The increasing commercialisation of the sports sector and changing consumer demands are some of the issues that create challenges for non-profit sports in contemporary society. It is important for managers and marketers of these organisations to innovate because innovation is a way to grow within a competitive …

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In the following paper I investigate the relation between the purpose of Facebook use and its possible relation with students’ previous education and their subjective study success in higher education. Three surveys (six in total) were conducted in two successive years (cohort 2011-2012 and 2012-2013) …

Re-structuring of a Dutch mono-industrial region; example of TwenteTable of contents of the chapter    Introduction    Geography and location of Twente    Industrialization of Twente and development of the Textile Industry    Decline of the Textile Industry    Restructuring Twente: arguments for a regional …

Van latent talent naar excellent?Tijdens deze round table sessie zijn onder leiding van Tineke Kingma (coördinator van het Windesheim Honours Programma) en Arjen Dekker (student in dit programma) de ervaringen van studenten met het multidisciplianire Windesheim Honours programma Social Innovation besproken …

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 …

Vooral producenten profiteren van de omvangrijke softdrugsmarkt in Nederland. Legalisering van deze markt levert de overheid veel geld op door belastingheffing en afname van negatieve externaliteiten zoals criminaliteit.

Avans University of Applied Sciences is redrafting its courses and curricula in view of sustainability. For chemical engineering in particular that implies a focus on 'green' and bio-based processes, products and energy. Avans is situated in the Southwest region of the Netherlands and specifically in …

International entrepreneurship is an important vehicle for firms to reap benefits from their high productivity levels and from economies of scale by reaching new customers. International enterprises tend to be larger and more innovative, but a key question of causality remains disputed in the international …

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 …