bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Steam oxidation behaviour of plasma nitrided Fe-based alloys
Authors: Cockrem Jeremy , Pawel Dudziak Tomasz , Simms Nigel , Lukaszewicz Mikolaj , Oakey John 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– It is well known that alloys, based on iron, were exposed to steam oxidation environment producing thick and non-protective oxide scale. More expensive stainless steels contain more Cr and are able to form more protective scales. The purpose of this research was to show ability to employ nitride coating on different alloys (T23, T91, E1250, 347HFG and HR3C) in order to enhance steam oxidation resistance.

Design/methodology/approach
– The alloys were exposed to steam oxidation rig. Before the test, furnace was purged by nitrogen in order to remove moisture and oxygen. Di-ionised water was pumped from the reservoir using a peristaltic pump into the furnace. System was kept in the closed circle. To reduce solubility of oxygen, di-ionised water was constantly purged by nitrogen. The total exposure time was 2,000 h at 650°C under 1 bar pressure.

Findings
– Due to the research, it was found that plasma nitriding process is detrimental for the protection of high-temperature structured materials; the high concentration and high activity of Cr produced a CrN phase. This phase is not stable in steam environment and underwent oxidation to Cr2O3 and further into volatile phase (CrO2(OH)2). Therefore, austenitic steels (E1250, 347HFG and HR3C) coated with nitride coating deposited by plasma nitriding process suffered similar degradation as the uncoated low Cr ferritic steel.

Research limitations/implications
– The main limitation of the research conducted in this study was corrosion resistance of the exposed materials.

Originality/value
– To the best of the authors' knowledge, this report is the first of its kind to present nitrided alloys (ferritic and austenitic) exposed in steam oxidation.
Multi-objective genetic algorithms applied to low power pressure microsensor design
Authors: Miguel Monzón-Verona José , Garcia-Alonso Santiago , Sosa Javier , A. Montiel-Nelson Juan 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explain in detail the optimization of the sensitivity versus the power consumption of a pressure microsensor using multi-objective genetic algorithms.

Design/methodology/approach
– The tradeoff between sensitivity and power consumption is analyzed and the Pareto frontier is identified by using NSGA-II, AMGA-II and ɛ-MOEA methods.

Findings
– Comparison results demonstrate that NSGA-II provides optimal solutions over the entire design space for spread metric analysis, and AMGA-II is better for convergence metric analysis.

Originality/value
– This paper provides a new multiobjective optimization tool for the designers of low power pressure microsensors.
A probabilistic non-dominated sorting GA for optimization under uncertainty
Authors: Petrone Giovanni , Axerio-Cilies John , Quagliarella Domenico , Iaccarino Gianluca 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– A probabilistic non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (P-NSGA) for multi-objective optimization under uncertainty is presented. The purpose of this algorithm is to create a tight coupling between the optimization and uncertainty procedures, use all of the possible probabilistic information to drive the optimizer, and leverage high-performance parallel computing.

Design/methodology/approach
– This algorithm is a generalization of a classical genetic algorithm for multi-objective optimization (NSGA-II) by Deb et al. The proposed algorithm relies on the use of all possible information in the probabilistic domain summarized by the cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) of the objective functions. Several analytic test functions are used to benchmark this algorithm, but only the results of the Fonseca-Fleming test function are shown. An industrial application is presented to show that P-NSGA can be used for multi-objective shape optimization of a Formula 1 tire brake duct, taking into account the geometrical uncertainties associated with the rotating rubber tire and uncertain inflow conditions.

Findings
– This algorithm is shown to have deterministic consistency (i.e. it turns back to the original NSGA-II) when the objective functions are deterministic. When the quality of the CDF is increased (either using more points or higher fidelity resolution), the convergence behavior improves. Since all the information regarding uncertainty quantification is preserved, all the different types of Pareto fronts that exist in the probabilistic framework (e.g. mean value Pareto, mean value penalty Pareto, etc.) are shown to be generated a posteriori. An adaptive sampling approach and parallel computing (in both the uncertainty and optimization algorithms) are shown to have several fold speed-up in selecting optimal solutions under uncertainty.

