bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Justice in entrepreneurial organizations
Authors: Newbert Scott L. , Stouder Michael D. 
Published: April 2011

PurposeJustice is a traditional and central moral criterion in society, and is determined, expressed, and assessed differently in different social settings. The purpose of this paper is to propose a justice perspective from contemporary political philosophy in order to explore and prescribe ethical justice behavior in the context of entrepreneurial firms.Design/methodology/approachJohn Rawls' influential political theory of justice is examined and then discussed as a potential guide for the ethical decision making of founders of new organizations.FindingsThe empirical realities of entrepreneurs are curiously analogous to Rawlsian choosers in the original position as they operate under a similar veil of ignorance. As a development of the authors' argument, three entrepreneur‐inspired justice principles are suggested.Social implicationsA society of entrepreneurs who value fairness with regard to their stakeholders is likely to shape the business environment in ways that figure into assumptions of business decisions for all organizations, which may in turn result in a society in which all organizational stakeholders are treated fairly.Originality/valueThe paper shows that a Rawlsian justice perspective is plausible, illuminating, and potentially useful when applied to the entrepreneurial context.
Corruption, fraud and cybercrime as dehumanizing phenomena
Authors: Dion Michel 
Published: April 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe corruption, fraud and cybercrime as dehumanizing phenomena.Design/methodology/approachBerdiaeff's notion of slavery and Sartre's concepts of lie and bad faith are used in order to put light on the dehumanizing effects of corruption, fraud and cybercrime over social life itself.FindingsCorruption, fraud and cybercrime constitute dehumanizing processes insofar as they undermine mutual trust among people. When they arise in the organizational setting, corruption and fraud (committed through cyberspace or any other means) are institutionalizing suspicion and creating a deep loss of mutual trust and confidence within the organization. Human relationships within a corrupt and fraudulent organization are harder to develop than in a workplace characterized by honesty and integrity.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper is focusing on Berdiaeff's notion of slavery and Sartrian concepts of lie and bad faith. It does not reflect all aspects of dehumanizing phenomena such as corruption, fraud and cybercrime.Practical implicationsThe analysis reveals the way in which Sartrian concepts of lie and bad faith could be applied to the behavior of corrupt and fraudulent people as well as cybercriminals.Social implicationsOwing to the transnational nature of both corruption, fraud and cybercrime, such phenomena negatively affect the potentialities to develop a cross‐cultural and interreligious dialogue on the international scene.Originality/valueThe originality of the paper is that it reveals that the way an organization could fight corruption, fraud and cybercrime could be determined by its propensity to tolerate lies and bad faith in its organizational culture.
The volatility transmission of stock returns across Asia, Europe, and North America
Authors: Chiou Ingyu 
Published: April 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the lead‐lag relationships between three major stock markets (Tokyo, London, and New York) over the period 1997‐2007, using the return‐volatility variable. The study aims to use new data to test how one national stock market affects another national stock market, which is one focus of the market integration literature.Design/methodology/approachThe paper employs the traditional regression model because three stock markets (Tokyo, London, and New York) are in different time zones and trading takes place sequentially. Specifically, the intraday return is calculated from the daily open and close prices.FindingsThis paper finds strong evidence that three stock markets are significantly interdependent: Tokyo leads London and New York; London leads New York and Tokyo; and New York leads Tokyo and London. In particular, the tie between London and New York is the strongest. Most of the author's results are consistent with those of previous studies.Practical implicationsFirst, there may exist profitable investment strategies in one market by observing the performance of another market that was just closed. Second, regulators should pay close attention to not only the domestic market but also the foreign markets and be ready to deal with adverse situations accordingly. Third, achieving international diversification in portfolio management may become more challenging because of high correlations between markets.Originality/valueThis paper extends the existing literature in market integration by using return volatility to test how one market affects another market. Our new evidence confirms that there are high degrees of linkages between Tokyo, London, and New York.
Does index investing work in bonds?
Authors: Chang C. Edward , Krueger Thomas M. 
