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[SECTION: Purpose] In 1999, McDougall and Oviatt cautioned that while scholars, business experts and governments advised all firms "including new and small businesses" to internationalize, empirical support for this recommendation was largely absent (McDougall and Oviatt, 1999). This question of "whether" firms should ... | - To examine the effects of urbanization and industrial concentration on the propensity of firms to export, and to determine whether these aspects of geography affect smaller firms differently than larger ones. |
[SECTION: Method] In 1999, McDougall and Oviatt cautioned that while scholars, business experts and governments advised all firms "including new and small businesses" to internationalize, empirical support for this recommendation was largely absent (McDougall and Oviatt, 1999). This question of "whether" firms should g... | - Based on expectations from economic geography and organizational learning theories, logistic regression was used to assess the effects of firm size, urbanization and industrial concentration on the export choices of 43,707 manufacturing firms located in the Southeastern USA. |
[SECTION: Findings] In 1999, McDougall and Oviatt cautioned that while scholars, business experts and governments advised all firms "including new and small businesses" to internationalize, empirical support for this recommendation was largely absent (McDougall and Oviatt, 1999). This question of "whether" firms should... | - Results indicate that geography affects choices to export, and that these choices differ with firm size. The smallest manufacturers (fewer than 20 employees) were most likely to export from urban areas and in concentrated industrial sectors. Industry-specific differences were also found. |
[SECTION: Value] In 1999, McDougall and Oviatt cautioned that while scholars, business experts and governments advised all firms "including new and small businesses" to internationalize, empirical support for this recommendation was largely absent (McDougall and Oviatt, 1999). This question of "whether" firms should go... | - Results from the Southeastern USA are consistent with findings from China, though caution should be used in generalizing from these findings. The findings suggest that both internal and external scale economies must be considered in order to understand the export success of small firms. |
[SECTION: Purpose] Services are obtained by engaging in an interactive process with the service provider and may be introduced as a service, product and mixture of both service and product (Buyukozkan et al., 2011). Healthcare service is defined by Kenagy et al. (1999) as "the myriad characteristics that shape the expe... | The purpose of this paper is to assess and compare different private healthcare settings based on perceived service quality in Indian context using analytical hierarchy process (AHP). The Indian private healthcare sector has been controlled by three categories of healthcare settings, namely, nursing clinics (NCs), non-... |
[SECTION: Method] Services are obtained by engaging in an interactive process with the service provider and may be introduced as a service, product and mixture of both service and product (Buyukozkan et al., 2011). Healthcare service is defined by Kenagy et al. (1999) as "the myriad characteristics that shape the exper... | AHP was used to rank order of healthcare setting regarding the service quality dimensions and relative standings of every service provider with respect to its competitors. The authors collected random data from nine private hospitals situated in eastern and southern India. The authors proposed a feasible appraising app... |
[SECTION: Findings] Services are obtained by engaging in an interactive process with the service provider and may be introduced as a service, product and mixture of both service and product (Buyukozkan et al., 2011). Healthcare service is defined by Kenagy et al. (1999) as "the myriad characteristics that shape the exp... | The result demonstrates that Indian NCHs are performing better on customers' perceived service quality, followed by CHs and NCs. The comparative performance of healthcare settings is an attempt to establish a performance ranking. |
[SECTION: Value] Services are obtained by engaging in an interactive process with the service provider and may be introduced as a service, product and mixture of both service and product (Buyukozkan et al., 2011). Healthcare service is defined by Kenagy et al. (1999) as "the myriad characteristics that shape the experi... | This research assesses dimensions of the service quality that need urgent attention. The results may provide insight to healthcare managers as to how they can improve their service quality in order to match customer expectation and to improve business performance. |
[SECTION: Purpose] Despite many efforts to integrate ethics and sustainability into management education, research has shown that most initiatives meet with mixed success. Though most deans indicate that the courses, research centers committed to this area have increased over the past ten years, the majority of faculty... | The purpose of this paper is to perform a philosophical interrogation of some assumptions that underpin management education. It offers an analysis of how these assumptions may influence the promotion the responsible management agenda within business schools. |
[SECTION: Method] Despite many efforts to integrate ethics and sustainability into management education, research has shown that most initiatives meet with mixed success. Though most deans indicate that the courses, research centers committed to this area have increased over the past ten years, the majority of faculty ... | This paper is a theoretical exploration based on a literature review and philosophical analysis. |
[SECTION: Findings] Despite many efforts to integrate ethics and sustainability into management education, research has shown that most initiatives meet with mixed success. Though most deans indicate that the courses, research centers committed to this area have increased over the past ten years, the majority of facult... | The ontological and epistemological assumptions that underpin management education pose barriers to responsible management education. A combination of ontological and epistemological assumptions privilege an instrumental approach based on simplistic utilitarian premises. These assumptions make it difficult to engage wi... |
[SECTION: Value] Despite many efforts to integrate ethics and sustainability into management education, research has shown that most initiatives meet with mixed success. Though most deans indicate that the courses, research centers committed to this area have increased over the past ten years, the majority of faculty m... | Understanding the assumptions that underpin management education may assist in challenging the current paradigm and rethinking our approaches to responsible management. |
