Working papers overview 2008

• 2008-25 - Impact Assessment of an Entrepreneurship Course on Students’ Entrepreneurial Competencies: A Constructivist Perspective

  Authors: Izquierdo, E., Buyens, D.
  This paper reports on educational issues of an entrepreneurship course, supported by a constructivist perspective.

• 2008/24 - Human Resource challenges for growing SMEs. How Flemish entrepreneurs attract, develop and retain employees

  Authors: Van Bruystegem, K., Van De Woestyne, M., Dewettinck, K.
  For Flemish entrepreneurs human resource management is one of the biggest challenges for further development and growth (Forum on Entrepreneurship, October 2006). Hence, this paper aims to shed light on how successful entrepreneurs in Flanders manage their human resources.

• 2008/23 - Management control of supplier relationships in manufacturing: A case study in the automotive industry

  Authors: Pernot, E., Roodhooft, F.
  This paper studies management control system design of supplier relationships in manufacturing, a supply chain phase currently under-explored.

• 2008/22 - Agency and similarity effects and the VC's attitude towards academic spin-out investing

  Authors: Knockaert, M., Clarysse, B., Wright, M., Lockett, A.
  In this paper, we study which VC firm and investment manager related factors drive the VC’s attitude towards academic spin-out investing by taking an agency and human capital perspective.

• 2008/21 - The change climate questionnaire: scale development

  Authors: Bouckenooghe, D., Devos, G., Van den Broeck, H.
  On the basis of a step-by-step procedure (see Hinkin, 1998), this article discusses the design and evaluation of a self-report questionnaire (Change Climate Questionnaire) that can be used to gauge the internal context of change, the process factors of change, and readiness for change.

• 2008/20 - Ready or not...? What's the relevance of a meso level approach to the study of readiness for change

  Authors: Bouckenooghe, D., Devos, G.
  This study proposes and tests a meso-level model of readiness for change. More specifically this article examined the influence of organizational climate factors on readiness for change over and above the effects of their eponymous lower level psychological climate variables (i.e., trust in top management, history of change, participation in decision making, and quality of change communication).

• 2008/19 - A two-level competing values framework to measuring nonprofit organizational effectiveness

  Authors: Balduck, A., Buelens, M.
  This study contributes to the literature by presenting a two-level competing values approach to measuring nonprofit organizational effectiveness.

• 2008-18 - The impact of cultural resemblance on management control of supplier relations: longitudinal evidence in the automotive industry

  Authors: Pernot, E., Roodhooft, F.
  This study explores the impact of cultural resemblance on the management control system (MCS) of supplier relationships. Although MCSs are contingent on situational characteristics and this contingency fit is associated with good performance, it remains unclear whether cultural resemblance between manufacturer and supplier contributes to the speed of MCS change, so that temporary misfits due to changing circumstances are less likely to occur.

• 2008/17 - The impact of inter-organizational management control systems on performance: a longitudinal case study of a supplier relation in automotive

  Authors: Pernot, E., Roodhooft, F.
  This study investigates whether appropriate management control design of supplier relations is associated with good performance. Although management control systems (MCSs) are found to be contingent on situational characteristics, it remains unclear whether this contingency fit contributes to performance.

• 2008/16 - Corporate stakeholder responsibility: variation across countries

  Authors: Chapple, W., Gond, J.P., Louche, C., Orlitzky, M.

• 2008/15 - Creating successful collaborative relationships

  Authors: Vanpoucke, E., Vereecke, A.
  Building on the work of Mohr and Spekman (1994), Monczka (1998) and Solis (2004) and several other researchers (Bowersox (2000), Mentzer (2000), etc), we have identified three key antecedents of supply chain collaboration: collaboration attributes, systems & processes and conflict resolution techniques. To measure these antecedents and the link between the antecedents and the performance improvement of the relationship, we developed a survey to measure the least successful and the most successful strategic supplier-and customer-relationships.

• 2008/14 - From trait and context to creativity at work: feedback-seeking behavior as a self-regulation strategy for creative performance

  Authors: De Stobbeleir, K., Ashford, S., Buyens, D.
  Using a sample of 456 supervisor-employee dyads from 4 organizations, this study examined how employees use feedback seeking as a self-regulation strategy to manage their creative performance. As hypothesized, employees’ cognitive style and perceived organizational support for creativity affected two patterns of their feedback seeking, i.e. their tendency to inquire for feedback from various sources and their propensity to monitor their environment for indirect feedback cues.

