African citizens are increasingly being surveilled, profiled, and targeted online in ways that violate their rights. African governments frequently use pandemic or terrorism-related security risks to grant themselves additional surveillance rights and significantly increase their collection of monitoring apparatus …

How to navigate your way through an era that is increasingly referred to as an era of poly-crises, where disparate crises interact in such a way that the overall impact far exceeds the sum of each part (WEF, 2023)? Some of the social, environmental and security risks described in the 2023 World Economic …

This study evaluates the effectiveness of the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) in quantitatively measuring the transition of companies to a circular economy. First, using the most recent literature review on circularity metrics, a complete overview of the currently …

Er is een leasemeubelconcept opgesteld met een volledig financiële onderbouwing, met als doel om huisvesters op een gemakkelijke manier kennis te laten maken met hoogwaardig meubilair. Met als uiteindelijke doel internationale medewerkers een gastvrijer gevoel te geven.

This study investigated the implementation of mHealth apps in an early stage of the implementation process. Key stakeholders were involved, who attributed to the possibilities and limitations of the implementation. It is crucial to have a clear vision from an organizational perspective and specific prerequisites …

In today’s digital era, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are facing more cyber threats as they adopt new technologies. From data breaches to ransomware and phishing attacks, these risks are becoming more frequent and advanced. Unlike large companies, SMEs often don’t have the budget or cybersecurity …

Innovating physical products can be seen as systems engineering at a higher abstraction level. It spans multiple domains and focuses not on developing the product, but realising the complete innovation. In our new approach, we focus on the four most important domains of physical product innovation: market, …

Abstract: The Problem-Solution Chain (PSC) models proposed in this exploratory paper are conceived as describing chains of problem-solution links, thereby modelling specific multi-link ‘problem-solving’ paths, typically (but not exclusively) from a high-level business problem to lower-level functional …

Sanction screening is a crucial banking compliance process that protects financial institutions from inadvertently engaging with internationally sanctioned individuals or organizations. Given the severe consequences, including financial crime risks and potential loss of banking licenses, effective execution …

As the Arctic undergoes unprecedented environmental and climate transformations, an urgent call for inclusive governance and intergenerational leadership echoes across the circumpolar region. In January 2024, 29 Emerging Leaders from the Circumpolar Arctic and Subarctic gathered in Northern Norway ahead …