Originality/value
– There are no existing algorithms that use the full probabilistic distribution to guide the optimizer. The method presented herein bases its sorting on real function evaluations, not merely measures (i.e. mean of the probabilistic distribution) that potentially do not exist.
Managerial strategies to reorient hospitals towards health promotion
Authors: Röthlin Florian 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– Reorienting health services towards health promotion is one of the major health promotion strategies stipulated by the Ottawa Charter). Important contradictions, tensions and barriers to health promotion implementation associated with organisational structures have, thus far, been underexposed in the hospital health promotion discourse. This paper aims at identifying risks and the chances for hospital management to strategically and sustainably reorient their hospitals towards health promotion.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper combines theories and findings from organisational science and management studies as well as from capacity development in the form of a narrative literature review. The aim is to focus on the conditions hospitals, as organisational systems with a highly professionalised workforce, provide for a strategically managed reorientation towards health promotion. Models and principles helping managers to navigate the difficulties and complexities of health promotion reorientation will be suggested.

Findings
– Hospital managers have to deal with genuine obstacles in the complexity and structural formation of hospital organisations. Against this background, continuous management support, a transformative leadership style, participative strategic management and expert governance can be considered important organisational capacities for the reorientation towards a new concept such as health promotion.

Practical implications
– This paper discusses managerial strategies, effective structural transformations and important organisational capacities that can contribute to a sustainable reorientation of hospitals towards health promotion. It supports hospital managers in exploring their chances of facilitating and effectively supporting a sustainable health promotion reorientation of their hospitals.

Originality/value
– The paper provides an innovative approach where the focus is on enhanced possibilities for hospital managers to strategically manage the reorientation towards health promotion.
Developing intercultural intelligence: Dubai Style
Authors: James Aleya , M. Shammas Nicole 
Published: October 2013

Purpose– This paper aims to explore the link between the theoretical foundations of intercultural intelligence and a practical application examining a course dedicated to developing Emirati students' intercultural intelligence.Design/methodology/approach– The paper outlines the socio-cultural conditions of the United Arab Emirates as a backdrop to the investigation; establishing the pressing need for intercultural intelligence. The paper provides a theoretical framework to situate the course based on King and Baxter Magolda's trajectory of intercultural maturity (2005) and Davies' theory of “interruptive pedagogy” (2006). Guiding principles for the teaching of intercultural intelligence are given.Findings– Informal feedback through post-course interviews demonstrates a positive self-perceived change in intercultural understanding having taken the course.Research limitations/implications– The paper concedes that due to socio-cultural constraints the authors are unable to deliver a course with as much practical experience as the authors would like. As a result, students gain more cultural self-awareness and theoretical understandings of intercultural intelligence than practical engagement.Originality/value– This paper provides a meaningful contribution to the limited body of knowledge on intercultural intelligence training at a tertiary level in the Arabian Gulf and breaks new ground in three ways: first by demonstrating the link between the UAE socio-cultural and political factors on intercultural intelligence training; second by providing a link between intercultural intelligence theory and practice and third by providing practical suggestions as guiding principles and creative ideas for classroom use. The paper will be of value to teachers and trainers teaching in multi-cultural, international contexts and to those providing organizational training in a variety of business contexts.
Understanding idea advancement efforts in innovation through proactive behavior
Authors: Bjorklund Tua , Bhatli Dhruv , Laakso Miko 
Published: October 2013

Purpose– Innovations lie at the heart of both entrepreneurship and marketing. While research has long focused on the idea generation phase at the beginning of the innovation process, ideas need to subsequently be realized through efforts in idea development and implementation. This paper aims to study the antecedents and practices of idea advancement behavior.Design/methodology/approach– Seven product developers of an international company were interviewed in-depth based on a critical incident technique.Findings– Idea advancement behavior was found to be distributed in time and between people, pervasive in the development process. Antecedents for efforts were identified at personal, interpersonal and work organization levels. Although personal antecedents were most numerous, interpersonal and work organization antecedents distinguished successful and unsuccessful efforts. Key idea advancement behaviors were centered on the inclusion of others and communication channel choices.Research limitations/implications– The current study offers a complementary micro-level point-of-view to championship literature, illustrating the situated and dispersed nature of everyday advancement efforts as opposed to the dominant depictions of heroic relentless championing individuals. However, as the study was conducted in a single company, the findings still need to be validated in more varied settings.Practical implications– The results highlight the need for supporting idea advancement behavior across organizational levels and function, instead of focusing on identifying individual champions. Time management, supporting switches in the driving force, and communicating value are necessary for sustaining advancement efforts.Originality/value– Idea advancement practices have been largely ignored in previous innovation literature, with the exception of systematic processes and championing. This paper explores idea advancement as a commonplace proactive behavior, revealing several levels of key antecedents for successfully advancing ideas into innovations.
Networking capability, new venture performance and entrepreneurial rent
Authors: Mu Jifeng 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– Prior research suggests that insufficient networking capability of a firm (i.e. the capability to establish, maintain, and leverage ties, contacts and connections) poses a potential barrier to its growth, the causal logic of networking capability and firm performance has not been fully articulated and a clear link between network resources and networking capability, however, remains to be demonstrated. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– Conceptually and theoretically, the paper emphasizes the importance of networking capability in network resources mobilization and deployment, innovation and rent-seeking and argues that the firm should build strong networking capability to creatively and artfully manage its networks to sustain its vitality.

