Cees Van Research Articles

Future Research Directions Based on a Critical Assessment of Reputation Management in Practice: A German Perspective

First of all, I want to say thank you to Charles Fombrun and Cees van Riel for establishing a great community of researchers and practitioners who have a stake in reputation management. I definitely have great memories as regards the first years of the “Reputation Institute Initiative” and especially my first attempts to present results of my work on international reputation conferences. The massive image problems into which the German automobile industry has, in particular, recently been maneuvered, however, have encouraged me not to look back, but to give some stimulus for further research, based on a critical assessment of the state of art of reputation management in Germany. Perhaps the following very provocative propositions may contribute to revitalize the lively discussion which was characteristic of the first years of the “Reputation Institute community” and also found its expression the first issue of the Corporate Reputation Review (CRR).

Abstract 377: EpCAM+ and EpCAM- circulating tumor cells in metastatic lung cancer

Abstract Purpose: The presence of Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC) in metastatic carcinomas detected by CellSearch is associated with poor outcome. CellSearch uses an enrichment step based on the EpCAM antibody and enumerates CTC using antibodies targeting specific cytokeratins. Here we investigate the presence and role of CTC not detected by CellSearch in lung cancer patients. Methods: Blood discarded by CellSearch after EpCAM based enrichment was collected and enriched for CTC by filtration through microsieves and enumerated after fluorescent labeling. Additional anti-cytokeratin antibodies were added to the CellSearch test to increase the cytokeratin coverage. This approach was validated using different cell lines spiked into blood and tested on blood samples of 28 metastatic lung cancer patients. Results: The majority of spiked EpCAM+ cells could be detected with CellSearch whereas few cells were detected with low or no EpCAM expression (EpCAM-). Recovery of cells on microsieves depended strongly on cell size. One or more CTC were detected in 39% of the patient samples, this increased to 75% when adding the CTC detected in the discarded blood and to 82% with the use of additional cytokeratin antibodies. Presence of CTC was significantly associated with poor Overall Survival (OS) when detected by CellSearch without (p = 0.004) and with additional cytokeratins (p = 0.007), but not with EpCAM-CTC in the blood discarded by CellSearch (p = 0.271) or all CTC detected (p = 0.354) Conclusions: Expanding the cytokeratin coverage and including EpCAM-CTC, double the number of patients with CTC and the number of CTC detected with CellSearch. In contrast with EpCAM+ CTC, the presence of EpCAM-CTC in this group of patients was not associated with poor OS. The metastatic lung cancer patients included in this study were very diverse with respect to cancer type, line of therapy and quite small in numbers to make any definitive conclusions. Still, this pilot study warrants a larger study to confirm the findings. In addition an in-depth characterization of the EpCAM+ and EpCAM-CTC is needed to confirm that the EpCAM-, panCK+ CTC are indeed tumor cells and unravel the genetic difference with the EpCAM+, panCK+ CTC. Citation Format: Sanne de Wit, Guus van Dalum, Aufried T.M. Lenferink, Arjan G.J. Tibbe, Jeroen T.N. Hiltermann, Harry J.M. Groen, Cees van Rijn, Leon W.M.M. Terstappen. EpCAM+ and EpCAM- circulating tumor cells in metastatic lung cancer. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2015 Apr 18-22; Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2015;75(15 Suppl):Abstract nr 377. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2015-377

