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Frits Liefkes (1930-2010) lived with Indonesian art. His house in The Hague was full of it. Bought almost entirely at auctions and from art dealers in the Netherlands during a period of four decades, on his death he bequeathed his collection to Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde in Leiden. This book, which accompanies an exhibition, presents some of his most beautiful and interesting objects. Reflecting his special interests, golden jewellery and wonderful textiles are particularly well represented in a collection that portrays the skilled craftsmanship of Indonesian artisans. Exhibition: Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde / National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, the Netherlands (7.5.-21.7.2013). 0

Employees who reported that human resources were poorly managed in their work group and that changing work group procedures could make a positive difference also tended to report that the needed changes were not likely to occur. Periodic monitoring of management practices and the work group environment to point out needs and stimulate a concerted effort toward change is seen as necessary to avoid organizational decline.

Digital marketing has become a necessity for small to medium enterprises (SME), exacerbated by the pandemic. Given the sometimes-limited knowledge and resources for digital marketing, SMEs often outsource digital marketing to service providers. A review of B2B literature demonstrates a predominant focus on how businesses internally adopt and use digital marketing with limited insight as to how digital marketing has been outsourced nor the subsequent relationship between client and service provider. This is a gap in scholarly and practitioner knowledge with increasing disputes in the SME and digital marketing service provider (DMSP) relationship. To address this gap the current research, informed by agency theory, adopts an exploratory research design utilising interviews with both SME owners ( n = 13) and DMSPs ( n = 7). Results uncover the importance of considering relationship expectations, transparency and organisational compatibility and how they relate to goal conflict or convergence in the SME and DMSP relationship.