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Programmed method: developing a toolset for capturing and analyzing tweets
Authors: Borra Erik , Rieder Bernhard 
Published: June 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to introduce Digital Methods Initiative Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset, a toolset for capturing and analyzing Twitter data. Instead of just presenting a technical paper detailing the system, however, the authors argue that the type of data used for, as well as the methods encoded in, computational systems have epistemological repercussions for research. The authors thus aim at situating the development of the toolset in relation to methodological debates in the social sciences and humanities.Design/methodology/approach– The authors review the possibilities and limitations of existing approaches to capture and analyze Twitter data in order to address the various ways in which computational systems frame research. The authors then introduce the open-source toolset and put forward an approach that embraces methodological diversity and epistemological plurality.Findings– The authors find that design decisions and more general methodological reasoning can and should go hand in hand when building tools for computational social science or digital humanities.Practical implications– Besides methodological transparency, the software provides robust and reproducible data capture and analysis, and interlinks with existing analytical software. Epistemic plurality is emphasized by taking into account how Twitter structures information, by allowing for a number of different sampling techniques, by enabling a variety of analytical approaches or paradigms, and by facilitating work at the micro, meso, and macro levels.Originality/value– The paper opens up critical debate by connecting tool design to fundamental interrogations of methodology and its repercussions for the production of knowledge. The design of the software is inspired by exchanges and debates with scholars from a variety of disciplines and the attempt to propose a flexible and extensible tool that accommodates a wide array of methodological approaches is directly motivated by the desire to keep computational work open for various epistemic sensibilities.
Diabetic retinopathy care – an international quality comparison
Authors: Elisabeth de Korte Carolina , F. de Korne Dirk , P. Martinez Ciriano Jose , Robert Rosenthal J. , Sol Kees , S. Klazinga Niek , A. Bal Roland 
Published: June 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to study the quality indicator appropriateness and use it for international quality comparison on diabetic retinopathy (DR) patient care process in one American and one Dutch eye hospital.

Design/methodology/approach
– A 17-item DR quality indicator set was composed based on a literature review and systematically applied in two hospitals. Qualitative analysis entailed document study and 12 semi-structured face-to-face interviews with ophthalmologists, managers, and board members of the two hospitals.

Findings
– While the medical-clinical approach to DR treatment in both hospitals was similar, differences were found in quality of care perception and operationalization. Neither hospital systematically used outcome indicators for DR care. On the process level, the authors found larger differences. Similarities and differences were found in the structure of both hospitals. The hospitals’ particular contexts influenced the interpretation and use of quality indicators.

Practical implications
– Although quality indicators and quality comparison between hospitals are increasingly used in international settings, important local differences influence their application. Context should be taken into account. Since that context is locally bound and directly linked to hospital setting, caution should be used interpreting the results of quality comparison studies.

Originality/value
– International quality comparison is increasingly suggested as a useful way to improve healthcare. Little is known, however, about the appropriateness and use of quality indicators in local hospital care practices.
Why TQM does not work in Iranian healthcare organisations
Authors: Mohammad Mosadeghrad Ali 
Published: June 2014

Purpose
– Despite the potential benefits of total quality management (TQM), many healthcare organisations encountered difficulties in its implementation. The purpose of this paper is to explore the barriers to successful implementation of TQM in healthcare organisations of Iran.

Design/methodology/approach
– This study involved a mixed research design. In-depth interviews were conducted with TQM practitioners to explore TQM implementation obstacles in Iranian healthcare organisations. In addition, this study involved survey-based research on the obstacles associated with successful TQM transformation.

Findings
– TQM implementation and its impact depend on the ability of managers to adopt and adapt its values and concepts in professional healthcare organisations. Unsuccessful TQM efforts in Iranian healthcare organisations can be attributed to the non-holistic approach adopted in its implementation, inadequate knowledge of managers’ about TQM implementation, frequent top management turnover, poor planning, vague and short-termed improvement goals, lack of consistent managers’ and employees’ commitment to and involvement in TQM implementation, lack of a corporate quality culture, lack of team orientation, lack of continuous education and training and lack of customer focus. Human resource problems, cultural and strategic problems were the most important obstacles to TQM successful implementation, respectively.

