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Clustering and internal resources: moderation and mediation effects
Authors: Belso‐Martínez José Antonio , Xavier Molina‐Morales F. , Mas‐Verdu Francisco 
Published: August 2011

PurposeThis paper aims to address a central question in strategy: how do internal resources firms mediate the effect of the external resources on the firms' performance?Design/methodology/approachThe research was conducted in a sample of 173 Spanish innovative firms located in the Valencia region. Following the literature, the growth of the firm has been used as the main performance indicator. The paper considers the application in this context of the particular and new analysis techniques to combine mediator and moderator effects.FindingsThe research shows firms with higher internal resources exploit better external resources. The results confirm that knowledge intensive business services providers, as a form of external resources, exercise a positive influence on innovative firms' performance through the mediating effect of firms' internal assets.Research limitations/implicationsFirst, the study uses only two well‐known internal resources and capabilities indicators. Second, the paper applies a strict and simple measure to the growth of innovative firms. Third, another limitation of this research relates to the sample and population of companies.Practical implicationsThe study shows that the partial mediating effect exercised by internal resources and capabilities on growth, becomes more intense when new firms benefit from cluster location.Originality/valueThis study represents a new step toward closing the analytical gap in the existing literature on the potential interactions between external resources and new firm's internal attributes, and their combined effects on performance.
Knowledge management and organizational culture: a theoretical integrative framework
Authors: Rai Rajnish Kumar 
Published: August 2011

PurposeOrganizational culture is a critical factor in building and reinforcing knowledge management in organizations. However, there is no theoretical framework that comprehensively explains the effect of organizational culture on knowledge management in organizations. This paper endeavors to develop a theoretical integrative framework for organizational knowledge management and organizational culture.Design/methodology/approachThis is a conceptual paper. It modifies the “competing value framework” by adding a new dimension representing ethical and trusting culture, and then integrates it with the SECI model of knowledge creation and conversion by identifying the conceptual parallels between the two frameworks and then analyzing the interaction effects among the dimensions.FindingsBased on the congruity between the modified competing values framework and the knowledge creation and conversion framework, the paper formulates six propositions about the propensity of organizations of different dominant cultural styles to engage in the four processes of knowledge creation and conversion.Research limitations/implicationsThe dynamic nature of the framework presented in the paper points to the importance of longitudinal and comparative research in understanding the effects of organizational culture on organizational knowledge management systems in organizations.Practical implicationsThe proposed integrative framework would facilitate organizational learning and lead to the improvement of knowledge management practices in organizations as it helps managers to understand the linkages between culture and knowledge management.Originality/valueThis paper presents a new framework linking organizational culture to knowledge management. It moves away from analyzing culture only in terms of its positive and negative influences on knowledge management. Instead, it suggests a typology of the kind of knowledge management processes that organizations are likely to focus on depending on the culture that prevails in an organization.
Knowledge communities in matrix‐like organizations: managing knowledge towards application
Authors: Nesheim Torstein , Olsen Karen M. , Tobiassen Anita E. 
Published: August 2011

PurposeThis paper aims to analyze how formal, horizontal knowledge communities contribute to knowledge application. In large, complex organizations employees face multiple roles that compete for their time and may be conflicting. The paper seeks to analyze the interplay between the communities, the line organization, and the employees; specifically, to examine how the quality of management of the communities, the attitudes of line managers, and the employees' motivation for participating in the communities facilitate knowledge application.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a survey in an organization with several specialized, horizontal knowledge communities. In total, 2,517 responses were obtained from members of 131 different communities.FindingsFirst, community management, line support and intrinsic motivation have a positive impact on knowledge application. Second, the effect of line support is stronger when employees are intrinsically motivated.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is limited to one organization. Future research could study knowledge processes in matrix‐like organization, as well as the role of community coordinators for knowledge sharing and application.Practical implicationsTo enhance knowledge sharing and knowledge application, commitment from both line managers and community coordinators is vital. In a matrix‐like organization, dialogue and communication are important in order to reconcile supplementary goals and considerations.Originality/valueThe paper presents a study that is one of the first to analyze antecedents of knowledge application in formal communities of practice.
Breaking the cycle: the implications of the Government's justice Green Paper for housing for former offenders
Authors: Collins Jon 
Published: August 2011

