This article analyzes How do emotion norms and emotional norms (de)legitimize the EU as a security community? Conceptually, the article expands on the emotional underpinnings of a security community by distinguishing between emotion norms and emotional norms. This then allows to examine emotional (de)legitimation …

Management research has alluded to organizational and environmental conditions that drive firms’ tendencies to explore versus exploit. We complement this research by developing theory on vicarious learning to explain how a firm adjusts its own exploration level based on the exploration levels of its …

The network society is generally challenging for today’s communication practitioners because they are no longer the sole entities responsible for communication processes. This is a major change for many of them. In this paper, it will be contended that the normative practice model as developed within …

Key words: labour relations, HRM, social theory, neoliberalism, participation, legitimation, precariat The aim of this paper is to sketch a social-theoretical framework that can be applied to empirical research on labour market participation, its requirements and legitimation. All projects of the Amsterdam …

Die Verfasserin erlebt in einem ihrer aktuellen Arbeitsfelder immer wieder, wie sehr die von ihr entwickelte Methode Soko-Pferd geschätzt wird, besonders in der Ausführung an Schulen der Kreise Düren und Euskirchen. Trotzdem kommt jedoch häufig keine Dienstleistung zustande, denn die Schulen können kein …

Poster presentation at the European Social Work Research Conference - ESWRA, Aalborg, Denemarken, 20 april – 21 April In the last decade a call is made upon a stronger knowledge base for social work and an abiding professionalism of practice. Transformations in The Netherlands state welfare regime are …

Proefschrift van drs. Jeroen Gradener naar de legitimiteit van community development (opbouwwerk). Niet vanzelf krijgen opbouwwerkers een mandaat van bewoners om hen te ondersteunen in het verbeteren van hun eigen leven en hun leefomgeving. Hoe deze opbouwwerkers erin slagen om ondanks weerstanden hun …

Burgers en politici hebben behoefte aan verantwoording over ingezette middelen voor ontwikkelingshulp en de bereikte doelen. De resultatenrapportage van het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken biedt in theorie een mooi overzicht dat ten dele inzicht verschaft. Het rapport schetst echter een te mooi beeld. …