bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
To move or not to move?
Authors: De Vos Ans , Dewettinck Koen , Buyens Dirk
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore professional employees' career move preferences and the impact of both individual and organizational career management. Departing from theoretical work on the “new career”, different types of career moves employees can make on the internal labor market are discussed and related to the literature on both organizational and individual career management.

Design/methodology/approach

To test the hypotheses, a cross‐sectional survey of 472 professional employees from one company is presented.

Findings

The preferences for both vertical career moves and moves relating to job enrichment and temporary moves are significantly affected by individual career management, but not by organizational career management practices. The preference for making lateral moves could not be explained by our antecedent variables.

Research limitations/implications

Future research should involve a larger sample of organizations in order to collect empirical data about the extent to which OCM practices impact career preferences. Our results provide evidence for the relationship between individual career management and career move preferences and thereby adds to the literature on the “new career”.

Practical implications

This study has a number of practical implications that relate to the ways in which organizations can stimulate different career moves among their employees through the enhancement of personal career initiatives.

Originality/value

The value of this paper is the contribution it makes to the career literature by relating to different streams of research, about career mobility on the one hand and individual and organizational career management on the other.
Relationships and engagement
Authors: Williamson Vicki
Published: January 2008

Purpose

This paper aims to overview the professional context for Canadian research libraries (as outlined in the 8Rs Canadian Library Human Resources Study by Ingles et al.) and to examine the approach and response to dynamic human resources challenges and opportunities unfolding through a strategic planning and change management process at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) Library.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper discusses the context and challenges for Canadian research libraries as highlighted in the 8Rs Study and overviews this in the context of the U of S Library's response through its strategic planning and change management process. It explores institutional responses and the possibilities of joint collaborative action across member libraries of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL).

Findings

The study finds that greatest challenge to transforming library services, resources and facilities lies in transforming the knowledge, skills and abilities of library staff and to developing new models and approaches to professional practice, which meet and exceed client expectations and overcome the traditionally conservative approach to the practice of librarianship.

Originality/value

The paper provides a discussion on strategic options and strategies for research libraries as exemplified by the experiences and work underway at the U of S Library. While some of the context is Canadian specific, the U of S response contains many strategies applicable in other academic and research libraries contexts.
Librarians do fly: strategies for staying aloft
Authors: Parry Julie
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine past and future predictions about academic libraries and identify the skills that librarians will need to survive in an increasingly digital environment.

Design/methodology/approach

A review of relevant literature, including ephemeral material such as job advertisements, indicates a broad consensus about the skills required. The life cycle of an academic librarian is considered from initial training, through recruitment and performance management to staff development and training.

Findings

Various predictions about the future of academic libraries that were made during the 1990s have largely proved accurate. Therefore, this paper presumes that predictions about the skills of academic librarians for the forthcoming decade may prove useful in their recruitment and management.

Practical implications

Managers in library and information services are encouraged to maintain an awareness of developing skills requirements within the sector in order to inform good practice in staff management.

Originality/value implications

Some visions for the future are drawn together with the aim of defining a set of professional skills.
Digital nature and digital nurture: libraries, learning and the digital native
Authors: Robinson Michael
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The so‐called “digital native” – the first generation of students and learners who have been born and raised in a world of digital technologies – is now in our universities and, hopefully, using library services. This paper aims to survey recent debate about the delivery of information services to the “digital native”, using Hong Kong academic libraries as a case study to reflect on the appropriateness of the services offered.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper questions whether academic libraries which have begun to recognize this phenomenon, and have changed their services significantly in response to this “digital” generation of students and their approach to learning. It looks at the role that academic librarians should have in equipping tertiary students to function in the digital information environment. It also questions whether academic librarians continue to have a role in this, or if they are in fact lagging behind the students' understanding of information technology, and their adoption of new technologies to acquire and use information.

Findings

The paper finds that libraries will be better served in the long run if they consider in what particular ways they appeal to students, and focus on developing services that are aligned with student preferences in their access to and use of information. Rather than competing with search engines, libraries can learn from the way in which they design their services, and through link resolving software can combine the convenience of the web with the quality of their own resources. Identifying reasons for using the library which are not satisfied by the internet, and promoting these through improved virtual and physical access help to define the niche that academic libraries serve and how they can build a better affinity with their student community.

