Publications

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.

Business Connections of Migrant Entrepreneurs: Finding a Niche in the Diverse City of Amsterdam

Amsterdam is known to be a cosmopolitan and multicultural city where newly arrived migrants find opportunities to test business ideas. Behind every business idea, there are people supporting the entrepreneurs’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

The story of Tony’s Chocolonely - update December 2020

This is an update of the teaching case published on entrepreneurshipcases.amsterdam. It is not openly available but can be requested by teachers.

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 ...

Balancing exploration and exploitation in sustainable urban innovation

The potential of technological innovation to address urban sustainability has been widely acknowledged over the last decade. Across cities globally, local governments have engaged in partnership arrangements with the ...

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.

Developing Educational Escape Rooms for Experiential Entrepreneurship Education

Educational escape rooms (EERs) are increasingly used in education as learning innovations for non-digital and game-based learning (GBL) since EERs positively influence student motivation. They are common in ...

Lessons from entrepreneurial failure through vicarious learning

Despite its widespread occurrence, the topic of failure is barely addressed in entrepreneurship education. Consequently, students are given an incomplete and unrealistic picture of the complexity of being entrepreneurs.

Strategic orientations and digital marketing tactics in cross-border e-commerce: Comparing developed and emerging markets

In this article, the impact of strategic orientations on the use of digital marketing tactics and, subsequently, on the international business performance of small electronic retailers (e-retailers) in cross-border ...

Intervention Framework SmartUp

This comprehensive document shares up-to-date knowledge on Early Warning Signals of business crisis, presents detection and intervention opportunities, and makes a clear case for their beneficial application to SME ...

Urban Innovation Systems

Introduction: There are good reasons to study urban innovation from a systemic perspective. A key finding in innovation research is that organizations rarely innovate in isolation, but in interaction with clients, ...

It works! But now what? Upscaling smart city experiments

The city as lab People and organizations everywhere are working to make the city more sustainable, more circular and climate-proof. Sustainable innovations are not for sale, we have to make them ourselves by ...

Policy evaluation report

In this policy evaluation report, the results of the first 2 years of the Interreg funded ABCitiEs project are presented. In total 16 entrepreneurship collectives have been studied in 5 partner regions, i.e. Athens, ...

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 ...

Towards an Optimal IPO Mechanism

Concerns about the negative consequences of the excessive underpricing of the current arrangement in the initial public offering (IPO) market for the provision of entrepreneurial finance—book ...

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 ...

Effects of app pricing structures on product evaluations

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the marketing literature and practice by examining the effect of product pricing on consumer behaviours with regard to the assertiveness and the sentiments expressed in ...

Toward a theory of affordable loss

Although dozens of empirical studies have been published on effectuation as a whole, much work remains to be done on elaborating each principle in more depth. Based on an exploratory study of seven ventures from the ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Sentiment polarity classification of corporate review data with a bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory (biLSTM) neural network architecture

A considerable amount of literature has been published on Corporate Reputation, Branding and Brand Image. These studies are extensive and focus particularly on questionnaires and statistical analysis.

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.

A new Standard for Doing Agile Scrum Team Work in Education

Scrum is increasingly becoming an essential product development methodology for project education in modern curricula. However, individually assessing students that work in scrum projects as applied in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Experimental learning labs

The Master is based on stimulating the interdiscplinairy learning of students through practical assignments in collaboration in multidisciplinary teams in a haus der zukunft and thus bringing the "outside ...

The promise of coworking environments: a content analysis of the positioning of collaborative workspaces in Amsterdam

The emergence of collaborative workspaces is a remarkable feature of contemporary cities. These spaces have appeared rapidly, catering for the locational needs of self-employed workers, start-ups and small-size ...

How location-based message characteristics lead to message value and store visit attitudes: An empirical study

Having customers decide to enter a store is an important prerequisite for retail success and seems to demand even more attention nowadays given the transformation of retail into a highly competitive and complex ...

CSR processes in governance systems and structures

When corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a sensemaking process is assessed from a corporate governance perspective, this implies that stakeholders do not only influence companies by promoting and enforcing ...

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 ...

