The goal of this dissertation is to research how media can positively contribute to the perception of Dutch Baby Boomers and Generation X (BB/Gen-X) towards Millennials with visible body art (VBA). By making BB/Gen-X more positive about this phenomenon and encouraging collaborations between the two groups, …

‘The name attached to a brand can become a burden to the brand’s development, e.g. when wanting to access new activities, international markets, or simply when wanting to rejuvenate a brand’. (Kapferer, J., 2008, p. 417). Changing a company’s name, is not to be taken lightly, and could cause some serious …

The main question in this PhD thesis is: How can Business Rules Management be configured and valued in organizations? A BRM problem space framework is proposed, existing of service systems, as a solution to the BRM problems. In total 94 vendor documents and approximately 32 hours of semi-structured …

Dit proefschrift richt zich op het vermogen van kwetsbare ouderen, wonende in verzorgingshuizen, om zo onafhankelijk mogelijk te blijven. Kwaliteit van leven van ouderen hangt voor een groot deel af van of zij afhankelijk zijn van zorg of niet en in welke mate zij afhankelijk zijn. Vanuit het standpunt …

When it comes to hard to solve problems, the significance of situational knowledge construction and network coordination must not be underrated. Professional deliberation is directed toward understanding, acting and analysis. We need smart and flexible ways to direct systems information from practice …

Interest groups play a big role in the functioning of the democracy of the EU. These players that lobby for different interests can make a positive, but also a negative contribution to EU politics. The influence of the interest groups on the EU institutions can vary, and some will always be more influential …

This dissertation was created with the goal to examine how online shopping has changed retail, specifically department stores and their business model, and to recommend a course of action and business model for entrepreneurs considering starting an (online) department store. There are several recommendations …

What is the impact of transparency for Cordaid regarding the increase of donors? A survey showed that people find transparency very important and that transparency in finance and communication will help Cordaid to get more donors. Nowadays, people want to be more involved when they spend their money …

The Thesis is a Comparative Analysis on the detention and repatriation practices of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Legal grounds, the European Union, Foreign Nationals and illegal immigration are all subjects discussed in the dissertation.

The purpose of this dissertation is to determine how West Papua came to be a province of Indonesia and how the Indonesian government has treated its ethnically and culturally distinct indigenous population, and more specifically the Papuan self-determination movements which it gave rise to, from 1963 …