De maatschappelijke behoefte aan meer informatie over de strategie van de onderneming alsmede over de met die strategie samenhangende risico’s, vraagt om proactieve auditors met interpersoonlijke en veranderkundige competenties die weten hoe (netwerk)organisaties functioneren. Internal auditors die over …

Although critical differences exist between large companies and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), limited empirical research has been done on human resource (HR)-related corporate social responsibility (CSR). In this paper we study aging workforce management (AWM) as a component of CSR. Our …

Outsourcing and offshoring provide companies with ways to achieve their business objectives better or more cost effectively or despite a shortage of specific resources. From a research point of view, outsourcing and offshoring have mostly been studied as something that large companies do, not small and …

In het project Intelligente Monitoring van Licht Verstandelijk Gehandicapten (IM-LVG) hebben NOVO, AVICS en de Hanzehogeschool Groningen onderzocht of zij met behulp van sensoren en ICT een systeem konden ontwikkelen voor de begeleiding van licht verstandelijk gehandicapten. Een dergelijk systeem zou …

Although the scientific literature consists of over 10,000 papers on eHealth, remarkably few applications are consistently being used in the healthcare domain. Numerous reasons for this lack of progression have been noted, one of these being the objection of medical professionals to the introduction …

The concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Community Investment are not clearly defined in literature as of yet. However, considering the recent surge of attention these concepts have gotten, they have become points of interest for the general public, governments, commercial organisation, …

Business landscapes are changing at global, regional and sectoral levels as well as the social and ecological contexts. In order to understand what these changes are and how clusters are dealing with these, the research explores drivers of change and cluster dynamics using a Complex Adaptive Systems …

The research explores energy clusters and their adaptations to drivers of changes using a Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) approach. CAS offers a descriptive analytical framework that helps generate insights into drivers of change and cluster developments. The pilot EnTranCE, a living lab cluster, in Energy …

Is de controller een boekhouder of een businesspartner? Waaruit het vak van een controller bestaat, is allerminst duidelijk. Zelfs controllers kunnen vaak niet onder woorden brengen wat hun functie precies inhoudt. De auteurs van dit artikel pleiten ervoor dat de controller zich weer geheel ten dienste …

Presentation of a casus in the region of Westerkwartier where the gebiedscoöperatie Westerkwartier as a whole new business model focussed on regional resilience in the triple helix formalised with a substantial role of higher education in the so called field labs in the region. The regional authority …