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Quality and Effectiveness of a Pediatric Triage Training Program in a Guatemalan Public Hospital
Authors: Crouse Heather L. , Vaides Henry , Torres Francisco , Ishigami Elise M. , Walsh Michael T. , Soto Miguel A. , Torrey Susan B. 
Published: November 2014

Objectives
This study aimed to develop and implement an Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) training program at a Guatemalan public hospital. Collaborators included Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital, the Guatemalan Ministry of Health, and the Pan American Health Organization.

Methods
The ETAT is a World Health Organization program to teach pediatric assessment, triage, and initial management to health care workers in resource-limited settings. The Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital created ETAT training materials in Spanish (Clasificación, Evaluación y Tratamiento de Emergencias Pediátricas [CETEP]) and conducted a train-the-trainer course for Hospital Nacional Pedro Bethancourt (HNPB) health care leadership. The HNPB subsequently conducted local trainings using a modified curriculum. Midcourse modifications based on evaluations and focus groups included distribution of manuals before training and an adding a day to the course.
Course quality was assessed using participant evaluations and comparing pretest and posttest scores. Effectiveness was defined as 90% concordance between triage levels assigned by participants and facilitators.

Results
A total of 249 health care workers were trained by 24 HNPB facilitators. Mean pretest and posttest scores were 55 and 70, respectively (P < 0.001). On a 4-point scale, participants rated overall course quality and effectiveness as 3.6. Mean pretest (49 vs 58, P = 0.002) and posttest scores (68 vs 72, P = 0.01) improved for groups trained after modifications, as did evaluations for course quality (3.4 vs 3.7, P < 0.001) and effectiveness (3.4 vs 3.8, P < 0.001). Triage levels were assigned with 95% concordance (confidence interval, 91.9–97.3) between participants and facilitators.

Conclusions
Hospital Nacional Pedro Bethancourt experts conducted high-quality trainings with locally relevant CETEP (ETAT) material. Trainings were effective and well received. The pediatric emergency department at HNPB now uses a triage system based on CETEP (ETAT).
Towards sustainability in the high-speed railway industry: modeling of cases from China
Authors: Li Yuanhui , Foo Check-Teck 
Published: November 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to document and to illustrate highly usable research: a practical framework for realizing the sustainable operations of the high investment, technology-intensive high-speed railways in China. Also, for the first time, we draw a broad, metaphorical relationship between railways within a country to Chinese meridian lines within a human body. These are similar in enabling flows across the country and human body.

Design/methodology/approach
– Employing Chinese case studies, we attempt to apply methodological procedures involving operational, financial and developmental in realizing the sustainability of high-speed railways. Critical criteria are emphasized for efficiency, financial viability and long-term funding sustained development of high-speed railways in the Chinese context. Policymakers may utilize the illustrative framework in working toward specific recommendations that may be implementable.

Findings
– Three critical aspects to sustainability are operational, financial solvency and developmental. Our empirical investigations result in the working out of the procedural aspects as well. Based on this three-way classification, we design an evaluative framework for realizing sustainability of high-speed railways. Our insights are based on the social reality of China. Thus, we argue that cash handouts by government are necessary solutions, given the intensive capital investments required of high-speed railways for strongly positive externalities generated. On developmental aspects of sustainability, there should be rational, in-depth studies conducted so as to lead to rational choices of sites. Strong passenger flows coupled with affordability of fares are the twin guarantees of continuing, profitable performances.

Practical implications
– This work on sustainability is globally, most highly significant for two reasons. First, railway is one fundamental mean of transportation within China. Thus, the sustainability of railway matters to a majority of the 1.3 billion people. Second, transport volume of China’s railway is the world’s largest. By developing such a comprehensive methodology, we hope to enhance how top management of Chinese Railways may keep the high-speed railways sustainable into the future.

Social implications
– This paper is socially highly significant, especially in the context of what has happened in recent years in China’s railway industry, and may contribute by providing both the regulators and management with an objective methodology in future projects assessment within high-speed railway.

