This paper provides insights into the operational features of community-based financing mechanisms. These include CAF groups, which are self-financed communities where people save and lend money to each other. The implementation of such self-financed communities in the Netherlands is supported by Participatory …

Small retail entrepreneurs in the Netherlands are confronted with declining turnover and ROI. A decrease and even disappearance of small retail in town centres, suburbs and villages is not just a loss of income for the people involved. It constitutes also a loss of attractiveness and economic viability …

This research paper focuses on how the use of the internet can be a potential marketing tool for restaurants and local businesses such as bars and cafés. The goal of this research is to set up a consultancy company, specialized in proposing strategies for restaurants using online tools, to enable them …

This research focuses on effective social value measurement. It starts by outlining the competitive environment, which is under economic pressure due to limited resources. Commissioners of public services are driven to include social value into their decision making. The problem for social enterprises …

This dissertation was created with the goal to examine how online shopping has changed retail, specifically department stores and their business model, and to recommend a course of action and business model for entrepreneurs considering starting an (online) department store. There are several recommendations …

Casamona International is a small real estate office located in Barcelona, Spain. Casamona International is known for their offerings in the market as ‘’unique and different’’. However, the company failed to attract Dutch customers and therefore this marketing plan was written to attract new clients …

Many companies have included social media features in their corporate intranets to encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing, and to improve internal communications. Since November 2013 Rabobank International(RI) has launched their new worldwide social intranet, Meeting point. However, like in many …

Does Northern Europe possess unique characteristics that cannot disappear and do not need to disappear, or will globalisation inevitably result in uniformity, divested businesses, lower wages and huge pressure on social security provisions? This is one of the main questions addressed by the authors. …

Social media supported education, 24/7 teaching and learning in the 21st century.

In september 2012 is de iPad geïmplementeerd in het onderwijs van het Leeuwarder Lyceum. Sowijs onderzocht tijdens de implementatie welke verwachtingen leerlingen en leraren hadden van de iPad. Nu, een jaar later, hebben we opnieuw onderzoek gedaan onder leerlingen en leraren naar het iPad-gebruik. Aan …