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Participatory design, wicked problems, choosing by advantages
Authors: Kpamma Zoya Evans , Adjei-Kumi Theophilus , Ayarkwa Joshua , Adinyira Emmanuel 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The phenomenon of wicked problems is inextricably associated with a design process, especially participatory design. The management of wicked problems in participatory design, however, remains largely unexplored. The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of the choosing by advantages (CBA) decision system to manage wicked problems in participatory design.

Design/methodology/approach
Two case studies, involving the application of CBA to make typical participatory design decisions, are evaluated to establish how responsively the CBA decision system operates in the midst of wicked problems in participatory design.

Findings
Findings point to the exploitability of some elements and attributes of the CBA process to manage wicked problems in participatory design, to some extent. The observed collaborative attributes of CBA is particularly helpful and play a key role in mitigating the adverse effects of wicked problems on collaboration in this regard.

Practical implications
The recommendation of the paper is the incorporation of CBA in the development of stakeholder involvement frameworks for a design process.

Originality/value
This paper contributes to knowledge on relying on elements and the attributes of a decision-making system, such as CBA, to manage stakeholder involvement in the design process, particularly focussing on wicked problems. The CBA decision system still remains emergent regarding its application and research in the AEC industry.
Mapping the knowledge flow in sustainable construction project teams using social network analysis
Authors: Schröpfer Veronika Lilly Meta , Tah Joe , Kurul Esra 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine knowledge transfer (KT) practices in five construction projects delivering sustainable office buildings in Germany and the UK by using social network analysis (SNA).

Design/methodology/approach
Case studies were adopted as research strategy, with one construction project representing one case study. A combination of quantitative data, social network data and some qualitative data on perceptions of the sustainable construction process and its KT were collected through questionnaires. The data were analysed using a combination of descriptive statistics, cross-tabulations, content analysis and SNA. This resulted in a KT map of each sustainable construction project.

Findings
The findings resulted in a better understanding of how knowledge on sustainable construction is transferred and adopted. They show that large amounts of tacit knowledge were transferred through strong ties in sparse networks.

Research limitations/implications
The findings could offer a solution to secure a certain standard of sustainable building quality through improved KT. The findings indicate a need for further research and discussion on network density, tie strength and tacit KT.

Originality/value
This paper contributes to the literature on KT from a social network perspective. It provides a novel approach through combining concepts of network structure and relatedness in tie contents regarding specialised knowledge, i.e. sustainable construction knowledge. Thereby it provides a robust approach to mapping knowledge flows in office building projects that aim to achieve high levels of sustainability standards.
Analysis of delays in Tanzanian construction industry
Authors: Sambasivan Murali , Deepak T.J. , Salim Ali Nasoor , Ponniah Venishri 
Published: March 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to develop theoretical underpinnings using TCE, and second, to run the analysis using an advanced tool such as structural equation modeling (SEM).Design/methodology/approachThis study was conducted in the construction industry in Tanzania. A questionnaire-based survey method was used. A total of 308 respondents participated in the study. The relationships between the cause and effect factors were analyzed using SEM.FindingsThe important findings are as follows:cost overrun can be explained by consultant-related and material-related factors; disputes can be explained by cost overrun; arbitration can be explained by consultant-related, cost overrun, and dispute factors; litigation can be explained by client-related, disputes, and arbitration factors; and abandonment can be explained by consultant-related, external-related, disputes, arbitration, and litigation factors.Originality/valueThe main contributions of this study are theoretical development and comprehensive analyses of “cause” and “effect” factors of delays in the construction industry.
Managing housing needs of post conflict housing reconstruction: Sri Lankan perspective
Authors: Seneviratne Krisanthi , Amaratunga Dilanthi , Haigh Richard 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
Post conflict housing reconstruction is crucial to development and peacekeeping. However, the success of it, is hindered by a number of problems related to a lack of addressing housing needs. The purpose of this paper is to explore how such housing needs can be effectively managed in post conflict housing reconstruction in Sri Lanka.

Design/methodology/approach
Using the grounded theory method as the research strategy, unstructured interviews were conducted with policy makers, practitioners, beneficiaries and academics in Sri Lanka. Data were analysed using open, axial and selective coding to develop the theoretical framework.

