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The future multiple
Authors: Rowland Nicholas J. , Spaniol Matthew J.
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– This paper asks “Why is the future in futures studies plural?” The attitude toward inquiry, based on post-actor-network theory (ANT) literature, positions philosophical questions about the ontological character of the future within the context of “planning” for it (i.e. in practice). Multiplicity, as a post-ANT sensibility, helps one make sense of the empirical materials. This paper examines the possibility that rather than being alternatives to one another, plural futures and the singular future might co-exist in practice, and, thus, constitute a multiplicity.

Design/methodology/approach

– In this case study, “planning” is narrative scenario planning. The second author facilitates dialogue-based long-term strategic scenario planning processes, primarily in Scandinavia and Northern Europe, and contributes a wealth of professional experience to the project. The first author, an academic, shadows the second author. This paper examines experiential and observational data for evidence of the ontological character of the future. Elements of a typical scenario planning process, in this case, about the possibility of crewless (i.e. unmanned) shipping vessels are demonstrated – although, insight into the crewless ship is submerged by our analytical attentiveness to the ontology of the future.

Findings

– The findings bear on what sort of “object” the future is. Practices associated with planning for the future appear to transform it so that one future becomes many, and, without irony, managing the growing number of futures seems to be a core function of planning for the future. The implication is that neither plural futures nor the singular future is – individually – satisfactory to capture what is found in practice. It is both plural and singular; ontologically, it is the future multiple.

Originality/value

– The original contribution is in demonstrating how plural futures and the singular future co-exist in practice. Thus, an eclipse of the future by futures can only ever be partial. For “futures” to be conceptually potent, “the future” must be at least provisionally believable and occasionally useful. Otherwise, if “the future” were so preposterous an idea, then “futures” would cease to be a critical alternative to it. Futures needs the future; they are relationally bound together in a multiplicity. This paper considers what such a logical reality implies for a field that distances itself from the future and self-identifies with futures.
Role of strategy in value capture from foresight exercises: firms’ responsiveness to long term trends in the passenger car industry
Authors: Thomas Manoj T.
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– This paper aims to address the broad question of how organizations capture value from foresight exercises. Through a comparative case analysis, this paper looks at what firms do to make the information usable and create value. It explores factors that cause different firms to respond differently to the same trends. It analyzes the passenger car segment of the automobile industry and the response of six major firms to fossil fuel and changing environmental regulations through an analysis of their policies and strategic activities, such as new product development. It finds foresight to be an important link between firm capabilities and environmental changes.

Design/methodology/approach

– This paper adopts the case approach to capture the linkage between the issue and the context (Yin, 1994) and uses multiple cases to explore the variables by comparing and contrasting the cases on key aspects (Eisenhardt and Graebner, 2007). As the paper
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s objective is to understand the similarities and differences between dominant firms in the sector, it chooses through theoretical sampling, six firms that have a presence in all the major regions of the world – two each from the USA, Europe and Japan – Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Renault, Toyota and Honda. This sample represents the firms and regions traditionally strong in the passenger car industry.

Findings

– Thus, it is seen that the relationship that was posited in the conceptual model between the goal of the firms, the vision of the future and the nature of products and approach to technology/competence development seems to be valid. However, in addition, the paper perceives that some additional linkages that link between foresight and the goals and vision of the future seem to be influenced by the extent of uncertainty. In addition, the decisions regarding portfolio of products and approaches to technology and competence development seem to be also influenced by the perception of existing competencies and the external competitive context.

Research limitations/implications

– This paper was based on multiple cases created out of secondary information, hence the constructs used are those which are perceived and stated.

Practical implications

– The paper could help firms understand decisions related to technology choices in field involving high levels of uncertainty and competition.

Social implications

– This paper could improve learning processes from foresight exercises, and enable strategic decisions to be taken on these.

Originality/value

– Thus, this paper has explored the linkages between what firms perceive and state, and what is reflected in their actions. It has looked at this linkage from the perspective of foresight, and the strategic perspective of the firm. It has come up with additional issues and questions that influence this relationship. These can inform future research in this domain.
Variations in job satisfaction in service industries: comparative international analysis
Authors: Bednarska Marlena A. , Szczyt Malgorzata
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of the paper is to identify individual, organisational and national factors that have differential effects on job satisfaction and its drivers in service industries.

