Bij de gemeenten beslissen klantmanagers over de toegang tot uitkeringen, over mogelijke sancties en de deelname aan een re-integratietrajecten. Zij zijn de frontline professionals die binnen hun discretionaire ruimte beslissingen nemen over de uitvoer van de participatiewet. De autonomie van deze professionals …

Although it appears increasingly important yet potentially challenging to attract consumers to physical stores, location‐based messaging has been said to enable such attraction. Still, existing studies offer very limited insight into which particular location‐based persuasion approach retailers should …

Across European cities local entrepreneurs are joining forces in new ways, forming collectives to stimulate business growth and innovation and to create a more attractive business environment. The value of such collectives is increasingly recognized by local governments and policy measures to stimulate …

This paper focuses on the specifics of the relationships between social entrepreneurs and local civil servants and politicians in The Netherlands. Policy frameworks for social enterprises (SE) are relatively underdeveloped here, as the central government took little initiative in policy development, …

In dynamic and competitive environment, the importance of innovation is accepted as a necessary ingredients for firms to create value and sustain competitive advantage. However, very little empirical research has specifically addressed to what extent different kinds of innovation rely on specific knowledge …

De titel van het lectoraat, gedifferentieerd Human Resource Management, is een vreemde combinatie van woorden. Waarom het woord gedifferentieerd? Mensen en menselijke hulpbronnen (human resources) zijn toch immers per definitie verschillend en managementstijlen ook. Kennelijk was de beroepspraktijk in …

Amsterdam Science Park (ASP) is a pearl in the crown of the Amsterdam knowledge economy, with its high-level research institutes (the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam, several institutes of the NWO, the Dutch national science organisation) and a growing number of knowledge-based companies …

As part of the growing interest in cities to address persistent sustainability issues in society, ‘smart cities’ have increasingly become a ubiquitous phenomenon globally. For multinational enterprises (MNEs), this has provided opportunities to develop and market technological innovations to facilitate …