Nominated dissertations for the NOBEM Dissertation of the year prize 2004

Oleg Chvyrkov (UvTilburg) - Top Management teams of Internationalizing Firms: Demography, Social Processes, and Learning at the Top

Ferrie van Echtelt (TUe) - New product development: shifting suppliers into gear

Monique A. van der Gaag (WUR) - Epidemiological and economic simulation of Salmonella control in the pork supply chain

Gert-Jan Hospers(UTwente) - Regional economic change in Europe: a neo-Schumpeterian vision

Frank Lutgens (UM)- Robust Portfolio Optimization

Alan R. Muller (EUR) - The Rise of Regionalism - Core Company Strategies under the Second Wave of Integration

Onno Truijens (UvA)- Towards a Theory of Information Strategy - exploiting market opaqueness in search for infoRent

Roland van der Vorst (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) - Branding a systems theoretic perspective

Gera A. Welker (RUG) - Patterns of Order processing - A study of the formalization of the order process in order-driven manufacturing companies

Frits Wijbenga (RUG) - Strategy and performance of venture capital-backed SMEs - Entrepreneurial locus of control, and the role and influence of the venture capitalist