In this dissertation paper, the environmental organisation Greenpeace has been analysed. Greenpeace is an independent environmental non-governmental organisation and only accepts money from individual financial supporters and foundation grants. There has been a focus on changing the way the organisation …

Over the past few years the terms 'fair trade', 'sustainable' and 'organic' have become more present in combination with tea products in the supermarkets. These terms are used for many different goals. Some suppliers actually try to provide the consumer with a product that has been produced following …

The goal of this research was to investigate to what extent Christian thinking influenced the European integration after the Second World War. Christian thinking refers to values embedded within the Christian mindset. The reason for this research was the Nobel Peace Prize received by the European Union …

The present study attempts to explore the field of creative music workshops with the elderly. A growing amount of research has been carried out into running (creative) workshops, and besides we know a lot about the elderly and ageing. The aim of this research is to gather knowledge on the merging of …

Purpose This paper investigates the impact of complaint behaviour and service recovery satisfaction on consumer intentions to repurchase through Internet channels. Design/methodology/approach Using survey data from large consumer samples from 15 European countries, the authors classify consumers according …

BACKGROUND Seclusion is an intervention widely used in Dutch mental health care. The intervention can be effective in acute situations to avert (further) aggression or self-harm. However, seclusion is also a controversial intervention that may not have any positive effect with regard to symptom improvement. …

In this paper, the performance gain obtained by combining parallel peri- odic real-time processes is elaborated. In certain single-core mono-processor configurations, for example, embedded control systems in robotics comprising many short processes, process context switches may consume a considerable …

The main purpose of this report was to research how to increase art house ticket sales and visits by optimizing current marketing methods used to position independent films in the Netherlands. The perspective of the art film audience was taken during this research and their motivations to visit art houses …

Currently, only 22 percent of Dutch households consume a dairy dessert on a daily basis. FrieslandCampina, market leader in the Dutch dairy category, set a goal for 2013 to increase this to 23 percent. Mona, one of their brands, is set to be one of the driving forces in the category's growth.The brand …

In this research is examined why the elderly who are involved in “Driezorg” are motivated to be part of the moving groups. To research this, a BREQ-2 questionnaire was used. This questionnaire sounds out the motivation with regard to physical exercise. The BREQ-2 consist of 19 items which are related …