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Loss of monotonicity and anomalous scaling behavior in the passive scalar gradient
Authors: Langella Ivan , Scalo Carlo , De Felice Giuseppe , Meola Carlo 
Published: March 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss some fundamental aspects regarding the anomalies in the passive scalar field advected by forced homogenous and isotropic turbulence, by inspection of the analytical properties of the governing equations and with the aid of direct numerical simulation (DNS) data.Design/methodology/approachResults from a pseudo‐spectral DNS of a unitary‐Schmidt‐ number passive scalar advected by a low Reynolds number flow field, Reλ=50 and 70 (based on the Taylor microscale λ) allow for a preliminary assessment of the developed numerical model.FindingsManipulation of the governing equations for the scalar field (which are monotonic) reveals that the unboundedness of the scalar gradient magnitude is not ruled out by the mathematical properties of the correspondent conservation equation. Classic intermittency effects in the passive scalar field have been reproduced, such as non‐Gaussian behavior of the passive scalar statistics, loss of local isotropy, and multi‐fractal scaling of scalar structure functions. Moreover, Taylor and Richardson theories are, surprisingly, not confirmed only in the dissipation range (small‐scales anomalies).Originality/valueThe authors suggest that the origin of intermittency (qualitatively pictured here as violent burst in spatial gradient quantities) should be sought in the loss of monotonicity of the evolution equation of the scalar gradient.
CLSVOF method to study consecutive drop impact on liquid pool
Authors: Ray Bahni , Biswas Gautam , Sharma Ashutosh , Welch Samuel W.J. 
Published: March 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a numerical approach for investigating different phenomena during multiple liquid drop impact on air‐water interface.Design/methodology/approachThe authors have used the coupled level‐set and volume‐of‐fluid (CLSVOF) method to explore the different phenomena during multi‐drop impact on liquid‐liquid interface. Complete numerical simulation is performed for two‐dimensional incompressible flow, which is described in axisymmetric coordinates.FindingsDuring drop pair impact at very low impact velocities, the process of partial coalescence is observed where the process of pinch off is different than single drop impact. At higher impact velocities, phenomena such as bubble entrapment are observed.Originality/valueIn this paper, a new approach has been developed to simulate consecutive drop impact on a liquid pool.
Strategic dashboards: designing and deploying them to improve implementation
Authors: Allio Michael K. 
Published: March 2013

PurposeDashboards and scorecards are widely‐deployed performance management tools, but are often ineffectively used. Properly designed, developed, and deployed strategic dashboards can cut through clutter, provide incisive strategic insight, improve decision‐making, and enhance both alignment and implementation performance. This article seeks to identify common pitfalls in strategic dashboard design and use, and then recommend guidelines for improving dashboard design, scope, use and impact.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on hands‐on development of dashboards and strategy implementation programs for hundreds of clients across multiple sectors; complemented by operating experience managing strategic implementation and dashboard/measurement systems for high‐growth, complex organizations.FindingsKey steps include developing a process that prioritizes indicators, includes key stakeholders, incorporates management analysis and judgment, favors rich data display using a common visual and quantitative language, and systematizes consistent dashboard use and dissemination.Practical implicationsCareful attention to dashboard content, form, process, and politics will help leaders strategically manage performance. Properly designed, dashboards can effectively focus senior teams on strategic issues, and catalyze strategic action.Originality/valueThis perspective from a practitioner identifies pitfalls and guidelines for maximizing the value and reach of dashboards, gleaned from experience across multiple industries and sectors.
Conference report – How to manage the new HR realities
Authors: Grossberg Kenneth Alan 
Published: March 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report on the Global Human Resources People and Strategy Conference.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents a conference report on the Global Human Resources People and Strategy Conference, which was held in New York, USA from May 6‐9, 2012.Findings?Originality/value?
Interview – Ron Adner: managing the interdependencies and risks of an innovation ecosystem
Authors: Leavy Brian 
Published: March 2013