Originality/value

The paper provides useful information on developing academic libraries to accommodate the new digital developments in information.
Academic reference librarians prepare for change: an Australian case study
Authors: Leong Julia
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The study aims to identify strategies to enhance change readiness and professional competence in academic reference librarians in a time of organizational change and challenge.

Design/methodology/approach

The author, as departmental head, was able to influence strategies taken and to directly observe and record processes and outcomes. Staff also participated in two surveys to establish and trace competence. Motivation to deal proactively with the changing environment was built through good communication and looking at likely future scenarios. Required competencies were established, skills assessed, goals set for professional development, and progress assessed. Staff participated in determining directions and took responsibility for implementing agreed actions.

Findings

The paper finds that reference staff responded positively to enhanced opportunities to influence directions. They willingly took responsibility, developed new skills for a changing environment, and demonstrated effectiveness in new ways. Positive outcomes included recognition through a national award, successful grant applications and project work, and positive attitudes shown by staff at a time of organizational restructuring and downsizing.

Practical implications

Reference staff capability to provide innovative services and to adapt to changing expectations and opportunities is enhanced by participation in management of library directions and through staff development.

Originality/value

This case study offers insight into practical and inexpensive approaches to enhancing reference librarian change readiness and competence.
The transit lounge: a view of organisational change from a point in the journey
Authors: Paton Barbara , Beranek Lea , Smith Ian
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to review the organisational change processes in an academic library in the context of change management theory.

Design/methodology/approach

The process of achieving organisational change in La Trobe University Library, a medium‐sized Australian academic library is examined. The focus is the library's experience of effecting wide reaching changes in interconnected areas of organisational structure, client services delivery and the physical service environment and facilities. The drivers for undertaking change in service delivery are outlined and the changes that have been implemented are discussed. The practical experience of achieving change is examined using the framework of key change management theory and expert advice.

Findings

La Trobe University Library has been a leader in innovative service delivery and an early adopter of technologies to improve services; however it had not previously experienced significant organisational change. The library initiated a number of strategies to address resistance to the changes, achieving some success. Workshops for staff to better understand and cope with change were introduced. Extensive consultation and communication with staff was undertaken; finding the balance between perceived inadequate communication with staff and communication overload was a challenge. People are the key factor to success in any organisational change and the library's experiences confirmed the need to attend to the people element in any change process. Planning and leadership were core elements to achieving successful change.

Originality/value

The paper provides a useful comparison between management theory and expert advice on organisational change and the practical experience of a library.
Dangerous liaisons?
Authors: Rodwell John , Fairbairn Linden
Published: January 2008

Purpose

Many university libraries are adopting a faculty liaison librarian structure as an integral part of their organization and service delivery model. This paper aims to examine, in a pragmatic way, the variations in the definition of the role of the faculty liaison librarian, the expectations of those librarians, their library managers and their clients and the impact of environmental factors. The faculty liaison librarian role is not entirely new, evolving from the traditional subject librarian and university special/branch library role. However the emerging role is characterized by a more outward‐looking perspective and complexity, emphasizing stronger involvement and partnership with the faculty and direct engagement in the University's teaching and research programs.

Design/methodology/approach

Following a review of the literature and other sources on the rationale and role of library liaison, the current developments, drivers and expectations are discussed.

Findings

The study finds that dynamic external and internal environments of universities are driving the evolution of library liaison, so the role description is still fluid. However, the breadth and weight of expectations is now such that the effectiveness and sustainability of the role has to be addressed.

Practical implications

While a dynamic, broader and more intensive role for the faculty liaison librarian is emerging, more thinking is needed about the extent of that role and its sustainability. What, for example, are the priorities for the faculty liaison librarian? What traditional activities can, and may, have to be abandoned? These considerations are necessary not only to guide the librarians, but also to help define the attributes and skills required for the position and to determine the institutional support it requires.

Originality/value

This is a contemporary critique of the well‐established, but diverse library service – the faculty liaison librarian structure.
Co‐located supplier clusters: forms, functions and theoretical perspectives
Authors: Reichhart Andreas , Holweg Matthias
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to develop a typology of co‐located supplier clusters, such as logistics centres or supplier parks, and second, to evaluate the theoretical perspectives at hand to investigate the co‐location phenomenon.

