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A business model for IPTV service: a dynamic framework
Authors: Bouwman Harry , Zhengjia Meng , van der Duin Patrick , Limonard Sander 
Published: May 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate a possible business model for telecom operators for entering the IPTV (digital television) market.Design/methodology/approachThe approach takes the form of a case study, literature search and interviews.FindingsThe IPTV business model always has to adjust to the change of external factors and uncertainties in the exploration and the exploitation phase. The four scenarios presented in this paper explicitly address the demand, regulatory and competition‐related uncertainties. The scenarios represent the different future possibilities in terms of regulatory environment, industry structure and consumer attitudes towards (IP)TV service. By choosing the right business model, telecom operators can sustain the market competition and deliver customer value and economic benefits. In the light of limited resources, when balancing the requirement of IPTV business model design, telecom operators have to focus on the critical design issues in each of the scenarios.Research limitations/implicationsThis is a one‐case study, so no cross‐analysis with other cases was possible.Practical implicationsThe research does not stop when the critical design issues have been analysed, but takes them a step further to shed light on the viability of the business model in an exploration phase. This is done by integrating the business model framework analysis with scenario analysis. Scenario analysis indicates various future possibilities and provides a platform for analyzing the decisions regarding critical design issues that have to be made in an uncertain future environment. The competing views on future developments are helpful in reducing the future uncertainties with regard to viability and feasibility of business models for IPTV.Originality/valueThis is one of the first studies that looks into the relationships between business models and scenarios. Also, the application on IPTV is quite novel.
An overview of web mining in societal benefit areas
Authors: Lappas Georgios 
Published: May 2008

PurposeThe focus of this paper is a survey of web‐mining research related to areas of societal benefit. The article aims to focus particularly on web mining which may benefit societal areas by extracting new knowledge, providing support for decision making and empowering the effective management of societal issues.Design/methodology/approachE‐commerce and e‐business are two fields that have been empowered by web mining, having many applications for increasing online sales and doing intelligent business. Have areas of social interest also been empowered by web mining applications? What are the current ongoing research and trends in e‐services fields such as e‐learning, e‐government, e‐politics and e‐democracy? What other areas of social interest can benefit from web mining? This work will try to provide the answers by reviewing the literature for the applications and methods applied to the above fields.FindingsThere is a growing interest in applications of web mining that are of social interest. This reveals that one of the current trends of web mining is toward the connection between intelligent web services and societal benefit applications, which denotes the need for interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers from various fields.Originality/valueOn the one hand, this work presents to the web‐mining community an overview of research opportunities in societal benefit areas. On the other hand, it presents to web researchers from various disciplines an approach for improving their web studies by considering web mining as a powerful research tool.
A service‐oriented architecture for building services integration
Authors: Malatras Apostolos , Asgari Abolghasem (Hamid) , Baugé Timothy , Irons Mark 
Published: May 2008

