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Drivers and internalisation of the EFQM excellence model
Authors: Escrig-Tena Ana B. , Garcia-Juan Beatriz , Segarra-Ciprés Mercedes 
Published: January 2019

PurposeAlthough the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model has been widely adopted throughout Europe, a thorough examination of the factors that contribute to the internalisation of the model (i.e. a substantive adoption) has been neglected in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to present a model that analyses the drivers of the real internalisation of the EFQM excellence model, with a focus on the role of motives for adoption, and appraisal and compensation systems.Design/methodology/approachAn empirical study was carried out based on a sample of Spanish organisations that had been awarded EFQM recognition. Structural equation models, cluster analysis and ANOVA were used to examine the research questions.FindingsInternal motives concerning the creation of a participative style are the main driver of internalisation. Moreover, having an appraisal system-oriented towards the development of employees helps the substantive adoption of the EFQM model. These findings reinforce the importance of the soft elements of the EFQM model.Originality/valueThis study enhances evidence about the motives for adoption and their influence on the internalisation of the EFQM model. It analyses internalisation in a novel context, EFQM recognised organisations, and contributes to the debate about the efficacy of the EFQM model to performance improvement, by unveiling the factors that could foster the internalisation of the model within the organisational routines.
Determinants of student entrepreneurship
Authors: Alves André Cherubini , Fischer Bruno , Schaeffer Paola Rücker , Queiroz Sérgio 
Published: January 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze this phenomenon and identify its determinants using data from Brazilian higher education institutions.

Design/methodology/approach
Based on a data set comprehending 2,230 university students from 70 different institutions across the country, the authors develop five Probit models to assess impacts related to individual traits and systemic conditions on five dependent dimensions: entrepreneurial activity, potential entrepreneurs, high-impact entrepreneurship, serial entrepreneurship and innovation-driven entrepreneurship.

Findings
The lack of significance in many of the variables included in estimations suggests that student entrepreneurship seems to be a rather random phenomenon in Brazil.

Research limitations/implications
Findings pose challenges for student entrepreneurship, as targets for intervention are not clear.

Originality/value
Over the past decades, universities have been receiving an increasing demand to go beyond their role of producing science and technology to explore its knowledge potential to produce novel commercial applications. However, while there is a growing interest in ways to foster scientific academic entrepreneurship, universities also serve as a positive environment for student entrepreneurship training, knowledge sharing, testing ideas and learning. So far, the importance of student entrepreneurship has received far less attention than it likely deserves.
Listening and perseverance – two sides to a coin in quality evaluations
Authors: Janakiraman Narayan , Bullemore Jorge , Valenzuela-Fernández Leslier , Jaramillo Jorge Fernando 
Published: January 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine how a service provider’s offer quality is evaluated (OQ).This study shows that attitude toward the salesperson in a service context (AS) is an important antecedent to OQ.Design/methodology/approachThis study involves three studies, first is a dyadic data analyzed with HLM, second is an experiment and the third an IAT.FindingsThe findings of this study show that active empathetic listening increases offer quality evaluations, regardless of the AS level. However, at lower levels of AS,sales perseverancenegatively affects offer quality evaluations.Originality/valueWhile research suggests that listening is extremely important, there is also research that suggests that perseverance is more important. Considering data from sales people and from consumers, the authors examine when listening and when perseverance is important.
Addie’s coffin: consumption decisions in pursuit of an appropriate death
Authors: Kopp Steven W. , Kemp Elyria 
Published: January 2019

PurposeResearch on death and dying in Western culture holds that individuals engage in a denial and repression of thoughts about death. However, this paper aims to propose that some individuals actively make attempts to exercise control over their eventual demise by engaging in decision-making to achieve an “appropriate death.” A framework is introduced that provides the basis for exploring aspects of decision-making for end of life.Design/methodology/approachDepth interviews were conducted with 18 consumers about their dispositions toward death and their decision-making regarding their own funerals.FindingsAn analysis of the consumer narratives suggests that individuals make efforts to prepare for end of life by reducing conflict and finishing business, enlisting identity management strategies and coming to terms with death itself. Unique consumption experiences and decisions accompany each of these efforts.Research limitations/implicationsThis research provides understanding regarding how individuals cope with death by attempting to enlist control over a situation in which they have very little control. In doing so, these individuals make efforts to achieve an “appropriate death” by making explicit decisions for end of life.Originality/valueInstead of actively engaging in defense mechanisms to deny and repress thoughts of death, this research demonstrates that individuals may recognize the inevitability of death as fulfillment of life. In doing so, they may subscribe to positive illusions regarding end of life and make attempts to exercise control over the event.
The impact of personality and cognitive style of managers on their work types
Authors: Saha Surajit , Sharma R.R.K. 
Published: January 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between the personality and cognitive styles of managers and different types of work.

