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Business continuity management: a systemic framework for implementation
Authors: Bajgoric Nijaz 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– The paper aims at defining a systemic framework for the implementation of business continuity management (BCM). The framework is based on the assertion that the implementation of BCM should be done through the systemic implementation of an “always-on” enterprise information system.

Design/methodology/approach
– Systems approach is used in order to design a systemic framework for the implementation of continuous computing technologies within the concept of an always-on enterprise information system.

Findings
– A conceptual framework has been proposed to develop a framework for a systemic implementation of several continuous computing technologies that enhance business continuity (BC) in the form of an “always-on” enterprise information system.

Originality/value
– The paper identifies BC as a business pressure in internet era and suggests a systemic framework for implementation.
Tackling obesity and its complications in secure settings
Authors: Long Clive , Rowell Arleen , Gayton Anita , Hodgson Elizabeth , Dolley Olga 
Published: February 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore the incidence of obesity and its complications in secure psychiatric settings; and to assess changes in body mass index (BMI).Design/methodology/approach– Electronic patient records were used to determine levels of obesity and weight change over a three-year period. BMI levels were related to status, medication and patient characteristics.Findings– The incidence of obesity (34 per cent) in the sample (n=351) was higher than in the general population. One-third of patients were on medication for hyperlipidaemia and 10 per cent were diagnosed with type II diabetes. Patients on regular antipsychotic drugs and sodium valproate and who were less active had higher BMIs. Gender differences over a three-year period showed a tendency for women's weight to continue to increase which may be linked to lower levels of engagement in activities of moderate or vigorous intensity.Originality/value– Previous surveys using secure psychiatric populations have been point in time reviews. The current study tracks changes over a three-year time period and related this to a range of interventions.
Determinants of positive mental health: a path model
Authors: S. Ganga Nima , Raman Kutty V. , Thomas Immanuel 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– A public health approach for promoting mental health has become a major health policy agenda of many governments. Despite this worldwide attention on research addressing population mental health and general wellbeing, very little is heard on positive mental health from the low-and middle-income countries. This paper aims to present an attempt to develop a model of positive mental health among young people. This could be used for integrating the concept of positive mental health (PMH) into public health interventions.

Design/methodology/approach
– The study was conducted in the state of Kerala, India. The paper administered the “Achutha Menon Centre Positive Mental health Scale” to a sample of 453 (230 men and 223 women) in the age group 18-24, along with an interview schedule exploring the relationship of PMH with many explanatory variables such as sex, beliefs, religion, education, employment and social capital. The paper developed an input path model through a series of multiple regressions explaining the levels of PMH in the community, which was then tested statistically (using AMOS version 7.0). The input model was created by identifying the determinants and correlates of PMH based on their predictive power on the outcome variable, the PMH score. The input diagram was used to test the model fit of the data.

Findings
– The path model (Figure 1) clearly specified the determinants of PMH. Among them, the variables that have a direct determinant effect on PMH are: quality of home learning environment, employment status, education status, marital status, self-perception on possession of skills, happiness with life, membership in social organizations and socializing capability.

Research limitations/implications
– In this study, path model is used to confirm relationships among observed and latent variables. The path diagram assesses the comparative strength of the correlations between the variables and does not test the directionality. Or, the model itself cannot prove causation.

Practical implications
– Determinants of PMH those are amenable to interventions as well as those which help in recognizing characteristic groups for intervention could help to plan future intervention programs.

Originality/value
– Original paper based on primary data collected through a cross-sectional survey.
The integration of corporate non-market and market strategies: why, what, and how
Authors: Xie Peihong , Li Xin , Xie Xuemei 
Published: February 2014

Purpose– This paper aims to systematically examine the key notion of integration of non-market and market strategies in the increasingly popular study of corporate non-market strategies.Design/methodology/approach– This paper is based on a brief literature review of the non-market strategy (NMS) research that shows the existing literature does not offer a clear and systematic account of the key notion of integration. It suggests any systematic account of integration should address at least three interrelated questions, i.e. why, what and how to integrate non-market and market strategies?Findings– For the why question, the authors use a formal model to demonstrate that the essence of the most important type of integration synergy lies in the positive spillover or externality from non-market to market strategies. For the what question, the authors identify the contents of integration at three levels, i.e. the level of non-market environment analysis, the level of NMS choice, and the level of non-market dynamic interactions. For the how question, the authors argue that the combination of non-market and market strategies should be seamless in terms of horizontal, vertical and intentional coordination. Overall, the authors argue, only when the right contents are combined and seamlessly coordinated will there be high synergies from integration of non-market and market strategies.Practical implications– Managers are advised to give non-market strategies full attention. Managers charged with non-market tasks should explore how to seamlessly coordinate non-market and market strategies in order to gain maximal synergies.Originality/value– This paper is the first to examine the key notion of integration in a systematic manner. It is the first to propose a three-question solution to systematic understanding of the notion and the first to propose the seamless coordination concept and its associated three aspects of seamless coordination.
Prioritizing 5S activities by Kano model with modified CS coefficient for a semiconductor wafer fabrication during ramp-up stage
Authors: Chang Yung-Chia , Chen Chuan-Yung 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– Semiconductor wafer fabrication (FAB) is recognized as one of the most complex manufacturing systems. A newly built FAB has to pass various audits from its customer before the customer's wafers are initially produced. 5S audit is among one of them. When building a state-of-the-art 300 mm/130 μm FAB, it is common to find hundreds of action items to complete in order to comply with the customer's (auditor) expectations toward 5S practice. The purpose of this paper is to assist wafer fabrication managers in allocating the limited resources on 5S practice to the places that are valued most by their customer.

