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Upcoming Research Seminars

• Research is central to our mission as an academic management school. The research seminars at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School aim at contributing to an active research climate in the School and at raising the level of visibility of the research activities in the School. These seminars are open, free of charge, to interested faculty and researchers from all universities and knowledge institutions. The list of research seminars is updated regularly.

• Research Brown Bag on Entrepreneurship research at Vlerick: The state of the art  (24 May 2012)

  Presentation of the current state of entrepreneurship research conducted within Vlerick.

• Research Brown Bag on How to survive your first AoM conference?  (15 Jun 2012)

  Tips and tricks of first time Academy of Management conference attendees regarding how to get most out of your participation at a big conference (complemented with perspective of a more seasoned AoM attendee).

If you want to attend one of these research events, please contact research@vlerick.com to get more details.

Forthcoming brown bags [download (pdf, 457 kB)]

Previous Research Seminars

• Research Brown Bag on Management Education at Vlerick  (27 Jan 2012)

  Presentation of results of two ARF projects on student learning within Vlerick and discussion of potential implications for teaching and studying at Vlerick.

• Research Brown Bag on Creating high-performing and risk aware organisations  (01 Mar 2012)

  This research brown bag will provide an overview of the field of performance management and share the highlights of the Vlerick book project on high-performing organisations.

• Research Brown Bag on Exploring the role of performance measurement in integrated top-down and bottom-up change  (12 Apr 2012)

  How to bring change to organizations is a highly researched but at the same time strongly contested subject. Based on preliminary findings from longitudinal case study research, we present an agenda for future research on integrated top-down and bottom-up change, and its implications for performance measurement.

• Research Brown Bag on Epistemological foundations of transdisciplinary research: The case of the management of innovation  (26 Apr 2012)

  The innovation research platform aims to promote transdisciplinary research to foster collaboration across competence centres. Doing so requires a sound epistemological foundation. In this brown bag we contrast two research paradigms (Mode 1 versus Mode 2) and discuss their rationale and application potential in the field of innovation management research.