Biogas production from codigestion of cattle manure and biomass can have a significant contribution to a sustainable gas supply when this gas is upgraded to specifications prescribed for injection into the national gas grid and injected into this grid. In this study, we analyzed such a gas supply chain …

It is often said that European companies must stop trying to compete on price and concentrate more on developing products and services that offer customers and users a high level of added value. Design is an indispensable tool for such development and innovation, and this is why the findings of this …

The Internet is changing the way we organise work. It is shifting the requirement for what we call the ‘schedule push’ and the hierarchical organisation that it implies, and therefore it is removing the type of control that is conventionally used to match resources to tasks, and customer demand to supplies …

In dit onderzoek wordt een kostenvergelijking gemaakt tussen de kosten voor het aanleggen of renoveren van het rioolstelsel en de kosten voor het aanleggen van een gebouw met of zonder groendak. Op het groendak vindt een deel waterberging plaats. De rest van de waterberging zal ook plaats vinden op het …

Will multinational SMEs use internationalisation to achieve labour cost savings at the expense of employees both in their home country and abroad or will they transfer their existing employee-oriented practices to their foreign subsidiaries? This paper argues that the answer to this question is affected …

Summary Project objectives This study fits into a larger research project on logistics collaboration and outsourcing decisions. The final objective of this larger project is to analyze the logistics collaboration decision in more detail to identify thresholds in these decisions. To reach the overall …

De aanleiding van dit onderzoek is voortgekomen uit de toenemende druk om duurzaam in te kopen binnen de Nederlandse overheid. De inkoopfunctie van de overheid is de laatste jaren sterk geprofessionaliseerd, mede door bezuinigingen en Europese aanbestedingsregelgeving. Dit heeft geresulteerd in groter …

This relationship between external knowledge providers, e.g. consultants and academic institutions, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is a difficult one. SME entrepreneurs think external advice is expensive, not required and/or not useful. In this paper these arguments are explored against the …

Companies today are in the continuous improvement game continuously anticipating customer needs at the same time as reducing transaction costs. It’s a tough game, in which techniques evolve so fast that an organisation with rigid management cannot hope to keep up. Indeed, requirements for management …