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Technical product‐service systems: some implications for the machine tool industry
Authors: Azarenko A. , Roy R. , Shehab E. , Tiwari A. 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop a technical product‐service systems (t‐PSS) for the BoX® (Big OptiX) ultra precision free‐form grinding machine which has been designed and developed at Cranfield University. BoX is a new machine concept where advanced mass production and ultra precision technologies are combined.Design/methodology/approachThis work utilises the machine as a demonstration case study to investigate t‐PSS for the machine tool providers. It develops three t‐PSS business models for the BoX machine: product‐, use‐ and result‐oriented.FindingsThe paper discusses the stakeholders' responsibilities, cash flows, application sectors, and consequently benefits and shortcomings of the three business approaches.Practical implicationsThe enhancement of competition from low cost economies, vibrant market requirements and increasing customer demands cannot be addressed merely by the latest achievements in technology. As a response to this, the modern manufacturing industry is shifting its orientation towards t‐PSS. t‐PSS is an integrated product and service offering that delivers value in use.Originality/valueThe novelty of this paper lies in identifying and analysing the key implications of t‐PSS on machine tool industry using the BoX machine as an example case study.
Algorithms for structure‐based grouping in XML‐OLAP
Authors: Kit Chantola , Amagasa Toshiyuki , Kitagawa Hiroyuki 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to propose efficient algorithms for structural grouping over Extensible Markup Language (XML) data, called TOPOLOGICAL ROLLUP (T‐ROLLUP), which are to compute aggregation functions based on XML data with multiple hierarchical levels. They play important roles in the online analytical processing of XML data, called XML‐OLAP, with which complex analysis over XML can be performed to discover valuable information from XML.Design/methodology/approachSeveral variations of algorithms are proposed for efficient T‐ROLLUP computation. First, two basic algorithms, top‐down algorithm (TDA) and bottom‐up algorithm (BUA), are presented in which the well‐known structural‐join algorithms are used. The paper then proposes more efficient algorithms, called single‐scan by preorder number and single‐scan by postorder number (SSC‐Pre/Post), which are also based on structural joins, but have been modified from the basic algorithms so that multiple levels of grouping are computed with a single scan over node lists. In addition, the paper attempts to adopt the algorithm for parallel execution in multi‐core environments.FindingsSeveral experiments are conducted with XMark and synthetic XML data to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms. The experiments show that proposed algorithms perform much better than the naïve implementation. In particular, the proposed SSC‐Pre and SSC‐Post perform better than TDA and BUA for all cases. Beyond that, the experiment using the parallel single scan algorithm also shows better performance than the ordinary basic algorithm.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper focuses on the T‐ROLLUP operation for XML data analysis. For this reason, other operations related to XML‐OLAP, such as CUBE, WINDOWING, and RANKING should also be investigated.Originality/valueThe paper presents an extended version of one of the award winning papers at iiWAS2008.
Enforcing data consistency in data integration systems by XQuery trigger service
Authors: Lu Jing , Mitschang Bernhard 
Published: June 2009

PurposeExtensible Markup Language (XML)‐based data integration systems (DIS) aim to support global updates. Data consistency among data sources is not yet enforced at the integration level or enforced in anad hocmanner which leads to redundant checking of consistency or unrepairable mistakes. This paper aims to provide XQuery trigger service to enforce data integrity and data consistency in the DIS at the integration level.Design/methodology/approachData consistency is enforced among data sources through providing XQuery trigger service for the XML‐DIS. An XQuery trigger model is defined and shown how to use this model to define different integrity constraints and triggers at the integration level. The paper proposes the architecture of the XQuery trigger service and shows how to enforce data consistency in the DIS. Important components including event detection, condition evaluation and action firing are discussed. Necessary algorithms including how to produce ChangeRecord, how to find activated triggers, how to process LET and FOR clauses and how to create data objects from XML fragment are proposed. Trigger termination and failure handling are also discussed.FindingsXQuery trigger can express miscellaneous data integrity constraints and triggers in the DIS and is highly abstract, refined and easy to understand. XQuery trigger service provides an easy‐to‐maintain method of the data consistency rules and a uniform, nonredundant and centralized enforcement of data consistency.Originality/valueAn XQuery trigger model with namespace annotations, which can define constraints and triggers among different data sources. An XQuery trigger service architecture for the XML‐DIS, which can enforce data consistency at the integration level. For DIS administrators, who want to enforce data consistency when permitting updates at the integration level.
