Publicaties

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 ...

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’ ...

Onderzoeksvideo Ondernemerschap vanuit kwetsbare arbeidsmarktposities

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.

Buiten de gebaande paden

Binnen de gehele voedselketen, van grond tot mond, werken mensen en organisaties aan uitdagingen om het voedselsysteem duurzamer en gezonder te maken.

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 ...

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, ...

De netwerk-kikker wakker kussen

In dit proefschrift worden netwerken, carrière en vrouwen samengebracht rondom de vraag: In welke mate hebben hoger opgeleide vrouwen inzicht in de wijze waarop netwerken werken, op welke wijze netwerken zij ...

Het vizier op scherp

In de periode januari – juli 2020 heeft een onafhankelijke externe commissie, in opdracht van de Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), het Nationaal Regieorgaan Praktijkgericht ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Samen zorgen in de wijk

Hoe ervaren de mensen in de wijk het zorgen voor elkaar? Hoe kan de doorgroei naar betaald werk georganiseerd worden in de wijk? En hoe kunnen de vraag naar zorg in de wijk en de mogelijkheden van mensen beter ...

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 ...

How to facilitate different types of innovation activities in organizations?

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

Tackling Food Waste: Factors that influence food waste

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Big Data in een Smart City

Elk jaar organiseert het Leerhuis van het Projectmanagementbureau samen met de Hogeschool van Amsterdam een thematische seminarreeks. De koppeling van de wetenschappelijke theorie met de dagelijkse praktijk biedt een ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hulp voor ondernemers in nood

In deze studie onderzoeken we ondernemers die tegenslagen hebben en de factoren die hiermee te maken hebben. We beschrijven de kenmerken van ondernemers die in de problemen komen en soms zelfs failliet gaan en we ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

Sociaal ondernemerschap

Wat is het doel van een bedrijf: zoveel mogelijk winst maken, of helpen maatschappelijke problemen op te lossen? Deze vraag helpt om onderscheid te maken tussen traditionele ondernemingen, die primair op ...

Meting Aanbod Gemeentelijke Digitale Dienstverlening aan "Ondernemers in zwaar weer" - 2018

De Overheid beloofde in 2012 dat burgers en ondernemers binnen vijf jaar digitaal zaken konden doen met de Overheid. Voor ondernemers, die bijstand nodig hebben, is dit bij slechts één op de drie ...

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 ...

Open Hiring in Nederland

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ondernemen doe je niet alleen

​In de rede gaat Ingrid Wakkee in op de veranderende aard van het ondernemerschap vanuit een social-embeddedness-perspectief. Ze gaat in op de toenemende populariteit van het zelfstandig ondernemerschap en ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In geouwehoer kun je niet werken

Sociaal ondernemers en de overheid hebben hetzelfde doel. Allebei willen ze maatschappelijke problemen oplossen, bijvoorbeeld door mensen met een zwakke arbeidsmarktpositie aan een baan te helpen. Samenwerking zou ...

Sociaal ondernemerschap: een inleiding voor onderzoek en onderwijs

‘Ik ben een sociaal ondernemer’ of ‘Ik werk bij een sociale onderneming’. Die uitspraken hoor je steeds vaker. In het bedrijfsleven is sociaal ondernemerschap een veelgebruikte term, in de ...

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 ...

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.

Grip op internationalisering

Internationalisering levert een belangrijke bijdrage aan drie kerntaken binnen het basisonderwijs. Dat concluderen Maarten Hogenstijn en Daniel van Middelkoop, onderzoekers van Hogeschool van Amsterdam, in ...

Internationalisering in het primair onderwijs

Internationalisering levert een belangrijke bijdrage aan drie kerntaken binnen het basisonderwijs. Dat concluderen Maarten Hogenstijn en Daniel van Middelkoop, onderzoekers van Hogeschool van Amsterdam, in ...

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 ...