SDG Barometer 2024: Heading in the right direction but not fast enough?

The Dutch SDG Barometer 2024 offers a detailed analysis of sustainability progress in the Netherlands. While awareness of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remains high, challenges persist in prioritization, implementation, and measurement. This second edition highlights key trends and barriers as the 2030 deadline nears. Key findings reveal steady sustainability awareness but limited SDG integration (15%), competition from EU frameworks like CSRD, and rising communication gaps. Resource constraints and insufficient government support are cited as major hurdles. Despite obstacles, the report underscores the potential of partnerships and sector-specific approaches to drive meaningful SDG progress, calling for stronger policies, focused strategies, and enhanced collaboration to achieve the transformative vision of the 2030 Agenda.<br/

Choosing how to choose : Institutional pressures affecting the adoption of personnel selection procedures

The gap between science and practice in personnel selection is an ongoing concern of human resource management. This paper takes Oliver´s framework of organizations´ strategic responses to institutional pressures as a basis for outlining the diverse economic and social demands that facilitate or inhibit the application of scientifically recommended selection procedures. Faced with a complex network of multiple requirements, practitioners make more diverse choices in response to any of these pressures than has previously been acknowledged in the scientific literature. Implications for the science-practitioner gap are discussed

SDG Barometer 2024: Heading in the right direction but not fast enough?

The Dutch SDG Barometer 2024 offers a detailed analysis of sustainability progress in the Netherlands. While awareness of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remains high, challenges persist in prioritization, implementation, and measurement. This second edition highlights key trends and barriers as the 2030 deadline nears. Key findings reveal steady sustainability awareness but limited SDG integration (15%), competition from EU frameworks like CSRD, and rising communication gaps. Resource constraints and insufficient government support are cited as major hurdles. Despite obstacles, the report underscores the potential of partnerships and sector-specific approaches to drive meaningful SDG progress, calling for stronger policies, focused strategies, and enhanced collaboration to achieve the transformative vision of the 2030 Agenda.<br/

Strategy-structure-performance in transnational corporations: A longitudinal study of the United States automobile industry: 1960-1987

In this study, an attempt is made to identify and explain the differences between the multidomestic and global time periods with respect to: (i) four research constructs, and (ii) the relationships between these constructs. The four research constructs are: environment, strategy, structure, and performance. Each of the four research constructs is defined and operationalized around the concept of environmental interdependence. The difference in the degree of environmental interdependence is presented as the singlemost important condition separating the multidomestic from the global time period. The global time period is characterized by a higher degree of environmental interdependence. The proposed definitions and operationalizations of the four research constructs highlight a number of deficiencies of the theory base underlying the research approach adopted in previous studies. Five deficiencies (or implicit assumptions as they will be called) are identified, critiqued and relaxed. Following the relaxation of the five implicit assumptions, a new research approach is adopted. The principal characteristics of the new research approach are: (i) a longitudinal research design, (ii) an extended interpretation of the structure construct to include interorganizational relationships, (iii) an explicit modeling of environmental effects, (iv) and an explicit focus on the determinants of economic performance. The major findings of this study are: (i) the multidomestic and global time periods differ substantially with respect to the operational content of the four research constructs (specifically, the observed differences between environment, strategy, structure, and performance are consistent with the interpretation that the global time period is characterized by a higher degree of environmental interdependence), (ii) the multidomestic and global time periods have different determinants of economic performance, (iii) the importance of environmental, strategic, and structure variables as a determinant of economic performance is state-dependent. Specifically, the environment is a much stronger determinant of economic performance in the global time period. Conversely, strategy/structure variables are a much stronger determinant of economic performance in the multidomestic time period. At the theoretical level, the empirical results support the hypothesis that the relevance of the strategic choice and ecology theory paradigms is state-dependent. The principal contributions of this study are: (i) the development of a consistent theory base for strategy-structure-performance studies, (ii) the adoption of a research design that is empirical, formal, and systematic, (iii) the longitudinal study of the relationships between strategy, structure, and performance in a single industry, (iv) an explicit study of both the multidomestic and global time periods, and (v) an explicit study of the determinants of economic performance in the multidomestic and global time periods