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    <title>Operational Excellence in Services and Supply Chains</title>
    <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/col/5008/</link>
    <description>List of Publications</description>
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      <title>Behavioral influence on operational performance</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/14499/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;Jasper Blaauw&lt;/div&gt;
The use of teams in operations is a well-established way of structuring an organization&#13;
with the purpose to perform tasks more effectively and improve operational&#13;
performance and competitive advantage. There has been a great deal of research on&#13;
teams and team performance in the academic literature (Tversky &amp; Kahneman, 1974;&#13;
Hayes et al., 1988; Boudreau et al. 2003). The results of this research and practice showed&#13;
that team performance is not only influenced by operational factors but also by human&#13;
behavior, in particular behavioral biases. It is argued that behavioral biases&#13;
systematically affect (and often distort) a person’s judgment and decision-making (Gino&#13;
&amp; Pisano, 2008). This study focuses on the anchoring &amp; adjustment bias.</description>
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      <title>The impact of Strategic Supply Chain Flexibility on customer retention in the B2B segment.</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/14500/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;Omar Ibrahim&lt;/div&gt;
As present developments like global competition, rapidly changing technology, and shorter product life cycles have contributed to making the current manufacturing environment an extremely competitive one, organizations face significant uncertainty and continuous change. Traditional manufacturing approaches, such as mass production of a few standardized products, are no longer sufficient competitive weapons by themselves. Customers are demanding a greater variety of high quality, low-cost goods and services.</description>
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      <title>Necessary conditions for performance-based contracting in the European railway industry.</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/14851/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;Albert Koch&lt;/div&gt;
Performance-based contracting (PBC) has become popular in many industries, especially&#13;
in the armed forces and commercial and military aviation. Different from other forms of&#13;
contracting, a firm using a performance-based contract wants to have a performance, an&#13;
output or even an outcome rather than an action from a supplier. In the European&#13;
railway industry, this type of contracting is not widespread on the level of rolling stock&#13;
(maintenance), although the contrary should be expected and – from a practitioner's&#13;
point of view – desirable. In this research, necessary conditions for successful application&#13;
of this contract type are being developed and tested.</description>
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      <title>Are there essential ingredients for team reflexivity?</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/14501/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;Huib Maclean&lt;/div&gt;
Team reflexivity has been getting increasingly more attention in literature. Team reflexivity is the extent to which group members overtly reflect upon, and communicate about the group's objectives, strategies and processes, and adapt them to current or anticipated circumstances. It can be very beneficial in different organizational situations such as product development, organizational changes, enhancing team effectiveness and sometimes even in improving team performance. Most useful is embedding reflexivity is project teams. Therefore this study investigated project teams at an engineering company specialized in railroads and railway stations in the Netherlands</description>
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      <title>Relaties onder druk?</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/14880/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;Martijn Siebrand&lt;/div&gt;
Onderstaand een korte samenvatting van de master thesis: Relaties onder druk? Het doel van deze thesis is het leveren van een bijdrage aan bestaande theorie aangaande de invloeden van de concepten: betaaltermijnen, betaalgedrag, business performance en werkkapitaal op de relatie tussen leveranciers en afnemers. Vanuit de praktische exploratie is gebleken dat relaties door afnemers onder druk worden gezet. Het voorbeeld van Toyota is besproken en inmiddels is ook Albert Heijn berucht om zijn “verzoek” om leverancierskorting. De druk komt echter niet alleen vanuit kortingen, tevens is gebleken dat het betaalgedrag van afnemers verder aan het verslechteren is. Dit kan leveranciers in moeilijke financiële posities brengen om voldoende werkkapitaal te behouden om zo de continuïteit van de onderneming te kunnen borgen. De continuïteit van de onderneming wordt beïnvloed door de bedrijfsprestaties, hiervoor is business performance als concept gebruikt. Gesteld is door Graydon, dat trage betalingen resulteren in een hoger aantal faillissementen. De druk die afnemers de leveranciers opleggen zou van invloed kunnen zijn op de relatie tussen de leverancier en de afnemer. Deze ontwikkelingen zijn de aanleiding geweest voor deze master thesis. Het onderzoek is volledig vanuit het perspectief van de leverancier uitgevoerd.</description>
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      <title>Influence of Standardization</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/14202/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;Jean-Paul Lucassen&lt;/div&gt;
As a response to a benchmark in 2012, NS’ management imposed cost savings in order&#13;