Improving BCI decoding performance through analysis of cortical traveling waves

Event Abstract Back to Event Improving BCI decoding performance through analysis of cortical traveling waves Kevin Vanbecelaere1*, Nikolay Chumerin2, Cees Van Leeuwen1 and David M. Alexander1 1 KU Leuven, Belgium 2 KU Leuven, Belgium An assumption in nearly all cognitive neuroscience research is that of space-time separability. It assumes that the mechanisms constituting the cortical signal are functions of space and time, and that these dimensions of signal can be treated separately. This implies that part of the signal -that which is space-time inseparable- is noise. A growing literature focuses on the spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical activity in the form of traveling waves. Traveling waves have been shown to be functionally significant at the single-trial level (Alexander et al., 2006; Alexander et al., 2009) and at multiple spatial scales of cortex (Klimesch et al., 2007; Nauhaus et al., 2009; Takahashi et al., 2011). The steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) data presented in this paper come from a brain-computer interface (BCI) setup. The aim of a BCI system is to decode brain activity in order to enable subjects to interact with the world through computers, bypassing the need of muscular activity. Participants were shown three aligned LED stimuli flickering at different frequencies and at different phase shifts. When flickering in the alpha band, the stimulus induces an EEG response that possesses a spectral component narrowly centered around the frequency of presentation. The BCI apparatus uses this response to decide what stimulus the subject is looking at. Therefore, maximizing the phase accuracy of the stimulus-induced SSVEP signal is crucial for efficient decoding. Typically, phase-locking to the mean phase of the stimulus is relatively poor (i.e. circular variance relatively large). In this paper, we hypothesize that the BCI signal is not space-time separable and much of phase jitter can be explained by taking traveling wave components into account, hence improving the BCI performance. Figure 1 References Alexander, D. M., Flynn, G. J., Wong, W., Whitford, T. J., Harris, A. W. F., Galletly, C. a., & Silverstein, S. M. (2009). Spatio-temporal EEG waves in first episode schizophrenia. Clinical Neurophysiology, 120(9), 1667–1682. doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2009.06.020 Alexander, D. M., Trengove, C., Wright, J. J., Boord, P. R., & Gordon, E. (2006). Measurement of phase gradients in the EEG. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 156(1-2), 111–28. doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.02.016 Klimesch, W., Hanslmayr, S., Sauseng, P., Gruber, W. R., & Doppelmayr, M. (2007). P1 and traveling alpha waves: evidence for evoked oscillations. Journal of Neurophysiology, 97(2), 1311–1318. doi:10.1152/jn.00876.2006 Nauhaus, I., Busse, L., Carandini, M., & Ringach, D. L. (2009). Stimulus contrast modulates functional connectivity in visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 12(1), 70–6. doi:10.1038/nn.2232 Takahashi, K., Saleh, M., Penn, R. D., & Hatsopoulos, N. G. (2011). Propagating waves in human motor cortex. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5, 40. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2011.00040 Keywords: traveling waves, BCI, SSVEP, Space-time separability, EEG Conference: Second Belgian Neuroinformatics Congress, Leuven, Belgium, 4 Dec - 4 Dec, 2015. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Methods and Modeling Citation: Vanbecelaere K, Chumerin N, Van Leeuwen C and Alexander DM (2015). Improving BCI decoding performance through analysis of cortical traveling waves. Front. Neuroinform. Conference Abstract: Second Belgian Neuroinformatics Congress. doi: 10.3389/conf.fninf.2015.19.00038 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 16 Oct 2015; Published Online: 17 Nov 2015. * Correspondence: Mr. Kevin Vanbecelaere, KU Leuven, B- 3000, Vlaams-Brabant, Leuven, Belgium, kevin.vanbecelaere@ppw.kuleuven.be Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. 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Increasing Detectability of Cross Frequency Coupling

Event Abstract Back to Event Increasing Detectability of Cross Frequency Coupling Mojtaba Chehelcheraghi1*, Chie Nakatani1 and Cees Van Leeuwen1, 2 1 KU Leuven, Mind and Brain Research Unit of the Department of Experimental Psychology, Belgium 2 TU Kaiserslautern, Center for Cognitive Science, Germany Oscillatory properties of brain signals, for instance gamma and theta band EEG, could show various relationships, such as coupling between phase and amplitude. Coupling between frequencies fm and fn produces modulatory components, e.g., fn-m and fn+m. These components give rise to a dilemma when using Cross-Frequency Coupling (CFC) measures to describe the relationship between the signals: These measures rely on band-pass filtering of the two signals, e.g. using the Complex Morlet Wavelet, each around a single specific center frequency. Using a narrow band excludes the modulatory components from the CFC; a wide band succeeds in including them but results in weak detectability. Moreover, it does not allow us to measure couplings that involve frequency modulation, such as phase-frequency coupling. To get around this dilemma, we propose a method that involves-using three identical narrowband filters with center frequencies located on fn-m, fn and fn+m. We compare the performance of this method with four well accepted CFC detection methods, by applying them to artificial EEG-like signals. Where the other methods fail to detect CFC, the proposed method is shown to be successful. Figure 1 Keywords: Cross Frequencu Coupling, modulatory component, Phase amplitude coupling, phase frequency coupling, wavelet analysis Conference: Second Belgian Neuroinformatics Congress, Leuven, Belgium, 4 Dec - 4 Dec, 2015. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Methods and Modeling Citation: Chehelcheraghi M, Nakatani C and Van Leeuwen C (2015). Increasing Detectability of Cross Frequency Coupling. Front. Neuroinform. Conference Abstract: Second Belgian Neuroinformatics Congress. doi: 10.3389/conf.fninf.2015.19.00024 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 13 Nov 2015; Published Online: 17 Nov 2015. * Correspondence: Mr. Mojtaba Chehelcheraghi, KU Leuven, Mind and Brain Research Unit of the Department of Experimental Psychology, Leuven, Belgium, mojtaba.chehelcheraghi@kuleuven.be Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Mojtaba Chehelcheraghi Chie Nakatani Cees Van Leeuwen Google Mojtaba Chehelcheraghi Chie Nakatani Cees Van Leeuwen Google Scholar Mojtaba Chehelcheraghi Chie Nakatani Cees Van Leeuwen PubMed Mojtaba Chehelcheraghi Chie Nakatani Cees Van Leeuwen Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.