Published: April 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine operating characteristics, risk and performance measures of all available vehicles for index investing in US bond funds during the 15‐year period from April, 1994 to March, 2009. The results shed light on the important issue of bond index mutual funds (BIMFs) and bond exchange‐traded funds (BETFs) performance compared with average of all bond mutual funds.Design/methodology/approachData were obtained from Morningstar Principia. Operating characteristics include expense ratios, annual turnover rates, and tax cost ratios. Performance measures include average annual returns and return percentile rank in category, risks (measured by standard deviation) and risk‐adjusted returns (measured by the Sharpe ratio).FindingsBIMFs and BETFs have significantly lower expense ratios and annual turnover rates than category averages. Their returns and risk‐adjusted returns are significantly higher than bond category averages.Research limitations/implicationsFuture studies will be able to benefit from a larger sample size, longer performance records, and the strength of bond index funds in foreign markets.Practical implicationsBoth BIMFs and bond exchange‐traded mutual funds have significantly lower expense and annual turnover rates, making them preferred investment choices.Social implicationsEfforts by active bond mutual fund managers to beat index benchmarks have largely failed. Investors should be wary of bond mutual fund managers touting their ability to beat the average or a bond index.Originality/valueThe advantage of investment in BIMFs and BETFs is clear.
Turning practically: broadening the horizon
Authors: Eikeland Olav , Nicolini Davide 
Published: April 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue, positioning the articles in relation to the current “turn to practice” within organisation and management studies.Design/methodology/approachThe paper introduces a schematic classification of ways of putting practice at the centre of the concern of social scientists depending on the interest of the researcher and his/her position with regard to the object of the research.FindingsThe paper finds that turning to practice does not necessarily, or simply, equate with becoming more engaged, or with making social science relevant, or with moving social science closer to the practical concerns of separate practitioners. It is argued that the effort should be concentrated on developing a type of theory that helps practitioners articulate what they already do, and therefore somehow know. The model for this way of theorising would therefore be not physics or astronomy but rather grammar – a discipline that although just as old, has been based traditionally on a very different relationship between knower and known.Practical implicationsThe paper argues that when conceived after a grammatical model, “theory” may become a resource to be used in action and for action to produce emancipatory awareness and trigger change through critical reflection.Originality/valueThe papers in this special issue constitute an initial contribution in this direction as they indicate different ways in which theory, when developed “with” and “amid” and not “for” or even “about” practitioners, may become a powerful trigger of change and transformation.
Development of activity through reflection: the case of the public prosecutor'slapsus linguae
Authors: Kostulski Katia 
Published: April 2011

PurposeDrawing upon a case study with public prosecutors, this article seeks to illustrate a reflective methodology for the analysis of activities.Design/methodology/approachThe paper first describes the origin of the intervention at the National School of Magistracy and the great diversity of public prosecutor daily activities, and then presents the theoretical and methodological framework employed: the “clinic of activity” and its associated analyses in “crossed self‐confrontation”. This perspective organizes a developmental process in the professional experience of professionals by the way of the analysis methodology, constructed in a Vygotskian interpretation of the thought‐language relations and its consequences for consciousness and psychological development. Finally, the paper illustrates the approach using the example of a micro‐event, alapsus lingaethat occurred during work activity, and shows how such an apparently insignificant “detail” can become a subject of reflection and enable an individual and collective elaboration of thinking about work.FindingsBy examining this singular event and the progression of its interpretation, the paper attempts to explain the approach and field of operation in the clinic of activity. This example shows how an apparently insignificant event can lead to an analysis of the work activity. In this example, an error in pronunciation, interpreted by the professionals as alapsus linguae, is the basis of an analysis which makes it possible to show and develop the principle of the counter argument, the obligations that this principle carries, as well as the historical and generic forms of the counter argument within hearings.Originality/valueThis paper looks to transform preoccupied professionals into occupied professionals, or in other words, to expand the profession's limits.
Through the eyes of others
Authors: Nicolini Davide , Hartley Jean , Stansfield Annette , Hurcombe Judith 
Published: April 2011

PurposeThis paper seeks to critically examine the principles, mechanisms, and critical success factors of developmental peer review as a way to promote reflection and change in organizations.Design/methodology/approachThis paper calls developmental peer review the structured, managed, and collaborative process whereby reputable others are invited into an organisation to provide feedback and offer guidance on organisational change and improvement. In the paper, the authors use the example of developmental peer review in UK local government both to foreground some of the distinctive aspects of the methodology and to identify some of its critical conditions of use.FindingsThe paper argues that this type of initiative often co‐exists with a more judgemental inspection‐oriented double. The institutional framework that surrounds developmental peer review makes it therefore both a powerful and delicate tool. There is a need in this initiative to maintain a dynamic balance to avoid either coercion or collusion in review.Practical implicationsIn order to achieve its potential, peer review needs to be clearly framed and constructed as a developmental initiative. In the paper, a number of suggestions of how to do so are offered. If doubts exist on the nature of the exercise, it is likely that people will interpret it as a form of inspection and react defensively, reducing its capacity to trigger learning and transformation.Originality/valueThis paper advances knowledge and understanding about developmental peer review, by drawing on the relevant literature and also analysing a prevalent form of such review in current use in local government organizations in England and Wales.
