A 'post-modern' rustic framing company which operates on a small market where high quality and being green is the biggest competition advantage. The most important need of the product is that for home decoration. The customer can use the frame for own use or as a social need, to give it away as a gift. …

Western-European consumers have become not only more demanding on product availability in retail outlets but also on other food attributes such as quality, integrity, and safety. When (re)designing food supply-chain networks, from a logistics point of view, one has to consider these demands next to traditional …

What are successful companies? That question will be investigated. The determination of successful factors will be identified by explaining the successful factors of a company by the following questions: How come successful ventures are successful and non successful ventures are not? What are the most …

Paper presented at the RENT XXV conference. The point of this paper is to improve our understanding on the added value of M&A advisors in SMEs, an important segment of the economy and merger industry. To predict the added value of professional advice we contrast two theories: the agency theory and the …

This paper examines the long anticipated European Union accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the establishment of an actual launch of the process enabling such accession after so many years from the time it was first proposed. Further, it goes on to examine the different mechanisms …

It is often said that European companies must stop trying to compete on price and concentrate more on developing products and services that offer customers and users a high level of added value. Design is an indispensable tool for such development and innovation, and this is why the findings of this …

The type of communication made possible through web logs and whether it has an added value besides the ordinary communication tools such as e-mail, telephone and websites are the main questions in this report. By means of the Habermas theory, the integration of the ideal speech situation into a weblog …

When the Netherlands developed a national system of vocational education at the end of the 19th century, it was a direct answer to obvious shortcomings in the technical and trade professions (De Jonge, 1968). It concentrated on training craftsmen for the traditional, mainly agrarian economy, and technicians …

New Dutch agrifood business models are emerging in response to economic, social and ecological pressures: new players arrive, new logistical pathways come to the fore and innovative consumer and farmer relationships – food coöperatives – are forged. How do new business models relate to reconfiguring …