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Multi‐agency community engagement during disaster recovery
Authors: Johnston David , Becker Julia , Paton Douglas 
Published: April 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to look at the role of community participation in reducing anxiety and trauma in communities during two New Zealand earthquakes: the 1987 Edgecumbe and 2003 Te Anau events and explore the effectiveness of various approaches in providing information, reducing stress, and facilitating a recovery process.Design/methodology/approachThe principle methods of data collection were semi‐structured interviews were undertaken between October 2006 and March 2007 with key agencies and individuals involved in the response and comprehensive analysis of papers, reports and articles in newspapers. The research was undertaken prior to the 4 September 2010 and 2011 earthquakes in Canterbury, New Zealand, and therefore community recovery from these events are not discussed in this paper.FindingsEffective survival and recovery from disasters depends not just on people's abilities to cope with the physical impacts of the event, but also on how the societal environment complements and supports the complex and protracted processes of community recovery. Central to recovery is how society organises, mobilises and coordinates the diverse range of organizational and professional resources that can be called upon to assist recovery.Originality/valueThe paper offers insight into the effectiveness and benefit of incorporating of community participation in reducing anxiety and trauma in communities during earthquakes.
Improving employees' job satisfaction and innovation performance using conflict management
Authors: Chen Xiao‐Hong , Zhao Ke , Liu Xiang , Dash Wu Desheng 
Published: April 2012

PurposeThe major aim of this study is to explore the mechanism through which conflict management behavior impacts job satisfaction and innovation performance, and to verify this relationship with the empirical analysis in the context of China.Design/methodology/approachA model of the relationship among conflict management behavior, job satisfaction and innovation performance was developed and empirically tested. Based on a survey composed of 333 questionnaires designed for Chinese employees, the authors examine the effects of conflict management behavior on job satisfaction and innovation performance in Chinese contexts.FindingsResults show that integrating and compromising conflict management behaviors are positively related to job satisfaction; integrating conflict management behavior is positively related to innovation performance; and avoiding conflict management behavior is negatively related to innovation performance.Research limitations/implicationsThis study does not take the industry differences into consideration, though how to maintain job satisfaction and promote innovation might differ from one industry to another. This study only studied on the personal level, therefore future studies can be extended to the team level.Originality/valueThis paper offers some useful suggestions for business managers as well as employees to improve employees' job satisfaction and innovation performance.
Examining the influence of cross‐cultural training on cultural intelligence and specific self‐efficacy
Authors: Rehg Michael T. , Gundlach Michael J. , Grigorian Reza A. 
Published: April 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between cultural intelligence (CQ) and specific self‐efficacy (SSE), and the effect of training on CQ and SSE.Design/methodology/approachPre and post‐test surveys were administered to 110 US government contracting trainees, in four separate training settings, to measure the effects of training on mean CQ and SSE scores. Two administrations included pre and post‐test surveys. One was designed as a post‐test only, while the fourth was taken from 25 contracting officers in a recurring training setting. Statistical analyses were performed through the use of t‐tests to measure the significance of the change in means across training classes.FindingsIt was found that training using a lecture format significantly improved mean levels of CQ on the cognitive and behavioral dimensions, while less significantly improving motivational CQ. SSE scores from pre‐ to post‐training were also only marginally improved. An additional finding showed significant positive correlations between CQ and SSE, but only in post‐ training samples.Practical implicationsThese findings indicate that managers can use cultural training as an effective tool to increase the cognitive and behavioral dimensions of their employees' CQ, helping employees to be more effective in overseas assignments. In addition, improving employees' SSE on a task to be performed in a cross‐cultural situation may help to improve levels of CQ, and thus cross‐cultural performance.Originality/valueThe paper demonstrates the link between SSE and CQ, and shows that CQ and SSE can be improved through training. The relationship among these variables had not been empirically tested in past research, especially involving samples of public sector employees.
Economic efficiency of wood and furniture innovation system
Authors: Trigkas Marios , Papadopoulos Ioannis , Karagouni Glykeria 
Published: April 2012

