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A literature review of maintenance performance measurement
Authors: Simões J.M. , Gomes C.F. , Yasin M.M. 
Published: June 2011

PurposeThis research aims to examine the relevant literature related to maintenance performance measurement in the manufacturing sector. In the process, innovative approaches and models utilized to measure and manage maintenance performance in manufacturing operational settings are classified and examined. Based on this investigation, future research directions and themes are identified.Design/methodology/approachA database of 251 peer‐reviewed publications, published during the last 30 years, was utilized for the purpose of this research. The published works included contributions from both practitioners and scholars.FindingsThis literature review‐based research revealed important themes related to evolution of maintenance performance management. These themes focus on the effective utilization of maintenance resources, information systems support, and human factor management. Based on this literature review, a conceptual framework, which traces the different operational and organizational facets of the evolution of maintenance performance management, is offered.Research limitations/implicationsBased on the findings of this study, it is concluded that the area of maintenance performance and management is in need of more future systematic research efforts aimed at solidifying theoretical constructs and promoting the utilization of more practical applications.Practical implicationsFindings derived from this investigation have relevant manufacturing implications. In this context, understanding the different approaches to maintenance performance measurement and management, as utilized in manufacturing organizations, is critical to these organizations' performance improvement efforts.Originality/valueUnderstanding the types and scopes of the different approaches and models utilized to manage and measure maintenance performance in manufacturing operational settings is important in light of the growing competitiveness of the manufacturing sector.
Practical application of the Decision Making Grid (DMG)
Authors: Aslam‐Zainudeen Nafisah , Labib Ashraf 
Published: June 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the applicability of the Decision Making Grid (DMG) and its usefulness, in practice, in the maintenance of rolling stock in the railway industry. The Class 319 fleet operated by First Capital Connect (FCC) is used to demonstrate the application of the DMG.Design/methodology/approachThe level of use of the data recorded in the CMMS, in the decision making process for reviewing, and updating the maintenance policy, was established through discussions with senior management at FCC. Available decision support systems were then researched, with emphasis on the DMG concept. The advantages of using the DMG and its application in the real world using data for the Class 319 fleet were then explored and are discussed in this paper.FindingsThis paper discusses the value in applying the DMG concept in the decision‐making process for prioritising systems and the work that should be done to ensure the maintenance policy takes into account the performance of the units of rolling stock against the most important criteria for FCC. Through the research carried out, it was established that the existing CMMS already records the data required for the application of the DMG, although in itself, the CMMS does not have any decision support capabilities.Originality/valueAlthough a number of different CMMSs are used in the railway industry, few or none of these are capable of providing decision support for maintenance. This paper explores the use of the DMG concept to demonstrate the use of data recorded in the CMMS to develop a more effective maintenance policy and to determine exactly which maintenance activities need to be carried out in order to remedy the worst performing systems in terms of the most important criteria as identified by the business.
A framework for strategic planning in maintenance
Authors: Al‐Turki Umar 
Published: June 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to introduce a framework for developing a maintenance strategic plan that links the maintenance function with the corporate strategy and integrates it with other functional areas. Within the proposed framework, a systematic process for maintenance strategic planning is described and key success factors that need special attention are identified.Design/methodology/approachAn analytical methodology is adopted to develop a systematic approach for implementing the frameworkFindingsThe study finds that the involvement of major stakeholders as well as top management commitment is essential for the successful development of a maintenance strategic plan. The process of development of the strategic plan in maintenance differs from other areas because of its intangible benefits to the organization and special type of stakeholders. More emphasis should be put into handling senior management and other partners within the organization.Practical implicationsSenior maintenance managers and strategy developers may benefit from this study in developing their own plans. The process of developing the plan is well explained in a systematic manner that will drive the developers throughout the whole process.Originality/valueThe literature of strategic management and strategic issues in maintenance is summarized to set the foundation for the framework and to enrich the process of strategic planning with alternative strategies for different issues that will help in selecting the most appropriate strategy. The value of the paper is in its framework that puts elements of strategic planning together in an integrated framework.
Practical application of an Analytic Hierarchy Process for the improvement of the warranty management
Authors: González Díaz V. , Gómez Fernández J. , Crespo Márquez A. 
