Publications
Enabling performance measurement systems and managerial behaviour : the underlying drivers and mechanisms Ghent University
A few decades ago, several performance measurement systems (PMSs) were developed. These systems have been rapidly adopted by many organizations. The reason for this fast integration was the publication of numerous success stories and a strong belief in the power of these systems to increase organizational profit. Although many success stories were revealed, failures were bound to follow. To improve the effectiveness of the PMSs the concept of ...
Explaining variation in perceived managerial autonomy and direct politicization in European public sectors KU Leuven
© 2018, The Author(s) 2018. Public sector reforms aimed at ‘making the managers manage’ granted public managers autonomy and tried to depoliticize the administration. There is substantial variation in the degree of direct politicization and in managerial autonomy. This article tests four sets of hypotheses to explain variation in perceptions of direct politicization and managerial autonomy in European public sectors. Data from a new survey in 15 ...
Work addiction and presenteeism: The buffering role of managerial support KU Leuven
The current study examined the mediating effect of presenteeism and moderating effect of managerial support in the relation between workaholism and work-family conflict. A sample of 1065 white-collar employees from an Italian company filled in an online survey and hypotheses were tested using a bootstrapping procedure. Results showed that presenteeism mediated the association between workaholism and work-family conflict. Moreover, the mediating ...
On the impact of managerial bonus systems on firm profit and market competition: the cases of pure profit, sales, market share and relative profits compared University of Antwerp
By designing remuneration schemes based on a bonus rewarding specific firm-level outcomes, the owners/shareholders of a firm can manipulate the behavior of their managers. In practice, different bonus anchors take center stage: some are profit-based, others use sales as the key yardstick and still different ones focus on relative performance vis-à-vis a peer group. In this paper, we focus on the impact of remuneration schemes on firm-level ...
Modeling managerial altruism, CSR, and donations Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In a recent issue of this journal, Ho and Huang (2017) present an interesting and inspiring agency based model on corporate donations, taking into consideration the level of managerial altruism and the impact of donations on demand. However, a number of crucial assumptions of their basic model are open for criticism. They relate to the specification of demand, of profits, and of managerial utility. This is not to say that no insights can be ...
Managerial bonus systems in a differentiated duopoly University of Antwerp
A differentiatedCournot duopoly is consideredwhere firm owners delegate the output decision to a manager, who is rewarded on the basis of his performance. If this performance is measured in terms of (i) pure profits, (ii) a combination of profits and sales, (iii) a combination of profits andmarket share or (iv) relative profits, the latter option strictly dominates the others if the products are perfect substitutes. Recently it was claimed that ...
On the Optimal Marketing Aggressiveness Level of C2C Sellers in Social Media: Evidence from China KU Leuven
© 2018 Social media has become a widely used marketing tool for reaching potential customers. Because of its low cost, social media marketing is especially appealing to customer-to-customer (C2C) sellers. Customers can also benefit from social media marketing by learning about products and by interacting with sellers in real time. However, a seller's marketing microblogs may backfire on her for dominating the social space. Defining the marketing ...
How much of Toyota's philosophy is embedded in health care at the organisational level? : a review Ghent University
Aims: Identify which of ToyotaU+2019s principles are reported in health care institutions at the organisational level and to identify the type of reported outcomes related to the effectiveness of lean production reported in these studies.Background: No scientific research has been conducted to determine which of ToyotaU+2019s principles are embedded in health care systems. This knowledge is needed to perform targeted adjustments in health ...
Age at calving in heifers and level of milk production during gestation in cows are associated with the birth size of Holstein calves Ghent University Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research
The objective of the present study was to evaluate environmental and dam factors associated with birth size of Holstein calves. Data of 1,594 births from dairy herds in Belgium and Germany were analyzed in a retrospective cross-sectional study. Immediately after birth, the birth weight of the calves was measured. On the next day, the heart girth (HG), withers height, and diagonal length of the dams and calves were measured. Parity, body ...