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The impact of knowledge management on knowledge worker productivity
Authors: Kianto Aino , Shujahat Muhammad , Hussain Saddam , Nawaz Faisal , Ali Murad 
Published: November 2018

Purpose
The productivity of knowledge workers is crucial not only for organizational innovation and competitiveness but also for sustainable development. In the context of knowledge-intensive firms, implementation of knowledge management is likely to increase knowledge worker productivity. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of knowledge management on knowledge worker productivity.

Design/methodology/approach
A research framework on the effects of knowledge management processes on knowledge worker productivity is established and empirically tested with data from 336 knowledge workers at five mobile network operator companies in Pakistan.

Findings
The results indicate that knowledge creation and knowledge utilization impact knowledge worker productivity positively and statistically significantly. However, knowledge sharing does not have statistically significant impact on knowledge worker productivity. Demographic factors (gender, managerial position and formal education level) do not moderate the relationship between knowledge management and knowledge worker productivity statistically significantly.

Research limitations/implications
The key limitations are the cross-sectional nature of the data and the geographic limitation to telecom companies in Pakistan.

Practical implications
Irrespective of gender, education and managerial position, implementation of knowledge management can increase knowledge worker productivity. Therefore, knowledge management practices should be implemented to enhance the knowledge worker productivity via fostering the knowledge worker’s engagement in and propensity to knowledge management processes.

Originality/value
This study is among the first to examine the likely influence of knowledge management on the productivity of knowledge workers conclusively while controlling for three individual demographic factors. This study also addresses the effectiveness of knowledge management in the little-explored cultural context of Pakistan.
Adaptive mobile Web server framework for Mist computing in the Internet of Things
Authors: Liyanage Mohan , Chang Chii , Srirama Satish Narayana 
Published: November 2018

PurposeThe distant data centre-centric Internet of Things (IoT) systems face the latency issue especially in the real-time-based applications, such as augmented reality, traffic analytics and ambient assisted living. Recently, Fog computing models have been introduced to overcome the latency issue by using the proximity-based computational resources, such as the computers co-located with the cellular base station, grid router devices or computers in local business. However, the increasing users of Fog computing servers cause bottleneck issues and consequently the latency issue arises again. This paper aims to introduce the utilisation of Mist computing (Mist) model, which exploits the computational and networking resources from the devices at the very edge of the IoT networks.Design/methodology/approachThis paper proposes a service-oriented mobile-embedded Platform as a Service (mePaaS) framework that allows the mobile device to provide a flexible platform for proximal users to offload their computational or networking program to mePaaS-based Mist computing node.FindingsThe prototype has been tested and performance has been evaluated on the real-world devices. The evaluation results have shown the promising nature of mePaaS.Originality/valueThe proposed framework supports resource-aware autonomous service configuration that can manage the availability of the functions provided by the Mist node based on the dynamically changing hardware resource availability. In addition, the framework also supports task distribution among a group of Mist nodes.
Efficiency and ranking of sustainability index of India using DEA-TOPSIS
Authors: Mehta Kiran , Sharma Renuka , Vyas Vishal 
Published: November 2018

PurposeThis study aims to assign efficiency score and then ranking the Indian companies known for best practices to control carbon-emission in the environment. It is destined to benchmark one company for best performance on the basis of selected alternatives among its peer group companies.Design/methodology/approachThe present study has used a hybrid model by applying data envelopment analysis (DEA)-technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) to measure the efficiency and ranking of various decision units on the basis of specified variables.FindingsThe findings of DEA have given the best alternative or best decision-making unit (DMU) among the set of 25 DMUs considered for empirical testing. The DEA technique is used with TOPSIS, which is another popular multi-criteria decision model. The integrated DEA-TOPSIS model has helped to compute the efficiency score of all 25 DMUs of study and also provide a unique rank to each of the efficient unit identified with the help of DEA technique.Practical implicationsThe findings of the study have provided Benchmark Company amongst the companies following best practices for saving energy and having best operating profits too. This benchmark business unit can be studied extensively by peer group companies to compare various parameters affecting their efficiency and profits both.Social implicationsThe findings of the study will promote the socially responsible practices by corporate citizens and adopt the practices to reduce their carbon footprints. It will also suggest to socially responsible investors to select the benchmark and most efficient companies for investment purpose.Originality/valueThe study is original in terms of measuring efficiency and ranking of companies known for best practices for controlling their carbon footprints and suggesting a benchmark company to its peer group. Also, the integrated approach of using DEA-TOPSIS for such type of studies also makes it distinctive from earlier work done in the related field.
Self-initiated expatriates in the local organizations of developing countries
Authors: Kumar Rajiv , Chhokar Jagdeep 
Published: November 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report three main findings. First, the paper reports why local organizations in developing countries would demand self-initiated expatriates (SIEs); second, the paper reports why SIEs accept employment with such organizations; and third, the paper reports the factors that seem to govern the role allocation to SIEs.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used semi-structured interviews to elicit and collect data. The authors followed the procedures of grounded theory for data analysis.FindingsLocal organizations in developing countries seem increasingly willing to employ SIEs. Emergence of hitherto nonexistent businesses, rapid expansion, global ambition and organizational maturity seem to drive the demand for SIEs. Industrial decline elsewhere, attractiveness of emerging economies, challenging role, prior experience within similar countries and non-working spouse are factors that enable the SIEs’ acceptance of employment with such organizations. Required boundary spanning and repatriation status determine the role allocation for SIEs.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings may be idiosyncratic as they result from a qualitative research design. External validity could, therefore, be low.Practical implicationsManagers can benefit by comprehending the factors motivating SIEs to work for local organizations in developing countries. SIEs can benefit by understanding why such organizations need them, and the roles they are likely to get therein.Originality/valueUnlike the typical SIEs studied in literature, the authors theorize about SIEs who move from developed countries to work in developing countries and occupy senior positions. Additionally, unlike a typical SIE study, the authors gathered the perspectives of both SIEs and organizations. Lastly, the paper is about an emerging trend: SIEs’ employment in the local organizations of developing countries.
How nation-level background governance conditions shape the economic payoffs of corporate environmental performance
Authors: Sandhu Sukhbir , Orlitzky Marc , Louche Céline 
Published: November 2018

