Road and City Mobility (RCM) is a business unit of Siemens Netherlands. RCM’s core business is to provide infrastructure solutions for its customers. Generally, 80% of RCM’s revenue is generated by projects; the other 20% of the overall revenue is generated by the sales of products (e.g. electronic variable …

Paper presented in the workshop 'SMEs, CSR and employment relations in a global economy' at the USE 2015 Conference, Groningen, Oct 21-23 2015 European labour market integration has, unfortunately, also led to attempts at unfair competition on employment conditions s. Competitive pressures to lower labour …

“By 1993, the European Single Market becomes a reality” (“Historical overview,” 2014). This is stated by the European Commission in its historical overview on the internal market. The question has arisen whether today, 30 years after the signing of the European Single Act, the European Single Market …

De doelstellingen voor dit project: - Efficiënter en effectief beheer van de documentatie - Bewust zijn en draagvlak creëren voor het beheer van de documentatie - De beschrijving van de beleidstukken, processen en werkinstructies op een centrale locatie hebben voor beheer

Certification of honorsprogrammes: added value or not? Presentation at NCHC (National Collegiate Honors Council), Chicago, 13 november.

This article describes a method for promoting sustainable business practices in the hospitality sector and focusses on energy usage in hotels. It raises questions about the actual impact of eco-labels on actual environmental performance.

Normal educational programs do have an exam at the end, where a certificate or diploma can be obtained. All students get the same document, however not all students are equal. Enterprising and entrepreneurial students typically have low scores on tests, but do have experienced a lot of valuable things …

The transatlantic data transfer between the U.S. and the EU would have been extremely complex and expensive if the European Commission together with the U.S. Department of Commerce had not originated the Safe Harbor agreement in 2000. As recently as the beginning of 2014 the European Parliament, especially …

The company being researched is Opnieuw & Co, a non-profit second hand retail company. The association of secondhand retail stores (Branche Vereniging Kringloop bedrijven) has demanded that all of its members, including Opnieuw & Co, make themselves eligible for their self-introduced BKN quality label. …

The German Brown shrimp fishery occurs mainly in the shallow Wadden Sea where large concentrations of Brown shrimp (Crangon crangon) can be found. The Wadden Sea is an ecologically important nursery area for several flat fish and round fish species. In the European Union the Brown shrimp fishery is one …