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Social positioning of equal opportunity actors in Austria
Authors: Auer Manfred , Welte Heike 
Published: November 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the capacities of different groups of actors, who initiate, support, and control (known as equal opportunity actors) equal opportunities and equal treatment in organizations in Austria.Design/methodology/approachBased on the concept of social positioning and a qualitative empirical approach, the paper provides an analysis of data deriving from 32 interviews with equal opportunity actors.FindingsThe main findings show that, depending on individual commitment, knowledge and abilities, equal opportunity actors have the capacity to influence official equal opportunity policies and to prohibit individual cases of discrimination. However, there are strong restrictions concerning a limited understanding of gender, an ignorance of more subtle forms of the practising of gender and acceptance of the gendered understructure of organizations.Research limitations/implicationsThe study relates to the Austrian labour relations system which is rather similar to the German system, but can hardly be transferred to other countries.Practical implicationsThe analysis of capacities and restrictions of single actors within organizations may be of general interest.Originality/valueThe paper explores a nearly fully ignored aspect of equal opportunity policies which is crucial for their success or failure.
Changing HR careers: implications for management education
Authors: Heaton Norma , Ackah Carol 
Published: November 2007

PurposeThe human resource (HR) function is experiencing considerable change with pressure to demonstrate added value and a trend to outsourcing. This paper aims to examine the early careers and career development of HR professionals in this time of change, and to consider the development implications for employers, the individuals themselves and providers of management education.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from participants on a postgraduate programme in human resource management (HRM) at a regional university in the UK.FindingsThe participants displayed characteristics of the protean career including both frequency of job moves and moves between management functional areas before they were in a position to acquire a professional qualification to take their career to another level.Originality/valueThe research indicates that HR careers are changing and the old certainties of a secure HR career in a large or public sector organisation can no longer be taken for granted. This has implications for higher education institutions providing specialist programmes in HRM.
Leadership development training transfer: a case study of post‐training determinants
Authors: Gilpin‐Jackson Yabome , Bushe Gervase R. 
Published: November 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand what contributes to transfer of soft‐skill, leadership training.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents a literature review resulted in five broad factors that may influence transfer of leadership training. These were used to guide a qualitative, exploratory study. Interviews were conducted with 18 participants of an extensive, soft skill oriented leadership development program, along with peer observers. Where possible, quantitative analyses are used to test and confirm qualitative findings.FindingsThe results showed substantial transfer of training and suggest that actual utilization of newly learned skills is influenced differently than judgments about the value of the training. The greatest inhibitor to transfer appeared to be fear of breaking cultural norms and the most important remedy, the number of other managers who receive the training. In particular, having one's boss take the same training was strongly associated with post‐training utilization. Some kinds of social support, like encouragement and verbal praise, were associated with positive judgments of the training but not with utilization. Instead, observing others use the skills and being able to coach one another was the kind of “support” that effected utilization, which depended on colleagues and bosses also receiving the training.Research limitations/implicationsAs an exploratory case study, the study lacks a large sample and the kind of methodology that could prove the validity of the findings.Practical implicationsA number of implications for training managers wanting to ensure their leadership development programs have real impact are discussed. In particular, the study points to a need to plan for rapid diffusion of the training and for cultural change processes in parallel with leadership development courses.Originality/valueThe paper meets a need for empirical investigation of factors associated with transfer of soft skills into the workplace, as called for by researchers like Cheng and Ho. It identifies differences in what impacts judgments of value versus what actually impacts transfer. It also identifies how changing leadership behavior is as much a cultural intervention as a change in skill sets.
IT‐adaptation challenges in the process industry: an exploratory case study
Authors: Rönnbäck Lars , Holmström Jonny , Hanseth Ole 
Published: November 2007

PurposeThis paper seeks to identify and explore critical challenges for the process industry in information technology (IT) infrastructure integration and adaptation.Design/methodology/approachAn exploratory case study was conducted at a paper mill and their main IT‐vendor. Using a qualitative approach eight semi‐structured interviews were carried out with representatives from both organizations.FindingsThe paper identifies four critical challenges in the integration and adaptation of IT‐infrastructure in the process industry: integration as an ongoing process; maintaining stability in the installed base; locking the right stuff in; and balancing user value, continuity of production and compatibility.Practical implicationsGiven the centrality of IT infrastructure in today's process industries, the importance of dealing with these challenges must be emphasized. The four challenges identified in this study are of such a complexity that they can only lend themselves to the evolutionary strategy. Such a strategy is in concert with the sensibility towards risk found in the paper industry.Originality/valueThis paper contributes by building on and expanding IT‐infrastructure literature, as a result of exploring IT‐adaptation challenges in process industry organizations. The findings also provide managers with a valuable insight into recognizing and handling these challenges.
Benevolence in the importer‐exporter relationship
Authors: Lee Dong‐Jin , Lee Moonkyu , Suh Jaebeom 
Published: November 2007

