De tragiek van de kleine spin en het grote web

In deze bijdrage worden de jongste geschiedenis en de positie van Fokker belicht vanuit een internationaal netwerkperspectief. De noodwendige c.q. noodlottige implicaties van internationale netwerkconfiguraties voor Fokker's zoektocht naar een partner worden beschreven, waarbij tevens Europese concties en weifelend Nederlands industriebeleid als achtergronden voor Fokker's tragiek worden aangewezen

Eco-efficientie in de industiele sector

Abstract niet beschikbaarThis report of the MATRIC project investigated 'Eco-efficiency in industrial production'. After a general introduction into the domain of eco-efficiency, the first part of this report further focusses on the organisation of Product-Oriented Environmental Management (POEM), which is defined as the systematic attention of a company for reducing the environmental impact of its products across the entire product lifecycle. The second part of this report focusses on the adoption of eco-efficient construction systems in Dutch house building. After a general description of socio-technical development in Dutch housing construction, the housing construction regime is described, special attention is given to the adoption paths of timber-frame and calcium silicate stone construction systems, and, finally lessons for the governance of socio-technical development in Dutch housing construction are drawn.SG-NO

The relationship between variety and new product development in multipartner alliances: The moderating effect of power asymmetry

Power asymmetry exists in almost all multi-partner alliances. Literature on interpersonal teams suggests that these power differences influence the degree to which variety in partners’ functional purpose and characteristics results in successful new product development. However, little is known about power asymmetry in multi-partner alliances in general, and its effect on the relationship between variety and new product development in specific. Therefore, we investigate the moderation effect of power asymmetry on the relationship between functional, organizational, and industry variety and new product development in multi-partner alliances. For this purpose, we use a database of 409 alliances with multiple partners granted funding from the Netherlands Technology Foundation STW between 2000 and 2004. We find that the negative and positive effects of functional and organizational variety on new product development success in multi-partner alliances are amplified, if power asymmetry is high rather than low. Furthermore, we show that high industry variety increases the chance that a multi-partner alliance will result in new product development success as well as failure, if power asymmetry is low. In addition, we find that the odds of new product development success are usually higher regardless of the level of industry variety, if power asymmetry is high. These results suggest that to get a clear understanding of the benefits (or costs) of variety in multi-partner alliances, future research should always take power asymmetry into account. Moreover, they highlight that business managers should carefully design their multi-partner alliances, both in terms of variety and power relations