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‘Carama? Bedoel je camera?’
No full textIn dit onderzoek is gekeken naar het verschil in herstelsituaties van klasgenoten in het reguliere en cluster 2 onderwijs. De hypothese was dat er meer herstelsituaties voorkwamen in het reguliere onderwijs en dat deze van betere kwaliteit waren. Dit is onderzocht aan de hand van video’s en transcripties van conversaties tussen kinderen (8-12 jaar) in het reguliere en cluster 2 onderwijs. In elke groep zat minimaal één kind met TOS. Om de herstelsituaties te kunnen analyseren is gebruikgemaakt van een codeboek dat de regels van de Conversatie Analyse volgde. De data zijn vervolgens kwantitatief en kwalitatief geanalyseerd. Er bleek geen significant verschil te zitten in de hoeveelheid herstelsituaties tussen de onderwijsvormen. Ook de kwaliteit van de herstelsituaties was hetzelfde in de onderwijsvormen. De resultaten van dit onderzoek suggereren dat kinderen met TOS in de onderzochte leeftijdsgroep ook al herstelvaardigheden hebben ontwikkeld
(B)ordering, Identity and Agency: Toward Rehumanisation in Mobility
No full textThis thesis investigates the concept of agency through narrations, by examining the question of how the participants express their agency throughout their mobilities and cross border-experiences. The study’s epistemological and theoretical underpinnings are post-structural, with several influences from thinkers in Sociology, Social Psychology, and Human Geography. It adopts a case study approach focused on individuals from Syria, irrespective of visa status residing in the Netherlands and Germany. Utilising the Biographical Narrative Method, unstructured interviews offer flexibility and enable a balanced dynamic between interviewer and interviewee. By considering people as the experts of their own experience, this study examines the perspectives of everyday people while exploring broader concepts. Inductive thematic analysis generates two subthemes grounded in participants’ narratives: “Identity”, capturing self-presentation and strategies of belonging, and “Crossroads” explores decision-making processes of navigating danger, precarity, and bureaucratic hurdles.
This study demonstrates that agency is dynamic and context-dependent, demonstrating the ongoing negotiation of perceptions of oneself in with their surroundings. By incorporating a more humane lens, social policy can recognise the fluidity and intersectionality of identities, creating opportunities to enhance integration and belonging. Such lens may also challenge reductive public perceptions, fostering a deeper understanding of the complexities of human migratory mobility
Financial distress and its effect on stock performance moderated by CEO ownership and CEO tenure
No full textThis research investigates how CEO characteristics impact reactions of the stock market in times of a profit warning issuance. Where existing literature extensively researched the influence of firm financials on performance, the knowledge about signals perceived by investors from CEO characteristics and stock market performance during financial distress remain limited.
The study analyzes publicly listed firms that issued a profit warning between 1-1-2021 and 31-12-2024. This excludes the corona-crisis and comes down to an N of 111. Cumulative Abnormal Return represents stock performance, CEO ownership and CEO tenure within the specific firm were used as moderators. Firm size, firm age, industry, CEO gender, and CEO duality were added to the model in order to conduct a multiple linear regression analysis. In order to process the data better, some variables have undergone a log-transformation. To prevent data loss within the limited sample, the CEO ownership variable is converted to a binary indicator through dummy coding.
The results show a portion of variance explained by CEO and firm characteristics. CEO tenure within a company positively affects CAR. CEO ownership showed no significant impact on CAR.
These results contribute to literature about executives and their role in times of financial distress. Moreover, these findings may be useful for executives, investors, and boards to better grasp how firm leadership impacts market reactions. Suggestions for future research entail a larger and more diversified sample and the addition of more granular data on CEO ownership in order to possibly find more significant impact and to be able to create more generalizability
Safety perceptions on gendered public transportation choices
No full textPublic transportation safety is a critical component of urban mobility, particularly for women, who often report higher levels of insecurity while using these services. This study investigates which safety-related factors women consider most influential in shaping their perceptions of safety in public transport in Nijmegen. A mixed-methods approach was employed, combining quantitative survey data from 157 women with qualitative insights from expert interviews with a municipal policy advisor and a city councillor.
The findings indicate that infrastructure-related factors, particularly lighting and the visible presence of staff, have the strongest influence on women’s perceived safety. Among demographic variables, education level emerged as the most significant, indirectly affecting safety perceptions through various mediating factors such as lighting conditions, staff presence, cultural norms, time of day, and skin colour.
