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Organizational change capacity and organizational performance
Authors: ramezan majid , Sanjaghi Mohammad  Ebrahim , Rahimian Kalateh baly Hassan 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– The main purpose of this study is examining the relationship between organizational change capacity (OCC) and organizational performance (OP).

Design/methodology/approach
– After extensive researches in organizational literature about change and performance, the OCC model from Judge and Douglas consists of eight dimensions (trustworthy leadership, involved mid-management, capable champions, innovative culture, trusting followers, systems thinking, accountable culture, and effective communication), and the OP model from Lee consists of six dimensions (stakeholders' satisfaction, organizational communication, organizational growth, strategic performance, knowledge management, and team collaboration); were considered. In order to test the hypothesis, a series of 130 qualified employees in a knowledge-based organization were questioned. The measurement tool was a two-part questionnaire (OCC and OP). Validity of questionnaire well approved based on face validity method by experts, specialists and professors of management. Using the results of pre-test, Cronbach's α was showed the very high reliability.

Findings
– Moreover, the results of regression analysis showed that regression line ascribes changes in dependent variable (OP) to independent variable (OCC). It means that high percentage of change in OP (77.3 percent) will be explainable and predictable with OCC. Then, with utilizing of parametric and non-parametric tests, the relationship between OCC and OP; and between components of OCC and OP was investigated. Finally, Pearson and Spearman correlation tests results confirmed the significant relationships. Overall, the results of this study show the significant, positive, strong relationship between OCC and OP.

Originality/value
– As not many studies have been done about the impact of organizational change on OP, the paper's findings will be useful to assess the adaptation ability of organization with changing environment and the impact of this adaptation on OP.
Small business incubators in the USA: a historical review and preliminary research findings
Authors: Shepard Jeffrey M 
Published: November 2013

Purpose– The aim of this study was to discuss the historical evolution of business incubators from 1959 to the present. Three cohort periods were defined: 1959-1979, 1980-1999 and 2000-2012. The business characteristics of corporate mission, plans and strategies, leadership/management, staff competence and expertise, facilities and resources and technology were described for each generation.Design/methodology/approach– The approach of this research was to gain an understanding of potential best practices and study what has been characteristically significant in small business incubators over the past 50 years.Findings– The historical study findings indicate that the basic premise of business incubators remained unchanged across time. The idea of nurturing a new and fledgling business until it can manage on its own, much like an incubator does for premature and newborn babies, still provides the impetus for business incubators today. However, business characteristics have evolved and grown more sophisticated over the years in response to situational and contextual forces. Certain characteristics have been retained, while others have undergone change.Research limitations/implications– In light of the discussion in this research, it is clear that comprehensive and systematic historical review from literature on small business incubators reveals that past incubators have provided many lessons for future models. The model has evolved dramatically but questions still revolve around the current state, and what is essential for future models.Practical implications– Although various models have been developed to explain the trajectories of such growth, it is clear that access to a network of business and financial forms of support, patented knowledge creation, and inter-firm partnerships are crucial.Originality/value– The value of this research is it defines three periods in small business incubator history in the USA defining what are consistent best practices for success. In addition, this research concerning small business incubators serves as a clear comprehensive and systematic historical review from literature revealing that past incubators have provided many lessons for future models.
Social climate as a mediator between leadership behavior and employee well-being in a cross-cultural perspective
Authors: Muhonen Tuija , Jönsson Sandra , Denti Leif , Chen Kan 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct effects of empowering and employee-centered leadership on well-being, and the indirect or mediating role of social organizational climate between leadership behavior and well-being in a cross-cultural perspective.

Design/methodology/approach
– Questionnaires were distributed in two furniture retail stores in Sweden and two stores in China belonging to the same company. The final sample consisted of 483 participants from the Chinese and 254 participants from the Swedish stores.

Findings
– The results of the structural equation modeling showed that there was no direct effect between leadership behavior (employee-centered leadership and empowering leadership) and well-being in either the Swedish or the Chinese sample. Further, the findings of the study indicate that social climate mediates the relationship between leadership behavior and employee well-being, but this seems to be culturally contingent. The mediating effect is prevalent in a culture that has been considered as having a collective orientation and where the power distance is high.

Research limitations/implications
– Despite some methodological limitations such as the cross-sectional design and problems with acquiescence in responses, the results indicate the complexity of the role of culture in organizational behavior.

