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From Risk to Revenue: Using Land Value Capture to Finance Flood Infrastructure in the Ciliwung Basin, Indonesia
No full textIndonesia faces growing challenges in financing critical climate adaptation infrastructure, such as flood protection, due to limited public budgets. Large projects span multiple jurisdictions, raising questions about funding responsibilities. Land Value Capture (LVC) offers a potential solution by enabling governments to recover part of the land value increase. Presidential Regulation 79/2024 has introduced a national legal framework for LVC, but its practical implementation remains uncertain.
This thesis asks: How have past practices and institutional conditions shaped the prospects for implementing LVC as a legitimate financing mechanism for flood protection infrastructure in Indonesia? Focusing on the Ciliwung Basin, it examines how past financing practices influence current expectations, how the new regulation is perceived by local actors, and which rationales for LVC are considered fair. The study applies a qualitative design, combining document analysis and expert interviews.
Findings show that earlier negotiated practices fostered incentive-based thinking that continues to shape notions of fairness and feasibility. While development gain skimming is broadly supported when contributions are transparent and linked to public benefits, cost equivalency models rely heavily on institutional trust. Despite the new regulation, weak capacity and low public trust persist. A hybrid approach, combining tax-based and cost-recovering strategies, appears most promising
Perspective-taking; its effectiveness in improving listeners’ attitudes towards speakers with a regional accent.
No full textThis study examined whether a perspective-taking intervention could reduce negative attitudes toward speakers with regional Dutch accents, focusing on the Brabants accent. In a between-subjects experiment, 253 native Dutch participants listened to a speaker with either a weak or moderate Brabants accent and were assigned to either a perspective-taking or control condition. They rated the speaker on comprehensibility and three attitude dimensions: warmth, dynamism, and superiority. The intervention improved social evaluations, particularly on superiority, but did not affect comprehensibility. Contrary to expectations, its effects were not influenced by accent strength or familiarity, suggesting the benefits of perspective-taking are robust across these factors. Accent strength influenced competence-related evaluations, while warmth appeared more stable—possibly due to positive stereotypes of the Brabants accent. These findings show that empathy-based interventions can improve attitudes even toward in-group regional variation, contributing to research on reducing subtle, language-based biases.
Keywords: perspective-taking, regional accent, Brabants, attitudes, comprehensibility, familiarity
How do organizations build and enact paradoxical thinking to manage conflicting stakeholder interests?
No full textOrganizations increasingly face persistent tensions between conflicting stakeholder demands, such as profitability versus sustainability. While paradoxical thinking, the ability to accept and integrate such contradictions, has been studied at the individual level, little is known about how it develops as an organizational capability. This study addresses that gap by examining how organizations build and enact paradoxical thinking to manage stakeholder tensions. Using Leonard-Barton’s core capability framework, four building blocks are investigated: collective capability to navigate stakeholder tensions, supportive managerial systems for paradox engagement, system-enabled visibility and coordination of tensions, and cultural alignment with paradoxical thinking. A qualitative multiple-case study of six organizations was conducted using semi-structured interviews. The findings show that paradoxical thinking is enacted through the dynamic interaction of people, systems, and culture. Internal alignment, psychological safety, and flexible coordination enable organizations to engage tensions constructively. The study concludes that paradoxical thinking is not a fixed trait but an evolving capability shaped by organizational routines and values
The dark side of empowering leadership: to what extent is the relationship between empowering leadership and work stress of employees moderated by leader trust, and mediated by job autonomy?
No full textA decline in mental health is a trend and therefore also a major concern in the
Netherlands. Recent studies identify work stress as a major factor in stress among adults and a
cause of mental breakdown. While empowering leadership is often associated with positive
employee outcomes, such as increased motivation, other studies suggest that empowering
leadership may also contribute to negative effects, including work stress. This study aims to
gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between empowering leadership and work
stress, especially by studying the potential dark side of empowering leadership. As well as
studying the relationship between empowering leadership and work stress, through the
moderating role of leader trust and the mediating role of job autonomy.
The leader-member exchange theory is used as a theoretical framework, assuming that
the interpersonal relationship may be an explanatory factor.
