This Ph.D. thesis, titled Essays in Labor Markets - Gender, Fertility and Education, analyzes different economic problems within the field of labor economics. It consists of three independent research papers that can be read separately. Although the topic in each chapter is different, they have...

Today, public and private organizations have increasingly turned to management and leadership development, seeking to advance their respective organizations under the assumption that leadership development programmes (LDPs) enable participants to develop their leadership capacity. As such, this...

Despite being widely accepted and applied, maturity models in Information Systems (IS) have been criticized for the lack of theoretical grounding, methodological rigor, empirical validations, and ignorance of multiple and non-linear paths to maturity. This PhD thesis focuses on addressing these...