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Flooding due to torrential rainfall in Kumamoto, 2012
Authors: Lummen Natainia , Nakajo Sota , Yamada Fumihiko 
Published: October 2014

Purpose
– This study aims to answer the following questions: what is the time scale in which areas downstream are affected by significant rainfall upstream, which areas are first affected, which areas are most affected, how effective is the current warning system in allotting an appropriate amount of time for evacuation, what has been the response time thus far utilizing the current warning system, how can this response time be im-proved using numerical simulation were addressed. The accu-rate prediction of floods and potential inundated areas is crucial for effective flood risk management and this paper analyses the model created for the July 12, 2012 Kumamoto flood event.

Design/methodology/approach
– Using GIS, LIDAR, SIS and levelling field survey data, the inundated areas were mapped; the sequence of events and the distribution of flood waters were recreated using numerical analysis and modelling. The inundated areas generated by the model were then compared to the actual inundated areas.

Findings
– The Tatsuda Ichi Chome area was completely inundated within 40 minutes of the first pooling of flood waters, whereas the Tatsuda Jin area was completely inundated within 20 minutes of the initial pooling of flood waters.

Originality/value
– This research provides empirical evidence of flood impacts and highlights the benefits that can be derived from incorporating accurate flood modelling results into flood risk management systems, as well as extends the methodological approaches of flood risk management.
Multi-response roles in emergency response personnel
Authors: Linsdell Greg , Rogers Colin 
Published: October 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to assess the decision-making process of multi-role emergency response volunteers and their preferences for which agency they would choose to volunteer for in an emergency, utilizing the New South Wales Rural Fire Service as an example.

Design/methodology/approach
– Large-scale online survey data collection method, which enabled in depth analysis of responses.

Findings
– There are a large number of individuals who hold multiple volunteer roles and their decisions as to which service they would prefer to volunteer for is influenced by many complex factors.

Research limitations/implications
– Research in this topic is rare and future research should be undertaken on a wider scale involving both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Practical implications
– Findings will help policy makers and those responsible for providing emergency services with an understanding of the decision-making process of volunteers.

Social implications
– The results may help to promote understanding of a volunteers social preferences when engaged in work for emergency services.

Originality/value
– This is an area that has had little research undertaken in and is therefore quite an original piece of work that will have resonance for emergency services across the globe.
Managing multi-owned, mixed-use developments in The Netherlands
Authors: Ploeger Hendrik , Groetelaers Daniëlle 
Published: October 2014

Purpose
– This purpose of this paper is to analyses the management difficulties experienced in multi-owned, mixed-use developments and possible solutions, based on the opinions of professional management agencies in The Netherlands.

Design/methodology/approach
– We performed a survey among professional management agencies that take care of the day-to-day management of many multi-owned, mixed-use developments. The survey focused on aspects such as the influence of the developer on the deed of division and the appointment of the professional manager, and the role of legal advisors.

Findings
– The outcomes support the assumption that mixed-use developments have more problems, and problems of a different nature, than homogeneous complexes. We conclude that a custom-made deed of division, or at least one that is appropriate to the mixed-use situation, is preferable. The legal expert involved (a civil law notary) should therefore consult the owners and – if applicable – the professional management agency. They have the practical knowledge to identify management difficulties. Drawing up the deed of division should never be the final piece of the process, but it should be an analogous development to the design and development process. However, our hypothesis that developers should consult the notary during the planning phase of new projects was not confirmed by the survey.

Originality/value
– Most legal research focuses on the law and the legality of instruments, sometimes including the practical implications by performing case law research. We stress the importance of including day-to-day practice and practitioners in legal research. Professional management agencies have the requisite knowledge – both practical and legal – of how the system of “apartment ownership” works. This makes them a very useful source of information.
“One day it will be you who tells us doctors what to do!”. Exploring the “Personal” of PHR in paediatric diabetes management
Authors: Maria Piras Enrico , Zanutto Alberto 
Published: October 2014

