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Publication date: 1 July 1980

Evaluation of a Regional Blood Distribution Information System

Kenneth E. Kendall

Evaluating information systems has proven to be a most difficult task. Methodologies of analytical frameworks for evaluating information systems can be placed into four categories:

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Evaluating information systems has proven to be a most difficult task. Methodologies of analytical frameworks for evaluating information systems can be placed into four categories:

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International Journal of Physical Distribution & Materials Management, vol. 10 no. 7
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014478
ISSN: 0269-8218

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Publication date: 1 April 1972

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT IN A CENTRALLY‐CONTROLLED BLOOD BANKING SYSTEM

R.L. Newman

Blood banking involves the collection of blood from donors and the storage of that blood until it is required for transfusion. It is usual to distinguish, in a blood…

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Blood banking involves the collection of blood from donors and the storage of that blood until it is required for transfusion. It is usual to distinguish, in a blood banking system, between central blood banks whose functions are primarily those of collection and distribution, and hospital blood banks which perform the process of cross‐matching. In order to ensure that the donor's blood will be compatible with that of the recipient, blood is cross‐matched by mixing a sample of the recipient's blood with a sample of stored blood of the same group and subjecting the mixture to certain tests.

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International Journal of Physical Distribution, vol. 3 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014270
ISSN: 0020-7527

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Publication date: 20 October 2020

Are non-blood related “family” members treated differently? Determinants of bifurcation bias among family members in the family firm

Taewoo Kim and Laura Marler

Possible asymmetric treatment among family members has long been neglected in the field of family firm research. To fill this gap, the purpose of this study is to shed…

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Purpose

Possible asymmetric treatment among family members has long been neglected in the field of family firm research. To fill this gap, the purpose of this study is to shed light on the heterogeneity of treatment of family members in family firms by proposing factors that influence the likelihood of bifurcation bias among “family” members.

Design/methodology/approach

Drawing upon social identity theory and the concept of bifurcation bias, the authors theorize that family members working in family firms are not a homogenous entity, but rather a heterogeneous entity contingent on their status and/or position in the family. To provide a comprehensive understanding of heterogeneous treatment among family members, both individual factors and societal factors should be considered.

Findings

Blood relatedness of family members is suggested as an important determinant of the likelihood of bifurcation bias among family members. It is also proposed that the impact of blood relatedness is likely influenced by both individual factors (familial proximity and familial tenure) and a societal factor (collectivism).

Originality/value

Theorizing takes a step forward to advance the understanding of interpersonal dynamics in family firms. In particular, this article expands the research boundaries of family business research by taking into account that not all “family” members are treated preferentially. Moreover, this article deepens our understanding of the nature and status of non-blood related family members by unveiling the influence of both individual and societal factors. This article also provides a theoretical foundation for human resource management (HRM) research in family businesses by addressing bifurcation bias among family members.

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Journal of Family Business Management, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JFBM-06-2020-0057
ISSN: 2043-6238

Keywords

  • Family business
  • Bifurcation bias
  • Family member heterogeneity
  • Social identity theory

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Publication date: 10 November 2020

Analysing repeat blood donation behavior via big data

Xu Chen, Lei Liu and Xinyu Guo

Although blood banks have recently started to recruit blood donors through social media platforms, including WeChat, to increase recruitment effectiveness, few researchers…

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Purpose

Although blood banks have recently started to recruit blood donors through social media platforms, including WeChat, to increase recruitment effectiveness, few researchers have studied their effects on blood donation behavior. The aim of this study is to examine the influence of using official WeChat accounts on repeat blood donation behavior.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper used the backstage operation data of official WeChat accounts and blood supply chain management system data from the blood bank for the study to analyze the changes in repeat blood donation behavior. First, to analyze the changes in the average frequency of blood donation per year, average volume of single blood donation and blood eligible rate of repeat blood donors before and after following the official WeChat accounts by difference-in-differences model combined with propensity score matching (PSM-DID). Second, we examined the impact of official WeChat accounts on the proportion of repeat blood donors through survival analysis.

