Projects
Corporate restructuring in non-listed companies KU Leuven
In the literature, corporate restructurings (which may include divesting parts of the company, staff redundancies, or organizing differently within existing structures) are investigated almost exclusively for listed companies. An important reason for this is data availability as data on restructuring decisions are often collected through press releases and articles in specialized media. The aim of this research is to make use of the unique ...
Sexual health in the Over Forty-Fives AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
PREFINANCIERING - Right skills for the right future Ghent University
An Interreg North Sea Region (NSR) co-funded project which aims to enhance regional innovation support capacity to increase long-term innovation levels and support smart specialisation strategies. To achieve this, RIGHT concentrates its efforts on developing the skills of the workforce relevant for SMEs in the participating regions within the energy and blue sectors.An Interreg North Sea Region (NSR) co-funded project which aims to enhance ...
The power dynamics of managing ethnic diversity: A study of the emergence and effects of diversity management practices Hasselt University
PHotonics enhanced fAB LABS supporting the next revolution in digitalization (PHABLABS 4.0) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Occupational welfare dynamics and labour market segmentation. A comparative company-level case study analysis in logistics and manufacturing in Belgium. KU Leuven
This thesis focuses on occupational welfare that has been related to growing welfare dualism (Natali and Pavolini 2014; Seeleib-Kaiser et al. 2012). Occupational welfare is defined as the sum of all benefits and services distributed by employers to employees as part of their employment (Titmuss 1958) and can include ‘social’ benefits such as pensions, childcare, sickness, and unemployment benefits, as well as ‘fringe’ benefits like company ...
Mobile sensing services for developing geospatial IoT applications (SeRGIo). University of Antwerp
The printer's widow: gender, family and editorial choices in early modern Antwerp, Louvain and Douai (long 16th - 17th centuries) KU Leuven
The early modern printing and publishing business was a man’s world. The new technology of the printing press was associated with men’s work, due to considerable start-up costs and associations with skilled work, literacy, and learned men. Why then, did early modern title pages regularly name women-led businesses as their place of production? This dissertation investigates how women participated in the production and sale of rare books and ...
Distributive impacts of the sustainable transition under imperfect labour mobility and behaviour (DISTILAB) KU Leuven
The impacts of climate change and associated air pollution entail physical and health risks, threatening the productivity of workers. Ambitious policies, required to transform the economy towards climate neutrality and to meet the Paris Agreement targets, introduce transition risks for workers in carbon-intensive sectors. These risks for the workforce deserve more research attention, as they are key for the distributional impacts, societal ...