to meet the performance of the benchmark’s world class peer group. These savings&#13;
should be realized through process standardization. Business process standardization&#13;
has therefore been the subject of my master thesis.&#13;
The definition of a business process is a set of logically-related tasks, at least partially&#13;
executed by humans and performed to achieve a defined business outcome. Such&#13;
processes are the objects to standardize.</description>
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      <title>Leverbetrouwbaarheid in de supply chain vanuit Azië.</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/14849/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;Wouter van Herwaarden&lt;/div&gt;
Door middel van deze samenvatting kan een globale indruk worden verkregen van de inhoud, achtergronden en belangrijkste conclusies in dit onderzoek.&#13;
Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd door een student van de parttime opleiding bedrijfskunde aan de RSM Erasmus Universiteit te Rotterdam. Hij heeft onderzoek gedaan naar de verbetering van leverbetrouwbaarheid van goederen uit Azië.</description>
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      <title>Identifying the level of agile in software development projects and&#13;
what will be the effect?</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/14525/</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;Niels Oomen&lt;/div&gt;
We live in a society that is and will be a more and more digital environment, both&#13;
private and work related. Most of the products we use contain software or we use a&#13;
software system. It is a discussion for several years now how the software development&#13;
process should be controlled to deliver the software faster, better and cheaper. The most&#13;
common way to deliver software is via the waterfall method. This way of working means&#13;
decide early and deliver slowly. This approach of working has been changed into a more&#13;
adaptive way, this means decide late and deliver fast. This last method is called: Agile.&#13;
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects if a higher level of agile will&#13;
increase the quality of a software development projects.</description>
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      <title>De rol van sociaal-culturele factoren bij een Lean-implementatie in service georiënteerde organisaties</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/17795/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;M. Amhadi&lt;/div&gt;
Het doel van dit onderzoek is om de rol van de sociaal-culture factoren organisatiecultuur, organisatiestructuur en managementondersteuning in een Lean-implementatie te onderzoeken.&#13;
Lean is een filosofie die gericht is op het maximaliseren van de waarde voor de klant met zo min mogelijk verspillingen. Uit eerder onderzoek blijkt dat organisaties het lastig vinden om Lean te implementeren en dat de resultaten vaak achterblijven, omdat er onvoldoende aandacht&#13;
wordt gegeven aan deze sociaal-culture factoren tijdens de implementatie.</description>
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      <title>The Customer facing back office</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/18753/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;C. Martis&lt;/div&gt;
A Customer Centric organization is an organization that is able to create value and satisfaction for its customers, by identifying the desired outcomes that its customers are looking for, and use this knowledge to create and deliver meaningful customer oriented services.</description>
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      <title>Wederkerigheid in inkooprelaties</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/17794/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;N. Pruijsen&lt;/div&gt;
De huidige economische crisis is voor de Rabobank aanleiding tot reorganisatie. Diensten die voorheen door de lokale banken zelf uitgevoerd werden, worden nu uitbesteed of gecentraliseerd. Door de uitbesteding is de afhankelijkheid van leveranciers groter geworden. De relatie met de leveranciers is hierdoor belangrijker geworden. Een ander gevolg van de reorganisatie is dat inkoop niet meer op lokaal niveau plaatsvindt, maar zo veel mogelijk via centraal afgesloten mantelovereenkomsten. Door de bundeling van het volume kan schaalvoordeel behaald worden, en zijn de inkoopkosten lager (Arnold, 1999). De kleine, plaatselijke leveranciers kunnen niet aan de gestelde voorwaarden en het gevraagde volume van deze mantelovereenkomsten voldoen. Het leveranciersbestand verandert dus van veel kleine, plaatselijke leveranciers naar grote, landelijke partijen. De plaatselijke leveranciers zijn vaak klant bij de lokale bank. Door middel van reciprociteit zocht de bank de verbinding met het werkgebied en haar klanten. De lokale bank verwacht dat de leveranciers met reciprociteitsrelatie door de wederzijdse betrokkenheid tevredener zijn dan de grote landelijke leveranciers. Die grotere tevredenheid is extra van belang nu leveranciers steeds meer diensten voor de Rabobank verzorgen en de afhankelijkheid daardoor groter is geworden. De aanname is echter ook, dat lokale leveranciers voor hogere inkoopkosten zorgen dan de centraal ingekochte diensten.</description>
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      <title>Success criteria and critical success factors for contractors of urgent and unexpected projects</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/17800/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;ing. G. Korbijn&lt;/div&gt;