Practical implications
– Understanding the factors that are likely to obstruct TQM implementation would enable managers to develop more viable strategies for achieving business excellence.

Originality/value
– Understanding the factors that are likely to obstruct TQM implementation will help organisations in planning better TQM models.
How do pupils use ICT devices to support and enhance their learning?
Authors: Reeve James 
Published: June 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this small-scale study is to investigate ways in which pupils at the target school use tools such a mobile phones and tablets to enhance their learning. The research focused on three questions: first, what ICT devices do pupils use during lessons? Second, how are such devices used in different curriculum areas? Third, what are the benefits and limitations of their use?

Design/methodology/approach
– Mixed method approach yielding both quantitative and qualitative data. Quota sampling was used to select ten pupils – two from each year group and five teachers – across a range of curriculum areas – to complete a questionnaire. On the basis of these responses semi-structured focus groups were held with the five teachers and five of the pupils. The pupils were selected on the basis of their use of ICT devices in lessons.

Findings
– It was found that ICT devices play an important role in pupils’ learning if they are used appropriately. Specifically their use helps promote independent learning, provides pupils with immediate feedback and gives easy access to information. Both pupils and staff recognised the importance of developing key ICT skills for further education or employment.

Research limitations/implications
– The sample size was small and the teachers involved in the study were generally early career practitioners. This made it difficult to generalise the findings. The research also found some discrepancies between the pupils’ and the teachers’ responses which warrants further investigation.

Practical implications
– Two curriculum areas were identified as making regular use of ICT devices in lessons. The school would like to investigate how these devices are utilised with a view to sharing good practice across the wider school.

Originality/value
– Many studies of ICT device use in classrooms has been based in the Far East. There is limited research in UK schools.
Researching the psychological therapies in prison: considerations and future recommendations
Authors: Gee Joanna , Bertrand-Godfrey Betty 
Published: June 2014

Purpose
– The psychological therapies are widely considered within the forensic literature as holding a useful role in the prison system, however, despite this, very little research into the psychological therapies has taken place. Further, where research is carried out, it is often associated with the need for evidence-based practice (EBP), involving quantification and randomization. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper will initially introduce the importance of research into the psychological therapies in prison, followed by a consideration of EBP which can be thought of as the current movement governing research in the psychological therapies in the UK.

Findings
– However, in providing a focused critique of EBP, particularly within prisons, this paper will attempt to pave the way for a consideration of alternative research methodologies and resultant methods in researching the psychological therapies in prisons in the UK.

Originality/value
– Through this it is argued that research within the prison setting should act not to promote interventions and create an evidence-based as such, but to provide an accessible body of knowledge for the psychological therapists working in prisons in the UK.
Social dynamics in rural Punjab: changes in gender roles, spatial mobility and decision making
Authors: Farooq Ayesha , K. Kayani Ashraf 
Published: June 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to observed the gender roles and changes in decision-making structure in a village of the Punjab, Pakistan. Spatial mobility of young females by time periods and responsibility regarding supervision of young boys and girls are also included. Decision making regarding education, family disputes, property and domestic purchases are described from 1960 through 2008.

Design/methodology/approach
– A sample survey was conducted in the village. Systematic sampling technique is used for the selection of the respondents of age 55+ years. An interview schedule was developed as a tool for data collection. The results are based on descriptive and decade wise analyses.

Findings
– Results show traditional gender roles, particularly of women are changing since 1980s, mainly due to education that has partially influenced their autonomy. Positive change in attitudes toward daughters is observed to have appeared in the recent past. Fading away of role of grandparents in decision making is evident from the data. To an extent, it has replaced the autonomy of parents and grownup children.

Originality/value
– This study is an original research which is significant to develop the understanding of the changing gender roles in the rural community of the Punjab, Pakistan. Furthermore, public policies might be designed to encourage or discourage the change in a structured manner.
Does a socially well integrated university have anything to do with faculty retention? A study on Kerman University of Medical Sciences-2011
Authors: Amiresmaili Mohammadreza , Zolala Farzaneh , Esfandiari Atefeh , Dehnavieh Reza , Nekoueimoghadam Mahmood , Salari Hedayat , Rakhshan Amir 
Published: June 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to measure the relationship between organizational social capital and retention of faculty members in Kerman University of Medical Sciences in 2011.