Design/methodology/approach

The research encompasses 28 semi‐structured interviews with key operations executives from vehicle manufacturers, component suppliers and logistics service providers at nine co‐located supplier clusters, the findings of which are triangulated with secondary sources.

Findings

The investigation yields two main findings: first, a typology is proposed based on two key dimensions “spatial integration and infrastructure” and “local value‐added”. From a theoretical perspective, the paper further concludes that transaction cost economics is less suited for studying dedicated co‐location, and suggests that future investigations should focus on consolidating the contributions on the spatial dimension of sourcing configurations into a novel theoretical framework.

Research limitations/implications

The study is based on an exploratory research design, investigating a selected number of co‐located supplier clusters only. While the research does not claim to provide a comprehensive survey of co‐located supplier clusters, it proposes a general categorisation that aims to provide a structure currently lacking further research into this phenomenon.

Originality/value

A structured overview of the phenomenon of co‐located supplier clusters is provided, extending the existing morphological debate. Furthermore, the discussion of their theoretical foundations provides novel insights into this phenomenon as well as into the operational implications of value chain modifications in general, with the intention of guiding further research in this area.
Competencies in the 21st century
Authors: Boyatzis Richard E.
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to show that development of competencies needed to be effective managers and leaders requires program design and teaching methods focused on learning. This is the introductory essay to this special issue of JMD.

Design/methodology/approach

Competencies are defined and an overview is provided for the eight papers that will follow with original research on competencies, their link to performance in various occupations, and their development.

Findings

Emotional, social and cognitive intelligence competencies predict effectiveness in professional, management and leadership roles in many sectors of society. In addition, these competencies can be developed in adults.

Research limitations/implications

As an introductory essay, this lays the foundation for the papers in this issue.

Practical implications

Competencies needed to be effective can be developed.

Originality/value

Despite widespread application, there are few published studies of the empirical link between competencies and performance. There are even fewer published studies showing that they can be developed. This special issue will add to both literatures.
Social and emotional competencies predicting success for male and female executives
Authors: Hopkins Margaret M. , Bilimoria Diana
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore three research questions. Are there gender differences in the demonstration of emotional and social intelligence competencies? What is the relationship between emotional and social intelligence competencies and success, and does gender moderate that relationship? Are there differences between the most successful male and female leaders in their demonstration of these competencies?

Design/methodology/approach

This study used a 360‐degree instrument to measure the demonstration of emotional and social intelligence competencies by top‐level executives in one financial services organization. Annual performance and potential assessments measured the participants' success. Regression analyses and tests of mean differences were used to analyze the research questions.

Findings

The results indicated that there were no significant differences between male and female leaders in their demonstration of emotional and social intelligence competencies. The most successful men and women were also more similar than different in their competency demonstration. However, gender did moderate the relationship between the demonstration of these competencies and success. Male leaders were assessed as more successful even when the male and female leaders demonstrated an equivalent level of competencies. Finally, distinctions were found between the most successful males and females and their typical counterparts.

Research limitations/implications

A field sample from one organization limits the generalizability of the results.

Practical implications

Implications for organizations and their leadership are discussed including the importance of a broad range of competencies used in assessments, the awareness of gender stereotypes and gender‐stereotypical behavior, and the acknowledgement of multiple measures of success.

Originality/value

This study highlights the moderating influence of gender between the demonstration of emotional and social intelligence competencies and success. Distinctions in competency demonstration between the most successful top‐level executives and the typical executives contribute to the literature and to leadership development practice.
Characteristics that distinguish outstanding urban principals
Authors: Williams Helen W.
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to focus on two research questions. First, what are the emotional and social intelligence competencies that distinguish outstanding from typical urban principals? Second, how do outstanding and typical urban principals conceptualize and adapt differently to their external organizational environment?

Design/methodology/approach

A criterion sample of 12 outstanding and eight typical principals was identified from a large Midwestern urban school district. Data from critical incident interviews and written questionnaires were collected. The quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed to identify the key characteristics that describe differences between the two performance groups.

