Kooyman Eigen Huis is a real-estate agency that is active in Drechtsteden. It was founded by the two brothers Teun en Henk Kooyman in 1976. The business has been thriving since then. However, the realestate climate has changed and a new strategy needs to be formulated. The company strives to innovate …

Amsterdam Zuidoost vormt geen eenheid. Het spoor splijt het gebied in delen die ogenschijnlijk een eigen leven leiden. Aan de ene kant woonwijken en winkelcentra en aan de andere kant entertainment, retail, kantoren en het AMC. In discussies over de toekomst van Amsterdam Zuidoost wordt vaak gewezen …

English Abstract: Administrative turbulence in social work: the challenge of pluralist coalition-formation As elsewhere in Europe, social work in the Netherlands is facing ever more administrative changes. This article analyzes the administrative changes that local social work institutions are currently …

In this paper we turn to the field of innovation management and the use of metaphors to address the question: what kind of alternative metaphors and narratives have some open-innovation organizations introduced highlighting and fostering knowledge-intensive organizational change? First we draw a comparative …

IT-based networking trends such as the rise of social media, crowd sourcing, open innovation, and cloud computing enable a profoundly different way of working and collaborating that challenges significantly traditional approaches of companies towards governance, i.e. the mechanisms a company employs …

This book brings together the opening addresses of the first four professors of the Centre of Applied Labour Market Research and Innovation at Hanze University Groningen, the Netherlands. The Centre started in 2008.

This book, ‘Outreach work and imminent eviction: RAAK research’, is a report of the results obtained from the examination of these innovations. The first chapter contains a description of the pilot projects, which brought together care workers from the Blankenberg Foundation and Dynamo for early intervention …

This paper discusses and illustrates the ‘knowledge turn’ in urban policy across Europe. We identify four manifestations of it: 1) widespread efforts to lure knowledge workers; 2) a growing involvement of knowledge institutes in urban development and planning processes, 3) an explicit ‘knowledge based’ …

This paper describes the ecological concept of strategic fit in order to enhance sustainable and innovative organisations. The Ecological System Model integrates concepts of ecology and evolutionary economic theory by comparing organisations and ecosystems at a consistent system level. It introduces …