[SECTION: Purpose] Boards of health care organisations carry the ultimate responsibility for the quality of care provided by their organisation and for overall performance. The many patient stories in the Independent Inquiry into care at the UK Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust 2005-2009 (The Francis Report, 2010)... | - In the light of failings of the board highlighted by the mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust public inquiry, this paper seeks to offer insights about how boards in general might develop in order to discharge their responsibilities for quality and safety in health care more consistently in the future. The paper als... |
[SECTION: Method] Boards of health care organisations carry the ultimate responsibility for the quality of care provided by their organisation and for overall performance. The many patient stories in the Independent Inquiry into care at the UK Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust 2005-2009 (The Francis Report, 2010) ... | - The paper draws on literature from across the social sciences to assess the evidence for effective board working using a contingency and realist approach. |
[SECTION: Findings] Boards of health care organisations carry the ultimate responsibility for the quality of care provided by their organisation and for overall performance. The many patient stories in the Independent Inquiry into care at the UK Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust 2005-2009 (The Francis Report, 2010... | - The examination leads to the identification of three key issues surrounding the construction and the development of boards. First, there is no evidence or consensus about an "ideal" board form. The rationale and evidence-base, for example for the 1991 model for NHS boards in the English NHS, has never been set out in... |
[SECTION: Value] Boards of health care organisations carry the ultimate responsibility for the quality of care provided by their organisation and for overall performance. The many patient stories in the Independent Inquiry into care at the UK Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust 2005-2009 (The Francis Report, 2010) a... | - The paper argues that it is advisable to move away from a tendency to faith-based and exhortative approaches to guidance, training and development of boards and that it is time for a root-and-branch inquiry into the composition, structure, processes and dynamics of healthcare boards in the interests of assuring patie... |
[SECTION: Purpose] For a number of years now, commentators have exhorted firms to adopt more "balanced" approaches to performance measurement in contrast to more traditional accounting-based approaches that rely on financial measures. Academics and consultants have not been slow to offer managers a variety of performan... | - The paper seeks to examine the prevalence of traditional versus contemporary (balanced) types of performance measurement system (PMS) in an emerging economy and link incidence to key organisational factors of size, age and ownership. |
[SECTION: Method] For a number of years now, commentators have exhorted firms to adopt more "balanced" approaches to performance measurement in contrast to more traditional accounting-based approaches that rely on financial measures. Academics and consultants have not been slow to offer managers a variety of performanc... | - Data on design and use of PMSs are collected through a questionnaire survey (n=149) of electrical and electronic firms. Hierarchical cluster analysis identifies two PMS groups and assigns them to traditional and contemporary types, and then links them to key organisational factors via contingency tables. |
[SECTION: Findings] For a number of years now, commentators have exhorted firms to adopt more "balanced" approaches to performance measurement in contrast to more traditional accounting-based approaches that rely on financial measures. Academics and consultants have not been slow to offer managers a variety of performa... | - Use of contemporary PMS dominates the sample. PMS type is significantly associated with size and ownership, while age is not. Firms more likely to use contemporary PMSs are foreign-owned and large in terms of number of employees. |
[SECTION: Value] For a number of years now, commentators have exhorted firms to adopt more "balanced" approaches to performance measurement in contrast to more traditional accounting-based approaches that rely on financial measures. Academics and consultants have not been slow to offer managers a variety of performance... | - This survey-based research employs multivariate analysis and therefore standard limits for such statistical work apply. Results rely on hierarchical cluster analysis. |
[SECTION: Purpose] Corporate spending on knowledge management (KM) projects has increased substantially over the years (Ithia, 2003). Fuelled by the notion that knowledge is a key resource upon which an organisation's competitiveness depends (Kogut and Zander, 1992), organisations are implementing various KM initiative... | - To examine the causes of knowledge management (KM) failure. |
[SECTION: Method] Corporate spending on knowledge management (KM) projects has increased substantially over the years (Ithia, 2003). Fuelled by the notion that knowledge is a key resource upon which an organisation's competitiveness depends (Kogut and Zander, 1992), organisations are implementing various KM initiatives... | - A multi-case analysis approach was used to review five documented cases of KM failure in the literature. Categories of risk were identified through an iterative analysis of each case. |
[SECTION: Findings] Corporate spending on knowledge management (KM) projects has increased substantially over the years (Ithia, 2003). Fuelled by the notion that knowledge is a key resource upon which an organisation's competitiveness depends (Kogut and Zander, 1992), organisations are implementing various KM initiativ... | - There are four main categories of risk associated with KM failure, namely technology risk, culture risk, content risk and project management risk. The nature of these risks differs dependent upon the stage of a KM project. |
[SECTION: Value] Corporate spending on knowledge management (KM) projects has increased substantially over the years (Ithia, 2003). Fuelled by the notion that knowledge is a key resource upon which an organisation's competitiveness depends (Kogut and Zander, 1992), organisations are implementing various KM initiatives ... | - A limited number of cases were reviewed. |
[SECTION: Purpose] As the composition of rural economies and approaches to rural development have changed in recent decades, this paper seeks to identify the importance of education and work experience among rural business owners. Traditional rural enterprise was characterised by family succession and the importance of... | - In a period of rural economic change, knowledge and skills transfers and the generation of new economic opportunities are seen as essential for promoting rural development. The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence of the impact of educated in-migrants establishing new business activity in rural areas. |
[SECTION: Method] As the composition of rural economies and approaches to rural development have changed in recent decades, this paper seeks to identify the importance of education and work experience among rural business owners. Traditional rural enterprise was characterised by family succession and the importance of ... | - The research employs qualitative interviews with rural business owners informed by an earlier postal survey of rural microbusinesses in the North East of England. The interview data are used to explore the implications of owners' past education and work experience for the development of their businesses. The attitude... |
