Projects
Corporate social responsibility and managerial accounting: a stakeholder perspective. KU Leuven
During the last decades, the interest in and importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) have grown dramatically, both within business as within the academic world. Whereas CSR studies in fields such as marketing, management, supply chain research and finance have been booming, accounting researchers have only recently rediscovered CSR as a theoretically important and socially relevant domain, offering many opportunities for research ...
The impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on the attitude and performance of employees. Ghent University
The aim of this research proposal is to gain insight in the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on employees, at the individual level as well as at team level. Specifically, we study the underlying processes and factors, explaining the impact of CSR on positive HR-outcomes, such as an increased level of work engagement and job satisfaction and on employee performance.
Why do companies (not) report on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? Ghent University
The objective of this research is to investigate why companies do or do not report on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Companies are not enforced by law to inform the general public on CSR topics, such as actions taken to preserve the environment or programs established to improve the health and safety of employees.
Directors' Busyness and Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosures Hasselt University
Corporate Social Performance of Multinational Corporations: Multinational Exposure, Corporate Resources, and Comparative Institutionalism KU Leuven
This dissertation examines the conditions for a high-level CSP by employing corporate social performance (CSP) as the reflection of corporations’ active participation in delivering the SDGs (van Zanten & van Tulder, 2018). A focus on multinational corporations (MNCs) is motivated by the central role of MNCs in sustainable development (Buckley, Doh, & Benischke, 2017; Kolk, 2016). MNCs’ global network facilitates the global adoption of ...
Normativity or creativity? The use and perception of substandard language features in online consumer and corporate comments on social media Ghent University
Via corpus-based analysis and experimental research we investigate the presence and impact of substandard language characteristics (old and new vernaculars) in public positive and negative consumer comments and company responses on social media. We also investigate the effect of company accommodation in these contexts, taking into account the polarity of the message and the actual language characteristics.
Sue The Bastards. Towards European rules on ‘responsible’ litigation funding. KU Leuven
On the process and outcomes of assuring sustainability information Ghent University
This research project will focus on assurance of sustainability information. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods will be used to understand both the process of assuring sustainability information as well as its outcomes. By gaining insight into the way in which assurance can influence the information reported to stakeholders, the results of this project will have important societal implications.