The Future of the Dutch Environmental Testing Market

The environment is an important part of the life for most organisms, including humans. Since its quality is integral for social welfare, ensuring and maintaining a high environmental quality is essential. The environmental testing market is dedicated to the testing of the three main components of environment: soil, water, and air. Since the...

Transformation and revival: Research on urban development strategic planning for HanDan under the dual dilemma of resourcebased industry transition and regional spatial marginalization

Secondary post-industrial cities in China are facing two problems. In order to promote the sustainable transformation of cities, the Chinese central government promoted “new industrialization” in 2002. This concept aims to eliminate heavy industry enterprises to create a better urban environment. Due to the imbalance in the industrial structure...

The role of incubators and regional factors influencing the location decision of academic spin-offs: An exploratory study in Delft and Wageningen

The recent years have witnessed university business incubators being major contributors to regional development by supporting and nurturing academic spin-offs, and fostering innovation. However, with the academic spin-offs scaling up, they decide to exit the incubator and sometimes even migrate to another city or region. This study recognizes...

Maturity model for the IT-department when migrating to a SaaS-environment

In a period where digitization rapidly influences the corporate world, Cloud Computing (CC) has emerged over the past years as well. CC refers to offering hardware, software, and data by a provider over a network and can benefit organizations enormously regarding cost efficiency, operational excellence, and innovation. Software-as-a-Service ...

Growth Strategies for New Technology-Based Firms: Selecting Growth Strategies by Combining The Resource-Based View, Transaction Cost Economics and Contingency

Over the past few decades, new technology-based firms (NTBFs) have been considered an important engine of economic development. Consequently, a better understanding of the characteristics and attributes of these firms has become a primary goal for researchers and policy makers. While numerous studies found evidence of the relation between growth...

Organisational factors enabling intelligence-led policing in the Dutch police force: A case study research

Police organisations wordwide struggle with the implementation of intelligence-led policing (ILP). This research aims to identify organisational factors that affect the state of implementation of ILP in the Dutch police force. From a multiple-case study research multiple factors have been identified that affect the functioning of ILP. These...

Towards big data analytics embedment in business operations: Perceiving trade‐offs between conflicting capabilities for embedding Big Data Analytics

Due to the popularity and complexity of Big Data Analytics (BDA), numerous articles have been published about embedding BDA in business operations. What they have in common is that they use the Resource Based View to assess where a firm need to be capable of to achieve this. However, in practice, capabilities for BDA can conflict with each other...

An ecosystem view on third party mobile payment providers: a case study of Alipay wallet

Purpose: To understand why the penetration of handset-based mobile payment in most countries is still low has been an important research topic for the last 15 years, and it has been analyzed from different perspectives. However, the analysis of a single aspect cannot provide a sophisticated answer to the complicated underlying question. The...

An Investigation of how private companies can benefit from public sector through open data

This research focuses on how private companies can use open data in order to innovate. The research investigates how certain resources and moderating variables can influence the open data use by the companies. The research used four research methods in order to collect the necessary data: Literature review, open data scenario, interviews, and...

The Impact of Internal and External Resources, and Strategic Actions in Business Networks on Firm Performance in the Software Industry

Understanding the variance in firm performance has been an important topic in the strategic management literature. In the last two decades it has become particularly interesting as business networks increasingly have become an integrated part of a firm's environment. Besides the internal resources, the less-controlled external resources in the...

Modelling the Skinner Thesis: Consequences of a Lognormal or a Bimodal Resource Base Distribution

The copper case is often used as an example in resource depletion studies. Despite these studies, several profound uncertainties remain in the system. One of these uncertainties is the distribution of copper grades in the lithosphere. The Skinner thesis promotes the idea that copper grades may be distributed with a bimodal distribution instead...

The strategic investment decision: Developing a framework to assess strategic investment options in the geothermal industry in the Netherlands

Deep geothermal energy gained more and more attention in the Netherlands over the past few years. It is a renewable energy source with limited air emissions and it can provide reliable base-load power. Since 2007 eight installations were built and more than hundred exploration permits were approved by the Dutch authorities. Many energy firms are...

Matching of Resources and the Design of Organizations for Project Management

This paper addresses a problem common to many high-technology firms. How can firms select and resource appropriate projects while balancing the needs of management as well as technologists? We argue that such problems result in social dilemmas for organizations, requiring practical institutional designs for management and resolution. We relate...

Customer analytics as a source of competitive advantage

Deregulations, visibility of information over Internet and globalization are widely considered to be positive things, which trigger fast pace of economic development for the modern society. However, in many cases, exactly for the same reason, they destroy competitive advantage and companies start searching for opportunities to gain it. Taking...