bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Market orientation, innovation capability and business performance
Authors: Huhtala Juho-Petteri , Sihvonen Antti , Frösén Johanna , Jaakkola Matti , Tikkanen Henrikki 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– The paper aims to examine the role of market orientation (MO) and innovation capability in determining business performance during an economic upturn and downturn.

Design/methodology/approach
– The data comprise two national-level surveys conducted in Finland in 2008, representing an economic boom, and in 2010 when the global economic crisis had hit the Finnish market. Partial least square path analysis is used to test the potential mediating effect of innovation capability on the relationship between MO and business performance during economic boom and bust.

Findings
– The results show that innovation capability fully mediates the performance effects of a MO during an economic upturn, whereas the mediation is only partial during a downturn. Innovation capability also mediates the relationship between a customer orientation and business performance during an upturn, whereas the mediating effect culminates in a competitor orientation during a downturn. Thus, the role of innovation capability as a mediator between the individual market-orientation components varies along the business cycle.

Originality/value
– This paper is one of the first studies that empirically examine the impact of the economic cycle on the relationship between strategic marketing concepts, such as MO or innovation capability, and the firm's business performance.
Comparing CSR communication on corporate web sites in Sweden and Spain
Authors: Castelo Branco Manuel , Delgado Catarina , Sá Manuel , Sousa Cristina 
Published: March 2014

Purpose– This study investigates the use of the internet by the largest companies based in Sweden and Spain to communicate their engagement in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. Its purpose is to analyse to what extent, if any, are there differences in the CSR communication on the web sites companies from these two countries.Design/methodology/approach– The paper examines CSR communication on the internet by companies based in Sweden and Spain. Non-parametric statistics are used to analyse some factors that influence disclosure, namely country, industry affiliation, profitability, and size.Findings– Findings suggest that in spite of the existence of a high degree of similarity between CSR communication practices, companies from Spain place social responsibility information in more prominent sections and devote more space to said information. Swedish companies are found to disclose more their codes of conduct/ethics and CSR-related press clips and published articles.Research limitations/implications– The sample is small. There may be content analysis issues associated with subjectivity in the coding process.Originality/value– It adds to the scarce research on CSR communication by companies in these countries by providing new empirical data and extends prior research comparing such practices in different international models of CSR.
A model for sharing knowledge in architectural firms
Authors: Bashouri Joseph , William Duncan Glen 
Published: March 2014

Purpose– This theoretical paper aims to develop a model of how best to facilitate projects knowledge sharing within architectural firms to learn from lessons and improve the firm innovation capabilities, knowledge and skills.Design/methodology/approach– A conceptual framework is developed by reviewing the literature in the fields of knowledge management (KM), the project-based organisation and communities of practice (CoPs) and linking these to the literature on the architectural firm.Findings– In the architectural firm, KM strategy needs to be linked to the overall business strategy determining the balance of codification/personalisation. The firm needs to be structured as a double-knit organisation connecting projects with CoPs. This structure creates a social network that allows sharing the useful and innovative knowledge created through the design process. Success depends on building a knowledge environment, providing organisational support and building a learning architecture within projects. A balanced combination of information and communication technologies, lessons-learned, storytelling, conversational learning and dialogue are needed as knowledge sharing methods.Originality/value– This paper's originality is in constructing a conceptual framework or model for knowledge sharing within the architectural firm with CoPs at the heart of that model. This paper is valuable to any architectural practice that aims to protect its reputation, improve its performance and increase its innovative knowledge base. It is also valuable to the construction industry by helping to minimise design mistakes and the consequent cost of construction rework.
A measurement model of building information modelling maturity
Authors: Chen Yunfeng , Dib Hazar , F. Cox Robert 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– There is a growing requirement for a rating system of building information modelling maturity (BIMM) to compare the effectiveness of modelling processes in construction projects. The literature related to BIMM contains theoretical proposals and description of their maturity models. However, the research efforts are limited and lacking substantial theoretical and empirical justifications. This paper is a unique attempt to integrate previous models by performing empirical investigations of key factors for measuring BIMM in construction projects. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– A national survey was designed to extract the perception of 124 BIM-related practitioners and academicians about the conceptual model. Then, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were employed to identify and test the key factors underlying the 27 areas.