[SECTION: Findings] As the composition of rural economies and approaches to rural development have changed in recent decades, this paper seeks to identify the importance of education and work experience among rural business owners. Traditional rural enterprise was characterised by family succession and the importance o... | - Data indicate that rural in-migrants, defined as having moved at least 30 miles as adults, arrive with significantly higher education qualifications than their local business-owning counterparts. It also indicates that those with higher levels of education are most likely to engage with networking groups and business... |
[SECTION: Value] As the composition of rural economies and approaches to rural development have changed in recent decades, this paper seeks to identify the importance of education and work experience among rural business owners. Traditional rural enterprise was characterised by family succession and the importance of l... | - The research highlights important data concerning the levels of education among in-migrants and local business owners. It continues by developing theoretical explanations about the way that a business owner's background can influence their business activity. This raises awareness of the diversity of skills and networ... |
[SECTION: Purpose] CN - Collaborative network.SC - Supply chain.IT - Information technology.OR - Operations research.MP - Mathematical programming.CT - Control theory.OPC - Optimal program control.DSS - Decision support system. On modern markets, supply chains (SC) shape the competition landscape (Christopher, 2012). T... | - On modern markets, supply chains (SC) shape the competition landscape. At the same time, considerable research advancements have been recently achieved in the area of collaborative networks. Trends in information technology progress for networked systems include development of cyber-physical networks, cloud service e... |
[SECTION: Method] CN - Collaborative network.SC - Supply chain.IT - Information technology.OR - Operations research.MP - Mathematical programming.CT - Control theory.OPC - Optimal program control.DSS - Decision support system. On modern markets, supply chains (SC) shape the competition landscape (Christopher, 2012). Th... | - This study addresses the above-mentioned research goal by first, developing a methodical vision of an inter-disciplinary modelling framework for SCM based on the existing studies on SC operations, control and systems theories; and second, by integrating elements of different structures with structures dynamics within... |
[SECTION: Findings] CN - Collaborative network.SC - Supply chain.IT - Information technology.OR - Operations research.MP - Mathematical programming.CT - Control theory.OPC - Optimal program control.DSS - Decision support system. On modern markets, supply chains (SC) shape the competition landscape (Christopher, 2012). ... | - The inter-disciplinary modelling framework for multi-structural SCs has been developed. A new inter-disciplinary level of model-based decision-making support in those SCs is claimed based on the integration of previously isolated problems and modelling tools developed in such disciplines like operations research, con... |
[SECTION: Value] CN - Collaborative network.SC - Supply chain.IT - Information technology.OR - Operations research.MP - Mathematical programming.CT - Control theory.OPC - Optimal program control.DSS - Decision support system. On modern markets, supply chains (SC) shape the competition landscape (Christopher, 2012). The... | - The novelty of this paper is the consideration of SC modelling in the context of collaborative cyber-physical systems. This topic is particularly relevant for researchers and practitioners who are interested in future generation SCs. Particular focus is directed towards the multi-structural SC modelling, structure dy... |
[SECTION: Purpose] As the competition for good jobs gets fiercer, potential employees are increasingly aware of the need to improve their skill sets. Developing soft skills and achieving qualifications are ever important in gaining competitive advantage in the labor market, for in-house promotions as well as job moves.... | - Reviews training benefits for the SME employee. |
[SECTION: Method] As the competition for good jobs gets fiercer, potential employees are increasingly aware of the need to improve their skill sets. Developing soft skills and achieving qualifications are ever important in gaining competitive advantage in the labor market, for in-house promotions as well as job moves. ... | - This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. |
[SECTION: Findings] As the competition for good jobs gets fiercer, potential employees are increasingly aware of the need to improve their skill sets. Developing soft skills and achieving qualifications are ever important in gaining competitive advantage in the labor market, for in-house promotions as well as job moves... | - The majority of employees questioned had attained a qualification following training, though this was more frequent in women than in men. Also positive was the feedback that just under 50 percent of the 1,000 employees had gone on to further training, most of this number being in the younger age bracket. |
[SECTION: Value] As the competition for good jobs gets fiercer, potential employees are increasingly aware of the need to improve their skill sets. Developing soft skills and achieving qualifications are ever important in gaining competitive advantage in the labor market, for in-house promotions as well as job moves. B... | - The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format. |
[SECTION: Purpose] Research on the brain has led us to understand that each of us has a preferred way and mode of thinking that affects the way we receive and process information. The awareness of one's own thinking style and the thinking styles of others combined with the ability to act outside of one's preferred thin... | - The purpose of the paper is to present a practical case study of a mid-size Indian organisation, where the whole brain thinking (WBT) approach has been successfully used to align strategy to development needs, based on a simple but powerful model, the ST-IM(tm); the authors also share how WBT has been useful in incre... |
[SECTION: Method] Research on the brain has led us to understand that each of us has a preferred way and mode of thinking that affects the way we receive and process information. The awareness of one's own thinking style and the thinking styles of others combined with the ability to act outside of one's preferred think... | - The approach was to engage the wider team (leadership and managers) in the formulation and implementation of strategic goals by making them aware of their thinking preferences/mindsets through a collaborative approach to working. Project teams were then formed and the project plan - right from the project definition ... |
