bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Antecedents of risk in compliance enhancing organizations
Authors: Kirkhaug Rudi 
Published: October 2010

PurposeThe paper tested the hypothesis that, in compliance enhancing organizations like the police and the army, a resilience strategy of delegation and flexibility for countering external threats might be a better strategy for reducing risk perception among employees than an anticipation strategy of centralization and formalization. The research aim is to provide an empirical model that can help risk exposed and compliance enhancing organizations operating in turbulent environments design optimal organizational solutions.Design/methodology/approachOfficers in an army and a police organization in Norway were examined. The selection strategy ensured representation from all levels and units. Hierarchical regression analyses were applied to test the hypothesis.FindingsData analyses showed that an anticipation strategy increased employees' perception of risk, while a resilience strategy reduced their perception of risk. No significant difference between the two organizations was revealed.Research limitations/implicationsCommon method bias may reduce data validity. Police and army units may not be representative for compliance enhancing organizations due to their specific training and culture.Practical implicationsTraining, organizing, and leadership concepts should consider the fact that employees in compliance enhancing organizations seem to deal with risk best through delegation and freedom of action.Originality/valueFew, if any, previous studies have examined how strategies or coping with external threats at the organizational level may affect employees' perception of risk. This paper reports that two well‐known strategies for coping with external threats may influence employees' risk perception in entirely different ways.
Sustaining the equality of employee voice: a dynamic capability
Authors: Kulkarni Subodh P. 
Published: October 2010

PurposeThe paper seeks to addresses the ethically and strategically important question: “How can managers sustain the equality of employee voice in a dynamic environment?”.Design/methodology/approachTo address the above question, this paper conceptually integrates two theoretical streams that are prominent in their respective traditions: Amartya Sen's capabilities approach (SCA) in the economics and ethics literature and the dynamic capabilities approach (DCA) in strategic management.FindingsAdapting SCA, this paper conceptualizes “voice” as employees' “capability” or “freedom” to achieve what they morally “value” in an organization, and “justice” as the equality of employee voice. Following DCA, it outlines a framework for “dynamic capability” (“voice management capability”) building by managers. It describes the processes by which executives leverage their knowledge to find new ways of creating equality in employee voice and continually remedy inequities in a changing environment. The creation of paths during the discovery of such processes and the subsequent path dependence can influence the persistence of employee voice equality.Originality/valueThe paper is unique in that it extends Sen's notion of “equality of individual capabilities” to employee voice. Although SCA overcomes several flaws in the competing ethics theories, it remains seriously underexplored in organizational analysis. DCA is valuable in explaining how the equality in employee voice can be sustained over time. The equality of employee voice is important not only because of its moral implications but also because of its potential desirable consequences (e.g. employee trust, commitment, and loyalty).
Critical management studies and “mainstream” organization science
Authors: Visser Max 
Published: October 2010

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to propose a rapprochement between the field of critical management studies (CMS) and what is constructed here as the “mainstream” of organization theory and research.Design/methodology/approachThe paper contains a comparative analysis of relevant literature from the fields of organization theory, political science and political psychology.FindingsIt is found, first, that at least four instances of “mainstream” theory and research more or less share CMS assumptions; second, that CMS and “mainstream” may benefit from mutual contact (using the example of the “power elite” discussion in the 1950s and 1960s); third, that CMS and “mainstream” may benefit from “mainstream” operationalization of CMS‐concepts (using the example of the development of theF‐scale in the 1930s and 1940s).Originality/valueThe paper ranks among the first to search for convergences between two fields that seem firmly divided in both theoretical and institutional terms.
A new theoretical framework of technology acceptance and empirical investigation on self‐efficacy‐based value adoption model
Authors: Zhu Ge , Sangwan Sunanda , Lu Ting‐Jie 
Published: October 2010