Findings

The results show that following WeChat accounts increases the average frequency of blood donation and blood eligible rate of repeat blood donors by 14.36% and 1.19%, respectively, and have no significant effect on the average volume of single blood donation. Further, WeChat accounts have a more significant impact on the average frequency of blood donations per year for workers, farmers, medical staff and groups with education levels of junior high school. In addition, official WeChat accounts can effectively increase the proportion of repeat donors.

Originality/value

The results provide a quantitative basis for the influence of official WeChat accounts on repeat blood donation behaviors. On the one hand, it is of great significance to guide the publicity and recruitment of unpaid blood banks. On the other hand, it provides an evidence for the promotion of official WeChat accounts.

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Industrial Management & Data Systems, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IMDS-07-2020-0393
ISSN: 0263-5577

Keywords

  • Healthcare management
  • Repeat blood donation behavior
  • PSM-DID model
  • Official WeChat accounts

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Publication date: 25 September 2020

From culture to behaviour: donor orientation and organisational identification

Josefa D. Martín-Santana, María Katiuska Cabrera-Suárez and María de la Cruz Déniz-Déniz

This study aims to evaluate whether cultural market orientation (MO) of blood transfusion centres and services (BTCS) results in behaviours aimed at offering a suitable…

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Purpose

This study aims to evaluate whether cultural market orientation (MO) of blood transfusion centres and services (BTCS) results in behaviours aimed at offering a suitable service-experience to blood donors and if the relationship between cultural and behavioural MO is partially mediated by BTCS staff members’ organisational identification (OI). Also, it analyses whether certain employee characteristics, particularly their status of medical or non-medical staff, may affect their perceptions about MO (cultural and behavioural), OI and the relationship between these variables.

Design/methodology/approach

An online survey was conducted with senior management staff and chiefs of Spanish BTCS, as well as blood collection staff – physicians, nurses and promoters – (147 participants).

Findings

Spanish BTCS has a strong belief in the importance of donors as key stakeholders in the donation system, although cultural MO does not turn into behaviours with the same strength. The results also show that there is a direct effect between cultural and behavioural MO, as well as a mediator effect of OI in this relationship.

Research limitations/implications

This study demonstrates that OI is a relevant internal marketing construct with a high potential explanatory power of customer orientation.

Practical implications

This study offers a validated tool to assess and monitor BTCS’ donor orientation and recommends that BTCS’ design effective marketing intelligence systems.

Social implications

This research contributes to social welfare by helping to explain how the organisational culture of BTCS and their employees’ perceptions and behaviours might help to enhance donor orientation, which would guarantee continual blood collection. This might be useful in the context of negative evolution of blood donation levels in many countries.

Originality/value

This research puts the focus on the role of the BTCS’s employees to understand the process by which a donor orientation culture would translate into market-oriented behaviours aimed to reach blood donor satisfaction, to guarantee a constant, growing blood donor pool. In this translation process, the organisational climate seems to play a fundamental role through one of its main variables, i.e. organisational identification.

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Journal of Social Marketing, vol. 10 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JSOCM-06-2019-0083
ISSN: 2042-6763

Keywords

  • Non-profit marketing
  • Blood donation
  • Donor orientation
  • Organisational identification

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Publication date: 5 October 2017

Blood Pattern Analysis in Blossom Hill Cottage

Anna-Marie O’Connor

The popularity of television shows such as CSI:(insert appropriate city here) makes everyone think they are somehow a forensic expert. The portrayal of this kind of…

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The popularity of television shows such as CSI:(insert appropriate city here) makes everyone think they are somehow a forensic expert. The portrayal of this kind of subject on radio is of course much more complicated as each observer has an image in their own head rather than in front of their eyes. This chapter seeks to inform The Archers listeners and other interested parties about the Blossom Hill Cottage crime scene examination — what they might expect to have seen from an evidential perspective and how the findings may inform the court as to what really occurred that fateful night. The chapter presents general information about different blood patterns that may be observed at crime scenes such as this and others, what they may (or may not) mean and a discussion about the strengths and limitations of this kind of scientific examination and interpretation. Whilst this can clearly be a serious subject, the intention is to inform and (probably) bust some televisual myths with a light-hearted edge from an Archers fan and fellow Tweetalonger, additionally considering online speculation about other potential evidence.

