Abboubi, ME, Pinnington, AH, Clegg, SR & Nicolopoulou, K 2022, 'Involving, Countering, and Overlooking Stakeholder Networks in Soft Regulation: Case Study of a Small-to-Medium-Sized Enterprise’s Implementation of SA8000', Business & Society, vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 1594-1630.
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To achieve effective stakeholder governance in the context of international social accountability certification (SA8000) requires constructing a network of agreement. In a case study of a small-to-medium-sized enterprise (SME), we examine managers’ attempts at enrolling participants in the supply chain to investigate how they strive to engage these stakeholders. We adopt actor-network theory (ANT) and sensemaking theory to develop a novel approach to understanding social accountability (SA) standards’ certification in stakeholder networks. We argue that the design and operation of any SA standard across a network requires not only attempts at enrolling other participants in the supply chain but management contextualizing and problematizing the terms of their involvement.
Alfeus, M & Nikitopoulos, CS 2022, 'Forecasting volatility in commodity markets with long-memory models', Journal of Commodity Markets, vol. 28, pp. 100248-100248.
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Aliyev, N & He, X 2022, 'Ambiguous Price Formation'.
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This paper investigates the impact of informational ambiguity and attitude to it on security prices. Attention is focused on equilibria in which a market maker has an ambiguity in his probability
assessment. We show that the equilibrium ambiguous bid-ask spread can be decomposed into the probabilistic spread and an “ambiguity premium/discount” component characterizing the ambiguity aversion/seeking
of the market maker. In particular, for a sufficiently ambiguity averse market maker, the bid-ask spread widens with the informational ambiguity of the market maker, which provides an explanation to drying
liquidity and price inefficiency during financial turmoils. An extension to different trade sizes shows that informed traders are more likely to trade large orders when there is a major ambiguous shock to
the economy.
Anam, MZ, Bari, ABMM, Paul, SK, Ali, SM & Kabir, G 2022, 'Modelling the drivers of solar energy development in an emerging economy: Implications for sustainable development goals', Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances, vol. 13, pp. 200068-200068.
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Anufriev, M, Duffy, J & Panchenko, V 2022, 'Learning in two-dimensional beauty contest games: Theory and experimental evidence', Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 201, pp. 105417-105417.
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Aoyama, H, Di Guilmi, C, Fujiwara, Y & Yoshikawa, H 2022, 'Dual labor market and the “Phillips curve puzzle”: the Japanese experience', Journal of Evolutionary Economics, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 1419-1435.
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AbstractLow inflation was once welcomed by both policymakers and the public. However, Japan’s experience during the 1990s changed the consensus of economists and central banks around the world regarding prices. Facing deflation and the zero-interest bound at the same time, the Bank of Japan had difficulty conducting an effective monetary policy, making Japan’s stagnation unusually prolonged. The too-low inflation that concerns central banks today translates into the “Phillips curve puzzle.” In the United States and Japan, in the course of the recovery from the Great Recession after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, the unemployment rate had steadily declined to a level commonly regarded as lower than the natural rate or NAIRU. However, inflation remained low. In this paper, we consider a minimal model of the dual labor market to jointly investigate how the different factors affecting the structural evolution of the labor market have contributed to the observed flattening of the Phillips curve. We find that the level of bargaining power of workers, elasticity of the supply of labor to wage in the secondary market, and composition of the workforce are the main factors jointly explaining the evidence for Japan.
Auger, P, Devinney, TM & Dowling, G 2022, 'Employees as a vector of strategic intent: an examination of corporate, social and environmental strategic intent recognition by employees', Journal of Strategy and Management, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 524-537.
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PurposeOne of the hallmarks of strategizing is having a clearly articulated vision and mission for the organization. It has been suggested that this provides a compass bearing for the organization's strategy, helps in motivation, commitment and retention of employees, serves as a guide to internal sensemaking and decision-making, has a potential performance effect, helps establish the identity of the organization and positions its desired reputation. The compass bearing role is important because it guides the selection of the goals and strategic orientation of the organization which in turn shapes its overall strategy and much of its internal decision making. The inspirational role is important because it helps to motivate and engage employees and other stakeholders.Design/methodology/approachThis study provides a more rigorous indication as to whether employees can, in the first instance, recognize and distinguish their corporate and environmental strategy from that of their competitors within their own industry and random other companies from other industries. This first issue addresses, to a degree, if and why, such strategic communiqués are effective inside a range of different organizations. Secondly, the authors examine whether there are any specific individual level effects that could explain variations in these responses. Finally, the authors examine the extent to which the recognition rates the authors observe, relate to how employees are rewarded through appraisals, promotions and salary increases. This helps in the authors’ understanding of the role of hard incentives versus soft motivations. The authors’ approach to assessing employee knowledge of their organization's strategy is unique. Rather than survey employees about their knowledge, the authors use a matching study and a d...
Awati, K & Nikolova, N 2022, 'From ambiguity to action: integrating collective sensemaking and rational decision making in management pedagogy and practice', Management Decision, vol. 60, no. 11, pp. 3127-3146.
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PurposeManagers are increasingly presented with complex, ambiguous decision problems that affect multiple stakeholder groups. Such problems cannot be tackled solely by classical approaches that prescribe rational methods to weigh evidence and select an optimal course of action. Yet most courses on decision making still focus on these methods. This paper draws attention to the complementary nature of rational decision making and sensemaking techniques in management decision making, and describes a practical pedagogy that demonstrates how the two can be integrated into management curricula.Design/methodology/approachBased on an in-depth review of relevant research, the authors propose a conceptual model that highlights the complementary nature of rational and sensemaking methods for making decisions relating to complex and ambiguous problems. They then describe a course on decision making as an illustration of how the model can inform decision making pedagogy.FindingsDecision makers need to think of their decision problems in terms of two distinct types of uncertainty: those for which uncertainty can be quantified and those for which it cannot. When faced with the latter, decisions are best made by working with relevant stakeholders to collectively frame the problem using practical sensemaking tools prior to applying rational decision making techniques to address it. Decision making under ambiguity is an iterative, social process requiring a combination of rational decision making methods and sensemaking techniques.Practical implicationsThe paper seeks to increase awareness about the complementary na...
Bader, B, Faeth, PC, Fee, A & Shaffer, M 2022, 'Guest editorial: Global mobility in times of global calamity: COVID-19 reactions, responses, and ramifications for the future of work', Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 165-171.
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Bajada, C, Agarwal, R, Skellern, K, Luff, S, Soco, S & Green, R 2022, 'Enablers of successful innovation precincts', Regional Studies, Regional Science, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 732-756.
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Baker, E, Daniel, L, Beer, A, Bentley, R, Rowley, S, Baddeley, M, London, K, Stone, W, Nygaard, C, Hulse, K & Lockwood, A 2022, 'An Australian rental housing conditions research infrastructure', Scientific Data, vol. 9, no. 1.
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AbstractEach year the proportion of Australians who rent their home increases and, for the first time in generations, there are now as many renters as outright homeowners. Researchers and policy makers, however, know very little about housing conditions within Australia’s rental housing sector due to a lack of systematic, reliable data. In 2020, a collaboration of Australian universities commissioned a survey of tenant households to build a data infrastructure on the household and demographic characteristics, housing quality and conditions in the Australian rental sector. This data infrastructure was designed to be national (representative across all Australian States and Territories), and balanced across key population characteristics. The resultant Australian Rental Housing Conditions Dataset (ARHCD) is a publicly available data infrastructure for researchers and policy makers, providing a basis for national and international research.
Balzer, B, Rosato, A & von Wangenheim, J 2022, 'Dutch vs. first-price auctions with expectations-based loss-averse bidders', Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 205, pp. 105545-105545.
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Bari, ABMM, Siraj, MT, Paul, SK & Khan, SA 2022, 'A hybrid multi-criteria decision-making approach for analysing operational hazards in Heavy Fuel Oil-based power plants', Decision Analytics Journal, vol. 3, pp. 100069-100069.
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Barthold, C, Krawczyk, V, Berti, M & Priola, V 2022, 'Intersectionality on screen. A coloniality perspective to understand popular culture representations of intersecting oppressions at work', Gender, Work & Organization, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1890-1909.
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Barton, B, Zlatevska, N & Oppewal, H 2022, 'Scarcity tactics in marketing: A meta-analysis of product scarcity effects on consumer purchase intentions', Journal of Retailing, vol. 98, no. 4, pp. 741-758.
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Bedford, A, Bugeja, M & Ma, N 2022, 'The impact of IFRS 10 on consolidated financial reporting', Accounting & Finance, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 101-141.
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Bedford, A, Ma, L, Ma, N & Vojvoda, K 2022, 'Australian Innovation: Patent Database Construction and First Evidence', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 73.
Bedford, D, Bisbe, J & Sweeney, B 2022, 'Enhancing external knowledge search: The influence of performance measurement system design on the absorptive capacity of top management teams', Technovation, vol. 118, pp. 102586-102586.
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External knowledge search is critical for innovation performance and centers on a firm's absorptive capacity. This study investigates whether and how two dimensions of absorptive capacity at the top management team (TMT) level, potential absorptive capacity and realized absorptive capacity, are influenced by two design choices of the performance measurement system (PMS), broad scope PMS and PMS integration, under different conditions of environmental dynamism. Based on cross-sectional survey data from firms in innovative industries, the results of our empirical study indicate that in more dynamic environments, a broader scope PyMS is associated with higher potential absorptive capacity whereas higher PMS integration is associated with lower potential absorptive capacity. These associations are not observable in more stable environments. Moreover, broad scope PMS and PMS integration are both positively associated with realized absorptive capacity, independently of environmental dynamism. These findings highlight the relevance of PMS design choices for absorptive capacity, showing on the one hand the differences between the implications of broad scope PMS and those of PMS integration and, on the other hand, that the implications of PMS design choices for potential absorptive capacity (i.e. acquisition and assimilation of external knowledge) follow different patterns than the implications for realized absorptive capacity (i.e. the transformation and exploitation of such knowledge).
Beggs, PJ, Zhang, Y, McGushin, A, Trueck, S, Linnenluecke, MK, Bambrick, H, Capon, AG, Vardoulakis, S, Green, D, Malik, A, Jay, O, Heenan, M, Hanigan, IC, Friel, S, Stevenson, M, Johnston, FH, McMichael, C, Charlson, F, Woodward, AJ & Romanello, MB 2022, 'The 2022 report of the MJA – Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australia unprepared and paying the price', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 217, no. 9, pp. 439-458.
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Berti, M & Pitelis, C 2022, 'Open Team Production, the New Cooperative Firm, and Hybrid Advantage', Academy of Management Review, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 309-330.
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Boersma, M & Nolan, J 2022, 'Modern slavery and the employment relationship: Exploring the continuum of exploitation', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 165-176.