Looking beyond individual-based diversity

Amsterdam is known to be a cosmopolitan and multicultural city with multiple economic opportunities. Such context provides suitable legal, political and economic conditions where newly arrived migrants are ...

The relationship between diagnosed burnout and sleep measured by activity trackers

Employee burnout is an increasing global problem. Some countries, such as The Netherlands, diagnose and treat burnout as a medical condition. While deficient sleep has been implicated as the primary risk factor for ...

Intermediation in public procurement of innovation: How Amsterdam’s startup-in-residence programme connects startups to urban challenges

This paper analyses Amsterdam’s Startup-in-Residence (SiR) programme as new type of policy to engage startups in the development of urban innovation through a challenge-based public procurement of innovation ...

Entrepreneurship for Society: developing a transdisciplinary minor program

‘Entrepreneurship for Society’ is a new minor program at Amsterdam UAS, the Netherlands. Using the concept of the ‘Doughnut Economy’ by Kate Raworth as theoretical baseline, focus is on social ...

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, ...

Academic entrepreneurship in the context of education

Purpose: This study aims to extend literature on academic entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial networking by examining how academics, in their role of entrepreneurial educators, network for the creation and execution ...

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 ...

Naar een skill.based arbeidsmarkt

De huidige arbeidsmarkt functioneert niet goed. We moeten naar een arbeidsmarkt waarin mensen beoordeeld worden op hun vaardigheden en niet op hun diploma’s of opleiding

[Review of: M. van Ham, D. Reuschka, R. Kleinhans, C. Mason, Stephen Syrett (2017) Entrepreneurial neighbourhoods: towards an understanding of the economies of neighbourhoods and communities]

The role of community, neighbourhood and local social networks in shaping entrepreneurship has not received much attention in entrepreneurship research. On the other hand, neighbourhood and community studies focus ...

Is Wearable Technology Becoming Part of Us? Developing and Validating a Measurement Scale for Wearable Technology Embodiment

To experience external objects in such a way that they are perceived as an integral part of one's own body is called embodiment. Wearable technology is a category of objects, which, due to its intrinsic properties ...

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 ...

Governance of urban collectives in Amsterdam

Across European cities local entrepreneurs are joining forces in new ways, forming collectives to stimulate business growth and innovation and to create a more attractive business environment. The value of such ...

Developing dialogue bottom-up: social enterprises and local government in the Netherlands

This paper focuses on the specifics of the relationships between social entrepreneurs and local civil servants and politicians in The Netherlands. Policy frameworks for social enterprises (SE) are relatively ...

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 ...

Co-creation at Amsterdam Science Park

Amsterdam Science Park (ASP) is a pearl in the crown of the Amsterdam knowledge economy, with its high-level research institutes (the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam, several institutes of the NWO, ...

An exploration of smart city approaches by international ICT firms

As part of the growing interest in cities to address persistent sustainability issues in society, ‘smart cities’ have increasingly become a ubiquitous phenomenon globally. For multinational enterprises ...

The university’s role in sustainable development

The role of (entrepreneurial) universities as change agents in regional economic development has been highlighted before, but how they can drive regional sustainable development in developing countries has been ...

The influence of in-store personnel on online store value

In today’s multichannel retail environment, consumers’ experiences in one channel influence their perceptions of another channel. Specifically, consumer evaluations of a firm’s online store have ...

Binge-watching serialized video content

Binge watching serialized video content is a phenomenon that has triggered interest from diverse research fields. Despite the progress researchers have made across different areas, a grounded conceptualization and ...

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 ...

Expectations about Fertility and Field of Study among Adolescents: A Case of Self-selection?

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, ...

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 ...

Empowered by Innovation: Unravelling Determinants of Idea Implementation in Open Innovation Platforms

Companies use crowdsourcing to solve specific problems or to search for innovation. By using open innovation platforms, where community members propose ideas, companies can better serve customer needs.

The Street-Wise University: The Amsterdam Knowledge Mile as an Intermediary and Place-Making Concept

Universities have become more engaged or entrepreneurial, forging deeper relations with society beyond the economic sphere. To foster, structure, and institutionalize a broader spectrum of engagement, new types of ...

