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Dental care utilization in the west of Iran: a cross-sectional analysis of socioeconomic determinants
Authors: Rezaei Satar , Ghahramani Esmail , Hajizadeh Mohammad , Nouri Bijan , Bayazidi Sheno , Khezrnezhad Fatemah 
Published: November 2016

Purpose
Oral health is a major public health problem, both in developed and developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to examine the utilization of dental care and identify the main socioeconomic factors affecting the use of these services in the city of Sanandaj, west of Iran, in 2015.

Design/methodology/approach
A cross-sectional survey using multistage sampling was conducted to obtain information on the dental care visits of 520 head of households in Sanandaj. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data on the utilization of dental visits. Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify the main socioeconomic factors affecting the utilization of dental care in Sanandaj.

Findings
Results showed that 61.3 percent of the respondents visited a dentist at least once in the last year, of which 45 percent visited dentist for restoration, 27.9 percent had extraction and 10.3 percent had a dental checkup. The average number of dentist visits by respondents was 1.9. Regression results indicated a significant association between socioeconomic factors (e.g. income, educational level and employment status) and utilization of dental care.

Originality/value
This study suggested that dental care visit was influenced by socioeconomic status of households. Therefore, strategies aimed at improving dental care utilization for socioeconomically disadvantaged households (e.g. dental health insurance) are required to promote oral health among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups.
Supply chain information utilisation: conceptualisation and antecedents
Authors: Jonsson Patrik , Myrelid Paulina 
Published: November 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to define supply chain information utilisation and explore how its antecedents impact shared information utilisation in information receiver’s planning processes.

Design/methodology/approach
The analysis is based on a literature review and exploratory case study of three supplier dyads of original equipment manufacturers. This study presents a four-phase model of supply chain information utilisation, and identifies how information sharing, information quality, and intended information usage are antecedents of actual usage of information shared in supply chains. In the dyads, 35 potential information utilisation situations are analysed.

Findings
Inter- and intra-organisational factors are antecedents of information utilisation, by their effects on the four phases of utilisation. Composite information sharing, social network governance, human process involvement, and formal planning processes are important antecedents, which are not much emphasised in the literature.

Research limitations/implications
The study focusses on routinised sharing of formal demand-related planning information in supply chain dyads. The analysis is based on three case dyads which are chosen to be complementary in several respects, and where there is access to rich data.

Practical implications
Understanding phases and antecedents could support managers in developing information sharing strategies.

Originality/value
The literature does not explicitly consider information utilisation, or related antecedents or effects. However, by defining information utilisation and proposing a multi-phase utilisation model, this study can explain the performance effect of information sharing. In addition, the composite information variable is defined. This is the first attempt to conceptualise and explore antecedents of information utilisation in supply chains.
Service recycling and ecosystems: an intriguing similarity
Authors: Mastrogiacomo Luca , Barravecchia Federico , Franceschini Fiorenzo 
Published: November 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the practice of service recycling. There is an end of life to every product. At this stage, recycling is one option: it is the process of converting waste materials into new products or raw materials. There is also an end of life to every service, which generally coincides with the end of service delivery. However, services are not made of materials or components that can be recovered or converted, so can they be recycled? If the concept of product recycling is something well established, then that of service recycling has not yet been sufficiently investigated.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper introduces the perspective of service recycling, analyzing the modalities in which a service can be recycled by using an analogy with natural ecosystems. Some examples are also proposed to support this new vision.

Findings
This paper purports to formalize the practice of service recycling: recycling a service means recovering all the intangibles and tangibles resulting from the provision of a service that still may have a residual value. This practice may potentially lead to an increase in profits.

Originality/value
Although there are several examples of close relationships between two (or more) different services in which one of the two benefits from the externalities of the other, the concept of service recycling has not yet been structurally defined, and the authors believe that interesting perspectives of research may follow from its formalization.
The mediating influence of service failure explanation on customer repurchase intention through customers satisfaction
Authors: Tarofder Arun Kumar , Nikhashemi Seyed Rajab , Azam S.M. Ferdous , Selvantharan Prashantini , Haque Ahasanul 
Published: November 2016