Design/methodology/approach

– Based on data from the fifth European Working Condition Survey on ca. 17,000 business economy service employees in 34 countries, multivariate exploratory technique was used, namely classification trees.

Findings

– The study revealed that job satisfaction differs mostly among countries, occupations, employment contracts and earnings levels (whereas gender, tenure, age and sector do not play important role). Service employees rate highly health and safety aspect of their work and job content, the least satisfying dimensions are pay, job security and career prospects.

Research limitations/implications

– The study is based on secondary source of information and has a major disadvantage which is inherent in its nature – the analysis is limited to available data; thus, it is possible that other factors (not covered in the questionnaire) contribute to variations in job satisfaction and its drivers in service industries.

Practical implications

– Findings add to the understanding of the perception of well-being at work; service organisations could learn the factors that should be modified or emphasised in their human resource practices as well as recruitment strategy to attract and retain engaged and loyal employees who are ready to create and deliver value to customers.

Originality/value

– Although job satisfaction in service industries has been a focus for numerous studies, the issue of factors that have differential effects on well-being at work and its drivers in cross-national context has received relatively little attention from researchers.
Designing a moving strategic foresight approach: ontological and methodological issues of scenario design
Authors: Marchais-Roubelat Anne , Roubelat Fabrice
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– This paper aims to introduce movements in scenario methodology, to design a moving strategic foresight approach.

Design/methodology/approach

– The authors firstly question the limits of plausibility from an ontological and epistemological perspective to expand scenarios beyond the boundaries of end-states. To incorporate ongoing changes in scenario methodology, the authors propose to explore scenario transformations within the conceptual framework of action-based scenarios.

Findings

– The authors discuss consequences of playing strategies within ongoing scenarios, as well as the research directions about moving scales, stakeholders’ dominance and time issues.

Originality/value

– The paper proposes a method to distort and transform scenarios. The authors suggest supplementing strategic foresight in iterative processes to challenge the boundaries of plausible futures, bridging the gap between theoretical ever-changing processes and the moving rhythms of actions.
On the model design of integrated intelligent big data analytics systems
Authors: Chen Kun , Li Xin , Wang Huaiqing
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– Although big data analytics has reaped great business rewards, big data system design and integration still face challenges resulting from the demanding environment, including challenges involving variety, uncertainty, and complexity. These characteristics in big data systems demand flexible and agile integration architectures. Furthermore, a formal model is needed to support design and verification. The purpose of this paper is to resolve the two problems with a collective intelligence (CI) model.

Design/methodology/approach

– In the conceptual CI framework as proposed by Schut (2010), a CI design should be comprised of a general model, which has formal form for verification and validation, and also a specific model, which is an implementable system architecture. After analyzing the requirements of system integration in big data environments, the authors apply the CI framework to resolve the integration problem. In the model instantiation, the authors use multi-agent paradigm as the specific model, and the hierarchical colored Petri Net (PN) as the general model.

Findings

– First, multi-agent paradigm is a good implementation for reuse and integration of big data analytics modules in an agile and loosely coupled method. Second, the PN models provide effective simulation results in the system design period. It gives advice on business process design and workload balance control. Third, the CI framework provides an incrementally build and deployed method for system integration. It is especially suitable to the dynamic data analytics environment. These findings have both theoretical and managerial implications.

Originality/value

– In this paper, the authors propose a CI framework, which includes both practical architectures and theoretical foundations, to solve the system integration problem in big data environment. It provides a new point of view to dynamically integrate large-scale modules in an organization. This paper also has practical suggestions for Chief Technical Officers, who want to employ big data technologies in their companies.
An empirical study of wearable technology acceptance in healthcare
Authors: Gao Yiwen , Li He , Luo Yan
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors associated with consumer’s intention to adopt wearable technology in healthcare, and to examine the moderating effects of product type on consumer’s adoption intention.

Design/methodology/approach

– An integrated acceptance model was developed based on unified theory of acceptance and use of technology 2 (UTAUT2), protection motivation theory (PMT), and privacy calculus theory. The model was tested with 462 respondents using a survey.

Findings

– Consumer’s decision to adopt healthcare wearable technology is affected by factors from technology, health, and privacy perspectives. Specially, fitness device users care more about hedonic motivation, functional congruence, social influence, perceived privacy risk, and perceived vulnerability, but medical device users pay more attention to perceived expectancy, self-efficacy, effort expectancy, and perceived severity.