Public Value Creation in a Smart City Context: An Analysis Framework

Launching smart city activities and projects requires political support. For sustainable approaches, a concrete strategy, and leadership endorsement from the municipal government is crucial. In accordance with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boosting the entrepreneurial scene in cities: experiences and reflections from the InFocus network – a short communication

This short communication contains a reflection on local entrepreneurial ecosystems and how to boost them, in the context of smart specialisation strategies of cities and regions. It is based on a literature study and ...

Personally perceived publication pressure: revising the Publication Pressure Questionnaire (PPQ) by using work stress models

Background: The emphasis on impact factors and the quantity of publications intensifies competition between researchers. This competition was traditionally considered an incentive to produce high-quality work, but ...

Beliefs about Student Achievement Held by Teachers at Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences

Student achievement is a frequently debated issue in many European countries. In most public debates, it is assumed that all school-level stakeholders hold the same beliefs about student achievement. This paper ...

Future Retail City Centre

2018 has been another challenging year for many town and city centres in the UK. Footfall has fallen for the tenth consecutive year and more big name high street retailers have disappeared. However, the challenges ...

The influence of family business characteristics on experienced stress

Paper presented at Rent-conference 2019, Berlin

Working Passionately Does Not Always Pay Off: The Negative Moderating Role of Passion on the Relationship Between Deliberate Practice and Venture Performance

Deliberate practice, an iterative process that leads to expertise, is found to be positively associated with superior performance in domains such as sports, education, and entrepreneurship. At the same time, ...

Integrated optimization of terminal maneuvering area and airport at the macroscopic level

Airports and surrounding airspaces are limited in terms of capacity and represent the major bottlenecks of the air traffic management system. This paper addresses the problems of terminal airspace management and ...

Universitäten sind die neuen wirtschaftlichen Antriebsmaschinen der Stadt

Universitäten sind Magneten für Studenten, Doktoranden, Professoren – und große Unternehmen. Während einige Städte dadurch einen Wachstumsschub erleben, versuchen andere durch eine ...

Ideas, Context and Connections: Conceptual Framing of the Opportunity to Innovate for Migrant Entrepreneurs

Are migrant entrepreneurs innovative with their business ideas and practices? The introduction of novel business ideas would provide migrant entrepreneurs with a cutting edge advantage against competitors, but the ...

The story of Tony’s Chocolonely

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 ...

Exploring the cognitive and affective bases of online purchase intentions

Whereas there is ample e-commerce research on how online store beliefs and consumer online affective states may influence online purchase intentions, no research so far has examined whether the hierarchy of effects ...

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 ...

Final report

This report contains an analysis of the AMP1’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. It aims to assess the external perceptions about the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the Metropolitan Area of Porto and the key variables ...

Ethics and behavioural theory

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.

When your world is an island

Social network and decision-making approaches became dominant ways to study born global firms. Network approaches explain internationalization of born global firms in terms of the connections established and utilized ...

Practitioner research for the professionalization of human resources practice

Despite the growing interest in and literature regarding practitioner research in human resources (HR), not much is known about the factors that play a role in the actual practice by HR practitioners. This article ...

Competing logics

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 ...

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 ...

The promise of coworking environments

The emergence of collaborative workspaces is a remarkable feature of contemporary cities. These spaces have appeared rapidly, catering for the locational needs of self-employed workers, start-ups, and small-size ...

Simulation-based virtual cycle for multi-level airport analysis

The aeronautical industry is expanding after a period of economic turmoil. For this reason, a growing number of airports are facing capacity problems that can sometimes only be resolved by expanding infrastructure, ...

Developing stereotypes to facilitate dialogue between social entrepreneurs and local government

Social enterprises and government share the ultimate goal of solving societal problems, which provides a lot of potential for collaboration between the two parties. While the local government level is the most ...

The societal interaction of higher education institutions

This paper explores knowledge-based urban development related to higher education and campuses. It also provides an introduction to design thinking, which has been used as a user-friendly tool for fulfilling the ...

Handling consumer messages on social networking sites

Firms increasingly use social network sites to reach out to customers and proactively intervene with observed consumer messages. Despite intentions to enhance customer satisfaction by extending customer service, ...

