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Influence of the Organizational Environment on Challenging Behaviour in People with Intellectual Disabilities: Professionals' Views
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Olivier-Pijpers, Vanessa C.; Cramm, Jane M.; Nieboer, Anna P. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
Background: We examined the influence of the organizational environment on challenging behaviour in people with intellectual disabilities to increase understanding of the quality of support services for people with intellectual disabilities. Method: Twenty-one professionals and managers from four specialized Dutch disability service organizations…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Behavior Problems, Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries
Do Spin-Offs Make the Academics' Heads Spin? The Impacts of Spin-Off Companies on Their Parent Research Organisation
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Zomer, Arend H.; Jongbloed, Ben W. A.; Enders, Jurgen – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2010
As public research organisations are increasingly driven by their national and regional governments to engage in knowledge transfer, they have started to support the creation of companies. These research based spin-off companies (RBSOs) often keep contacts with the research institutes they originate from. In this paper we present the results of a…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Foreign Countries, Institutional Environment, Grants
Organizational Culture, Performance and Career Choices of Ph.D.s: A Case Study of Dutch Medical Researchers
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van der Weijden, Inge; de Gilder, Dick; Groenewegen, Peter; Geerling, Maaike – Higher Education Policy, 2008
Increasing demands for accountability and applicability raise the question of how organizational factors affect researchers' performance and career choices. In a study of Dutch medical Ph.D. student's experiences, organizational culture and climate and attitudes towards research quality are related to performance and career choices. Ph.D.s who…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Career Choice, Researchers, Case Studies
Restructuring Higher Education. A Comparative Analysis between Australia and the Netherlands.
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Goedegebuure, Leo C. J.; Meek, V. Lynn – Comparative Education, 1991
Higher education in Australia and the Netherlands illustrates two international trends: restructuring toward systems of fewer, larger institutions; and government tendencies to continue setting broad policies while decentralizing other responsibilities to institutions. Success in restructuring is attributed to the interaction of public policy and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy