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Accretion in action: phase space coherence of stellar debris and globular clusters in Andromeda's South-West Cloud
Authors: Mackey A. D. , Lewis G. F. , Collins M. L. M. , Bate N. F. , Ibata R. A. , Martin N. F. , Chapman S. , Conn A. , Elahi P. , Ferguson A. M. N. , Huxor A. , Irwin M. , McConnachie A. , McMonigal B. , Peñarrubia J. , Veljanoski J. 
Published: September 2014

ABSTRACT
A central tenet of the current cosmological paradigm is that galaxies grow over time through the accretion of smaller systems. Here, we present new kinematic measurements near the centre of one of the densest pronounced substructures, the South-West Cloud, in the outer halo of our nearest giant neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy. These observations reveal that the kinematic properties of this region of the South-West Cloud are consistent with those of PA-8, a globular cluster previously shown to be co-spatial with the stellar substructure. In this sense, the situation is reminiscent of the handful of globular clusters that sit near the heart of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, a system that is currently being accreted into the Milky Way, confirming that accretion deposits not only stars but also globular clusters into the haloes of large galaxies.
Editorial
Authors: Ogliastri Enrique 
Published: September 2014

Abstract
In this issue there are seven published research articles originating from Argentina, Spain, Chile and Mexico. The subjects of the articles are varied: first, the best performance determinants of banks in eight South American countries; second, the determinant factors of short term bank‐debt policies of companies, particularly the effect of growth opportunities, the ownership structure of companies and the institutional surrounding; third, the use of personal loans instead of institutional loans in small and medium size companies; fourth, the impact of the economic groups characteristics on the performance of its companies and the benefit of groups to the economy; fifth, the priorities of the companies in the use of logistic services within the supply chain; sixth, the impact of the corporate responsibility in the image and loyalty in hotel brands; seventh, the entrepreneurial intention when starting up a new company and the determinants of his perception on advantages and disadvantages of undertaking the venture.

Resumen
En este número se publican siete artículos de investigación originados en Argentina, España, Chile y México. Los temas de los artículos son variados: 1‐ Los determinantes del mejor desempeño de los bancos en ocho países latinoamericanos. 2‐ Los condicionantes del plazo de vencimiento de la deuda bancaria de las empresas, en particular el efecto de oportunidades de crecimiento, la estructura de propiedad de la empresa, y el entorno institucional. 3‐ El uso de préstamos personales en lugar de institucionales en las empresas pequeñas y medianas. 4‐ El impacto de las características de los grupos económicos en el desempeño de las empresas y en el beneficio de la economía en conjunto. 5‐ Las prioridades de las empresas en el uso de servicios logísticos dentro de la cadena de suministro. 6‐ El impacto de la responsabilidad corporativa en la imagen y lealtad de marca de los hoteles. 7‐ La intención de emprender y los determinantes de la percepción sobre sus ventajas y desventajas.
Is bank‐debt maturity contingent on the financial system?
Authors: Saona Paolo , Vallelado Eleuterio 
Published: September 2014

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine whether bank debt‐maturity decisions are conditioned by growth opportunities, the firms’ ownership structure, or the institutional environment.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical analysis is undertaken using an unbalanced panel data of Chilean and Spanish firms.FindingsThe results indicate that when banks are not allowed to become stockholders, managers use bank debt‐maturity as a corporate governance mechanism. When banks can participate in the ownership of the firms that they finance, short‐term bank debt can serve as a substitute for a governance mechanism.Originality/valueThe main contribution of this paper is the analysis of how differences in financial development among countries modify financial decisions by firms.
The role of personal loans in the financing of SMEs
Authors: Briozzo Anahi , Vigier Hernán 
Published: September 2014

