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 …

Poster presentation at Hanze Research Day 26 January 2016 The poster presents a case study on the development and implementation of an undergraduate honours course for critical global citizenship, Society 2.0, in the Netherlands. Two teachers, two students and a researcher developed this course using …

This article presents an evaluation study of a case management method for child protection services, the Delta Method for Family Supervision, in terms of supervision order duration and occurrence and duration of out-of-home placements. Additionally, case and case manager characteristics were examined. …

This report presents a detailed analysis of the German market concerning the bedding industry as well as a detailed recommendation to Royal Textile on whether they should enter the German market and how. Therefore the focus of this report refers to further expansion of Royal Textile on the European market. …

This dissertation conducts a comprehensive study on the motives of the Government of The Netherlands for its support of the proposal by the European Commission for an Investment Court System (ICS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement that is currently under negotiation …

This paper presents a study of sensor data from a person who developed Alzheimer’s disease during a 4-year monitoring period and who is monitored with simple ambient sensors in her home. Our aim is to find data analysis methods that reveal relevant changes in the sensor pattern that occur before the …

Many origin of life theories argue that molecular self-organization explains the spontaneous emergence of structural and dynamical constraints. However, the preservation of these constraints over time is not well-explained because of the self-undermining and self-limiting nature of these same processes. …

This paper presents an alternative way to use records from safety investigations as a means to support the evaluation of safety management (SM) aspects. Datasets from safety investigation reports and progress records of an aviation organization were analyzed with the scope of assessing safety management’s …

Although reengineering is strategically advantageous for organisations in order to keep functional and sustainable, safety must remain a priority and respective efforts need to be maintained. This paper suggests the combination of soft system methodology (SSM) and Pareto analysis on the scope of safety …

The European Safety Reliability and Data Association (ESReDA) has since 1993 set up a series of Project Groups dealing with the different angles of ‘accident investigation’ and ‘learning from events’. With the 25th Anniversary of ESReDA now in 2016, the core of this group is still active, and has just …