‘Hartstikke leuk om een dagje onder collega’s te zijn en te praten over onderwijs, maar wat heb ik erverder aan? Morgen moet ik gewoon weer aan het werk’. Deze houding over de onderwijsconferentie, en misschien wel conferenties in het algemeen, zal velen bekend in de oren klinken. Het is vaak lastig …

This paper puts forward a conceptual framework to analyse emergence and the development of planned knowledge locations in cities (science and technology parks, creative factories, knowledge hubs, etc.). It argues that the study and the practice of developing these precincts can benefit from explicitly …

Comparing the performance of mutual and commercial insurance companies in the Netherlands between 2008 and 2012, this paper gives insight into the relationship between performance and corporate governance. We specifically focused on ownership in relationship with diversification and scale within the …

Background In the Netherlands, there has been a strong increase in diversity among students in recent decades. Even though access for previously underrepresented groups based on economic status, ethnicity or culture has been realised to a certain extent, differences in student performance between groups …

This paper proposes and tests a model to explain how consumers’ perceptions of product presentation technologies may affect online impulse buying. Data from a laboratory experiment (N = 212), which were analyzed using a structural equation modeling approach, showed that vividness and interactivity of …

In diesem ersten LOGbuch, das die Internationale Bauausstellung IBA Heidelberg im vierten Jahr ihres Bestehens herausgibt, wird das ambitionierte Thema Wissen | schafft | Stadt ausgelotet und in seiner Relevanz für Heidelberg als Programm gefasst. Der erste Teil erläutert die Grundlagen des Diskurses …

Amsterdam as a lab. That is what Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences' three fieldlabs and its many partners have in mind. Functional illiteracy, debts, learning deficiencies or problems caused by extreme precipitation: the city contains plenty of tough issues, demanding novel approaches in which …

The movie industry, like any other cultural industry, is often viewed as highly ambiguous, risky and uncertain. As a part of serving customer’s new preferences and searching for novelty, movie producers sometimes choose to switch and explore a new genre. By examining the sample of 2084 movies (produced …