Labour Relations, Flexibility, and Management Intensity in Dutch Firms: An Investigation Using the OSA/SCP Labour Panel Database

'High road' Human Resource Management practices (often associated with rigid labour markets) differ from 'low road' practices (flexible labour markets) in terms of employment protection, earnings differentials among employees and amount of direct employees' supervision. Firms employing 'low road' practices tend to rely heavily on supervision, as...

Choosing market segments and digital printing technologies for package printing industry: a case study with Océ Technologies

The aim of this research is to investigate the overall package printing market and analyze it using theoretical market and technology models to find out the most likely segments that document printer manufacturers can enter and which digital technologies are the most suitable for printing packages. This study then raised two main research...

An Economic Assessment of Carbon Capture & Storage: The Case of the Netherlands

Following the industrial revolution started circa 1750, global energy consumption and, consequently, CO2 emissions have been rapidly increasing. The amount of CO2 rose from 280 ppm in 1750 to 388 ppm in 2010. This increasing amount of GHGs gases, specifically CO2, is the underlying cause of global warming. According to the IPCC report, with the...

Measuring Innovation and the Propensity to Patent

Patents are often taken as an indicator to measure innovativeness, because they are a lot easier to obtain than most others. There is a complication though, which is that patents are not a direct measure of innovativeness: the fit between patents and innovativeness is biased by differing propensities to patent. The propensity to patent was...

The Economic, Environmental, and Geopolitical Impacts of ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) on Indonesia

The normalization of political relationship between ASEAN and China brings a closer economic cooperation between them. It culminated through the establishment of ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA). In this research, I analyze the economic, environmental, and geopolitical impacts of ACFTA on Indonesia. The economic analysis covers trade...

Inflation Targeting: A Reconsideration

In response to the abandonment of monetary targeting, Inflation targeting (IT) has emerged as a dominant monetary policy framework in both industrializing and industrialized countries. The framework was aimed to provide a new anchor for conducting monetary policy, and the theoretical underpinnings of this framework are based on two things: First...

Innovation in rapidly growing economies

"Van welke factoren is de winstgevende implementatie van RFID voor een bedrijf afhankelijk en wanneer worden deze bereikt?": Een uitgebreide studie over de logistieke voordelen van het gebruik van RFID