Findings

Significant differences are found in both areas of inquiry. Outstanding principals demonstrate a broad and deep repertoire of competencies related to emotional and social intelligence. Twelve of the 20 competencies studied significantly differentiate outstanding and typical principals. In addition, the study found differences in how outstanding and typical principals conceptualize and adapt to their external organizational environment. Outstanding principals interact with a broader range of external groups and utilize a wider spectrum of boundary‐spanning strategies.

Research limitations/implications

A field sample from one urban school district limits the generalizability of the results.

Practical implications

Usefulness of the findings for school districts and universities is explored including the implications of a competency assessment and development approach for the recruitment, selection and preparation of principal candidates as well as leadership training for incumbent principals.

Originality/value

This study suggests that emotional and social intelligence is a critical factor in effective principal performance and is an important framework to examine in future research. The study provides a methodology that can be easily replicated in other urban districts.
Emotional intelligence competencies in the team and team leader
Authors: Stubbs Koman Elizabeth , Wolff Steven B.
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationships among team leader emotional intelligence competencies, team level emotional intelligence, and team performance.

Design/methodology/approach

It is argued here that the team leader's emotional intelligence (EI) will influence the development of group level emotional intelligence (GEI), which was measured by a team's emotionally competent group norms (ECGN). Second, it is hypothesized that the presence of ECGNs will positively influence group effectiveness. Data were collected from 422 respondents representing 81 teams in a military organization.

Findings

Results show that team leader emotional intelligence is significantly related to the presence of emotionally competent group norms on the teams they lead, and that emotionally competent group norms are related to team performance.

Research limitations/implications

Limitations of this research include a narrow sample with the teams not being highly interdependent.

Practical implications

This research provides implications for practice in three primary areas: development and sustainment of emotionally intelligent managers and leaders; development and sustainment of emotionally intelligent work groups; and establishment of organizational leaders at all levels to foster and support emotional competence throughout the organization.

Originality/value

This research contributes to the field by offering support for the effects the team leaders' emotional intelligence has on the teams they lead as well as by showing how team level emotional intelligence affects team performance. This study adds to the body of literature in what is considered a relatively new area of study. The four key contributions of this research are: this research shows that the leader's behaviors are important at the team level; this research further validates Wolff and Druskat's (forthcoming) ECGN theory by lending support for the ECGNs as well as offering alternative clustering ideas for the norms; ECGNs were shown to be related to performance; and lastly this research extends the knowledge base about emotions in groups.
Identifying competencies that predict effectiveness of R&D managers
Authors: Dreyfus Christine R.
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The purpose of this research is to determine the competencies that predict highly effective performance in R&D managers and to explore where, along their career and life, managers develop these competencies.

Design/methodology/approach

Participants were 35 scientists and engineers working as first level managers at a major US government research center in the Mid‐West. Intended as a comprehensive inquiry into the competencies of R&D managers, three factors determined the design: establishing a criterion measure of performance to define Highly Effective and Typical groups; using a multi‐trait, multi‐method approach to measurement; and collecting data on competency development that preceded work history.

Findings

Nine variables were found to differentiate the two groups of managers. These were similar enough to collapse into two competencies: managing groups and interpersonal sensitivity. For the highly effective managers who demonstrated these two competencies, development of their capability began at young ages and prior to work experience. Effective and regular use of the two competencies occurred later in life and typically as a result of taking on leadership roles outside the work setting.

Originality/value

People skills are important to effective management of R&D; technical ability is not enough to be a highly effective manager of R&D; differences in learning styles are important in learning interpersonal skills; people skills can be developed; development does not mean training; and activities outside work are important in developing leadership competencies.
Combination of body‐fitted and embedded grids for external vehicle aerodynamics
Authors: Tilch Ralf , Tabbal Ali , Zhu Ming , Decker Friedhelm , Löhner Rainald
Published: January 2008

Purpose

This paper seeks to reduce the time it takes to perform external aerodynamic simulations without compromising accuracy. At present, cleaning up CAD data sets, in particular for undercarriage parts, takes several man‐weeks.

Design/methodology/approach

Body‐fitted and embedded mesh techniques are combined to obtain accurate external aerodynamic solutions for realistic car geometries with minimal user intervention. The key idea is to mesh with typical body‐fitted RANS grids the external shape of the vehicle, which is smooth and requires detailed physical modeling. The underhood and undercarriage are treated as embedded surfaces. The flow in this region is massively separated, requiring LES runs and isotropic grids. This makes it a suitable candidate for embedded grids.