Originality/value

– This study is among the first to investigate healthcare wearable device from behavioral perspective. It also helps to comprehensively understand emerging health information technology (HIT) acceptance from technology, health, and privacy perspectives.
Big Data promises value: is hardware technology taken onboard?
Authors: Bhat Wasim Ahmad , Quadri S.M.K.
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges posed by Big Data to current trends in computation, networking and storage technology at various stages of Big Data analysis. The work aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and highlight the areas of potential research.

Design/methodology/approach

– The study employs a systematic and critical review of the relevant literature to explore the challenges posed by Big Data to hardware technology, and assess the worthiness of hardware technology at various stages of Big Data analysis. Online computer-databases were searched to identify the literature relevant to: Big Data requirements and challenges; and evolution and current trends of hardware technology.

Findings

– The findings reveal that even though current hardware technology has not evolved with the motivation to support Big Data analysis, it significantly supports Big Data analysis at all stages. However, they also point toward some important shortcomings and challenges of current technology trends. These include: lack of intelligent Big Data sources; need for scalable real-time analysis capability; lack of support (in networks) for latency-bound applications; need for necessary augmentation (in network support) for peer-to-peer networks; and rethinking on cost-effective high-performance storage subsystem.

Research limitations/implications

– The study suggests that a lot of research is yet to be done in hardware technology, if full potential of Big Data is to be unlocked.

Practical implications

– The study suggests that practitioners need to meticulously choose the hardware infrastructure for Big Data considering the limitations of technology.

Originality/value

– This research arms industry, enterprises and organizations with the concise and comprehensive technical-knowledge about the capability of current hardware technology trends in solving Big Data problems. It also highlights the areas of potential research and immediate attention which researchers can exploit to explore new ideas and existing practices.
Understanding community citizenship behavior in social networking sites
Authors: Hsu Li-Chun , Chih Wen-Hai , Liou Dah-Kwei
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– Social media platforms established social relationship between the consumer and the brand community. The purpose of this paper is to propose a model to understand how dual-identification impact on the community citizenship behavior (CCB). Specifically, the authors propose perceived community-brand similarity (PCBS) influence CCB via dual-identification and brand passion (BP).

Design/methodology/approach

– The research sample consists of 323 members who have used Apple product and used Apple fan page for more than one year, and structural equation modeling was used to test the research hypotheses.

Findings

– The results indicated that PCBS directly influenced brand identification (BI) and community identification (CI), respectively. BI directly influenced CI. CI directly influenced BP, but BI not directly influenced BP. In the mediation effects, both the dual-identification factors and BP play important mediating roles.

Practical implications

– From a managerial standpoint, this research provides implications for social network sites management.

Originality/value

– This research fills a void in the BI and CI are coexisting but distinct aspects of virtual communities. In addition, the mediating role of dual-identification factors and BP in the online community consumer-brand relationship has not been fully investigated.
Sensemaking in the personal health space
Authors: Lahtiranta Janne , Koskinen Jani S. S. , Knaapi-Junnila Sari , Nurminen Markku
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– Service alignment between health service provider and patient is changing. Instead of placing responsibilities into the hands of a provider, new forms of co-operation are emerging in which patients are regarded as a resource and a partner. In order to see this vision come to life, mechanisms that: first, support patient’s health decision making; and second, integrate matters of health into a wider ensemble that is health space; the overarching state of health-related affairs, are needed. In the following, these kinds of mechanisms are investigated and their applicability is discussed in relation to a national project. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach

– The work is exploratory and conceptual, focussing more on people than on technology. In the work, findings related to a concept of a health navigator; an artefact of personal health decision support, are assembled into a framework that bases on key sociological theories. The empirical elements focus on observations made on applicability of the concept, and the underlying framework of citizen-centric electronic health services.

Findings

– The authors argue that the discussed concept, when applied to personal health decision making according to the underlying framework, has a potential to change health service provisioning. In addition to stimulating new kind of co-operation between the health service provider and the citizen, the concept gives form to, somewhat idealized, notions of patient choice and empowerment.

Research limitations/implications

– The work described here is exploratory and forward-looking. Even though the concept and the framework are tested to a degree in a national project, more practice-oriented work is needed in terms of real-world applicability. It follows from this that the work is a conceptual elaboration on the future of personal health decision making.