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The term ‘modern slavery’ constitutes a broad non-legal umbrella term that refers to a range of abusive practices including, but not limited to, forced labour, bonded labour, human trafficking and child slavery. While the most severe forms of labour exploitation represent instances of modern slavery, focusing on labour abuses more broadly is also important as it is not always clear at what point non-compliance with labour standards seeps into cases of criminal exploitation. This Special Issue focuses on what the large- and small-scale risk factors are that can cause working conditions to deteriorate, on how people can become trapped in exploitative conditions and on what can be done to prevent and remedy labour abuses. It does this by exploring the macro-level, specifically by examining global value chains and the labour exploitation within the global production regime; by exploring the meso-level, by focusing on the market-based character of business and human rights regulation; and by looking at the micro-level by examining labour regimes on factory floors and in private residences.
Boersma, M, Josserand, E, Kaine, S & Payne, A 2022, 'Making sense of downstream labour risk in global value chains: The case of the Australian cotton industry', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 200-222.
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While the efforts by actors on the buyer-side of value chains – such as brands and retailers – to address upstream labour abuses are well documented, there is a lack of research into how actors on the production-side of value chains – such as raw material producers – can identify and address downstream labour risks. This research presents the findings of an action research project that focused on the Australian cotton industry. By applying a sense-making lens, we propose four properties that can be used to identify labour risk in global value chains, providing insights into the capacity of producers to address downstream labour abuses. We suggest that there is a possibility for a ‘book-end’ approach that combines upstream and downstream actions by buyers and producers in global value chains.
Bohmann, M & Patel, V 2022, 'Informed Options Trading Prior to FDA Announcements', Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, vol. 49, no. 7-8, pp. 1211-1236.
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We find that pre-announcement implied volatility spreads and options trading activity are abnormally elevated and can predict Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcement date stock returns. The effect is more pronounced in firms with higher levels of information asymmetry and lower quality corporate governance suggesting that some options traders are informed in advance of the details that affect the stock price impact of the FDA news. We provide the first examination of informed options trading prior to FDA announcements during a 21-year period. Our findings have implications for regulators, investors and relevant firms.
Bond, D, Fujak, H, Frawley, S & Whales, L 2022, 'Analysing the commercial development of Australian rugby utilising financial reporting', Sport in Society, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 105-125.
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Brammer, S, Branicki, L & Linnenluecke, M 2022, 'Mission Accomplished? Reflecting on 60 Years ofBusiness & Society', Business & Society, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 980-1041.
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Business & Society’ s 60th anniversary affords an opportunity to reflect on the journal’s achievements in the context of the wider field. We analyze editorial commentaries to map the evolving mission of the journal, assess the achievement of the journal’s mission through a thematic analysis of published articles, and examine Business & Society’ s distinctiveness relative to peer journals using a machine learning approach. Our analysis highlights subtle shifts in Business & Society’ s mission and content over time, reflecting variation in the relative emphasis on scholarly quality versus policy/practice relevance, and building the journal and its academic community versus addressing issues of concern to wider society. While Business & Society’ s intended missions have been substantially and sequentially achieved, an increased emphasis on the society-business nexus and a critical approach to interdisciplinarity could further enhance Business & Society’ s leading role within business and society research and attract new generations of contributors and readers.
Bu, N 2022, 'A new fairness notion in the assignment of indivisible resources', Mathematical Social Sciences, vol. 120, pp. 1-7.
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Bugeja, M, da Silva Rosa, R, Shan, Y, Walter, TS & Yermack, D 2022, 'Lower Defeat Thresholds for Minority Shareholders and Corporate Governance: Evidence from the Australian 'Two-strikes' Rule', CIFR Paper, no. 130, pp. 1-55.
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“Say on pay” legislation has been introduced in several countries but Australia’s version, namely the “two-strikes” rule, is unique in that it empowers shareholders to vote on a board spill if the compensation report of a public company receives 25% or more dissenting votes for two consecutive years. We test the proposition that the “two strikes” rule has increased directors’ accountability beyond executive pay because it has substantially lowered the cost to activists of organizing sufficient votes to threaten managers with a board spill. Consistent with this expectation, we find Australian firms respond to negative say-on-pay votes by curbing excessive CEO pay, reducing the growth rate of pay and changing the pay mix. In addition, the results suggest that the market regards negative SOP votes as a value-destroying signal since there is a negative market reaction, lower valuation and long-run underperformance. We also find an increase in CEO turnover but directors do not seem to bear reputational costs through the loss of outside directorships. The findings provide important insights to investors, company directors and regulators.
Burke, PF & Buchanan, J 2022, 'What attracts teachers to rural and remote schools? Incentivising teachers’ employment choices in New South Wales', Australian Journal of Education, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 115-139.
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Staffing rural and regional schools remains an intractable problem. This study identifies effective incentives for attracting teachers to difficult-to-staff rural and remote schools in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Compared to their urban counterparts, students in these schools are disadvantaged by teacher staff shortages, inexperience and attrition. The research investigated the ability for existing incentives of the NSW Department of Education, other education systems and other professions to attract professionals to rural and remote appointments using a discrete choice experiment methodology. The findings identify ways of attracting teachers of differing levels of experience and commitment to work in such areas.
Burke, PF, Kearney, M, Schuck, S & Aubusson, P 2022, 'Improving mobile learning in secondary mathematics and science: Listening to students', Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 137-151.
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Background
Mobile learning studies often focus on teachers' perspectives. This study instead considers students' experiences of learning with mobile devices (i.e., m-learning) in secondary school mathematics and science.
Objectives
The research aims to describe the m-learning experiences of secondary mathematics and science students, and to determine the extent to which distinctive pedagogical dimensions impact students' perceived learning.
Methods
A survey instrument using the iPAC mobile pedagogical framework as a theoretical lens is developed and validated. This framework highlights three pedagogical dimensions: personalization, authenticity, and collaboration. Structural equation modelling is used to investigate how each dimension predicts students' perceived improvement in learning, whilst accounting for usage context, among a sample of students in schools where mobile devices are used extensively.
Results and Conclusions
Students were in agreement that personalization was a characteristic of their m-learning experiences, but authentic and collaborative learning were not as strongly featured. M-learning activities fostering personalization were most important for improving perceived learning; authenticity and collaboration were also significant, but no differences in perceived learning improvement due to location were found. Authentic m-learning and perceived improvement in learning with mobile devices were significantly higher in science than mathematics subjects.
Implications
When teachers design m-learning tasks that enhance personalization, collaboration, and authenticity, students are predicted to perceive improvements in their learning. The findings suggest that teachers should consider designing technology-enhanced tasks that improve students' experiences of collaborative and authentic learning, particularly in mathematics for greatest gains in students' perceived improvement in learning.
Burke, PF, Palmer, T-A & Pressick-Kilborn, K 2022, 'Preferences for Professional Development in Science Among Pre- and In-service Primary Teachers: a Best–Worst Scaling Approach', Research in Science Education, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 1791-1806.
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This study examined the preferences for professional development (PD) in primary (elementary) science among pre-service teachers (PSTs) and in-service teachers (ISTs). The contribution of the study is its focus on quantifying the relative importance of factors that were significant for teachers by using best–worst scaling methodology. Rather than considering potential factors in isolation, teachers traded off among content areas of PD, thereby revealing which aspects they most preferred. A comparison of PSTs and ISTs indicated that both sought greater guidance on adapting their science teaching for multi-age classes and on strategies to engage students in activity-based science. Relative to the PSTs, the ISTs reported less need for PD opportunities that emphasized collaboration and networks, and science pedagogy and content. Both groups indicated that they would most benefit from PD that focused on building their knowledge and strategies for teaching guided inquiry and investigation- and activity-based science. The findings offer critical insights into the broader improvement of PD of teachers in the context of science education.
Cagno, E, Accordini, D, Trianni, A, Katic, M, Ferrari, N & Gambaro, F 2022, 'Understanding the impacts of energy efficiency measures on a Company’s operational performance: A new framework', Applied Energy, vol. 328, pp. 120118-120118.
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Cao, Y, Li, C, Liu, X, Lu, M & Shan, Y 2022, 'Economic policy uncertainty and debt allocation within business groups', Economic Modelling, vol. 116, pp. 106021-106021.
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Carabetta, G 2022, '‘Vaccination Mandates and the Employee’s Duty to Obey Lawful and Reasonable Directions’', Australian Business Law Review, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 226-226.
Carpenter, A & Wilson, R 2022, 'A systematic review looking at the effect of entrepreneurship education on higher education student', The International Journal of Management Education, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 100541-100541.
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Casavecchia, L, Hambusch, G & Hitchen, J 2022, 'The impact of analyst forecast errors on fundamental indexation: the Australian evidence', Journal of Asset Management, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 400-418.
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AbstractEvidence from many developed markets suggests that fundamental indices outperform capitalisation-weighted indices. Existing studies suspect a story of market mispricing, yet a mechanism has not been identified. Using Australian data, we study the relation between analyst forecast errors and the performance of various fundamental indices. We find that fundamental indices contain a relatively higher exposure to stocks with low analyst long-term growth forecasts. Valuations for these stocks are ex ante overly pessimistic and drive the statistical significance of alphas produced by fundamental indexation. We show how hedging against analyst forecast errors can generate additional alpha for investors using fundamental indexation.
Chan, K & Uncles, M 2022, 'Digital media consumption: Using metrics, patterns and dashboards to enhance data‐driven decision‐making', Journal of Consumer Behaviour, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 80-91.
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Chen, G, Cheng, M, Edwards, D & Xu, L 2022, 'COVID-19 pandemic exposes the vulnerability of the sharing economy: a novel accounting framework', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 1141-1158.
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Chen, S & Wang, J-X 2022, 'A New Channel for Global Volatility Propagation'.
Chen, X, Guo, B, Guo, J & Li, WH 2022, 'Technology Decomposition and Technology Recombination in Industrial Catch-up for Large Emerging Economies: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Industries', Management and Organization Review, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 167-202.
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ABSTRACTThe influence of technological learning on industry-level catch-up has long drawn substantial attention in the catch-up research field. However, the underlying mechanisms of technological learning and the unique catch-up context in large emerging economies are much less explored. To explain the technological learning processes of latecomers that face the technology gap and strive to build differentiated competitive advantage, this study builds on the absorptive capacity perspective and deconstructs technological learning processes into two mechanisms: technology decomposition and technology recombination. The former entails decomposing advanced technologies into pieces, parts, or modules, while the latter entails the process of capturing market opportunities through recombining knowledge from diverse sources into commercial products through localized innovations and adaptations. Then, we propose a unique ‘ladder-like’ catch-up context (i.e., technology ladder and market ladder) and investigate how the technological learning process and the unique catch-up context jointly affect industrial catch-up performance in China. Using seven-year panel data from Chinese manufacturing industries, the results indicate that only technology recombination has a significantly positive relationship with industrial catch-up performance. In addition, the market ladder strengthens the positive impact of technology recombination on industrial catch-up, while the technology ladder weakens the positive impact of technology decomposition on catch-up.
Chiscano, MC & Darcy, S 2022, 'An accessible and inclusive public transportation management response to COVID-19 through a co-creation process with people with disability. The case of Metro Barcelona', Research in Transportation Business & Management, vol. 45, pp. 100880-100880.