Findings

Comparisons with body‐fitted and experimental data for a typical car show that this approach can yield drag predictions with an error less than 5 percent.

Practical implications

The present approach reduces turnaround times for complete car geometries to one to two days, without compromising accuracy.

Originality/value

To the authors' knowledge, this is the first time such an approach has been tried and validated for external aerodynamics.
Fast computation of preloaded bolted circular joint aiming at fatigue bolt sizing
Authors: Leray Dimitri , Vadean Aurelian , Daidie Alain
Published: January 2008

Purpose

This paper seeks to deal with a new modelization method which aims at fatigue sizing of preloaded bolted joints. Industrial design offices indeed need new models which, on the one hand, take bending of the bolts and geometrical non‐linearity into account and, on the other hand, run fast enough to be used for preliminary design stages. Usual sizing procedures derive from VDI recommendations, which makes them inaccurate. On the contrary, classical finite element methods are revealed to be very costly.

Design/methodology/approach

The first task lies in reducing the physical problem down and model the structure using axisymmetrical elements. Then, the core of the method lies in modifying the stiffness matrix of a tube element, in order to modify the axial compression stiffness to the one used by preloaded assembly classical computations. Eventually, a 2D finite element model is programmed which takes advantage of the modified element. A mounting was built to reproduce the typical loading of a slewing bearing. Experimental tests were carried out in order to help analyse the problem and to check finite element simulation results.

Findings

Sample experimental results are presented which confirm the need for new models and validate the 2D model that was developed.

Research limitations/implications

The new finite element, as well as the set of hypotheses that are used, appear to be usable for other bolted joints.

Practical implications

A software was produced for the industrial partners, which is usable by non FE‐specialists.

Originality/value

This work may serve as a basis for building fast and accurate finite element models of other types of bolted joints.
Framework for characterizing the design of VMI systems
Authors: Ståhl Elvander Mikael , Sarpola Sami , Mattsson Stig‐Arne
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to provide for the research community as well as for the practitioners measures that enable the evaluation, categorization and comparison of vendor managed inventory (VMI) systems.

Design/methodology/approach

In this paper, a framework is developed for characterizing the design of VMI systems based on a review of prior research and an empirical investigation of industry‐to‐industry VMI relationships in Sweden.

Findings

The proposed framework incorporates the main characteristics of VMI systems and serves as a tool for profiling VMI system designs and for facilitating the comparison and analysis of different VMI system configurations.

Research limitations/implications

The Swedish industrial context in which the framework was tested should be taken into consideration when generalizing upon the findings.

Practical implications

VMI systems come in various shapes and setups, as a result of which the challenges related to their operation and management may differ significantly. This study addresses the issue by providing practitioners with a tool that helps them in the design and management of VMI systems.

Originality/value

While categorizations and measures for the VMI systems exist in prior research, this study contributes by synthesizing the existing measures and testing them in empirical setting. The study contributes particularly to the research on VMI systems but also more broadly to the supply chain management research.
The effect of asset visibility on managing returnable transport items
Authors: Johansson Ola , Hellström Daniel
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework of the potential benefits of asset visibility in the context of returnable transport items (RTI), and uses the framework to examine the effect of asset visibility on the management of RTI systems.

Design/methodology/approach

A combined case study and simulation approach was used. A case study was performed to identify and understand how an existing RTI system is managed, while discrete‐event simulation was the method chosen to explore the potential effect of asset visibility.

Findings

The paper identifies cost aspects of implementing and operating RTI systems which may be influenced by asset visibility. The study implies that significant cost savings can be achieved through increased asset visibility, and highlights the importance of shrinkage and its impact on the operating cost of an RTI system. However, asset visibility alone is not enough; it requires proper actions and continuous management attention in order to attain the savings.

Research limitations/implications

The results are derived from a single, combined case and simulation study.

Practical implications

The combined methods proved to be an efficient way of assessing and quantifying the potential effect of asset visibility along with the associated uncertainty in the results.