Published: June 2011

PurposeThis paper will be focused in one of the stages included in a reference framework proposed for the improvement of the warranty management. Particularly, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a multi‐criteria decision‐making method that will be depicted throughout this document and applied to a particular case study.Design/methodology/approachOnce the warranty program objectives and strategy are defined, the referred stage here considered will be the Criticality Analysis. Those decisions and actions taken from the warranty program will involve the possibility of a certain deviation from business objectives in terms of profit losses, redirection of resources, possible delays etc., or the use of assembly pieces as spares, among others.FindingsThe application is required of a technique which helps systematically to decide which assets should have priority related to the management of the warranty program, in accordance of course with the existing program strategy.Practical implicationsThe paper will show how this method can help and improve the decision‐making related to some aspect of the warranty management, obtaining as a result a criticality matrix, which offers a prioritized view of warranty issues, which allow us to align after sales actions with the business targets.Originality/valueThis paper aims to explore different aspects related to the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which can influence in the management of warranty assistances. In the process of warranty management for a specific product, many decisions and actions appear presenting a great impact on the total cost of the product warranty service. The paper contains an example study where AHP concepts are applied in a simple way in order to provide a practical application view of the theoretical development, useful to after sales managers as a decision‐making tool.
Typology of condition based maintenance
Authors: Veldman Jasper , Wortmann Hans , Klingenberg Warse 
Published: June 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is the development of an empirically based typology of condition based maintenance (CBM) approaches, including the relevant characteristics and requirements.Design/methodology/approachAn exploratory case study was conducted in a major gas production facility. The CBM typology that resulted from this case study was subsequently tested against a large set of CBM literature.FindingsIn the literature, CBM is usually presented as a single theory or practice. The paper finds that CBM in fact includes several different approaches and that each of the approaches is only suitable in situations where the specific characteristics of the approach match the situational characteristics. Aided by these findings, a new typology for CBM was developed. The typology is based on the method for obtaining the expected value, or trend (through statistical vs analytical modeling) and the type of data used (process vs failure data). A subsequent literature survey reveals that the proposed typology is applicable for the categorization of a large number of CBM cases found in the literature.Practical implicationsOne of the most important requirements in selecting and using a CBM approach is the availability and integration of various types of knowledge, in particular process engineering and maintenance engineering knowledge. Practitioners can use these insights to assess current CBM cases, and identify the key characteristics of current and future use of various CBM types.Originality/valueThis paper presents a novel and empirically based framework for the classification of the different CBM types. Such frameworks were lacking in the current literature. The paper adds to maintenance engineering literature by identifying the key dimensions of the various types along with their key requirements.
Reliability and availability analysis of a robot‐safety system
Authors: Cheng Shen , Dhillon B.S. 
Published: June 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study reliability, availability, and mean time to failure of a repairable robot‐safety system composed of n robots, m safety units, and a perfect switch.Design/methodology/approachGeneralized expressions for system state probabilities, system availability, reliability, and mean time to failure are developed. Supplementary variable and Markov methods were used to develop these expressions.FindingsThis study clearly demonstrates that backup robots, safety units, and the repair process help to improve system availability.Practical implicationsThis study will help maintenance engineers and reliability practitioners to become aware of the combined effect of backup robots, safety units, and the repair process on the performance of the robot‐safety system. Consequently, they will make better maintenance related decisions in organizations that make use of robots.Originality/valueThis paper has studied the effects of having redundant robots, safety units, and the repair facilities on the performance of a robot‐safety system with perfect mechanism to turn on a safety unit. This is one of the first attempts to study the combined effects of all these factors on a robot‐safety system.
SFAS No. 159
Authors: Xu Li , Tang Alex 
Published: June 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the timing and the determinants of electing Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (SFAS) No. 159 in the banking industry.Design/methodology/approachThe authors hypothesize certain factors that will potentially affect banks' election decisions and separate banks into three groups: early electors, late electors and non‐electors by hand‐collecting the election decisions and the timing of the election decisions. Univariate and logit rank regressions are used to identify the determining factors between electors (vs non‐electors) and between early electors (vs late electors).FindingsThe authors find that compared to banks not electing SFAS No. 159 (non‐electors), banks electing SFAS No. 159 (early electors as well as late electors) face greater earnings pressures, have less volatile earnings and larger size, and are active in hedging activities. In addition, compared to banks electing SFAS No. 159 at required election date (late electors), banks electing SFAS No. 159 early (early electors) have weak financial strength, less volatile earnings, and are more likely to be audited by non‐Big‐4 auditors.Research limitations/implicationsThe study only focuses on the banking industry, so the results from may not be generalized to other industries. Future studies could explore how SFAS No. 159 impacts firms in different industries.Originality/valueThe authors' overall results suggest that the banks might have many considerations in mind when they elect to use SFAS No. 159. The results provide useful information for regulatory bodies to evaluate the efficacy of issuing the standard. Early electors could have exploited the opportunities provided by the transition provisions of this standard to boost their regulatory capital ratios.
