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A model for creating a virtual library in Iranian universities of medical sciences
Authors: Alipour-Hafezi Mehdi , Radfar Hamidreza , Rasuli Behrooz , Nabavi Majid , Haji Zeinolabedini Mohsen , Dehnad Afsaneh , Mohamadzadeh Shirin , Nemati-Anaraki Leila 
Published: September 2019

PurposeThis paper aims to propose an integrating model for creating virtual libraries in Iranian universities of medical sciences.Design/methodology/approachThis study was conducted with an analytic survey method. The statistical population comprised 66 Iranian universities of medical sciences, of which 59 libraries participated in the study. A researcher-made checklist was used for data collection. To ensure the accuracy of data, interviews and, in some cases, observations were also performed. Statistical estimates, including frequency, percentage, cumulative frequency and diagrams, were used for data analysis, and the system analysis method was used for modeling.FindingsResults demonstrated that the library software programs of the studied universities of medical sciences do not have desirable interoperability capabilities. Only Azarsa program can exchange information with other systems. In terms of metadata and its standards, the studied libraries use programs with various standards, with MARC and Dublin Core standards being the most frequently used ones in the studied sample.Originality/valueThe model proposed here for integration is a hybrid model which can translate metadata standards and use the Z39.50 and OEI protocol to transfer data.
Customer service at altitude: effects of empowering leadership
Authors: Aryee Samuel , Kim Tae-Yeol , Zhou Qin , Ryu Seongmin 
Published: September 2019

PurposeThis paper aims to examine how team-level empowering leadership related to service performance through thriving at work and how shared organizational social exchange and customer orientation moderated the latter relationships.Design/methodology/approachThe authors collected the data from 283 flight attendants and their supervisors working at a major Korean airline. Multi-level analyses were used to test the effect of empowering leadership on employee outcomes.FindingsBoth team-level empowering leadership and customer orientation were significantly and indirectly associated with service performance via thriving at work. Additionally, customer orientation significantly moderated the relationship between team-level empowering leadership and thriving at work such that the relationship was stronger when customer orientation was low rather than high. In addition, shared organizational social exchange augmented the influence of team-level empowering leadership on service performance but not on thriving at work.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that team-level empowering leadership is more effective in enhancing thriving at work of employees when their customer orientation is low rather than high. In addition, a shared high-quality organizational social exchange augments the effect of empowering leadership on employees’ service performance.Originality/valueThis paper provides initial evidence of the interaction of team-level empowering leadership and individual¬-level customer orientation on thriving at work and service performance. Additionally, it documents the differential augmenting effect of shared organizational social exchange on the relationship between empowering leadership and these outcomes. Collectively, the findings explain why and when team-level empowering leadership relates to service performance.
A study on 3D virtual body formation and deformation by body shape analysis
Authors: Jang Heekyung , Chen Jianhui 
Published: September 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to use body shape analysis and develop a 3D virtual body formation and deformation model that can accurately express size and shape.

Design/methodology/approach
In this paper, 1,882 sets of direct measurement data of Korean women in their 20s (19–29 years) were analyzed. These data sets were sourced from the sixth and seventh “Size Korea” anthropometric survey data. Through body shape analysis, the authors classified them into seven body types and selected their representative bodies. A 2D image based on the height, breadth, depth and length was first formed, and the representative virtual body was modeled using the polygon technique. The authors calculated the grading ratios for each body type according to the clothing sizing system, and modified the virtual body size type by morphing technique.

Findings
In order to accurately evaluate the fit in a virtual fitting system, it is necessary to study the body size and shape of the target age; this makes it possible to form virtual body reflecting the size and shape.

