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Knowledge processes and firm performance: the mediating effect of employee creativity
Authors: Imran Muhammad Kashif , Ilyas Muhammad , Aslam Usman , Fatima Tehreem 
Published: April 2018

PurposeIn current era, firms are facing difficulties in aligning their capabilities with the hallmarks of the knowledge-intensive economy. Notwithstanding the fact that employees’ creativity ensures competitive advantage through innovation, firms are unable to reap the required level of performance. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the linkage among knowledge processes, employee creativity and firm performance. Moreover, the current quantitative study measures the moderating effect of a knowledge-intensive culture on knowledge processes and employee creativity.Design/methodology/approachSurveys were conducted in eight services sector organizations operating in southern Punjab, Pakistan, and responses were obtained from 197 employees selected at random. To test the exposition using an empirical data analysis approach, three core hypotheses are drawn, and to test these hypotheses, multiple regression analyses, Preacher and Hayes (2004) mediation analysis and Aguinis (2004) guidelines were applied on 197 responses.FindingsThe results explain that knowledge processes have a positive impact on firm performance and employee creativity partially mediates their stated relationship. Moreover, a knowledge-intensive culture has a strengthening effect on the relationship between knowledge processes and employee creativity. In-depth investigation outlines that knowledge acquisition, sharing and application are more influencing processes to enhance firm performance. Furthermore, knowledge conversion and protection do not hold significant relevance with firm performance but are supportive elements for other processes.Research limitations/implicationsIn order to have a sustained performance, firms have to initiate steps to promote employees’ creativity by deploying an optimal mix of knowledge processes and flourish a knowledge-intensive culture in routine organizational life. Moreover, knowledge processes are important to promote creative behavior in employees that will lead to incessant innovation and firm performance.Originality/valueThis study gives meaningful thoughts to unexplored areas in the field of knowledge management. First, the indirect effect of knowledge processes on firm performance through employees’ creativity. Second, the importance of knowledge processes to enhance employees’ creativity in the presence of a knowledge-intensive culture. This study gets together the dynamic constructs in the field of knowledge management, such as knowledge-intensive culture and employee creativity, and describes the linkage between knowledge processes and firm performance.
Chinese immigrants’ occupational well-being in Finland: the role of paternalistic leadership
Authors: Nie Dan , Lämsä Anna-Maija 
Published: April 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to enhance the understanding of paternalistic leadership behaviour in the Finnish organisational context by investigating its relationship with Chinese immigrant employees’ occupational well-being.

Design/methodology/approach
This research was based on a survey of 117 Chinese immigrants working in Finland. The snowball sampling method was adopted in the present research.

Findings
The findings show that the dimensions of paternalistic leadership, specifically benevolent leadership behaviour, can be influential in Chinese immigrant knowledge workers’ occupational well-being in the Finnish organisational context.

Research limitations/implications
Paternalistic leadership style can also make sense in a Western organisational context, especially when dealing with well-being among immigrant employees from China or other Asian countries.

Originality/value
Some misunderstanding of paternalistic leadership behaviour in Western societies may impede the theory’s further development. The study enhanced the understanding of paternalism in the Finnish organisational context by illuminating the effect of paternalistic leadership on Chinese immigrant employees’ occupational well-being.
Human resource management transfer challenges within multinational firms
Authors: Oppong Nana Yaw 
Published: April 2018

Purpose
The paper aims to trace the challenges that multinational companies (MNCs) face as they grow out of their national borders into foreign countries and how they attempt to transfer human resource management (HRM) policies and practices across their subsidiaries for a best-fit HRM model.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses the dilemma theory (involving two opposing values which doing one without the other creates a disadvantage but both cannot be done together) as the main analytical tool and reviews scholarly literature on MNCs’ HRM transfers for the assessment of the transfer challenges.