PurposeThis paper aims to present an interview with Professor Ron Adner, author of The Wide Lens.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents an interview with Professor Ron Adner, author of The Wide Lens to ask about his structured approach to uncovering the hidden sources of dependence in innovation ecosystems that undermine collaboration efforts. Adner describes how to use the tools he has developed to assess, map and analyse innovation ecosystems. Adner explains that when delivering value depends on the combined efforts of multiple innovation partners – both within and across firms – executing brilliantly does not prevent failure if the other partners stumble. Numerous case studies are reported and a new set of analysis tools is introduced.FindingsAdner reveals that success in new product/service ecosystems requires innovation partners that are both able and willing to participate in a novel solution.Originality/valueThe paper notes that seeing innovation as ecosystem management produces many new insights about effective implementation.
Some proposals for impactful management control research
Authors: Seal Will 
Published: March 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to show how management control researchers can improve their practical impact through research designs that recognise the many dimensions of organizational reality.Design/methodology/approachManagerial knowledge in the academy and managerial practice may become detached from one another as practitioners and academic discourses are influenced by different sources of texts and modes of legitimisation. Although this can be a problem in accounting research, management accounting researchers have developed the necessary elements for critical engagement with practice. Identifying a common ontological basis for researchers and practitioners, it is argued that pragmatic constructivism explains how managers construct their reality through integrating logic, facts, values and communication. It is also argued that management consultants have implicitly understood this view of reality in the way that they package their solutions. Academic researchers can replicate the pragmatic constructivist ontology whilst adopting more explicitly theoretical and critical approaches.FindingsThe paper proposes the academy can productively imitate some of the knowledge creation of the consultant yet still retain both theoretical rigour and academic values.Originality/valueThe paper presents a research design that can improve the impact of business school research whilst maintaining academic integrity.
Curtailing the code of silence among the South African police
Authors: Kutnjak Ivkovich Sanja , Sauerman Adri 
Published: March 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the contours of the code of silence, as a critical component of the ability to control misconduct and enhance integrity within any police agency, among officers (both line officers and supervisors) of the South African Police Service (SAPS).Design/methodology/approachIn 2005, the authors surveyed police supervisors from seven South African provinces and autonomous provinces. The questionnaire distributed to police supervisors contains 11 vignettes describing various forms of police corruption and one vignette describing the use of excessive force. The sample consists of 379 police supervisors.FindingsResults of the study indicate the existence of a strong code of silence among the SAPS supervisors. The authors report that the code of silence does not protect all misconduct equally; yet, a substantial minority of SAPS supervisors in the sample would protect many forms of police corruption from exposure. It was found that, with the exception of the three most serious scenarios of police corruption, no significant relation exists between the code of silence and the perceptions of disciplinary fairness. The code of silence is strong and it only weakens for the three or four most serious scenarios.Research limitations/implicationsThe respondents in the study were police supervisors who were attending training at the SAPS training centers.Practical implicationsSouth African police administrators interested in controlling police corruption and curtailing the code of silence should start with their subordinate supervisors first. The strong code of silence among the supervisors prevents them from playing their critical role in the control of police misconduct and the curtailing of the code of silence among the line officers.Originality/valueEmpirical studies of police officers in South Africa are rare. Despite the extensive efforts at reforming the SAPS, the SAPS seem to continue to be integrity‐challenged. This empirical research focuses on the code of silence, a key element of police integrity, and includes opinions of a nation‐wide sample of the SAPS supervisors about the code of silence. In addition, the research explores the relation between the code of silence and perceptions of disciplinary fairness.
Restructuring, layoffs and litigation: form and substance in reporting operating income
Authors: Martins António 
Published: March 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss how a decision of restructuring and firing people in a Portuguese company was based on financial data, and how the interpretation of such data made the process quite complex. This complexity was particularly relevant in the litigation that followed. At the core of the restructuring decision was the evolution of the firm's operating income; and a central point in litigation was precisely what should be considered the operating income of the company under analysis, and how it could influence the case's court outcome.Design/methodology/approachIn 2008 a Portuguese company fired people in its finance department. The main reason presented by the management to the laid off persons was the evolution of the firm's operating income, which was negative for several consecutive years. The paper, after a background analysis of restructuring decisions and financial performance, will focus on this case and the correspondent issues, that are mainly related to the concept of operating income, the style of communication between managers and affected employees, and court procedures. It will also compare the Portuguese accounting regime in 2008, with the present one, introduced in 2010 and based on IFRS, as far as the nature of operating income is concerned.FindingsThe main conclusion is that standards of accounting and financial reporting can have an important role in justifying restructurings and lay off decisions, and are quite complex to discuss in court cases related to labor laws. Also, changes in accounting systems can have a significant impact in measures of economic performance, opening a wide field of interpretation and legal uncertainty about case outcomes. Judges must have the capacity to navigate through such intricate questions, and see financial information numbers in the light of a company's true economic function.Practical implicationsThe paper highlights the problems that can arise when financial data are the basis for layoffs. Given the nature of accounting conventions, if litigation follows, a significant degree of complexity can be brought to the legal process. Also, managers must state, in very clear terms, reasons for restructuring, and, when they stress financial performance, related indicators must have an objective nature.Originality/valueThe paper has value for managers engaged in restructuring processes and also for the legal professions, as far as the relation between layoffs and financial performance based on accounting data is concerned.
Implementing change: staff experiences of changes to prison mental healthcare in England and Wales
Authors: Caulfield Laura S. , Twort Hannah 
Published: March 2013

