Investigating governance of circular infrastructure projects: Proposing a governance framework to counter challenges in the inter- organizational collaboration for circular infrastructure projects

Circular Economy (CE) is a new economic development paradigm that is proposed as a counterweight to the traditional “take, make, use and dispose” model, known as Linear Economy (LE). To cope with the increasingly environmental impact of construction, a transition towards CE can be the solution. To that direction, several circular initiatives in...

Exploring governance mechanisms for inter-organizational collaboration in Dutch infrastructure programmes

Programmes in the Dutch infrastructure sector can contribute to overcoming the industry’s lagging performance and the increasing amount of renovation of work it is currently facing. Additionally, they have the potential to integrate the fragmented supply chain while facilitating better coordination of the projects being executed more effectively...

Effective Inter-Organizational Collaboration for Interconnecting Infrastructures: Assessing effective integrated collaboration between infrastructure owners in the design phase of Dutch infrastructure projects

Infrastructure asset managers have the increasing challenge not only to maintain efficiently the functionalities and quality of their infrastructures, but also to upgrade them for the increasing demands and to achieve added value to their assets (Hertogh, Bakker, van der Vlist, & Barneveld, 2018). Moreover, infrastructure projects in densely...

Imagination as a driving force for inter-organizational innovation: The development of a research framework

With the help of a qualitative case study and existing literature from scientific fields like social sciences, psychology, policy studies, and innovation studies a research framework was compiled for studying imagination as a driving force for innovation fueled by its social context. A try-out of this research framework suggested the result of...

Managing supply chain risks and disruptions at an inland terminal with a focus on inter-organizaitonal collaboration challenges: A case study at the inland terminal Alpherium in collaboration with Heineken

This double degree thesis focuses on supply chain risk and disruption management at an inland terminal, while taking into account the inter-organizational collaboration challenges between the shipper and the inland terminal. The case study is used in combination with an integrated framework for managing supply chain risks and disruptions found...

Exploration in the role of a co-operative facilitating collaborative IT decision making in the public sector

Public organizations are vulnerable when individual deciding upon IT investments. Collaborative IT decision making may provide the opportunity for sharing costs and expertise in the development of effective IT solutions. But, it is difficult for a facilitative leader to create shared understanding in IT decision making. Case study research of...