Since 2013, mortgage advisory has become an independent profession in the Netherlands. Initially working for mortgage providers, the newly nonpartisan advisers now work for standard advisory fees, thereby reducing conflicts of interest. In this article, I provide an ethical analysis of the different …

Green gas is an attractive option for a local energy transition to combat climate change, notably in rural communities. As local initiatives require local acceptance, the study used a questionnaire methodology to capture opinions and intentions toward green gas in a panel of rural respondents (N = 403) …

It seems easier to talk about the end of humanity than about giving up the internet or giving up driving. It is argued that in our developed "first" world, we now need development aid ourselves. We are “blind” at the mercy of technological “progress”, which we continue to see against our better judgement, …

The world is rapidly changing because of ecological, social, geopolitical changes and digital transformation. For example, the global pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation and encouraged more online learning and working. Furthermore, reducing the speed of climate change is one of the major …

This study is the first in a wider research programme aiming for more understanding of sustainable business models in the Tourism and Recreation (T&R) industry. By analysing ten cases in the region of Zeeland in the Netherlands, it describes archetypes, patterns of business models, that are typically …

Within European cities, entrepreneurs engage in private and public collaborative initiatives that work towards reducing local solid waste streams (Futurium, 2019). Furniture and interior design products account for nearly 50% of these waste streams, making them a key priority on the EU agenda to prevent …

Psychologist and computerscientist Geoffrey Hinton, called the godfather of AI, argued that we should stop with A(G)I. In this column it is argued that Artificial General Intelligence like ChatGPT works very differently than organic intelligence. An organic complexity works like a chain reaction. Unlike …

The aim of this study is to investigate Dutch citizens’ care attitudes by looking at care-giving norms and citizens’ welfare state orientation and to explore to what extent these attitudes can be explained by combinations of diversity characteristics. We combined two datasets (2016 and 2018, N = 5,293) …

This paper provides a bibliometric review of 156 articles published between 2011 and 2021 on social impact bonds (SIBs). We identified five research streams, namely studies that: (i) place the origins of SIBs in the neo-liberalism framework; (ii) consider SIBs as an evolution of the new public management …

Het voorliggende rapport doet verslag van het onderzoek naar verdienmodellen van preventie. De centrale vraag die met het onderzoek beantwoord is, luidt: Wat zijn mogelijke barrières bij potentiële verdienmodellen voor preventie, die samenwerking tussen actoren in de weg kunnen staan? De algemene uitkomst …