Doctoral dissertations

Conducting fundamental scientific research is a basic endeavour for every academic management school. Transfer of knowledge is only possible if this knowledge has first been gathered within a scientific structure. Therefore, the doctoral dissertation process contributes significantly to scientific research and its organisation. Here you find an overview of past and current PhD dissertations at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.

Current PhD projects at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

Goal-based assortments to overcome negative overchoice effects
Kristof Geskens
Promotors: Prof Dr Maggie Geuens and Prof Dr Bert Weijters
Work-life balance from a person-environment fit perspective: a study on individual and contextual antecedents and career outcomes
Sara De Hauw
Promotor: Prof Dr Ans De Vos
Relational orientation in negotiations: A study of the effects on negotiation process and outcomes in dyadic negotiations
Ann-Sophie De Pauw
Promotor: Prof Dr Herman Van den Broeck
Benefits realisation from BI
Steven De Hertogh
Promotors: Prof Dr Stijn Viaene and Prof Dr Guido Dedene
Essays on the liquidity/control dilemma in family-owned companies
Steven Carchon
Promotor: Prof Dr Lutgart Van den Berghe
Financing entrepreneurial ventures in Europe: Impact on innovation, employment, growth and competitiveness
David Devigne
Promotor: Prof Dr Sophie Manigart
Frontline and partial employee performance in service relationships: a role theoretical perspective
Katrien Verleye
Promotor: Prof Dr Paul Gemmel
Internationalization strategy and performance of small and medium sized enterprises
Jonas Onkelinx
Promotor: Prof Dr Leo Sleuwaegen
Linking CEO remuneration with firm performance: a European perspective
Xavier Baeten
Promotor: Prof Dr Lutgart Van den Berghe
The impact of the strategic industry factor innovation on incumbent reaction, survival and performance
Bart Devoldere
Promotor: Prof Dr Marion Debruyne
The strategic impact of regulatory and economic capital under Basel II
Elisabeth Van Laere
Promotor: Prof Dr Bart Baesens
Understanding the linkage between human resource management and firm performance: An empirical study of the mediating variables in the relationship between HRM and firm performance
Nele Soens
Promotor: Prof Dr Dirk Buyens

