bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The direction and control of corporations: law or strategy?
Authors: Yeoh Peter 
Published: June 2007

PurposeTo review and analyse the legal implications of the CA 2006 in respect of directors’ duties and powers, and in particular sections 172(1) and 471.Design/methodology/approachThe use of business management theories complements the primary use of the legal doctrinal approach as applied in this study.FindingsSection 172(1)'s wordings generate ambivalent legal implications for directors’ general duties as codified. It appears to give discretionary powers to directors where the review of the six statutory factors is concerned. However, directors will need to treat these seriously when read in conjunction with section 471. The latter pertains to directors’ disclosure obligations for the newly expanded business review section of the directors’ annual report. Available corporate evidence suggests that some corporate directors go beyond the minimum mandatory standards for environmental and social (Corporate Social responsibility, CSR) issues. They have benefited from the integration of their CSR policies and practices with their corporate strategic plans and actions. Some have even forged effective partnership with non‐governmental organisations (NGOs) and other stakeholders to co‐create businesses.Practical implicationsThis investigation provides strategic insights and practical thinking to investors, corporate directors, state planners, NGOs, and other corporate stakeholders.Originality/valuePrevious legal analysis on general directors’ duties focused on the law. This study advanced corporate legal theory further with the use of insights from contemporary business theories and practices.
Synthesis and properties of pigments based on XxZnyFe2O4 ferrites with non‐isometric particles
Authors: Kalendová A. , Veselý D. 
Published: June 2007

PurposeTo synthesise anticorrosion pigments of a lamellar and core‐shell type based on Zn, Ca and Mg ferrites for metal protecting paints.Design/methodology/approachThe anticorrosion pigments were synthesised from oxides or carbonates at high temperature. The pigments synthesised had particles with a pronounced lamellar‐tubular shape consisting of MgFe2O4; Mg0.8Zn0.2Fe2O4; Mg0.6Zn0.4Fe2O4; Mg0.4Zn0.6Fe2O4; Mg0.2Zn0.8Fe2O4; ZnFe2O4; Ca0.2Zn0.8Fe2O4; and CaFe2O4. The other type of synthesised ferrite pigments were core‐shell anticorrosion pigments where a layer corresponding to the compositions including MgFe2O4/KAl3Si3O11; Mg0.8Zn0.2Fe2O4/KAl3Si3O11; Mg0.6Zn0.4Fe2O4/KAl3Si3O11; Mg0.4Zn0.6Fe2O4/KAl3Si3O11; Mg0.2Zn0.8Fe2O4/KAl3Si3O11; ZnFe2O4/KAl3Si3O11; Ca0.2Zn0.8Fe2O4/KAl3Si3O11; and CaFe2O4/KAl3Si3O11 was applied onto the core – white mica – by a chemical reaction. The pigments prepared were characterised by means of X‐ray diffraction analysis, particle size distribution measurement, and scanning electron microscopy. The anticorrosion pigments synthesised were used to formulate alkyd paints that were tested in corrosion atmospheres.FindingsLamellar particles were detected in the pigments prepared, whereas quality coverage of the core was identified in the core‐shell ferrites. Good anticorrosion efficiency was detected in all of the pigments synthesised.Practical implicationsThe pigments synthesised can be conveniently utilised in paints to protect metal bases from corrosion.Originality/valueThe method of using the ferrites synthesised as metal protecting anticorrosion paints is new. Of great benefit are the application and the method of synthesising the anticorrosion pigments that do not contain any heavy metals and are environmentally friendly.
Quality function deployment (QFD) technology designed for contract manufacturing
Authors: Jiang Jui‐Chin , Shiu Ming‐Li , Tu Mao‐Hsiung 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present an overall review of quality function deployment (QFD) in the past nearly 30 years; to clarify widespread misperceptions about QFD; to adapt its use to the product development model of contract manufacturing; and to simplify the complexity of QFD and effectively integrate its contents.Design/methodology/approachThis paper adopts “action research” (AR) as its research methodology. The action research was conducted using a “research/consultant strategy” in a series of projects of collaboration with contract manufacturing companies.FindingsThe paper corrects widespread misperceptions about QFD, and adapts QFD to a specific product development model.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper uses a participatory and interpretive approach to develop and explain the new QFD model, but the authors are restricted by the highly confidential nature of the R&D information, and not authorized to publish actual case study data. The research value lies in the discussion of quality deployment and narrowly defined QFD, and the focus on comprehensive reorganization of the QFD structure on which there have been very few English‐language publications.Practical implicationsThe paper makes an adaptation of QFD so that it can be effectively used in contract manufacturing in a suitable form for modern supply chain. The paper also clarifies how QFD can be implemented by a systems approach, rather than a project approach.Originality/valueThe paper simplifies the complexity of QFD and effectively integrates its contents through the proposition of a quality deployment system and a quality assurance system. The distinguishing features of the former reside in five main differences from the original quality deployment system. The latter is subdivided into 17 subsystems, which form the design framework for quality assurance activities.
