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Determinants of bank performance: evidence for Latin America
Authors: Jara‐Bertin Mauricio , Arias Moya José , Rodríguez Perales Arturo 
Published: September 2014

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of macroeconomic‐industrial and bank‐specific factors on Latin American banks’ performance.Design/methodology/approachUsing the data panel system estimator version of the generalized method of moments, the authors estimate the determinants of return on assets and interest margin for a sample of 78 commercial banks from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, México, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela over the period from 1995 to 2010.FindingsOn the one hand, the results show that bank performance is positively related to both idiosyncratic factors, such as service diversification, size, capital ratio, and specialization degree, and to macroeconomic‐industrial factors such as economic growth, inflation, and bank concentration. On the other hand, the results show that bank performance is negatively related to credit risk, liquidity risk, and operational inefficiencies.Originality/valueThe authors provide new evidence from the Latin American bank industry and incorporate the effect of diversification through noninterest activities.
Business group characteristics and firm operating performance: evidence from Chile
Authors: Farías Pablo 
Published: September 2014

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of business group characteristics on firm‐operating performance in Chile.Design/methodology/approachUsing a multiple regression model, this study examines the effect of business group characteristics (interlocking of directors, management concentration, and business group specialization) on operating performance (ROA growth) in a sample of 104 publicly traded Chilean firms.FindingsIt is documented that, except for interlocking of directors, the two other business group characteristics (management concentration and business group specialization) are significantly related to the operating performance of firms belonging to Chilean business groups. These findings suggest that Chilean business groups would improve or deteriorate the performance of their affiliated firms modifying its characteristics.Originality/valueToo little is known about the effect of business group characteristics on firm‐operating performance in Latin American countries such as Chile because there is no research that analyses its impact on firm‐operating performance in the region.
HR powers turn-around at Talcher thermal plant
Authors: Kumar Sahoo Chandan 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper id to observe how imaginative human resource (HR) management has helped overcome resistance and improve performance following the takeover of the Talcher thermal power station in Odisha, India, by central government’s National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC).

Design/methodology/approach
– Explores how a performance-management system, training and employee-involvement schemes have helped to reconcile the workforce to working practices designed to increase production and return the plant to profit.

Findings
– This paper explains that HR is now run in a more codified and less capricious way.

Practical implications
– This paper reveals that the plant, which now provides one of the cheapest sources of thermal power in India, is contributing to the overall wealth of the state in which it is situated.

Social implications
– It examines, in particular, how employee involvement is helping calm workforce fears over restructuring.

Originality/value
– It provides the inside story of the turn-around at an Indian power plant.
The value of employees who go the extra mile
Authors: P. Bandura Randall , R. Lyons Paul 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to present the concept of voluntary, helpful organizational behavior and offer a discussion of research that aims to help managers to encourage such behavior among their employees.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper discusses voluntary, helpful organizational behavior based on a review of recent research, as well as findings from the authors’ research.

Findings
– This paper explains that voluntary, helpful organizational behavior could include, for example, taking the initiative to increase one’s knowledge about the job, technology, tools, industry, competitors and so on; making constructive suggestions; taking the initiative to help solve unexpected problems; working diligently to meet some deadlines; and volunteering to help with some tasks that are not part of one’s normal task duties.

Practical implications
– The authors reveal that for voluntary, helpful organizational behavior to flourish, manager or supervisor supportiveness is important; management should provide and reinforce procedural justice in the workplace; managers should help employees in attaining job satisfaction; and managers should use positive reinforcement.

Social implications
– A set of behaviors that can be useful not only in the work environment but also in society as a whole has been described.