Completed PhD Research

Supply chain integration and performance: Empirical essays in a manufacturing context
Evelyne Vanpoucke
Promotor: Prof Dr Ann Vereecke
Promotion year: 2009
Brand typicality and the adoption of new products
Frank Goedertier
Promotor: Prof Dr Maggie Geuens
Promotion year: 2009
What is crucial in developing a positive attitude toward change? The role of content, context, process and individual variables in understanding readiness for change
Dave Bouckenooghe
Promotor: Prof Dr Herman Van den Broeck
Promotion year: 2009
Employee proactivity in the feedback context: a study of the causes, mechanisms and consequences of feedback-seeking behavior
Katleen De Stobbeleir
Promotor: Prof Dr Dirk Buyens
Promotion year: 2008
Business ethics, stakeholder management and related fields in entrepreneurship: an analysis of concerns, perceptions and inconsistencies
Yves Fassin
Promotor: Prof Dr Marc Buelens
Promotion year: 2007
The influence of cognitive styles on managerial behaviour and attitudes
Eva Cools
Promotor: Prof Dr Herman Van Den Broeck
Promotion year: 2007
Corporate governance and the board of directors: a qualitative-oriented inquiry into the determinants of board effectiveness
Abigail Levrau
Promotor: Prof Dr Lutgart Van den Berghe
Promotion year: 2007
Managerial learning from on-the-job experiences: An empirical study of the mediators and moderators in the relationship between developmental OTJ experiences and managerial learning outcomes
Karen Wouters
Promotor: Prof Dr Dirk Buyens
Promotion year: 2006
Response styles in consumer research
Bert Weijters
Promotor: Prof Dr Maggie Geuens
Promotion year: 2006
The performance of Corporate Spin-offs and the Implications for their Technology Strategy
Els Van de Velde
Promotor: Prof Dr Bart Clarysse
Promotion year: 2006
Does venture capital matter for high tech start-ups? An analysis of European early stage inventors
Mirjam Knockaert
Promotor: Prof Dr Bart Clarysse
Promotion year: 2005
Empowerment and control dynamics in service contexts: conceptual exploration and empirical validation of the impact on frontline employee affect and performance
Koen Dewettinck
Promotor: Prof Dr Dirk Buyens
Promotion year: 2005
Employee-related antecedents of the waiting experience and service quality in outpatient clinics
Stefanie De Man
Promotor: Prof Dr Paul Gemmel
Promotion year: 2004
From invention to innovation: A study of Research-Based Start-ups
Ans Heirman
Promotor: Prof Dr Bart Clarysse
Promotion year: 2004
The creation of science-based entrepreneurial firms as institutionally enacted processes
Nathalie Moray
Promotor: Prof Dr Bart Clarysse
Promotion year: 2004
The role of organisation specific integration mechanisms in inter-unit knowledge sharing
Annick Willem
Promotor: Prof Dr Marc Buelens
Promotion year: 2003
The development of organisational newcomers' psychological contracts: a longitudinal study
Ans De Vos
Promotor: Prof Dr Dirk Buyens
Promotion year : 2003
Competitive reaction to new product introductions
Marion Debruyne
Promotor: Prof Dr Patrick Van Kenhove
Promotion year: 2002
Organizational Learning by Venture Capital Firms: The Impact of Investment Experience, Knowledge Overlap, and Social Capital on Investment Success
University of Minnesota, USA
Dirk De Clercq
Promotion year: 2002
The design-manufacturing interface and the role of prototyping with respect to the performance of a new product development project.
Anneke Vandevelde
Promotor: Prof Dr Roland Van Dierdonck
Promotion year: 2001
The importance of accounting recognition and a firm’s underlying economics in identifying unrecognised net assets
Philip Joos
Promotion year: 2000
Information technology enabled selling in business markets. Studies on the acceptance and effects of information technology in the sales force
Niels Schillewaert
Promotor: Prof Dr R. Frambach
Promotion year: 2000
Multiple points of reference in distributive negotiations between two parties.
Dirk Van Poucke
Promotor: Prof Dr Marc Buelens
Promotion year: 1999
Performance consequences of financial conglomeration with an empirical analysis in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Kurt Verweire
Promotor: Prof Dr Lutgart Van den Berghe
Promotion year: 1999
The role of the seller in enhancing buyer-seller relationships: empirical studies in a retail context.
Kristof De Wulf
Promotors: Prof dr H. Commandeur & Prof Dr J. Hoekstra
Promotion year: 1999
The impact of target costing on cost, quality and time-to-market of new products: results from lab experiments
Patricia Everaert
Promotor: Prof Dr Werner Bruggeman
Promotion year: 1999
The influence of human resource practices and interdepartmental connectedness on the effectiveness of the customer orientation of the R&D department.
Karlien Vanderheyden
Promotion year: 1998
Strategy - control - performance: an empirical analysis in large, independent, Belgian firms.
Wim Van Der Stede
Promotor: Prof Dr Werner Bruggeman
Promotion year: 1997
The stock market valuation of earnings and book value across international accounting systems.
Peter Joos
Promotion year: 1997
The determinants of the creation of an optimal international network of production plants: an empirical study.
Ann Vereecke
Promotor: Prof Dr Roland Van Dierdonck
Promotion year: 1997
From research collaboration to product commercialisation: a study of power and efficiency along the biotech life cycle.
Bart Clarysse
Promotor: Prof Dr Koen Debackere
Promotion year: 1996
A simulation-based experimental investigation of a hospital service requirements planning system under different sources of uncertainty
Paul Gemmel
Promotor: Prof Dr Werner Bruggeman
Promotion year: 1995
The impact of activity-based budgeting on information asymmetry, budget slack creation, and related dysfunctional behaviors - Results from lab experiments.
Dominque Waeytens
Promotor: Prof Dr Werner Bruggeman
Promotion year: 1995
A dynamic theory of the use of management control systems in achieving alignment of strategic investment decisions with strategy.
Regine Slagmulder
Promotor: Prof Dr Werner Bruggeman
Promotion year: 1995
Flexibility of secondary education in Flanders: an organisational-sociological study of power and institutionalisation
Geert Devos
Promotion year: 1995
Failure prediction. An artificial intelligence approach.
Zain Sumarno
Promotor: Prof Dr Hubert Ooghe
Promotion year: 1994