Findings
– The paper builds a theoretical model relating networking capability, network resources, open innovation, and resulting new venture success and economic rents. The paper argues that new ventures should build and leverage networking capability to manage network relationships and resources to innovate, develop and create value, and appropriate various types of economic rent.

Research limitations/implications
– The framework generally promoted building networking capability as a means of accessing to a broader range of network resources and opportunities than a new venture is able to maintain internally for innovation and growth, the benefits may not be so clear-cut. A useful future research direction would be to determine empirically the relationship between networking capability and new ventures' survival and growth, the extent to which new ventures are able to derive economic rents from exploiting networking capability, and how this is related to the degrees of competitive success they attain.

Practical implications
– The research framework suggests that networking capability can help new ventures to take advantage of opportunities discovered and serve unexploited markets. The study implies that networking capability can be a powerful weapon for new ventures to implement open innovation strategy to build solid growth businesses and to gain sustainable competitive advantage.

Originality/value
– The paper develops a parsimonious model that links new venture survival and success with networking capability, network resources and open innovation. Also, this model shows why and how new ventures can leverage networking capability to generate and appropriate economic rent simultaneously.
Leadership in faith-based aged and community care
Authors: Shaw Kelly , M. Cartwright Colleen , Sankaran Shankar , Kelly Jacqueline , Dick Bob , Davies Alan , Craig Jocelyn 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to identify the domains of performance needed by leaders in aged and community care not-for-profit organisations.

Design/methodology/approach
– Focus groups and individual interviews were conducted with senior managers employed by faith-based aged and community care not-for-profit organisations, academics in ageing and business fields and senior government employees from aged services departments and agencies in Australia. Results were content transcribed and analysed thematically in order to identify the major themes that emerged.

Findings
– A total of 37 people participated in the study. The domains of performance identified by participants as required of leaders in aged and community care were: professionalism; collaboration and teamwork; judgement and decision making; communication; scholarship and teaching; management; advocacy; and leadership. The performance requirements that were identified for leaders in aged and community care not-for-profit organisations were broader than just leadership per se.

Research limitations/implications
– The findings of this study suggest that the aged and community care not-for-profit sector has specific requirements for the performance of its leaders. Leadership is one of a number of performance attributes desirable in leaders in this sector.

Practical implications
– The aged and community care not-for-profit sector has distinctive needs and specific requirements of its leaders.

Originality/value
– It is recommended that a broad range of performance attributes are taken into account by aged and community care not-for-profit organisations when recruiting and training staff in leadership positions.
A revenue management perspective of management accounting practice in small businesses
Authors: Ng Frederick , A. Harrison Julie , Akroyd Chris 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for the systematic examination of management accounting practices in small businesses using a revenue management perspective. This highlights the multi-faceted nature of size as a contextual factor and emphasises the role of management accounting in supporting profit-oriented decision-making, rather than its traditional role of co-ordination, control, and accountability.

Design/methodology/approach
– The framework is theoretically derived from the management accounting, revenue management, and small business literature. An illustrative case study of a small fast-food business is presented to demonstrate the applicability of this framework to practice.

Findings
– The paper identifies that various dimensions of business size have different and sometimes opposing effects on management accounting practices. Given heterogeneity is a common feature of small businesses, the framework considers alternative specifications of the size contingency variable.

Research limitations/implications
– The synthesis of small business characteristics and revenue management perspective offers a more incisive understanding of what has traditionally been considered a simple practice. The case study illustrates some of the influences of small business characteristics identified in the framework. Given its narrow scope, the findings are used for theorisation rather than offering generalisable results. Further cross-sectional comparisons of small businesses are needed to confirm size influences.

