Despite various governmental measures and health campaigns the prevalence of obesity has been rising. Much focus has been on the medical aspects of obesity; however, little attention has been directed to the aspects of ...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have gained educators’ and technology researchers’ interests in recent years as MOOCs could be the future of online education. The purpose of this study is to examine Dutch university ...

In Groot-Brittannië was sociale uitsluiting een groot probleem, waardoor de Britse overheid besloot een specifiek op het oplossen daarvan gerichte onderzoekseenheid in het leven te roepen. De Social Exclusion Unit (SEU) ...

In February 2018 a new enlargement strategy was presented by the European Commission. This renewed interest in the Western Balkan by the European Commission formed the motivation of this study, which is dedicated to ...

Due to technologic changes, today’s society requests new forms of organizing. One specific new form of organizing is Virtual Teams. Although academic research has proven the benefits of Virtual Teams, little is known about ...

Mutual credit systems (MCSs), a type of complementary currency, are thought to have a countercyclical function by providing additional credit in times of recession. Past research has also focused on trust and social values ...

This thesis discusses how and why accountability and ethics relate and how they influence behaviour in accountancy firms in the Netherlands. An interpretive field study is carried out in two separate but similar accountancy ...

Over the past few years, a trend has developed that professionals in various sectors have to justify their actions to a wide audience (Vriens, Vosselman and Groβ, 2016). This also counts for medical professionals in ...

This thesis examines whether accounting quality is a mediating factor between the mandatory adoption of IFRS and cost of equity capital. This is done using the following research question: To what extent does accounting ...