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Cho, WJ, Hafalir, IE & Lim, W 2022, 'Tie-breaking and efficiency in the laboratory school choice', Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 205, pp. 105546-105546.
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Choi, S & Xu, J 2022, 'What do boards consider in CEO performance evaluation? Evidence from executive turnover', Finance Research Letters, vol. 50, pp. 103214-103214.
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This study investigates whether CEOs are rewarded for actively making changes. We construct a comprehensive executive dataset from SEC filings and use non-CEO executive turnover to proxy for changes. We find that after executive turnovers, CEOs are less likely to be dismissed, and the change is not temporary. In addition, firm performance improves after executive turnovers. The results suggest that when boards of directors evaluate CEOs, they consider whether CEOs can overcome inertia and initiate changes.
Chowdhury, MMH, Sajib, S, Scerri, M & Khan, EA 2022, 'A decision model for efficient service design in the sharing economy: a service triad perspective', Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, vol. 34, no. 9, pp. 2007-2031.
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PurposeSharing economy-based service platforms are a relatively new way of delivering services that have received increasing attention from both practitioners and researchers. However, current research in the area is still developing in terms of offering practical insight in conjunction with a decision model that may help to determine optimal strategies for efficient service design in the sharing economy from a service triad perspective. Exploring this gap in the literature, this paper aims to develop and apply a decision model that enables managers to identify and prioritise the efficiency attributes of sharing economy-based services. It also aids in designing optimal strategies to enhance efficiency over time based on the insights obtained from users (buyers and sellers) and platform providers.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts a mixed-methods approach. The qualitative approach comprised an extensive literature review followed by in-depth interviews, and the quantitative approach adopted the quality function deployment (QFD) integrated optimisation technique to design and prioritise the most optimal strategy emanating from the application of a decision model.FindingsThe findings revealed that establishing global distribution, continued technological research and development (R&D) and enhancing the transactional platform are the most important strategies in the context of sharing economy platform providers (e.g. accommodation-based-platform service providers). This study also revealed that as the importance weights of the efficiency attributes changed over time, so too did the portfolio of strategies used to attain an optimal efficiency level.
Chowdhury, MT, Sarkar, A, Paul, SK & Moktadir, MA 2022, 'A case study on strategies to deal with the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the food and beverage industry', Operations Management Research, vol. 15, no. 1-2, pp. 166-178.
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This research investigates the impacts of the novel coronavirus disease, also referred to as COVID-19 pandemic, on the food and beverage industry. It examines both short-term and medium-to-long-term impacts of the pandemic and outlines strategies to reduce the potential consequences of those impacts. To this end, we use a qualitative, multiple-case-study methodology, collecting data from eight sample companies with fourteen respondents in the food and beverage industry in Bangladesh. The findings show that the short-term impacts of this pandemic, such as product expiry, shortage of working capital, and limited operations of distributors, are severe, while the medium-to-long-term impacts promise to be complex and uncertain. In the longer term, various performance metrics, such as return on investment by the firms, the contribution of the firms to the gross domestic product (GDP), and employee size, are all expected to decrease. Moreover, firms may need to restructure their supply chain and build relationships with new distributors and trade partners. The study proposes several strategies that managers in this sector can adopt to improve resiliency in the changing environment during and after the COVID-19 era. While this research is novel and contributes to both theory and practice, it does not consider small and medium-sized companies in the food and beverage industry. Therefore, the impacts and strategies we identify may not apply to smaller companies.
Chowdhury, NR, Ahmed, M, Mahmud, P, Paul, SK & Liza, SA 2022, 'Modeling a sustainable vaccine supply chain for a healthcare system', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 370, pp. 133423-133423.
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Chowdhury, NR, Chowdhury, P & Paul, SK 2022, 'Sustainable practices and their antecedents in the apparel industry: A review', Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry, vol. 37, pp. 100674-100674.
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Clegg, S, Cunha, MPE, Rego, A & Berti, M 2022, 'Speaking truth to power: The academic as jester stimulating management learning', Management Learning, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 547-565.
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The jester embodies an ancient social institution, which serves a paradoxical purpose: to mitigate the excesses of power, while serving and supporting the ruler through a license to jest. The metaphor of the jester, used constructively, offers a unique window on the contradictions of organizational studies and their paradoxical role in relation to corporate practices. We explore how jesting may inform academic work through using humour and laughter to deconstruct organizational taboos and convey truth to power. We suggest that academic jesting constitute a wise and undervalued way in which management learning can occur.
Clegg, S, Pina e Cunha, M & Berti, M 2022, 'Research Movements and Theorizing Dynamics in Management and Organization Studies', Academy of Management Review, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 382-401.
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Clegg, SR & Ghaim, M 2022, 'Ubuntu: Afrocentric view of paradoxes in organisations', Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
Clegg, SR, Ghaim, M, Cunha, MPE & Wahlin, N 2022, 'Bridging temporality and endurance: Remembering paradoxes, projecting futures', Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
Cleland, J, Adair, D & Parry, K 2022, 'Fair Go? Indigenous Rugby League Players and the Racial Exclusion of the Australian National Anthem', Communication & Sport, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 74-96.
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This article explores the implications of widely publicized national anthem protests by several Indigenous rugby league players in Australia during 2019. With a goal of doing justice to these Indigenous voices (and in this case also their silence), a critical race theory framework was deployed to both listen to and interpret the reasons behind the protests. The data source was online media reports that centered on the perspectives of players and rugby league officials, along with responses to the protests by prominent journalists and politicians via online opinion pieces. The findings indicate that the voices of Indigenous athletes in Australia are important in raising concerns about nationalist rituals and symbols that, by their colonialist nature, subjugate Aboriginal peoples. Importantly, the Indigenous rugby league players were not alone in their campaign. The Recognition in Anthem Project, which began in 2017, indicates that the perspectives of these protesting rugby players were part of a wider discussion about change. The movement for a new national anthem, therefore, was not just isolated to sport, and this appears to have provided the Indigenous rugby players—as social commentators—with atypical influence.
Cobb-Clark, DA, Dahmann, SC & Kettlewell, N 2022, 'Depression, Risk Preferences, and Risk-Taking Behavior', Journal of Human Resources, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 1566-1604.
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Cotton, D, Hambusch, G & Van de Venter, T 2022, 'Preaching to the Converted – Enrolment Bias in Finance Ethics Subjects', Journal of Financial Education.
Cunha, M, Clegg, S, Gaim, M & Giustiniano, L 2022, 'Final reflections: patterns, principles and practices'.
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Cunha, MP, Clegg, S, Rego, A, Giustiniano, L, Abrantes, ACM, Miner, AS & Simpson, AV 2022, 'Myopia during emergency improvisation: lessons from a catastrophic wildfire', Management Decision, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 2019-2041.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore how a number of processes joined to create the microlevel strategies and procedures that resulted in the most lethal and tragic forest fire in Portugal's history, recalled as the EN236-1 road tragedy in the fire of Pedrógão Grande.Design/methodology/approachUsing an inductive theory development approach, the authors consider how the urgency and scale of perceived danger coupled with failures of system-wide communication led fire teams to improvise repeatedly.FindingsThe paper shows how structure collapse led teams to use only local information prompting acts of improvisational myopia, in the particular shape of corrosive myopia, and how a form of incidental improvisation led to catastrophic results.Practical implicationsThe research offers insights into the dangers of improvisation arising from corrosive myopia, identifying ways to minimize them with the development of improvisation practices that allow for the creation of new patterns of action. The implications for managing surprise through improvisation extend to risk contexts beyond wildfires.Originality/valueThe paper stands out for showing the impact of improvisational myopia, especially in its corrosive form, which stands in stark contrast to the central role of attention to the local context highlighted in previous research on improvisation. At the same time, by exploring the effects of incidental improvisation, it also departs from the agentic conception of improvisation widely discussed in the im...
Cunha, MPE, Hernández-Linares, R, De Sousa, M, Clegg, S & Rego, A 2022, 'Evolving Conceptions of Work-Family Boundaries: In Defense of The Family as Stakeholder', Humanistic Management Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 55-93.
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AbstractIn the management and organization studies literature, a key question to explore and explain is that of the family as an organizational stakeholder, particularly when working-from-home became the “new normal”. Departing from meta-analytic studies on the work-family relation and connecting with scholarly conversation on work-family boundary dynamics, we identify three main narratives. In theseparation narrative,work and family belong to different realms, and including the family in the domain of organizational responsibility is seen as pointless. Theinterdependence narrativestresses that organizations and families are overlapping domains in which it is important to acknowledge that the policies and practices of the former might have an impact on family life, and vice-versa. Theembeddedness narrative, brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic, sees employment and family as progressively convergent and hybrid work domains. The evolution of employment relations towards increased hybridity of the work situation being embedded in the familial/household context increasingly calls for consideration of the family/household as an integral rather than a peripheral stakeholder.
Cunha, MPE, Rego, A & Berti, M 2022, 'Estrategias para desactivar las paradojas pragmáticas', Harvard Deusto Business Review, vol. 318, pp. 6-17.
Cunha, MPE, Simpson, AV, Rego, A & Clegg, S 2022, 'Non-naïve organizational positivity through a generative paradox pedagogy', Management Learning, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 15-32.
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Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS), with positivity as a core conceptual component, is a major innovation in recent decades in management and organizational studies. Just as organization is an inherently paradox laden process, so too, we argue, is positivity. Yet in classrooms and in practice, POS is mostly taught in a manner that accepts only one side of the paradox, that which, at first glance, appears positive. Against such linear approaches we propose another possibility: teaching positivity through a pedagogy of generative paradoxes emergent from creatively harmonizing the energy of competing and interdependent positive and negative tensions. In the process we extend the notion of generative paradox as discussed in paradox literature by embracing the notion of generativity as discussed in POS theorizing where it is associated with organizational processes that facilitate outcomes of collective flourishing, abundance, wellbeing, and virtue. Our proposed three-part generative paradox pedagogy contributes to the literature on POS, organizational paradox, and management learning.
Cunha, MPE, Soares Leitão, MJ, Clegg, S, Hernández-Linares, R, Moasa, H, Randerson, K & Rego, A 2022, 'Cognition, emotion and action: persistent sources of parent–offspring paradoxes in the family business', Journal of Family Business Management, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 729-749.
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Purpose The purpose of the study is to explore inductively the unique paradoxical tensions central to family business (FB) and to analyze how FB's members face these tensions and their implications in the personal and professional realms.Design/methodology/approachA multiple-case study with 11 parent–offspring dyads from Portuguese FBs was conducted putting the focus on the micro-level interactions.FindingsThe slopes of roles and relationality in FBs produces three persistent sets of tensions around cognition, emotion and action. These tensions exist in a paradoxical state, containing potentiality for synergy or trade-off.Originality/valueOur study is the first to empirically demonstrate that paradoxical tensions between parent and offspring are interrelated, by emphasizing the uniqueness of FB as a paradoxical setting and offering insights to negotiating of these singular paradoxes.
Darcy, S, Maxwell, H, Grabowski, S & Onyx, J 2022, 'Artistic Impact: From Casual and Serious Leisure to Professional Career Development in Disability Arts', Leisure Sciences, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 514-533.