Outside CEO directors on compensation committees: whose side are they on?
Authors: Li Haidan , Qian Yiming 
Published: June 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine whether outside CEO directors sympathize with the company CEO due to their similar positions and prestige, and make decisions in favor of the company CEO. Specifically, the authors investigate how outside CEO directors serving on the compensation committee influence CEO compensation.Design/methodology/approachThe authors investigate how outside CEO directors on the compensation committee impact the level and pay‐for‐performance sensitivity of CEO compensation. In addition, the relation between excess CEO compensation (attributable to outside CEO directors) and future firm‐operating performance is examined.FindingsIt is found that outside CEO directors on the compensation committee are associated with higher CEO compensation. However, excess CEO compensation attributable to outside CEO directors leads to poor future firm‐operating performance. Outside CEO directors are associated with higher CEO pay‐for‐performance sensitivity when the company experiences positive stock returns, but do not impact pay‐for‐performance sensitivity when firm performance is poor. Finally, when the company CEO has more influence on the board, outside CEO directors are more likely to serve on the compensation committee.Originality/valueThe paper is among the first to show that having outside CEO directors on the compensation committee might create agency problems and is costly to shareholders. The findings of the authors' study are relevant to current efforts of regulators and private sectors to enhance oversight of executive compensation.
Apparent audit failures and value relevance of earnings and book value
Authors: Dang Li , Brown Kevin F. , McCullough B.D. 
Published: June 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the value relevance of accounting information in cases of apparent audit failures.Design/methodology/approachThe authors adopt the bootstrapping technique and compare the value relevance of key accounting information across samples of firms experiencing apparent audit failures with matched non‐audit failure firms.FindingsAccounting information is found to be less value relevant for firms experiencing apparent audit failures, regardless of auditor reputation.Research limitations/implicationsThis study has limitations due to the ex ante research approach adopted. Future research could address this issue by possibly incorporating an “intervening” factor into the model to indicate how the market can differentiate audit failure firms from other firms.Originality/valueThe paper gives support to the assertion that the market appears to rely less on accounting numbers when audit failures occur, even though formal allegations of audit failure may not appear until years after their occurrence. In addition to contributing to value‐relevance research by providing empirical evidence for the market phenomenon around the time of material misstatements, the paper demonstrates an innovative application of bootstrapping to test for differences in R2.
Corporate diversification and earnings management
Authors: Khanchel El Mehdi Imen , Seboui Souad 
Published: June 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to find out whether corporate diversification provides a favourable environment for earnings management (agency conflicts hypothesis) or whether it mitigates this phenomenon (earnings volatility hypothesis).Design/methodology/approachBased on a sample of US firms and making an explicit distinction between industrial and geographic diversification, univariate and multivariate analyses are used to test whether firm diversification has an impact on earnings management.FindingsResults show that the average diversified firm in the sample has somewhat more earnings management problems than a similarly constructed portfolio of stand‐alone firms chosen to approximate the segments of the conglomerate. Consistent with the agency conflicts hypothesis, the authors find that geographic diversification increases earnings management whereas industrial diversification decreases it, consistent with earnings volatility hypothesis. Moreover, industrial and geographic diversification combined reinforce this phenomenon. These findings are consistent with the view that the costs of geographic diversification outweigh the benefits.Originality/valueThe paper makes an important contribution to the accounting literature by providing new and significantly different evidence on the relative roles of corporate diversification in the earnings management. By linking two streams of research, earnings management and corporate diversification, one is taken into the unexplored area of the sources of the difference in earnings management between diversified and focussed firms. More specifically, this study provides evidence that earnings management is more intensively practiced in geographically diversified firms and even more so in firms that are both industrially and geographically diversified.
Health and medical tourism: a kill or cure for global public health?
