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Grey linear regression model and its application
Authors: Xiao Xinping , Lu Yayun 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to simplify the computation of parameter estimation in the grey linear regression model and solve the problem that the development coefficient could not be computed in some sequence data, such as short‐term traffic flow.Design/methodology/approachStarting from the limitation that can be identified in the equation and analyzing the range using the method to estimate parameters, this paper researches the modelling mechanism and the other forms which are equivalent with the original form. At the same time, this paper gives an estimation method and gets the relationship in various forms and the relationship between the model and GM(1,1) model.FindingsFor the grey linear regression model, there exists a new method of parameter identification and three other forms as follows: the original form, the Whitenization equation and the connotation form.Practical implicationsThe method of parameter identification exposed in the paper expanded the scope of the application of the grey linear regression model, and it can be used to model and forecast the urban road short‐time traffic flow.Originality/valueThis paper has solved some complicated problems such as the parameter estimation computation in the grey linear regression model. In addition, three kinds of representation forms of the model and its relationship between the model and GM(1,1) have also been presented. Finally, its application of the model in a short‐term traffic flow prediction has shown its superiority.
Analysis of the income elasticity of the consumer demand of Chinese rural residents and prediction of its trend
Authors: Luo Dang , Song Bo 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to research the status quo and future trends of the income elasticity of the consumer demand of Chinese rural residents.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses model ELES and model GM (1,1) to analyze and predict the income elasticity of consumer demand in the rural areas of China.FindingsThe findings show the indicator that the income elasticity of consumer demand in the rural areas of China is quite large at present, but most sub‐categories of the indicators show a declining trend in the future.Practical implicationsThe paper includes implications for the relevant departments to adjust the economic polices timely and reasonably according to specific form based on the findings above.Originality/valueThe income elasticity of consumer demand is an important indicator, reflecting the relationship between consumer demand and income, so it is of great significance to research it.
The study on the coupling model of unconventional incidents
Authors: Yang Baohua , Fang Shili , Zhao Jinshuai 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to attempt to realize a complete analysis at scenario deduction of unconventional incidents coupling based on the GERTS network method.Design/methodology/approachStarting from the manifestation of coupling objects, three types of emergency coupling are analyzed according to different rules, which are “events‐events” coupling, “event‐factors” coupling and “factors‐factors” coupling. Then the coupling mechanism for emergency is focused on analyzing, and the concepts of three types of coupling are put forward, at the same time, three quantitative models for coupling mechanisms are present. Also, a case was discussed to verify the analysis of coupling mechanism of emergency.FindingsAccording to the types of factors rules, the classes of coupling of emergency have been divided into three types. The coupling mechanism of emergency can be used to describe the novel coupling models.Practical implicationsThis research provides the method for coupling analysis in the scenario of unconventional incidents and guides the emergency managers to develop contingency strategies.Originality/valueThe paper succeeds in constructing a novel coupling model for emergency, and it could provide an effective tool for a quantitative study on unconventional incidents coupling.
Content analysis coding schemes for online asynchronous discussion
Authors: Weltzer‐Ward Lisa 
Published: November 2014

PurposeResearchers commonly utilize coding‐based analysis of classroom asynchronous discussion contributions as part of studies of online learning and instruction. However, this analysis is inconsistent from study to study with over 50 coding schemes and procedures applied in the last eight years. The aim of this article is to provide a basis for more consistent use of coding schemes and to facilitate comparison of studies utilizing different coding schemes.Design/methodology/approachThe paper identifies coding schemes presented in the research literature, classifies these schemes, and presents a list of synthesis codes reflecting the content of the many different schemes for each classification.FindingsBased on the initial and follow‐up literature review, 56 different coding schemes were identified as having been employed within the last eight years. Initial sorting indicated that schemes primarily focused on identifying critical thinking, describing social interactions, or characterizing online discussion.Originality/valueIn addition to offering a comprehensive resource reflecting the coding schemes currently applied to the analysis of online, asynchronous discussion, the meta‐analysis results also inform regarding the current state of research in this area. In addition, current research trends and areas for potential new research and development are revealed.