PurposeThis research aims to test a model that proposes potential antecedents and consequences of an importer's benevolence towards its foreign export supplier. The model posits that an importer's satisfaction with and commitment to its relationship with a foreign export supplier have a positive impact on its benevolence towards the exporter, which in turn positively influences the performance of the dyadic relationship. The model also suggests that the effect of the importer's relationship satisfaction on benevolence is moderated by value similarity and cultural familiarity.Design/methodology/approachThe model was tested through a mail survey of US importers who bought from foreign exporters.FindingsThe results largely support the model. The findings of this study also indicate that the importer's relationship satisfaction has a significant influence on benevolence only when cultural familiarity is high.Practical implicationsStrategic implications for international marketers are discussed.Originality/valueThe model proposed has value for marketing professionals.
Project business: a distinct mode of internationalization
Authors: Owusu Richard A. , Sandhu Maqsood , Kock Sören 
Published: November 2007

PurposeThe aim of the paper is to elaborate a framework of project business as a distinct mode of internationalization. The uniqueness and complexity of project business as a core mode are portrayed by comparing it with other internationalization modes. It is agreed that a single project sale is a discrete form of direct involvement in a foreign market. However, this provides opportunities for network interactions that can facilitate further project business openings in a foreign market and on a global level.Design/methodology/approachUsing the abductive method, the paper constructs a comparative framework of project business and other forms of internationalization. It illustrates the discussion with a longitudinal case study of a company that uses project business as its strategic choice for its internationalization.FindingsThe paper finds that, using project business as its core internationalization mode, the company has expanded its global business as well as entering and succeeding in foreign business networks. It proposes that the network and relationship‐based project business approach is viable as a strategic alternative for internationalization on its own or in combination with other modes.Research limitations/implicationsThe study provides a framework for positioning project business as a separate internationalization mode. It provides a comparative framework for internationalization modes.Practical implicationsThis study provides managers with an understanding of project business as a distinct and profitable mode of internationalization. It illuminates the network and relationship‐building aspects of project business.Originality/valueAccording to the research, this is the first study that proposes project business as a distinct mode of internationalization. Much previous research has either not mentioned project business or subsumed it as an unimportant part of exports. The framework developed in this study should spur new research on the issue.
Organizational justice and workplace mediation: a six‐factor model
Authors: Nabatchi Tina , Blomgren Bingham Lisa , Good David H. 
Published: November 2007

PurposeThis study examines the structure and dimensionality of organizational justice in a workplace mediation setting. It has three purposes: to determine whether the procedural and interpersonal justice factors in the four‐factor model of organizational justice can be split, thereby providing support for a six‐factor model; to identify how the split factors relate to other factors in the model; and to uncover any differences in employee and supervisor perceptions of organizational justice in workplace mediation.Design/methodology/approachConfirmatory factor analysis is used to explore the fit of four different models of organizational justice. The paper examines cross factor correlations to assess the strength and relationships among factors and to look for differences between employees and supervisors.FindingsIt is found that a six‐factor model of organizational justice provides the best fit for the data and that factor relationships differ little for employees and supervisors.Research limitations/implicationsThis is a field test of REDRESS®, the USPS employment mediation program which uses transformative mediation. The study has important theoretical and research implications for organizational justice and workplace mediation.Practical implicationsThe study has practical implications for organizational conflict management and dispute system design.Originality/valueOrganizational justice has not been adequately explored within the context of workplace mediation. The study is unique in that it concurrently examines multiple factors of organizational justice, using a large, longitudinal dataset from an internationally recognized workplace mediation program.
Teams as substitutes for leadership
Authors: Huusko Liisa 
Published: November 2007

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to address teams as substitutes for leadership. The article makes use of juridical foundations as a normative basis for addressing substitutes for leadership. Together with the means of management and leadership, the juridical foundations constitute the background for defining sufficient and good supervisory work, which is used as an assistant instrument in addressing the research question: can teams act as substitutes for leadership?Design/methodology/approachIn this article, substitutes for leadership theories are used to analyze the status of teams. The article includes a preliminary empirical study in a timber procurement organization and ideas for further investigations are provided.FindingsTeams often do not act as internal supervisors or as sources of feedback and incentives, even though they are expected to do so. Some team members experience feelings of abandonment. Although planned as substitutes or supplements, teams can instead become neutralizers.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to recognizing the status of teams and to research questions concerned with explanations for the problems of teams.
Technology acceptance: a meta‐analysis of the TAM: Part 1
Authors: Yousafzai Shumaila Y. , Foxall Gordon R. , Pallister John G. 
Published: November 2007

