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A conceptual continuous improvement implementation framework for UK manufacturing companies
Authors: McLean Richard Scott , Antony Jiju 
Published: June 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to review current continuous improvement implementation models and frameworks, and present a new conceptual framework tailored specifically to the needs of UK manufacturing companies.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper details the in-depth review of 20 existing models or frameworks for continuous improvement implementation, demonstrating the need for a new industry and region specific solution. Through the incorporation of previous findings from literature, coupled with the positive aspects of the current offerings, a new conceptual framework for continuous improvement implementation in UK manufacturing companies is presented.

Findings
The paper demonstrates the need for industry and region specific frameworks and demonstrates that current models and frameworks do not completely fulfil the objective of the research. A new continuous improvement implementation framework is therefore presented in a user friendly format, comprising positive aspects of previous models and frameworks where applicable.

Research limitations/implications
The focus of the research is limited to the UK and the manufacturing industry. It is therefore not clear the applicability of the framework presented to other regions and industries. The framework presented is also conceptual at this stage and requires validation through interview and application.

Practical implications
The framework presented will provide senior managers wishing to implement continuous improvement an understanding of the high level process, as well as awareness of their role within the roll out. Overall, the framework provides a clear guide whilst also allowing for individual tailoring of the elements contained to the needs of the company.

Originality/value
The paper presents a new conceptual framework; the first to be tailored to the needs of UK manufacturing companies. The framework has also been demonstrated to be a more robust solution than those currently in existence.
Adult safeguarding in Northern Ireland: prevention, protection, partnership
Authors: Montgomery Lorna , McKee Joyce 
Published: June 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to outline and critique the current model of adult safeguarding in Northern Ireland (NI).Design/methodology/approachThe paper offers a critical analysis of adult safeguarding, legislation, policy and practice. Insights are offered from the Regional Adult Safeguarding Officer for NI, and available research evidence is cited.FindingsDistinct features of Northern Irish society have shaped its adult safeguarding policy and practice in ways which differ from those in England, Scotland and Wales. The strengths and limitations of the legal and policy framework, and practice systems are discussed.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper offers the viewpoint of the authors, which may not be representative.Practical implicationsThe potential advantages and challenges of the Northern Irish safeguarding systems are presented, and potential future developments are highlighted.Social implicationsChanges have been highlighted in the way adult safeguarding has been conceptualised. An emphasis on prevention and early intervention activities, with a key role envisaged for community, voluntary and faith sector organisations, have been noted.Originality/valueThis paper provides an accessible overview of adult safeguarding in NI, which to date has been lacking from the literature.
Understanding organizational change for alliancing
Authors: B.M. Keers Bianca , C. van Fenema Paul , Zijm Henk 
Published: June 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine an organization’s operational alignment in the process of alliance formation.Design/methodology/approachA literature study was conducted on the strategic importance of assessing and aligning organizations’ operations for alliancing. Furthermore, an instrumental case study was conducted to provide insight in the degree of operational alignment required for a maritime organization to form a service alliance.FindingsManagers indicate a complex set of organizational capabilities required for improving operating process to successfully execute their alliance strategy. Two improvement trajectories were found to be used by alliance managers for aligning operations with alliance strategy: development of a corporate alliance infrastructure, and nurturing a collaborative business culture.Research limitations/implicationsThe research is limited to one public organization establishing a vertical service alliance with one of its suppliers.Originality/valueThe paper introduces a new conceptual model of the alliance formation process, addressing the cyclical character of the pre-formation stage in which intra- and interorganizational management considerations alternate.
Analysis of novelty of a scientific text as a basis for assessment of efficiency of scientific activities
Authors: Dynich Andrei , Wang Yanzhang 
Published: June 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to complement an available system of qualitative analysis of efficiency of scientific activities with assessment of novelty of a subject of research that gives a more complete pattern for evaluating the efficiency of efforts of both scientists and research teams.

Design/methodology/approach
The approach is based on detection of specified linguistic patterns with further evaluation of similarity and novelty scores of obtained definitions at the sentence level.

Findings
This work presents an algorithm of automatic search for a new subject of research in scientific papers on the basis of statistical and linguistic analyses of description of new terms. Application of patterns specified in a given manuscript with further utilization of well-known methods of similarity and novelty detection scores makes it possible to evaluate the degree of novelty of a subject of research.

Practical implications
As a practical application of the proposed algorithm, the algorithm of determination of authority of a scientist will facilitate assessment of personal contributions of certain authors made in a certain field of study.