• 2008/13 - The feedback-seeker in his social labyrinth: the mediating role of goals and cooperative norms in linking empowering leadership to feedback-seeking behavior

  Authors: De Stobbeleir, K., Buyens, D.
  This study examines the intra-personal and interpersonal mechanisms through which empowering leaders impact their followers’ selection of feedback sources. Drawing on goal theories and the group-norms literature, we developed and tested an individual and multilevel model of feedback-seeking behavior..

• 2008/12 - Do R&D subsidies affect SME's: access to external financing

  Authors: Meuleman, M., De Maeseneire, W.
  This paper investigates whether government subsidies to R&D enhance SMEs’ access to external financing due to this certification effect. Using a unique Belgian dataset of 1107 approved requests and a control group of 501 denied requests for a specific type of R&D grant, we examine the impact on small firms’ external equity, short term and long term debt financing.

• 2008/11 - How is feedback-seeking behavior interpreted? The influence of feedback-seeking pattern and feedback source's characteristics on impression formation and performance evaluations

  Authors: De Stobbeleir, K., Ashford, S., Sully De Luque, M.F.
  This study examined how feedback seekers’ and targets’ characteristics affect how feedback-seeking acts are evaluated. We studied how two aspects of the pattern of feedback seeking, the sign of the feedback sought (positive versus negative) and the frequency of seeking (frequent versus infrequent) interact with the performance history of the feedback seeker to affect impressions formed by feedback targets.

• 2008/10 - The relationship between protean career attitude and career success: the mediating role of career self-management

  Authors: De Vos, A., Soens, N.
  A protean career attitude is considered as an important determinant for career success in the contemporary career era. In this article we test a model in which we specify the relationships between protean career attitude, career self-management behaviors, career insight, and career success outcomes (psychological success and perceived employability).

• 2008/09 - Towards an evolutionary model of the entrepreneurial financing process: insights from biotechnology startups

  Authors: Vanacker, T., Manigart, S., Meuleman, M.
  Using multiple longitudinal case studies of young biotechnology firms, we study differences in the financing process between high and low performing firms. Findings suggest that initial differences in the specialization of the investors with whom entrepreneurs affiliate early on, affect the ease with which firms attract (specialized) follow-on financing and firm performance.

• 2008/08 - High-technology VCs: a distinct species on the investment market

  Authors: Knockaert, M., Clarysse, B.
  Over the last decades, venture capital investment management has considerably become interested in high-tech investing. Despite this higher interest, no clear analysis exists of who these high-tech VCs are, and how they differ from traditional VCs. Studying selection behaviour of VCs using a conjoint methodology, we identified 28 high-tech investors in a unique sample of 68 European early stage investors.

• 2008/07 - The strategic role of the plant in international networks: a longitudinal study

  Authors: Vereecke, A., De Meyer, A., Van Dierdonck, R.
  The framework introduced by Ferdows in the 1990s offers an interesting typology, classifying plants according to their strategic role. Empirical research testing the framework showed its value as a tool for the analysis and assessment of the role of plants in such networks. This paper reports on a follow-up of this empirical study, ten years later.

• 2008/06 - Globalisation and firm exit: differences between small and large firms

  Authors: Colantone, I., Coucke, K., Sleuwaegen, L.
  The effects of increasing import competition on output displacement and exit of heterogeneousdomestic firms are investigated within the context of an oligopolistic rivalry model.

• 2008/05 - Agency, strategic entrepreneurship and the performance of private equity backed buyouts

  Authors: Meuleman, M., Amess, K., Wright, M., Scholes, L.
  In this paper, we develop the complementarity between agency theory and strategic entrepreneurship perspectives to examine the performance implications for different types of buyouts.

• 2008/04 - ABS, MBS and CDO compared: an empirical analysis

  Authors: Vink, D., Thibeault, A.
  The capital market in which the asset-backed securities are issued and traded is composed of three main categories: ABS, MBS and CDOs. In this paper it is investigated how common pricing factors compare for the main classes of securities.

• 2008/03 - An empirical analysis of asset-backed securitization

  Authors: Vink, D., Thibeault, A.
  In this study we provide empirical evidence demonstrating a relationship between the nature of the assets and the primary market spread.

• 2008/02 - What's in a name? An inquiry on the cognitive and entrepreneurial profile of the social entrepreneur

  Authors: Cools, E., Vermeulen, S.
  Given the rise of social enterprises, the aim of this study is to get more insight into what typifies social entrepreneurs.

• 2008/01 - To Fit or not to fit: insights in the search for a job

  Authors: De Winter, C., Dewilde, T., Buyens, D.
  The objective of this study is to gain insight in which organisation-specific information job seekers attach importance to, in order to determine whether they fit in an organisation.