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Racial-ethnic diversity in Canada: competitive edge or corporate encumbrance? Part two
Authors: Appelbaum Steven H. , Kryvenko Oleksandr , Rodriguez Parada Mauricio , Soochan Melina Rodica , Shapiro Barbara T. 
Published: September 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between multiculturalism and performance, and attempt to reconcile some of the varying points of views, in order to suggest practical implications for managers in the workplace.Design/methodology/approach– A review of the literature regarding both diversity and performance was performed. Next, the focus was on the relationship specifically between racial-ethnic diversity and performance. To show the relevance of the paper, materials dedicated to Canadian population and immigration was included.Findings– It is still somewhat inconclusive whether diversity can have a definite positive or negative impact on organizational performance. The literature reviewed shows that authors have differing opinions. One element appears to be clear: diversity of itself does not necessarily bring benefit. For a diverse group to perform well, it must be well managed. Diversity remains an underused tool that managers have yet to learn to utilize.Research limitations/implications– At the time of writing, there was not a significant amount of published material on the direct relationship between multiculturalism and performance. This paper attempts to gather and make sense of the various views formalized thus far and puts forth a new question of how to turn multiculturalism in the workplace into an asset for organizations.Practical implications– Managers still do not agree on how to take full advantage of diversity. As the Canadian workforce becomes more and more diverse, so increases the importance of addressing and answering this question in practical terms. Especially facing the increased globalization of corporations, taking advantage of the untapped potential that resides in a culturally diverse work team should be at the top of every international company’s goals.Social implications– The importance of studying the relationship between multiculturalism and performance is crucial because in developed countries like Canada organizations are becoming increasingly culturally diverse. Much has been written about the effect of group diversity on conflict and creativity, on the performance of heterogeneous groups vs homogeneous groups, on organizational commitment among ethnic minorities, and on self-fulfilling performance expectations.Originality/value– This paper is a useful source for managers interested in understanding the real value of diversity in the workplace, as well as for researchers studying the relationship between corporate diversity and corporate performance.
The purchasing – and practical benefits – of a learning management system
Authors: Little Bob 
Published: September 2015

Purpose
– An exploration of the corporate market for learning management systems (LMSs), looking at key issues in the buying process, LMS features and characteristics. It illustrates this with two case studies of global organisations’ LMS usage. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– Discussion paper making use of analyst and buyer interviews.

Findings
– Having taken time and trouble to find the right LMS for your organisation can bring tangible benefits – for the organisation (via improving efficiency and achieving business goals), learning and development professionals (in charge of the whole process) and individual workers/ learners. From the case studies, this is true for companies in two widely diverse industries.

Research limitations/implications
– The value of understanding the differences between the 800 or so LMSs currently on the market – and going through a thorough and professional system to acquire the appropriate one for the organisation.

Practical implications
– Implemented successfully, an LMS enhances the user’s knowledge and skills; enables the learning and development professional to be more efficient and effective while reducing time pressures, and enables the organisation to achieve its business targets band goals.

Social implications
– Individual workers find learning – and performance support – simpler and easier to achieve as and when they require it.

Originality/value
– An attempt to discern some current trends and explore them through two recent cases.
The mediating effects of organizational conflict on the relationships between workplace ostracism with in-role behavior and organizational citizenship behavior
Authors: Chung Yang Woon 
Published: September 2015

Purpose– This study aims to examine the mediating effects of organizational conflict on the relationships between workplace ostracism with in-role behavior and organizational citizenship behaviors. The workplace is a social context where many individuals spend a great amount of their time. Frequently being excluded or ignored is a common experience within all social contexts, and the study emphasizes how those feelings can affect organizational members. The current study extends research, as prior empirical studies have focused mainly on the direct consequences of workplace ostracism.Design/methodology/approach– The study was longitudinally designed, as data were collected using a two-wave self-reported survey. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were conducted to test the study’s hypotheses.Findings– The study found workplace ostracism to be positively related to coworker conflict, supervisor conflict and task conflict. Coworker conflict was found to fully mediate the relationships between workplace ostracism with in-role behavior and organizational citizenship behaviors.Research limitations/implications– As the study was conducted in Korea, the results cannot be generalizable and should be tested in Western cultures. Although the study was longitudinally designed, the first-wave survey measured the independent variable, while the second-wave survey measured the mediating and dependent variables. Also, self-reported surveys are always of concern; thus, multiple sources should be considered to strengthen the research model’s relationships.Practical implications– Organizations and managers need to continuously address the quality of interpersonal relationships among all organizational members. As studies reveal that being “out of the loop” is quite a common phenomenon, individual and organizational performance can be greatly affected, as work is becoming more interdependent and team work is frequently implemented within organizations.Social implications– Individuals interact in numerous social contexts and as the workplace is an important context where many individuals spend a lot of their time and interact with other organizational members, the quality of the relationships at work can have spillover effects that can affect interpersonal relationships outside of the workplace.Originality/value– The study explores and empirically tests the mediating effects of organizational conflict on the relationships between workplace ostracism with in-role behavior and organizational citizenship behaviors. The study extends research on the consequences of workplace ostracism and helps further understand how workplace ostracism can affect workplace attitudes and behaviors.
Third party conflict management of transboundary river disputes
Authors: Bobekova Elvira 
Published: September 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to fill the gaps by conducting the first large n study examining the role of third parties in the emergence of river agreements in Asia and Africa during the time period 1948-2007. There is a growing literature on what explains agreements in river disputes. However, beyond individual case analysis, little systematic study has been done on the role of third parties in settling river disputes through agreement, in particular on the regions that are mostly affected by the global climate change.