Findings
The study reveals the challenges, contributing factors and strategies in addressing housing needs of accessibility, habitability, affordability, location, facilities, cultural considerations and security of land tenure. It also identifies the gaps and recommendations. The paper establishes the links between these and presents a theoretical framework for managing housing needs effectively in post conflict housing reconstruction in Sri Lanka.

Practical implications
This research enhances the success of post conflict housing reconstruction through addressing housing needs effectively, which contributes to sustainable housing development after conflicts.

Originality/value
The study combines the literature from five main areas: conflicts, post conflict, post conflict reconstruction, post conflict housing reconstruction and housing needs and provides a better understanding on how the housing needs can be managed during post conflict housing reconstruction in developing countries based on empirical evidence.
Effects of slip and rheological parameters on the flow and heat transfer of a Herschel-Bulkley fluid
Authors: Jing Zefeng , Wang Shuzhong , Zhai Zhende 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the combined effects of slip and rheological parameters on the flow and heat transfer of the Herschel-Bulkley fluid.

Design/methodology/approach
The combinative dimensionless parameter method is introduced into the equations of the slip flow and heat transfer to make the discussion more comprehensive. More specifically, the slip and rheological parameters are transformed into the dimensionless slip number as well as Herschel-Bulkley number. We solve the dimensionless equations and then focus on the effects of these parameters on the slip flow and heat transfer.

Findings
The results show that, for a given value of Herschel-Bulkley number, there is a finite critical value of slip number at which the pressure gradient reaches the lowest value and both the dimensionless yield radius and slip velocity become 1. Meanwhile, the Nusselt number tends to be infinite at this critical value of slip number. For the case of slip, the Nusselt number also approaches infinity at a finite critical value of Herschel-Bulkley number. Furthermore, the dimensionless velocity as well as temperature of the yield pseudoplastic fluid with higher slip number is lower within a small radius but becomes higher near the wall. Meanwhile, from the velocity and temperature profiles, the effect of Herschel-Bulkley number on these two parameters of the Bingham fluid at the smaller radius is opposite.

Originality/value
These associated expressions can be generalized to the flow and heat transfer of a Herschel-Bulkley fluid under slip boundary condition. It can provide a reference for the engineering application relating to the heat transfer and flow of a Herschel-Bulkley fluid. Meanwhile, it also suggests some revelations for dealing with this similar problem.
Talent management: a burgeoning strategic focus in Indian IT industry
Authors: Naim Mohammad Faraz , Lenka Usha 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the talent management (TM) system in an Indian IT organisation.

Design/methodology/approach
Structured interviews were conducted to collect primary data and then content was analysed to develop the case study.

Findings
Recruitment, talent development, knowledge management, social media, performance management, and rewards are the main practices associated with TM.

Research limitations/implications
The authors acknowledge that the scope of the study is limited to the IT sector and the study is not empirically tested.

Practical implications
HR managers should embrace the practices of TM of the case organisation to effectively manage their workforce.

Originality/value
This is a first study to unravel TM in the Indian IT industry context.
Southern Filipino school leaders and religious diversity: a typology
Authors: Brooks Melanie Carol 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how school principals in Southern Philippines approached issues related to religious diversity because of its long history of ethno-religious conflict. Religion has particular importance in the field of education, since how and in what ways religion is included in formal and non-formal curricula can have large bearing on student learning and engagement.

Design/methodology/approach
Data for this exploratory qualitative case study were collected over five months in Cagayan de Oro, located in Northern Mindanao, Philippines. The interview sample included 42 principals. School site observations took place in 23 public schools. Data were analyzed and sorted using an inductive and iterative process that thematically coded the data that focused broadly on leadership and religiosity.

Findings
The presentation of findings is organized by leadership typologies that emerged through the analysis of the data. Findings suggested that school leaders approached religious diversity in one of five ways, namely, as evangelical leaders, devotional leaders, separational leaders, respectful leaders, or uninformed leaders.

Originality/value
This study is a unique contribution to understanding how principal spirituality informs leadership, especially in the non-western cultural contexts where there is need for a localized leadership inquiry.
Same but different? An examination of Swedish upper secondary school teachers’ and students’ views and use of ICT in education
Authors: Lindberg Ola J. , Olofsson Anders D. , Fransson Göran 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine Swedish upper secondary school teachers’ and students’ views and use of ICT in education.

Design/methodology/approach
In total, 25 individual teachers and 39 students in small focus groups were interviewed. A qualitative content analysis was performed using NVivo11. The analysis was conducted in three steps: with each individual teacher, the student groups and the cohort of teachers and students. A comparative analysis was also conducted.