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of explanation on customer satisfaction in the service failure stage. It seeks to better understand the dynamics of consumer repurchase intention through a mediating effect of customer satisfaction.Design/methodology/approachA structured questionnaire was e-mailed to collect the primary data. With three reminders, this study managed to obtain 322 responses from customers who complained about their internet service in Malaysia. Structural equation modelling techniques were applied to examine both direct and mediating effects between variables.FindingsResults reveal that all four dimensions of explanation have significant partial mediating effect on repurchase intention through customer satisfaction. Results also disclose that there is no significant relationship between excuse and customer satisfaction in service failure. Among all dimensions, reference and apology have higher influence on repurchase intention through customer satisfaction.Research limitations/implicationsThe results are particularly valuable for managers, as it supports the role of using explanation as a practical tool for fostering positive and profitable outcomes like repeat customer purchases.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study will help organisations rethink their explanation strategies with the eye to foster greater customer repurchase intention.Originality/valueThe results are particularly valuable for managers, as they support the role of using explanation as a practical tool for fostering positive and profitable outcomes like repeat customer purchases.
Service climate in knowledge-intensive, internal service settings
Authors: Jia Ronnie , Reich Blaize Horner , Jia Heather H. 
Published: November 2016

PurposeThis study aims to extend service climate research from its existing focus on routine service for external clients into a knowledge-intensive, internal (KII) service setting. This extension was important because internal knowledge workers may operate from a monopolistic perspective and not view themselves as service providers because of the technical/professional nature of their work.Design/methodology/approachTwo surveys were distributed in participating organizations. One survey, completed by employees in information technology (IT) service units, contains measures of service climate, climate antecedents and technical competence. The second survey, filled out by members of their corporate customer units, taps their evaluations of service quality.FindingsService climate in IT service units significantly predicted service evaluations by their respective customer units. Importantly, service climate was more predictive than IT service employees’ technical competency. Role ambiguity, empowerment and work facilitation were also found to be significant service climate antecedents.Research limitations/implicationsThese results provided strong empirical evidence supporting an extension of the existing service climate research to KII service settings. To the extent that front-line service employees rely on internal support to deliver quality service to external customers, managers should work to enhance the service climate in internal support units, which ultimately improves external service quality.Originality/valueThis is the first study that establishes the robustness of the service climate construct in KII service settings. It makes service climate a useful managerial tool for improving both internal and external service quality.
Interactivity innovations, competitive intensity, customer demand and performance
Authors: Anning-Dorson Thomas 
Published: November 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to identify dimensions of interactivity service innovations and examine the moderating effect of external factors, i.e. customer demand and competitive intensity, on the relationship between such service innovations and service firm performance.

Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected at two levels; the first for validation; and the second for confirmatory and relationship analyses. Structural equation modeling was used in analyzing the relationship between interactivity innovation and service firm performance and environmental moderating effects.

Findings
The study found that high levels of interactivity innovations, in combination, drive superior performance. It was also found that deployment of high levels of interactivity innovations in high-demand periods is significantly related to high performance. The paper also found that the relationship between high interactivity innovation and financial performance is dampened by intense competition.

Originality/value
Unlike previous studies, this study found that it is rather high levels of service innovations that maximize performance in service firms operating in emerging economies and not just the implementation of such innovations, and that the implementation must be aligned to the prevailing environmental conditions.
A resource-based view of the firm and micro and small Italian wine firms
Authors: Duarte Alonso Abel , Bressan Alessandro 
Published: November 2016

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm is adopted to explore the most important resources among micro and small firms operating in Italy’s wine industry. Second, the study incorporates a SWOT analysis to examine perceived strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats based on the perceptions of owners and managers of these firms.Design/methodology/approachAn online questionnaire was designed to gather both quantitative and qualitative data from Italian wineries; a total of 211 firms participated in the study.FindingsProduct quality, managerial/staff capabilities, knowledge, reputation, service quality and the territory/region emerge as most important resources, clearly aligning with the attributes of the RBV, namely, valuable, rare, imperfectly imitable and (non)substitutable resources. However, based on the RBV, the future-sustained competitive advantage is threatened by, among other factors, the firm’s finances, competition, red tape and the complexity of increasing sales.Originality/valueFundamentally, the research contributes to micro and small enterprise literature, and to the limited number of studies that have used the RBV of the firm in the context of micro and small wineries. This theoretical framework is used among wineries of one of the world’s leading wine producing nations. Some dimensions of this country’s wine industry have received limited academic attention. In addition, the study provides practical value in identifying resources, limitations, and threats at a time when micro and small wineries are seeking to develop or increase their international presence.
Whose decision is it anyway? A qualitative study of user participation and how clinicians deal with the patient perspective in mental healthcare
Authors: Mathisen Vår , Lorem Geir Fagerheim , Obstfelder Aud , Måseide Per 
Published: November 2016

Purpose
The concept of user participation is well accepted internationally. Nevertheless, studies show that both patients and health professionals find it challenging to maintain patient-centred ideals in the context of severe mental illness. The purpose of this paper is to explore how professionals deal with the ideals in light of patients’ right to participate in planning and decision making regarding milieu therapeutic measures and activities.