PurposeThe study aims to analyse the wood and furniture innovation system in the region of Thessaly, Greece, and the recording and benchmarking of innovative activity of enterprises in order to detect best practices applied, and to propose ways of increasing efficiency through improvement of the use of innovation inputs.Design/methodology/approachFollowing the systemic approach, an empirical study registers the economic dimension of innovation in the enterprises of the sector in the region. The data collection is based on the Oslo manual. Based on data envelopment analysis, a benchmarking analysis of wood and furniture firms was applied by measuring the efficiency of both innovation inputs and the sector's innovation system.FindingsEfforts have to be made to import innovation into the production process by means of investment in technological equipment. Generally, an increase in innovation performance incurs an increase in sales. The efficiency of the innovation system is evaluated as adequate when the majority of firms apply innovation inputs satisfactorily. However, there is additional margin for improvement regarding R&D, staff training and the diffusion of innovation. The analysis of the innovation system at the sector level in the region may lead to a better innovation‐oriented policy and decision making.Research limitations/implicationsThe study provides useful data concerning innovation in the sector, and the efficiency analysis proposes a benchmarking tool in order to set margins for business operation improvement.Practical implicationsIndustries struggle to strengthen their competitiveness in global markets. The findings show the absence of a strategy in the wood and furniture sector with regard to innovation, and utilization of the relative expenditures.Originality/valueThe present study expands on previous research and knowledge, offering a profound analysis of the effects and improvement of innovative activity in the wood and furniture sector. It is a prototype research paper in Greece in relation to innovative activity in this sector.
Identifying collaborative innovation capabilities within knowledge‐intensive environments
Authors: Barbaroux Pierre 
Published: April 2012

PurposeThis article aims to identify the capabilities supporting the development of collaborative innovation within knowledge‐intensive environments.Design/methodology/approachRe‐considering the history of the ARPANET project as a vivid example of collaborative innovation, the article presents qualitative research from a historical case.FindingsWithin this framework, the article shows that benefiting from collaboration in innovation entails that the innovative organisation is capable of achieving (at least) the following tasks: to leverage complementarities between internal and external sources of innovation (design capability); to codify, capitalise and disseminate knowledge outcomes (knowledge management capability); and to align product and organisations in a dynamic way (adaptive governance capability).Research limitations/implicationsThis contribution is limited by looking at a single case. On the premise that model generalization depends on extensive empirical data, the current article should be considered as preliminary/exploratory research that aims at identifying the capabilities supporting collaborative innovation within knowledge‐intensive environments.Originality/valueThe originality of this article is to look at a historical case to elaborate on a typology of collaborative innovation capabilities.
Factors influencing healthcare consumers' search for healthcare associated infection information on the World Wide Web
Authors: Reid Paulette S. , Borycki Elizabeth M. 
Published: April 2012