Findings
– A principal component factor analysis of the collected data had suggested a five-factor model, which explained 69.839 per cent of the variance. The construct validity of the model was further tested by confirmatory factor analysis. The results indicated that all factors were important in measuring BIMM; however, compared with the factors of technology and people, more emphasis was put on the factors of process and information.

Originality/value
– The key value of the paper is to increase the understanding of multi-dimension nature of BIMM through empirical evidence and to provide practitioners and researchers with the insight regarding particular emphasis on the factors related to modelling process and information.
Transnational corporations and global capitalism: reflections on the last 40 years
Authors: Radice Hugo 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the author's research and teaching on transnational corporations and global capitalism over the last 40 years.

Design/methodology/approach
– A chronological account of the changing nature of TNCs and their impacts, and the evolution of critical studies within the field.

Findings
– Within the literature on TNCs, critical scholarship has played an important role in developing alternative perspectives.

Research limitations/implications
– The paper reports the author's personal reflections on his field of study, which are intentionally subjective.

Practical implications
– Appreciation of the scope and effectiveness of critical scholarship in international business.

Originality/value
– The paper's value lies in offering a broad-brush picture of the evolution of TNCs and their critical study over four decades.
Who is to blame?
Authors: M. Taplin Ian 
Published: March 2014

Purpose– This paper seeks to examine the various actors responsible for the recent tragedy at a clothing factory in Bangladesh. Rather than focusing on the actual factory owner, it evaluates the broader structural and institutional factors, plus a particular Western retailer strategy of fast fashion, that together explain the practical inevitability of such tragedies.Design/methodology/approach– As a case study of a particular incident, it presents data from newspaper accounts and descriptive statistics to evaluate the broader context of an industrial accident.Findings– By examining the full context of the incident, it becomes apparent that there were systemic issues that effectively encouraged many parties to engage in workplace policies that almost inevitably can lead to accidents or at least labor abuses. Finally, blame is apportioned to Western consumers whose insatiable appetite for “fashionable” goods merely feeds a retail system that was set up to resolve earlier supply chain problems and ended up taking advantage of changing international trade regimes.Originality/value– The paper takes a much broader examination and analysis of institutional factors that shape work conditions than studies that focus merely on labor-management issues.
Pushing the frontiers of critical international business studies
Authors: Boussebaa Mehdi , Morgan Glenn 
Published: March 2014

Purpose– This paper aims to discuss the context- and power-sensitive approach to the study of multinationals that has emerged in the last decade, argues for the need to supplement it by a clearer focus on the wider geopolitical context in which multinationals operate and outlines the implications for the development of IB research in this area.Design/methodology/approach– The paper provides a summary overview of context- and power-sensitive studies of multinationals before proposing a research agenda for the next decade. In particular, it argues for the need to combine the institutionalist angle taken by context/power analyses with post-colonial theory as a means of bringing geopolitics into the study of multinationals, a task thatCPoIBis well positioned to accomplish.Findings– The paper identifies a lack of “criticality” in context/power research and, in particular, a lack of attention to the neo-imperial character of multinationals with specific regards to their management and organisation.Research limitations/implications– The implications of this paper are that the nature of contemporary multinationals is further illuminated, especially their role in (re-)producing (neo-)imperial relations in a supposedly post-colonial world. Further, the paper suggests an agenda for future research on the relationship between imperialism and multinationals.Originality/value– The value of the paper is in drawing together more closely the study of multinationals as organizational structures and political systems with the history of imperialism and contemporary post-colonial theorising.
Fighting Latin American marginality in “international” business
Authors: Alcadipani Rafael , Faria Alex 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– Latin America has been neglected in management and international business (IB) knowledge for a long time. Such a picture reflects the enduring power of the dark side of the geopolitics of knowledge that “international” sub-fields in management knowledge have to tackle as a key condition of possibility for the co-creation of a truly “international” field of “international business”. In this position paper, the authors aim to analyze the extent to which CPoIB has been a key instrument to tackle Anglo-Saxon hegemony in IB knowledge over the last ten years.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors follow a decolonizing perspective to analyse the impact of CPoIB for Latin America international business knowledge production.

