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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 Seminar - Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis  (17 Mar 2010)

  This research seminar can be attended, free of charge, by all Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and parent universities employees.The purpose of these seminars is to highlight current hot topics in ‘research’ at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. These seminars are informal and interactive and intended to stimulate interdisciplinarity. They also allow researchers to present their research.

• Reassessing the relationships between private equity investors and their portfolio companies  (30 May 2010)

  As part of the Gimv PE Chair, Sophie Manigart together with Mike Wright organizes an academic workshop "Workshop and Small Business Economics Special Issue "Reassessing the relationships between private equity investors and their portfolio companies".

Past Research Seminars

• Research on Friday - Fools Breaking Out: A Multilevel perspective of Institutional nonconformity  (02 Oct 2009)

  The Research on Friday seminars are informal research lunch seminars. They can be attended, free of charge, by all Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and parent universities employees. The purpose of the Research on Friday seminars is to highlight current hot topics in ‘research’ at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. These seminars are informal and interactive and intended to stimulate interdisciplinarity. They also allow researchers to present their research.

• Flanders DC Academic Seminar: The Process of Entrepreneurship  (12 Oct 2009)

  The Flanders DC Academic Seminars are a series of research seminars for academics, faculty and researchers. International top academics are invited at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School under the Flanders DC Faculty in Residence Programme helping Flanders DC and Flanders DC Knowledge Center to gain new insights in the field of creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and internationalisation.

• Research on Friday - When a Japanese subsidiary is not a Japanese subsidiary: Internationalization as changing organizational identity and capabilities  (04 Dec 2009)

  The Research on Friday seminars are informal research lunch seminars. They can be attended, free of charge, by all Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and parent universities employees. The purpose of the Research on Friday seminars is to highlight current hot topics in ‘research’ at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. These seminars are informal and interactive and intended to stimulate interdisciplinarity. They also allow researchers to present their research.

• Research on Friday - Cross-Boundary Disrupters: Powerful Inter-Industry Entrepreneurial Change Agents  (05 Feb 2010)

  The Research on Friday seminars are informal research lunch seminars. They can be attended, free of charge, by all Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and parent universities employees. The purpose of the Research on Friday seminars is to highlight current hot topics in ‘research’ at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. These seminars are informal and interactive and intended to stimulate interdisciplinarity. They also allow researchers to present their research.