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The relationship between NPD innovation and NPD performance: the moderating role of NPD best practices in Indian manufacturing industry
Authors: Vinayak Kalluri , Kodali Rambabu 
Published: July 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of the study is to study the relation between new product development (NPD) innovation and NPD best practices in an organization with respect to NPD performance in the backdrop of Indian manufacturing industry.

Design/methodology/approach
– Performance indices are developed based on NPD innovation and NPD best practices in an organization. Based on the developed performance indices, a cluster typology or classification of surveyed organizations is conducted. Different hypotheses are generated and tested to chet1ck the relation between NPD best practices and NPD innovation in an organization with respect to NPD performance in the Indian manufacturing industry.

Findings
– The following results were obtained: there is a positive effect on NPD performance for those organizations that strongly implement NPD best practices; the stronger the NPD innovation, the higher the NPD performance; and stronger organizations' ability for NPD innovation has positive relationship with NPD best practices. Hence, it is proven that, “the stronger the NPD innovation in an organization, with defined NPD best practices, the better the NPD performance”.

Originality/value
– According to the author’s knowledge, no study is reported in literature which addresses the effect of NPD best practices and NPD innovation in an organization with respect to performance in the Indian manufacturing industry.
A new standardized interval-valued chart for fuzzy data
Authors: Cheng Yu-Ting , Yang Chih-Ching 
Published: July 2014

Purpose
– Constructing a fuzzy control chart with interval-valued fuzzy data is an important topic in the fields of medical, sociological, economics, service and management. In particular, when the data illustrates uncertainty, inconsistency and is incomplete which is often the. case of real data. Traditionally, we use variable control chart to detect the process shift with real value. However, when the real data is composed of interval-valued fuzzy, it is not feasible to use such an approach of traditional statistical process control (SPC) to monitor the fuzzy control chart. The purpose of this paper is to propose the designed standardized fuzzy control chart for interval-valued fuzzy data set.

Design/methodology/approach
– The general statistical principles used on the standardized control chart are applied to fuzzy control chart for interval-valued fuzzy data.

Findings
– When the real data is composed of interval-valued fuzzy, it is not feasible to use such an approach of traditional SPC to monitor the fuzzy control chart. This study proposes the designed standardized fuzzy control chart for interval-valued fuzzy data set of vegetable price from January 2009 to September 2010 in Taiwan obtained from Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan. Empirical studies are used to illustrate the application for designing standardized fuzzy control chart. More related practical phenomena can be explained by this appropriate definition of fuzzy control chart.

Originality/value
– This paper uses a simpler approach to construct the standardized interval-valued chart for fuzzy data based on traditional standardized control chart which is easy and straightforward. Moreover, the control limit of the designed standardized fuzzy control chart is an interval with (LCL, UCL), which consists of the conventional range of classical standardized control chart.
New statistical analysis on the marketing research and efficiency evaluation with fuzzy data
Authors: Wu Berlin , T. Nguyen Hung 
Published: July 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to use soft computing technique and fuzzy statistical tool to evaluate people's performance on the marketing research and time management.

Design/methodology/approach
– Through standardized measurement system, the authors come up with real-value data to satisfy not the current needs but data itself. This is when fuzzy classification stands out and highlights the area of in-between and undefined.

Findings
– The proposed metric system helps the authors to assess the distance among trapezoidal fuzzy data. The index of efficiency between observed time and ideal time is also presented.

Originality/value
– With the ranking of fuzzy sample, the authors can examine the decision process by non-parametric testing hypothesis.
An occurrence based regime switching model to improve forecasting
Authors: Huarng Kun-Huang 
Published: July 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to propose an occurrence-based model to improve the forecasting of regime switches so as to assist decision making.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper proposes a novel model where occurrences of relationships are taken into account when forecasting. Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalization Weighted Stock Index is taken as the forecasting target.

Findings
– Due to the consideration of occurrences of relationships in forecasting, the out of sample forecasting is improved.

Practical implications
– The proposed model can be applied to forecast other time series for regime switches. In addition, it can be integrated with other time series models to improve forecasting performance.