PurposeTraditional administration of building services regards them as having confined scope, operating in isolation or tightly coupled and providing minimal support for overall coordination and holistic management hindering the provisioning of advanced services. This approach inherently bears weaknesses related to complex services management, results in increased costs, and formulates rigid architectural design that restricts flexibility and extensibility. Taking into consideration this set of drawbacks, the purpose of this paper is to propose exploiting a service‐oriented architecture that will allow for dynamic, coordinated and distributed building services management.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents the design of an enterprise‐based networking architecture for building services and systems and specifies its functional components.FindingsThe proposed architecture is compliant with established practices in the building automation field and focuses on catering for a wide spectrum of building and enterprise level services. A specific deployment use‐case scenario and its related implementation issues is considered, so as to promote interoperability and adoption of open standards and principles for the system level performance evaluation of the proposed architecture is also examined.Research limitations/implicationsLiterature review is not exhaustive and evaluation of the proposed architecture should be performed in a more systematic manner.Practical implicationsAdoption of a service‐oriented view as far as facilities management is concerned.Originality/valueThis paper identifies through a thorough literature review the research problems in the area of building services integration and proposes an approach to enable successful integration. The novelty of this work is based on the application of the state‐of‐the‐art in enterprise networking for integration of building management and IT‐based services.
Capturing patients' views on communication with anaesthetists: the CARE Measure
Authors: Mercer S.W. , Hatch D.J. , Murray A. , Murphy D.J. , Eva K.W. 
Published: May 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine the relevance and reliability of the ten‐item Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure as a tool for measuring patients' views of anaesthetists during preoperative assessment consultations.Design/methodology/approachSelf‐completed patient questionnaire containing the ten‐item CARE Measure. Consecutive adult patients were asked to complete the ten‐item CARE questionnaire immediately after their pre‐operative assessment consultation with the anaesthetist and return it to a designated local co‐ordinator. Reliability co‐efficient of the overall measure, and relevance of each item to patients' concerns were measured.FindingsUsing the Measure, 31 consultant anaesthetists were assessed by 1,582 patients (559 male, 952 female). The total number of “not applicable” responses was 1,086, (6.8 per cent of the total number of possible “not applicable” responses). The overall number of missing values was 0.6 per cent. The measure effectively discriminated between doctors (reliability co‐efficient of the average score per doctor provided by 40 patients was above 0.8) and had high internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha, 0.93).Originality/valueThe present study presents evidence of a tool which may have utility in anaesthetics and other settings.
An audit of acute coronary syndrome assessment (TIMI scoring) and treatment
Authors: Coughlin Stephanie , Milligan Frank 
Published: May 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report the findings of an audit undertaken on the use of the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) scoring system, and adherence to agreed treatment protocols, in the triage of patients with cardiac chest pain.Design/methodology/approachA retrospective review of case notes. Sixty eight patients were audited on the use of TIMI score and 64 of these were further audited on the management commenced in the emergency department.FindingsOnly nine of the 68 patients with cardiac chest pain had a TIMI score documented. Of the 64 patients, 31 analysed for treatment commenced were managed correctly, 33 patients (n=64) were either under or over treated.Practical implicationsAdherence to clinical guidelines should be subject to audit review to assess impact on patient outcomes. Over‐treatment included administration of unnecessary anticoagulants raising patient safety and cost issues. Under‐treatment left patients vulnerable to further cardiac events.Originality/valueThis paper demonstrates the value of utilising audit data in quantifying adherence to clinical guidelines, thereby improving patient outcomes.
Challenges facing biodiversity in the United Arab Emirates
Authors: Tourenq Christophe , Launay Frédéric 
Published: May 2008

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to show that the Arabian Peninsula, and the United Arab Emirates in particular, has not been spared by the trends of biodiversity loss observed on the world scale. The authors aim to present a rapid review of the challenges facing the biodiversity in the UAE and the solutions that this young country proposes to counteract the erosion of its biodiversity.Design/methodology/approachThe authors gathered and compiled published and unpublished information from governmental and non‐governmental sources.FindingsDespite being regarded as a vast desertic and unfertile area with one of the lowest human populations in the world, the UAE hosts a unique and remarkably adapted fauna and flora. Adding to natural causes (drought), the main threats facing biodiversity identified were: coastal development and urbanisation, as well as over‐exploitation of natural resources (fishing, hunting, grazing and water extraction) that are linked with the tremendous population increase and changes in lifestyle. Traditional systems of resource management in the UAE have been abandoned. Over the last few decades, the UAE has lost most of its big fauna and is witnessing the remaining Arabian leopard, Mountain Gazelle, Arabian Tahr, Arabian Sailfish, groupers and shark populations at the brink of extinction.Originality/valueThe paper proposes the inclusion of environmental issues in the development planning (with proper environment impact assessments), the involvement of local communities in the decision making and the improvement of federal and international trans‐boundaries collaborations. Highlights that an urgent step would be the implementation of integrated costal management zoning to stop the current extent of coastal development that contributes through physical alteration of habitats to the disappearance of key resources and habitats.
Knowledge‐based manufacturing enterprises: evidence from a case study
Authors: Salmador Sánchez María P. , Ángeles Palacios M. 
Published: May 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study how managers in manufacturing firms approach the challenge of knowledge management in their organizations.Design/methodology/approachThe research methodology is an in‐depth case study. The empirical data were collected from an international oil and gas manufacturing company operating in more than 30 countries and leader in Spain and Argentina. The purest form of a longitudinal field study, daily participant observation, was feasible as one of the authors is an executive at the firm studied.FindingsBased on the field investigation, the paper presents the process followed to build a knowledge vision in the company, the first stages of the initiative, the development of new projects, and the lessons learned resulting in the creation of a knowledge management unit, a working model, a strategy, and a set of different projects that were on the basis of the competitive advantage of the organization.Research limitations/implicationsThe perspective proposed in this research should be viewed with some caution, because of the methodological limitations of the present study as the paper drew on detailed descriptions of one organization. The extent to which the local explanation presented develops into a more general framework depends on how well it, or its descendants, explains the “phenomena” in future work.Practical implicationsAnalyzing knowledge management initiatives in manufacturing companies becomes of major interest as it is relevant to further explore how this initiative can help optimize production processes and integrate operational requirements with enterprise‐level decision‐making processes as well as it adding value to customers in the industry at various stages of the value chain such as exploration, in‐bound logistics, technological operations and out‐bound logistics.Originality/valueThe paper is practical in nature and reports on the managerial applications and experiential implications of the matter of study. The research shows the main findings and discusses the main implications as well as future lines of research.
Muddled, massaging, manœuvring or manipulated?
Authors: Radnor Zoe 
Published: May 2008