Supporting expansive learning through theoretical‐genetic reflection in the Change Laboratory
Authors: Virkkunen Jaakko , Ahonen Heli 
Published: April 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to show the importance of theoretical‐genetic reflection in expansive learning and the transformation of an activity.Design/methodology/approachCultural‐historical activity theory is used to explicate forms of work‐related reflection, and an intervention method based on activity theory, the change laboratory, is presented.FindingsDifferent levels of reflection and the intellectual tools needed for them are identified.Research limitations/implicationsThe empirical support presented for the theoretical ideas in the article is based on an exemplary case. This intervention method makes it possible to analyze reflection as a tool‐mediated collaborative activity.Practical implicationsThe change laboratory method can be used to support expansive learning and learning to learn in work communities.Originality/valueThe paper introduces a less well‐known original intervention methodology to the audience of the JOCM and demonstrates how it connects some current lines of thought in change management.
Future sustainable supply chains: what should companies scan?
Authors: Fabbe‐Costes Nathalie , Roussat Christine , Colin Jacques 
Published: April 2011

PurposeCompanies that try to build sustainable supply chains or that have to reengineer their supply chains to face sustainable development issues are confronted with such a complex and uncertain context that scanning their environment becomes more than ever necessary. This paper makes up the first stage of a research program. It aims to find an adequate scanning approach for sustainable supply chain design.Design/methodology/approachThe research follows a two‐steps methodology. First, it looks for appropriate scanning frameworks by reviewing the dedicated literature. Second, it gathers ideas and knowledge combining an analysis of sustainable supply chain empirical studies with the collection of experts' scanning know‐how, by means of semi‐structured interviews.FindingsThis first stage of the research program suggests use of a multi‐and interrelated levels scope for sustainable scanning with a network perspective. The renewed target approach it promotes results in modifying scanning priorities. The overall findings shape up the first draft of a sustainable scanning framework, including a multi‐levels scope of analysis, a list of sustainable targets and a first contribution concerning scanning methods and attitudes.Research limitations/implicationsThe relevance of our scanning framework needs further testing to validate its usefulness and provide recommendations for managers.Practical implicationsThe paper proposes a scanning framework and a list of targets that could be implemented by professionals.Originality/valueThe contribution in this paper is to link environmental scanning and sustainable development adding a supply chain orientation, and to propose a conceptual “sustainable scanning framework”. It is hoped that further research will prove that it has interesting managerial implications for companies challenged by sustainable development issues.
The moderating effects of technological and demand uncertainties on the relationship between supply chain integration and customer delivery performance
Authors: Boon‐itt Sakun , Yew Wong Chee 
Published: April 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to test the moderating effects of technological and demand uncertainties on the relationship between supply chain integration and customer delivery performance.Design/methodology/approachBased on a survey questionnaire with 151 participants in the Thai automotive industry supply chain, hierarchical regressions are used to test the moderating effects.FindingsInternal and supplier integration, but not customer integration, were positively associated with customer delivery performance. Technological and demand uncertainties were found to moderate the relationships between internal integration and customer delivery performance, and supplier integration and customer delivery performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe moderating effects of technological and demand uncertainties in the Thai automotive just‐in‐time (JIT) environment are explained. This research contributes to the development of a contingency theory of supply chain integration suggesting that the impacts of supply chain integration on customer delivery performance vary under different levels of technological and demand uncertainties.Practical implicationsManagers recognize the diminishing effects of internal integration and supplier integration under demand uncertainty, and the increasing effect of supplier integration under high technological uncertainty.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the supply chain management literature by clarifying the moderating effects of technological and demand uncertainties on the relationship between supply chain integration and customer delivery performance.