Originality/value
– This paper points out that there is little information in practitioner journals addressing the behaviors in pragmatic terms. It also offers practical suggestions for human resource management.
How green was my valley
Authors: María Arranz José , García-Serrano Carlos 
Published: September 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the wage distribution in Spain, its evolution in recent years and the implications for increased wage dispersion. Accordingly, its attention focuses on the following issues: first, the paper investigates how personal, job and firm attributes affect the wages distribution and examine earnings differentials between and within groups of workers according to their individual and job characteristics throughout the conditional wage distribution; and second, the paper analyses whether the business cycle may influence the magnitude of these differentials.Design/methodology/approach– Using administrative data from the Spanish Social Security and the Tax Administration National Agency, the paper estimates OLS and quantile regression (QR) models in order to assess the impact of personal, job and workplace attributes on between- and within-groups wage inequality.Findings– Among other things, we find that, although the average wage has been increasing over time (until 2009), changes have not been uniform across the earnings distribution, making the dispersion fall during boom years but rise during downturn years. Furthermore, changes in the impacts of some characteristics (types of contract, education/qualifications, region and employer size) contributed to higher wage dispersion, while others (tenure) made the distribution more equal.Originality/value– The analysis of the paper in novel in that it investigates whether wage differentials respond to the business cycle and what the source of that variation is. Moreover, it analyses wages differentials not only at the mean but also throughout the conditional earnings distribution, making it possible to assess the impact of these attributes on between- and within-groups wage inequality.
When should advanced planning and scheduling systems be used in sales and operations planning?
Authors: Kjellsdotter Ivert Linea , Jonsson Patrik 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore how the context affects successful use of advanced planning and scheduling (APS) systems in sales and operations planning (S&OP) processes, and how individual, technological, and organizational (ITO) dimensions affect this procedure.

Design/methodology/approach
– This is a qualitative case study of two APS system-supported S&OP processes. The work aims to generate propositions concerning the relationships among the use of APS system, the context, ITO dimensions, and fulfillment of S&OP aims.

Findings
– Use of APS systems was especially appropriate in support of S&OP processes in complex planning environments and when S&OP aims were ambitious. ITO dimensions were important influences on successful APS system use in most contexts. APS systems were not considered appropriate when having S&OP processes with ambitious aims and low individual and organizational maturities. Use of APS systems was also inappropriate when the extent of technological maturity was minimal. S&OP processes with ambitious aims, operating within a complex planning environment, are difficult if not impossible to implement without the support of APS systems.

Practical implications
– The suggestions on when APS systems should be used in different S&OP environments will be useful to companies implementing or about to implement APS systems.

Originality/value
– APS systems offer great potential if they are effectively used to support S&OP, still the use of APS system in S&OP is unexplored. The paper shows how the context and the ITO dimensions affect the successful use of APS systems in S&OP processes.
Towards a unifying theory of management standard implementation
Authors: Ivanova Albena , Gray John , Sinha Kingshuk 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated theoretical framework of the interrelation of the key success factors in the process of standards implementation.

Design/methodology/approach
– Extensive case study work was carried out in ten American plants that had adopted ISO 9001 and or ISO 14001. First, within-case analysis captures the uniqueness of the implementation processes at each plant and leads to construction of the causal maps. Next, cross-case comparison identifies the key factors and the relationship between them, resulting in the theoretical framework.

Findings
– The key factors affecting implementation effectiveness include focus on internal improvement, top management support, design of the system around existing processes, use of information technology, positive employees’ attitude, and employees’ usage of the system. The resulting framework suggests three alternative pathways to effective implementation of standards: (i) incentives pathway, i.e., by providing the right incentives; (ii) integration pathway, i.e., by designing the system around existing processes; and (iii) information technology pathway, i.e., by using information technology.

Research limitations/implications
– The key contribution of this research is the integrated theoretical framework.

Practical implications
– Practically, this framework provides managers a clear depiction of the key actions required at each stage of standard implementation.

Originality/value
– To the best of our knowledge, this is the first integrated framework of the factors affecting standard adoption. We believe this framework is applicable to other meta-standards.
An approach to enhance availability of repairable systems: a case study of SPMs
Authors: Singh Jolly Sukhwinder , Jit Singh Bikram 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a tactical approach to cope with the issues related to low availability of repairable machines or systems because of their poor reliability and maintainability. It not only explores the significance of availability, but also embarks upon a step-by-step procedure to earmark a relevant replenishment plan to check the mean time between failure (MTBF) and the mean time to repair (MTTR) efficiently.

Design/methodology/approach
– The literature review identifies the extent to which availability depends on reliability and maintainability, and highlights the diversified challenges appearing among repairable systems. Different improvement initiatives have been suggested to avoid downtime, after analyzing the failure and repair time data graphically. Relevant plots and growth curves captured the historical deviations and trends along with the time, which further helps to create more robust action plans to enrich the respective reliability and maintainability of machines. During the case study, the proposed methodology has been tested on four SPMs and successfully validated the claims after achieving around a 98 percent availability at the end.