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De Angelis, T, Ekström, E & Glover, K 2022, 'Dynkin Games with Incomplete and Asymmetric Information', Mathematics of Operations Research, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 560-586.
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We study the value and the optimal strategies for a two-player zero-sum optimal stopping game with incomplete and asymmetric information. In our Bayesian setup, the drift of the underlying diffusion process is unknown to one player (incomplete information feature), but known to the other one (asymmetric information feature). We formulate the problem and reduce it to a fully Markovian setup where the uninformed player optimises over stopping times and the informed one uses randomised stopping times in order to hide their informational advantage. Then we provide a general verification result that allows us to find the value of the game and players’ optimal strategies by solving suitable quasi-variational inequalities with some nonstandard constraints. Finally, we study an example with linear payoffs, in which an explicit solution of the corresponding quasi-variational inequalities can be obtained.
Delavande, A, Del Bono, E & Holford, A 2022, 'Academic and non-academic investments at university: The role of expectations, preferences and constraints', Journal of Econometrics, vol. 231, no. 1, pp. 74-97.
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Delavande, A, van der Klaauw, W, Winter, J & Zafar, B 2022, 'Introduction to the Journal of Econometrics Annals Issue on “Subjective Expectations and Probabilities in Economics”', Journal of Econometrics, vol. 231, no. 1, pp. 1-2.
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Devauny, FX & Clegg, SR 2022, 'The ‘ontological turn’ of anthropology: Implications for debates about ontologies in MOS', Theory, Culture and Society: explorations in critical social science.
Di Guilmi, C, Galanis, G & Baskozos, G 2022, 'A Behavioural SIR Model: Implications for Physical Distancing Decisions', Review of Behavioral Economics, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 45-63.
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Di Guilmi, C, Galanis, G & Proaño, C 2022, 'A Baseline Model of Behavioral Political Cycles and Macroeconomic Fluctuations'.
Dickson, TJ & Darcy, S 2022, 'Next Steps in Mega-Sport Event Legacy Research: Insights from a Four Country Volunteer Management Study', Event Management, vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 1849-1854.
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Mega-sport event legacy research methodologically is dominated by what should be considered single case studies often omitting the importance of the socially situated nature of events and tourism. The extant research has often been conducted during, or soon after, an event purporting
to be about legacies. Thus, they are more about impacts than the legacy, or what remains. By interrogating the only known database of volunteer responses from four Olympic and Paralympic Games across four countries, this research note demonstrates the next steps that are required to design
legacies research that will have methodological, theoretical, and practical significance for host and nonhost communities alike.
Dickson, TJ, Sharpe, S & Darcy, S 2022, 'Where are the Indigenous and First Nations people in sport event volunteering? Can you be what you can’t see?', Tourism Recreation Research, pp. 1-13.
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Mega-sport events (MSE) are frequently cited for their developmental and legacy potentials for host communities, including tourism, sport participation and volunteering. MSE volunteer research has demonstrated the potential to develop volunteers who may contribute to the host community’s social and human capitals. However, little research considers how marginalised groups, such as First Nations or those with disability, may be co-providers of MSE experiences. This paper differs from a dominant quasi-scientific approach to empirical journal articles in that it begins with a reflexive posture drawing upon First nations pedagogy of storytelling. Reflecting upon the volunteers’ social context and drawing upon a dataset of volunteers across 6 MSE in 5 countries (2009–2016), this research explores to what extent First Nations volunteers are considered and included in MSE research and practice, and what differences may exist between First Nations volunteers and others regarding their motivations and future volunteering intentions. The results indicate that significantly more can be done to include First Nations people equitably and respectfully across the design, delivery, and legacy potential of MSE. The results inform a novel framework that provides a map for theory and practice, and thus praxis, for incorporating marginalised groups as full partners across the MSE journey.
Distadio, LF & Ferguson, A 2022, 'Mine offtake contracting, strategic alliances and the equity market', Journal of Commodity Markets, vol. 27, pp. 100224-100224.
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Đurkin Badurina, J, Soldić Frleta, D & Dwyer, L 2022, 'MEET “SCEPTICS”, “NEUTRALS” AND “BELIEVERS”: AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO ANALYSING RESIDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS TOURISM IN URBAN DESTINATIONS', Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 24-44.
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Methodological and theoretical advances are necessary to better understand the complex and heterogeneous nature of residents' perceptions and attitudes towards tourism in cities. This study provides a novel approach, challenging some of the postulates of the Social Exchange Theory. The study was conducted in the capital city of Croatia, Zagreb, and residents’ attitudes were gathered through self-administered questionnaire. The level of agreement with the statement that ‘tourism generates more benefits than costs for residents’ was used as a criterion for segmenting respondents into three groups: sceptics, neutrals and believers. Analysis revealed that the three groups did not significantly differ in perception of most of the negative impacts, but do differ when it comes to positive impacts. Results indicate that in cases where a urban destination is not (yet) exposed to overtourism, perceived positive tourism impacts play a more important role than the negative tourism impacts, as potential key opinion-changers in terms of future support for tourism development. Importance of this study lies in transforming the ordinary approach to residents’ perceptions and providing alternative framework for research, with more emphasis on relations between perceptions of positive and negative tourism impact, rather than factors affecting those perceptions. Policy implications include the need for city planners to foster residents’ participation in tourism planning and development, strengthen information campaigns on tourism impacts, and more regularly monitor resident perceptions of the effects of tourism development on their well-being.
Dwivedi, A & Paul, SK 2022, 'A framework for digital supply chains in the era of circular economy: Implications on environmental sustainability', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 1249-1274.
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Edwards, D, Foley, C & Hergesell, A 2022, 'Delegate Views on Face to Face and Online Conference Attendance', International Journal of Business Events and Legacies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-21.
Edwards, D, Foley, C & Jasovska, P 2022, ''From Dirt to Shirt': Australian Cotton Conferences Driving Industry Transformation', Event Management, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 1041-1055.
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Although the literature identifies various benefits of business events, more work is required to investigate the ways in which such outcomes are achieved and how they fit into a whole of industry ecosystem. In this study, we apply the concept of sustainable business models to explore
elements and mechanisms of how values combining economic, social, and environmental stakeholder benefits are proposed, created, delivered, and captured through conferences. To study these nuances, we analyze the case of the Australian cotton industry conferences. Our findings suggest that
mechanisms of building industry community, forming a social platform, and managing sustainability solutions were core conference elements that led to desired industry changes. The study contributes to business events literature by delineating a means of achieving industry outcomes as a result
of organizing industry conferences. The article proposes a business model specifically reflective of the Australian cotton industry conferences.
English, M, Canuto, K, Schulenkorf, N, Evans, J, Curry, C, Rosenbaum, S & Caperchione, C 2022, 'Community participation in the design and development of a physical activity and psychosocial program for Indigenous girls: Processes, experiences and lessons learnt', Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, vol. 25, pp. S8-S9.
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Everingham, P, Young, TN, Wearing, SL & Lyons, K 2022, 'A diverse economies approach for promoting peace and justice in volunteer tourism', Journal of Sustainable Tourism, vol. 30, no. 2-3, pp. 618-636.
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Fam, K-S, Richard, JE, McNeill, LS, Waller, DS & Zhang, H 2022, 'Sales promotion: the role of equity sensitivity', Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, vol. 34, no. 9, pp. 1827-1848.
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PurposeThis paper explores how consumer psychographics impact responses to sales promotions (SPs), and specifically whether equity sensitivity (ES) moderates attitudes towards sales promotion in the retail purchase experience (PE).Design/methodology/approachThe study examines data from a survey of 284 Hong Kong consumers, using a shopping mall-intercept method. Every third person walking past the researchers was asked to participate in the survey. After obtaining their permission, those agreeing to take part in the study were surveyed either inside or outside of the shopping complex. The face-to-face intercept surveying method also increases confidence in sample and response reliability.FindingsThe study finds that ES has a significant positive relationship with evaluations of the retail PE. Consumers identified as “Benevolents” were significantly more positive towards SPs and reported significantly higher satisfaction with the PE. In contrast, consumers identified as “Entitled” were less positive towards SP and less satisfied with the PE. In addition, noncash SPs significantly positively influenced Benevolents' PE.Research limitations/implicationsThe current study extends and expands equity theory and ES research by applying these concepts to consumer SPs. The study is limited to an examination of common consumer purchases, across different product categories and SP types. While this allows us to examine the relationship between SP attitudes, ES and purchase satisfaction, future comparisons between individual sales promotion techniques (SPTs) and specific consumer profiles are recommended.
Fee, A & Gray, SJ 2022, 'Perceived organisational support and performance: the case of expatriate development volunteers in complex multi-stakeholder employment relationships', The International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 965-1004.
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© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article examines how and to what extent perceived organisational support from key stakeholders is associated with the performance of expatriate development volunteers in highly complex multi-stakeholder employment relationships. We studied 214 volunteer-employer-agency relationships covering 21 countries. Two forms of support were positively associated with the volunteers’ performance: direct support from the host-country employer for the volunteer, and support for the host-country employer from the volunteer agency, with the latter partially mediating the former. No relationship existed between volunteers’ performance and support from the volunteer agency. In term of contextual and situational factors, emotional and informational support for volunteers were perceived as strongly enabling performance, while sub-standard instrumental support was the primary inhibitor. Our findings unearth the significance of a previously invisible ‘third arm’ of support in triangular employment relationships in the form of volunteer agency support for the host organisation, and identify the importance of discretionary, relational and proximal support to the success of expatriate volunteer placements.
Fehérová, M, Heger, S, Péliová, J, Servátka, M & Slonim, R 2022, 'Increasing autonomy in charitable giving: The effect of choosing the number of recipients on donations', Economics Letters, vol. 217, pp. 110701-110701.
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Feng, Z, Francis, JR, Shan, Y & Taylor, SL 2022, 'Do High-Quality Auditors Improve Non-GAAP Reporting?', The Accounting Review.
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Prior research finds that clients of high-quality auditors report higher quality GAAP earnings. We extend this research to investigate whether auditor quality is associated with the quality of voluntarily disclosed non-GAAP earnings measures. Using a sample of Australian firms disclosing annual non-GAAP metrics, we find that clients of high-quality auditors are more likely to voluntarily disclose non-GAAP earnings numbers. However, clients of high-quality auditors make adjustments in calculating non-GAAP earnings (non-GAAP exclusions) that are less predictive of future earnings and less value relevant than those of other firms. These results indicate that their adjustments are of higher quality. We also find similar results for US firms using a sample of quarterly non-GAAP earnings disclosures. Overall, our evidence indicates that commonly used indicators of audit quality for GAAP reporting are positively associated with the quality of voluntarily disclosed non-GAAP earnings measures.
Fleming, P 2022, 'How biopower puts freedom to work: Conceptualizing ‘pivoting mechanisms’ in the neoliberal university', Human Relations, vol. 75, no. 10, pp. 1986-2007.
