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Principals’ transformational leadership in school improvement
Authors: Yang Yingxiu 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to contribute experience of and ideas for transformational leadership, not only for the principal who wants to improve leadership himself or herself, but also for the school at critical periods of improvement, through summarizing the forming process and problems during the course, and key factors that affect the course.

Design/methodology/approach
– Using the case study method, the paper draws some conclusions from the improvement of principal leadership skills, by choosing two typical cases that show transformational leadership of principals in primary schools, and rethinking the practice of school improvement profoundly.

Findings
– There were three periods: embryonic stage, basically forming stage and mature stage. Discovering problems, understanding the relationship between the problems and finding solutions are the major considerations in the process. The transformational leadership skills of a principal can be seen in forming ideas, building a shared vision, power sharing, gaining credence and experiencing success.

Practical implications
– This paper provides references for the principal to recognize the importance of transformational leadership during the school improvement so as to force the principal to improve their transformational leadership in practice.

Originality/value
– At first, the paper puts forward that transformational leadership is the core of leadership; proves that the principal's transformational leadership is very important in school development through the fact of a home-school cooperation study and emphasizes that the principal's transformational leadership should play a key role during the critical period of school improvement. Principal transformational leadership work should be based on different school members’ actual situations and the fact of different school periods, and then find different solutions.
Consumer co-creation and the impact on intermediaries
Authors: Siguaw Judy A. , Gassenheimer Jule B. , Hunter Gary L. 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– While prior studies have examined how loyal customers create value for preferred manufacturers, this study aims to focus on the supply chain and captures the indirect economic and relational benefits and costs of customer value creation on channel intermediaries.

Design/methodology/approach
– Service-dominant logic is used to explain the rationale behind consumer contributions and supply chain connectedness in an interactive online world. Drawing from the relevant literature, a conceptual model supported by propositions is presented.

Findings
– As manufacturers utilize consumer contributions, affiliated intermediaries will report having less informational power, providing less value to the channel, greater benefit-based and cost-based dependence, heightened efforts to create channel value, an enhanced reputation and greater sales, and greater collaboration with customers.

Research limitations/implications
– This conceptual paper is the beginning of an investigation into the pragmatic function of a service-dominant view as it pertains to a marketing channel. As this avenue for research is further developed, it is important that the propositions included in this study first be examined.

Practical implications
– Awareness of the underlying logic and the resulting impacts should aid channel intermediaries in realizing their own contributions throughout the manufacturer
'
s value chain and recognizing changes to their positions of power. As a result, channel intermediaries should be better positioned to assess the health and future prospects of the relationship.

Originality/value
– This work is the first study to examine potential impacts on the intermediary operating in a channel in which the manufacturer is significantly influenced by consumer contributions.
Value attenuation and retail out-of-stocks
Authors: Ehrenthal Joachim C.F. , Gruen Thomas W. , Hofstetter Joerg S 
Published: February 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to address the effects of retail out-of-stocks from a service-dominant (S-D) logic view.Design/methodology/approach– Conceptual, combining classic S-D logic research with recent research of S-D logic in supply chains, and applying this to out-of-stocks in a retail setting of fast-moving consumer goods.Findings– The paper unveils out-of-stocks as emergent operant resources that alter and attenuate value creation across manufacturers, retailers, shoppers, users and their networks. The paper develops a model of value co-creation where manufacturer supply and shopper/user demand meet in the retailer ' s realm. Differentiating between shopper and user in a sequential model of value creation, it identifies the shopper as an active entity whose response to out-of-stocks redistributes value within the retail service ecosystem. An additional model is developed that illustrates the novel costs of an out-of-stock as uncovered by the S-D logic perspective, allowing retailers and manufacturers to align their interests in improving on-shelf availability.Research limitations/implications– Moving distribution thought and management towards a goal of service provision, this article suggests three logistics research possibilities: retailer-manufacturer misalignment, spatio-temporal supply-demand mismatch, and shopper-user interaction.Practical implications– This article shows how the S-D perspective can bring previously misaligned incentives of supply chain actors into alignment. Previous goods-dominant research showed little common ground for manufacturers and retailers to jointly improve on-shelf availability. The S-D logic view demonstrates compelling rationale for both parties ' involvement.Originality/value– The paper extends S-D logic literature by considering value attenuation through failures in physical distribution and logistics management, adding that non-availability causes operand resources to become operant and attenuate/redistribute value. The paper extends the out-of-stock literature by providing a theoretical foundation, and by showing the ecosystem effects of out-of-stocks.
Constructing a sustainable service business model
Authors: Liu Chun Hsien , Chen Ming-Chao , Tu Yi-Hsien , Wang Chu-Ching 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– The purpose is to conceptually construct a service-dominant (S-D) logic-based integrated product service system (IPSS) business model.

