Met een multipele case studie, op basis van interviews, is onderzocht wat het effect is van zes beïnvloedbare factoren, genaamd implementatie-hefbomen, is op de implementeerbaarheid van HRM programma’s in organisaties. De onderzocht hefbomen zijn: participatieve besluitvorming, aandacht voor machtsverhoudingen, …

Aligning business and IT strategy is a prominent area of concern. Organizations that successfully align their business strategy and their IT strategy, outperform their non-aligned peers (Chan et al., 1997). This chapter explores the relationship between business strategy, IT strategy and alignment capability. …

The EU and national governments rely on expert panels and opinions for their policies (EU, 2003; EU, 2006a; EU, 2006b) on SME ownership transfers. Also entrepreneurs depend on expert opinions and advice. We know from expert studies that expert judgment may lead to confusion and conflicting results. …

Zorgzwaartebekostiging De bekostiging voor verpleeghuiszorg, die gefinancierd is vanuit de AWBZ, was gebaseerd op een vast bedrag per dag, per type zorginstelling. Vanaf 2009 is de prijs per dag gebaseerd op het profiel van een cliënt, de zorgzwaarte bepaalt voortaan de vergoeding. Zorgzwaartebekostiging …

In het met landelijke expert-loopbaanprofessionals gezamenlijk geschreven boek 'U doet het maar' besteedt Admiraal aandacht aan de waarden en normenontwikkeling binnen de opleiding van loopbaanprofessionals door de dialoog over ethische kwesties als essentieel studieonderdeel te benoemen. Er wordt onderscheid …

This paper deals with the complexity of doing research in design practice. More and more projects and papers appear dealing with this topic and the time has come to draw up the balance sheet. This paper starts with explaining the status of design research until now, in which we indicate the challenges …

Assessment of the seismic vulnerability of the building stock in the earthquake-prone Marmara region of Turkey is of growing importance since such information is needed for reliable estimation of the losses that possible future earthquakes are likely to induce. The outcome of such loss assessment exercises …

From the article: Abstract Over the last decades, philosophers and cognitive scientists have argued that the brain constitutes only one of several contributing factors to cognition, the other factors being the body and the world. This position we refer to as Embodied Embedded Cognition (EEC). The …

This article addresses drivers and partner features in vertical or horizontal cooperation. A survey is used to assess their impact and to evaluate whether respondents give significantly different scores to comparable influencing factors depending on the type of cooperation. The results show that internal …

Purpose – purpose of this article is to report about the progress of the development of a method that makes sense of knowledge productivity, in order to be able to give direction to knowledge management initiatives. Methodology/approach – the development and testing of the method is based on the paradigm …