PurposeThis paper is the first of two concerned with a meta‐analysis of the technology acceptance model (TAM). This part aims to present a narrative literature review of 145 papers published on the TAM.Design/methodology/approachThe approach takes the form of a literature review of 145 papers on the TAM.FindingsThe review identifies TAM as a basis for identifying gaps and providing guidelines for implementation of management and the conduct of future research.Originality/valueThe paper presents a comprehensive literature review and a rigorous meta‐analysis to progress towards a unified view of the TAM.
Customer perceived value in a cellar door visit: the impact on behavioural intentions
Authors: Gill Donna , Byslma Brett , Ouschan Robyn 
Published: November 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of customer perceived value on behavioural intentions in a cellar door context, and to examine the role of satisfaction as a mediator of the customer perceived value‐behavioural intentions relationship.Design/methodology/approachA multi‐dimensional measure of customer perceived value was used to determine which aspects of the cellar door experience were valued by visitors and how value dimensions impact on subsequent wine purchase intentions. Data collected from visitors to wineries of the Margaret River and the Swan Valley regions in Western Australia were used to empirically test a model of customer perceived value on behavioural intentions with satisfaction posited as a mediating variable. Multiple regression was employed to test hypothesised relationships.FindingsResults indicate that four out of five dimensions of customer perceived value (service quality, technical quality, price, and social value) have a positive impact on the behavioural intentions of cellar door visitors with overall satisfaction partially mediating the relationship.Research limitations/implicationsThe data were collected from only one country. Future studies can investigate customer perceived value relating to cellar door visits in a cross‐cultural context covering a wider spread of wine regions. Furthermore, longitudinal research could determine the impact of the customer perceived value dimensions on the actual purchase of the wineries' wines from retail outlets and restaurants.Practical implicationsThis paper provides winery managers with valuable information on how cellar door experiences can be improved across a range of different value dimensions.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to empirically test customer perceived value in a cellar door setting.
Burial history of Late Neogene sedimentary basins on part of the New Zealand convergent plate margin
Authors: Wells PATRICIA 
Published: November 2007

Abstract Burial histories of Late Neogene sedimentary basins on the Wairarapa fold and thrust belt of the Hikurangi convergent plate margin (New Zealand) have been deduced from decompacted sedimentary columns and palaeo‐waterdepths. These indicate that at least two major cycles of basement subsidence and uplift have occurred since 15 Ma. The older (15‐10 Ma) cycle affected outer areas of the forearc. Subsidence, at a minimum rate of 0.5‐0.6 mm/yr, was followed by rapid uplift. The subsequent (10 Ma to present) cycle affected a broad area of the inner forearc. Subsidence, at an average rate 0.33 mm/yr, was followed by uplift at an average rate of 0.5‐1.5 mm/yr. Vertical movement is continuing, with uplift of the axial greywacke ranges and development of the Wairarapa Depression.Palinspastic reconstructions of the inner forearc region indicate that basin development was characterized by a see‐saw oscillation in basin orientation, with the axis of the basin and direction of basin tilt switching back and forth from east to west through time. A large‐scale change in basin orientation took place around 2 Ma when the westernmost part of Wairarapa began to rise on the flanks of the rising Tararua Range, associated with the ramping of the Australian Plate up and over the subducted Pacific Plate. Loading of the forearc is unlikely to have been a significant cause of basement subsidence before this event. Earlier phases of basin development associated with basement subsidence and uplift may be related to a complex interplay of tectonic factors, including the westward migration of the subducted Pacific Plate as it passed beneath southern North Island during Miocene time, episodes of locking and unlocking of parts of the plate interface, and growth of the accretionary prism.
Sediment blanketing and the flexural strength of extended continental lithosphere
Authors: Karner Garry D. 
Published: November 2007