Entrepreneurship education for the acquisition of entrepreneurial expertise

Questions we care about Entrepreneurship education (EE) has grown exponentially over the last decade. A shift can be observed from teaching about entrepreneurship to teach for and through entrepreneurship ...

Reconceptualization of entrepreneurial expertise

Knowledge about entrepreneurial expertise, how experts think and make decisions have progressed in the last decade. Despite this advancement, studies have difficulties in providing a general conceptual model of ...

Embedding entrepreneurship at AUAS

The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) wants to further expand its reputation as the place where students can develop relevant skills, expertise and networks to either become professional entrepreneurs ...

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, ...

Integrated Optimization of arrival, departure, and surface operations

Airports and surrounding airspaces are limited in terms of capacity and represent the major bottleneck in the air traffic management system. This paper proposes a two level model to tackle the integrated optimization ...

E-Governance in European and South African Cities

Since the late 1990s, city councils have become increasingly aware of the potential for information technologies (ICTs) to improve the management of cities and as an instrument for economic and social policy. This ...

Reconceptualization of entrepreneurial expertise

Knowledge about entrepreneurial expertise, how experts think and make decisions have progressed in the last decade. Despite this advancement, studies have difficulties in providing a general conceptual model of ...

Adolescents’ expectations about the timing of family life events

Intergenerational continuity in family behaviors partly results from socialization processes in the parental home. However, socialization is a multidimensional process. This article tests hypotheses about the ...

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).

Growth Clusters in European Metropolitan Cities

This title was first published in 2001. Analyzing and comparing several growth clusters in nine European cities, this compelling volume examines the critical success factors that determine the economic development of ...

European Cities in the Knowledge Economy

Across Western Europe, the emphasis has shifted from physical manufacturing to the development of ideas, new products and creative processes. This has become known as the knowledge economy. While much has been ...

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 ...

Can startups solve urban problems?

Can city administrations benefit from the entrepreneurial spirit of startups, and create better urban solutions with their help? The paper Can startups solve urban problems? critically assesses the interplay between ...

What drives business performance of small and medium-sized enterprises in cross-border electronic commerce?

In cross-border e-commerce, electronic retailers (e-retailers) aim to extend their sales activities via the Internet beyond national borders. Unlike large companies, small and medium-sized enterprises are struggling ...

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 ...

Problematizing opportunity pursuit multidimensional embeddedness of international entrepreneurship

International business scholars are increasingly calling for more awareness of the local context in which international entrepreneurs pursue business opportunities. In this paper, we respond to this call, arguing ...

The university’s role in sustainable development: activating students as agents of change

The role of universities in regional economic development has been highlighted in many study but the way in which a university can drive regional sustainable development in developing countries has been largely ...

The state of cross-border ecommerce in Europe

This interactive report displays the cross-border ecommerce adoption and performance of online retailers in 31 countries in Europe.

Trends and issues after almost twenty years of internationalisation at home

Die OeAD-GmbH und das BMBWF haben mithilfe österreichischer Hochschulen ein Nachschlagewerk zu Beispielen guter Praxis von Auslandsmobilität und der Reflexion von interkulturellen Erfahrungen vor Ort gestaltet.

Cities and digitalization

In this short paper, we give an overview on how this major trend is unfolding and, specifically, how it affects cities. We take the following starting points: - Digitalization is a strong force that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

International officers finding their role in internationalisation at home

Though internationalisation at home is a relatively recent concept, it has already been embraced widely, particularly in northern and western Europe. Internationalisation at home aims to bring internationalisation to ...

Participation and legitimation

Key words: labour relations, HRM, social theory, neoliberalism, participation, legitimation, precariat The aim of this paper is to sketch a social-theoretical framework that can be applied to empirical research on ...

Making waves

This study takes a valuation perspective to study how and where products and innovations are gaining ‘economic significance’ in the contemporary economy.

Smart city pilot projects

In many cities, pilot projects are set up to test new technologies that help to address urban sustainability issues, improve the effectiveness of urban services, and enhance the quality of life of citizens. These ...

