This dissertation handles the discursive production of security. In particular, it looks at the securitisation of terrorism, placing terrorism as a topic in a space of extreme action. The treatment of terrorism by key members of the discursive process contributes to a gap between the objective reality …

Emerging during the negotiations for the unratified Constitutional Treaty and officially launched with the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Citizens' Initiative allows citizens to invite the European Commission to propose legislation to the European Parliament and the Council based on an idea which gathers …

This study links business requirements and adaptability of existing software systems. Organizations expect flexibility of IT with regard to business requirements. We hypothesize that the flexibility of business requirements is difficult in IT systems, because of software dependencies in the way domain …

At our university, the University of Applied Science Utrecht (UASU) workload is a point of concern. Lecturers who teach courses are dissatisfied about the workload. Management has tried to reduce the workload, but figures show there has been no measurable impact as a result of these efforts.

Festivals are nowadays a cultural, social, and economic force to be reckoned with. This study will offer an overview of the Dutch festival landscape, which has been lacking. There are commercial initiatives that target only a portion of the festival sector, and there are specific branch organisations …

The research is conducted for Nissan Nederland. Since 2017, this company has changed their method of targets engagement. The goal of this change is dividing the method of targets of two car branches of Nissan Nederland, the private market versus the fleet market. The result of this change should help …

Will the Automotive era come to an end in the 21th century? Looking at today’s environmental and economic challenges of the use of last century technology cars and listening to some trend watchers one could think so. Cars can be regarded, as an old school status product indeed, for which there is no …

As an Argentinean eCommerce business, GoodPeople decided to acquire Avenida, an online platform that was owned by Flipkart, the Indian market leaders in eCommerce, in the end of 2017. Flipkart had to face a sharp decline in sales figures which was the reason the company decided to sell the marketplace. …

International business has become highly important. However, women entrepreneurs are less involved in international business than men. Therefore, this research was conducted for the women’s network and the department of international economic affairs of VNO-NCW / MKB-Nederland to provide an answer to …

In this paper we explain why Axiomatic design has not been applied in large system of systems information technology architectures in health care organizations in the Netherlands. We have found in extensive case studies of IT systems that the Independence axiom could not be found in the existing Information …