Originality/value

The paper provides an improved understanding of the effect of asset visibility on the management of RTI systems and complements existing visibility literature.
Applying advanced planning systems for supply chain planning: three case studies
Authors: Jonsson Patrik , Kjellsdotter Linea , Rudberg Martin
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore how standardized advanced planning systems (APS) can be used for solving planning problems at tactical and strategic levels, and to identify the perceived effects of using APS.

Design/methodology/approach

Multiple case studies involving three cases using APS software for strategic network planning and master production scheduling are conducted. Comparative analysis explores how the planning situation, the model design and use of the APS impact the perceived planning effects.

Findings

Findings show how APS support cost‐optimized strategic network design in one case and how efficiency, capacity utilization and delivery service problems were decreased in two cases using APS in global master planning processes. The cases show how APS supports cross‐functional integration and supply chain commitment to a common plan. Research directions are suggested about the feasibility of APS in situations with various planning complexities, how design of the optimization model creates complexity and affects the planning process, data gathering requirements when using APS, the role and design of the planning organization, and how to achieve positive planning effects, such as finding global optimum and single plan commitment.

Research limitations/implications

The approach is descriptive and explorative. Only three cases are studied.

Practical implications

The findings present experiences of APS usage and identify issues to consider when using APS and potential benefits to gain from usage.

Originality/value

The practical use of APS is low and the knowledge about how it impacts supply chain planning and performance is unexplored. The findings of this paper fill some of these gaps.
Taiwan's bicycle industry A‐Team battles Chinese competition with innovation and cooperation
Authors: Brookfield Jonathan , Liu Ren‐Jye , Paul MacDuffie John
Published: January 2008

Purpose

This case aims to examine how Taiwan's bicycle industry has persevered against increasingly severe competitive challenges from Chinese companies. The Taiwan firms have created innovative, high value‐added products and transformed the organization of production through a new version of cooperative competition. The case seeks to show how established producers may counter‐attack when faced with the strong challenges of low‐cost competitors.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors, all experts on Taiwanese manufacturing and business processes, examine the characteristics of an integrated, co‐innovative, cooperative supplier network, named the A‐Team.

Findings

The paper finds that, broadly speaking, integrated, co‐innovative supplier networks have two basic features that differentiate them from traditional modular, symbiotic supplier networks. First, whereas traditional supplier systems have emphasized cost control, integrated, co‐innovative supplier networks appear to be more focused on value creation through co‐innovation. Secondly, by adopting a more integrated network structure, such supplier networks appear to have a greater ability to resist imitation.

Practical implications

Based on Taiwan's bicycle industry, there seem to be five basic conditions for establishing a successful integrated, co‐innovative supplier network. There must be: a strong awareness of industry risks and/or prospects; trust among network members; long‐term interactive cooperative relationships; a desire to learn, and extensive communication, including substantial face‐to‐face communication.

Originality/value

For producers faced with the challenge of coping with the threat of low‐cost competition, co‐innovation within an integrated supplier network may be quite helpful. By working to coordinate the innovation efforts of assemblers and suppliers, Taiwan's A‐Team has laid a good foundation. While some initiatives are still in the early stages, as a result of the A‐Team's work to date, A‐team membership has increased and the group has received considerable recognition both at home and abroad.
A plan for a US newspaper industry counterattack against disruptive innovators
Authors: Sterling John
Published: January 2008

Purpose

Firms offering a variety of disruptive innovations – for example, Craigslist.com – are successfully undercutting the traditional newspaper business model; this paper aims to describe a unique mode of counterattack.

Design/methodology/approach

The American Press Institute (API) recognized that the transformation taking place in the newspaper industry was a textbook example of disruptive innovation, as described by strategist Clayton Christensen. Working with Christensen and his colleagues at the consulting firm Innosight, API developed a counter‐offensive program customized to the issues and changes facing newspaper companies.

Findings

The paper finds that the Newspaper Next Game Plan is essentially a strategic framework designed to enable newspaper organizations to structure and prioritize their approach to both the core business and the disruptive innovation opportunities that will drive long‐term success and growth.

Practical implications

API's newspaper‐centric version of the innovation methodology focuses on researching the needs, that is, the “jobs to be done,” of discrete sets of non‐users of the core products.

