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A survey on cloud‐based sustainability governance systems
Authors: Truong Hong‐Linh , Dustdar Schahram 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine how cloud‐based information systems and services can support emerging and future requirements for sustainability governance of facilities.Design/methodology/approachThe authors present basic elements of cloud‐based sustainability governance platforms, conduct a survey of existing industrial platforms and research works, discuss distinguishable and common characteristics of cloud computing platforms for sustainability governance, and give views on future research.FindingsCloud computing emerges as a potential candidate for supporting sustainability governance. However, several techniques must be provided in order to support multiple stakeholders, complex analysis and compliance processes.Research limitations/implicationsThe number of industrial platforms and research works in the survey is limited, as is information about industrial platforms. Furthermore, industrial platforms are continuously updated, thus some information might be outdated.Originality/valueThere exists no survey for understanding how cloud computing could be used for sustainability governance. The paper not only helps to understand state‐of‐the‐art in using cloud computing for sustainability governance but also discusses main components, stakeholders and requirements for cloud‐based sustainability governance platforms.
Public perceptions, knowledge and stigma towards people with schizophrenia
Authors: Smith Valerie , Reddy Jairus , Foster Kenneth , Asbury Edward T. , Brooks Jennifer 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to obtain perceptions of educated non‐professionals towards people with schizophrenia.Design/methodology/approachA social distance scale and a schizophrenia knowledge and attitude survey were administered to 330 undergraduates. It was predicted that knowledge and personal family experience would predict tolerance attitudes and social distance comfort towards persons with schizophrenia.FindingsKnowledge about schizophrenia and personal family experience with mental illness had similar effects on tolerance scores. Specifically, those with higher knowledge and family members with schizophrenia reported higher levels of tolerance (i.e. less stigma). Conversely, participants with a family member diagnosed with a mental illness reported less social distance comfort to persons with schizophrenia as opposed to those without mental illness in the family. Finally, gender differences indicated that women held more tolerant attitudes towards schizophrenia compared with men.Originality/valueFew studies have focused on educated non‐professional perceptions and attitudes towards the mentally ill.
Homelessness and mental health: adding clinical mental health interventions to existing social ones can greatly enhance positive outcomes
Authors: Cockersell Peter 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThis paper seeks to discuss the association between homelessness and poor health, both physical and mental. A pilot project run by St Mungo's suggests that adding clinical mental health interventions, notably psychotherapy, makes existing social care interventions several times more effective, enables deeper recovery, and frees people to move on across all the domains of their lives.Design/methodology/approachSt Mungo's was awarded a grant by the Cabinet Office as one of the national pilots working with “adults facing chronic exclusion” (jointly funded by the Department of Work & Pensions, Ministry of Justice, Department of Health, Department of Communities, and Department of Families and Children – because these clients impact on the remits of all these departments). The aim of the project was essentially simple: to test the hypothesis that, if chronically excluded adults were excluded because of their psychological disorders, then could a psychotherapeutic intervention reduce their exclusion?FindingsRecently, 274 people have attended for therapy; 30 per cent of these are women, 70 per cent men, with 68 per cent white and 32 per cent black. In total, 30 per cent did not come to the initial assessment session, and there are many reasons for this, for example, people abandoning or being evicted from their accommodation, death, imprisonment and resettlement. Some were also referred without proper consultation, so that when they were contacted it turned out they did not want psychotherapy or, in a few cases were already accessing it elsewhere. Of those who did attend assessment, 80 per cent went on to attend four or more sessions; most clients attended either two to four sessions, or more than 12. Attendance overall was 76 per cent, and non‐attendances were noted on 11 per cent of occasions.Originality/valueMany homeless people become caught in the “revolving door” of hostels, prison, hospitals and the streets, often for many years. This paper argues that this form of homelessness affects people because of their mental health, and that social solutions alone are not sufficient, which is why the door continues to revolve. Offering appropriate clinical interventions alongside existing social ones could begin to transform this situation.
It's all about the money – randomised controlled trial of public opinion towards prescribing injectable heroin in drug treatment
Authors: Mushtaq Salman , Maucoli Easow Joby , Mendes Vania , Luty Jason 
Published: November 2014