PurposeIn a voluntary consumer market, the consumer's decision‐making process is still a magnetic topic although a large number of related studies have been conducted. The purpose of this paper is to explore the determining factors for the future adoption of an innovation service and proposes a new model to better explain consumer's adoption intention.Design/methodology/approachSocial cognitive theory is introduced in the paper to explore consumer behavior in terms of triadic and reciprocal causation among value, self‐efficacy, and adoption constructs. Based on the theoretical framework, a self‐efficacy‐based value adoption model (SVAM) is proposed to study the adoption of mobile auction (m‐auction) – one of mobile‐internet services in an empirical manner. The analysis of measurement and structural model is conducted via LISREL 8.80.FindingsResearch results indicate that the instruments are reliable and valid and the model is well accepted. Perceived functional, social, and emotional values are tested to have a significant influence on perceived value. Perceived cost is negatively related to perceived value and positively to attitude. m‐auction self‐efficacy (MASE) comes from subjective and objective general self‐efficacy, which not only directly impacts attitude but also strongly influences perception of all the antecedents of perceived value.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough SVAM is proved to be successful in this paper, it still needs more experimental research from different research contexts and authors to be supported.Originality/valueCompared with previous research on innovation adoption, results show that the model is more effective in explaining the adoption intention (R2=0.72). Just like perceived value has a significantly impact on attitude, self‐efficacy of m‐auction has an essential role in perceived values and cost and attitude. The result fully demonstrates that the value adoption model based on self‐efficacy is a better technology acceptance model, especially for a voluntary consumer market.
Control in outsourced ISD projects based on psychological contract: a multiple case study
Authors: Li Xiaoyan , Mao Jiye , Qian Jing 
Published: October 2010

PurposeThe paper seeks to investigate the effects of psychological contract on control mechanisms in outsourced ISD projects, based on control theories and psychological contract theories.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is a multiple case study involving five outsourced projects completed by one of the largest and most successful telecommunication vendors in China. The company was the client in three of the projects and the vendor in the other two.FindingsBased on first‐hand observations by the first author over a two‐year period and follow‐up interviews, four scenarios of match and mismatch of psychological contract between the client and vendor are identified, labeled as mutual transaction, client vulnerable, vendor vulnerable, and mutual loyalty. Moreover, the effect of psychological contract in shaping organizational control and outsourcing outcomes in the four different scenarios is revealed. For example, mutual transaction was associated with an emphasis on outcome control by the client. In contrast, mutual loyalty was associated with more informal control (self‐control and clan control). Furthermore, in the cases of mismatch between the client's and vendor's psychological relationship, the client implemented more behavior control and encouraged self‐control by its partner.Originality/valueThis research is, to the best of the author's knowledge, one of the first attempts to bring together psychological contract theory and organizational control theory in the domain of IT offshore outsourcing research. It reveals the effect of psychological contract in shaping organizational control in the four different scenarios labeled as mutual transaction, client vulnerable, vendor vulnerable, and mutual loyalty.
Ownership structure, information and benefits of control in the experimental market
Authors: Li Jianbiao , Wang Guangrong , Sun Juan , Liu Gulin 
Published: October 2010

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship among ownership structure, information disclosure and benefits of control under Lab‐experimental frame, based on the ownership structure in China's stock market.Design/methodology/approachTheoretical Shapley value of shareholders was used as the representative of control right, and benefits of control in different experimental treatments were studied.FindingsExperimental results show: first, more counterbalance of shareholders' control rights, less benefits of their control right. Accordingly, more chance to form core alliance for the major shareholder with small shareholders, less chance for them to get control right; second, the effect of information on benefits of control are mainly reflected in forming and maintaining the alliance; third, Shapley value of the major shareholder and the information determine the alliance type; fourth, control premium may be the cost of keeping the major shareholder's benefits safe and fifth, imperfect information is not always bad, concealing information partly can improve the distribution efficiency of a corporation.Originality/valueThe paper provides experimental analysis of the behavioral logic behind the benefits of control, which would help to explain the relationship among ownership structure, information disclosure and benefits of control.
The prediction of firm's competitive response from non‐market and market perspective
Authors: Deng Xinming , Tian Zhilong , Fan Shuai , Abrar Muhammad 
Published: October 2010

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the prediction of competitive response based on the characteristics of market and non‐market actions comprehensively, and develop a four‐stage decision‐making model of firm's competitive action, which is significant for Chinese practicing managers when formulating and implementing the strategies, and further predicting competitors' strategic choices.Design/methodology/approachThe research adopted the method of structured content analysis and carried out the survey in Chinese home appliance industry, mainly covering the largest firms, including TCL, Hisense, Changhong, Konka, Haier, and Skyworth. The method of multiple regression analysis was employed to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results show that in order to comprehensively forecast competitor's responding behaviors, the firms could not only limit their perspective to market field but also pay attention to non‐market. Additionally, in the process of dynamic interaction, the attacking or responding action is not independent and it is related significantly to another three type decisions, which are market and non‐market, strategic and tactic, and collective and individual. Further, the study asserts that, in market field, tactic activity is more likely to trigger competitor's response than strategic one, while in non‐market, the situation is just the opposite. Meanwhile, the study figured out that individual market attack is easier to trigger individual market and non‐market response, as well as collective market response. While for non‐market action, whatever it is individual or collective, both would be easy to provoke competitor's collective response.Originality/valueThe research findings extend the existing competitive interaction theory to non‐market field. When forecasting competitor's choice of the competitive action, the firms could not only limit their perspective to market field but also pay attention to non‐market, attaching importance to certain situation of competitor's taking such non‐market action as corporate philanthropy, etc. to launch an attack or a response for gaining competitive advantage.
Managerial cognition: the sources of sustainable competitive advantage in hypercompetition
Authors: Shang Hangbiao , Huang Peilun , Guo Yan 
Published: October 2010