Determinants of information retweeting in microblogging
Authors: Liu Zhiming , Liu Lu , Li Hong 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual model to investigate the determinants of information retweeting in microblogging based on Heuristic‐Systematic Model.Design/methodology/approachMicroblogging data about emergency events from Sina microblogging (http://weibo.com) are collected and analyzed with text mining technology. The proposed hypotheses are tested with logistic and multiple linear regressions.FindingsThe results show that source trustworthiness, source expertise, source attractiveness, and the number of multimedia have significant effects on the information retweeting. In addition, source expertise moderates the effects of user trustworthiness and content objectivity on the information retweeting in microblogging.Practical implicationsThis study provides an in‐depth understanding of what makes information about emergency events in microblogging diffuse so rapidly. Based on these findings the emergency management organizations in China can apply the microblogging to spread useful information, and these findings also provide practical implications for microblogging system designers.Originality/valueThe primary value of this paper lies in providing a better understanding of information retweeting in microblogging based on Heuristic‐Systematic Model. Organizations that would like to adopt the microblogging platform in emergency situations to improve the ability of emergency response can benefit from the findings of this study.
A History of Heterodox Economics
Authors: Power Marilyn 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to review Fred Lee's book A History of Heterodox Economics.Design/methodology/approachThe paper provides a context for Lee's research within the current debates over the financial crisis, then reviews and evaluates his analysis.FindingsLee has provided valuable and almost overwhelmingly meticulous documentation of the struggle to maintain space for heterodox economics within the discipline of economics, beginning before the turn of the twentieth century and continuing into the present. He is most concerned to use this research to formulate strategies to build community among heterodox economists, to provide a strong alternative to mainstream economics.Originality/valueThe author was less than convinced by Lee's suggestion that heterodox economics should emulate a professional model based on publications and citations that bears a striking resemblance to the methods of mainstream economics. That said, the author shares his belief that heterodox economics has important insights to offer economic theory and policy. In all, Lee has provided an important service in his documentation of the rise of heterodox economics as well as the attempts of mainstream economics to marginalize other schools of thought.
What can be expected of information and communication technologies in terms of patient empowerment in health?
Authors: Lemire Marc 
Published: November 2014

PurposeImplementing information and communication technologies (ICT) is often mentioned as a strategy that can foster public involvement and responsibility in health. The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the possibilities and issues afforded by the social uses of ICT for personal empowerment in health.Design/methodology/approachThe paper discusses evidence from four case studies that characterize current computerization and networking processes in health. The studies shared a global framework comprising four interpretative paradigms of personal empowerment: the professional, technocratic, consumerist and democratic paradigms.FindingsThe results show the coexistence of four empowerment logics in ICT use. Two trends proved dominant: a strengthening of the control and standardization processes tied to the typical power relationships in health, and a reinforcement of personal autonomy and self‐assertion processes, either through commercial relationships or through the social relationships that are also present.Practical implicationsThe paper supports the argument that in order to understand the opportunities for personal empowerment offered by ICT the logic underlying user practices in their respective contexts must be examined.Originality/valueThe paper uses data from four case studies to illustrate the contradictory logics shaping the personal empowerment process. Under these logics, an ICT user may play roles as patient, client, consumer, or citizen.
Leadership in health care
Authors: Geisler B.P. , Widerberg K.F. , Berghöfer A. , Willich S.N. 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThis paper's aim is to identify existing and developing new concepts of organization, management, and leadership at a large European university hospital; and to evaluate whether mixed qualitative‐quantitative methods with both internal and external input can provide helpful views of the possible future of large health care providers.Design/methodology/approachUsing the Delphi method in semi‐structured, semi‐quantitative interviews, with managers and employees as experts, the authors performed a vertical and a horizontal internal analysis. In addition, input from innovative faculties in other countries was obtained through structured power questions. These two sources were used to create three final scenarios, which evaluated using traditional strategic planning methods.FindingsThere is found a collaboration scenario in which faculty and hospital are separated; a split scenario which divides the organization into three independent hospitals; and a corporation scenario in which corporate activities are bundled in three separate entities.Practical implicationsIn complex mergers of knowledge‐driven organizations, the employees of the own organization (in addition to external consultants) might be tapped as a knowledge resource to successful future business models.Originality/valueThe paper uses a real world consulting case to present a new set of methods for strategic planning in large health care provider organizations.
The ethics of data collection: unintended consequences?