PurposeThis conceptual paper seeks to consider the impact of performance measurement and reporting based around performance indicators and targets within the public sector and to identify that the response to indicators and targets is often gaming which happens at organisational level. It then goes on to present a definition and typology of organisational gaming.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws from a range of documents both government and academic to identify both the process of, and the types of, organisational gaming.FindingsThe paper finds that organisational gaming occurs at both different levels (low and high) and extent (internal and external). It builds on this by presenting a framework (2 × 2 matrix) which presents types of organisational gaming which range in their degree of impact and consequence.Research limitations/implicationsThe concepts within this paper focus around public services on which the framework is built. This may – but it is doubtful – have limitations when considering the ideas within private sector organisations. Another limitation could be levelled at the 2 × 2 typology in that it may be difficult to place a gaming phenomenon into one “box” alone.Originality/valueThe value in the paper and the framework is that a distinction between measurement and reporting is drawn together with identification of a different gaming phenomenon. This, the paper argues, is important to understand, if organisations are to avoid some of the more “dangerous” or high impact consequences of gaming.
I hired you, you're perfect … now stay! (The top ten list for retaining top talent)
Authors: Morgan Howard J. 
Published: May 2008

PurposeThis paper aims to provide practical leadership advice for motivating and retaining valued employees.Design/methodology/approachProvides a viewpoint based on the author's line management and executive coaching experience, which provides practical guidance to help identify, motivate and lead top employees to create a high performance culture.FindingsProvides ten suggestions for effectively motivating and retaining talent based on anecdotal accounts. Recognizes current organizational pitfalls within corporations and offers key learning's from coaching engagements.Research limitations/implicationsNot intended as a comprehensive leadership/academic tome but as a practical employee retention guide for leaders.Practical implicationsA useful source, which provides leaders with suggestions for creating a corporate culture which motivates employees to be top performers who want to work for the company.Originality/valueProvides a viewpoint based on the author's line management and executive coaching experience.
Migration in a model of occupational choice
Authors: Roy Chowdhury Sahana 
Published: May 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical explanation for the empirical observation that the relative migration of unskilled (skilled) labor tends to occur from developing economies that are relatively unequal (equal).Design/methodology/approachWealth inequality is related with migration incentives of skilled and unskilled labor in a model of occupational choice using a two‐period overlapping generations framework.FindingsIt is shown that high inequality creates a disincentive to migrate for skilled labor. Too much equality however creates a disincentive to migrate for unskilled labor. Thus, a highly unequal (equal) economy sustains unskilled (skilled) labor migration only.Originality/valueRelative to the existing theoretical literature on migration, the distinguishing feature of this model is that it has entrepreneurship as an alternative occupational choice. This implies that the incentive to migrate is not affected solely by wage differentials across countries. It is shown that in a highly unequal developing economy there is no skilled migration – despite the gap between the skilled wage of the source economy and that of the foreign economy – in equilibrium.
A robust normative evaluation of India's performance in allocating risks of death
Authors: Gravel Nicolas , Mukhopadhyay Abhiroop , Tarroux Benoît 
Published: May 2008

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a robust normative evaluation of the recent evolution of Indians' exposures to health‐related risks.Design/methodology/approachThe paper compares empirically the distributions of individuals' risks of death in India on the basis of new ethically robust criteria in 1995 and 2002. Probabilities of death are assigned individuals as an estimated probit function of several explanatory variables, including the individual's district of residence. The criteria used ranks distributions of individual risks in the same way as would all Von Neumann–Morgenstern (VNM) social planners who respect, in the usual Pareto sense – individuals VNM preferences over individual risks of death. Two criteria are considered in turn. The first criterion assumes that individuals' VNM utilities are increasing in money and value more a unit of money received in the bad state than one received in the good one. The second criterion makes the extra assumption that individuals are risk averse and have VNM utility functions that are more concave in the bad state than in the good one.FindingsIt is found that there is unanimity among all VNM social planners who respect individual VNM preference for considering that the distribution of risks of death in India was better in 2002 than in 1995. This is at least so if individuals can be assumed to prefer more money to less, to be risk averse, and to be more risk averse in the bad state than in the good one.Research limitations/implicationsA limitation of the empirical research of the paper is that it concerns only one kind of risk. Future research would apply the tools of this paper to other kinds of risks like risks of crime or risks of unemployment.Practical implicationsA practical implication of the paper is to illustrate the usefulness of robust dominance methodology to evaluate the outcome of various policies.Originality/valueThe novelty of the paper is to be one of the first to apply empirically new dominance criteria that are specifically designed to compare distributions of risks between individuals. It is certainly the first paper to apply the tool to appraise the distribution of risks of death in India.
Potential of double‐cropped rice ecology to conserve organic carbon under subtropical climate
Authors: MANDAL BISWAPATI , MAJUMDER BIDISHA , ADHYA T. K. , BANDYOPADHYAY P. K. , GANGOPADHYAY A. , SARKAR DIBYENDU , KUNDU M. C. , CHOUDHURY SHREYASI GUPTA , HAZRA G. C. , KUNDU S. , SAMANTARAY R. N. , MISRA A. K. 
Published: May 2008

