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Lean-team effectiveness through leader values and members’ informing
Authors: H. van Dun Desirée , Wilderom Celeste P.M. 
Published: October 2016

PurposeAlthough empirical tests of effective lean-team leadership are scarce, leaders are often blamed when lean work-floor initiatives fail. In the present study, a lean-team leader’s work values are assumed to affect his or her team members’ behaviors and, through them, to attain team effectiveness. Specifically, two of Schwartzet al.’s (2012) values clusters (i.e. self-transcendence and conservation) are hypothesized to be linked to team members’ degree of information and idea sharing and, in turn, to lean-team effectiveness. The paper aims to report the examination of these hypotheses.Design/methodology/approachSurvey responses (n=429) of both leaders and members of 25 lean-teams in services and manufacturing organizations were aggregated, thereby curbing common-source bias. To test the six hypotheses, structural equation modeling was performed, with bootstrapping, linear regression analyses, and Sobel tests.FindingsThe positive relationship between lean-team effectiveness and leaders’ self-transcendence values, and the negative relationship between lean-team effectiveness and leaders’ conservation values were partly mediated by information sharing behavior within the team.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research must compare the content of effective lean-team values and behaviors to similar non-lean teams.Practical implicationsAppoint lean-team leaders with predominantly self-transcendence rather than conservation values: to promote work-floor sharing of information and lean-team effectiveness.Originality/valueHuman factors associated with effective lean-teams were examined, thereby importing organization-behavioral insights into the operations management literature: with HRM-type implications.
Examining the impact of socialization and information sharing and the mediating effect of trust on innovation capability
Authors: Kulangara Nisha Paul , Jackson Sherry Avery , Prater Edmund 
Published: October 2016

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the interrelationship between trust, socialization, and information sharing on the buying firm’s innovation capability in the context of the buyer-supplier relationship (BSR). A nomological model is developed that examines the mediating role of relational capital (supplier trust) on the relationship between structural capital (socialization and information sharing) and innovation capability.Design/methodology/approachA survey was conducted on 357 US executives. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the hypothesized relationships.FindingsInformation sharing and formal socialization activities increased the buying firm’s trust in its key supplier. However, formal socialization activities within the context of the business environment did not have a significant direct impact on buyer’s innovative capabilities; but when mediated by trust, it positively impacted innovation capabilities. Informal socialization within the context of the social environment directly impacted innovation capabilities but trust did not mediate the relationship. Information sharing impacted trust and innovation significantly and trust mediated the impact of information sharing on innovation capabilities.Originality/valueThis study defines the formal and informal aspects of socialization and investigates its impact on trust and buyer innovation capabilities. This is one of the few studies that highlights the mediating role of trust between firms to facilitate innovation capability.
Designing a performance measurement system for collaborative network
Authors: Pekkola Sanna , Ukko Juhani 
Published: October 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine how a performance measurement system (PMS) can be designed for a collaborative network and to identify which factors affect such a design.

Design/methodology/approach
This is a single-case study of a collaborative network. The data have been collected from semi-structured interviews conducted during 2008-2009 and after the design process in 2010 and 2012, respectively.

Findings
The research results present a five-step process model for designing a PMS for a collaborative network. The findings show that a participatory development style that enhances socialisation, the positive development of a network culture and an outside facilitator all have beneficial effects on the design process.

Practical implications
The practical contribution of this study is related to knowledge about the PMS design process for a collaborative network to support its measurement-related development projects. This knowledge involves the phases of such a process as well as the various factors supporting or hindering it.

Originality/value
The study presents a PMS design process for the case network, which can be utilised in other collaborative networks in a similar context. It also highlights the most essential practical experiences related to this process.
Let’s talk about innovation
Authors: Öberg Christina 
Published: October 2016

PurposeIMP researchers have shown interest in how innovations result from interaction among companies, while, and in parallel, there has been an increased focus on open innovation (OI) during the past decade. OI depicts how companies source, spin-out, and collaborate on innovation. This paper describes and discusses whether and how IMP and OI researchers acknowledge and build on each other’s work; and whether and how ideas provided by IMP and OI, respectively, create a fit to expand the exchange of knowledge between IMP and OI.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on a citation analysis focussing on whether the OI literature refers to IMP research, and whether or not the IMP literature refers to OI research. The paper also compares OI and IMP to discover potentials for knowledge exchange between them through discussing similarities, complementarities, and contradictions.FindingsThe paper points out that while IMP researchers have started to show interest in OI, OI research does not refer to IMP. As such, OI research remains more company-centric in its discussions. IMP provides tools and models to capture the OI phenomenon specifically related to collaborative OI, while OI offers interesting thought for the capture of transaction-based innovation processes and their management.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to previous research through linking together OI and IMP research. This is important for several reasons, including the ability to enhance knowledge in each domain, critically discuss and relate various research domains and their underpinnings, and expand ideas developed in one research domain to another.
Multiple manipulators path planning using double A*
Authors: Tavares Pedro , Lima José , Costa Pedro , Paulo Moreira A. 
Published: October 2016

