Research interests

My research primarily speaks to behavioral decision-making, corporate governance, and corporate communication literatures. Among others, I am interested in understanding the behavior of executives when they face threats that may cause their organization severe harm. In my research I use a variety of methods and employ a wide range of data types, and am specifically interested in advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for analyzing textual and audio data.

Below you can find snippets of selected research projects:

• Combining audio and textual data of CEOs to study how analysts change ratings
• Using textual data to investigate how CEOs are not only influenced by their legal ownership of their firms, but also the role of ‘ownership feelings’
• Exploring the dynamics involving how banks’ focus of attention shifts after a great shock
• With audio and textual data, studying how different factors determine how fast or slow a CEO speaks
• Demonstrating the tension between the evaluation of critics and the broader audience in the high-end Dutch hospitality industry