Authors: Hall C. Michael 
Published: June 2011

PurposeThe major purpose of this introduction to the special issue of Tourism Review on health and medical tourism is to outline some of main issues that exist in the academic literature in this rapidly developing field.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reviews relevant health and medical tourism and cognate literature.FindingsThe paper identifies some of the interrelationships between different areas of health and medical tourism, including wellness and wellbeing tourism, dental tourism, stem‐cell tourism, transplant tourism, abortion tourism, and xeno‐tourism. Key to defining these areas are the relationships to concepts of wellness and illness and the extent to which regulation encourages individuals to engage in cross‐border purchase of health services and products. Key themes that emerge in the literature include regulation, ethics, the potential individual and public health risks associated with medical tourism, and the relative lack of information on the extent of medical tourism.Social implicationsThe development of international medical tourism is demonstrated to have potentially significant implications for global public health.Originality/valueThe paper covers an extensive range of academic literature on international medical tourism which indicates the different approaches and emphases of research in different disciplines as well as the ideological and philosophical differences that exist with respect to health medical tourism. The paper also notes that some of the individual and public health risks of medical tourism are not usually incorporated into assessments of its potential economic benefits.
Wellness tourists: in search of transformation
Authors: Voigt Cornelia , Brown Graham , Howat Gary 
Published: June 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore and compare the benefits sought by three different types of wellness tourists: beauty spa, lifestyle resort, and spiritual retreat visitors.Design/methodology/approachBased on the findings from 27 semi‐structured interviews with wellness tourists a benefits of wellness tourism scale (BWTS) was developed. It was used to measure 46 benefit items and was mailed to people included on the client/member lists of three Australian wellness tourism organisations.FindingsIn total, six benefit factors emerged from a principal axis factor analysis: transcendence; physical health and appearance; escape and relaxation; important others and novelty; re‐establish self‐esteem; and indulgence. A one‐way MANOVA, followed by a series of ANOVAS, revealed significant differences between the three types of tourists regarding the importance attributed to each of the six benefit factors. While all participants in the study sought transformation of the self, each identifiable group of tourists placed different emphasis on physical, psychological or spiritual transformations. Moreover, each group differed significantly in terms of demographic and travel behaviour characteristics.Originality/valueThe relevance of this paper lies in its adoption of a comprehensive approach to the investigation of the potential differences between three wellness tourist groups regarding the socio‐demographic profile, travel behaviour, and the benefits sought. Previous studies have focused on a single particular wellness tourist group. Furthermore, the BWTS may be applicable for use in future comparative studies of wellness tourist motivation.
The discourse of medical tourism in the media
Authors: Mainil Tomas , Platenkamp Vincent , Meulemans Herman 
Published: June 2011

PurposeNon‐discursive practices such as the economy and political constellations have always caused shifts in history. However, in the network society of today, these shifts have become omnipresent. Globalization of health and medical tourism have created a shift or rupture in the history of healthcare provision and into the lives of different stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to detect and assess the rupture caused by global health care or medical tourism within the field of the written media, in order to define the reality of medical tourism as a trans‐historical field.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology of this study comprised an extensive discourse analysis of written and new media performed over a time frame of more than a decade. Market, medical, ethical and patient discourses were detected along scientific sources, international and local newspapers.FindingsResults indicate that a change in the market discourse has caused a shift in the attitude towards medical tourism, where ethical voices are seen as submissive to the market logic. In the current time perspective, medical tourism has become more mature with the development of non‐ethical counterparts such as organ tourism and reproductive tourism as a consequence.Originality/valueThe research framework shows that the general public receives a normative message from the medical tourism sector.
Systematic review of web sites for prospective medical tourists
Authors: Lunt Neil , Carrera Percivil 
Published: June 2011

PurposeA key driver in the medical tourism phenomenon is the platform provided by the internet for gaining access to healthcare information and advertising. Given the pivotal role of web‐based resources, there are important questions about their role and function including: the availability and types of information provided; information provenance and reliability; and privacy protection. This paper aims to address these questions.Design/methodology/approachThe paper provides the first systematic review of medical tourism sites, interrogating them for the range and quality of advice on seeking care.FindingsA typology of sites (industry, media, professional, and consumer sites) was identified and quantitative and qualitative assessment tools were used to explore the content of information and materials.Originality/valueIn light of this review, the paper comments on the nature of medical tourism information available and the extent to which information asymmetry – rife in the market for healthcare – is alleviated allowing for the better functioning of the market for medical tourism.