Institutional isomorphism and the adoption of information technology for supply chain management

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A coordination-theoretic investigation of the impact of electronic integration on logistics performance

Author name used in this publication: Kee-Hung LaiAuthor name used in this publication: T. C. E. Cheng2007-2008 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishe

Childhood intussusception: 17-year experience at a tertiary referral centre in Hong Kong

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Service supply chain management process capabilities: Measurement development

The role of supply chain management processes in achieving competitive advantages in the service industry has been widely discussed. However, due to the lack of valid measurement scales, the effects of service supply chain management (SSCM) process capability cannot be ascertained. This study aims to develop and validate measurement scales for SSCM process capability constructs. The measurement scales were initially developed by literature review, and refined by Q-sort method. The SSCM process capability is a seven-dimensional construct; each dimension consists of a collection of unidimensional multi-item scales. Confirmatory factor analyses of a large-scale survey confirmed the unidimensionality, reliability, and validity of the multidimensional construct of seven SSCM process capabilities. The validated measurement scales lay a crucial foundation for advancing knowledge of the service supply chain by enabling future empirical studies in the field, which previously relied on largely conceptual frameworks and descriptive accounts of SSCM processes

Strategies for Building Environmental Transparency and Accountability

How do nature-inspired enterprises be accountable to the natural environment formed? Natural environment is one of the basic elements of the business. Firms should be sensitive to environment, so they should develop environmental transparency and accountability. This paper develops a framework to understand how environmental transparency and stakeholder governance create environmental accountability, following an “action cycle” informed by four accountability criteria—identifiability, awareness of monitoring, expectations of evaluation, and social pressure. The paper analyzes the environmental transparency practices of 50 companies listed in the annual Best Global Green Brands report, the Global RepTrak 100, and The Climate A-List of the CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project). The results show that exemplar firms improve the “what”, “how”, and “how much” factors in terms of environmental information to identify what will be disseminated to whom when the information follows the criteria of accountability, which allow stakeholders to effectively adopt a governance role. This paper provides a 2 × 2 matrix for firms and stakeholders to better understand how accountability leadership is driven by environmental transparency, stakeholder governance and accountability criteria. The practical implications of environmental transparency are highlighted, specifically in terms of strategies for building accountability to meet the growing expectations of transparency and accountability

Impact of the first hand sanitizing relay world record on compliance with hand hygiene in a hospital

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A prospective interventional study to examine the effect of a silver alloy and hydrogel--coated catheter on the incidence of catheter-associated urinary tract infection

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Stage specific requirement of platelet-derived growth factor receptor-α in embryonic development

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Microbiome preterm birth DREAM challenge: Crowdsourcing machine learning approaches to advance preterm birth research

Every year, 11% of infants are born preterm with significant health consequences, with the vaginal microbiome a risk factor for preterm birth. We crowdsource models to predict (1) preterm birth (PTB; <37 weeks) or (2) early preterm birth (ePTB; <32 weeks) from 9 vaginal microbiome studies representing 3,578 samples from 1,268 pregnant individuals, aggregated from public raw data via phylogenetic harmonization. The predictive models are validated on two independent unpublished datasets representing 331 samples from 148 pregnant individuals. The top-performing models (among 148 and 121 submissions from 318 teams) achieve area under the receiver operator characteristic (AUROC) curve scores of 0.69 and 0.87 predicting PTB and ePTB, respectively. Alpha diversity, VALENCIA community state types, and composition are important features in the top-performing models, most of which are tree-based methods. This work is a model for translation of microbiome data into clinically relevant predictive models and to better understand preterm birth

Stakeholders, Green Manufacturing, and Practice Performance: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Fashion Businesses

This study explores the relationship among stakeholders, green manufacturing, and practice performance in the fashion business in China and focuses on assisting companies to enhance environmental awareness and green manufacturing practices. We collect research data by developing questionnaires for various Chinese enterprises. A five-point Likert scale is adopted to enable respondents to indicate the extent to which they agree with the items. Through tests and analyses, the questionnaire is validated as reliable, the structural equation model has a good fitting degree, and hypotheses are proved true. Specifically, corporate stakeholders have a significant positive impact on green manufacturing and practice performance, and green manufacturing has a significant positive impact on practice performance in the context of Chinese fashion businesses. Moreover, corporate stakeholders can have a positive impact on practice performance through green manufacturing. We also propose some policy implications, including implementing compulsive policies and regulations and encouraging and establishing preferential policies, such as tax concessions. Moreover, enterprises should actively strive to improve green manufacturing technology and management level to ensure the smooth implementation of green manufacturing practices. To retain sustained earnings and development, green manufacturing should be the bottom line of involved firms. We also emphasize that the importance of corporate stakeholders should be promoted in consideration of enterprises’ practice performance and future development