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Mitigation of stress corrosion cracking of carbon steel exposed to CO-CO2-H2O environments through inhibitor addition
Authors: Du Toit Madeleine , Willem Van der Merwe Josias 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– This investigation aims to find the degree of passivation required to completely inhibit the stress corrosion cracking of carbon steel exposed to CO-CO2-H2O environments.

Design/methodology/approach
– A516 pressure vessel steel was exposed to distilled water with 25 per cent CO and 75 per cent CO2 at an overall pressure of 800 kPa with the introduction of potassium bichromate as an additional inhibitor. Slow strain-rate tests were performed to evaluate the steel for sensitivity to cracking. Electrochemical characteristics were investigated in parallel in order to determine the extent of passivation required with the addition of the inhibitor.

Findings
– Slow strain-rate tests showed that between 100 and 1,000 ppm potassium bichromate was required to completely mitigate cracking with a significant reduction in passivation current densities.

Research limitations/implications
– The chosen inhibitor is not ideal for practical applications as an inhibitor, but gave an indication of the passivation required.

Practical implications
– The results showed that the added inhibitor might even cause increased sensitivity to cracking in this environment, with significant passivation required for resistance to cracking.

Originality/value
– The degree of passivation required for complete resistance of carbon steel in 25 per cent CO-75 per cent CO2-H2O.
“Woman” on the move: mobile subjectivities after intersectionality
Authors: B. Calás Marta , Ou Han , Smircich Linda 
Published: October 2013

Purpose–The paper originated in challenges trying to theorize and research practices and processes of actors engaged in transnational activities for business and everyday life. Key concern was the assumption that actors’ identities remain the same regardless of time/space. While intersectional analysis once seemed a reasonable analytical approach the authors wondered about starting from identity-based categorical schemes in a world where mobility may be ever more the ontological status of everyday experiences and social structuring. Thus, the paper addresses limitations of intersectional analysis in such situations and advances its recasting via mobile conceptualizations, redressing its analytical purchase for contemporary subject formation.Design/methodology/approach– Discusses emergence of intersectionality at a particular point in time, its success and proliferation, and more recent critiques of these ideas. Develops alternative conceptualization – mobile subjectivities – via literatures on mobilities in the context of globalization. Illustrates the value of these arguments with ethnographic examples from a multi-sited ethnographic project and analyses. Concludes by examining implications for new feminist theorizations under neoliberalism and globalization.Findings– Observing the constitution of a “mobile selfhood” in actual transnational business activities is a step toward making sense of complex processes in contemporary subject formation under globalized market neoliberalism.Research limitations/implications– “Mobile subjectivities” suggest that analyses of oppression and subordination must be ongoing, no matter which “new subjectivities” may appear under “the latest regime.”Originality/value– Theoretical and empirical analyses facilitated a reconceptualization of intersectionality as a mobile, precarious, and transitory accomplishment of selfhood temporarily fixed by the neoliberal rhetoric of “choice” and “self-empowerment.” This is of particular value for understanding transnational practices and processes of contemporary organizational actors.
What explains the high capital intensity of Indian manufacturing?
Authors: Hasan Rana , Mitra Devashish , Sundaram Asha 
Published: October 2013

Purpose– This study aims to focus on the role of labor regulation and credit market imperfections, in addition to that of factor endowments, in determining capital intensities in Indian manufacturing.Design/methodology/approach– The paper considers an alternative approach to identifying the effects of India ' s labor regulations on industrial performance. In particular, the paper uses a measure of the stringency of labor regulations across countries – one that is completely independent of the India-specific measures used by earlier studies – and examines its relationship with capital intensities across manufacturing industries. Additionally, since labor regulations are unlikely to be the only reason for imperfections in factor markets, the paper also examines whether and to what extent capital market imperfections affect capital intensities across manufacturing industries. The paper then presents a case study that seeks to ascertain whether actual capital intensities prevailing in Indian manufacturing in major industry groups from 1989 to 1996 were larger than predicted capital intensities for these industry groups based on relative factor demand functions estimated for the USA (a country with relatively less restrictive labor laws and a more developed financial system) evaluated at Indian wages. Finally, the paper uses a recently available dataset to compare capital intensities in Indian and Chinese manufacturing to investigate the behavior of these two emerging Asian economies since 1980, when they started out with relatively similar socio-economic conditions.Findings– The paper finds that India uses more capital-intensive techniques of production in manufacturing than countries at similar levels of development (and similar factor endowments), including China. For a majority of manufacturing industries, labor freedom and capital market development are, in addition to factor endowments, important determinants of capital intensity of production techniques used. Results reveal that, controlling for factor prices, India specializes in more capital-intensive varieties within broad industry groups relative to the USA, a more capital-abundant economy.Originality/value– To the best of the authors ' knowledge, such a study has not been done for any other country. The paper sheds light on the important issue regarding the use of capital-intensive techniques in manufacturing in India, which is a labor-abundant country. The role of labor regulation has been extensively debated and the paper also investigates its role along with the role played by credit market imperfections.
An analysis of price interventions in an era of reform reversal
Authors: Banerjee Priyodorshi 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– To analyse the implications of signs of reform modification, stoppage or reversal, such as price controls, that have emerged in many developing economies, it is necessary to understand their efficiency consequences. This paper aims to study the effect of price interventions in imperfectly competitive product markets, to investigate whether reforms reversals are necessarily harmful.