Originality/value

– The findings, including the discussed challenges and needs, stem from real-world observations; from the needs of citizens. As such, they indicate a direction into which the development of personal health records and health decision support aids should go.
Is (the study of) mobile phones old wine in a new bottle? A polemic on communication-based acculturation research
Authors: Aricat Rajiv George
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the discourses on migrant acculturation and migrants’ mobile phone communication, in order to examine the inclusiveness of communication-acculturation research in the recent years.

Design/methodology/approach

– The paper draws on from 102 qualitative interviews (48 Malayali, 26 Bangla, 17 Tamil and 11 Telugu) for a larger research project that investigated the role of mobile phones in migrant acculturation in Singapore. Respondents were selected using a combination of purposive and snowball sampling methods. The respondents had been in Singapore for varying amount of time: from one month to 19 years.

Findings

– The analysis of the discourses on migrant acculturation and mobile phone communication revealed that labor migrants were excluded on the basis of their temporary status and apprehensions on work productivity. The mobile usage prohibitions that existed in work sites were hinged on similar discourses that stereotyped the labor migrants. The emancipatory metaphor that has been at the center of research on migrants’ mobile phone usage and acculturation needs to be replaced with a critical discourse perspective.

Research limitations/implications

– The data were originally collected for a research project that approached the phenomena of acculturation and mobile phone appropriation from a positivist perspective, whereas this paper analyzed the data to critically examine the discourses that supported the premise of the project itself. Due to this, the findings presented in this paper have limited scope for generalization.

Originality/value

– The paper critiques the research trends in migrant acculturation and mobile phone communication and suggests a possible alternative that goes beyond the “transcendental teleology” that underpins discourse and practice.
Anti-dumping petitions and exports
Authors: Lin Faqin , Tang Hsiao Chink , Wang Lin
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to quantify how the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) export volume affects the anti-dumping (AD) petitions filed by its major trading partners against the country.

Design/methodology/approach

– Focusing on the AD petitions at the Harmonized System (HS) Code eight-digit level and the PRC’s exports at the HS two-digit level to its major trade partners during the financial crisis, we construct three instrument variables for export volume within HS two-digit level variation in the variables. These instruments – documents required, time taken and container charges incurred for goods traded across borders – represent trade costs obtained from World Bank’s Doing Business Project. We find rising exports from the PRC lead to rising AD petitions against the country.

Findings

– Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point rise in the PRC’s export volume raises the number of AD petitions against the country by about 0.25 percentage points, and the probability of receiving AD petitions by 3.5 per cent. These estimates are about 10 times larger than that found in ordinary least square regressions.

Originality/value

– Their quantitative significance underlines why it is important to consider the issue of export endogeneity in the estimation, and that the failure of the current trade statistics to account for the true value-added of traded goods particularly disadvantaged the PRC given its position as the factory of the world.
The selection of leaders and social dominance orientation
Authors: Simmons Aneika L. , Umphress Elizabeth E.
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– Individuals who are high in social dominance orientation (SDO) tend to endorse the belief that members of traditionally considered high-status groups should dominate members of traditionally considered low-status groups within society. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how SDO influences the selection of an individual who is a member of a traditionally considered low-status group for a leadership position as opposed to a non-leadership position.

Design/methodology/approach

– The methodology included undergraduate business students who were investigated in a laboratory setting.

Findings

– Results indicate that individuals who are high in SDO are more likely to discriminate against the most qualified candidate who is a traditionally considered low-status group member when compared to those low in SDO, and job position moderated this outcome. This effect was stronger when selecting the traditionally considered low-status group member candidate for a leadership role as opposed to a non-leadership position.

Originality/value

– To the knowledge of the authors, this is the first investigation to examine both leadership and selection using social dominance theory as a theoretical framework. Further, this is the first empirical analysis to determine that the influence of SDO is stronger when an individual high in SDO is selecting a traditionally considered low-status group member for a leadership position as opposed to a non-leadership position.
Viewing the work of Lillian M. Gilbreth through the lens of critical biography
Authors: Gibson Jane Whitney , Clayton Russell W. , Deem Jack , Einstein Jacqueline E. , Henry Erin L.
Published: October 2015

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the significant contributions of Lillian M. Gilbreth through the lens of critical biography to put her work in the context of her life events, her key roles, the turning points in her life and the societal context within which her contributions to management thought were made.