Originality/value
– This paper develops an overall framework for enabling management to realize sustainability of high-speed railway within China. The ideas, concepts and methodologies are likely beneficial to top management, regulators and policymakers within the railway transportation, a state monopoly.
Corporate social performance: why it matters? Case of Taiwan
Authors: Kevin Huang Shihping , Yang Chih-Lung 
Published: November 2014

Purpose– The objective of this article is to explore the relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) of firms in Taiwan, as the empirical evidence of Taiwan firms is scarce.Design/methodology/approach– This paper studies the empirical relation between CSP and CFP using a sample of 71 Taiwan-based companies during 2005-2011. CSP data are a composite of two Taiwan’s CSP ratings, and CFP data are retrieved fromTaiwan Economic Journaldatabase. Two control variables, R&D investment (R&D) and industry type (IND), are included in our models. The multiple regression is used as a statistical analysis tool.Findings– Our findings indicate a significantly positive CSP–CFP relationship of firms in Taiwan. Furthermore, our study reveals that the CSP in the non-manufacturing sector is more highly related with CFP than the case in the manufacturing sector in Taiwan.Originality/value– First, Our findings are consistent with the majority of recent research and are supported by the stakeholder theory. The paper argues that Taiwan firms should incorporate CSP into their business strategies for improving their competitive advantages. Second, our findings argue that Taiwan firms in the manufacturing sector should learn the best CSP practices from firms in the non-manufacturing sector to maintain and enhance their sustainability. Third, this paper extends the subject study of Taiwan scenario, and it is the first paper combining two CSP local ratings as the proxy for the CSP measure.
Zaidi Oil: the SAP ERP dilemma
Authors: Acosta Freddie Racosas , Acosta Arlene Suson 
Published: November 2014

Subject area
Decision Analysis, Management Information Systems, Strategic Management, Organizational Development, Financial Management, Risk Management.

Study level/applicability
MBA-1 (Decision Analysis), MBA-2 (MIS).

Case overview
On a beautiful October morning in 2011, the CEO of a mid-size oil marketing company located in Nairobi, Kenya has to make a tough decision whether to upgrade their current B1 system to a bigger version of SAP. Abbas, the new Information Communications Technology (ICT) Director of Zaidi Group, was worried that Zaidi was building a bigger and bigger company on top of a more and more small enterprise resource planning system. Abbas's fears also include RedLock's past inefficiencies. Kariuki, the Finance Director, on the other hand was into the fear of overspending in a huge information technology (IT)system where current functionalities required can be addressed by a smaller system through add-ons, customization and development.

Expected learning outcomes
Demonstrate some tools in decision analysis for problems with multiple objectives including some issues indecision framing and cognitive inertia; Raise the issue for fundamentally changing a firm's infrastructure; Demonstrate the alignment of IT strategy to Business Strategy.

Supplementary materials
Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes.
Seven Sisters: wine and womanhood
Authors: Mabaya Edward , Ross Morgann , Shrestha Raj , Weiss Amity 
Published: November 2014

Subject areaThe main topics covered by this case are marketing strategies in a saturated market, human resource management, small enterprise challenges and constraints and corporate strategy.Study level/applicabilityThe intended audiences for this case are upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. Students getting their degrees in business, international labor relations, marketing or public policy/administration are the main targets for this case. Students also interested in in agriculture, international development and race relations will benefit from studying this case.Case overviewThe international wine market is highly competitive. Innovative strategies are needed for new wineries to stand out in this saturated market. Both the product quality and its life story are important to consumers. Seven Sisters is exploring two new markets – Nigeria and Sweden – to expand their international presence. Also explored are marketing strategies for deeper penetration of the domestic market in South Africa. The case study illustrates the challenges and opportunities facing a small, women-owned enterprise from an emerging economy that is exploring international markets.Expected learning outcomesThe specific teaching objective of this case is to teach students the importance of marketing and corporate strategy in a highly saturated market, such as South Africa. Analyzing this case, students will be exposed to value chains, formulating corporate strategy and devising marketing strategy.Supplementary materialsTeaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or emailsupport@emeraldinsight.comto request teaching notes.
Ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and eating disorder symptomatology in Canada: implications for mental health care
Authors: A. Boisvert Jennifer , Andrew Harrell W. 
Published: November 2014

Purpose– There is a gap in the understanding of relationships between socioeconomic status (SES), urban-rural differences, ethnicity and eating disorder symptomatology. This gap has implications for access to treatment and the effectiveness of treatment. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approach– Data are presented from a major Canadian survey, analyzing the impact of body mass index (BMI), urban-non-urban residency, income, and ethnicity on eating disorder symptomatology.Findings– One of the strongest findings is that high income non-White women expressed less eating disorder symptomatology than lower income non-White women.Research limitations/implications– Future research needs to consider how factors such as urban residency, exposure to Western “thinness” ideals, and income differentials impact non-White women.Practical implications– Effective treatment of ethnic minority women requires an appreciation of complicated effects of “culture clash,” income and BMI on eating disorder symptomatology.Originality/value– This study makes a unique contribution to the literature by examining relationships between SES (income) and eating disorder symptomatology in White and non-White Canadian women. The review of the scientific literature on ethnic differences in eating disorder symptomatology revealed a disparity gap in treatment. This disparity may be a by-product of bias and lack of understanding of gender or ethnic/cultural differences by practitioners.
Employment references and the law
Authors: Mustafa Engin 
Published: November 2014

Purpose
– This paper aims to examine whether employers are bound to provide references on former employees and the kinds of information they should contain.