Design/methodology/approach
– The model assumes firm set prices and face sunk costs of entry.

Findings
– The paper shows that a minimum price can induce a Pareto improvement, by preventing price wars and encouraging entry. The result is supported by empirical evidence from some developed economies, holds when sunk cost vanishes, and is robust to some extensions. A fixed price may be optimal in the environment investigated.

Originality/value
– The results may be of interest to theorists and policy-makers interested in imperfectly competitive markets.
Laying the path: governance in early internet design
Authors: Braman Sandra 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– This article aims to present an analysis of ideas and practices regarding governance of and by the network design process by participants in the technical design process during the first decade (1969-1979) as recorded in the technical document series that provides both the medium for and the history of that design process, the Internet RFCs.

Design/methodology/approach
– The research was conducted via a comprehensive inductive and adductive reading of all of the publicly available documents in the series from its launch in October of 1969 through the close of 1979.

Findings
– The findings show that internet designers were well aware that the infrastructure they were building was social as well as technical in nature. They were concerned about both governmental constraints on the design process (governance of) and about how protocol compliance could be achieved (governance by the network design process). As do informational states, network designers developed governance tools that affected the identity, structure, borders, and change in social, informational, and technological systems. The dual faces of network governance reveal tensions between the network political and the geopolitical.

Originality/value
– This work contributes to our understanding of the interactions between the social and the technical in the course of the internet design process as it was expressed in concerns about governance by others and of others brought up in the course of resolving technical design problems. Methodologically, the research provides a model of one approach to analyzing the development of governance mechanisms and specific policies along sociotechnical boundaries.
A challenging model: CEFAM's transatlantic BBA
Authors: Kissane Dylan 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– This article aims to explore the challenges a small but successful business school in France has faced in designing and developing a multi-partner, degree-granting international BBA program.

Design/methodology/approach
– This article draws on interviews and discussions with faculty and administrative staff responsible for designing, developing and implementing the international BBA over the quarter century it has been in place.

Findings
– The article identifies three key challenges faced by CEFAM in delivering the international BBA, offers examples of each, and explains how these challenges were overcome or the risks mitigated. In addition, the article exposes two future challenges to the success of the international BBA.

Practical implications
– The article allows directors of international partnerships or those considering undertaking international degree-granting partnerships to identify challenges and plan for risks associated with those challenges. The article also identifies a significant challenge to future transatlantic collaboration by the proposed EU-US Free Trade Agreement.

Originality/value
– The paper is the first focused on the long-term degree-granting partnership between a private French business school and US AACSB accredited schools. It will be of value to administrators and directors in or considering comparable partnerships in Europe, the USA, and elsewhere internationally.
Researching SME/entrepreneurial research
Authors: Gilmore Audrey , McAuley Andrew , Gallagher Damian , Massiera Philippe , Gamble Jordan 
Published: October 2013

Purpose– This study aims to focus on how SMEs have been researched in the first 12 years of the new millennium and published inJRMEbetween 2000 and 2011. There have been many studies on how SME owner/managers do business, their decision-making processes and ways of delivering marketing activities, and many different methodologies have been used.Design/methodology/approach– All of the papers published inJRMEfrom 2000 to 2011 were analysed using content analysis with Nvivo 9 in relation to the SME definitions used, methodology employed, geographical coverage and the business sectors covered.Findings– Within the context of a wider study of 14 international journals on small business and entrepreneurship, this paper presents the findings that have emerged from theJRMEjournal according to the SME definitions used, methodology employed, geographical coverage and the business sectors' covered.Originality/value– This study provides some findings in relation to the variety of studies carried out and the research presented in theJRMEover a 12-year period.
Idealism is not enough: designing peace into medical education
Authors: Dunne David , Geppert Amanda , Ann Courneya Carol 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– Physicians' uniquely privileged social status gives them influence to help prevent conflict in addition to treating its victims. Yet the peacebuilding role of physicians has received little attention in medical education. In this paper, the authors tackle both and provide some concrete guidance to medical schools interested in taking it on.

