This thesis describes the history of the Soviet Union, the enlargement of the EU and NATO and the possible factors that have influenced Russia’s decision to commit the invasion of Georgia in 2008 and to annex the Crimea in 2014. The central question of the research compares the two responses from the …

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the foreign policy changes that the EU experienced due to the Iraq crisis. The increasing complexity of the global security environment has played an important role in the EU foreign policy evolution by challenging the EU’s effective management of …

Since March 2015 the Faculty of Technology, Innovation and Society (TIS) of The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS) is a CDIO member with all its twelve programs: Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Building Engineering, Civil Engineering, Climate …

This paper outlines the essentials of a relational perspective and offers a review of relational accounting studies that are particularly related to strategy and strategising. The aim therefore is to review the contribution of a relational perspective in management accounting literature to the knowledge …

Narrative research is an appropriate method for studying the constructs and sensemaking of moral courage. Moral courage or speaking up by professionals is needed for maintaining ethical checks and balances in organizations. Personal narratives give the researcher and the researched increased understanding …

Current guidelines on secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease recommend nurse-coordinated care (NCC) as an effective intervention. However, NCC programmes differ widely and the efficacy of NCC components has not been studied. To investigate the efficacy of NCC and its components in secondary prevention …

Objective: Kidney transplant recipients face many self-management challenges. We aimed to identify profiles of attitudes towards self-management support (SMS) shortly after kidney transplantation. Methods: Profiles were generated using Q-methodology: In face-to-face interviews participants rankordered opinion …

Based on a survey of 162 respondents, interviews with H.J. Heinz employees and a literature review, this thesis aims to answer the question: ‘How should H.J. Heinz translate the Dutch consumer preferences in their Heinz Tomato Ketchup product format rationalization?’ Following a reorganization and a …

Decision-making process in elderly care: an explorative study.

Wanneer een beslisarchitectuur is geformuleerd, dan is daarna vaak de vraag hoe iedere individueel gespecificeerde beslissing uitgewerkt dient te worden. Gaan we voor een beslissing elk van de onderliggende bedrijfsregels volledig specificeren? Dient er een predictive analytics engine te komen of is …