Design of a Digital Interactive Collaboration Facilitator in a Datacenter Development Context

This thesis aims to design an interactive tool that facilitates collaboration between Microsoft’s teams in the datacenter development design process. Current datacenter development strategies of Microsoft do not sufficiently take into account socio-technical aspects which is causing project delays. Such socio-technical aspects are internally...

Opposing Expectations: Why Food Waste Remains a Problem in Cologne: An Institutional Network Analysis on Food Waste in Germany

Food waste remains a large problem globally, not only in the light of global greenhouse gas emissions, but also in the light of decreasing resource availability. Research in this area has so far mainly focused on behavioral factors influencing production of food waste, while the formal and informal institutions that relate to the management of...