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Custard, Culverts and Cake
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-285-720171030
ISBN: 978-1-78743-285-7

Keywords

  • Blood spatter patterns
  • forensic
  • analysis
  • crime scene
  • attempted murder

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Publication date: 9 June 2020

Emotional labour and cord blood collection: frontline perspectives

Jennie Haw, Jessica Polzer and Dana V. Devine

This paper aims to examine emotional labour in the work of frontline staff (FLS) of the Canadian Blood Services' Cord Blood Bank (CBB), contributes to understandings of…

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Purpose

This paper aims to examine emotional labour in the work of frontline staff (FLS) of the Canadian Blood Services' Cord Blood Bank (CBB), contributes to understandings of emotional labour by allied healthcare workers and suggests implications for healthcare managers.

Design/methodology/approach

Qualitative interviews with 15 FLS were conducted and analyzed as part of a process evaluation of donor recruitment and cord blood collection in Canada.

Findings

Emotional labour with donors and hospital staff emerged as a vital component of FLS' donor recruitment and cord blood collection work. Emotional labour was performed with donors to contribute to a positive birthing experience, facilitate communication and provide support. Emotional labour was performed with hospital staff to gain acceptance and build relationships, enlist support and navigate hierarchies of authority.

Research limitations/implications

The results indicate that FLS perform emotional labour with women to provide donor care and with hospital staff to facilitate organizational conditions. The findings are based on FLS' accounts of their work and would be enhanced by research that examines the perspectives of donors and hospital staff.

Practical implications

Attention should be paid to organizational conditions that induce the performance of emotional labour and may add to FLS workload. Formal reciprocal arrangements between FLS and hospital staff may reduce the responsibility on FLS and enable them to focus on recruitment and collections.

Originality/value

This paper addresses a gap in the healthcare management literature by identifying the emotional labour of allied healthcare workers. It also contributes to the cord blood banking literature by providing empirically grounded analysis of frontline collection staff.

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Journal of Health Organization and Management, vol. 34 no. 5
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-10-2019-0305
ISSN: 1477-7266

Keywords

  • Emotional labour
  • Allied healthcare workers
  • Umbilical cord blood donation
  • Donor recruitment
  • Canada
  • Qualitative methods

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Publication date: 18 December 2019

Analyses of factors influencing Chinese repeated blood donation behavior: Delivered value theory perspective

Xu Chen, Shuyao Wu and Xinyu Guo

The purpose of this paper is to link subjective data obtained from a questionnaire survey with blood donation behavioral data, constructs a conceptual model of the factors…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to link subjective data obtained from a questionnaire survey with blood donation behavioral data, constructs a conceptual model of the factors that influence repeated blood donation behavior, and explores the mechanisms and degrees of influence of the value and cost elements of blood donors on repeated blood donation behavior.

Design/methodology/approach

First, this study constructs a conceptual model of the factors that affect repeated blood donation based on delivered value theory. Second, this paper is driven by subjective data obtained from a questionnaire and big data on blood donation behavior; the use of multisource data can help us understand repeated blood donation behavior from a broader perspective. Through data association and systematic research, it is possible to accurately explore the mechanisms through which various factors affect repeated blood donation behavior.

Findings

The results show that among the value elements, personnel value (PV), image value and blood donation value affect blood donation behavior in decreasing order. The change in PV per unit directly caused a 0.471-unit change in satisfaction, which indirectly caused a 0.098-unit change in donation behavior. Among the cost elements of blood donors, only the impact of time cost (TC) on repeated blood donation behavior was significant, and a change of one unit in TC caused a change in repeated blood donation behavior of −0.035 units. In addition, this paper groups subjects according to gender, education and age and explores the differences in the value and cost factors of different groups. Finally, based on the research results, the authors propose corresponding policy recommendations.

