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Three VU Masters’ students have won the first prize by public vote for the development of their app, during the ‘Apps voor Nederland’ contest. The ‘urgent need’ (‘hoge nood‘) app shows the way to the nearest public restroom and will be available for purchase through Android Market within a month. The students had to develop [...]

On page 12 of our VUurwerk Magazine, you can read about Marlous Agterberg’s research. Marlous just returned from several months at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she worked with Samer Faraj. She’s almost finished with her PhD at Kin Research and has already published two of her papers in A journals (Journal of Management [...]

Tibert Verhagen, together with Willemijn van Dolen (UvA), recently published an experimental study on the influence of online store beliefs on consumer online impulse buying in Information and Management. [see press release, in Dutch] The study showed that consumers often act impulsively when making online decisions. Triggered by easy access to products, easy purchasing (e.g., [...]

Jaap van Nes and Martijn Scheen, two alumni of the IKM Master, developed a marketplace to share study materials: stuvia.com. The young entrepreneurs were interviewed by Dutch Business News radio about their successful venture: how did they get the idea, what challenges did they encounter, how are they marketing their product, and what kind of [...]

Bart van den Hooff co-edited with Juani Swart and Peter van Balen the latest (special) issue of the journal of Management Learning (Vol.42, issue 4). The issue is based on the 2009 OLKC Conference with the theme ‘Connecting Worlds’, which was organized by KIN Research. Papers included are by: Heizmann, Kauppila et al., Knoppen et [...]

Charles Steinfield, Marleen Huysman and Paul Leonardi are guest editors for a special issue on Social Media and Communication in the Workplace, for the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. We invite research papers that focus on social media within the organizational context. Our aim is to highlight research that explores how the affordances of social media interact with organizational [...]

The ‘lean people’ in hospital change: Identity work as social differentiation Together with M&O colleague Irene Skovgaard Smith, Maura Soekijad finished an ethnographic study on identity work in relation to change in a hospital setting. It can be found as VU Research Memorandum at: http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl//handle/1871/21505 Abstract: While existing studies already argue that identities are socially [...]

Yeehaw! KIN Research PhD candidate Nima Amiryany has been nominated for the Strategic Management Society‘s PhD Best Paper award. The paper is on ‘Acquiring Capabilities and the Importance of Routines: An Exploratory Case Study‘. Winners will be announced at the SMS Conference in Miami, November 2011. We congratulate Nima on the nomination! Nima wrote this paper during [...]

Charlotte Vonkeman (currently working at the VU faculty of social sciences as a lecturer and research assistant) has been selected as PhD candidate for the project ‘Towards understanding online impulse buying: the role of emerging webstore technologies and emotions during online shopping’ . She will start with the project in September 2011, with Tibert Verhagen as [...]

European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2011. To mark the occasion, the Editor-in-Chief Richard Baskerville has reviewed the top papers published in the last two decades, looking at both citations and article downloads. The list contains two papers by KIN researchers, namely Tibert Verhagen and Julia Kotlarsky, both listed [...]