Findings
It is found that MNCs face a dilemma as to how to find best-fit between home-country HRM requirements and host-country demands. In the face of this dilemma, MNCs attempt to build synergy between home-country requirements and host-country demands for a best-fit HRM that is beneficial to both the parent company and their foreign subsidiaries. Despite the best-fit HRM practices to diffuse the tension, parent company has greater influence in the final synergy product which is the trade-off between home-country HRM label and host-country contextual demands, thereby advancing the dominant HRM option of the dilemma.

Practical implications
MNCs should be aware of the possible challenges as they internationalise and should equally be aware that though they may build a synergy (a blend of workable headquarters and subsidiary HRM), the final product will continue to favour headquarters’ HRM policies and practices.

Originality/value
The paper generates theoretical implications into the issues and challenges that arise with HRM transfers within multinational firms by examining how the dilemma theory sheds light on the transfer process and challenges from the dominant-contextual tension till the fight for best-fit HRM. It also contributes to the development of cycle of cross-border HRM dilemma, cross-border HRM transfer framework and Synergy-Dominant theory.
Methods of removal wide-stripe noise in short-wave infrared hyperspectral remote sensing image
Authors: Huang Shi-Qi , Wu Wen-Sheng , Wang Li-Ping , Duan Xiang-Yang 
Published: April 2018

Purpose
This paper aims to study the removal of wide-stripe noise in hyperspectral remote sensing images. There is a great deal of stripe noises in short-wave infrared hyperspectral remote sensing image, especially wide-stripe noise, which brings great challenge to the interpretation and application of hyperspectral images.

Design/methodology/approach
To remove the noise and to reduce the impact based on in-depth study of the mechanism of the stripe noise generation and its distribution characteristics, this paper proposed two statistical local processing and moment matching algorithms for the elimination of wide-stripe noise, namely, the gradient mean moment matching (GMMM) algorithm and the gradient interpolation moment matching (GIMM) algorithm.

Findings
The experiments were carried out with the practical short-wave infrared hyperspectral image data and good experiment results were obtained. Experiments show that both can reduce the impact of wide-stripe noise, and the filtering effect and the application range of the GIMM algorithm is better than that of the GMMM algorithm.

Originality/value
Using new methods to deal with the hyperspectral remote sensing images, it can effectively improve the quality of hyperspectral images and improve their utilization efficiency and value.
Challenges of the levels of learning
Authors: Rupčić Nataša 
Published: April 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to highlight challenges and opportunities that surround the process of learning with an emphasis on higher-order learning and learning as behavior. Higher-order learning has been conceptualized as learning behavior that can be learned.

Design/methodology/approach
The holistic framework regarding higher-order learning has been proposed on the basis of systems perspective and critical thinking of previous contributions.

Findings
A review and analysis of learning, especially higher-order learning, resulted in its conceptualization and guidelines on how to implement it. Higher-order learning is a learning behavior that can be learned and implemented in many situations in complex social and organizational practices.

Research limitations/implications
Conclusions and remarks provided in this paper need further empirical testing and validation.

Practical implications
Implications for practitioners have been identified in terms of recommendations for implementing higher-order learning as a learning behavior that can be learned.

Social implications
Dedicated implementation of higher-order learning and learning as behavior can bring true change to the current social and economic paradigm and lasting solutions to the so-called “stubborn problems” of pollution, abuse, destruction and poverty, and can cause systemic transformation of our declining society.

Originality/value
Higher-order learning has been conceptualized and challenges surrounding it have been identified along with suggestions on how to overcome them.
The labs (learning as behaviors) framework for higher-order learning
Authors: Rigolizzo Michele 
Published: April 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to greater conceptual clarity on the topic of higher-order learning, and to enable its potential empirical measurement. It includes a framework to show how this ability is developed by engaging in specific learning behaviors, each of which constitutes its own level of learning.Design/methodology/approachThree criteria are used to develop the framework. Each learning behavior should lead to a change in long-term memory, should have empirical support for leading to a defined learning outcome, and should be applicable to workplace learning.FindingsThe Learning As Behaviors (LABS) framework presents three novel propositions. Four key learning behaviors of taking on a challenge, attending to information, forming meaningful connections, and practicing with feedback are required to engage in higher-order learning. There is an optimal order to the learning behaviors. Any one individual is unlikely to be motivated to engage in all four learning behaviors.Research limitations/implicationsThe clear definitions and elaborated LABS framework provide a potential new means for empirical research. The learning behaviors provided are directly observable behaviors, each with its own measurable learning outcome.Originality/valueHistorically, engaging in higher-order learning has been presented as a choice that is plagued by psychological forces of self-defense, ego and image management. This paper extends that view by presenting higher-order learning as a domain-specific ability to derive fundamental principles and patterns through critical reflection. It also develops three novel propositions that lend insight into the barriers that employees face as they engage in workplace learning.
Tensions in collaborative innovation projects and higher-level learning
Authors: Marcandella Elise , Guèye Khoudia 
Published: April 2018