Originality/value

First, the authors expand the application field of the delivered value theory, and provide a new perspective for studying repeated blood donation. Second, through questionnaire data and blood donation behavior data, the authors comprehensively explore the factors that influence repeated blood donation behavior.

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Industrial Management & Data Systems, vol. 120 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IMDS-09-2019-0509
ISSN: 0263-5577

Keywords

  • Health care management
  • Blood service management
  • Delivered value theory
  • Repeated blood donation behaviour
  • Satisfaction degree
  • Intention to donate blood repeatedly

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Article
Publication date: 11 November 2019

Individual life events and blood giving

Meikel Soliman and Silke Boenigk

Imbedded in the life course paradigm, the purpose of this paper is to investigate which individual life events impact blood donations and to study their underlying mechanisms.

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Purpose

Imbedded in the life course paradigm, the purpose of this paper is to investigate which individual life events impact blood donations and to study their underlying mechanisms.

Design/methodology/approach

By applying logistic regression, moderation and mediation analysis, this paper uses a large sample of N = 5,640 individuals.

Findings

Experiencing normative life events and stressful life events reduce the likelihood of donating blood, whereas human capital life events enhance the likelihood of donating blood. Specifically, having a child and death of a mother decrease and finishing education increases the probability of blood donations. Locus of control and satisfaction with income are significant underlying mechanisms.

Practical implications

Social marketing campaigns can use individual life events to focus on similarities between potential blood donors and individuals in need of blood. Blood centers can adopt their services to cater to the changing needs after experiencing individual life events by running mobile blood collecting drives and providing guidance.

Social implications

Blood centers take an important role in sustaining a healthy society. As the need for blood will increase in the future, a better understanding of blood donation behavior and social marketing contributes to increased donations.

Originality/value

While previous research looked at collective life events, there is a dearth in marketing and blood literature on the effects of individual life events.

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Journal of Consumer Marketing, vol. 36 no. 7
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JCM-02-2018-2588
ISSN: 0736-3761

Keywords

  • Life course
  • Blood donation behavior
  • Blood marketing
  • Individual life events

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Publication date: 1 December 2006

Using simulation to increase efficiency in blood supply chains

Jyrki S. Rytilä and Karen M. Spens

The overall aim of the research presented is to improve blood supply chain management in order to use the scarce resource of blood more efficiently. Computer simulation is…

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Purpose

The overall aim of the research presented is to improve blood supply chain management in order to use the scarce resource of blood more efficiently. Computer simulation is used as a tool for increasing efficiency in blood supply chains.

Design/methodology/approach

An application of discrete event simulation modeling in the health‐care sector, more specifically in the area of blood transfusion services. The model has been refined in cooperation with medical expertise as it is vital that practitioners are closely involved so that the model can be tested against their understanding as it develops.

Findings

Decision makers can make better and less risky decisions regarding changes in the blood supply chain based on the knowledge created by simulation experiments. Simulation modeling can be used to make complex and chaotic systems comprehensible and more efficient. In health care, this means that scarce resources can be allocated better, and thereby simulation can aid in increasing the overall quality of health care.

Research limitations/implications

Models are simplifications and there is no guarantee that they will be valid, however, when used sensibly, simulation models and modeling approaches provide an important tool to managing risk and uncertainty in health care supply chains.

Practical implications

Earlier calculations and improvement efforts of blood supply chain in focus were based on “gut feeling”. Through applying simulation to this complex system, the dynamics of blood supply chain was more easily understood by the medical expertise.

Originality/value

There is a lack of work on computer simulations of blood supply chains, a challenge which this work has taken up on.

Details

Management Research News, vol. 29 no. 12
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/01409170610717826
ISSN: 0140-9174

Keywords

  • Supply chain management
  • Blood transfusion
  • Inventory management
  • Health services
  • Simulation
  • Finland

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