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Reducing waste to landfill in the UK: identifying impediments and critical solutions
Authors: Oyedele Lukumon O. , Regan Martin , von Meding Jason , Ahmed Ashraf , Ebohon Obas John , Elnokaly Amira 
Published: May 2013

PurposeThe UK construction industry produces up to one third of all waste to landfill. This study aims to identify specific project practices impeding the reduction of waste in construction projects as well as uncovering potential waste solutions throughout the project delivery process. The rationale being that for such a drastic reduction in waste to landfill, holistic and extensive measures would be required.Design/methodology/approachA two‐way methodological approach was used. This comprised qualitative unstructured interviews and a quantitative questionnaire survey of three major stakeholders in the UK construction industry: clients, architects and contractors.FindingsDesign factors remain the major cause of impediments to waste reduction to landfill. Critical impediments include clients making waste prevention a top priority in projects, overly complex designs, waste taking a low priority compared to project time and costs, lack of concerns by designers for buildability, among others. Critical solutions include early supply chain involvement in design process, choosing materials for their durability, early communication of design changes to all parties, longer project programmes and better lead times, among others.Practical implicationsIn all, the target of halving construction waste to landfill based on the 2008 benchmark is achievable but would require construction companies to take it upon themselves to implement the proposed solutions suggested by this study.Originality/valueThe value of this research is to provide UK construction companies with solutions to reduce waste and aid the reaching of the landfill target, as landfill is decreasing as a solution to waste. In addition the cost savings on reducing waste could be crucial for companies in this current economic climate.
A meshless method for solving a two‐dimensional transient inverse geometric problem
Authors: Dawson Michael , Borman Duncan , Hammond Robert B. , Lesnic Daniel , Rhodes Dominic 
Published: May 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to apply the meshless method of fundamental solutions (MFS) to the two‐dimensional time‐dependent heat equation in order to locate an unknown internal inclusion.Design/methodology/approachThe problem is formulated as an inverse geometric problem, using non‐invasive Dirichlet and Neumann exterior boundary data to find the internal boundary using a non‐linear least‐squares minimisation approach. The solver will be tested when locating a variety of internal formations.FindingsThe method implemented was proven to be both stable and reasonably accurate when data were contaminated with random noise.Research limitations/implicationsOwing to limited computational time, spatial resolution of internal boundaries may be lower than some similar case investigations.Practical implicationsThis research will have practical implications to the modelling and monitoring of crystalline deposit formations within the nuclear industry, allowing development of future designs.Originality/valueSimilar work has been completed in regards to the steady state heat equation, however to the best of the authors' knowledge no previous work has been completed on a time‐dependent inverse inclusion problem relating to the heat equation, using the MFS. Preliminary results presented here will have value for possible future design and monitoring within the nuclear industry
Flame and temperature wave propagation characteristic of methane‐air mixture in mine tunnels
Authors: Zhang Qi , Pang Lei 
Published: May 2013

PurposeExplosions are the main type of accident causing casualties in underground coal mines. Little attention has been devoted to investigating the flame propagations for methane‐air explosion in a tunnel with full scale. This paper seeks to address this topic.Design/methodology/approachBased on the numerical simulation and the analysis, the propagation rule of flame and temperature waves inside and outside the space occupied by methane/air mixture at the various concentrations in a tunnel were obtained in this work.FindingsThe original interface of methane‐air mixture and air moves forward in the explosion and the original mixture area extends. For the methane‐air mixture with rich fuel concentration, the flame speed increases with distance within a range beyond the original position of the interface between the mixture and air. The flame speed reaches maximum value outside the original area of methane‐air mixture with rich fuel concentration.Originality/valueBased on the numerical simulation and the analysis, the propagation rule of flame and temperature wave inside and outside the space occupied by methane/air mixture at the various concentrations in a tunnel were obtained.
Savings measurement for capital equipment purchasing: challenges and conceptual model
Authors: Maucher Daniel , Hofmann Erik 
Published: May 2013

Purpose
– Many companies are not satisfied with the methods used to calculate savings for capital equipment purchasing (CEP), and the existing academic literature does not provide adequate suggestions for solving this problem. Therefore, the authors will aim to analyze how companies measure savings for CEP and attempt to identify the main challenges in this area. In order to understand which savings measurement system for CEP is appropriate in a specific situation, they will explore the relevant determinants and effects of savings measurement for CEP.