Design/methodology/approach
This is a qualitative study with an interactionist approach based on fieldwork at three district psychiatric centres in Norway during 2011-2012. The observations focused on patient-staff interaction in milieu therapeutic activities. Interviews were based on observed situations.

Findings
Adherence to treatment, rules and routines restricted patient autonomy. The professionals’ practical orientation towards routines overrode the ideals of patients’ rights. The staff regarded user participation primarily as participation in organised and mandatory activities. Refusal to comply was met with different sanctions, e.g. the prospect of being discharged.

Originality/value
Although user participation calls for patient-centred approaches, there is some debate about the challenges and premises for cooperation with persons suffering from severe mental conditions. This study adds insight into the everyday organisational context that facilitates or impedes user participation. It helps to explain why the user perspective can be overlooked, thus providing important information to both clinicians and policy makers who aim to fulfil the patient’s right to participate in planning and decision making regarding treatment and care.
Non Gaussian returns and pension funds asset allocation
Authors: Hamayon Stéphane , Legros Florence , Pradat Yannick 
Published: November 2016

PurposeThe authors aim to demonstrate the importance of taking into account “mean reversion” in asset prices and show that this type of modeling leads to a high share of equities in pension funds’ asset allocations.Design/methodology/approachFirst, the authors will study the long-run statistical characteristics of selected financial assets during the 1895-2011 period. Such an analysis corroborates the fact that, for long holding periods, equities exhibit lower risk than other asset classes. Moreover, they will provide empirical evidence that stock market returns are negatively skewed in the short term and show that this negative skewness vanishes over longer time horizons. Both these characteristics favor the use of a semi-parametric methodology.FindingsThis empirical study led to two major findings. First, the authors noticed that the distribution of stock returns is negatively skewed over short time horizons. Second, they observed that the fat-tailed shape of the returns distribution disappears for time periods longer than five years. Finally, they demonstrated that stock returns exhibit “mean-reversion”. Consequently, the optimization program should not only take into account the non-Gaussian nature of returns in the short run but also incorporate the speed at which volatility “mean reverts” to its long-run mean.Originality/valueTo simulate portfolio allocation, the authors used a Cornish–Fisher Value-at-Risk criterion with the advantage of providing an allocation that is independent of the saver’s preferences parameters. A backtesting analysis including a calculation of replacement rates shows a clear dominance of the “non-Gaussian” strategy because the retirement outcomes under such a strategy would be positively affected.
Brand personality, brand equity and revisit intention: an empirical study of a tourist destination in Iran
Authors: Salehzadeh Reza , Khazaei Pool Javad , Soleimani Samaneh 
Published: November 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine how brand personality and brand equity affect intentions to revisit a city tourism destination.

Design/methodology/approach
Statistical population of this research consisted of those visitors who traveled to Pool city in Iran during Spring 2015. A structural equation model test with maximum likelihood estimation was performed to test the relationship among the research variables using 367 participants.

Findings
The empirical results from the structural model suggest that brand personality and brand equity positively influenced revisit intention. Furthermore, brand personality was a direct antecedent of brand equity.

Originality/value
An integrated model of brand personality, brand equity and revisit intention was tested in a tourism city in the context of a developing economy. The combination of a developing country context and the significance of destination brand enhance the contextual contribution of the paper.
Hotel’s grid group structure and risk management practices
Authors: Waikar Vilas Govind , Hegde Desai Purva G. , Borde Nilesh 
Published: November 2016

Purpose
Risk management is an emerging research area in tourism and hospitality. This paper classifies hotels based on grid (control) and group (inter dependencies) structure given by the cultural theory of risk. This paper aims to understand whether hotels grouped as per grid group structure differ on risk coping strategies such as mitigation, absorption and transfer for various hospitality risks.

Design/methodology/approach
Primary data are collected from 112 senior managers of luxury hotels using structured questionnaire aimed to capture the grid group aspect and risk management practices. Using factor scores, hotels are grouped. One-way analysis of variance is performed on these data to ascertain whether risk management practices of various types of hotels differ.

Findings
Results provide new insights into hotels grid group aspect and risk-related behaviour, revealing that hotels significantly differ on risk coping and confirming that the structure of hotel – the grid and group – does impact its risk management practices.

