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Recently, I had the great honor of overseeing the organization of the FINDER inclusive digital innovation week in FS&I together with our project partner Atos. It was an exciting opportunity to exchange ideas between practice and academia and receive food for further thinking. We want to thank the organizers of the event, Remco Neuteboom, Rick Aalbers, Ivo Lujiendijk, Jonas …

Hosting of the FINDER 2021 inclusive digital innovation in FS&I week – Read More »

Acquisitions are common in industries, but not all acquisitions succeed and those that fail often have a negative effect on the acquirer. A recent publication in the Long Range Planning further explores multiple levels of risks involved in acquisitions and the importance of signaling the ‘why’ and ‘where’ of said acquisitions. Dr Rick Aalbers (Associate Professor …

Market reactions to acquisition announcements: The importance of signaling ‘why’ and ‘where’ Read More »

After partaking in the prior OECD Roundtables on Cities and Regions it was a pleasure to be part of the community that comprised the 4th OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs on the theme of a Framework for COVID-19 recovery in Cities and Regions. Recovery is high on the agenda after the …

COVID-19 recovery in Cities and Regions: lessons from the 4th OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs Read More »

It is not uncommon for organizations that endure restructuring to experience trust decay amongst the work force. How does responsible restructuring come about? What are the antecedents that drive an organization forward in a responsible manner, also when trust is hampered and uncertainty arises within the boundaries of the firm? This month, FINDER friend and …

Dynamics of interpersonal trust: a social network perspective Read More »

A recent review of Pre-Packed Bankruptcies I worked on recently featured on the Oxford Business Law blog (see here) . The work revolves around the value capture, or distruction of value instead, that surrounds various instances of bankruptcy arrangements. With my colleagues at Leiden University we came to the following insigts: Firms that find themselves …

Pre-Packed Bankruptcies: value distroying or value preserving? NL evidence Read More »

A recent publication in Long Range Planning brings to the fore the interesting phenomenon of network regeneration. Often we believe that networks of all sorts, formal, informal, and especially those that are voluntarily maintained, fall apart as an organization gets temporarily hammered by restructuring. Interestingly however, some employees actually become more active instead. Reaching out …

Rewiring the Intrafirm Network under Downsizing: The Role of Tie Loss on Discretionary Tie Formation Read More »

Recent work of mine together with Prof. Wilfred Dolfsma of Wageningen University that appeared in Journal of Business Research addresses the role of sudden organization turmoil on a firms delicate social network. It demonstrates in particular how downsizing affects an organization’s voluntary ideation network in unexpected ways. Drawing on network theory, we show that the …

Resilience of information flow during restructuring: Characterizing information value being exchanged and the structure of a network under turmoil Read More »

Beaufort Corporate Consulting en het Centre for Organization Restructuring verkennen het  Nederlandse zorgdomein. Centraal thema: Gesprekken met bestuurders over vastgoed, efficiëntie en innovatie binnen de Nederlandse vvt-instelling  De Nederlandse zorg is uitstekend, maar heeft te maken met een grote uitdaging. De vraag naar goede zorg groeit, onder meer door vergrijzing, nieuwe behandelmogelijkheden en daarnaast hogere …

Beaufort Corporate Consulting en het Centre for Organization Restructuring verkennen het Nederlandse zorgdomein Read More »

On Orchestras as creative cultural heritage. NWO (the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research) has allocated a KIEM grant to the project “Collaborative networks as a safety net in the performing arts: a network based approach to employment resilience in a struggling sector”, a research project initiated by Dr. Rick Aalbers (main applicant, Radboud) and Dr. …

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A discretionary social network in a firm is where individual employees voluntarily share new, innovative knowledge – activities in this network are essential to firm innovation. These activities are far from simple, and often end in failure due to managerial misunderstanding. This failure may have to do with the fact that ideation is largely a …

Improving the value-of-input for ideation by management Read More »