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A comparative analysis of periodicity in the Arkansas state budget process
Authors: Hoffman Kim U. , Reese Catherine C. 
Published: February 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of changes to the Arkansas budget process brought about when the people of Arkansas voted to move from a biennial to an annual budget period in 2008. The paper describes the legislative changes necessary for annual budget review and explores the impact of annual budget review on revenue forecasting, supplemental appropriations, special sessions, legislative staff workload, executive branch oversight and state spending. This research assesses legislative perceptions of annual budget review across several factors including knowledge of the state budget, ability to check the powers of the governor and overall efficacy of annual budget review.

Design/methodology/approach
This exploratory research uses interview data from the Legislative Fiscal Director and data from an online survey of Arkansas state legislators. The interview and survey data were supplemented by an analysis of documents produced by legislative staff regarding supplemental appropriations, special sessions and state general revenue.

Findings
The Legislative Fiscal Director interview indicates that the change in budget period had little impact on revenue forecasting, special sessions and state government spending, with the exception that supplemental appropriations for Big 6 agencies increased in a statistically significant way following the advent of the fiscal session. The legislative survey finds that the change in budget period is viewed positively by Arkansas legislators. Most legislators indicated that they prefer annual budget review to biennial budget review.

Research limitations/implications
Because of the exploratory approach, the research results may lack generalizability.

Originality/value
This paper surveys legislators on the efficacy of annual budget review which has seldom been done in previous research.
Public value and public sector accounting research: a structured literature review
Authors: Bracci Enrico , Papi Luca , Bigoni Michele , Deidda Gagliardo Enrico , Bruns Hans-Jürgen 
Published: February 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role and impact of accounting within the fragmented field of public value theory literature.

Design/methodology/approach
The work develops a structured literature review (SLR) and seeks to shed light on the state of public value research, with particular emphasis on the role of accounting scholarship.

Findings
The lack of empirical research and the limited number of accounting papers reveal how accounting scholars need to achieve a deeper understanding of the public value conceptualization, creation and measurement process.

Originality/value
The paper develops the first wide-ranging SLR on public value accounting. It is a starting point to develop new research avenues, both in the fields of accountability/external reporting, and management accounting and performance management.
Condition monitoring for airport baggage handling in the era of industry 4.0
Authors: Koenig Frank , Found Pauline Anne , Kumar Maneesh 
Published: February 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a recent study conducted with the objective of addressing the problem of failure of baggage carts in the high-speed baggage tunnel at Heathrow Terminal 5 by the development of an innovative condition-based maintenance system designed to meet the requirements of twenty-first century airport systems and Industry 4.0.

Design/methodology/approach
An empirical experimental approach to this action research was taken to install a vibration condition monitoring pilot test in the north tunnel at Terminal 5. Vibration data were collected over a 6-month period and analysed to find the threshold of good quality tires and those with worn bearings that needed replacement. The results were compared with existing measures to demonstrate that vibration monitoring could be used as a predictive model for condition-based maintenance.

Findings
The findings demonstrated a clear trend of increasing vibration velocity with age and use of the baggage cart wheels caused by wheel mass unbalanced inertia that was transmitted to the tracks as vibration. As a result, preventative maintenance is essential to ensure the smooth running of airport baggage. This research demonstrates that a healthy wheel produces vibration of under 60 mm/s whereas a damaged wheel measures up to 100 mm/s peak-to-peak velocity and this can be used in real-time condition monitoring to prevent baggage cart failure. It can also run as an autonomous system linked to AI and Industry 4.0 airport logic.