Design/methodology/approach
– After presenting a description of the theoretical foundations of CEP and savings measurement, the article presents three cases of savings measurement for CEP from manufacturing industry and pinpoints the major challenges involved. These challenges are then discussed with reference to the relevant literature and a conceptual model for savings measurement for CEP is developed.

Findings
– The authors identify six procedure-specific and seven behavior-specific challenges. Procedure-specific challenges in savings measurement for CEP primarily address topics concerning components and calculation methods, while behavior-specific challenges mainly involve manipulation, trust and judgment. The authors’ formulated propositions state that savings measurement for CEP is influenced by internal and external determinants and affects CEP's performance, manipulation and trust, as well as judgments which may be made about CEP's savings measurement results.

Practical implications
– The managerial implications of the authors’ research concern the successful design and process of savings measurement for CEP.

Originality/value
– Savings measurement for CEP, as a special case of purchasing performance measurement, has received little attention in the academic literature. Thus, the authors will present calculation methods, along with identifying and discussing challenges and revealing relevant determinants and effects.
Investigating the roles of interpersonal and interorganizational trust in IT outsourcing success
Authors: Qi Cong , Chau Patrick Y.K. 
Published: May 2013

PurposeTrust, as one of the core components of a relationship, has attracted research attention from many disciplines. From the perspective of IT outsourcing, this paper aims to divide trust into two levels, interpersonal trust and interorganizational trust, and explore the effects of these two levels of trust on knowledge sharing and IT outsourcing success.Design/methodology/approachBased on social exchange theory and the theory of organization boundary systems, a theoretical model was developed and tested empirically with the responses to a cross‐sectional survey. Data were collected from key informants of 143 firms that had outsourced at least part of their IT functions.FindingsThe data analysis results showed that interpersonal trust plays a more dominant role than does interorganizational trust in making IT outsourcing successful and the extent of knowledge sharing has a significant mediating effect between interpersonal trust and IT outsourcing success.Originality/valueFrom the managerial perspective, findings from this study once again emphasize the importance of relationship management (trust and knowledge sharing) on overall IT outsourcing success. Paying attention to interpersonal trust is an effective way for an organization to build and maintain a successful IT outsourcing relationship with its service provider.
Customer orientation, merchandising competencies, and financial performance of small fashion retailers in Bangkok
Authors: Chotekorakul Warin , Nelson James 
Published: May 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine customer orientation and fashion merchandising competencies to learn which strategic option has a stronger relationship with retailer financial performance.Design/methodology/approachA cross‐sectional survey was used to collect self‐report data from a random sample of 275 small specialty retailers of women's clothing in Bangkok. Retailers offer similar merchandise assortments and customer services in dense, highly competitive, agglomerative environments. The survey form contained multi‐item scales measuring customer orientation, fashion merchandising competencies, and store financial performance. Bivariate correlations, multiple regression coefficients, and hierarchical linear model coefficients describe relationships of interest, controlling for retailer location.FindingsResults show medium to large effect sizes for several fashion merchandising competencies but no substantive effects for the two customer orientation constructs. Effect sizes depend on whether financial performance is measured subjectively or as retailer return on investment or as probability of retailer survival.Research limitations/implicationsData are restricted in range and reported effect sizes are smaller than true effect sizes. Data also are influenced by common method variance, influencing reported effect sizes in an opposite direction. Effect sizes may or may not describe causal relationships because of the study's cross‐sectional design. Because of the study's setting in Bangkok, results must be extended to similar retail settings with caution. Results indicate that a clustered fashion retailer can improve financial performance by striving for a fashion leadership position, anticipating fashion trends, and offering merchandise assortments in terms of styles and usages. Results indicate that a clustered fashion retailer will have difficulty improving financial performance via customer service and CRM activities.Originality/valueFew studies in fashion retailing address predictors of financial performance at the individual store level. The authors help fill this knowledge gap by examining relationships between customer service activities, CRM activities, and key merchandising competencies and retailer subjective financial performance, return on investment, and probability of survival. Retailers compete in a spatially confined area, facilitating comparison shopping and heightening rivalries between retailers.
The motivational drivers of fast fashion avoidance
Authors: Kim Hyunsook , Jung Choo Ho , Yoon Namhee 
Published: May 2013