PurposeStemming from substantial criticism during the late twentieth and early twenty‐first century, the UK government and HM Prison Service developed a number of policies and protocols aimed at improving the state of prison mental healthcare. While it is difficult to fault the purpose of the government's intentions, criticism has continued relating to problems with the implementation of government led change within the prison system. Existing research leads people to question whether policies are being implemented as intended; and if not, why not? The only clear way to answer these questions is to ask those involved in the actual implementation of these recommendations within the prison service. This paper aims to answer these questions.Design/methodology/approachThis paper documents findings from a national survey of senior mental healthcare staff working in prisons in England and Wales. Staff were surveyed about their views on the implementation of recommendations from recent key government documents, their perceptions of prison mental healthcare versus community mental healthcare, and their views on the relationship between HM Prison Service and the National Health Service.FindingsWhile many staff report improvements in prison mental healthcare, many have struggled with the implementation of new ways of working and the findings here suggest there is still some way to go towards providing offenders in prison with effective and appropriate care. Where effective ways of implementing change were identified, these are discussed.Originality/valueListening to the experiences of the staff involved in prison healthcare has helped identify where implementation of changes could be improved and thus highlights where support might best be targeted in future.
Barriers to implementing throughcare for problematic drug users in European prisons
Authors: MacDonald Morag , Williams James , Kane David 
Published: March 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the extent of throughcare provision for prisoners with problematic drug use. Effective throughcare services have been recognised as important because they help to ensure that any progress in treatment made in prison is continued on release. Previous research demonstrates that examples of good practice in throughcare provision for prisoners with problematic drug use exist in many parts of the world. However, evidence from recent work carried out in Europe indicates that the implementation of throughcare services for this group of prisoners is limited and ineffective in some EU member states. This paper aims to explore the reasons for such failure and to identify the barriers to implementing effective throughcare for this particular group of prisoners.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is drawn from research carried out as part of a European project funded by the Directorate General Justice of the European Commission. The project involved six partners from a range of different member states. The research involved a literature review, followed by in‐depth interviews and focus groups with key stakeholders. Each partner carried out the qualitative research within their own country, in order to enable the team to capture local nuances.FindingsThe findings indicate that key barriers to implementation of effective throughcare are resources which impacts on the availability of support services, attitudes and training of staff and ultimately the continuity of care.Originality/valueThis paper adds to the body of knowledge regarding the provision of effective throughcare to those with problematic drug use.
Encounters and places: project negotiations in Galessa, Ethiopia
Authors: Habermann Birgit , Felt Ulrike , Vogl Christian R. , Bekele Kassahun , Mekonnen Kindu 
Published: March 2013