Design/methodology/approach
– This study proposes an application of the Kano model with a modified customer satisfaction coefficient (CS coefficient) to effectively prioritize thousands of action items for a wafer fabrication.

Findings
– Some new discoveries associated with shop floor management that may be neglected by academicians and practitioners are presented here. Surprisingly, greatly substantial non-linear contributions of attractive to-scene management are revealed with little efforts on the 5S practice. These attributes prove to be impressive to customers and typical instructions beneficial to future 5S practice are embraced as well.

Practical implications
– A real case drawn from a 300 mm semiconductor wafer FAB in Taiwan is analyzed to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach.

Originality/value
– From the adoption of this proposed methodology, an influential set of specific required checkpoints for 5S practice is transformed from subjective, conceptual and linguistic practice to be identified, quantified and prioritized for semiconductor wafer fabrication under resources constraints to cater the customer's 5S expectations and to generate more attentions in building-up a much more robust scene management.
The impact of human resource management practices on performance
Authors: Amin Muslim , Khairuzzaman Wan Ismail Wan , Zaleha Abdul Rasid Siti , Daverson Andrew Selemani Richard 
Published: February 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of human resource management (HRM) practices on organizational performance.Design/methodology/approach– A total of 300 employees from a public university comprising of both academicians and support staff responded to the survey. The survey questionnaire had 46 items covering selected HRM practices and university performance.Findings– The study has found that human resource practices: recruitment, training, performance appraisal, career planning, employee participation, job definition and compensation have a significant relationship with university performance.Research limitations/implications– The results come from a cross-sectional study which was done at the convenience of the researcher. The results may not be generalized across the country. The application of the results to other universities must be done with maximum care.Practical implications– If the university is to increase its performance to higher levels, it should emphasize more on job definition, training and employee participation. Some improvement needs to be done on the other HRM practices-recruitment, performance appraisal, career planning and compensation in order to increase their effectiveness on the university performance.Originality/value– Most studies on impact of HRM practices on firm performance have focussed on private sectors in Malaysia. In other countries, the studies have focussed only on academicians as a sample. This study has attempted to add to the body of knowledge on the impact of HRM practices on university performance in Malaysia combining both the academicians and administration staff.
Why TQM programmes fail? A pathology approach
Authors: Mohammad Mosadeghrad Ali 
Published: February 2014

Purpose– Implementing total quality management (TQM) is not without difficulties and achieving its promised benefits is not easy. The purpose of this paper is to identify the barriers to TQM successful implementation.Design/methodology/approach– A literature review has been done to explore the major reasons for the failure of TQM programmes.Findings– An examination of 54 TQM empirical studies identified 54 obstacles to successful TQM implementation. There are both theoretical and practical difficulties in applying TQM in organisations. An ineffective TQM package, inappropriate TQM implementation methods and an inappropriate environment for implementing TQM are the main reasons for TQM failure. The most frequently mentioned reasons for TQM implementation failures include insufficient education and training, lack of employees’ involvement, lack of top management support, inadequate resources, deficient leadership, lack of a quality-oriented culture, poor communication, lack of a plan for change and employee resistance to the change programme.Research limitations/implications– The review was limited to articles written in English language during the past 30 years (1980-2010).Practical implications– TQM does deliver better performance when an appropriate model of TQM is appropriately implemented in a supportive environment. The findings of this paper provide managers with a practical understanding of the factors that are likely to obstruct TQM implementation. Managers should overcome these barriers to achieve the TQM benefits.Originality/value– Understanding the factors that are likely to obstruct TQM implementation will help organisations in planning better TQM models.
Understanding the ecosystem implications of the angiosperm rise to dominance: leaf litter decomposability among magnoliids and other basal angiosperms
Authors: Liu Guofang , Cornwell William K. , Pan Xu , Cao Kunfang , Ye Xuehua , Huang Zhenying , Dong Ming , Cornelissen Johannes H. C. 
Published: February 2014