Contagious ideas and cognitive artefacts

This historical review uncovers the institutionalisation and diffusion of the SWOT analysis by assessing academic literature, seminar materials, proprietary research reports and interviews with experts from the ...

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 ...

Worldwide internet penetration, 2000-2016

This viz shows the trends in worldwide Internet penetration (percentage of population with Internet access) over time using ITU data from 2000-2016.

Firm location choice in the New Economy

Anne Risselada and Veronique Schutjens investigate to what extent the choice to run a business from home is linked to the entrepreneur’s work-lifestyle. The question has been largely neglected in studies on ...

Capability, social capital and opportunity-driven graduate entrepreneurship in Tanzania

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into the reasons why most Tanzanian graduates do not consider entrepreneurship as an attractive career option despite dire labor market conditions, while a ...

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 ...

Toward advising SME's on stacked funding

This paper addresses new funding issues faced by SMEs. Over a period of nine months, the authors conducted a preliminary study into the problems surrounding stacked funding faced by SMEs and their financial advisers. ...

A vivid portrait of a versatile Amsterdam Zuidoost

Developing a research approach from Amsterdam Zuidoost.

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 ...

HvA Professors on Twitter

Dashboard about Twitter activity (e.g. no. of tweets) & success (e.g. engagement) of Professors of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA)

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

Planned knowledge locations in cities

This paper puts forward a conceptual framework to analyse emergence and the development of planned knowledge locations in cities (science and technology parks, creative factories, knowledge hubs, etc.).

Explaining the relationship between firm performance and corporate governance of Dutch non-life insurance companies

Comparing the performance of mutual and commercial insurance companies in the Netherlands between 2008 and 2012, this paper gives insight into the relationship between performance and corporate governance. We ...

New Product Performance

The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between changes in relative influence between marketing and R&D and new product performance (NPP). The aim is to theorize and test whether relative influence ...

Understanding diversity

In the Netherlands, there has been a strong increase in diversity among students in recent decades. Even though access for previously underrepresented groups based on economic status, ethnicity or culture has been ...

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 ...

Die Politur des Wissensperlen

In diesem ersten LOGbuch, das die Internationale Bauhausstellung IBA Heidelberg im vierten Jahr ihres Bestehens herausgibt, wird das ambitionierte Thema Wissen | schafft | Stadt ausgelotet und in seiner Relevanz fur ...

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 ...

Variations in new firm life duration for immigrant and native entrepreneurs

Today we can observe an increasing spatial divide as some large urban regions and many more medium-sized and small regions face growing problems such as decreasing labour demand, increasing unemployment and an ageing ...

English Language

No abstract - a group chapter with many authors Published annually, The Year's Work in English Studies is the qualitative narrative bibliographical review of scholarly work on English language and on literatures ...

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 ...

The Campus

DREAMS and SEEDS: The role of campuses in sustainable urban development

The Nneurobiology of cross-cultural management and diversity

The Neurobiology of cross-cultural management and diversity

Excavating obstacles and enablers to internationalization at home

Gives an overview of my research as a visiting scholar at The Boston College Center for International Higher Education. This research classifies these obstacles and enablers in four categories: disciplinary, ...

The Effects of Quality and Bio Labels on the Willingness-to-Pay

The purpose of this study was to examine the indirect effect of different signals in product packaging, namely a quality label and a bio label, on the willingness to pay. In order to investigate this, a between-group ...

The grass is not always greener: The consequences of risk-taking behavior in the movie industry

The movie industry, like any other cultural industry, is often viewed as highly ambiguous, risky and uncertain. As a part of serving customer’s new preferences and searching for novelty, movie producers ...

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 ...

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Perceptions of Dutch online shoppers about TLDs / Commissioned

A Job and a sufficient income is not enough

Although lifetime employment was once commonplace, the situation has changed dramatically over the last century. The group of precarious workers has increased, and with it, the size of the precariat. Although there ...

Role of local presence in online impulse buying

This paper proposes and tests a model to explain how consumers’ perceptions of product presentation technologies may affect online impulse buying.

The grass is not always greener

The movie industry, like any other cultural industry, is often viewed as highly ambiguous, risky and uncertain. As a part of serving customer’s new preferences and searching for novelty, movie producers ...