Practical implications
– Managers working in increasingly globalized contexts need to take into consideration that some organizational behaviors gradually become more universal, whereas others remain culturally contingent.

Originality/value
– The paper illustrates the complex relationship between leadership behavior, social climate, and employee well-being in the same corporate culture, but in different cultural settings.
Learning collaborations’ with your executive education provider for mutual benefit
Authors: E. Haskins Mark , R. Shaffer George 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to present a number of ways organizations can collaborate with their primary, university-based executive education provider (EEP) in order to co-create learning and enhance a company's strategy-development and strategy-execution capability.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper synthesizes the multi-varied ways in which one leading, globally oriented business school has collaborated with a Fortune 200 company over the past eight years, involving over 1,200 of the company's managers.

Findings
– In total, 14 fruitful ways to leverage an existing corporate/EEP relationship in order to foster a company's strategy-development and strategy-execution capabilities at the business unit level are presented.

Practical implications
– The field-inspired ideas presented here are immediately, broadly, and beneficially applicable across the corporate landscape.

Originality/value
– Readers are provided with a number of specific, actionable ways to tap into the often-underutilized capabilities of an existing EEP affiliation with the intent of transforming that affiliation into an on-going collaboration that enhances various corporate personnel, strategy, and operational capabilities.
SEC adopts new financial responsibility and reporting requirements for US-registered broker-dealers
Authors: Curzon Elliott , Wingler Jeanette 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to summarize the SEC's recent approval of amendments to its net capital, customer protection, books and records, notification and reporting requirements for broker-dealers, in an effort to enhance financial responsibility and investor asset safekeeping obligations.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper summarizes new requirements for broker-dealers relating to custody, reporting, and Rules 15c3-3 (customer protection rule), 15c3-1 (net capital rule), 17a-3 and 17a-4 (books and records rules) and 17a-11 (notification rule) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; explains that several of the amendments approved codify long-standing SEC staff interpretations of the rules and accounting standards that govern these requirements; clarifies whether the requirements apply to broker-dealers that carry customer accounts on their books (commonly referred to as “carrying brokers”) and/or to limited-purpose broker-dealers that do not carry customer accounts on their books.

Findings
– Although certain of the amendments codify long-standing SEC staff interpretations of the rules and accounting standards, broker-dealers will be subject to additional legal and regulatory requirements resulting from the amendments commencing in October 2013.

Practical implications
– Broker-dealers should begin to consider whether changes to operations, policies and procedures, and reporting obligations will be required as a result of the amendments.

Originality/value
– The paper provides practical explanation by experienced financial services lawyers.
Neural network using Bayesian algorithm for estimation of petroleum reservoir
Authors: Odin Komari Alaei Hesam , Yazdizadeh Alireza 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– This paper is concerned with the estimation of reservoir parameters in the presence of noise and outliers using neural network (NN) and Bayesian algorithm. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– Outlier detection is of great importance to prediction of time series data. A reliable predictive methodology is proposed based on NN and Bayesian algorithm to efficiency estimates of the parameters of a petroleum reservoir. This strategy is applied to estimate the parameters of Marun reservoir located in Ahwaz, Iran utilizing available geophysical well log data.

Findings
– For an evaluation purpose, the performance and generalization capabilities of Bayes-ANN are compared with the common technique of back propagation (BP).

Practical implications
– The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed hybrid Bayes-NN algorithm is able to reveal a better performance than conventional BP NN algorithms.

Originality/value
– Helped oil and gas companies to estimation of petroleum reservoir parameters more accurate than other methods in the presence of noise and outliers.
Recognition of nursing activity with accelerometers and RFID
Authors: Takebe Yoshihiro , Kanai-Pak Masako , Kuwahara Noriaki , Maeda Jukai , Hirata Miwa , Kitajima Yasuko , Ota Jun 
Published: November 2013