Design/methodology/approach

Critical biography examines the interaction of a person’s life events with the social, economic and political contexts surrounding his or her life and draws inferences as to why the person made specific decisions and contributions.

Findings

Key contributions to management thought made by Lillian M. Gilbreth are linked to her biographical events, including the multiple roles she played as daughter, student, wife, mother, author, engineer, psychologist, breadwinner, domestic scientist and teacher. Various turning points in her life are identified, including being allowed to go to college, taking her first psychology course, marrying Frank Gilbreth, publishingFatigue Studiesand Frank’s death. Key societal factors that influenced Gilbreth’s contributions were the growing interest in scientific management, the status of women and the increased interest in domestic science.

Research limitations/implications

The qualitative technique of critical biography is demonstrated as a useful methodology for examining individual contributions to management history. The authors acknowledge the limitation of subjective interpretation.

Practical implications

The reasons behind Lillian Gilbreth’s contributions, which were considered a precursor to the human relations era, are extrapolated from this research.

Social implications

The influence of social context is examined, as it pertains to the life and work of Lillian Gilbreth.

Originality/value

This paper provides a critical biography of Lillian M. Gilbreth and her work within the context of her life and times.
Management and Michael Polanyi’s thought
Authors: Jacobs Struan
Published: October 2015

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of management ideas as a resource for developing a new understanding of science and society.

Design/methodology/approach

Three important articles of Polanyi are studied in detail.

Findings

That writings of Graicunas, Foch and Liddell Hart definitely influenced the development of Polanyi’s thinking and writings of Gulick, Mooney among other management/organization theorists also likely contributed to Polanyi’s thought.

Research limitations/implications

The study opens a new seam for Polanyi intellectual – historical scholarship.

Practical implications

The article sheds light on facets of scientific life, including how scientists themselves participate in the overall management of science.

Social implications

This discussion of Polanyi deepens the appreciation of Liberal society’s functioning.

Originality/value

No other Polanyi scholar has dug deeply into the history of management, considering its intellectual value to Polanyi.
Conceptualizing the body and the logics of performing
Authors: Stec Deryk
Published: October 2015

Purpose

This paper aims to examine how residues of ancient images have influenced one’s perspectives on management. Increased attention has been given to the absence of bodies within discussions of organisations; however, far less attention has been given to the interplay between organisations and images of one’s body.

Design/methodology/approach

By comparing the perceived benefits of studying sport (e.g. passion, embodiment and action) with the tensions that existed between athletic performances and an ancient image of the body, this paper draws attention to residuals that exist within discussions of organisations.

Findings

In a context where an image of the body encouraged moderation, the appropriate levels of heat, and the development of an immaterial and eternal soul, athletic performances, which were physical, extreme, focused on the body and generated excessive heat, were often problematic. These problems are then examined within the literature discussing current issues in management.

Research limitations/implications

Sport has the potential to facilitate one’s understanding of issues that management, consistent with ancient images of the body, has traditionally neglected (i.e. extremes, passion) and the possibilities of using embodied cognition to enhance our understandings of performance, teams and leading are discussed.

Social implications

As scientists become increasingly concerned about the long-term consequences of the reduced opportunities for cultural programs (sport, art, music, etc.), revisiting one’s assumptions is increasingly important, especially as athletics and philosophy once shared the same physical space.

Originality/value

By describing how residues from historical images of the body have influenced the thinking about organizing, this paper highlights the connection between the social and the biological and demonstrates how vestiges from the past influence contemporary discussions.
Peer-to-peer mental health: a community evaluation case study
Authors: Flegg Mirika , Gordon-Walker Maggie , Maguire Shona
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of a third-sector community review into peer-to-peer best practices in mental health service provision in Sussex. This community initiative was funded by the Big Lottery to explore the benefits of the peer-led approach on individual and public health outcomes and identify avenues for partnership working.

Design/methodology/approach

– A total of 131 participants who had engaged with peer-to-peer services both as receivers and providers of support were invited to share knowledge and best-practice expertise via a survey, focus groups and a public consultation day.

