Examples of Thesis Projects at Management Studies

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Examples of Thesis Projects at Management Studies
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Examples Strategic management

• Best Manufacturing Practices for a juice firm
• Trading egg products to the institutional markets
• What industry formats may work for converging
  industries the case of bioraffinary
• What business formats to recommend for biofuel
  firms top prevent suicide square (proposal)
• Testing the co-evolutiuon theory of capabilities
  and transaction costs. A study on the change in
  Dutch horticulture
• MA-driven market dominance

Contact Emiel Wubben (Emiel.wubben_at_wur.nl)
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Examples financial management

• introducing a balanced scorecard in a company-
  Nat.Nederlanden/Aegon
• risk reduction (banks, firms, usage of
  derivatives)- Rabobank/Air force
• cost price calculation for a company cheese
  company/McCain
• introduction of a budgeting system in a
  company-- BASF
• choice problems (foreign market entry (companies
  in Poland),
• introduction of new products (feasibility
  studies,
• olives from Greece), usage of
  machinery/complexity costs (Masterfoods)
• financial analysis of the European dairy sector
  LEI/WU
• venture capital/equity ongoing (Bsc)

contact harry.bremmers_at_wur.nl
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Examples Environmental Management

• introduction of environmental management system
  (chemical company, geel, Belgium)
• environmental auditing Akzo, Delfzijl
• environmetal strategy gap analysis (Ongoing)
• environmental reporting total environmental
  management (bsc-thesis)
• environmental costs comparison of impact of
  candy companies

Contact Geoffrey Hagelaar/Harry Bremmers
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Examples Management and Organization

• Determining the most suitable organisation for
  purchasing of services and intermediate products
  (for Nestly Suisse)
• Changing corporate governance at Dutch
  agricultural cooperatives (or National
  Cooperative Council)
• Member commitment in a Dutch dairy cooperative
  (Campina)
• Contact persons Jos Bijman / Geoffrey Hagelaar

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Examples Innovation Management /
Entrepreneurship

• Critical Success Factors for Entrepreneurship in
  the Dutch Life Sciences Industry
• Competitiveness and innovative potential of
  Chinas food Industry. An exploratory study in
  the Shanghai region
• UV crop protection, a new development in the
  tomato industry
• Contact Onno Omta / Wim Hulsink / Hans Dons

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Examples Facility Management

• A study on the added value of Facility Management
• Facilities and Logistics Synergy in office
  logistics
• In control of outsourcing at financial
  organisations
• Contact Dries van Wagenberg

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Examples Supply Chain Management

• Information exchange in sustainable chains (LEI)
• Improving the European fruit supply chain
  (European Commission)
• Outsourcing or in house production of logistic
  services (construction material wholesale
  company)
• Contact Jacques Trienekens / Jos Bijman