Purpose– This paper aims to construct a recognition system of nursing activities.Design/methodology/approach– The authors used accelerometers and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to ensure patient privacy in practical nursing care environments. The accelerometers were attached to the body of the nurse, and the RFID was attached to apparatuses and objects. In addition, a pattern classification algorithm using a support vector machine and filtering methodology were applied.Findings– The accuracy using accelerometers and RFID was 73 percent. When the filtering algorithm was applied, the results were 79 percent. The results showed that activities with short execution times or those that resembled others in posture had low recognition accuracy.Research limitations/implications– Activities requiring only a short period of time tend to be misrecognized.Practical implications– It is possible to construct a training system for nursing activities with the system that recognizes the sequence of nursing activities and how much time is spent for individual activities.Originality/value– The originality of the paper is to construct the system that considers the following characteristics of nursing activities: about 13 activities that are fundamental for nurses can be recognized, privacy of the patient is considered, several activities utilizing only part of the body (not whole body) can be recognized, and activities involving and not involving some types of apparatus can be recognized.
Innovation: a systemic perspective – developing a systemic innovation theory
Authors: Johannessen Jon-Arild 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– The primary aim of the article is to create a systemic innovation theory.

Design/methodology/approach
– In discussing the above, the article will draw on institutional theory, Miller's theory of living systems and systemic thinking. North's “action theory” and Asplund's “motivation theory” are also used to explain aspects of institutional innovations.

Findings
– A systemic innovation theory, based on 14 propositions.

Research limitations/implications
– Further research should investigate the connection between innovation and economic crises.

Practical implications
– Organizations, countries or regions, such as the EU, must make institutional changes that promote economic changes.

Originality/value
– First, the article provides a new understanding of processes which foster innovation. Second, it attempts to provide a brief elaboration of Williamson's transaction cost theory. Third, it provides a new classification of service innovation, making it possible to make an analytical distinction between tangible and intangible service innovations. This distinction makes it possible to integrate service innovation as a natural element in all organizations. Fourth, the article provides a conceptual framework (“coin the frame”) around what the author has termed Asplund's “motivation theory” and North's “action theory”.
Social identity, electronic word-of-mouth and referrals in social network services
Authors: Arenas-Gaitan Jorge , Javier Rondan-Cataluña Francisco , Esteban Ramírez-Correa Patricio 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– The main aim of this work is to explore the mechanisms that promote the transmission and reception of online opinions (electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) and referrals) by travel services buyers in the context of social networks services (SNS).

Design/methodology/approach
– The research examines two areas of study: social identification theory and word-of-mouth communication in the virtual environment (eWOM). Based on these theories an explicative model has been proposed applying structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis to a sample of SNS users buying travel services. Partial least squares was chosen as a method to conduct an SEM analysis.

Findings
– First, the results support the central role of social identification in SNS communication. Second, the results show that SNS users give greater importance to the transmission of communication than to its reception. This fact supports the idea that SNS is used more as a tool for highlighting and maintaining social status than as a channel for information.

Originality/value
– The study highlights the role of social identification as the core element which drives SNS. It then analyses the development of eWOM communication in the new context provided by SNS. In addition eWOM communication is studied from two perspectives: from the standpoint of the communicator, but also the receiver. Finally, it seems appropriate to differentiate between virtual communities discussing tourism (e.g. www.TripAdvisor.com) and the SNS (e.g. www.facebook.com, www.twitter.com). While the former seems to be a growing source of information, the latter acts rather more in a social context.
A multi-criteria group decision making model for knowledge management system selection based on TOPSIS with multiple distances in fuzzy environment
Authors: Li Ming 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of the paper is to develop a model for the selection of knowledge management system (KMS), in which the assessment criteria are defined and the TOPSIS method with multiple distances in fuzzy environment is proposed.

Design/methodology/approach
– First, the paper establishes the evaluation criteria from functional, performance and economic aspects. Second, a new TOPSIS method is proposed to deal with the linguistic evaluation information. In the proposed method, in order to eliminate the bias of TOPSIS with single distance, six kinds of distances that are commonly used in TOPSIS including Hamming distance, Euclidean distance, Dp,q distance, Hausdorff distance, L2 distance and vertex distance are extended in fuzzy environment and employed in the TOPSIS to generate six independent pre-rankings. Afterwards these pre-rankings are combined by Condorcet method to generate the final joint ranking.

Findings
– Since the final ranking is the collective result, the bias in each single pre-ranking is eliminated and the selection is more objective and accurate. The example shows the proposed model is practical.

Research limitations/implications
– The linguistic preferences are given in the single granularity linguistic information.

Practical implications
– The proposed model can be applied as a tool for decision makers in the evaluation and selection of KMS.

