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Hu, W. (author)Increasing international building construction projects happen in China, thus it is unavoidable for Western European architects to collaborative with Chinese developers. However, since cultural differences and language barriers may lead to low psychological safety and poor trust, slowing down the process and causing frustration in collaborative...master thesis 2016
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McGibbon, S.T. (author)The housing estate of Nieuw Kattenburg is a Late-Modernist housing area consisting of many system-built slab buildings. This has been offering affordable housing and was built by the municipality of Amsterdam over fifty years ago. It is situated adjacent to the Amsterdam marine terrain which is now in the process of decommissioning and will be...master thesis 2016
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Meissner, C. (author)High inefficiencies in transport networks due to low utilization of transport modes, incurring unnecessary costs and burdens on the environment, are motivating companies to increasingly cooperate in logistics with companies from the same or another value chain. Although multi-company cooperations are likely to create benefits for the cooperating...master thesis 2015
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Robert Assis, D. (author)The main objective of this research project is to explore the potential correlation between the level of trust between project managers and clients and the effectiveness of their Project Risk Management. The research project is executed in collaboration with Tebodin, a Dutch company that offers engineering and consultancy services worldwide;...master thesis 2015
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Van Beek, L.C. (author)Clay Solutions, a specialist in cloud-based locking systems, wants to enter the residential market, but faces a difficult challenge: people do not trust electronic locking systems as much as traditional locks and keys. Fulcrum, a new locking system, incorporates qualities of wisdom in its adaptive behavior in order to elicit trust in users and...master thesis 2015
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Van Engen, G. (author)Trust is a critical success factor for alliance PPP-projects, in which public and private parties closely collaborate to realize a construction project. In The Netherlands, there is an expected increase in PPP-projects, and the alliance arrangement seems to be an attractive form. Trust however, is an abstract and intangible concept, which is...master thesis 2015
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Eggenkamp, J.Y. (author)When sailing with a spinnaker over a long distance, the sailor has to manage other activities, making it impossible to keep an eye on the spinnaker at all time. A spinnaker can easily become unstable and then the risk arises of the spinnaker getting wrapped around the forestay. For the sailor, this creates a sense of distrust in the spinnaker....master thesis 2014
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Persoon, E.H. (author)A case study on the tie strength and its management regarding the requirements and their fulfillment as well as the degree of collaboration.master thesis 2014
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Spijkervet, L.L.J. (author)In the last few years the amount of witnessed accidents (such as stolen information) following from cyber-attacks has increased. It is considered that organisations cannot keep up with adversaries by themselves anymore. For that reason organisations would have to collaborate with each other, by sharing information, to improve each other’s...master thesis 2014
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Stumpel, B.E. (author)The Dutch UAD-practice finds itself in a new era full of challenges and opportunities. Urban development projects are struggling to achieve successes. New revenue models, like the Urban Development Trust (UDT), have been discussed rather extensively by many academics & practitioners. Nonetheless, remarkably little theoretical & empirical...master thesis 2014
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Karypidis, C. (author)The globalization of economy has significantly increased the role of online information exchange between transacting parties worldwide. Currently implemented trust models, such as Public Key Infrastructure, provide enough means to enable the secure exchange of data, but only within specified territories, thereby forming different trust domains...master thesis 2013
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Ferrier, E. (author)The liberalization of the energy sector transformed this sector into a dynamic and competitive environment. To cope with this transformation and to build competitive advantage, energy companies expand their businesses through downstream customer interfacing businesses in energy-related markts. These new markets are not the core business of...master thesis 2013
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Aarden, T. (author)Overall the retailers and centre management are not convinced to cooperate with each other. The basic condition for cooperation is insight in the surplus value of the cooperation and when applicable for retailers, the permission of the head office. It depends on the kind of cooperation if these aspects are present. The evaluation of the attached...master thesis 2013
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Vijfhuize, J. (author)In recent years the role of suppliers in the supply chain has shifted. Traditionally, a contract between the organization and a supplier simply prescribed all duties of the involved parties. Nowadays, organizations demand pro-active behavior from their suppliers in order to improve the business relationship in the long term. Many different...master thesis 2012
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Steenbergen, O. (author)The development of social networks has changed the way we communicate from a personal conversation into a broadcast with a world-wide audience. Social networks have proven themselves useful during protests and natural disasters by providing a platform to share ideas and offer help to those in need. However, due to the reliance on the Internet...master thesis 2012
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Camps, A. (author)Problem statement A robot vacuum cleaner (rvc) offers a solution to maintain clean floors while saving the time and effort of cleaning. This benefit is most fully enjoyed when users let it clean during the time they are away from home. However, this requires the user to trust the robot being capable of cleaning (managing) completely autonomous....master thesis 2011
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Van Vulpen, A. (author)The following MSc thesis describes a project done at Senta multisensory concepting, by a student from the Delft University of Technology. It was the student’s assignment to analyse which kind of problems occurs in the communication between Senta and its clients. This knowledge was then used to develop a design proposal for an instrument, with...master thesis 2011
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Brantjes, M.L.J. (author)IHC-Systems develops automation systems for dredgers. They assume the automation systems on board of trailing suction hopper dredgers are not always employed. Trailer suction hopper dredgers are a specific type of dredgers. Several automation systems can assist the operators for dredging. Some ships have dedicated operators and on other ships...master thesis 2011
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Kuiper, E. (author)The latest optical measuring device is analyzed and evaluated on user trust, accuracy and ease-of-use. Found is that the process takes too much time and positioning on (curved) surfaces is too difficult. This results in a high threshold for usage. Next to that, the accuracy is perceived as low. During idea and concept development the focus was...master thesis 2010