Originality/value

The paper offers a helpful guide for any industry beset by disruptive innovation. For the newspaper industry there is a radical lesson: serving non‐readers will require newspapers to build audiences by fulfilling “jobs to be done” that go beyond the core function of reporting the news.
The leader's dilemma agenda
Authors: Lowy Alex
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The paper aims to analyze how the best leaders articulate a crucial issue that contains trade‐offs and risk and then blaze a new path for their group or organization. This is the “art” of dilemma management: the ability to address the shifting needs, drivers and opportunities occurring in and around the business, and then actively working to understand, defend and capitalize on them.

Design/methodology/approach

Dilemma analysis has five steps: step 1: map the symptoms in two stages; step 2: identify the core dilemma; step 3: analyze and reframe using eight archetypal dilemmas; step 4: resolve gaps; and step 5: plan and implement.

Findings

The paper reveals that every leader needs to have a dilemma agenda. The agenda should include two categories of leadership dilemmas: direction‐setting and culture‐setting. The direction‐setting agenda defines what is of competitive strategic importance (such as, diversify or grow) while the culture‐setting agenda focuses on the values, mood and energy of the enterprise (such as emphasize a task or relationship focus).

Practical implications

To successfully handle dilemmas, start by redefining what you mean by success itself. In place of “win”, think “understanding,” instead of “profit” think “sustainability”, and so on.

Originality/value

The paper reveals the big payoff for exploring organizational dilemmas is a more complete understanding of both sides of an issue and learning to transcend disabling impasses that are fueled by fear and ignorance.
Collaborative innovation throughout the extended enterprise
Authors: Owen Lawrence , Goldwasser Charles , Choate Kristi , Blitz Amy
Published: January 2008

Purpose

To innovate, many high performing firms are collaborating beyond their organizations – with their extended networks of suppliers, customers, business partners and others. Such collaboration, however, is not easily accomplished. IBM Consulting offers a framework for managing these alliances – its ABCs of collaborative innovation – that can improve the chances of success. This paper aims to explore this framework.

Design/methodology/approach

IBM Consulting has recently completed a major study of innovation success and problems as perceived by top management. For example, they found that the strongest collaborators in a recent IBM study were also the strongest financial performers. This paper studies these firm's success factors.

Findings

To paper finds that to avoid the pitfalls of collaborative innovation, IBM Consulting's research and experience has determined that the key guiding principles are: alignment, boundaries and commitment, which they call the ABCs.

Practical implications

Alignment entails synchronizing the strategic vision and innovation goals with the implementation of these throughout the organization, focusing on collaboration both vertically and horizontally. Managing boundaries enables collaboration across organizations, establishing structures and processes regarding governance, operations and technology. Finally, an ongoing commitment is required to orchestrate and systematize collaboration for innovation throughout the organization and its extended enterprise over time.

Originality/value

The paper offers a useful top‐level review of the success factors for collaborative innovation.
Is the global financial system AML/CFT prepared?
Authors: Johnson Jackie
Published: January 2008

Purpose

To gauge the extent to which the global financial system is anti‐money laundering (AML)/countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) prepared by analysing and comparing the AML/CFT systems of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) members with countries belonging to regional AML organisations.

Design/methodology/approach

Mutual evaluation data of 16 FATF members and 21 non‐FATF countries is analysed and compared using Kruskal‐Wallis and paired‐t tests to determine similarities and differences across the two groups of countries.

Findings

AML/CFT systems of FATF members and non‐FATF countries are poor. The lack of compliance with global AML/CFT standards leaves so many holes in these countries' regulatory, financial, and legal systems that money laundering with or without any relationship to the financing of terrorism, would be relatively easy to achieve.

Research limitations/implications

In using an analytical approach it has been necessary to put numerical values on compliance levels used by the FATF. Given that these are very broad, substituting a single value for each compliance level will provide only a crude measure of compliance for comparisons to be made. The results should therefore be used as a guide to the ranking and compliance of countries rather than some exact measurement of compliance.

Practical implications

There will need to be follow‐up visits to this round of mutual evaluations to evaluate country responses to their poor assessments.

Originality/value

Publication of mutual evaluations by the FATF and a number of regional bodies has enabled a comparison of AML/CFT systems from countries around the world. Lack of data has not enabled this to be done before.
Stages of financial crime by business organizations
Authors: Gottschalk Petter
Published: January 2008

Purpose

The inherent business focus of much organized financial crime has received increased attention in recent years. As organized crime receives increased attention, the corporate world of business enterprises is identified as an arena for organized crime. This paper aims to focus on the issues involved.

