How do empathy and socioperception affect organisations in the Western world? Action research involving in depth interviews with 50 change agents operating in a dozen European companies showed that these men and women have highly developed socioperception skills. They pick up and interpret the weak signals …

This paper addresses demographic change in the European Union, marked by an ageing population, rising retirement ages, and labor shortages due to baby‑boomer retirements and fewer younger workers. These developments increase the average age of workers and challenge knowledge‑intensive organizations that …

Interview Donald Ropes in Advisie (oktober 2013) Het verhaal is bekend: Nederland heeft te maken met vergrijzing, oudere werknemers gaan in de komende jaren met pensioen. Daarom zijn bedrijven op zoek naar jong personeel met frisse ideeën. Maar krijgen die jeugdige medewerkers wel de kans die frisse …

The increased use of instruments for assessing risks and needs in probation should lead to intervention plans that meet the criteria for effective practice. An analysis of 300 intervention plans from the Dutch probation service showed that the match between the assessed criminogenic needs and the goals …

Vero Moda is one of the first brands that launched within the Bestseller retailer. It was launched in 1989 to fulfil a need for good quality and on-trend clothing at affordable prices. Today it is one of Europe's largest clothing brands for fashion-conscious, young women. Vero Moda has more than 1,000 …

This paper investigates whether students change their entrepreneurial entry preference if they are presented with different options. We propose that students’ entry preferences are mediated by concepts proposed by threshold theory: choice options, opportunity costs and psychic income. This study is exploratory …

This research focuses on exit choices within SMEs. In this study, “exit choice” refers to the decision to opt for either liquidation or sale of the firm. The predictions focus on human-capital and firm-resource variables. The hypotheses are tested on a set of 158 owners of small firms, the majority of …

Crowdfunding is gaining popularity as a viable means to raise financial capital for good causes, cultural goods, new products, and ventures. Little empirical research has been done to understand crowdfunding and basic academic knowledge of its dynamics is still lacking. By data mining the crowdfunding …

Sinds oktober 2011 werken de ICT-afdelingen van een aantal noordelijke (semi-)publieke organisaties samen onder de naam Samenwerking Noord. Gezamenlijk streven zij naar aantrekkelijk werkgeverschap voor ICT-ers in het Noorden en daarmee te anticiperen op (toekomstige) krapte op de ICT-arbeidsmarkt. In …

De arbeidsmarkt in de Eemsdelta regio staat onder druk: enerzijds telt de regio een relatief groot aantal werkzoekenden, anderzijds dreigen er personeelstekorten in de technische beroepen. Onduidelijk is waar en wanneer die tekorten zich in termen van specifieke opleidingsrichtingen, -niveaus en beroepen …