[SECTION: Findings] Research on the brain has led us to understand that each of us has a preferred way and mode of thinking that affects the way we receive and process information. The awareness of one's own thinking style and the thinking styles of others combined with the ability to act outside of one's preferred thi... | - There was a high degree of acceptance of the WBT concept and the HBDI profiles generated among managers at all levels. This acceptance of their own thinking preferences as well as avoidances has led to managers being willing to become more flexible in their thinking - to become more "situationally whole brained" when... |
[SECTION: Value] Research on the brain has led us to understand that each of us has a preferred way and mode of thinking that affects the way we receive and process information. The awareness of one's own thinking style and the thinking styles of others combined with the ability to act outside of one's preferred thinki... | - The ST-IM model demonstrates a practical way for organisations to engage the potential of a much wider team in the implementation of strategies. |
[SECTION: Purpose] Information has common properties with other forms of assets and is considered to be an intangible asset. Many authors have defined assets as tangible or intangible when discussing their value within an organization. "The intangible asset is the core of the knowledge economy" (Joia, 2000) like any ot... | - The aim of this research is to demonstrate the importance of placing a valuation on information assets and to propose a new valuation technique that complements existing valuation methods and provides improved results. It seeks to answer the following research question: what are the attributes of information relevant... |
[SECTION: Method] Information has common properties with other forms of assets and is considered to be an intangible asset. Many authors have defined assets as tangible or intangible when discussing their value within an organization. "The intangible asset is the core of the knowledge economy" (Joia, 2000) like any oth... | - Using a test bed, hosted on the college's intranet for 12 days, three important variables were calculated: accessibility, lifespan and outcome across five files. Calculating these three variables is essential to conducting an accurate valuation of the information asset. |
[SECTION: Findings] Information has common properties with other forms of assets and is considered to be an intangible asset. Many authors have defined assets as tangible or intangible when discussing their value within an organization. "The intangible asset is the core of the knowledge economy" (Joia, 2000) like any o... | - The research demonstrates the relationships between these variable (accessibility, lifespan and outcome) as well as showing that they have a critical impact on the value of the information asset. The findings provide a strong rationale for the practitioner or researcher to adopt the model in real time situations. The... |
[SECTION: Value] Information has common properties with other forms of assets and is considered to be an intangible asset. Many authors have defined assets as tangible or intangible when discussing their value within an organization. "The intangible asset is the core of the knowledge economy" (Joia, 2000) like any othe... | - Due to the sensitive nature of some of the information held by the organization, the observations were somewhat limited. However, the model could be replicated with a collaborative arrangement between the organization and academia. |
[SECTION: Purpose] In 2010, the authors were invited to consult with a car manufacturer on how to improve product innovation performance. During the two-year long consultation, we first investigated existing problems on the product innovation process within the firm. To that end, we helped the firm explore potential cu... | Although the extant innovation literature has extensively explored the attributes of different types of innovation capability, little is known yet about the common phenomenon of the rebound and durableness of innovation capability. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to address these aspects by introducing the conc... |
[SECTION: Method] In 2010, the authors were invited to consult with a car manufacturer on how to improve product innovation performance. During the two-year long consultation, we first investigated existing problems on the product innovation process within the firm. To that end, we helped the firm explore potential cus... | Based on the behavioral theory of the firm, the authors propose a theoretical model to study the antecedents and outcomes of elastic and plastic innovation capability. An empirical testing involves two data sets that contained 183 companies in three industries. The empirical evidence supports the existence of the conce... |
[SECTION: Findings] In 2010, the authors were invited to consult with a car manufacturer on how to improve product innovation performance. During the two-year long consultation, we first investigated existing problems on the product innovation process within the firm. To that end, we helped the firm explore potential c... | The research findings also demonstrate that a firm's past performance is positively related to elastic innovation capability. Elastic innovation capability and organizational aspiration are positively related to plastic innovation capability. Both elastic and plastic innovation capability significantly lead to superior... |
[SECTION: Value] In 2010, the authors were invited to consult with a car manufacturer on how to improve product innovation performance. During the two-year long consultation, we first investigated existing problems on the product innovation process within the firm. To that end, we helped the firm explore potential cust... | This study makes three main contributions to the existing innovation literature. First, the authors extend existing knowledge on innovation capability by proposing two new types of innovation capability - elastic and plastic innovation capability. Second, the proposed concepts of elastic and plastic innovation capabili... |
[SECTION: Purpose] Research on strategic alliances has been mostly focused on large companies. This focus is perhaps the result of the ready availability of relevant secondary data, which tend to ignore entrepreneurial and relatively unknown companies engaged in strategic alliances. There is now a rising interest in sm... | - To review the alliance partner selection criteria research in order to shed light on how entrepreneurial firms should choose established firms as alliance partners. |
[SECTION: Method] Research on strategic alliances has been mostly focused on large companies. This focus is perhaps the result of the ready availability of relevant secondary data, which tend to ignore entrepreneurial and relatively unknown companies engaged in strategic alliances. There is now a rising interest in sma... | - Critical differences between entrepreneurial and established firms are presented to emphasize the special risks in alliances between these two types of firms. Extant literature on partner selection criteria is reviewed to show that adequate research adopting the perspective of entrepreneurial firms is lacking. A list... |