Sticks and stones: decision making by rumour
Authors: Lee Monica 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore how financial risk is managed and commercial decisions are made within a successful UK livestock market.Design/methodology/approachAn autoethnographic approach is used, in which the researcher is both active participant and reflective observer.FindingsIn contrast to “best practice” described in management texts, commercial risk management and financial decision making in this community are successfully guided by rumour.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper is limited to the extent that one believes in the validity of autoethnography, however, it is argued that these findings are a reflection of the wider nature of the agricultural community, immersed as it is in life and death, and that this culture is significantly different to that commonly addressed by textbooks.Practical implicationsThis paper highlights a distinction between the tenets of the western world as addressed in textbooks and the agricultural community that exists alongside, and it suggests that following best practice might not lead to success if that best practice is ignorant of the culture in which it is rooted.Originality/valueThis paper provides empirical evidence that the tenets of the rural community are at odds with those of sanitised western management and that successful management of financial risk is culture specific. It questions why such differences exist and furthers debate about the influence of “our common neglect of death”.
The highways and byways of organisation studies: reflections on 30 years of critique
Authors: Jackson Norman , Carter Pippa 
Published: June 2009

PurposeOne obvious and troubling phenomenon in critical organisation studies (OS) is the lack of impact that the new epistemologies had on organisational practice. After about two decades of demonstrating the biases, poor explanatory power and latent dangers of the orthodoxy, a declining utility in further revelations of this kind is sensed. Whereas, there may have been insufficient attention paid to the power aspect of the power/knowledge nexus, it is suggested that this is changing with an emergent focus on the role of political economy, which, hopefully, presages a new revolutionary urge in critical OS. This paper seeks to explore the issues.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is a necessarily selective review of the developments within OS, within a historical context, that briefly examines the fate of other attempts to challenge the dominant managerialist paradigm. The authors look at evidence from an emergent literature on political economy and from a more general set of concerns, both expert and lay, regarding (physical and social) global depredations.FindingsCause for both optimism and pessimism is found within emergent developments in OS. The attention being paid to political economy offers a prospect of overcoming the experienced impotence of the preceding epistemological critique. However, the authors fear that the capitalist interest, together with its apologists, will continue to resist insights and evidence that might require them to change for the benefit of humanity.Originality/valueStimulated by the widespread concern about the impotence of critical OS, this paper, by looking at the trajectory of the epistemological revolution, seeks to illustrate the potentiality and pitfalls facing an emergent political economy perspective.
Betrayal and friendship
Authors: French Robert , Case Peter , Gosling Jonathan 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between friendship and betrayal. Both are perceived to involve dynamics that can have a major impact in organizations, but both have tended to be under researched.Design/methodology/approachThe paper brings together ideas from psychoanalysis (object relations theory), archetypal psychology, and the history of ideas (the friendship tradition). It also uses a case study to explore how the emerging framework applies in reality.FindingsThe exploration led to the conclusion that betrayal may have its roots at the same deep level of the psyche as friendship and they may, therefore, be equally fundamental developmentally.Originality/valueThe paper opens up an important area for further study and application. It is intended to give status to two experiences that are of great importance to managers and managed, leaders and led, consultants and students.
The influence of money attitudes on young Chinese consumers' compulsive buying
Authors: Li Dongjin , Jiang Ying , An Shenghui , Shen Zhe , Jin Wenji 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how young Chinese consumers' money attitudes influence their compulsive buying behavior.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 303 undergraduate students from Tianjin and Ningbo (two major cities in coastal China) answered a self‐administered questionnaire.FindingsMoney attitudes were found to significantly affect young Chinese consumers' compulsive buying behaviour. Specifically, the Retention‐Time dimension significantly affected both male and female consumers' compulsive buying. However, the Power‐Prestige dimension only affected male consumers' compulsive buying. Finally, the Quality dimension had a greater impact on male than on female consumers' compulsive buying.Research limitations/implicationsThe data were collected in two major cities in the coastal region of China. Given the differences between coastal and inland China, caution must be taken when generalizing the research results to young consumers from inland China.Practical implicationsThe discussion of the relationships between young Chinese consumers' money attitudes and their compulsive buying will help marketers and policy makers to better understand these consumers' spending behaviour. Thus, marketers can identify new market opportunities and form marketing strategies to target young consumers in China. On the other hand, policy makers can also form more effective education strategies to help young consumers to spend wisely.Originality/valueDifferent from previous research in money attitudes and compulsive behaviour, the research provides an in‐depth overview of how male and female young Chinese consumers perceive money and how their beliefs about money affect their spending.