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study the determinants of the use of personal loans in small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs).Design/methodology/approachPersonal loans are addressed as a function of the borrower and collateral. To empirically test the hypothesis of this study, a probit model was applied to a group of companies in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, with a previous analysis of the possible effects of sample selection.FindingsOlder companies, firms with lower expected growth rates, younger owners, those who seek to create value or growth, and owners who perceive low emotional costs associated with bankruptcy, are less likely to use personal loans to finance their operations.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is limited by the availability of data on SMEs in Argentina.Social implicationsThe results highlight the importance of financial aid programmes that focus on SME scarce availability of collateral.Originality/valueThis study makes three principal contributions: first, it investigates the phenomenon of personal loan utilisation in SMEs; second, it analyses financing decisions from both the supply and demand perspectives; and third, it presents a database that includes variables that have not been previously studied in Argentina or other emerging economies.
Classifying difference in organizing, or how to create monsters
Authors: Diedrich Andreas 
Published: September 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the operation of classification mechanisms in organizational life, and how they construct the skills and knowledge of initially marginalized client groups.Design/methodology/approach– The paper is based on an ethnographically inspired case study of a Swedish labour market procedure, which was designed to validate the skills and knowledge of non-western immigrant job-seekers. Qualitative data were generated through observations, in-depth interviews and document analysis.Findings– The study found that, contrary to policy-makers’ intentions, the validation procedure ended up dissociating the non-western job-seekers’ heterogeneous experiences, skills and knowledge from the organizing processes of the labour market, displacing them beyond the boundaries of legitimate knowledge, and reproducing their marginalized position on the labour market. As non-western skills and knowledge were found unclassifiable according to the validation procedure, they were deemed too different and monstrous.Research limitations/implications– The research approach and the specific institutional context of Swedish immigration and labour market policy means that the research results are not readily generalizable to other empirical contexts. Therefore, studies outside of Sweden are needed to generate knowledge about similar policies in other countries.Practical implications– The classification of skills and knowledge and the organizing of difference does not primarily require new tools and methods, but a whole new perspective, which recognizes the multiplicity and heterogeneity of unusual skills and knowledge as an important part of labour market integration.Originality/value– The paper examines the monstrous aspects of classification mechanisms within the empirical context of labour market integration efforts, which is hitherto underexplored in the literature on the management of difference and diversity.
Culture of collaboration improves safety and efficiency at Travis Perkins
Authors: Kavanagh Carol 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to detail the award-winning approach to achieving gold-standard safety and efficiency used by the Travis Perkins Group, a UK chain of builders’ merchant and do-it-yourself stores.

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper focuses on company culture, teamwork, management style, communication, recruitment and training procedures.

Findings
– The authors describe how implementing a company-wide culture of collaboration and engagement with business goals has directly affected both safety and efficiency, including a number of success stories detailing how employee contributions have resulted in practical solutions to challenges. It has also resulted in the group’s building–trade supplier subsidiary company Travis Perkins, achieving gold level in Transport for London’s fleet-operator recognition scheme.

Practical implications
– This paper shows the positive and company-wide implications of fostering an inclusive, collaborative environment for employees.

Social implications
– The key role management plays in fostering employee engagement and the value of listening to, and acting on, employee feedback have been highlighted.

Originality/value
– A number of HR practices that aid communication and motivation among employees have been explained. This paper shows that strong training and communication processes have a positive effect on employee motivation and work ethic, leading workers at all levels to contribute ideas and feedback that, in multiple cases, have led to changes in procedures that positively affect workers, customers and profitability.
Knowledge management helps MindTree to flourish
Authors: C. Pandey Satyendra , Dutta Andrew 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to describes the role of knowledge management at MindTree, a medium-sized Indian information technology firm that has featured among the Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) and the best companies to work for.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper investigates the relationship between knowledge management and innovation at the company and describes its various knowledge-management initiatives.

Findings
– The paper explains that the company streamlined the process of discovering what knowledge was lying where and established various policies and processes to encourage information sharing and creativity.

Practical implications
– It highlights the role of self-organized knowledge communities, various software tools and the prevailing organizational culture in promoting knowledge exchange and original thinking.

Social implications
– It hints that knowledge management will be an increasingly important source of competitive advantage in the years ahead.

Originality/value
– It describes knowledge-management practices that can be used by other companies to foster innovation and business leadership among employees.
It really does pay to give employees a pat on the back
Authors: Rao M.S. 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to present tips for leaders on receiving and giving feedback.

Design/methodology/approach
– Various types of feedback and the difference between feedback and criticism have been described.

Findings
– It has been emphasized that leaders need to view feedback as a developmental tool. Its importance in achieving leadership excellence also has been stressed.

Practical implications
– This paper argues that feedback helps employees to recognize their blind spots, correct themselves and perform better. It also serves as an employee retention tool. People crave feedback, especially positive feedback. But the feedback givers must know the art of giving feedback so that they are respected for it.

