Research Insights
The Vlerick Faculty is conducting research that has a strong academic foundation while being validated and translated into business practice by business leaders.
In the ‘Vlerick Insights" articles you will find research results and articles surrounding a management issue circulating throughout the business world. We are convinced these articles will help you in leading your organisation through the challenges that it may be facing today.
Research Insights articles
2010
Faith institutions find responsible investment an uphill struggle (26 Jul 2010)
New and international research carried out by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium, along with the ESADE business school in Spain and International Interfaith Investment Group 3iG, has revealed that religious institutions find it difficult to invest responsibly whilst maintaining a strategy that fits in with their beliefs. Despite the fact that faith institutions are widely considered to be the pioneers of responsible investment and make up the third largest demographic of investors globally, it appears that the stock market presents difficulties when it comes to aligning the needs of the faith with a responsible investment strategy.
Read moreBusiness Process Management: Quo vadis? Challenges and opportunities (07 Jul 2010)
Adopting a process orientation means putting a vision into practice by making and committing to deliberate choices for organising and executing work. In order for Business Process Management (BPM) to be able to help businesses looking for an new vision and new ways to manage an ever more complex business context, BPM needs to evolve from a mere methodology (being a stepwise, structured approach to improving business processes – often synonymous for making them more efficient) into a holistic management discipline that takes an integrated approach to the organisation and its business as a whole. That is the main conclusion from six years of intensive research on the strategic positioning and current and future challenges of Business Process Management, led by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in collaboration with its business partner MÖBIUS and the member companies of the BPM Network.
Read moreFlemish growth-companies optimistic about the future: more employment and larger turnover (10 Jun 2010)
The low point of the crisis seems to be passing gradually – at least, if we can believe the growth-companies (the so-called ‘gazelles’) in Flanders. They are looking to the near future with optimism and satisfaction. In particular, they anticipate an increase in the number of recruitments and a growth in turnover. Moreover, they also have a clear message for the government: to be able to grow further and more quickly, there is a need for more flexibility on the labour market, simplicity in laws and regulations, and a reduction of taxes and social security premiums. These are the major conclusions of the annual iGMO (Impulscentrum Groeimanagement voor Middelgrote Ondernemingen / Growth-management impulse centre for medium-sized companies) Growth Survey at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.
Read moreHarnessing web power to drive innovation (14 May 2010)
LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, mashups, blogs... Web 2.0 technology facilitates and encourages online collaboration and knowledge-sharing. Inherently social and collaborative, web 2.0 has tremendous potential to support and drive the innovation process. Researchers from Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School joined forces with Flanders DC to identify the prerequisites for success.
Read moreSurvey of Global Reward Management Practices reveals need for better dialogue between corporate headquarters and local entities (12 May 2010)
Compensation & Benefits professionals working in multinational firms feel a clear need for better cooperation and coordination between local entities and corporate headquarters regarding Compensation & Benefits Management. Corporate HQ needs more knowledge regarding local specificities (e.g. how reward instruments are taxed), and local entities need to be more involved and empowered by corporate headquarters. Furthermore, there is a clear need for governance rules on who decides upon which issues in Compensation & Benefits. These findings are brought out in the Survey of Global Reward Management Practices conducted by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. 31 multinational firms, most of them headquartered in Western Europe, participated in this study.
Read moreHow to address knowledge management within companies? (05 May 2010)
Professor Koen Dewettinck together with researchers Mieke Van De Woestyne and Ine Willemse prepared a short application case on knowledge management for inclusion in the revised global edition of Human Resource Management by Gary Dessler. The case describes the evolution of Group Thermote & Vanhalst (TVH).
Read more2010
- Does the crisis have an influence on leadership, motivation and people performance? (30 Apr 2010)
- Growth performance of firms in Africa: an analysis (29 Apr 2010)
- Competence development in 2010: five new trends (22 Mar 2010)
- Career management: Take control of your career! (19 Mar 2010)
- Central position in the market combined with know-how make Flanders the vibrant heart of European distribution (18 Mar 2010)
- Crisis has positive effect on new entrepreneurship in Flanders (11 Mar 2010)
- Making companies more strategy-focused (26 Feb 2010)
- Do you have what it takes to be a product leader? (25 Feb 2010)
- Making students more enterprising, does it work? (04 Feb 2010)
- Leading the way: why services companies have co-opted product leadership as a key value (14 Jan 2010)
2009
- Crisis stimulates renewed cooperation between IT and business (16 Dec 2009)
- Remuneration of top managers curtailed (10 Dec 2009)
- The creative melting pot: how organizations influence or hold back employee creativity (04 Dec 2009)
- Crisis year leads to strong shifts in the CFO's role, priorities and challenges (26 Nov 2009)
- E-business as leverage (25 Nov 2009)
- How well does your sales team score? (24 Nov 2009)
- How do you win the hearts of shoppers? (23 Nov 2009)
- Companies are not sufficiently prepared for supply chain risks (20 Oct 2009)
- Competence management: a common language for human capital (26 Sep 2009)
- Too old to learn? 45+ and training (25 Sep 2009)
- A successful business is not always 'all about the money' (25 Sep 2009)
- People performance: staff in the spotlight (24 Sep 2009)
- How to optimize knowledge sharing in a factory network? (16 Sep 2009)
- Belgium maintains its competitive advantage in the ranking from the World Economic Forum (08 Sep 2009)
- Insights into the buying behaviour of Belgian consumers in times of crisis (25 Aug 2009)
- Downstream innovation: building competitive advantage by capitalising on consumer selection processes (18 Aug 2009)
- Growth companies remain financially strong during the economic crisis (16 Jun 2009)
- Determinants of successful internationalisation by SMEs in Flanders (11 Jun 2009)
- Generation Y: Graduated! Now what? (10 Jun 2009)
- How satisfied are sales executives? (09 Jun 2009)