Dit artikel biedt een tussenstand van een lopend onderzoek naar het functioneren van de wijkteams die vorm gaven aan de eerste fase van het Haagse krachtwijkenbeleid. De focus ligt op het professionele handelen van ambtenaren met ‘één been in het stadhuis en één been in de wijk’. Als conceptueel kader …

Frail older adults are increasingly encouraged to be in control of their health care, in Western societies. However, little is known about how they themselves perceive control in health care. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the concept of health care-related perceived control from the viewpoint …

For two decades policy makers, property owners, retailers, and academics, have been interested in the effects of the Internet for retailing, commercial real estate and shopping locations. At the time of the rise of the commercial Internet many futurists predicted that this process innovation would decrease …

The overall topic of this book is internationalization. It is hard to deny that organizations are increasingly internationalizing in order to remain competitive, to access growth markets and resources and to reduce operating costs. Understanding international business has become imperative for academic …

Simulation transparency is becoming more crucial in the decision making process when quantitative computer tools are used to justify some strategies.

Summary Social impact assessment (SIA) developed alongside EIA in the early 1970s as a mechanism to consider the social impacts of planned interventions. The early understanding tended to limit the practical application of SIA to the project level, usually within the context of regulatory frameworks, …

Does Northern Europe possess unique characteristics that cannot disappear and do not need to disappear, or will globalisation inevitably result in uniformity, divested businesses, lower wages and huge pressure on social security provisions? This is one of the main questions addressed by the authors. …

Clusters are the magic answer to regional economic development. Firms in clusters are more innovative; cluster policy dominates EU policy; ‘top-sectors’ and excellence are the choice of national policy makers; clusters are ‘in’. But, clusters are complex, clusters are ‘messy’; there is no clear logic …

This report examines the consequences of unaccompanied and separated, asylum-seeking children (UASASC) turning 18, that are passing through the asylum process in France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. It compares the asylum procedures as well as the practices in the management of unaccompanied …