Findings
The teachers’ views and use of ICT are diverse. Teachers and students identify similar challenges when using ICT in education, e.g. time and subject, the shortcomings of a school’s learning management system (LMS) and teachers’ digital competence. Students report an extensive out-of-school use of smartphones and an extensive in-school use of laptops and LMS.

Research limitations/implications
The relatively small number of teachers and students in three schools make generalisations difficult. The examination of teachers’ and students’ views and use in the same context reveals new knowledge.

Practical implications
The study may influence teachers’ use of ICT in education, based on a better understanding of students’ use.

Social implications
The study may lead to a better understanding of teachers’ and students’ different perspectives and a more enhanced and sustainable in-school use of ICT.

Originality/value
The originality is that teachers’ and students’ views and use of ICT in education are examined at the same time. The paper contributes new knowledge about how teachers and students conceptualise and use ICT in upper secondary school practices.
The impact of demographic factors on selected aspects of e-learning in higher education
Authors: Aristovnik Aleksander , Tomazevic Nina , Kerzic Damijana , Umek Lan 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
In higher education, a combination of traditional face-to-face learning and e-learning is becoming very popular. During their studies, students are enroled in several e-courses. They perceive various aspects of e-courses and show different responses when using teaching materials and learning in an e-course. The purpose of this paper is to measure such aspects from the students’ perspective and explore the differences among various subgroups of students.

Design/methodology/approach
In the survey, students expressed their opinions on 13 different aspects (a seven-level scale) of the e-courses in which they were enroled. In addition, the influence of some demographic characteristics was analysed. The authors used statistical tests (t-test and ANOVA) to compare the means among the analysed subgroups.

Findings
The empirical results reveal some differences among the subgroups of students. Students’ attitudes to blended learning increase significantly by year of study and decrease according to the amount of other non-study activities. Simplicity of finding materials in an e-course is the factor where male and female students differ significantly. This finding serves as a guideline for faculty management concerned with how to adjust blended learning to fulfil the various expectations of different student subgroups.

Originality/value
This paper’s insights will be of value to individuals and institutions engaged in the e-learning process in higher education. In particular, the results will be helpful to the faculty management and teachers with the main task to increase the engagement of particular groups of students regarding the work in e-courses.
Online and store patronage: a typology of grocery shoppers
Authors: Harris Patricia , Dall’Olmo Riley Francesca , Riley Debra , Hand Chris 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
Grounded on approach/avoidance behaviour theory, the purpose of this paper is to develop a typology of grocery shoppers based on the concomitant perceived advantages and disadvantages of shopping online and in store for a single cohort of consumers who buy groceries in both channels.

Design/methodology/approach
A survey design was employed using a sample of 871 UK shoppers who had purchased groceries online and offline. The survey instrument contained items that measured the perceived advantages and disadvantages of grocery shopping online, and items relating to the perceived advantages and disadvantages of grocery shopping in traditional supermarkets. Items were selected from the extant literature and subjected to content and face validity checks. Cluster analysis was used to develop typologies of online and offline grocery shoppers. The inter-relation between the two typology sets was then examined.

Findings
The results of the research provide several insights into the characteristics, perceptions and channel patronage preferences of grocery shoppers. In particular, profiling e-grocery shoppers on the basis of their concomitant perceptions of shopping online and in store suggests that the choice of whether to shop online or in store may be driven not by the perceived advantages of one channel vs the other, but by the desire to avoid the greater disadvantages of the alternative. These perceptions differ somewhat between different consumer groups.

Originality/value
This study makes a noteworthy contribution to the internet and general shopping literature by providing a profile of grocery shoppers based on their concomitant and often conflicting perceived advantages and disadvantages of shopping online and their perceived advantages and disadvantages of shopping in traditional supermarkets. The use of a single cohort of consumers overcomes the bias in previous studies that employ separate cohorts of online and offline shoppers and reveal important insights into the complex perceptions and behaviours of multichannel grocery shoppers.
Competitiveness analysis through comparative relation mining
Authors: Wang Hongwei , Gao Song , Yin Pei , Liu James Nga-Kwok 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
Comparative opinions widely exist in online reviews as a common way of expressing consumers’ ideas or preferences toward certain products. Such opinion-rich texts are key proxies for detecting product competitiveness. The purpose of this paper is to set up a model for competitiveness analysis by identifying comparative relations from online reviews for restaurants based on both pattern matching and machine learning.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors define the sub-category of comparative sentences according to Chinese linguistics. Classification rules are set up for each type of comparative relations through class sequence rule. To improve the accuracy of classification, a comparative entity dictionary is then introduced for further identifying comparative sentences. Finally, the authors collect reviews for restaurants from Dianping.com to conduct experiments for testing the proposed model.

