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Reflecting on outcome-based education for human services programs in higher education: a policing degree case study
Authors: Kennedy Michael , Birch Philip 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThis paper aims to consider the impact of outcome-based education (OBE) on students studying human services degrees, particularly those in a policing program. This work examines the validity of the notion that OBE is a progressive teaching approach that improves the quality of education and subsequently professional practice.Design/methodology/approachA critical analysis of a systemised outcome-based teaching and learning approach is adopted.FindingsOBE has, as an idea, swept across most educational institutions in an apparently revolutionary wave. However, any critical scrutiny of this systemised approach to teaching and learning calls into question whether it is really progressive or empty rhetoric achieving reactionary ends. Any systemised attempt at social change by way of neo-liberal outcomes that are not principle-driven will serve only to reinforce a philosophy of aggressive competition and individualism at the expense of the rule of law and social policy that is situated on a social contract foundation.Practical implicationsThe practical implications of this paper relate to the delivery of higher education teaching, with particular reference to human service degrees such as policing: the use of post-modernist theory to develop contemporary teaching and learning systems has created challenges with regards to scientific knowledge; a principled, deontological teaching and learning system rather than a utilitarian “outcome”-based delivery is proposed; the validity of the notion that outcome-based teaching and learning systems are progressive initiatives that improve the quality of education is questioned; and the impact of OBE for students entering human services professions such as policing has implications for public and community safety.Originality/valueThis paper considers the efficacy of OBE as a model for higher education teaching, with particular reference to human services degrees such as policing.
Reassessing the LIS approach to traditional knowledge: learning from Xochimilco, Mexico city
Authors: Cox Andrew M. , Tiago Martins Jorge , Rivera González Gibrán 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThe study aims to understand the nature of traditional knowledge by examining how it is used and reinvented in the context of Xochimilco in Mexico City.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on field site visits and focus group interviews.FindingsTraditional knowledge was being reinvented in two contrasting ways. One was based on heritage tourism drawing on syncretism between Aztec and Spanish culture in the formation of Xochimilco. The other was agro-ecological focussed on traditional farming practices on the chinampas, their productivity, their ability to sustain biodiversity and their link to social justice. There were some common elements, such as a passionate concern with retaining a valued past in the face of growing threat.Research limitations/implicationsTraditional knowledge is often seen as a static heritage, under threat. But it also has the potential to be a fertile source of strong identities and sustainable practices.Originality/valueThe paper helps to conceptualise the dynamic character of traditional knowledge.
Financial distress determinants among SMEs: empirical evidence from Sweden
Authors: Yazdanfar Darush , Öhman Peter 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to empirically investigate determinants of financial distress among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) during the global financial crisis and post-crisis periods.Design/methodology/approachSeveral statistical methods, including multiple binary logistic regression, were used to analyse a longitudinal cross-sectional panel data set of 3,865 Swedish SMEs operating in five industries over the 2008–2015 period.FindingsThe results suggest that financial distress is influenced by macroeconomic conditions (i.e. the global financial crisis) and, in particular, by various firm-specific characteristics (i.e. performance, financial leverage and financial distress in previous year). However, firm size and industry affiliation have no significant relationship with financial distress.Research limitationsDue to data availability, this study is limited to a sample of Swedish SMEs in five industries covering eight years. Further research could examine the generalizability of these findings by investigating other firms operating in other industries and other countries.Originality/valueThis study is the first to examine determinants of financial distress among SMEs operating in Sweden using data from a large-scale longitudinal cross-sectional database.
Trade credits substitution during crisis period: spatial aspects within developing countries
Authors: Deari Fitim , Lakshina Valeriya , Lapshina Kseniya 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to empirically test the hypothesis about substitution of trade and bank credits during the crisis period among 1,570 firms from 16 developing countries.Design/methodology/approachThe study examines the dynamics of trade credits, following previous studies with special emphasis on the research by Love et al. (2007). The foregoing methodology was expanded by taking into account the effects of the interdependence between firms by means of spatial panel model.FindingsThe study reveals that, taking into account spatial effects, there is a positive relationship between bank and trade credits, that is, they behave as complements for each other. Significant positive spatial correlation, obtained for the firms within the same country or cluster, points to the presence of externalities inside these groups. The latter implies that neighboring firms demonstrate similar unidirectional dynamics of trade credits.Originality/valueResults of this study may create a basis for policy implementation in the sphere of corporate lending, and allow to build appropriate supporting policies during crisis period.
Underlying causes and mitigation measures of delays in construction projects
Authors: Arantes Amílcar , Ferreira Luís Miguel D.F. 
Published: February 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to contribute to the theory and practice of project management in the construction industry by identifying the primary causes and extracting the underlying causes of construction delays and providing recommendations on delay mitigation measures.