The results underscore the importance of gender-sensitive infrastructure planning, with practical implications including improved lighting and increased staff visibility in transit environments. Additionally, the study highlights the role of social dynamics in shaping safety experiences and calls for more attention to intersectional perspectives. Further research is recommended to deepen the understanding of how intersectional identities impact perceptions of safety and to inform the development of targeted, inclusive interventions
Netwerk op spanning. Een onderzoek naar de factoren die deelname van organisaties bij een netwerksamenwerking rondom een energyhub verklaren.
Get PDFDoor netcongestie kunnen bedrijven niet altijd rekenen op voldoende energie om te verduurzamen en/ of uit te breiden. Energyhubs zijn hiervoor een oplossing, doordat energieopwekking en -verbruik op elkaar worden afgestemd. De realisatie van een energyhub vergt een goede netwerksamenwerking tussen de betrokken actoren. Hiervoor dienen bedrijven motieven te hebben om deel te nemen. Om een dergelijk initiatief van de grond te laten komen is het van belang te begrijpen welke factoren bedrijven motiveren om deel te nemen aan de netwerksamenwerking. In dit onderzoek is daarom onderzocht welke factoren de deelname van bedrijven aan de netwerksamenwerking rondom de energyhub verklaren. Om deze onderzoeksvraag te beantwoorden is een survey uitgezet en zijn er zeven interviews afgenomen binnen de casus van de gemeente Ede op het bedrijventerrein BTA12. Op basis van de literatuur zijn mogelijke verklarende factoren vastgesteld, die vervolgens in de praktijk getoetst zijn. Daarbij is onderscheid gemaakt tussen theorieën die vallen onder kosten en motieven van deelname. Uit de resultaten is gebleken dat de factoren verwachte opbrengsten en expertise van invloed waren op de keuze van bedrijven om deel te nemen. Daarnaast vormt onduidelijke wet- en regelgeving een belemmerende factor voor bedrijven om deel te nemen
The Moderating Effect of sustainability-linked CEO Compensation on the Relationship Between ESG Scores, Firm Performance
Get PDFIn recent years, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) activities have become more common in business, aiming to build stakeholder trust and improve firm performance. One approach firms use is linking CEO compensation to sustainability goals, which may help improve ESG performance. However, it is still unclear whether this also improves financial performance. This study explores whether CEO compensation tied to sustainability influences the relationship between ESG performance (measured by ESG scores) and firm performance (measured by return on assets and return on equity). Because firm performance could also affect ESG scores, or both could be influenced by other factors, the study uses an instrumental variable (IV) regression method. Industry-average ESG scores and their interaction with CEO compensation are used as instruments to improve the reliability of the results. The findings show that while higher ESG scores do not always lead to better financial outcomes, firms with sustainability-linked CEO pay tend to perform better. Still, when ESG performance increases within those firms, it may reduce financial performance. This suggests that ESG goals need to be carefully aligned with business strategy to be financially effective
Tussen Waardering en Kritiek: Hoe Nederlandse Belangengroepen Framen in de Media
Get PDFOnderzoek naar de framing van belangengroepen richt zich meestal op de thema’s die zij benadrukken, en zelden op de richting van hun framing. Er wordt bijvoorbeeld vaak gekeken of belangengroepen de nadruk leggen op thema’s als klimaat of economie, maar zelden naar de mate waarin zij positief dan wel negatief framen. Hierdoor is de framingstrategie echter lastig los te zien van de inhoudelijke belangen die belangengroepen vertegenwoordigen. Dit onderzoek richt zich daarom specifiek op de mate waarin belangengroepen positief of negatief framen – oftewel equivalence framing. Een inhoudsanalyse van 178 nieuwsartikelen laat zien dat het onderzoeken van de richting van framing waardevolle inzichten biedt in de overeenkomsten en verschillen in framingstrategieën van diverse typen belangengroepen. Hoewel alle soorten belangengroepen in de media overwegend negatief framen, varieert de mate van negativiteit afhankelijk van de context, zoals het soort regeringsdocument waar op wordt gereageerd en de kabinetsperiode. Ook maken alle typen belangengroepen gebruik van een breder scala aan verschillende narratieven in hun negatieve framing dan in hun positieve framing. Tegelijkertijd zijn er duidelijke onderlinge verschillen in equivalence framing tussen belangengroeptypen. Dit blijkt zowel uit de verhouding tussen positieve en negatieve frames als uit de narratieven waarop zij de nadruk leggen
Ik vind het unbelievable. Het effect van Engelse codeswitches in het Nederlands op geloofwaardigheid
