ...
General and maladaptive traits as predictors of managerial performance and derailment: examining a broader trait spectrum, curvilinear relationships and trait-triggers Ghent University
The validity of general and maladptive traits to predict managerial performance and derailment will be examined. Special attention will be given to non-linear relationships between personality traits and performance criteria. Trigge conditions will be examined in lab studies. This research should contribute to our knowledge on the impact of personality on work performance.
Permeability of firm boundaries: new policy and managerial perspectives KU Leuven
Public policy programs play a crucial role in promoting firms’ research and development (R&D) activities. The most widespread interventions include supply-side policies such as R&D tax credits and direct subsidies; in recent years, however, some countries have adopted demand-side programs (e.g. public procurement of innovation). The objective of this project is to investigate the effect of recent policy measures in the EU framework ...
Corporate social responsibility and managerial accounting: a stakeholder perspective. KU Leuven
During the last decades, the interest in and importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) have grown dramatically, both within business as within the academic world. Whereas CSR studies in fields such as marketing, management, supply chain research and finance have been booming, accounting researchers have only recently rediscovered CSR as a theoretically important and socially relevant domain, offering many opportunities for research ...
Professionalization and Managerialization in Family Firms: organizational antecedents and behavioural dynamics Hasselt University
Boundaries Across Borders: A Comparative Cultural Sociology of the Millennial Professional-Managerial Class in Canada, Belgium, and the United States KU Leuven
The project aims to produce a comparative cultural sociological study of the millennial professional-managerial class in Canada, Belgium, and the U.S. More specifically, I will conduct interviews with professionals and managers based in Toronto, Brussels, and New York City – three “global cities,” with a reputation of attracting young expressivist cosmopolitans – in order to identify:
(1) The types, prevalence, and strength of the ...
Engaging Citizens. Public managers’ attitudes toward public participation in administrative decision-making KU Leuven
The use of public participation in local government decision-making is increasingly popular. According to the public administration and public management literature, one of the most important determinants of public participation decisions and outcomes is the willingness of public managers to interact with the public (Ianniello et al., 2018; Yang, 2005; Yang & Callahan, 2007). Public managers play an important role in local-level public ...