Originality/value
The main contribution of a given manuscript is in application of linguistic patterns recognition and calculation of similarity and novelty scores to the area of scientific results with further proposition of the method of automatic search for a new subject of research in scientific manuscripts.
Developing entrepreneurial and employability attributes through marketing projects with SMEs
Authors: O’Leary Simon 
Published: June 2017

PurposeThis research aims to assess how marketing-related projects with small- and medium-size enterprises act as a form of experiential learning and help develop entrepreneurial and employability attributes for students in higher education (HE).Design/methodology/approachThe research is based on published material and an evaluation, within HE, of consultancy projects as a final assessment option alongside the well-established dissertation.FindingsExternal initiatives that embrace experiential learning have helped students develop a better appreciation of client needs, while enhancing their confidence and team-working skills. The institutional degree programme studied is in its seventh year and more than half of students have chosen the project option so far. One key finding is the pivotal role of the academic supervisor and a need for that person to have suitable industry and sector knowledge, as well as effective and empathetic client relationship management abilities.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is limited to one programme at one university but, as it encompasses a very broad definition of marketing-related activities, covers several years and is part of a longer-term longitudinal study, it constitutes research from which some conclusions can be drawn.Practical implicationsIn addition to enhancing the students’ entrepreneurial and employability attributes, outward-facing activities help enrich the overall student experience and also offer HE institutions an opportunity to raise their profile with external organisations.Social implicationsWith graduate employability rising in importance, initiatives such as these can help develop important graduate attributes and capabilities.Originality/valueThe principal originality and value is that this is a starting point for a potential longitudinal study of the impact of experiential learning and client-orientated projects on graduate career development.
An entrepreneurial relationship marketing approach to B2B selling
Authors: Addison Donald P. , Lingham Tony , Uslay Can , Lee Olivia F. 
Published: June 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the entrepreneurial practice of intellectual capital sharing (ICS) with client organizations and assess its potential for collaborative business-to-business (B2B) relationship building. B2B collaborations within the traditional marketing paradigm are restricted due to perceived opportunism.Design/methodology/approachThe research is based on the grounded theory approach and involves 22 semi-structured interviews with the employees of a focal organization and its five client organizations regarding 36 implemented projects. Interviews were transcribed, coded and analyzed via constant comparison to surface codes, categories, concepts and themes from which the authors developed propositions based on the particular context of this study.FindingsICS approach helps customers to reconstruct sellers’ identity from one characterized by opportunism and arm’s length relationships to one defined by openness and collaboration. Identified benefits of ICS include higher trust, commitment, social bonding, value co-creation, individual and organizational performance and learning. Eight propositions and a model of ICS consequences are presented.Research limitations/implicationsThe context of the study is limited to a single industry – financial services – however, the findings should be highly relevant for other sales contexts characterized by low buyer trust.Practical implicationsEntrepreneurial marketers can engage in ICS approach quickly at minimal cost, as the capabilities and talent are typically already internal to the organization.Originality/valueThis paper examines a unique relational approach to serving clients called ICS that de-emphasizes the sale. Subject matter experts help buyers overcome challenges outside the scope of the traditional marketing paradigm.
The loneliness of personality disorder: a phenomenological study
Authors: Sagan Olivia 
Published: June 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the experience of loneliness amongst people who have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

Design/methodology/approach
The research used a narrative phenomenological approach.

Findings
The study found that the loneliness experienced amongst this group of participants was perceived to have taken root in childhood and was not a transient state. Its endurance, however, had led participants to develop a number of strategies as means by which to manage what was felt to be a deep seated painful sense of emptiness; some of these strategies were, however, risky or harmful.

Research limitations/implications
Limitations of the study include the absence of longitudinal data which would have offered the opportunity for the close study of how people manage the experience over time.

Practical implications
The study has practical implications for mental health professionals wishing to better understand the difficulties faced by individuals with the characteristics described, but it also highlights the resilience of sufferers who, while living with acute loneliness continue to explore ways of managing it.

Social implications
The study brings to the attention that the connectivity and sociability required and expected in today’s society emphasise the lack of lonely individuals, further stigmatising loneliness as deficit and taboo.

Originality/value
The paper offers a welcome addition to loneliness studies in its adherence to the phenomenological experience and offers a small corrective to the bulk of existing loneliness studies which, while valuable have been more attentive to exploring the constituent elements of loneliness than the lived experience of it.
Emerging student needs disrupting higher education
Authors: Hines Andy 
Published: June 2017

Purpose
A research project exploring emerging student needs identified two potentially disruptive shifts for the future of higher education: a shift in balance of power from institutions toward the students and a shift in the purpose of higher education away from job preparation. The research suggests that current drivers are eventually moving toward these shifts but that several “accelerators” may hasten their arrival. The paper aims to describe the process for identifying the emerging needs, the potentially disruptive shifts and key implications for higher education.

