Copyright enforcement by private third parties – does it work uniformly across the EU? Since the inception of Napster, home copying of digital files has taken a flight. The first providers of software or infrastructure for the illegal exchange of files were held contributory or vicariously liable for …

The online media did change many markets over the past decade, including the horse trading market. New online offers did appear also in the equestrian world. Those websites offered online advertisement space for horses. The market Ehorses performed well in the past but wanted to expand from its costumers …

Until a decade ago, Dutch beachwear brand Beachlife had a strong position in the Dutch marketplace, however, in the past years their market share decreased. Beachlife became less visible and less known to the target group. Brand awareness has been acknowledged to be an essential aspect of marketing and …

In the last decade, directed from the European Union, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education became a main topic on both, political and strategic managerial agenda’s. Despite the enormous effort and money invested, the failure rate of starting entrepreneurs seems to be stable. Next to an increase …

The last decade has seen an increasing demand from the industrial field of computerized visual inspection. Applications rapidly become more complex and often with more demanding real time constraints. However, from 2004 onwards the clock frequency of CPUs has not increased significantly. Computer Vision …

Over the past few years the terms 'fair trade', 'sustainable' and 'organic' have become more present in combination with tea products in the supermarkets. These terms are used for many different goals. Some suppliers actually try to provide the consumer with a product that has been produced following …

Vocational education and training (VET) plays a central role in preparing young people for work, developing adequate skills and responding to the labour-market needs of the economy. The transition learners are required to make from education to the workplace is a complex, and often problematic, process …

In Western Europe, cities that host International Organizations (IOs) have to deal with more and more competition. The last decade many IOs settled in Eastern European and Asian countries. Distributing IOs over several cities in Europe for reasons of political balance and give-and-take among governments …

More than 45,000 international students are now studying for bachelor programs in the Netherlands. The number of Asian students increased dramatically in the past decade. The current research aims at examining the differences between Western European and Asian students’ perceptual learning styles, and …

Based around the central research question 'Can social media be used as a marketing tool for a restaurant?' this dissertation sets out to discover how a starting restaurant in Canada can use social media as a marketing tool. Over the past decade a large number of companies have embraced social media …