Design/methodology/approach
– Using a stratified multistage sampling, 120 faculty members were recruited to fill the questionnaire.

Findings
– There were a direct and positive bilateral (r=0.65) relationship between social capital and retention of faculty members.

Originality/value
– The university officials and policy makers need to pay closer attention to some issues such as providing welfare facilities, salary and wages, benefits, interests and appreciation for faculty members.
Long haul truck drivers’ views on the barriers and facilitators to healthy eating and physical activity
Authors: G. Passey Deborah , Garg Arun , Kinney Anita , Robbins Riann , T. Hegmann Kurt , Ott Ulrike , Thiese Matt , A. Murtaugh Maureen 
Published: June 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore truck drivers’ views toward diet, physical activity, and health care access to inform the development of a weight loss intervention.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors conducted four focus groups via teleconference (one) or in person (three). Each focus group included eight to ten truck drivers. Sessions were digitally recorded and transcribed. The authors used thematic analysis of the participant responses to develop themes and subthemes.

Findings
– Truck drivers desired good health, however, many knowledge gaps were identified. Drivers were aware of some healthy foods, but lacked knowledge of appropriate energy intake and healthy weight. Drivers expressed many barriers to eating healthy food and engaging in physical activity on the road. Participants suggested strategies and resources to improve their diet and increase physical activity.

Research limitations/implications
– This qualitative study included a convenience sample of 30 long-haul truck drivers. Consensus of themes and subthemes was achieved by four sessions. Issues facing long-haul truck drivers may be different than other truck drivers. Additional qualitative research should be conducted along with interventions focussed on healthy behaviors that can be implemented in the mobile working environment.

Originality/value
– This is the first focus group study of truck drivers that targets eating and physical activity. Future weight loss intervention designs should address the lack of knowledge and skills. To succeed, interventions should implement strategies to address perceived barriers: access, time limitations, and high cost of healthy lifestyle habits.
Construction of speed-to-market supply chain management model for garment industry
Authors: Yeh Chung , Lee Yu-tang 
Published: June 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to build and provide a step-by-step methodology to develop a speed-to-market (STM) process model for a fashion garment that can quickly respond to the marketing situation and shorten the cycle time from receiving orders to deliver the finished product. The improved STM process model to contrast the “before” and “after” scenarios in order to induce potential benefits such as reducing production lead-time and keeping low inventory.

Design/methodology/approach
– First, collected garment business management systems and garment manufacture operational process. Second, according to the point-line-plane-volume work improvement to list the garment industry up and down stream improvement projects and to reduce the supply chain lead-time. Third, establish the STM model and use information technology to redesign the garment industry supply chain process. Fourth, amend the STM model process. Fifth, compare the supply chain lead-time of finished STM process and normal process.

Findings
– After the garment industry implements STM and supply chain re-engineering, the clothing design to sale process can be simplified and reduced time to market. The garment order to buyer lead-time is shortened from 104 to 42 days totally.

Practical implications
– This research is a practical business re-engineering process and work improvement. The improvement STM model can half the cycle time from receiving orders to deliver the finished garment product.

Originality/value
– This paper provides a process with a step-by-step methodology to develop a successful speed-to-market model for the fashion garment industry and it is able to serve as a reference model for other industrial supply chain management.
Diagnosing vulnerability and “dangerousness”: police use of Section 136 in England and Wales
Authors: B. Menkes David , A. Bendelow Gillian 
Published: June 2014

Purpose
– Police in England and Wales are empowered, under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (s136), to detain individuals thought to be a danger to themselves or to others. Use of this authority is widespread, but varies across districts and attracts controversy because of inconsistent application and the fact that it requires police to make judgements about mental health. The purpose of this paper is to examine police attitudes to and criteria for using s136.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors conducted focus groups with 30 officers in urban and rural areas of three different regions across England and Wales. Group interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and analysed using open and axial coding.

Findings
– Use of s136 authority has major implications for police work; liaison with mental health services is seen as desirable but often ineffective due to resource constraints and the latter's lack of availability. The decision to invoke s136 depends on social context and other particulars of individual cases.

