News and events of Tilburg School of Economics and Management
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Paper by Leon Gim Lim accepted in Journal of Marketing
16th April 2020In a new study that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Marketing, Leon Gim Lim from Tilburg University, Kapil R. Tuli from Singapore Management University and Rajdeep Grewal from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, examine the impact of customer satisfaction on the future cost of selling of a firm and the extent to which this impact differs across firms and industries.
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Bart Bronnenberg appointed as an Academic Fellow at the Marketing Science Institute in Boston
16th April 2020As of today, Bart Bronnenberg has been appointed as an Academic Fellow at the prestigious Marketing Science Institute (MSI) in Boston, the highest honor at this institute.
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Jan Fransoo has been appointed as Professor of Operations and Logistics Management
14th April 2020Tilburg University has appointed prof. dr. ir. Jan Fransoo as Professor of Operations and Logistics Management at the Department Management in the Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM), effective November 1, 2020. Professor Fransoo’s research focuses on operations, logistics, and supply chain management decision making in the retail, food, pharmaceutical and transport industries.
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In Memoriam Elmar Mammadli
09th April 2020It is with great sadness that we received the news that Elmar Mammadli passed away on Friday, March 27. Elmar came from his home country Azerbaijan to Tilburg in August 2019 to study in the 2-year Research Master program in Economics at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management.
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Paper by Tatiana Sokolova accepted in Journal of Consumer Psychology
06th April 2020A paper by Tatiana Sokolova (co-authored with Yi Li from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Consumer Psychology.
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Paper by Max Pachali accepted in Quantitative Marketing and Economics
06th April 2020A paper by Max Pachali (co-authored with Peter Kurz from bms marketing + strategy and Thomas Otter from Goethe University) has been for accepted at Quantitative Marketing and Economics.
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Famexit: when intra-family succession is not an option
06th April 2020The economic landscape in which companies operate is subject to change. Technological change occurs at an accelerating pace, fragmentation in the political landscape is increasing and the population is ageing. These changes impact a business’ way of operating.
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Which Businesses Will Covid-19 Disrupt and Why?
03rd April 2020An Assessment Based on Firm-Level Data, by Stephan Hollander (Tilburg University), Laurence van Lent (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management), Tarek Alexander Hassan (Boston University) and Ahmed Tahoun (London Business School)
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Media shows bias when covering corporate misconduct
02nd April 2020News media do not report corporate misconduct – such as environmental offences, corruption, or the violation of social standards – consistently and independently. Instead, the media are often influenced by their own interests, such as advertising revenues. That is the result of a new study by Dr. Samuel Stäbler, Assistant Professor of Marketing at Tilburg University (Netherlands), and Dr. Marc Fischer, Professor of Marketing at the University of Cologne (Germany).
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Attracting early stage investors through an effective start-up governance
31st March 2020An important question for academics and practitioners alike is whether entrepreneurial firms rely on signals to demonstrate their attractiveness in the financing market. Recently countries like the Netherlands have emerged in the start-ups arena featuring big fundraisings. However, attracting outside investors remains a key challenge.
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How well can we predict life trajectories?
30th March 2020With enough data, computer power and skilled data scientists, one would think that predicting life trajectories in a well-defined context, for example predicting the GPA of children, should not be too difficult. A recent study, authored by a large, international team of researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, comes to a sobering conclusion.
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Research prize for dr. Martin Salm
26th March 2020Martin Salm (Tilburg University) and Ansgar Wuebker ( RWI Essen) won the "Wissenschaftspreis der deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Gesundheitsoekonomie" (research prize of the German Health Economics Association) for 2019 for the paper "Sources of Regional Variation in Healthcare Utilization in Germany" published in the Journal of Health Economics.
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How Does Self-Esteem Influence Consumer Behavior?
26th March 2020Products can make people feel great about themselves. Enjoying an exquisite glass of wine in a fancy bar or walking down the street in a new stylish outfit sure sound like great ways to give your ego a little boost. But if people consume to feel great about themselves, why do so many people shop at Walmart, get their hair cut at Supercuts, or prefer dressing down to go to a dive bar? Who chooses inferior products, and why?
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Paper by Jan Klein accepted in Journal of Service Management
13th March 2020A paper by Jan Klein (co-authored with Y. Zhang from Santa Clara University, T. Falk from Aalto University, J. Aspara from Hanken School of Economics, and X. Luo from Temple University) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Service Management.
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Paper by Rob Smith accepted in Journal of Applied Social Psychology
13th March 2020A paper by Rob Smith (co-authored with Jesse Chandler, University of Michigan, and Norbert Schwarz, University of Southern California) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
