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Sarah van der Land is currently a visiting scholar at Michigan State University as part of her PhD project “New ways of working: Team collaboration in 3D virtual environments.” It focuses on how the characteristics of 3D virtual worlds (e.g. avatars, immersive 3D environment) support task informational and social interaction processes related to team collaboration. [...]

Het kabinet heeft aangekondigd om ingrijpend te bezuinigen op onderzoek. Nederlandse wetenschappers moeten niet bang zijn voorverandering, maar zoeken naar een koppeling met het bedrijfsleven, want dat ‘legt zelf wel bij’. Wat nooit wordt onderbouwd, is waarom het eigenlijk zo nodig anders moet in deze voor ons cruciale kenniseconomie. Het gaat uitstekend met de Nederlandse [...]

In this post, Rose Erkelens shares her thoughts on why and how to write a good review. Rose is PhD representative at large for the OCIS division at the Academy of Management, and this blogpost first appeared on the OCIS PhD blog. As a PhD-student,you can be asked to review manuscripts for journals or conferences. [...]

Nima Amiryany was recently interviewed by VU newspaper Ad Valvas. The interview feeds into the debate on the VU’s intended institutional reform (instellingsplan), more of which can be read here (in Dutch).  Nima provides a response to the proposition: “Every scientist should earn part of his or her salary through subsidies and assignments”. Nima disagrees with the [...]

Last Friday, IKM alumni Jaap van Nes and Martijn Scheen gave a guest lecture for third year students of the course ‘Knowledge Management’. In their lecture, they presented their budding enterprise, Stuvia. Stuvia is a web-enabled marketplace for students to buy and sell study materials, such as lecture notes and transcripts. Jaap and Martijn showed how [...]

Uit onderzoek blijkt dat de faalkans van overnames hoog is: 60-80% mislukt. De vraag is of dit onvermijdelijk is of dat sommige bedrijven beter zijn in het doen van overnames dan andere. Uit ons onderzoek naar 102 overnames in de biotech, blijkt dat veel managers zich richten op de verkeerde zaken wanneer zij een overname [...]

Some time ago, I blogged here about my research on the professional use of social media. The study drew on a theory of knowledge sharing through the use of different functionalities of social network services. Having now completed the study, in this second guest blog I would like to take you through some of the [...]

Er zijn verschillende redenen waarom iemand wil gaan promoveren na zijn of haar afstuderen. Je hebt wellicht meer kansen op de arbeidsmarkt omdat je over een bredere theoretische basis beschikt en je hebt al zeker vier jaar werkervaring, want als promovendus ben je gewoon werknemer (aan de VU) en breid je netwerk zich uit in [...]

Coping with a changing world: A study of graduates’ career development Chen Fleisher Globalization, technological advancement, and other economic pressures have changed the face of human resource management. Companies increasingly rely on the external labor market to achieve competitive advantage, while establishing short-term relationships with their employees. In particular, the volatile environment created by the [...]

Honors student Marloes van der Meer (specializing in Information and Knowledge Management) is conducting research for her Masters’ thesis, studying how professionals use social media in their work, and especially, how they use social media to share knowledge. It is part of a series of research within the KIN group about the influence of social [...]