The Dominican Republic (DR) is home to a wide variety of ecosystems and environmental assets, from flourishing tropical rainforests to arid deserts, and from the highest mountain in the Caribbean to a lake that lies 42 meters below sea level. This has caused tourism development to be of national interest. …

Ondernemen in de 21e eeuw, een digitaal tijdperk waarin duurzaamheid en Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Ondernemen een belangrijke rol spelen. Waarin precisielandbouw de markt probeert te veroveren en waarbij melkveehouders voor diverse keuzes staan om hier een bijdrage aan te leveren. Keuzes die worden …

Based on an intensive literature review, this paper investigates and presents generalized answers to the two basic questions of port governance, namely who governs and what is governed. There are totally 77 studies selected as the core literature sample according to a five-step approach. The results …

De aanleiding tot het schrijven van dit afstudeerwerkstuk, is een recent artikel over de Toyota Prius. Electrische auto’s zijn steeds meer in het nieuws, maar is de productie van deze elektrische auto nu zo duurzaam als men beweert? En hoe zit dat bij tractoren? Daar is nog nooit onderzoek naar gedaan. …

Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd bij het Facilitair Bedrijf, afdeling Uitvoering (FB-U) van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen. De Hanzehogeschool Groningen heeft de ambitie de meest duurzame hogeschool van Nederland te worden, Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Ondernemen (MVO) wordt dan ook op verschillende fronten …

Industrial Design Engineering [Open] Innovation (IDE) is a 3-year, English taught, VWO entry-level, undergraduate programme at The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS). The IDE curriculum focuses on the fuzzy front end of (open) innovation, sustainable development, and impact in the implementation …

We consider an environment in which several independent service providers can collaborate by pooling their critical, low-utilization resources that are subject to unavailability. We examine the allocation of the joint profit for such a pooled situation by studying an associated cooperative game. For …

Maintaining the Millennial workforce level is continually one of the most significant challenges facing the service industry in Belgium. The same issue applies to the Erasmus Center Assocation Sans But Lucratif, also known as Erasmus Center ASBL, which is active in the education service sector. In short, …

This research examined the role of the European Union in lowering medicine prices of cancer treatment. For this, the following research question was used: How can the European Union contribute to the reduction of medicine prices of cancer treatment? This question was answered by means of seven sub-questions, …

At the end of the 1940s and the early 1950s, the question whether or not to rearm West Germany was a fiercely and hotly debated topic in Europe. The Americans suggested doing this by integrating the Federal Republic in NATO. However, many Europeans feared the resurgence of German militarism. Nowhere …