Developing Study and Work Skills is the first text to unite the fragmented study skills/work skills/personal development skills market by focusing on the key basic skills that students need in order to make them practically as well as academically prepared for the world of work. Chapters take students through the core personal, interpersonal, written, verbal, technical and numerical skills that HE courses and employers are looking for. This book is the first text to integrate study and manage...

Teaching Entrepreneurship moves entrepreneurship education from the traditional process view to a practice-based approach and advocates teaching entrepreneurship using a portfolio of practices, which includes play, empathy, creation, experimentation, and reflection. Together these practices help students develop the competency to think and act entrepreneurially in order to create, find, and exploit opportunities of all kinds in a continuously changing and uncertain world. Divided into two par...

Society 3.0: Mastering the Global Transition on Our Way to the Next Step in Human Evolution investigates the myriad of financial crises plaguing our society today, as well as their effects on the future of work and education. Ronald van de Hoff also describes the need for (and emergence of) a knowledge- driven civilization, marked by accelerating change, value networks, and "knowmads," the nomadic knowledge workers of the future.

Monetizing on the Mesh is the final theme explored in this book...

Social enterprise is an up and coming phenomenon around the world. Businesseswith the primary aim of bettering the world. Social enterprises are claiming a distinct place amongst commercial enterprises, charities, and public sector organizations.This book paints an inspiring picture of the social enterprise, what it is and what it is not. How it works and what the challenges are. With a wide range of examples from the Netherlands, most of which can be found elsewhere across the world. A book ...

This innovative textbook makes the tools and applications of game theory and strategic reasoning both fascinating and easy to understand. At the heart of the book is a diverse collection of strategic scenarios, not only from business and politics, but from history, fiction, sports, and everyday life as well.

Kosten en baten met beleid maakt bedrijfseconomie begrijpelijk en toegankelijk.

Dit studieboek richt zich op de bedrijfseconomie van dienstverlenende bedrijven, zowel commercieel als non-profit. Vrijwel iedereen heeft te maken met dit type bedrijven bijvoorbeeld als toerist, reiziger, recreant, patiënt, cliënt, klant, burger, gedaagde, weggebruiker of leerling. Dit boek bevat vele herkenbare voorbeelden van bedrijfseconomische principes uit verschillende vormen van dienstverlening.

Dit studie...

In the 1980s the performance of Japan’s economy was an international success story, and led many economists to suggest that the 1990s would be a Japanese decade. Today, however, the dominant view is that Japan is inescapably on a downward slope. Rather than focusing on the evolution of the performance of Japanese capitalism, this book reflects on the changes that it has experienced over the past 30 years, and presents a comprehensive analysis of the great transformation of Japanese capitali...

To survive in today's complex economies, it is imperative for companies to understand their consumers in terms of how and why they like to use their products. Distinction based on quality no longer provides competitive advantage. Imagineers use design methods to create meaningful experiences that connect consumers to brands, employees to companies and consumers to consumers.

This book explains the background of the need for experiences and then focusses on how to design them. Bringing theory ...

Als Nederland tijdens de crisis de economische prestaties van België

had kunnen evenaren dan lag ons nationaal inkomen nu 25 miljard

hoger, hadden we inmiddels een situatie van begrotingsevenwicht

en hadden we een kwart miljoen extra voltijdsbanen gerealiseerd.

Ook in vergelijking met verschillende andere Europese landen zijn

de economische prestaties van Nederland tijdens de crisis bedroevend

te noemen.

In dit boek laat Taco van Hoek overtuigend zien dat de oorzaak hiervan

vooral moet worde...

Vragenlijsten zijn een belangrijk instrument om informatie over bepaalde doelgroepen te verzamelen. De Vragenlijst is een ideaal hulpmiddel voor studenten en professionals die betrouwbare en valide onderzoeksresultaten willen verkrijgen. Deze praktische, fullcolour uitgave biedt een complete handleiding, met een groot aantal adviezen, waarschuwingen en aandachtspunten.

- Complete handleiding met direct toepasbare adviezen;

- solide houvast voor elke onderzoeker;

- geba...