Design/methodology/approach
The personality types and cognitive styles of managers were measured, respectively, with the help of the Big Five personality factors and Jung’s cognitive types. Different types of works in an organization were categorized in three ways: identity, institutional and integrative work. A survey questionnaire method was used to collect data from a sample of 107 managers from a diverse range of industries, and these data were used to test the hypotheses.

Findings
The study found that intuitive feeling and intuitive thinking types of cognitive styles are suitable for identity and integrative kinds of work, respectively. Openness to experience and conscientiousness positively correlate with identity work. For institutional work, conscientious personality trait is most important for managers; agreeableness has a negative impact on identity work and institutional work.

Practical implications
This study will assist recruitment and staffing professionals, when recruiting managers for an organization, and the paper should be interesting for readers in industry (professionals in HR, managerial career development and managerial competence audit and counseling) and academia (research scholars).

Originality/value
Analysis of theses relationship types is unavailable in the literature of leadership and organizational studies. It can help organizations utilize their human resources efficiently.
State-of-the-art of probabilistic performance based structural fire engineering
Authors: Shrivastava Mayank , Abu Anthony , Dhakal Rajesh , Moss Peter 
Published: January 2019

PurposeThis paper aims to describe current trends in probabilistic structural fire engineering and provides a comprehensive summary of the state-of-the-art of performance-based structural fire engineering (PSFE).Design/methodology/approachPSFE has been introduced to overcome the limitations of current conventional design approaches used for the design of fire-exposed structures, which investigate assumed worst-case fire scenarios and include multiple thermal and structural analyses. PSFE permits buildings to be designed in relation to a level of life safety or economic loss that may occur in future fire events with the help of a probabilistic approach.FindingsThis paper brings together existing research on various sources of uncertainty in probabilistic structural fire engineering, such as elements affecting post-flashover fire development, material properties, fire models, fire severity, analysis methods and structural reliability.Originality/valuePrediction of economic loss would depend on the extent of damage, which is further dependent on the structural response. The representative prediction of structural behaviour would depend on the precise quantification of the fire hazard. The incorporation of major uncertainty sources in probabilistic structural fire engineering is explained, and the detailed description of a pioneering analysis method called incremental fire analysis is presented.
Intellectual structure of international new venture research
Authors: Rodríguez-Ruiz Félix , Almodóvar Paloma , Nguyen Quyen T.K. 
Published: January 2019

PurposeThis paper aims to identify the most influential papers/authors, publication outlets and theoretical and empirical research topics of the international new venture (INV) literature.Design/methodology/approachThe authors examine the intellectual structure of the INV literature using bibliometric citation and co-citation analysis. The authors focus on the 100 most cited papers in this research stream published between 1994 and 2015. In the post-hoc reading, they supplement their main bibliometric techniques with the content analysis method to shed light on some issues.FindingsThe authors find that the literature has grown significantly over the past two decades, increasing its relevancy in the academic discourse. The findings show the interdisciplinary nature of the INV literature, where we can find different research topics: Definition of INVs, measurements of “newness” and “degree of internationalization” and the characteristics of international entrepreneurs; time dimension in terms of speed of internationalization; international versus domestic new ventures; and the relationships between firm-specific advantages, international strategy and INV performance.Originality/valueThe authors identify the most influential studies and authors in the INV discipline and show its evolution from the very start to the present. They present the key topics in the literature and highlight the theoretical debates and the inconsistencies between theoretical conceptualization and measurements in the empirical work. The authors offer suggestions for promising future research directions and identify the major conceptual framework on which future research can be constructed. Overall, this study contributes to enhance the understanding of the INV phenomenon and provides useful new insights.
Changing disturbance‐diversity relationships in temperate ecosystems over the past 12000 years
Authors: Kuneš Petr , Abraham Vojtěch , Herben Tomáš 
Published: January 2019

Abstract

Disturbances such as fires and grazing have major impacts on biodiversity. While it has been suggested that species richness is highest with intermediate levels of disturbance, currently there is no consensus due to an absence of data covering large temporal and spatial scales.

We developed a new method to examine disturbance‐diversity relationships (DDR) using sedimentary pollen data linked with species’ disturbance ecology. We reconstructed disturbance and diversity dynamics in the region of the European temperate zone over the last 12,000 years and calculated DDR for 900‐year sequential temporal windows.