Purpose
Streamlining automated processes is currently undertaken by developing optimization methods and algorithms for robotic manipulators. This paper aims to present a new approach to improve streamlining of automatic processes. This new approach allows for multiple robotic manipulators commonly found in the industrial environment to handle different scenarios, thus providing a high-flexibility solution to automated processes.

Design/methodology/approach
The developed system is based on a spatial discretization methodology capable of describing the surrounding environment of the robot, followed by a novel path-planning algorithm. Gazebo was the simulation engine chosen, and the robotic manipulator used was the Universal Robot 5 (UR5). The proposed system was tested using the premises of two robotic challenges: EuRoC and Amazon Picking Challenge.

Findings
The developed system was able to identify and describe the influence of each joint in the Cartesian space, and it was possible to control multiple robotic manipulators safely regardless of any obstacles in a given scene.

Practical implications
This new system was tested in both real and simulated environments, and data collected showed that this new system performed well in real-life scenarios, such as EuRoC and Amazon Picking Challenge.

Originality/value
The new proposed approach can be valuable in the robotics field with applications in various industrial scenarios, as it provides a flexible solution for multiple robotic manipulator path and motion planning.
Trace generation of friction stir welding robot for space weld joint on large thin-walled parts
Authors: Qi Ruolong , Zhou Weijia , Zhang Huijie , Zhang Wei , Yang Guangxin 
Published: October 2016

Purpose
The weld joint of large thin-wall metal parts which deforms in manufacturing and clamping processes is very difficult to manufacture for its shape is different from the initial model; thus, the space normals of the part surface are uncertain.

Design/methodology/approach
In this paper, an effective method is presented to calculate cutter location points and to estimate the space normals by measuring some sparse discrete points of weld joint. First, a contact-type probe fixed in the end of friction stir welding (FSW) robot is used to measure a series of discrete points on the weld joint. Then, a space curve can be got by fitting the series of points with a quintic spline. Second, a least square plane (LSP) of the measured points is obtained by the least square method. Then, normal vectors of the plane curve, which is the projection of the space curve on the LSP, are used to estimate the space normals of the weld joint curve. After path planning, a post-processing method combing with FSW craft is elaborated.

Findings
Simulation and real experiment demonstrate that the proposed strategy, which obtains cutter locations of welding and normals without measuring the entire surface, is feasible and effective for the FSW of large thin-walled complex surface parts.

Originality/value
This paper presents a novel method which makes it possible to accurately weld the large thin-wall complex surface part by the FSW robot. The proposed method might be applied to any multi-axes FSW robot similar to the robot studied in this paper.
Managing accruals for income smoothing: empirical evidence from Pakistan
Authors: Safdar Raheel , Yan Chen 
Published: October 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether income smoothing helps to reduce volatility in reported earnings and which firms are more inclined to be engaged in income smoothing.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors used negative correlation between pre-managed earnings of a firm and its discretionary accruals (DAs) as proxy for income smoothing and the firms having more negative correlation coefficient are expected to have lower volatility in their reported earnings. The authors used Kothari et al.’s (2005) version of modified-Jones model to estimate DAs and used least squares estimations to investigate the research questions using six-year (2007-2012) sample of non-financial firms listed over Karachi Stock Exchange, Pakistan.

Findings
The authors found that firms experiencing more volatility in economic activities and smaller firms are more aggressively involved in income smoothing. Moreover, a predominant majority (72.2 per cent) of firms in the sample are involved in income smoothing through accruals manipulation. Also, the authors found that firms which are more aggressively involved in income smoothing have lesser volatility in reported earnings. Lastly, the level of DAs per se does not have any impact on income smoothing.

Research limitations/implications
The proxy used for income smoothing, though the authors consider it to be better, is not the only one used in literature and the sample is limited to Pakistan.

Originality/value
This study adds to earnings management literature by providing evidence on extensive accrual manipulation for income smoothing in Pakistan.
Cultural politics of enterprise lending and controls in closely held banks
Authors: Saliya Candauda Arachchige , Jayasinghe Kelum 
Published: October 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the enterprise lending and control process in closely held banks, with special reference to Sri Lanka. It explores how those processes are being influenced by the distinctive cultural and political processes at organizational and societal levels.