PurposeThis paper seeks to provide a narrative review of some of the factors that influence healthcare consumers' information seeking involving healthcare associated infections (HAI) on the internet.Design/methodology/approachThe paper takes the form of a narrative review arising from the authors' presentation and subsequent discussions that took place during the Universities Council Symposium held in Vancouver, Canada in May 2011.FindingsThere are a number of important factors that affect healthcare consumers' desire to seek information online about HAI, including the search engine used, the type of technology used, web site usability, information availability, consumers' learning style, consumers' personality traits, and finally, consumers' situational, emotional, and psychological contexts. These factors may affect healthcare consumers' decision making about where they will obtain healthcare (i.e. in their selection of a clinic, hospital, regional health authority and/or health care system).Research limitations/implicationsHAI reporting via web sites is being done by health care organizations across North America. There is a need to more fully understand the factors that affect consumer use of these web sites.Practical implicationsFundamental questions have been raised about the impact of providing HAI information over the WWW. There is a need to consider the varying factors that influence consumers' information seeking involving the WWW (i.e. technology‐driven and consumer‐driven factors) especially when searching for HAI‐related information about health care organizations.Originality/valueHistorically, HAI information was the purview of those who had a background to interpret such data (e.g. infection control and public health practitioners). The literature focusing on what consumers want to know regarding HAIs over the WWW is only beginning to emerge. More research is needed to better understand what health care consumers need to support their decision making involving HAIs.
Government quality control with excellence model: a case study on AQSIQ, China
Authors: Yang Yu , Hu Hanhui , Qian Xiao 
Published: April 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report a pilot project on quality control in China's government department (AQSIQ), based on an extended EFQM excellence model.Design/methodology/approachAfter careful comparisons, the EFQM Excellence Model was selected as the fundamental framework for further practice and analysis. The original Excellence Model was extended into three‐section style in the ongoing Super‐ministry Reform. The extended model includes decision‐making, implementation, and supervision. With a brief introduction on AQSIQ in current reform, the first quality control practice in China was investigated in terms of responsibilities, standards, supervision, and assessment. Achievements from quality control were obtained after analysis.FindingsThe extended Excellence Model enabled AQSIQ great achievements. This paper finds that, with the guidance under this extended model, a unified leadership with reallocation in people, policy, and partnership has significantly promoted the performance in decision‐making. Further, with regard to principle of simplicity as the key basis of process reengineering, the two‐way innovation and learning feedback mechanism in this model have simplified the process and enhanced knowledge process in the government. Finally, efficiency being the main focus in performance reassessment was also accomplished by this quality practice.Practical implicationsThe initial success of AQSIQ has practical and managerial values. On the practical side, the implications in the AQSIQ case that are embodied in the ongoing Super‐ministry Reform in China help to shape fundamental quality control framework in China's government sectors. Two probable managerial enlightenments are for the theory of process engineering and the quality control in theoretical dimension. Therefore, this extended excellence model could further spread into other departments with careful considerations.Originality/valueThis is the first paper to research the first quality control practice in China's government department.
Counseling assistance, entrepreneurship education, and new venture performance
Authors: Chrisman James J. , McMullan W.E. , Kirk Ring J. , Holt Daniel T. 
Published: April 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to apply the theory of guided preparation to investigate the relative impact of outside counseling assistance and entrepreneurship courses on new venture creation and performance.Design/methodology/approachTo attain a sample of nascent entrepreneurs who had been impacted by entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial counseling, 256 individuals who received counseling from the Pennsylvania Small Business Development Center in 1996 or 1998 were surveyed. The authors ran a logistic regression model using venture start‐up as the categorical dependent variable to investigate whether entrepreneurial education and counseling had an influence on the creation of new ventures. To test whether entrepreneurial education or counseling had a long‐term impact on the growth of new ventures, hierarchical regression analyses were run using employment in 2003 as the dependent variable. Various control variables were used for both sets of analyses.FindingsFindings indicate that counseling has a significant impact on venture performance but entrepreneurship courses do not. In contrast, entrepreneurship courses are related to venture creation while counseling is not.Research limitations/implicationsConsistent with theory, the results suggest that counseling programs allow entrepreneurs to develop context‐specific tacit knowledge about their ventures and are best delivered immediately prior to venture start‐up. Entrepreneurship courses appear to indirectly influence new venture performance by increasing the odds of start up.Originality/valueThis comparative test of the theory of guided preparation contributes to the understanding of the effects of education and counseling on the creation and long‐term performance of new ventures, informing how the delivery of such programs can be improved.
The brewer, the baker, and the monopoly maker
Authors: Thomas Diana W. , Leeson Peter T. 
Published: April 2012

PurposeThis paper seeks to examine how productive entrepreneurial activities, such as innovation, influence unproductive entrepreneurial activities, such as regulatory rent seeking.Design/methodology/approachTo investigate the argument the authors consider Bavaria's brewing industry in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries using an analytic narrative approach.FindingsThe example of Bavaria's brewing industry suggests that productive entrepreneurial activities may increase unproductive entrepreneurial activities. Confronted with a situation in which innovation erodes their monopoly returns, legally protected producers and policymakers reregulate industry to recapture lost rents. Regulation policy under such reregulation tends to be more encompassing, and thus produces more unproductive entrepreneurial activity, than pre‐innovation regulation policy. This reflects the greater number or variety of producers that new regulation policy must encompass for reregulation to recreate rents.Originality/valueThe paper builds on Thomas’ work, which suggests that innovation can undermine existing regulatory institutions and result in deregulation. This paper identifies an alternative channel through which productive entrepreneurial innovation may influence unproductive entrepreneurial rent seeking. It argues that productive entrepreneurial innovation by legally unprotected producers in an industry can also increase, rather than decrease, the extent of unproductive entrepreneurship in that industry.
Prevalence and clinical characteristics of diabetic peripheral neuropathy in hospital patients with Type 2 diabetes in Korea
Authors: Won J. C. , Kwon H. S. , Kim C. H. , Lee J. H. , Park T. S. , Ko K. S. , Cha B. Y. 
Published: April 2012

