This research investigates, from an institutional perspective, the relationships between coercive-, mimetic- and normative pressure and the adoption of sustainable technologies in manufacturing firms. With sustainable ...

The sum of this thesis: There are three impulses that form our approaches. By forming our approaches direct us to our findings and developments. We build things on this very “our own image” of our impulses. How do we know ...

We are living at a point in history where global cost dynamics and specific political choices may lead to an integral transformation of the mobility system as we know it. After a century where the internal combustion engine ...

Recent scientific research has determined seven trends (economies) that stimulate the transition towards a more sustainable society (Jonker 2015; Wijnholds, 2015). These trends combined are called the 'WEconomy'. There are ...

What is remarkable in open innovation studies is that the consideration of sustainable development in open innovation research field remains somehow on the background. Reducing manufacturing companies’ energy demand is ...

The distinct characteristics of blockchain technology made a new organizational form possible: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). A DAO, deployed on a blockchain, formalizes and automates the governance rules ...

Group model building (GMB) is an approach of engaging stakeholders in building system dynamics models to address complex problems. Among the roles supporting the modeling session, the facilitator is the most crucial one; ...

Increasingly, organisations are implementing in-company women’s networks to foster women’s advancement, to move more women into senior management positions, and as a remedy for gender inequalities at the workplace. However, ...

In this thesis we replicated the study of Marano & Kostova (2016) on the level of CSR adoption by multinational enterprises. The original study solely focussed on U.S. MNEs. The focus of this thesis has been on the ...

The problem statement of this explorative, qualitative case study is: How do education and two types of training influence individual creativity, in the context of incremental product innovation, under influence of different ...