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Discovering healthcare professional‐practice networks
Authors: Bishop Simon , Waring Justin 
Published: November 2012

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to examine the benefits of undertaking mixed methods social network analysis (SNA) to investigate patterns of interpersonal relationships in healthcare delivery. Although SNA has roots in anthropological and ethnographic research, recent emphasis has been on the mathematical properties of social networks utilising graph theory and statistical analysis. While such studies may present interesting data on the structure of ties, this paper argues that they sidestep other important elements of patterns of social relationships; their meaning and their implications for network members. The paper identifies how SNA survey can be employed alongside ethnographic data within a qualitative framework.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reports on a study that investigated how knowledge sharing in social networks can contribute to patient safety in surgical care involving a social network survey, qualitative interviews and ethnographic observations.FindingsResults describe how each research method illuminated different elements of professional practice networks. These focus on the additional elements of networks identified through qualitative methods. The discussion examines how qualitative and quantitative findings relate to each other and could be combined within an overall qualitative methodology.Originality/valueThe paper answers the call for a greater utilisation of network methods in healthcare studies; demonstrates the benefits of qualitative research on social networks; and presents data on the contribution of health professionals’ interpersonal relationships in the production of safe patient care.
Money matters: does the symbolic presence of money affect charitable giving and attitudes among adolescents?
Authors: Roberts James A. , Roberts Camille R. 
Published: November 2012

PurposeMoney plays an integral part in the daily lives of people all over the world and its mere presence can affect one's behavior and attitudes. The present paper aims to test whether the presence of money will reduce the amount of money donated to charity and affect adolescents' attitudes toward charitable giving. The role of gender in charitable giving and attitudes is also to be investigated.Design/methodology/approachThe study's subjects consisted of 114 adolescents ranging in age from 13‐14. Using an experimental design, each subject was randomly assigned to one of two groups. The treatment group's questionnaire had the image of a $100 bill at the bottom of the first page. The analyses consisted of two separate ANOVAs to test the study's hypotheses.FindingsThe initial ANOVA analysis investigates the impact of money salience and gender on the willingness to donate. The full model was significant as were the main effects for treatment group (money prime) and gender. Those primed for money gave less to the food bank and girls gave more compared to boys. A second ANOVA investigates the impact of money salience and gender on attitudes toward charitable giving. Again, both the full model and main effects were significant. Those primed for money held less favorable attitudes toward charitable giving than the control group and girls held more positive attitudes than boys.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings suggest that gender plays an important role in charity and answers a call for increased research in this critical area of study. Study limitations and directions for future research are discussed.Practical implicationsThe results of this study have important implications for both charitable giving and attitudes and for better understanding this important human value. It appears that when money is made salient it makes people less charitable.Originality/valueThis is the first study to extend the impact of money salience to adolescents.
What do adolescent girls learn about gender roles from advertising images?
Authors: Chan Kara , Leung Ng Yu , Williams Russell B. 
Published: November 2012

PurposeA qualitative study by autovideography was conducted to examine adolescent girls' negotiation of their gender roles through the consumption of advertising images. This paper aims to document the study.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 20 adolescent girls aged 15 to 18 in Hong Kong were asked to take pictures from the media that could illustrate “what girls or women should or should not be and what girls or women should or should not do”. Advertising images captured by the interviewees and their interpretations of those images were analyzed.FindingsSeven dominant themes were isolated from the interpretations: appearance; personality; skills and work; activities, interests and lifestyle; family; health and safety; and caring for people and the environment. The findings show that adolescent girls pay much attention to images about slimming, body image and physical appearance. They criticized female images in ads as unrealistic but identified with female images that were natural and conventional.Research limitations/implicationsThe interviewees were recruited from two secondary schools that may not have been representative. The interviews were conducted in English, which may have caused some of the participants to be reticent about presenting their viewpoints. The implications represent a step forward in relation to how media influence young consumers and how teenagers perceive and intercept what they see in the media.Originality/valueThe paper shows that collecting and interpreting female visual images can illustrate vividly the process of gender socialization.
No one wants to get stuck with the losing card
Authors: Nordgren Lars 
Published: November 2012