Findings
– Graphical analysis is the key to developing suitable action plans to enhance the corresponding reliability and maintainability of a machine or system. By increasing the MTBF, the reliability level can be improved and similarly quick maintenance activities can help to restore the prospect of maintainability. Both of these actions ultimately reduce the downtime or increase the associated availability exponentially.

Research limitations/implications
– The work revolves around the availability of SPMs. Moreover, SPMs have been divided only into series sub-systems. The testability and supportability aspects have not been considered thoroughly during the fabrication of the approach.

Originality/value
– The work focusses on the availability of systems and proposed frameworks that helps to reduce downtime or its associated expenditure, which is generally being ignored. As a case study-based work especially on SPMs in the auto sector this paper is quite rare and will motivate affiliated engineers and practitioners to achieve future breakthroughs.
An XSketch-based spelling suggestion approach for XML keyword search
Authors: Li Sheng , Wang Junhu 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to study the spelling suggestion (SS) problem for extensible markup language (XML) keyword search, which provides users with alternative queries that may better express users search intention.

Design/methodology/approach
– To return the suggested queries more efficiently, the authors evaluate the quality of the query by estimating the selectivity and quality of each query pattern. The selectivity estimation is based on the XSketch synopsis, which summarizes the structure and value distribution of the original XML data source. The authors propose an approach to generating the top-K query candidates.

Findings
– Experiments with real datasets verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the authors' approach.

Originality/value
– The authors proposed a SS approach based on the XSketch summary.
Enthusiastically consuming organic food
Authors: Rong-Da Liang Austin 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to integrate food-related lifestyle (FRL) approaches and perspectives from the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to investigate the profiles of consumers who purchase organic food online and to analyze differences in the related behaviors of consumers with different FRLs.

Design/methodology/approach
– A link to a web site explaining the content and presenting an online questionnaire was provided through the e-newsletters of five well-known Taiwanese organic food distributors. Respondents were given NT$50 e-gift coupons after they had completed the questionnaire. A total of 950 questionnaires were distributed, and 753 valid samples were obtained.

Findings
– Attitudes toward purchasing organic food online had the greatest positive influence on purchase intentions, followed by cognitive control and, finally, subjective norms. Populations with different FRLs were divided into traditional food, uninvolved food, and enthusiastic food shoppers, and these all showed significant differences with respect to the TPB model, their online organic food purchasing profiles, and demographic variables.

Originality/value
– Organic food businesses draw on various features of the internet to solve issues such as the difficulty of storing and transporting perishable food items. However, few studies have combined theories of online consumer behavior with food characteristics and psychographic approaches to analyze the overall consumer profiles of purchasers of organic food. The author believes that the conclusions of this study may be used by the food industry to analyze consumer demand, draw inferences about organic food-related habits in consumers’ everyday lives, and design more appropriate internet marketing strategies.
Challenges for B2B research relevance: a top executive perspective
Authors: Kuusela Hannu , Närvänen Elina , Saarijärvi Hannu , Yrjölä Mika 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of the article is to identify and analyze the challenges of business-to-business (B2B) research relevance from the point of view of top executives.

Design/methodology/approach
– Ten in-depth interviews with top executives from different B2B industries were conducted and analyzed by using Arndt’s (1985) elements of a healthy discipline, i.e. knowledge, problems and instruments.

Findings
– The findings reveal 12 challenges that characterize contemporary B2B research relevance from a top executive perspective.

Research limitations/implications
– The research offers genuine top executive insight. More research from different perspectives is needed to broaden the understanding of B2B research relevance.

Originality/value
– Reflecting B2B research with the identified challenges can contribute to better research designs, narrowing the gap between B2B scholars and practitioners. Altogether, it contributes to the health of the B2B discipline. The study also introduces a new approach to analyzing research relevance by using the elements of scientific balance.
Sport sponsorship alliances: relationship management for shared value
Authors: Morgan Ashlee , Adair Daryl , Taylor Tracy , Hermens Antoine 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– Using a case study of an international sport event, the purpose of this paper is to examine the inter-organisational relationship between a sport event property and its corporate sponsors.

Design/methodology/approach
– Interviews were conducted with personnel from the national sport organisation responsible for the delivery of this major event, and from four of its corporate sponsorship partners.

