Research projects

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?

The corona crisis and subsequent measures have shaken the economic landscape considerably and severely tested the resilience of our companies. How resilient and flexible are Flemish (family) businesses?

What are the levers and factors that ensure the long-term survival and success of a family business? Researching an answer to that question yielded a new and unique model with 10 lessons for long-term survival as a family business.

This study provides an overview of entrepreneurship in the Brussels Capital Region.

The objective of this project is to deepen and broaden ethical competencies among managers by developing an innovative and attractive training course. The training will identify learning objectives and provide targeted coaching, measured against the EQ framework.

The Logistics Interactive Learning Network (LogILereN) consists of a select group of logistics experts who sit around the table bi-monthly to share hands-on experience and scientific findings. The goal of this service project? Coming up with innovative logistics solutions for your business.

The Go&LearNET for Educational Trainers (Go&LearNET) is a European Leonardo Da Vinci project, which aims to bring technical and vocational training in secondary schools and the labor market closer together in various ways.

With this research we wanted to investigate to what extent change processes can be more supported ("my and/or "our" change process) by the (non-)family employees in family firms and how psychological ownership can contribute to successful change processes in family firms.