Urgent and unexpected projects are defined as those that require continuous additional attention to minimize the overall lead time, and which were not regarded as likely to happen when planning resources in advance. Urgent and unexpected projects substantially differ in approach from best practice project management, as they do not start after an extensive feasibility study and completion of a detailed scope, budget and risk analysis (Meredith &amp; Mantel, 2006). With the costs of asset downtime in mind, it is relevant for the field of operations management to understand which factors are critical for the success of these projects. A prerequisite to determine success factors is knowing if a project is successful. The objective of this study is therewith to contribute to the development of theory regarding urgent and unexpected projects by identifying the success criteria and critical success factors for contractors and specify their relation.</description>
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      <title>Corporate Social Responsibility in supply chains</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/17808/</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2014 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;D. Smallenburg&lt;/div&gt;
Driven by consumer and stakeholder pressure Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has&#13;
become an important aspect for firms over the last twenty years (Hoejmose &amp; Adrien‐Kirby,&#13;
2012). CSR can be described as “the responsibility of a firm towards society in the economical,&#13;
legal and ethical dimension”(Schwartz &amp; Carroll, 2003). Or, very simply put, CSR is the “positive impact of businesses on their stakeholders” (Turker, 2008). As firms are increasingly dependent on outsourcing (Trent &amp; Monczka, 1998), responsible operations cannot exist&#13;
without a responsible supply chain (Millington, 2008). For this reason buyers seek ways to improve their supplier’s CSR performance. There are many factors that influence supplier CSR performance. This study specifically focussed on the factors that buying firms can directly control.</description>
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      <title>The influence of free time and perceived trust in supervisor on personal initiative</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/18691/</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;A. Schepers&lt;/div&gt;
There’s a lot of external pressure on today’s economy. Organizations have to be more flexible and innovative and employees have to show behavior that complies with this. One of behaviors is showing more Personal Initiative at work. This research will contribute to the theory of Personal Initiative by investigating the influence of the (amount of) reward Free Time and the employee’s perceived level of trust in the direct supervisor on Personal Initiative, because neither of them was investigated in previous research. Quantitative research has been conducted, within 9 organizations with 271 respondents, mostly in the healthcare sector. The results show a positive relation between reward Free Time and Personal Initiative and also between perceived level of trust in the direct supervisor and Personal Initiative. The relation between Reward Free Time shows an inverted U effect on Personal Initiative. The turning point lies at about 80 hours per month, thus until 80 hours a month, Personal Initiative continues to increase. Besides reward Free Time, other independent variables as Job Autonomy and Status Striving had also a considerable effect, more than Trust. The effect of Trust on Personal Initiative and as moderator between Free Time and Personal Initiative was very small, but positive. The influence of Trust becomes of more importance when Free Time becomes less or is not given at all. The results of this research can be used by supervisors to implement these antecedents to stimulate Personal Initiative.</description>
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      <title>Closed loop supply chain theory: A solution to the e-commerce nightmare</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/17790/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;G. Kenson&lt;/div&gt;
In de e-commerce branche zijn retourpercentages hoog.  Consumentenretouren binnen de ecommerce kunnen leiden tot een maatschappelijk probleem mits dit niet snel wordt aangepakt.&#13;
Overproductie zal leiden tot  economische verspilling van grond- en hulpstoffen. Met dit onderzoek wordt getoetst hoe het best met de retourinformatie en retouren stroom&#13;
omgegaan kan worden. Het doel is dat de voorraad die door de retouren ontstaat, leidt tot de minste verspilling in de gehele supply chain.</description>
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      <title>Improving the buyer attractiveness for suppliers</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/18153/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;Schans, Frank van der&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Living apart Together</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/32468/</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2015 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;R. van Doesburg&lt;/div&gt;
De rol van een continue verbetercultuur bij het bereiken van operationele effectiviteit wanneer er sprake is van gescheiden teams. Een onderzoek binnen de Nederlandse infrabedrijven.</description>
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      <title>Variatie in make to order bedrijven.</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/41526/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2015 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Interorganisational Information Systems Maturity: The Effects Of Supply Chain Position</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/34381/</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2016 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;Danny Smit&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Long-tern Orientation: Growth to Strategic Partnership</title>
      <link>https://thesis.eur.nl/pub/34788/</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;div&gt;Marjolein Schaddelee&lt;/div&gt;
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