Design/methodology/approach
The study relies on three cases built upon the life experiences of several employees in a closely held bank, articulating multiple sources of evidence: interviews, observations, documents, archival records, open-ended questionnaires, internet conversations and exchange of e-mails. The data analysis adopts cultural political economy theory.

Findings
The study’s findings reveal how cultural and political factors, such as egoistic motives and politics, gifts/rewards and a manipulative culture, along with exploitative and discriminatory politics at organizational and societal levels, articulate into the enterprise lending and control process (“five Cs”) in closely held banks. “Rational” enterprise lending and control processes in this context merely become a “ceremonial” practice, serving the petty interest of powerful capitalist business owners. Whereas previous studies emphasize that the criteria (five Cs) discriminate against ordinary people, as distinct from the élite, the findings of this study implicate that over and above that the criteria are set aside when it suits in order to favor or accommodate the élite.

Originality/value
The paper provides a “qualitative inquiry” on how cultural politics at organizational and societal-level effect on enterprise lending and control process within closely held banks in less developed countries (LDCs). The previous studies on bank lending and control used either large-scale surveys or alternatively devoted their interest toward the role and impact of accounting in World Bank and IMF-led lending schemes and policies, particularly in LDCs.
Supporting imprisoned women who self-harm: exploring prison staff strategies
Authors: Walker Tammi , Shaw Jenny , Hamilton Lea , Turpin Clive , Reid Catherine , Abel Kathryn 
Published: October 2016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences of prison staff working with imprisoned women who self-harm in English prisons. In this small-scale study, 14 prison staff in three English prisons were interviewed to examine the strategies currently used by them to support imprisoned women who self-harm.

Design/methodology/approach
Thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke, 2006) was used to identify three key themes: “developing a relationship”, “self-help strategies” and “relational interventions”.

Findings
Many staff expressed some dissatisfaction in the techniques available to support the women, and felt their utility can be restricted by the prison regime.

Research limitations/implications
This study suggests that there is currently a deficit in the provision of training and support for prison staff, who are expected to fulfil a dual role as both custodian and carer of imprisoned women. Further research into prison staff’s perception of the training currently available could highlight gaps between current theory and practice in the management of self-harm and thus indicate content for future training programmes. Research exploring the impact of working with imprisoned women who self-harm is suggested to identify strategies for supporting staff. It must be acknowledged that this is a small-scale qualitative study and the findings are from only three prisons and may not apply to staff in other settings.

Originality/value
Currently few studies have focussed on the perspective of prison staff. This study is one of very few studies which focusses on the techniques and resources available to support the women, from the perspective of the prison staff.
CSR approaches of MNEs in developing countries
Authors: Mukherjee Kajari 
Published: October 2016

PurposeThis paper aims to discuss how multinational enterprises (MNEs) can approach corporate social responsibility (CSR) in developing countries. Such countries face challenges of low social development, income differences and weak institutional framework. The society is also characterized by greater power distance and in-group collectivism. Managers of MNEs operating in developing countries have to find ways and means to deliver CSR which is in sync with the atypical socio-cultural-political-demographical needs of the country. They cannot just concentrate on strategic CSR to create positive externalities; rather, they have to provide generic social benefits to local communities.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines select literature to suggest six propositions regarding CSR approaches that can be adopted by MNEs.FindingsManagers of MNEs will concentrate on those stakeholders who have power to punish or reward, and, apart from shareholders, these are likely to be local communities. Hypernorms operating in background will be linked to emergence of macro-social contract of societal expectation to provide some support to local community, whose specific forms will be community-specific microsocial contracts. These will aim at providing generic social goods to local community, through a variety of transactional and calculative activities, high on tokenism.Research limitations/implicationsThis is a conceptual work. Empirical study is not done.Originality/valueThe mainstream CSR agenda is largely driven by concerns and priorities of developed countries. It aims at universalizing a set of conditions that do not exist in developing countries, and ignores the local realities and priorities. The paper fills a gap in explaining why the concept of global CSR has its limitations, and MNEs have to concentrate on alleviating local demands.
Poly(ADP‐ribose) polymerase 1 deficiency increases nitric oxide production and attenuates aortic atherogenesis through downregulation of arginase II
Authors: Wei Shu‐jian , Cheng Lin , Liang Er‐shun , Wang Qi , Zhou Sheng‐nan , Xu Hao , Hui Long‐hua , Ge Zhi‐ming , Zhang Ming‐xiang 
Published: October 2016