Design/methodology/approach

Based on financial crime literature, business organization literature, and stage model literature, this paper conceptualizes as stage model for organized financial crime by corporate business organizations.

Findings

The four stages are labeled agency, alliance, network, and mafia business, respectively.

Research limitations/implications

Future research will empirically have to validate the stage hypothesis in this paper.

Originality/value

The paper develops a stage model for financial crime.
The dynamics of drug‐related organised crime and corruption in Brazil from a development perspective
Authors: de Andrade Filho Luiz
Published: January 2008

Purpose

This essay aims to examine the relationship between socio‐economic forces and drug‐related organised crime in Brazil. It focuses on both judicial structures and social service delivery to illustrate how they impact the shaping of criminal networks – a recurrent situation in many Latin American countries.

Design/methodology/approach

Drawing from previous research on drug trafficking conducted for Amazonian states and the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, this paper takes the viewpoint put forward by key development literature along with well established works on crime and corruption in order to conclude on interactions of important political, social and economic factors with crime.

Findings

It finds that some transformations introduced during the 1980s are a crucial element to understand the building up of criminal organisations. Furthermore, the absence of an effective judicial system, the lack of social service delivery by the government and cultural factors are central elements to take into account when seeking to address drug‐related crime.

Practical implications

A balance between positive and negative measures to combat organised crime and a better understanding of the institutional environment should be sought while designing public policies to address crime in Brazil. Moreover, further research is needed in order to gather a greater amount of reliable data, as well as an accurate appraisal of different strategies to prevent organised crime to broaden its incidence in the country.

Originality/value

The paper is a good starting point for those aiming to comprehend how organised crime operates in Brazil (and possibly in some Latin American countries).
Evolving challenges for supreme audit institutions in struggling with corruption
Authors: Kayrak Musa
Published: January 2008

Purpose

To discuss the theoretical framework for involvement of supreme audit institutions (SAIs) in anti‐corruption struggle and their contributions in practice.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper presents a theoretical and practical discussion on both direct and indirect contributions of SAIs in fighting with corruption. To this end, it covers a comprehensive analysis of SAIs in terms of separation of power, audit evidence, transparency, investigative power and accountability. Hence, cornerstone documents concerning the subject matter of the paper have been scrutinized so as to evaluate the role of SAIs in detail.

Findings

Active participation of SAIs which have financial, organizational, operational and functional independence and audit mandate guaranteed by constitutions and laws is essential in order for deterring corruption by promoting accountability, openness and good governance public‐financial management. Furthermore, it is likely that SAIs detect some suspicious cases of corruption even though most of them have no power to investigate those cases.

Originality/value

The paper points out that SAIs to some extend may take part in the fight with corruption directly by detecting it beside its conventional role of deterring and preventing.
Corporate governance as a contraption of the FSA's accountability
Authors: Omoyele Olu
Published: January 2008

Purpose

Owing to the tremendously vast and unprecedented nature of the directly‐conferred statutory powers of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) (under the Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA) 2000), there is need for ample accountability on its part. The paper aims to discuss the situation.

Design/methodology/approach

A critical analysis of the Combined Code on corporate governance. The paper argues in favour of obliging the FSA to adopt the Code as a way of making it accountable.

Findings

It is desirable that the FSA be accountable and that this can best be done via the imposition of corporate governance principles. The paper includes a suggestion of election of the FSA's governing board.

Practical implications

The wider re‐drafting (and construction), by Parliament, of section 7 is the most attractive mode of enforcing corporate governance as an accountability mechanism. This is so, as it will give it far greater force than at present by creating a mandatory regime to bind the FSA in this respect. What is required, therefore, is an amendment of s. 7 of the FSMA 2000 to establish a better accountability method to be imposed on the FSA.

Originality/value

The paper proposes, for the first time, the use of corporate governance (especially the Combined Code) to ensure the accountability of the FSA. The paper is valuable to academics, postgraduate research students and legal practitioners in the area of financial services regulation, corporate law and general public body accountability. It is also useful for those interested incorporate governance and the Combined Code on corporate governance.