PhD support

PhD supervisions (completed)

• • • Joklan Imelda Camelia Goni (2025). Process innovation capability in less-structured business processes. Ghent University: Belgium. (Principal supervisor)

    • Pooria Jafari (2024). Investigating a roadmap for digital work practices based on a maturity model approach. Ghent University: Belgium. (Principal supervisor)

    • Tahir Ahmad (2022). Business process management and digital innovations: acceptance, fit and success. Ghent University: Belgium. (Principal supervisor)

    • Aygun Shafagatova (2021). The role of human resources in business process orientation: essays on process-oriented appraisals and rewards. Ghent University: Belgium. (Principal supervisor)

    • Dries Couckuyt (2021). Green business process management. Ghent University: Belgium. (Principal supervisor)

PhD guidance committee member

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PhD jury member

• • • Khalid Mehmood (2025). Living in an AI-enabled society: exploring the consumer perspective across cultures. Ghent University: Belgium.

    • Montijn van de Ven (2024). Guiding the definition of key performance indicators for business models. Eindhoven University of Technology: the Netherlands.

    • Paola Lara Machado (2024). The nexus between business models and operating models: from conceptual understanding to actionable guidance. Eindhoven University of Technology: the Netherlands.

    • Vanessa Felch (2024). Rethinking business process maturity models – Reflection on a research cycle to further advance the domain. University of Bamberg: Germany.

    • Hossein Abroshan (2021). Root causes of falling victim to phishing – The effects of human behavior, emotions and demographics. Ghent University: Belgium.

    • Steven Mertens (2019). Enabling process management for loosely framed knowledge-intensive processes. Ghent University: Belgium.

    • Syed Rehan Abbas Zaidi (2018). Leadership in public sector business process management initiatives – A developing country perspective. Queensland University of Technology: Australia.

    • Michaël Verdonck (2018). Ontology-driven conceptual modeling : model comprehension, ontology selection, and method complexity. Ghent University: Belgium.

    • Maria Das Graças Da Silva Teixeira (2017). Design process of conceptual modeling language’s concrete syntax based on ontological theories and visualization of information theories. Ghent University: Belgium.

    • Jana Prodanova (2016). Electronic customer behavior from relational, technology and personality-related theoretical perspectives. The case of high-involvement services. Universidad de Burgos: Spain.

    • Simon Vander Elst (2016). De afstemming van organisatie en ICT in Vlaamse stadsbesturen: toetsing van een business-ICT interactiemodel in Mechelen en Genk. Ghent University: Belgium.