Design/methodology/approach
– It arrives at a set of conclusions through considering case law in England and Wales.

Findings
– It explains why writing a reference is increasingly the responsibility of human-resource specialists in an organization.

Practical implications
– It reveals that employers have a number of options, the choice between which will depend upon the organization’s aversion to risk and its balancing of the obligations felt to employees and their future employers.

Social implications
– It considers that, in an increasingly risk-averse culture, more and more organizations are providing minimal information in references on former employees and avoiding value judgments.

Originality/value
– It considers the state of the law in England and Wales as regards writing references on former employees.
Building resiliency and supporting distributive leadership post-disaster
Authors: Usdin Linda 
Published: November 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to describe leadership, decision making and other community characteristics that support community resiliency following disasters.Design/methodology/approach– Literature review and case study based on participant observation in nine years post-Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.Findings– Effective leaders promote community resiliency using democratic, diffused decision making, stressing intra-dependence and promoting individual agency and locally-informed decisions. They build upon local networks and cultural bonds – not waiting for disaster but continuously, with flexible readiness framework infused in all efforts.Research limitations/implications– The paper uses New Orleans’ experiences following Hurricane Katrina to explore how leadership, decision making and other community characteristics can promote resiliency post-disaster – case study extrapolating from one disaster and relevant literature to understand role of leaders in community recovery/re-design.Practical implications– Changes in global economic and environmental conditions, population growth and urban migration challenge capacity of communities to thrive. Leadership and decision making are hub of wheel in crises, so understanding how leaders promote community resiliency is essential.Social implications– Disasters create breakdowns as functioning of all systems that maintain community are overwhelmed and increased demands exceed wounded capacity. Eventually, immediate struggle to limit impact gives way to longer process of re-designing key systems for improved functionality. What contributes to differing abilities of communities to reboot? How can we use understanding of what contributes to that differential ability to prepare and respond more effectively to disasters?Originality/value– Hurricane Katrina was a uniquely devastating urban event – causing re-design and re-building of every major system. Almost ten years post-hurricane, rebuilding process has provided key lessons about effective leadership and community resiliency post-disaster.
The rise of Taiwan in the TFT-LCD industry
Authors: Tabata Mayumi 
Published: November 2014

Purpose– This study aims to refocus the analysis of global political economies using concepts from studies on Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) to track Taiwan’s rise in the Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display (TFT-LCD) industry. Taiwanese electronics firms began to outpace their competitors from Japan in TFT-LCD industry’s competition from about the year 2000.Design/methodology/approach– Drawing on depth interviews and analysis of secondary source material, newspaper and magazine.Findings– A time factor that helps determine advantage and/or disadvantage of high-tech industry in Japan and Taiwan. Stable organizational structure and less talent mobility in the Japanese TFT-LCD firms may well have been an advantage initially in the transformation process from US firms’ experimental technologies to tacit mass production technologies, but proved to be a disadvantage in the subsequent competition with more mobile talent in Taiwanese firms eager to standardize mass production techniques. Japanese firms’ rigid organizational structure could not keep pace to the market-oriented technology strategy in the global TFT-LCD industry, lost competitive advantage in a rapid pace.Social implications– VoC literature should be focused to highlight two insights. The first is the premise of institutional forms specific to national models of capitalism. Patterns of technology transfer appear critical in the innovation process, and differ markedly between Taiwan and Japan. Second, the VoC literature suggests comparative institutional advantage.Originality/value– Through the comparative analyses between Taiwanese capitalism model and Japanese counterparts, we can understand the reason and process of the rise of Taiwan in global TFT-LCD market.
Asset protection in multinational enterprises – where to now?
Authors: Smith Freya 
Published: November 2014

Purpose– This paper aims to shed light on the potential implications for asset protection planning in multinational enterprises (MNEs) from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)’s work on base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) and the global push towards increased transparency and automatic information exchange.Design/methodology/approach– An examination of the academic literature across a range of areas of the law relevant to MNEs and an analysis of the risks facing MNEs and the significance of asset protection in managing these risks. An examination of the OECD’s work on BEPS and automatic information exchange and implications for asset protection strategies utilised by MNEs with a particular focus on the critical issues of disclosure, ownership and control.Findings– The full extent to which MNEs will be affected by the OECD’s work on BEPS remains unknown. Early signs indicate a significant shift in the focus of tax rules away from the pricing of specific transactions between related entities to the total global value chain of an MNE opening the door for more widespread adoption of enterprise liability and for states to obtain a complete view of MNE tax and asset protection planning, potentially including previously impenetrable trusts and limited liability companies.Originality/value– This paper is one of the first to provide an analysis of the importance of asset protection to MNEs and the potential risks arising for asset protection planning in MNEs from the OECD’s work on BEPS and automatic information exchange.
Asset recombination in international partnerships as a source of improved innovation capabilities in China
Authors: Collinson Simon C. , Narula Rajneesh 
Published: November 2014