Findings

– This case study review suggests peer-to-peer support services as an innovative approach to reducing suicide, self-harm, reliance on public health services (GPs, hospital stays, etc.) and engaging with drugs, alcohol and criminal activity. In addition to offering a holistic and social approach to mental health, it further identifies that engagement in peer-to-peer activities potentially provide long-term benefits by reducing the stigma associated with mental health conditions and treatment. This review highlights the importance of third-sector groups in providing peer-to-peer mental health support services. It recommends a network of Peer-to-Peer services to share best practices and improve partnership working.

Originality/value

– Conducted by and for people with personal or family experiences with mental health challenges, this review captures the often inaccessible ideas of a highly marginalised group. It communicates how they would prefer to work in partnership with academic institutions, public and statutory service to improve individual and community health outcomes.
Behavioral mechanism and boundary conditions of transformational process
Authors: Pan Su-Ying , Lin Katrina Jia
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to examine a behavioral mechanism linking transformational leadership (TFL) and subordinates’ task performance and its boundary conditions. The authors examined the mediation role of subordinates’ feedback-seeking behavior and the interactive effect of self-efficacy and dyadic tenure on the transformational leadership-task performance link.

Design/methodology/approach

– Paper and pencil surveys were administered to 239 supervisor-subordinate dyads from different industries in Taiwan. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to test the discriminant validity of the main variables. Hierarchical linear regression and bootstrapping were used to examine the moderated mediation effect.

Findings

– First, subordinates’ feedback-seeking behavior mediates the relationship between TFL and subordinates’ task performance. Second, self-efficacy mitigates this mediation process when dyadic tenure is low, whereas self-efficacy enhances this mediation process when dyadic tenure is high.

Research limitations/implications

– The use of a cross-sectional design prevents us from drawing causal conclusions.

Practical implications

– This study suggests that for high-self-efficacy subordinates, organizations should try to shorten the period required to familiarize oneself with transformational leaders. In contrast, for low-self-efficacy subordinates, organizations should try to enhance their self-efficacy over time to ensure that they are capable of implementing transformational leaders’ expectations in the long run.

Originality/value

– This empirical study examines a behavioral mechanism in the TFL-task performance link. In addition, by addressing the interactive effect of TFL, self-efficacy and dyadic tenure, it resolves theoretical conflicts and enables us to better understand the effectiveness of TFL in different contexts. A Chinese sample is also unique and valuable.
Entrepreneurial orientation and competitive intelligence: cultural intelligence as a moderator
Authors: Tuan Luu Trong
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in promoting competitive intelligence (CI). CI is an organization’s capability to acquire and decode competitor information to enhance its competencies for capturing opportunities in the market place. In view of the importance of CI in the organization’s growth, organizational factors that leverage CI still have attracted scholarly attention. This research also seeks an understanding into the moderating role of leaders’ cultural intelligence (CQ) on the EO–CI relationship.

Design/methodology/approach

– The research model was tested on cross-sectional data from 409 respondents from multi-national companies (MNCs) in Vietnam business context.

Findings

– Research findings confirmed the moderating role that leaders’ CQ plays on the positive effect of EO on CI.

Originality/value

– This research contributes to literature through identifying the convergence of entrepreneurship and CI research streams, and the moderation role of CQ on the EO–CI relationship in multi-nationals.
Institutional diversity, internal search behaviour, and joint-innovations
Authors: Messeni Petruzzelli Antonio , Rotolo Daniele
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the innovation performance of R & D collaborations from an institutional perspective.

Design/methodology/approach

– The authors conduct an empirical analysis based on 487 joint-inventions developed by 50 US biotechnology firms from 1985 to 2002.

Findings

– The authors find that institutional diversity between the partners, as reflected by firm-university partnerships, positively affects the value of their joint-innovation. This effect is reinforced by the firm’s behaviour in searching for knowledge broadly (scope) and in the non-commercial realm (science-based nature). Conversely, as the firm searches for knowledge in few domains areas (depth), the positive effect of institutional diversity is reduced.

Research limitations/implications

– The study contributes to literature on partner selection, university-industry collaborations, balance between exploration and exploitation, as well as to research on the interdependence between firm’s external and internal resources.

Practical implications

– The study reveals that when firms innovate together with universities, this promotes the development of high valuable innovations. In addition, it emerges that to fully capture the benefits of these collaborations, firms have to develop a wide set of competencies supported by a scientific approach in problem solving.