PurposeEnsuring collaboration between partners involved in a collaborative innovation project is a challenge for project managers. This paper aims to highlight how taking a high-level learning approach can represent a managerial lever. In addition, it analyzes the impact of learning tensions in a partnership context.Design/methodology/approachThe paper focuses on an explorative, longitudinal and in-depth analysis of the Innovative Solutions in Urban Systems project via a qualitative single-case study. The research is inductive and based on data from the field rather than a deductive application of theory.FindingsCollaborative innovation projects represent a high-level learning case. Activity theory is suited to studying the dynamics of learning in collaborative innovation projects. Tensions can fertilize the front-end of collaborative innovation projects.Research limitations/implicationsBecause of the chosen research approach, the research results may be difficult to generalize. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to test the conceptual framework further.Practical implicationsThis article provides a framework for managing tensions in collaborative innovation projects. The results provide also a process to implement all criteria of sustainable development in these projects.Social implicationsThis article highlights to what extent collaborative relations can be developed between participants through a questionnaire with social responsibility attributes. The questionnaire allows to foster participants’ trust.Originality/valueThis approach is original because the authors consider that situations exist that, by definition, belong to “higher-order learning”. Through a case study, they propose a framework to manage this situation.
Cutis laxa in a patient with 1p36 deletion syndrome
Authors: Zhang Zhen , Wang Jian , li Niu , Yao Ruen , Chen Ji 
Published: April 2018

AbstractChromosome 1p36 deletion is the most common subtelomeric deletion syndrome characterized by variable features including unique facial appearance, intellectual disability, developmental delay, cardiac defects, seizures and hypotonia. Here, we report a patient with developmental delay, dilated cardiomyopathy, seizures, hirsutism and cutis laxa who was diagnosed with 1p36 deletion syndrome by chromosome microarray analysis. This patient is the first reported case of 1p36 deletion syndrome associated with cutis laxa and our results suggest that the 1p36 region contains one or more genes relevant to cutis laxa. This case also indicates the importance of considering chromosome abnormalities (microdeletion/microduplication syndromes) in patients presenting skin disorders combined with unexplained developmental delay, intellectual disability or multiple congenital abnormalities.
Histamine catabolism in Pseudomonas putida U: identification of the genes, catabolic enzymes and regulators
Authors: de la Torre Manuel , Gómez‐Botrán José L. , Olivera Elías R. , Bermejo Francisco , Rodríguez‐Morán Joaquín , Luengo José M. 
Published: April 2018

