The performance of a real-life production system (as measured by, for instance, the average flow time of parts or the average work-in-process level) is impacted by a range of managerial decisions, among which the product mix being produced in the shop, the layout of the shop, and the lot sizing...

This paper presents an empirical study on productivity growth using data from the Flemish part of the Community Innovation Survey 2005. In particuiar, we investigate growth differences between R&D-performing firms and non-R&D performers. As internal R&D is only one source of innovativeness, we...

As an open economy with a strong dependence on trade and activities of multinational firms, Belgium is one of the countries most sensitive to the economic globalisation process. We show how imports of intermediate products have risen strongly, especially in those industries where local...

The goal of this article is to survey the relevant literature on project scheduling with possible activity failures from a number of different disciplines, and to distill from these sources the formulation of a general optimization problem, the further study of which we would like to foster...

In this paper we apply a conditional 4-factor model to analyse the risk-return profile of Belgian socially responsible investment funds (SRI) versus their conventional counterparts. We cannot reject the hypothesis that there is no statistical difference between the risk-return trade-off of SRI...

This article states that there is a need for lateral managerial research, in which the theories, methodologies and concepts of different managerial research domains are confronted. This should lead to a more integrated (holistic) research approach. The author shows that there is a lot of...

The integration of refugees in Western societies is often perceived as problematic. By promoting refugee entrepreneurship, both their integration in society can be aided and domestic entrepreneurship can be boosted. Refugee entrepreneurship has been an underdeveloped domain of scientific...

In this paper, I analyze the economic forces that drive liquidity in stock markets. Liquidity is a key element for well-functioning stock markets as it has important repercussions for traders, trading venues (stock exchanges or alternative trading systems) and listed finns. Moreover, also the...

In an actuarial or financial context one often encounters the calculation of risk measures of random variables of the type S r:1 Xi' In many applications, the individual risks Xi are not mutually independent, for example because their outcomes are all influenced by the same economic or physical...