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Divergent acceptance of change in a public health organization
Authors: Brunton Margaret , Matheny Jonathan 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the way in which health professional (HP)‐based subcultures interpret reform‐based changes.Design/methodology/approachA three‐phase study is carried out using thematic analysis to examine data from semi‐structured interviews held with 19 HPs to examine their responses to change. Also, responses from 639 self‐completion questionnaires and focus group interviews with 44 women provide insight into the influence of the change on end‐users of the service.FindingsThis study extends previous work through inductive examination of the interpretations of two subcultures, which reveal that acceptance of the strategic change objective is subsequently undermined by divergence in the way members of the subcultures interpret and seek to enact change – a divergent acceptance.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings result from a single case‐study healthcare setting. Future studies can extend the research to other settings.Practical implicationsThe insight into the way HP‐based subcultures interpret reform‐based changes may advance the public service that these health care organisations strive to provide; much more broadly, it may advance the understanding of change.Originality/valueThis paper shows that any significant change must accommodate existing assumptions and values and the way they colour the interpretation and enactment of change, even when agreement on superordinate objectives exists.
Organizational change capacity: the systematic development of a scale
Authors: Judge William , Douglas Thomas 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to systematically develop a reliable and valid construct that can facilitate and enhance the organizational change process by following Hinkin's suggestions for construct development. The “Organizational Capacity for Change” (OCC) construct provides a multi‐dimensional assessment tool to diagnose and guide organizational change.Design/methodology/approachIn the first empirical study, the paper provides details on the creation and refinement of the OCC instrument by reviewing the results of nearly 3,600 respondents in 161 organizational units in a wide variety of industries from 1999 to 2005. In the second empirical study, it tests the OCC instrument in a single industry to determine the validity of the measures.FindingsThe result is a reliable and valid multi‐dimensional, 32‐item instrument which describes a new construct in the organizational sciences that can be used by executives to prepare for and enhance their organizational change process, or for scholars to study the organizational change process.Practical implicationsTheoretically, this measure refines and extends the dynamic capabilities literature. Pragmatically, this measure provides a tool for assisting executives to lead organization change initiatives.Originality/valueThis measure provides a reliable and valid tool for assessing organizational change capacity, as well as provides a means for gauging improvement in organizational change capacity over time.
“This is not the same city”: narratives of postsocialist spatial change
Authors: Sliwa Martyna 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to extant literature on socioeconomic transition in Central and Eastern Europe through using a spatial lens in order to address, at the level of individual experience, some of the changes that have affected Polish society post‐1989.Design/methodology/approachThis paper adopts Taylor and Spicer's three‐fold conceptualisation of organizational space as a framework to present and discuss qualitative data collected through interviews.FindingsThis paper finds that socioeconomic restructuring has brought about changes in space conceived of as distance, as materialisation of power relations and as experience. In the narratives of research participants, present experience of space within the city they live and work in is related to their past experience and to their movement in the space. Different spaces are interconnected to form the individual's “mental map” of the city. The spatial dimension of postsocialist transition has an important impact upon the identities of individuals, and an analysis of narratives allows for gaining rich insights into the ambiguities and contradictions involved in evaluating its significance.Research limitations/implicationsAn awareness of the link between the transformation of the city and social change contributes to the understanding of postsocialist transition.Originality/valueBy applying a spatial lens to analysis of the processes of social differentiation, as experienced at the micro‐level of individuals, this paper contributes to the literatures on organizational space and postsocialist transition.
Measuring the organizational responsiveness through managerial flexibility
Authors: Verdú Antonio J. , Gómez‐Gras José‐María 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of managerial flexibility and analyse its relationship to the organizational responsiveness of firms. This paper seeks to measure responsiveness by determining the fit between contextual and organizational variables.Design/methodology/approachUsing an empirical approach and data drawn from a wide range of countries and different industries this paper obtains a sufficiently validated multidimensional scale.FindingsThe research proposes a measurement scale of organizational responsiveness through four types of managerial flexibility: internal and external, structural and strategic.Practical implicationsWhereas researchers can benefit from the development of a methodology that integrates different perspectives on fit, practitioners can identify the organizational responsiveness in their organizations.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the literature by proposing a method to identify the organizational responsiveness of firms and developing a measurement scale.
