Marina Bos-de Vos
Biographic Data
| ID | 7826058 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marina Bos-de Vos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marina Bos |
| FAMILY NAME | de Vos |
| SIGNATURE | DE VOS M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delft University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7613-891X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
How tensions between parents’ values influence decisions about their children’s nutrition
Parents feel a responsibility to provide a healthy start for their young children, but struggle to realise this. Especially in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, parents face challenges such as financial strain, stress, and isolation. Facing these challenges can contribute to tensions between parents’ values, such as balancing family harmony with healthy food choices. Such value tensions may negatively affect the nutrition decisions parents make for t…
Navigating Approaches to the Use of Pattern Language Theory in Practice
Christopher Alexander’s Pattern Language Theory (PLT) has been recognized as a valuable methodology to understand complex systems. It has been applied across domains through a variety of different approaches. This article reviews existing approaches to PLT application and reflects upon the differences between them. We find that application generally differs across four components: artefact, activity, roles and tools, informed by practitioners’ di…
Short and Long-Term Innovations on Dietary Behavior Assessment and Coaching
Overweight, obesity and cardiometabolic diseases are major global health concerns. Lifestyle factors, including diet, have been acknowledged to play a key role in the solution of these health risks. However, as shown by numerous studies, and in clinical practice, it is extremely challenging to quantify dietary behaviors as well as influencing them via dietary interventions. As shown by the limited success of 'one-size-fits-all' nutritional campai…
Midwives’ Experiences with and Perspectives on Online (Nutritional) Counselling and mHealth Applications for Pregnant Women; an Explorative Qualitative Study
Prenatal nutrition is a key predictor of early-life development. However, despite mass campaigns to stimulate healthy nutrition during pregnancy, the diet of Dutch pregnant women is often suboptimal. Innovative technologies offer an opportunity to develop tailored tools, which resulted in the release of various apps on healthy nutrition during pregnancy. As midwives act as primary contact for Dutch pregnant women, the goal was to explore the expe…
Constructing project business around professional identity
Creative professional service firms experience difficulties in establishing healthy and sustainable business models, as they must reconcile the often competing value systems upon which the models are based. They continuously negotiate between professional values and beliefs and the firm’s commercial goals, resulting in struggles between identity and strategy. Adopting a work lens, this study investigates the reciprocal tensions between identity a…
A toolkit for developing projectspecific value capture strategies
This chapter presents the design-oriented part of my research, introducing a toolkit that can be used for the capture of value in projects. Although the toolkit was specifically designed for architectural firms involved in construction projects, it can also be used by other organizations and in other project contexts. The chapter is organized into four main sections. It begins by briefly setting out the relevance of the toolkit, with insights fro…
Open for business
Architectural firms can be regarded as creative professional service firms. As such, architects need to navigate creative, professional and commercial goals, while simultaneously attempting to fulfil client, user and societal needs. This complex process is becoming increasingly difficult, as the historically established role of architects has become more blurred, contested and heterogeneous. While attempting to reclaim their role or to take on ne…
Trade-offs in the value capture of architectural firms
Architectural firms often have difficulty generating profit from their services as they pursue not only commercial but also professional goals. These goals frequently conflict and have to be balanced during the process of value creation and value capture. So far, literature has focused on the interaction between the perceived use value for the customer and the fee that is paid to the firm. To better understand how professional service firms reali…
How to claim what is mine
Professional roles within inter-organizational projects have become increasingly diverse and contested, yet little is known about how the members of a profession react to the threats of marginalization these collaborative settings entail. Focusing on the architectural profession, in which historically established role boundaries have become particularly blurred, we analyse how professionals address the concept of these boundaries in order to nego…
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Constructing project business around professional identity
Creative professional service firms experience difficulties in establishing healthy and sustainable business models, as they must reconcile the often competing value systems upon which the models are based. They continuously negotiate between professional values and beliefs and the firm’s commercial goals, resulting in struggles between identity and strategy. Adopting a work lens, this study investigates the reciprocal tensions between identity a…
A toolkit for developing projectspecific value capture strategies
This chapter presents the design-oriented part of my research, introducing a toolkit that can be used for the capture of value in projects. Although the toolkit was specifically designed for architectural firms involved in construction projects, it can also be used by other organizations and in other project contexts. The chapter is organized into four main sections. It begins by briefly setting out the relevance of the toolkit, with insights fro…
Open for business
Architectural firms can be regarded as creative professional service firms. As such, architects need to navigate creative, professional and commercial goals, while simultaneously attempting to fulfil client, user and societal needs. This complex process is becoming increasingly difficult, as the historically established role of architects has become more blurred, contested and heterogeneous. While attempting to reclaim their role or to take on ne…
Trade-offs in the value capture of architectural firms
Architectural firms often have difficulty generating profit from their services as they pursue not only commercial but also professional goals. These goals frequently conflict and have to be balanced during the process of value creation and value capture. So far, literature has focused on the interaction between the perceived use value for the customer and the fee that is paid to the firm. To better understand how professional service firms reali…
How to claim what is mine
Professional roles within inter-organizational projects have become increasingly diverse and contested, yet little is known about how the members of a profession react to the threats of marginalization these collaborative settings entail. Focusing on the architectural profession, in which historically established role boundaries have become particularly blurred, we analyse how professionals address the concept of these boundaries in order to nego…
Short and Long-Term Innovations on Dietary Behavior Assessment and Coaching
Overweight, obesity and cardiometabolic diseases are major global health concerns. Lifestyle factors, including diet, have been acknowledged to play a key role in the solution of these health risks. However, as shown by numerous studies, and in clinical practice, it is extremely challenging to quantify dietary behaviors as well as influencing them via dietary interventions. As shown by the limited success of 'one-size-fits-all' nutritional campai…
Midwives’ Experiences with and Perspectives on Online (Nutritional) Counselling and mHealth Applications for Pregnant Women; an Explorative Qualitative Study
Prenatal nutrition is a key predictor of early-life development. However, despite mass campaigns to stimulate healthy nutrition during pregnancy, the diet of Dutch pregnant women is often suboptimal. Innovative technologies offer an opportunity to develop tailored tools, which resulted in the release of various apps on healthy nutrition during pregnancy. As midwives act as primary contact for Dutch pregnant women, the goal was to explore the expe…
Navigating Approaches to the Use of Pattern Language Theory in Practice
Christopher Alexander’s Pattern Language Theory (PLT) has been recognized as a valuable methodology to understand complex systems. It has been applied across domains through a variety of different approaches. This article reviews existing approaches to PLT application and reflects upon the differences between them. We find that application generally differs across four components: artefact, activity, roles and tools, informed by practitioners’ di…
How tensions between parents’ values influence decisions about their children’s nutrition
Parents feel a responsibility to provide a healthy start for their young children, but struggle to realise this. Especially in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, parents face challenges such as financial strain, stress, and isolation. Facing these challenges can contribute to tensions between parents’ values, such as balancing family harmony with healthy food choices. Such value tensions may negatively affect the nutrition decisions parents make for t…
Computer Science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Design Education and Practice (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Knowledge management (4 works) · Construction Project Management and Performance (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Data science (2 works)