Design/methodology/approach
AA survey was used to identify the importance of 47 causes of delays. The relative importance index was used to rank them, factor analysis was applied to extract the underlying causes and focus group interviews were used for discussion and development of mitigation measures.

Findings
Six of the ten most important causes are in the top ten universal delays in construction projects. Factor analysis revealed six underlying causes: improper planning, poor consultant performance, inefficient site management, owner influence, bureaucracy and sub-standard contracts.

Practical implications
The owner/sponsor/client must have adequate engineering and project management skills to be able to evaluate proposals and contractors more accurately, economically and technically. The bidding and contract award process should focus on the most economically advantageous proposal and contracts should provide for mechanisms for managing risks while executing projects. Contractors should select reliable, high-quality subcontractors and suppliers and should have competent site managers.

Originality/value
This work expands and improves the understanding of the causes of delays in construction projects by providing an empirical study of the causes of delays and respective mitigation measures in Portugal.
Priority setting and resource allocation in the US health system: is there a place for hard caps?
Authors: Mitton Craig , Dionne Francois 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThe United States devotes a larger share of its GDP to health care and spends more on health care per capita than any other country. The sheer size of the total spending on health care, at approximately $3.5 trillion in 2017, puts significant pressure on all payers and crowds out other forms of public and private spending.Design/methodology/approachIn this brief commentary the authors suggest that, as part of the effort to deal with this pressure, the United States should look at borrowing a cost containment strategy from other countries: the use of hard caps on spending growth. The authors draw on our their experience of working with decision-makers over the last 20 years on the topic of priority setting to put forward some ideas on whether there is potential for application of trade-offs in the United States.FindingsAs hard caps force choices to be made, a necessary condition for successful implementation of this policy is the presence of an effective priority-setting framework to ensure that the right choices are made in operationalizing spending limitations. Work on this topic elsewhere can provide some insight into the use of a criteria-based framework for priority setting that purports transparency in decision-making to achieve value-based decisions.Originality/valueOther countries still have much work to do, but there is a substantial track record of using formal priority-setting approaches that could potentially inform practice in the United States. We suggest that there are key segments of the US healthcare system where the adoption of formal priority-setting frameworks to guide trade-off decisions is feasible. Piloting such activity in these contexts is the next natural step in this line of inquiry.
Flickr data for analysing tourists’ spatial behaviour and movement patterns
Authors: Höpken Wolfram , Müller Marcel , Fuchs Matthias , Lexhagen Maria 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to analyse the suitability of photo-sharing platforms, such as Flickr, to extract relevant knowledge on tourists’ spatial movement and point of interest (POI) visitation behaviour and compare the most prominent clustering approaches to identify POIs in various application scenarios.Design/methodology/approachThe study, first, extracts photo metadata from Flickr, such as upload time, location and user. Then, photo uploads are assigned to latent POIs by density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) andk-means clustering algorithms. Finally, association rule analysis (FP-growth algorithm) and sequential pattern mining (generalised sequential pattern algorithm) are used to identify tourists’ behavioural patterns.FindingsThe approach has been demonstrated for the city of Munich, extracting 13,545 photos for the year 2015. POIs, identified by DBSCAN andk-means clustering, could be meaningfully assigned to well-known POIs. By doing so, both techniques show specific advantages for different usage scenarios. Association rule analysis revealed strong rules (support: 1.0-4.6 per cent; lift: 1.4-32.1 per cent), and sequential pattern mining identified relevant frequent visitation sequences (support: 0.6-1.7 per cent).Research limitations/implicationsAs a theoretic contribution, this study comparatively analyses the suitability of different clustering techniques to appropriately identify POIs based on photo upload data as an input to association rule analysis and sequential pattern mining as an alternative but also complementary techniques to analyse tourists’ spatial behaviour.Practical implicationsFrom a practical perspective, the study highlights that big data sources, such as Flickr, show the potential to effectively substitute traditional data sources for analysing tourists’ spatial behaviour and movement patterns within a destination. Especially, the approach offers the advantage of being fully automatic and executable in a real-time environment.Originality/valueThe study presents an approach to identify POIs by clustering photo uploads on social media platforms and to analyse tourists’ spatial behaviour by association rule analysis and sequential pattern mining. The study gains novel insights into the suitability of different clustering techniques to identify POIs in different application scenarios.
Review of digital record management needs for academic libraries
Authors: Rahman Md. Habibur 
Published: February 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to explore the present practicing situation of digital record management (DRM) in the university libraries of Bangladesh. The more particular objectives are to identify the present preservation scenario of DRM, to find out the problems of DRM which are faced by archivists for long-term preservation, to identify the necessary tools and technologies for DRM and to explore the ways to overcome the existing problems.