Design/methodology/approach
– Using Qualitative Description, a review of literature and expert interviews in violence prevention, peacebuilding, medicine and medical education, three statements are posited: improved healthcare may enhance the prospects for peace; there are mechanisms by which healthcare may potentially enhance peacebuilding; and medical education can be designed to support these mechanisms. A “peace audit” is developed against which to evaluate the efforts of medical schools towards peacebuilding. This audit is used to assess a medical school in Nepal that is invested in peacebuilding.

Findings
– Medicine has a role, both in resolving conflict, and in preventing its occurrence. The experts believe that physicians have a responsibility to go further than treating the wounded and address the root cause of conflict: the structural violence of poverty and economic disparity.

Originality/value
– This paper considers the mechanisms by which medicine supports peacebuilding, and the consequences of this for medical education. The literature to date has not dealt with this issue.
Waste savings in patient transportation inside large hospitals using lean thinking tools and logistic solutions
Authors: Chiarini Andrea 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– This paper deals with the issue of patient transportation inside large public hospitals and its costs. This cost is often related to transportation within departments, wards and outpatient clinics. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate through a qualitative case study how particular tools derived from Lean Thinking such as spaghetti chart, value stream mapping and activity worksheet can help to reduce costs related to patient transportation and other kinds of wastes. In particular the case study analyses the patient path in case of trauma with suspected fractures from the emergency department to patient discharge or hospitalisation.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper is based on a qualitative case study. Although the case study has been carried out in a large Italian public hospital, the results can be generalised to all hospitals that are trying to reduce the cost of patient transportation and other kinds of wastes. Indeed, the Lean Thinking tools used here are suitable for all healthcare industries.

Findings
– The paper demonstrates how tools that were typically derived from the manufacturing sector can also be suitable for the healthcare sector. The results achieved have reduced the average lead time of the patient from the emergency department to hospitalisation or discharge. Considering that the patient paths are made with a stretcher or with a wheelchair pushed by a nurse, the reduced lead time leads to an interesting cost reduction.

Practical implications
– This paper is particularly helpful for healthcare practitioners. Managers and practitioners inside healthcare organisations could apply the same logistic solutions and the same tools to analyse the cost of many processes and specifically those in patient path and transportation.

Originality/value
– The paper addresses the literature gap regarding the use of specific tools such as spaghetti chart and activity worksheet in the large hospitals.
Ethics training for accountants: does it add up?
Authors: Taylor Adriaan 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this article is to investigate the effectiveness of an International Federation of Accountants (IFAC)-aligned business ethics course in relation to its ability to positively influence the ethical sensitivity of accounting students.

Design/methodology/approach
– Using a quantitative, quasi-experimental design, senior accounting students were subjected to a pre- and post-test, measuring ethical sensitivity, with an IFAC-aligned business ethics course as the intervention. Multivariate analysis also focused on the interrelation of demographic characteristics with ethical sensitivity.

Findings
– The results indicate that the business ethics course was indeed effective in increasing the ethical sensitivity of accounting students. Students' demographic characteristics, in terms of accounting specialisation area and years of work experience, did play a role in the extent of their changes in ethical sensitivity. However, gender and previous ethics education as influencing factor in ethical sensitivity was negated.

Research limitations/implications
– The study focused on the first component (ethical sensitivity) of Rest's four-component model that predicts ethical behaviour. Additional research is therefore needed into the other components in Rest's model and their respective interrelations. The current study also used a small convenience sample rather than one that was randomly selected. The findings in this study do, however, add to the limited body of evidence on ethical sensitivity in accounting education world-wide.

Practical implications
– The results can assist accounting professional bodies, associated higher education institutions and accounting firms in implementing specific educational interventions to develop greater ethical sensitivity in prospective and current accountants.