PurposeThe rate of turnover of hospital managers has been high in Sweden. Hospitals are regarded to be difficult to manage, which is connected with different discourses and action logics such as politics, medicine, care and management creating complex conditions for hospital management. The purpose of this paper is to analyse hospital managers' management conditions in conjunction with hospital mergers.Design/methodology/approachTwo case studies concerning hospital mergers illustrate these management conditions by means of analysing how different actions are communicated by politicians, county council directors, and hospital managers. The author's own experiences as a hospital manager have been made use of, as have document studies. In the analysis, conducted with the support of several theoretical perspectives, certain themes emerge which touch upon these management conditions.FindingsIn connection with hospital mergers, leading hospital actors carry out communicative games controlled by different action logics. No one wants to get stuck with the losing card. The article demonstrates the difficulties of implementing radical organizational changes in hospitals. A challenge for hospital managers lies in creating a shared dialogue and a consensus with the professions, the politicians and the media. The crucial position of power held by the politicians and the professions in critical situations has to be dealt with. Otherwise the hospital manager has to resign.Originality/valueThe paper aims to clarify under which management conditions the hospital manager acts.
Cognitive bias in salespersons in specialty drug selling of pharmaceutical industry
Authors: Wasuja Sachin , Sagar Mahim , Sushil  
Published: November 2012

PurposeSpecialty drug development is capital‐intensive and represents a new era for the entire health ecosystem. This “newness” has resulted in below‐par sales performance of these drugs. This paper seeks to explore the intricate relationship of product (or company), salespersons, doctors and consumers (patients) in the given scenario.Design/methodology/approachThe study makes use of grounded theory and total interpretive structural modeling (TISM). Grounded theory is used to explore various factors of cognitive bias in selling specialty drugs. TISM is used to create a hierarchy amongst the factors and interpret the relationships amongst them.FindingsThe study proposes a cognitive bias amplification model explaining the phenomenon of cognitive bias in specialty pharmaceutical selling.Originality/valueThe study fills part of the significant research gap and addresses the issues in selling specialty drugs. The cognitive bias amplification model is helpful in providing the starting point for sales‐centric organizations to overcome the cognitive bias affecting salespersons.
Contract research organizations: an industry analysis
Authors: Dimachkie Masri Maysoun , Ramirez Bernardo , Popescu Cristina , Reggie Ed Michael 
Published: November 2012

