bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Charting intellectual capital performance of the gateway to China
Authors: Kai Wah Chu Samuel , Hang Chan Kin , Wu Wendy W.Y. 
Published: May 2011

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate whether intellectual capital (IC) has an impact on the financial aspects of organizational performance as well as attempting to identify the IC components that are associated with corporate financial performance indicators that signal organizational growth.Design/methodology/approachThis study drew on financial data from publicly available annual reports of all the constituent companies of the Hang Seng Index of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for the years 2001‐2009. Following the value added intellectual coefficient™ (VAIC) methodology, regression models were constructed to examine the relationships between IC and the corporate financial performance indicators.FindingsEvidence was found to suggest that IC, as measured by VAIC, was positively associated with profitability of businesses. In particular, structural capital, as a key component of IC, played a notable part in enhancing corporate profitability, and showed a growing trend in its significance. Empirical findings, based on correlation and linear multiple regression analysis, indicated that the components of VAIC were strong predictors of corporate financial performance such as return on equity and profitability. In particular, capital employed efficiency (CEE) was a significant predictor of all four corporate financial performance indicators.Practical implicationsThe results may extend the understanding of the role of IC in business operations in Hong Kong, and may help to identify the specific IC drivers that may have a direct impact on the financial performance of these companies. In particular, although CEE was a significant predictor of all four corporate finance performance indicators, the increasing contribution of structural capital efficiency (SCE) in predicting ROA and ROE was observed. The role that structural capital plays in strengthening business performance warrants further investigation.Originality/valueThere has only been one previous empirical study on the intellectual capital of constituent companies on the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index. This study adds to the literature as the second study in the field. It is the first comparative study across two time periods of the above‐mentioned data.
Voluntary disclosures of intellectual capital
Authors: Singh Sukhdev , Kansal Monika 
Published: May 2011

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate inter firm intellectual capital (IC) disclosures and its variations in top 20 listed pharmaceutical companies in India, study the category wise and element wise IC disclosures (ICD), find out the impact of ICD on the creation of IC in monetary terms, find out correlation between IC valuation and its disclosure, and test significance of correlation.Design/methodology/approachThis is an exploratory and empirical study of ICD by sample companies in 2009 using content analysis. IC is valued as market value minus book value. Five‐point scale (0‐4), mean disclosure score, range, Chi‐ squares, Karl Pearson's correlation and Student's t‐test are used for analysis and interpretation.FindingsAlthough top 20 companies of knowledge‐led industry, ICD are low, narrative and varying significantly among companies. ICD score varies in range of 4 to 36 against expected score of 96. External capital with mean score of 18.78 is the most disclosed category. Brands and business collaborations is most disclosed element of IC, followed by employee competence and internal organizational capital respectively. ICD leads to creation of IC in some companies. Markets reflected true valuations of ICD in seven companies, and high degree of inconsistency in 13 companies. Overall correlation between IC valuation and disclosure is negative, weak and insignificant.Practical implicationsSector‐specific intangible asset monitors should be formulated to capture ICD.Originality/valueThe paper measures ICD using five‐point scaling technique, it uses Chi‐ square test (non‐parametric test) to calculate inter‐firm variations. The paper also correlates ICD and valuation of respective companies with Spearman's correlation for the first time in pharmaceutical companies in India. It proposes inclusion of fourth category i.e. sector‐specific items in existing models of ICD.
The relation of intellectual capital disclosure strategies and market value in two political settings
Authors: Abeysekera Indra 
Published: May 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the political setting (civil war versus temporary truce) in a country has an influence on firms' current narrative, visual, and numerical intellectual capital disclosure being included in the current market value of equity.Design/methodology/approachUsing content analysis for data generation, this study identifies narrative, visual, and numerical intellectual capital disclosure in firms' annual reports. Financial data were obtained from firms' annual reports and the stock exchange. Fixed effect panel regression was conducted separately for the civil war period and temporary truce period.FindingsThe paper finds that during the period entirely beset by civil war, the current market value of equity includes net book value and current earnings only, and does not include narrative, visual, or numerical intellectual capital disclosure. During the period of temporary truce, the current market value of equity includes net book value, current earnings, and narrative disclosure, but not visual or numerical intellectual capital disclosure.Practical implicationsThe findings provide insights into the effectiveness of disclosure strategies in politically unstable environments.Originality/valueThis study analyses the disclosure strategies in a civil war and temporary truce context.
Building future sustainable cities: the need for a new mindset
Authors: Mezher Toufic 
Published: May 2011

