- document
-
van der Goes, Maurits (author)The globalizing economy with its new goods and services, knowledge spread, and competition for talent is an increasing complexity for organizations, which requires organizations to adapt more quickly. Organizations are essential to society, as people are more productive in groups. For their continuity, it is important that organizations...master thesis 2020
- document
-
Castelo Branco Ferreira Costa, Rafael (author)The development of energy communities across the globe is a landmark for the development of decentralized generation, supporting the transition to renewable energy sources. However, energy communities focus on households with little attention to industries or towards the development of Industrial Community Energy Systems. A central issue is the...master thesis 2020
- document
-
Sial, Sumit (author)Waste-to-Energy (WtE) serves as an important source to meet the growing energy demands of the world in a sustainable manner. It can help in the reduction of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions, lower the risk of environmental pollution and contribute towards the establishment of a circular economy. By generating steam or electrical energy, WtE...master thesis 2020
- document
-
Oosterom, Benjamin (author)Efficient regulation is required in order to reduce carbon emissions and achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. The EU ETS is currently the most important regulatory instrument implemented for this purpose. Although the effects in terms of abatement are certain, the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) introduces uncertainty with regard to the...master thesis 2020
- document
-
Peeters, Tomas (author)Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) is an innovative methodology that supports public policy-making by estimating the societal value of public policies or projects through citizen participation. This thesis studies the decision-making processes applied by participants using a case study of infrastructure projects within the municipality of...master thesis 2020
- document
-
Letschert, Martijn (author)A trend in current society is reducing the environmental impact of products. One of the industries in which this trend is noticeable is the yachting industry. Yachts with a lower environmental impact are being demanded. Furthermore, regulations are being put in place that are likely to limit the effect yachts can have on the environment. One...master thesis 2020
- document
-
Roosmale Nepveu, Maarten Nepveu (author)Urbanisation levels keep rising and all major cities in Europe face common transport and traffic problems. The city of Amsterdam needs a reliable transport and mobility system to foster economic growth, but at the same time transport is causing congestion, pollution and accidents. To scientifically explore the research question, Transport...master thesis 2020
- document
-
Toering, Arnoud (author)Pilots, or transition experiments, are widely regarded as a means to learn more about how to tackle societal challenges. This leads to a crucial role for double-loop learning, which involves modifying the existing norms, policies and objectives. Without double-loop learning, the transition experiments will be constrained in their influence....master thesis 2020
- document
-
Yip, Melvin (author)Many innovations have never or only in limited form been adopted. Therefore, throughout the last decades, academics have been focusing on the success and failure factors (SFF) of the adoption of innovations. This success depends on the objectives of the engaged stakeholders. However, no comprehensive literature review exist that focused on the...master thesis 2020
- document
-
van de Kamp, Maarten (author)All over the world, governments are facing sustainability challenges, which are among others related to car use and ownership. Car ownership research is traditionally mainly focussed on the effect of socio-demographic characteristics, like age, income and having a driving license. More recent research showed that life events related to work,...master thesis 2020
- document
-
van Hattum, Mats (author)Information systems (IS) in Dutch first-line healthcare are organized complex and inefficiently. This limits innovation and interoperability of IS in this domain. Innovation is considered useful to make first-line healthcare more efficient. Digital platform literature shows a how a digital platform provides a more flexible approach to IS and...master thesis 2020
- document
-
Cleto Carneiro, Henrique (author)Authors associate the PMO with an increase in the success rate of projects, reduce overall costs, and delivery time. Which explains why firms replicate and modify it while adopting project-based structures and strategies. PMOs in different organizations hold little similarities with each other. Staffing the PMO is an overhead cost to projects,...master thesis 2020
- document
-
Ho-Sam-Sooi, Nick (author)Given the significant privacy and security risks of IoT devices, it seems desirable to nudge consumers towards buying more secure devices and taking privacy into account when purchasing these devices. In order to support this goal, this study has examined the effect of security and privacy on IoT device purchase behaviour and assessed whether...master thesis 2020
- document
-
Vega Medel, Gabriel (author)Autonomous vehicles have the potential to introduce numerous changes, opportunities, and innovations in mobility services, environment, data, value networks, and economy, among others. These automated vehicles are expected to impulse a disruptive change in society, especially within transport technology economics, travel behavior, and network...master thesis 2020
- document
-
Bletsis, Alexander (author)The Dutch civil engineering sector is facing a large-scale rehabilitation assignment of their civilengineering structures, that consists of complex projects that lead to cost overruns and time delays. As a consequencethereof, the sector as a whole must realise a productivity growth to match the required capacity and complexity.Criteria such as...master thesis 2020
- document
-
Macquart, Laurane (author)Persuasive games for complex systems have subtle messages they want to convince stakeholders of the complex system of in question of in order to help them solve certain problems. However, there currently is little known about the persuasive game design principles used in those games to convey the persuasive message, especially how people with...master thesis 2019
- document
-
Potter, Max (author)The ammunition domain is very fragmented and people within the Ministry of Defence often make the assumption that people from the different branches of the Armed Forces think differently about safety and its priority in making decisions for military operations. So far however it is unknown how the people in the ammunition chain think about...master thesis 2019
- document
-
de Viet, Rein (author)Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is a new concept that is expected to make multi-modal travel more seamless, by integrating a variety of different transport modes on a platform, accessible on demand for which monthly bundles can be bought. The hopes of MaaS are that due to the simplicity of the service, and the plethora of alternatives being offered...master thesis 2019
- document
-
Caminada, Sytze (author)Serious games have the potential to be used as an innovative data collection method. Combining this with Discrete Choice Modelling (DCM) could create a methodology that provides insight into the player's behaviour and allows for creating a realistic simulation. This innovative Game and Choice Based Simulation (GCBS) methodology has been...master thesis 2019
- document
-
Oliemans, Jelle (author)The island of Bonaire is planning multiple sustainable transitions in the water,<br/>energy and food systems in response to numerous challenges, such as increas-<br/>ing population pressure, rising sea levels, environmental damage, high consumer<br/>prices and import dependency. The water-energy-food nexus is a relatively novel<br/>concept that...master thesis 2019