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- Valentin, E.C. (author) doctoral thesis 2011
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Gonzalez, R.A. (author)Crisis response efforts often require coordinating a previously unknown adhocracy of agencies under time pressure. While current technologies that support coordination are successful for well-defined static process descriptions, they may fall short in the face of more complex and unpredictable scenarios, such as a crisis or emergency. Using...doctoral thesis 2010
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Fernando, M.S.D. (author)Transitional countries face the challenge of balancing rapid and sustainable development. IT-industry is very important for sustainable development due to its penetration into many other industries. It is necessary that the IT knowledge force produced by the universities in those countries meet the demands of the IT-industry in terms of...doctoral thesis 2010
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Okot-Uma, R.W. (author)This study investigates virtual interactions in distributed collaboration, with the aim to improve international relations conferences through virtual interactions. This is done by addressing the problems and issues of operation, context and strategy that frequently affect international relations conferences, while preserving conference...doctoral thesis 2009
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Chen, N. (author)Technology availability has significantly encouraged information sharing in organizational coordination processes distributed over various (geographically) locations. However, the huge amount of available information, the heterogeneous nature of the information resources, and the information seekers dynamically changing information needs make it...doctoral thesis 2008
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Wang, Y. (author)In today's world, organizations are becoming increasingly interested in using mobile technology as a means to adapt to the ever-changing environment. An important challenge that the organizations are facing is how to efficiently and effectively support business process carried out by their mobile workers in distributed environments. In the...doctoral thesis 2008
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- Bonebakker, J.L. (author) doctoral thesis 2007
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Chin, R.T.H. (author)Sustainable growth and the commercial success of "Mainport Holland", located in one of Europe’s most densely populated areas, is threatened by a lack of available land, a congested infrastructure, and an increasingly complex social, economic and political reality. To deal with these threats mainports, such as the Port of Rotterdam, are...doctoral thesis 2007
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van Houten, S.P.A. (author)Managing today's multi-actor systems, such as supply chains, is becoming an increasingly challenging task given developments in the markets, e.g. globalization, and in technology, e.g. the Internet. Today's managers are faced with increasing competition and globalization in an ever increasingly complex and dynamic system. Multiple tools exist to...doctoral thesis 2007
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- Muniafu, Simaati Mwenya (author) doctoral thesis 2007
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Mulira, N.K. (author)Public organizations in the developing world are undergoing a gradual but irreversible change, due to innovations in information and communications technologies. The emergence of business networks, among such organizations, indicates an increasing interdependence and a search for solutions to regain waning strategic relevance and competitive...doctoral thesis 2007
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Tewoldeberhan, T.W. (author)In today's world, organizations are becoming increasingly interested in using business networks as a means to adapt to the ever-changing environment to increase their performance level. As a result, the focus of efforts to improve the performance of organizations has shifted from organizational level to the inter-organizational level. An...doctoral thesis 2005
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- McDonald, M.P. (author) doctoral thesis 2005
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- van Wamelen, J.P. (author) doctoral thesis 2005
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Jacobs, P.H.M. (author)In this thesis the development of a java-based, simulation environment is presented. The core concepts are to support multiple decision makers in a distributed context with multiple continuous and discrete formalisms. The environment is named DSOL and is published under the open source LGPL licencedoctoral thesis 2005
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Van Horik, M.P.M. (author)Within the context of long-term access to digital objects in general this dissertation takes the longevity of digital surrogates of historical photographs into consideration. For memory institutes digitisation of analogue source material, such as historical photographs, is an exciting way to open up and exploit their holdings. The focus on the...doctoral thesis 2005
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- Daskapan, S. (author) doctoral thesis 2005
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Stojanovic, Z. (author)Information technology (IT) and systems have become the backbone of modern enterprises providing a wealth of new opportunities for conducting business. The ability of an enterprise to manage the complexity of its information systems and rapidly adapt to business changes has been widely recognized as a crucial factor for business success. There...doctoral thesis 2005
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Van de Kar, E.A.M. (author)The mobile telecommunications industry is searching for new services, not only to recoup its investments but also to stay competitive in the future. The industry is undergoing a radical transformation and organisations in the telecommunications, information technology and media sector are becoming increasingly interdependent. Organisations have...doctoral thesis 2004
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Saanen, Y.A. (author)International transportation is rapidly growing. Even during the recent recession, trade growth percentages world-wide exceeded 5-10%. As a consequence, container handling capacity is rapidly growing as well. Larger vessels, bigger container terminals: it appears to be an on-going process of which the limits have not yet been reached. At the...doctoral thesis 2004