Publications

Achieving greater sustainability impact from cross-sector collaborations

Governing Collaborative Value Creation in the Context of Grand Challenges: A Case Study of a Cross-Sectoral Collaboration in the Textile Industry

The aim of this study is to understand how governance mechanisms in cross-sector collaborations (CSCs) for sustainability affect value creation and capture and subsequently the survival of this organizational form.

How to promote managers’ innovative behavior at work: Individual factors and perceptions

With the rapid development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), digital technology changes how banks translate new customer demands into new products and services. To achieve this translation, banks ...

From individual sustainability orientations to collective sustainability innovation and sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems

Sustainability and economic growth—the integration and balance of social, environmental, and economic needs—is a salient concern for sustainable development and social well-being. By focusing on a ...

Us before me

A more efficient use of natural resources is considered a necessary condition for their sustainable use. When firms use resources circularly they aim to contribute to using resources more eco-efficiently, and thus in ...

COVID-19 and obligatory remote working in HEIs

At present, COVID-19 has caused a possible paradigm shift in education, especially in education delivery for higher educational and learning institutions.

Persuasive location-based messaging to increase store visits: An exploratory study of fashion shoppers

Although it appears increasingly important yet potentially challenging to attract customers to physical stores, location-based messaging, i.e., delivering mobile phone messages using data about the recipient's ...

Entangled sensemaking at sea

Sustainable commercial fishing, species conservation, and bycatch are contentious topics. Great emphasis has been placed on the sustainable sourcing of particular species that we buy at the store and order in ...

Adopting zero-waste indigo dyeing production

DyStar is a multinational organization and world leader of dyestuffs and chemical manufacturing. As the world’s largest supplier of textile dyes, it offers a broad range of products and has increasingly ...

An Investigation of Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Intention amongst University Students

The aim of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the entrepreneurial intention (EI) of university students. In order to do so, EI, individual entrepreneurial orientation, self-efficacy, perceived ...

Fear-Free Cross-Cultural Communication: Toward a More Balanced Approach With Insight From Neuroscience

In cross-cultural communication and adjunct disciplines such as cross-cultural management and international business, there is a negativity bias of seeing cultural differences as a source of potential issues. The ...

Productive opportunities, uncertainty, and science-based firm emergence

We provide greater theoretical precision to the concept of productive opportunities of Penrose. We show firm emergence as a recursive cycle of changing productive opportunities. We show how those opportunities result ...

Tay nao de don xuan

'Brainwashing' om de lente te verwelkomen: Veranderende sociale percepties zullen leiden tot veranderingen in levensstijl en hersenfunctie.

Cross-Cultural Management

Cross-Cultural Management: With Insights from Brain Science explores a broad range of topics on the impact of culture in international business and vice versa, and the impact of businesses and individuals in shaping ...

Brand Positioning

Brand Positioning is an English translation of an exceptionally well-renowned Dutch textbook, which provides a practical approach to analysing, defining and developing a brand’s positioning and strategy.

Tech Scale-Ups in the Amsterdam City Region

This report analysis the geography of the tech sector in Amsterdam, with a focus on scaleups. After a literature review, it contains a quantitative analysis, showing and mapping the spatial clustering of various ...

Visual Culture on the Semi-Periphery: Reading the Global/Local in Google Image Results

This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous ...

How to facilitate different types of innovation activities in organizations?

In dynamic and competitive environment, the importance of innovation is accepted as a necessary ingredients for firms to create value and sustain competitive advantage.

Tackling Food Waste: Factors that influence food waste

The increased generation of food waste is a global and national problem. The purpose of the study is to investigate the factors that influence food waste and the role of technology in tackling food waste in the ...

Optimization-Simulation implementations for harmonizing operations at big airports

The constant growth of air traffic, especially in Europe, is putting pressure on airports, which, in turn, are suffering congestion problems. The airspace surrounding airport, terminal manoeuvring area (TMA), is ...