Originality/value

– The study sheds new light on the dynamics favouring the joint development of valuable innovations by focusing on the impact exerted by partners’ institutional differences, as revealed by how norms and rules shape innovation’s modes.
Value creation and value appropriation in innovation process in publicly-traded family firms
Authors: Memili Esra , Fang Hanqing Chevy , Welsh Dianne H.B.
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the generational differences among publicly traded family firms in regards to value creation and value appropriation in the innovation process by drawing upon the knowledge-based view (KBV) and family business literature with a focus on socioemotional wealth perspective.

Design/methodology/approach

– The authors tests the hypotheses via longitudinal regression analyses based on 285 yearly cross-firm S & P 500 firm observations.

Findings

– First, the authors found that family ownership with second or later generation’s majority exhibits lower levels of value creation capabilities compared to non-family firms, whereas there is no difference between those of the firms with family ownership with a first generation’s majority and non-family firms. Second, the authors also found that family owned firms with a first generation’s majority have higher value appropriation abilities compared to nonfamily firms, while there is no significant difference in value appropriation between the later generation family firms and non-family firms.

Research limitations/implications

– The study help scholars, family business members, and investors better understand family involvement, and how it impacts firm performance through value creation and value appropriation.

Originality/value

– The paper contributes to the family business, innovation, and KBV literature in several ways. While previous family business studies drawing upon resource-based view and KBV often focus on the value creation in family governance, the authors investigate both value creation and value appropriation phases of innovation process.
Online social networks as an enabler of innovation in organizations
Authors: Palacios-Marqués Daniel , Merigó José  M. , Soto-Acosta Pedro
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of online social networks on firm performance and how this technology can help to create value. The authors approach the problem from the Resource-Based View in order to analyze if online social networks can be considered source of competitive advantage and how it can enhance or complement essential marketing competences.

Design/methodology/approach

– The data were obtained from a survey based on the Spanish hospitality firms. This sector was chosen because Web 2.0 is becoming an important marketing channel in the tourism industry, and especially in hospitality firms. In addition, Spain is the one of the largest tourist destination in the world and has a strong presence of social media and Web 2.0 use by the population and hospitality enterprises. Between February and June 2012, the questionnaire was sent to all top managers of four-star and five-star Spanish hospitality firms. The authors received 197 questionnaires, but four of them were eliminated due to errors or because they were received too late.

Findings

– Results show that there is a statistically significant positive relationship between online social networks and innovation capacity and that the relationship between online social networks and firm performance is fully mediated by innovation capacity. In turn, the authors find a statistically significant positive relationship between innovation capacity and performance in the hotel industry.

Originality/value

– The authors discuss the importance of online social networks in the development of innovation competences through business intelligence and knowledge management that result in higher performance. The authors also consider the ways in which online social networks enhance knowledge management.
Board capital and exploration: from a resource provisional perspective
Authors: Kim Nami , Kim Eonsoo
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– Drawing upon the resource dependence theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine how the board capital diversity influences the explorative innovation of firms, attempting to resolve the inconsistent empirical findings of the effect of outside directors on firm’s R & D strategy.

Design/methodology/approach

– Using a sample of Korean manufacturing firms which consider R & D capability to be one of their core competencies, the study uses negative binomial model to test the influence of board capital diversity on explorative innovation.

Findings

– Results support the value of moderate level of board diversity hypothesis by demonstrating that board capital diversity shows an invertedU-shaped relationship with explorative innovation. The results also suggest that CEO ownership positively moderates the relationship between board capital diversity and firms’ innovative performance.

Originality/value

– Mainstream research has focussed on the directors’ monitoring role based on agency theory, overlooking the more positive resource provision role. Taking on the concepts of board capital and exploration, the study introduces the notion that outside directors should be selected with a view as vehicles for bringing in valuable expertise and social linkages for the firm’s explorative innovation.
Global adaptive slicing of NURBS based sculptured surface for minimum texture error in rapid prototyping
Authors: Sikder S. , Barari A. , Kishawy H.A.
Published: October 2015

Purpose

– This paper aims to propose a global adaptive direct slicing technique of Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS)-based sculptured surface for rapid prototyping where the NURBS representation is directly extracted from the computer-aided design (CAD) model. The imported NURBS surface is directly sliced to avoid inaccuracies due to tessellation methods used in common practice. The major objective is to globally optimize texture error function based on the available range of layer thicknesses of the utilized rapid prototyping machine. The total texture error is computed with the defined error function to verify slicing efficiency of this global adaptive slicing algorithm and to find the optimum number of slices. A variety of experiments are conducted to study the accuracy of the developed procedure, and the results are compared with previously developed algorithms.