Service supply chain management
Authors: Stentoft Arlbjørn Jan , Vagn Freytag Per , de Haas Henning 
Published: April 2011

PurposeLean has long been developed and utilised in the manufacturing setting. Today, lean seems to be applicable in all organisational settings; and recently, lean has been applied in the municipal sector. The purpose of this paper is to investigate lean practices in the municipal sector in a service supply chain management (SCM) context.Design/methodology/approachThis paper analyses lean implementation in Danish municipalities through the use of two sets of questionnaire surveys from 2008 to 2009. Furthermore, data based on three confirmative case studies of lean implementations are included.FindingsThe paper outlines a model that illustrates under which conditions lean is deemed most appropriate according to the type of service delivered. The surveys and case studies show that lean is mainly implemented as “toolbox lean,” such as with value stream mapping, kaizen and information boards. In addition, the analyses show that the lean philosophy can be used by the public sector to be more effective in terms of cost reduction and service improvements if the assumptions for implementing lean exist.Research limitations/implicationsFrom a supply chain perspective, data are collected only from a focal firm perspective (municipalities). Future research must investigate lean applications in public service supply chains from interorganisational perspectives.Practical implicationsThis paper provides guidance on the concept of lean and on under which circumstances it may be applied in a public service SCM context. Furthermore, it stresses the importance of defining the customers and clarifying their demands in terms of value requirements.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to study the lean philosophy in the public sector from a service supply chain perspective.
Modifying alcohol consumption among high school students
Authors: Hallgren Mats Å. , Sjölund Torbjörn , Kallmén Håkan , Andréasson Sven 
Published: April 2011

PurposePRIME for Life is an alcohol risk reduction program that has been used and refined in the USA for over 20 years. A Swedish version of the program has recently been adapted for use among Swedish high‐school students (age 18‐19). The objective of the study is to evaluate the effects of the program on youth alcohol consumption (including high risk drinking), attitudes and knowledge about the effects of alcohol use.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a randomised controlled trial involving 23 schools and 926 students. Data collection was conducted with questionnaires focusing primarily on drinking behaviour. Participants were followed up at five and 20 months to assess changes in drinking behaviour, knowledge and attitudes towards alcohol.FindingsNo significant program effects on drinking behaviour were found. Knowledge about the effects of alcohol consumption on health increased after the intervention, as did negative attitudes towards alcohol, but these effects eroded over time.Originality/valueDespite being widely used in the USA and Sweden, the impact of PRIME for Life is under‐reported in the literature. This is the first independent evaluation of the program focusing on high school age youth. The findings do not support the efficacy of the program as a risk reduction or behaviour change tool in a school environment.
Maximising sponsorship opportunities: a brand model approach
Authors: Renard Nicolas , Sitz Lionel 
Published: April 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify the key elements that maximise sponsorship opportunities and that enable a successful relationship between a sponsor and a sponsored party.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on a review of the literature and takes a case study approach. The paper first identifies the classic aspects of sponsor relationships and then explores new criteria to propose a brand model approach. Practical examples are taken out of the sailing team Alinghi who raced the America's Cup.FindingsThe paper suggests that the key success factor for a sponsored party is to act as a brand. This brand should have four strong pillars to build its brand essence: its own identity, a clear offer for a value creation process, an organisation to support this offer in line with strategic alliances of the sponsor and identified targets or consumers.Originality/valueSponsorship is part of the daily life of any business and can take many forms. Moreover, the large number of sponsorship opportunities does not help entities looking for financial support to stand out easily. However, few opportunities meet all criteria to build an effective sponsor relationship. The authors believe that a brand model approach is the best way to achieve such goal. Alinghi (America's Cup 2003 and 2007 winner) is a perfect example of this new approach.
Structural and perceptual determinants of the price of online business education
Authors: Estelami Hooman , Rezvani Zeinab 
Published: April 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to conduct a formal study of how the prices for online MBA programs in the USA are determined. The paper examines the effects of perceptual (e.g. rankings and accreditation) and structural characteristics (e.g. program length, program format) of online MBA programs on tuition levels charged.Design/methodology/approachPublicly available secondary data from a sample of 115 online MBA programs in the USA, including program characteristic information and prices, is used. Regression analysis is used to uncover the underlying pricing model.FindingsPerceptual variables are found to have significantly greater effect on prices charged than structural variables, at times enabling institutions to nearly double their revenue stream on a per‐student basis.Research limitations/implicationsThe research approach can be extended to uncover the pricing models used in distance learning programs in fields other than business, and to examine such relationships outside the scope of American institutions.Originality/valueThe use of distance learning methods for delivering course instruction in degree‐granting institutions has witnessed significant growth over the last decade. This trend has enhanced the ability of business schools to serve students that are geographically dispersed, and today nearly 400 such programs are offered in the USA alone. Despite the growth, no formal study has examined how prices (tuition levels) for such programs are determined.