Purpose– Personal Health Record (PHR) systems make possible to integrate data from different sources and circulate them within the illness care and management network. The new arrangements prefigure a redefinition of the relations among healthcare practitioners, patients, and caregivers. The purpose of this paper is to consider the role and the meanings attributed to information when a technical artifact enables new forms of communication within the healthcare management network.Design/methodology/approach– The authors adopted a qualitative research design, conducting a pre-post analysis on a theoretical sample of patients and of a paediatrics department. The authors selected 12 patients (six females and six males) aged between four and 20 years old.Findings– The patients were willing to act as “stewards of their own information” (Halamkaet al., 2008), but they interpreted this role in terms of restricting access to their information, rather than facilitating its dissemination. In fact, the PHR was symbolized as an instrument to support personal diabetes management but the patients want to preserve their own competence and independent management on the information regarding their “Personal” diseases.Originality/value– This work highlights two connotation of “Personal” information. The first is the dimension of the right to the privacy of information when it is believed that it may be used to pass judgement on the patient. The second connotation of “Personal” is the assertion by patients of their competence and autonomy in interpreting the information on the basis of personal knowledge about their diabetes.
Consumer participation in online product recommendation services: augmenting the technology acceptance model
Authors: Sheng Xiaojing , Zolfagharian Mohammadali 
Published: October 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to examine the complex role of consumer participation by empirically testing a theoretical model within the online context of consumer using product recommendation agents (RAs) that integrates consumer participation into the technology acceptance model (TAM). Recent research starts questioning whether consumer participation is a double-edged sword, although its positive effects have been widely documented in the services marketing literature.

Design/methodology/approach
– Data were collected from 243 respondents comprising both genders with varied age groups, education levels, household income and ethnicities. Participants interacted with an existing RA, searching product information for a simulated purchase involving either high or low financial risk. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Structural equations modeling (SEM) were used for assessing construct validity and testing hypotheses, respectively.

Findings
– Consumer participation was found to positively affect enjoyment but negatively affect perceived ease of use of an RA, which was exacerbated when the purchase was of high financial risk. Predictions based on TAM were all supported in this study.

Research limitations/implications
– This research evidenced consumer participation’s dual-effect and identified financial risk as a moderator of consumer participation’ negative effect. Future research could employ a different design such as using controlled lab settings and conducting longitudinal studies to replicate the study.

Practical implications
– Findings from this research provide guidance to RA design regarding the amount of consumer participation, consumer perceptions of RA use (ease of use, usefulness and enjoyment) and financial risk involved in the purchase.

Originality/value
– This research sheds new light on the role of consumer participation through uncovering its dual-effect, thus complementing the services marketing and RA literature.
Corporate governance and financial characteristic effects on the extent of corporate social responsibility disclosure
Authors: Giannarakis Grigoris 
Published: October 2014

Purpose– This study aims to investigate the relationship between corporate governance and financial characteristics and the extent of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure in the USA. These corporate governance and financial characteristics are the board meetings, average age of board members, presence of women on the board, the board’s size, chief executive officer duality, financial leverage, profitability, company’s size, board composition and board’s commitment to CSR.Design/methodology/approach– The sample consists of 100 companies from the Fortune 500 list for 2011. The environmental, social and governance disclosure score calculated by Bloomberg is used as a proxy for the extent of CSR disclosure. A multiple linear regression was incorporated to investigate the association of corporate characteristics with CSR disclosure.Findings– Results indicate that the company’s size, the board commitment to CSR and profitability were found to be positively associated with the extent of CSR disclosure, while financial leverage is related negatively with the extent of CSR disclosure.Research limitations/implications– The research is based only on the presence or absence of CSR items in CSR disclosure, and it ignores the quality dimension which can lead to misinterpretation. The results should not be generalized as the sample was based on US companies for 2011.Originality/value– The study assists stakeholders to identify US companies through the extent of CSR disclosures which contributes to the understanding of determinants of CSR disclosure to improve the implementation of disclosure guidelines.
Board role performance in service organisations: the importance of human capital in the context of a developing country
Authors: K. Nkundabanyanga Stephen , Balunywa Waswa , Tauringana Venancio , M. Ntayi Joseph 
Published: October 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to draw from multiple theories of upper echelons, stakeholder, agency, resource-based view and stewardship to establish the extent to which human capital (other than that of the board itself) in service organisations affect board role performance in those service sector firms.Design/methodology/approach– This study is cross-sectional and correlational. Analyses are conducted using SPSS and Analysis of Moment Structures software on a sample of 128 service firms in Uganda.Findings– Findings reveal that dimensions of employee safety, entrepreneurial skills, entrepreneurial development, employee welfare and employee relations fit the model of human capital and predict up to 69.1 per cent of the variance in board role performance. The results of this study reveal that board role performance is affected by prior decisions, for example, to invest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, targeting employees that augment firm characteristics like existence of appropriate human capital. Essentially, an improvement in the quality of human capital explains positive variances in board role performance.Research limitations/implications– Cross-sectional data do not allow for testing of the process aspect of the models; however, they provide evidence that the models can stand empirical tests. Additional research should examine the process aspects of human capital and board role performance.Practical implications– Most companies in developing nations have relied on normative guidelines in prescribing what boards need to enhance performance, probably explaining why some boards have not been successful in their role performance. This research confirms that appropriate human capital, which can be leveraged through CSR ideals of employee safety, recognition, welfare and training in entrepreneurship, consistent with the stakeholder theory, can facilitate the board in the performance of its roles. In the developing country context, organisations’ boards could use these findings as a guideline, that is, what to focus on in the context of human capital development in organisations because doing so improves their own role performance.Originality/value– This study is one of the few that partly account for endogeneity in the study of boards, a methodological concern previously cited in literature (Bascle, 2008; Hamilton and Nickerson, 2003). Empirical associations between board role performance and organisational performance would not be useful unless we are able to grasp the causal mechanisms that lie behind those empirical associations (Hambrick, 2007). Thus, this study contributes to literature that tries to account for variances in board role performance and supports a multi-theoretical approach as a relevant framework in the study of human capital and board role performance.
Socially responsible purchasing in the automotive industry
Authors: Tiwari Ashutosh , Turner Christopher , Younis Kieron 
Published: October 2014

