In recent decades, the Dutch labour market has become more flexible. Flexible labour contracts enable firms to adjust employment to a changing market environment and to competitive pressures. Almost without exception, academic studies on the drivers behind the use of flexible labour contracts at the company level, are motivated by competitive pressures. However, companies may be susceptible to institutional pressures as well. Based on a survey among more than 650 managers in the Netherlands, we conclude that firms are vulnerable to institutional (mimetic) forces. This finding has several implications for policy-making and labour flexibility research. |


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Redactioneel |
Van de redactie |
Auteurs | Tamara Metze |
Auteursinformatie |
Artikel |
De flexibele onderneming: een kwestie van competitie én imitatie |
Auteurs | Fabian Dekker |
Samenvatting |
Artikel |
Deliberatieve democratie: ervaringen met diversiteit in burgertop Amsterdam |
Trefwoorden | Democracy, Summit, Dialogue, Diversity, Homogeneity |
Auteurs | Dr. Peer Smets en Marloes Vlind MSc |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
This paper will show how citizens’ summits in the Netherlands cope with diversity of participants and the impact of this on those initiatives. This provides insight in why diversity is hard to reach and what can be done to improve it. Presently, dissatisfaction about the Dutch democratic system is widespread. Solutions are being sought to strengthen Dutch participatory democracy. For this objective, citizens’ summits develop different kind of initiatives. However, citizens participating in these summits are a homogeneous group, namely mainly white, middle aged and highly educated. Mechanisms of exclusion, selection of candidates, homogeneous composition of the organization, and a dominating intellectual/rational way of debating are playing a role here. Citizens with different backgrounds need to be included in these initiatives to obtain a better representation of society’s voices. This notion has been strengthened by theory, which shows that diversity enables more creativity and innovation. |
Discussie |
‘Een feit is geen feit’: repliek/dupliek over feitenloze of feitenrijke wetenschap |
Auteurs | Dr. Tamara Metze |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Reflection and debate initiates academically inspired discussions on issues that are on the current policy agenda. |
Discussie |
Feitenloze wetenschap speelt de post-waarheid politiek in de kaart |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Han L.J. van der Maas |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Dijstelbloem’s view on science and truth seems to support post-truth politics. The relativistic view on science is logically inconsistent and mostly irrelevant to practical science and its contribution to society. Post truth politics should be challenged by better science and better education. |
Discussie |
De maatschappelijke positie van de wetenschappen staat op het spel – reactie op Han van der Maas |
Auteurs | Prof. Dr. Huub Dijstelbloem |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Reflection and debate initiates academically inspired discussions on issues that are on the current policy agenda. |
Casus |
Introductie bij de oratie van Monique Kremer |
Auteurs | Dr. Duco Bannink en Prof. dr. Ewald Engelen |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors discuss recent research findings that are of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Casus |
Een verbindende verzorgingsstaat. Over burgerschap, zorg en (super)diversiteit |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Monique Kremer |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors discuss recent research findings that are of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Casus |
Een multidimensioneel perspectief op ongelijke diversiteit: aanknopingspunten voor inclusief beleid |
Auteurs | Dr. Marleen van der Haar |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors discuss recent research findings that are of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Casus |
‘Verzorgingsstaten maken mensen solidair’ |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Jan Willem Duyvendak |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors discuss recent research findings that are of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Boekbespreking |
De brandende kampongs van generaal Spoor |
Auteurs | Ineke Fritschij BSc |
Samenvatting |
In this feature authors review recently published books on subjects of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Column |
De blinde vlek in corporatieland |
Auteurs | Gerrit Teunis |
Samenvatting |
The most relevant part of a discussion is not what is discussed but what cannot be spoken of. The real taboos are those for which it is taboo to call them taboos. The status quo defines itself as non-ideological while denouncing any challenge to itself as radical. Therefore the column “De Blinde Vlek” frames the framers, politicizes the status quo and articulates what is not heard of. |