Research limitations/implications
– Although the findings have limitations with respect to generalisability across the whole of the UK, there are patterns of responses which have major implications for policy recommendations.

Practical implications
– Police decisions to apply s136 reflect an implicit values-based classification of and response to emotionally disturbed behaviour, in light of available institutional and social supports.

Social implications
– Tasked primarily with protecting the public and keeping the peace, police “diagnoses” of risk often contrast with that of mental health professionals.

Originality/value
– A highly original piece of research which has attracted further funding from BA/Leverhulme.
Three year follow-up study of families referred to a family intervention team – what are the outcomes that make a difference?
Authors: Salter Leah , Williams Jessica 
Published: June 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-term outcomes for 15 young people on a range of indicators including school success, involvement with other agencies and the perceived effectiveness by the family.Design/methodology/approach– Semi-structured telephone interviews were used to gather a range of both quantitative and qualitative data. Interviews were with a parent of the referred child (n=15).Findings– In all, 87 per cent of care-givers interviewed rated the service they had received as helpful 85 per cent reported these changes to be maintained at the three year follow-up. Rate of school exclusion was only 7 per cent and 0 per cent of families went on to have involvement with statutory social services or the youth justice system.Research limitations/implications– This is a small-scale study offering a small sample (n=15) of families previously referred to this Family Intervention Team, at a three-year post-intervention period. More routine longitudinal information needs to be gathered for a more robust indication on long-term outcomes.Practical implications– The impact this study will have on the team involved will be in its recommendations for further long-term outcome studies; but also in feeding back to the service the significant key messages from those interviewed.Social implications– Contributing to a wider understanding of the long-term benefits of early intervention.Originality/value– This paper offers some new though small statistical data in the growing pool of statistics that are indicating positive outcomes for early intervention and family intervention projects.
Regulatory environment, environmental dynamism, political ties, and performance
Authors: Adomako Samuel , Danso Albert 
Published: June 2014

Purpose– Regulatory environment, environmental dynamism, and political ties are typically modelled as separate antecedents of firm performance. However, the boundary conditions for such models are less examined in a developing country context where regulatory environments have been argued to be weak. Accordingly, drawing on institutional and social capital theories, the purpose of this paper is to examine the interrelationship between regulatory environment, political ties, environmental dynamism, and firm performance.Design/methodology/approach– The study uses primary data gathered from 372 entrepreneurial firms in Nigeria, a Sub-Saharan African country.Findings– The findings of the paper suggest that that regulatory environment is negatively related to firm performance. However, political ties and environmental dynamism moderate the regulatory environment-firm performance relationship such that such relationship is positive and significant.Research limitations/implications– First, the study provides important insights on how weak and underdeveloped regulatory environment negatively affect the performance of firms. In other words, the study represents a response to call for the development of better regulatory environment since regulatory environment plays significant role in firm performance. Second, this study also demonstrates the importance of political ties and environment dynamism on firm performance in an emerging economy such as Nigeria where regulatory environment is weak.Originality/value– To the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first study from the perspective of Sub-Saharan Africa that examine the moderating role of political ties and environmental dynamism on regulatory environment-firm performance relationship.
ICT possession among Congolese SMEs: an exploratory study
Authors: D. Kabongo Jean , O. Okpara John 
Published: June 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possession of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the developing economy of the Democratic Republic (DR) of the Congo.

Design/methodology/approach
– A survey of Congolese SMEs in two major cities was conducted.

Findings
– The results of the study demonstrate that nearly 51 percent of SMEs in the sample reported a cell phone number, making this tool the most popular among SMEs studied. In total, 31 percent of SMEs reported an e-mail address while only 3 percent of them reported having a firm web site. Far <1 percent reported a fax number, while none of the SMEs in the sample used a fixed telephone line. The telecommunications sector demonstrated the highest rate of ICT usage. The findings give consistency to what the body of research has concluded relative to the use of mobile telephone by SMEs in developing economies.

Originality/value
– This study fills a gap in the research into ICT usage by SMEs in developing countries by analyzing a sample of SMEs in the DR Congo ever attempted.