Disturbance frequency was highest in the early and late Holocene, while remaining low in the mid‐Holocene. Diversity increased continuously from the start of the Holocene. Our results demonstrate that over the past 12,000 years DDR changed from hump‐shaped into monotonic increasing pattern. While both highly disturbed and undisturbed sites were strongly impoverished in the early Holocene, as species migrated, biodiversity levels have subsequently affected disturbance regimes with highly disturbed sites now being the highest in species richness.

Synthesis. Land‐use changes in the last 4,000 years created an increasingly patchy landscape, allowing invasive species adapted to high‐frequency disturbance to migrate across the landscape. The link between high diversity and disturbed areas is relatively recent and may anticipate even greater disturbance frequencies in future. Our findings also support a hypothesis that species migration, and the structure of the species pool critically determines the response of biota to external factors such as disturbance.
Climate–fire–vegetation interactions and the rise of novel landscape patterns in subalpine ecosystems, Colorado
Authors: Calder William John , Stefanova Ivanka , Shuman Bryan 
Published: January 2019

Abstract

Interactions at multiple scales can shape how forest ecosystems respond to both climate change and disturbance. At landscape scales, feedbacks cause vegetation and wildfire regimes to alter one another, while forest patterns at local scales can result from feedbacks between plants and their abiotic environment. Consequently, disturbances and abiotic changes may give rise to forest patterns that further affect processes like wildfire.

Examples may exist in the history of subalpine ribbon forests, which are alternating areas of forest and meadow where snow drifting and linear bands of trees depend upon each other. Just as ongoing climate changes may change snow levels and the dynamics in these forests, past climate changes and wildfires may have generated the conditions suitable for ribbon forests.

To examine feedbacks in subalpine forests and the potential that climate changes and fires gave rise to ribbon forests, we obtained six fossil pollen records from a subalpine landscape in Colorado. Forests there may have responded to climate change and widespread wildfires ˜1,000 years ago when >80% of sites on the landscape burned within a century. The fires coincided with regional warming, but the extent of burning declined before the climate cooled, possibly driven by changes in fuel structure and composition.

The pollen records indicate that large vegetation changes coincided with the widespread wildfires at five of the six sites. Pollen assemblages consistent with ribbon forests first became important at this time as sagebrush (Artemisia) and other meadow taxa increased and conifers, especially spruce (Picea) declined. The ribbon forests emerged as novel fuel breaks at the time when temperatures rose ˜0.5°C but the number of sites burned per century declined. Cooling during the Little Ice Age then expanded the openings and extent of ribbon forests, probably helping to reduce the frequency of fires across our sites to its minimum.

Synthesis. The rise of ribbon forests in northern Colorado illustrates how climate and fire can interact to rapidly transform landscapes and disturbance regimes. The interactions can produce forest patterns with unexpected consequences such as reduced wildfire despite regional warming.
Cost effectiveness of nifedipine compared with atosiban in the treatment of threatened preterm birth (APOSTEL IIItrial)
Authors: Nijman TAJ , van Baaren GJ , van Vliet EOG , Kok M , Gyselaers W , Porath MM , Woiski M , de Boer MA , Bloemenkamp KWM , Sueters M , Franx A , Mol BWJ , Oudijk MA 
Published: January 2019

ObjectiveTo assess the cost‐effectiveness of treatment with nifedipine compared with atosiban in women with threatened preterm birth.DesignAn economic analysis alongside a randomised clinical trial (theAPOSTEL IIIstudy).SettingObstetric departments of 12 tertiary hospitals and seven secondary hospitals in the Netherlands and Belgium.PopulationWomen with threatened preterm birth between 25 and 34 weeks of gestation, randomised for tocolysis with either nifedipine or atosiban.MethodsWe performed an economic analysis from a societal perspective. We estimated costs from randomisation until discharge. Analyses for singleton and multiple pregnancies were performed separately. The robustness of our findings was evaluated in sensitivity analyses.Main outcome measuresMean costs and differences were calculated per woman treated with nifedipine or atosiban. Health outcomes were expressed as the prevalence of a composite of adverse perinatal outcomes.ResultsMean costs per patients were significantly lower in the nifedipine group [singleton pregnancies: €34,897 versus €43,376, mean difference (MD) −€8479 [95% confidence interval (CI) −€14,327 to −€2016)]; multiple pregnancies: €90,248 versus €102,292,MD−€12,044 (95%CI−€21,607 to € −1671). There was a non‐significantly higher death rate in the nifedipine group. The difference in costs was mainly driven by a lower neonatal intensive care unit admission (NICU) rate in the nifedipine group.ConclusionTreatment with nifedipine in women with threatened preterm birth results in lower costs when compared with treatment with atosiban. However, the safety of nifedipine warrants further investigation.Tweetable abstractIn women with threatened preterm birth, tocolysis using nifedipine results in lower costs when compared with atosiban.
Assessing provider and racial/ethnic variation in response to the FDA antidepressant box warning
Authors: Cook Benjamin L. , Wang Ye , Sonik Rajan , Busch Susan , Carson Nicholas , Progovac Ana M. , Zaslavsky Alan M. 
Published: January 2019