PurposeThe aging of the population, high prevalence of chronic diseases, and increased need for evidence‐based practice are factors that have boosted a high demand for clinical trials in the United States. In recent years, an increasing number of clinical trials have shifted from academic medical centers, to community‐based practices, to global sites in different countries. Contract research organizations (CROs) are service organizations that provide research and support services to pharmaceutical, biotechnological, and health companies. This paper aims to explore the evolution of the CRO industry in the United States and worldwide, and to discuss the benefits and pitfalls of the globalization of CROs.Design/methodology/approachThe organizational ecology framework is used to analyze the lifecycle of CROs in response to their environment including their emergence, growth, and evolution to date.FindingsThe authors discuss the drug development process, the role of CROs and outsourcing in clinical research. Pharmaceutical companies began outsourcing research activities to increase their profit margins and better position themselves in the rapidly‐changing healthcare environment. The paper analyzes the evolution of the CROs over time and the factor that affected it, including the current globalization stage with special emphasis in India, China and Central and Eastern Europe. Consequences of globalization include the stimulation of research collaboration, policy and issues related to quality.Originality/valueThe evolution of CROs over time points to transformation/evolution of these organizations, with challenges as they become an integral part of the drug development process in the USA and other countries.
Philosophy, training and spirituality: a longitudinal, empirical study
Authors: Li Jui‐Min 
Published: November 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze whether Chinese philosophy can have positive results in long‐term training.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examined its effect based on Kirkpatrick's model. The qualitative data were the interviews, observations, and documents from 2004 to 2012. The quantitative data included three questionnaires for the employees and the customers distributed in 2005, 2006, and from 2009 to 2011, with 3,601 valid ones in total.FindingsThe results show that using Chinese philosophy as training content can increase trainees' training motivation. In addition, better training motivation can bring positive reaction, learning, and motivation for transfer. Second, at the individual level, Chinese philosophy can increase the employees' motivation for transfer and workplace spirituality. Third, at the organizational level, it shows an enhancement of service quality (SQ).Practical implicationsFirst, human resource (HR) practices can take the country's cultural features into account and do not necessarily have to adopt Western management theories and practices. Second, the “best practice” can be a useful reference for HR managers in the Chinese organizational context. Finally, the training contents are not necessarily about knowledge or skills. For the service industries with intensive interaction with customers, enhancing work attitude can further increase SQ.Originality/valueFirst, Chinese philosophy involves the concepts of business management. Second, this longitudinal research pointed out that Chinese philosophy can enhance employees' workplace spirituality; and further, it enhanced the SQ. Third, the training evaluation result is more comprehensive for it includes individual level and organizational level.
Setting the framework for a Business Strategy Assessment Model
Authors: Papadelis S. , Flamos A. , Androulaki S. 
Published: November 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present the Business Strategy Assessment Model (BSAM) approach, in an attempt to explore the principle dynamics of an energy‐economic system with emphasis on the private actors' point of view and the impact different policy instruments may have on the decisions of private actors with different characteristics.Design/methodology/approachIn the BSAM model, investment decisions under consideration depend on their perceived financial value. Basis for the financial valuation of an investment option is formed by simulating market dynamics with alternative price scenarios. The outputs include: investment strategies, derived as a function of the (uncertain) state vector of future market conditions and risk premium, calculated by contrasting the expected net present value for the optimal timing of the investment and the expected net present value of an immediate investment generation module of the BSAM, while both of these outputs are estimated for each available technology option.FindingsDifferent models make different assumptions shedding light upon different aspects of the socio‐economic systems they attempt to analyze and hitherto, no such model succeeds in incorporating all the perceptions that are driving the integration of energy policies. BSAM is based on the notion that a convergence between policy evaluation and business strategy assessment models could be truly beneficial for regulators that aim to derive effective energy policies. Both the algorithm adopted and the structure of the modules of BSAM facilitate the analysis of complex interactions in a firm's decision making process, and even more the what‐if analyses needed for alternative policy measure evaluation.Originality/valueSetting the framework for a modelling approach that incorporates the role of risk‐return perceptions of private actor's with diverse features, portfolio effects, path dependence and agent competition, into appraising energy and climate policies, and suggest that the heterogeneous world of investors requires reflexive assessment techniques. Above and beyond, understanding the drivers and triggers of firm's investment strategies will allow improving the effectiveness of energy policies.
Incredible Edible – social and environmental entrepreneurship in the era of the “Big Society”
Authors: Thompson John 
Published: November 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this case study is to allow the exploration of social entrepreneurship, environmental improvement and volunteering in the context of the UK's declared Big Society. Recently, there has been increased interest in “environmental” as well as social entrepreneurship. Volunteering is also an area of growing concern in policy circles, particularly with the advent of the “Big Society”, the UK Government's vision of citizen involvement.Design/methodology/approachThe case was written with both secondary and primary data and with the co‐operation of Incredible Edible. Primary data include street questionnaires and semi‐structured interviews with relevant stakeholders.FindingsIncredible Edible is an environmental initiative started in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Basically community members – largely volunteers – have looked for opportunities where they could plant and grow fruits and vegetables that others could just help themselves to. Any spare land and space has been seen as suitable. From this the themes of local food growing and self sufficiency have taken over. Over a (short) period of years the initiative has grown and received considerable support from local stakeholders as well as extensive publicity. The initiative has attracted attention elsewhere and not just in the UK. But its real impact has been on the community and its sense of place.Practical implicationsThe data have been used (so far) to write a case that traces the journey of the people behind the initiative, their motives and their impact. It explores a number of themes, namely: social entrepreneurship in action; improving the local environment aesthetically; the Big Society and volunteering; the local economic and social impacts – a new sense of place; improved diets and healthy eating – but also the impact on other local businesses which sell rival food products; how local successes can be replicated elsewhere; and the sustainability of initiatives such as this.Originality/valueThe case demonstrates five important themes that could be seen as a litmus test for the effectiveness of projects and initiatives in the Big Society – namely the presence and commitment of a visionary who provides the purpose and direction, volunteers, velocity – and emergence, visibility, and value.
Let's talk about wine: does Twitter have value?
Authors: Wilson Damien , Quinton Sarah 
Published: November 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this exploratory research paper is twofold. First, to identify how wine is being talked about within the Twitter environment and second to examine whether the constructs of soft and hard value can be demonstrated within the social media, Twitter content. The overall aim is to establish whether Twitter can create value for wine stakeholders.Design/methodology/approachA netnographic approach has been adopted through the collection of 1,500 English language tweets on the subject of wine which were analysed using Nvivo qualitative data analysis software against the constructs of value found in the literature.FindingsThe early findings suggest that Twitter can create soft value for wine focused businesses but that hard value is not yet strongly evident. Wine marketers need to be more aware of both the content of wine tweets and the profiles of those who tweet.Practical implicationsThe use of social media within wine businesses is in its infancy. Wine focused businesses are currently not optimising value creation through Twitter. Whilst Twitter does exhibit value, wine marketers, wine brands and wine retailers are not engaging with consumers who are talking about wine via Twitter.Originality/valueThis paper has provided evidence that there is value within social media, specifically Twitter. The contribution of this paper lies in identifying not only the types of value that wine businesses could develop by embracing Twitter but also how the different profiles use Twitter differently.
Competitive priorities in Malaysian service industry
Authors: Muzamil Naqshbandi M. , Idris Fazli 
Published: November 2012