Design/methodology/approach
– Through utilising new data on the role of third parties in river disputes, this study shows that third party involvement in the conflict management of river disputes increases the likelihood of reaching river agreements.

Findings
– The findings suggest that third parties use both diplomatic and economic means to increase the likelihood of emergence of river agreements, and both strategies are equally important to induce formalised cooperation.

Research limitations/implications
– Yet the present study covers only two regions, and it does not delve into a discussion of the conditions under which third party interventions are successful. Rather, these are aspects that need to be explored in the future.

Practical implications
– Given the current uncertainty around security challenges resulting from climate change, and with predictions of future water wars, this research contributes to the understanding how to peacefully manage current and potential conflicts around transboundary waters.

Originality/value
– This study is the first large n study examining the role of third parties in the emergence of river agreements in Asia and Africa.
A keyword-based organizing framework for ERP intellectual contributions
Authors: Fadlalla Adam , Amani Farzaneh 
Published: September 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to develop a keyword-based organizing framework for enterprise resource planning (ERP) intellectual contributions, and use the proposed framework to derive major areas of emphasis in ERP research.

Design/methodology/approach
– Using keyword persistence, a time-based measure, and keyword dominance, a frequency-based measure, the authors constructed an empirical framework to classify ERP intellectual contributions.

Findings
– Four major ERP themes were identified using the proposed framework; namely, emerging/phantom, intermittent, trendy, and core. Further examination of the keywords in each of these themes revealed that whereas the business aspects of ERP systems are discussed in an intermittent manner, its technical aspects are discussed in a trendy fashion.

Research limitations/implications
– The main limitation of this research is that it only used keywords from papers published in scholarly journals, and did not include conference proceedings, books, and other outlets. In this paper, the authors developed an objective keyword-based organizing framework. The proposed framework is simple, flexible, and is based on dimensions that are research domain independent, and thus can be used as an organizing framework for any research domain.

Practical implications
– The proposed framework may help managers to better focus consulting engagements on ERP implementations through identifying areas that are not well covered by researchers to ensure that such areas they are well covered by consulting services.

Originality/value
– The main contribution of this paper is the development of an objective keyword-based framework that can be used as an organizing tool for intellectual contributions. The framework can be used to derive insights in the macro characterizations of the research in a given domain, and is thus valuable to researchers – both academic and practitioner. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first such keyword-based research organizing framework.
Completing a PhD in business and management
Authors: Dwivedi Yogesh K , Ravishankar M. N. , Simintiras Antonis Constantinou 
Published: September 2015

Purpose
– Despite the ever-growing number of PhD students all over the world, there remain significant doubts about whether entering students in business and management disciplines fully understand the process of producing a PhD thesis, defending it and developing a coherent publication strategy. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to offer some guidance on what it takes to successfully complete a doctoral research thesis.

Design/methodology/approach
– The arguments and guidance presented in this viewpoint paper are drawn on the authors’ collective supervision and doctoral examination experiences.

Findings
– The paper presents guidelines on three key issues related with the doctoral completion: choosing a research problem; demonstrating rigour and quality; developing a publication strategy.

Originality/value
– The content presented in this paper would be valuable aide to those pursuing doctoral research.
How leading organizations use big data and analytics to innovate
Authors: Marshall Anthony , Mueck Stefan , Shockley Rebecca 
Published: September 2015

Purpose
– To understand how the most successful organizations use big data and analytics innovate, researchers studied 341 respondents’ usage of big data and analytics tools for innovation.

Design/methodology/approach
– Researchers asked about innovation goals, barriers to innovation, metrics used to measure innovation outcomes, treatment and types of innovation projects and the role of big data and analytics in innovation processes.