Design/methodology/approach

– This paper proposes a new adaptive algorithm which globally optimizes a texture error function produced by staircase effect for a user-defined number of layers. The adaptive slicing algorithm dynamically calculates optimized slicing thicknesses based on the rapid prototyping machine’s specifications to minimize the texture error function. This paper also compares the results of implementing the developed methodology with the results of previously developed algorithms and presents cost-effective optimum slicing layer thicknesses.

Findings

– A new methodology for global adaptive direct slicing algorithm of CAD models, based on a texture error function for the final product and the possible layer thicknesses in rapid prototyping, has been developed and implemented. Comparing the results of implementation with the common practice for several case studies shows that the proposed approach has greater slicing efficiency. Typically, by utilizing this approach, the number of prototyping layers can be reduced by 20-50 per cent compared to the slicing with other algorithms, while maintaining or improving the accuracy of the final manufactured surfaces. Therefore, the developed slicing method provides a better solution to trade-off between the rapid prototyping time and the rapid prototyping accuracy. For the many advantages of global direct slicing, it can be seen as the future solution to the slicing process in rapid prototyping systems.

Originality/value

– This paper presents an innovative approach in direct global adaptive slicing of the additive manufacturing parts. The novel definition of an error function which comprehensively addresses the resulting manufactured surface quality of the entire product allows presenting an objective function to solve and to find the optimum selection of all the layer thicknesses during the slicing process.
Difficulties in recruiting frail older inpatients to intervention studies
Authors: MacFarlane Shauna , Charlton Karen , Ferguson Allison , Barlogie Jessica , Lynch Patricia , McDonell Lyn , Connolly Wendy , Barone Lilliana , Russell Peter , Mason Michelle , Potter Jan , Milosavljevic Marianna
Published: October 2015

Aim

To describe difficulties experienced with recruitment of frail, malnourished inpatients aged 65+ years to a 12‐week multidisciplinary home‐based nutrition and physical activity intervention (SUSTAIN) and to identify factors associated with non‐participation.

Methods

A multidisciplinary team approach to recruitment involved monthly team meetings, weekly clinician case conferences and strategic planning to accommodate patient needs (provision of transport, easy access to facilities, appropriate written/verbal information). Intensive recruitment occurred in eligible inpatients from a major acute tertiary and rehabilitation hospitals in a local health district over seven months.

Results

Of the 124 patients screened, 88 were not eligible, 32 declined, and 4 consented. Neither socio‐demographic nor clinical characteristics (age, gender, clinical diagnosis, birthplace, cognitive function, length of stay or nutritional status) explained non‐participation or ineligibility or refusals rates.

Conclusions

The advanced age and poor overall health status of this population necessitates alternative recruitment strategies to improve participation in clinical trials and improve generalisability for clinical practice.
An integrated linkage map reveals candidate genes underlying adaptive variation in Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
Authors: McKinney G. J. , Seeb L. W. , Larson W. A. , Gomez‐Uchida D. , Limborg M. T. , Brieuc M. S. O. , Everett M. V. , Naish K. A. , Waples R. K. , Seeb J. E.
Published: October 2015

Salmonids are an important cultural and ecological resource exhibiting near worldwide distribution between their native and introduced range. Previous research has generated linkage maps and genomic resources for several species as well as genome assemblies for two species. We first leveraged improvements in mapping and genotyping methods to create a dense linkage map for Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha by assembling family data from different sources. We successfully mapped 14 620 SNP loci including 2336 paralogs in subtelomeric regions. This improved map was then used as a foundation to integrate genomic resources for gene annotation and population genomic analyses. We anchored a total of 286 scaffolds from the Atlantic salmon genome to the linkage map to provide a framework for the placement 11 728 Chinook salmon ESTs. Previously identified thermotolerance QTL were found to colocalize with several candidate genes including HSP70, a gene known to be involved in thermal response, as well as its inhibitor. Multiple regions of the genome with elevated divergence between populations were also identified, and annotation of ESTs in these regions identified candidate genes for fitness related traits such as stress response, growth and behaviour. Collectively, these results demonstrate the utility of combining genomic resources with linkage maps to enhance evolutionary inferences.