Exergaming as meaningful activity for people with dementia: Evaluation of effect and implementation

Temporal work by consultants in nascent market categories: constructing a market for knowledge in quantum computing

The literatures on market categories and temporal work pay limited attention to the agentic role of intermediaries in nascent market categories. Through an inductive analysis of quantum computing, we explore how management consultancies perform temporal work in such settings. We find that management consultancies construct a market for knowledge...

Increasing work-related stress in the Netherlands and Belgium: how do these countries cope?

The majority of people living with a common mental disorder are employed, but many are at greater risk of job loss and permanent labor market exclusion than colleagues without these problems (OECD; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2012). In addition, the costs of mental ill-health for society are large, reaching 3;4.5% of...

The two faces of conflict how internal and external conflict affect interest group influence

Conflict is one of the most fundamental concepts in the interest group literature. The more conflict there is, the less likely it is that interest groups can impact policymaking. In this paper we systematically explore whether some types of conflict affect interest-group influence more than others. More precise whether conflict among...

Naturalistic decision making

The Global MRIO Lab–charting the world economy

We describe the creation of the Global Multi-Region Input–Output (MRIO) Lab, which is a cloud-computing platform offering a collaborative research environment through which participants can use each other’s resources to assemble their own individual MRIO versions. The Global MRIO Lab’s main purpose is to harness and focus previously disparate...

Beyond thresholds: The everyday lived experience of the house by older people

To support decision making regarding modifications to the current housing stock, this article explores older people's everyday lived experience of the house in the Netherlands. Twelve in-depth interviews were carried out, using diaries and a topic list. The study found physical, personal and social dimensions of experience that turn a house into...

Understanding the political PNR debate in Europe: A discourse analytical perspective

In this article, the debate on passenger name records (PNRs) in European politics will be perceived from a discourse analytical perspective. After the 9/11 attacks, the US government required PNR from aircraft passengers travelling from or to the USA. This, and the negotiations of the European Commission with the USA, led to heated debates in...

Organizing sustainable partnerships between employment agencies and hiring companies: The Dutch case

Ontology-based multi-agent system for urban freight transportation

Congestion, pollution, and safety are some of the most worrisome side-effects of the urban goods movement activities. These problems are generally attributed to the underlying characteristics of the domain such as heterogeneous stakeholders, their conflicting objectives and resulting distributed decision-making. Such autonomous decision-making...

Labour market rigidities can be useful: A Schumpeterian view

The development of smart and pratical small group interventions for work and stress

Multiple imputation of multilevel data

Team effectiveness in complex settings: A framework

This chapter is based on a North Atlantic Trade Organization (NATO) study (NATO/RTO/HFM Task Group 023 on Team Effectiveness) and report (HFM-087 TP/59) written by the authors (published by NATO RTO, April, 2005)

Food and nutrition policies and interventions

Workplace stress and stress prevention in Europe

In this book the ways in which companies can combat stress by changing the workplace to reduce stress rather than by treating an already stressed individual are investigated. Costs and benefits of stress prevention in general are discussed, with an emphasis on approaches that involve both the individual and the place of work. Since one of the...

The Netherlands: a hospital healthy working for health

In this book the ways in which companies can combat stress by changing the workplace to reduce stress rather than by treating an already stressed individual are investigated. Costs and benefits of stress prevention in general are discussed, with an emphasis on approaches that involve both the individual and the place of work. Since one of the...