Projects
Re-designing organizations to increase agility: how can firms reconfigure their organization models to compete in a dynamic, post-Covid world KU Leuven
“In today’s era of volatility, there is no other way but to re-invent. The only sustainable advantage you can have over others is agility, that’s it. Because nothing else is sustainable, everything else you create, somebody else will replicate.” Jeff Bezos, 2018 In 2020, Covid-19 irrevocably changed the world. Many of the shifts initiated by the crisis, post-globalization, teleworking, contactless consumerism - to name but a few – will be ...
Towards an integrative reactive theory on organizational justice. The effects of fairness perceptions on job performance in public sector organizations. KU Leuven
Evaluation of strategies for dissemination and implementation of clinical practical guidelines: qualitative study of Belgian organizations that produce and disseminate clinical practical guidelines: description of their methods and their organization University of Antwerp
Religiously inspired solidarity in theory and practice: Catholic poverty organisations, the formation of social assistants and the welfare state (1945-2000) KU Leuven
The PhD studies the changing interaction between religiously inspired forms of social theory and social solidarity on the one hand, and the welfare state and its institutionalised mechanisms of social support on the other. Empirical historical research will focus on two pillars: (1) the discourses, strategies and practices of religiously inspired support organisations and (2) the intellectual formation of social assistants within Catholic ...
Function, organization, dynamics and evolution of hyperbranched receptor-binding protein systems in Klebsiella jumbo phages and their interactions with bacteria Ghent University
The most intense co-evolution on our globe takes place between bacteria and their viruses, called bacteriophages. Bacteriophages kill their bacterial host with a very high specificity. Every phage infection is initiated by the recognition of a specific structure on the bacterial surface by a receptor-binding protein (RBP). Some phages having a single RBP, infect only one specific bacterial serotype, while others can attack different bacterial ...
Digestive, techno-functional and sensorial properties of pulse-based flours as impacted by their microstructural organization Flanders' FOOD
PulseFlour - Digestive, techno-functional and sensorial properties of pulse-based flours as impacted by their microstructural organization KU Leuven
The general research objective of PulseFlour is to gain a fundamental and quantitative in-depth understanding of the digestive, techno-functional and sensory aspects of legume-based meals and how these properties are influenced by the choice of (i) the starting material (legume type and variety , composition, cell wall characteristics) and (ii) the processing steps used to generate the meal. In this way, it is the ambition of the PulseFlour ...
A Comparative Analysis of the Organization and Regulation of Referendums and their Campaign Financing KU Leuven
This research will consist of a comparative analysis of the regulations concering referendums in several EU Member States, mainly focusing on campaign financing. Special attention will be granted to the Scottish Referendum on Independence (2015), the Brexit Referendum (2016) and the Catalan Referendum (2017).