Diabet. Med. 29, e290‐e296 (2012)AbstractAims  Diabetic peripheral neuropathy is a common complication of diabetes. This cross‐sectional study investigated the prevalence and clinical characteristics of this neuropathy in patients with Type 2 diabetic mellitus treated at hospitals in Korea.Methods  Questionnaires and medical records were used to collect data on 4000 patients with Type 2 diabetes from the diabetes clinics of 40 hospitals throughout Korea. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy was diagnosed based on a review of medical records or using the Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument score and monofilament test.Results  The prevalence of neuropathy was 33.5% (n = 1338). Multivariate analysis revealed that age, female sex, diabetes duration, lower glycated haemoglobin, treatment with oral hypoglycaemic agents or insulin, presence of retinopathy, history of cerebrovascular or peripheral arterial disease, presence of hypertension or dyslipidaemia, and history of foot ulcer were independently associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Of the patients with neuropathy, 69.8% were treated for the condition and only 12.6% were aware of their neuropathy.Conclusion  There was a high prevalence of peripheral neuropathy in patients with Type 2 diabetes in Korea and those patients were far more likely to have complications or co‐morbidities. The proper management of diabetic peripheral neuropathy deserves attention from clinicians to ensure better management of diabetes in Korea.
Development of visual working memory precision in childhood
Authors: Burnett Heyes Stephanie , Zokaei Nahid , van der Staaij Irene , Bays Paul M. , Husain Masud 
Published: April 2012

AbstractVisual working memory (VWM) is the facility to hold in mind visual information for brief periods of time. Developmental studies have suggested an increase during childhood in the maximum number of complete items that can simultaneously be stored in VWM. Here, we exploit a recent theoretical and empirical innovation to investigate instead the precision with which items are stored in VWM, where precision is a continuous measure reflecting VWM resolution. Ninety boys aged 7 to 13 years completed one‐item and three‐item VWM tasks in which stimuli were coloured bars varying in orientation. On each trial, participants used a rotating dial to reproduce the probed stimulus from memory. Results show linear age‐related improvement in recall precision for both one‐item and three‐item VWM tasks. However, even the youngest age group stored a significant amount of information about all three items on the difficult 3‐item VWM task. Importantly, the development of VWM precision was not accounted for by development on a sensorimotor control task. Whereas storage of a single complete item was previously thought to be well within the capacity limitations of the current age range, these results suggest protracted development during childhood and early adolescence in the resolution with which single and multiple items are stored in VWM. Probabilistic modelling of response distribution data suggests that improvement in VWM performance is attributable to a specific decrease in variability of stored feature representations, rather than to a decrease in misbinding or random noise. As such, we highlight a novel, potentially developmentally plausible mechanism that may underlie developmental improvement in VWM performance, independent of any alterations in the maximum number of complete items which can be stored.
Adult tooth loss for residents of US coal mining and Appalachian counties
Authors: Hendryx Michael , Ducatman Alan M. , Zullig Keith J. , Ahern Melissa M. , Crout Richard 
Published: April 2012

AbstractObjectivesThe authors compared rates of tooth loss between adult residents of Appalachian coal‐mining areas and other areas of the nation before and after control for covariate risks.MethodsThe authors conducted a cross‐sectional secondary data analysis that merged 2006 national Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data (BRFSS) (N = 242 184) with county coal‐mining data and other county characteristics. The hypothesis tested was that adult tooth loss would be greater in Appalachian mining areas after control for other risks. Primary independent variables included main effects for coal‐mining present (yes/no) residence in Appalachia (yes/no), and their interaction. Data were weighted using the BRFSS final weights and analyzed using SUDAAN Proc Multilog to account for the multilevel complex sampling structure. The odds of two measures of tooth loss were examined controlling for age, race\ethnicity, drinking, smoking, income, education, supply of dentists, receipt of dental care, fluoridation rate, and other variables.ResultsAfter covariate adjustment, the interaction variable for the residents of Appalachian coal‐mining counties showed a significantly elevated odds for any tooth loss [odds ratio (OR) = 1.19, 95% CI = 1.02, 1.38], and greater tooth loss measured by a 4‐level edentulism scale (OR = 1.20, 95% CI = 1.05, 1.36). The main effect for Appalachia was also significant for both measures, but the main effect for coal mining was not.ConclusionsGreater risk of tooth loss among adult residents of Appalachian coal‐mining areas is present and is not explained by differences in reported receipt of dental care, fluoridation rates, supply of dentists or other behavioral or socioeconomic risks. Possible contributing factors include mining‐specific disparities related to access, behavior or environmental exposures.