Article
Engineering, Industrial
Cheng Qian, Kangkang Yu, Ning (Chris) Chen, Wangxianzi Shen, Shaobo Hou, Yanhan Lei
Summary: This study examines the impact of the timing of adopting a new process management standard on firm performance. The findings suggest an inverted U-shaped relationship between the timing of adoption and financial performance, with the optimal adoption time slightly earlier than the industry average. Additionally, the study shows that firms with more unabsorbed slack resources experience a flatter curve, while firms with more absorbed slack resources experience a steeper curve, indicating that resource-constrained firms can benefit more from deciding the optimal time to implement a new process management standard.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Mahour Mellat Parast, Davood Golmohammadi
Summary: This study examines the impact of different competitive strategies of U.S. airlines on customers' expectations and complaint inclination when flights are canceled, as well as the role of slack resources in mitigating the impact of flight cancellations on customer complaints. The findings suggest that airlines with a cost-focused strategy have an inherent advantage in receiving fewer customer complaints when flights are canceled.
COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Maria Crescimanno, Claudio Mirabella, Valeria Borsellino, Emanuele Schimmenti, Demetris Vrontis, Salvatore Tinervia, Antonino Galati
Summary: This study aims to analyze the factors that make an organizational model perform well and examine the impact of the adoption of third-party certifications on export performance. The results indicate that younger wineries are more likely to adopt voluntary quality and environmental certifications and achieve better economic performance. On the other hand, the best export performance is achieved by larger wineries that invest more in promotion and advertising and sell their products through intermediaries, with a lower adoption of certifications. These findings have important implications for both theory and practice.
Article
Psychology, Applied
Kwanghyun Kim, Chiho Ok, Sung-Choon Kang, Johngseok Bae, Kiwook Kwon
Summary: The study found that unabsorbed slack and industry instability moderate the relationship between high-performance work systems (HPWS) and firm performance.
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yafei Mao, Peisi Li, Yi Li
Summary: This study constructs an impact model of organizational resilience and investigates the effect of slack resources on organizational resilience using data from Chinese-listed companies, while also examining the moderating effect of organizational dual learning. The findings indicate that absorbed and unabsorbed slack resources both promote organizational resilience. Furthermore, organizational learning moderates the relationship between slack resources and organizational resilience, with organizational exploitative learning positively moderating the relationship between unabsorbed slack resources and organizational resilience, and negatively moderating the relationship between absorbed slack resources and organizational resilience. Therefore, organizations should focus on the composition of slack resources and the coordination with organizational dual learning to improve organizational resilience.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Shuo-Fang Liu, Yao-Jen Fan, Ding-Bang Luh, Pei-Shan Teng
Summary: Industry 4.0 can enhance supply chain operational efficiency and lead to changes in leadership, organizational culture, and customer relationships. This study proposes a modeling framework to investigate the impact of Industry 4.0 on management practices, employee feedback, and their relationship.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Valentyna Anufriyeva, Milena Pavlova, Tetiana Stepurko, Wim Groot
Summary: This study provides insight into how primary health care managers perceive quality of health care in Ukraine. The majority of managers view quality as a process and prefer to assess outcome quality via a system of indicators and feedback. However, there is a lack of consensus about health care quality, which may hinder system-wide quality improvement.
BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Management
Peter Bogetoft, Pieter Jan Kerstens
Summary: This paper explores the impact of slack resources on organizations, pointing out the potential usefulness and wasteful nature of slack resources, and proposes the challenge of distinguishing between the two. By relying on the simple Pareto idea, a method to measure the rationalization of slack resources is developed.
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Business
Saehwa Hong, Hyung-Deok Shin
Summary: Through examining a comprehensive dataset of South Korean manufacturing firms from 1992 to 2009, this study found that organizational slack can have a positive or negative impact on innovativeness, and this impact is moderated by institutional environments (market-oriented or government-driven).
ASIAN BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Marja Ylonen, Kim Bjorkman
Summary: This study explores the current state of integrated management of safety and security (IMSS) in the nuclear industry and its challenges. The research compares data from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS) reports, articles on digitalization and IMSS, and interviews with experts. The paper reveals the inadequacy of current IMSS to address converging risks, differences in implementation in the nuclear industry, and cultural factors that constrain IMSS.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sulu Zhu, Pengqun Gao, Zhen Tang, Ming Tian
Summary: This paper comprehensively analyzes the research development and future directions of organizational slack through scientific econometric analysis on 958 papers. It provides new ideas for firms to make plans in uncertain environments and promotes the mutual promotion between theory and practice.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Sarah E. Hughes, Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi, Daniel S. Lasserson, Philip Collis, Samantha Cruz Rivera, Christel McMullan, Grace M. Turner, Jon Glasby, Melanie Calvert
Summary: PROs are measures of a person's views on their health and quality of life, typically assessed through self-completed questionnaires known as PROMs. While they have potential in social care, their current use in this context is unclear.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Iris Hendrickx, Tim Voets, Pieter van Dyk, Rudolf B. Kool
Summary: This study explored the use of text mining techniques to analyze patient complaint databases in order to identify potential patient safety problems at health care providers and automatically predict the severity of complaints. The research found that a simple text classification approach using bag-of-words feature representation worked best for severity prediction of complaints, achieving high accuracy rates on the test set.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Denise Chang, Andrew D. Carlo, Sara Khor, Lauren Drake, E. Sally Lee, Marc Avery, Jurgen Unutzer, David R. Flum
Summary: The study aimed to examine the feasibility of a pilot PATH program and its impact on clinical and process-of-care outcomes, showing that the program was associated with improved care engagement, follow-up assessments, and treatment response for patients with depression.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Gabriela Fernandes, Joana Domingues, Anabela Tereso, Camilo Mican, Madalena Araujo
Summary: This paper investigates risk management practices in university-industry R&D collaboration programs from a stakeholders' perspective. A risk management methodology is developed based on the main stakeholders, and specific practices are proposed. However, the results may not be generalizable due to the single case study approach.
