The use of the word “social” in the context of information technology goes back to the very beginnings of cybernetics. It later pops up in the 1980s context of “groupware.” The recent materialist school of Friedrich Kittler and others dismissed the use of the word “social” as irrelevant fluff – what …

1e alinea column: Fake verkoopt niet. Wat kun je doen als je als brand/organisatie echt een langdurige verbintenis aan wilt gaan met je klanten? Vraag je dan vooral af waarom je die verbintenis wilt en ‘what is in it for me and them’. Als het om customer engagement gaat dan is de motivatie en de intentie …

Business leaders increasingly face pressure from stakeholders to be transparent. There appears however little consensus on the risks and payoffs of disclosing vital information such as corporate strategy. To fill this gap, this study analyzes firm-specific determinants and organisational outcomes of …

Since the eighties, Dutch residents of care homes have been housed in Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) in order to age in place and live with higher social quality of housing. Scale, group mix and social quality of housing of these ALFs has not yet been explored. Initiators decide on experience and …

In the current era, characterized by dynamic societal, technological, and economic changes as well as an increasing diversity in the workforce, previous approaches to individual work behaviour are being challenged (Schalk et al. 2010). Demographic trends in the working population, for example, ageing …

Within change literature, pace and frequency of organizational change are reoccurring topics. The pace is experienced as high and the frequency of change within organizations appears to be growing exponentially. This lead to study to more extent ‘change fatigue’ that already received attention in both …

Voor een webgebaseerd bedrijf, zoals het Nederlands Hippisch Kenniscentrum (NHK), is het essentieel dat de website vrij van technologische barrières is en dat iedereen in staat is om de website te gebruiken zonder verwarring of zelfs frustratie te veroorzaken. Daarom houdt zich een deel van dit onderzoek …

HIV/AIDS continue to be a developmental and a social problem rather than a health issue throughout the world. It is very much devastating and affects individuals, families as well as communities. In sub-Saharan Africa and rural agricultural settings, poverty, gender inequality and unequal power relations …