PurposeInjectable opioid therapy (prescribing heroin for heroin addicts to inject) remains a highly controversial and expensive option. Recent research has shown significant benefits for this therapy in otherwise refractory patients. The aim of this paper is to assess the public opinion regarding heroin prescribing to addicts and to determine what effect the cost of this might have on their opinions.Design/methodology/approachParticipants were asked to complete a questionnaire after reading a vignette which described current opioid maintenance therapy. Two vignettes were generated and the experimental group was randomised to receive the additional information that the cost of heroin prescribing was £15,000 per addict, per year.FindingsQuestionnaires were received from 187 subjects (response rate 74 percent). For the control group, 23 percent agreed and 58 percent disagreed with prescribing heroin to addicts (23 vs 62). For the experimental group, where the additional cost of £15,000 per addict was introduced into the vignette, 10 percent agreed and 75 percent disagreed (10 vs 71). The difference was statistically significant (p<0.05; χ2). In total, 58 percent of people were opposed to the idea that heroin should be prescribed to heroin addicts on the National Health Service but this rises to 75 percent when the annual cost of prescribed heroin (£15,000) is included.Originality/valueThis study supports an earlier survey that showed over 80 percent of the general public opposed the prescription of diamorphine to addicts even to reduce crime. Heroin prescribing remains controversial and lacks public support.
Consumer perceptions of online consumer product and service reviews
Authors: Lee Hyun‐Hwa , Jin Ma Yoon 
Published: November 2014

PurposeOnline consumer reviews play an important role in influencing consumers' purchasing decisions by providing a wealth of information about products and services. Framed by uncertainty reduction theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine consumer perceptions of online consumer reviews and effects on consumer attitudes and usage behaviors in relation to individual characteristics.Design/methodology/approachData were randomly collected from 1,930 US online consumer review users using an online survey.FindingsThe researchers found that consumers perceived both benefits and costs from online consumer reviews and that both benefits and costs influenced consumer attitudes toward, and usage behaviors of, online consumer reviews. Individual characteristics – confidence in the information process and consumer susceptibility to interpersonal influence – were shown to determine how online consumer reviews were perceived.Originality/valueThe results provide insight to retailers and marketers as to how they can use consumer reviews for their products or services to improve business performance.
A new input system for disabled users involving eye gaze tracker and scanning interface
Authors: Biswas Pradipta , Langdon Pat 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThis paper aims to present a new input interaction system for people with severe disabilities. The new system works based on eye gaze tracking and single switch scanning interaction techniques. It combines eye gaze tracking and scanning in a unique way which is faster than only scanning‐based systems while more comfortable to use than only eye gaze tracking‐based systems, which is also supported by a user study.Design/methodology/approachThe aim was to design a new interaction technique combining eye tracking and scanning technique for severely disabled people. A comparative study with eight users involving only an eye tracking system and the system combining eye tracking and scanning was conducted.FindingsThe participants rated the new system easier and less strenuous to use than the eye gaze tracking‐based system, while the new system did not slow the speed of interaction.Originality/valueThis new method based on eye gaze tracking and single switch scanning interaction techniques has potential to be a new interaction technique combining free source eye tracker and scanning switches. It is hoped users who can move a limb to use a single switch‐based scanning system will be hugely benefitted by this new system.
Do the victims of school bullies tend to become depressed later in life? A systematic review and meta‐analysis of longitudinal studies
Authors: Ttofi Maria M. , Farrington David P. , Lösel Friedrich , Loeber Rolf 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which bullying victimization in school predicts depression in later life and whether this relation holds after controlling for other major childhood risk factors.Design/methodology/approachAs no previous systematic review has been conducted on this topic, effect sizes are based on both published and unpublished studies: longitudinal investigators of 28 studies have conducted specific analyses for the authors' review.FindingsThe probability of being depressed up to 36 years later (mean follow‐up period of 6.9 years) was much higher for children who were bullied at school than for non‐involved students (odds ratio (OR)=1.99; 95 per cent CI: 1.71‐2.32). Bullying victimization was a significant risk factor for later depression even after controlling for up to 20 (mean number of six covariates) major childhood risk factors (OR=1.74; 95 per cent CI: 1.54‐1.97). Effect sizes were smaller when the follow‐up period was longer and larger the younger the child was when exposed to bullying. Finally, the summary effect size was not significantly related to the number of risk factors controlled for.Originality/valueAlthough causal inferences are tentative, the overall results presented in this paper indicate that bullying victimization is a major childhood risk factor that uniquely contributes to later depression. High quality effective anti‐bullying programmes could be viewed as an early form of public health promotion.
Bullies, victims, and bully‐victims: a longitudinal examination of the effects of bullying‐victimization experiences on youth well‐being
Authors: Özdemir Metin , Stattin Håkan 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how children's involvement in bullying (as bullies, victims and bully‐victims) is related to longer term levels of various internalizing problems such as depression and self‐harm.Design/methodology/approachA prospective longitudinal design was used based on data from the Swedish Seven Schools Longitudinal Study. The authors also examined whether bullying/victimization experiences predict changes in internalizing problems.FindingsResults vary depending on children's participation in bullying behavior as bullies, victims or bully‐victims.Originality/valueOverall, the paper's findings highlight the importance of uniqueness of different bullying/victimization experiences. This study showed that the bully‐victims, followed by the victimized group, were more at risk for displaying internalizing problems. Bullies showed neither higher internalizing problems nor increases over time in symptom levels compared to the youths who were neither bullies nor victims.
Women tourism entrepreneurs: doing gender on farms in Sweden
Authors: Pettersson Katarina , Heldt Cassel Susanna 
Published: November 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to explore how gender is “done” on farms in Sweden in the context of increased tourism and hospitality activities. The authors seek to investigate how gender is done vis-à-vis women’s farm tourism entrepreneurship. They seek to answer the questions: What has motivated the farm women to become tourism entrepreneurs? How are the gendered divisions of labor changed through women starting businesses? How does the gendered associated symbolism, as well as the identities, change?