[SECTION: Findings] Research on strategic alliances has been mostly focused on large companies. This focus is perhaps the result of the ready availability of relevant secondary data, which tend to ignore entrepreneurial and relatively unknown companies engaged in strategic alliances. There is now a rising interest in s... | - Provides evidence that entrepreneurial firms have not been adequately recognized in the research on partner selection criteria in strategic alliances. Based on a comprehensive review of the literature, the paper identifies 15 intrinsic and alliancing difference factors between entrepreneurial and established firms. |
[SECTION: Value] Research on strategic alliances has been mostly focused on large companies. This focus is perhaps the result of the ready availability of relevant secondary data, which tend to ignore entrepreneurial and relatively unknown companies engaged in strategic alliances. There is now a rising interest in smal... | - Five key guidelines are developed to assist entrepreneurial firms in selecting established firms as alliance partners. |
[SECTION: Purpose] This case study examines a group mentoring program that took place in a provincial government ministry in British Columbia, Canada. The program aimed to address staff, team and organizational learning needs to break down divisional barriers and foster knowledge sharing across the organization. Progra... | This study aims to describe the design of a provincial government ministry group mentoring program and examine mentees' and mentors' experiences in the program. |
[SECTION: Method] This case study examines a group mentoring program that took place in a provincial government ministry in British Columbia, Canada. The program aimed to address staff, team and organizational learning needs to break down divisional barriers and foster knowledge sharing across the organization. Program... | A total of 151 mentees rated their satisfaction in a post-program survey. The survey was followed by in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 10 mentees and 11 mentors. |
[SECTION: Findings] This case study examines a group mentoring program that took place in a provincial government ministry in British Columbia, Canada. The program aimed to address staff, team and organizational learning needs to break down divisional barriers and foster knowledge sharing across the organization. Progr... | In all, 87 per cent of mentees rated their learning as effective. Benefits to mentees were relevance of the learning, and senior leader/mentors use of current issues, events and personal stories. Delivery through a combination of Web conferencing and collaboration technologies was most effective. Mentors learned from m... |
[SECTION: Value] This case study examines a group mentoring program that took place in a provincial government ministry in British Columbia, Canada. The program aimed to address staff, team and organizational learning needs to break down divisional barriers and foster knowledge sharing across the organization. Program ... | The selection criteria favored participants who had a positive experience. Including more participants who were disengaged or less active may have revealed what inhibited full engagement. Complex underlying systemic and cultural issues negatively affected mentee participation and mentoring team effectiveness. It is unc... |
[SECTION: Purpose] Having been an employee for many years in large hospitals, then long having been self-employed, recent comments of former students as well as peers still working in the field reinforce a belief that staying out of mainstream health care employment represents a healthy choice. This would be a sad conc... | - The paper aims to discuss discrepancies between recruiting representation versus workplace reality. |
[SECTION: Method] Having been an employee for many years in large hospitals, then long having been self-employed, recent comments of former students as well as peers still working in the field reinforce a belief that staying out of mainstream health care employment represents a healthy choice. This would be a sad concl... | - The approach is to provide a viewpoint of discrepancies between recruiting representation versus workplace reality. |
[SECTION: Findings] Having been an employee for many years in large hospitals, then long having been self-employed, recent comments of former students as well as peers still working in the field reinforce a belief that staying out of mainstream health care employment represents a healthy choice. This would be a sad con... | - All large organizations aspire to be recognized in a positive manner, but many might not truly appreciate the contrary signals broadcast by their responses to job applicants. Facing a well-recognized global shortage of qualified individuals in most health care professions, hospital systems and public health agencies ... |
[SECTION: Value] Having been an employee for many years in large hospitals, then long having been self-employed, recent comments of former students as well as peers still working in the field reinforce a belief that staying out of mainstream health care employment represents a healthy choice. This would be a sad conclu... | - The paper provides a viewpoint of discrepancies between recruiting representation versus workplace reality. |
[SECTION: Purpose] In the lead up to George Osborne's combined Autumn Statement and Spending Review, Sajid Javid the Business secretary made a plea for his department to exist beyond November 2015, in front of the Business, Innovation and Skills select committee on 14th October[1]. With Javid's Department under pressur... | The growth in popularity of the regional innovation system approach has, in part, been driven by the need for economies to respond to the after shocks of the global financial crisis. At the same time, the author sees the term anchor institutions are used increasingly to describe organisations that have an important pre... |
[SECTION: Method] In the lead up to George Osborne's combined Autumn Statement and Spending Review, Sajid Javid the Business secretary made a plea for his department to exist beyond November 2015, in front of the Business, Innovation and Skills select committee on 14th October[1]. With Javid's Department under pressure... | Asheim et al. (2011) refers to regional innovation systems as, an emphasis on economic and social interaction between agents, spanning the public and private sectors to engender and diffuse innovation within regions embedded in wider national and global systems. According to Doloreux and Parto (2005) three dimensions u... |
[SECTION: Findings] In the lead up to George Osborne's combined Autumn Statement and Spending Review, Sajid Javid the Business secretary made a plea for his department to exist beyond November 2015, in front of the Business, Innovation and Skills select committee on 14th October[1]. With Javid's Department under pressu... | Following the Chancellor's Comprehensive Spending Review in November 2015 and post the changes in the Department of Business Innovation and Skills remit the author wants to highlight the way universities can take a lead role as an anchor institution within their region. The author argues that this role should include p... |