Findings
– Three distinct groups emerged: Leaders, Strivers and Strugglers. Leaders are markedly different as a group: they innovate using big data and analytics within a structured approach, and they focus in particular on collaboration.

Research limitations/implications
– Respondents were from the 2014 IBM Innovation Survey. We conducted cluster analysis with 81 variables. The three cluster solution was determined deploying latent class analysis (LCA), a family of techniques based around clustering and data reduction for segmentation projects. It uses a number of underlying statistical models to capture differences between observed data or stimuli in the form of discrete (unordered) population segments; group segments; ordered factors (segments with an underlying numeric order); continuous factors; or mixtures of the above.

Practical implications
– Leaders don’t just embrace analytics and actionable insights; they take them to the next level, integrating analytics and insights with innovation. Leaders follow three basic strategies that center on data, skills and tools and culture: promote excellent data quality and accessibility; make analytics and innovation a part of every role; build a quantitative innovation culture.

Originality/value
– The research found that leaders leverage big data and analytics more effectively over a wider range of organizational processes and functions. They are significantly better at leveraging big data and analytics throughout the innovation process – from conceiving new ideas to creating new business models and developing new products and services.
Evolution of the DEAD box helicase family in chicken: chickens have no DHX9 ortholog
Authors: Sato Haruko , Oshiumi Hiroyuki , Takaki Hiromi , Hikono Hirokazu , Seya Tsukasa 
Published: September 2015

ABSTRACTViral RNA represents a pattern molecule that can be recognized by RNA sensors in innate immunity. Humans and mice possess cytoplasmic DNA/RNA sensors for detecting viral replication. There are a number of DEAD (Asp‐Glu‐Ala‐Asp; DExD/H) box‐type helicases in mammals, among which retinoic acid‐inducible gene 1 (RIG‐I) and melanoma differentiation‐associated protein 5 (MDA50) are indispensable for RNA sensing; however, they are functionally supported by a number of sensors that directly bind viral RNA or replicative RNA intermediates to convey signals to RIG‐I and MDA5. Some DEAD box helicase members recognize DNA irrespective of the origin. These sensors transmit IFN‐inducing signals through adaptors, including mitochondrial antiviral signaling. Viral double‐stranded RNAs are reportedly sensed by the helicases DDX1, DDX21, DHX36, DHX9, DDX3, DDX41, LGP2 and DDX60, in addition to RIG‐I and MDA5, and induce type I IFNs, thereby blocking viral replication. Humans and mice have all nucleic acid sensors listed here. In the RNA sensing system in chicken, it was found in the present study that most DEAD box helicases are conserved; however, DHX9 is genetically deficient in addition to reported RIG‐I. Based on the current genome databases, similar DHX9 deficiency was observed in ducks and several other bird species. Because chicken, but not duck, was found to be deficient in RIG‐I, the RNA‐sensing system of chicken lacks RIG‐I and DHX9 and is thus more fragile than that of duck or mammal. DHX9 may generally compensate for the function of RIG‐I and deficiency of DHX9 possibly participates in exacerbations of viral infection such as influenza in chickens.
Whole genome analysis of Vietnamese G2P[4] rotavirus strains possessing the NSP2 gene sharing an ancestral sequence with Chinese sheep and goat rotavirus strains
Authors: Do Loan Phuong , Doan Yen Hai , Nakagomi Toyoko , Gauchan Punita , Kaneko Miho , Agbemabiese Chantal , Dang Anh Duc , Nakagomi Osamu 
Published: September 2015

ABSTRACTBecause imminent introduction into Vietnam of a vaccine against Rotavirus A is anticipated, baseline information on the whole genome of representative strains is needed to understand changes in circulating strains that may occur after vaccine introduction. In this study, the whole genomes of two G2P[4] strains detected in Nha Trang, Vietnam in 2008 were sequenced, this being the last period during which virtually no rotavirus vaccine was used in this country. The two strains were found to be >99.9% identical in sequence and had a typical DS‐1 like G2‐P[4]‐I2‐R2‐C2‐M2‐A2‐N2‐T2‐E2‐H2 genotype constellation. Analysis of the Vietnamese strains with >184 G2P[4] strains retrieved from GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ DNA databases placed the Vietnamese strains in one of the lineages commonly found among contemporary strains, with the exception of the NSP2 and NSP4 genes. The NSP2 genes were found to belong to a previously undescribed lineage that diverged from Chinese sheep and goat rotavirus strains, including a Chinese rotavirus vaccine strain LLR with 95% nucleotide identity; the time of their most recent common ancestor was 1975. The NSP4 genes were found to belong, together with Thai and USA strains, to an emergent lineage (VIII), adding further diversity to ever diversifying NSP4 lineages. Thus, there is a need to enhance surveillance of locally‐circulating strains from both children and animals at the whole genome level to address the effect of rotavirus vaccines on changing strain distribution.
Quantifying turnover in biodiversity of British breeding birds
Authors: Harrison Philip J. , Yuan Yuan , Buckland Stephen T. , Oedekoven Cornelia S. , Elston David A. , Brewer Mark J. , Johnston Alison , Pearce‐Higgins James W. 
Published: September 2015

