The first FINDER PhD collective meeting has been successfully completed!

The FINDER PhD collective meeting on Wednesday, October 2^nd 2019 at Radboud University has been a major success as we welcomed our supervisory teams to Nijmegen.

We, the PhD students, presented our recent research activities and developments to our supervisory promoters: Dr. Rick Aalbers, Dr. Miriam Wilhelm, Dr. Koen van den Oever, Dr. Saeed Khanagha and Dr. Philipp Tuertscher, Dr. Professor Koen Heimeriks who all joined this collective meeting. The supervisory teams have created a very open environment and encouraged us to express our research ideas and  also gave immediate feedback during the meeting. In addition, they have provided sound advice on each of our current research work.

In this meeting, Jonas Röttger first presented his research project regarding the influence of a company’s communication. After which, Barbara Völkl discussed her research on the digital business models from the behavioural aspects. S. James Ellis introduced his current study on the strategic management of different partnerships, followed by Ami Xiaolei Wang who proposed from her work from the network view to study the firms under the digital transformation, and lastly Tze Yeen Liew discussed her research on the impact of the competitive tensions from an academic perspective.

All in all, presenting and discussing our current academic work, showcasing the diversity of topics, approaches and interests at the frontiers of sustainable strategies to achieve to value of financial technology and reflecting its insights from academic research.

The discussions following up on the presentations focused on the importance of the management strategy as a source for the disruption and innovation of financial technology; and the need for a good academic perspective that ensures technology sustainability. The valuable feedback received during the meeting will enable us all to improve our research endeavours in the time to come.