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Perceived barriers to whistle blowing in healthcare amongst healthcare professionals: An integrative review
Authors: Ekpenyong Mandu Stephene , Nyashanu Mathew , Ibrahim Amina , Serrant Laura 
Published: November 2020

Purpose
Whistleblowing is a procedure where an existing or past participant of an establishment reveals actions and practices believed to be illegal, immoral or corrupt, by individuals who can influence change. Whistleblowing is an important means of recognising quality and safety matters in the health-care system. The aim of this study is to undergo a literature review exploring perceived barriers of whistleblowing in health care among health-care professionals of all grades and the possible influences on the whistleblower.

Design/methodology/approach
An integrative review of both quantitative and qualitative studies published between 2000 and 2020 was undertaken using the following databases: CINAHL Plus, Embase, Google Scholar, Medline and Scopus. The primary search terms were “whistleblowing” and “barriers to whistleblowing”. The quality of the included studies was appraised using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme criteria. The authors followed preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis (Prisma) in designing the research and also reporting.

Findings
A total of 11 peer-reviewed articles were included. Included papers were analysed using constant comparative analysis. The review identified three broad themes (cultural, organisational and individual) factors as having a significant influence on whistleblowing reporting among health-care professionals.

Originality/value
This study points out that fear is predominantly an existing barrier causing individuals to hesitate to report wrongdoing in care and further highlights the significance of increasing an ethos of trust and honesty within health care.
Authentic leader and internal whistleblowers: testing a dual mediation mechanism
Authors: Anita Rizqa , Abdillah Muhammad Rasyid , Zakaria Nor Balkish 
Published: November 2020

Purpose
This study aims to extend the understanding of the role of authentic leadership in encouraging subordinates to become internal whistleblowers. The current study aims to seek whether authentic leadership can encourage internal whistleblowing (IW) through employee controlled motivation for IW and moral courage.

Design/methodology/approach
The samples of this study were 221 employees working at 26 government organizations in one of the provinces located on Sumatera Island, Indonesia. Based on the cross-sectional survey method, this study used partial least square-structural equation modeling analysis with SmartPLS 3 software to test the hypotheses.

Findings
The result revealed that employee controlled motivation for whistleblowing and moral courage significantly mediates the effect of authentic leadership toward IW. This result also indicates that the two mediating variables in this study fully mediate the effect of authentic leadership toward IW.

Practical implications
This study highlights the critical role played by leaders in encouraging subordinates to IW in the workplace. The role of an authentic leader will have positively affected enhancing IW by employees, which has significant implications for the organization that particularly in manage organization wrongdoing in terms of eliminating or preventing unethical practice.

Originality/value
Theoretically, the current study extends the understanding of the mechanism underlying the relationship between authentic leadership and IW. This study proposes employee controlled motivation for IW and moral courage as the new mediator variables to explain how and why authentic leadership may encourage IW. Empirically, the current study chooses the Indonesian Government as a context that rarely conducts in the prior study.
Another development challenge: gaining emancipation from a functional hegemony in accounting and management control research
Authors: Alam Saiful , Ranasinghe Seuwandhi B. , Wickramasinghe Danture 
Published: November 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to reflectively narrate the methodological journey of the authors in penetrating the positivitic hegemony of accounting and management control research in their native countries, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.Design/methodology/approachThis paper offers an auto-ethnography to demonstrate the lack of diversity in accounting, accountability and management control research.FindingsGlobal developments in accounting and accountability reforms entail not only about how developing countries being governed through these reforms but also about how accounting research itself can be pursued alternatively. In the past several decades, a camp of British accounting researchers initiated a programme of research in this direction. Inspired by post-positivistic traditions, they aimed to explore how these reforms are predicated upon cultural-political milieus in developing countries. However, the academia in most accounting and management researchers from local universities in these countries are blindly bombarded with positivistic traditions.Originality/valueThe authors unpack how this hegemony formed and how attempts were made towards some emancipatory potentials.
Unemployment and fraud during the Great Depression in New Zealand
Authors: Othman Radiah , Ameer Rashid 
Published: November 2020

Purpose
This paper aims to provide a historical understanding of the unemployment context experienced by the New Zealand population during the Great Depression, which might have caused people to commit financial crimes, such as fraud, to survive.

Design/methodology/approach
The main source of information is narratives from newspaper articles published by 42 newspapers from 1931 to 1950 that explore New Zealanders’ experiences during declined economic conditions.

