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Bert Scholtens is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Groningen

Can risk-taking incentives in CEO pay lead to irresponsibility?

Date:16 April 2018
Author:Bert Scholtens

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...

Susanne Täuber and Marijke Leliveld

Greedy bankers and angry public equally hypocritical

Date:05 April 2018
Author:Susanne Täuber and Marijke Leliveld

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.

Pedro de Faria is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen

I can’t give everything away: how the importance of secrecy is dependent on a company’s visibility

Date:04 April 2018

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...

Dr Anna Minasyan is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business

Aid-ing their influence: US aid and spread of economic ideology

Date:29 March 2018

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...

Bart Los is Professor of the Economics of Technological Progress and Structural Change at the Faculty of Economics and Business, the University of Groningen

Why students should care about the impact of Brexit

Date:28 March 2018

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.

Robert Lensink is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen.

Can business training reduce poverty?

Date:22 March 2018
Author:Robert Lensink

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.

Associate professor Richard Jong-A-Pin and assistant professor Rasmus Wiese, who wrote the paper with Professor Jakob de Haan.

Successful fiscal adjustments can also be achieved by raising taxes

Date:20 March 2018

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...

Floor Rink

Explicitly mentioning business identity increases confidence in an alliance

Date:19 March 2018
Author:Floor Rink

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...

Jan Willem Bolderdijk

Meat free week - a recipe for change

Date:13 March 2018
Author:Jan Willem Bolderdijk

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...

Yingjie Yuan

How can companies best encourage employee creativity?

Date:08 March 2018

Assistant professor Yingjie Yuan explains her research in management and organisation psychology in this new video.