AbstractUnderstanding the processes of soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation or depletion under different management strategies is vital for maintaining soil health and curbing global warming. Using a 36‐year‐old fertility experiment under subtropical climate, we investigated the impact of long‐term intensive rice–rice cropping system with different managements on the SOC stock. The mechanistic pathway of stabilization of the SOC into different pools, with a tentative C budgeting was also established. Biochemical composition of the organic residues involved, SOC pools of different oxidizability and methane (CH4) emission were estimated for the experiment conducted using organic and inorganic sources of nutrients. Cultivation over the years caused a net decrease in SOC stocks but with balanced fertilization it increased. With increasing depth, the stock decreased on average, to the extent of 50%, 26% and 24% of the total at 0–0.2, 0.2–0.4 and 0.4–0.6 m, respectively. About 4.0% of the crop residues C incorporated into the soil were stabilized into SOC. This was further enhanced (1.6 times) by the application of compost. Carbon loss through CH4emission was very low (2.6% of the total). ‘Summer fallow’ had a positive significant influence on C loss from the system. As much as 29% of the compost C added to the soil was stabilized into SOC mostly in the less‐labile or nonlabile recalcitrant pools preferentially in the surface layer of the soil. Large polyphenol and lignin contents of crop residues including compost, and the long period of soil submergence under rice cultivation might have conferred recalcitrant character to the SOC leading to its stabilization in nonlabile pools. This would result into an enrichment of the SOC stock and restriction to the gaseous C loading into the atmosphere.
Land use change and the dependence of national priority species on protected areas
Authors: JACKSON SARAH F. , GASTON KEVIN J. 
Published: May 2008

AbstractThe establishment and maintenance of a system of protected areas is central to regional and global strategies for the conservation of biodiversity. The current global trend towards human population growth and widespread environmental degradation means that such areas are becoming increasingly isolated, fragmented habitat islands. In regions in which this process is well advanced, a high proportion of species are thus predicted to have become restricted to protected areas. Here, using uniquely detailed datasets for Britain, a region with close to the global level of percentage coverage by statutory protected areas, we determine the extent of restriction of species of conservation concern to these areas. On the basis of currently known distributions, more than a half of such species are highly dependent on protected areas for their continued persistence, occurring either entirely or largely within their bounds. Such coverage is of particular importance for those species with narrower distributions, and therefore, under the greatest threats, underlining the vital importance of adequately resourcing, maintaining, and developing protected areas to prevent these species from being lost.
Warming promotes cold‐adapted phytoplankton in temperate lakes and opens a loophole for Oscillatoriales in spring
Authors: SHATWELL TOM , KÖHLER JAN , NICKLISCH ANDREAS 
Published: May 2008

AbstractThe effects of the recent warming trend in many northern temperate lakes on the species composition of spring phytoplankton remain poorly understood, especially because a recent change in nutrients has complicated efforts, and previous studies have defined spring according to the calendar. We analysed data from 1979 to 2004 from Lake Müggelsee (Berlin, Germany), using physical and biological parameters to define the spring period. We show that a change in timing of spring plankton events in warm years led to the paradox of lower mean water temperatures during the growth period, favouring cold‐adapted diatoms over cyanobacteria, and within the diatoms, some cold‐adapted centric forms over pennate forms. Under high P : Si ratios, the increased time between phytoplankton and cladoceran peaks opened a loophole for filamentous cyanobacteria (Oscillatoriales) in warm years to establish dominance after the diatoms, which are silicate limited. Therefore, the warming trend promotes filamentous cyanobacteria, a well‐known nuisance in eutrophic lakes, and surprisingly, cold‐adapted diatoms.