bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Hidden consumption behaviour: an alternative response to social group influence
Authors: Thomas Veronica L. , Jewell Robert D. , Wiggins Johnson Jennifer 
Published: April 2015

Purpose– This paper aims to examine how conflicting brand preferences between a social group and an individual may lead the individual to hide their consumption. Specifically, the authors examine the conditions under which hiding behaviour is most likely to occur and the impact of susceptibility to interpersonal influence on the decision to hide.Design/methodology/approach– Two experiments were conducted using a combination of student and adult samples. Analysis of variance and regression analyses were used to test the hypotheses.Findings– Findings suggest that individuals are most likely to hide their consumption behaviour when group sanctions for non-conformity are severe, but the likelihood of being caught is low. Further, individual differences in susceptibility to interpersonal influence are found to affect individuals’ decisions to hide their consumption behaviour.Research limitations/implications– By identifying hidden consumption behaviour as a possible response to preference conflict, this research contributes to the literature on social influence and extends our understanding of how consumers behave when influenced by social group pressure.Originality/value– The present work establishes hiding behaviour (a concept which has yet to be thoroughly explored in the literature) as an alternative yet viable response to preference conflict.
Converting service encounters into cross-selling opportunities
Authors: Yu Ting , Patterson Paul , de Ruyter Ko 
Published: April 2015

Purpose– This paper aims to examine how the motivation and ability of individual employees to sell influences their units’ capability to align their service delivery with sales in a way that satisfies customers. It also addresses the potential influence of employees’ confidence in their supervisor’s ability to sell, such that they predict a joint influence of personal and proxy agency.Design/methodology/approach– This study uses hierarchical linear modeling to address the research issues.Findings– Employees’ learning orientation has a positive influence on service-sales ambidexterity, but the impact of a performance-avoidance goal orientation is negative, and a performance-prove orientation has no influence. Proxy efficacy enhances the positive impact of learning orientations due to the manager’s ability to lead by example, facilitate knowledge sharing and provide advice. However, it attenuates the impact of self-efficacy on service-sales ambidexterity, because skilled supervisors tend to take over and eliminate opportunities for employees to build their own skills. It also confirms the positive influence of service-sales ambidexterity on branch performance.Originality/value– To examine the emerging service-sales ambidexterity issues raised in frontline service units, this study adopts a motivation and capability paradigm. It is among the first studies to address service-sales ambidexterity issues by considering both individual and branch contextual factors.
Analysis of natural convection in tall vertical cavities heated by a linear heat flux and cooled isothermally
Authors: El Moutaouakil Lahcen , Zrikem Zaki , Abdelbaki Abdelhalim 
Published: April 2015

Purpose
– This work is devoted to the numerical analysis of laminar natural convection in two-dimensional vertical cavities, filled with air and of high aspect ratios. One of the sidewalls is cooled isothermally while the other is heated by a uniform or linear heat flux whose average is located at mid-height of the wall. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– The governing equations are discretized by the finite volume method and solved, in transient regime, by using the SIMPLE algorithm.

Findings
– The flow structure, air temperature field, local convective heat flux on the cold wall, variation of the temperature along the heated wall as well as its average and its maximum are analyzed for various combinations of the controlling parameters. These parameters are the linear heat flux slope γ (γ=0, 1 and −1, for a uniform, increasing and decreasing heat flux, respectively), the average Rayleigh number Ra

m
(103Ra

m
3×104) and the aspect ratio A (10A80). It was found that for a given A and Ra

m
, the highest (lowest) mean temperature of the hot wall is obtained when the linear heating is descending (ascending). While the maximum temperature increases with the three controlling parameters.

Practical implications
– Accurate correlations which allow calculating the average and maximum temperatures of the heated wall are developed for each type of heating. Also, an empirical relationship for the position of the maximum temperature is provided for γ=−1.

Originality/value
– Despite its fundamental and practical interest, natural convection in cavities with 10A80 and submitted to non-uniform heat flux was not examined before. Development of original correlations.
Numerical simulation of the rheological properties of fiber suspensions in turbulent pipe flows
Authors: Liang Xiaoyu , Yang Wei , Zhang Lingxin 
Published: April 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to study numerically the rheological properties of fiber suspensions flowing through turbulent pipe flows.

Design/methodology/approach
– The work presented in this paper is derived the fluctuating equation for fiber orientation distribution function (FODF) in turbulent flows and solved using the method of characteristics. The FODF is predicted numerically. The numerical results of root-mean-square velocities generated by kinetic simulation sweeping model and are compared with the experimental data.

