Research projects

In this project, we explore how digital platforms can contribute to customer-driven innovation among SMEs.

The Family Business Barometer gauges the economic expectations of family businesses in Belgium.

We want to guide women and men between 45 and 65 who combine a job with a double care task to find a good combination strategy. We hope this will help them combine their jobs with care and a family for longer and with more motivation and commitment.

This project investigates what elements contribute to sustainable HRM in organizations, with cases from the field of business administration and cases from higher education. Furthermore, we look at what the outcomes of a sustainable HRM policy are for the organization.

This project aims to answer the question: how can we convince SMEs that data-smart business is also a viable option for them to optimize their online conversion?

In this study, we examined, on the one hand, whether employment in prisons can be shaped as logistical employment. On the other hand, we looked at what the preconditions are for implementing logistics training in prisons.

This study, commissioned by the Brussels Capital Region, examines a wide range of sharing initiatives in the Brussels region.

The central research question of this project is: what are the consequences of exponential digitalization on actors in the family business?

To date, potential growers lack real production and market data to start freshwater cod farming. To fill in this gap, Aqua-ERFaims to guide growers on freshwater cod farming and production.

This project looks at the potential impact of bankruptcy on the person of the ex-entrepreneur. Does that bankruptcy affect his or her further options? Does a bankrupt choose to restart as an entrepreneur? And what factors play a role in that decision?

This project focuses on SMEs whose manager reaches (or has reached) retirement age or is thinking of taking over, the so-called "aging SMEs. We would like to know if the company can offer an option to its own employees to take over the SME, in order to ensure the continuity of the business and the anchoring of local employment.

De coronacrisis en de daaropvolgende maatregelen hebben het economische landschap flink door elkaar geschud en de veerkracht van onze bedrijven sterk op de proef gesteld. Hoe veerkrachtig en flexibel zijn Vlaamse (familie)bedrijven?