The Development of Entrepreneurial Intention amongst University Students: The Influence of Individual and Contextual Factors

The swift enhancement of technology has affected the business environment while higher education alone no longer plays a definitive role in the employment process. To meet the emerging requirements of employers, ...

Country of Origin Criteria for Digitalization with National IT Products

In today’s world, digital transformation enhancement in IT sector becomes crucial for efficient solutions in organizations. Institutions in public sector try to enrich its process solutions with additional ...

Persuasive location-based messaging to attract consumers to a physical store: a construal level theory approach

Although it appears increasingly important yet potentially challenging to attract consumers to physical stores, location‐based messaging has been said to enable such attraction. Still, existing studies offer ...

Information security behaviour

In today’s world, information security is a trending as well as a crucial topic for both individuals and organizations. Experts believe that nothing can guarantee any system’s security unless ...

From dressing up a child to building up a strong person

Don’t you think like I do? “Great pic, flying in the face of stereotypes: A little girl in blue, unisex clothes, and (gasp) aliens print of some sort. Who needs princess and fairies?”

How to facilitate different types of innovation in an organization through entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management

In dynamic and competitive environment, the importance of innovation is accepted as a necessary ingredients for firms to create value and sustain competitive advantage. However, very little empirical research has ...

From individual sustainability orientations to collective sustainability innovation and sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems

Sustainability and economic growth – the integration and balance of social, environmental and economic needs is a salient concern for sustainable development and social well-being. By focusing on a sustainable ...

The plight of London-based startups

With Brexit looming, start-ups in the London ecosystem may ask themselves whether they are still in the right place for their business. Are they considering a move to the continent due to the ambiguous Brexit ...

A Generic Framework for Modeling Airport Operations at a Macroscopic Level

In this paper, a general approach for modeling airport operations is presented. Airport operations have been extensively studied in the last decades ranging from airspace, airside and landside operations. Due to the ...

There is no blank slate

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002) by Steven Pinker, in which Pinker makes a case against tabula rasa models in the social sciences, arguing that human behavior is substantially shaped by ...

Motivations and entrepreneurial orientation of sustainable entrepreneurs: an exploratory study of sustainable entrepreneurship archetypes in the fashion industry

Sustainable entrepreneurs need to balance social, environmental and economic goals. However, some put sustainable goals first whereas others prioritize economic outcomes. This suggests differences in types of ...

Establishing Typologies for Diverging Career Paths through the Life Course: A Comparison of two Methods

Discussions on policy and management initiatives to facilitate individuals throughout working careers take place without sufficient insight into how career paths are changing, how these changes are related to a ...

Reducing consumer risk in electronic marketplaces

Existing studies offer very limited insight into how sellers may reduce consumers' perceived risk in order to make consumer-to-consumer electronic marketplaces more successful. Contrary to these studies, the ...

The Adaptation of the Logistic Industry to the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Role of Human Resource Management

The world is on the verge of the fourth industrial revolution that will considerably influence society and human life. Today human being is surrounded by technological advancement and every day we face new ...

Fusing the electromagnetic articulograph, high-speed video cameras and a 16-channel microphone array for speech analysis

Electromagnetic articulography (EMA) is one of the instrumental phonetic research methods used for recording and assessing articulatory movements. Usually, articulographic data are analysed together with standard ...

Proof of the Pudding

In een RAAK Mkb project heeft Marklinq samen met twaalf betrokken bedrijven samengewerkt, met als doel: hoe kunnen zij klanten effectiever betrekken bij productinnovaties?

The development of entrepreneurial intention amongst university students

The swift enhancement of technology has affected the business environment as higher education alone no longer plays a definitive role in the employment process. To meet the emerging requirements of employers, ...

Mapping ‘Women in Technology' Issue Networks across Bulgarian, Croatian, and Serbian National Google(s)

This article explores the intersection between women and technology with an experimental research design that uses online search engine data and digital methods (Rogers 2002, 2004, 2013).

