Projects
How are the bureaucratic structure of public sector organizations and their reputation causally related over time? University of Antwerp
How does co-operative governance influence organizational resilience in the face of regulation? KU Leuven
Although they play an important role in the financial landscape, insurance companies in general and cooperative insurers in particular, are usually somewhat overlooked in regular corporate finance research. This contradicts with the European regulation (+ surveillance) of the insurance industry (i.e. Solvency II).
In the insurance industry, the cooperative organizational form is referred to as mutual insurance where, contrary to ...
When, why and how do bureaucrats and politicians respond to reputational threats? Comparing Central Government Organizations in Denmark and Belgium/Flanders'. University of Antwerp
A Comparative Analysis of the Organization and Regulation of Referendums and their Campaign Financing KU Leuven
This research will consist of a comparative analysis of the regulations concering referendums in several EU Member States, mainly focusing on campaign financing. Special attention will be granted to the Scottish Referendum on Independence (2015), the Brexit Referendum (2016) and the Catalan Referendum (2017).
Research on the organization and conservation of transcriptional regulation in plants on the basis of experimental high-throughput data Ghent University
The regulation of gene expression in an organism is an important component in the translation of genotype to the final phenotype. Gene expression is regulated at multiple levels nad transcription factors play a determining role. The main goal of this project is the study of the conservation of transcriptional regulation in plants based on experimental high-throughput data (i.c. ChIP-Seq).
The importance of empathy for the effectiveness of organizational crisis communication KU Leuven
This research project proposes that stakeholders’ empathy with an organization in crisis can help us to understand the connection between a crisis situation, crisis communication, and reputation damage. As such, we aim to contribute to fundamental academic research on crisis communication, an aspect of corporate communication which has gained scientific attention in recent years. Past research illustrates that the processes of organizational ...
The importance of empathy for the effectiveness of organizational crisis communication KU Leuven
This research project proposes that stakeholders’ empathy with an organization in crisis can help us to understand the connection between a crisis situation, crisis communication, and reputation damage. Previous studies explained the effectiveness of crisis communication by means of attributions of organizational crisis responsibility (cf. Coombs, 2007). Research in social psychology indicates, however, that attributions of responsibility are ...
Rule-enforcer or rule-breaker ? A quantitative study on the effect of organizational culture on police deviance in the Belgian local police KU Leuven
In spite of the paramount importance of police integrity in a democracy, police deviance continues to be a problem. One much-discussed factor for explaining police deviance, is police culture. However, quantitative empirical research on the relationship between police or organisational culture on the one hand and police deviance on the other is scarce. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of (different dimensions of) ...
Optimization of CEOs and spokespersons use of voice in times of crisis and conflict. KU Leuven
Every organization is vulnerable to crises, which are unexpected events that have a large impact on an organization’s operations, and which have negative consequences for the organization (Coombs, 2015). One of the most important consequences of a crisis is reputation damage (Avery, Lariscy, Kim, & Hocke, 2010). In order to limit the negative consequences of a crisis, crisis communication is crucial, because research has shown that crisis ...