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Academics working in the neoliberal university embody a key tension. They enjoy substantial occupational freedoms and yet endure formidable levels of control. The two attributes are not necessarily opposed. Michel Foucault’s concept of biopower explains why. Unlike disciplinary power (modelled after the prison, factory, school, etc.), biopower operationalizes significant freedoms in order to render workers productive. Studies examining how employers achieve this have several limitations that this article seeks to remedy. Biopower does not frame or subjectify employee agency but pivots it instead. I develop the concept of ‘pivoting mechanisms’ and illustrate its utility with respect to academic labour in the neoliberal university. This provides a more nuanced explanation of how biopower can infiltrate professional autonomy and sheds light on its troubling effects in higher education today.
Fleming, P 2022, 'Sartre’s Lost Organization Theory: Reading the Critique of Dialectical Reason Today', Organization Theory, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 263178772211092-263178772211092.
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Jean-Paul Sartre’s enormous and often difficult Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960/2004) has largely been forgotten today. But the concepts it contains are worth reconsidering, particularly from an organization theory perspective. The book offers novel explanations of organizations, groups, institutions, power, resistance and technology that remain eminently relevant. I argue that a compelling and fruitful organization theory lurks in the Critique of Dialectical Reason with respect to (at least) three key topics: power/resistance, management hierarchies and technology. I outline the contours of this Sartrean organization theory and present implications and avenues for future inquiry.
Fleming, P, Zyglidopoulos, S, Boura, M & Lioukas, S 2022, 'How Corruption is Tolerated in the Greek Public Sector: Toward a Second-Order Theory of Normalization', Business & Society, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 191-224.
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Secrecy and “social cocooning” are critical mechanisms allowing the normalization of corruption within organizations. Less studied are processes of normalization that occur when corruption is an “open secret.” Drawing on an empirical study of Greek public-sector organizations, we suggest that a second-order normalization process ensues among non-corrupt onlookers both inside and beyond the organization. What is normalized at this level is not corruption, but its tolerance, which we disaggregate into agent-focused tolerance and structure-focused tolerance. Emphasizing the importance of non-corrupt bystanders, we claim that second-order normalization helps corruption persist in situations where its presence is openly acknowledged. This adds an important new dimension to normalization theory and we unpack its implications for both future research and practice in this area.
Foley, C, Darcy, S, Hergesell, A, Almond, B, McDonald, M & Brett, E 2022, 'University-based sport and social clubs and their contribution to the development of graduate attributes', Active Learning in Higher Education, pp. 146978742211276-146978742211276.
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An important measure of the success of a tertiary education programme is the attributes that graduates possess at the completion of their studies. Universities have sought to address this issue by developing formal curriculum and programmes such as internships and work-integrated learning. However, little is known about how university-based extracurricular activities contribute to graduate attributes. The purpose of this study is to explore participation in extracurricular activities from a student perspective. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 student leaders of university-based sporting, social and academic clubs. Data collection and analysis were guided by a qualitative approach to thematic analysis. The findings indicate that students developed a range of graduate attributes in areas such as such as leadership, teamwork, communication and resilience. The theory, communities of practice, is used to interpret the participants’ experiences which was found to coalesce around their social interactions and relations. The study concludes with several recommendations for universities to create greater opportunities for their students to participate in extracurricular activities.
Fujak, H & Joachim, G 2022, 'Examining territorialization in competitive sport markets', Sport in Society, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 369-389.
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Fujak, H, Frawley, S, Lock, D & Adair, D 2022, 'Consumer behaviour toward a new league and teams: television audiences as a measure of market acceptance', European Sport Management Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 161-181.
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Gaim, M, Clegg, S & Cunha, MPE 2022, 'In Praise of Paradox Persistence: Evidence from the Sydney Opera House Project', Project Management Journal, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 397-415.
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Organizational paradoxes persist. In their persistence, they resist closure; we demonstrate how, by using an exemplary project, that of the construction of the Sydney Opera House. By analyzing paradoxes encountered in the construction of a notable contemporary architectural project, we discuss how dialogical interactions enable options to emerge in the form of responses that were not previously evident. Engaging paradoxes dialogically requires accepting rather than denying contradictions, meaning that rather than resolving them in favor of one pole or the other, the contradictions remain in play. Monologic interactions—favoring dominant and singular voices, rather than producing consensus—repress dissent, leading to conflict, through suppressing paradox.
Garg, N & Saluja, G 2022, 'A Tale of Two “Ideologies”: Differences in Consumer Response to Brand Activism', Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 325-339.
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Gavin, M 2022, 'Unions and collective bargaining in Australia in 2021', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 362-379.
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This article reviews the year across collective bargaining, union policy and strategy, as well as industrial responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the industrial environment rebounded slightly from the initial impact of the pandemic in 2020, similar themes persisted throughout 2021, including declining coverage of employees under collective agreements, a difficult bargaining environment in ‘essential’ industries, limited cooperation of the industrial relations parties during developments in the pandemic response and a continued pattern of low wages growth. While trade unions achieved isolated ‘wins’ on key matters, at a system level there continues to be enduring issues of low wages, insecure work and frustrations with the collective bargaining system, while the nation attempts to recover from the impact of the pandemic.
Gavin, M, McGrath-Champ, S, Stacey, M & Wilson, R 2022, 'Women’s participation in teacher unions: Implications of a ‘triple burden’ for union gender equality strategies', Economic and Industrial Democracy, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 830-852.
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Amidst declining union influence, teacher unions have retained power. However, work intensification, arising from increasing reform in school education, has potentially undermined union participation, particularly women’s. Using a mixed-method approach, this article examines how the tangled combination of women’s paid work, union participation and family/domestic responsibilities (the ‘triple burden’) affects women’s roles as unionists. Examining the case of Australian teachers, the article finds that while demands of ‘work’ and ‘life’ can stifle union participation, it is specifically the cultural and historical legacies in unions that hinder women’s participation. The findings offer new insights around issues affecting the participation of women in female-dominated unions, and the intersection between union organisation and operation and the member-workers whom they represent.
Giroux, M, Franklin, D, Kim, J, Park, J & Kwak, K 2022, 'The Impact of Same versus Different Price Presentation on Travel Choice and the Moderating Role of Childhood Socioeconomic Status', Journal of Travel Research, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 674-695.
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When making travel decisions, consumers are frequently exposed to a multitude of options, including differing price levels for the same product or service across a range of online travel agencies. The current research investigates how the magnitude of price dispersion in online pricing can influence travelers’ product evaluations and purchase intentions. Specifically, we predict that travelers will prefer a hotel with no price dispersion to a hotel with different prices listed when the price difference is small, or narrow. However, when the price difference is more pronounced, or wide, travelers will prefer a hotel with price differences compared to a hotel with no price dispersion. Four experiments demonstrate that this effect is consistent across different contexts and categories. Additionally, based on life history theory, we argue that the relative preference for the same versus different price dispersion will be moderated by the travelers’ childhood socioeconomic status (SES).
Girsberger, EM, Koomen, M & Krapf, M 2022, 'Interpersonal, cognitive, and manual skills: How do they shape employment and wages?', Labour Economics, vol. 78, pp. 102235-102235.
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Glover, K 2022, 'Optimally stopping a Brownian bridge with an unknown pinning time: A Bayesian approach', Stochastic Processes and their Applications, vol. 150, pp. 919-937.
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Glover, K & Hulley, H 2022, 'Financially constrained index futures arbitrage', Journal of Futures Markets, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 1688-1703.
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GLOVER, K & HULLEY, H 2022, 'SHORT SELLING WITH MARGIN RISK AND RECALL RISK', International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, vol. 25, no. 02, pp. 1-33.
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To investigate the effect of short-selling constraints on investor behavior, we formulate an optimal stopping model in which the decision to cover a short position is affected by two short sale-specific frictions — margin risk and recall risk. Margin risk is introduced by assuming that a short seller is forced to close out their position involuntarily if they cannot fund margin calls (since short sales are collateralized transactions). Recall risk is introduced by permitting the lender to recall borrowed stock at any time, once again triggering an involuntary close-out. Examining the effect of these frictions on the optimal close-out strategy and associated value function, we finding that the optimal behavior can be qualitatively different in their presence. Moreover, these frictions lead to a substantial loss in value, relative to the first-best situation without them (a reduction of approximately 17% for our conservative base-case parameters). This significant effect has important implications for many familiar no-arbitrage identities, which are predicated on the assumption of unfettered short selling.
Glover, KJ, Johnson, PV, Evatt, G & Cheng, M 2022, 'Capital Ideas: Optimal Capital Reserve Strategies for a Bank and Its Regulator'.
Goodall, S, Viney, R, Street, D, Waller, DS & Zhao, FL 2022, 'Responses to direct-to-consumer advertising in Australia: Comparing experience', Health Marketing Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 398-409.
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Grosse, M & Scott, T 2022, 'Disclosure of Interim Review Reports: Do Interim Going Concern Conclusions Have Information Content?', AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 121-147.
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SUMMARY
This paper examines the information content of interim review assurance in the Australian mandatory disclosure setting. First, we find a strong negative market reaction to interim going concern conclusions (IGCC) contained in the review of interim financial statements. Second, we find no significant difference between the market reaction to IGCCs and annual going concern opinions (AGCO) received at the annual report audit. Finally, we show IGCCs are significant predictors of subsequent AGCOs, and provide incremental information from the previous annual report audit opinion. Overall, these results contribute to the literature on the benefits of mandatory interim assurance by showing that going concern conclusions contained in interim financial statements provide investors with new and relevant information.
JEL Classifications: G38; M42; M48.
Guilmi, CD & Fujiwara, Y 2022, 'Dual labor market, financial fragility, and deflation in an agent-based model of the Japanese macroeconomy', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 196, pp. 346-371.
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Guthrie, J, Linnenluecke, MK, Martin‐Sardesai, A, Shen, Y & Smith, T 2022, 'On the resilience of Australian public universities: why our institutions may fail unless vice‐chancellors rethink broken commercial business models', Accounting & Finance, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 2203-2235.
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Hafalir, IE, Kojima, F & Yenmez, MB 2022, 'Interdistrict school choice: A theory of student assignment', Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 201, pp. 105441-105441.
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Haque, M, Paul, SK, Sarker, R & Essam, D 2022, 'A combined approach for modeling multi-echelon multi-period decentralized supply chain', Annals of Operations Research, vol. 315, no. 2, pp. 1665-1702.
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Haque, MR, Choi, B, Lee, D & Wright, S 2022, 'Insider vs. outsider CEO and firm performance: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic', Finance Research Letters, vol. 47, pp. 102609-102609.
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Hasan, MM, Habib, A & Zhao, R 2022, 'Corporate reputation risk and cash holdings', Accounting & Finance, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 667-707.
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Haski-Leventhal, D, Alony, I, Cnaan, R, Dalton, B, Handy, F & Wiepking, P 2022, 'Seven innovative ways in which companies are changing csr (and the world).', California Management Review, vol. 64, no. 2.
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The world seems to be changing at a breathtaking pace. A decade of technological advances and a strong social media presence has altered the way we live and communicate. COVID-19 changed the way that we work and connect. Climate change is transforming what matters to us and how we approach the future. Why should the role of business in society stay the same?