Design/methodology/approach
Survey methods were used for gathering data using a well-structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was sent to the respondents of some selected public and private universities of Bangladesh.

Findings
The findings revealed that there are some hindrances to practise DRM, such as lack of stable preservation software, shortage of skilled IT personnel, allocation of insufficient budget, shortage of digital records, lack of proper training of library professionals, and these also provided some suitable suggestions, such as allocation of adequate fund, infrastructure development, recruitment of knowledgeable IT professionals, the simplicity of the intellectual property act, the willingness of authority regarding the implementation of DRM and frequently training arrangements for library professionals for the advancement of DH in the university libraries of Bangladesh.

Originality/value
The insights and views of the respondents regarding DRM tools and technologies obtained from this study are original and unique.
Antecedents to employee suggestion schemes: the study of UAE
Authors: Mehrajunnisa Mehrajunnisa , Jabeen Fauzia 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study is identifying and ranking the various antecedents or enablers that will enhance performance through employee suggestion schemes (ESSs) in various sector-specific businesses based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an emerging Arab country.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to prioritize the factors affecting ESS. The AHP model was developed with five criteria and 24 subcriteria based on the interactional theory of organizational creativity. Data were collected through interviews with 27 top-level managers and industry experts from nine government agencies, nine semigovernment agencies, and nine privately owned UAE-based businesses.FindingsThe findings show that leadership support and management style, individual attributes, and corporate strategy are the most important factors that influence performance through ESS.Research limitations/implicationsThe research model had limited dimensions and the findings cannot be generalized. To generalize the findings, the study should be carried out in other GCC countries because of homogeneity in the political, organizational, and sociocultural context. The outcome of the study provides both organizational and managerial implications for the better organizational performance through ESS.Originality/valuePast studies on ESS have neglected the construct of individual characteristics of employees that generate novel ideas. This paper addresses the gap of sector-specific studies by considering that individual attributes of creative people as individuals are the heart of innovation, along with contextual factors that could help organizations to transform innovative engines through ESS. The originality of this research stems from a reliable and valid framework that can be subsequently used for driving performance through ESS. This study is a relevant contribution to both the academic literature and practical implications.
Branded premiums in tourism destination promotion
Authors: Wang Shasha , Japutra Arnold , Molinillo Sebastián 
Published: February 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to test the influence of branded premiums or branded free gifts (e.g. a free of charge suitcase of a well-recognised brand) on tourism destination promotion. Specifically, the impact of brand name and price value of a branded premium on promoting a tourism destination was examined.

Design/methodology/approach
This research uses two experiment-based studies, applying a between-group experimental design.

Findings
The results revealed that appreciation leads to intention to visit the promoted destination when the branded promotion is offered. When a destination promotional offer contains a branded premium, consumers respond more favourably to the brand name of the premium than the price value of the premium. This finding applies to consumers’ responses to both the destination and the premium.

Research limitations/implications
This research adds to the body of knowledge on tourism destination promotion and the branding literature, specifically with promotional and branded premiums.

Practical implications
Mutual benefits can be obtained by both tourism destination marketers and premium marketers.

Originality/value
This research highlights the importance of branded premiums in tourism destination promotional offers. This research also shows the influence of the price value of a premium’s brand name in a tourism destination promotional offer.
Collapse of dispersal trait diversity across a long‐term chronosequence reveals a strong negative impact of frugivore extinctions on forest resilience
Authors: Albert Sébastien , Flores Olivier , Strasberg Dominique 
Published: February 2020

Abstract

Understanding how seed dispersal disruption may alter plant community diversity and dynamics over a large temporal scale remains a challenge. Here, we use a long‐term chronosequence to compare changes in the richness and composition of different dispersal trait assemblages in communities established before and after human colonization in the Mascarene archipelago.