A social psychological basis of corruption and sociopathology
Authors: Yolles Maurice 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the social psychological basis of pathologies, from which result neuroses and behaviours like corruption and sociopathic behaviour. It takes the perspective that social collectives have normative minds and can be explored in terms of their social psychological processes.Design/methodology/approachKnowledge cybernetics will be used to show how pathologies can develop from the interconnection between such noumenal attributes as ideology and ethics.FindingsSocial entities have similar psychological pathologies to individual ones. Piaget's notions of how the mind operates can be applied to corporate personality, and their inability to create and coordinate different perspectives can be seen as an organisational pathology.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper is a theoretical construct that explores corruption and sociopathology at a deep conceptual level. It requires elaboration through case examples to provide pragmatic meaning.Practical implicationsThe capacity to create a methodology that is able to explore the existence and development of pathologies.Originality/valueThis is the first approach of this type using cybernetics to explore at a high conceptual focus the development of pathologies like corruption and sociopathic behaviour.
Hardware, software, and wetware
Authors: Abeles Tom P. 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThis paper aims to explore the technology‐driven horizon for education in general and post secondary education in particular.Design/methodology/approachThe paper looks at technology in education.FindingsRapid changes in information technologies will profoundly change the traditional educational institutions for students, faculty and administration. The system that has stood for basically four centuries, like the dinosaurs at the K‐T catastrophe, will not suffer immediate collapse, but will profoundly change as content, due to the rise of the internet becomes, essentially free.Originality/valueEducational systems are not immune to the laws of change. Information technologies are sufficiently strong forces that incremental evolution is not an option. This editorial calls for the system to take a serious look at itself and, while the current residents of the system may survive, the institution, itself, must look beyond the present.
An ideation game conception based on the Synectics method
Authors: Duin Heiko , Baalsrud Hauge Jannicke , Thoben Klaus‐Dieter 
Published: October 2009

PurposeIdeation, which is the generation of ideas, is the most crucial step in the early stage of innovation projects. Creativity methods can be applied for ideation purposes. Here, the paper aims to present a concept for combining a multi‐player online game called refQuest with concepts from the Synectics method.Design/methodology/approachAfter presenting the two concepts of the refQuest gaming engine and the Synectics method, an approach of how the elements of the gaming engine can be used to implement the Synectics method is shown. Beside this, an initial evaluation of the usefulness of using serious gaming for ideation purposes is given.FindingsIt is found that the elements of the Synectics method fit very well with the concepts of the gaming engine of refQuest. A concept for integration could be derived.Originality/valueThe online game refQuest is suitable to support the ideation process. Including concepts from Synectics is possible and would enhance the gaming concept.
Educator insight on simulations and games: a comparative study between business schools in Thailand and the UK
Authors: Pongpanich Chaipong , Krabuanrat Tanasak , Hua Tan Kim 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate and gain insights into the use of computer simulations and games in business schools in Thailand. In addition, it aims to compare the findings in Thailand with the study carried out in the UK.Design/methodology/approachA total of 700 questionnaires were sent to the 35 universities in Thailand that offer MBA degrees. This survey achieved a response rate of 23 percent.FindingsThe usage of simulation games in business schools in Thailand is still at an early stage of development. The primary reason to use such tools in both Thailand and the UK is that they help to increase students' interaction and teamwork. Meanwhile, lack of information on simulation games is major obstacle of using simulation games in their classroom teaching. However, the demand for computer simulations and games in the classroom is likely to increase in the future.Research limitation/implicationsThe study provides good platform for further in‐depth study on this topic in Thailand. As for practical implication, it suggests a need for more collaboration between industry and academia so that simulation games will be developed to fit with the teaching courses.Originality/valueThis study highlights the key factors underpinning the usage of these new tools in classroom teaching in the Thai context.
