Adapting company competences: A qualitative meta-analysis

The topic of company competences is approached by many theories in literature, each from its own perspective. In this thesis the focus is mainly on the competence-based view. The competence-based perspective claims that core competences are the source of sustainable competitive advantage, and are the unique capabilities which span over multiple...

Local sustainable energy companies and municipal involvement: Designing a framework for municipal involvement

How can municipalities be helped in choosing their level of involvement in a local sustainable energy company? This research investigates how municipalities can be helped in choosing their level of involvement in a local sustainable energy company. It aims to know which different choices municipalities can make in deciding on their involvement...

A quantitative Analysis of the Economical Impacts from the Application of Foldable Containers

The huger and huger imbalance of cargo flows between continents or between countries, such as the imbalance trade between East Asia and western world, pushes the repositioning cost of empty containers higher and higher. The problem of reducing the cost of empty repositioning becomes more and more essential in containerization. Among many...

The Spacex Company; a study of innovation and entrepreneurship in space

Driving sustainable innovation in construction companies

By adopting a theoretical framework from strategic niche management research (SNM) this paper presents an analysis of the innovation system of the Danish Construction industry. Theories within SNM look upon innovation in a sector as a socio-technical phenomenon and identify three levels of socio-technical interaction within which sectorial...

Standardizing knowledge: A dialective view on architectural knowledge and its managers

Many organizations within the construction industry are currently developing standardized practices. Increased standardization involves new ways of organizing construction projects, changing interrelations between professional groups, setting a new culture, i.e. challenging the institutionalized way of being. It, for instance, leads to a...

The development of an application to manage investor involvement during and after and online crowdfunding project for starting companies.

This graduation project is conducted for the Seeds crowdfunding platform, a project of ABN AMRO Dialogues Incubator. The platform is one of the first crowdfunding platforms for starting companies within the Netherlands. The starting companies present themselves on the online platform and interested visitors (the crowd) can become investors by...

Interpreting the influencing factors within the decision making process between two train safety systems at ProRail: An explorative study

This thesis explores the decision making process about the implementation of a new train safety system at ProRail. ProRail is responsible for the entire rail infrastructure of the Netherlands and faces tasks such as maintaining, optimising and replacing the infrastructure. One of ProRail’s current projects concerns aged train safety systems and...

Impact of Competition on Quality of Service in Demand Responsive Transit

Demand responsive transportation has the potential to provide efficient public door-to-door transport with a high quality. In currently implemented systems in the Netherlands, however, we observe a decrease in the quality of service (QoS), expressed in longer travel times for the customers. Currently, generally one transport company is...

Sustainable behaviour at work and in private life: Preconditions, measures and tools for promoting a spillover

Comprehensive research is carried out on consumers with respect to their sustainable behaviour in private life. Other research focuses on employees and their sustainable behaviour in business life. This divide also characterises companies’ activities for promoting sustainable consumption and lifestyles. But how can both sides being brought...

European Forest Management Tracking Sustainability: Current Lacks

During this decade forest companies have been diversifying their operations and product ranges from traditional forestry, timber and pulp and paper both to energy and biofuels and to RFID technologies, labels, wood and plastic composites, and biochemicals. Basic products and high tech products are developed side by side. Each company desires new...

Social Media Framework to support client-company relationship

Companies have started using Social Media, but in many cases without knowing its benefits and what kind of commitment it requires from them. As a consequence, in many cases, businesses are not dealing with their Social Media presence in a structured way. So despite the availability of all kind of communication tools and applications, a structure...

Effects of global warming on floods and droughts and related water quality of rivers

This review focuses on the effect of global warming on droughts, rainstorms and floods and related water quality of rivers. Relations of temperature, rainstorms and river discharges with water quality variables like water temperature, chemical concentrations and microbiological activity are discussed. Examples out of literature are given, mainly...

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