Hans De Bruijn: 9 books

Geert Wilders has dominated the political debate in the Netherlands for several years. His opponents from the centre seem unable to get a grip on him. In this essay, Hans de Bruijn analyses the way in which Wilders conducts the debate. He discusses the frames used by Wilders and shows how ingenious they...

Veranderdeskundige Jaap Boonstra en zijn coauteurs bieden in dit boek een nieuwe benadering voor het succesvol veranderen van maatschappelijke organisaties.Maatschappelijke organisaties zijn bijzonder. Ze bewegen zich in grote maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen en proberen tegelijk trouw te blijven aan...

Uitgave in samenwerking met Stichting Management Studies. Er lijkt een bijna onverzadigbare behoefte te bestaan aan nieuwe vormen van organiseren. Bij veel bestaande organisatievormen voelen we ons blijkbaar onbehaaglijk: ze sluiten niet meer aan op de wereld die zo anders is dan een paar decennia geleden....

`Nu doet u het weer, zegt Diederik Samson tegen Mark Rutte en in één klap is de wederopbouw van de PvdA in gang gezet. Vele decennia eerder heeft Ronald Reagan ook zo n moment. De hele campagne om het presidentschap brengt hij terug tot een vraag aan de Amerikaanse kiezer: gaat het jullie beter...

Getting what you want – even if you are the boss – isn’t always easy. Almost every organization, big or small, works among a network of competing interests. Whether it’s governments pushing through policies, companies trying to increase profits, or even families deciding where to move house,...

Topical and taking a bold stance in the contentious debate surrounding performance in the public sector, this new edition shows readers how performance thinking has a substantial impact on the management of public organizations. Thoroughly revised and updated, this highly successful text,...

• End: pro?t and loss account. As a result, there will be a stage at which the parties have developed relations and prospects of gain, while there are still a number of problems that are dif?cult to solve and that fail to evoke consensus. Each party will then draw up a pro?t and loss account. On...

Managing Professionals deals with the tensions between managers and professionals within organizations, such as hospitals, universities, banks and judicial organizations. Often managers rely heavily on the skills and expertise of the professionals in their organizations, yet these professionals consider...

Politicians employ a wide range of strategies to achieve their goals - and language is one of them. What impact does their language have on us, on their opponents, on the public opinion? If language matters, then the interesting question naturally arises how politicians use language to their...