PurposeBased on the theory of bounded rationality, the purpose of this paper is to explore the role played by top managerial management cognition in firms' efforts to obtain and maintain competitive advantage in a dynamic environment.Design/methodology/approachA research framework of the relations between environment changes, management cognition, strategic actions, organizational capability evolution and organizational performance is built. Data are collected through interviews, internal documents, and external documents and consequently a qualitative database is built to construct a causal map between environment, cognition, strategic actions, and organizational capability. Then by applying this causal map, a case study analysis of Vanward Group is carried out to explore its management cognition, strategic actions, and organizational capability in a dynamic environment.FindingsThe research propositions were tested and confirmed that top managerial management cognition is of bounded rationality and in dynamic environment it exerts direct and critical effect on their firms' strategic actions and organizational capability. Further discussion is extended to the roles played by institutional factors in organizational strategic decision process and the roles of top management in organizational dynamic capability.Research limitations/implicationsThe generalizability of this paper's conclusions to other firms is to be tested by large sample quantitative research.Practical implicationsThe research confirms the bounded rationality perspective in strategic management, and explores in depth the formation, evolution, and functions of top management cognition in a dynamic environment. It also emphasizes the non‐economic factors related to the continuous acquisition and maintenance of competitive advantages in a dynamic environment.Originality/valueThe paper releases the economic assumptions underlying industrial structure theory and resource‐based views by emphasizing the effect of top management cognition on organizational strategic actions and organizational capabilities. It further enriches the institution‐based view by illustrating how institutional environment affects top management cognition and consequently affects the changes in organizational strategic actions and organizational capability. Thus, the institutional context for organizational strategic decision making is emphasized. The paper contributes to research in dynamic capability by emphasizing top management roles in developing dynamic capability.
CEO golden‐mean thinking, ambidextrous orientation and organizational performance in Chinese context
Authors: Chen Jian‐xun , Ling Yuanyuan 
Published: October 2010

PurposePrevious research on the relationship between cheif executive officer (CEO) and organizational performance focused primarily on behavior and demographic variables, but was seldom based on the CEO cognition perspective. To fill this gap, the purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between CEO cognition and organizational performance.Design/methodology/approachTaking CEO golden‐mean thinking as an independent variable, organizational performance as dependent variable, ambidextrous orientation as a mediating variable, interdependence and connectedness as moderating variables, and using a multi‐source data collection approach, data were collected from 193 Chinese firms to test the hypothesis by adopting hierarchical regression model.FindingsCEO golden‐mean thinking is found to have significantly positive impacts on ambidextrous orientation and organizational performance. Ambidextrous orientation plays a partial mediating role between golden‐mean thinking and organizational performance, while independence and connectedness play joint moderating roles between ambidextrous orientation and organizational performance. The three‐way interaction among ambidextrous orientation, connectedness, and interdependence has a significantly positive effect on organizational performance.Research limitations/implicationsCEOs should not only improve organizational performance through diversified, harmonious, and integrative thinking, but also enhance the ambidextrous ability by building ambidextrous orientation, connectedness, and interdependence mechanism in order to promote organizational performance.Originality/valueAs one of the most salient thinking characteristics in Chinese traditional culture, golden‐mean thinking increasingly has attracted scholars' attention. However, no previous scholar has applied this construct into leadership theory.
Homozygous null mutations in ZMPSTE24 in restrictive dermopathy: evidence of genetic heterogeneity
Authors: Ahmad Z , Phadke SR , Arch E , Glass J , Agarwal AK , Garg A 
Published: October 2010