Originality/value
In this paper, the authors propose a new 3D virtual body formation method that is more accurate in shape and size compared to the present system. Through this, it will be possible to grasp the accurate simulation state in the virtual fitting system, and thereby evaluate the accurate fit.
The application of six sigma to reduce the pre-operative length of hospital stay at the hospital Antonio Cardarelli
Authors: Improta Giovanni , Ricciardi Carlo , Borrelli Anna , D’alessandro Alessia , Verdoliva Ciro , Cesarelli Mario 
Published: September 2019

PurposeThe best treatment for femur fractures is the surgical one within 48 h from the admission to the hospital. These fractures have serious consequences, both in terms of morbidity and socio-economic impact. In the hospital A.O.R.N. Cardarelli of Naples in Italy, the mean pre-operative length of hospital stay (LOS) was nine days and just 4 per cent of patients was operated within the suggested time. Therefore, a diagnostic-therapeutic-assistance path (DTAP) was implemented to improve the process.Design/methodology/approachThis paper analyzes two groups of patients (534 and 562, respectively) before and after the introduction of DTAP, through six sigma (SS) based on define, measure, analyze, improve and control cycle. Age, gender, American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) score, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and allergies were used as independent subgrouping variables. Thet-tests and chi-square were performed to compare the groups, tools of SS were used.FindingsThe analyses were conducted considering overall patients and some subgroups. The overall reduction in LOS was about 54 per cent, patients without cardiovascular diseases and with a low ASA score had the highest reduction, more than 60 per cent. All thep-values proved a high statistically significant difference between the two groups.Research limitations/implicationsThe influence of the Italian health-care system is a minor limitation while, unfortunately, the lack of a follow-up did not allow quantifying the real gain in health of patients. A lean thinking analysis would suit this context.Practical implicationsThere are practical advantages for both hospital and patients: the hospital will have an increase in admissions and more beds available, while patients will benefit of a faster intervention and a shorter wait.Originality/valueThis is the first analysis through SS of DTAP showing its positive influences in terms of both socio-economic impact and patients’ outcome. Policy leaders could use this study as an example to evaluate the introduction of the same clinical pathway in other health facilities.
Analysis of lean manufacturing strategy using system dynamics modelling of a business model
Authors: Gomez Segura Miguel , Oleghe Omogbai , Salonitis Konstantinos 
Published: September 2019

Purpose
A system dynamics (SD)-based methodology is described for analysing the impact of lean manufacturing strategies on a company's business performance, using business model canvas (BMC) perspective.

Design/methodology/approach
A case study approach is used to describe the methodology which consists of conceptualising a SD model on the basis of BMC. The base SD model is elaborated to include variables and concepts that consider the effects of lean manufacturing metrics on business performance. In the modelling experimentation, the lean manufacturing metrics are made to take on likely values one would expect if certain lean practices are initiated or improved. The experimental results provide one with the likely impact on business performance, if one were to improve lean manufacturing practices.

Findings
The simulation results for the case study show that lean improvements, on the short-run, have a significant impact on business performance, but in the long run, the impact is only marginal.

Research implications/limitations
The described methodology provides one with a structured format for investigating the impact of lean practices on business performance. Although the developed SD model was built with generality in mind, it remains to be reproduced in other settings to test its replicability.

Practical implications
The methodology enables an organisation target which lean improvements to initiate based on their strategic impact on the business.

Originality/value
Limited studies exist where SD and business models are combined to test the strategic impact of lean manufacturing.
Demystifying lean leadership
Authors: Netland Torbjørn H. , Powell Daryl John , Hines Peter 
Published: September 2019

Purpose
There is convincing evidence that companies need a special form of leadership to succeed with lean transformations. The general advice for lean leaders, however, is often obvious or unrealistic. The purpose of this paper is to propose and discuss specific lean leadership practices for top-managers, middle managers and front-line managers.

Design/methodology/approach
In this conceptual paper, the authors draw on their rich experience from researching, leading and consulting in lean transformations in a large number of firms.

Findings
Leaders must adapt lean leadership practices to their hierarchical levels. This paper provides a framework to understand and debate lean leadership at different levels of the organisational hierarchy.

Originality/value
This paper demystifies lean leadership by offering a discussion of specific lean leadership practices at different hierarchical levels. The paper offers a new perspective for researchers studying lean leadership behaviours and contains helpful advice for firms seeking lean transformations.
Actor engagement in online health communities
Authors: Stadtelmann Michael , Woratschek Herbert , Diederich Christina 
Published: September 2019

Purpose
This study aims to deal with actor engagement practices and identifies different roles in actor engagement (AE), using the service-dominant logic (S-D logic) literature and the pivotal concept of value co-creation within the frame of engagement platforms.