Originality/value
Whilst vibration monitoring has been used to measure movement in static structures such as bridges and used in rotating machinery such as railway wheels (Tondon and Choudhury, 1999) this is unique as it is the first time it has been applied on a stationary structure (tracks) carrying high-speed rotating machinery (baggage cart wheels). This technique has been patented and proven in the pilot study and is in the process of being rolled out to all Heathrow terminal connection tunnels. It has implications for all other airports world-wide and, with new economic sensors, to other applications that rely on moving conveyor belts.
A block-based inspection policy for a multi-component system subject to two failure modes with stochastic dependence
Authors: Moakedi Hamid , Seyedhosseini Mohammad Seved , Shahanaghi Kamran 
Published: February 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to model a block-based inspection policy for a multi-component system with stochastic dependence. Some components may develop a hidden failure, an occurrence of which neither stops the system nor accelerates the other components’ deterioration. On the other hand, other components may experience three states: healthy, defective and revealed failures. Any revealed failure of each component not only stops the system but also generates a shock to all the other ones, which increases their occurrence rate of hidden, defect and revealed failures.Design/methodology/approachA block-based inspection policy is considered to take advantage of economic dependence as follows. In addition to the periodic inspections, the system is also inspected at revealed failures’ moments of each component to detect and fix both defects and hidden failures on all the other components. To calculate the expected total cost, the recursive equations for the required expected values is first mathematically derived. Then, due to computational complexity, an efficient Monte Carlo simulation algorithm is designed to calculate the expected values.FindingsThe proposed approach is illustrated through a numerical example, and the optimal periodic inspection interval over a finite time horizon is obtained via minimization of the expected total cost. Finally, the correctness of the results is validated by conducting sensitivity analysis.Originality/valuePlanning an appropriate inspection policy over a finite time horizon becomes more complicated when considering a multi-component system because different units may experience different failure modes with stochastic dependence.
Are leaders with postgraduate degrees perceived to be more transformational? A quasi-experimental field study
Authors: Mendelson Morris , Alam Jasmine , Cunningham Chris , Totton Adam , Smith Carrie 
Published: February 2019

PurposeTransformational leadership has been shown to have a positive impact on a host of employee level and organizational performance indicators. However, little research has sought to understand some of the antecedents of this style of leadership. The purpose of this paper is to examine the link between having a post-secondary education and perceptions of transformational leadership.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from two surveys issued in a mid-sized energy company located on the eastern seaboard of North America. One-way ANOVA comparing employees’ perceptions of transformational leadership exhibited by their supervisors that either did or did not have a post-graduate degree demonstrated a strong, positive relationship between the attainment of a Master’s degree and perceived levels of transformational leadership qualities.FindingsThe findings of this quasi-experimental field study demonstrated a strong, positive relationship between the attainment of a Master’s degree and perceived levels of transformational leadership qualities.Originality/valueThis study is the first of its kind to demonstrate that more educated managers are generally perceived to be more transformational in their leadership style.
Servant leadership and perceived employability: proactive career behaviours as mediators
Authors: Chughtai Aamir 
Published: February 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of servant leadership on perceived employability and examine the mediating role of three proactive career behaviours, namely, career planning, skill development and networking behaviour in this relationship.Design/methodology/approachData for this study were collected from 176 employees who were working in a large food and beverage company operating in Pakistan. Structural equation modelling and the bootstrapping procedure were used to test the research hypotheses.FindingsResults showed that servant leadership was positively related to career planning, skill development and networking behaviour, which, in turn, were positively associated with perceived employability. Furthermore, it was found that the three proactive career behaviours fully mediated the effects of servant leadership on perceived employability.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study indicate that servant leadership can play a key role in enhancing workers’ employability. Thus, it is important that organisations focus on creating conditions, which help them to develop servant leaders.Originality/valueThis is the first study, which has empirically established a link between servant leadership and perceived employability. In addition, it uncovers three distinct mechanisms in the form of career planning, networking behaviour and skill development through which servant leadership can influence workers’ employability.
Personality traits and personal values of servant leaders
Authors: Sun Peter , Shang Sudong 
Published: February 2019

PurposeServant leaders focus on their direct reports to enable them to grow to be independent and autonomous leaders. The purpose of this paper is to understand the way personal values and personality traits collectively influence this other-centered behavior. This will go a long way to unravel this unique style of leadership.Design/methodology/approachThe study surveys managers and their direct reports. Leaders rated their personality trait and personal values, while their direct reports rated the leader’s servant leadership behaviors. Age, educational level, conscientiousness, extraversion and neuroticism of leaders were used as controls. The study also checked for endogeneity threats.FindingsUsing a sample of 81 leaders and 279 of their direct reports, the study finds that the personal value of benevolent dependability relates negatively to servant leadership behaviors. In addition, the personality traits of agreeableness and openness/intellect moderate the relationship between benevolent dependability and servant leadership behaviors.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings shed important insights into what motivates servant leaders to engage in other-directed behaviors, thereby enabling future research into individual characteristics that define servant leaders.Originality/valueAlthough studies have examined how values and personality traits influence leadership behaviors, no research has examined both types of individual differences in a single study. Studies examining the individual differences of servant leaders are few, and this study answers the call by Lidenet al.(2014) to examine individual characteristics that are both personality based (traits) and malleable (values).
Slack and performance in the hospital industry: a configurational approach
Authors: Geiger Scott W. , Marlin Dan , Segrest Sharon L. 
Published: February 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to the healthcare management literature and improve the understanding of the slack and performance link by examining the hospital slack and performance relationship using a sample of 148 US hospitals.Design/methodology/approachUsing cluster analysis, ANCOVA and means comparisons, this study identifies different hospital slack configurations and their associated performance implications.FindingsThe results demonstrate that different configurations of slack resources result in different levels of hospital performance. The findings also demonstrate equifinality in this relationship suggesting that some configurations of slack can result in similar levels of performance.Practical implicationsThe results indicate that managerial attention should be paid to not only identifying appropriate levels and types of slack for hospitals but also to appropriate ways to bundle these resources. The findings also suggest there may be multiple ways for hospitals’ administrators to effectively manage and bundle slack resources.Originality/valueOrganizational slack and its impact on organizational performance is an important area of research within the management literature. Unfortunately, no known studies have examined how different types of slack resources are configured or bundled together in healthcare organizations and how this impacts firm performance. This study provides a significant contribution to the literature by providing a first step in understanding the slack and performance relationship in the hospital industry.
Impact of supply chain on the competitiveness of the automotive industry
Authors: Sakuramoto Carlos , Di Serio Luiz Carlos , Bittar Alexandre de Vicente 
Published: February 2019

