News and events of Tilburg School of Economics and Management
News
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E-book on strategic logistical collaboration
15th September 2020For three years, many researchers and students from Tilburg University, together with companies in the transport sector, have focused on the question of how it is possible that horizontal collaboration does not get off the ground, while the contribution to the improvement of profitability and sustainability seems so obvious. Recently, the e-book Compose: strategische logistieke samenwerking [Compose: Strategic logistical collaboration] has been published with the most important findings from the research conducted as part of the Compose project.
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No significant returns on sustainable investments in times of crisis
10th September 2020Sustainable investments are seen worldwide as a “vaccine” against poor stock performance in times of crisis. Research by Philip Joos and Jurian Hendrikse (Tilburg University) shows that this is not the case. Traditional measures such traditional yardsticks as liquidity and innovation-based assets are better indicators of crisis period stock price resilience.
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Does Borrowing from the Private Markets Cost More Than Borrowing From The Public Markets?
01st September 2020Nonbank corporate lending climbs to a new record high. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, nonbank corporate lending experienced another spike in growth. In the US, nonbank lending now amounts to almost 50% in relation to GDP, the same ratio for bank lending resting at a stagnating average 11% for decades. The primary source of debt for firms is thus progressively provided outside the banking system.
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Research on family capital
03rd August 2020Social, human, and financial capital are the building blocks of what the research literature calls "family capital". In a book chapter, Astrid Kramer and Brigitte Kroon have summarized the available empirical research about the nature, creation, and consequences of family capital in order to better understand how this contributes to the competitive advantage of family firms (Kramer & Kroon, 2020).
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Tilburg University maps ecosystems for Brainport Development
21st July 2020Jacob Derks, a PhD researcher affiliated to TiSEM’s Management Department, has finished a study commissioned by Brainport Development in Eindhoven on how Brainport can improve the ecosystem around Medical Technology (MedTech). This job was right up Jacob’s street: he studies how enterprises develop and strengthen their innovation capabilities. And it is a fine example of how academic expertise within Tilburg University can be directly linked to a practical question from the field. We asked Jacob three questions.
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The gap between science and crisis management
02nd July 2020A crisis like the one we are currently in seems to be a fantastic opportunity for researchers to profile themselves. Society is desperate for knowledge and universities have that. But can that knowledge be used in practice, and do we remember the lessons learned? 'We need watch out that we don’t soon have a pile of papers that no one reads’, says crisis expert Kenny Meesters in the recently published NWO journal 'Onderzoek' (Research).
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Wendy van der Valk appointed as Professor of Purchasing & Supply Chain Management
30th June 2020Wendy van der Valk was appointed as Professor of Purchasing & Supply Chain Management at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management of Tilburg University on April 1, 2020. The endowed chair has been set up by Nevi, the Dutch Association for Purchasing Management. The teaching and research remit includes stimulating research and teaching in the field of purchasing and supply chain management focusing on three specific themes.
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During WW II, African American soldiers made England a less racist place, lasting until this day
29th June 2020Can racial prejudice be reduced or is it a constant of the human condition? And can interventions unfold effects that persist? Especially in light of recent events such as the Syrian refugee crisis, and more recently, the Black Lives Matter protests in the US, answers to these questions are desperately needed. In the long run, integration appears to have a positive effect on racial attitudes, which are passed on from generation to generation.
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The Bundesliga & corona: Smashing the myth of home advantage
28th June 2020The German Bundesliga was the first European soccer league to resume play after the quarantine rules for the corona crisis were relaxed. The competition started again on May 16, without live spectators, after an interruption of more than two months. John Einmahl and Jan Magnus analyzed the data and concluded that home advantage disappears.
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Do Firms Foresee Proprietary Cost of Mandatory Public Disclosures?
23rd June 2020Research Robin Litjens covered by Duke University blog
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Paper by Niels van de Ven accepted in Personality and Individual Differences
19th June 2020The paper by Niels van de Ven on “When Enough Is Not Enough: Overearning as a Manifestation of Dispositional Greed” together with Marcel Zeelenberg, Terri Seuntjens, and Seger Breugelmans from the Department of Social Psychology at the Tilburg University has been accepted for publication in Personality and Individual Differences.
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Paper by Tatiana Sokolova accepted in Journal of Marketing Research
19th June 2020Tatiana Sokolova her paper “The Left-Digit Bias: When and Why Are Consumers Penny Wise and Pound Foolish?”, co-authored with Satheesh Seenivasan (Monash University, Australia) and Manoj Thomas (Cornell University, USA) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Marketing Research
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Bart Bronnenberg has been awarded the Long Term Impact Award
19th June 2020Bart Bronnenberg has been awarded the Long Term Impact Award from the INFORMS Society for his impactful 2010 publication in Marketing Science.
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Pension benefits of the elderly insufficiently protected against interest rate fluctuations
08th June 2020Under the current Dutch pension contracts, the pension benefits of participants age 60 and older are inadequately protected against interest rate fluctuations. The current defined benefits agreement, moreover, offers insufficient possibilities for distributing interest rate risk between young and old in a desirable manner.
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High score for Tilburg University economics research
19th May 2020In the recently published ‘Tilburg University Top 100 of Economics Schools Research Ranking 2015-2019’, Tilburg University emerges as the Dutch university publishing most frequently in the most prestigious scientific journals. In the world university rankings, Tilburg University ranks in 42nd place.