SummaryIn this study, the catabolic pathway required for the degradation of the biogenic amine histamine (Hin) was genetically and biochemically characterized in Pseudomonas putida U. The 11 proteins (HinABCDGHFLIJK) that participate in this pathway are encoded by genes belonging to three loci hin1, hin2 and hin3 and by the gene hinK. The enzymes HinABCD catalyze the transport and oxidative deamination of histamine to 4‐imidazoleacetic acid (ImAA). This reaction is coupled to those of other well‐known enzymatic systems (DadXAR and CoxBA‐C) that ensure both the recovery of the pyruvate required for Hin deamination and the genesis of the energy needed for Hin uptake. The proteins HinGHFLKIJ catalyze the sequential transformation of ImAA to fumaric acid via N2‐formylisoasparagine, formylaspartic acid and aspartic acid. The identified Hin pathway encompasses all the genes and proteins (transporters, energizing systems, catabolic enzymes and regulators) needed for the biological degradation of Hin. Our work was facilitated by the design and isolation of genetically engineered strains that degrade Hin or ImAA and of mutants that accumulate Ala, Asp and Hin catabolites. The implications of this research with respect to potential biotechnological applications are discussed.
Plant potassium nutrition in ectomycorrhizal symbiosis: properties and roles of the three fungal TOK potassium channels inHebeloma cylindrosporum
Authors: Guerrero‐Galán Carmen , Delteil Amandine , Garcia Kevin , Houdinet Gabriella , Conéjéro Geneviève , Gaillard Isabelle , Sentenac Hervé , Zimmermann Sabine Dagmar 
Published: April 2018

SummaryEctomycorrhizal fungi play an essential role in the ecology of boreal and temperate forests through the improvement of tree mineral nutrition. Potassium (K+) is an essential nutrient for plants and is needed in high amounts. We recently demonstrated that the ectomycorrhizal fungusHebeloma cylindrosporumimproves the K+nutrition ofPinus pinasterunder shortage conditions. Part of the transport systems involved in K+uptake by the fungus has been deciphered, while the molecular players responsible for the transfer of this cation towards the plant remain totally unknown. Analysis of the genome ofH. cylindrosporumrevealed the presence of three putative tandem‐pore outward‐rectifying K+(TOK) channels that could contribute to this transfer. Here, we report the functional characterization of these three channels through two‐electrode voltage‐clamp experiments in oocytes and yeast complementation assays. The expression pattern and physiological role of these channels were analysed in symbiotic interaction withP. pinaster. Pine seedlings colonized by fungal transformants overexpressing two of them displayed a larger accumulation of K+in shoots. This study revealed that TOK channels have distinctive properties and functions in axenic and symbiotic conditions and suggested thatHcTOK2.2 is implicated in the symbiotic transfer of K+from the fungus towards the plant.
NovelKdrmutations (K964R and A943V) in pyrethroid‐resistant populations ofTriatoma mazzottiiandTriatoma longipennisfrom Mexico and detoxifying enzymes
Authors: Davila‐Barboza Jesus , Villanueva‐Segura O. Karina , Lopez‐Monroy Beatriz , Ponce‐Garcia Gustavo , Bobadilla‐Utrera Cristina , Montes‐Rincon Mayela , Molina‐Garza Zinnia J. , Arredondo‐Jimenez Juan I. , Rodriguez‐Sanchez Iram P. , Manrique‐Saide Pablo C. , Flores Adriana E. 
Published: April 2018

AbstractAlthough having five different ways of transmission the vector‐borne is the principal way of transmission of Chagas disease, which involves insects of the subfamily Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Nineteen of the 31 species that occur in Mexico are associated with humans, and all are capable of transmitting the disease. Pyrethroids are the insecticides recommended for the control of these vectors in Mexico. We determined the susceptibility to the pyrethroids deltamethrin and permethrin of peridomestic populations ofTriatoma mazzottiiUsinger and two populations ofTriatoma longipennisUsinger in comparison with a reference strain for each species. Bioassays were performed for the determination of the LD50for both field populations and reference strains. A maximum of 27 fold resistance to deltamethrin was observed inT. mazzottii, meanwhile, for permethrin,T. longipennisfrom Jalisco show the highest value of 3.19 fold. There was significantly increased activity of esterases in field populations in comparison with their corresponding reference strain. The results of the search ofkdrmutations related to the resistance to deltamethrin and permethrin in the evaluated species show the presence of mutations in the field populations, as is the case with individuals ofT. mazzottii, for which the mutation was found A943V, and for the two populations ofT. longipennisincluded in this study, we report the presence of thekdrmutation K964R. Evaluation of the various mechanisms involved in resistance to pyrethroids in triatomines from Mexico could guide us to the real justification for insecticide resistance monitoring.
Influence of large joint involvement on patient–physician discordance in global assessment of rheumatoid arthritis disease activity analyzed by a novel joint index
Authors: Tago Mayu , Sawada Tetsuji , Nishiyama Susumu , Tahara Koichiro , Kato Eri , Hayashi Haeru , Mori Hiroaki , Nishino Jinju , Matsui Toshihiro , Tohma Shigeto 
Published: April 2018

