Aspects of involvement in sports and active leisure in an organized context have been extensively investigated, but none of these studies provides a comprehensive picture of the membership involvement of members in voluntary clubs (MI). Our research aims to obtain an overview of existing knowledge on …

The European policy emphasis on providing informal care at home causes caregivers and home care professionals having more contact with each other, which makes it important for them to find satisfying ways to share care. Findings from the literature show that sharing care between caregivers and professionals …

Students growing up with a family member with a chronic illness often delay or drop out of school when the combination of family care and their educational programme is too demanding. This study aims to describe the themes experienced by students growing up in this situation. A qualitative focus group …

Recently several attempts were undertaken to unite the field of metaphor studies, trying to reconcile the conceptual/cognition and linguistic/discourse approaches to metaphor (Hampe, 2017b). The dynamic view of metaphor espoused by amongst others Gibbs (2017a) as a way to unify the field of metaphor …

Amsterdam groeit met ca. 12000 inwoners per jaar. Deze groei wordt steeds meer afhankelijk van buitenlandse migratie. Hoe kan deze stad (blijven) inspelen op de veranderende samenstelling van inwoners? Welke stedelijke omgeving zorgt ervoor dat verschillende groepen nieuwkomers in evenwicht met elkaar …

Virtual communities are online spaces with potential of integration of (member-generated) content and conversations [7,8]. In our research project we are interested in the adoption and building of virtual communities in organized sports, that is to say in the voluntary sports clubs (VSCs) in the Netherlands. …

The research concerned semi-dyadic relations in SMEs and large companies that managed innovative suppliers in New Zealand construction supply chains. It explored effects of (independent) company variables on (mediating) procurement management variables, and also the effects of these variable types on …

Many countries in Europe use some kind of competence framework to define the quality of teachers. They typically formulate one level of teaching quality which defines the competence level that teachers must have acquired after completing initial teacher education. In addition, most countries provide …

John Lewis Gaddis doceert militaire- en politieke strategie aan de Yale University en wordt gezien als de meest vooraanstaande historicus over de Koude Oorlog. In zijn recente studie over Herodotus, Sun Tzu, Von Clausewitz en andere grote strategen probeert de Amerikaan uiteen te zetten waarom bepaalde …