Purpose– This paper aims to examine how multinational enterprises (MNEs) and local partners, including suppliers, customers and competitors in China, improve their innovation capabilities through collaboration. This collaboration was analysed as a three-way interaction between the ownership-specific (O) advantages or firm-specific assets (FSAs) of the MNE subsidiary, the FSAs of the local partner and the location-specific assets of the host location.Design/methodology/approach– The propositions are examined through a survey of 320 firms, supplemented with 30 in-depth case studies, based in Mainland China.Findings– It is found that the recombination of asset-type (Oa) FSAs and transaction-type (Ot) FSAs from both partners leads to new innovation-related ownership advantages, or “recombinant advantages”. Ot FSAs, in the form of access to local suppliers, customers or government networks are particularly important for reducing the liability of foreignness for MNEs.Originality/value– The study reveals important patterns of reciprocal transfer, sharing and integration for different asset categories (tacit, codified) and different forms of FSA and explicitly links these to different innovation performance outcomes. The paper reports on these findings, making an empirical contribution in an important context (China-based partnerships). This paper also contributes to conceptual developments, connecting various kinds of FSA, tacit and codifiable assets and “recombinant advantages”. Limited conceptual, methodological and empirical contributions are made in linking asset integration with (measurable) innovation performance outcomes in international partnerships.
Four cases of Japanese patients with psoriatic arthritis in whom effective treatments by anti‐tumor necrosis factor‐α drugs were evaluated by magnetic resonance imaging together with improvement of skin lesions
Authors: Yonenaga Takenori , Saeki Hidehisa , Nakagawa Hidemi , Fukuchi Osamu , Umezawa Yoshinori , Hayashi Mitsuha , Ito Toshihiro , Yanaba Koichi , Tojyo Shinjiro , Fukuda Kunihiko 
Published: November 2014

AbstractBecause psoriatic skin lesions of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) usually precede the onset of joint symptom, dermatologists are in an ideal position to screen and find individuals with PsA early in the disease course. There have been no reports from the dermatology field evaluating the effect of anti‐tumor necrosis factor (TNF)‐α drugs on joint disorders using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in PsA patients. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the effectiveness of MRI in the evaluation of anti‐TNF‐α drugs on joint disease of Japanese PsA patients. Data were collected from four adult Japanese male PsA patients. MRI of the affected hand was performed at baseline and 1–7 months after infliximab or adalimumab treatment. T1‐weighted gadolinium‐enhanced images with fat suppression were acquired in the coronal, sagittal and/or axial planes. We determined the apparent improvement of synovitis, periarticular inflammation, tenosynovitis and/or bone marrow edema by MRI after anti‐TNF‐α treatments in all the patients together with the improvement of skin lesions. We also determined in one patient that these symptoms detected by MRI before treatment were alleviated within 1 month and had disappeared 6 months after treatment, suggesting the potentially early detection of the effect of anti‐TNF‐α drugs on joint disease. We present four cases of Japanese patients with PsA in whom effective treatments by anti‐TNF‐α drugs were evaluated by contrast‐enhanced MRI. This imaging enables dermatologists and radiologists to assess and monitor early inflammatory changes, and to grant PsA patients earlier access to modern treatment such as biologics.
Rubbing skin with nylon towels as a major cause of pseudomonas folliculitis in a Japanese population
Authors: Teraki Yuichi , Nakamura Kaori 
Published: November 2014

AbstractPseudomonas folliculitis (PF) is a community‐acquired skin infection, which develops after exposure to contaminated water such as whirlpools, swimming pools, water slides and hot tubs. In Japan, this condition has been sporadically reported, often in association with bathing; however, the exact cause of PF in the Japanese population remains unclear. In this study, we retrospectively reviewed 10 patients with PF diagnosed at our dermatology clinic (two males and eight females). Four patients had recurrences over 1–3 years. Notably, eight of the 10 patients were rubbing their bodies with nylon towels or sponges placed in the bathrooms during bathing. Pseudomonas aeruginosa was isolated from the nylon towels used in two of the two patients examined. Discontinued use of nylon towels resulted in prompt resolution of PF and no recurrence in all cases. Our observation suggests that rubbing the skin with nylon towels contaminated with P. aeruginosa was a major cause of PF in a Japanese population.