Faculty of Economics and Business

Many creative organizations try to reduce formal hierarchy. They expect managers to take a less prominent role and their teams to be as self-managing as possible. In principle, this is not a bad idea, because a formal hierarchy can constrain creativity....

Is there a link between risk-taking incentives in CEO pay packages and corporate social irresponsibility? I studied this question together with colleagues from the universities of St Andrews, Essex, and Montreal. Our work recently published in The British...

Moral criticism can have a devastating effect on a business, as ING recently discovered. However, such criticism is difficult to predict, because an indignant public has double standards.

Many companies make substantial investments in research and development activities with the objective of developing new technologies and, consequently, gaining a competitive advantage in the market. However, this competitive advantage is also dependent on...

To what extent do countries use foreign aid strategically to promote their economic principles? Past studies have found that aid may be used for strategic political reasons. During the cold war for example, the United States gave aid to neighbouring...

Professor Bart Los has been working with an international team on calculating what the impact of Brexit will be on different regions and industries. FEB Blog caught up with him to ask why students should pay attention to this research.

Is access to finance sufficient on its own to bring people out of poverty? Or is there a need for business training to complement financial access? In a recent paper we investigated this in a large micro-finance institution, Tao Yeu May, in Vietnam.

Since fiscal policies in several countries across the world have become unsustainable, it has become inevitable that governments should reduce their indebtedness. Consequently, policy debates no longer focus on the question whether government indebtedness...

It is seen as the way for organizations to strengthen their market position, acquire knowledge and become more innovative: an alliance with a partner. Alliances can have many advantages, but organizations do not always benefit from one. Experience has...

Climate change and animal welfare are a cause for concern for many Dutch people. They realize that their daily portion of meat isn’t really helping on either front. And yet we (and that includes me) have not signed up in droves for the National Meat Free...