PurposeIn December 2010, the Ministry of Justice published Breaking the Cycle: Effective Punishment, Rehabilitation and Sentencing of Offenders, the Government's Green Paper on criminal justice reform. This paper seeks to discuss the implications of this Green Paper on housing for offenders.Design/methodology/approachThis paper examines the proposals set out in the Green Paper, and in particular the intention to deliver rehabilitative services on a payment‐by‐results basis, and discusses its implications for housing for offenders.FindingsThe paper argues that the Green Paper is primarily focused on improving rehabilitation and reducing re‐offending, and that improved access for offenders to housing is essential if this is to be successful. However, it demonstrates that there are significant barriers to be overcome in achieving this and argues that criminal justice service providers and housing providers will need to work together to ensure that these issues are addressed.Originality/valueThe government's proposals to reform the criminal justice system, contained in the Green Paper Breaking the Cycle, are focused primarily on rehabilitation. Improved access for offenders to appropriate and sustainable housing is essential if this is to be successful, as the Green Paper recognises, and a combination of some specific measures and a general move to payment‐by‐results for rehabilitation services is intended to deliver this. However, there are significant barriers to overcome in achieving this and further challenges are presented by cuts in services and changes to housing and welfare policy.
The liaison worker's tale
Authors: Walker Julie 
Published: August 2011

PurposeThis paper aims to give insight into the role of a liaison worker.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents a first person account of someone in the role of Mental Health and Housing Liaison Officer.FindingsThe paper offers insight into a day in the life of a liaison worker, including information about how they work and communicate with clients and their various different situations.Originality/valueThe paper demonstrates that communication is central to delivering good and appropriate services for clients. Joint working between housing and mental health needs to become the norm, and a role such as this is the fore‐runner to what the author hopes will become part of every mental health service in the country.
The support priorities of multiply excluded homeless people and their compatibility with support agency agendas – new research into multiple exclusion homelessness
Authors: Bowpitt Graham , Dwyer Peter , Sundin Eva , Weinstein Mark 
Published: August 2011

PurposeThis paper aims to throw light on the value of accommodation and support services and the likely consequences of their withdrawal.Design/methodology/approachResearch was completed by a team of researchers from Nottingham Trent and Salford Universities under the Multiple Exclusion Homelessness programme funded by CLG, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.FindingsAgencies whose priorities are influenced by other agendas arising from statutory limitations or government targets have conflicting priorities that sustain multiple exclusion homelessness in a number of key circumstances.Originality/valueFindings from this research will enable policy‐makers and practitioners to take better account of service user perspectives, experiences and priorities.
The care trust pilgrims
Authors: Miller Robin , Dickinson Helen , Glasby Jon 
Published: August 2011

PurposeThis paper seeks to reflect on English care trusts as an example of a structural approach to integration.Design/methodology/approachAll current care trusts' chief executives were invited to participate in a semi‐structured interview exploring their experiences. Themes from the interviews were combined with findings from literature and policy review.FindingsThe current care trusts can identify a number of advantages from combining health and social care into a single organisation. Equally, they also experienced many of the anticipated difficulties, and in hindsight half of those interviewed would recommend other options to achieving better integrated working. Whilst the “commissioning” function of care trusts will not survive beyond March 2013, “provider” care trusts look set to continue and indeed expand their service delivery. They will be joined both by new integrated social enterprises delivering health and social care.Practical implicationsThe experiences of care trusts show the limitations of a single organisational structure as a means to achieve better integration and the impact of a changing national policy landscape on local initiatives. The findings suggest that the current legal flexibilities for integrated working should remain to enable local areas to decide how best to achieve their priorities and to realise the importance of addressing local cultural, practical and leadership issues along with structural barriers.Originality/valueThis paper provides a reflection on the ten years since the option of care trusts were available in England and adds to the current literature which focuses on individual care trusts' development and impact.
Recent Court of Appeal decisions
Authors: Mitchell Ed 
Published: August 2011

PurposeThe August Review aims to address legal developments in two areas, which have the potential to distort integrated care practice: disclosure of sensitive personal information; and transfers of care from institutions to community supported housing and local authority financial responsibility.Design/methodology/approachThis is a review of reported Court of Appeal decisions.FindingsRegarding the disclosure of sensitive information, the Court of Appeal asserts the “pressing need” test for determining whether disclosure of sensitive personal information is lawful. Second, the Court of Appeal decides that there is no legal duty requiring a social services authority to consult another such authority when carrying out a community care assessment.Originality/valueThis paper provides an interpretation of the judgements for practical application.
Patient and public involvement in the restructured NHS
Authors: Coleman Anna , Checkland Kath , McDermott Imelda , Harrison Stephen 
Published: August 2011