Design/methodology/approach
– Research has indicated that introducing tourism entrepreneurship at farms may challenge established gender relations, as many of these entrepreneurs are women. The empirical material consists of in-depth interviews with 15 women farm tourism entrepreneurs in central Sweden.

Findings
– The analysis suggests that the gendered divisions of labor are not changed through the interviewed women starting tourism businesses. The authors conclude that the women build their entrepreneurship and develop some of their products on an image of rural domesticity, including a representation of themselves as traditional farm women. At the same time they are changing how gender is done through identifying as entrepreneurs and changing the use of the farms.

Originality/value
– The authors seek to fill the research gap concerning women’s farm tourism entrepreneurship and the potential associated gendered changes. Their theoretical contribution is applying the perspective of “doing gender” and entrepreneurship, for delineating potential changes in gendered relations.
Suzhi: an indigenous criterion for human resource management in China
Authors: Xu Liguo , Fu Pinging , Xi Youmin 
Published: November 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the indigenous concept of suzhi at individual and organizational levels, and identify its dimensions for human resource management (HRM) research and practice in China.

Design/methodology/approach
– Based on a comprehensive review of suzhi literature, Chinese cultural and historical literature, as well as Western mainstream HRM research, a multidimensional suzhi framework is conceptualized.

Findings
– As an indigenous expression, suzhi can be and has been adopted for Chinese HRM research and practice. As a multidimensional construct, one’s cognitive suzhi is jointly determined by corresponding moral suzhi, wenhua (knowledge-based) suzhi and zhuanye (professional) suzhi. Cognitive suzhi, in turn, determines one’s behavioral suzhi that drives employees to enhance organizational performance, and this relationship is moderated by psychological suzhi.

Research limitations/implications
– The proposed framework provides new insight for Chinese indigenous management research, particularly in developing suzhi measurement for different dimensions. It also informs HRM practices in recruiting, selection, performance analysis and employee career development.

Originality/value
– The complexity of suzhi dimensions from an organizational HRM perspective is analyzed. The resulting suzhi framework offers new insight for HRM research and practices in China.
Back to the future: 900 years of securitization
Authors: Buchanan Bonnie 
Published: November 2014

Purpose– Before the 2007 financial crisis, securitized products accounted for half the credit market. Once regarded as one of the biggest financial innovations of the last century, securitization is now viewed as a contributory factor to the crisis. Until recently research has focused on the post-1970s mortgage securitization market. In this paper, I trace the earlier origins of securitization, from the 12th century Genoese compera through to early 20th century efforts. The historical examples highlight unifying themes on risk allocation and complexity. As the future securitization market remains uncertain, it is important to consider lessons to be learned from these historical episodes.Design/methodology/approach– This is primarily a survey article that utilizes historical documents to compare/contrast features of securitization with the recent crisis.Findings– Improved disclosure is the key element to address recent securitization flaws, but disclosure does not really matter if the entire process is not understood. An examination of historical episodes can be instructive. Forging ahead, any securitization reform needs to address why securitization markets formed, why they failed and how the securitization market can be improved.Practical implications– As the future securitization market remains uncertain, it is important to consider lessons to be learned from these historical episodes.Originality/value– To the best of my knowledge, this is one of the first research papers that surveys the history of securitization as far back as the twelfth century.
Self-reporting under SEC Reg AB and transparency in securitization
Authors: R. Mason Joseph , B. Imerman Michael , Lee Hong 
Published: November 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the limitations and potential bias in securitized residential mortgage data and examine the importance of such data issues for typical studies of residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS) market and the financial crisis.

