This paper reflects upon the way that we balanced design and development in three specific case projects in order to contribute to creating and accumulating knowledge that is both relevant to practitioners and academics. More specifically, it is shown how learning within one project was used to...

Voorliggend rapport vormt het antwoord op de vraag vanuit Stad Hasselt (B) om een focusgroep samen te stellen en te begeleiden bij haar zoektocht naar voorstellen die tot stedelijke vernieuwing met betrekking tot het Toerismebeleid moeten leiden. Het betreft hier het verslag van een half jaar...

Blending qualitative and quantitative research methods is widely propagatedas a strategy for both quality control and enrichment of organizationresearch. This has been recognized in the organization literature for morethan twenty years. However, during the last decade the progress in thepractice...

The development of organization science is not without concern when it comes to the richness, rigor and relevance of the knowledge production of the discipline. The inner critics of this discipline make frequent calls for better theory, better methods and higher usefulness of the research. This...

Health care is in need of innovation on many strands. Patient-centered care appears to be the key to the realization of the main objectives: service quality, cost reduction, access, patient satisfaction and the quality of working life. Innovation, and more precisely, the diffusion and...

Voorliggend rapport vormt het antwoord op de vraag vanuit Stad Hasselt (B) om een focusgroep samen te stellen en te begeleiden bij haar zoektocht naar voorstellen die tot stedelijke vernieuwing met betrekking tot het Toerismebeleid moeten leiden. Het betreft hier het verslag van een half jaar...

The aim of this article is to add to organization theory by exploring the theoretical concept of organizational configuration and identifying its added value. Why is it used and what possibilities does it offer for organizational theorists? We will examine the underlying assumptions and try to...

This study presents novel evidence regarding the role of regional internet infrastructure in reducing regional per capita income disparities. We base our study on the assumptions that 1 the diffusion of information homogenizes regional economies through reducing the dissimilarities in...

This paper analyses the current burden of obesity in the female population of Jordan on a national scale and examines the factors associated with it. Demographics and Health Surveys DHS were used for the years 2002, 2007 and 2009 covering a total of 23,197 women, 15-49 years of age, and...

This paper analyses how corruption affects firms ownership of intellectual property titles that relate to firms technological, organizational and further innovation efforts quality certificates and patents. Using firm-level data covering 48 developing and emerging countries, we show corruption...