Since 2011, over 500 Belgian nationals have become radicalised and left Belgium for a Jihadist conflict zone. The Brussel bombings, on the 22nd of March 2016 were carried out by two Belgian nationals who were also returning Jihadists. This dissertation explores whether Belgium can improve its current …

In this chapter, Troxler and Van Woensel will try to identify the possible socio-technical changes that 3D printing effectuates and their larger consequences on businesses, the economy and society at large. To this end, they first track the emergence of three-dimensional printing technology. They draw …

Sarah Banks (2012) describes ethics work mainly as the effort people put into developing themselves as good practitioners. She discerns six aspects of ethics work: identity work, framing work, reason work, emotion work, role work and performance work. Although ethics work focuses on the ethical development …

Silvio Berlusconi was Italy's longest serving Prime Minister since the Second World War. As Prime Minister, he exercised control over the three public television channels in Italy. The combination of a strong political figure that controls large parts of public media and has considerable business interests …

Harvard Business Review auteurs Bazerman, Loewenstein en Moore stellen in hun artikel “Why good accountants do bad audits” (2002) dat het werkelijke probleem bij accountantscontroles niet zit in bewuste fraude door accountants maar schuilt in onbewuste beoordelingsfouten. Zij beroepen zich enerzijds …

In de beleidsmatige en wetenschappelijke zoektocht naar effectieve handhavingsstrategieën wordt in toenemende mate gekeken welke strategie het beste aansluit bij de motivaties en mogelijkheden van ondertoezichtstaanden. Inzicht en begrip in wat burgers, bedrijven en instellingen motiveert om regels wel …

Social movements are a particular form of collective action: collective challenges by people with common purposes in sustained interaction with other actors in an institutional field There are three drivers of social movements: framing, mobilization and opportunity Social movements (may) arise from …

Marketers moeten klantenbehoeften vervullen. Zij werken klantgericht en baseren zich daarbij vaak op enquêtes en andere verbale uitingen van klanten. Vanuit de psychologie is inmiddels echter duidelijk dat mensen vaak helemaal niet zeggen wat ze echt vinden. Niet omdat ze dat niet willen, maar omdat …

Dagelijks worden we via kranten, radio, televisie en internet op de hoogte gehouden van wat er in Nederland en in de wereld speelt. Veel van de berichten hebben direct of indirect te maken met religie of religieuze gevoelens en uitingen van mensen. Dit is niet verwonderlijk, want religie is een belangrijk …

In recent years, the transport industry has encountered numerous challenges. It experienced strong growth, but also many uncertainties. In many cases, logistics service providers were forced to change their strategy. So, the question for logistics service providers arises “how to deal best with uncertainties?” …