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| ABRI and KIN lunch seminar Dr. Keri K. Stephens - 6 June |
ABRI and KIN Center for Digital Innovation would like to invite you to an ABRI lunch seminar given by Dr. Keri K. Stephens (University of Texas at Austin) about “Negotiating Control of ICTs in the Hospital”.
The seminar will take place on Wednesday, June 6, from 12:00 – 13:00 in room HG 7A-37.
To register for this event, please send an e-mail to Niki Konijn (n.m.konijn@vu.nl), latest on Monday, June 4.For the abstract and a short biography please click here. |
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| Masterclass The Gentle Art of Helping - 6 June |
| The next edition of the successful Masterclass is due Wednesday 6 June 2018. You will learn how to help others through humble inquiry. On the SERVUS website you will find a video impression of an earlier Masterclass, and more information. Registration has been closed. |
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| Interactive Masterclass Open Banking - 8 June |
In the Interactive Masterclass on Open Banking both dr. Markos Zachariadis and Professor Hans Berends will prepare you to take the lead in this transition towards open banking. We will go beyond the common industry knowledge and delve into the challenges around platform and innovation ecosystems origination and development to identify the issues as well as opportunities in this new banking paradigm. In addition, we will explore the strategic responses in this new competitive landscape.
The masterclass will be held on 8 June from 09:30 - 17:00. For more information and registration please visit the KIN Center for Digital Innovation website. |
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| JOIN OUR BARBECUE |
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Dear colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to ABRI’s annual barbecue!
The event will take place on Tuesday June 12 from 17:00 - end at the Tuinzaal (in the W&N Building– use entrance 1081).
Please let us know whether you plan to join by sending an email to n.m.konijn@vu.nl latest on June 6. Please include your dietary wishes in case you have any.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Best regards,
The ABRI team |
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| VU Team Obtains Research Grant for Project on Sustainable Careers and Psychological Contracts among Flexible Workers |
A VU SBE team consisting of Sanne Nijs, Jos Akkermans (project leaders), Paul Jansen, Svetlana Khapova, and Bert Breij have received funding for a 4-year full-time PhD project on the “psychology of flexible work”.
The project will start in September 2018 and will focus on sustainable careers and psychological contracts among different types of flexible workers. More information on the project can be found on the website of Instituut Gak, which is the funding organization of the project.
The traditional perspective on the relationships between employers and employees has become untenable in the current dynamic labor market, which is increasingly characterized by flexible employment relationships.
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| Bert Breij, Svetlana Khapova, Paul Jansen, Sanne Nijs and Jos Akkermans |
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There is little knowledge about how we can optimally enable flexible employees during their career. To provide an answer to this question, it is crucial to provide a specification for different types of flexible employees (eg contractual vs. job-mediated work, voluntary vs. involuntary), something that has so far been lacking in scientific research.
This project aims to generate new knowledge about the psychological ins and out of flexibilisation of labor. Three main themes are central here: (1) the perceived psychological relationship between the employee and the employer (the psychological contract) and to what extent these differ per type of flexible work; (2) the role of these psychological contracts in sustainable employment (productivity, enthusiasm, employability); and (3) the responsibility that different stakeholders (flexible workers, organizations, mediators, society) have in managing sustainable careers of flexible workers.
We examine these main themes with the aid of various sub-studies. In the first study, we develop a conceptual framework that explains how different types of flexible work are related to psychological contracts and sustainable employment. Using three empirical studies, we then test the developed conceptual framework. The first study will focus on distinguishing various groups of flexible workers. The second study focuses in particular on the effects of psychological contracts on sustainable employment. More specifically, we examine the extent to which psychological contracts affect productivity, enthusiasm and employability of flexible workers. The third empirical study is qualitative in nature. On the basis of interview data (ie content analysis and discourse analysis) the responsibilities and roles of various relevant stakeholders (eg intermediaries, organizations, flexible workers) are revealed. |
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| CSCMP European Research Seminar 2018 successful |
| On May 17 and 18 the annual CSCMP European Research Seminar (ERS) took place at World Trade Center in Rotterdam. |
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| Prof. dr. ir. Sander de Leeuw (organizer) with two conference participants. |
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This year’s edition of the event was organized by VU School of Business and Economics’ Logistics group and Rotterdam School of Management and sponsored by CSCMP, Amsterdam Business Research Institute and Erasmus Research Institute of Management. The two day conference covered the most important trends and developments in Supply Chain of this moment, and attracted guests and speakers from all across Europe and the USA.
The ERS is an annual meeting connected to the European Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, bringing together a large community of researchers and practitioners interested in supply chain management. ERS is connected to both Journal of Business Logistics and to International Journal of Logistics Management. The addressed high quality methodological contributions, relevant real-world applications, and case studies from industry and the services sector. |
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| EVENT OVERVIEW SUMMER 2018 |
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