SummaryLitter decomposition has been a key driver of carbon and nutrient cycling in the present and past. Based on extant species data, there is a great deal of variation in litter decomposability among major plant lineages, suggesting potential shifts in plant effects on carbon and nutrient cycling during the early evolutionary history of angiosperms.Existing data suggest that eudicot species produce faster decomposing litter compared to gymnosperms, ferns and mosses. One of the missing puzzle pieces in this transition is the basal angiosperms, the functional role of which in past carbon and nutrient cycling has seldom been investigated. We hypothesized that owing to constraints on leaf and plant design related to hydraulic capacity, basal angiosperm trees should generally have resource conservative leaves of low decomposability and that fast‐decomposing leaves may only be found in short‐statured taxa.We performed a litterbag experiment with simultaneous outdoor incubation of leaf litters in a common environment, including 86 basal angiosperm species (including the magnoliid lineage), 33 eudicots, five gymnosperms and four ferns. We fit a nonlinear model to the decomposition data, and each species’ decomposability was estimated using the proportional rate of mass loss through the experiment.The mass loss rates were 59.2% lower in basal angiosperms than in eudicot trees. There was one exceptional group within basal angiosperms: the Piperales had higherkvalues than other magnoliid lineages, but all of the free‐standing species were short. Eudicots had higherkvalues overall and covered a range of plant statures from small‐statured herbs to big woody trees.Synthesis. Understanding the ecosystem‐level effects of the angiosperm rise to dominance is a crucial goal. Our results indicated that, among generally slow‐decomposing magnoliid lineages, only the Piperales have fast decomposition rate associated with small plant statures. Thus it is unlikely that early magnoliid trees were both forest canopy dominants and produced resource acquisitive leaves turning into fast decomposable litter during the evolutionary history of angiosperms.
Ecological and evolutionary lability of plant traits affecting carbon and nutrient cycling
Authors: Donovan Lisa A. , Mason Chase M. , Bowsher Alan W. , Goolsby Eric W. , Ishibashi Caitlin D. A. 
Published: February 2014

Summary

Efforts to understand the effects of plant traits on carbon and nutrient cycling have recently focused on species variation and the potential for species data to improve predictions of past, present and future variation in ecosystems. However, the evolutionary lability of relevant traits among closely related species and the extent of intraspecific variation warrant further consideration.

Here, we examine interspecific and intraspecific variation in leaf N, LMA, root N and SRL at multiple scales, using Helianthus as a representative study system.

Substantial evolutionary lability of traits is demonstrated by interspecific variation in phylogenetically explicit analyses of closely related Helianthus species, and population differentiation of wild H. anomalus and cultivated H. annuus.

Intraspecific variation in leaf N and LMA, including genetic, environmental and ontogenetic responses, demonstrates that trait values for a single species can encompass a surprisingly large portion of the range encompassed by species in the leaf economics spectrum.

Synthesis. We recommend using data from selected natural populations to model effects of leaf N and LMA on decomposition, while using data from common garden experiments to determine evolutionary lability and thus inform potential for evolutionary change. If the high evolutionary lability of traits demonstrated for Helianthus is found for other important genera, this would suggest that these key ecophysiological traits are likely to respond to the selective pressures of global climate and land‐use change.
A phenotypic plasticity framework for assessing intraspecific variation in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal traits
Authors: Behm Jocelyn E. , Kiers E. Toby 
Published: February 2014

Summary

Statistical models of ecosystem functioning based on species traits are valuable tools for predicting how nutrient cycling will respond to global change. However, species such as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have evolved high intraspecific trait variation, making trait characterization and inclusion in functional trait models difficult.

We present a five‐part framework based on experimental designs from the phenotypic plasticity literature to quantify AMF intraspecific trait variation in a nutrient cycling context.

Framework experiments involve exposing AMF replicates to different environmental conditions and recording trait values to quantify the (i) degree of variation, (ii) reversibility of traits, (iii) relationships among traits, (iv) adaptive nature of traits and (v) potential for trait variation to evolve. We include a phenotypic trajectory analysis of a simulated data set to illustrate relationships among traits.

To focus future research, we provide a synthesis of AMF traits whose evolution is particularly relevant to nutrient cycling and environmental factors that induce variation in those traits.