PurposeThis study attempts to explain the components of competitive priorities of Malaysian service firms and to find out the competitive priorities of different service industries in Malaysia, and how these competitive priorities change across “low performance” and “high performance” service industries.Design/methodology/approachAn empirical study of 254 firms from nine different service industries is conducted to answer the objectives of this study.FindingsFour competitive priorities are identified: cost, quality, delivery and flexibility. Six service industries namely fast food, hospital, retail store, bank, private college and accountant industries are found to be focused on quality while three industries namely hotel, auto‐repair and architect prioritized delivery. For both high performance and low performance firms, quality remained the top competitive priority followed by delivery, flexibility and cost.Originality/valueThis is the first study that identifies competitive priorities in the Malaysian service sector
Modelling the currency in circulation for the State of Qatar
Authors: Balli Faruk , Mousa Elsamadisy Elsayed 
Published: November 2012

PurposeThis paper seeks to model the daily and weekly forecasting of the currency in circulation (CIC) for the State of Qatar.Design/methodology/approachThe paper employs linear forecasting models, the regression model and the seasonal ARIMA model to forecast the CIC for Qatar.FindingsComparing the linear methods, the seasonal ARIMA model provides better estimates for short‐term forecasts. The range of forecast errors for the seasonal ARIMA model forecasts are less than 100 million QR for the short‐term CIC forecasts.Practical implicationsThe findings of this paper suggest that the CIC in Qatar is in a pattern and it would be easier to forecast the currency in circulation in Qatar economy. Accurate estimates of money market liquidity would help Qatar Central bank, to maintain the price stability in the Qatar economy.Originality/valueThis paper forecasts the currency in circulation for the State of Qatar. Additionally, the empirical part of the paper compares the different methodologies find the appropriate model for the CIC for the state of Qatar.
Internal control system for Islamic micro financing
Authors: Wardiwiyono Sartini 
Published: November 2012

PurposeThis paper aims to contribute to literature on managing Islamic micro financing by formulating and evaluating the implementation of internal control system for Islamic micro financing. It also aims to investigate the implementation of an internal control system for financing activities practiced by Baitul Maal wat Tamwil (BMT), a special micro finance organization, in Indonesia.Design/methodology/approachFirst, the paper introduces the concept of internal control system. Second, an internal control system for Islamic financing is formulated. Primary data that relate to the implementation of an internal control system for financing activities are obtained through a direct survey using questionnaires. The data are then analyzed using descriptive statistic and qualitative analysis to find the implementations of the internal control system.FindingsBMTs in Indonesia have implemented an internal control system for their financing activities. The rank of the implementation is: information and communication; monitoring; control environment; risk assessment; and control activities. This study also indicates that the implementation of authorization and consultation to the Shariah Supervisory Board was low.Research limitations/implicationsThe respondents of this study are small in number. However, the findings are valid and reliable.Originality/valueTo the author's knowledge, there is a lack of scholars' attention on the implementation of internal control especially for Islamic micro financing. Therefore, this study will provide insight to the literature on how to manage Islamic micro financing efficiently and effectively.