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Donor funded Open Educational Resources: making the case
Authors: Valentino Maura L. 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to explain the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) and how libraries can make a good case to donors to fund these types of projects.

Design/methodology/approach
– The literature reveals that donors have been willing to support projects that save students money on textbooks. Course reserves have traditionally been a popular model. More recently, libraries have found funding for OER initiatives. These types of initiatives are discussed and several case studies of donors currently funding OER projects are examined.

Findings
– Donors, internal and external to the library and to the university, have shown an interest in funding projects that reduce textbook costs for students. They have funded course reserves in the past and have begun to fund OER projects. There are both qualitative and quantitative methods to induce donors to fund these types of projects.

Practical implications
– Libraries have traditionally supported the mission of access to information and for academic libraries that has sometimes included access to textbooks. Course reserves are a limited solution, whereas when an OER replaces an expensive textbook, it is a viable solution for all students.

Social implications
– OERs have strong social implications. Any person, whether associated with an institution of higher learning, or not, can access the information in an OER and learn the associated content.

Originality/value
– There is some literature on specific OER projects. This paper aims to fill a gap in the literature, specifically on how to approach donors regarding OER initiatives.
The Danish SSP model – prevention through support and co-operation
Authors: Pedersen Jørgen , Stothard Blaine 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to provide an outline of the origins, rationale and ways of working of the Danish schools, social services, police (SSP) system.

Design/methodology/approach
– Narrative account of origins and contexts and discussion of implications for other nations and contribution to knowledge of prevention work.

Findings
– The SSP system represents an involvement by Danish state institutions in the welfare and development of young people. Practice indicates its broad acceptance by parents, young people and professionals. Recent extension of SSP work is demonstrating some of the limitations of the approach in working with alienated young people.

Research limitations/implications
– The present SSP system relies on local evaluation and assessment. Wider national and longitudinal evaluation needs further consideration.

Practical implications
– The need for a career structure and continuing and nationally consistent professional development opportunities was identified in a previous evaluation.

Social implications
– SSP enjoys broad acceptance amongst parents, young people and professionals in that it provides a universal input into young people’s well-being and social integration. It is proving less successful in work in some urban areas with high levels of alienation amongst older young people. There is also a need for re-statement of confidentiality aspects.

Originality/value
– The paper provides an insight into and overview of a cross-disciplinary approach to young people’s development and well-being where the state plays a key and accepted role. The rationale is equally relevant to the UK and other countries.
The barriers to sustaining and scaling-up housing experiments in community-care: the Dutch experience
Authors: Cramer Hendrik , Voordijk Hans , Dewulf Geert 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to provide new insights into barriers to sustaining and scaling-up housing and community-care innovations related to changing the long-term care (LTC) system.

Design/methodology/approach
– Two housing and community-care experiments were studied. The 11 barriers and four core themes identified to the scaling-up of these experiments were analysed using the three theoretical concepts from the transitions literature: shielding, nurturing, and empowering innovations.

Findings
– The barriers included shielding through subsidies without having organizational or political commitment, nurturing networks that underestimated the size of the housing and community-care innovations, and a failed empowerment because of regulatory uncertainty – not knowing the rules of tomorrow and ignoring the reality that it takes time to spread the lessons learnt in experiments.

Research limitations/implications
– Housing and community-care innovations need to pay less attention to subsidies and focus more on learning from the experiments, spreading the ideas, and creating commitment from policymakers so that the innovations become empowered.

Originality/value
– Empirical insights into the barriers to sustaining and scaling-up housing and community-care innovations into the LTC system are provided and propositions for future transition programmes formulated.
History of abuse and the experience of homelessness: a framework for assisting women overcome housing instability
Authors: Osuji Joseph , Hirst Sandra 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore the lived experiences of women without children experiencing housing instability and homelessness in Calgary, Canada; and narratives of what triggered their journeys were constructed according to the tenets of hermeneutic phenomenology, and suggest a framework for assisting these women.

Design/methodology/approach
– The design for this study is qualitative, approached through hermeneutic phenomenology rooted in Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics (Gadamer, 2004). Hermeneutic phenomenology, as a research method has provided insight into understanding phenomena and human experiences that are important to human science professionals.

