In the framework of the Organza project, an international seminar on coaching creative entrepreneurship was held on November 8 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The main issue focused on the question to what extent coaching creative entrepreneurship is different from coaching ‘ordinary’ entrepreneurship. Our …

This paper explores the integration of indicators that reflect the concepts of sustainability into business cases and business case evaluation methods. It is based on the observations that sustainability is one of the most important challenges of our time and that sustainable development requires change …

Onderzoek mogelijkheden van gezamenlijke uitvoering en realisatie facilitaire pro-grammadoelstellingen binnen de Kenniscampus Ede. De onderzoeksvraag is op welke wijze de facilitaire voorzieningen een bijdrage kunnen leveren aan het behalen van de gezamenlijke programmadoelstellingen van de Kennis-campus …

Multinational Enterprises (MNE) have various motivations for complying with human rights. Those motivations can be categorized into two distinct categories. The first of these entails benefits to the company, and are thus economic motivations. This group includes issues such as a stable business environment, …

The in-depth assessment of the situation of the European textile and clothing sector is composed by six independent reports with a close focus on key aspects useful to understand the dynamics and the development of the textile and clothing industry, drivers of change – most notably the impact of the …

Het overkomt elke adviseur de laatste tijd. De klant wil ‘een totale web virale campagne’ die alle communicatieproblemen ineens verleden tijd maakt. Lekker gemaakt door stapels boeken en publicaties gebaseerd op slechts een paar succesvolle cases. Hogeschool Utrecht deed het afgelopen jaar onderzoek …

In this paper, we will argue that developments in social media in the past few years open up an opportunity space for developing "integration software". Such software supports company specific use cases, while the software expands on existing social media infrastructure through web API's. We have explored …

The Internet is changing the way we organize work. It is shifting the requirements for what we call the “schedule push” and the hierarchical organization that it implies, and therefore it is removing the type of control that is conventionally used to match resources to tasks, and customer demand to supplies …

The objective of this paper is to examine how a combination of the concepts of Fair Trade, CrossBorderProsperity (CBP), Yunus' microcredit and social business could strengthen the producers' socio-economic situation and position in the free market. Small-scale producers in developing countries are being …

In a conceptual model presented earlier we showed the relationship between the basic values of trust, respect and commitment and social capital in an organization as a source of innovational power, moderated by leadership styles and decision-making models (Oteman 2008). In this paper we explore the relationship …