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Currently, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration has an opening for 3 PhD positions in Business and Organisation.

We are pleased to announce an upcoming Research Seminar with Lei Chi from Lally School of Management and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During this seminar Lei Chi will present her current research, which centers  around the field of Information Technology, Networks, Innovation and Entrepreneurs.  In 2010 she received the “best IS Publication of the Year [...]

Three VU Masters’ students have won the first prize by public vote for the development of their app, during the ‘Apps voor Nederland’ contest. The ‘urgent need’ (‘hoge nood‘) app shows the way to the nearest public restroom and will be available for purchase through Android Market within a month. The students had to develop [...]

 Looking for a challenging internship? Accenture offers ambitious academic students the possibility to work and collaborate on the developments and organization of the Accenture Innovation Awards. Our former IKM student Dennis Ploegmakers did an internship/thesis at Accenture and now has a job (as Junior System Integration & Technology Consultant) there! More information can be found here.

AnnaLee Saxenian visited VU University to present her work. On November 14th, Prof. dr. AnnaLee Saxenian (University of California) gave an interesting presentation on “Silicon Valley Fostering Innovation in the Entrepreneurial Eco-System”. She discussed her (years of) experience at Silicon Valley and related developments there to those in Finland (Nokia), Taiwan and China. Saxenian is Dean [...]

On page 12 of our VUurwerk Magazine, you can read about Marlous Agterberg’s research. Marlous just returned from several months at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she worked with Samer Faraj. She’s almost finished with her PhD at Kin Research and has already published two of her papers in A journals (Journal of Management [...]

Tibert Verhagen, together with Willemijn van Dolen (UvA), recently published an experimental study on the influence of online store beliefs on consumer online impulse buying in Information and Management. [see press release, in Dutch] The study showed that consumers often act impulsively when making online decisions. Triggered by easy access to products, easy purchasing (e.g., [...]

We are very pleased to announce that Bart van den Hooff has been appointed full professor of Organizational Communication and Information Systems at VU University Amsterdam, KIN Research Group. Bart received his PhD (with honors) in Communication Science, from the University of Amsterdam. Before joining the KIN Research Group at the VU in 2006, Bart [...]

As part of the Masters’ course on New Ways of Working, IKM students got some hands-on experience working virtually: today Dr. Robin Teigland, based in Stockholm, gave a guest lecture – entirely in Second Life. In fact, new ways of working proved to have some advantages (especially for a 9AM lecture): for instance, of 40 [...]

KIN Research welcomes two new visiting researchers, Anastasia Sergeeva and Stanislav Vlasov from St. Petersburg State University. During their year at the VU, Anastasia and Stanislav will be conducting PhD research and participating in the ABRI-VU doctoral program. Introducing: Anastasia I am from St. Petersburg State University, Graduate School of Management, where I am doing [...]