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 …

Although lifetime employment was once commonplace, the situation has changed dramatically over the last century. The group of precarious workers has increased, and with it, the size of the precariat. Although there is a body of research on how precarious workers perceive the effect of their precarity …

Gestapeld financieren is een nieuw financieringsvraagstuk van het mkb. De afgelopen negen maanden is een vooronderzoek gedaan naar de problemen die het mkb en hun financieel adviseurs tegenkomen bij gestapeld financieren: wat zijn de vraagstukken en hoe kunnen die worden opgelost?

Je leert iets door het te doen, vindt Willem van Winden, lector Amsterdamse kenniseconomie aan de HvA. Of het nu gaat om doe-het-zelven met behulp van YouTube-filmpjes, om het bestuderen van steden of om het verduurzamen van de mode-industrie.

International entrepreneurship (IE) as a field of research has emerged at the intersection of internationalization and entrepreneurship theories. At this intersection it has come to emphasize the activities centered on international opportunities. International opportunities, then, are about value creation …

We studied 12 smart city projects in Amsterdam, and –among other things- analysed their upscaling potential and dynamics. Here are some of our findings: First, upscaling comes in various forms: rollout, expansion and replication. In roll-out, a technology or solution that was successfully tested and …

I argue that a governance perspective on corporate social responsibility (CSR) makes it possible to explain why the concept will always be under-defined, is normative and thus political by nature, and is and should be difficult to measure. The perspective also makes it possible to understand the interaction …