Our study was located on Réunion on the slopes of the Piton de la Fournaise which is one of the most active volcanoes worldwide. We analysed 151 vegetation surveys on lava flows dated between 1401 AD and 1956 AD and in tropical rainforests established on older substrata. We defined five classes of substratum age, according to the well‐known chronology of native frugivore defaunation: ‘old substrata’ and [1401, 1665[ when frugivores were abundant and diverse before permanent human settlement; [1665, 1800[ when large‐bodied frugivore populations were strongly reduced; [1800, 1900[ when large‐bodied frugivores went extinct and small‐bodied frugivores were still abundant; [1900, 1956] decline in the populations of small‐bodied frugivores. Based on dispersal traits, we categorized 146 native woody species as anemochorous, small fleshy‐fruited or large fleshy‐fruited, i.e. plant of which fruit could not theoretically be dispersed by extant frugivores.

Changes in dispersal trait diversity strongly correlated with the chronology of defaunation. Species‐rich communities settled before human colonization was strongly dominated by fleshy‐fruited species. Large fleshy‐fruited plants in the oldest communities settled after human colonization declined markedly and almost disappeared after 1800. The richness of small fleshy‐fruited plants decreased less rapidly across the chronosequence, with medium levels on [1665, 1800[ and [1800, 1900[ lava flows and low levels on [1900, 1956] lava flows. Conversely, the richness of anemochorous plants remained unchanged. Communities settled before human colonization had a similar composition. Fleshy‐fruited assemblages showed strong species loss across the chronosequence, while anemochorous assemblages showed strong species turnover, which was probably due to lower dispersal limitation.

Synthesis. Our results provide the first insights into the tremendous impact that frugivore extinction has on plant colonization dynamics over 300 years. The dramatic loss of fleshy‐fruited plant diversity on historical lava flows highlights the irreplaceable dispersal role played by frugivores, especially large‐bodied species. The conservation of plant–animal mutualistic interactions is invaluable and refaunation efforts need to be undertaken in areas where frugivores have been extirpated.
Bourdieu Comes to Town: Part II
Authors: Savage Mike 
Published: February 2020

AbstractThis essay introduces the second selection of essays associated with the Interventions forum ‘Bourdieu Comes to Town’, the first of which appeared in 2018. There seems to be a tendency to conflate the relevance of Bourdieu for urban studies by focusing specifically on particular contentious concepts that have been fashioned from Bourdieu's own tools. I briefly discuss this point with respect to the concepts of ‘elective belonging', which I helped introduce, and ‘territorial stigmatization’, which Loïc Wacquant himself has popularized. I argue that whatever the virtues or otherwise of these concepts, Bourdieu offers substantially more to urban studies, namely the capacity to synthesize across sites, to link micro and macro, to engage pragmatist concerns with daily life to a wider political economy, and to foreground the role of accumulation. I briefly show how the four essays in this selection exemplify these qualities.
Taking Bourdieu to the Shantytown
Authors: Auyero Javier 
Published: February 2020

AbstractThis essay extends Bourdieu's work on habitat–habitus and symbolic domination to the study of urban marginality. A full account of urban relegation should pay systematic attention to the environmental hazards to which the dispossessed are routinely exposed. Social science accounts of how domination works at the urban margins should place poor people's experience of time (and, particularly, of waiting) at their front and center.
Understanding parent‐reported factors that influence children and young people's anxiety and depression presentations to emergency departments: A multi‐site study
Authors: Hiscock Harriet , Connolly Ann‐Siobhan , Dunlop Katie , Perera Prescilla , O'Loughlin Rachel , Brown Stephanie J , Krieser David M , West Adam , Chapman Pauline , Lawford Robyn , Cheek John A 
Published: February 2020

AbstractObjectiveVictorian ED data show increased presentations for anxiety and depression in children. We aimed to determine parent‐reported factors contributing to these presentations.MethodsQualitative study with parents of children and young people aged 0–17 years who attended one of four EDs across Victoria between October 2017 and September 2018 and received a primary diagnosis of anxiety or depression (excluding self‐harm or suicide attempt). Eligible parents completed semi‐structured phone interviews, which were audio‐recorded and transcribed. Transcripts were coded and qualitatively analysed using thematic analysis.ResultsSeventy parents completed interviews. The average age of children and young people was 14 years (standard deviation 2.4) and 63% (n = 44) identified as female. Thirty (43%) children received a primary diagnosis of depression, compared to 40 (57%) children who received a primary diagnosis of anxiety. The majority of respondents were mothers (n = 59; 84%). Key themes as to why families presented to EDs included: listening to trusted professionals, desperation, a feeling of no alternative, respecting their child's need to feel safe and to rule out a potentially serious medical condition.ConclusionsParents bring their children to the ED for many reasons. Policy makers, managers and clinicians should work with parents to develop alternative approaches that provide families with community‐based support, particularly for younger children and after hours, in order to provide an appropriate source of care for children and young people with anxiety and depression.