Empower Cociety: A systemic design approach to unravel Cociety’s potential and design a Social Innovation Strategy

In the last decade, European citizens had to overcome multiple severe disruptive events like Covid-19, extreme weather and war at the EU-boarder. With ongoing climate change and political instability, more crises are expected to arise. To deal with these crises an increased resilience of individuals, organisations and society is needed. One...

Effects of Diversity on the Social Structure of a Project Team

Using an exploratory approach, this research delves into the intricate interplay between diversity and team dynamics, using social network analysis as a powerful tool. By combining theoretical insights from literature with comprehensive network analysis, the effects of diversity on power, influence and communication on construction project teams...

A socio-technical network analysis on the industrial symbiotic performance of water within chemical parks

Freshwater is becoming an increasingly scarce resource globally. The chemical industry is the second largest freshwater consuming industry and the largest wastewater producer. To reduce the freshwater consumption sustainable measures are introduced within the industrial sector, of which Industrial Symbiosis (IS), has gained prominence....

Accelerating the growth of start-ups in the Smart City Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: an empirical analysis of the Brainport Smart District (BSD) in Helmond, the Netherlands

Smart City has become one of the most popular topics in recent years due to the emergence of innovative digital technologies. Start-ups have been active in an innovation system defined as Smart City Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (SCEE) in this study, where stakeholders in the Smart City industry are involved and interact with each other, including...

How information flows can be enhanced within construction projects within construction companies

The role of information flows increased over the last decades and has become more important within construction companies as they deal with complicated projects. Multiple recent studies state that enhancing the information flows can result in a better functioning organisation.<br/><br/>Research description<br/>The information flow between the...

Cleaning Up Our Financial System: Combating Money Laundering Using Multiparty Computation

Globally, it is estimated by the UN that 2% - 5% of the annual GDP is lost to money laundering. Cur-rent anti-money laundering efforts are hindered by both the lack of trust between financial institutions internationally and the presence of local privacy regulations like GDPR. This makes it unfeasible to share plain transaction data between...

High-value food waste valorisation in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area: A combined environmental-, socio-technical- and network analysis of anaerobic fermentation technologies for fatty acids production, from a nexus governance perspective

The unprecedented major scale and rapid rate of urban growth put an increasing pressure on natural resources for providing energy, materials, and food- and nutrition security. Likewise, an alarming major increase can be witnessed in the generation of food waste (FW) in urban areas. While megacities contribute to 6.7% of the global population, 12...

Using Social Network Analysis for Fraud Detection: Tracing the Path from Data to Value

Facing the age of digitalisation, inspectorates are changing their way of working using a risk-oriented and data-driven approach. Social Network Analysis (SNA) seems to be promising in detecting fraud and simultaneously contributing to increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of inspection work. SNA emphasises the structural aspects of...

Change towards a Circular Economy: eliminating inertia in supply chains: A concrete case of stony materials supply chain in the Netherlands

Current linear economic model entails coupling of economic growth with resource constraints and degradation of the Earth. In order to combat these negative aspects and to ensure prosperous and sustainable future, a new economic approach is emerging - Circular Economy. Besides neutralizing threats of the linear model, it also promises additional...

Knowledge Contribution in Knowledge Networks: Effects of Participants’ Central Positions on Contribution Quality

Knowledge networks play a crucial role in contemporary organisations to improve participation for knowledge sharing. Examining employees’ knowledge contribution play an important role for in success implementing knowledgenetworks. Whereas most part of studies emphasis on the quantity aspect of knowledge contributions, the success of knowledge...

Water Governance and Policy Networks in Indonesia: The challenges of a decade of water sector reformation

In this research an attempt was made to map the Indonesian water policy network through Social Network Analysis (SNA). Furthermore, the role of the distribution of information and knowledge in this (policy) network with respect to its’ capacity to perform well has been investigated. This research has shown that there are there are some...

Performance Assessment of Water Sectors: Methods and considerations for application

With the rise of principles for water management in the 1990’s such as concepts as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM), many countries have come to review their water policy and sectors. But how does one start in the assessment of a water sector with so many different variables and...