Zoekresultaten
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… social shareholder proposals won over 50 percent of shareholder support, while in 2016 only 3 percent of such proposals were approved by a majority of shareholders. Investors have also strengthened their private engagement efforts, with collaborative groups like Climate Action 100+ urging firms to make their operations more environmentally sustainable. Yet an important question persists: How relevant are these stewardship activities to the financial performance of target firms? In a new working paper, Rob Bauer, Jeroen Derwall and Colin Tissen, economist at Maastricht University, use an extensive global sample of private environmental, social, and governance (ESG) engagements to answer this question. Read more … efforts, with collaborative groups like Climate Action 100+ urging firms to make their operations more environmentally sustainable. Yet an important question persists: How relevant are these stewardship activities to the financial performance of target firms? In a new working paper, Rob Bauer, Jeroen Derwall and Colin Tissen, economist at Maastricht University, use an extensive global sample of private environmental, social, and governance (ESG) engagements to answer this question. Read more …
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De organisatie van dit jaarlijks terugkerend congres is in handen van Fagro, Rabobank, Maastricht University en Zuyd Hogeschool. Middels het organiseren van dit congres wil de organisatie een bijdrage leveren aan het behouden en aantrekken van finance professionals in de provincie Limburg.
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ITEM Annual Conference 2023
… towards a sustainable and liveable society across the border' The next ITEM Annual Conference will take place in cooperation with Province of Zuid Holland and Kings Commissioner Jaap Smit, on Friday 17 November 2023 in The Hague. Visit the ITEM website for more information Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Faculty of Law Maastricht Graduate School of Governance School of Business and Economics Den Haag Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM More information on the ITEM website Yes, I want to join REGISTER HERE … Infrastructure and mobility: 'Strong connections with neighbouring countries towards a sustainable and liveable society across the border' The next ITEM Annual Conference will take place in cooperation with Province of Zuid Holland and Kings Commissioner Jaap Smit, on Friday 17 November 2023 in The Hague. Visit the ITEM website for more information … Infrastructure and mobility: 'Strong connections with neighbouring countries towards a sustainable and liveable society across the border' The next ITEM Annual Conference will take place in cooperation with Province of …
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Research communication/ Faculteitsbureau/ Faculty of Law
f.hoekstra@maastrichtuniversity.nl
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… and Prof. Harry Steinbusch Maastricht University is at the cutting-edge of neuroscience research, hosting an wide-ranging spectrum of excellent laboratories and a state-of-the-art neuroscience infrastructure used and developed by various complementary research groups comprised of world-renowned experts. The inter-faculty Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), consisting of the School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNS) of FHML, the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN), the School of … (FHML) • Rob Rouhl (MUMC+) • Mark Roberts (FPN) • Peter de Weerd (FPN) • Bernadette Jansma (FPN) Hungry for reward: using evaluative conditioning to repair food and taste reward processing in the anorectic brain PhD: Kamilah St. Paul Started: 2018 Project team: • Rudolf Ponds (FHML) • Anne Roefs (FPN) • Anita Jansen (FPN) The locus coeruleus hits the bull’s eye: stress-vulnerability as a predictor for cognitive decline PhD: Linda Pagen Completed: 2021 Project team: • …
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De organisatie van dit jaarlijks terugkerend congres is in handen van Fagro, Rabobank, Maastricht University en Zuyd Hogeschool. Middels het organiseren van dit congres wil de organisatie een bijdrage leveren aan het behouden en aantrekken van finance professionals in de provincie Limburg.
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… on microfinance, together with one of my PhD students. In attendance at the conference was a nice mix of academics and practitioners. Our paper, presented by my PhD student, was about what has become known as ‘mission drift’: what happens when firms start to drift away from their original mission? Mission drift is especially interesting in markets where for-profit and not-for-profit firms compete, like healthcare, education … and microfinance. Why? Because in that case, mission drift can happen in two directions: from a pure for-profit start to a more mixed mission, and from a pure not-for-profit start towards the same middle. School of Business and Economics J.W.B. Bos Professor of Banking and Finance Finance, School of Business and Economics From a societal perspective, mission drift does not have to be bad. One of the key aspects is what …
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… 2 mei 2023 Zoekresultaten Waarom doen mensen wat ze doen? Om deze complexe vraag te beantwoorden moet Hannes Rusch van alles een beetje zijn: econoom, bioloog, filosoof, wiskundige. Hij kreeg onlangs een ERC Starting Grant van 1,5 miljoen euro om een interdisciplinair theoretisch kader voor de beschrijving van uitbuiting in arbeidsrelaties te ontwikkelen en dit empirisch te toetsen. Het doel is om te komen tot beleidsmaatregelen die de drijfveren voor … heeft om het minder schadelijke alternatief te kiezen." … Waarom doen mensen wat ze doen? Om deze complexe vraag te beantwoorden moet Hannes Rusch van alles een beetje zijn: econoom, bioloog, filosoof, wiskundige. Hij kreeg onlangs een ERC Starting Grant van 1,5 miljoen euro om een interdisciplinair theoretisch kader voor de beschrijving van uitbuiting in arbeidsrelaties te ontwikkelen en dit empirisch te toetsen. Het doel is om te komen tot beleidsmaatregelen die de drijfveren voor uitbuiting wegnemen. … Waarom doen mensen wat ze doen? Om deze complexe vraag te beantwoorden moet Hannes Rusch van alles een beetje zijn: econoom, bioloog, filosoof, wiskundige. Hij kreeg onlangs een ERC Starting Grant van 1,5 miljoen euro om een interdisciplinair theoretisch kader voor de beschrijving van uitbuitingsrelaties te ontwikkelen en dit empirisch te toetsen. … “Uitbuiting komt overal voor” …
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… 15 januari 2024 Zoekresultaten How can we help employees to fulfil their potential? And how can we do this in a way that is sustainable for both employees and organizations? Recently, I started a new professorship at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) at SBE to address these questions, together with various stakeholders in science, policy, and practice. In this blog, I describe why these questions are … by general practitioners. It centers on the use of a conversation instrument. It works like this: first, a patient fills out a questionnaire about the six dimensions of Positive Health. The scores on the six dimensions are displayed in a "spider web" diagram. This spider web then forms the basis for a conversation between the care provider and the patient, in which the patient's condition is discussed, looking at all six dimensions of health, as well as the relationship between these … not explicitly mentioned. Also for employees it is not always clear what the goal of working with Positive Health is, and too strong a focus on health gains can even create resistance among employees. Finally, it is not clear whether different target groups benefit in the same way from working with Positive Health. Initiatives around Positive Health and work usually focus on people who are already working, but can they also be used for people who are struggling to find work? A new co-creation …
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Dept. of Advanced Computing Sciences
Faculty of Science and Engineering
jerry.spanakis@maastrichtuniversity.nl