Design/methodology/approach
A modified version of the University of Houston’s “Framework Foresight” method was used to identify the emerging needs, the disruptive shifts and their implications.

Findings
Emerging student needs suggest two potential disruptive shifts for higher education: shift in balance of power from institutions toward the students and shift in the purpose of higher education away from job preparation.

Practical implications
Current institutions of higher education may need to reconsider their purpose, mission and value proposition in light of these disruptive shifts.

Social implications
Beyond just higher education, there is a need for a larger society-wide dialogue about the emerging future and how to best prepare students for it.

Originality/value
This extensive research carried out from the student perspective suggests disruptive shifts ahead relating to the purpose and future of higher education.
Creating a growth mindset
Authors: Johnston Ian 
Published: June 2017

Purpose
This paper aims to show that everything a business does is fundamentally reliant on its culture. Culture determines how successful a strategy is and whether that strategy can be executed. If the culture in a business is out of alignment, it is imperative to change it. This paper examines how HR professionals can take ownership of this cultural space and help to create a growth mindset throughout the organisation.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based on experience gained through working with several large organisations to transform their people culture and performance by embracing a growth mindset and to help their HR leadership become the early champions of change, thus ensuring the process was successfully delivered. The paper includes case studies of two organisations where successful cultural shaping delivered improved results.

Findings
Companies with a growth mindset will outperform those with a fixed mindset. Changing mindsets is not overly complex, but it requires flawless implementation with the HR leaders at the forefront.

Originality/value
As Lou Gerstner, who turned around the computing giant IBM, said “I finally realised that culture is not part of the game, it is the game”. By understanding how individual mindsets impact culture, HR professionals can own and drive their organisation’s culture-shaping efforts.
Lessons Learnt from the EU‐Turkey Refugee Agreement in Guiding EU Migration Partnerships with Origin and Transit Countries
Authors: Haferlach Lisa , Kurban Dilek 
Published: June 2017

AbstractSince it took effect, the EU‐Turkey refugee agreement has been the subject of intense debate. While critics argue that it was politically short‐sighted, others point out that quick action was necessary to avert both a humanitarian crisis in Greece and the collapse of the Schengen system due to the unwillingness of EU member states to share responsibility. Since the agreement took effect, the most serious problems lay in the implementation process, which has revealed a troubling tendency among EU leaders to disregard the fundamental human rights abuses in Turkey. In the southeast, for example, the Turkish government is waging a full‐blown war against its Kurdish population, while a failed coup d’état in July 2016 put the country under a state of emergency that has led to even greater repression and growing reports of violations of asylum law. Ultimately, this agreement may fail, but it will remain necessary for the EU to cooperate with Turkey in order to control migration and work towards developing a comprehensive migration policy. Drawing on lessons from the agreement, this paper shall consider ways forward for future EU migration agreements with third countries.
Towards the European Union's Foreign Policy 2025 – Taking Stock of the Dahrendorf Foresight Project
Authors: Sus Monika 
Published: June 2017

AbstractAfter a decade of economic and political crises, the European Union has arrived at a critical juncture, as has its foreign policy. The long‐running debate on gaining more coherence in EU's external action as a global security provider has gained more traction than ever before. The Union is weakened due to recent internal crises from which it is only slowly recovering: the trust placed in Brussels’ institutions by both European citizens and global partners is shrinking and the citizens of one of the EU's largest member states, the United Kingdom, have just voted to leave. Based on an analysis of the current state of the Union, this paper takes stock of the outcomes of the Dahrendorf Foresight Project and looks ahead at the EU's role in the world of 2025. By following the narrative of driving forces beyond the EU's foreign policy, this article makes four policy recommendations for development within the next decade.
After Brexit: Risks and Opportunities to EU–China Relations
Authors: Yu Jie 
Published: June 2017

AbstractAs a result of Brexit, China faces both enormous economic challenges and political uncertainties in future relations with its largest trading partner, the EU. But while the UK's vote to leave creates an unexpected dilemma for the Chinese leadership, whose EU policy focuses largely on gaining vast market access, it also presents a rare opportunity for China to harness its policy instruments and diversify its initiatives to pursue its economic goals with European partners. As a pre‐condition to achieving the desired outcome, however, Beijing will need to untangle its foreign policy decision‐making processes. Against this backdrop, the author will illuminate post‐Brexit Sino–British relations and reflect on the possible impacts of Brexit upon future relations between Beijing and Brussels. A second section will analyse the very complex foreign policy making mechanism in Beijing in terms of its economic policy goals with the EU.
Epigenetic regulation by G9a/GLP complex ameliorates amyloid‐beta 1‐42 induced deficits in long‐term plasticity and synaptic tagging/capture in hippocampal pyramidal neurons
Authors: Sharma Mahima , Dierkes Tobias , Sajikumar Sreedharan 
Published: June 2017

