Overcoming the ethical challenges of cause marketing:: A qualitative exploration in the Dutch services sector

Nowadays, it is not enough for companies to only focus on their business operations and financial performance. ‘Doing good’ needs to be part of the business strategy as they must do their part in addressing the grand societal challenges. Cause related marketing (CRM) is one such strategy set to address this. CRM is a powerful tool used to...

Competitiveness of Battery Energy Storage in the Future Belgian Capacity Market

As the world is transitioning from conventional to renewable energy sources, governments and energy utilities face the challenge to match the supply profile of these intermittent sources to the energy demand. Energy storage is being considered as one of the potential solutions to cope with the variability of renewables. Belgium is not only...

The Eco-Costs of Material Scarcity, a Resource Indicator for LCA, Derived from a Statistical Analysis on Excessive Price Peaks

The availability of resources is crucial for the socio-economic stability of our society. For more than two decades, there was a debate on how to structure this issue within the context of life-Cycle assessment (LCA). The classical approach with LCA is to describe "scarcity" for future generations (100-1000 years) in terms of absolute...

Non-Newtonian behaviors of crumb rubber-modified bituminous binders

Crumb rubber-modified bitumen (CRMB) has been utilized in the asphalt paving industry for decades due to its various benefits. The complex interaction between bitumen and crumb rubber as well as the addition of warm-mix additives makes the typical laws of Newtonian fluids insufficient to describe the behaviors of highly modified bituminous...

Added Value Framework and Information Technology Capabilities of Enterprise Application Integration

This research deals with enterprise application integration with two new perspectives. The two perspectives are added value and information technology capabilities. Enterprise applications are a set of software packages that help organizations run their businesses. Enterprise applications have been used consistently in all industries. This wide...

Application of the Quantitative Hierarchical Model to Coordinated Ramp Metering

Transportation is a basic necessity in human society and it has gained increasing importance during the last decades. The subsequent effect of this development is traffic congestion caused by the tension between expanding demand for transportation and limited infrastructure capacity. At present, the most effective way to alleviate traffic...

Reuse of EEE consumer products, a potential End-of-Life strategy for CRM's

BACKGROUND Several elements displayed in the 2011 MEErP’s (Methodology for the Ecodesign of Energy-related Products) and JRC’s (European Commission Joint Research Centre) reports which will be used in preparatory studies for measures under the recast of the Ecodesign Directive, indicate that a European list of Critical Raw Materials (CRM’s)...