Antoon Pelsser (1968) is Head of the Asset-Liability Matching department of ING-Insurance. The ALM department advises the board on the optimal asset allocation to cover the insurance liabilities. The department is also responsible for the calculation of market values and risk measures of...

Daan van Knippenberg is Professor of Organizational Behavior at RSM Erasmus University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His research interests include work group performance, especially work group diversity and group decision making, leadership, in particular the roles of self and...

In this inaugural address, it is argued that the field of corporate governance is focused too much on the agency problems between managers and shareholders that result from the separation of ownership and control in public companies. It is argued that the currently dominant managerial...

Rede, in verkorte vorm uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar Ondernemingsfinanciering aan de Faculteit der Bedrijfskunde en de Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam op vrijdag 21 juni 2002

Er is een steeds sterkere tendens om onderzoeksgegevens te visualiseren in plaats van in tabellen weer te geven. Een belangrijk voordeel van visualisatie is dat de resultaten vaak direct duidelijk en eenvoudig te interpreteren zijn. Zo kan met behulp van meerdimensionele schaling de samenhang...

Considerable attention has been paid to the network determinants of knowledge sharing. However, most, if not all, of the studies investigating the determinants of knowledge sharing are either focused on knowledge-intensive organizations such as consultancy firms or R&D organizations, or...

A new smoothing approach based on entropic perturbation is proposed for solving mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints. Some of the desirable properties of the smoothing function are shown. The viability of the proposed approach is supported by a computationalstudy on a set of...

Marketing data appear in a variety of forms. An often-seen form is time-series data, like sales per month, prices over the last few years, market shares per week. Time-series data can be summarized in time-series models. In this chapter we review a few of these, focusing in particular on domains...

As a result of many changes in the competitive landscape, knowledge has become a crucial resource of firms, which has impelled firms to change their forms of organizing. Evidence suggests that internal networks, as such an alternative form of organizing, progress to emerge to facilitate the...

In this paper, we assess the need for logistics information and knowledge management in humanitarian aid organizations. To do so, we combine literature sources with an extensive case study that we conducted at Médecins sans Frontières–Holland, which is following a trajectory to improve...