Findings
– The experience of homelessness for women without children started while they still lived at home, but after they lost all sense of “being at home” as a consequence of identifiable negative home experiences, such as abuse. The effects or impacts of stable childhood or adult home experiences and the implications of such in contributing to the feelings of homelessness were pervasive in the stories told by these women.

Practical implications
– Access to housing does not mean getting out of the feeling of homelessness, because the trauma that triggers the experience for the clients often last for a life time. Long-term engagement with the client will be synonymous to increasing the possibility that they can be stabilized permanently. Resources dedicated to these clients must be tailored to each client’s needs, with strong agency collaboration with the mainstream systems.

Social implications
– Community health nurses and other support workers for individuals experiencing homelessness need to build bridges with inter-professional groups to close the gap created by societal attitudes toward women and domestic abuse survivors through advocacy and education, especially in countries where women are still treated as second class citizens.

Originality/value
– Although there has been a considerable amount of research conducted on the determinants of homelessness and housing instabilities in women or their pathways into homelessness, the plight of women without children and their experiences while homeless have received little attention in literature. This study explored the lived experiences of women without children experiencing homelessness and narratives of what triggered their journeys were constructed according to the tenets of hermeneutic phenomenology, and suggest a framework for assisting these women.
Who is left standing when the tide retreats? Negotiating hospital discharge and pathways of care for homeless people
Authors: Whiteford Martin , Simpson Glenn 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– The critical potential of hospital discharge policies and practices to ameliorate the health and social care needs of homeless people has become the focus of considerable interest in England. Central to this rise in policy formation and practice development is an acute understanding of the multiple exclusions homeless people face in navigating public health and social care systems. In ways small and large this nascent landscape is serving to redefine and reshape hospital arrangements for homeless people, and opening-up new ways to deliver care across clinical, social and therapeutic boundaries. The purpose of this paper is to seek to add empirical vigour and theoretical rigour to this unfolding policy and practice terrain.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper draws on findings from a case study concerned with exploring and explaining how statutory and voluntary sector organisations use specialist hospital discharge policies and practices to coordinate pathways of care for homeless people.

Findings
– This paper illustrates how people affected by homelessness and ill-health are routinely denied access to statutory housing support, social work assessments and district nursing provision through acts of institutional gatekeeping and professional abrogation.

Originality/value
– This paper makes an important contribution to understandings of the connections between hospital discharge arrangements for homeless people and statutory housing, social work and district nursing provision.
Development and initial validation of a hospitality employees’ job satisfaction index
Authors: McPhail Ruth , Patiar Anoop , Herington Carmel , Creed Peter , Davidson Michael 
Published: November 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a self-reporting tool: the hospitality employee’ satisfaction index.Design/methodology/approach– The 15-item instrument presented in this study was developed through an examination of the extant literature and seven focus groups representing the hospitality industry. The instrument was piloted online with 1,000 hospitality employees, refined and then distributed online to 9,000 hospitality employees.Findings– Factor analysis extracted three factors (career advancement, control and variety and relationships), and reliability analysis (Cronbach’s alpha) indicated high internal consistency. A stepwise multiple regression revealed that the control and variety factor related most strongly to overall job satisfaction, followed by relationships and career advancement factors, confirming that in the context of the hospitality industry, these factors were important in the measurement of job satisfaction. Control and variety was significantly related to the intention to stay in the job, and career advancement and control and variety were related to the intention to stay in the hospitality industry.Research limitations/implications– The data were gathered in Australia and were tested nationally to support the robustness of the instrument. Therefore, the hospitality industry can use this instrument as a generic index to evaluate the job satisfaction levels of employees.Originality/value– This specifically designed hospitality job satisfaction instrument can be used to evaluate the job satisfaction of employees at all levels and can be used in the development of a benchmark. This index is the first of its kind to be tested in the broader hospitality context, including accommodation, restaurants, coffee shops, fast food, clubs, hotels, convention, sporting venues, catering and institutional catering.
Exploring backpackers’ perceptions of the hostel service quality
Authors: Brochado Ana , Rita Paulo , Gameiro Carlos 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of backpackers’s evaluation of service quality provided by hostels by developing a battery of items to assess perceptions of the overall hostel experience.

Design/methodology/approach
– Scale development took a mixed approach that combines qualitative and quantitative research. First, the authors performed a content analysis of reviews provided by guests in hostel booking web sites, in-depth interviews with hostel managers and focus groups with guests, to develop a battery of items to assess the hostel experience from the guests’ perspective. Then, a quantitative survey (n = 222) was conducted, to explore the dimensionality of service quality in this sector. Lisbon hostels are the target of this study, as they received several awards based on the online reviews of backpackers.

