Projects
The Lasting Impact of COVID-19 on the Workplace: Analysing Effects on Well-being and Inequality among New Labour Market Entrants KU Leuven
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about significant changes in people's lives and work as governments worldwide implemented strict measures to control the spread of the virus. This changed the way people lived and worked overnight and resulted in a fundamental shift in the organisation of work for many occupations. Paid work has been transformed and made more flexible in time and in space with many employees working from home for a part of their ...
The Lasting Impact of COVID-19 on the Workplace: Analysing Effects on Well-being and Inequality among New Labour Market Entrants Vrije Universiteit Brussel
New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation, entrepreneurship and resilience in European agriculture. KU Leuven
Sustaining a cohort of new entrants is crucial to the ongoing vitality, resilience and competitiveness of the agricultural sector and rural regions in Europe. New entrants bring with them innovation and entrepreneurialism, as well as practical skills and networks developed on farms and through off-farm employment. However, new entrants face considerable challenges in entering the sector, particularly access to land, capital, labour and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Innovative Entrepreneurship in Cities and Regions: Knowledge Connectivity, Incumbent Appropriation Strategies, and Multinational Firms KU Leuven
Essays on the competitive effects of bundling audit and non-audit services. KU Leuven
After the financial crisis, regulators worldwide questioned the structure of the audit market and the provision of non-audit services by audit firms. Audit firms have been blamed for their contribution to the financial crisis and regulators increased auditor regulation to enhance audit market competition as well as improve audit quality. In this project, we investigate the effect of bundling on entry in the audit market and competition within ...
Towards a better understanding of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in college students: Predictive factors, triggering mechanisms and potential life-threatening repercussions. KU Leuven
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is posing significant public health challenges among young people. While an increasing subpopulation of young people in today’s society consists of college students, there is limited knowledge of the prevalence and course, risk estimation, and significance of NSSI for college mental health. This doctoral project describes six empirical studies that were conducted to provide a better understanding of NSSI among ...
Construction of an integral chain valuation tool for sustainable valorization multiple pathways of plant production Ghent University
The general objective of this dissertation is to generate key insights to address organisational challenges of local biomass value chains in the context of the biobased economy.
Several societal challenges, of which the most important is probably climate change, drive the increased interest to transform our fossil resources based economy into a biobased economy.
Research aiming to enhance this transformation often focuses on the ...