Publications

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The story of Tony’s Chocolonely

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Diversity in Professional Expertise

This position paper presents an outline for a research programme for the lectorate in Differentiated Human Resource Management (DHRM) of the Centre of Applied Research (CAREM), part of Amsterdam University of Applied ...

Coping with International migration and diversity

In 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 ...

The deployment of enriched capacities

The basic assumption in this article is that growing older does not mean only, or even necessarily, a decline in one’s labour capacities.