Findings
– The results revealed that service quality is a multidimensional concept and includes six dimensions, namely, social atmosphere, location and city connection, staff, cleanliness, security and facilities. Regression results revealed that the social atmosphere appears to be a core service dimension crucial to create a sense of hostel guest’s overall quality.

Originality/value
– The findings suggest that service quality scales should incorporate the specific characteristics of the hotel industry. The quality of the staff and the social atmosphere are of utmost importance to enhance the hostel backpacker experience.
Accounting for the visiting economist syndrome
Authors: Lepenies Philipp 
Published: November 2015

Purpose– Economic experts play a decisive role in development aid. Yet their propensity to prescribe universal solutions to developmental challenges without an in-depth knowledge of local circumstances has been criticized time and again as the “visiting economist syndrome.” The purpose of this paper is to investigate the historic foundations of this oft-criticized behavioral pattern, adding a missing historical dimension to a contemporary discussion.Design/methodology/approach– The main method employed is historical analysis, or to be more precise, an examination of the history of ideas. The question to be answered with this method is: where and in what context did the idea of the know-it-all “development expert” emerge?Findings– The commonly observed behavioral pattern of development experts has its roots in a coherent development mindset invented by one particular thinker and expounded in one particular text in the late eighteenth century. As will be shown, the “visiting economist” is an integral part of the western notions of progress and civilization.Practical implications– The paper contributes to an ongoing discussion. By identifying the hitherto overlooked historical foundations of current expert behavior, it can suggest new directions based on a reassessment of the fundamental assumptions regarding the notions of progress and development.Originality/value– The paper will sensitize those interested in or working in the field of development to the fact that much of the current practice is influenced by mindsets that emerged several 100 years ago. Links to the past are seldom considered in a field focussed on improving the future. Nonetheless, such an approach is invaluable if genuine change in expert behavior is to be achieved.
Mediating role of opinion seeking in explaining the relationship between antecedents and organic food purchase intention
Authors: Pandey Shivendra Kumar , Khare Arpita 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to understand the effect of antecedents like environmental consciousness and cosmopolitanism (COS) on organic food purchase intention (OFPI) with the possible mediation of opinion seeking (OS) and opinion leadership (OL).

Design/methodology/approach
– A model drawn largely from environmental value–attitude–system model (Dembkowski and Hanmer-Lloyd, 1994) has been proposed and tested. Primary data from four cities across India were collected using a survey.

Findings
– COS was the primary factor determining purchase intention. A full mediation of OS behaviour was observed between environmental consciousness and OFPI. No effect of OL on OFPI could be established.

Research limitations/implications
– Because COS is positively affecting the organic food patronage and cosmopolitans are more likely to be socially responsible consumers, the organic food (OF) manufacturers should target brick and mortar stores in more cosmopolitan cities like Bangalore, Delhi, etc. The mediating role of OS has wider implications for marketers and advertisers both. In line with both theoretical underpinning (theory of planned behaviour), empirical studies (Chakrabarti and Baisya, 2009) and ours, it seems that the customer seeks credible information before purchasing organic food. The word-of-mouth and social media are recommended channels for similar reasons. The websites are a must for OF manufacturers because retailers may not provide adequate promotion/information of the products to the consumers.

Practical implications
– This study enables marketers in the field of OF domain to target the customers better. It also guides them to have a good integrated marketing communication to cater to the opinion-seeking phenomenon of consumers.

Originality/value
– The paper investigates the OFPI model better suited to urban cities in India. COS construct usage is a novelty of the paper as well as the mediation of opinion-seeking behaviour. Findings have value both for researchers and practitioners in the OF domain.
Wholesome learning about self and others through sensitivity training
Authors: Awasthy Richa , Jaisinghani Dinesh , Gupta Rajen K 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of the present paper is to examine the role of sensitivity training (ST) methods at higher education institutions as a service provider for future managers’ qualifications.

Design/methodology/approach
– A qualitative content analysis of the narratives logs of participants of a ST was carried out.