[SECTION: Value] In the lead up to George Osborne's combined Autumn Statement and Spending Review, Sajid Javid the Business secretary made a plea for his department to exist beyond November 2015, in front of the Business, Innovation and Skills select committee on 14th October[1]. With Javid's Department under pressure ... | The results emerging from this work suggest a need for regional policy makers to embrace a innovation-supportive culture, which actually enables firms and systems to evolve over time would be far more effective than those proposed in the latest Comprehensive Spending Review. The outcomes of which will see some of the m... |
[SECTION: Purpose] The implementation of supply chain management (SCM) practices has been widely spread among organizations since they realized the benefits of collaboration with supply chain partners. The collaboration among organizations within a supply chain occurs in various degrees and does not necessarily corresp... | Supply chain integration (SCI) is a set of practices driven by many factors and circumstances. The purpose of this paper is to examine firms' internal and external drivers of SCI, evaluate the impact of the integration on firm performance, and further investigate the moderating role of organizational culture in strengt... |
[SECTION: Method] The implementation of supply chain management (SCM) practices has been widely spread among organizations since they realized the benefits of collaboration with supply chain partners. The collaboration among organizations within a supply chain occurs in various degrees and does not necessarily correspo... | For the purpose of this study, manufacturing firms were identified as the focal firms in supply chains, and thus data were collected through a survey of 223 Indonesian-based manufacturing firms. Two informants from each firm became the respondents. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. |
[SECTION: Findings] The implementation of supply chain management (SCM) practices has been widely spread among organizations since they realized the benefits of collaboration with supply chain partners. The collaboration among organizations within a supply chain occurs in various degrees and does not necessarily corres... | This study confirmed the positive relationship between SCI and firm performance. The results also indicated that internal driver, or specifically firms' customer orientation (CO), triggered the initiation of SCI. Organizational culture, in terms of external focus, positively influenced the relationship between CO and S... |
[SECTION: Value] The implementation of supply chain management (SCM) practices has been widely spread among organizations since they realized the benefits of collaboration with supply chain partners. The collaboration among organizations within a supply chain occurs in various degrees and does not necessarily correspon... | This study illustrates the important role of organizational culture in determining the shape of the relationship between firms' drivers and SCI. The results of this study enhance the understanding of SCI, especially related to types of organizational culture that could promote the integration. |
[SECTION: Purpose] This paper:* describes the history and growth of mandatory public reporting of healthcare-associated infection rates;* describes the philosophy and implementation of an evidence-based total-quality-oriented state government program; and* provides critical appraisal of recognized assumptions underlyin... | - This paper aims to describe the history and growth of mandatory public reporting of healthcare-associated infection rates and the philosophy and implementation of an evidence-based total-quality-oriented state government program and also to provide critical appraisal of recognized assumptions underlying this movement... |
[SECTION: Method] This paper:* describes the history and growth of mandatory public reporting of healthcare-associated infection rates;* describes the philosophy and implementation of an evidence-based total-quality-oriented state government program; and* provides critical appraisal of recognized assumptions underlying... | - This paper provides a narrative review of pertinent evaluation research literature and the authors' own experience. |
[SECTION: Findings] This paper:* describes the history and growth of mandatory public reporting of healthcare-associated infection rates;* describes the philosophy and implementation of an evidence-based total-quality-oriented state government program; and* provides critical appraisal of recognized assumptions underlyi... | - Washington is one of few states that hired experts in the subject area to develop its new program. It is one of the first exploring optimal ways to validate the rates reported, and one of very few taking evidence-based approaches to all aspects of program design. |
[SECTION: Value] This paper:* describes the history and growth of mandatory public reporting of healthcare-associated infection rates;* describes the philosophy and implementation of an evidence-based total-quality-oriented state government program; and* provides critical appraisal of recognized assumptions underlying ... | - The work provides a model for less-developed agencies to follow. |
[SECTION: Purpose] Ever since Whittington's (1996) seminal article "Strategy as practice," several studies have shared the understanding that strategy is a situated and socially acquired activity based on the interaction between different agents and micro-activities carried out by people within an organization (Jarzabk... | In analyzing the field of strategic management in public organizations, scholars have noted a lack of studies that investigate how public organizations actually apply strategic management tools (Hansen, 2011) as well as studies that investigate how strategic knowledge is developed and used in practice in public organiz... |
[SECTION: Method] Ever since Whittington's (1996) seminal article "Strategy as practice," several studies have shared the understanding that strategy is a situated and socially acquired activity based on the interaction between different agents and micro-activities carried out by people within an organization (Jarzabko... | The authors support the analysis using the strategy as practice (SAP) framework of practice, praxis and practitioners and the ST of Giddens (1984), using Orlikowski's (2000) technology in practice framework. The authors have applied a qualitative methodology using a single case study which analyzes a healthcare system ... |
[SECTION: Findings] Ever since Whittington's (1996) seminal article "Strategy as practice," several studies have shared the understanding that strategy is a situated and socially acquired activity based on the interaction between different agents and micro-activities carried out by people within an organization (Jarzab... | The authors have identified five strategic practitioners that perform six strategic practices and praxis, and have analyzed the structures they enact during their praxis. The authors have also identified the interpretative schemes, norms and facilities that motivate these social practices and how they influence the res... |