Learning through business games – an analysis of successes and failures
Authors: Gonen A. , Brill E. , Frank M. 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this research paper is to explore the interrelations between success in the Business Games course and other MSc courses, and the parameters that influence success in managing firms in business games.Design/methodology/approachThe research sample was comprised of graduate students from the Management of Technology faculty at Holon Institute of Technology. They study courses in the program, including the Business Games course. Special business game software, named Decision Makers, was used for the analyses. Statistical analyses of the interrelations among different program courses cover the main purpose. After defining five success criteria, statistical analyses of success and failure are presented.FindingsIn this course, success was generally uncorrelated with other courses. The reason for this was probably due to its project‐based learning (PBL) environment. The study shows that students tend to reduce their efforts across time and improve their performance, due to the “learning curve”. Analysis of the results shows that when teams overused the simulation runs, they do not analyze their situation, but rather prefer the “trial and error” method.Research limitations/implicationsThe present study provides results about the importance of training managers through using the business game simulator.Originality/valueUsing PBL is very exiting for those students who have difficulties in classroom studies. By using PBL, these students rapidly improve their management skills.
The money laundering risk posed by low‐risk financial products in South Africa
Authors: de Koker Louis 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the level and nature of criminal abuse of financial products that are classified as posing a low anti‐money laundering/combating of financing of terrorists (AML/CFT) risk in South Africa to determine the effectiveness of the simplified due diligence measures that apply to these products.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents empirical research on the views of bank officials and law enforcement officials regarding the criminal abuse of South African financial products that are subject to simplified customer due diligence controls.FindingsSouth Africa's AML/CFT laws allow certain deposit‐taking institutions and money remitters to implement simplified customer due diligence measures in relation to specific low‐risk products that are mainly designed to allow previously unbanked persons to access financial services. The paper finds that the products have been abused by criminals but that the incidence of such abuse and the amounts involved are low. The paper investigates possible weaknesses in the current system that allow limited criminal abuse to occur. It concludes with a number of guidelines that emerge from the study and are of value to regulators that wish to implement a similar system.Originality/valueThe South African AML/CFT scheme in relation to low‐risk products is of interest to many international regulators that are grappling with the interplay between effective AML/CFT controls and the impact of strict controls on the ability of socially and economically excluded persons to access appropriate financial services. This paper provides evidence that appropriately designed controls can facilitate financial inclusion while limiting the risk of criminal abuse.
Prevention of money laundering in Dutch casinos
Authors: Waterman Lilith C. , van der Kemp Jasper J. 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to assess the possibilities of formulating risk behavior characteristics to determine a guest's risk category on money laundering in casinos.Design/methodology/approachA total of 148 guests (27 women and 121 men) and their registered events (1,184 events) are analyzed by using a form of canonical correlation analysis: OVERALS. Out of the 148, 37 guests have been excluded from financial services on suspicion of criminal behavior; this group appears to show an unacceptable risk. Another 37 guests are supposed to cause a low risk and 74 guests a medium/high risk.FindingsThe results suggest that the three groups are very distinct in gambling and behavioral characteristics. It seems remarkable that the variables resembling “keeping an eye on the guests” are mainly in the risk category medium/high.Research limitations/implicationsA large part of the research group was deliberately composed of those who brought a high risk to Holland Casino. For that reason, the research group is not representative for the population of the visitors to Holland Casino.Practical implicationsOn the basis of this paper, casinos are able to validate and improve their safety policy concerning money laundering. Also other financial institutions can analogically apply the used research method.Originality/valueThis topic has hardly ever been researched, although the need is apparent. Casinos are obliged to their guests and society as a whole to provide a safe environment. Besides that, it is illegal to facilitate money laundering.
Payback time? To what extent has the new policing of assets provided new assets for policing?
Authors: Sproat Peter A. 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify the extent to which the “new policing of assets” has produced new assets for policing in the UK.Design/methodology/approachThis is achieved by producing an estimate of both the financial benefits and costs to the public purse based upon official documentation where possible.FindingsAsset recovery and anti‐money laundering work has produced some assets to be used for policing, but even using a conservative methodology it is unlikely to have produced a financial benefit which is much more than its costs, indeed the costs are likely to have been greater.Research limitations/implicationsMany parts of the cost are estimates; therefore, researchers are encouraged to ascertain the exact costs.Practical implicationsOf interest to those interested in the costs of government policies and regulations, especially the regulated sector burdened by the costs of complying with the money laundering legislation.Originality/valueThe paper attempts to fulfill the government's desire to improve the quality of the cost‐benefit analyses of the money laundering regime.