SummaryPoly (ADP‐ribose) polymerase (PARP) plays an important role in endothelial dysfunction, leading to atherogenesis and vascular‐related diseases. However, whether PARP regulates nitric oxide (NO), a key regulator of endothelial function, is unclear so far. We investigated whether inhibition of PARP‐1, the most abundant PARP isoform, prevents atherogenesis by regulating NO production and tried to elucidate the possible mechanisms involved in this phenomenon. In apolipoprotein E‐deficient (apoE−/−) mice fed a high‐cholesterol diet for 12 weeks, PARP‐1 inhibition via treatment with 3,4‐dihydro‐54‐(1‐piperindinyl) butoxy‐1(2H)‐isoquinoline (DPQ) or PARP‐1 gene knockout reduced aortic atherosclerotic plaque areas (49% and 46%, respectively). Both the groups showed restored NO production in mouse aortas with reduced arginase II (Arg II) expression compared to that in the controls. In mouse peritoneal macrophages and aortic endothelial cells (MAECs), PARP‐1 knockout resulted in lowered Arg II expression. Moreover, phosphorylation of endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) was preserved in the aortas and MAECs when PARP‐1 was inhibited. Reduced NO production in vitro due to PARP‐1 deficiency could be restored by treating the MAECs with oxidized low‐density lipoprotein treatment, but this effect could not be achieved with peritoneal macrophages, which was likely due to a reduction in the expression of induced NOS expression. Our findings indicate that PARP‐1 inhibition may attenuate atherogenesis by restoring NO production in endothelial cells and thus by reducing Arg II expression and consequently arginase the activity.
What can a government do? Government issue ownership and real‐world problems
Authors: SEEBERG HENRIK BECH 
Published: October 2016

AbstractDespite major interest in issue ownership, what shapes it remains a puzzle. In his pioneering work on issue ownership, John Petrocik emphasises the importance of a party's performance. Recent research acknowledges this by pointing to the role of real‐world problems and incumbency for issue ownership. However, if performance truly matters, it should be difficult to understand the impact of such problems without taking into account the government's response to it. Based on novel data on issue ownership, policy development and government attention across five issues in nine countries over time, the analysis shows that the government's issue‐handling reputation is associated with the policy development, and the government's attention to the problem is important for this association. This is especially true for parties with no history of issue ownership on the issue and if the government is a coalition or in minority.
Emergency Department Telemedicine Is Used for More Severely Injured Rural Trauma Patients, but Does Not Decrease Transfer: A Cohort Study
Authors: Mohr Nicholas M. , Harland Karisa K. , Chrischilles Elizabeth A. , Bell Amanda , Shane Dan M. , Ward Marcia M. 
Published: October 2016

AbstractObjectivesTraumatic injury is a leading cause of death in the United States, and rural populations are at increased risk of injury and death. Rural residents have limited access to trauma care, and telemedicine has been proposed as one strategy to improve the provision of trauma care locally. The objective of this study was to describe patient‐level factors associated with telemedicine consultation in North Dakota critical‐access hospital (CAH) emergency departments (EDs) and to measure the association between telemedicine consultation and interhospital transfer.MethodsObservational cohort study of all adult (age ≥ 18 years) trauma patients treated in North Dakota CAH EDs with an active telemedicine subscription between 2008 and 2014. Trauma cases were identified from the North Dakota Trauma Registry, and telemedicine‐enabled care was determined using a probabilistic linking algorithm with the call records of the predominant telemedicine network in North Dakota. Multivariable generalized estimating equations were used to identify factors associated with telemedicine consultation and to measure the association between telemedicine consultation and interhospital transfer, adjusting for patient, injury, and hospital factors.ResultsOf the 9,281 North Dakota trauma patients seen in CAHs, 2,837 were treated in an ED with an active telemedicine subscription. Telemedicine was consulted for 11% of all trauma patients in telemedicine‐capable EDs. Factors associated with telemedicine consultation included higher Injury Severity Score, penetrating injuries, burns, hypotension, tachycardia, and ambulance transport. Adjusting for severity of illness, injury mechanism, and type of injury, telemedicine use was not associated with interhospital transfer (adjusted odds ratio = 1.28, 95% confidence interval = 0.94 to 1.75).ConclusionEmergency department–based telemedicine consultation is requested for the most severely injured rural trauma patients, especially with those with penetrating trauma, burns, and abnormal presenting vital signs. Telemedicine consultation was not independently associated with increased probability of transfer. Future work should evaluate how telemedicine impacts the timeliness of care and specific care interventions.