PurposeAs it is now some time since the publication of the Health White Paper, and there is currently a pause in the progress of the Health and Social Care Bill through Parliament, it seems timely to look at how the proposed changes to patient and public involvement (PPI) may develop. This paper seeks to address these issues.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines the proposals for PPI set out in the legislation and uses the findings of the authors' recent research to examine them.FindingsThe paper argues that the legislation, as currently written, contains nothing that will guarantee a more effective engagement with either patients or the public.Originality/valueThis is a fast moving field at present, and the eventual outcome of this major reorganisation is unclear. This paper uses evidence from previous studies to provide an overview of the issues relating to patient and public involvement in the National Health Service and highlights the potential problems in the proposals as they stand at present.
Targeting a reduction in teenage pregnancy rates in Norfolk – a pilot for integrating care
Authors: Tucker Helen , Prasad Gita , Burgis Mark 
Published: August 2011

PurposeThis paper aims to demonstrate the approach taken in Norfolk to improve the health and welfare of young people. Local practitioners in Thetford want to address teenage pregnancy rates as a priority issue for their community; they have volunteered to be part of a national pilot to test integrated working in a service that involves many agencies and services.Design/methodology/approachThis health promotion service was a particular challenge for integration as it involved building partnerships between children's and adults’ services, health and social care, education and care services, and voluntary and statutory services. The service also covered the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. A local core group, chaired by a GP, planned four phases of work: design, information gathering, service redesign and evaluation. This paper sets out an analysis of progress and achievements.FindingsThe group recognised the multiple factors affecting young people and their lives and lifestyles in this area of social deprivation and the benefits of partnership working. Improvements to date include better coordination, improved access to services and an enhancement of services.Research limitations/implicationsThe impact will not be measurable within the timescale of the pilot project in respect of reducing pregnancy rates; the work is ongoing.Practical implicationsImplications of the study include how partnership working can lead to targeting resources and to improving access to contraception and services.Originality/valueThis study is a local initiative within the national programme for integrating care, demonstrating the benefits of working together to target resources and working in a more coordinated way.
A review of Alam and Bagchi's “Supply chain capability as a determinant of FDI”
Authors: Niederman Fred A. 
Published: August 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this commentary is to discuss the interpretation of the work by Alam and Bagchi in the larger context of foreign direct investment (FDI) in practice.Design/methodology/approachThis commentary is an essay.FindingsWhile this paper does a creditable job of inferring relationships based on available data, conclusions regarding the dynamics of FDI decision making in practice should be avoided. This is because all of the data used is inferred from observable precursors and effects of FDI, but does not observe actual decision making in practice.Research limitations/implicationsWhile noting that conclusions based on inference from observable and countable artifacts of FDI should be handled with caution, there are no recommendations in this essay about what alternative methods other researchers could use to obtain this sort of information.Originality/valueThe cautionary message of this commentary is not unique, but should be repeated frequently, as people all have a tendency to project from the data they have to what they would like to know.
The strategic development of subsidiaries in regional trade blocs
Authors: McDonald Frank , Josef Tüselmann Heinz , Voronkova Svitlana , Golesorkhi Sougand 
Published: August 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between the strategic development of subsidiaries and the likelihood of subsidiaries exporting on an intra‐regional basis to European markets.Design/methodology/approachThe paper defines the strategic development of subsidiaries as increases in autonomy, embeddedness in host locations and use of networks and host country sourcing. The location of subsidiaries in industrial clusters is also considered. Use is made of multinomial probit analysis of a survey of 391 UK‐based subsidiaries to identify the relationships between the strategic development of subsidiaries and supplying European markets.FindingsThe study finds some evidence that there are links between increasing networks and supplying European markets, but there is no evidence that developing host country sourcing is associated with European supply. Location in an industrial cluster is consistently associated with supplying European markets, and autonomy also appears to be closely associated with supplying European markets.Research limitations/implicationsExtension of the research is required to other regional trade blocs such as Mercosur and North American Free Trade Agreement. The role of networks and the links to location in industrial clusters require further exploration, and future research needs to include the services and knowledge‐intensive sectors.Originality/valueThe paper adds to the understanding of subsidiary development in the context of intra‐regional trading and thereby expands the literature on the regional strategy of multinationals. It highlights the importance of different types of autonomy for encouraging intra‐regional trade by foreign‐owned subsidiaries, and the central role of location in industrial clusters.
The rate of penetration by multinationals into emerging markets: evidence from BRIC
Authors: Johansson Johny K. , Leigh Laurence 
Published: August 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical assessment of the degree to which global firms have penetrated markets in emerging countries in the new millennium. The focus is on the “big four” emerging countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC), and the study examines penetration in three product categories: beer, hair care, and carbonated soft drinks.Design/methodology/approachThe conceptual development draws on a normative‐descriptive framework, predicting the behavior of multinationals from normative models of their strategic behavior. Predictions are evaluated against market share data for the multi‐domestic product categories.FindingsMultinationals with strong global brands will introduce their global brands and be successful also in multi‐domestic local markets where preferences differ across countries. However, the key to success is not always their global brands, but could equally likely be an acquired local brand. Some local brands successfully defend their markets, and even venture abroad into neighboring regions.Research limitations/implicationsGlobalization does not mean the success of global brands as much as success of global firms. In the end, the penetration of local emerging markets is not necessarily from global brands, but from global companies with acquired local brands.Originality/valueThe paper establishes that any fear of elimination of valued local brands is overblown. It also helps dispel the myth that emerging countries cannot develop strong international brands on their own. But one issue remains: the financial clout of global firms is difficult for emerging firms to counter.
Military careers and Buddhist ethics
Authors: Kariyakarawana Sunil 
Published: August 2011