Influence of television advertising on adolescents in China: an urban‐rural comparison
Authors: Chan Kara , Cai Xiao 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the cultivation effects of television advertising viewing on the perceived affluence in society and the materialistic value orientations among adolescents in urban and rural China.Design/methodology/approachThe paper shows that a survey of 646 adolescents aged 11 to 17, in Guangzhou City, and in a rural county of Henan Province, was conducted in 2006. Constructs were measured using established scales.FindingsTelevision advertising viewing demonstrated first‐ and second‐order cultivation effects among urban as well as rural respondents. Heavy television advertising viewers were more likely to have a higher perceived affluence than light television advertising viewers. Heavy television advertising viewers were also more materialistic than light television advertising viewers. When television‐advertising viewing was controlled, urban respondents had a higher perceived affluence, while rural respondents had a higher level of materialism.Research limitations/implicationsStudents in grades 7 and 8 were examined only. A convenient sampling method was adopted. The city selected for the study is highly advanced in terms of economical and advertising development compared with most other Chinese cities.Practical implicationsRural adolescents did not hold strong beliefs about prevalence of affluence in society. Popularity appeal may not be a fruitful marketing communication strategy for durable goods for them. Different marketing communication strategies should be adopted for the urban and rural adolescents as target audience.Originality/valueThe paper is a pioneer work on the study of consumption values of adolescents in urban and rural China.
Children's influences on family decision making in Hong Kong
Authors: Ming Wut Tai , Chou Ting‐Jui 
Published: June 2009

PurposeFocus of previous research into family purchasing decisions has centred on the husband and wife. Children's influences on family decision making have increased in recent decades. The purpose of this paper is to investigate children's influences on Chinese family decision making in Hong Kong.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on a survey of 366 family members in Hong Kong.FindingsChildren are found to have more influence in the choice‐making stage of decision making and parents still control the final decision, which is consistent with previous research findings.Practical implicationsParents and their children usually engage jointly in family decision making. Marketers should address the needs of both parties and work to help to resolve any conflict that may arise.Originality/valueThe study is framed within resources theory to examine children's influence in two decision stages of family decision making.
Afghanistan and multiculturalism in Khaled Hosseini's novels: study of place and diversity
Authors: Agnello Mary F. , Todd Reese H. , Olaniran Bolanle , Lucey Thomas A. 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to frame Khaled Hosseini's novels,The Kite RunnerandA Thousand Splendid Suns, as literature to expand and enhance the American secondary curriculum with multicultural themes based on Afghanistan as a geographical and cultural place in a dynamic, diverse, and complex world more mediated than ever before by computer technologies.Design/methodology/approachThe methodological approach to the study is a synthesis of geographic education grounded in the concept of place and diversity pedagogy.FindingsKhaled Hosseini's web site has become the cyber place where hundreds of readers from around the world come to express their deep emotional reactions toThe Kite RunnerandA Thousand Splendid Suns. At the same time, that so many diverse international readers are responding favorably to Hosseini's novels, his works are being censored in classrooms in the USA. The research outlines geographical and cultural geographic features of Afghanistan – a place torn by military efforts of several nations. In the context of diversity pedagogy, the power of the novels portrays “difference,” yet humanity in need of understanding. Further attention is given to the censorship of ideas in American education, with Hosseini's books as one example.Originality/valueThis paper frames Hosseini's novels as place‐based literature illustrating the homeland of Afghanistan now more accessible than ever before to international and US classrooms.
