Literature shows that ‘new ways of learning’ cause a shift in learning settings with a growing attention to facilitating autonomy, interaction and knowledge exploration anytime, anywhere. These trends show evident similarities with developments in office environments known for as ‘new ways of working’. …

Dit artikel is een samenvatting van mijn proefschrift over Schumans Europa en zijn referentiekader dat de oorspronkelijke visie weergeeft van de grondlegger van de Europese eenwording, Robert Schuman. Het laat zien hoe zijn gedachten, persoonlijkheid, katholieke geloof en afkomst uit Elzas-Lotharingen …

The complexity of the daily practice of social workers in the Netherlands has increased, while the social appreciation for their work has decreased. Stakeholders involved in social work practice agreed that a masters programme for social workers could be an important step to improve the quality of social …

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 …

This paper presents a multidisciplinary conceptual framework which proposes the symbolic-based eco-genetic process for dealing with complex patterns characterized by multilevel and fuzzy territorial governance, and interrelatedness between the physical world and the symbolic and socially-culturally constructed …

Chapter 2 in Impacts of Emerging Economies and Firms on International Business. One of the most remarkable phenomena of recent times is that a large number of firms from emerging economies have come to define and dominate new markets and enter the class of global innovation leaders. Firms that once specialized …

To many scholars and researchers in organisation and management studies, Bourdieu’s theory of practice as one of the grand sociological conceptual framework turns out to be an appealing toolkit to think with. What can Bourdieu’s theory of practice entail for moral climate theory as a relative new body …

Until 2012 Fontys OSO used a triangle as a conceptual framework to visualize the key concepts in the programme. Recently this was transformed into a visual model: the triade. The essentials of this triade are the central position of the student as a professional, a collaborative approach of knowledge …

Many students in secondary schools consider the sciences difficult and unattractive. This applies to physics in particular, a subject in which students attempt to learn and understand numerous theoretical concepts, often without much success. A case in point is the understanding of the concepts current, …