The Role of e-HRM in Technology Startups

This thesis explores how electronic human resource management (e-HRM) enhances employee performance in technology startups. During their transition phase, technology startups face challenges, such as maintaining effective communication, sustaining organizational culture, and managing growth. These challenges reduce employee performance,...

Bridging the Gap: A Comparative Study of Internal Stakeholder Engagement Strategies in the Process Industry for Green Innovation Implementation

This thesis investigates the intricate relationship between internal stakeholder engagement, green innovation implementation, and project success within the process industry. Drawing from a mixed-methods approach, the study combines theoretical insights from extensive literature with survey data collected from participants in the NAP Network....

Analysis of barriers and overcoming strategies to support the adoption and complete industralization of VR technology: A collective case study at AF-KLM

This research illuminates the complexities of Virtual Reality (VR) technology adoption within the airline industry, with a specific emphasis on Air France-KLM. Despite VR's transformative potential and its increasing prevalence in various sectors, its adoption in the airline industry presents unique challenges. The central research question...

The Agile Windmill: Unleashing Project Success in Dutch Asset Management

The use of Agile methodologies has been steadily growing in popularity in recent years, with many organisations across various industries adopting it to manage their projects. This shift in project management practices has replaced traditional project management styles, and Agile methodologies like Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban are widely used....

Virtual Leadership: Managing Remote Working in the New Normal Era

The extensive and growing population of remote workers has left traditional leaders with many challenges managing a team remotely, and virtual leadership has been introduced as a remote management style. The increasing use of workplace surveillance technology in organisations has resulted in considerable debate over the years. This qualitative...

The Ideal Workplace Environment Post-Pandemic

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone has encountered remote working. During this time, employees have become accustomed to remote working habits, and a shift has been made in many lives toward a more flexible work-life balance. Nowadays, with the pandemic almost behind, it gives rise to the question, how will the ideal workplace environment...

HRM practices and international technology transfers (ITT) in the M&A context: A case study of the ITT between a Chinese medical enterprise and a Dutch company

In the business world, international mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are often adopted. To localize technology afterward, international technology transfers (ITTs) are often carried out. Human Resource Management (HRM) practices can help the technology transfer process achieve better performance. However, human resource interactions within...

The Role Of Leadership In Open Innovation

Open innovation ensures that there is a mutual flow of knowledge and skills between organizations. In this regard, the focus of open innovation is on forming mutually beneficial connections that can ensure competitive advantage. The market gets optimized processes and technologies, and the organization can achieve profitability. Although open...

Role Of Team Diversity on Team Performance and Ambidexterity: Case study of product and service-based teams from semi-conductor industry

Diversity as a topic is increasingly becoming important aspect of organizations and society in general. Team diversity could bring different perspectives and thus diverse teams could reap the benefits such as better performance, innovation, and problem-solving abilities. Teams face challenge of deciding between alignment activities focused on...

The Impact of Diversity on Organizational Ambidexterity

The management of Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) might represent a challenge. There are several concepts that affect the performance of SMEs. One is ambidexterity, which refers to the balance of activities for explorative and exploitative innovation. Another concept is diversity which encompasses differences in gender, age, cultural and...

An Advisory Framework for the establishment of E-commerce for FMCG-food goods in the Middle East (MENA)

This study aims to explain and understand how companies, more specifically Middle Eastern (MENA) companies in the FMCG-food sector can innovate from completely brick and mortar establishments to transition into an E-commerce platform (for FMCG-food goods) that enhances the willingness or intention to purchase these products on an online platform...

Sustainability in venture capital: Exploratory research on how sustainable venture capital influences the success of sustainable ventures

Sustainability has, for a long time, been the ultimate target for social movements around the world. It has been deemed as a “wicked problem”, a problem which does not have a singular solution. To address this issue, the acceleration of sustainable start-ups is key. Sustainable start-ups or impact ventures are recognized as the fastest way to...

An exploratory study examining the role of personality traits on individual ambidexterity

The study aims to add to the existing knowledge base on individual ambidexterity by adopting a trait-based approach. As this area of individual ambidexterity is still comparatively new, limited study has been undertaken on the internal factors that determine individual ambidexterity. Further the study addresses the degree to which personality...

The Role of Collaborative HRM on Open Innovation Culture and Open Innovation Performance

Open innovation is a collective bidirectional flow of knowledge and capabilities across organizations. Open innovation aims to build mutually beneficial relationships among corporate that can lead to competitive advantage. The market benefits by getting new and improved products faster, and the organization benefits financially and gains brand...

Employer branding as a tool to increase start ups’ attractiveness

The thesis studied the employer branding process as a way to increase start-ups attractiveness for potential employees. Start-ups, unlike larger and more established corporations, face challenges when it comes to recruiting talented personnel. Employer branding concerns the different strategies that a company can employ to increase the employer...