Abstract 4825: Circulating tumor cells in metastatic lung cancer enriched by EpCAM expression and physical characteristics

Abstract Introduction: Circulating tumor cells (CTC) measured with the CellSearch system in patients with metastatic carcinomas are associated with poor survival. The frequency of CTC detected by the CellSearch system in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients is relatively low, raising the question whether some CTC are not detected by the CellSearch system. To investigate this, additional antibodies were added to broaden the coverage of cytokeratins and leukocytes. Additionally, a device was designed that collects the sample material of the individual samples that are discarded by CellSearch. This collected waste is filtered for CTC isolation based on physical characteristics and the CTC are stained with a cocktail of antibodies. Methods: A device was designed that uses optical sensing to detect the presence of blood in the waste tube of the CellTracks Autoprep. It collects the waste of individual samples in a 50 mL conical tube. After collection the blood is passed with 100 mbar pressure through a 8x8 mm2 microfabricated silicon microsieve containing 300,000 pores of 5 µm in diameter (VyCAP, Deventer, The Netherlands). The performance was tested using four pre-stained cell lines: Colo320 (size 11 µm, ∼1,616 EpCAM antigens), SW480 (size 11 µm, ∼63,233 EpCAM antigens), T24 (size 16 µm, ∼2,167 EpCAM antigens) and SKBR3 (size 16 µm, ∼445,000 EpCAM antigens). Cells are spiked in 7.5 mL of blood collected in CellSave tubes from healthy volunteers. Spiked blood samples from healthy donors and patients with NCSLC and small cell lung cancer (SCLC) (enrollment is ongoing) were processed on the CellSearch and filtration system between 24 and 96 hours of collection. The cells on the microsieves were stained with a nucleic acid dye, antibodies recognizing leukocytes and all cytokeratins. Additional antibodies were added to the CellSearch test to cover all cytokeratins and broaden the coverage of leukocytes. Results: The recovery percentage of the CellSearch system for the different cell lines used was: 2% of COLO320, 91% of SW480, 2% of T24 and 87% of SKBR3. Additional recovery on the microsieves after filtration of the CellSearch waste was: 18% of COLO320, 6% of SW480, 59% of T24 and 2% of SKBR3. The combined recovery accounts for 20% of COLO320, 97% of SW480, 61% of T24 cells and 89% of SKBR3. In patients with NSCLC and SCLC either no CTC were detected at all, or in various proportions in the CellSearch cartridge, on the microsieves after filtration of the CellSearch waste or with the additional antibodies that were added. Conclusions: We combined the CellSearch system with a device for collecting and filtering the CellSearch waste. On cell lines this demonstrated that a low EpCAM expression results in the presence of CTC in the waste that would not be detected by the CellSearch system. In both NSCLC and SCLC additional CTC can be detected but it still remains to be determined whether the CTC not detected by the original CellSearch approach are also of clinical relevance. Citation Format: Sanne de Wit, Guus van Dalum, Joost van Dalum, Aufried Lenferink, Arjan Tibbe, Cees van Rijn, Jeroen Hiltermann, Harry Groen, Leon Terstappen. Circulating tumor cells in metastatic lung cancer enriched by EpCAM expression and physical characteristics. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2014 Apr 5-9; San Diego, CA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2014;74(19 Suppl):Abstract nr 4825. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2014-4825

Times change: the NVMO journal going from Dutch to English and from paper to electronics.

