Dirk Snelders
Biographic Data
| ID | 2749830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dirk Snelders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Snelders |
| SIGNATURE | SNELDERS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delft University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6678-9281 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Design of Firms
One of the essential aspects of a company's design is its source of competitive advantage. Extrapolating from Raymond Loewy's famous design strategy acronym, MAYA—the Most Advanced Yet Acceptable Principle—and treating the firm as the object of design, this article explains the competitive advantage of firms from a design perspective. Our design-based recommendation for the competitive advantage of firms is to focus on shaping heterogeneity-based…
The Design of Firms
The theory of the firm addresses the economic choice concerning the coordination of production: direct control by an entrepreneur on the one hand or an open market pricing mechanism on the other. We draw upon design theory to offer new thinking on the choice to integrate economic activities within the boundaries of the firm. By drawing on the scholarship in the field of design studies, we show that the coordination of production could both be cre…
A grounded typology of vacation decision-making
An exploratory study of the relation between concrete and abstract product attributes
Planning the summer vacation
Most advanced, yet acceptable
Typicality and novelty have often been shown to be related to aesthetic preference of human artefacts. Since a typical product is rarely new and, conversely, a novel product will not often be designated as typical, the positive effects of both features seem incompatible. In three studies it was shown that typicality (operationalized as 'goodness of example') and novelty are jointly and equally effective in explaining the aesthetic preference of c…
A grounded typology of vacation decision-making
Planning the summer vacation
Most advanced, yet acceptable
Typicality and novelty have often been shown to be related to aesthetic preference of human artefacts. Since a typical product is rarely new and, conversely, a novel product will not often be designated as typical, the positive effects of both features seem incompatible. In three studies it was shown that typicality (operationalized as 'goodness of example') and novelty are jointly and equally effective in explaining the aesthetic preference of c…
Most advanced, yet acceptable
Typicality and novelty have often been shown to be related to aesthetic preference of human artefacts. Since a typical product is rarely new and, conversely, a novel product will not often be designated as typical, the positive effects of both features seem incompatible. In three studies it was shown that typicality (operationalized as 'goodness of example') and novelty are jointly and equally effective in explaining the aesthetic preference of c…
An exploratory study of the relation between concrete and abstract product attributes
Planning the summer vacation
A grounded typology of vacation decision-making
The Design of Firms
One of the essential aspects of a company's design is its source of competitive advantage. Extrapolating from Raymond Loewy's famous design strategy acronym, MAYA—the Most Advanced Yet Acceptable Principle—and treating the firm as the object of design, this article explains the competitive advantage of firms from a design perspective. Our design-based recommendation for the competitive advantage of firms is to focus on shaping heterogeneity-based…
The Design of Firms
The theory of the firm addresses the economic choice concerning the coordination of production: direct control by an entrepreneur on the one hand or an open market pricing mechanism on the other. We draw upon design theory to offer new thinking on the choice to integrate economic activities within the boundaries of the firm. By drawing on the scholarship in the field of design studies, we show that the coordination of production could both be cre…
Computer Science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Marketing (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Color perception and design (2 works) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (2 works) · Cruise Tourism Development and Management (2 works)