PurposeThis paper seeks to emphasise the need for changing the mindset of all the players of the construction industry in order to meet the sustainability challenges, energy and resources, in building future cities.Design/methodology/approachThis paper introduces the need for collaboration and coordination between all the players in the construction industry in order to develop construction innovation and technology to build sustainable cities.FindingsThe construction industry needs to shift to a new mindset in the development of existing or new cities. Global warming and depletion of natural resources cannot be ignored any more. Project planning should take into consideration the “From Cradle to Grave” concepts and Life Cycle Assessments.Originality/valueThis paper provides the reader with an overview of the challenges that are facing humanity and shows how to built future cities in order to improve the quality of life and preserve natural resources.
House construction CO2 footprint quantification: a BIM approach
Authors: Mah Don , Manrique Juan D. , Yu Haitao , Al‐Hussein Mohamed , Nasseri Reza 
Published: May 2011

PurposeThis paper aims to establish a baseline for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions quantification in the current residential construction process. Opportunities to reduce the environmental footprint of the homebuilding process are also identified.Design/methodology/approachCO2 emissions of various house construction stages are quantified and utilised in a 3D building information model. This allows rapid emission computations for various house sizes, designs and materials. An intelligent database calculates emissions for different house styles with different construction processes.FindingsTwo construction stages (basement walls foundation and framing) were identified as high CO2 emissions contributors. In addition, equipment operation on site, transportation to and from the site and heating for curing concrete were identified as the main sources of emissions during construction.Originality/valueThe paper addresses the limited attention given to CO2 emissions during the actual construction process. The introduction of building information modeling for quantifying emissions in the construction process is of significant value. This research is pertinent to the international homebuilding industry and homebuyers who all have a role in mitigating CO2 emissions.
Maintenance contractors acting as service innovators
Authors: Straub A. (Ad) 
Published: May 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to show how performance‐based contracting functions as an enabler of service innovation by maintenance contractors.Design/methodology/approachA postal survey of medium‐sized maintenance employers was carried out. The questionnaire and findings were mapped and analysed combining existing models of service innovation and service quality.FindingsAs a consequence of the survey, performance‐based contracting maintenance companies implement innovations in their service concept, client interface and service delivery system to guarantee the quality of their services. The maintenance contractors have launched new, improved or better competing services for their own organisation. Existing services are implemented in a new environment incorporating small incremental innovations.Research limitations/implicationsMaintenance companies do not solely address all business innovations as consequences of performance‐based contracting. Performance‐based contracting of, for example, building services may by the different nature of the maintenance strategies and activities lead to somewhat other outcomes.Originality/valueThere is very little literature on maintenance contractors as service providers and service innovators. This paper provides insights in innovations by maintenance contractors as well as the needed additional knowledge and competences of the contractors acting as maintenance‐engineering consultants.
A strategic standpoint on maintenance taxonomy
Authors: Khazraei Khashayar , Deuse Jochen 
Published: May 2011