Design/methodology/approach
– The model is constructed through literature reviews and inferences.

Findings
– IPSS model is in compliance with the ten fundamental premises of S-D logic as well as conforming to triple bottom lines of sustainability.

Research limitations/implications
– To convert a firm from goods-centric model to service-centric IPSS model is not easy. There are quite a few challenges to be overcome.

Practical implications
– There are many successful cases adopting service-centric business model. The key success factors are to be identified in the future studies.

Originality/value
– It is the first paper discussing the sustainability of IPSS model and its relationship with S-D logic.
Service-dominant logic and supply chain management: are we there yet?
Authors: Wittmann C. Michael , Nowicki David R , Pohlen Terry L , Randall Wesley S 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– Research suggests that service-dominant logic (SDL) is well suited to support supply chain management (SCM) research and practice. Qualitative research has shown that SDL is particularly consistent with an outcome-based supply chain strategy known as performance-based logistics (PBL). The purpose of this paper is to extend theory and practice by exploring the degree to which SDL is utilized in practice. Specifically, PBL is examined for consistency with the underlying fundamental premises (FPs) of SDL. In doing so, this paper answers the positive question, “what exists”, at the intersection of SDL and SCM.

Design/methodology/approach
– This study employs a mixed methodological approach. First, the FPs of SDL are operationalized using the language of PBL. The PBL FPs are tested quantitatively through an online survey of 52 supply chain PBL experts. A qualitative analysis is conducted using comments associated with each premise.

Findings
– The survey results suggest that PBL is consistent with SDL. These results indicate that PBL is a supply chain context of SDL.

Originality/value
– This is one of the first works to examine the degree to which SDL concepts are being utilized in practice.
Supply chain services from a service-dominant perspective: a content analysis
Authors: Maas Steffen , Hartmann Evi , Herb Stefan 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to apply service-dominant logic thinking to the field of supply chain management (SCM) in order to classify, structure, and analyze different types of supply chain services (SCS) collected from interdisciplinary literature. The authors investigate how value is co-created between supply chain actors and develop research propositions regarding the influence of service type on value co-creation.

Design/methodology/approach
– Content analysis is employed to research SCS across 218 articles from 28 journals of logistics and SCM, service, finance and accounting, and information systems research.

Findings
– The occurrence of SCS within the literature is rising, and most SCS mentioned have a relieving as opposed to an enabling function. Also, SCS related to material and information flows dominate the field, whereas finances-flow-related services receive less attention. Finally, the paper provides evidence that different types of SCS require different management approaches.

Research limitations/implications
– Analyzing the literature and integrating different streams of research are only a first step towards building new theory. To test the developed propositions, further empirical research is encouraged.

Practical implications
– The paper offers implications for the management of different types of SCS from both the service provider
'
s and service customer
'
s perspective.

Originality/value
– The paper provides an interdisciplinary overview of the value proposed by different types of SCS. Furthermore, six service-dominant logic-based research propositions regarding the impact of service type on value co-creation are developed.
It is a scandal!
Authors: Lloyd Liz , Banerjee Albert , Harrington Charlene , F. Jacobsen Frode , Szebehely Marta 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– This study aims to explore the causes and consequences of media scandals involving nursing homes for older persons in Canada, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the USA.

Design/methodology/approach
– This study uses a descriptive case-study methodology which provides an in-depth, focused, qualitative analysis of one selected nursing home scandal in each jurisdiction. Scandals were selected on the basis of being substantive enough to potentially affect policy. An international comparative perspective was adopted to consider whether and how different social, political and economic contexts might shape scandals and their consequences.

