Purpose The aim of this study is to provide insights into how the purchasing function can increase the maturity of smart maintenance management (SMM) in construction clients by (1) assessing current SMM maturity and (2) developing an adapted service triad for purchasing's meaningful involvement in SMM. …

This research provides an impact analysis for both facility manager and commercial real estate on the consequences and impact of crises on commercial real estate. Building blocks impact analysis and conceptual approach: The building blocks of the impact analysis must be: KPIs, risk assessment and change …

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is constantly gaining ground, both at domestic and international level. New forms of dispute settlement with a mix of public and private components are emerging in fields where this was not the case until recent times, as some contributions to this Zoom-out have attempted …

This study tackles the problem of locations analysis and decision making in FREM organizations using a technological tool named expert decision support system (EDSS) that enhances the procedure of real estate location analysis and decision making in an objective form. On the one hand, deciding on the …

The value of the public real estate portfolio is estimated to exceed the biggest Dutch private investor ten times. In spite of its importance, it seems that this municipal real estate is not always managed in a professional way. This paper is about how a more developed and researched discipline – corporate …

The European Union (EU) and the United States of America (US) are currently negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). TTIP was launched in 2013. TTIP aims at developing trade rules under investment protection that encompasses arbitration as the method to resolve disputes …

Voor startups is het verkrijgen van een financiering een van belangrijkste voorwaarden om hun idee uit te werken en tot een verkoopbaar product te komen. In dit onderzoek wordt enerzijds aan de hand van een literatuuronderzoek en interviews onderzocht welke financiële beoordelingscriteria venture capitalisten …

This dissertation conducts a comprehensive study on the motives of the Government of The Netherlands for its support of the proposal by the European Commission for an Investment Court System (ICS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement that is currently under negotiation …

Linguistadores ,headquartered in the Netherlands is a young start up company that started its business in February 2012. Via its web site customers can learn foreign languages. Instead of sitting in a classroom, users have the opportunity to learn languages online in their preferred environment and whenever …

This report provides information about the commercial relations between three important European states: The Netherlands, Germany and Poland. The triangular relations of these states is researched with the next question in mind: What are the consequences of increasing German-Polish commercial relations, …