Practical implications
– The framework can assist practitioners to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of their management accounting practices and can help assess the value of adopting more sophisticated management accounting practices, given their particular business environment. A synthesis of these small business attributes can help practitioners identify key barriers to implementation.

Originality/value
– The revenue management perspective and the inclusion of key characteristics of small businesses provide a new approach to evaluating management accounting practices in small businesses.
Influence of anisotropy on creep in an anisotropic composite rotating disc with nonlinearly varying thickness
Authors: Gupta Vandana , Singh S.B. 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of anisotropy in terms of a single parameter indicating strengthening or weakening in the tangential direction in composite disc with hyperbolically varying thickness introduced presumably by processing or due to alignment of dispersed reinforcements during flow of the matrix.

Design/methodology/approach
– Mathematical model to describe steady-state creep behavior in an anisotropic rotating disc made of Al-SiCp composite containing 30 vol% of SiC particles. The creep behavior of the composite has been described by Sherby's law. The creep parameters in the law have been determined using the regression equations developed on the basis of available experimental results in the literature. Stress and strain rate distributions for isotropic disc (a=1) have been compared with those obtained for anisotropic composites with characteristic parameters a=0.7 and 1.3.

Findings
– The study revealed that the change in the stresses by anisotropy in composite disc is relatively small while anisotropy introduces significant change in the strain rates. It is concluded that the radial strain rate always remained compressive for the isotropic composite as well as the anisotropic disc with a greater than unity (a=1.3). However, it becomes tensile in the middle region of the disc when it is less than unity (a=0.7). If a is reduced from 1.3 to 0.7, the variation of tensile strain rate in the tangential direction remains similar, but the magnitude reduces, i.e. the strength in tangential direction is enhanced.

Originality/value
– This study puts forward an analytical framework for the analysis of creep stresses and creep rates in an anisotropic rotating disc with hyperbolically varying thickness.
Investigation on corrosion behaviors of aluminum alloy in NaCl and EXCO solution
Authors: Xu Sheng , Wei Wang Hao , Zhang Xing , He Weiping 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the corrosion behaviors of 2A12 aluminum alloy in NaCl and EXCO solution, and establish the relationship between the corrosion depth and the time.

Design/methodology/approach
– Alternate immersion corrosion test chamber was used to perform the corrosion test. The corrosion mediums were 3.5 percent NaCl solution and EXCO solution (NaCl 234 g/L, KNO3 50 g/L, 68 percent HNO3 6.8 mL/L). The surface morphology was studied using the digital microscope.

Findings
– The average corrosion rate of aluminum alloy in NaCl solution decreased gradually at the initial stage and then went to a plateau value. The average corrosion rate of aluminum alloy in EXCO solution increased first, then showed a downward trend. The empirical function D=At
B was verified.

Originality/value
– The results could provide a reference for the establishment of accelerated environmental spectrum in the laboratory and give instructions on the application of aluminum alloy in alternated dry and wet environment.
Philosophical issues in responsible investment: a care-ethical approach
Authors: Juhani Lehtonen Tommi 
Published: October 2013

Purpose– This paper aims to examine ethical investment problems related to fiduciary responsibilities.Design/methodology/approach– The present study discusses these issues from the perspective of stock investment. It identifies, validates and explains the ethical problems and possibilities concerning the principles of responsible investment. The paper focuses on, but is not restricted to, the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment.Findings– The United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment give investors moral freedoms, although from the point-of-view of most moral theories, only such investments that serve the well-being of people and the environment would be ethically responsible. The legitimacy of fiduciary responsibilities is motivated by the pursuit of economic gain, which is essential for business on the one hand but ethically problematic on the other, if the “invisible hand” of the economy does not work and wealth accumulates in the hands of only a few people.Research limitations/implications– This vision presented in the paper (albeit practically relevant) is obviously general and many details, including the starting points of the care-ethical approach and the moral rating of stock portfolios, need to be developed further.Practical implications– The vision proposes, in essence, a care-ethical approach according to which only such investments that promote the general good and welfare are morally acceptable. From this perspective, investment should primarily serve people and the environment, and therefore investments should only be made, based on a careful evaluation, in ethically acceptable and economically profitable companies that contribute to the human and environmental good.Originality/value– This subject matter has been much discussed; however, the perspective and starting points of this article, especially the ethics of care, are new and add novel ideas to the conversation.