Originality/value
– The audit failures at the start of this century placed a renewed focus on the ethical behaviour of accountants. Consequently, ethics training was included in the curriculum of aspiring accountants. The research that informed this article attempted to gauge the effectiveness of this response, given the current knowledge gap, specifically in the South African context. Professional accounting bodies, associated higher education institutions and accounting firms could use the curriculum design presented in this study to implement a similar intervention. Such interventions could enhance the ethical behaviour of both prospective and current accountants, and this, in turn, should aid in lessening ethical crises, thus protecting the social stature of the accounting profession.
Analysis of factors influencing delamination in milling process of glass fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP) composite materials
Authors: Mugundhu Jenarthanan , Jeyapaul R. , Neeli Naresh 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to develop a mathematical model for delamination through response surface methodology (RSM) and analyse the influences of the entire individual input machining parameters (cutting speed, depth of cut and feed rate) on the responses in milling of glass fibre reinforced plastics (GFRP) composites with solid carbide end mill cutter coated with polycrystalline diamond (PCD).

Design/methodology/approach
– Three factors, three levels face-centered central composite design matrix in RSM is employed to carry out the experimental investigation. Shop microscope is used to examine the delamination of GFRP composites. The “Design Expert 8.0” software was used for regression and graphical analysis of the data collected. Analysis of variance is used to check the validity of the model and for finding the significant parameters.

Findings
– The developed second-order response surface model is used to calculate the delamination of the machined surfaces at different cutting conditions with the chosen range of 95 per cent confidence intervals. Analysis of the influences of the entire individual input machining parameters on the delamination has been carried out using RSM.

Originality/value
– Influence of solid carbide end mill coated with PCD on delamination of bi-directional GFRP composite during milling has not been analysed yet using RSM.
Effects of geometric and material properties on electrical power harvested from a bimorph piezoelectric cantilever beam
Authors: Chandrasekharan Nataraj , Ju Jaehyung , Thompson Lonny 
Published: October 2013

Purpose
– A three-dimensional finite element (FE) model is developed to design a vibrating bimorph piezoelectric cantilever beam with lead zirconate titanate (PZT-5H) for energy harvesting. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– A parametric study of electric power generated as a function of the dielectric constant, transverse piezoelectric strain constant, length and thickness of the piezoelectric material, is conducted for a time-harmonic surface pressure load. Transversely isotropic elastic and piezoelectric properties are assigned to the bimorph layers with brass chosen as the substrate material in the three-dimensional FE model. Using design of experiments, a study was conducted to determine the sensitivity of power with respect to the geometric and material variables.

Findings
– The numerical analysis shows that a uniform decrease in thickness and length coverage of the piezoelectric layers results in a nonlinear reduction in power amplitude, which suggests optimal values. The piezoelectric strain coefficient, d31 and the thickness of PZT-5H, tp, are the most important design parameters to generate high electric energy for bimorph vibration harvesting device.

Originality/value
– The work demonstrates that, through a sensitivity analysis, the electro-mechanical piezoelectric coupling coefficient (d31) and the thickness of the piezoelectric strips (tp) are the most important parameters which have a significant effect on power harvested.
An empirical examination of service-oriented organizational citizenship behavior
Authors: Yung Chou Shih , Lopez-Rodriguez Erlinda 
Published: October 2013

Purpose– The purpose of this study is twofold. First, we explore the relationship between organizational justice and service-oriented organizational citizenship behavior (SOCB). In particular, we focus on perceived distributive and procedural justice. Second, we examine the moderating effect of the need for achievement and need for affiliation.Design/methodology/approach– The paper employed an online cross-sectional survey approach and distributed questionnaires to service employees at a large service organization. Data were analyzed with a two-step structural equation modeling technique using LISREL 8.7.Findings– Perceived procedural justice significantly predicts SOCB. Additionally, the need for affiliation positively moderates the relationship between perceived procedural justice and SOCB, whereas the need for achievement positively moderates the relationship between perceived distributive justice and SOCB.Practical implications– Results confirm the importance of establishing and implementing transparent formal organizational processes and procedures for evaluating outcomes of service employees. We recommend service organizations to communicate proactively with employees about how formal organizational systems are implemented, and provide employees with examples and cases that illustrate how performance appraisals are performed. Moreover, supervisors in service organizations need to establish and maintain high quality of social exchange relationships with employees by providing personal coaching and counseling. Furthermore, service organizations need to establish a positive and friendly performance appraisal environment and offer trainings on how to satisfy unpredictable customer demand to employees.Originality/value– Given the growth of commercial services in the USA and the limited existing knowledge on SOCB, this study provides scholars and practitioner with suggestions and recommendations on how SOCB can be encouraged in service settings.