This article explores the challenges local youth workers face at the intersection of providing social care and detecting violent extremism. Extremism and other radical ideologies are often assumed to be a harbinger of terrorism. Even though both are still a rare phenomenon among adolescents, European …

Social media have become a large part of nowadays companies’ marketing strategy, but how does this impact the customers’ perception of a brand? The aim of this dissertation is to research the influences of social media advertisements on consumer based brand equity in the travel industry. To this end, …

Skydreams offers online industry specific marketplaces where consumers can find a qualified service professional for their home decorating or renovation projects. Next, Skydreams online marketplaces give business the opportunity to get in touch with customers. This research has a focus on the lead generation …

This is a thesis written for the owners of Zomerliefde. Zomerliefde is a wine especially for festivals. The wine is available in a plastic bottle, so at festivals the wine can be sold by bottle. This report and research has been executed, because Zomerliefde is a new company that wants to know how they …

Over the last decade, social media platforms have transformed the hotel industry. Companies such as Facebook and Tripadvisor have changed how hotels attract and communicate with (potential) customers. The Paleis Hotel is a boutique hotel with 20 rooms situated in the city centre of The Hague. Currently, …

Consumers currently place increasing importance on the values that companies represent. Modern values such as transparency, benevolence to society, sustainability and fairness are becoming more relevant, as noted by many major consulting firms among which are Nielsen (2013), the World Federation of Advertisers …

Users and potential users of the sharing economy need to place a considerable amount of trust in both the person and the platform with which they are dealing. The consequences of transaction partners’ opportunism may be severe, for example damage to goods or endangered personal safety. Trust is, therefore, …

Learning is all about feedback. Runners, for example, use apps like the RunKeeper. Research shows that apps like that enhance engagement and results. And people think it is fun. The essence being that the behavior of the runner is tracked and communicated back to the runner in a dashboard. We wondered …

The consumer has the choice to either purchase clothing in brick-and-mortar stores, offline, or in webstores, online. Yet, this was not the case 15 years ago, when online shopping began to rise. The term was not yet well known, and not all the wanted products were available online. Now, the consumer …

This thesis deals with the problem of students who do not always know how to fill in their leisure time. There is limited information on the behaviour of Dutch students in their leisure time. By researching their passion related behaviour I gained insight in the positive and negative points regarding …