Hassanli, N, Small, J & Darcy, S 2022, 'The representation of Airbnb in newspapers: a critical discourse analysis', Current Issues in Tourism, vol. 25, no. 19, pp. 3186-3198.
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Heger, SA & Slonim, R 2022, 'Giving begets giving: Positive path dependence as moral consistency', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 204, pp. 699-718.
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Heger, SA, Slonim, R & Tausch, F 2022, 'Self-serving dishonesty: The role of confidence in driving dishonesty', Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 235-250.
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AbstractAmbiguity and uncertainty as an explanation for ethical blind spots is well-documented. We contribute to this line of research by showing that these blind spots arise even when there is naturally occurring uncertainty—that is, when individuals are simply uncertain of the truth they “fill-in” this uncertainty in a self-serving way. To examine self-serving dishonesty, we asked a sample of U.S. car owners to respond to an auto insurance underwriting questionnaire that affects their price of insurance (i.e., premium), and investigated how financial incentives affect the honesty of their responses. We find, consistent with the current literature, that people have a strong preference for truthfulness, but only when they are confident of the objective truth. However, when people are not completely certain of the objectively correct answer, significant dishonesty occurs in a self-serving manner. We also find that reports of confidence do not depend on incentives and thus self-serving dishonesty is not strategic.
Hemsley, B, Dann, S, Reddacliff, C, Smith, R, Given, F, Gay, V, Leong, TW, Josserand, E, Skellern, K, Bull, C, Palmer, S & Balandin, S 2022, 'Views on the usability, design, and future possibilities of a 3D food printer for people with dysphagia: outcomes of an immersive experience', Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, pp. 1-10.
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PURPOSE: Although 3D food printing is expected to enable the creation of visually appealing pureed food for people with disability and dysphagia, little is known about the user experience in engaging with 3D food printing or the feasibility of use with populations who need texture-modified foods. The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility and usability of using domestic-scale 3D food printer as an assistive technology to print pureed food into attractive food shapes for people with dysphagia. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In total, 16 participants engaged in the unfamiliar, novel process of using a domestic-scale 3D food printer (choosing, printing, tasting), designed for printing pureed food, and discussed their impressions in focus group or individual interviews. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Overall, results demonstrated that informed experts who were novice users perceived the 3D food printing process to be fun but time consuming, and that 3D food printers might not yet be suitable for people with dysphagia or their supporters. Slow response time, lack of user feedback, scant detail on the appropriate recipes for the pureed food to create a successful print, and small font on the user panel interface were perceived as barriers to accessibility for people with disability and older people. Participants expected more interactive elements and feedback from the device, particularly in relation to resolving printer or user errors. This study will inform future usability trials and food safety research into 3D printed foods for people with disability and dysphagia. IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION3D food printers potentially have a role as an assistive technology in the preparation of texture-modified foods for people with disability and dysphagia.To increase feasibility, 3D food printers should be co-designed with people with disability and their supporters and health professionals working in the field of dysphagia and rehabilitation.Experts struggled to be able to pr...
Henckel, T, Menzies, GD, Moffatt, PG & Zizzo, DJ 2022, 'Belief adjustment: a double hurdle model and experimental evidence', Experimental Economics, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 26-67.
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AbstractWe present an experiment where subjects sequentially receive signals about the true state of the world and need to form beliefs about which one is true, with payoffs related to reported beliefs. We attempt to control for risk aversion using the Offerman et al. (Rev Econ Stud 76(4):1461–1489, 2009) technique. Against the baseline of Bayesian updating, we test for belief adjustment underreaction and overreaction and model the decision making process of the agent as a double hurdle model where agents with inferential expectations first decide whether to adjust their beliefs and then, if so, decide by how much. We also test the effects of increased inattention and complexity on belief updating. We find evidence for periods of belief inertia interspersed with belief adjustment. This is due to a combination of random belief adjustment; state-dependent belief adjustment, with many subjects requiring considerable evidence to change their beliefs; and quasi-Bayesian belief adjustment, with aggregate insufficient belief adjustment when a belief change does occur. Inattention, like complexity, makes subjects less likely to adjust their stated beliefs, while inattention additionally discourages full adjustment.
Hergesell, A 2022, 'Using Rasch analysis for scale development and refinement in tourism: Theory and illustration', Journal of Business Research, vol. 142, pp. 551-561.
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Ho, H, Kim, N & Reza, S 2022, 'CSR and CEO pay: Does CEO reputation matter?', Journal of Business Research, vol. 149, pp. 1034-1049.
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Incekara‐Hafalir, E, Kumar, R & Silva‐Goncalves, J 2022, 'The effect of payment medium on effort', Economic Inquiry, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 1111-1126.
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Islam, MT, Azeem, A, Jabir, M, Paul, A & Paul, SK 2022, 'An inventory model for a three-stage supply chain with random capacities considering disruptions and supplier reliability', Annals of Operations Research, vol. 315, no. 2, pp. 1703-1728.
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Jarvis, WP & Nikolova, N 2022, 'Educating Business Students About Kant and Dignity for a Theory of Business-in-Society', pp. 1061-1077.
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Joachim, G, Schulenkorf, N, Schlenker, K, Frawley, S & Cohen, A 2022, '“This is how I want us to think”: Introducing a design thinking activity into the practice of a sport organisation', Sport Management Review, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 428-453.
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Johar, M, Johnston, DW, Shields, MA, Siminski, P & Stavrunova, O 2022, 'The economic impacts of direct natural disaster exposure', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 196, pp. 26-39.
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Jung, K & Dalton, B 2022, 'Women’s Agency through Fashion in North Korea’s Transition', International Quarterly for Asian Studies, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 53-75.
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North Korean women’s fashion has changed in the context of women’s relatively recently assumed role as critical actors in North Korea’s market-dependent economy. Through examination of changes in women’s fashion we learn more about how the way women choose to dress can become an agentic and empowering process. The article argues that the case of North Korean women and their dress practice can inform our understanding of how women, even in the most oppressive of circumstances, develop tactics to manipulate the systems and social order that seek to control them. North Korean women have enacted upon their agency deliberately, getting away with what they can while simultaneously skilfully avoiding the dire consequences of being identified as actors who dare to disrupt the status quo. This type of agency is not always understood or appreciated by Western liberal frames and sensibilities of agency that centralise notions of individualism and freedom. This nuanced appreciation of women’s agency has the potential to expand the “rights, choices and autonomy” Western discourse of women’s agency in ways that are inclusive of women who live, and sometimes manage to thrive, in the face of extreme oppression. This paper is informed by the authors’ field notes from trips to North Korea and by 45 in-depth interviews with North Korean refugees, regular visitors to North Korea and NGO workers.
Kennedy, S & Linnenluecke, MK 2022, 'Circular economy and resilience: A research agenda', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 2754-2765.
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Kennedy, T & Siminski, P 2022, 'Are We Richer than Our Parents Were? Absolute Income Mobility in Australia*', Economic Record, vol. 98, no. 320, pp. 22-41.
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Kettlewell, N & Lam, J 2022, 'Retirement, social support and mental well-being: a couple-level analysis', The European Journal of Health Economics, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 511-535.
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Social support is increasingly acknowledged as an important resource for promoting well-being. We test whether social support changes around retirement. We also examine whether social support moderates dynamics in mental well-being around retirement and consider both own and spouse’s retirement drawing on a unique longitudinal, couple-level data set from Australia. We observe descriptively no effect of own or spouse’s retirement on social support. However, those with high social support do experience a small but statistically significant improvement in mental well-being post retirement. Using pension eligibility as an instrument, we find that own retirement causally improves mental well-being for women and by a similar degree for those with low/high social support. We also estimate responses to life satisfaction and find evidence that spill-over benefits from spousal retirement are larger for individuals with low social support.
Khan, SA, Mubarik, MS & Paul, SK 2022, 'Analyzing cause and effect relationships among drivers and barriers to circular economy implementation in the context of an emerging economy', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 364, pp. 132618-132618.
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Kim, T & Duhachek, A 2022, 'The Influence of New Technology on Consumer Decisions', Foundations and Trends in Marketing.
Kim, T, Duhachek, A, Herd, K & Kim, S 2022, 'Toward a goal-based paradigm of contagion', European Journal of Marketing, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 2105-2137.
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PurposeThis study aims to extend the previous research on contagion and proposes an integrative paradigm in which consumer goals and contagion recipient factors are identified as the key variables leading to the emergence of the contagion phenomenon. When a consumer has an active goal, a product touched by goal-congruent sources leads to positive product evaluation and enhances consumer performance when the product is used.Design/methodology/approachThis research conducted five experimental studies in online and offline retail settings to examine the effect of contagion on evaluations of contagion objects and performance in goal-related tasks.FindingsAcross five studies, the authors demonstrated that the activation of a goal leads to contagion-based product evaluation and performance enhancement effects. The authors theorized and showed that the contagion-based process triggered during goal pursuit led to a more favorable evaluation of contagion products (Studies 1, 2 and 3). The authors also showed that enhanced consumers’ commitment toward a goal, which in turn led to enhanced performance in a real task that contributed to achieving one’s goal (Study 4). These effects emerged only when the object was physically touched by a goal-congruent contagion source and were more pronounced for the consumers who experience a high (vs low) degree of goal discrepancy (Study 5).Research limitations/implicationsThe current research examined the contagion phenomenon in a few predetermined goal domains (e.g. health improvement goals, career success goals, marriage success goals). Although the authors found consis...
Kim, TW, Jiang, L, Duhachek, A, Lee, H & Garvey, A 2022, 'Do You Mind if I Ask You a Personal Question? How AI Service Agents Alter Consumer Self-Disclosure', Journal of Service Research, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 649-666.
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The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown rapidly in the service industry and AI’s emotional capabilities have become an important feature for interacting with customers. The current research examines personal disclosures that occur during consumer interactions with AI and humans in service settings. We found that consumers’ lay beliefs about AI (i.e., a perceived lack of social judgment capability) lead to enhanced disclosure of sensitive personal information to AI (vs. humans). We identify boundaries for this effect such that consumers prefer disclosure to humans over AI in (i) contexts where social support (rather than social judgment) is expected and (ii) contexts where sensitive information will be curated by the agent for social dissemination. In addition, we reveal underlying psychological processes such that the motivation to avoid negative social judgment favors disclosing to AI whereas seeking emotional support favors disclosing to humans. Moreover, we reveal that adding humanlike factors to AI can increase consumer fear of social judgment (reducing disclosure in contexts of social risk) while simultaneously increasing perceived AI capacity for empathy (increasing disclosure in contexts of social support). Taken together, these findings provide theoretical and practical insights into tradeoffs between utilizing AI versus human agents in service contexts.
Kitchin, PJ, Paramio-Salcines, JL, Darcy, S & Walters, G 2022, 'Exploring the accessibility of sport stadia for people with disability: towards the development of a Stadium Accessibility Scale (SAS)', Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 93-116.