No full textOnderzoek naar het gebruik van Engels en codeswitching in het Nederlands toont uiteenlopende meningen en effecten. Deze studie combineert onderzoek naar geloofwaardigheid van spraak en attitudes tegenover codeswitching, en onderzoekt of taalkeuze invloed heeft op geloofwaardigheid. In een experiment beoordeelden Nederlandstalige deelnemers ingesproken feitelijke uitspraken in het Nederlands, Engels, en met een codeswitch op geloofwaardigheid. Daarna vulden zij vragenlijsten in over hun houding ten opzichte van Engels en codeswitching, en hun zelfgerapporteerde taalvaardigheid. De resultaten tonen aan dat taalkeuze (Nederlands, Engels of codeswitching) geen effect heeft op geloofwaardigheid. Wel blijkt dat hogere zelfgerapporteerde Engelse taalvaardigheid samenhangt met een hogere geloofwaardigheidsscore, terwijl oudere deelnemers juist lagere scores geven. Er werden geen interactie-effecten gevonden. De conclusie is dat taalvaardigheid en leeftijd invloed hebben op hoe geloofwaardig spraak wordt beoordeeld, maar taalkeuze op zichzelf niet
Pulling Yourself Up by the Bootstraps”: Fandom Self-Referentiality in Goncharov (1973) – A Case for Meta-Fanfiction
No full textHow fan audiences organise themselves differs as a result of the affordances of the platform on which they are operating. These differences allow for a multitude of distinct fandom works to be created, one of which is fanfiction. Just as is the case with other forms of fan creations, how fanfiction is written is largely dependent on the context in which it is written and the material and methods available to the writer(s). Fanfiction has academically long been considered a literary practice contingent on the existence of a concrete source text, often in the form of a fictive narrative or some form of (popular) media.
However, in the last few years, other examples of fan-made narratives have been put forward, which are not constructed with a source text as the narrative from which they are derived, such as the case with Goncharov meme on Tumblr. During the last few months of 2022, the Tumblr community came together to collectively create an imagined movie through jokingly insisting that the movie exists and pretending to be people who had seen the movie and commenting on the contents of the movie. I contend that the Goncharov meme challenges the academic understanding of fanfiction, which has been traditionally put forward by demonstrating how narratives can emerge from more abstract sources, such as the collective experience of minority fandom members, rather than a concrete source text in the form of a narrative with an established progression.
By introducing the concept of “meta-fanfiction”, this research aims to more concretely conceptualise the phenomenon occurring with Goncharov (1973) in which meta-references on how minority fandom members typically alter subtextual or lacklustre representation in fanfiction are transformed into creating the base narrative of Goncharov (1973), thus illustrating the evolving and reflexive nature of both fanfiction and how audience members relate to mainstream media. The concept of silosocilaity will be used to show that there is distinctiveness in how people on Tumblr operate, meaning that fandom on Tumblr does have self-awareness of their operational codes.
Through attention to how queer and female characters are represented in the Goncharov (1973), this research explores the research question: to what extent does the creation of Goncharov (1973) as fanfiction differ from how the creation of fanfiction has been academically described? I argue that Goncharov is fanfiction created by the Tumblr fandom that alters the definition of what fanfiction is beyond the focus which has been kept in academic discourse on fanfiction, in which the emphasis is on an already existent media text. The alternative is that people may draw upon their lived experiences as a foundation to
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create fanfiction. The argument is substantiated through the analysis of three works of canon-compliant fanfiction derived from Goncharov (1973) as a source text, as well as one work of fan art also derived from Goncharov (1973).
Keywords: fanfiction, fandom, Tumblr, self-referentiality, meta-fanfiction
The walkable neighbourhood. Understanding the influence of perceived walkability, place attachment and urban design on walking behaviour. A photovoice study in Nijmegen
No full textThis research focuses on the relationship between walking behaviour and three interrelated factors: perceived walkability, place attachment and urban design. This examines how people's perceptions of walkability and place attachment influence their walking behaviour, and in what way urban design shapes these perceptions, attachments and behaviour. To this end, the Theory of Planned behaviour is used to theoretically explain people's intentions and behaviour. A relatively new research method is applied for the study, namely Photovoice. This is a participatory research method in which participants themselves take pictures of their living environment. Photovoice helps uncover subjective experiences that are difficult to express in words. In this study, residents of Nijmegen East took photographs to provide insight into their walking behaviour and the factors that influence that behaviour. Additional interviews broadened and deepened the perspective. The results show that walking behaviour is influenced by how the environment is perceived and the degree of attachment to a place. Urban design plays a key role in facilitating and enhancing these perceptions and feelings. This research recommends the 4C (connected, comfortable, caring and captivating) tool to improve the walkability of an environment, with a focus on the human-centred approach in planning