A Multi-Actor Approach to Conflict and Conflict Management in Cross-Functional Collaborative New Product Development: Case Studies within a Technology Firm

The purpose of New Product Development (NPD) is addressing disequilibria in the market place through identification, development and deployment of suitable solutions as products, services or solutions. Teamwork, cross-functional collaboration, and conflict management in NPD are often described as leading factors in addressing such change and...

Benchmarking Performance of Offshore Construction Projects

Since the rise of oil prices in 2007, the difference in gas prices between the US and Europe has increased steadily. The pressure to efficiently produce and maintain gas assets has thus also increased. On top of these external trends, ONEgas strives to be in the top quartile companies in the gas market. The integrated contractor of ONEgas, AJS,...

Ensuring an industry’s durability through reputation management: The influence of social perception on the reputation of the Dutch Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Industry

Problem statement The Dutch food processing and packaging machinery industry (food systems industry) is a very important sector considering its benefits to Dutch economy. The sector has a total annual turnover of approximately 2 billion euro’s and furthermore provides employment to more than 8600 people (GMV, n.d.). This sector, and entire Agro...

Time Duration of Decision-Making Process: A case analysis on Chinese Large infrastructure project

China is changing fast. Large infrastructure and construction projects turned China into the world’s largest importer of heavy construction equipment. Many projects are built in a very short period of time. Most observations outside of China are referred to fast prestigious projects such as Beijing Olympics subway, Beijing International Airport...

The Effect of Culture and Political Structure on Participatory Policy Analysis

In this research, the central objective was to explore how cultural and political factors might affect participatory practices of policy analysis. For this purpose, initially the concept of policy analysis and its evolutionary process from traditional and expert-based approach to participatory style, and role of context in policy analysis in...