Dataset that shows organizational complexity as a key enabler for business model innovation using enterprise resource planning.

An empirical study was conducted to find the role of the Organizational Complexity (OC) on the Business Innovation Model (BMI) when companies are using an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Three different profiles were contacted in the companies (General Manager, Information Technology Manager and Purchasing Manager). A data collection process through a questionnaire survey was conducted, 132 informants participated in the study, however, 28 of them reported they were not using an ERP in their company. Valid data from 104 enterprises dealing with BMI and simultaneously had implemented an ERP software solution participated to the questionnaire. The scales used for the questionnaire of this study were previously validated in the literature and measured aspects such as the ERP use and perceived usefulness, the organizational complexity and costs and revenues of the business model innovation. All constructs accomplish the validity and reliability commonly accepted. This dataset could be specially useful for conduct multi countries studies to compare results about the impact of Organizational complexity on Business Model Innovation for those companies using and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

A Laissez-Faire Strategy Marked by Blinkers to Fulfill Established Pandemic Goals-The Case of Sweden.

OBJECTIVES: To examine (i.e., contextualize and visualize) the consequences of a laissez-faire strategy characterized by blinkers to fulfill established pandemic goals. The aim is to shed light on the implementation of pandemic measures based on post hoc (after-the-fact) reactions and actions instead of pre hoc ones (in advance). STUDY DESIGN: This study is based on weekly updates of pandemic variables (i.e., cases, tests, percentage of positive tests, hospitalizations, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admissions, deceased, and 7- and 14-day incidence) in Sweden from the start of the pandemic in March 2020 until March 2021. METHOD: This study reports the empirical findings based on Swedish pandemic variables during 52 consecutive weeks, related to the pandemic, all of which has been divided into three time periods to separate the 1st and 2nd waves of the pandemic, and considers them all together as one time period. RESULTS: The findings illustrate the implementation of pandemic measures and the subsequent consequences of a laissez-faire strategy characterized by blinkers. People become diseased and then deceased. This reveals strong associations between the assessed pandemic variables and its subsequent consequences on morbidity and mortality, based on post hoc reactions and actions. CONCLUSIONS: The implementation of a pandemic strategy should react and act pre hoc, and to take the safe with the unsafe. Governments and public health agencies should take into account the inevitable associations between pandemic variables. Intertwined pre hoc measures of prevention, enforcement, and monitoring should be implemented in society to avoid the implementation of a laissez-faire strategy based on post hoc reactions and actions.

Predictability of COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality based on model estimations to establish proactive protocols of countermeasures.

The COVID-19 pandemic (SARS-CoV-2) has revealed the need for proactive protocols to react and act, imposing preventive and restrictive countermeasures on time in any society. The extent to which confirmed cases can predict the morbidity and mortality in a society remains an unresolved issue. The research objective is therefore to test a generic model's predictability through time, based on percentage of confirmed cases on hospitalized patients, ICU patients and deceased. This study reports the explanatory and predictive ability of COVID-19-related healthcare data, such as whether there is a spread of a contagious and virulent virus in a society, and if so, whether the morbidity and mortality can be estimated in advance in the population. The model estimations stress the implementation of a pandemic strategy containing a proactive protocol entailing what, when, where, who and how countermeasures should be in place when a virulent virus (e.g. SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 and MERS) or pandemic strikes next time. Several lessons for the future can be learnt from the reported model estimations. One lesson is that COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality in a population is indeed predictable. Another lesson is to have a proactive protocol of countermeasures in place.

Assessing the future direction of sustainable development in public hospitals: Time-horizon, path and action.

PURPOSE: To assess the future direction of sustainable development in public hospitals, focusing on their short- versus long-term time horizons, top-down versus bottom-up paths, and intra-organizational versus inter-organizational actions. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: The selection of significant health care organizations was based on judgmental sampling. This study applied an inductive approach. The interviewees were identified according to their knowledge of the future direction of their organizations' sustainable development. FINDINGS: The sustainable development of the studied public hospitals is aimed at the synchronization of actions with other hospitals in the public healthcare system. The public hospitals studied differ in their interconnected elements of time (short- versus long-time horizons), paths (top-down versus bottom-up) and specific actions (intra-organizational versus inter-organizational). RESEARCH LIMITATIONS/: implications Offers insights into how to assess the direction of sustainable development in public hospitals. We stress the importance of time, path and action in conjunction. Furthermore, this study provides a three-dimensional framework to assess the future direction of sustainable development in organizations as well as in industries. Both the former and latter characteristics are shaped by the elements of time, path and action. MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS: Provides a three-dimensional framework of criteria to assess the direction of sustainable development in organizations. The assessment criteria may be used by organizations to assess the direction of other organizations in their industry. Industry associations or authorities may look into the status and future direction of sustainable development in industries or sectors as a whole. The assessment criteria provide an opportunity and foundation to benchmark against others in the same industry and insights to face pandemic as Covid-19. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: First study to consider a three-dimensional framework based on time, path and action to assess the future direction of sustainable development in an organization.

Assessing corporate planning of future sustainability initiatives in private healthcare organizations.

PURPOSE: The research objective is to assess the corporate planning of future sustainability initiatives in private healthcare organizations. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: Private hospital organizations have been selected using a judgmental sampling. A qualitative case study was followed in this research. FINDINGS: The findings shed light on corporate planning of future sustainability initiatives in private healthcare organizations. RESEARCH LIMITATIONS/IMPLICATIONS: The diversity of similarities and differences that has been uncovered between private healthcare organizations on corporate planning, reveals the complexity faced in trying to achieve sector-wide and or industry-wide uniformity of sustainability initiatives. MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS: These findings offer opportunities to examine criteria to examine the corporate planning of future efforts and priorities in private healthcare sectors across countries and continents. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: This paper distinguishes between corporate planning approaches in relation to the assessment criteria to examine future sustainability initiatives in private hospitals.

