This text has become a performance of (affirmative) entrepreneurship. This is done by a set of writing (and methodological) techniques: autoethnography, the triptych of mimesis, poiesis, kinesis and a life journey that forms the base of the chapter. As such, this text challenges some well-known shortcomings …

In this chapter, we argue for more engagement with practitioners in qualitative family business research. We explain how and why an engaged scholarship is helpful to study complex social phenomena in the family business context and provide an overview of the engaged scholarship approach. We elaborate …

Wie in de technische sector werkt ziet het gebeuren, Amsterdam is booming! Waar voorheen Amsterdam als -alfa-stad bekend stond, is er de laatste 5 jaar een explosieve groei in -beta-gerelateerde bedrijven. Dit bracht de stad in no-time naar de wereldwijde Top 5 van potentiele vestigingsklimaten voor …

De opdrachtgever van dit afstudeeronderzoek is JAN, een maandelijks glossy magazine voor vrouwen tussen de 30 en 59 jaar dat in 2005 is opgericht. JAN wil hun abonnees zo sterk mogelijk aan zich binden, zodat zij loyaal worden en/of blijven en niet overstappen naar een ander magazine. Aanleiding hiervoor …

The debate about the world wide web is of vital importance. Will it remain the democratic place of unconditional meeting and community building, or will it become a tool in the hands of governments, trillion dollar companies and the mafia, in order to secretly establish a dictatorship of control and …

Hoofdstuk 25 in Canon van HRM De belangrijkste theorieën en concepten over Human Resource Management gebundeld in één naslagwerk

This book provides a series of contemporary and international policy case studies analysed through discursive methodological approaches in the traditions of critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and discourse theory. This is the first volume that connects this discursive methodology systematically …

Video games have the potential to educate and engage people—especially young people—in climate change and energy issues by facilitating the development of helpful thoughts, feelings, and actions. The objective of the present article is to propose a set of game attributes that could maximise the cognitive, …

The need to reduce carbon emissions calls for more use of renewable generation, particularly distributed resources. The intermittency of renewable generation, and concerns about energy security, require us to become more independent of central grid operation by use of local or regional (micro-grid) electricity …