Findings
– The paper argues that CPoIB has given voice to authors who are from Latin America and, most important, work in the region. By doing that, CPoIB has triggered the mobilization of mechanisms of recognition and redistribution that are necessary to offset the neo-imperial side of “international business” and management knowledge. The journal has also helped to foster the co-creation of “pluriversal international business”.

Originality/value
– The paper uses a decolonial perspective from Latin America in order to open new questions and challenges to the field of IB.
Context, framing, and influence
Authors: Kim Barnes B. 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to help readers consider the value of identifying the values, beliefs, and vested interests of someone they wish to influence and to frame their idea, request, or call to action in a way that will make sense in the other person's internal model of the world and be interesting and attractive to him or her.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper defines several key terms and presents a rationale for exploring the point of view of individuals one wishes to influence and framing an idea in a way that will be most meaningful to the other.

Findings
– There is no one way to view any idea. People have a set of mental filters that any influence attempt must pass through. These filters shape the impact and meaning of the other person's idea or request. The skillful influencer takes this into account in framing his or her influence approach.

Research limitations/implications
– This paper is the result of many years of observation and pattern recognition in situations where people are asked to influence one another. It is also consistent with current behavioral economics research, but is not itself based on laboratory research.

Practical implications
– Applying this approach should enable readers to have better results in influencing a variety of people.

Originality/value
– Influence is a key skill set for leaders and key contributors.
Customer relationship management and service quality, a survey within the banking sector
Authors: Valmohammadi Changiz , Beladpas Mohammad 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– In the centre of marketing activities today is the service quality. For the banks to be successful in the intensively competitive environment, they are bound to attach importance to service quality. The purpose of the present study is to reveal the relationship between the customer relationship management (CRM) and the service quality of bank Sepah of Maku in Iran.

Design/methodology/approach
– A structured questionnaire survey was used to collect data for this research, and this process was administered by conducting personal interviews. The questionnaire included self-developed items, as well as items from questionnaires used in previous researches.

Findings
– The findings of this study suggest that managers, who aim to build and sustain a service quality base, should concentrate on the issue of communication. And also, this bank should implement strategies aimed at improving the communication with customers and obtaining information concerning the customers' needs, and resolving conflicts between the customer and the bank during a service failure.

Research limitations/implications
– The sample is restricted to only one bank, so it is strongly recommended that data be gathered from various parts of Iran including both manufacturing and service industries. As in this study the data gathered were cross-sectional, it is recommended in order to gain deeper understanding of the cause-and-effect relationship among the variables data to be gathered longitudinally.

Originality/value
– To the best knowledge of the authors this study is the first attempt to survey the relationship and the effects of CRM processes on the service quality of banking industry in the context of Iran.
Crime, corruption and the role of institutions
Authors: Chatterjee Ishita , Ray Ranjan 
Published: March 2014

Purpose– There have been very few attempts in the economics literature to empirically study the link between criminal and corrupt behaviour due to lack of data sets on simultaneous information on both types of illegitimate activities. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approach– The present study uses a large cross-country data set containing individual responses to questions on crime and corruption along with information on the respondents' characteristics. These micro-level data are supplemented by country-level macro and institutional indicators. A methodological contribution of this study is the estimation of an ordered probit model based on outcomes defined as combinations of crime and bribe victimisation.Findings– The authors find that: a crime victim is more likely to face bribe demands, males are more likely victims of corruption while females are of serious crime, older individuals and those living in the smaller towns are less exposed to crime and corruption, increasing levels of income and education increase the likelihood of crime and bribe victimisation to be reported and a stronger legal system and a happier society reduce both crime and corruption. However, the authors find no evidence of a strong and uniformly negative impact of either crime or corruption on a country's growth rate.Originality/value– This paper is, to the authors' knowledge, the first in the literature to explore the nexus between crime and corruption, their magnitudes, determinants and their effects on growth rates.
Comparative corruption in China and India
Authors: K. Bardhan Pranab 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to explore the difference in the extent and nature of corruption in China and India.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper takes a comparative political-economy approach.