AbstractThe flexural rigidity of the oceanic lithosphere is strongly dependent on its temperature structure at the time of loading. It is commonly assumed that the depth to the 450°C isotherm defines the effective elastic thickness Te of the lithosphere. However, recent gravity studies across the Baltimore Canyon and Nova Scotian margins suggest that temperature may play a more complicated role in controlling the mechanical strength of extended continental lithosphere. For example, the flexural strength of the Baltimore Canyon margin (with sediment thicknesses of ≅ 15 km) appears to be controlled by the depth to the 150°C isotherm whereas the strength of the Nova Scotian margin (with sediment thicknesses cf ≅ 10 km) is controlled by the depth to the 250°C isotherm. The apparent correlation between sediment thickness and controlling isotherm suggests that sediment blanketing may play a role in modifying the flexural strength of extended continental lithosphere. This hypothesis was investigated by simulating the sedimentation history of a margin as a Gaussian function in which sedimentation peak and rate are determined by the mean and standard deviation of the function. The temperature structure of the lithosphere is continually modified as sediments are deposited on, and incorporated into the temperature structure of, the underlying lithosphere. Given a ‘starting’ value of Te defined by the degree of extension of the lithosphere, the modification of Te appears to be directly proportional to the sedimentation rate and cumulative sediment thickness, and inversely proportional to the time at which the sedimentation rate is a maximum. The first‐order consequence of sediment blanketing is to reduce the cooling rate of the lithosphere relative to cooling in the absence of sediments. At thermal equilibrium, the initial value of Te is reduced by the cumulative sediment thickness. Local isostatic conditions (i. e. Te≅ 0) can only be approached when the sedimentation rate is unrealistically high (> 1000 m/Myr) during the rift or early post‐rift phase of basin development. However, while these early loads may be locally compensated, any subsequent loads will be regionally compensated. Thus, it is unlikely that the low present‐day flexural strengths interpreted from the Baltimore Canyon and Nova Scotian passive continental margins are a consequence of sediment blanketing.
Late Cretaceous basement foundering of the Rosario embayment, Peninsular Ranges forearc basin: backstripping of the El Gallo Formation, Baja California Norte, Mexico
Authors: Pinter Nicholas , Fulford Madeleine M. 
Published: November 2007

AbstractExcellent exposure, well‐controlled palaeobathymetry, and tightly‐spaced, high‐precision radiometric age control in the El Gallo Fm. permit rigorous quantitative analysis. Backstripping of these proximal nonmarine, forearc basin deposits reveals that, during the Late Cretaceous, the Rosario embayment of the Peninsular Ranges forearc was undergoing an episode of rapid tectonic subsidence. This subsidence had several marked effects on the sedimentology of the Rosario embayment: formation of a broad alluvial plain consisting of coarse‐grained clastics; rapid (∼ 600 m Myr‐1) aggradation of sediments; and a retrogradational succession of facies, capped by a marine transgression, as deposition failed to keep pace with eustatic rise and subsidence.Long‐term sedimentation is driven by some combination of two allocyclic mechanisms: tectonic subsidence and eustatic sea‐level rise. In order to evaluate which force predominated during deposition of the El Gallo Fm., the processes of sedimentation, compaction, and isostasy are evaluated through the interval in question. A sensitivity analysis is performed, in which the maximum tectonic and maximum eustatic contributions are estimated, along with the best‐fit model. These results are qualitatively the same: tectonic subsidence was the major driving force of sedimentation in the Rosario embayment in late Campanian time. Regional sedimentological similarities suggest that this tectonic subsidence may have characterized the Peninsular Ranges forearc margin at this time, reflecting an episode of active down‐faulting during the Late Cretaceous.
Strike‐slip tectonics and development of the Tertiary Queen Charlotte Basin, offshore western Canada: evidence from seismic reflection data
Authors: Rohr K. M. M. , Dietrich J. R. 
Published: November 2007

AbstractInterpretation of seismic reflection data have led to a new model of the development of the Queen Charlotte Basin. New multi‐channel data collected in 1988 and an extensive network of unpublished older single‐ and multi‐channel profiles from industry image a complex network of sub‐basins. Structural styles vary along the axis of the basin from broadly spaced mainly N‐trending sub‐basins in Queen Charlotte Sound, to closely spaced NW‐trending sub‐basins in Hecate Strait, to an E‐Wen echelonbelt of sub‐basins in Dixon Entrance. Transtensional tectonics dominated in the Miocene and transpression dominated in the Pliocene except in Queen Charlotte Sound. The data we present prove that the origin of the basin is extensional and its most recent deformation is compressive.Evidence for the strike‐slip origin of tectonism includes along‐axis variations in structures, simultaneous extension and compression in adjacent sub‐basins, lack of correlations across faults, and mixed normal and reverse faults within structures. We infer that the Pacific‐North America plate boundary has been west of the Queen Charlotte Islands since the Miocene when relative plate motions have been dominantly strike‐slip. The formation and development of the Queen Charlotte Basin is the result of distributed shear; by which a small percentage of the plate motion has been taken up in a network of faults across the continental margin. As this region of crust deforms it interacts with neighbouring rigid crust resulting in extension dominating in the south of the basin and compression in the north. Continental crust adjacent to some transform plate boundaries can be sheared over a wide region; the network of basins in southwestern California is a good analogue for the Queen Charlotte Basin.