Doelstelling en resultaat Toen we in 2012 startten met de voorbereidingen voor het onderzoek ‘Waarderen van inkoop door MKB’ (W!M), wilden we ondernemers helpen de crisis door te komen. Het idee was de ondernemers te voorzien van praktische oplossingen om de inkoopresultaten en daarmee de bedrijfsresultaten …

Om ondernemers de crisis door te helpen, startten Gert Walhof, Geoffrey Hagelaar en Richard Holman in 2012 het onderzoek ‘Waarderen van inkoop door mkb’. In dit artikel presenteren zij drie managementinstrumenten die ze in samenspraak met de ondernemers hebben geselecteerd en ontwikkeld.

The Procurement Platform Groningen is a cooperation of 15 tendering authorities in the northern part of the Netherlands. The Platform requested Hanze to start a research project concerning the Social Added Value of the Platform’s spend. The first phase of this research has now been completed. This phase …

From the preface : The European Commission supports Member States by providing them with recommendations, guidelines, information and good practices. For years, the European Commission has stimulated Member States to develop matching platforms to efficiently support sellers and buyers of SMEs in …

Presentation on social procurement in the Netherlands, partnership and labour pools by empoyers.

Entrepreneurship is often used as a synonym for starting up a new business. Existing SMEs — from purchasing to succession — are all too often left out of the picture. This booklet tells the stories of those involved in handing over their businesses to the next generation. It’s an honest and straightforward …

Dit rapport verschaft inzicht in de vraag waarom de internationalisering van het noordelijk MKB achterblijft bij de rest van het land en bevat aanbevelingen op basis waarvan de regionale overheden en kennisinstellingen hun beleid om deze achterstand op te heffen effectiever kunnen maken. Export is een …

This paper provides guidance for developing risk-based management tools to improve the procurement (purchasing) performance of SMEs. Extant academic literature only offers little support on developing such tools and does not consider the wide variety of SMEs. The paper defines a procurement tool for …

Purpose: The author sets out the basis for a new research programme designed to demonstrate that by encouraging managers of small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs [1]) to take a positive approach to social and environmental risks, embedding and operationalising their responses into their business strategy, …

Developing business-activity instruments for SMEs.Business-Activity Instruments pro-actively reduce risks & uncertainties when procuring key commodities, and ensure or improve desired business performance.