Recommending a TQM model for Indian organizations
Authors: Kakkar Subhash , Narag A.S. 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the meaning of TQM implementation in India and its impact on the Indian organizations' overall performance. This study also aims to prescribe a TQM model for Indian organizations in order to maximize the impact of TQM with predefined concentrated efforts.Design/methodology/approachA detailed questionnaire, based on current practices and unexplored areas identified by a literature survey, was designed and administered. The questionnaire consists of 11 “Contributing Variables” and nine “Contribution Variables”. The scores for these 20 variables were obtained from different organizations and put to factor analysis.FindingsThe result of factor analysis shows the existence of clusters of large correlation coefficients between subsets of these variables. This suggests that these variables could be measuring aspects of the same underlying dimensions. These underlying dimensions, or extracted factors, are four in number and are related to, respectively, efficiency, customer, people, and teambuilding. This shows that all the 20 TQM variables in India can be summarized into these four dimensions, which are taken as the four pillars of the suggested TQM model for Indian organizations. The proposed model is named TQMEF (TQM‐efficiency model).Research limitations/implicationsThis study is based on a single respondent from each organization, so it adds individuality to the scores. This can be avoided in future by having cross‐sectional data through more than one respondent from each organization. This will also help in avoiding error due to the tendency of respondents sometime to give over‐ambitious answers.Practical implicationsThe paper identifies four pillars on which TQM implementations should yield positive results for Indian organizations, implying that these organizations can gain by concentrating efforts in these areas.Originality/valueThe paper identified the importance of safety and resources conservation as crucial factors. Hitherto, in most models, only the other three aspects of TQM were given importance. Efficiency has emerged as a key issue in the Indian context.
Economic growth: should policy focus on investment or dynamic competition?
Authors: Hunt Shelby D. 
Published: June 2007

PurposeSocieties highly value economic growth because economic growth results in increase in societal standards of living. This paper addresses the issue of why economies grow and what public policy makers should favor in order to increase economic growth.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reviews and contrasts the two major, rival ways to account for economic growth: the neoclassical model, which maintains that growth results from increases in investment, and the dynamic competition model, which maintains that growth results from the innovations that stem from the process of competition.FindingsThe paper finds that the dynamic‐competition model, as represented by resource‐advantage (R‐A) theory, best explains economic growth.Practical implicationsPublic policy should focus on promoting R‐A competition in order to foster economic growth.Originality/valueThis issue of which approach best accounts for economic growth is important because the two approaches imply very different decisions in the public policy arena.
Knowledge creation in marketing: the role of predictive analytics
Authors: Hair Joe F. 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of predictive analytics, summarize how it is impacting knowledge creation in marketing, and suggest future developments in marketing and predictive analytics for both organizations and researchers.Design/methodology/approachSurvival in a knowledge‐based economy is derived from the ability to convert information to knowledge. To do so, researchers and managers increasingly are relying on the field of predictive analytics. Data mining identifies and confirms relationships between explanatory and criterion variables. Predictive analytics uses confirmed relationships between variables to predict future outcomes. The predictions are most often values suggesting the likelihood a particular behavior or event will take place in the future.FindingsData mining and predictive analytics are increasingly popular because of the substantial contributions they can make in converting information to knowledge. Marketing is among the most frequent applications of the techniques, and whether you think about product development, advertising, distribution and retailing, or marketing research and business intelligence, data mining and predictive analytics increasingly are being applied.Originality/valueIn the future, we can expect predictive analytics to increasingly be applied to databases in all fields and revolutionize the ability to identify, understand and predict future developments, data analysts will increasingly rely on mixed‐data models that examine both structured (numbers)and unstructured (text and images) data, statistical tools will be more powerful and easier to use, future applications will be global and real time, demand for data analysts will increase as will the need for students to learn data analysis methods, and scholarly researchers will need to improve their quantitative skills so the large amounts of information available can be used to create knowledge instead of information overload.