Social implications
– This paper advances the view that people excel through improvement and can improve through feedback.

Originality/value
– This paper describes how to use feedback as a tool to develop future leaders.
Service quality and word of mouth: a study of the banking sector
Authors: Choudhury Koushiki 
Published: September 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of the dimensions of service quality on customers’ word-of-mouth (WOM) in the context of the retail banking industry.Design/methodology/approach– A modified SERVQUAL instrument was used to capture customers’ perceptions of service quality followed by exploratory factor analysis to study the dimensionality of service quality in retail banking. Multiple regression was used to probe the influence of the dimensions of service quality on WOM.Findings– The study revealed four dimensions of service quality in retail banking, namely, attitude, competence, tangibles and convenience and showed that the service quality factor attitude is most important in influencing WOM.Research limitations/implications– Continued refinement of the scale for measuring service quality in retail banking, proposed in this study, is certainly possible based on further research and trends in retail banking. Further research may also incorporate multiple measures of the WOM construct.Practical implications– Retail bank managers must realise the importance of employees’ attitude towards customers, be sensitive to the intangible aspects of the service, particularly the customer-orientation of its frontline personnel and engender and continuously rejuvenate a customer-oriented culture. This is because, the provision of personalised, courteous service and helpful employees who understand the customers’ needs is the strongest driver for WOM.Originality/value– This study explores the relationship between service quality and WOM by linking both constructs at their dimensional level. This increases the diagnostics of explaining customers’ propensity for WOM.
The relationship between learning transfer climates and innovation in public and private organizations in Korea
Authors: Jun Choi Hee , Park Ji-Hye 
Published: September 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the results of an empirical exploration of the relationship between learning transfer climates and organizational innovation. Additionally, factors associated with learning transfer climate that could account for innovation in Korean public and private organizations have been explored.Design/methodology/approach– This study relies on quantitative data obtained from two survey questionnaires. The sample consists of 390 employees working for seven private and five public organizations; further, each employee has completed at least one training program within a one-year period.Findings– Results of the study demonstrate that private, rather than public organizations, have significantly higher mean scores for all five learning transfer climate variables and for perceived organizational innovation. The results of multiple regression analyses reveal that openness to change and performance coaching have common and significant impacts on perceived innovation in both private and public organizations. However, the other three variables (i.e., transfer effort-performance expectations, performance-outcomes expectations, and performance self-efficacy) have varied effects on perceived innovation depending on organizational type. Specifically, transfer effort-performance expectations has a relatively meaningful impact on perceived innovation in public organizations. Performance-outcomes expectations and performance self-efficacy have relatively meaningful effects on perceived innovation in private organizations.Research limitations/implications– The sample for this study consists of employees solely from Korean organizations. Therefore, further studies encompassing a greater sampling variety are required to determine the generalizability of these results. In addition, this study is limited to an investigation of the possible differences between public and private organizations with respect to their learning transfer climates and innovation. In studies to follow, researchers can further investigate these relationships in segmented organizations.Originality/value– The results of this study will assist human resource practitioners to promote innovation effectively and efficiently based on organizational type.
Analysis of SCOR’s approach to supply chain risk management
Authors: Rotaru Kristian , Wilkin Carla , Ceglowski Andrzej 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– SCOR 10.0, released in late 2010, is the second version of the supply chain operations reference model (SCOR) to incorporate risk management processes, metrics and best practices. Given the paucity of studies that have explored the coverage and integration of supply chain risk management (SCRM) within SCOR, the analysis and suggested improvements for SCRM are designed to enhance SCOR’s collaborative and coordinated management of supply chain (SC) risks. The paper aims to dicsuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– Critical analysis was used to analyse the coverage and integration of SCRM within SCOR 10.0.

Findings
– Discrepancies were identified in how SCRM has been incorporated into SCOR, including issues with the hierarchical representation of SCRM processes, metrics, best practices and skills. These may potentially propagate into difficulties in embedding risk management processes within other SC processes, visualizing risk metrics in a SC’s value hierarchy and reconciling SCOR’s SCRM with organizational enterprise risk management.

Research limitations/implications
– This paper is limited to theoretical analysis of the coverage and integration of risk in SCOR 10.0. Once the issues identified are remedied, the subsequent suggested improvements require validation through empirical testing.