Findings
During the period studied, New Zealanders suffered because of various challenges, mainly unemployment. The government’s response was criticised by the people who used the newspapers as a medium to unleash their frustration about the fairness of unemployment relief for the unemployed and taxation of those who were employed. Some people who struggled in between jobs, as well as some who found themselves being disadvantaged, turned to deviant behaviour such as fraud. The fraudsters might be thought of as the victims of the day, committing a crime of survival, not a crime of choice.

Research limitations/implications
This research promotes more historical studies to enrich fraud-auditing literature. The lack of detailed information reported in the newspapers during this period limits making specific links to individual circumstances.

Originality/value
Fraudsters have always been perceived as responsible for their destinies, but a wider social and political context is rarely examined in fraud cases. The period chosen for this paper represents the extreme condition in which the elements of motive, opportunity and rationalisation are all interwoven into one.
Combining RAMS with EEP for performance-based maintenance: a review
Authors: Warsokusumo Tarwaji , Prahasto Toni , Widodo Achmad 
Published: November 2020

PurposeThe study aims to perform an extensive literature review in the area of the maintenance decision analysis (MDA), especially in power generation systems. In the basis of this review, the paper proposes a new model for the MDA which involves a combination of reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) performance with energy efficiency performance (EEP).Design/methodology/approachStarting from the opportunity in Sustainable Development Scenario (SDS) by improving the energy efficiency (EE) and using renewable energy for the power generation system, also concerning to the major challenge of maintenance optimization in order to implement maintenance strategy, the maintenance decision-making and energetic efficiency management system (EEMS) have been reviewed. In the context of power generation system's performance, the measurement is also analyzed and identified. Then, the extensive literature review has been performed to compare between RAMS and EEP. And finally, the limitation and gap, where EEP is not yet a complementary consideration during MDA being identified and a new model for the performance-based MDA is proposed.FindingsThe new model proposed for the performance-based MDA is able to be used to conduct maintenance decision by utilizing the combination of RAMS and EEP depending on the type of decision required.Practical implicationsThere is an opportunity for a maintenance organization of power generation plant to apply this new model proposed for the MDA in order to optimize the maintenance scope and schedule.Originality/valueThe result of work in this paper forms the basis for combining RAMS with EEP as performance-based MDA tools in the context of maintenance of the power generation system.
New way of learning in the nuclear industry: space simulation as a tool for vocational knowledge and work practices acquisition
Authors: Ciobanu Raluca 
Published: November 2020

Purpose
This study aims to contribute to the project to overhaul Common Training for Nuclear Workers (Commune Intervenant du Nucléaire – CIN) aimed at service providers involved in maintenance on nuclear power plants (NPPs).

Design/methodology/approach
The study is devised as a methodology for designing and assessing a training system (work operation scenarios and steering method) and draws on a qualitative methodology through group interviews and observations during situational training. More specifically, the aim is to devise a training system that would enable trainees to gain a better understanding of activity in the nuclear sector, its execution, its challenges and its requirements, and to make them able to think and act individually and collectively to contend with the various types of work situations.

Findings
The results of this study confirm the relevance of providing different pedagogical orientations that emphasise the activity over the previous task-oriented and top-down approach. The instructors–trainees and trainees–trainees interactions take place in an open and dynamic space with an important interindividual variability to promote active learning that is based on the joint discovery and analysis of real work by the collective. In this context, the co-presence of the participants is more important than the task at stake. Moreover, this new way of learning is a challenge for the instructors and trainees, as well as for training designers.

Practical implications
Moreover, this new way of learning is a challenge for the instructors and trainees, as well as for training designers, and has to be taken into consideration when designing training programs.

Originality/value
This operational research work is being conducted by researchers, as well as industry professionals, and enjoys special access to the constrained environment of NPPs. Several studies conducted by the Organisational and Human Factors team of EDF Research and Development (Couix and Boccara, 2015; Fucks and Boccara, 2014) have focused on the effectiveness of training. In particular, they found that to be effective, training must faithfully reflect the real-life work situations of the future environment in which the worker trainees will be active.
Political uncertainty and the US market risk premium
Authors: Gregory Richard P. 
Published: November 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the bi-directional causality between political uncertainty and the market risk premium in the US.Design/methodology/approachI use a theoretical model to motivate signs and then check signs based on a vector autoregression.FindingsI find that political uncertainty has a small positive, delayed effect on the market risk premium. The market risk premium, on the other hand, has a large permanent, negative effect on political uncertainty.Originality/valueThis is the first research paper to consider the bi-directional effects of political uncertainty on the market risk premium and vice versa. It also finds interesting empirical results.
The performance of control charts with economic-statistical design when parameters are estimated
Authors: Alsaid Mahmoud , Kamal Rania M. , Rashwan Mahmoud M. 
Published: November 2020

Purpose
This paper presents economic and economic–statistical designs of the adaptive exponentially weighted moving average (AEWMA) control chart for monitoring the process mean. It also aims to compare the effect of estimated process parameters on the economic performance of three charts, which are Shewhart, exponentially weighted moving average and AEWMA control charts with economic–statistical design.

