Poster presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for Practitioner Research on Improving Learning.

Organisaties opereren in toenemende mate in alsmaar uitdijende netwerken van partners – van klanten en ketenpartners tot zelfs concurrenten. Voor het opbouwen en onderhouden van die netwerken worden online en social media tegenwoordig steeds belangrijker. De ‘3.0 organisatie’ laat zien hoe dat gaat. …

De participatiesamenleving vraagt organisaties in wonen, zorg en welzijn samen te werken. De overheid voert deze strategie door om de zorg toegankelijk, goed en betaalbaar te houden. Willen organisaties aan de hoge eisen van de participatiesamenleving voldoen, dan hebben ze elkaar nodig. Investeren in …

In many European countries, higher education institutions outside the university sector now have a formal mandate to perform research related to regional needs and the improvement of education and professional practice (Kyvik & Lepori, 2010). The term 'new universities' will be used for those institutions. …

The contribution of purchasing to the development and growth of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the overall performance of supply chain has been neither rigorously examined nor empirically substantiated. This paper provides empirical evidence on how purchasing variables (relationship, …

On the basis of empirical research, a competence-based model of the internationalization process of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) is developed. The model focuses on so-called International Market-Entry Core Competencies (IMECC), which are global management competences considered crucial during …

Due to the changing role and context of (new) universities, roles of lecturers are renewed and diversified. In this study, weekly written narratives from lecturers on their development in novel researcher roles at new universities are collected over time and analyzed correspondingly. Understanding how …

Since 2001, newer universities in the Netherlands have expanded their core business of teaching by including research activities. The installation of professors and research groups at these institutions is one example of the change in policy. The current innovations place serious demands on the flexibility …

Innovatie staat tegenwoordig hoog op de agenda, zowel op regionaal, nationaal als internationaal niveau. Dat blijkt bijvoorbeeld uit de vele innovatieplatforms die tot stand zijn gekomen. In het kader van de Lissabon-agenda (SER, 2009) is innovatie één van de kernpunten van het beleid van de Europese …

The argument for many innovations in higher education provided by the Ministry of Education is the realization of a knowledge economy in the Netherlands (Ministerie van OC&W, 1999). A significant example of such an innovation to support the knowledge economy is the installation of professors (lectoren) …