Findings
– The fiber orientation distribution becomes wider with increasing Re. The components of the fourth-order orientation tensor increase with the increase of Re, and also increase along the radial direction and reach the maximum at the center line. The first normal stress difference is much less than the shear stress. For different Re the shear stress increases rapidly in the region far from the pipe center, and reaches its maximums at center, while the first normal stress difference decreases rapidly in the region far from the pipe center, and reaches its minimum at center finally.

Originality/value
– By solving numerically the equation in a turbulent pipe flow with Reynolds number ranging from 2,500 to 1,000, the authors obtain the mean FODF which is in agreement with the experimental one qualitatively. Then the shear stress and first normal stress difference of suspensions are calculated based on the mean FODF.
Numerical simulation of a phase transition problem with natural convection using hybrid FEM/EFGM technique
Authors: Singh Sonam , Bhargava Rama 
Published: April 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to study the flow and heat transfer characteristics of a phase transition, melting problem. In this problem, phase transition between solid and liquid takes place within a square enclosure in the presence of natural convection.

Design/methodology/approach
– The physical problem, described with non-linear partial differential equations, is simulated using a hybrid finite element and element free Galerkin method (FEM/EFGM) approach. In energy conservation equation, the fixed-domain, effective heat capacity method is used to take into account the latent heat of phase change. The governing partial differential equations are solved with a meshfree, EFGM near the phase transition front while in the region away from the front with uniform nodal distribution; problem is simulated with traditional FEM.

Findings
– A sensitivity analysis of characteristic dimensionless numbers Rayleigh number (Ra), Prandtl number (Pr), Stefan number (ste) is presented in order to investigate their impact on thermal and flow fields. Typically computational times of EFGM are higher than that of FEM. Therefore, by using EFGM only in that portion of physical problem where phase transition occurs, the hybrid FEM/EFGM strategy employed in present paper could reduce the computational time of EFGM while still retaining its accuracy. Also, the consistent performance of the results obtained with this hybrid approach is validated with those already available in literature for some special cases.

Originality/value
– The hybrid methodology adopted in this paper, is quite new for solving such type of phase transition problem.
Turbulent smoke flow in evacuation staircases during a high-rise residential building fire
Authors: Chen Yanqiu , Zhou Xiaodong , Zhang Taolin , Hu Yuqi , Yang Lizhong 
Published: April 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to study the behavior of smoke flow in a typical high-rise residential building fire in six common smoke control systems.

Design/methodology/approach
– The pressure, temperature and CO2 concentration were used to trace the motion of turbulent smoke flow through CFD.

Findings
– It is found that the hot smoke could rise up and spread into the indoor space on the upper floors through the staircase. When the pressure in the evacuation staircase is higher, it would be more difficult for the smoke to enter the staircase and transport vertically. On the other hand, the smoke would soon transport to the indoor space on the upper floors horizontally. During this process, the smoke shows a more disorder horizontal transport under the sole effect of thermal buoyancy than the co-existence of thermal buoyancy and the air inlet.

Research limitations/implications
– Because of the chosen research approach, the research results may need to be tested by further experiments.

Practical implications
– The paper includes implications for the design of smoke control systems and evacuation in a building fire.