Findings
– The data collected reveal influential impact of ST on MBA students. It discusses the students’ journey from unknowing to knowing through self-discovery route. Specifically, there are five connecting points in ST: experience, trust, understand, learn and apply. At an abstraction level, overall this experience can be equated with feeling of being “self rejuvenated”.

Research limitations/implications
– The study is confined to the participants of MBA-HR course. More insights can be obtained by replicating the study for participants from different programmes.

Originality/value
– The original contribution of the study lies in revisiting the experiential learning (EL) process in ST. ST is a kind of EL, yet different in the process, as it mediates through trust building.
New York BitLicense regulations virtually certain to significantly impact transactions in virtual currencies
Authors: DeWaal Gary , Dempsey Guy 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– To analyze the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) final BitLicense regulations with respect to Bitcoin and other virtual currencies.

Design/methodology/approach
– This article discusses the specific requirements outlined in the NYDFS’s regulations. The article goes on to provide background information on Bitcoin and virtual currencies and examines previous regulatory approaches prior to these regulations.

Findings
– This article examines how the new regulations require all persons engaging in a virtual currency business to apply and obtain a BitLicense, and to maintain certain minimum standards and programs to help ensure customer protection, cyber-security and anti-money laundering compliance. Financial intermediaries that already are regulated by NYDFS under the New York Banking Law are not required to obtain a BitLicense if they are approved by NYDFS under their existing regulation to conduct virtual currency business activity.

Originality/value
– This article contains insight and analysis into recent NYDFS regulations on a new currency type from attorneys experienced in financial services and regulatory matters.
SEC issues proposed investment adviser reporting and disclosure rules
Authors: Greene Nathan J. 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– To explain proposed rules and amendments recently issued by the USA Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that would impose more detailed reporting requirements for investment advisers that file Form ADV. A companion article describes the SEC’s proposed registered investment company reporting rules which were issued simultaneously.

Design/methodology/approach
– Describes the SEC’s reasoning for collecting more detailed data, introduces the proposed separate account reporting requirements for SEC-registered investment advisers, explains proposed amendments to Part 1A of Form ADV, describes a proposed codification of SEC staff positions that provide for so-called “umbrella registrations” by closely related advisory firms, and details two proposed amendments to Advisers Act Rule 204-2, the books and records rule, which would require investment advisers to maintain additional materials related to the calculation and distribution of performance information.

Findings
– Many questions still remain as to how the final rules will eventually take shape; however, it is evident that investment advisers will be subject to a wider array of reporting requirements. Investment advisors are likely to incur increased costs as a result of the proposed rules and amendments, and production of the reports could necessitate a revamp of their various internal procedures. Also, access to additional and enhanced information will have consequences for investment companies with respect to SEC examinations and enforcement activity.

Practical implications
– Investment advisers should understand that detailed new regulatory reporting is coming and, more specifically, separately managed account clients of investment advisers should be made aware of the proposed reporting requirements.

Originality/value
– Practical guidance from experienced investment funds lawyer.
SEC issues proposed investment company reporting rules
Authors: Greene Nathan J. 
Published: November 2015

Purpose
– To explain proposed rules recently issued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that would dramatically expand both public and non-public reporting of portfolios and other data by US registered investment companies. A companion article covers new reports proposed at the same time for investment advisers that file Form ADV with the SEC.

Design/methodology/approach
– Explains how the proposed rules intend to rescind Form N-Q and adopt a new portfolio holding form, Form N-PORT, which would require expansive monthly portfolio and risk reporting; describes amendments to Regulation S-X which would both enhance and standardize derivatives disclosures in fund financial statements; and details the reporting requirements for a new annual ‘census-style’ reporting form, Form N-CEN, which would replace an obsolete existing SEC form, Form N-SAR.

Findings
– While it still remains to be seen how the final rules will be written, it is clear that US registered investment companies will be subject to broader reporting requirements. Investment companies are likely to incur increased costs due to the detailed nature of the information being requested and the frequency with which they will be required to file. Access to additional and enhanced information will have consequences for investment companies with respect to SEC examinations and enforcement activity.

Practical implications
– Senior management and boards of investment companies should understand the basic framework of the proposed requirements. An operations and finance working group may need to be established by companies in order to coordinate the planning and preparation process for the requirements. Firms also should determine whether their service providers have the necessary resources to assist in complying with the proposed filing requirements.

Originality/value
– Practical guidance from experienced investment funds lawyer.