Academic Workforce Development: A System Dynamics based Promotion Chain Study into the Effects of Career and Funding Policies

The Dutch government supports the academic research workforce through public research funding. However, while this support is needed for continued economic growth, current trends suggest that present funding and career policies have a transitory effect on the workforce of which mainly permanent researchers benefit. In this study a model is...

Effective framing of CO2 Capture and Storage

A study into the most effective frames in risk communication on CO2 Capture and Storage.

Improving Change Management: "A response to growing complexity in managing offshore equipment"

Towards an analytical model for collaboration to secure cyber space

In recent years, information technology (IT) has grown from an enabling technology to an important technology we depend on in our everyday lives. For example, IT is required for the proper functioning of personal devices that store our personal information, but is also present in the on-board computers in pacemakers and systems controlling...

Operating in the Dutch housing system: A guidance for Dutch municipalities to get more understanding on strategies to develop dwellings on their land during the aftermath of the housing crisis of 2008

The changed conditions in the Dutch housing market have made it difficult for municipalities to decide what type of strategy is suitable to apply. This thesis focuses on the decision for a top-down (TD) or bottom-up and network oriented (BN) strategy. There seems to be a trend in Dutch housing away from TD strategies and towards more BN...

The management and control of risks in organizational relationships

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...

Upstream Investments on the Gas Roundabout? Exploring the contribution of the gas roundabout policy to the attractiveness of the Dutch upstream investment climate

Ecosystem services in Dutch nature and rural area policy: A system-level concept implemented in a multi-actor setting

This thesis treats the adoption of policy instruments based on the ecosystem services concept in Dutch nature and rural area policy. Despite the extensive environmental and economic research and the emphasis on the concept in international policy, the adoption of instruments based on the concept is staying behind in the Netherlands. In this...

Project management instruments and the barriers to inter-project learning: Re-inventing the wheel or learning from other projects

Large infrastructure projects in the Netherlands are often subject to discussion due to large time and cost overruns. Project management instruments are developed by the projects for the efficient management of time, cost and scope. These collections of methods, tools and approaches are often modified and further developed when projects face...

Safety Management System (SMS) and State safety performance indicators: A study on the use of SMS implementation progress as indicator for Acceptable Level of Safety in the Dutch Aircraft Operator Certificate sector.

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Performance Measurement in the polder: Developing hybrid arrangements for stakeholder support in municipal subsidy awarding procedures

Trends of public accountability guide the introduction of performance measurement in municipal subsidy awarding of non-profit organizations in The Netherlands. Specific characteristics of this relation make that there are limitations on the application of existing performance measurement practices, which may cause a lack of essential stakeholder...