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the conceptual structure of fast fashion avoidance among young consumers in Korea. The effects of negative beliefs on the behavioural intention regarding fast fashion avoidance are empirically examined.Design/methodology/approachA conceptual model of fast fashion avoidance is proposed and tested based on the literature and blog analyses. Web‐based online survey data are analyzed by second‐order factor analysis and hierarchical regression.FindingsThe second‐order structure of eight negative beliefs is statistically supported. Among these negative beliefs, poor performance and deindividuation have positive effects on fast fashion avoidance. While inauthenticity has a negative effect, big store discomfort and foreignness have an interaction effect with regards to the lack of alternatives.Research limitations/implicationsThe results are based on convenient sampling of young female adults. However, it is tested in Korea, of which global fast fashion retailing is in its growing stage.Originality/valueThis study represents a new attempt to apply the concept of brand avoidance to an explanation of fast fashion avoidance, and test it using empirically‐collected survey data.
Fast fashion companies coping with internationalization: driving the change or changing the model?
Authors: Runfola Andrea , Guercini Simone 
Published: May 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the fast fashion formula and the process of firm internationalization. Possible answers are sought to the following research question: does the fast fashion formula drive the internationalization process (driving the change), or does the internationalization process change the model (changing the model).Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents and discusses the data collected during a ten‐year longitudinal case analysis of an Italian fast fashion company. Three main steps in the firm's international expansion are identified, and the firm's strategies for managing its fast model in each are then discussed.FindingsThe findings highlight how the process of internationalization has exerted pressure on the firm's business model. In particular, the case reveals that the company's international development has had a strong impact on three main components of its fast fashion model.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to previous work on fast fashion by focusing on the sustainability of such models during international expansion, a key theme which has to date received little attention in ongoing academic debate on the fast fashion phenomenon.
Explicit leader behaviour preferences
Authors: Littrell Romie F. , Serra Yurtkoru E. , Kepir Sinangil Handan , Durmuş Beril , Katrinli Alev , Gulem Atabay Remziye , Günay Gonca , Güneri Çangarli Burcu 
Published: May 2013

PurposeIn this study the authors endeavour to further develop and validate the Behavioural and Contingency theory of leadership.Design/methodology/approachIn a field survey research study, the authors collect, analyse, compare, and discuss explicit leader behaviour preferences of employed businesspeople in Istanbul and Izmir, Turkey, rating their “ideal managerial leader” and their actual organisational manager.FindingsIn Istanbul and Izmir businesspeople tend to prefer leaders who focus on managing the business system over other considerations such as relationship management; task orientation is more important than relationship orientation. In the business environment, there appear to be little or no differences in preferences relating to gender; men and women have nearly identical preferences; age has some influence; generally, older businesspeople tend to have higher preference scores for a managerial leader who clearly defines his or her own role, and lets followers know what is expected, and pushes them to work harder and exceed past performance. Subordinates neither received nor expected Paternal leader behaviour. They expected and did receive moderately Authoritarian leader behaviour.Originality/valueThe large majority of studies of leadership focus on implicit leadership theory, describing characteristics and traits of leaders. This study employs explicit leader behaviour theory and operationalisations to identify subordinates’ ideal leader behaviour compared to actual organisational manager behaviour in Turkey.
North and South Latin America
Authors: Frederick Littrell Romie , Cruz Barba Evangelina 
Published: May 2013