Conceptual collective online reflection in multicultural education classes
Authors: Oikonomidoy Eleni 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to demonstrate how collective conceptual reflections facilitated by online blogs can promote pre‐service teachers' growth in multicultural education classes.Design/methodology/approachAnalysis of one blog is used to demonstrate how information gained through that triggered the instructor's informed reflection and guided subsequent in‐class teaching/learning.FindingsThrough the analysis of the demonstrative blog, it becomes apparent that while pre‐service teachers were appropriating vocabulary used in the field of multicultural education, their narratives were superficial and oversimplified. Subsequent in‐class activities designed to attend to the conceptual gaps were used to problematize the simplistic views.Research limitations/implicationsThe data presented cannot be generalized to all pre‐service teachers. Since the purpose of this paper is to attend to the process and not the content, the demonstrative blog serves only as one possible example, which can be easily adapted with different concepts/goals.Practical implicationsIt is proposed that the identification of students' collective zones of proximal development (Vygotsky) in key elements of the multicultural learning chain can provide important information to the instructor for the re‐design of future teaching.Originality/valueContinual assessment of the effectiveness of multicultural education classes is needed, if such classes are to have a long‐term impact on pre‐service teachers' future practice. The micro‐level method proposed in this paper offers one possible way to manage the oftentimes overwhelming amount of information that they are built upon while continually monitoring students' learning.
Construction project procurement routes: an in‐depth critique
Authors: Oyegoke Adekunle S. , Dickinson Michael , Khalfan Malik M.A. , McDermott Peter , Rowlinson Steve 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine different categories of building project procurement routes based on organisational, contractual, financial and technical issues.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on review of literature and conditions of contracts. The UK construction industry serves as a general frame of reference. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors survey ofContracts in Usefrom 1985 to 2004 is used to probe the share and value of contracts along different procurement routes and across different conditions of contracts in the UK. The logic is that the value and the share of contracts will indicate the behaviour of different procurement routes in the UK construction market while the in‐depth analysis of conditions of contracts will show the gaps and relationships between the general definition/categorisation and contractual context (conditions of contracts) of each of the procurement routes.FindingsThe preliminary result of the analysis shows that traditional routes remain the main type of procurement route for the construction project industry sector, within which different management and incentivisation systems are applied for greater efficiency. The conditions of contracts in the UK support this assertion by aligning different procurement routes to different conditions of contracts and additionally specifying different forms of agreements, special provisions and incentivisation in order to increase performance, reduce risks and improve compensation methods.Research limitations/implicationsThe study can serve as a learning opportunity for construction project stakeholders internationally, and clients in particular, to differentiate between procurement routes, management‐oriented systems, relational contracting and incentivisation.Originality/valueThe research provides an original assessment of construction procurement which can be used as intervening tool in different levels of private and public procurement strategies.
Managing delivery of sanitation infrastructures for poor communities
Authors: Beauséjour Julie 
Published: June 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how lessons learnt from a case study of a sanitation project undertaken in periurban Vietnam can indicate a more sustainable scale of operations by decentralization. In context of high urbanization in South‐East Asia, periurban areas suffer increasing environmental pressure and lack access to environmental infrastructures. As the government of Vietnam has not yet defined its supply programme for sanitation, central governmental supply and operation is questioned by various small non‐governmental organizations (NGO) that could successfully provide community‐managed projects.Design/methodology/approachA pilot wastewater management community project by an international NGO serves as a case study for capacity‐analysis at the local level. Using interviews with experts and user‐oriented focus groups, both the village and household capacities to participate in the project are analyzed.FindingsThe research identifies the skills and expertise necessary for the management of a sustainable sanitation service. Observing local skills and resulting outputs of the community‐managed system provides comprehensive insight about the highest needs of local support and clarifies coordination priorities between stakeholders.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper is limited to one country and context, while findings can be useful in similar contexts it cannot be generally applied.Practical implicationsThe Lai Xa project demonstrates that operation decentralization could be highly profitable for the authorities compared to the traditional approach of government supply and maintenance. Local communities could, with proper training, manage and maintain a simple sanitation system. The sustainability of these community services finally depends on proper coordination by water and sanitation authorities providing specialized technical and managerial support.Originality/valueThere is a dearth of literature on project case studies in the NGO world and this paper helps to broaden the understanding of the interface between project management and aid project delivery by providing useful insights on how the project uses a complex system of capacities at various levels.