Brand portfolio strategies are an essential prerequisite for securing long-term success for multi-brand companies. Only by focusing on the entire portfolio can it be ensured that all brands “act in concert” to achieve superordinate objectives. Thereby, an increasing vertical competition caused by private …

Does Northern Europe possess unique characteristics that cannot disappear and do not need to disappear, or will globalisation inevitably result in uniformity, divested businesses, lower wages and huge pressure on social security provisions? This is one of the main questions addressed by the authors. …

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Dit proefschrift behelst een studie bij zeven multinationale bedrijven in het MKB naar de invloed van het waardensysteem van de eigenaar-directeur op inrichting en uitvoering van het bedrijfsstelsel van arbeidsrelaties. De op anderen gerichte waarden van de eigenaar-directeur bepalen de mate waarin zij/hij …

Er hebben de eerste meting 161 cliënten deelgenomen aan MOVE. Deze cliënten hebben een ZZP 3 C indicatie. Toch wijken ze qua socio-demografische kenmerken niet af van de totale BW-cliëntenpopulatie van de RIBW, zoals tijdens het UTOPIA-onderzoek in kaart is gebracht.

This research was commissioned by the province of Groningen. The province of Groningen asked the question how the quality her bus stop data could be improved. The province of Groningen is ultimately responsible for public transport. The public transport bureau is set up in 2005 to arrange bus transportation. …

Social media supported education, 24/7 teaching and learning in the 21st century.

Description of a research project in which information students did an online environment analysis. The research is aiming at discovering the frames which consists around ICT and Governments, in particular about the NSA. Our goal is to get an insight in the functions of these frames in conversations …

By assessing four cases, this paper develops propositions about the transfer of employee oriented corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices within multinational SMEs. Specifically we explore whether an individual owner-manager can add value within a foreign subsidiary by means of normatively-based, …