Purpose– The purpose of the paper is to present a new process for the evaluation of an automotive organisation’s suppliers by corporate social responsibility (CSR) measures.Design/methodology/approach– A methodology for socially responsible purchasing is detailed along with a case study outlining its use within a large automotive manufacturer.Findings– Socially responsible purchasing has a positive impact on the performance, trust and cooperation of the supplier base. Industry practitioner’s state that cost and implementation difficulties are reasons for purchasing and supply managers’ reluctance to participate in CSR activities. The CSR evaluation process within the case study organisation identified which suppliers should be considered for CSR audit; giving the purchasing manager, of the case study organisation, an objective basis for decision-making.Research limitations/implications– Future development of the approach may involve the integration of the CSR tool more closely with strategy and policy procedures of an organisation. The CSR tool may also be developed for use in sectors beyond the automotive industry. Additional commentary is given on the potential relevance of this approach to the retail sector.Practical implications– The methodology and case study descriptions provide an outline template for purchasing and supply managers with the automotive sector and guidance for interested practitioners in other industries.Originality/value– This paper expands the guidance available for purchasing professionals wishing to evaluate the CSR impact of procurement decisions.
Managerial attitude and support for social responsibility through the lens of legitimacy theory – a cross country comparison
Authors: Bhattacharyya Asit 
Published: October 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is threefold; first, to examine the Australian and Indian managerial attitudes towards social responsibility (SR) and assess their support for SR; second, to explore the underlying factors that shape beliefs and attitudes; and third, to explore whether respondents from these countries, characterised by differing levels of development, differ in their attitudes towards SR.Design/methodology/approach– It investigates attitudes and support for SR of 318 Australian and Indian managers drawn from three industries. Eighteen social issues, principal component analysis (PCA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) procedures were undertaken to explore and confirm the underlying factors of SR. The paper used legitimacy theory as theoretical framework.Findings– An overall positive attitude towards SR is shown by the both groups. Indian respondents are concerned about a greater range of social issues than Australian respondents. Australian participants strongly supported a few issues surrounding SR, whereas Indian respondents strongly supported these and other issues. Significant (at 0.00 level) differences do exist between the two groups of managers on attitudes towards various social issues.Research limitations/implications– The questions used in the survey do not represent the entire framework on which attitudes towards SR are formed. Moreover, culture was not explicitly explored as a possible factor in the study.Originality/value– The study provides a comparative analysis of the SR from the developed and developing economy perspective. Using organisational legitimacy theory the study analyse managerial attitudes with regard to maintaining pragmatic and moral legitimacy.
Reflective team learning: linking interfering events and team adaptation
Authors: Oertel Rasmus , H. Antoni Conny 
Published: October 2014