Culturally appropriate face strategies in cooperative learning with insight from cultural neuroscience

Face, understood as public image, exerts critical influence on interpersonal communication. Incorporating insight from cultural neuroscience, a number of potential mismatches with regard to facework are revealed when ...

A generational approach to female entrepreneurship in Europe

Female entrepreneurship is still a limited phenomenon in European countries and its promotion ranks high on the EU policy agenda. Various frameworks have been offered to explain the main structural differences in ...

Collaborating with competitors ... 5 tips to managing competition in multi-stakeholder collaborations

The influence of cross-cultural differences on consumer values: a case study

Values motivate consumer behaviour. The objective of this research is to show the impact of cultural differences on the consumer value system. The Netherlands and Chile were compared to identify to what extent ...

Combining an Intuitive Art Workshop and Neuroscience Rituals to Make us Happy

One might wonder how intuitive art can connect to neuroscience and how this could be accomplished. In this descriptive article, research connecting art therapy and neuroscience has been collected and a workshop on ...

Sustainable entrepreneurship ecosystem emergence and development

Our paper investigates the interaction of mechanisms that drive the emergence and development of a sustainable entrepreneurship ecosystem (SEE). We study a specific geographic context, the Amsterdam metropolitan ...

Entrepreneurial orientation and its effect on sustainability decision tradeoffs

We examined the entrepreneurial orientation and sustainability orientation, a persistent and conflicting duality, of sustainable entrepreneurs and their evaluation of competing priorities in sustainability decision ...

A critical analysis of cultural metaphors and static cultural frameworks with insight from cultural neuroscience and evolutionary biology

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conduct a critical analysis to address cultural metaphors – a much overlooked aspect of cross-cultural studies. Mainstream cultural metaphors (e.g. the iceberg, the ...

Intercultural communication

This book is an introduction to Intercultural Communication (IC) that takes into account the much neglected dynamic paradigm of culture in the literature. It posits that culture is not static, context is the driving ...

I was housed, fed, loved and saved in Syria by the refugees

A reflective account of being Alone, Asian and Atheist in the Middle East

Shifting Paradigm of Intercultural Communication: When Neurons, Genes and Evolution Joined the Discourse

This book is an introduction to Intercultural Communication (IC) that takes into account the much neglected dynamic paradigm of culture in the literature. It posits that culture is not static, context is the driving ...

Knowledge Management: An Overview Of Research Trends

As a young and interdisciplinary field, Knowledge Management (KM) holds a crucial role in scientific research and development of knowledge-intensive economies. This study elaborates on the methods used in previous ...

Budget deficit and challenges of knowledge management in higher education

Over the past decade, knowledge management has become an increasingly important and critical issue. Both the scientific and commercial communities maintain that organizations with knowledge power can sustain their ...

Intercultural Communication - An Interdisciplinary Approach

Dr Mai Nguyen-Phuong-Mai started her career as a journalist. She holds a PhD in Intercultural Communication from Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She is currently Associate Professor at Amsterdam School of ...

The Nneurobiology of cross-cultural management and diversity

The Neurobiology of cross-cultural management and diversity

The mediating effects of self-leadership on perceived entrepreneurial orientation and innovative work behavior in the banking sector

Innovative work behavior has been one of the essential attribute of high performing firms, and the roles of entrepreneurial orientation and self-leadership have been important for promoting innovative work behavior.

Exploring the role of motivational cultural intelligence in SIE women’s adjustment

The purpose of this paper is to explore and discuss the role of motivational cultural intelligence and its related strategies in the experiential learning and cross-cultural adjustment of self-initiated expatriate ...

Growing fast or slow?

The paper explores the process of early growth of entrepreneurial science-based firms. Drawing on case studies of British and Dutch biopharmaceutical R&D firms, we conceptualize the speed of early growth of ...

When do acquirers invest in the R&D assets of acquired science-based firms in cross-border acquisitions?

Drawing on a multiple case study of acquisitions of UK biopharmaceutical firms, we develop an analytical framework that elucidates how key determinants of the knowledge base of science-based firms and their ...