Originality/value
– The empirical results show that the proposed model can improve the forecasting performance.
Luxury fashion brand image building: the role of store design in Bally and Tod's Japan
Authors: Jiang Zhiqing , Nagasawa Shin’ya , Watada Junzo 
Published: July 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to reveal how store design influences luxury brand image building in a competitive market through the case study of two luxury fashion brands – Bally and Tod's.Design/methodology/approach– Quantitative (questionnaires) and qualitative (interview) approaches are both utilized in this research study. The authors interviewed brand managers of Bally and Tod's Japan and then conducted questionnaires to 57 consumers and six brand managers. Correspondence analysis, multidimensional analysis, and rough set theory were utilized to analyze the data obtained from questionnaires in order to draw the positioning maps of brand image and store image, calculate the distance of images between managers and consumers and derive and compare inference structure.Findings– The “Brand Dimensions Scales” created by Aaker (1997) can enable to measure luxury brand and store image in a scientific way. The results clarify that there is a big gap between consumers’ and managers’ cognition; the architect who designs the building could be a efficient way of advertising a luxury brand and its building to the public; and location and store atmosphere should influence luxury brand image building through non-verbal communication.Originality/value– This research study on luxury brand image building provides a way to measure brand image and assesses the impact change in brand image as well as its stores.
Culture in international business research
Authors: Portugal Ferreira Manuel , Li Dan , Rosa Reis Nuno , Ribeiro Serra Fernando 
Published: July 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to conduct a study on the articles published in the four top international business (IB) journals to examine how four cultural models and concepts – Hofstede’s (1980), Hall’s (1976), Trompenaars’s (1993) and Project GLOBE’s (Houseet al., 2004) – have been used in the extant published IB research. National cultures and cultural differences provide a crucial component of the context of IB research.Design/methodology– This is a bibliometric study on the articles published in four IB journals over the period from 1976 to 2010, examining a sample of 517 articles using citations and co-citation matrices.Findings– Examining this sample revealed interesting patterns of the connections across the studies. Hofstede’s (1980) and Houseet al.’s (2004) research on the cultural dimensions are the most cited and hold ties to a large variety of IB research. These findings point to a number of research avenues to deepen the understanding on how firms may handle different national cultures in the geographies they operate.Research limitations– Two main limitations are faced, one associated to the bibliometric method, citations and co-citations analyses and other to the delimitation of our sample to only four IB journals, albeit top-ranked.Originality/value– The paper focuses on the main cultural models used in IB research permitting to better understand how culture has been used in IB research, over an extended period.
A survey of experiences of abuse
Authors: Hewitt Olivia 
Published: July 2014

Purpose
– People with a learning disability remain at increased risk of abuse and neglect due to a number of factors associated with learning disability per se and the culture in which they live. Understanding the prevalence of abuse within this population allows for appropriate planning and service development. Understanding more about the type and frequency of abuse (and the perpetrators) facilitates prevention of abuse. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– All clients allocated to a psychologist between 2009 and 2011 were included in this survey. The psychologist reported whether the client had experienced any abuse over their lifetime. Information regarding the type of abuse experienced, the relationship to the abuser, and the number of different episodes of abuse was recorded.

Findings
– Of the 695 clients in the survey 25 per cent had experienced abuse. Of this 25 per cent, 46 per cent were men and 54 per cent were women. In all, 23 per cent of the group who had experienced abuse were referred to the service as a direct result of abuse, whilst 77 per cent were referred for another reason. The most prevalent types of abuse were emotional (27 per cent), sexual (24 per cent), physical (20 per cent), and neglect (12 per cent).

Originality/value
– Prevalence rates within this study are broadly in line with the existing literature. However, differences included high levels of emotional abuse, and high frequency of abuse perpetrated by women, and by family members. Psychology services should routinely screen for abuse experiences and be alert to the possibility of abuse from female caregivers.
Commentary on experiential learning: changing student attitudes towards learning disability: how can we reduce exclusion further?
Authors: Harding Celia 
Published: July 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to provide some thoughts following on from reading: “Experiential learning: changing student attitudes towards learning disability”.

Design/methodology/approach
– This commentary outlines some considerations for the continued development of using service users in tertiary education as educators.

Findings
– The literature is not clear on the involvement of people with more profound and multiple learning disabilities, or for those who do not use much spoken language in tertiary level teaching.

Originality/value
– A further cultural shift is needed to ensure that all people with learning disabilities regardless of their communication style have the opportunity to share their experiences within a teaching and learning context.
Experiential learning: changing student attitudes towards learning disability
Authors: Smith Carly , Forrester-Jones Rachel 
Published: July 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to analyse the reflective journals kept by 62 students researching and interviewing people with learning disabilities. The aim was to explore the content and discover any themes that were generated throughout the journals as a result of the pre-, during- and post-interview process.

Design/methodology/approach
– The method used to analyse the journals was Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith and Osborn, 2008).

Findings
– The results showed that there was a shift from negative to positive reflections as the frequency of contact with people with learning disabilities increased and that the majority of students reported a change in attitude towards this group of individuals after experiencing direct contact (two to three meetings over a period of two months).