Design/methodology/approach
The optimal parameters of the control charts are obtained by applying the Lorenzen and Vance’s (1986) cost function. Comparisons between the economic–statistical and economic designs of the AEWMA control chart in terms of expected cost and statistical measures are performed. Also, comparisons are made between the economic performance of the three competing charts in terms of the average expected cost and standard deviation of expected cost.

Findings
This paper concludes that taking into account the economic factors and statistical properties in designing the AEWMA control chart leads to a slight increase in cost but in return the improvement in the statistical performance is substantial. In addition, under the estimated parameters case, the comparisons reveal that from the economic point of view the AEWMA chart is the most efficient chart when detecting shifts of different sizes.

Originality/value
The importance of the study stems from designing the AEWMA chart from both economic and statistical points of view because it has not been tackled before. In addition, this paper contributes to the literature by studying the effect of the estimated parameters on the performance of control charts with economic–statistical design.
Impact of introducing a customer services component during secondary school education to improve small and medium-sized enterprises: a case study in Bangladesh
Authors: Forhad Md. Abdur Rahman , Ahsan Md. Rajibul , Alam Gazi Mahabubul 
Published: November 2020

PurposeSmall and medium-sized enterprises (SME) make a significant contribution to alleviating poverty and generating employment, and achieve sustainable economic growth. Customer services represent core elements of a successful business enterprise. This study aims to examine the effect of education on customer satisfaction in the SME sector and what the future holds for developing countries.Design/methodology/approachUsing Bangladesh as a case study, this analysis uses a multiple-linear regression approach to examine the effect of a customer care orientation on customer satisfaction and on an SME’s ability to survive. Using a “probit model,” this study investigates the effects on customers’ probability of receiving subsequent services.FindingsDeveloping good customer services in secondary education will increase customers’ satisfaction and enable SMEs to survive and flourish in the long term. Having a policy that promotes this outcome increases the likelihood of receiving consistently good services for the foreseeable future.Originality/valueUnlike previous studies, this study examines the role of customer relationships in secondary education and how they improve SME customers’ satisfaction and business survival. This study offers new insights to retain existing customers for a successful SME business model.
Learning with startups: an empirically grounded typology
Authors: Steiber Annika , Alänge Sverker , Corvello Vincenzo 
Published: November 2020

Purpose
Corporate-startup collaboration is an opportunity for inter-organizational learning. This paper aims to develop an empirically grounded typology to guide researchers and managers in choosing a model that is coherent with the underlying learning processes.

Design/methodology/approach
The empirical research consisted of three phases. First, 30 large companies were interviewed to identify different models of interaction. Second, eight different models and cases were selected, and a list of key characteristics of each model was drawn based on the empirical data, obtaining a first typology. Third, the typology was tested, improved and validated on nine corporations.

Findings
The main result of the study is an empirically grounded typology of models for corporate-startup interaction and inter-organizational learning. Six dimensions distinguish each model from the others.

Research limitations/implications
The paper contributes to extend the literature on inter-organizational learning through different models of corporate-startups interaction. It also contributes to organizational ambidexterity theory, showing how collaboration with startups can improve exploitation and exploration.

Practical implications
The typology provides an instrument for analyzing and selecting operational models for corporate-startup collaboration and learning. The models can be modified or broadened, creating new hybrids.

Originality/value
The paper presents a novel way of looking at corporate-startup relations by studying them through the lens of organizational learning theory. It explains the existence of different inter-organizational arrangements and provides guidance in selecting the correct model.
Identification of effective pollinators of Primula sieboldii E. Morren in a wild habitat in Hiroshima, Japan
Authors: Yoshida Yasuko , Nikkeshi Aoi , Chishiki Akane 
Published: November 2020

