Understanding Small Enterprises (USE) Conference, 19-22 February 2013, Nelson, New Zealand

Planning of transport through inland shipping is complex, highly dynamic and very specific. Existing software support is focusing on road transport planning and/or is merely a visual representation of shipments to be manually assigned to particular vessels. As a result inland shipment planning is time-consuming …

Small and medium-sized enterprises have found their way into multi-cultural relations to outsource or offshore their business processes. Relationships are built either from an economic or emotional point of view. Our study particularly focused on how SMEs owner/managers build, maintain, and –when necessary– …

The use of games as interventions in the domain of health care is of-ten paired with evaluating the effects in randomized clinical trials. The iterative design and development process of games usually also involves an evaluation phase, aimed at identifying improvements for subsequent iterations. Since …

This poster shows a method to determine a viable configuration of services for energy business networks.

Companies are on the verge to think about retention of older workers (workers above 50) in their company. Thus organisations, more specifically small and middle-sized enterprises (SMEs), are busy with the development of concepts how to make the time between 50 and retirement age of 65 or 67 for employees …

Om de debatten over de creatieve industrie en het economisch belang van deze sector in het juiste perspectief te plaatsen zijn kwantitatieve data over de belangrijkste trends in relatie tot wat er in de brede economie gebeurt, onontbeerlijk. In deze bijdrage is een selectie van gegevens bij elkaar gebracht …

BACKGROUND: Depression in later life is a common mental disorder with a prevalence rate of between 3% and 35% for minor depression and approximately 2% for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). The most common treatment modalities for MDD are antidepressant medication and psychological interventions. Recently, …

In opdracht van de Dorpsvereniging Westerbroek is onderzoek gedaan onder inwoners van Westerbroek (vanaf 6 jaar) hoe zij hun leefomgeving waarderen. In dit onderzoek zijn vier domeinen betrokken die bepalend zijn voor de beleving van leefbaarheid: het wonen en de woonomgeving, het voorzieningenniveau, …

Outsourcing and offshoring provide companies with ways to achieve their business objectives better or more cost effectively or despite a shortage of specific resources. From a research point of view, outsourcing and offshoring have mostly been studied as something that large companies do, not small and …