This study contributes to the literature by not looking at the positive side of empowering
leadership but at the possible negative effects on work stress. Data were collected through a
cross-sectional survey of 333 respondents, including individual employees and dyads
(supervisor and employee). The results indicate that empowering leadership significantly
increases job autonomy, however, it does not have a direct or mediated effect on work stress.
Furthermore, leader trust did not significantly moderate the relationship between empowering
leadership and work stress or job autonomy. These findings suggest that while empowering
leadership increases job autonomy, its effect on work stress may be more complex. Therefore,
further research is needed to explore the contextual factors influencing the dark side of
empowering leadership
Visuele misleiding tegengaan: De invloed van een accuracy nudge en onderwerpbetrokkenheid op de waargenomen betrouwbaarheid, deelintentie en waargenomen ernst van datavisualisaties.
No full textMisinformatie kan overtuigingen en gedrag beïnvloeden, bijvoorbeeld via misleidende datavisualisaties, zoals grafieken met een verlengde y-as. Gevisualiseerde effecten kunnen hierdoor minder ernstig lijken en zo een vertekend beeld van de data veroorzaken. Deze studie onderzocht of een accuracy nudge (een herinnering aan het belang van accuraatheid) de visuele misleiding kon verminderen. In een experiment (N = 145) werden klimaatgerelateerde datavisualisaties getoond, waarvan de helft een verlengde y-as had (datavertekenend) en de andere helft niet (datagetrouw). De proefpersonen beoordeelden de visualisaties op waargenomen betrouwbaarheid, deelintentie en waargenomen ernst, waarna hun betrokkenheid bij klimaatverandering werd gemeten. De resultaten laten zien dat de accuracy nudge de deelintentie van datagetrouwe visualisaties verhoogde, terwijl de bereidheid om datavertekenende visualisaties te delen laag bleef. Zonder de accuracy nudge bleef de deelintentie gelijk. Dit suggereert dat de accuracy nudge proefpersonen mogelijk kritischer liet nadenken over de accuraatheid van visualisaties, waardoor zij minder misleid werden als het gaat om hun deelintentie. Dit interactie-effect werd niet gevonden voor de andere variabelen
Building the future of health care: exploring the relational coordination process of informal caregivers
No full textWith an ageing population and a growing shortage of formal caregivers, many countries are
increasingly relying on informal caregivers. This development highlights the need to
strengthen the collaboration between formal and informal givers. In an effort to improve their
coordination, this research explores relational coordination theory as a potential framework.
Therefore, the aim of this research is to answer the question: ‘’How do informal caregivers
engage in relational coordination with formal caregivers?’’ A Dutch dementia nursing home
was selected for an in-depth case study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with
twelve informal caregivers to explore their coordination process with formal caregivers.
While existing relational coordination networks have primarily focused on formal caregivers,
this study provides empirical evidence that these networks can be extended to include
informal caregivers. The subdimensions of relational coordination theory were applied to
analyse both the positioning of informal caregivers in relation to formal caregivers and the
approach taken by formal caregivers towards informal caregivers. This research contributes to
the existing literature by offering new insights into the relational coordination process,
particularly regarding the interrelatedness of the subdimensions, and the role of cross-cutting
structural elements (shared spaces, shared information systems, shared meetings, shared
accountability, and proactive horizontal conflict resolution) and microprocesses
(psychological safety and dependency)
Female travel influencers and authenticity labor on Instagram
No full textThis thesis analyzed how female travel influencers claim authenticity through showing different
degrees of transparency and passion in paid Instagram reels. Thirty sponsored reels from ten
influencers were examined in a qualitative case study approached. The analysis was based on
Audrezet et al.’s framework about authenticity strategies. The results reveal that by far most
female travel influencers use the Path of Fairytale Authenticity which prioritizes passion while
minimizing the showcase of transparency. Particularly, most of them use storytelling as a
technique to embed products into creative narratives. The findings suggest that female travel
influencers strategically shift the focus of their content on passion for products and away from
the commercial nature of their reels to establish emotional connections to their viewers and
thereby convince them of the product’s purchase.
