As outlook of commercial cooperation and business alliances between India and the Netherlands remains promising and continues to grow, Indian and Dutch entrepreneurs who consider doing business in each other’s country, will need to understand one another. Peter Ester & Pieter van Nispen report on the …

The Best of Both Worlds: Success factors of Turkish-Dutch innovative entrepreneurs In recent years, a number of countries, among them the Netherlands, attach great importance to stimulating the economic development in the country, by promoting entrepreneurship in general and within the ethnic and cultural …

Effectuation. What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial?Workshop over de 5 principes van succesvol ondernemerschap, gehouden op 06-05-2013.Binnen het CVO Groningen stimuleert het Groningen Center of Enterpreneurship Value050 valorisatie door het ontwikkelen en ondersteunen van ondernemerschap en ondernemerschapsonderwijs. …

This dissertation will focus on the greenhouse vegetable horticulture sector of the Netherlands, and will investigate how Dutch greenhouse companies can benefit from the relationship with Poland. Currently, the export of the Dutch greenhouse vegetable has decreased and the sector is experiencing the …

Because understanding sustainability does not automatically lead to sustainable acting, we feel that additional awareness building should be necessary. Therefore a project is started in which a very old method, namely the Socratic dialogue, is borrowed from the founders and customized for the use in …

Onderzoek naar competenties in het algemeen en naar de benodigde competenties voor ondernemers in het bijzonder is volop in beweging. Onderzoek in het verleden heeft vanuit verschillende invalshoeken en met verschillende doeleinden plaatsgevonden en is daarom veelal niet generaliseerbaar. Daarom worden …

SMEs within the rural Dutch municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug (UHG) are becoming increasingly aware of the need for sustainable ‘green’ business. Their sense of sustainability is strongly defined by the ‘green’ environment in which they live and work. They were seeking an entrepreneurial approach to …

Although basic features of journalism have remained the same over the last decades, the tasks journalists perform, the skills they need and the position they have within news organizations have changed dramatically. Usually the focus in the discourse on changes in journalism is on skills, especially …

Crowdfunding is gaining popularity as a viable means to raise financial capital for good causes, cultural goods, new products, and ventures. Little empirical research has been done to understand crowdfunding and basic academic knowledge of its dynamics is still lacking. By data mining the crowdfunding …

Letting go of the firm or “my baby” as some entrepreneurs describe their creation, leads to a certain amount of stress (Rahim 1996, Kets de Vries 1999). Dealing with stress in singular events as the transfer of a business, is hardly been subject of research (Uy et al. 2012). Improving coping strategies …