Dit artikel biedt een tussenstand van een lopend onderzoek naar het functioneren van de wijkteams die vorm gaven aan de eerste fase van het Haagse krachtwijkenbeleid. De focus ligt op het professionele handelen van ambtenaren met ‘één been in het stadhuis en één been in de wijk’. Als conceptueel kader …

Festo is één van de marktleiders bij het leveren van automatiseringstechniek. Voor het aansturen van deze automatiseringstechniek maakt Festo gebruik van Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC’s), die worden geprogrammeerd met behulp van het programma CODESYS. Festo heeft echter een aantal vragen over de …

A business model describes how business is carried out; it includes a description of the stakeholders, their roles, value proposition for the stakeholders involved, and the underlying logic of value creation, value exchange, and value capture at an organisational level, and at a network level.

Clusters are the magic answer to regional economic development. Firms in clusters are more innovative; cluster policy dominates EU policy; ‘top-sectors’ and excellence are the choice of national policy makers; clusters are ‘in’. But, clusters are complex, clusters are ‘messy’; there is no clear logic …

Purpose Due to the recent economic crisis, competition has considerably increased in the legal profession in the Netherlands. However, marketing in legal services is mostly in its infancy and value research in this context is scarce. We therefore used a contingency approach in exploring the origin of …

Verwater Group B.V. is gespecialiseerd in het bouwen en onderhouden van opslagtanks. Hiervoor is, behalve materiaal en machines, ook veel mankracht nodig. Binnen Verwater ontbreekt het aan een goede manpowerplanning, omdat hier de focus niet lag. Inmiddels is het belang van een goede manpowerplanning …

On 26 January 1998, during a press conference in the White House, President Bill Clinton famously told the nation, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" (Clinton, 1998). Now, 15 years later, almost everyone can still recall those famous words. In this dissertation, the interaction …

In 'active welfare states', labour participation is regarded essential for being part of and contributing to society. In the striving for an increase in labour participation of people who were considered (partly) disabled for work, not 'disabilities', but 'abilities' are put centre stage in vocational …

Clusters are the magic answer to regional economic development. Firms in clusters are more innovative; cluster policy dominates EU policy; ‘top-sectors’ and excellence are the choice of national policy makers; clusters are ‘in’. But, clusters are complex, clusters are ‘messy’; there is no clear logic …

The media are an integral part of how advanced societies are controlled. After almost a century of ‘broadcasting’, a new media logic can be seen to have emerged. It is not centralized, nor does it appear to depend on manipulative power (such as the priming and framing of news and thereby the agenda …