Synthesis. Characterizing the depth and range of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal trait variation is essential for predicting responses to natural and anthropogenic environmental changes, as well as understanding past and future fungal trait evolutionary trajectories in the Tree of Life.
Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages
Authors: Cornwell William K. , Westoby Mark , Falster Daniel S. , FitzJohn Richard G. , O'Meara Brian C. , Pennell Matthew W. , McGlinn Daniel J. , Eastman Jonathan M. , Moles Angela T. , Reich Peter B. , Tank David C. , Wright Ian J. , Aarssen Lonnie , Beaulieu Jeremy M. , Kooyman Robert M. , Leishman Michelle R. , Miller Eliot T. , Niinemets Ülo , Oleksyn Jacek , Ordonez Alejandro , Royer Dana L. , Smith Stephen A. , Stevens Peter F. , Warman Laura , Wilf Peter , Zanne Amy E. 
Published: February 2014

Summary

Plant traits vary widely across species and underpin differences in ecological strategy. Despite centuries of interest, the contributions of different evolutionary lineages to modern‐day functional diversity remain poorly quantified.

Expanding data bases of plant traits plus rapidly improving phylogenies enable for the first time a data‐driven global picture of plant functional diversity across the major clades of higher plants. We mapped five key traits relevant to metabolism, resource competition and reproductive strategy onto a phylogeny across 48324 vascular plant species world‐wide, along with climate and biogeographic data. Using a novel metric, we test whether major plant lineages are functionally distinctive. We then highlight the trait–lineage combinations that are most functionally distinctive within the present‐day spread of ecological strategies.

For some trait–clade combinations, knowing the clade of a species conveys little information to neo‐ and palaeo‐ecologists. In other trait–clade combinations, the clade identity can be highly revealing, especially informative clade–trait combinations include Proteaceae, which is highly distinctive, representing the global slow extreme of the leaf economic spectrum. Magnoliidae and Rosidae contribute large leaf sizes and seed masses and have distinctively warm, wet climatic distributions.

Synthesis. This analysis provides a shortlist of the most distinctive trait–lineage combinations along with their geographic and climatic context: a global view of extant functional diversity across the tips of the vascular plant phylogeny.
The world‐wide ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto
Authors: Reich Peter B. 
Published: February 2014

Summary

The leaf economics spectrum (LES) provides a useful framework for examining species strategies as shaped by their evolutionary history. However, that spectrum, as originally described, involved only two key resources (carbon and nutrients) and one of three economically important plant organs. Herein, I evaluate whether the economics spectrum idea can be broadly extended to water – the third key resource –stems, roots and entire plants and to individual, community and ecosystem scales. My overarching hypothesis is that strong selection along trait trade‐off axes, in tandem with biophysical constraints, results in convergence for any taxon on a uniformly fast, medium or slow strategy (i.e. rates of resource acquisition and processing) for all organs and all resources.

Evidence for economic trait spectra exists for stems and roots as well as leaves, and for traits related to water as well as carbon and nutrients. These apply generally within and across scales (within and across communities, climate zones, biomes and lineages).

There are linkages across organs and coupling among resources, resulting in an integrated whole‐plant economics spectrum. Species capable of moving water rapidly have low tissue density, short tissue life span and high rates of resource acquisition and flux at organ and individual scales. The reverse is true for species with the slow strategy. Different traits may be important in different conditions, but as being fast in one respect generally requires being fast in others, being fast or slow is a general feature of species.

Economic traits influence performance and fitness consistent with trait‐based theory about underlying adaptive mechanisms. Traits help explain differences in growth and survival across resource gradients and thus help explain the distribution of species and the assembly of communities across light, water and nutrient gradients. Traits scale up – fast traits are associated with faster rates of ecosystem processes such as decomposition or primary productivity, and slow traits with slow process rates.

Synthesis. Traits matter. A single ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum that integrates across leaves, stems and roots is a key feature of the plant universe and helps to explain individual ecological strategies, community assembly processes and the functioning of ecosystems.
Changes in the composition and sensory properties of Croatian cheese in a lamb skin sack (Sir iz mišine) during ripening
Authors: Tudor Kalit Milna , Kalit Samir , Delaš Ivančica , Kelava Nikolina , Karolyi Danijel , Kaić Dubravka , Vrdoljak Marija , Havranek Jasmina 
Published: February 2014

Croatian traditional cheese, which ripens in a lamb skin sack, was studied to determine compositional, biochemical and sensory changes over 60 days of ripening. The ripening time had a significant effect on the chemical, biochemical and sensory parameters, particularly on the medium‐ and long‐chain free fatty acids (P < 0.05) and total FFAs (P < 0.001). At the end of ripening palmitic, oleic and stearic acids were the predominant FFAs. Cheese ripened for more than 45 days was less acceptable to consumers as a consequence of extensive proteolysis and lipolysis. Therefore, ripening for more than 45 days, which is commonly practised by cheesemakers, is not recommended.