Purpose
There is a great reliance on fiscal incentives to sustain the automotive industry competitiveness due to several structural problems, among them the inefficiency of the supply chain. This paper aims to compare the supply chain structure of traditional automotive industry with the supply chains from South Korea and China. Based on strategic decision and transaction cost theory, this comparison seeks to exploit the factors that led to the inefficiency of automotive supply chains.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors used a qualitative approach and applied a multi-method research. They conducted semi-structured interviews with six executives from automakers representing the selected countries, carried individual meetings during one workshop and used secondary data from several sources.

Findings
Concepts identified in the research such as reliability, supply chain governance and automaker competencies led the authors to propose that the traditional automakers have higher transaction costs when compared to the new automakers due to the horizontal structure of their supply chain. While new competitors have vertical upstream supply chains, which indicates better profitability, traditional automotive industry is horizontal, depends on fewer Tier 1 suppliers and is disconnected from Tier 2, impacting negatively in the transaction costs and supply chain management.

Practical implications
This study suggests that automotive executives rethink the current upstream supply chain model by identifying the competencies required for their current and future competitiveness and implementing a vertical integration of these competencies.

Originality/value
This research exploited the inefficiency of supply chain as one of the explanations for the low competitiveness of the national automotive industry.
Propagule risk in a marine foundation species: Seascape effects on Zostera marina seed predation
Authors: Carroll John M. , Furman Bradley T. , Jackson Lisa J. , Hunter Elizabeth A. , Peterson Bradley J. 
Published: February 2019

Abstract

Both biotic and abiotic factors can affect whether seagrass meadows establish as large, continuous features or as a mosaic of smaller patches, and these processes act across multiple spatial scales. Of these processes, sexual recruitment is considered vital for the recovery and resilience of seagrass meadows. Because numerous estuarine fauna can impact sexual recruitment by consuming seeds, it is important to understand variation in seed consumption throughout the seascape.

We sought to determine how cross‐scale processes affected seed consumption of Zostera marina, a widely distributed seagrass species. We deployed seed predation units (SPU) within patches ranging in size from 0.28 to 28.48 m2, and on unvegetated, sandy bottom. Seed consumption was analysed across patch sizes, at patch centres and edges and within the context of total seagrass cover within buffer zones surrounding SPU locations.

Using structural equation modelling, we found that measured seascape parameters explained 34% of the observed variation in seed consumption. Specifically, we found that seagrass presence had the strongest effect on seed predation followed by a negative effect of patch size on seed consumption. Although there was no direct effect of percent seagrass cover (within a 4‐m buffer of the SPU) on seed predation, percent seagrass cover had a negative indirect effect through its positive correlation with patch size. However, we found that once variation due to patch size and areal cover were accounted for, seeds placed at patch interiors actually experienced greater consumption rates. We did not find similar relationships with our potential seed consumers, although our snapshot sampling likely obscured transient effects.

We argue that seagrass recruitment could be affected by seed predation, which is influenced by multiple processes, including predator dispersal, behaviour and aggregation. Since seed‐based restoration is becoming more common, and the role of sexual recruitment in meadow maintenance appears to be increasingly important for seagrass resilience, our results demonstrate that for current management strategies to be successful, there is a need to better understand seed predation in seagrass‐dominated seascapes.

