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Institutional change in the making the case of socially responsible investment
(2010)
This dissertation explores the mechanisms of institutional change in practice. The institutional change under study relates to the progressive penetration of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) criteria into conventional ...
Multiculturals in organizations : Their roles for organizational effectiveness
(2012)
This dissertation explores multiculturals in global corporations. To date, limited research helps us understand the role of multicultural individuals in facilitating the effective functioning of global teams. To investigate ...
Exploring the creation and evolution of ICT for development initiatives in India : issues of scaling through bricolage, business model design and inclusive innovation
(2016)
This dissertation investigates how organizations (specifically social enterprises) create and implement information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects for the people at the bottom of the pyramid ...
Four essays on the interface between marketing and operations in supply chain management
(2010)
This dissertation consists of four essays that contribute in the investigation of the interface between marketing and operations in supply chain management (SCM). The main motivation behind this work relate to the evolution ...
To govern or to be governed ? : The proxy advisor, a corporate governance actor in the making
(2017)
The dissertation investigates the emergence and the structuration of the proxy advisory industry at a transnational level, from the construction of the field of governance (Chapter 1) to the (self)-governance of the proxy ...
Insights into tourism demand and tourism behavior / four papers using multiple perspectives and structural equation modeling
(2010)
Rapid industry expansion has elevated research on tourism demand to an important area of inquiry. This work examines the topic through four interconnected studies. It starts by reviewing statistical methods previously used ...
Three essays in the biopharmaceutical industry building on a process perspective of market entry
(2018)
In the three essays of my dissertation, I take a process perspective of market entry and study the drivers and outcomes of strategic decisions that firms make in their efforts towards an eventual product entry. The process ...
Towards an efficient embedding of logit choice models into 0-1 selection problems
(2017)
In this dissertation, we study the integration of logit choice models into 0-1 selection models, where a decision maker selects a subset of options (such as facility locations, elements of a network or product features) ...