Centre for Applied Research on Business and Economics
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Fenix Project In A Nutshell
1 September 2021 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIntroduction Resilience, pivoting and adaptability are what inspired the name of our project: Fenix. This name refers to the phoenix, the mythological animal that was born again from its own ashes. We consciously ...
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Business Connections of Migrant Entrepreneurs: Finding a Niche in the Diverse City of Amsterdam
1 January 2021 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementAmsterdam 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’ ...
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Building a Better Ark: The Potential of Engaging Cultural Thought Leaders and Addressing Power Differential in Authentic, Community-Driven Resilience Planning
1 January 2021 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementClimate change engagement is often conducted on a jurisdictional scale, and stakeholder engagement typically brings representatives from all constituencies around a common table. Yet, individual behavior is largely ...
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It works! But now what? Upscaling smart city experiments
5 October 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe 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 ...
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Visual Culture on the Semi-Periphery: Reading the Global/Local in Google Image Results
1 January 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThis 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 ...
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Tackling Food Waste: Factors that influence food waste
1 December 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe 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 ...
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Public Value Creation in a Smart City Context: An Analysis Framework
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementLaunching 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 ...
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Motivations and entrepreneurial orientation of sustainable entrepreneurs: an exploratory study of sustainable entrepreneurship archetypes in the fashion industry
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementSustainable 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 ...
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Working Passionately Does Not Always Pay Off: The Negative Moderating Role of Passion on the Relationship Between Deliberate Practice and Venture Performance
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementDeliberate 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, ...
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The societal interaction of higher education institutions
1 March 2018 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThis 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 ...
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Embedding entrepreneurship at AUAS
1 January 2018 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe 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 ...
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Trends and issues after almost twenty years of internationalisation at home
9 November 2017 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementDie 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.
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Firm location choice in the New Economy
28 July 2017 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementAnne 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 ...
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Die Politur des Wissensperlen
1 January 2017 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn 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 ...
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English Language
1 January 2017 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementNo 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 ...
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Variations in new firm life duration for immigrant and native entrepreneurs
1 January 2017 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementToday 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 ...
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The Campus
1 January 2017 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementDREAMS and SEEDS: The role of campuses in sustainable urban development
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Excavating obstacles and enablers to internationalization at home
1 January 2017 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementGives 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, ...
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International opportunities and value creation in international entrepreneurship.
8 November 2016 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementInternational 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 ...
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Developing employability skills at home
6 October 2016 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementDer vorliegende Band beinhaltet 22 Beiträge der Vortragenden, die das Thema Internationalisierung an Hochschulen aufgreifen und dabei auf langjährige Expertise im jeweiligen Tätigkeitsfeld ...
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Hub Cities 2.0 for the 21st century
1 January 2016 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn 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 ...
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Assessing the Added Value of Global Mobility Versus Local Experience: A Case Study
1 January 2016 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementAlthough 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 ...
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Going Global Versus Staying Local: The Performance Management Dilemma in the International Context
1 January 2016 | CommunicationThe 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. ...
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Global at home
1 January 2016 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe 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 ...
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Smaller university cities
30 October 2015 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn 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.
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Triple Helix (3H): Where Are Europe's Cities Standing?
1 April 2015 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementWhat 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 ...
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'New urban economies': challenges ahead
1 April 2015 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementEurope’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, ...
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Food For Thought: Citizens As 'Part-Time' Entrepreneurs
1 April 2015 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn 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 ...
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The Different Faces Of The Urban Digital Economy
1 April 2015 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementWhat 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 ...
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Health & Care: Drivers Of Urban Growth?
1 April 2015 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementHere 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.
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Setting The Scene: Economic Transitions In European Cities
1 April 2015 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn 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 ...
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Economic Intelligence For Cities: Strategies And Pitfalls
1 April 2015 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementWhy 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 ...
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Coping with International migration and diversity
1 January 2015 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn a knowledge economy such as that of the Netherlands, the importance of higher education is widely recognized. Dutch universities of Applied Sciences aim to create successful learning environments to prepare young ...
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Redefining Internationalization at Home
1 January 2015 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe term “Internationalization at Home” and its definition were first introduced in 2001 (Crowther et al 2001). Since then, strongly related and overlapping concepts and definitions have emerged, notably ...
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Left to Their Own Devices: The Role and Skills of Academics in Partnerships for the Future
1 January 2015 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThis chapter explores international partnerships as an enabler for internationalisation of home curricula, what these partnerships would look like and what the role of academics and other stakeholders would be. ...
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A Comparative Analysis of the Employability Related Outcomes of the IBMS Study with Those from Other Recent Employability Studies
1 January 2015 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThis chapter aims to place the employability related outcomes of this study in the context of other current employability studies. For this purpose, seven recently published employability studies were selected from a ...
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The digital challenge for the high street: insights from Europe.
1 January 2014 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementFor two decades policy makers, property owners, retailers, and academics, have been interested in the effects of the Internet for retailing, commercial real estate and shopping locations.