Honoring the life and legacy of Michael J. Driver, 1936‐2004
Authors: de Janasz Suzanne C. 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThis special issue honors the life and legacy of Michael J. Driver, a renowned scholar whose contributions to research on careers, decision‐making, and cognitive style made an indelible impact on these fields. His often‐groundbreaking work spanning more than 40 years impacted the lives of those whom he taught, mentored, consulted and collaborated with. Dr Driver's impact continues to be felt, as can be seen in the pages of this special issue, which highlights the Driver‐inspired research of several former students who later became colleagues.Design/methodology/approachOver the last four decades, Mike Driver has helped shape the way we think about and research careers and career‐related issues. To illustrate some of this impact, we provide a first broad retrospective of his life and career and then four articles – written by former students and colleagues of his – that build on Mike's work in careers, decision making and cognitive style. Reflecting on this collection allows the reader to take stock of Driver's research that is responsible for shaping some of the careers research that continues now and in the future.FindingsAs it would take several special issues to cover the breadth and depth of Mike's scholarly contributions, this collection of five articles is intended to showcase a sampling of Dr Driver's legacy. The articles – representing such fields as leadership, careers, entrepreneurship, and work‐family conflict – demonstrate the reach of Driver's work while providing new insights and offering new avenues for research and practice.Originality/valueThese articles are authored by individuals ranging from junior faculty to senior faculty, scholar to practitioner, and colleague to wife. Individually, each article contributes to our understanding of the many fields Driver's work influences. Together, this collection of articles provides important insights that it is hoped encourage even further research that informs career scholarship and its impact on the development of individuals and their careers within and beyond national boundaries.
Michael Driver: a career life to remember
Authors: Sundby Dianne , Brooklyn Derr C. 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a retrospective of the career life of Michael Driver, from the time of his Princeton graduate studies and early faculty years at Purdue University through the over three decades he spent at USC.Design/methodology/approachThe history and development of his theoretical and research interests are presented, as well as the many contributions he made to both management consulting and the education of MBA students. His 1970s role in the founding and development of the Careers Division of the Academy of Management and his contributions to career research are highlighted and illuminate one of the critical periods in the renewal of the field. His orientation towards complexity and integration stand out as characteristics that positively impact theory building and research.FindingsMichael Driver's career life was one of depth, scope, growth, and continuity. As a humanist, he would want us to not only continue our pursuits to better understand the complexities of human behavior, but to integrate them into something more meaningful.Originality/valueThis retrospective provides insight into the history and development of Mike Driver's theoretical and research interests and underscores his many contributions. The essay also highlights the history of career studies during the renewal period of the 1970s and 1980s. Hopefully, Mike Driver's legacy will inspire younger scholars to extend the field and carry it forward.
Building motivational capital through career concept and culture fit
Authors: Larsson Rikard , Brousseau Kenneth R. , Kling Katarina , Sweet Patrick L. 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of the present paper is to offer a career concept and culture framework for measuring and managing the alignment between people, strategy and culture and especially the motivational capital as the fit between people's motives and the organization's reward and appraisal systems.Design/methodology/approachA survey of 312 respondents in a multinational manufacturing firm using two questionnaires about their individual career concepts, motives, and their views about the organizational strategy and culture.FindingsThe results suggest that the career‐ and culture‐based motivational capital is positively associated with how effective the people view the strategy, how well‐functioning the structure is experienced, how relevant the performance appraisal is considered, how satisfied the people feel, and how long they stay in the organization.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research should add more multi‐item‐dependent variables, use more translated questionnaires into the respondents' own languages, and study more organizations in different industries to make further use of the career concept and culture model's ability to capture the fit between different persons and their organizations and the importance of this alignment.Practical implicationsCareer and organizational development can improve the fit between individual career concepts and motives as well as organizational career culture and thereby contribute in several ways to higher performance, such as greater motivation, more positive views of the organization, and higher retention.Originality/valueThe paper provides a unique approach to understand and manage the alignment of different persons, HR systems, and organizational culture with greater precision.
Leadership transmission: a muddled metaphor?