Originality/value
– The paper gives an overall evaluation of KMS and proposes the new TOPSIS method with multiple distances in fuzzy environment.
An introduction to alysidal algebra (V): phenomenological components
Authors: Antonio Nescolarde-Selva Josué , Usó-Domenech Jose-Luis 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– This paper aims to refer to a subjective approach to a type of complex system: human ecosystems, referred to as deontical impure systems (DIS) to capture a set of properties fundamental to the distinction between human and natural ecosystems. There are four main phenomenological components: directionality, intensity, connection energy and volume. The paper establishes thermodynamics of deontical systems based on the Law of Zipf and the temperature of information.

Design/methodology/approach
– Mathematical and logical development of human society structure.

Findings
– A fundamental question in this approach to DIS is the intensity or forces of a relation. Concepts are introduced as the system volume and propose a system thermodynamic theory. It hints at the possibility of adapting the fractal theory by introducing the fractal dimension of the system.

Originality/value
– This paper is a continuation of other previous papers and developing the theory of DIS.
Assignment of project members considering capability and personality balance
Authors: Wei Chiu-Chi , Lai Ming-Chun , Wei Chiou-Shuei , Peng Li-Hui 
Published: November 2013

Purpose– This paper aims to construct for the first time a link between the project members' assignment and personality balance.Design/methodology/approach– This study develops a project assignment quantitative model that maximizes the team's personality balance while meeting the capability requirements.Findings– The findings indicate that a more balanced project team that contributes to project performance can be obtained before project starts.Research limitations/implications– This paper is limited to the exploration of Belbin's personality types. However, it offers a generic approach that can be applied to other personality categorization.Practical implications– The paper helps practitioners form a personality balanced project team to improve the project performance by reducing the complexity of project communication and problem solving.Originality/value– The paper develops for the first time a project assignment model that considers both capability and personality and allocates project personnel in such a way that the most suitable personnel is selected from a group of qualified capable candidates, to increase the possibility of success for the project.
Factors impacting end-users' usage of ERP in China
Authors: Zhang Suodi , Gao Ping , Ge Zhiyuan 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– This paper aims to examine the influence of organizational support, subjective norm and output quality on end-users' usage of enterprise resource planning (ERP) in China.

Design/methodology/approach
– A conceptual framework is formed based on technology acceptance model literature. Data were collected through a survey on 127 ERP users in small- to middle-sized Chinese firms. Multiple regression analysis was employed.

Findings
– Subjective norm and output quality determine the perceived usefulness of ERP. Communication has a significant impact on both perceived usefulness and perceived ease of the use of ERP, which further influence ERP usage.

Research limitations/implications
– Future research should consider the adoption of different kinds of ERP systems in other countries.

Practical implications
– The findings may help organizations effectively use ERP and other kinds of technology systems. In particular, efficient training should be a focus of organizational support in systems implementation.

Originality/value
– This study focuses on the impact of organizational training and output quality on end-users' usage of ERP in China.
The impact of organizational virtuality on financial effectiveness
Authors: Manzin Massimo , Bavec Cene 
Published: November 2013

Purpose
– The research focused on the question how the authors could assess the impact of organizational virtuality on financial efficiency using primary data from company accounting records. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– The implemented model was based on the assumption that the authors could define virtuality with the joint effects of outsourcing and IT utilization. The authors also assumed that they could define virtuality with available financial indicators. The authors tested the model on a sample of tourist organizations in Slovenia. The main methodological challenges were hidden by diverse methods in calculating and keeping financial records in individual organizations. In some cases, the authors had to recalculate and adjust individual indicators in the particular company to make them methodologically comparable with others. As the modeling and testing tool the authors used structural equation modeling with two latent variables: organization virtuality and financial effectiveness.

Findings
– The authors confirmed the basic research hypothesis that higher organizational virtuality leads to higher financial effectiveness in studied organizations. The authors also confirmed that they could develop a functional model of organizational virtuality on financial data only. However, the authors concluded that accuracy of the model could be improved if the authors would include also nonfinancial data that would provide a more holistic model of virtual organization.

Practical implications
– The authors recognized that general concepts of organizational virtuality were often too academic and unpractical for managers in the real business. Therefore, the authors argued that financial indicators would provide managers with more convenient and management-like tools for assessing the level and the impact of virtuality.

Originality/value
– Modeling organizational virtuality with financial indicators only extended the perception of virtuality and provided some original research and practical guidelines.