Lab Amsterdam

Amsterdam as a lab. That is what Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences' three fieldlabs and its many partners have in mind. Functional illiteracy, debts, learning deficiencies or problems caused by extreme ...

To What Extent Do Beauty Bloggers Influence the Purchase Behavior of Their Audience?

This quantitative research sets the scene in Vietnam, an emerging beauty market with high potential for online marketing. It studies the extent to which beauty bloggers have an influence on the purchase behavior of ...

The Effect of Green Advertisements

Faced with multiple environmental issues, many consumers are increasingly conscious towards sustainability issues. However, consumers show ambivalent attitudes about sustainable products and normal products, partly ...

Storytelling and Brand Attitude: The Role of Consumers’ Level of Involvement and Available Time

Storytelling is a powerful tool in which brands communicate their story to build a relationship with a consumer. Some research has been done regarding the effects of a brand story on consumers’ attitude towards ...

International opportunities and value creation in international entrepreneurship.

International entrepreneurship (IE) as a field of research has emerged at the intersection of internationalization and entrepreneurship theories. At this intersection it has come to emphasize the activities centered ...

Organising smart city projects

In recent years, a large amount of smart city solutions has been started in Amsterdam that contribute to the quality of life in the city. However, many of these solutions or initiatives do not succeed. Getting smart ...

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.

Developing employability skills at home

Der vorliegende Band beinhaltet 22 Beiträge der Vortragenden, die das Thema Internationalisierung an Hochschulen aufgreifen und dabei auf langjährige Expertise im jeweiligen Tätigkeitsfeld ...

CSR as value attunement within governance processes

I argue that a governance perspective on corporate social responsibility (CSR) makes it possible to explain why the concept will always be under-defined, is normative and thus political by nature, and is and should ...

Making online products more tangible

Although several studies have looked at the effects of online product presentations on consumer decision making, no study thus far has considered a potential key factor in online product evaluations: tangibility. The ...

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 ...

Polishing knowledge pearls

In our knowledge-based society, prosperity derives from knowledge and innovation rather than from natural resources or a favourable geographic location.

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 ...

Urbanize or perish?

This paper explores the drivers behind a recent “urban turn” of planned knowledge locations in Europe. While acknowledging a general tendency towards more urbanity, we argue that a dense and diverse urban ...

Health empowerment through activity trackers

The increasing popularity of activity trackers has shown a remarkable shift in human computer interaction; individuals seem willing to wear a device that constantly tracks health related metrics such as movement, ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to engage an organization in evidence-based practice

Introducing new methods in existing organizations is a challenging task. Having introduced evidence-based practice in their organizations, the authors found that steps recommended for individuals can also serve as a ...

Enduring effects or business as usual?

Previous bankruptcy is often seen as sign of poor entrepreneurial skills but few have examined whether renascent entrepreneurs actually perform worse or better upon reentering and how performance differences might be ...

Multimodal speech data acquisition with the use of EMA, fast-speed video cameras and a dedicated microphone array

Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA) is a technology created over two decades ago. EMA enables to acquire spatiotemporal data from sensors placed on the tongue in order to obtain information about the positioning of ...

The needs of Dutch precarious workers regarding paid and unpaid labour

International Labour Process Conference 4–6 April 2016, Berlin. Since the last two centuries, the century of the labouring man as characterized by Standing (1999), paid labour has become more important for ...

Smart city pilot projects, scaling up or fading out?

In many cities, pilot projects are set up to test or develop new technologies that improve sustainability, urban quality of life or urban services (often labelled as “smart city” projects). Typically, ...

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.

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. ...

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 ...

Hub Cities 2.0 for the 21st century

In recent years, cities such as Amsterdam have used the term hub city to define themselves in a global context. Hub cities are cities that play – or aspire to – a crucial role in the international and ...

Rapportage project Vernieuwing Medezeggenschap

“Schets een visie voor de invulling van medezeggenschap binnen de HvA. Schrijf een veranderplan met de meest waardevolle en kansrijke maatregelen voor korte (binnen komend zittingsjaar) en lange termijn om bij ...

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 ...