Authors: Wainwright Delia , Sambrook Sally 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThe aims is to consider the political and ethical challenges involved in conducting ethnographic managerial/organisational behaviour research within the highly regulated health and social care context, in light of the emergence of more stringent “ethical approval” policies and requirements set by Local Research Ethics Committees in the United Kingdom. In the attempt and requirement to protect “vulnerable” employees, this paper aims to present an unintended paradox of consequences when participants voluntarily revealed themselves.Design/methodology/approachThe authors briefly review literature on research ethics and present an understanding of the ethical regulations currently existing within the British National Health Service. Within an ethnographic case study exploring the psychological contract, the authors consider the issues that arose during one stage of data collection: a qualitative questionnaire survey with 13 participants, including members of the lead author's team. Incorporating excerpts from the researcher's reflexive journal, the paper exposes the struggles of being an “insider” researcher and the tensions this raises for data analysis when participants voluntarily revealed themselves.FindingsEthnography is at “risk” within health and social care and ethnographic “managerial” research is likely to be unduly restricted and potentially threatened. The evidence suggests that some employees either did not wish to be protected or, conversely, felt compelled to reveal their identities, raising questions of their motivation and creating a paradox of unintended consequences.Originality/valueThis paper offers an insight into the challenges of conducting nurse‐managerial ethnography in compliance with ethical guidelines, yet disrupted by participants. The findings will be useful to other nurse‐researchers attempting to conduct insider research.
Implementing an emergency department patient admission predictive tool
Authors: Jessup Melanie , Wallis Marianne , Boyle Justin , Crilly Julia , Lind James , Green David , Miller Peter , Fitzgerald Gerard 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThis paper aims to show that identification of expectations and software functional requirements via consultation with potential users is an integral component of the development of an emergency department patient admissions prediction tool.Design/methodology/approachThematic analysis of semi‐structured interviews with 14 key health staff delivered rich data regarding existing practice and future needs. Participants included emergency department staff, bed managers, nurse unit managers, directors of nursing, and personnel from health administration.FindingsParticipants contributed contextual insights on the current system of admissions, revealing a culture of crisis, imbued with misplayed communication. Their expectations and requirements of a potential predictive tool provided strategic data that moderated the development of the Emergency Department Patient Admissions Prediction Tool, based on their insistence that it feature availability, reliability and relevance. In order to deliver these stipulations, participants stressed that it should be incorporated, validated, defined and timely.Research limitations/implicationsParticipants were envisaging a concept and use of a tool that was somewhat hypothetical. However, further research will evaluate the tool in practice.Practical implicationsParticipants' unsolicited recommendations regarding implementation will not only inform a subsequent phase of the tool evaluation, but are eminently applicable to any process of implementation in a healthcare setting.Originality/valueThe consultative process engaged clinicians and the paper delivers an insider view of an overburdened system, rather than an outsider's observations.
Multiple sexual partners: perceptions of young men in Uganda
Authors: Joshi Anil 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThis study seeks to explore the perceptions of young men in Uganda regarding their sexual behaviour, which is normally understood as “high risk” in terms of HIV/AIDS. Specifically, the paper aims to look at the practice of engaging with multiple sexual partners (MSP).Design/methodology/approachSix 15‐19 year old school‐going young men in rural Uganda played an attribute‐ranking game, wrote personal stories and acted in small dramas as part of the data collection.FindingsThe participants of the study spoke about love and sex being important in a relationship, which is why they engaged in MSP, to maximise their experience of both. MSP also allowed the young men to gain pleasure, experience and control: three necessary and sought‐after attributes inherent in their notion of masculinity. The features that challenged these three factors (i.e. money, manipulative girls, parental control), which threatened their ideals of masculinity, were identified by participants as the primary risks of MSP, rather than health threats.Originality/approachA more open‐minded and positive emphasis is needed regarding the use of condoms, where pleasure and issues of “manliness” are incorporated. By understanding the experiential views of young men, HIV/AIDS prevention programmes can be adapted accordingly to better reflect their lived realities.
The creation of risk‐related information
Authors: Lloyd‐Bostock Sally 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThis paper aims to clarify the potential to use data on doctors and fitness to practise (FTP) cases held by the UK General Medical Council (GMC) for wider regulatory purposes, such as identifying risk factors. The paper aims to concentrate on how data are shaped by the GMC's functions and organisational concerns, and by the configuration and use of their electronic database.Design/methodology/approachThe GMC provided samples of their data, access to documentation surrounding the configuration and use of the database, and meetings with staff able to provide background on the database, GMC procedures, and the GMC as an organisation.FindingsThe FTP database is designed to process cases within complex legal rules, and to provide for accountability. The database and its use are adapted to these purposes. Attempts to use it for other purposes are likely to find it difficult to use, the scope and quality of data uneven and some codes unsuitable. The register data are very narrow in scope. While combining register and FTP data to identify risk factors is by itself of limited value, the database can contribute to closer study of risks to patient safety from poorly performing doctors.Research limitations/implicationsThe research was exploratory. It provides initial insights and the basis for further research.Practical implicationsThe data have potential policy use for the GMC, but it is essential to understand the limitations.Originality/valueThe paper examines previously unanalysed influences on the GMC's data. It also develops new angles on questions in the regulation literature about organisational risks and the creation of risk data.