Findings
– This study found that for-profit residential care provision as well as international trends in the ownership and financing of nursing homes were factors in the emergence of all media scandals, as was investigative reporting and a lack of consensus around the role of the state in the delivery of residential care. All scandals resulted in government action but such action generally avoided addressing underlying structural conditions.

Research limitations/implications
– This study examines only the short-term effects of five media scandals.

Originality/value
– While there has been longstanding recognition of the importance of scandals to the development of residential care policy, there have been few studies that have systematically examined the causes and consequences of such scandals. This paper contributes to a research agenda that more fully considers the media's role in the development of residential care policy, attending to both its promises and shortcomings.
Does food subsidy affect household nutrition?
Authors: Shankar Shaw Tara , Telidevara Sridhar 
Published: February 2014

Purpose– Indian households having the below poverty line (BPL) ration card receive rice, wheat, sugar and kerosene from the Indian Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) at subsidized rates. The paper uses the National Sample Survey Organization's consumption expenditure survey for the 61st round to study the causal effect of the BPL ration card on BPL households' calorie consumption. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approach– This causal effect is estimated by comparing per-capita-per-day calorie consumption of the BPL households having BPL card with that of a matched counterfactual BPL household from the same state not having BPL card, using stratified propensity score matching.Findings– The BPL ration card was found to increase calorie consumption from cereals and decrease calorie consumption from non-cereal food items without affecting the overall calorie consumption of household. Thus, TPDS induces households to consume more cereals and less non-cereal without significantly changing the overall calorie consumption.Research limitations/implications– The research methodology controls for selection bias due to observable variables. Further, research needed to devise experimental set up to control for the selection bias due to unobserved variables.Originality/value– The paper uses the targeting error in identifying BPL households in TPDS as a quasi-experiment set up to study the causal effect of the BPL ration card.
ACTIVE ethics: an information systems ethics for the internet age
Authors: Kenneth McBride Neil 
Published: February 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to present a novel mnemonic, ACTIVE, inspired by Mason's 1985 PAPA mnemonic, which will help researchers and IT professionals develop an understanding of the major issues in information ethics.Design/methodology/approach– Theoretical foundations are developed for each element of the mnemonic by reference to philosophical definitions of the terms used and to virtue ethics, particularly MacIntyrean virtue ethics. The paper starts with a critique of the elements of the PAPA mnemonic and then proceeds to develop an understanding of each of the elements of ACTIVE ethics, via a discussion of the underpinning virtue ethics.Findings– This paper identifies six issues, described by the mnemonic, ACTIVE. ACTIVE stands for: autonomy, the ability of the individual to manage their own information and make choice; community, the ethical effect of an information systems on the community which it supports; transparency, the extent to which the derivation of content and process in an information system is made clear; identity, the social and ethical effect of an information system on the definition and maintenance of the distinctive characteristics of a person; value, the value or moral worth placed on information associated with an individual and hence on the relationship with the individual; and empathy, the ability of the information systems professional to emotionally connect with the user and the extent to which the information system distances or connects.Originality/value– The paper applies virtue ethics to developing a tool to help information professionals reflect on their ethical practice in developing and supporting information systems.
Identity as convention: biometric passports and the promise of security
Authors: Behrensen Maren 
Published: February 2014

Purpose– The paper is a conceptual investigation of the metaphysics of personal identity and the ethics of biometric passports. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approach– Philosophical argument, discussing both the metaphysical and the social ethics/computer ethics literature on personal identity and biometry.Findings– The author argues for three central claims in this paper: passport are not simply representations of personal identity, they help constitute personal identity. Personal identity is not a metaphysical fact, but a set of practices, among them identity management practices (e.g. population registries) employed by governments. The use of biometry as part of these identity management practices is not an ethical problem as such, nor is it something fundamentally new and different compared to older ways of establishing personal identity. It is worrisome, however, since in the current political climate, it is systematically used to deny persons access to specific territories, rights, and benefits.Originality/value– The paper ties together strands of philosophical inquiry that do not usually converse with one another, namely the metaphysics of personal identity, and the topic of identity in social philosophy and computer ethics.
Jointly grasping the possible in design
Authors: Huff Chuck 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to evaluate the contribution of Christiansen attempting to reintegrate ethics into the process of design.

