Business and Economics

Research groups

Research groups and research topics

Accounting and Finance (ACF) 

Research topics: financial reporting and analysis, earnings management, sustainability reporting, management accounting and control, cost allocation systems, management control system design, audit and corporate governance (focus on entrepreneurial and small business finance), portfolio management, real estate, and asset pricing 

Research groups: Study Centre for Companies and Exchanges (SCOB); Antwerp Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (AntwerpCER) 

Economics (ECO) 

Research topics: labour economics, public economics, family economics, social network analysis, revealed preference theory, fiscal policy, international trade, economic geography, crime and gender economics Industrial organisation, health economics and socioeconomic inequality of health and the history of economic thought 

Engineering Management (ENM) 

Research topics organised in four research groups: Antwerp Operations Research Group ANT/OR, Applied Data Mining, Environmental Economics, Active Perception Lab

Management (MNG) 

Research topics: Management, Strategy and Organisation; International Management; Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management; Cultural Management; Professional Communication 

Research groups: Antwerp Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (AntwerpCER); Research Centre for Resilience, Inclusion & Sustainable Employability (RISE) 

Management Information Systems (MIS) 

Research topics: digital governance; normalized systems

Marketing (MKT) 

Research topics: marketing communication & consumer behaviour; co-creation and Innovation 

Transport and Regional Economics (TPR) 

Research topics: the interaction between transport and economics; freight transport; the port and maritime sector; the air transport business and markets; urban logistics and distribution; the assessment of infrastructure projects; interaction between transport and physical planning; urban studies and regional economics