Ahmad Z, Phadke SR, Arch E, Glass J, Agarwal AK, Garg A. Homozygous null mutations in ZMPSTE24 in restrictive dermopathy: evidence of genetic heterogeneity.Restrictive dermopathy (RD) results in stillbirth or early neonatal death. RD is characterized by prematurity, intrauterine growth retardation, fixed facial expression, micrognathia, mouth in the ‘o’ position, rigid and tense skin with erosions and denudations and multiple joint contractures. Nearly all 25 previously reported neonates with RD had homozygous or compound heterozygous null mutations in the ZMPSTE24 gene. Here, we report three new cases of RD; all died within 3 weeks of birth. One of them had a previously reported homozygous c.1085dupT (p.Leu362PhefsX19) mutation, the second case had a novel homozygous c.1020G>A (p.Trp340X) null mutation in ZMPSTE24, but the third case, a stillborn with features of RD except for the presence of tapering rather than rounded, bulbous digits, harbored no disease‐causing mutations in LMNA or ZMPSTE24. In the newborn with a novel ZMPSTE24 mutation, unique features included butterfly‐shaped thoracic 5 vertebra and the bulbous appearance of the distal clavicles. Skin biopsies from both the stillborn fetus and the newborn with c.1020G>A ZMPSTE24 mutation showed absence of elastic fibers throughout the dermis. This report provides evidence of genetic heterogeneity among RD and concludes that there may be an additional locus for RD which remains to be identified.
Effects of meals with different glycaemic index on postprandial blood glucose response in patients with Type 1 diabetes treated with continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion
Authors: Parillo M. , Annuzzi G. , Rivellese A. A. , Bozzetto L. , Alessandrini R. , Riccardi G. , Capaldo B. 
Published: October 2010

Diabet. Med. 28, 227–229 (2011)AbstractObjective  To evaluate the impact of high‐glycaemic index and low‐glycaemic index meals on postprandial blood glucose in patients with Type 1 diabetes treated with continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion.Methods  Sixteen patients with Type 1 diabetes under continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion treatment, age 36 ± 0.5 years (mean ± sem), HbA1c 7.6 ± 0.2% (56 ± 1.1 mmol/mol), consumed two test meals with an identical macronutrient composition, but with a different glycaemic index: 59 vs. 90. Blood glucose was checked before the test meal and every 30 min thereafter for 180 min. The same preprandial insulin dose was administered on the two occasions.Results  Blood glucose concentrations following the low‐glycaemic index meal were significantly lower than those of the high‐glycaemic index meal (P < 0.05 to P < 0.01). The blood glucose area under the curve after the low‐glycaemic index meal was 20% lower than after the high‐glycaemic meal (P = 0.006).Conclusions  Our data show that meals with the same carbohydrate content but a different glycaemic index produce clinically significant differences in postprandial blood glucose.
Measuring the Specific Heat of Metals by Cooling
Authors: Dittrich William , Minkin Leonid , Shapovalov Alexander S. 
Published: October 2010

Three in one? Yes, three standard undergraduate thermodynamics experiments in one, not an oval can of lubricating oil. Previously it has been shown that the PASCO scientific1 apparatus for measuring coefficients of thermal expansion of metals can also be used to illustrate Newton's law of cooling in the same experiment.2 Now it will be shown that by cooling geometrically identical metallic samples and measuring their surface temperature change as a function of time, the specific heat of metals can be found by the method of comparison. This technique is simple to implement using the PASCO equipment for measuring the coefficients of thermal expansion of metals. A slight variation on this method was used in the Moscow State University students' laboratory for measuring temperature dependence of specific heat of copper over a large temperature range. As a result of this method, three experiments can be undertaken simultaneously to measure:
1) the coefficient of thermal expansion (α);
2) the time constant in Newton's law of cooling (H); and
3) the specific heatof metals (C).
High Diversity and Abundance of
Legionella
spp. in a Pristine River and Impact of Seasonal and Anthropogenic Effects
Authors: Parthuisot N. , West N. J. , Lebaron P. , Baudart J. 
Published: October 2010

ABSTRACT

The diversity and dynamics of
Legionella
species along a French river watershed subject to different thermal and wastewater discharges during an annual cycle were assessed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing and by a fingerprint technique, single-strand conformation polymorphism. A high diversity of
Legionella
spp. was observed at all the sampling sites, and the dominant
Legionella
clusters identified were most closely related to uncultured bacteria. The monthly monitoring revealed that
Legionella
sp. diversity changes were linked only to season at the wastewater site whereas there was some evidence for anthropogenic effects on
Legionella
sp. diversity downstream of the thermal bath. Quantification of
Legionella pneumophila
and
Legionella
spp. by culture and quantitative PCR (qPCR) was performed. Whereas only
L. pneumophila
was quantified on culture media, the qPCR assay revealed that
Legionella
spp. were ubiquitous and abundant from the pristine source of the river to the downstream sampling sites. These results suggest that
Legionella
spp. may be present at significant concentrations in many more freshwater environments than previously thought, highlighting the need for further ecological studies and culturing efforts.