Every year I talk to many entrepreneurs about business transfers and acquisitions. Only rarely do they tell me that it was a cinch. Buying or selling a business is complex. For a start, a business should be shipshape from an organizational and administrative perspective, while several legal and fiscal …

Uit recent onderzoek blijkt dat het succes van een bedrijfsovername te voorspellen is aan de hand van persoonskernmerken en werkervaring van de ondernemer. Zowel wetenschap als praktijk komen uit op vergelijkbare persoonlijke eigenschappen. ‘Een goede opleiding is mooi meegenomen, maar commerciële drive …

In dynamic business environments, the ability to adapt is highly important for organizations in order to best their competition. This is necessary because throughout the years of doing business, organizations have experienced but one constant factor: change. The concept of enterprise agility is designed …

Full text via link Chapter 11 in The Project as a Social System: Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Project Management Sustainability is one of the most important challenges of our time. How can we develop prosperity without compromising the life of future generations? Companies are integrating ideas of sustainability …

Chapter 2 in Impacts of Emerging Economies and Firms on International Business. One of the most remarkable phenomena of recent times is that a large number of firms from emerging economies have come to define and dominate new markets and enter the class of global innovation leaders. Firms that once specialized …

The purpose of the research we undertook for this Conference Paper was to investigate whether marketing campaigns for specific types of drinks could be directed towards age cohorts rather than towards intercultural differences between countries. We developed consumer profiles based on drinking motives …

Duurzaam ondernemen of leven kan op eindeloos veel manieren. Dat is ‘slechts’ een kwestie van nadenken, organiseren en bewerkstelligen. Je kunt het natuurlijk ook gewoon afkijken van iemand anders of aan een expert overlaten. Je kunt zelfs doen alsof, mocht je dat willen. Maar mocht je er net iets langer …

Ever since the introduction of an ‘IT productivity paradox’ by Robert Solow, the business value of information technology (IT) has been the topic of many debates by practitioners as well as by academics. In these discussions a distinction can be made between the variance approach, investigating what …

Op welke wijze kan het lectoraat FAI zijn onderzoeksterrein positioneren in genoemd referentiekader en bijdragen aan het versterken van het businessmodeldenken? Om dit te schetsen wordt in het volgende hoofdstuk verder ingezoomd op de relatie tussen businessinnovatie en het belang van onderzoek aan de hand …

Financial constraints and risk taking are two well-established determinants of firm performance, however, no research analyzes how these variables are connected in the context of a high risk environment. Using data from microfinance clients in Tanzania, we derive a novel financial constraints measure …