AbstractPrimula sieboldii E. Morren is a heterostylous clonal herb that is widely distributed in Japan but in danger of extinction in the wild. The existence of pollinators in each habitat is imperative for its long‐term survival, because seeds can be produced only by insect cross‐pollination between different flower morphs. In this study, we identified the pollinators of P. sieboldii in a wild habitat in Hiroshima as those insects that we observed to (a) put the proboscis into a corolla tube, (b) deposit pollen grains on the proboscis, and (c) have a proboscis of appropriate length and width. Effective pollinators were identified from their contribution to pollination. In 2015 and 2016, the flower visitations of 232 and 558 insects, respectively, were recorded and 85 and 13 insects were captured. Two Bombylius species, B. major L. and B. shibakawae Matsumura, accounted for 90% of flower‐visiting insects in both years. All 14 species that we captured were considered pollinators of P. sieboldii, because they had proboscises that were long enough to reach pollen and that had pollen grains deposited on them. The total visitation rate of “Bombyliidae” was the highest among all pollinator categories. The results of potential pollen transport per flower per hour, which was based on total pollen number and total visitation rate of each pollinator category, indicated that “Bombyliidae” species were the most effective pollinators of P. sieboldii in this habitat.
Fertility and digital technology: narratives of using smartphone app ‘Natural Cycles’ while trying to conceive
Authors: Grenfell Pippa , Tilouche Nerissa , Shawe Jill , French Rebecca S. 
Published: November 2020

AbstractFertility awareness apps, which help to identify the ‘fertile window’ when conception is most likely, have been hailed as ‘revolutionising’ women’s reproductive health. Despite rapidly growing popularity, little research has explored how people use these apps when trying to conceive and what these apps mean to them. We draw on in‐depth, qualitative interviews, adopting a critical digital health studies lens (a sub‐field of science and technology studies), to explore the experiences of cisgender women and partners with one such app, Natural Cycles, in the context of their daily lives. We found that many women valued the technology as a ‘natural’, inobtrusive alternative to biomedical intervention, and a means of controlling and knowing their bodies, amid a dearth of fertility‐related education and care. Yet this technology also intervened materially and affectively into the spaces of their lives and relationships and privileged disembodied metrics (temperature) over embodied knowledge. Meanwhile, app language, advertising and cost have contributed to characterising ‘typical’ users as white, heterosexual, affluent, cisgender women without disabilities. In the context of neoliberal shifts towards bodily self‐tracking, technologies appealing as novel, liberating and ‘natural’ to individuals who can access them may nevertheless reproduce highly gendered reproductive responsibilities, anxieties and broader health and social inequalities.
Association of MBL2 gene polymorphisms and systemic lupus erythematosus susceptibility: A meta‐analysis
Authors: Yuan Zhi‐Chao , Xu Wang‐Dong , Lan You‐Yu , Wang Jia‐Min , Wu Qian , Zhou Jie , Huang An‐Fang 
Published: November 2020

AbstractObjectivesMannose binding lectin (MBL) gene single nucleotide polymorphisms have been associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) risk with inconsistent results. This study aimed to explore whether MBL2 A\B, A\C, A\D, A\O, L\H and Y\X polymorphisms affected SLE susceptibility.MethodsA meta‐analysis was performed on 20 studies, containing allelic contrast, additive, dominant and recessive models. Odds ratio (OR) was calculated to reflect the effect of association.ResultsA total of 64 pooled comparisons were conducted, including 7194 SLE patients and 7401 healthy controls. The meta‐analysis inducted a significant association between allele B and SLE (OR = 0.766, 95% CI = 0.681‐0.862, P < .001). The genotype BB in the additive model and AB + BB in the recessive model both reduced the risk of SLE (OR = 0.611, 95% CI = 0.422‐0.882, P = .009; OR = 0.806, 95% CI = 0.688‐0.944, P = .008). Regarding A\O polymorphisms, results revealed statistical differences in allelic contrast, additive model and recessive models (OR = 0.826, 95% CI = 0.732‐0.931, P = .002; OR = 0.737, 95% CI = 0.557‐0.977, P = .034 and OR = 0.793, 95% CI = 0.683‐0.921, P = .002, respectively). As for L\H, meta‐analysis revealed that allele H and genotype HH both decreased SLE susceptibility in allelic contrast and dominant models (OR = 1.463, 95% CI = 1.097‐2.007, P = .018; OR = 1.383, 95% CI = 1.124‐1.701, P = .002). Stratification by ethnicity indicated that allele H related to SLE in European populations (OR = 0.736, 95% CI = 0.617‐0.879, P = .001), and the recessive model correlated with SLE in Asians (OR = 0.808, 95% CI = 0.667‐0.979, P = .03).ConclusionThe present study suggests that A\B and A\O polymorphisms were associated with SLE susceptibility, and the allele H may be a protective factor in SLE.