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Brief of Professor Alex-Geert Castermans (Leiden University), Professor Cees Van Dam (Utrecht University), Dr. Liesbeth Enneking (Utrecht University), Dr. Nicola Jägers (Tilburg University), Professor Menno Kamminga (Maastricht University), as Amici Curiae in Support of the Petitioners

Amicus curiae brief in support of petitioners submitted to the US Supreme Court by Dutch legal scholars in the case of Esther Kiobel et. al (petitioners) v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. et al (respondents).

All of this and he can cook, too….

Professor Cees van der Vleuten has been awarded the 2012 Karolinska Insitutet Prize for Research in Medical Education for his research in evaluation and assessment of medical competences.

Determinants of Innovative Behaviour: A Firm's internal Practices and Its External Environment Edited by Cees van Beers, Alfred Kleinknecht, Ronald Ortt, and Robert Verburg

Determinants of Innovative Behaviour: A Firm's internal Practices and Its External Environment Edited by Cees van Beers, Alfred Kleinknecht, Ronald Ortt, and Robert Verburg

The utility of (European) licensing examinations. AMEE Symposium, Prague 2008

After the experts had presented their views Cees van der Vleuten led the discussion with the audience on the desirability or undesirability of national or even Europe-wide licensing examinations. T...

Spatial perception and knowledge

The enthusiasm elicited by the Third International Conference on Spatial Cognition, which was held in Rome in September 2006 (see the ‘‘Laboratory Note’’ in this issue), convinced the Editorial Board of Cognitive Processing to publish an extended and revised version of the most valuable papers presented at the Conference. The Scientific Committee was asked to judge the several presentations (oral speeches and posters), on many dimensions consisting in originality, relevance and methodology, and those highly scored have been selected and subsequently contacted. Twelve authors answered the call and have been invited to prepare a full manuscript to be published in forthcoming special issues of Cognitive Processing. From the arguments covered, I tried to categorize the papers into two groups. The two resulting issues of Cognitive Processing are not intended to focus on a particular view, nor on a central theme, but acknowledge that studies on spatial cognition must be as diverse as the human experience. The title of the present issue, ‘‘Spatial Perception and Knowledge’’, and that of a following issue, ‘‘Spatial Navigation’’, may therefore seem a compulsory attempt to hold sand in a fist, but the central aim has been pursued by every paper presented: no one research may be conclusive if considered alone, but several researches can depict human–environment interaction. The present issue begins with a significant paper of Cees van Leeuven on dynamics and interaction: in his review, he depicts the background of the development of connectionism, as well as the criticisms against connectionist models on autonomy, and proposes a way to avoid the ‘‘baby-sitting dilemma’’. Autonomy in connectionist models relies on adaptive learning skills: thus, they need well-designed training schedules (baby-sitting). However, autonomy should emerge without external design and scheduling. Van Leeuven proposes that spontaneous selforganized activity in nonlinear dynamical systems may solve the dilemma: the ongoing dynamics of connectionist models, based on a small-world network structure, may proficiently simulate the psycho-physiological properties of the brain, through an adaptive rewiring process within a network of chaotic units. From these considerations, attractors and chaotic itineracy emerge as thoughtful methods that are able to describe the neural activity aiming to bridge the distance from brain to cognitive processing. The approach is complex, but who can truly endorse that a linear model can trap the complex relationship between cognition and neuroanatomy? In the second review of the issue, Marios N. Avraamides and Jonathan W. Kelly report empirical and theoretical literature on spatial updating and memory retrieval about real-world environment. Their work is noteworthy, since many multiple-system models on spatial representation are presented and summarized from a neutral point of view, leading to a fruitful starting point for a multiple comparison. Moreover, based on May’s (2004) sensorimotor interference model and theories of stimulus–response compatibility, the authors propose an inspiring integrative model aiming at describing how people reason and memorize surroundings in a real-world human–environment interaction. The core concept states that online and offline processing differ in their sensorimotor reference frame: in the former case an egocentric frame can define the spatial code for locations and responses, while in the latter case such a frame cannot be used, and the agent may rely on imagery processes to place the reference frame anywhere D. Basso (&) Department of Psychology, University of Pavia, Piazza Botta, 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy e-mail: demis.basso@unipv.it

Explaining Human Freedom and Dignity Mechanistically

Mechanistic explanation is the dominant approach to explanation in the life sciences, but it has been challenged as incompatible with a conception of humans as agents whose capacity for self-direction endows them with freedom and dignity. We argue that the mechanical philosophy, properly construed, has sufficient resources to explain how such characteristics can arise in a material world. Biological mechanisms must be regarded as active, not only reactive, and as organized so as to maintain themselves far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Notions from systems biology make key contributions, particularly Ganti's chemoton, Ruiz-Mirazo and Moreno's basic autonomy, and Barandiaran and Moreno's adaptive autonomous agents. The reconstrual is then extended to mental life by conceiving of cognitive mechanisms as control components in inherently active systems, as illustrated in models offered by Randall Beer and Cees van Leeuwen.