Authors: Buchanan David , Caldwell Raymond , Meyer Julienne , Storey John , Wainwright Charles 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine critically the concept of “leadership transmission”, considering what theoretical and practical value this metaphor brings to the healthcare modernization agenda.Design/methodology/approachThe paper develops understanding of the transmission metaphor, whilst theoretical perspectives on leadership are reviewed, including debates, which shed light on the concept by focusing on the phenomenon of distributed or dispersed leadership.FindingsThe transmission metaphor is perhaps misleading, by implying that “leadership can be caught” like a disease. However, defining leadership in terms of influence, a novel typology of transmission processes is introduced; top down (one‐way), inter‐organizational (bi‐lateral), and dispersed (multi‐directional). Recent research suggests that organizational changes are often led by the spontaneous concertive action of staff at all levels, not just by senior élite groups. The way in which dispersed influence processes arise, unfold, and are transmitted into organizational outcomes can be understood through theoretical narratives, which capture event sequences and combinations of factors unfolding over time in a given context. Given the scale and pace of the change agenda, healthcare modernization may indeed depend on widely dispersed leadership.Practical implicationsIt is therefore necessary to establish the conditions in which leadership transmission is encouraged, to recognize, support, and develop the “unsung heroes” who assume change leadership positions, and to widen the agenda and coverage of NHS leadership development programmes.Originality/valueThere is currently no other commentary, empirical or theoretical, academic or professional, which examines critically the concept of leadership transmission, while exploring the nature of this perspective, and its theoretical and practical value.
Disentangling false assumptions about talent management: the need to recognize difference
Authors: Cunningham Ian 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to explore ways in which organizations can take a more balanced stance on talent management, especially on the issue of the nature of talent itself.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on experience in organizations and on the case of Michael Faraday as an exemplar of a talented person.FindingsThe paper finds that talent management/development is more complex than just identifying supposedly talented young people and developing them.Practical implicationsThe paper has real practical implications for leaders/managers and learning and development professionals in identifying a better basis on which to develop talent.Originality/valueThe paper will be of value to managers and learning specialists who are involved in talent management strategy.
Lifelong learning: reflections of a junior doctor
Authors: Williams Michael A. 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe aim of this paper is investigate the importance of lifelong learning in the area of medicine.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines changes in methods of learning and challenges to educators today.FindingsThe paper finds that today there is a pressure for the formalized accounting of education with a few high profile cases of negligent medical care which have perhaps created the belief that recording learning for all may catch errant doctors in the future. It is suggested that learning risks becoming an exercise in meeting demands, but inspiring the desire to learn is also crucial.Originality/valueThe paper provides a useful opinion on lifelong learning for the medical profession.
A critical and phenomenological genealogy of the question of the real in Western economics and management
Authors: Faÿ Eric 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThis paper aims to answer the following question: where does our capacity for epoche, for decentration, for suspending representations come from? This question is an important one if we accept, as phenomenology does, that this is how we can find the meaning of our life and our actions.Design/methodology/approachIn order to answer this question the paper undertakes a critical genealogy of what those in the Western world consider to be the real, stressing how much Western thought overestimates the reality of what can be seen, measured, and calculated, and underestimates the experience of interiority by silencing the real dynamic of development of each person's lives.FindingsFollowing on from Michel Henry's phenomenology the paper shows how epoche, decentring is precisely about paying attention to this very real dynamic of development of life with others. Suspending for a while the representations and calculations and allowing people to be guided by such dynamic is therefore totally justified. Moreover, because it is fully embodied, this dynamic gives us the power and strength to engage in reasonable and responsible action. Two experiences recounted by managers illustrate this point.Originality/valueThe paper shows that phenomenological epoche is not about speculation, it is not idealism, but a totally realistic, practicable choice.
Value‐driven consumer e‐health information search behavior
Authors: Goetzinger Lynn , Park Jungkun , Jung Lee Yun , Widdows Rick 
Published: June 2007

PurposeThe search for online health‐related information has become increasingly popular. This study examines online health information quality (relevance and clarity) and the perceived value of online health information search (social, utilitarian and epistemic) and how they relate to consumers' satisfaction with their online health information search experience. The resulting intention to repeat a health information search over the internet is also included in a conceptual model to illustrate what drives the process.Design/methodology/approachStructural equation modeling was utilized to simultaneously assess the proposed relationships among the constructs. Data from 263 online respondents were used to test the measurement and structural model.FindingsResults show that information relevance is strongly related to the utilitarian value consumers receive from information seeking, whereas information clarity is strongly related to epistemic value. Moreover, it is the utilitarian value of the information search that drives satisfaction with and intention to repeat online health information search.Research limitations/implicationsSuggestions for web site designers in the healthcare industry and health care professionals are addressed. Web site designers should stress practical and functional features of web sites, while health care professionals should direct patients toward web sites that will provide users with the most utilitarian value. Although the study is limited by its online data collection, results provide an initial attempt to develop a conceptual model that explains what may be happening within the world of online health information search behavior. Future research should address the exclusion of potentially important variables including internet skill level and specific types of searches.Originality/valueThis study is unique in that it provides web site designers and health care professionals with clear insight into specific dimensions of online health information and value.