In Oerganisatie presenteert organisatiepsycholoog Henk Verhoeven een radicaal nieuwe visie op het functioneren van organisaties. Hij laat zien dat kunst, economie en technologie niet primair menselijke uitvindingen zijn, maar vooral vanzelfsprekende voortzettingen van onze natuurlijke evolutie. Virussen, …

Multinational Enterprises (MNE) have various motivations for complying with human rights. Those motivations can be categorized into two distinct categories. The first of these entails benefits to the company, and are thus economic motivations. This group includes issues such as a stable business environment, …

This paper develops propositions on the added value of normatively-based, employee-oriented corporate social responsibility, specifically on the issue whether an individual owner-manager can add value within a foreign subsidiary by means of normatively-based, employee-oriented CSR. We suggest that this …

We empirically investigate the factors that drive the uneven regional distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) across Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2006. We first perform a factor analysis to summarize information embodied in around 40 variables and derive four FDI determinants: ‘institutional …

The international transfer of employee-oriented CSR practices: an SME perspective.Will multinational SMEs use internationalisation to achieve labour cost savings at the expense of employees both in their home country and abroad or will they transfer their existing employee-oriented practices to their …

De voorgestelde verhoging van de AOW naar 67 jaar is een onnodig en onzinnig plan. In de leeftijdscategorie van 55 tot 65 jarigen werkte bij de mannen in 2006 maar 38% en bij de vroyuwen maar 8% . Laten we daarom eerst proberen de arbeidsparticipatie van die leeftijdsgroep te verhogen. Als het gaat om …

Uit Engels onderzoek is gebleken hoe weinig multinationals feitelijk betalen aan winstbelasting en vennootschapsbelasting. Op vragen van de Tweede Kamer heeft staatsecretaris De Jager nu ook cijfers vrijgegeven van de Nederlandse situatie. Daaruit blijkt dat ook in Nederland multinationals nauwelijks …

Will multinational SMEs use internationalisation to achieve labour cost savings at the expense of employees both in their home country and abroad or will they transfer their existing employee-oriented practices to their foreign subsidiaries? This paper argues that the answer to this question is affected …

This paper focuses on the concept climate refugees in the 21st Century and mainly concerns environmentally displaced persons from developing countries. It seeks to answer the following question: 'Should the concept of climate refugees best be approached from a juridical or an environmental point of view?' …