While in business and private settings the disruptive impact of advanced information communication technology (ICT) have already been felt, the legal sector is now starting to face great disruptions due to such ICTs. Bits and pieces of innovations in the legal sector have been emerging for some time, …

Objectives: The aim of this paper is to provide insight into what it means to live with the intention to end life at a self-chosen moment from an insider perspective. Setting: Participants who lived independent or semidependent throughout the Netherlands. Participants: 25 Dutch older citizens (mean age …

Full text beschikbaar met een HU-account. This volume poses a series of key questions about the practice of probation as an integral part of the European criminal justice system. The contributors are established experts in their respective fields of study and together their questions address the legitimacy, …

As the state retracts further in the Netherlands, the role of civil society increases. Only now the impact becomes visible due to changing arrangements in the social domain. Since enormous cuts in the welfare budgets have been implemented; creative innovations by civil initiatives are much needed to …

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De business case van diversiteit, oftewel het verbinden van diversiteit en diversiteitsbeleid aan de kerndoelen van de organisatie met het streven beter te presteren, heeft de laatste jaren meer aandacht gekregen van publieke organisaties. Met dit onderzoek is inzichtelijk gemaakt hoe medewerkers en …

Silvio Berlusconi was Italy's longest serving Prime Minister since the Second World War. As Prime Minister, he exercised control over the three public television channels in Italy. The combination of a strong political figure that controls large parts of public media and has considerable business interests …

The concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Community Investment are not clearly defined in literature as of yet. However, considering the recent surge of attention these concepts have gotten, they have become points of interest for the general public, governments, commercial organisation, …

In reactie op de ontwikkelingen in de samenleving en op de arbeidsmarkt voeren publieke organisaties vaak diversiteitsbeleid. Er is weinig bekend over de effectiviteit van diversiteitmanagement en de concrete beleidsinstrumenten die in dat kader worden ingezet. In dit artikel is de invloed van diversiteitmanagement …