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PurposeThe aim of this paper is to synthesise existing literature on sports stadia, spectators with disabilities (SwD) and accessibility to identify themes and to highlight the gaps in the literature. This review subsequently develops two propositions that will enable research in this emerging area to further develop.Design/methodology/approachThe research was guided by two research questions: First, what does the peer reviewed evidence tell us about SwD and the accessibility of sporting stadia?; Second, how can this information be used to develop a Stadium Accessibility Scale (SAS)? The authors conducted a rapid review of the literature across three databases that identified 34 papers for synthesis.FindingsThe synthesis revealed three research themes: a focus on legislative compliance, the need to enhance resources (both physical and human) and research that focusses on moving beyond the stadium experience. The latter can be subdivided into two streams – studies that look at accessibility as a social legacy of major events and studies that seek to understand the whole journey that SwD's must make to attend sport events.Research limitations/implicationsThe study makes two key recommendations. The first is to encourage further research aligned to the HOPES framework (Paramio-Salcines et al., 2016) that explicitly recognises the importance of understanding the broader approach to the customer experience. The second is the need for the development and validation of a reliable SAS.Originality/value
Klemsdal, L & Clegg, S 2022, 'Defining the work situation in organization theory: bringing Goffman back in', Culture and Organization, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 471-484.
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Körpeoğlu, E, Korpeoglu, CG & Hafalır, İE 2022, 'Parallel Innovation Contests', Operations Research, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 1506-1530.
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Crowdsourcing using innovation contests has become a popular tool to source innovative solutions to various problems organizations face. With several innovation contests that run in parallel, two key questions are how the number of contests affects contest outcomes and whether solvers who can compete in these contests should focus their effort on a small group of contests. A recent study by Ersin Körpeoğlu, C. Gizem Korpeoglu, and İsa Emin Hafalır titled “Parallel Innovation Contests” addresses these key questions. The study shows that running up to a certain number of contests in parallel can benefit the overall outcome of these contests. Interestingly, more contests can be run in parallel if these contests seek disruptive innovation rather than incremental innovation. The study also shows that encouraging solvers to work on multiple contests in parallel can improve contest outcomes when these contests seek disruptive innovation. These findings can help guide organizations and crowdsourcing platforms that organize multiple contests in parallel.
Koslow, S, Sameti, A, van Noort, G, Smit, EG & Sasser, SL 2022, 'When Bad Is Good: Do Good Relationships between Marketing Clients and Their Advertising Agencies Challenge Creativity?', Journal of Advertising, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 385-405.
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Krishnan, R, Arshinder, K & Agarwal, R 2022, 'Robust optimization of sustainable food supply chain network considering food waste valorization and supply uncertainty', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 171, pp. 108499-108499.
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Kumar, M, Raut, RD, Sharma, M, Choubey, VK & Paul, SK 2022, 'Enablers for resilience and pandemic preparedness in food supply chain', Operations Management Research, vol. 15, no. 3-4, pp. 1198-1223.
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AbstractThe recent COVID-19 pandemic has caused enormous disruptions to supply chain (SCs). Border restrictions forced countless businesses to close either permanently or temporarily. However, the food industry is an essential sector that needs to be operational during a pandemic. Although the food industry has proactively worked towards fulfilling human needs, the food supply chain (FSC) faced numerous challenges, forcing SC managers to rethink their business strategy to cater to consumer demands effectively. In a pandemic situation, manufacturing operations need to repurpose and adapt to produce different high-demand products. Resilience initiatives help fight disruption phases in an uncertain environment by building capacity to resist and recover to a better position. This study identifies 14 key enablers to develop a resilient FSC and reveals the most significant enablers in India. We used a hybrid Delphi-interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and Fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (Fuzzy-DEMATEL) methodology to achieve these goals. The Delphi technique identified essential enablers, while the ISM analyzed the interrelationship among enablers and level of importance in a hierarchical structural model. Finally, the Fuzzy-DEMATEL categorized the enablers into the cause-effect group. This study helps SC decision-makers recognize the enablers and the contextual and causal relationships to improve resilience initiatives. It also helps them repurpose their manufacturing operations and shift to other highly required and high-demand production.
Lee, PTW, Gekara, V & Paul, SK 2022, 'Editorial', International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 321-325.
Leoni, G, Lai, A, Stacchezzini, R, Steccolini, I, Brammer, S, Linnenluecke, M & Demirag, I 2022, 'The pervasive role of accounting and accountability during the COVID-19 emergency', Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 1-19.
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PurposeThis paper introduces the second part of a AAAJ special issue on accounting, accountability and management during the COVID-19 emergency. The authors analyse the themes that emerge from the second part of the special issue, which allows us to identify the diverse accounting and accountability practices across different geographical and organisational contexts. The authors also provide an overall picture of the contributions of the special issue, with insights into avenues of future research.Design/methodology/approachBuilding on the first part of the AAAJ special issue, the paper draws together and identifies additional emerging themes related to research into the COVID-19 pandemic and how it impacts accounting, accountability and management practices. The authors reflect on the contributions of the special issue to the interdisciplinary accounting research project.FindingsThe authors identify two macro-themes and outline their contributions to the accounting literature. The first deals with the changes and dangers of accounting and accountability practices during the pandemic. The second considers accountability practices in a broader sense, including reporting, disclosure and rhetorical practices in the management of COVID-19.Practical implicationsThe paper shows the pervasive role of accounting and accountability in the unprecedented and indiscriminate health crisis of COVID-19. It highlights the important role of special issues in producing timely research that responds to unfolding events.Originality/value
Li, M & Mendieta-Muñoz, I 2022, 'Bayesian analysis of structural correlated unobserved components and identification via heteroskedasticity', Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 337-359.
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Abstract
We propose a structural representation of the correlated unobserved components model, which allows for a structural interpretation of the interactions between trend and cycle shocks. We show that point identification of the full contemporaneous matrix which governs the structural interaction between trends and cycles can be achieved via heteroskedasticity. We develop an efficient Bayesian estimation procedure that breaks the multivariate problem into a recursion of univariate ones. An empirical implementation for the US Phillips curve shows that our model is able to identify the magnitude and direction of spillovers of the trend and cycle components both within-series and between-series.
Linnenluecke, MK 2022, 'Environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance in the context of multinational business research', Multinational Business Review, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 1-16.
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Purpose
This paper aims to examine the state of research on environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance in the context of multinational business research. This paper discusses research progress as well as various issues and complexities associated with using ESG ratings in cross-country studies and for assessing the performance of multinational enterprises (MNE) and emerging market multinationals (EMNEs).
Design/methodology/approach
The paper identifies emerging literature that focuses on tracking the development and uptake of ESG ratings in the international context. It discusses three emerging research streams: Research examining the ESG-financial performance relationship in emerging markets, research tracking the ESG performance of multinationals in the various countries and regions they are operating, and frameworks for assessing ESG-related risks on a country level.
Findings
While the emerging body of work adds an important dimension to the identification and awareness of ESG issues globally, numerous unresolved issues become evident. ESG frameworks have been built to assess corporate sustainability as it relates to firms in their “home” countries (typically with a focus on developed countries), with limited applicability and transferability to emerging markets. International firm activities are often not captured in detail and not comprehensively mapped across firm subsidiaries and a firm’s corporate supply chain where ESG issues are prone to happen, and ESG scores do not comprehensively integrate views and voices from various local stakeholders that are impacted by firm activities, particularly indigenous communities.
Liu, LX, Clegg, S & Pollack, J 2022, 'Power relations in the finance of infrastructure public-private partnership projects', International Journal of Project Management, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 725-740.
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Liu, PH, Wang, Y, Xue, DR, Linnenluecke, PM & Cai, DCW 2022, 'Green Commitment and Stock Price Crash Risk', Finance Research Letters, vol. 47, pp. 102646-102646.
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Liu, Z, Wang, X, Li, Y, Yao, L, An, J, Bai, L & Lim, E-P 2022, 'Face to purchase: Predicting consumer choices with structured facial and behavioral traits embedding', Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 235, pp. 107665-107665.
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Liza, SA, Chowdhury, NR, Paul, SK, Morshed, M, Morshed, SM, Bhuiyan, MAT & Rahim, MA 2022, 'Barriers to achieving sustainability in pharmaceutical supply chains in the post-COVID-19 era', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EMERGING MARKETS.
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Luong, TM & Scheule, H 2022, 'Benchmarking forecast approaches for mortgage credit risk for forward periods', European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 299, no. 2, pp. 750-767.
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Ma, D, Fee, A, Grabowski, S & Scerri, M 2022, 'Dual Organizational Identification in Multinational Enterprises and Interpersonal Horizontal Knowledge Sharing: A Conceptual Model', Journal of International Management, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 100907-100907.
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Mahtab, Z, Azeem, A, Ali, SM, Paul, SK & Fathollahi-Fard, AM 2022, 'Multi-objective robust-stochastic optimisation of relief goods distribution under uncertainty: a real-life case study', International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 241-262.
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Mashhady, A, Khalili, H & Sameti, A 2022, 'Does change agent selection procedure matter? A strategic decision-making toward a more objective selection approach', Leadership & Organization Development Journal, vol. 43, no. 8, pp. 1157-1185.
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PurposeWhile studies have established the important role of change agents throughout organizational change programs and emphasized the change agents’ impact on outcomes of change efforts, it could be argued that the decision-making procedure for the selection of change agents may also influence the success of organizational change programs in several ways. This research aims to explore and compare the potential influence of a traditional change agent selection procedure with a more systematic and objective approach.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative case study has been conducted, before and after testing a group decision support system for the selection of change agents in an organization that was on the verge of a major rebranding.FindingsThe main findings suggest the importance of objectivity, transparency and attention to competency in the selection procedure for the role, while providing evidence for using a systematic participative decision-support process for the selection of change agents, leading to several desirable organizational outcomes, including improvements in perception of objectivity, trust, transparency, fairness and competency related to the selection process.Originality/valueDrawing from the previous studies and the presented findings, this study offers evidence on the importance of paying attention to the selection procedure for the change agent role as it could potentially have an influence on the employees across organizations and, consequently, the success of change programs.
McEwen, C, Pullen, A & Rhodes, C 2022, 'Repressive Equality Regimes: Theorizing the Disconnections in Organizational Equity Practices', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2022, no. 1.
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McGrath-Champ, S, Gavin, M, Stacey, M & Wilson, R 2022, 'Collaborating for policy impact: Academic-practitioner collaboration in industrial relations research', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 64, no. 5, pp. 759-784.
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Knowledge co-production between academics and practitioners is increasingly a focus for university workplace contexts. While there is emerging interest in how social science academics can engage with industry to generate impact, little attention has been paid to how one form of practitioner organisation, trade unions, engages with academics to influence policy and member outcomes. In this article, we examine a case of research collaboration with an education trade union based in New South Wales, Australia, to explore the process of knowledge co-production with this partnership and its impact on education policy. In examining this decade-long partnership, we contribute to the literature on union strategy by depicting collaboration with researchers as a unique strategy for influencing policy outcomes (in this case, addressing teacher workload), while also contributing to emerging scholarship on knowledge co-production as a means to generate impact beyond the academy. As such, this article contributes a rare example of ‘cross-over’ between the worlds of academia and industry, which may inform future engagement and impact processes.