PurposeMaintenance, an essential element of facilities management and a fundamental requisite for increasing availability and sustaining stable processes, has been the focus of technical research for decades. However, there has not been a concrete and well‐structured classification of different maintenance types that is accepted globally. The need for such a widely acceptable classification is the main incentive to delve into and create a new maintenance taxonomy. This paper aims to address this issue.Design/methodology/approachThe paper gathers and reviews several examples of maintenance classifications and viewpoints from different geographical regions in the world. Afterwards, it integrates various maintenance‐related terms and terminologies with the authors' systematic‐thinking approach, systems thinking, based on which strategic thinking is formed. Consequently, this combination results in a globally acceptable systematic classification of maintenance.FindingsThe outcome of this scientific endeavour is a newly developed maintenance taxonomy, which is established according to the correct and clear‐cut use of the terminologies of strategy, policy and tactic, which correspondingly connote the art and science of what, the plan and guideline of how, and the style and methodology of how.Practical implicationsThis paper provides maintenance and facility stakeholders with a new maintenance taxonomy based on the available terminologies and practices taking into account the conception of strategy science. Such a classification cannot only ease the technical communication in this sector but also be accepted as a global standard due its lucid and logical structure.Originality/valueAside from the literature review and comparison of different maintenance terminologies and classifications, the paper offers a new methodical classification of maintenance, which has a strong scientific foundation and can be commonly accepted as a standard in the field of maintenance and facilities management.
The influence of facility layout on operations explored
Authors: Zijlstra Emma , Mobach Mark P. 
Published: May 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore the influence of an office canteen layout on operations, specifically on customer behaviour before checkout, waiting times, and congestion.Design/methodology/approachThe current study was made in the context of discovery and exemplification. The sample was not randomly obtained: the method of recruitment was purposive and convenient. Two Dutch office canteens were selected based on their motivation to participate in the study. A small exploratory study aiming to report on current practices and to inform on possibilities for future research and intervention. With direct observations the behaviour, waiting times, and congestion of 47 customers were analyzed. Customer behaviour was reported qualitatively, waiting times and congestion were reported quantitatively.FindingsCanteens where customers can move freely before checkout queue, allow them to move away from congestion towards food products and to have more favourable waiting times than customers in canteens with layouts requiring a strict order and line‐up for self‐service and checkout.Practical implicationsThe results contribute to the managerial repertoire of facilities managers by illuminating latent positive influences of facility layout on operations, which can stimulate the design of better facilities.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the understanding of how facilities are interwoven with operations. It also informs on possibilities for future research in this area, for instance, combining approaches that originate from facilities management and operations management. This may lead to future research to recommend specific designs or behaviour‐inducing layouts for increased operational enhancements.
Enhancing facilities management through generational awareness
Authors: Hebert Paulette , Chaney Sylvia 
Published: May 2011

PurposeFacilities management centers on the triad of people, process, and place, but the element of people is incomplete without recognition and consideration of the different generations that make up today's workforce and the differences between these groups. The purpose of this article is to suggest that facilities managers should take advantage of available current information on generational differences, in order to maximize their ability to manage people and knowledge.Design/methodology/approachThis article presents pertinent findings from a recent pilot study that surveyed 55 facilities management professionals from the mid‐Western USA, presents a brief overview of current knowledge relating to generational differences, and highlights the relevance of such knowledge to effective facilities management.FindingsAlmost one quarter of the respondents to the pilot study did not agree that knowledge of generational differences was important, while about half of the respondents only somewhat agreed that it was important. However, a survey of relevant literature suggests that successful management of generational differences in the workplace has the potential to improve the efficiency and viability of an enterprise, including facilitating knowledge management.Research limitations/implicationsThe current study is limited by its small sample size. Additional research is needed to further examine the value facilities managers place on generational knowledge and the relationship between facilities management and knowledge management.Originality/valueThe current paucity of information regarding the relationship between generational differences, facilities management, and knowledge management makes studies like this one relevant and valuable to facilities managers operating in a workplace with unprecedented generational diversity and an increasingly knowledge‐driven economy.
Clinical trials risk: a new assessment tool
Authors: Brown Anthony Scott 
Published: May 2011

PurposeRisk management is becoming an increasingly important topic in healthcare. The dangers of conducting clinical trials were brought to the attention of the public by the media in 2006 with the TGN1412 phase 1 clinical trial. Clinical trials are however important for the development of new drugs. There are a number of gatekeepers for the safety of trials but risk assessment is now becoming an important aspect. This paper aims to focus on clinical trials.Design/methodology/approachA new risk assessment tool was developed to collect data relating to the contributory factors and control measures associated with clinical trials. The responses to a series of 29 questions are then scored to inform a risk rating for the clinical trialPractical implicationsThe theoretical model was converted into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with drop down boxes for the responses to the questions. Research management staff have found the tool simple and quick to use. A printout of the assessment can be placed in the study folder as evidence. Highlighted risks are then flagged up to the organisation's corporate risk register and an action plan developed.Originality/valueThe tool has been utilised to assess risks of all research projects from educational studies such as MSc, PhD to medical device trials and drug trials. Furthermore it has assessed risks in the acute, primary care and mental health sectors.
Audits and their impact on clinical practice
Authors: Komuravelli Aravind , Smith Jennifer 
Published: May 2011