PurposeReflections on negotiation processes between farmers and scientists in research projects provide insights into issues of participation, power and equity. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how actors chose places to meet, negotiate and represent technologies.Design/methodology/approachThe research involved semi‐structured interviews and participant observation with farmers, scientists, government agricultural advisors (extensionists), policymakers, and staff of development organisations involved in a research for development project in Western Shewa, Ethiopia from 2009 to 2011. It combines theories from social studies of science as well as development studies.FindingsUsing blueprint approaches in research projects will not yield sustainable results. Participation must go beyond consultation or trying to educate farmers. Social relations are at the core of cooperation between farmers and scientists and require much more attention. Powerful choices on modes of representation and communication technologies as well as unilateral decisions on places have important implications for the way decisions are eventually made and by whom.Originality/valueThis approach to studying research for development projects from social studies of science perspectives adds new insights into debates on participation and power in technology transfer and multicultural cooperation in rural development.
Dialogic Global Studies for multicultural technology assessment
Authors: Duraković Emina , Marion Feigl Britta , Marion Fischer Bettina , Fleck Christopher , Galler Lisa‐Maria , Heinrich Johannes , Kulmer Karin , Kurzweil Birgitta , Scholze Markus , Stefan Sperl Raphael , Unterköfler René , Remele Kurt , Matzenberger Julian , Ahamer Gilbert 
Published: March 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to show a practical case of dialogic web‐based learning that has provided a set of questions analysing two complex technological projects in “southern” countries with effects on multicultural equity.Design/methodology/approachStructured online review processes in multicultural and systems science curricula allow for high density of literature‐based reflection and analysis.FindingsThe entirety of the set of over 50 questions developed by the proposed web‐based dialogic procedure represents a starting point for an in‐depth assessment of the effects of deploying “northern” technology in “southern” countries.Research limitations/implicationsThe present case study concentrates on energy technology, notably on two hydroelectric plants presently under construction in Ilısu, Turkey, and Belo Monte, Brazil.Practical implicationsThe multitude of questions calls for complex technological construction projects that have to undertake sound interdisciplinary in‐depth analysis of technological, environmental, economic, cultural and social consequences in order to secure a necessary level of economic, environmental and social sustainability.Social implicationsApplication of widely accepted planning tools such as technology assessment, environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment are useful but have to be complemented by analogous tools at a cultural and social level.Originality/valueThis case study operates through questioning, largely in the Socratic tradition. Questions may trigger a broad discussion process within civil societies – which is the intention of the present text.
Humanitarian interventions: western imperialism or a responsibility to protect?
Authors: Damboeck Johanna 
Published: March 2013

PurposeThe aim of this article is to provide an analysis of the features that have shaped the state's decision‐making process in the United Nations, with regard to the humanitarian intervention in Darfur from 2003 onwards.Design/methodology/approachThe methodological approach to the study is a review of political statement papers grounded in the concept of “humanitarian imperialism” and a “responsibility to protect”.FindingsIt was found out that the decision‐making process, leading to humanitarian interventions in Darfur was shaped by a larger extent by the states' own national interests and to a smaller extent by humanitarian considerations.Practical implicationsThe main implications of this paper are that the United Nations are not the right platform when it comes to humanitarian interventions that should be placed on humanitarian grounds. Therefore, nation states are strongly advised to accept their leading role in international politics and to realise their responsibility to protect foreign citizens in humanitarian catastrophes.Social implicationsThis paper will have an effect on the way humanitarian interventions and “humanitarian motives” can be seen in society and will suggest that in some situations it is advised to take a more realist approach towards humanitarian interventions.Originality/valueThis paper is valuable for further analysis of political decision‐making processes and learning processes within politics.
Geography, economic education and global education
Authors: Schwarz Ingrid 
Published: March 2013

PurposeThe EU‐funded research project “Fifobi – Fit for Business – developing business competencies in school” (2009‐2012) focused on the implementation of economic education in seven European countries. The purpose of the project and this paper is to investigate the current programmes that exist within the final two years of compulsory education in the field of business education and pre‐vocational education.Design/methodology/approachIn year one a thorough analysis of the curriculum was carried out. After a comprehensive evaluation personal interviews with teachers followed in year two and in year three personal interviews with representatives of the Social Partnership were conducted.FindingsThe Austrian curricula show a definite and clear focus on basic knowledge in economics. Social and self‐competences have to be taught in all subjects, but are poorly linked to the content of individual subjects. Many aspects of social and self‐competences are part of career orientation classes. A relatively small focus, however, is put on entrepreneurial thinking and acting.Originality/valueThe main objective for next steps is to draw up a new strategy of teaching to develop economic, business, social‐ and self competencies with the focus on responsibility for a local, regional, national and global level. The aim is to activate children and young people for global relations, formations of critical thinking and acting in economic education and global education.
Accounting's role in promoting social change: a guest editorial
Authors: Bell Janice , Hoque Zahirul 
Published: March 2013

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to present a snapshot review of the papers accepted for publication in this special issue of the 2010 Global Accounting and Organizational Change (GAOC) conference which was held in July, 2010 at Babson College, USA.Design/methodology/approachA critical review approach was adopted to identify the lessons learned.FindingsThe review reveals a variety of themes that emerged from the papers under review where authors attempted to describe and explain “best practices” in financial and managerial accounting within a variety of organizations across the world.Originality/valueThis review will stimulate interest in and contribute to the body of knowledge of accounting and organizational change for the betterment of society.