Centre for Applied Research on Business and Economics
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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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How to promote managers’ innovative behavior at work: Individual factors and perceptions
1 January 2021 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementWith 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 ...
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Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Sustainable Urban Innovation: An Ambidexterity Perspective toward Smart Cities
5 November 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe 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 ...
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Developing Educational Escape Rooms for Experiential Entrepreneurship Education
1 November 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementEducational 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 ...
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Lessons from entrepreneurial failure through vicarious learning
25 October 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementDespite 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.
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Strategic orientations and digital marketing tactics in cross-border e-commerce: Comparing developed and emerging markets
24 October 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn 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 ...
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Intervention Framework SmartUp
17 October 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThis 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 ...
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Urban Innovation Systems
15 October 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIntroduction: 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, ...
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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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Policy evaluation report
30 September 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn 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, ...
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Governing Collaborative Value Creation in the Context of Grand Challenges: A Case Study of a Cross-Sectoral Collaboration in the Textile Industry
17 June 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe 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.
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Towards an Optimal IPO Mechanism
1 June 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementConcerns 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 ...
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Adopting zero-waste indigo dyeing production
18 May 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementDyStar 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 ...
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An Investigation of Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Intention amongst University Students
29 April 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe 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 ...
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Effects of app pricing structures on product evaluations
24 April 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe 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 ...
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Toward a theory of affordable loss
1 March 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementAlthough 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 ...
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Fear-Free Cross-Cultural Communication: Toward a More Balanced Approach With Insight From Neuroscience
1 March 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn 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 ...
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Productive opportunities, uncertainty, and science-based firm emergence
1 February 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementWe 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 ...
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Tay nao de don xuan
24 January 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and Management'Brainwashing' om de lente te verwelkomen: Veranderende sociale percepties zullen leiden tot veranderingen in levensstijl en hersenfunctie.
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Cross-Cultural Management
1 January 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementCross-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 ...
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Tech Scale-Ups in the Amsterdam City Region
1 January 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThis 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 ...
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The promise of coworking environments: a content analysis of the positioning of collaborative workspaces in Amsterdam
1 January 2020 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe 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 ...
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How location-based message characteristics lead to message value and store visit attitudes: An empirical study
10 December 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementHaving 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 ...
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CSR processes in governance systems and structures
2 December 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementWhen 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 ...
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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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Looking beyond individual-based diversity
27 November 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementAmsterdam 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 ...
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The relationship between diagnosed burnout and sleep measured by activity trackers
16 November 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementEmployee 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 ...
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Intermediation in public procurement of innovation: How Amsterdam’s startup-in-residence programme connects startups to urban challenges
1 November 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThis 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 ...
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Entrepreneurship for Society: developing a transdisciplinary minor program
28 October 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and Management‘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 ...
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From individual sustainability orientations to collective sustainability innovation and sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems
25 October 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementSustainability 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 ...
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Optimization-Simulation implementations for harmonizing operations at big airports
23 October 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe 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 ...
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The Development of Entrepreneurial Intention amongst University Students: The Influence of Individual and Contextual Factors
16 October 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe 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, ...
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Academic entrepreneurship in the context of education
16 October 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementPurpose: 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 ...
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Country of Origin Criteria for Digitalization with National IT Products
9 October 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn 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 ...
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[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]
1 September 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe 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 ...
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Naar een skill.based arbeidsmarkt
1 September 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementDe 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
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Is Wearable Technology Becoming Part of Us? Developing and Validating a Measurement Scale for Wearable Technology Embodiment
1 August 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementTo 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 ...
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Persuasive location-based messaging to attract consumers to a physical store: a construal level theory approach
1 July 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementAlthough 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 ...
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Information security behaviour
12 June 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn 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 ...
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Governance of urban collectives in Amsterdam
5 June 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementAcross 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 ...
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Developing dialogue bottom-up: social enterprises and local government in the Netherlands
1 June 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThis 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 ...
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From dressing up a child to building up a strong person
1 June 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementDon’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?”
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How to facilitate different types of innovation in an organization through entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management
28 May 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn 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 ...
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Co-creation at Amsterdam Science Park
1 May 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementAmsterdam 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, ...
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An exploration of smart city approaches by international ICT firms
1 May 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementAs 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 ...
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The university’s role in sustainable development
1 April 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe 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 ...
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The influence of in-store personnel on online store value
1 March 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementIn 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 ...
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Empowered by Innovation: Unravelling Determinants of Idea Implementation in Open Innovation Platforms
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementCompanies 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.
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Future Retail City Centre
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and Management2018 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 ...
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There is no blank slate
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Economics and ManagementThe 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 ...