Highlights

Recent Publications

Here you can find a list of publications of our department in recognised international scientific journals.

• Roodbergen K.J., Sharp, G.P., and Vis, I.F.A. (2008), Designing the Layout Structure of Manual Order-Picking areas in Warehouses, IIE Transactions, forthcoming.

• Roodbergen, K.J. and Vis, I.F.A., A Survey of Literature on Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, forthcoming.

• Van Echtelt, F.E.A., Wynstra, J.Y.F., Van Weele, A.J., and Duysters, G.M. (2008), Managing Supplier Involvement in New Product Development: A Multi-Case study. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 25 180-201.

• Kijkuit, R.C., Van den Ende, J. 'The Organizational Life of an Idea: Integrating Social Network, Creativity and Decision-Making Perspectives', Journal of Management Studies (forthcoming).

• Jans, R., Degraeve, Z., Schepens, L., Analysis of an Industrial Component Commonality Problem, accepted for publication in the European Journal of Operational Research.

• Jans, R., Degraeve, Z., Analysis of a Symmetrical Set Covering Problem: The lottery problem, accepted for publication in the European Journal of Operational  Research.

• Degraeve, Z. and R. Jans (2007), A New Dantzig-Wolfe Reformulation and Branch-and-Price Algorithm for the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem with Set Up Times, accepted for Operations Research.

• Jans, R and Z. Degraeve (2007), Modelling Industrial Lot Sizing Problems: A Review, accepted for the International Journal of Production Research.

• Jans, R. and Degraeve (2007), Meta-Heuristics for Dynamic Lot Sizing: A Review and Comparison of Solution Approaches, European Journal of Operational Research, 177, 1855-1875.

• Blindenbach-Driessen, F.P., Van den Ende, J. (2006). ‘Innovation in Project-Based Firms. The Context Dependency of Success Factors’. Research Policy 35, 4, 545-561
• Dittrich, K., Jaspers, F., Van der Valk, W., Wynstra, F. (2006), Dealing with dualities, Industrial Marketing Management 35: 792–796
• Rijsdijk, S.A. and E.J. Hultink, (forthcoming) "How Today's Consumers Perceive Tomorrow's Smart Products," Journal of Product Innovation Management.
• Wynstra, F., Axelsson, B., and Van der Valk, W. (2006). An Application-based Classification to Understand Buyer-Supplier Interaction in Business Services. International Journal of Service Industry Management, 17 (5): 474-496.

Recent Books

• Balk, B. (2008) Price and Quantity Index Numbers. Models for Measuring Aggregate Change and Difference . Cambridge University Press. 304p ISBN (ISBN-13: 9780521889070)
• Dul, J. & Hak, T. (2008)  Case Study Methodology in Business Research. Elsevier – Butterworth-Heinemann, 328 p. ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8196-4
• Vries, Henk J. de (2008) Standards Battles in Open Source Software . Palgrave Macmillan. (ISBN: 9780230220720)
• Vries, Huibert de, Henk de Vries & Ilan Oshri (2008) Standards battles in Open Source Software: The Case of Firefox. Basinstoke, UK: Palgrave.
• Edited by Tineke M. Egyedi and Knut Blind (2008), The Dynamics Of Standards

New Teaching Cases

Below there's an overview of recently developed teaching cases by the department "Management of Technology and Innovation".

• KPN-ATOS Origin: Outsourcing IT Services (parts A and B) (Finn Wynstra and Wendy van der Valk).
• Vries, Henk J. de (2006) Competing E-Purse Systems: A Standards Battle. Journal of Cases on Information Technology, 8, 1, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, pp. 1-15.