"As a public organization, the Dutch Defence organization needs to do its job properly, while using budgets and material resources in an appropriate manner. This implies the careful use of scare resources, preventing phenomena such as overspending, inefficiencies and the unconcerned use of equipment. …

Problemen met het in control zijn op de houding en het gedrag staat het goed functioneren en presteren van mkb-ondernemingen in de weg. Uitsluitend ‘hard controls’, zoals procedures en regels, geven niet het beoogde resultaat. Om de gewenste cultuur te creëren zijn aanvullend ‘soft controls’ nodig: (beheersings)maatregelen …

Veel groeiende midden- en kleinbedrijven professionaliseren gedurende hun ontwikkeling verder op het gebied van control. Dit kan spanning opleveren, vooral wanneer deze gepaard gaat met het invoeren van targets, protocollen, regels en procedures, de zogenoemde hard controls. Juist dan zijn aanvullend …

XoSoft is a soft modular wearable assistive exoskeleton for peo- ple with mild to moderate gait impairments. It is currently being developed by a European Consortium (www.xosoft.eu) and aims to provide tailored and active lower limb support during ambu- lation. During development, user-centered design …

Section snippets Closing observations The overview of the articles presented in this special issue demonstrates that sport psychology does indeed represent a very broad domain of investigation and application. When reading the articles, one will observe that a spectrum of different approaches are applied, …

This chapter links democracy promotion to soft power in order to highlight how the spread of democracy has changed the balance of power between the West and Russia. It considers Putins speech to the 2015 United Nations General Assembly as his intellectual response to democracy promotion and democratization. …

More than ten years ago, the European Union established the EU Counter Terrorism Strategy. The aim of the strategy was to ‘’combat terrorism globally while respecting human rights, and make Europe safer, allowing its citizens to live in an area of freedom, security and justice’’ (Council of the European …

This study is commissioned by OCLC to research the interest of customers of OCLC in hosted services. OCLC is a worldwide organisation that provides software and services to libraries in 170 countries. Libraries use these management systems to optimize their workflow. OCLC endeavours to satisfy the needs …

In this chapter we argue that management control with respect to financial ­ and material resources is connected to issues of safety and security; the delivery of safety and security may be seriously hampered by improper management control. Starting from this connection we aim to decipher the dynamics …

A random control trial investigating the effects of plantar fascia myo-fascial release techniques on sit-and-reach test scores in young adults. No significant differences were observed between the intervention group and control group however there was a trend showing greater improvment in the intervention …