The international standards of customer due diligence and Chinese practice
Authors: Jun Tang , Ai Lishan 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to systematically introduce the latest documents of customer due diligence (CDD) issued by international organizations and developed countries, and to examine practice of CDD in China.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reviews the latest regulations and guidelines of CDD at international level, and critically examines the practice on CDD compliance in China.FindingsAlthough China has developed series of provisions concerning CDD since 2007 to response the international requirement set by Financial Action Task Force, the practical compliance still has long way to improve.Originality/valueThis paper usefully highlights the difference between Chinese practice and international standards, and proposes institutional reforms on CDD compliance in Chinese financial sectors.
The war against corruption in Nigeria: a new role for the FIRS?
Authors: Omotayo Bolodeoku Ige 
Published: October 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the implications which the recent Federal Inland Revenue Service (Establishment) Act (FIRS Act), 2007 have for the ongoing war against corruption in Nigeria.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines the relevant provisions of the Act, which confers on the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) some anti‐corruption‐related powers. It discusses how the FIRS may benefit from the existing third‐party information regime under the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act (MLA), 2004, and the amendments that should be made to the MLA to make the information regime under it serve the FIRS' purposes.FindingsThe paper points out that the main anti‐corruption‐related power conferred on the FIRS, to investigate the symmetry between taxpayers' lifestyles and their declared incomes, is similar to that conferred on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. It notes that declarations by certain categories of public officers to the Code of Conduct Bureau, which the Constitution (1999) contemplates, can provide the necessary base information for the FIRS in the discharge of its anti‐corruption‐related duties.Practical implicationsThe paper discusses the desirable amendments to the MLA, 2004 that could make the third‐party information regime under the Act useful for the FIRS in the discharge of its anti‐corruption responsibilities. It also discusses how the taxpayer identification number, which the FIRS Act empowers the FIRS to issue, may be used as income tracker and thus play the type of role which the social insurance number or the social security number plays in Canada and the USA, respectively.Originality/valueThe paper explores the possibility of alternative, and equally potent, institution to prosecute the anti‐corruption war in Nigeria. It is the first to examine how the FIRS, which the newly enacted FIRS Act, 2007 creates, may serve as that alternative. It argues that the power to investigate the symmetry between taxpayers' lifestyles and incomes, which the FIRS Act confers on the FIRS, reinforces a claim that the Act concedes to the FIRS some anti‐corruption‐related responsibilities.
Exploring the microfoundations of external technology commercialization
Authors: Bianchi Mattia , Chiesa Vittorio , Frattini Federico 
Published: October 2009

PurposeExternal technology commercialization (ETC) refers to the firm's transfer of technological assets, disembodied from products, to another organization involving a contractual obligation for compensation. The purpose of this paper is to identify the managerial and organizational antecedents that are capable of explaining superior capabilities in ETC.Design/methodology/approachStarting from an in‐depth analysis of the literature about technology commercialization and adopting the dynamic capabilities strategic perspective, the study develops a theoretical framework that shows how a number of concepts (resources, capabilities and microfoundations) may affect performance in ETC. A case study analysis is conducted with illustrative purposes.FindingsThe paper shows that adequate management and organization of ETC activities are needed to successfully undertake ETC. Combining evidence from a case study and findings from prior studies, research propositions are developed regarding key process, organizational and human resource mechanisms that lie at the heart of superior capabilities in ETC.Practical implicationsThe paper provides technology and innovation managers with a number of suggestions for organizing and managing ETC that are likely to improve performance.Originality/valueOwing to the complexity of ETC related activities and the high transaction costs characterizing the markets for technologies, only few companies are reaping the gains from the commercialization of their technologies while the majority fail to realize their potential. This paper is the first attempt, to the best knowledge of the authors, which adopts the dynamic capabilities perspective to unearth the managerial levers driving superior performance in ETC.