Category: Published 2025

Citizen Collectives Monitor maps the development, resilience, and challenges of Dutch initiatives

Dive into the data from the first Citizen Collectives Monitor by CollectieveKracht (Dutch publication). Based on information from 431 initiatives, the monitor shows how citizen collectives are increasingly developing into important actors in the public domain.

The first copy was presented on 8 December to Claartje Brons, Programme Manager for Democracy at the Ministry of the Interior. Brons: “When I visit citizen collectives, I see people who want to make a difference, who want to do something meaningful or good, and that happens across many sectors. It is a richness in the Netherlands that is very important and that we can tap into even better. The monitor can help us with that.”

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Paper on use of small LLMs in historical studies

Automation of certain parts of data collection and data processing in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities would enable researchers to skip some of the more painstaking tasks, leaving more time for the actual analysis and opening up the possibility to work with larger data sets. So, how can small Large Language Models (sLLMs) help? Marianne Groep-Foncke and Tine De Moor (RSM, Erasmus University Rotterdam) published a paper on this topic, titled: ‘Easily accessible (small) LLMs in historical studies: opportunities, limitations, pitfalls‘.

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Research on historical insights on institutional spread awarded during AOM Annual Meeting

During the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, professor Tine De Moor moderated the paper session Institutions, Legitimacy and Change on Sunday 27 July. During this sessions, she presented the paper ‘Contagious Institutions? A Longitudinal Study of Institutional Spill-Over of European Guilds‘, co-authored with Fijnanda van Klingeren. Their paper delves into the spread of guilds across Europe over 600 years, offering fresh insights into the spatial and temporal factors influencing their proliferation.

For this paper, De Moor and Van Klingeren have been honoured with the Journal of Management History Award for Best International Paper. The award announcement was during the Management History Business Meeting, which took place on Monday, July 28.

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Publication on how citizen collectives can boost societal transitions

An article published in Bestuurwetenschappen explores how closer collaboration between government and citizen collectives can contribute to tackling societal transitions and restoring trust in democracy. The Dutch article “Citizen collectives at the helm? In co-creation with the government towards successful transitions” is a collaboration between the following researchers working in the academic field of citizen collectives in the Netherlands: Tine De Moor, Darinka Czischke, Carola van Eijk, Marianne Groep-Foncke, Lukas Held, Ina Horlings, Lise Jans, Reinout Kleinhans & Ingmar van Meerkerk.

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