Merkpositionering

Dit boek biedt een op theorie gebaseerde handleiding over het kiezen en het formuleren van de positionering van een merk. Het omhelst recentelijke academische inzichten op het gebied van branding, met een extra focus ...

Entrepreneurial orientations and their impact on trade-off decisions in sustainability

Our paper investigates the microfoundations of sustainable entrepreneurship and aims to shed light on trade-offs made in decisions about social, ecological and economic sustainability. Balancing the ...

Collaborating with competitors to advance sustainability

Sustainability challenges are among the most complex and difficult problems facing businesses today. These challenges involve many actors and interests and overlapping concerns, and addressing them requires ...

Assess your competitor collaboration to advance sustainability

If your company is currently collaborating with competitors in order to advance sustainability, this tool will help you think about how to take that collaboration to the next level and achieve better results. If ...

Local-global knowledge sourcing in the context of an open innovation knowledge platform

Our paper investigates the inherent tensions between the local embeddedness of highly tacit knowledge and the global sourcing of ‘open’ knowledge or innovation.

The influence of values on consumer behaviour

Substantial progress has been made in the conceptualization of values within psychology. The importance of values is also acknowledged in marketing, and companies use values to describe the core associations of their ...

Assessing the Added Value of Global Mobility Versus Local Experience: A Case Study

Although the data for this study were collected some time ago, the recent publication of the Erasmus Impact Study (European Commission, 2014) has made it worthwhile reflecting on results from this research to add to ...

Going Global Versus Staying Local: The Performance Management Dilemma in the International Context

The drive towards internationalization and the need to become successful across borders was already recognized by Perlmutter(1969) in his seminal work on the evolution of companies from ethnocentric to polycentric. ...

Syrian Alawites: Their history, their future

The conflict in Syria has taken a critical turn. Alawites, who have long rallied behind their co-religionist president, now want to execute his cousin for killing an Alawite army officer August 7 in an apparent road ...

Toward a Better Use of the Semantic Differential in IS Research: An Integrative Framework of Suggested Action

The semantic differential is a widely applied measurement technique in the information systems field. As we demonstrate in this study, however, there is evidence that many of the applications of the semantic ...

How good are health care companies at branding?

The Center for Health, Work & Environment at the Colorado School of Public Health, in collaboration with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), hosted the fourth international ...

Providing information and enabling transactions: which website function is more important for success?

In this study, we propose and test a chain of effects from website content, through informational and transactional success to overall website success and company performance. This framework enables us to determine ...

Revisiting Facework with a new analysis instrument

This paper introduces the Analysis Framework of Face Interaction (AFFI) which is developed based on a new face dimension termed Face Confirmation − Face Confrontation at two levels: Individual level within the ...

Effects of complaint behaviour and service recovery satisfaction on consumer intentions to repurchase on the internet

This paper investigates the impact of complaint behaviour and service recovery satisfaction on consumer intentions to repurchase through Internet channels.

De onderscheidendheid van merkwaarden in de zorg

Samenvatting: Dit rapport beschrijft de resultaten van een onderzoek naar de onderscheidendheid van kernwaarden van zorgorganisaties.Door middel van een vragenlijst die eind 2011 is ingevuld door 161 zorginstellingen ...

Cooperative Learning in Vietnam and the West–East educational transfer

Under pressure of the continuing need to modernize, Vietnam is rapidly reforming its education system. Cooperative Learning (CL) with a Western-based model is being enthusiastically applied. This paper suggests that ...

Selling to the multi-channel consumer

Het ontwikkelen van een goede multichannel strategie is één van de belangrijkste uitdagingen waar retailers vandaag de dag voor staan. Een toenemend aantal ‘traditionele’ retailers ziet het ...

Selling to the multi-channel consumer

Het ontwikkelen van een goede multichannel strategie is één van de belangrijkste uitdagingen waar retailers vandaag de dag voor staan. Een toenemend aantal ‘traditionele’ retailers ziet het ...