This graduation assignment is aiming at finding a solution for a problem posed by Forrester Research. The company has many followers on Twitter, but they are not sure who these people are, and how to interact with them. More importantly, the company wants to know how to define its target audience, and …

Het succes van een merk wordt steeds meer afhankelijk van de manier waarop sociale media worden ingezet. Organisaties proberen met behulp van sociale media brand communities te ontwikkelen om informatie te delen, merkwaarden te communiceren en klantrelaties te onderhouden

This article describes a European project which was aimed at improving the situation of persons with psychiatric or learning disabilities with regard to social participation and citizenship. The project took place in three countries (Estonia, Hungary and the Netherlands) and four cities (Tallinn, Budapest, …

The nation-state had a long history of success, but today it is failing its citizens on a global scale. Over the last hundred years, nation-states focussed on maximizing internal unity and jurisdictional sovereignty. Benjamin R. Barber’s ‘If Mayors Ruled The World’ is the central source of this thesis …

Objectives: This study assesses social workers’ orientation toward the evidence-based practice (EBP) process and explores which specific variables (e.g. age) are associated. Methods: Data were collected from 341 Dutch social workers through an online survey which included a Dutch translation of the EBP …

This research set out to explore the feasibility for Emzingo Group LLC’s NexGen leadership development fellowship to be implemented in the emerging market of Brazil. Therefore (1) Brazilian contextual aspects for leadership, (2) the leadership development space, (3) personality traits of leaders, and …

Welke kansen zijn er om social media in te zetten en zo mogelijk betrokkenheid te creëren in een branche waarin de frequentie van de aankoop laag is?

Civil society as a social sphere is constantly subjected to change. Using the Dutch context, this article addresses the question whether religiously inspired engagement is a binder or a breakpoint in modern societies. The author examines how religiously inspired people in the Netherlands involve themselves …

The purpose of this final paper was to create a communication strategy for the target group of biologists and toxicologists for a crowd source project of Enviu. Enviu is an organization that launches sustainable businesses in order to tackle a social or economic issue that exists in the Netherlands or …

The concept of focus on opportunities describes how many new goals, options, and possibilities employees believe to have in their personal future at work. In this multi-sample, multi-method study, the authors investigated relationships between focus on opportunities and general and daily work engagement …