Summary

A key aspect of monitoring regional changes in biodiversity is to quantify the temporal turnover in communities. Turnover has traditionally been assessed by observing range change. However, we are often interested in trends in biodiversity of large regions as opposed to single sites, as with Convention for Biological Diversity targets. Extinctions and colonizations tend to be rare events at the regional level; changes in species proportions estimated from spatio‐temporal models of species abundance are then more sensitive measures of community change.

We investigated three measures for quantifying turnover based on species proportions, and estimated how each varies across Great Britain using data from the British Trust for Ornithology's Breeding Bird Survey.

All three measures identify high turnover associated with loss of biodiversity in the south‐east of England. This seems to be driven by changes in the farmland bird community, and by turnover in the scarcer species of the woodland bird community. The measures also show evidence of high turnover in the west of Scotland; these changes may be linked to climate change, although precision in our measures for this region is relatively poor due to low survey effort.

Policy implications. Turnover in ecological communities may be quantified by modelling species abundance, and measuring how resulting species proportions change over time. When used alongside estimated temporal trends in biodiversity, these can identify areas and communities showing greatest evidence for change. How, and indeed even whether, society should respond to such changes depends on further investigation into the causes of the changes, and the extent to which these are seen as undesirable and avoidable. For those communities with adequate survey data, we recommend that these methods augment the suite of measures used for routine assessment of change, hence acting as a more sensitive trigger to set in motion exploration of causes and consideration of adaptive actions to be taken by land managers and policymakers.
When Conflict Strikes: Contesting Neoliberal Urbanism outside Participatory Structures in Inner‐city Dublin
Authors: Attuyer Katia 
Published: September 2015

AbstractThis article examines how community representatives from a disadvantaged neighbourhood engage with neoliberal urban governance structures and assess the power afforded to them. It seeks to understand how community groups manage the challenges they face in times of neoliberal urbanism. This study follows calls to pay greater attention to the existence of imaginaries other than neoliberal ones, examining community actions and discourses surrounding the Historic Area Rejuvenation Project (HARP) area in Dublin, a project aimed at stimulating private property development and investment. The case highlights tensions between the pursuit of community‐based and collaborative urban regeneration and the increased legitimacy of neoliberalism as a guiding principle of public policy. It confirms the existence of resistance movements and the importance of local and national contexts in explaining the outcomes of contestation. Despite participative structures established by the local authority, the views and interests of local community activists were ignored and excluded. Furthermore, in contrast to trends towards co‐option within participative structures, the community actively resisted the imposition of neoliberal plans. Overall, while they had little success in influencing the plans or mindsets of the local authority, they did succeed in delaying the process until the project became unviable as a result of the economic crisis.
Spatio‐Temporal Patterns of Open Surface Water in the Central Valley of California 2000‐2011: Drought, Land Cover, and Waterbirds
Authors: Reiter Matthew E. , Elliott Nathan , Veloz Sam , Jongsomjit Dennis , Hickey Catherine M. , Merrifield Matt , Reynolds Mark D. 
Published: September 2015

AbstractWe used Landsat satellite imagery to (1) quantify the distribution of open surface water across the Central Valley of California 2000‐2011, (2) summarize spatio‐temporal variation in open surface water during this time series, and (3) assess factors influencing open surface water, including drought and land cover type. We also applied the imagery to identify available habitat for waterbirds in agriculture. Our analyses indicated that between 2000 and 2011 open surface water has declined across the Central Valley during the months of July‐October. On average, drought had a significant negative effect on open surface water in July, September, and October, though the magnitude and timing of the effect varied spatially. The negative impact of a drought year on open water was experienced immediately in the southern Central Valley; however, there was a one year time‐lag effect in the northern Central Valley. The highest proportion of open surface water was on agricultural lands followed by lakes, rivers, and streams, yet the relative proportions varied spatially and across months. Our data were consistent with previous descriptions of waterbird habitat availability in post‐harvest rice in the northern Central Valley. Tracking water distribution using satellites enables empirically based assessments of the impacts of changing water policy, land‐use, drought, climate, and management on water resources.