Keywords: authenticity, authenticity labor, authenticity strategies, social media influencers,
travel influencers, female influencer
Narratives Rooted in Ta Prohm’s Trees: An Analysis of Tourist Narratives in Travel Guides and Travel Blogs about the Angkor Temple Ta Prohm, Cambodia
No full textTa Prohm, one of the Angkor temple ruins in Cambodia, is known for its silk-cotton
and strangler fig trees. This thesis investigates the narratives and meanings constructed around
these trees. Despite the prominent role that these trees play in the site’s visual identity, their
cultural significance in tourism media has remained underexplored. By conducting a
qualitative content and narrative analysis of two Lonely Planet travel guides and nine English
travel blogs, this research identifies dominant narratives that determine the identity of Ta
Prohm. These analyses were conducted through the theoretical lenses of nostalgia, Ning
Wang’s typology of authenticity, John Urry’s theory of the romantic, mediatised,
anthropological, and family gazes, and Laurajane Smith’s theory about the authorised heritage
discourses (AHD) of the wilderness and the pastoral. Narratives of romance, enchantment,
authenticity, and adventure were found, reinforcing the existing identities of Ta Prohm: the
Jungle Temple and the Tomb Raider Temple. Though the travel blogs mostly mirrored the
dominant narratives found in the travel guides, they also provided additional perspectives,
portraying nature as monstrous, highlighting the possibility of reflecting on modernity and
looking at Ta Prohm through an anthropological gaze. This research revealed how tourists cocreate
and interpret narratives individually, both challenging and reflecting the dominant
heritage discourses found in tourism media
De Klank van Succes: Een onderzoek naar de invloed van de persoonlijkheid van een recruiter op accentevaluaties en functiegeschiktheid van sollicitanten.
No full textDit onderzoek onderzocht of de persoonlijkheidskenmerken van recruiters (Openheid voor Ervaringen, Extraversie en Vriendelijkheid) invloed hebben op de beoordeling van accenten en de geschiktheid van sollicitanten. In een experiment luisterden 65 recruiters naar geluidsfragmenten van sollicitanten met een Nederlands-Engels of standaard Brits-Engels accent. Ze beoordeelden de sollicitanten op drie dimensies van accentevaluatie (Status, Affect, Dynamiek) en op geschiktheid voor de functie. Uit de resultaten bleek dat het Brits-Engelse accent hoger scoorde op de dimensie Status, terwijl sollicitanten met een Nederlands-Engels accent juist als geschikter voor de functie werden beoordeeld. Er werden echter geen significante verbanden gevonden tussen de persoonlijkheidskenmerken van de recruiters en hun beoordelingen van het accent of de geschiktheid van de sollicitant. De studie concludeert dat het accent van sollicitanten invloed heeft op hoe zij worden beoordeeld, maar dat de persoonlijkheid van de recruiter hierin geen bepalende rol speelt
Terug naar de basis. Het netwerk van organisaties in het voorliggend veld in de gemeente Zevenaar versterken ter bevordeing van de preventieve werking van voorliggende voorzieningen.
No full textDit onderzoek heeft getracht te ontdekken hoe de verschillende organisaties die actief zijn in het voorliggend veld in de gemeente Zevenaar met elkaar samenwerken. De centrale vraag van dit onderzoek luidt: hoe kan het netwerk van organisaties in het voorliggend veld versterkt worden ter bevordering van de preventieve werking van het voorliggend veld?
Theoretisch gezien werkt het voorliggend veld preventief omdat het voorzieningen zijn die vroegtijdig laagdrempelige ondersteuning kunnen bieden waardoor zorgvragen niet toenemen of pas later opkomen. Belangrijk is dat zorgvragen vroegtijdig worden gesignaleerd door een goede samenwerking tussen organisaties en partijen. In het voorliggend veld kunnen mensen bovendien contacten opdoen voor hun eigen netwerk, wat hun zelfredzaamheid bevordert doordat ze eventueel kunnen terugvallen op hun sociale netwerk.
Er kan geconcludeerd worden dat de organisaties in het voorliggend veld in de gemeente Zevenaar elkaar niet goed genoeg kennen en niet goed weten wat ze aan elkaar kunnen hebben. Er moet een besef komen van ‘wat kan de ander doen’. Ook hebben ze nauwelijks contacten met verenigingen, wat juist een belangrijke verbinding is om hulvragen vroegtijdig te signaleren. De gemeente Zevenaar moet verbindingen binnen het voorliggend veld stimuleren door ervoor te zorgen dat de organisaties elkaar beter leren kennen