This paper comments on the analysis by Leung and Thomas (2021) on the role of specialist event journals in shaping the field of event management research. It agrees with their analysis of the distribution of papers, particularly in terms of the dominance of the English language, although it argues that a wider analysis of the literature reveals a wealth of non-English sources as well. It offers some thoughts on the driving forces behind the distribution of event management publications, including journal ranking systems, economic power and the advent of new information technologies. It argues that journals should act as curators and leaders in the field, helping to open new avenues for research
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English is increasingly the dominant language of academic scholarship. This means that much research produced in other languages is overlooked, a tendency strengthened by the growing power of global publishers and university ranking systems. This initial scoping study provides an exploratory review of non-English scholarship in the field of event management, drawing on an extensive literature search in Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian and Spanish. We find a considerable number of event management publications in these languages, which effectively represent a ‘missing body of knowledge’ for scholars working in English. Only about 10% of these non-English sources are covered by Scopus, for example. Our scoping study indicates that this excludes many scholars and potentially interesting areas of work from the global event management corpus. We suggest several strategies which could be employed to address these issues.
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Digital transformation has been recognized for its potential to contribute to sustainability goals. It requires companies to develop their Data Analytic Capability (DAC), defined as their ability to collect, manage and analyze data effectively. Despite the governmental efforts to promote digitalization, there seems to be a knowledge gap on how to proceed, with 37% of Dutch SMEs reporting a lack of knowledge, and 33% reporting a lack of support in developing DAC. Participants in the interviews that we organized preparing this proposal indicated a need for guidance on how to develop DAC within their organization given their unique context (e.g. age and experience of the workforce, presence of legacy systems, high daily workload, lack of knowledge of digitalization). While a lot of attention has been given to the technological aspects of DAC, the people, process, and organizational culture aspects are as important, requiring a comprehensive approach and thus a bundling of knowledge from different expertise. Therefore, the objective of this KIEM proposal is to identify organizational enablers and inhibitors of DAC through a series of interviews and case studies, and use these to formulate a preliminary roadmap to DAC. From a structure perspective, the objective of the KIEM proposal will be to explore and solidify the partnership between Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas), Avans University of Applied Sciences (Avans), Logistics Community Brabant (LCB), van Berkel Logistics BV, Smink Group BV, and iValueImprovement BV. This partnership will be used to develop the preliminary roadmap and pre-test it using action methodology. The action research protocol and preliminary roadmap thereby developed in this KIEM project will form the basis for a subsequent RAAK proposal.
Sea Lettuce, Ulva spp. is a versatile and edible green seaweed. Ulva spp is high in protein, carbohydrates and lipids (respectively 7%-33%; 33%-62% and 1%-3% on dry weight base [1, 2]) but variation in these components is high. Ulva has the potential to produce up to 45 tons DM/ha/year but 15 tons DM/ha/year is more realistic.[3, 4] This makes Ulva a possible valuable resource for food and other applications. Sea Lettuce is either harvested wild or cultivated in onshore land based aquaculture systems. Ulva onshore aquaculture is at present implemented only on a few locations in Europe on commercial scale because of limited knowledge about Ulva biology and its optimal cultivation systems but also because of its unfamiliarity to businesses and consumers. The objective of this project is to improve Ulva onshore aquaculture by selecting Ulva seed material, optimizing growth and biomass production by applying ecophysiological strategies for nutrient, temperature, microbiome and light management, by optimizing pond systems eg. attached versus free floating production and eventually protoype product development for feed, food and cosmetics.
De maatschappelijke aandacht voor welvaartcreatie die verder reikt dan financiële welvaart en de oproep aan bedrijven om hieraan bij te dragen, groeit. MKB-familiebedrijven vinden het vanzelfsprekend om een bijdrage te leveren, maar geven ook aan dat dergelijke brede welvaartactiviteiten niet zijn ingebed in de huidige bedrijfsstrategie. Hieruit volgt de praktijkvraag: Hoe kunnen we [MKB-familiebedrijven] brede welvaartactiviteiten planmatiger aanpakken zodat we meer maatschappelijke impact kunnen maken? Het doel van het project is om interventies (werkwijzen) te ontwikkelen en te toetsen om brede welvaartcreatie bij MKB-familiebedrijven inzichtelijk te maken en de maatschappelijke impact ervan te vergroten door ‘ad hoc’ uitgevoerde activiteiten planmatiger aan te pakken. De centrale onderzoeksvraag is: Hoe kunnen MKB-familiebedrijven brede welvaartactiviteiten koppelen aan hun bedrijfsstrategie en de maatschappelijke impact van deze activiteiten vergroten? Het project wordt uitgevoerd door het Lectoraat Familiebedrijven van Windesheim, het Kenniscentrum Business Innovation van Hogeschool Rotterdam, en met Utrecht University School of Economics. We starten het project met acht MKB-familiebedrijven, met wie interventies worden ontwikkeld, waarna andere familiebedrijven aansluiten en in twee rondes de interventies worden doorontwikkeld. FBNed is aangesloten voor de valorisatie in Nederland en internationaal via hun koepelorganisatie FBN. De belangrijkste onderzoeksmethode in het project is de meervoudige case study methode. Verwachte outcome: Maatschappelijke impact van MKB-familiebedrijven vergroten door: • Kennis over hoe MKB-familiebedrijven zich (kunnen) ontwikkelen in brede welvaartcreatie; • De (h)erkenning van MKB-familiebedrijven in brede welvaartcreatie; • Bewustwording van kansen die brede welvaarcreatie MKB-familiebedrijven kan bieden. Verwachte output: • Een werkboek met een scan voor MKB-familiebedrijven om de huidige en gewenste situatie t.a.v. brede welvaartcreatie inzichtelijk te maken, inclusief interventies om brede welvaartactiviteiten te verankeren in de strategie en maatschappelijke impact te maken; • Twee wetenschappelijke artikelen, vijf vakpublicaties, acht teaching cases en vijf seminars in samenwerking met FBNed om resultaten breed te delen, voor onderwijs, wetenschappelijk publiek en bedrijven.
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