Organisations operate in an increasingly dynamic environment. Consequently, the business models span several organisations, dealing with multiple stakeholders and their competing interests. As a result, the enterprise information systems supporting this new market setting are highly distributed, and …

This thesis is designed as an assignment of the Foundation Work Incubator (SWI) for a client based in Estonia. The client contacted the Foundation with the question whether a risk assessment could be conducted in order to determine if establishing a retail franchise in cooperation with a Dutch franchisor …

The in-depth assessment of the situation of the European textile and clothing sector is composed by six independent reports with a close focus on key aspects useful to understand the dynamics and the development of the textile and clothing industry, drivers of change – most notably the impact of the …

The increasing demand for Prunus africana resources is an opportunity for its conservation and commercial use to support livelihoods in Africa. The objective for this study was to investigate major steps to advance production of P. africana for long-term commercial use in Uganda. Specific objectives …

Personal branding is a huge trend in the United States. Young professionals use personal branding to obtain a stronger position on the labour market. In the Netherlands this trend is just in the beginning phases. Most people are unaware of the meaning, importance, influence and advantages. The central …

Aligning business and IT strategy is a prominent area of concern. Organizations that successfully align their business strategy and their IT strategy, outperform their non-aligned peers (Chan et al., 1997). This chapter explores the relationship between business strategy, IT strategy and alignment capability. …

The research assesses the value chain and quality control of the pork industry in Beijing municipality of China. Through interviewing all the actors of pork industrial value chain in Beijing, the roles functions and problems of each of the actor of the pork industrial value chain of Beijing were investigated …