The 2005 Dolph Adams awards and the state of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology

The 2005 Dolph Adams awards and the state of the <i>Journal of Leukocyte Biology</i>

Key Issues in Organizational Identity and Identification Theory

The constructs of organizational identity and identification are attracting greater and greater recognition among scholars and practitioners. An increasing number of researchers in organizational behavior, organizational theory and strategic management are turning to these concepts to improve their understanding of the behavior of organizations and their members. In May 2002, David Whetten and Cees van Riel invited a group of researchers to a workshop in order to take stock of the current state of the field and to discuss future directions. This paper summarizes the fundamental issues discussed at that meeting: the various intellectual roots of organizational identity and identification theory, the interplay between different levels of analysis, the conceptualization of organizational identity, its measurement, and finally, its relevance. Identity appears a promising concept to bridge different levels of analysis, and to analyze apparent paradoxes that arise when organizations confront simultaneous pressures for similarity and uniqueness, sameness and differentiation.

Public Subsidies and Policy Failures: How Subsidies Distort the Natural Environment, Equity and Trade and How to Reform Them

Public Subsidies and Policy Failures: How Subsidies Distort the Natural Environment, Equity and Trade and How to Reform Them By Cees van Beers and Andre de Moor. Cheltenham. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc. 2001. Pp. xiv, 143. $60.00. This book studies public subsidies and policy failures. More specifically, it looks at how governments choose to subsidize and how much such subsidies cost society. It also tries to understand why subsidies persist once they fail to serve their purpose and further harm economic, environmental, and social policy objectives. The book is organized in six chapters. The first two chapters, particularly Chapter 2, build the theoretical framework on which the problem will be considered. The remaining chapters are devoted to the analysis of the problem and propositions for subsidy reform policies. Chapter 2 develops an economic analysis of public subsidies and policy failures on the basis of a standard welfare economics framework with a graphical model that shows the consequences of introducing subsides into a market economy. The effort to build a model involving subsidies is interesting because, as far as I am aware, there are very few, if any, attempts to do so in this manner. However, maybe due to the novelty and the complexity of the issue, the graphical analysis becomes quite difficult to follow because of the excessive number of lines and badly indicated points. Because of these problems, in some cases the match between what is explained in the text and pointed out in the graphics is not clear, weakening the explanatory power of the model. Chapter 3 investigates the costs and impacts of public subsidies in various sectors of a domestic economy with emphasis on those associated with natural resources, such as agriculture, mining, forestry, fisheries, and energy. The analysis is performed based on figures from OECD and nonOECD countries. The classification and quantifications presented are very important because they help the reader understand how big subsidies are in the world economy and how they affect natural resources, the environment, and welfare as a whole. It is easy to understand that subsidies figures are not very precise due to the different forms in which they are granted. Notwithstanding, the analysis about other costs, such as water externalities, should be more thoroughly developed. The issue of how governments become addicted to subsidies is developed in Chapter 4. The authors present two kinds of barriers to removing subsidies. One is economic and the other is institutional and political. Among the different arguments developed in the chapter to explain the addiction to subsidies, I particularly disagree with the statement that says because producers are not well organized, consumer subsidies in developing countries are not easily eliminated. This is a very general statement and may not apply to many developing countries. Subsidy reform policies and strategies are presented in Chapter 5. This chapter focuses on how to overcome the barriers created by subsidy addiction, as developed in the previous chapter. …

Democracy and the media: a comparative perspective

1. The media in democratic and non-democratic regimes: a multilevel perspective Anthony Mughan and Richard Gunther 2. Politics and the media in Spain: from dictatorship to democracy Richard Gunther, Jose Ramon Montero and Jose Ignacio Wert 3. Institutional incapacity, the attentive public and media pluralism in Russia Ellen Mickiewicz 4. Democratic transformation and the mass media in Hungary: from Stalinism to democratic consolidation Miklos Sukosd 5. The modernization of communications: the media in the transition to democracy in Chile Eugenio Tironi and Guillermo Sunkel 6. Media influence in the Italian transition from a consensual to a majoritarian democracy Carlo Marletti and Franca Roncarolo 7. The United States: news in a free-market society Thomas Patterson 8. Japan: news and politics in a media-saturated democracy Ellis S. Krauss 9. The Netherlands: the media in a depillarized society Cees van der Eijk 10. Great Britain: the end of the 'News at Ten' and the changing news environment Holli S. Semetko 11. The media and politics in the New Germany Max Kaase 12. The political impact of the mass media: a reassessment Richard Gunther and Anthony Mughan.