PurposeThe study aims to investigate the national cultural clusters myth, studying the relationships between individual cultural values and preferred leader behaviour of working businesspeople in “Latin American” samples from Santiago, Chile, and Guadalajara, Mexico. The set of research questions to be addressed are: Are the rankings of value dimensions by businesspeople different between “Latin American” Chile and Mexico? Are the rankings of preferred leader behaviour dimensions different between Chile and Mexico? Are the predictive relationships of leader behaviour preferences by value dimension priorities different between Chile and Mexico?Design/methodology/approachIn an investigation of the relationships amongst preferred leader behaviour and individual value dimensions, the study employs field survey research using two experimental but well established and documented instruments, the Schwartz Values Survey and the Leader Behaviour Description Questionnaire. Comparisons between results from two samples from Chile and Mexico are carried out.FindingsTwo samples from large cities in Latin America, Santiago, Chile, and Guadalajara, Mexico, are compared using preferred leader behaviour dimensions and individual values and their relationship to one another. Significant sample and gender sub‐sample differences were observed for preferred leader behaviour, indicating that the perception of preferred leader behaviour priorities differed between businesspeople in Santiago and Guadalajara. Results indicate a general preference in both samples for a Parental Leader style, nurturing in Chile and stern in Mexico, and managerial leaders should be a source of enjoyment and pleasure in business; indications are that engaging in business is an enjoyable endeavour. Gender (sex) differences were observed between samples for preferred leader behaviour. Due to several demographic differences in job level and age in the samples, further work is required to verify the differences observed.Research limitations/implicationsSamples are from two cities, Santiago, Chile, and Guadalajara, Mexico, with an obvious requirement for studying additional regions in the country. Interpreting the findings is challenging and needs to be clarified though further focus group studies to assist in interpreting similarities and differences.Practical implicationsPractical applications of the outcomes of the study are that the results can be used to inform managerial leadership training and development and practice for expatriate and local managerial leaders working in the two cities.Social implicationsThe authors’ literature review and data analyses have some social implications as they found contradictory and misleading discussions of the relative placement of Mexico, Chile, and other countries in South, Central, and North America using cultural value dimension studies that need to be rationalised in further research.Originality/valueThe study is of value to practitioners and researchers interested in managerial leadership in Latin American countries.
A survey of students' use of and satisfaction with university subscribed online resources in two specialized universities in a developing country
Authors: Zabed Ahmed S.M. 
Published: May 2013

PurposeThe main purpose of this paper is to describe the results of a survey conducted in two specialized public universities in Bangladesh to assess students' electronic information resources use and their satisfaction with university subscribed resources.Design/methodology/approachA structured questionnaire was used to assess the use of and satisfaction with university subscribed electronic resources by the students. The major problems faced by them in accessing online resources were also identified. In order to analyze the influence of students' demographic characteristics on overall satisfaction with university subscribed resources, Mann‐Whitney and Kruskal‐Wallis tests were carried out. The problems faced by the students were tested in relation to their opinion on overall satisfaction using chi‐square test.FindingsThe survey results showed that the students are not at all satisfied with the current level of university subscribed online resources. The students identified limited access to computers and slow download speed as major problems. These problems do affect electronic resources use by students in these universities. However, the problems are mainly related to poor ICT infrastructure which may also lead to other drawbacks such as unwillingness to use the resources regularly and thus low satisfaction with such resources.Originality/valueThis is the first time an attempt has been made to empirically assess the use of university subscribed online information resources by the students in Bangladesh.
NFAIS 2013: In Search of Answers: Unlocking New Value from Content: conference report
Authors: Kesselman Martin 
Published: May 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report on the NFAIS 2013 Conference.Design/methodology/approachThis is a conference report.FindingsThe paper provides original reporting and viewpoints.Originality/valueThe author provides personal views on the conference.
Water quality for irrigation and discharges from tanneries
Authors: Ostoich Marco , Carcereri Marco 
Published: May 2013

PurposeWater protection is one of the primary objectives of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC. The paper aims to identify suitable indices for water quality and specifically for water used for irrigation in the Fratta‐Gorzone river basin (Northern Italy) affected by discharges from the largest tannery district in Italy.Design/methodology/approachThe DPSIR framework is proposed here for the development of a water quality monitoring and control system. A set of indices is applied as a comprehensive environmental management system in order to: assess the degree of achievement of water quality objectives; identify measures to be applied to pressure sources; verify the extent of application of local measures.FindingsThe highest values measured in the river Fratta‐Gorzone refer to the following parameters: chemical oxygen demand (COD), chlorides, sulphates, chromium, E. coli and, in some cases, other parameters. At basin level, the objectives set by the WFD and by local regulations must be achieved by applying appropriate discharge limit values. Water quality for irrigation use and the impact of the tannery district is critically presented and discussed according to available data, and refers to the monitoring project which was developed as a result.Practical implicationsThe inflow from an irrigation channel, which conducts freshwater from the Adige river to the Fratta‐Gorzone river and empties just beyond the discharge point for effluent from the tannery district, favoured a general improvement in river water quality, as a result of dilution, particularly for irrigation purposes.Originality/valueAn environmental management system is outlined, with a proposal for a specific set of indices to be used as part of the monitoring and control activities for the integrated management of river basins, especially those affected by industrial tannery discharges.