Design/methodology/approach
– We use trustee data on mortgage characteristics provided by BlackBox Logic – the BBx data – to study the extent to which undisclosed mortgage characteristics distort the available data and impact risk analysis of RMBS collateral pools.

Findings
– We illustrate that substantial amounts of loan characteristic data in crucial fields like occupancy, property type, loan purpose and FICO are missing from the trustee data. The frequency of missing values is staggering, ranging from just under 9 per cent for property type to 29 per cent for FICO, up to almost 85 per cent for originator name, all variables used in recent studies. The omissions are correlated to some degree with the securitization sponsor and even more dramatically with the identity of the deal trustee.

Research limitations/implications
– Analysis of RMBS collateral should be built not on the entirety of mortgage databases, but on stratified samples and should otherwise control for important sponsor and trustee fixed effects.

Practical implications
– The revisions for Regulation AB which require loan-level disclosure should be adopted to standardize mortgage disclosure.

Originality/value
– This is the first paper that examines selection bias in loan characteristics relied upon for a wide variety of mortgage market research that has substantially affected policy decisions in the post-crisis era.
Securitization and Italian banks’ risk during the crisis
Authors: Battaglia Francesca , Mazzuca Maria 
Published: November 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this study was to examine the 2007-2009 financial crisis to analyze how securitization relates to the Italian bank risk profile, both in terms of credit and liquidity risks.Design/methodology/approach– To test our research hypotheses, we adopt ordered probit models, in which we regress the changes in credit risk and liquidity on a set of regressors, including two securitization dummy variables plus a vector of control variables.Findings– Our results show that the impact of securitization on the originators risk-taking is not uniform. When credit risk is considered, the securitization effects seem to be statistically significant only during the crisis period. However, when we turn to analyze the bank’s liquidity position, our results show that securitization improves it both during the pre-crisis and the crisis years. Our results support the Basel III initiatives aimed to realize a better integration between the different types of risks (i.e. credit and liquidity risks).Research limitations/implications– The major limitation of our study is related to the analyzed geographic area.Practical implications– First, our results support the Basel III initiatives aimed to realize a better integration between the different types of risks (i.e. credit and liquidity risks). In general, the broad policy implication of the paper is that in some contexts, such as the Italian market, securitization does not necessarily produce negative effects in terms of bank’s risk.Originality/value– This study contributes to the empirical literature on the effects of securitization for banks in several ways. First, we consider the complexity of the bank’s risk profile; second, despite the importance of the Italian securitization market, there is a research void on it. Furthermore, unlike previous studies, our analysis covers the period 2000-2009, including the financial crisis years. Finally, to our knowledge, our methodology (ordered probit models) has not been used in the past in this context.
How to repair customer trust of high-risk products after negative publicity
Authors: Cao Ting , Shi Guicheng , Yin Yanting 
Published: November 2014

Purpose– This paper aims to explore the efficiency of various customer trust repair efforts for high-risk products that are closely related with the safety and health of customers after negative publicity. Many corporations are suffering from the crisis of customer trust after negative publicity in China in recent years.Design/methodology/approach– Taking the Chinese dairy industry as the research context, this research adopted quantitative survey methodology using self-administered questionnaires to collect data of 204 dairy consumers in mainland China. Hypotheses tests were conducted using structural equation modeling.Findings– The results reveal that, for the high-risk products, affective repair has positive effect on benevolence-based trust and integrity-based trust, and informational repair has strong positive relationship with competence-based trust and integrity-based trust. Surprisingly, there are no significant relationship between functional repair and three factors of trust. In addition, all three trust factors positively affect repurchase intention.Originality/value– This paper is among the first to examine and confirm the efficiency of various customer trust repair efforts for high-risk products after negative publicity. The findings of this paper provide the high-risk product companies with guidance about how to repair customer trust after negative publicity.
Rethinking the path of business research in the West
Authors: S. Lee Allen , Luo Xin 
Published: November 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to make instrumental recommendations on how to conduct high-quality business-school research in China.Design/methodology/approach– This paper offers four fundamental questions to guide business-school research in China.Findings– By offering answers to these guidance questions, this paper hopes that business-school research in China will reject the single path of the natural-science model of basic research and choose to also travel the path of the professional-practice model of pragmatic research.Originality/value– The following is an edited version of Professor Allen S. Lee’s keynote address at the Fourth Symposium on Financial Intelligence and Risk Management and the Fifth International Workshop on Electronic Payment and Electronic Commerce in China (FIRM-EPECC 2012), on June 2, 2012, at the Sichuan Key Lab of Financial Intelligence and Financial Engineering (FIFE) of the Southwestern University of Finance of Economics (SWUFE), in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China.