In recent studies on the association between education and fertility, increased attention has been paid to the field of study. Women who studied in traditionally more “feminine” fields, like care, teaching, and health, were found to have their children earlier and to have more children than other women. …

De relatie tussen onderzoek en onderwijs is van oudsher een punt van discussie. Op basis van tien principes, ontleend aan het pragmatisme, concluderen Frank Jan de Graaf en Gert de Jong dat deze twee niet zonder elkaar kunnen.

Samenvatting Goede financiering is cruciaal voor een goede economische ontwikkeling van mkb- bedrijven. Dit rapport laat op basis van negentien interviews zien hoe onafhankelijke financieel mkb-adviseurs tot hun keuzes komen. De interviews zijn afgenomen op basis van een strikt interviewprotocol. Bij …

Over the past 10 years, different types of financing have become available in the Netherlands. It is now possible to combine bank loans, crowdfunding loans and risk capital. Moreover, fintech applications lower the threshold for applications and reduce response times from weeks to just days or even hours. …

2007, the Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning took the initiative to issue the social building blocks: real estate for facilities. This has been the first attempt to deal with social real estate professionally as an asset. In 2008 the professorship of public real estate started with its first Barometer …

Integriteit is essentieel voor optimale bedrijfsvoering. Integriteit gaat over het volgen van de juiste normen en waarden. Wat die zijn, kan alleen maar in dialoog worden bepaald. Het doorgaande gesprek over integriteit is daarbij tegelijk het ontwikkelen van deugden

In our current and turbulent times, it is clear that some sort of organisational agility, in which-ever way achieved, is necessary to survive and thrive as an organisation. The question is how to achieve such manoeuvrability. We propose the use of design (thinking), with a focus on prototyping to iteratively …

The role and ethics of professionals in business and economics have been questioned, especially after the financial crisis of 2008. Some suggest a reorientation using concepts such as craftsmanship. In this article, I will explore professional practices within the context of behavioural theory and business …

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the history of the Dutch cooperative Rabobank to understand how the structure of an organisation determines how individual employees validate norms within that organisation. Design/methodology/approach: Data over an approximately 10-year period starting …