Using survey data gathered among Dutch public sector management accountants, this contribution shows that appreciative skills and personal skills are considered the most important competencies of these professionals. The authors found gaps between the assigned importance and the actual level of competencies …

De Hogeschool van Amsterdam, het Zijlstra Center (VU) en Hofmeier doen samen onderzoek naar de invulling van de onafhankelijke controlfunctie bij Woningcorporaties. Wij delen opvallende bevindingen en waarnemingen met u in enkele publicaties. Dit is de eerste, over de ruimte die gegeven wordt bij het …

In the current era of data driven governance and businesses, data sharing and opening become an essential growth factor. Data intensive organizations are eager to share their data with the public, research institutions and private enterprises. However, data sharing must adhere to data protection laws …

Purpose In order to better understand how heuristics are used in practice, the authors explore what type of heuristics is used in the managerial domain of financial advisors to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and what influences the shaping of these heuristics. In doing so, the authors detect …

Het missiegedreven innovatiebeleid van de overheid legt een sterke nadruk op de impact van onderzoek op maatschappelijke vraagstukken zoals duurzaamheid, gezondheid en veiligheid. Complexe vraagstukken die ook een nieuw speelveld en nieuwe spelregels met zich meebrengen van samen onderzoek doen. Een …

Koninklijke Oosterberg wil haar beveiliging op een hoger volwassenheidsniveau krijgen. Om een start te maken aan het verhogen van dit niveau heeft Oosterberg een assessment door ICT-Security bedrijf Fox-IT laten uitvoeren. Dit security assessment toont aan dat er diverse onderdelen zijn die binnen de …

The European Union Water Framework Directive (WFD) encourages water managers to implement active stakeholder involvement to achieve sustainable water management. However, the WFD does not describe in detail how member states should operationalize participation. The need for local experience and local …

By using information technology, local governments can develop alternative forms of citizen engagement. Civic crowdfunding campaigns supported by online platforms enable citizens to participate financially in social projects and can be matched with government funding. As such, an alternative for subsidies …

What you don’t know can’t hurt you: this seems to be the current approach for responding to disinformation by public regulators across the world. Nobody is able to say with any degree of certainty what is actually going on. This is in no small part because, at present, public regulators don’t have the …

Over the past decades, laws and regulations have been incorporating obligations for major organisations in almost all sectors of society to integrate risk management in their governance. Against this background, this study focused on the degree and the way in which legal departments of Dutch organisations …