Sustainability trends in public hospitals: Efforts and priorities.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to examine the previous and the current efforts and the priorities of sustainability initiatives in the public sector. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: This study has been conducted in one industry, overcoming contextual bias as a judgmental sampling was used to select the public hospitals that were studied. Only knowledgeable key informants were approached and used. FINDINGS: The examination of the previous and the current efforts and the priorities of the sustainability initiatives revealed in this study indicate the existence of different trends in the public hospitals studied. RESEARCH LIMITATIONS/IMPLICATIONS: The results report the key trends that were disclosed in the public hospitals studied in their efforts towards sustainability. In particular, the results show that there appears to be a lack of guidelines and homogeneity in sustainability planning in public hospitals in Spain, accompanied by the near universal absence of the evaluation phase in respect to the outcomes of the sustainability initiatives that have been put in place in these organizations. MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS: The multi-dimensional factors of sustainability initiatives provide managerial guidance to assess the previous and the current efforts and priorities. These factors also provide organizational guidance to assess the trends of an organization through time. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: This study contributes to a selection of factors regarding the previous and the current efforts and the priorities of sustainability initiatives applicable in public hospitals. It provides a multi-dimensional framework of factors that can be used in order to describe sustainability trends.

Framing sustainable development through descriptive determinants in private hospitals - Orientation and organization.

PURPOSE: To frame the sustainable development in private hospitals, based on descriptive determinants of orientation and organization from the past to the present. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: Based on an inductive approach, judgmental sampling was used to target relevant health care organizations. Informants were assessed according to their knowledge of their organizations' sustainability initiatives. FINDINGS: Report the main determinants of orientation and organization revealed in relation to the hospitals' past and present sustainability initiatives, providing a foundation for describing their sustainable development. RESEARCH LIMITATIONS/IMPLICATIONS: Reveals a selection of descriptive determinants of sustainable development in private hospitals, all of which offers a basis for assessing whether the evolution of organizational sustainability initiatives is major, minor or non-existent. MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS: The sustainability orientation has changed from value-based initiatives to business-based ones. It has also resulted in the orientation changing from environmental initiatives to social ones, as well as a change from reactive initiatives to proactive ones. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: Contributes to framing sustainable development through descriptive determinants in private healthcare organizations. It also divides these determinants into two categories, namely the orientation and organization of sustainability initiatives.

NIKE: a new clinical tool for establishing levels of indications for cataract surgery.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to construct a new clinical tool for establishing levels of indications for cataract surgery, and to validate this tool. METHODS: Teams from nine eye clinics reached an agreement about the need to develop a clinical tool for setting levels of indications for cataract surgery and about the items that should be included in the tool. The tool was to be called 'NIKE' (Nationell Indikationsmodell för Kataraktextraktion). The Canadian Cataract Priority Criteria Tool served as a model for the NIKE tool, which was modified for Swedish conditions. Items included in the tool were visual acuity of both eyes, patients' perceived difficulties in day-to-day life, cataract symptoms, the ability to live independently, and medical/ophthalmic reasons for surgery. The tool was validated and tested in 343 cataract surgery patients. Validity, stability and reliability were tested and the outcome of surgery was studied in relation to the indication setting. RESULTS: Four indication groups (IGs) were suggested. The group with the greatest indications for surgery was named group 1 and that with the lowest, group 4. Validity was proved to be good. Surgery had the greatest impact on the group with the highest indications for surgery. Test-retest reliability test and interexaminer tests of indication settings showed statistically significant intraclass correlations (intraclass correlation coefficients [ICCs] 0.526 and 0.923, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: A new clinical tool for indication setting in cataract surgery is presented. This tool, the NIKE, takes into account both visual acuity and the patient's perceived problems in day-to-day life because of cataract. The tool seems to be stable and reliable and neutral towards different examiners.

Two new phosphate langbeinites, Rb2YbTi(PO4)3 and Rb2Yb0.32Ti1.68(PO4)3, investigated at 293 and 150 K.

The rubidium ytterbium titanium phosphates Rb2YbTi(PO4)3, (I), and Rb2Yb(0.32)Ti(1.68)(PO4)3, (II), have been structurally characterized from X-ray data collected at both 293 and 150 K. Compound (II) is blue owing to the presence of mixed-valence titanium (41% Ti3+ + 59% Ti4+). Both (I) and (II) belong to the langbeinite structure type, with mixed Yb/Ti populations in the two crystallographically independent octahedral sites (of symmetry 3). Ytterbium favours one of these sites, where about two-thirds of the Yb atoms are found. The O-atom displacement parameters are large in both compounds at both temperatures.

HgWO(4) synthesized at high pressure and temperature.

Crystals of mercury(II) tungstate(VI), HgWO(4), were grown in sealed gold tubes under an Ar atmosphere at 300 MPa and 973 K. The monoclinic crystal structure (C2/c) of HgWO(4) consists of zigzag chains of edge-sharing WO(6) octahedra running along the c axis and layers of very distorted corner-sharing HgO(6) octahedra in the bc plane. The Hg atom lies on an inversion centre and the W atom is on a twofold axis. No structural effects which can be ascribed to the high pressure used in the synthesis were found.