Findings
The experiments show that the proposed method outperforms the baseline methods in terms of precision in identifying comparative sentences. On the basis of such comparison-rich sentences, product features and comparative relations are extracted for sentiment analysis, and sentimental score is assigned to each comparative relation to facilitate competitiveness analysis.

Research limitations/implications
Only the explicit comparative relations are discussed, neglecting the implicit ones. Besides that, the study is grounded in the assumption that all features are homogeneous. In some cases, however, the weights to different aspects are not of the same importance to market.

Practical implications
On the basis of comparative relation mining, product features and comparative opinions are extracted for competitiveness analysis, which is of interest to businesses for finding weakness or strength of products, as well as to consumers for making better purchase decisions.

Social implications
Comparative relation mining could be possibly applied in social media for identifying relations among users or products, and ranking users or products, as well as helping companies target and track competitors to enhance competitiveness.

Originality/value
The authors propose a research framework for restaurant competitiveness analysis by mining comparative relations from online consumer reviews. The results would be able to differentiate one restaurant from another in some aspects of interest to consumers, and reveal the changes in these differences over time.
A two-sided matching decision method for supply and demand of technological knowledge
Authors: Liu Yong , Li Kevin W. 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel prospect-based two-sided matching decision model for matching supply and demand of technological knowledge assisted by a broker. This model enables the analyst to account for the stakeholders’ psychological behaviours and their impact on the matching decision in an open innovation setting.

Design/methodology/approach
The prospect theory and grey relational analysis are used to develop the proposed two-sided matching decision framework.

Findings
By properly calibrating model parameters, the case study demonstrates that the proposed approach can be applied to real-world technological knowledge trading in a market for technology (MFT) and yields matching results that are more consistent with the reality.

Research limitations/implications
The proposed model does not differentiate the types of knowledge exchanged (established vs novel, tacit vs codified, general vs specialized) (Ardito et al., 2016, Nielsen and Nielsen, 2009). Moreover, the model focuses on incorporating psychological behaviour of the MFT participants and does not consider their other characteristics.

Practical implications
The proposed model can be applied to achieve a better matching between technological knowledge suppliers and users in a broker-assisted MFT.

Social implications
A better matching between technological knowledge suppliers and users can enhance the success of open innovation, thereby contributing to the betterment of the society.

Originality/value
This paper furnishes a novel theoretical model for matching supply and demand in a broker-assisted MFT. Methodologically, the proposed model can effectively capture market participants’ psychological considerations.
Business analytics-enabled decision-making effectiveness through knowledge absorptive capacity in health care
Authors: Wang Yichuan , Byrd Terry Anthony 
Published: March 2017

PurposeDrawing on the resource-based theory and dynamic capability view, this paper aims to examine the mechanisms by which business analytics (BA) capabilities (i.e. the effective use of data aggregation, analytics and data interpretation tools) in healthcare units indirectly influence decision-making effectiveness through the mediating role of knowledge absorptive capacity.Design/methodology/approachUsing a survey method, this study collected data from the hospitals in Taiwan. Of the 155 responses received, three were incomplete, giving a 35.84 per cent response rate with 152 valid data points. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses.FindingsThis study conceptualizes, operationalizes and measures the BA capability as a multi-dimensional construct that is formed by capturing the functionalities of BA systems in health care, leading to the conclusion that healthcare units are likely to obtain valuable knowledge through using the data analysis and interpretation tools effectively. The effective use of data analysis and interpretation tools in healthcare units indirectly influence decision-making effectiveness, an impact that is mediated by absorptive capacity.Originality/valueThis study adds values to the literature by conceptualizing BA capabilities in healthcare and demonstrating how knowledge absorption matters when implementing BA to the decision-making process. The mediating role of absorptive capacity not only provides a mechanism by which BA can contribute to decision-making practices but also offers a new solution to the puzzle of the IT productivity paradox in healthcare settings.