Drs. H.L. Duijnhoven

Present

Monday - Friday

Specialization

• Cultural change and intervention strategies in complex organizations
• Organizations in the infrastructure sector
• Administrative Culture and Public Sector Change
• Railway sector (particularly in the Netherlands and Spain)
• Security Practices
• Organizational Discourse and Narrative Analysis
• Identity and Sensemaking

Link to CCSS personal PhD Programme

Research

 
Governance under Pressure: Administrative Culture and Decision-Making in Infrastructural Projects in the Netherlands

This research project focuses on administrative culture and decision-making processes in the field of infrastructure development in the Netherlands. The project, initiated by prof.dr. Jaap de Heer, is part of the COM research group ‘Cultural Change and Infrastructure’ and supported and facilitated by the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. For more information on the project and possibilities for MA thesis projects within this research see prof.dr. Jaap de Heer.

Research

Current:
Ph.D. research: "Organizing Security Culture in Practice. Strategies for Cultural Change in the Dutch and Spanish Railway Sector"
 
This research project entails a comparative study on security culture within organisations in the Dutch and Spanish railway sector. It focuses on the way in which organisational actors in this sector shape and give meaning to security culture in order to cope with institutional and societal changes with regard to security. In particular it deals with the processes of sensemaking, interpretation, and translation, through which these actors incorporate the issue of security into their daily practice.
 
The project is part of the research programme Cultural Change in Organizational Networks CuCON ofthe department of Culture, Organization and Management and within that programme of a research group, focused on processes of cultural change and intervention strategies in complex organizations in the infra-sector, centred around the chair held by Prof. Dr. M. Veenswijk
In addition, this Ph.D. project is part of the research school of the Netherlands Insitute of Government (NIG)
 
Previous research:
Research for the Master in Culture, Organization and Management: Identity, Cultural Change and the position of small entrepreneurs in the tourism industry of the Dominican Republic.

Recent publications

Duijnhoven, H. (2007). Security Culture in the Dutch and Spanish Railway Sector: A Historical Perspective. Journal of Transport History, 28 (2): 272-288.
 
Berendse, M., Duijnhoven, H., & Veenswijk, M. (2006). Editing Narratives of Change. Identity and Legitimacy in Complex Innovative Infrastructure Organizations. Intervention Research. International Journal on Culture, Organization and Management, 2 (1): 255-367.
 
Duijnhoven, H., & Roessingh, C. (2006). The Tourist with a Hidden Agenda? Shifting Roles in the Field of Tourism Research. International Journal of Tourism Research, 8 (2): 115-126.
 
Roessingh, C., Bras, K., Berendse, M., & Duijnhoven, H. (Eds.). (2005). Entrepreneurs in Tourism in the Caribbean Basin. Case Studies from Belize, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Suriname. Amsterdam: Dutch University Press. 
 
Publications Hanneke Duijnhoven

Personal webpage Hanneke Duijnhoven 

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