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the impact of a number of audits on clinical practice within a large mental health NHS trust. It aims to consider all audits that had been reaudited by psychiatry trainees and to compare the adherence to various standards before and after reaudit.Design/methodology/approachThe authors examined all available clinical audits undertaken by psychiatry trainees that had been reaudited within Mersey Care NHS Trust. The results were analysed using SPSS version 16.0 for Windows. Differences between the results before and after reaudit were tested for using Pearson chi‐squared and Fisher's exact tests, both two‐tailed.FindingsSignificant improvements were noted in five of the 35 standards compared before and after reaudit. Only one reaudit, that of the assessment of physical health and of metabolic and cardiovascular risk in inpatients in Ashworth Hospital, showed significant deteriorations in adherence to the standards which was seen in seven of the nine parameters.Originality/valueThe reaudits demonstrated only a limited improvement in practice. This highlights the need for a more structured approach to involvement of junior doctors in clinical audit and more robust methods of dissemination and implementation of recommendations.
Is a primary care orthopaedic interface service sustainable in a continually changing political and healthcare environment?
Authors: Ferguson Sarah , Cook Fiona 
Published: May 2011

PurposeWaiting times for secondary care orthopaedic appointments have been problematic for many years and led to the development of services outside traditional secondary care settings. The purpose of this paper is to question the sustainability of a primary care musculoskeletal interface service in the face of continuing policy change and future upheavals in the NHS design.Design/methodology/approachThis paper considers the political, organisational, and governance issues faced by the NHS Bath and North East Somerset Orthopaedic Interface Service (OIS). It discusses critical factors that test its viability.FindingsThe OIS retain 50 per cent of orthopaedic patients referred via the Choose and Book system. Of those, 21 per cent of patients seen were referred onto secondary care, the rest are managed in primary care. Patient feedback on their experience within the OIS service is overwhelmingly positive.Practical implicationsThe experiences described could be of value to new services, or for future benchmarking.Social implicationsIncreasingly services will be provided outside traditional secondary care settings. There needs to be an increasing emphasis on self‐management as resources become increasingly under pressure.Originality/valueThe paper will be of interest to clinicians, commissioners, providers and possibly the general public. There was a flurry of literature when these services were first established but there has been less published of late, and this paper provides a contemporary perspective.
Local environmental governance, public policies and deforestation in Amazonia
Authors: Borges de Lima Ismar , Buszynski Leszek 
Published: May 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the problem of deforestation in Amazonia and the role of the Brazilian government with regard to the capitalist demands and development needs for the region. It offers a brief historical review of public policies and programs for Amazonia, and critically analyzes their conflicting aspects. Local environmental governance (LEG) is proposed as a conceptual framework and a participatory forest management strategy for dealing with the forest destruction.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is a qualitative‐based study which provides a systemic analysis of the process of occupation and the key public policies for Amazonia from over the last decades, particularly during thecoup d'étatregime. Based on a literature review and official documents, descriptive data are produced which helped in understanding the political phases of the Brazilian government administrations.FindingsThe study identified some participatory‐based, decentralized models of forest management and existing forest regulatory frameworks which can serve as an illustrative sketchy arrangement on how local environmental governance can become operative and serviceable for a sustainable balance between the use of natural resources, conservation and regional planning. These findings can help future investigations on governance models. The research also shows how the Brazilian government has perceived Amazonia throughout the decades and how this perception influenced the implementation of development and settlement policies for the region.Originality/valueThe main focus of this article is the debate on the concept of local environmental governance (LEG) as a tool for empowering the local communities through the decentralization of decision making as well as the attempt to find implemented normative and institutional structures within the Amazonian context which can translate aspects of LEG.