Projects
Innovative Entrepreneurship in Cities and Regions: Knowledge Connectivity, Incumbent Appropriation Strategies, and Multinational Firms KU Leuven
Innovative entrepreneurship introduces new products, processes, or business models that form the basis of the development of new markets and long term prosperity of countries and regions. Incumbent (multinational) firms may however leverage their hold on global intangible assets and appropriation strategies to fence off the competitive threat of new innovative entrants. Innovative entrepreneurship is particularly salient in metropolitan areas ...
The impact of the EU Audit Reform on the financial reporting of multinational groups. KU Leuven
The goal of this project is to investigate the impact of the EU Audit Reform on various aspects of multinational group audits (MGAs). The Audit Reform came into effect as of June 2016 with the objective to improve the quality of statutory audits and restore consumer trust in reported financial information via a plethora of regulatory measures. Nonetheless, the Audit Reform ushered in significant complexities for both audit firms and, in ...
Global cities as Knowledge Hubs: Multinational firms, Connectivity and R&D Locations KU Leuven
Multinational firms’ knowledge creating activities have become increasingly global in scope, yet tend to be concentrated in a distinct set of geographic knowledge hubs. The world’s leading internationally connected cities (‘global cities’) act as such knowledge hubs and host a disproportional share of high skilled workers, universities and innovative firms. The aim of this research project is to generate an in-depth understanding of the ...
Constitutional asymmetry in multi-tiered multinational systems. University of Antwerp
The value of the global activity configuration of multinational firms: strategy and dynamics of the location and relocation of foreign investments. KU Leuven
Understanding the neural mechanisms of gait compensatory strategies in Parkinson's disease: a multi-national and multi-modal approach (UNITE-PD). KU Leuven
This project aims to achieve 4 goals: (1) we identify the brain network involved in mediating the effects of cueing as an important compensation strategy; (2) we will identify differences in brain connectivity patterns elicited by internal versus external cueing, so as to identify shared and dissimilar neural circuitries; (3) we will compare brain connectivity patterns between patients who benefit from cues versus those who do not, to ...