CreatOrg Workshop - From Doubt to Drive: A Reflective Journey to Unleash Creative Confidence by Illuminating the Creative Cultural Values in Your Organisation

Creativity is becoming increasingly essential in today’s workplaces and organisations. However, though everyone is believed to be creative, not everyone feels confident enough to express their creative ideas. The organisational culture plays a remarkable role in shaping the creative climate. If its core cultural value does not support and...

Implementing Business Model Innovation: Human and organisational perspectives

Although business model innovation (BMI) can create a firm's competitive advantage and enhance its performance, many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) fail to obtain the expected outcomes when innovating their business model. BMI leads to irreversible fundamental changes in key components of a company's business model, which means it...

AI Enabled Dynamic Capabilities: Helping Large Organisations to Overcome Disruptions with a Capability Orchestration Framework

Due to globalisation and technological advancements, the world is becoming increasingly complex. Volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environments have called for organisations to become more agile in order to survive and compete in such changing environments. Large organisations are at particular risk for becoming stagnant due to...

Key stakeholders’ perspectives on the ideal partnering culture in construction projects

This paper examines the current state of project cultures in the German turnkey construction industry and the ideal project cultures in terms of partnering from the perspective of various key stakeholders (i.e., Investors, General Contractors, (Sub-)Contractors and Designers). To investigate the current and ideal cultures, data were gathered...

Changing quality assurance, on the basis of the Building Decree, in construction: A research on the contractor adopting a pro-active attitude in quality assurance

This research is based on a new law relating quality assurance in construction that was proposed in 2016. The main aim of the legislative proposal is to improve the quality of construction by privatising the way of assessing quality on the basis of the Building Decree. The problem is that the contractor gets more responsibility in this process...

What is served for breakfast?: Exploring new frontiers in corporate real estate strategies and organizational culture

The quote “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” was made famous by Mark Field, president at Ford, in 2006 and has, ever since, been a guiding principle in management practice of corporations operating across the globe. The general management profession has widely embraced culture as a key factor in strategy design. However, in corporate real...

The influence of cultural variations on real estate strategies in multinationals

This research project attempts to investigate the correlation between corporate real estate management and cultural variations within organisations. The project emerges within a larger research lab which focuses on the added value of corporate real estate and how CRE can be aligned to the various attributes of business. Culture was seen to be an...

Investigating the long-term effectiveness of an organisation: A methodology developed and applied to the Port Authorities of Rotterdam and Antwerp

In this research the long-term effect of large-scale projects on organisational effectiveness is investigated with respect to organisational structure, -culture and working approach. This study is potentially relevant for the Port Authorities of Rotterdam and Antwerp, for organisations inspired by Industrial Ecological solutions and for...

Performance measurement of workplace change in two different cultural contexts

There is a growing need for performance management and performance measurement that not only covers all aspects of an organisation, but which can be applied to various situations in a changing internal and external environment. The changing organisational and external contexts, such as the increasing demand for talented knowledge workers and...

Organisational Culture and Project Partnering Performance

The influence of organisational culture of the architect and contractor on project partnering performance in design and build contracts.

Understanding and Exploring Safety Culture

The match between safety and culture was made around 1986, when the INSAG delivered its initial report on the Chernobyl accident. Whether the marriage is a happy one is still a matter of debate, but it is most definitely a fruitful one. In the past twenty years, many researchers have devoted much effort to both the theoretical development of the...

Organizational and cultural assessment of GIIs: The introduction of a new model

A geographic information infrastructure (GII) develops gradually. Several development stages may be identified each with unique characteristics. Also the organisational characteristics are likely to vary per stage. This knowledge was used to develop an SDI maturity matrix as presented by Kok and Van Loenen (2005), further developed in Van Loenen...