Design/methodology/approach
The context of this research is an online health community, provided by a pharmaceutical firm, which moderates the interaction between its members. The authors use a grounded theory approach with the methodology of netnography. These research are based on the approaches of ethnography and is a suitable qualitative method for analyzing human behavior in certain situations.

Findings
The results indicate that customers and/or actors operate as resource integrators in the perspective of S-D logic. Independent social and economic actors adopt both the roles of service providers and service beneficiaries in a reciprocal manner. Value co-creation in online communities based on practices, which actually define the respective role. Three main engagement practices are identified: information-, advising- and empathy-practices.

Research limitations/implications
The findings point to the importance of the dynamic and interactive concept of actor engagement and present a clearer understanding of customer, who act both in provider- and beneficiary-roles. However, it becomes evident that a customer orientation should address the actor playing a beneficiary-role, who uses (or selects) the value proposition, and not actors who play the role of financial resources provider.

Originality/value
In recent years, the construct of AE, and, in particular, customer engagement have been established both in theory and in practice. However, there are few empirical research publications so far, that try to explain engagement practices in online communities, especially in the healthcare sector.
Amoeba management and organizational ambidexterity
Authors: Adler Ralph , Hiromoto Toshiro , Suzuki Hiroyuki 
Published: September 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to extensively discuss the performance management system characteristics of amoeba management and organizational ambidexterity to provide conceptual comparisons between the two and assist scholars and practitioners in their respective research design and adoption decisions.Design/methodology/approachManagement databases that included Science Direct, ABI/INFORM Global, Business Source Premier and Scopus (and their Japanese counterparts), as well as a number of journals known for publishing work on amoeba management and organizational ambidexterity, were used to identify relevant published work. An initial identification of almost 2,500 books and articles was reduced to the paper’s approximately 100 references. Feedback from presenting the paper at management conferences and university seminars supports the comprehensiveness of the assembled literature.FindingsThis paper shows that prior research’s conflating of amoeba management and organizational ambidexterity is misguided. While the two performance management systems share a common overarching philosophy on how to successfully operate in highly competitive environments and adopt a similar urgency about the need for business units to feature relatively small numbers of employees, significant differences involving the enactment of strategy, organizational structure, organizational culture, planning horizon, performance measures, employee involvement, employee selection and leadership prevail.Originality/valueBy providing scholars and practitioners with better, more holistic understandings of amoeba management and organizational ambidexterity, the paper seeks to advance theoretical and practical understandings of the two performance management systems. The model provided helps scholars incorporate into their research more complete theoretical constructions and operational representations of these two performance management systems and helps practitioners make better informed adoption choices.
Does organizational innovation always lead to better performance? A study of firms in Vietnam
Authors: Phan Thi Thuc Anh 
Published: September 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational innovation and performance of firms in Vietnam.Design/methodology/approachBased on the literature review, the author proposed five hypotheses covering the relationships between different aspects of organizational innovation and firm performance. Data collected from a survey of 266 firms in Vietnam were analyzed to test the proposed hypotheses.FindingsTwo out of three aspects of organizational innovation, including “innovation in business practices” and “innovation in workplace organization,” are significantly positively associated with firm performance. However, there was no evidence to support the relationship between firm performance and the third organizational innovation aspect, “organizational innovation in external relations.” The results also show that the interaction terms among three aspects of organizational innovation do not have significant impacts on firm performance.Practical implicationsFirms in Vietnam should pay more attention to innovation in business practices and innovation in workplace organization since two aspects have clear positive influences on performance. Moreover, firms can perform each of the organizational innovation aspects independently or in parallel, as the implementation of organizational innovation in one aspect does not influence the impact on the firm performance of organizational innovation in other aspects.Originality/valueThis study provides important insights into the widely recognized yet little-researched relationship between organizational innovation and firm performance and concludes that organizational innovation has a positive impact on firm performance.
Ranking Belarus on competitiveness and economic freedom
Authors: Evans Anthony , Naurodski Sierz 
Published: September 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide primary data so that Belarus can be incorporated into existing Global Performance Indicators (GPIs).

Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted a survey following World Economic Forum (WEF) methods and combined our data with publicly available information.