Purpose– This study aims to contribute to the team learning literature, by analyzing how reflective team learning is related to interfering events and to subsequent team adaptation.Design/methodology/approach– Longitudinal data were obtained from 33 project teams consisting of 131 students. Participants answered an online questionnaire three times during the term. The data were analyzed at the team level by conducting multiple hierarchical regression and bootstrap analyses.Findings– Results show an indirect effect of interfering events on team adaptation through reflective team learning, supporting recent models of episodic team processes and interruptive events. Findings indicate that reflective team learning is related to situational events and subsequent team adaptation. It was concluded that events that interfere with team action in a given time period stimulate the occurrence of reflective behavior, resulting in team adaptation.Research limitations/implications– The sample size is rather small, the context is very specific and the study focuses on reflective team learning. Therefore, future studies should try to replicate the findings with larger samples in other work contexts and also explore other facets of team learning.Practical implications– The findings are valuable for managers because they highlight the opportunities interferences offer for team learning and how they can be used to achieve team adaptation.Originality/value– This study contributes to team learning research by shedding light on emerging conditions of team learning processes. It provides empirical support for current models of team learning and team adaptation by analyzing longitudinal data.
Accounting for behavioural response to capture when estimating population size from hair snare studies with missing data
Authors: Augustine Ben C. , Tredick Catherine A. , Bonner Simon J. 
Published: October 2014

SummaryHair snares have become an established method for obtaining mark‐recapture data for population size estimation of Ursids and have recently been used to study other species including other carnivores, small mammals and ungulates. However, bias due to a behavioural response to capture in the presence of missing data has only recently been recognized and no statistical methodology exists to accommodate it. In a hair snare mark‐recapture experiment, data can be missing if animals encounter a hair snare without leaving a hair sample, poor‐quality samples are not genotyped, a fraction of all samples collected are genotyped due to cost considerations (subsampling) and/or not all genotyped hair samples provide an individual identification. These are all common features of hair snare mark‐recapture experiments.Here, we present methodology that accounts for a behavioural response to capture in the presence of missing data from (i) subsampling and (ii) failure of hair samples to produce an individual identification. Four subprocesses are modelled–animal capture, hair deposition, researcher subsampling and DNA amplification with key parameters estimated from functions of the number of hair samples left by individuals at traps. We assess the properties of this methodology (bias and interval coverage) via simulation and then apply this methodology to a previously published data set.Our methodology removes bias and provides nominal interval coverage of population size for the simulation scenarios considered. In the example data set, we find that removing 75% of the hair samples leads to a 40% lower estimate of population size. Our methodology corrects about half of this bias and we identify a second source of bias that has not previously been reported associated with differential trap visitation rates among individuals within trapping occasions.Our methodology will allow researchers to reliably estimate the size of a closed population in the presence of a behavioural response to capture and missing data for a subset of missing data scenarios. It also provides a framework for understanding this generally unrecognized problem and for further extension to handle other missing data scenarios.
Function regression in ecology and evolution: FREE
Authors: Yen Jian D. L. , Thomson James R. , Paganin David M. , Keith Jonathan M. , Mac Nally Ralph 
Published: October 2014

Summary

Many questions in ecology and evolutionary biology consider response variables that are functions (e.g. species‐abundance distributions) rather than a single scalar value (e.g. species richness). Although methods for analysing function‐valued data have been available for several decades, ecological and evolutionary applications are rare.

We outline methods for regression when the response variable is a function (‘function regression') and introduce the r package FREE, which focuses on straightforward implementation and interpretation of function regression analyses. Several computational methods are implemented, including machine learning and several Bayesian methods. We compare different methods using simulated data and real ecological data on individual‐size distributions (ISDs) of fish and trees.

No single method performed best overall, with several performing equally well for a given data set. Which method to use depends on sample sizes and the questions being considered; in many cases, a consensus approach should be used to combine or compare fitted models.

Function regression allows the direct modelling of many function‐valued data (e.g. species‐abundance distributions) rather than having to reduce those functions to a single scalar response variable (e.g. species diversity or functional diversity indices). Our ecological examples using ISD data show that larger rivers support more‐even fish‐size distributions than smaller rivers and that low initial planting densities lead to more‐even tree‐size distributions than high initial planting densities. Function regression provided more informative and intuitive interpretations of these data than conventional non‐function‐valued approaches.