Purpose – This paper aims to introduce the special issue on CSR communication attached to the First International CSR Communication Conference held in Amsterdam in October 2011. The aim of the introduction is also to review CSR communication papers published in scholarly journals in order to make a summary …

Re-structuring of a Dutch mono-industrial region; example of TwenteTable of contents of the chapter    Introduction    Geography and location of Twente    Industrialization of Twente and development of the Textile Industry    Decline of the Textile Industry    Restructuring Twente: arguments for a regional …

Van latent talent naar excellent?Tijdens deze round table sessie zijn onder leiding van Tineke Kingma (coördinator van het Windesheim Honours Programma) en Arjen Dekker (student in dit programma) de ervaringen van studenten met het multidisciplianire Windesheim Honours programma Social Innovation besproken …

Business landscapes are changing at global, regional and sectoral levels as well as the social and ecological contexts. In order to understand what these changes are and how clusters are dealing with these, the research explores drivers of change and cluster dynamics using a Complex Adaptive Systems …

Een digitaal netwerk is van strategisch belang voor mens, organisatie en regio. Hoe kunnen we social media en andere vormen van digitale netwerken nu functioneel doordacht, efficiënt en effectief inzetten? Hebben we voldoende media wijsheid in pacht? Zijn we voldoende ‘digital media literate’? Aandacht …

Nokia is a large mobile phone company that is struggling to keep up with other players in the emerging smartphone market. The market is very competitive and the products have a short life cycle. Furthermore, a high level of innovativeness is required. In this report the Finnish mobile phone company has …

This paper presents a multidisciplinary conceptual framework which proposes the symbolic-based eco-genetic process for dealing with complex patterns characterized by multilevel and fuzzy territorial governance, and interrelatedness between the physical world and the symbolic and socially-culturally constructed …

In Proceedings of the first CARPE conference november 2011

Developing European transnational clusters is a cornerstone in current EU-policies towards a sustainable competitive and open European economy. Within this conceptual paper relates these objectives to new developments in the application of network IT or, in popular terms, the rise of social media. The …