PurposeCompanies develop and implement environmental initiatives in particular national governance and institutional contexts. The purpose of this paper is to study how the background governance conditions of legal systems, economic policies and national culture enable or impede the relationship between corporate environmental performance (CEP) and lagged corporate financial performance (CFP).Design/methodology/approachThis is an empirical study of 427 MNCs headquartered in 22 different countries. The authors merged data from the SiRi database (generally known as SustainAnalytics now), which contains ratings of stakeholder relations for 427 large corporations with publicly available data from Datastream.FindingsDrawing on the new institutionalism in economics and sociology, the authors show that common-law systems and high economic freedom in a company’s home country tend to strengthen the CEP-CFP link. In addition, the home-country cultural variables of uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation, and (to a lesser extent) masculinity may impede the deployment of CEP for maximum financial gain at the organizational level. The macrolevel analysis starts to move the field toward an understanding of the particular national governance configurations that provide the most supportive conditions for any CEP-CFP links.Originality/valueOne of the central questions in the field of organizations and the natural environment is about the background conditions that may incentivize and reward firms to be more environmentally responsive. The paper addresses this issue through a nation-level investigation of the background governance conditions that may help or hinder the relationship between CEP and CFP.
Promoting gender equality in a challenging environment
Authors: Kemper Lena Elisabeth , Bader Anna Katharina , Froese Fabian Jintae 
Published: November 2018

PurposeGender diversity and equality vary tremendously among countries. This is a particular challenge for foreign subsidiaries, when the level of gender diversity and equality differs between the home and host country. Various indicators such as a low-gender pay gap or a high ratio of females in managerial positions suggest that Scandinavia is ahead in terms of gender diversity and equality, whereas those indicators suggest that the level in Japan is currently lower. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how executives leading Scandinavian subsidiaries operating in Japan perceive this situation, and whether and what kind of actions they take to initiate change.Design/methodology/approachThis study is based on a qualitative analysis of 20 in-depth interviews with executives of Scandinavian subsidiaries in Japan.FindingsFindings reveal that executives of Scandinavian subsidiaries respond to the major differences in gender equality between Scandinavia and Japan with three strategies of change: resistance and rigid change, compromise and moderate change, and adaptation and maintaining status quo. Moreover, the findings indicate that the strategy of change varies depending on individual differences of the executives, e.g., nationality, and organizational differences, e.g., subsidiary size.Research limitations/implicationsDue to the small sample size, the generalizability of the findings is limited. Given the paucity of research on this topic, this approach provides first insights for building a basis for future studies.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the scarce literature on gender diversity and equality in multinational enterprises by identifying strategies of how gender equality can be fostered in a non-Western context from a top executive perspective.
Symbolic action methods: how systemic team consultation can help to strengthen the self‐concept of teams and foster team cohesion
Authors: Schweitzer Jochen , Drews Antonia 
Published: November 2018

