In het huidig ontwerp Ruimtelijk Structuurplan Vlaanderen (RSV) wordt het gebied tussen Brussel, Gent, Antwerpen en Leuven aangeduid als een stedelijk netwerk op internationaal niveau. Teneinde uitvoering te kunnen geven aan het RSV werd dit stedelijk netwerk nader onderzocht. In een eerste deel...

Firms producing application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) have established numerous technology based strategic alliances (SAs) and were involved in merger and acquisition activities (M&As) to enhance their competitive position by improving their learning capabilities and the timely access...

This paper explores how the connections between governance principles, collective actors and workplace relations have developed in the Dutch business system. In order to identify the governance principles (Kristensen, 1997) which regulate the formation and interaction of social groupings in the...

In this paper an attempt is made to gain further insight into the environment-strategy-structure- performance linkages. A framework is developed to relate managers’ perceptions of their market environment and competitive strategies to the (advanced) production technologies and human resource...

This research note draws the attention to the harmful consequence of a serious lack of empirical research in the field of International Human Resource Management: myth-building on the basis of one or two publications. The apparent myth of high expatriate failure rates is shortly discussed. To...

The industrial organization of transactions has changed dramatically during the past decade (Thompson and Wright, 1988). Several scholars have discussed and documented the phenomenon of what has been called `the shrinking organization'' (Ford and Farmer, 1986; Lichtenberg, 1992). The apparent...

This paper investigates how HRM policies can contribute to the creation of a production environment in which the proposed benefits of the implementation of advanced manufacturing technologies can be realized. For one, data from twelve Dutch and eight British companies in the chemical and food &...