[SECTION: Value] Ever since Whittington's (1996) seminal article "Strategy as practice," several studies have shared the understanding that strategy is a situated and socially acquired activity based on the interaction between different agents and micro-activities carried out by people within an organization (Jarzabkow... | As limitations of this study, the authors highlight the focus given to the service provider practitioners, leaving aside the political practitioners and patients. The researcher perception and possible biases must be considered also as a limitation, despite of the efforts to minimize them with the rigor of the methodol... |
[SECTION: Purpose] The rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) attended a growing demand for CSR standards and guidelines implementation into the business strategy of all companies, including agribusinesses. On top of food safety and quality regulations, there are hundreds of various codes of conducts, industry n... | - The rise of CSR followed a demand for CSR standards and guidelines. In a sector already characterized by a large number of standards, the authors seek to ask what CSR schemes apply to agribusiness, and how they can be systematically compared and analysed. |
[SECTION: Method] The rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) attended a growing demand for CSR standards and guidelines implementation into the business strategy of all companies, including agribusinesses. On top of food safety and quality regulations, there are hundreds of various codes of conducts, industry no... | - Following a deductive-inductive approach the authors develop a model to compare and analyse CSR schemes based on existing studies and on coding qualitative data on 216 CSR schemes. |
[SECTION: Findings] The rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) attended a growing demand for CSR standards and guidelines implementation into the business strategy of all companies, including agribusinesses. On top of food safety and quality regulations, there are hundreds of various codes of conducts, industry ... | - The authors confirm that CSR standards and guidelines have entered agribusiness and identify a complex landscape of schemes that can be categorized on focus areas, scales, mechanisms, origins, types and commitment levels. |
[SECTION: Value] The rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) attended a growing demand for CSR standards and guidelines implementation into the business strategy of all companies, including agribusinesses. On top of food safety and quality regulations, there are hundreds of various codes of conducts, industry nor... | - The findings contribute to conceptual and empirical research on existing models to compare and analyse CSR standards. Sampling technique and depth of analysis limit this research, but the authors offer insights into patterns of CSR standard development in agribusiness and point to important research avenues. |
[SECTION: Purpose] A) Background The expansion in the use of the web and its exponential growth are well established facts. However, a problem has emerged from the very core of the success of the web. The web has evolved into a very large, unstructured but ubiquitous database holding textual data in the order of one te... | - The successful implementation of an optimal online system for specification and procurement has been impeded by the existence of semi-structured or non-structured product information held in catalogues in various formats. Consequently, a significant amount of time is spent in gathering relevant information. Proposes ... |
[SECTION: Method] A) Background The expansion in the use of the web and its exponential growth are well established facts. However, a problem has emerged from the very core of the success of the web. The web has evolved into a very large, unstructured but ubiquitous database holding textual data in the order of one ter... | - The design and specification of the prototype were based on the analysis of closely related agent-based implementations in various domains. |
[SECTION: Findings] A) Background The expansion in the use of the web and its exponential growth are well established facts. However, a problem has emerged from the very core of the success of the web. The web has evolved into a very large, unstructured but ubiquitous database holding textual data in the order of one t... | - In the development phase it emerged that agent infrastructure is still maturing, even when a stable development environment is finally available. This is consistent with the latest research in this area which places the highest value on internet agents within the context of the semantic web. |
[SECTION: Value] A) Background The expansion in the use of the web and its exponential growth are well established facts. However, a problem has emerged from the very core of the success of the web. The web has evolved into a very large, unstructured but ubiquitous database holding textual data in the order of one tera... | - This research demonstrated how agent technology can be used alongside other paradigms such as web services and XML to make the specification and procurement of construction products more effective and more efficient. |
[SECTION: Purpose] While service has increased in importance for many national economies, the industrial sector is nevertheless still very relevant. In 2014, industry accounted for roughly 68 percent of the GDP in Qatar, 43 percent in China, 42 percent in Indonesia and it is also still important for developed nations s... | The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into whether additive manufacturing (AM) represents incremental, radical, disruptive innovation or an industrial revolution and its implications. |
[SECTION: Method] While service has increased in importance for many national economies, the industrial sector is nevertheless still very relevant. In 2014, industry accounted for roughly 68 percent of the GDP in Qatar, 43 percent in China, 42 percent in Indonesia and it is also still important for developed nations su... | This study applies a desk research strategy. Data were collected through a variety of industry sources as well as academic publications. |
[SECTION: Findings] While service has increased in importance for many national economies, the industrial sector is nevertheless still very relevant. In 2014, industry accounted for roughly 68 percent of the GDP in Qatar, 43 percent in China, 42 percent in Indonesia and it is also still important for developed nations ... | It was found that AM represents different innovations in different settings, while it represents incremental innovation in one industry, it has led to radical changes in other industries. There are also indications that it has a disruptive nature and some of the developments appear to be of the industrial revolutionary... |
[SECTION: Value] While service has increased in importance for many national economies, the industrial sector is nevertheless still very relevant. In 2014, industry accounted for roughly 68 percent of the GDP in Qatar, 43 percent in China, 42 percent in Indonesia and it is also still important for developed nations suc... | The spread of AM has been limited due to initial intellectual property protection. That means that while illustrations and examples were found for the different types of innovations, the level in which AM will ultimately penetrate manufacturing industries and society overall is not (yet) known. This calls for continued... |