Findings
– The findings indicated that both formal and informal governance were critical to the relationships underpinning these sponsorship alliances. From a dyadic perspective, it was found that the satisfaction of sponsorship partners had two key elements: tangible commercial benefits from the sponsor-sponsee alliance, and the less tangible but nonetheless valuable relationship support within the partnership. In short, partner satisfaction and alliance stability stemmed from relational constructs and the balance of formal governance mechanisms.

Originality/value
– This paper explores the variables that generate value and maintain alliance stability for improved sponsorship governance. These findings, while focused on a single case study, have implications for research in the field of sponsorship and to the area of business-to-business relationships more broadly.
Dynamic governance: a new leadership model for Non-Execs
Authors: Moynahan Will 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this article is to present the latest Heidrick and Struggles (H&S) corporate governance report, Towards Dynamic Governance 2014. H&S have been monitoring the behaviour and habits of European boards for the past 15 years. Every two years they publish their European corporate governance report.

Design/methodology/approach
– H&S scrutinise the composition of boards in terms of gender, nationality and age; examine their tenure and the regularity of their meetings, and question how collective decisions are made. Using both quantitative and qualitative data collection, they canvass the opinions of board members drawn from the top listed companies of 15 European markets, formulating a unique and shifting bird’s eye view.

Findings
– H&S latest corporate governance report, Towards Dynamic Governance 2014, was published in March this year. There is no doubt, if we cast our eyes back to 1999, when the first report was prepared, that there have been notable improvements. The commitment, diversity and flexibility of boards is on the up. Sixty-eight per cent of boards in The Netherlands continue to combine the roles of the chief executive officer and Chair, and 40 per cent of boards in Poland still include no female directors, but the overall trend revealed by the data is positive.

Originality/value
– This is a brand new study made up of both quantitative and qualitative data. The report compares the behaviour and progress of different countries but perhaps even more revealing are the conversations with board directors and executive teams conducted as part of the report’s board effectiveness survey. These inputs enable H&S to tell a more nuanced story and to draw conclusions about the ideal future for European boards.
Clinical decision rule to prevent unnecessary chest X‐ray in patients with blunt multiple traumas
Authors: Forouzanfar Mohammad Mehdi , Safari Saeed , Niazazari Maryam , Baratloo Alireza , Hashemi Behrooz , Hatamabadi Hamid Reza , Rahmati Farhad , Sanei Taheri Morteza 
Published: September 2014

AbstractBackgroundSince the diagnostic yield of chest X‐ray (CXR) is not high enough, when it is ordered for all the multiple trauma patients, this study was aimed to evaluate the relationship between clinical and CXR findings in order to formulate a clinical decision rule to prevent unnecessary CXR in these patients.MethodsStable multiple blunt trauma patients referring to the ED were included. The clinical and radiographic findings of all the patients were collected and the relationships between these variables analysed. Finally, based on the regression coefficients (β) of the variables, the Thoracic Injury Rule‐out Criteria (TIRC) were designed.ResultsA total of 2607 patients were included (males: 78.9%, mean age: 34.1 ± 15.0 years). Age over 60 (β = 0.8; 95% CI: 0.27–1.34; P = 0.003), crepitation (β = 4.33; 95% CI: 1.65–7.0; P < 0.001), loss of consciousness (β = 3.16; 95% CI: 2.44–3.88; P < 0.001), decrease in pulmonary sounds (β = 2.67; 95% CI: 1.73–3.6; P < 0.001), chest wall pain (β = 2.12; 95% CI: 1.63–2.61; P < 0.001) and tenderness (β = 1.78; 95% CI: 1.26–2.27; P < 0.001), dyspnea (β = 1.3; 95% CI: 0.41–2.18; P = 0.004) and abrasion (β = 0.5; 95% CI: 0.22–0.83; P = 0.03) were independent factors predicting thoracic injury. CXR in stable conscious multiple blunt trauma patients under 60 years, without chest wall pain and tenderness, decrease in pulmonary sounds, crepitation, skin abrasion, and dyspnea did not provide any additional findings.ConclusionsBased on TIRC, it seems that CXR in stable multiple blunt trauma patients who are conscious and under 60 and have no decrease in pulmonary sounds, no dyspnea, no thoracic skin abrasion, and no crepitation can be ignored.