This article describes a workshop format including three symbolic action methods, i.e. the ‘who is who sculpture’, the ‘walking through a team’s history’ technique and the ‘speech chorus’ for use in systemic team consultation. The described action methods are suited for work with large teams and small organisations. They help team members to quickly understand their internal diversity and develop a joint sense of the team’s history, hence strengthening the team’s self‐concept and fostering team cohesion. Teams are thereby enabled to find ways out of experienced states of collective depression or anxiety. If combined with large group approaches such as appreciative inquiry or open space (Owen, 2000), such a workshop can help teams and organisations to move from their present situation towards a shared vision for a desired future. The workshop and its methods have been carried out and evaluated in many systemic therapy teams and small clinical and welfare organisations in Germany, China and the UK, as well as at conference workshops in the US and Russia.Practitioner points

Three Tools to “make teams and small organizations swing”

Integrated into a one‐day‐ workshop fostering systemic organizational self reflection

Conducted in Germany, China, Russia, the US and the UK
Educational assortative mating: a micro‐educational approach
Authors: Andrade Stefan B. , Thomsen Jens‐Peter 
Published: November 2018

AbstractThis article presents a new way of analysing educational assortative mating patterns, using a detailed ‘micro‐educational’ classification capturing both hierarchical and horizontal forms of educational differentiation. Taking advantage of rich Danish population data, we apply log‐linear models that include four ways of measuring educational homogamy patterns: (a) by returns to education, (b) by macro‐education (five aggregated levels), (c) by field of study (16 categories), and (d) by a disaggregated micro‐educational classification, combining levels and fields of study (54 groups). Our results show declines in educational homogamy from 1984 to 2013, but the odds ratios of being educationally homogamous at the university college and university levels remain of substantial magnitude, by both the macro‐ and micro‐educational measures. The micro‐educational classification outperforms all other measures in explaining the associations in the homogamy tables. The income measure (‘returns to education’) does a particularly poor job of explaining homogamy patterns from 1984 to 2013.
The collective/affective practice of cancer survivorship
Authors: Broom Alex , Kenny Katherine , Kirby Emma , Lwin Zarnie 
Published: November 2018

AbstractWhether within an atmosphere of hope, or amidst relations of fear, the emotions of cancer are unavoidably collectively produced. Yet persistent individualistic paradigms continue to obscure how the emotions of cancer operate relationally – between bodies, subjects, discourses, and practices – and are intertwined with circulating beliefs, cultural desires, and various forms of normativity. Drawing on interviews with 80 people living with cancer in Australia, this paper illustrates why recognition of the collective enterprise of survivorship – and the collective production of emotion, more generally – is important in light of persistent, culturally dominant conceptions of the individual patient as the primary ‘afflicted’, ‘feeling’, and ‘treated’ subject. Building on previous work on affective relations and moral framings, we posit that the collective affects of survivorship inflect what people living with cancer can, and should, feel. We highlight how such things as hope, resignation, optimism, and dread are ‘products’ of the collective affects of cancer, with implications for how survivorship is lived, felt, and done.
Shortage of energy intake rather than protein intake is associated with sarcopenia in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes: A cross‐sectional study of the KAMOGAWA‐DM cohort
Authors: Okamura Takuro , Miki Akane , Hashimoto Yoshitaka , Kaji Ayumi , Sakai Ryosuke , Osaka Takafumi , Hamaguchi Masahide , Yamazaki Masahiro , Fukui Michiaki 
Published: November 2018

AbstractBackgroundEnergy intake is important for the maintenance of muscle mass. The relationship between energy intake and sarcopenia in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) has been unclear.MethodsUsing a brief‐type self‐administered diet history questionnaire we assessed habitual food and nutrient intake of patients with T2D aged ≥65 years, all of whom were Japanese and physically active, taking part in the KAMOGAWA‐DM cohort study. Patients' body composition was evaluated by bioimpedance analysis. Sarcopenia was defined as having both a grip strength of <26 kg for men and <18 kg for women and a skeletal muscle mass index of <7.0 kg/m2 for men and <5.7 kg/m2 for women. Logistic regression analyses were used to investigate the effect of energy intake on the presence of sarcopenia in this cross‐sectional study of 391 patients (205 men, 186 women).ResultsFifty‐five patients (14.1%) were diagnosed as having sarcopenia. Energy intake was significantly lower in patients with sarcopenia than without sarcopenia (mean  ±  SD [n = 366] 1498.8 ± 389.4 vs 1786.2 ± 706.7 kcal/d, respectively; P = 0.016). After adjusting for age, sex, exercise, smoking status, HbA1c, and body mass index, patients' energy intake (per 100 kcal) was negatively associated with the presence of sarcopenia (odds ratio 0.86; 95% confidence interval 0.78‐0.95; P = 0.001).ConclusionEnergy intake was negatively associated with the presence of sarcopenia in elderly patients with T2D.
Complex and monosomal karyotype are distinct cytogenetic entities with an adverse prognostic impact in paediatric acute myeloid leukaemia. A NOPHO‐DBH‐AML study
Authors: Bager Ninna , Juul‐Dam Kristian L. , Sandahl Julie D. , Abrahamsson Jonas , Beverloo Berna , de Bont Eveline S. J. M. , Ha Shau‐Yin , Jahnukainen Kirsi , Jónsson Ólafur G. , Kaspers Gertjan L. , Kovalova Zhanna , Lausen Birgitte , De Moerloose Barbara , Noren‐Nyström Ulrika , Palle Josefine , Saks Kadri , Zeller Bernward , Kjeldsen Eigil , Hasle Henrik 
Published: November 2018