[SECTION: Purpose] Over the last 20 years, Metro Vancouver has been the staging grounds for sizable Vaisakhi celebrations that take place every April, one in South Vancouver and another in South Surrey. These celebrations are held to mark the grain harvest in Punjab and to commemorate the creation of the Sikh Khalsa in... | In Metro Vancouver, Vaisakhi celebrations are organized by local Sikh gurdwaras to mark the Punjabi harvest season and the anniversary of the Sikh Khalsa, which was formed in 1699. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how Vaisakhi celebrations have become mechanisms for state institutions to refigure and extend ... |
[SECTION: Method] Over the last 20 years, Metro Vancouver has been the staging grounds for sizable Vaisakhi celebrations that take place every April, one in South Vancouver and another in South Surrey. These celebrations are held to mark the grain harvest in Punjab and to commemorate the creation of the Sikh Khalsa in ... | The data analyzed for this paper were generated through observational fieldwork at Vaisakhi celebrations and extensive archival and media research on the changing racial governance of Sikh and South Asian populations. |
[SECTION: Findings] Over the last 20 years, Metro Vancouver has been the staging grounds for sizable Vaisakhi celebrations that take place every April, one in South Vancouver and another in South Surrey. These celebrations are held to mark the grain harvest in Punjab and to commemorate the creation of the Sikh Khalsa i... | The results show that, in Metro Vancouver, racial modes of governance have created "post-racial" relations between the state's public visages of diversity and accessibility and its expanded legal regulation of the social and political places of local Sikh populations. |
[SECTION: Value] Over the last 20 years, Metro Vancouver has been the staging grounds for sizable Vaisakhi celebrations that take place every April, one in South Vancouver and another in South Surrey. These celebrations are held to mark the grain harvest in Punjab and to commemorate the creation of the Sikh Khalsa in 1... | The concept of political appearances is developed to explain how contemporary racial states reproduce and augment their authority through discursive practices of public engagement with minority populations as well as the specific aesthetic conditions of these engagements. The paper also offers important cautions agains... |
[SECTION: Purpose] Over recent decades, our knowledge and understanding of disasters, risk and resilience has grown; however, hazards-related losses have seemingly risen at an exponential rate. While humans cannot prevent natural hazards, which are continuously increasing in intensity, frequency and complexity (Guha-Sa... | Post-disaster reconstruction poses a double-edged sword to its implementers as it demands addressing survivors' need for speed as well as meeting the growing expectation to trigger resilience. While an owner-driven housing reconstruction (ODHR), inter-disciplinary and long-term approach has been promoted internationall... |
[SECTION: Method] Over recent decades, our knowledge and understanding of disasters, risk and resilience has grown; however, hazards-related losses have seemingly risen at an exponential rate. While humans cannot prevent natural hazards, which are continuously increasing in intensity, frequency and complexity (Guha-Sap... | This paper deployed a mixed methods methodology with a comparative case study research method. Two case study projects were from the Indian state of Gujarat, 13 years after the 2001 earthquake and the other two from Bihar, 6 years since the 2008 Kosi river floods. Due to multi-disciplinary nature of research, empirical... |
[SECTION: Findings] Over recent decades, our knowledge and understanding of disasters, risk and resilience has grown; however, hazards-related losses have seemingly risen at an exponential rate. While humans cannot prevent natural hazards, which are continuously increasing in intensity, frequency and complexity (Guha-S... | The paper provides empirical insights on how ODHR projects in Indian states of Gujarat and Bihar succeeded at enhancing disaster resilience of communities. It suggests that the civil society organisations acted as "enablers" at four stages: envisioning strategically based on systemic understanding, building soft assets... |
[SECTION: Value] Over recent decades, our knowledge and understanding of disasters, risk and resilience has grown; however, hazards-related losses have seemingly risen at an exponential rate. While humans cannot prevent natural hazards, which are continuously increasing in intensity, frequency and complexity (Guha-Sapi... | The author of this paper cautions that the spiral framework needs further development to make it flexibility and customisable to suit the specifics of a particular context. |
[SECTION: Purpose] There has been a considerable effort over the last decade to increase awareness of the tsunami risk in coastal Washington, USA (Johnston et al., 2005). However, contemporary research on warning systems spawned by the recent Indian Ocean tsunami tragedy highlights the need for development of an effect... | - There has been a considerable effort over the last decade to increase awareness of the tsunami risk in coastal Washington, USA. However, contemporary research on warning systems spawned by the recent Indian Ocean tsunami tragedy highlights the need for development of an effective tsunami warning system for both resid... |
[SECTION: Method] There has been a considerable effort over the last decade to increase awareness of the tsunami risk in coastal Washington, USA (Johnston et al., 2005). However, contemporary research on warning systems spawned by the recent Indian Ocean tsunami tragedy highlights the need for development of an effecti... | - Data were collected from interviews with reception staff and managers at 18 hotels, motels, and other accommodation establishments. |
[SECTION: Findings] There has been a considerable effort over the last decade to increase awareness of the tsunami risk in coastal Washington, USA (Johnston et al., 2005). However, contemporary research on warning systems spawned by the recent Indian Ocean tsunami tragedy highlights the need for development of an effec... | - Levels of staff training and preparedness for tsunami and other hazards were found to be generally very low, although examples of "best practice" were found at a select few establishments. Larger hotels already had orientation or general training programmes set up which had the potential to incorporate future tsunami... |
[SECTION: Value] There has been a considerable effort over the last decade to increase awareness of the tsunami risk in coastal Washington, USA (Johnston et al., 2005). However, contemporary research on warning systems spawned by the recent Indian Ocean tsunami tragedy highlights the need for development of an effectiv... | - Suggestions on how to improve preparedness are discussed, including undertaking training needs analyses and conducting workshops, simulations and employee training to empower both businesses and employees. |
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