Research limitations/implications
– Implications of the findings are for government policies, promoting social inclusion through education, to offer the opportunity for direct contact with people with learning disabilities, (in keeping with Allport's, 1954 Contact Theory) at an earlier stage in education, fostering an environment for earlier attitude change and increased social inclusion.

Social implications
– Changing society's attitude through our education system may decrease marginalisation by the public as well as discriminatory and abusive behaviour found in some social and community care settings.

Originality/value
– This piece of research may add value to social, government and educational policies. Finding an evidence base to continue to build policies for decreasing marginalisation and promoting social inclusion for people with learning disabilities.
Habitat‐based polymorphism is common in stream fishes
Authors: Senay Caroline , Boisclair Daniel , Peres‐Neto Pedro R. 
Published: July 2014

Summary

Morphological differences (size and shape) across habitats are common in lake fish where differences relate to two dominant contrasting habitats: the pelagic and littoral habitat. Repeated occurrence of littoral and pelagic morphs across multiple populations of several lake fish species has been considered as important evidence that polymorphism is adaptive in these systems. It has been suggested that these habitat‐based polymorphic differences are due to the temporal stability of the differences between littoral and pelagic habitats.

Although streams are spatially heterogeneous, they are also more temporally dynamic than lakes and it is still an open question whether streams provide the environmental conditions that promote habitat‐based polymorphism. We tested whether fish from riffle, run and pool habitats, respectively, differed consistently in their morphology.

Our test compared patterns of morphological variation (size and shape) in 10 fish species from the three stream habitat types in 36 separate streams distributed across three watersheds.

For most species, body size and shape (after controlling for body size) differed across riffle, run and pool habitats. Unlike many lake species, the nature of these differences was not consistent across species, possibly because these species use these habitat types in different ways.

Our results suggest that habitat‐based polymorphism is an important feature also in stream fishes despite the fact that streams are temporally variable in contrast to lake systems. Future research is required to assess whether the patterns of habitat‐based polymorphism encountered in streams have a genetic basis or they are simply the result of within generation phenotypic plasticity.
How topography induces reproductive asynchrony and alters gypsy moth invasion dynamics
Authors: Walter Jonathan A. , Meixler Marcia S. , Mueller Thomas , Fagan William F. , Tobin Patrick C. , Haynes Kyle J. 
Published: July 2014

SummaryReproductive asynchrony, a temporal mismatch in reproductive maturation between an individual and potential mates, may contribute to mate‐finding failure andAllee effects that influence the establishment and spread of invasive species. Variation in elevation is likely to promote variability in maturation times for species with temperature‐dependent development, but it is not known how strongly this influences reproductive asynchrony or the population growth of invasive species.We examined whether spatial variation in reproductive asynchrony, due to differences in elevation and local heterogeneity in elevation (hilliness), can explain spatial heterogeneity in the population growth rate of the gypsy moth,Lymantria dispar(L.), along its invasion front inVirginia andWestVirginia,USA.We used a spatially explicit model of the effects of reproductive asynchrony on mating success to develop predictions of the influences of elevation and elevational heterogeneity on local population growth rates. Population growth rates declined with increased elevation and more modestly with increased elevational heterogeneity. As in earlier work, we found a positive relationship between the population growth rate and the number of introduced egg masses, indicating a demographicAllee effect. At high elevations and high heterogeneity in elevation, the population growth rate was lowest and the density at which the population tended to replace itself (i.e. theAllee threshold) was highest.An analysis of 22 years of field data also showed decreases in population growth rates with elevation and heterogeneity in elevation that were largely consistent with the model predictions.These results highlight how topographic characteristics can affect reproductive asynchrony and influence mate‐findingAllee effects in an invading non‐native insect population. Given the dependence of developmental rates on temperature in poikilotherms, topographic effects on reproductive success could potentially be important to the population dynamics of many organisms.
Extreme climate events lower resilience of foundation seagrass at edge of biogeographical range
Authors: Fraser Matthew W. , Kendrick Gary A. , Statton John , Hovey Renae K. , Zavala‐Perez Andrea , Walker Diana I. 
Published: July 2014

Summary

Extreme climatic events will dictate the response of ecosystems to climate change, yet are understudied in marine ecosystems. The interaction of stressors from such events has the potential to amplify negative impacts and drive ecosystems into alternate states.

Here, we show a drastic response of a temperate seagrass species (Amphibolis antarctica) in Shark Bay – a World Heritage Site in Western Australia at a temperate–tropical transition zone – to two stressors driven by concurrent extreme climatic events: a marine heatwave (Ningaloo Niña) and the Gascoyne floods that impacted the west coast of Australia in the austral summer of 2010–2011.