Design/methodology/approach
– It situates her attempt in the context of the history of the participatory design movement, and the way ethical concern has been jettisoned leaving only a pragmatic toolbox of techniques.

Findings
– Christiansen is successful in finding ethical encounter residing of necessity at the heart of design. Design imposes a vision or narrative on the world and participatory design makes that narrative negotiable.

Practical implications
– All design is of necessity ethical endeavor, and Christiansen helps us to understand why.

Originality/value
– This response situates Christiansen's approach within the Heideggerian understanding of the “ready to hand” assumptions that lie in the ways we approach objects in our world. This language may help provide a structured way to talk about the encounter.
Revitalisation of the Old Township of Ipoh, Malaysia
Authors: Wee Lim Hew William , Yoon Kin Tong David , Guan Gan Goh Gerald 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to propose a direction for rejuvenating the declining Ipoh Old Town through a conservation-based approach.

Design/methodology/approach
– Recommendations for revitalisation are based on comparison between the local government's development proposals and historical study of revitalisation initiatives undertaken in neighbouring countries.

Findings
– The review has found that the revitalisation of Ipoh should be more towards servicing the needs of its residents than to gain from tourism development.

Practical implications
– Findings of the review have blurred the distinction between purist and ameliorist stances of conservation and suggest that the policy development should be a partnership of all stakeholders, vested with powers to implement.

Originality/value
– This paper provides an insight into urban regeneration for smaller, more local-dependent historic towns.
Part-out-based spares provisioning management
Authors: Block Jan , Ahmadi Alireza , Tyrberg Tommy , Söderholm Peter 
Published: February 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to present the prerequisites for a part-out-based spares provisioning (PBSP) programme during the phase-out of an aircraft fleet. Furthermore, associated key decision criteria are identified and a framework for the phase-out management process is presented.Design/methodology/approach– Once a decision has been taken to phase-out an aircraft fleet, a number of routines for operations, maintenance and storage are affected and new tasks and functions must be introduced before initiating the actual parting-out process. A decision-making system and a management framework is needed to manage spares planning during the end-of-life phase to ensure availability at minimum cost and to ensure a manageable risk of backorders.Findings– For PBSP programme during the phase-out of an aircraft fleet to succeed and be cost-effective, a number of linked processes, tasks and decisions are required, e.g., those included in the framework proposed in this paper (see Figure 3). A successful implementation of PBSP also requires that these processes and tasks are carried out in a timely manner and that the communications between the concerned parties are prompt, clear and direct. One experience from the studied case is that close and trustful contacts and cooperation between the operator and maintenance provider(s) will greatly facilitate the process.Originality/value– Although the PBSP method is fairly commonly applied within both the military and the civilian sector, somewhat surprisingly very literature has been published on the subject. Indeed, remarkably little has been published on any aspects of maintenance during the end-of-life period.
Optimal replacement policy for condition-based maintenance with non-decreasing failure cost and costly inspection
Authors: Reza Golmakani Hamid , Pouresmaeeli Morteza 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to determine optimal replacement threshold and optimal inspection interval for an item subjected to condition-based maintenance (CBM). The primarily assumption is that the item's failure replacement cost depends on the item's degradation state at which failure occurs and/or the time the item fails. The cost of inspection is also taken into account.

Design/methodology/approach
– The control limit replacement policy framework, already reported by some research referred to in this paper, is first extended to include the non-decreasing failure replacement cost assumption. Then, for alternative inspection intervals, replacement thresholds together with their associated total cost including the inspection cost are computed. By comparing the total costs, the optimal inspection interval and its corresponding optimal replacement threshold are simultaneously identified.

Findings
– The mathematical formulation required for the determination of optimal replacement threshold and optimal inspection interval for an item subjected to CBM under the assumption of non-decreasing failure cost is provided.

Practical implications
– In some practical situations where CBM is implemented, the failure replacement cost may depend on the time the failure happens and/or may depend on the system's degradation state. In addition, inspections often incur cost. Under such circumstances, findings of this paper can be utilized for the determination of optimal replacement threshold and optimal inspection interval for the underlying system.

Originality/value
– Using the approach proposed in this paper, one could obtain the optimal replacement threshold and the optimal inspection interval for a system subjected to CBM.