Originality/value
– Despite SCOR’s wide acceptance as a reference model in managing SC operations, there has been no investigation of its approach to SCRM. The analysis addresses this lack of prior investigation by analysing SCRM in the latest version, SCOR 10.0. The paper identifies deficiencies and suggests amendments regarding SCRM’s coverage and integration of SCRM.
Disaster relief supply chain quality management (DRSCQM)
Authors: N. Madu Christian , Kuei Chu-Hua 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for disaster relief supply chain quality management (DRSCQM).

Design/methodology/approach
– This paper introduces a structured approach to making decisions in the following areas: system foundation, system constraints, initial sudden natural disaster encounter point(s), the intensity of disaster, the efficacy of the disaster relief supply chain systems, and post-disaster relief management.

Findings
– The context-intervention-mechanism-outcome logic provides guidelines for facilitating Lean Six Sigma to eliminate wastes and improve the overall performance of the DRSCQM.

Research limitations/implications
– The theoretical frameworks will enhance the current knowledge base in DRSCQM literature and will also be helpful to manage disaster relief operations and supply chains. However, there is a need to conduct empirical studies based on the proposed frameworks in the future.

Practical implications
– A transformation process based on Dr Deming's plan-do-check-act cycle has also been proposed to show how a relief organization can assess its current maturity level, react to it, develop more sustainable disaster relief practices, and move the entire system in the right direction.

Social implications
– The systemic and holistic procedure developed in this paper views the environment of disaster relief as dynamic, complex, chaotic, and ever-changing and takes into account the fact that relief organizations’ actions often involve a team of diverse specialists working on a project basis.

Originality/value
– The framework presented here helps to improve the efficiency and the effectiveness of disaster relief supply chain management. This is timely and important now as there continues to be an increase in climate-related natural disasters.
Identifying and determining SPARQL endpoint characteristics
Authors: Lorey Johannes 
Published: September 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this study is to introduce several metrics that enable universal and fine-grained characterization of arbitrary Linked Data repositories. Publicly accessible SPARQL endpoints contain vast amounts of knowledge from a large variety of domains. However, oftentimes these endpoints are not configured to process specific workloads as efficiently as possible. Assisting users in leveraging SPARQL endpoints requires insight into functional and non-functional properties of these knowledge bases.

Design/methodology/approach
– This study presents comprehensive approaches for deriving these metrics. More specifically, the study utilizes concrete SPARQL queries to determine corresponding values. Furthermore, it validates and discusses the introduced metrics through extensive evaluation on real-world SPARQL endpoints.

Findings
– The evaluation determined that endpoints exhibit different characteristics. While it comes as no surprise that latency and throughput are influenced by the network infrastructure, the costs for join operations depend on a number of factors that are not obvious to a data consumer. Moreover, as the author discusses mean, median and upper quartile values, it was found both endpoints behaving consistently as well as repositories offering varying levels of performance.

Originality/value
– On the one hand, the contribution of the authors work lies in assisting data consumers in evaluation of the quality of service of publicly available SPARQL endpoints. On the other hand, the performance metrics introduced in this study can also be considered as additional input features for distributed query processing frameworks. Moreover, the author provides a universal means for discerning characteristics of different SPARQL endpoints without the need of (synthetic or real-world) query workloads.
Virality over YouTube: an empirical analysis
Authors: Feroz Khan Gohar , Vong Sokha 
Published: September 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to seek reasons for some videos going viral over YouTube (a type of social media platform).Design/methodology/approach– Using YouTube APIs (Application Programming Interface) and Webometrics analyst tool, the authors collected data on about 100 all-time-most-viewed YouTube videos and information about the users associated with the videos. The authors constructed and tested an empirical model to understand the relationship among users’ social and non-social capital (e.g. User Age, Gender, View Count, Subscriber, Join Date, Total Videos Posted), video characteristics (Post Date, Duration, and Video Category), external network capital (in-links and hit counts), and Virality (Likes, Dislikes, Favorite Count, View Count, and Comment Count). Partial least square and Webometric analysis was used to explore the association among the constructs.Findings– Among other findings, the results showed that popularity of the videos was not only the function of YouTube systemper se, but that network dynamics (e.g. in-links and hits counts) and offline social capital (e.g. fan base and fame) play crucial roles in the viral phenomenon, particularly view count.Originality/value– The authors for the first time constructed and tested an empirical model to find out the determinants of viral phenomenon over YouTube.