Presentatie van onderzoeksresultaten gegeven op 13 mei 2013 aan de projectgroep van Samenwerking Noord naar aanleiding van de onderzoeksopdracht om een quickscan te maken aanwezig ict personeel bij de aangesloten organisaties

Tijdens de rede behandelt Gerard Schepers een aantal actuele ontwikkelingen in de windenergie wereld omdat deze ontwikkelingen de randvoorwaarden bepalen waarbinnen het lectoraat opereert. Vervolgens wordt een aantal speerpunten gedefinieerd waar het lectoraat zich mee bezig houdt. Ook houdt het lectoraat …

Presentatie op 15 maart 2013 van de onderzoekslijn Arbeidsmarkt in Energyport Groningen t.b.v. delegatie onderzoekers van de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, partner van het Kenniscentrum Arbeid.

How do empathy and socioperception affect organisations in the Western world? Action research involving in depth interviews with 50 change agents operating in a dozen European companies showed that these men and women have highly developed socioperception skills. They pick up and interpret the weak signals …

This paper addresses demographic change in the European Union, marked by an ageing population, rising retirement ages, and labor shortages due to baby‑boomer retirements and fewer younger workers. These developments increase the average age of workers and challenge knowledge‑intensive organizations that …

The increased use of instruments for assessing risks and needs in probation should lead to intervention plans that meet the criteria for effective practice. An analysis of 300 intervention plans from the Dutch probation service showed that the match between the assessed criminogenic needs and the goals …

There is a strong need for successors in SMEs in Western innovative economies. This research paper investigates qualitatively if students change their entrepreneurial entry preference if they are presented different kinds of entrepreneurial entry options. We propose that students’ preferences are mediated …

This paper investigates whether students change their entrepreneurial entry preference if they are presented with different options. We propose that students’ entry preferences are mediated by concepts proposed by threshold theory: choice options, opportunity costs and psychic income. This study is exploratory …

This research focuses on exit choices within SMEs. In this study, “exit choice” refers to the decision to opt for either liquidation or sale of the firm. The predictions focus on human-capital and firm-resource variables. The hypotheses are tested on a set of 158 owners of small firms, the majority of …