Linda Drupsteen

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS)

10 voorbeelden van ondernemers die regeneratief werken ter inspiratie voor andere ondernemers of mensen die meer willen leren over regeneratief ondernemen

Purpose Social enterprises have proven to play a vital role in the transitions towards inclusive labour markets and sustainable economies. Yet, they often struggle to flourish within traditional economic systems due to the dual mission of pursuing social and commercial goals, leading to inherent tensions for social entrepreneurs. This study aims to...

Amidst escalating environmental and social challenges, this study explores regenerative business models’ definition and characteristics. While sustainable models have made considerable strides in research, policy, and practice, the advent of regenerative business models offers a progressive leap forward. Regenerative business models aspire to contr...

Bedrijven die zich richten ecologisch en sociaal herstel vinden het nog wel eens een uitdaging om hun regeneratieve praktijken goed te beschrijven. Met Wilder Land en Bamboo Import Europe hebben we een raamwerk ontwikkeld om deze praktijken in kaart te brengen en daarmee interne en externe gesprekken te faciliteren.

This paper is a preliminary explanation of how we aim to study regenerative business models in the context of CET-AUAS. As our activities proceed, this paper may develop and grow. We welcome suggestions and ideas for collaborations in this field from both scholars and practitioners to enhance our efforts.

In dit rapport beschrijven we de onderzoeksresultaten van het project ‘Toekomstbestendig Sociaal Ondernemen’: TBSO. In dit project is samen met enkele sociale ondernemingen gekeken hoe hun organisatie is ingericht en hoe zij duurzaam aan hun sociale missie kunnen werken. Hierbij ligt onze focus op ondernemers die zich richten op het vergroten van k...

Sociale ondernemingen zijn er in alle soorten en maten. Ze onderscheiden zich vooral van reguliere ondernemingen doordat ze missie-gedreven zijn. Dit betekent dat winst geen doel op zich is, maar een middel om maatschappelijke meerwaarde te creëren. Tegelijkertijd is het wel belangrijk dat dit middel er is: voor het voortbestaan van de onderneming...

Brede inzetbaarheid van personeel wordt gezien als een manier voor bedrijven om in te spelen op fluctuaties in de marktvraag. Het kan daarmee een alternatief vormen voor een flexibele schil of in combinatie met een flexibele schil worden ingezet. Voor het midden- en kleinbedrijf (mkb) kan brede inzetbaarheid een interessante optie zijn om flexibili...

This publication, Case study analysis on dynamic learning from accidents, The ESReDA Cube, a method and metaphor for exploring a learning space for safety, aims to: • Report on 5 cases analysed on dynamic learning from accidents and gives an overview of cases of accidents in the context of high risk organizations with an eye on identifying learning...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) cope with the need for labour flexibility. Most previous studies ignore the labour flexibility practices of SMEs, especially in times of economic growth and tight labour markets. Design/methodology/approach A multiple case study approach is applied, with ten...

The number of social enterprises is increasing rapidly. Social enterprises are looking for new, innovative and economically sustainable ways to tackle structural societal challenges that generally fall outside the direct focus and objectives of the public and private sector. Social enterprises are primarily mission-driven, where profit is not a goa...

Voor sociale ondernemingen is het maken van winst geen doel op zich, maar een middel om impact te creëren met betrekking tot een specifiek maatschappelijk probleem. Dit kan uiteenlopen van armoedebestrijding, betaalbare gezondheidszorg, duurzaamheid of arbeidsparticipatie. In de praktijk betekent dat laatste: zinvol en duurzaam werk bieden aan mens...

Hogeschool Utrecht en hogeschool Windesheim Flevoland hebben bij 20 sociaal ondernemers onderzocht wat succesfactoren en belemmeringen waren voor verdere groei in impact op arbeidsparticipatie. Deze publicatie geeft een inkijk in de veranderambities en bedrijfsmodellen van de ondernemers en zij vertellen wat zij zelf als succesfactor van hun bedrij...

Many companies describe safety as their top priority, but does that mean that safety is a value for them? Values are more stable and can be expected to have a more sustainable impact on safety than safety as “just a priority”. Particularly in an era of deregulation, globalization, economic downturn and the ‘changing world of work’, values and cultu...

De in de VS gevestigde Greyston Bakery heeft als motto: “We don’t hire people to bake brownies, we bake brownies to hire people”. Om dit motto waar te maken, hanteert Greyston een Open Hiring™- model, wat inhoudt dat iedereen in aanmerking komt voor een baan, ongeacht diploma’s, ervaring en achtergrond. Maatschappelijk investeerder Start Foundation...

In this paper the findings are presented of a multinational study involving 27 companies that have adopted a ‘Zero Accident Vision’ (ZAV). ZAV is the ambition that all accidents are preventable, and this paper focuses on how companies implement ZAV through ZAV commitment, safety communication, safety culture and safety learning. Managers and worker...