IntroductionAfter the 2004 FDA box warning raised concerns about increased suicidal ideation among youth taking antidepressants, antidepressant use decreased for White youth but slightly increased for Black and Latino youth. Better understanding of patient and provider factors contributing to these differences is needed to improve future risk warning dissemination.MethodsWe analyzed antidepressant prescriptions for youth aged 5‐17 in 2002‐2006 Medicaid claims data from four states (CA, FL, NC, and NY). In multilevel models, we assessed provider‐ and patient‐level contributions to changes in antidepressant use by race/ethnicity and compared responses to the box warning between providers with large (>2/3) and small (<1/3) proportions of minority patients.ResultsA significant amount of variance in overall prescribing patterns (calculated by the ICC) was explained at the provider level. Significant provider‐level variation was also identified in the differential effect of the box warning by racial/ethnic group. In a test of the influence of provider panel mix, we found that providers with large proportions of minority patients reduced antidepressant prescribing more slowly after the box warning than other providers.DiscussionThis study is the first to assess provider‐ and patient‐level variation in the impact of a health care policy change on treatment disparities. Black and Latino youth Medicaid beneficiaries were seen by largely different providers than their White counterparts, and these distinct providers were influential in driving antidepressant prescription patterns following the box warning. Concerted outreach to providers of minority beneficiaries is needed to ensure that risk warnings and clinical innovations diffuse swiftly across racial/ethnic minority groups.
The uneasy alliance of organisational culture and equal opportunities for ethnic minority groups: A British example
Authors: Ogbonna Emmanuel 
Published: January 2019

AbstractRecent statistics suggest that there is a continuing disparity in labour market outcomes between ethnic minority (EM) groups and their White counterparts. However, although there is now an abundance of statistical and anecdotal evidence that speaks to the disadvantage of EM groups, there is less understanding of the intraorganisational dynamics that give rise to the outcomes that are reported. Drawing on postcolonial, cultural capital, and social capital theories, this article argues that the dominant approach through which organisational culture is conceptualised and the ways in which it is commonly managed may encourage labour market inequality and disadvantage for EM groups (defined as access to employment and having opportunities for promotion while in employment). The article explores three intraorganisational interventions that are common in culture management initiatives (leadership, selective recruitment, and internal promotion) to illustrate the arguments. The article concludes by discussing a series of implications and highlighting the pivotal role of the HR academy and practitioners in generating deeper insights and attention into the potential sources of EM disadvantage that are linked to culture and culture management.
Impact of a Women‐focused Professional Organization on Academic Retention and Advancement: Perceptions From a Qualitative Study
Authors: Lin Michelle P. , Lall Michelle D. , Samuels‐Kalow Margaret , Das Devjani , Linden Judith A. , Perman Sarah , Chang Anna Marie , Agrawal Pooja 
Published: January 2019

AbstractObjectivesOrganizations to promote career networking and mentorship among women are recommended as a best practice to support the recruitment and retention of women physicians; however, the impact of such organizations is unknown. Our primary objective is to describe the impact of a national woman‐focused organization for academic emergency physicians on retention and advancement.MethodsWe conducted semistructured interviews of past and present organization leaders, as well as members at varying stages in their careers. Physicians with experience in qualitative methods conducted interviews and coded all transcripts using inductive content analysis techniques. Themes were reviewed and discussed to ensure consensus.ResultsWe performed 17 interviews lasting 20 to 30 minutes each, resulting in 476 total minutes of transcript. Participants represented varying stages of career experience, ranging from 2 to 35 years since residency completion (median = 9.5 years). Median years of participation in the woman‐focused organization was 10 years. Over half (53%) of participants were past presidents of the organization. The dominant themes encompassed facilitating academic advancement through scholarly productivity, leadership experiences, awards, and promotions; mentorship and sponsorship; peer support and collaborations; reduced professional isolation; and initiatives to address systemic gender inequities and challenges, including strategies to navigate bias, promote pay equity, and advocate for family‐friendly workplace policies.DiscussionActive participation in a woman‐focused professional organization enhances members’ career retention and advancement by creating opportunities and relationships that facilitate leadership, enabling scholarly work to advance equity and inclusion, and cultivating a sense of belonging. While challenges and barriers persist, the myriad benefits of a women‐focused professional organization reported by members and leaders represent important steps toward greater equity for women and other underrepresented groups in academic medicine.