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Plugge, A.G. (author), Nikou, S. (author)In this chapter we discuss a global construction and building enterprise. The context of the case company will be outlined, and then we describe how the company established their Financial Shared Service Centre (FSSC). At the end of this chapter, the antecedents that are part of the research will be explored and elaborated, and the analyses of...book chapter 2024
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Plugge, A.G. (author), Nikou, S. (author)This chapter describes the quantitative research that we conducted to examine the path relationships depicted in the conceptual research model (see Fig. 3.1). We employed Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) technique (Hair et al., 2016) to test the hypotheses and the relationships between the antecedents of business...book chapter 2024
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Plugge, A.G. (author), Nikou, S. (author)In the present chapter, our investigative focus shifts towards a nuanced exploration of the determinants shaping the orchestration of a business service portfolio by applying fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). This methodology is renowned for its capacity to elucidate complex causal configurations within complex systems. Our...book chapter 2024
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Konietzko, Jan (author), Baldassarre, B.R. (author), Bocken, Nancy (author), Ritala, Paavo (author)To achieve a transformation toward the circular economy, organizations need to take an ecosystem perspective and consider multiple complementary actors that are needed to deliver circularity as a collective outcome. However, practitioners and scholars lack an understanding of the initial phases of ecosystem creation, in terms of how to get...book chapter 2024
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Plugge, A.G. (author), Nikou, S. (author)In this chapter, we describe the fourth case study, which is a global operating service provider specialised in financial services. We first sketch out the context of the service provider, and next, describe how they established the delivery of financial business services (FSSC). Then, we elaborate on the antecedents that are part of our...book chapter 2024
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Soman, R. K. (author), Nikolić, D. (author), Sanchez, B. (author)Extended reality (XR) technologies refer to mixed reality and virtual reality configurations that augment real or represent fully virtual information in an intuitive and immersive manner, transforming the way we plan, design, construct, and operate built environment assets. XR offers great potential to support and accelerate the transition of...book chapter 2024
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Comitti, Alessandro (author), Vijayakumaran, H. (author), Nejabatmeimandi, Mohammad Hosein (author), Seixas, Luis (author), Cabello, Adrian (author), Misseroni, Diego (author), Penasa, Massimo (author), Paech, Christoph (author), Bessa, M.A. (author)The building construction industry is the largest anthropogenic source of pollution, with massive energy consumption and substantial CO2 emissions. Lightweight tension structures allow the simultaneous implementation of several sustainable strategies by using recyclable low-carbon structural membranes offering a greener alternative to glass and...book chapter 2024
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Koutamanis, A. (author)Building information modelling (BIM) has ushered in the era of symbolic building representation: building elements and spaces are described not by graphical elements but by discrete symbols, each with properties and relations that explicitly integrate all information. Digital twinning promises even more: a digital replica in complete sync with...book chapter 2024
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Scholten, L. (author), Oomens, Aad (author)Decision-making is at the core of urban drainage asset management (UDAM), but its importance is often underestimated, leading to a lack of improvement of decision quality in practice. Therefore, our objective is to present fundamental concepts and theories of decision-making from literature and compare them with real-world experiences of...book chapter 2024
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Holthuizen, Patrick (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Šavija, B. (author), Copuroglu, Oguzhan (author)The Stiffness Damage Test (SDT), a cyclic test in compression, is considered as a reliable tool for assessing concrete structures affected by ASR. Depending on the extent of ASR damage in concrete, loading levels up to 40% of the compressive strength may contribute to increasing internal damage during testing. Nevertheless, previous research...book chapter 2024
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Taebi, B. (author), Lenzi, Dominic (author), Buhr, Lorina (author), Claassen, Kristy (author), Gerola, Alessio (author), Hofbauer, B. (author), Paiusco, Elisa (author), Rijssenbeek, Julia (author)This chapter discusses the societal and ethical challenges of climate engineering or large-scale intentional intervention in the climate system. Climate engineering is highly controversial, and raises many questions about the values of human societies and the desirability of technological visions of the future. Yet existing ethical theories...book chapter 2023
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van der Lugt, P. (author)The latest generation of timber products enable complete multi storey neighbourhoods to be built from sustainably sourced softwood.<br/>This chapter explores how a large-scale transition to timber building in urban environments could contribute to solving the three major global crises we are currently facing with climate, natural resources, and...book chapter 2023
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van Duin, Ron (author), Wiegmans, Bart (author)This contribution proposes a future research agenda for the sustainable development of the freight corridors for the next five years. This is done by discussing three themes. i.e. (1) use of capacity, (2) lower impact modalities and (3) digitalization of the supply chain. As the corridors can be seen as the connecting lifelines of our ports and...book chapter 2023
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Clegg, Stewart (author), Ninan, Dr Johan (author)The concept of governmentality has proven useful to analyse how the reflexive management of people within and without the project is conducted. In this chapter we explore the organizational theory of governmentality and its importance in project settings. First, we identify the specificity of project governance and relate it to the definition...book chapter 2023
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Fiebig, T. (author), Gürses, F.S. (author), Hernandez Ganan, C. (author), Kotkamp, E. (author), Kuipers, F.A. (author), Lindorfer, Martina (author), Prisse, M.M.G.C. (author), Sari, P.T. (author)With the emergence of remote education and work in universi- ties due to COVID-19, the ‘zoomification’ of higher education, i.e., the migration of universities to the clouds, reached the public dis- course. Ongoing discussions reason about how this shift will take control over students’ data away from universities, and may ulti- mately harm the...book chapter 2023
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Muñoz Aparici, M. (author), Domingo-Calabuig, Débora (author)Maieutic is the Socratic method by which new knowledge is created by formulating a series of questions followed by thoughtful responses. It is a kind of birthing through a process. First, questioning will lead to the awareness of ignorance. Secondly – and consequently – the desire to repair this lack of knowledge will be awakened and; therefore,...book chapter 2023