Findings
The authors find that Belarus would have risen from 61st in the 2012/2013 Global Competitiveness Index to 55th in 2013/2014. The authors also estimate a position of 125th on the 2018 Economic Freedom Index.

Research limitations/implications
Many GPIs have flaws and the findings outline how they can be improved to gain more accurate views.

Practical implications
Policymakers can now make meaningful judgments around how competitive the Belarusian economy is, and the extent of economic freedom relative to its peers.

Social implications
Belarus has received sanctions on account of its policy environment and this paper sheds light on the current state of economic freedom.

Originality/value
The paper utilises primary data that has been previously unpublished in the English language.
Identity, glass borders and globally mobile female talent
Authors: Kirk Susan 
Published: September 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the interplay between identity and global mobility in the careers of senior, female talent, uniquely taking into account the perceptions of both female and male participants. In addition, the role organisations can play in enabling women to overcome these identity constraints is identified.Design/methodology/approachThis interpretivist study draws on data from 38 in-depth interviews with senior managers in a large, multinational organisation to elicit a rich picture of how such careers are enacted.FindingsFindings reveal how identity conflicts function as a glass border for globally mobile, senior female talent. Ways in which talent can access positive identity narratives to inform global mobility choices are identified.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitations of this study include the relatively small sample size and the single case design of this research. The findings, however, offer insights into the identity work of globally mobile, female talent across different contexts.Practical implicationsOrganisations can facilitate access to identity narratives through mentoring, face-to-face forums and via the internet to enable globally mobile, female talent to make more informed global mobility choices.Originality/valueDrawing on identity theory, this paper examines how identity work for globally mobile, female talent has more fluid interpersonal boundaries than for men, creating on-going identity struggles. In highlighting how identity narratives can act as a means of breaching the glass border and facilitating global mobility for female talent, a contribution is made to existing debates in the fields of identity, gender studies and global talent management.
Sustainable value chain activities towards sustainable food services: a case study from Finland
Authors: Tikkanen Irma , Jaakkola Leila 
Published: September 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present the sustainable value chain activities that have been implemented when providing sustainable food services and sustainable value. A municipal catering organisation in Finland is introduced as an example.

Design/methodology/approach
The theoretical framework comprises sustainability as a strategy and the value chain and its sustainability. Existing research on the sustainability of food services and sustainable value in the professional kitchens is described. The primary data were collected from the two representatives of the case organisation using a written questionnaire with open-ended questions. Furthermore, secondary data from the web pages of the case organisation were utilised. The sustainable actions were categorised using a pattern-matching logic.

Findings
The findings illustrate the implemented pragmatic sustainable actions in all primary and support activities, which are local, national and international. These actions were based on the owner municipality’s strategy of sustainable development. Economic, social and ecological sustainable values were achieved.

Practical implications
The case description may act as a reference model for a catering organisation when targeting sustainable food services and sustainable value. The case might also be utilised as a teaching case in hospitality management schools. The paper contributes to the pragmatic view of sustainability by describing the everyday working orientation of the case organisation.

Originality/value
The case provides practical information on how to achieve sustainable economic, social and ecological values in municipal food services.
Thermoviscoelastic response of an axially loaded beam under laser excitation and resting on Winkler’s foundation
Authors: Abouelregal Ahmed E. , Zenkour Ashraf M. 
Published: September 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the response of viscoelastic beam resting on a Winkler’s foundation and subjected to an axial initial stress, thermal load and an ultra-fast laser heating.Design/methodology/approachIn this introduced model, the authors considered the interaction design between the vertical springs only. The beam is considered as an Euler–Bernoulli beam exposed to sinusoidal varying heat.FindingsThe deflection and the temperature response of the beam are obtained using Laplace transform and its numerical inversion method. In the numerical example, the effect of the laser pulse duration and viscous damping coefficient on the transverse displacement response of the beam is discussed. The thermoelastic interactions of the beam due to the axial load are also illustrated.Originality/valuePhysical views of this paper may be useful for the design and vibration analysis of micro-resonators and micro-sensors applications. In addition, the utilization of laser-ultrasonic technology has found wide applications in lab environments, and in an expanding number of cases, it is extending to the industrial field and realm application.