Originality/value
– This paper fulfils an identified need to study the behavior of smoke in a fire and optimize the design of smoke control systems.
Self-employment, the informal economy and the marginalisation thesis
Authors: Williams Colin C , Horodnic Ioana Alexandra 
Published: April 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to evaluate which groups of the self-employed engage in the informal economy. Until now, self-employed people participating in the informal economy have been predominantly viewed as marginalised populations such as those on a lower income and living in deprived regions (i.e. the “marginalisation thesis”). However, an alternative emergent “reinforcement thesis” conversely views the marginalised self-employed as less likely to do so. Until now, no known studies have evaluated these competing perspectives.Design/methodology/approach– To do this, the author report a 2013 survey conducted across 28 countries involving 1,969 face-to-face interviews with the self-employed about their participation in the informal economy.Findings– Using multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression analysis, the finding is that the marginalisation thesis applies when examining characteristics such as the age, marital status, tax morality, occupation and household financial circumstances of the self-employed engaged in the informal economy. However, when gender and regional variations are analysed, the reinforcement thesis is valid. When characteristics such as the urban-rural divide and educational level are analysed, no evidence is found to support either the marginalisation or reinforcement thesis.Research limitations/implications– The outcome is a call for a more nuanced understanding of the marginalisation thesis that the self-employed participating in the informal economy are largely marginalised populations.Originality/value– This is the first extensive evaluation of which self-employed groups participate in the informal economy.
Exploring different cultural configurations: how do they affect subsidiaries’ knowledge sharing behaviors?
Authors: Cavaliere Vincenzo , Lombardi Sara 
Published: April 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of different cultural typologies (i.e. innovative, competitive, bureaucratic and community) on employees’ knowledge-sharing processes within multinational corporations (MNCs) by taking a subsidiary perspective. It particularly applies the competing values framework to the study of individuals’ orientations toward sharing knowledge with others while also investigating the influence of top management support on such orientations.Design/methodology/approach– To test the proposed hypotheses, in this paper, survey data of 389 employees from six Italian subsidiaries are empirically analyzed by running hierarchical regressions on the two dimensions of knowledge-sharing processes, i.e. knowledge donating and knowledge collecting.Findings– The results show that the four types of organizational culture differently affect the knowledge-sharing sub-processes and confirm the importance of a strong top management support to facilitate interpersonal relationships.Research limitations/implications– Despite the cross-sectional nature of the data and the limitations arising from the subsidiaries’ position in the country, the findings suggest managers to pay great attention to the positive side of bureaucracy by emphasizing the need for order and efficiency while, at the same time, providing employees with a constant and encouraging support toward knowledge-sharing activities.Originality/value– The paper adds empirical evidence to the limited existing research on knowledge-sharing sub-processes of knowledge donating and collecting, extends the understanding of how different organizational cultures affect such processes, and contributes to the literature on MNCs’ knowledge-based activities by adopting a subsidiary perspective.
With whom shall I share my knowledge? A recipient perspective of knowledge sharing
Authors: Zhang Xiao , Jiang Jane Yan 
Published: April 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this study is to examine knowledge-sharing phenomena from the perspective of recipients’ characteristics. Specifically, this study examines the influence of knowledge recipients’ competence, learning attitude and personal relationship with knowledge sharer on knowledge sharers’ willingness to share.Design/methodology/approach– The authors conducted two studies, a scenario experimental study and a field survey study to test their hypotheses about the effects of recipients’ characteristics on knowledge sharers’ willingness to share.Findings– The results revealed that recipients’ characteristics play different roles in different situations (responsive and proactive knowledge sharing) in triggering the knowledge sharers’ motivation to share. In responsive knowledge sharing, a recipient’s learning attitude and personal relationship with the knowledge sharer affected the sharer’s willingness to share. In proactive knowledge sharing, a recipient’s professional ability and personal relationship with the sharer significantly affected the sharer’s willingness to share.Research limitations/implications– The scenario experiment may suffer from the problem of social desirability and the external validity; this study only focuses on the simple main effect of knowledge recipients’ characteristics.Practical implications– First, managers should encourage employees to seek information and knowledge from other colleagues, and organizations could provide support for their interaction. Second, managers need to consider the composition of team members. Third, team managers may encourage each member to develop their own special skill or knowledge. Fourth, managers could make some efforts to develop a climate of trust among employees.Social implications– Some organization can also use practice like recognition of internal copyright or patent to protect employees’ new ideas or knowledge.Originality/value– First, this study clarifies the relationship between knowledge sharing and other working behaviors. Second, this study contributes to the understanding of how episodic factors affect working behaviors, which has been given little attention in previous research.
Citation classics published in knowledge management journals. Part I: articles and their characteristics
Authors: Serenko Alexander , Dumay John 
Published: April 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this study is to develop a list of citation classics published in knowledge management (KM) journals and to analyze the key attributes and characteristics of the selected articles to understand the development of the KM discipline.

Design/methodology/approach
– This study identifies 100 citation classics from seven KM-centric journals based on their citation impact reported by Google Scholar and analyzes their attributes.

Findings
– The KM discipline is at the pre-science stage because of the influence of normative studies espousing KM practice. However, KM is progressing toward normal science and academic maturity. While the discipline does not exhibit the signs of the superstar effect, scholars from the USA and UK have made the most significant impact on the development of the KM school of thought. KM scholars should be more engaged in international collaboration.

Practical implications
– Practitioners played a key role in the development of the KM discipline and thus there is an opportunity to develop more scientific research approaches based on critical and performative research agenda.