Research limitations/implications
The study adds to the extant literature. For the first time, the grid group structure of hotel is proposed to impact the risk coping. Second, the risk perception study is conducted at firm level and not at individual level as done in past. Third, the paper looks at all three risk management practices and not in isolation, thus taking the risk research dialogue further. The study has not considered non-luxury hotels. Second limitation is a small sample of 112 hotels.

Practical implications
The study opens up a new perspective on hotel risk management. The researchers will benefit from the newer, theoretical understanding of firm-level complex structure of risk. The hotels risk professionals can benefit from understanding grid group structure and risk coping practices.

Originality/value
The novel approach of grid group classification of hotels is developed. Risk management practices are studied across hotel types for various risks. Study enhances the understanding of risk and grid group structure with regard to managing hospitality risk.
Kuwaiti consumers’ willingness to pay for environmental protection in Failaka island: a contingent valuation analysis
Authors: Mostafa Mohamed M. , Al-Hamdi Mohaned 
Published: November 2016

PurposeEvidence suggests that a growing number of consumers across the world are becoming more environmentally responsible in terms of their personal habits and lifestyles. In this paper, the authors aim to use both parametric and non-parametric econometric models to estimate Kuwaiti consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental protection in Failaka island.Design/methodology/approachContingent valuation methods based on log-logistic and log-normal regression models revealed that consumers in Kuwait are willing to pay a price premium of approximately 40 Kuwaiti dinars for environmental protection in Failaka island based on the double-bound dichotomous choice model.FindingsSocio-economic variables have no significant influence on the respondent’s WTP. As expected income has a positive relationship with WTP and bid price has negative relationship with WTP to protect the environment in Failaka island.Originality/valueThis study highlight the fact that understanding consumers’ environmental-friendly behaviors may play an important role in formulating environmental policy changes to face complex problems as diverse as environmental pollution or environmental degradation.
Preserved travel‐time smoothing in orthorhombic media
Authors: Xu Shibo , Stovas Alexey 
Published: November 2016

ABSTRACTCertain degree of smoothness of velocity models is required for most ray‐based migration and tomography. Applying conventional smoothing in model parameters results in offset‐dependent travel‐time errors for reflected events, which can be large even for small contrasts in model parameters between the layers. This causes the shift in both the depth and residual moveout of the migrated images. To overcome this problem in transversely isotropic medium with a vertical symmetry axis, the preserved travel‐time smoothing method was proposed earlier. We extend this method for orthorhombic media with and without azimuthal variation between the layers. We illustrate this method for a single interface between two orthorhombic layers and show that the smoothing‐driven errors in travel time are very small for practical application.
Increased identification of novel variants in type 2 diabetes, birth weight and their pleiotropic loci
Authors: Zeng Chun‐Ping , Chen Yuan‐Cheng , Lin Xu , Greenbaum Jonathan , Chen You‐Ping , Peng Cheng , Wang Xia‐Fang , Zhou Rou , Deng Wei‐Min , Shen Jie , Deng Hong‐Wen 
Published: November 2016

AbstractBackgroundClinical and epidemiological findings point to an association between type 2 diabetes (T2D) and low birth weight. However, the nature of the relationship is largely unknown. The aim of this study was to identify novel single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in T2D and birth weight, and their pleiotropic loci.MethodsA pleiotropy‐informed conditional false discovery rate (cFDR) method was applied to two independent genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) summary statistics of T2D (n = 149 821) and birth weight (n = 26 836).ResultsA conditional Q–Q plot showed strong enrichment of genetic variants in T2D conditioned on different levels of association with birth weight. 133 T2D‐associated SNPs, including 120 novel SNPs, were identified with a significance threshold of cFDR < 0.05; 13 significant birth weight‐associated SNPs, including 12 novel SNPs (cFDR < 0.05) were identified. Conjunctional cFDR (ccFDR) analysis identified nine pleiotropic loci, including seven novel loci, shared by both T2D and birth weight (ccFDR < 0.05). Two novel SNPs located at the CDK5 regulatory subunit‐associated protein 1‐like 1 (CDKAL1; rs1012635; cFDR < 0.05) and adenylate cyclase 5 (ADCY5; rs4677887; cFDR < 0.05) genes are of note. These two genes increase the risk of T2D and low birth weight through the pathway of the “fetal insulin hypothesis.”ConclusionSeveral pleiotropic loci were identified between T2D and birth weight by leveraging GWAS results. The results make it possible to explain a greater proportion of trait heritability and improve our understanding of the shared pathophysiology between T2D and birth weight.