A narrative research design for moral courage of professionals

Narrative research is an appropriate method for studying the constructs and sensemaking of moral courage. Moral courage or speaking up by professionals is needed for maintaining ethical checks and balances in ...

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 ...

Global and local internationalization

Higher education worldwide is in a period of transition, affected by globalization, the advent of mass access, changing relationships between the university and the state, and the new technologies, among others. ...

Coworking: an analysis of coworking strategies for interaction and innovation

This paper analyses how managed coworking spaces affect the innovation process of their members.

Global at home

The 4th Global Survey of the International Association of Universities (Egron-Polak & Hudson, 2014), is a fitting topic for this publication for three reasons. First, because Hans de Wit has been closely ...

Corporate social responsibility, governance and stakeholders: a bank in the upbeat of the crisis

Purpose: Using the global financial crisis as a critical event and based on institutional theory and stakeholder theory, this paper aims to explore the relationship between corporate governance and corporate social ...

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 ...

Defining 'internationalisation at home'

In recent discussions on the internationalisation of higher education, the constant introduction of new terms and definitions has rightly been criticised. Although we are fully aware of this, we consider that the ...

Capturing the Imaginary: Students and Other Tribes in Amsterdam

During the last decades students have become a target group for cities like Amsterdam. They are addressed as the talented forces that cities need in order to face increasing global competitiveness, a force which ...

Smaller university cities

In the face of increasing globalisation, with the biggest cities reaping the greatest rewards, knowledge economy specialist Willem van Winden examines the future for smaller university cities.

Aiming to win through sustainable competitive advantage: Unilever and Procter & Gamble

The case chronicles the corporate strategies of two of the world’s largest consumer product companies: Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Unilever. It provides a comparative overview of the leadership changes ...

Making 21st Century Knowledge Complexes:

The world has changed profoundly since the publication of the influential book Technopoles of the World. As policy-makers and practitioners attempt to harness science, technology and innovation to create dynamic and ...

The Development of International Competences by IBMS Alumni

The Report on a study into international competences of alumni of 'International Business and Management Studies (IBMS) Programmes at six Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences and a control group of alumni from the ...

Intermezzo II: Persoonlijke reflecties uit de praktijk rondom steden als living/urban labs en de samenwerking tussen kennisinstellingen, bedrijfsleven, stedelijk en nationaal bestuur

Dit artikel is gepubliceerd in een themanummer van het tijdschrift Bestuurskunde. Dit nummer gaat over de stad als lab voor sociale verandering.

Food For Thought: Citizens As 'Part-Time' Entrepreneurs

In a growing number of economic branches, citizens are becoming more active, as part-time producers, service providers, suppliers or even entrepreneurs. They compete with traditional companies, but often operate ...

Health & Care: Drivers Of Urban Growth?

Here is something that all Europeans find of prime importance: affordable access to good health care; high quality elderly care; being able to live independently, even if you are handicapped or chronically ill.

The Different Faces Of The Urban Digital Economy

What will a shopping street look like in 2025, when online shopping continues to show double-digit growth? And what will 3D printing do to factories and logistic companies, when we can ‘print’ more and ...

Setting The Scene: Economic Transitions In European Cities

In the recent ‘Regional outlook’, the OECD (2014) convincingly argues that cities can be the drivers of national growth and recovery: in principle, their diversity and density makes people and companies ...

'New urban economies': challenges ahead

Europe’s urban economies do not look the same as ten years ago. And in ten years from now,they will again be different. The digital revolution is particularly disruptive: entire sectors are being transformed, ...

Triple Helix (3H): Where Are Europe's Cities Standing?

What is the triple helix? The triple helix (3H) of university-industry-government relations has become one of the most popular innovation models in the last two decades. What is the relevance for cities? How can they ...

Economic Intelligence For Cities: Strategies And Pitfalls

Why cities need economic intelligence. The economies of Europe’s cities are changing fast, and it is not easy to predict which segments of the local economy will grow and which ones will decline. Yet, cities ...

The Open Data Economy: promoting digital innovation in Dublin

The case study on Dublin (Ireland) is one of the concrete results of the URBACT workstream ‘New urban economies’, after collection of data, a study visit, and interviews with local stakeholders.