SummaryAltered epigenetic mechanisms are implicated in the cognitive decline associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as in Alzheimer's disease (AD). AD is the most prevalent form of dementia worldwide; amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are the histopathological hallmarks of AD. We have recently reported that the inhibition of G9a/GLP complex promotes long‐term potentiation (LTP) and its associative mechanisms such as synaptic tagging and capture (STC). However, the role of this complex in plasticity impairments remains elusive. Here, we investigated the involvement of G9a/GLP complex in alleviating the effects of soluble Amyloid‐β 1‐42 oligomers (oAβ) on neuronal plasticity and associativity in the CA1 region of acute hippocampal slices from 5‐ to 7‐week‐old male Wistar rats. Our findings demonstrate that the regulation of G9a/GLP complex by inhibiting its catalytic activity reverses the amyloid‐β oligomer‐induced deficits in late‐LTP and STC. This is achieved by releasing the transcription repression of the brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (Bdnf) gene. The catalytic inhibition of G9a/GLP complex leads to the upregulation of Bdnf expression in the slices treated with oAβ. This further ensures the availability of BDNF that subsequently binds its receptor tyrosine kinase B (TrkB) and maintains the late‐LTP. Furthermore, the capture of BDNF by weakly activated synapses re‐establishes STC. Our findings regarding the reinstatement of functional plasticity and associativity in AD‐like conditions provide the first evidence for the role of G9a/GLP complex in AD. We propose G9a/GLP complex as the possible target for preventing oAβ‐induced plasticity deficits in hippocampal neurons.
Laparoscopic ileopexy for afferent limb syndrome after ileal pouch‐anal anastomosis
Authors: Okita Yoshiki , Araki Toshimitsu , Hiro Junichiro , Kondo Satoru , Fujikawa Hiroyuki , Yoshiyama Shigeyuki , Inoue Mikihiro , Toiyama Yuji , Kobayashi Minako , Ohi Masaki , Inoue Yasuhiro , Uchida Keiichi , Mohri Yasuhiko , Kusunoki Masato 
Published: June 2017

AbstractAfferent limb syndrome (ALS) is caused by an obstruction of the afferent intestinal limb after ileal pouch‐anal anastomosis. Here, we describe the first case of ALS to be successfully treated by a laparoscopic approach. A 27‐year‐old man underwent ileal pouch‐anal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis. He was subsequently diagnosed with ALS and underwent ileopexy with laparotomy at 33 years old. Then, 21 months after the first ileopexy, he underwent laparoscopic ileopexy for ALS recurrence. The operative findings revealed a shortened fixed portion of the afferent limb adhering to the right pelvic retroperitoneum, which was regarded as the cause of the acute angulation. The portion of the afferent limb fixed to the abdominal wall was extended under laparoscopic visualization by suturing above the level of the iliac crest. At the 12‐month follow‐up, the patient remained free of symptoms of obstruction. Laparoscopic ileopexy should be the procedure of choice for patients with ALS.
Combined laparoscopic resection of intestinal stenosis of Garré and open preperitoneal mesh repair for irreducible femoral hernia
Authors: Soeta Nobutoshi , Saito Takuro , Higuchi Mitsunori , Nemoto Tetsutaro , Matsuida Hazime , Oshibe Ikuro 
Published: June 2017

AbstractIntestinal stenosis of Garré is a rare condition caused by a benign fibrous bowel stricture due to complicated strangulated hernia. We present a case of intestinal stenosis of Garré associated with right femoral hernia in an 85‐year‐old woman. The patient visited our hospital with a 2‐day history of vomiting. Her abdomen was slightly distended. A mass was palpated in the right groin region. CT showed prolapse of the small intestine in the right groin region. An incarcerated right femoral hernia was diagnosed and manually reduced. Thirteen days later, the patient complained of abdominal pain. CT revealed dilatation and caliber change in part of the small bowel, indicating a small bowel obstruction due to intestinal stenosis of Garré. Laparoscopic release of the bowel obstruction and femoral hernia repair via an anterior approach were performed simultaneously. No recurrence of femoral hernia or bowel obstruction was noted at the 15‐month follow‐up.