Originality/value
– The study is novel and a must read for KM scholars because it is the first to comprehensively analyze the ideas that are the origins of the KM discipline.
Designing workspaces for cross-functional knowledge-sharing in R & D: the “co-location pilot” of Novartis
Authors: Coradi Annina , Heinzen Mareike , Boutellier Roman 
Published: April 2015

Purpose– This paper examines co-location as an important solution to design workspaces in research and development (R & D). It argues that co-locating R & D units in multi-space environments serves knowledge creation by leveraging knowledge sharing across boundaries.Design/methodology/approach– This study is based on a co-location project of the knowledge-intensive, multi-national company Novartis. To compare communication and collaboration patterns, we interviewed and observed employees before and after co-location into the “co-location pilot” and investigated a control group that was not co-located. The use of data and method triangulation as a research approach underlines the inherent dynamics of the co-location in this study.Findings– The study suggests findings leveraging knowledge sharing in two different ways. Co-location of dispersed project team members increases unplanned face-to-face communication leading to faster and more precise flows of knowledge by transcending knowledge boundaries. Co-location to an open multi-space environment stimulates knowledge creation by enabling socialization, externalization and combination of knowledge.Practical implications– This study provides managerial implications for implementing co-location to achieve greater knowledge sharing across functions. The design of the work environment provides the framework for successful co-location.Originality/value– This paper reports the findings of an empirical case study conducted within the “co-location pilot” of the pharmaceutical company Novartis. This study contributes to an in-depth understanding of the phenomena on a qualitative and micro-level.
Encouraging knowledge contribution in IT support: social context and the differential effects of motivation type
Authors: Wang Xuequn , Clay Paul F. , Forsgren Nicole 
Published: April 2015

Purpose– This paper aims to investigate how to promote two types of knowledge contribution tasks. The authors focus on the role of supervisor and coworker support on motivation, and their effects on two different contribution tasks. Motivating employees to contribute knowledge is quite challenging. While previous studies have tried to understand how to promote knowledge contribution, few have differentiated between knowledge contribution tasks.Design/methodology/approach– Information technology support was chosen as the context of this study, and data were collected from system administrators within a Fortune 500 company via a web-based survey.Findings– Results show the differential effects of two forms of motivation on different contribution tasks, and supervisor support is positively associated with intrinsic motivation. Specifically, while intrinsic motivation is positively associated with challenging knowledge contribution, external motivation is positively related to mundane knowledge contribution and negatively related to challenging knowledge contribution.Originality/value– This study contributes to the current literature by providing a deeper theoretical understanding of knowledge contribution tasks, and contributes to practice by offering suggestions on how to better motivate employees within organizations and promote different knowledge contribution tasks.
A set of motives to unite them all?
Authors: Cuervo-Cazurra Alvaro , Narula Rajneesh 
Published: April 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to introduce the debate forum on internationalization motives of this special issue of Multinational Business Review.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors reflect on the background and evolution of the internationalization motives over the past few decades, and then provide suggestions for how to use the motives for future analyses. The authors also reflect on the contributions to the debate of the accompanying articles of the forum.

Findings
– There continue to be new developments in the way in which firms organize themselves as multinational enterprises (MNEs), and this implies that the “classic” motives originally introduced by Dunning in 1993 need to be revisited. Dunning’s motives and arguments were deductive and atheoretical, and these were intended to be used as a toolkit, used in conjunction with other theories and frameworks. They are not an alternative to a classification of possible MNE strategies.

Originality/value
– This paper and the ones that accompany it, provide a deeper and nuanced understanding on internationalization motives for future research to build on.
The Coalition and the Decline of Majoritarianism in the UK
Authors: Gay Oonagh , Schleiter Petra , Belu Valerie 
Published: April 2015

AbstractThe United Kingdom has traditionally featured many aspects of the majoritarian model of democracy: its first‐past‐the‐post electoral system tends towards producing single‐party majorities, while its legislative decision rules concentrate policy‐making power in the hands of the resulting single‐party governments. However, in an unprecedented break with the UK's postwar conventions, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed a coalition following the general election of 2010. In this article, we examine some of the Coalition's impacts on governing and constitutional conventions, placing them in a comparative European context. We conclude that the Coalition reflects a shift towards the less majoritarian forms of politics prevalent in continental Europe, and that some of these changes are likely to persist even after the end of the current government.