Widespread defoliation (leaf loss) of A. antarctica was observed in the months following the extreme events and was highest at sites affected by flooding (Wooramel River floods). We propose that the negative impact was magnified by the synergistic interactions both stressors had on the carbon balance of the plant. The elevated temperatures increased plant demand for carbon, which could not be met through photosynthesis due to turbid floodwaters reducing light availability, resulting in the plant having a negative carbon balance.

Two years following the extreme events, recovery of leaf biomass was evident, though still 7–20% of historical averages. In contrast, below‐ground biomass decreased by an order of magnitude in the two years following the events. As below‐ground reserves underpin the tolerance of large seagrass species like A. antarctica to disturbances, the declining trajectory of below‐ground biomass will likely manifest as a loss of resilience in A. antarctica to future disturbances.

Synthesis. Given the ecological importance of Amphibolis antarctica in Shark Bay as a foundation species – accounting for 85% (˜3700 km2) of the cover of seagrasses in Shark Bay – predicted increases in the frequency and magnitude of similar climatic events could have catastrophic implications for the future of this World Heritage embayment. Where extreme climatic events overlap and cause multiple, synergistic stressors to plant communities, ecological responses are likely to be more extreme, particularly in ecosystems where foundation species exist near upper thermal tolerance limits.
Explaining pragmatic performance in traumatic brain injury: a process perspective on communicative errors
Authors: Bosco Francesca M. , Angeleri Romina , Sacco Katiuscia , Bara Bruno G. 
Published: July 2014

AbstractBackgroundThe purpose of this study is to investigate the pragmatic abilities of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Several studies in the literature have previously reported communicative deficits in individuals with TBI, however such research has focused principally on communicative deficits in general, without providing an analysis of the errors committed in understanding and expressing communicative acts. Within the theoretical framework of Cognitive Pragmatics theory and Cooperative principle we focused on intermediate communicative errors that occur in both the comprehension and the production of various pragmatic phenomena, expressed through both linguistic and extralinguistic communicative modalities.AimsTo investigate the pragmatic abilities of individuals with TBI.Methods & ProceduresA group of 30 individuals with TBI and a matched control group took part in the experiment. They were presented with a series of videotaped vignettes depicting everyday communicative exchanges, and were tested on the comprehension and production of various kinds of communicative acts (standard communicative act, deceit and irony). The participants’ answers were evaluated as correct or incorrect. Incorrect answers were then further evaluated with regard to the presence of different intermediate errors.Outcomes & ResultsIndividuals with TBI performed worse than control participants on all the tasks investigated when considering correct versus incorrect answers. Furthermore, a series of logistic regression analyses showed that group membership (TBI versus controls) significantly predicted the occurrence of intermediate errors. This result holds in both the comprehension and production tasks, and in both linguistic and extralinguistic modalities.Conclusions & ImplicationsParticipants with TBI tend to have difficulty in managing different types of communicative acts, and they make more intermediate errors than the control participants. Intermediate errors concern the comprehension and production of the expression act, the comprehension of the actors’ meaning, as well as the respect of the Cooperative principle.
Does the Prior Application of the Field Kit Bullet Hole Testing Kit 3 on a Suspected Bullet Hole Bias the Analysis of Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry?
Authors: Seltenhammer Monika H. , Fitzl Christine , Wieser Ingo , Binder Reinhard , Paula Pia , Risser Daniele U. 
Published: July 2014

AbstractForensic ballistics is the study of bullet trajectory and consists of determining gunshot residue (GSR) to identify bullet holes. Among several highly sensitive methods, atomic absorption spectrophotometry (AAS) is employed to analyze GSR in the laboratory. However, it is sometimes necessary to identify bullet holes immediately at a crime scene. The purpose of this examination was to determine whether the use of the field test Bullet Hole Testing Kit 3 (BTK3) on a suspected bullet hole would influence the outcome of AAS‐analysis: Three commonly encountered firearms (Glock17, Tokarev, and Colt) were fired at skin, wood, and cloth. AAS‐analysis was performed with and without previous BTK3 application. The results clearly indicate that there is no significant interaction on the grounds of BTK3 use (BTK3 vs. no‐BTK3 [kit_nokit] [Pb: p = 0.1309; Sb: p = 0.9111], material*kit_nokit [Pb: p = 0.5960; Sb: p = 0.9930], distance*kit_nokit [Pb: p = 0.4014; Sb: p = 0.9184], and firearm type*kit_nokit [Pb: p = 0.9662; Sb: p = 0.9885]); hence, applying this field kit does not falsify later AAS outcomes.