Medical regulation, spectacular transparency and the blame business
Authors: McGivern Gerry , Fischer Michael 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore general practitioners' (GPs') and psychiatrists' views and experiences of transparent forms of medical regulation in practice, as well as those of medical regulators and those representing patients and professionals.Design/methodology/approachThe research included interviews with GPs, psychiatrists and others involved in medical regulation, representing patients and professionals. A qualitative narrative analysis of the interviews was then conducted.FindingsNarratives suggest rising levels of complaints, legalisation and blame within the National Health Service (NHS). Three key themes emerge. First, doctors feel “guilty until proven innocent” within increasingly legalised regulatory systems and are consequently practising more defensively. Second, regulation is described as providing “spectacular transparency”, driven by political responses to high profile scandals rather than its effects in practice, which can be seen as a social defence. Finally, it is suggested that a “blame business” is driving this form of transparency, in which self‐interested regulators, the media, lawyers, and even some patient organisations are fuelling transparency in a wider culture of blame.Research limitations/implicationsA relatively small number of people were interviewed, so further research testing the findings would be useful.Practical implicationsTransparency has some perverse effects on doctors' practice.Social implicationsRising levels of blame has perverse consequences for patient care, as doctors are practicing more defensively as a result, as well as significant financial implications for NHS funding.Originality/valueTransparent forms of regulation are assumed to be beneficial and yet little research has examined its effects in practice. In this paper we highlight a number of perverse effects of transparency in practice.
Valuation and handling of dialogue in leadership
Authors: Grill C. , Ahlborg G. , Lindgren E.C. 
Published: November 2014

PurposeLeadership can positively affect the work environment and health. Communication and dialogue are an important part in leadership. Studies of how dialogue is valued and handled in first‐line leadership have not so far been found. The aim of this study is to develop a theoretical understanding of how first‐line leaders at hospitals in western Sweden value and handle dialogue in the organisation.Design/methodology/approachThe study design was explorative and based on grounded theory. Data collection consisted of interviews and observations. A total of 11 first‐line leaders at two hospitals in western Sweden were chosen as informants, and for four of them observation was also used.FindingsOne core category emerged in the analysis: leaders' communicative actions, which could be strategically or understanding‐oriented, and experienced as equal or unequal and performed equitably or inequitably, within a power relationship. Four different types of communicative actions emerged: collaborative, nurturing, controlling, and confrontational. Leaders had strategies for creating arenas and relationships for dialogue, but dialogue could be constrained by external circumstances or ignorance of the frameworks needed to conduct and accomplish dialogue.Practical implicationsFirst‐line leaders should be offered guidance in understanding the consequences of consciously choosing and strengthening the communication component in leadership.Originality/valueThe positive valuation of dialogue was not always manifest in practical action. One significant consequence of not using dialogue was that information with impact on organisational efficiency and finances was not communicated upwards in the management system.
Women leaders: the social world of health care
Authors: Isaac Carol A. 
Published: November 2014

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate a microcosm of the complexities that women face in a masculine environment.Design/methodology/approachTen women administrators were selected from one Southeastern University in the USA, using criterion sampling. The interviews of five women from male‐dominated colleges (greater than 50 percent male faculty‐MD) and five from female‐dominated fields (FD) were analyzed. For further study, the texts of the four women from healthcare colleges were compared with the six from non‐healthcare fields. Interviewees were asked questions about their background, leadership and power. Confidentiality was adhered to according to the university's IRB guidelines and policies.FindingsThe social world of the healthcare Deans was evident and was shaped around a “rigid hierarchy of authority and power” that goes beyond gender and is stratified among health‐related professions.Originality/valueThis examination of the hierarchical discourse of power within the social world of healthcare gives valuable instruction for women's negotiation through adaptation.