Synthesis. Factors that influence propagule supply and recruitment success of seagrass operate and interact across multiple spatial scales, which can have implications for management.
Domesticated tomatoes are more vulnerable to negative plant–soil feedbacks than their wild relatives
Authors: Carrillo Juli , Ingwell Laura L. , Li Xiaohong , Kaplan Ian 
Published: February 2019

Abstract

Domesticated plants can differ from their wild counterparts in the strength and outcome of species interactions, both above‐ and belowground. Plant–soil feedbacks influence plant success, and plant‐associated soil microbial communities can influence plant interactions with herbivores and their natural enemies, yet, it remains unclear if domestication has changed these relationships.

To determine the effects of domestication on plant–soil interactions, we characterized soil microbial communities associated with various cultivars of domesticated tomato and some of its wild relatives. We measured the strength and direction of plant–soil feedbacks for domesticated and wild tomatoes, and the effects of soil on plant resistance to specialist herbivory by Manduca sexta, and the attraction of a parasitoid wasp, Cotesia congregata.

Domesticated tomatoes and their wild relatives had negative plant–soil feedbacks, as conspecifics cultivated soil that negatively impacted performance of subsequent plants (longer germination time, lower biomass) than if they grew in non‐tomato soils. Significant variation existed among domesticated and wild tomato varieties in the strength of these feedbacks, ranging from neutral to strongly negative. For above‐ground plant biomass, tomato wild relatives were unaffected by growing in tomato‐conditioned soil, whereas domesticated tomatoes grew smaller in tomato soil, indicating effects of plant domestication. Overall, increased microbial biomass within the rhizosphere resulted in progressively less‐negative plant–soil feedbacks.

Plant cultivars had different levels of resistance to herbivory by M. sexta, but this did not depend on plant domestication or soil type. The parasitoid C. congregata was primarily attracted to herbivore damaged plants, independent of plant domestication status, and for these damaged plants, wasps preferred some cultivars over others, and wild plants grown in tomato soil over wild plants grown in non‐tomato soil.

Synthesis. These results indicate that crop tomatoes are more likely to show negative plant–soil feedbacks than wild progenitors, which could partially explain their sensitivity to monocultures in agricultural soils. Furthermore, cultivar‐specific variation in the ability to generate soil microbial biomass, independent of domestication status, appears to buffer the negative consequences of sharing the same soil. Last, soil legacies were relatively absent for herbivores, but not for parasitoid wasps, suggesting trophic level specificity in soil feedbacks on plant–insect interactions.
Understanding quality of life within occupational therapy intervention research: A scoping review
Authors: Baron Haley , Hawrylyshyn Natalie , Hunt Samantha S. , McDougall Janette 
Published: February 2019

IntroductionThere is little consensus regarding the meaning of quality of life (QOL) within occupational therapy literature. Measurement of QOL has varied in both research and practice. This scoping review explored the definitions and measures used within occupational therapy quantitative intervention research to evaluate QOL as an outcome.MethodsThe review was completed by searching six databases using occupational therapy‐related and QOL‐related terms. Data were extracted from each article and authors performed descriptive statistics to establish trends for both definitions and measures.ResultsEighteen publications met the inclusion criteria. Seven articles included a definition of QOL. Most authors defined QOL as a multidimensional construct, comprised of varying domains. Fourteen different standardised measures and two non‐standardised measures were utilised.ConclusionsA clear conceptualisation of QOL that incorporates occupational therapy values such as client‐centredness and holism is needed to advocate for the profession's role in health care and to encourage the development of suitable outcome measures.
Party survival in parliament: Explaining party durability in lower‐house parliaments
Authors: ZUR ROI 
Published: February 2019

AbstractApproximately 70 per cent of the parties emerging in the post‐Second World War era failed to keep their seats in parliament. Party survival is an important issue, especially in parliamentary democracies, where parties are the means through which voters’ preferences are linked to government policy outputs. Using an event history modeling framework, and data from 37 democracies, covering 830 parties, this article analyses two questions regarding party durability. First, when do parties fail? Second, which parties survive longer? The article shows that most parties fail at the beginning of their lifespan, and disappear before the end of their fourth term in parliament. Moreover, it is found that moderate policy position, distinct ideology and participation in governing coalitions increase the duration of party survival, even when controlling for party size. This article contributes to the extensive literature about the electoral benefits of ideological moderation and distinct policy positions by showing the long‐term benefits of these factors. Moreover, the long‐term benefit of party participation in government in terms of survival overcomes the short‐term cost of ruling.