AKZO NOBEL: SET TO COMPETE

Despite quibbles about whether this year marks the official beginning of a millennium, the neat date has encouraged companies and people alike to proclaim identities, faces. A good example is Dutch chemical producer Nobel, which after several years of relentless portfolio reshaping has emerged as an essentially new company. As Chairman Cees van Lede puts it, Akzo Nobel starts the millennium in a totally form. Gone are fibers, one of the company's two historic businesses—the other is salt—dating from its founding in 1969. Remaining are three groups— pharmaceuticals, coatings, and chemicals—that last year had combined sales of $13.0 billion, up 16% from 1998, and operating profits of $1.53 billion, up 20%. And van Lede and his management team are convinced that the new Nobel is on track for substantial growth in sales and profitability this year. The form reflects several years of a startling ...

Part VII: Managing Reputation: Pursuing Everyday Excellence: The image cascade and the formation of corporate reputations

The final session examined critical issues raised in the practice of reputation management. Panelists presented research about the structure of departments devoted to external affairs, investor relations and the emerging nature of the reputation consultancy industry. Three panelists evaluated the interaction between reputation and identity, confronting a theoretical perspective with a more practical view. Organizational Images: Between Being and Appearing - Nicola Marziliano, Nokia Telecommunications Corporate Reputation and External Affairs Management - James E. Post and Jennifer J. Griffin, School of Management, Boston University The Rise of Investor Relations Departments in the Fortune 500 Industrials - Hayagreeva Rao, Emory University Integrating Corporate Culture, Identity and Image: An Emerging Industry? - Majken Schultz, Lars Ervolder and Jannik Hulten, Copenhagen Business School Corporate Identity: What of It, Why the Confusion, and What's Next? - John M.T. Balmer, University of Strathclyde The Image Cascade and the Formation of Corporate Reputations - Violina P. Rindova, New York University The conference chair Charles Fombrun (New York University) concluded the intensive two-day conference by highlighting the convergences among session participants. He also reminded everyone about the imminent publication of the Corporate Reputation Review. In closing, he invited participants to plan for 'Reputation II': The annualized conference will next be hosted by Cees van Riel (Erasmus University) in The Netherlands on January 16, 1998, in Amsterdam.

An Empirical Multi‐Country Analysis of the Impact of Environmental Regulations on Foreign Trade Flows

KyklosVolume 50, Issue 1 p. 29-46 An Empirical Multi-Country Analysis of the Impact of Environmental Regulations on Foreign Trade Flows Cees Van Beers, Cees Van BeersSearch for more papers by this authorJeroen C. J. M. Van Den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. Van Den Bergh Dr., Department of Economics, Faculty of Law, Leiden University, P. O. Box 9521, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Spatial Economics, Free University Amsterdam, De Boelclaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam. The Netherlands.Search for more papers by this author Cees Van Beers, Cees Van BeersSearch for more papers by this authorJeroen C. J. M. Van Den Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. Van Den Bergh Dr., Department of Economics, Faculty of Law, Leiden University, P. O. Box 9521, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Spatial Economics, Free University Amsterdam, De Boelclaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam. The Netherlands.Search for more papers by this author First published: 28 June 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6435.00002Citations: 142 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume50, Issue1February 1997Pages 29-46 RelatedInformation

Cell Wall Dissolution during Industrial Processing of Green Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTCell Wall Dissolution during Industrial Processing of Green Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)Trinette Stolle-Smits, Jan G. Beekhuizen, Cees van Dijk, Alfons G. J. Voragen, and Kees RecourtCite this: J. Agric. Food Chem. 1995, 43, 9, 2480–2486Publication Date (Print):September 1, 1995Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 September 1995https://doi.org/10.1021/jf00057a030RIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views192Altmetric-Citations26LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (868 KB) Get e-Alerts Get e-Alerts