Providing safety information to visitors is an important task of each employer, but there is little evidence on what instructions are most effective. This study explores the effectiveness of visitor instructions that are currently in use, by identifying what objectives of visitor instruction are considered most important and assessing whether the a...

Working with multiple contractors in a shared workplace can introduce and increase safety risks due to complexity. The aim of this study was to explore how safety issues are recognized in a specific case and to identify whether clients and contractors perceive problems similarly. The safety issues are explored through a brief survey and a workshop...

These guidelines have been prepared especially for designers of a training toolkit that targets specialists and generalists to be trained in event investigation and in learning from experience analysis, engineering, management and auditing. It answers to the question: “what should be in a training toolkit?” for safety investigation and dynamic lear...

Provides an overview of knowledge concerning the barriers which exist to learning from incidents and accidents. While most research on learning focuses on individual cognition, the focus in this document is mainly on learning at an organizational level, while also taking into account a cross-organizational and even societal/cultural level. It conce...

Our aim is to gather data on multiple factors that can affect learning for work. We will study 1) whether principles of effective learning found in previous studies apply to real life settings, 2) what predicts learning in found subgroups, and 3) which measurements are useful and cost-effective?

This research plan focuses on learning at work. Our aim is to gather empirical data on multiple factors that can affect learning for work, and to apply computational methods in order to understand the preconditions of effective learning. The design will systematically combine theory- and data-driven approaches to study (i) whether principles of eff...

For a series of activities, there are in the Netherlands specific requirements for mandatory occupational safety and health (OSH) certification of people, products or services. To reduce problems with the present arrangements - for the involved ministry as well as for the stakeholders - exploratory research was carried out to clarify the added valu...

The main objective of this dissertation is to contribute to better learning from safety-related incidents and accidents in organisations. The dissertation provides a method to systematically study learning from incidents, by using a model of five phases that represent the actions necessary to successfully follow-up on incidents and to learn from t...

The research presented in this paper was carried out in four process industry plants in the Netherlands, to identify factors that have the potential to increase safety and reliability while maintaining or improving job satisfaction. The data used were gathered as part of broader trajectories in these firms, aiming at the simultaneous improvement of...

Learning from incidents, accidents and disasters contributes to improvement of safety and the prevention of unwanted events. In this review, literature on learning from safety incidents within organizations is studied and compared with the organizational learning theory of Argyris and Schön. Sub-processes, such as learning lessons, sharing, storing...

Most organisations aim to use experience from the past to improve safety, for instance through learning from safety-related incidents and accidents. Whether an organisation is able to learn successfully can however only be determined afterwards. So far, there are no proactive measures to assess whether an organisation will be able to learn from exp...

Learning from incidents is a subject that is important to most organizations. We see the ‘learning from incidents processes’ as a set of processes from reporting an incident to verifying the effectiveness of the measures taken. This study aims to identify how learning can be more successful and more efficient, by identifying conditions that influen...

Leren van incidenten is voor veel organisatie een belangrijk onderwerp. Wanneer organisaties lessen trekken uit ervaringen en de lessen gebruiken om te verbeteren kunnen negatieve gebeurtenissen- zoals ongevallen - worden voorkomen. Dit artikel beschrijft dat organisaties beter en efficiënter kunnen leren, door de omgevingsfactoren die de leerproce...

Many incidents have occurred because organisations have failed to learn from lessons of the past. This means that there is room for improvement in the way organisations analyse incidents, generate measures to remedy identified weaknesses and prevent reoccurrence: the learning from incidents process. To improve that process, it is necessary to gain...

Background: The oil and gas industry in the Danish sector of the North Sea has always focused on reducing work-related accidents. Over the years, accident rates have been reduced, and near-miss reporting has gained in importance, because it allows the industry to learn from experience and prevent further accidents. Because of this importance, oil a...

Diverse cultures at work Ensuring safety and health through leadership and participation This report describes the state of the art in addressing cultural diversity in the workplace, for which we distinguish two aspects: - Cross-cultural aspects in occupational safety and health (OSH): working in teams that are homogeneous with regard to their nat...

Many organizations try to prevent reoccurrence of incidents by analyzing incidents and implement recommendations based in their findings. Unfortunately this approach is not without pitfalls. Between ‘reporting’ and ‘evaluation of the effect of actions’ there are several hurdles to be taken. Only by looking at all the steps in the process organizati...

The main purpose of our ongoing study is to develop knowledge on how to improve learning from incidents in organisations. In this phase of the study insight into the main bottlenecks is created. Many organizations investigate accidents and incidents to understand what happened, what caused it and why, and how to learn lessons from them to prevent...

This report presents a number of case studies in managing risks to road transport drivers. The cases feature a variety of initiatives and interventions to protect drivers.In the road transport sector, as with any other, it is important to pay attention to working conditions in order to ensure a skilled and motivated workforce. Certain characteristi...

This review presents reports of work-related road transport accidents, near misses, and other effects relating to ill health that give details concerning the causes and effects of the accidents. The main focus of the report is on road transport activities that take place on the public highway; however light deliveries are included, as well as buses...