Findings
– The paper shows the complexities in the different style and substance of governance in the two countries that are not captured in the usual democracy-authoritarianism comparisons.

Originality/value
– The interesting contrasts highlight differences in style and content of governance in China and India, which are not captured in the usual facile democracy-authoritarianism comparisons.
The role of artificial intelligence in robotics
Authors: Bogue Robert 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to provide an insight into the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in robotics.

Design/methodology/approach
– Following an introduction to AI, this paper provides an overview of the application of AI to robotics. Mobile robots are then discussed, together with the various AI techniques employed and under development. The application of the OpenCog artificial general intelligence architecture is then considered and the paper concludes with a brief discussion.

Findings
– This shows that many AI concepts are being applied to humanoid, mobile and other classes of robots. Significant progress has been made and many innovative AI strategies are being studied which often seek to emulate aspects of human intelligence. Much development activity is being driven by military interests but as yet, the level of intelligence exhibited by the most advanced robots is at best equivalent to that of a very young child. Several academics argue that more rapid progress will arise from a closer integration of AI and robotic research.

Originality/value
– This article discusses the role of AI in robotics and provides details of number of robotic developments involving a range of AI concepts.
Robust-PCA-based hierarchical plane extraction for application to geometric 3D indoor mapping
Authors: Yeon Suyong , Jun ChangHyun , Choi Hyunga , Kang Jaehyeon , Yun Youngmok , Lett Doh Nakju 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– The authors aim to propose a novel plane extraction algorithm for geometric 3D indoor mapping with range scan data.

Design/methodology/approach
– The proposed method utilizes a divide-and-conquer step to efficiently handle huge amounts of point clouds not in a whole group, but in forms of separate sub-groups with similar plane parameters. This method adopts robust principal component analysis to enhance estimation accuracy.

Findings
– Experimental results verify that the method not only shows enhanced performance in the plane extraction, but also broadens the domain of interest of the plane registration to an information-poor environment (such as simple indoor corridors), while the previous method only adequately works in an information-rich environment (such as a space with many features).

Originality/value
– The proposed algorithm has three advantages over the current state-of-the-art method in that it is fast, utilizes more inlier sensor data that does not become contaminated by severe sensor noise and extracts more accurate plane parameters.
Transformation design of a miniature throw-able robot
Authors: Liu Rong , Qu Yuan 
Published: March 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to present a transformation mechanism designed for a miniature throw-able robot, including the mechanical model, related analysis and experiments.

Design/methodology/approach
– The robot can be thrown into suspicious areas. It keeps in a ball-shaped configuration during throwing and uses the driving motors to implement transformation of the mobile form. A foldable tail is also released out as a third point to guarantee the stability of the robot.

Findings
– By transformation, the robot possesses the overall shock protection like a regular spherical robot and also has detection ability and agile mobility as a two-wheeled robot.

Originality/value
– An innovative transformation mechanism was designed, analyzed and tested. The mechanism is suitable for a throw-able robot which is simple in structure, small in volume and light in weight. Effectiveness of the transformation design has been validated through experiments.
Tracking performance improvements of an electrohydraulic Gough-Stewart platform using a fuzzy incremental controller
Authors: Liu Guojun , Qu Zhiyong , Liu Xiaochu , Han Junwei 
Published: March 2014

Purpose– Sinusoidal signals are often used as the inputs of the six degree of freedom (DOF) motion simulator platforms. The purpose of this paper is to propose a fuzzy incremental controller (FIC) to improve sinusoidal signal tracking performances of an electrohydraulic Gough-Stewart platform (GSP).Design/methodology/approach– An FIC is proposed to control an electrohydraulic GSP without any model parameters. The FIC output can be self-organized by only using the hydraulic actuator position information. The control rules are determined by a systematic deterministic method.Findings– Experimental results show that the proposed FIC is valid and can achieve better tracking performances compared with classical PID controller and a decoupling controller (a model-based controller).Originality/value– An FIC using a systematic deterministic rule-base determination method is proposed to improve sinusoidal signal tracking performances of electrohydraulic GSP.