PurposeFor many people, the military and Buddhism do not seem to go together, especially in the West. However, during the past 200 years Nepali Buddhists (Gurkhas who are mainly Buddhists) have been serving in the British Army. There are nearly 600 more Buddhists serving in the UK Military at present. Via the author's personal experience, this paper seeks to investigate the religious and scriptural position of a Buddhist joining in and continuing in the military.Design/methodology/approachThe paper records the experience of the first ever Buddhist Chaplain to HM forces and the first tri‐service annual Buddhist conference.FindingsThe aim of this paper is by no means to try to justify Buddist involvement in the military from any academic or theoretical point of view, but to share three years' experience from a practitioner's point of view.Originality/valueAs the first Buddhist Chaplain to the UK Armed Services, the author confirms what he has been doing over the past two years in order to assess the ethical position of Buddhist involvement with the military and explores the crucial issues surrounding this debate.
Values in managerialism and leadership
Authors: Hobkirk Michael , Deuchar Neil 
Published: August 2011

PurposeIt is essential that healthcare leaders and managers recognise the importance of values; how they relate to the delivery of healthcare to patients as well as shape individual, professional and organisational practice. This paper attempts to address these issues.Design/methodology/approachThe paper considers the concepts of values, managerialism and leadership in the present climate of rapid change, financial austerity, quality improvement and the drive towards patient‐centred care. It discusses a number of values‐based academic and professional standards, models and policy‐drivers to inform effective leadership and management for the improvement of healthcare delivery.FindingsShared values, when underpinned by an emphasis on patient care, can empower relationships between professions, providers and commissioners and advance discussions about priorities beyond a focus on morals and politics towards issues of shared goals and strategy implementation.Originality/valueThis paper bridges the gap between theory and practice and will appeal to leaders and managers irrespective of background or seniority. It offers a clear review of key issues, theories and practice skills which support effective values‐based leadership and management in healthcare settings.
“I wanted to find a way to serve others”
Authors: Howard Sue , Smith Jonathan 
Published: August 2011

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a valuable perspective on leadership within the police force.Design/methodology/approachIn this interview, Adrian Lee talks candidly with Sue Howard and Jonathan Smith about the current challenges facing police and public sector leadership.FindingsChief constable Adrian Lee's studies of theology, philosophy and law prior to him joining the police service have shaped and formed his sense of vocation and the values that are now central to many of the fundamental issues of leadership that the police service have to consider.Originality/valueThis paper provides the valuable perspective of a chief constable on the challenges facing leaders in the police force, and applies this to the public sector more generally. Chief Constable Adrian Lee believes that vision, values and vocation are essential elements for effective policing in the twenty‐first century.