SummaryData on occurrence, genetic characteristics and prognostic impact of complex and monosomal karyotype (CK/MK) in children with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) are scarce. We studied CK and MK in a large unselected cohort of childhood AML patients diagnosed and treated according to Nordic Society for Paediatric Haematology and Oncology (NOPHO)‐AML protocols 1993–2015. In total, 800 patients with de novo AML were included. CK was found in 122 (15%) and MK in 41 (5%) patients. CK and MK patients were young (median age 2·1 and 3·3 years, respectively) and frequently had FAB M7 morphology (24% and 22%, respectively). Refractory disease was more common in MK patients (15% vs. 4%) and stem cell transplantation in first complete remission was more frequent (32% vs. 19%) compared with non‐CK/non‐MK patients. CK showed no association with refractory disease but was an independent predictor of an inferior event‐free survival (EFS; hazard ratio [HR] 1·43, P = 0·03) and overall survival (OS; HR 1·48, P = 0·01). MK was associated with a poor EFS (HR 1·57, P = 0·03) but did not show an inferior OS compared to non‐MK patients (HR 1·14, P = 0·62). In a large paediatric cohort, we characterized AML with non‐recurrent abnormal karyotype and unravelled the adverse impact of CK and MK on prognosis.
Diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma in the modern era
Authors: Wang Hao‐Wei , Balakrishna Jayalakshmi P. , Pittaluga Stefania , Jaffe Elaine S. 
Published: November 2018

SummaryThe Hodgkin lymphomas are a family of unique lymphoma subtypes, in which the nature of the neoplastic cell was enigmatic for many years. Much of the mystery has been solved, with all forms now considered to be of B‐cell origin, in most cases of germinal centre derivation. Today we recognize Hodgkin lymphoma as an eponym that encompasses multiple entities. One of the unifying themes is the major contribution from the tumour microenvironment. Both the character of the neoplastic cells and the nature of the immune environment are critical to accurate diagnosis. Moreover, an understanding of the molecular alterations that characterize both the neoplastic cells and their microenvironment have led to therapeutic advances, targeting both neoplastic and reactive components. Other conditions may foster a similar inflammatory milieu and lead to lymphoproliferations that mimic the Hodgkin lymphomas. In this review we provide an update on the diagnostic features of the various subtypes and include additional information relevant for prognostic evaluation and investigation of potential therapeutic targets. Additionally, we also discuss those conditions that often cause confusion in diagnosis and need to be distinguished from the Hodgkin lymphomas.
A novel complete blood count‐based score to screen for myelodysplastic syndrome in cytopenic patients
Authors: Boutault Robin , Peterlin Pierre , Boubaya Marouane , Sockel Katja , Chevallier Patrice , Garnier Alice , Guillaume Thierry , Le Bourgeois Amandine , Debord Camille , Godon Catherine , Le Bris Yannick , Theisen Olivier , Kroschinsky Frank , Moreau Philippe , Béné Marie C. , Platzbecker Uwe , Eveillard Marion 
Published: November 2018

SummaryThe diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) is often challenging, time‐ and resource‐consuming. A thorough analysis of complete blood count (CBC) parameters could, however, help to screen for MDS among other causes of cytopenia. To test this hypothesis, 109 newly‐diagnosed MDS patients and 399 cytopenic patients older than 50 years with confirmed absence of MDS were enrolled in a prospective study. Multiparametric analysis highlighted three CBC parameters that were significantly different between the two cohorts: mean corpuscular volume, absolute neutrophil count and median neutrophil complexity and width of dispersion of the events measured (Ne‐WX), which were used to define an MDS‐CBC score. This score enables the prediction of MDS with 86% sensitivity and 88% specificity. The MDS‐CBC score excluded MDS in 89% of cytopenic controls. Moreover, high score values at MDS diagnosis significantly correlated with decreased event‐free (P = 0·02) and overall survival (P = 0·01). The power of this score was confirmed in an independent validation cohort (MDS n = 34, cytopenic controls n = 28). The MDS‐CBC score is an easy and fast tool to exclude or suspect MDS in unselected patients with cytopenia of unknown reasons at the time of analysis, by prompting blood smear examination. It may thus improve allocation of further MDS‐specific work‐up in patients with cytopenia at the time of CBC assessment.