Dit hoofdstuk [uit het boek 'Exploring social business'] geeft inzicht in opbouw en inhoud van de onderwijsmodule Social Business die wordt aangeboden in het tweede jaar van de opleiding B.A. Business Innovation van Avans Hogeschool.

This article focuses on the hybridity of social enterprises, organizations that strive to create social and economic value simultaneously. It analyses how social entrepreneurs and local government deal with the hybridity resulting from mixing these two opposing values and what it means for social enterprises’ …

Since the late 1990s, city councils have become increasingly aware of the potential for information technologies (ICTs) to improve the management of cities and as an instrument for economic and social policy. This has resulted in a wave of urban ICT strategies and policies, such as the adoption of ICTs …

Change agent capacity-building compendium.Due to increasing globalization, technological advances and sociological changes, the world is becoming more complex than ever. Complexity has gone from large systems, to organizational and individual levels. Today it concerns all aspects of society. The will …

Female entrepreneurship is still a limited phenomenon in European countries and its promotion ranks high on the EU policy agenda. Various frameworks have been offered to explain the main structural differences in entrepreneurship between men and women, emphasizing a variety of underlying factors. With …

This publication addresses the practical research of the Sustainable Cooperative Entrepeneurship (SCE) research group at Hanze University of Applied Science (UAS) Groningen. The SCE research group links market, education and public administration in their commitment to improve local and regional resillience …

BACKGROUND: A lack of physical activity is considered to cause 6% of deaths globally. Feedback from wearables such as activity trackers has the potential to encourage daily physical activity. To date, little research is available on the natural development of adherence to activity trackers or on potential …

Hoe komt het dat een theorie met de naam speltheorie geen toepassingen kent bij de begeleiding van kinderspel? Wanneer collega’s van de opleiding PABO of Social Work horen over een cursus speltheorie zijn de eerste reacties enthousiast. Wenkbrauwen fronsen pas bij de uitleg dat speltheorie een wiskundige …

De Nederlandse media-industrie merkt elke dag hoe groot de impact is van digitalisering en dataficering. De transitie van analoge (broadcast) naar digitale (Over-The-Top) netwerken zorgt er niet alleen voor dat mensen inmiddels televisie kunnen kijken op ieder gewenst moment met het apparaat dat ze uitkomt, …

The research group Participation, Care and Support is part of the Research Centre for Social Innovation of Utrecht University for Applied Sciences. This is a transdisciplinary research centre, doing practice based research focused on relevant social issues, connecting different fields like social work, …