Projects
Critical revision of the management guidelines for non-melanoma skin cancer from a public health & economic perspective. Ghent University
Skin cancer is by far the most frequent cancer worldwide and we modeled that the number of skin cancer patients will triple over the next 20 years. Non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) is responsible for about 90% of all skin cancers and originate from keratinocytes, called basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)). The remaining 10% of skin cancers are melanomas, arising from malignant degeneration of melanocytes and are ...
Public service motivation versus public sector motivation: the relation between public service motivation and other motivators in public service. KU Leuven
Public Private Partnership and Public Accountability. University of Antwerp
Public Private Partnership and Public Accountability. University of Antwerp
‘For the public, by the public’: Coping with dilemmas in the coproduction of public services KU Leuven
Introduction and background
This first part of the title of the thesis ‘By the public, for the public?’, refers first to the evolution to co-production of public services, where public services are delivered for the public, with and by the public. In co-production citizen co-producers (users and/or citizens as part of the community) actively and voluntarily collaborate with professionals in producing public services, ...
Using Twitter as a public communication strategy: Can 140 characters reduce the Performance-Satisfaction Gap in the public sector? University of Antwerp
The legitimacy of the global business world under public scrutiny. A critical discourse analysis of legitimacy crises over present-day corporate practices in the public debate. KU Leuven
Multinational corporations are often portrayed by progressive and populist politicians, advocacy journalists, trade unions and civil society organizations as the evil faces of global free market capitalism. In recent years, they have for instance been accused of complicity in sweatshop labor in developing countries, tax evasion and allocating excessive amounts of money to lobbying in the political process. As a result of the large-scale ...
Planning without borders: investigating characteristics and outcomes of strategic planning in international public administrations. Ghent University
Consistently ranking among the most popular managerial approaches worldwide, strategic planning has become a centerpiece of public managers and policymakers’ toolbox to help answer fundamental questions about their organization, its aspirations and the capabilities needed to meet those aspirations. Strategic planning’s popularity can be explained by the assumption that it contributes to public service performance. Evidence to validate this ...
International relocations of corporate headquarters: The role of CEOs, shareholders, and the public KU Leuven
International relocations of corporate headquarters (CHQs) often enable firms to realize tax savings, but such savings imply a loss of tax revenues for the domestic government. Although these corporate benefits and societal costs are likely to be valued differently within and across groups of stakeholders, extant research sheds little light on the role of stakeholders in tax-driven CHQ relocations. We aim to offer more insight into that role ...