AbstractObjectivesThe discordance between patient global assessment (PGA) and physician global assessment (PhGA) of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity may be problematic in clinical practice. The aim of this study was to identify determinants of this discordance using a nationwide RA database in Japan (NinJa) with special attention to large joint involvement.MethodsWe investigated 12 043 adults with RA and used a discordance cutoff of 3 cm. Large joint involvement was investigated using novel joint indices (x, y, z), where x and y were the indices for upper and lower joints, respectively, and z was for large joint predominance. Predictors of PGA‐PhGA discordance and determinants of PGA and PhGA were analyzed by multivariate logistic and linear regression models, respectively.ResultsMultivariate logistic regression identified age, pain and high modified Health Assessment Questionnaire score as predictors of positive discordance (PGA ≥ PhGA), whereas parameters of disease activity in RA (C‐reactive protein, x and y), class 3–4 functional status, and z were found to predict against positive discordance. Linear regression analysis revealed that PGA was mainly determined by pain, whereas PhGA was determined by various other factors.ConclusionsRA care providers should focus on pain and functional disability to decrease PGA‐PhGA discordance. High disease activity and large joint involvement decreased PGA‐PhGA discordance, indicating that the number and distribution of affected joints influenced the perception of disease activity by patients with RA and their physicians.
‘An ant against an elephant’: Retirement village residents’ experiences of disputes and dispute resolution
Authors: Malta Sue , Williams Susan B , Batchelor Frances A 
Published: April 2018

ObjectiveTo record Victorian retirement village residents’ experiences of dispute management and satisfaction levels related to dispute resolution processes.MethodsSurvey distributed to 6500 retirement village residents.ResultsSurveys returned from 1876 residents (29% return rate). Most residents rated life in retirement villages as positive (mean 7.9/10), with an association between life satisfaction and management's ability to resolve disputes (rs = 0.44, P < 0.01). Almost 70% of respondents reported issues of concern to management were resolved satisfactorily; 38% were not resolved to residents’ satisfaction. One‐fifth reported contacting regional managers or higher personnel regarding issues affecting them, with two‐thirds of these respondents reporting a negative outcome. Over 30% did not know if their village had dispute resolution processes in place.ConclusionDespite finding retirement village life positive, residents of retirement villages found disputes and dispute resolution processes unsatisfactory and desired change to address these concerns.
“Many Seasons Ago”: Slavery and Its Rejection among Foragers on the Pacific Coast of North America
Authors: Wengrow David , Graeber David 
Published: April 2018

ABSTRACTAnthropologists have traditionally classified foragers on the Pacific coast of North America into two major culture areas, characterized by strikingly different social and ethical systems. These are “California” and the adjacent “Northwest Coast.” Foragers in the northern part of California exhibit many elements of Weber's “Protestant ethic,” such as the moral injunction for community leaders to work hard, seek spiritual purpose by introspection, and pursue monetary wealth while avoiding material excess. By contrast, the social organization of Northwest Coast foragers bears comparison with that of courtly estates in medieval Europe, where a leisured class of nobles achieved status through hereditary ranking, competitive banquets, dazzling aesthetic displays, and the retention of household slaves captured in war. Remarkably, the coexistence of two such clearly opposed value systems among foragers inhabiting adjacent parts of the Pacific littoral has excited little interest in anthropologists, historians, or archaeologists to date. We consider the implications, which cast doubt on some key orthodoxies concerning the nature of culture areas, modes of subsistence, and political evolution. We argue that the political creativity of foraging peoples has been severely underrated. [hunter‐gatherers, slavery, schizmogenesis, culture areas, North America]