Mehreen, H, Rammal, HG, Pereira, V & Del Giudice, M 2022, 'Investigating the influence of absorptive capacity of recipients within cross-border transfer of knowledge: evidence from emerging markets', International Marketing Review, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 734-754.
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PurposeThis study aims to investigate whether the absorptive capacity, learning intent of the recipient, the attractiveness of the knowledge source and the relationship quality between the recipient and the source in high-technology sectors in emerging markets influences the nature of the intra-organizational knowledge being transferred.Design/methodology/approachA total of 180 completed survey responses from all cellular network providers operating in Pakistan were analyzed. This study uses multiple regression analysis to empirically tests the above relationships using data from the cellular network sector in Pakistan.FindingsThe findings highlight how the highly educated workforce and the motivation to learn has an impact on the effective cross-border sharing of knowledge, both technological and marketing knowledge.Originality/valueThis study is one of the few to test the factors that influence the effective and efficient transfer of knowledge from developed to emerging markets.
Menkveld, AJ, Dreber, A, Holzmeister, F, Huber, J, Johannesson, M, Kirchler, M, Razen, M, Weitzel, U, Abad, D, Abudy, MM, Adrian, T, Ait-Sahalia, Y, Akmansoy, O, Alcock, J, Alexeev, V, Aloosh, A, Amato, L, Amaya, D, Angel, J, Bach, A, Baidoo, E, Bakalli, G, Barbon, A, Bashchenko, O, Bindra, PC, Bjonnes, GH, Black, J, Black, BS, Bohorquez, S, Bondarenko, O, Bos, CS, Bosch-Rosa, C, Bouri, E, Brownlees, CT, Calamia, A, Cao, VN, Capelle-Blancard, G, Capera, L, Caporin, M, Carrion, A, Caskurlu, T, Chakrabarty, B, Chernov, M, Cheung, WM, Chincarini, LB, Chordia, T, Chow, SC, Clapham, B, Colliard, J-E, Comerton-Forde, C, Curran, E, Dao, T, Dare, W, Davies, RJ, De Blasis, R, De Nard, G, Declerck, F, Deev, O, Degryse, H, Deku, S, Desagre, C, van Dijk, MA, Dim, C, Dimpfl, T, Dong, Y, Drummond, P, Dudda, TL, Dumitrescu, A, Dyakov, T, Dyhrberg, AH, Dzieliński, M, Eksi, A, El Kalak, I, ter Ellen, S, Eugster, N, Evans, MDD, Farrell, M, Félez-Viñas, E, Ferrara, G, FERROUHI, EM, Flori, A, Fluharty-Jaidee, J, Foley, S, Fong, KYL, Foucault, T, Franus, T, Franzoni, FA, Frijns, B, Frömmel, M, Fu, S, Füllbrunn, S, Gan, B, Gehrig, T, Gerritsen, D, Gil-Bazo, J, Glosten, LR, Gomez, T, Gorbenko, A, Güçbilmez, U, Grammig, J, Gregoire, V, Hagströmer, B, Hambuckers, J, Hapnes, E, Harris, JH, Harris, L, Hartmann, S, Hasse, J-B, Hautsch, N, He, X, Heath, D, Hediger, S, Hendershott, T, Hibbert, AM, Hjalmarsson, E, Hoelscher, SA, Hoffmann, P, Holden, CW, Horenstein, AR, Huang, W, Huang, D, Hurlin, C, Ivashchenko, A, Iyer, SR, Jahanshahloo, H, Jalkh, N, Jones, CM, Jurkatis, S, Jylha, P, Kaeck, A, Kaiser, G, Karam, A, Karmaziene, E, Kassner, B, Kaustia, M, Kazak, E, Kearney, F, van Kervel, V, Khan, S, Khomyn, M, Klein, T, Klein, O, Klos, A, Koetter, M, Krahnen, JP, Kolokolov, A, Korajczyk, RA, Kozhan, R, Kwan, A, Lajaunie, Q, Lam, FYEC, Lambert, M, Langlois, H, Lausen, J, Lauter, T, Leippold, M, Levin, V, Li, Y, Li, MH, Liew, CY, Lindner, T, Linton, OB, Liu, J, Liu, A, Llorente, G, Lof, M, Lohr, A, Longstaff, FA, Lopez-Lira, A, Mankad, S, Mano, N, Marchal, A, Martineau, C, Mazzola, F, Meloso, D, Mihet, R, Mohan, V, Moinas, S, Moore, D, Mu, L, Muravyev, D, Murphy, D, Neszveda, G, Neumeier, C, Nielsson, U, Nimalendran, M, Nolte, S, Norden, LL, O'Neill, P, Obaid, K, Ødegaard, BA, Östberg, P, Painter, M, Palan, S, Palit, I, Park, A, Pascual, R, Pasquariello, P, Pastor, L & et al. 2022, 'Non-Standard Errors'.
Michayluk, D, Neuhauser, K & Walker, S 2022, 'When no news is good news: failing to increase dividends', International Journal of Managerial Finance, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 138-155.
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PurposeThe study's purpose is to examine market returns around dividend announcements that contrast with a pattern of prior dividend announcements.Design/methodology/approachThe paper identifies firms that have a smooth dividend pattern of once-a-year dividend increases but at some point break that pattern and announce an unchanged dividend. The sample design allows the opportunity to investigate the market reaction to unchanged dividend announcements when an increase was likely to have been expected.FindingsThe results indicate that failing to increase the dividend is associated with significantly positive abnormal returns that are greater in magnitude for more entrenched dividend-increase records, supporting a contrast-effect hypothesis.Originality/valueThe results indicate that dividends are interpreted not only relative to the immediate dividend amount but also how the decision contrasts with dividends over a prolonged period. This finding suggests that the information content of the announcement of an unchanged dividend can vary according to the prior dividend pattern.
Mintz, O 2022, 'Harnessing post-pandemic customer trends to fuel business growth', World Economic Forum.
Mintz, O & Knight, E 2022, 'Beyond usual: How leading firms diverge from Business as Usual', Management and Business Review, no. Spring, pp. 61-69.
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Firms must innovate to sustain their long-term profitability. However, few firms successfully
manage to innovate continually. Thus, this article proposes six principles for firms to employ
to create breakthrough industry-changing innovations and maintain their success afterwards.
It proposes the six principles based on the authors multidisciplinary academic backgrounds
and their unique experience as delegates on an innovation mission that enabled them to visit
and engage with executives from leading firms in the Silicon Valley and Seattle regions. The
mission trip enabled the authors to visit many of these firms back-to-back over a short period
of time and also continuously engage with their delegation about what was being learned on
the trip. This, in combination with a review of the academic business literature, enabled the
authors to put together a set of best innovation practices repeatedly employed by those
leading firms that should be implemented by other businesses looking to innovate
continually.
Mintz, O, Currim, IS & Deshpandé, R 2022, 'National customer orientation: a framework, propositions and agenda for future research', European Journal of Marketing, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 1014-1041.
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Purpose
This paper aims to propose a new country-level construct, national customer orientation, to provide a benchmark for global headquartered managers’ decisions and scholars investigating cross-national research.
Design/methodology/approach
A conceptual framework and unique propositions are developed that focus on how one macro-economic driver, e.g. the wealth of a country, and one macro-marketing driver, e.g. customer price sensitivity, affect national customer orientation during and after global economic downturns such as recessions and a pandemic.
Findings
An agenda setting section proposes distinct theoretical, empirical and managerial themes for future research aimed at testing the propositions at the country and organization levels over time.
Research limitations/implications
Although the new construct offers substantial benefits for scholars and managers, current measures of national customer orientation are limited to data provided by the World Economic Forum or expensive primary survey-based research that restrict the number of countries, respondents and time periods.
Practical implications
The new national-level customer orientation construct and propositions about its drivers over time promise to provide global managers a country-level customer-based benchmark so that they can better understand, set expectations and manage customer orientation across different countries over time.
Originality/value
Mishra, R, Naik, BKR, Raut, RD & Paul, SK 2022, 'Circular economy principles in community energy initiatives through stakeholder perspectives', Sustainable Production and Consumption, vol. 33, pp. 256-270.
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Monjurul Hasan, ASM, Trianni, A, Shukla, N & Katic, M 2022, 'A novel characterization based framework to incorporate industrial energy management services', Applied Energy, vol. 313, pp. 118891-118891.
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Nasir, SB, Ahmed, T, Karmaker, CL, Ali, SM, Paul, SK & Majumdar, A 2022, 'Supply chain viability in the context of COVID-19 pandemic in small and medium-sized enterprises: implications for sustainable development goals', Journal of Enterprise Information Management, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 100-124.
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PurposeThe recent outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has severely disrupted the operations of global supply chains (SCs) providing an opportunity for decision-makers to rethink and tune their existing strategies. To tackle the impacts caused by such a pandemic, this study aims to examine the contextual relations among the factors influencing supply chain viability (SCV) for achieving long-term Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Design/methodology/approachA decision-aid approach by integrating Pareto analysis, grey theory and total interpretive structural modeling (TISM) has been propounded. The proposed approach examines contextual relations among the factors for SCV for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in an emerging economy. This study contributes to theory, methodology and practice by exploring a new research problem in the context of the SCV and COVID-19 pandemic and by developing a new decision-aid approach.FindingsThe findings reveal that the creation of SC digital twin and transformation of SCs to supply networks would help the policymakers to deal with the “new normal.” Also, SC crowdfunding and policy development for health protocols are critical driving factors influencing SCV.Originality/valueThis research work is perhaps one of few initial attempts to advance the theoretical and practical understanding of SCV and to achieve SDGs in industries following a pandemic risk.
Nikitopoulos, CS, Thomas, AC & Wang, J 2022, 'The economic impact of daily volatility persistence on energy markets', Journal of Commodity Markets, pp. 100285-100285.
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Ninan, J, Mahalingam, A & Clegg, S 2022, 'Asset creation team rationalities and strategic discourses: evidence from India', Infrastructure Asset Management, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 114-122.
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External stakeholder management is important for managing an infrastructure asset throughout its life cycle. There is a dearth of research exploring the asset creation team’s rationalities invoking the strategies used for managing external stakeholders. The circuits-of-power theoretical framework, which considers actors within their social context, is apt for studying the rationale of the asset creation team in carrying out these strategies. Through a systematic in-depth case study of a metro rail asset in India, diverse data were collected from multiple sources, such as semi-structured interviews, news articles and social media; a set of strategic rationalities used to frame messages to stakeholders was identified. These included pride in the asset, importance of the asset, overemphasis on time and acceptability of public inconvenience. The asset creation team, as part of the broader asset community, is also influenced by the strategic discourses aimed at managing external stakeholders. The authors discuss the implications of the strategic discourses used for asset management on project, programme and portfolio management. The relationship between strategic discourses striving to manage assets and the corresponding asset creation team rationalities affords multiple avenues for future research.
Ninan, J, Mahalingam, A & Clegg, S 2022, 'Power in news media: Framing strategies and effects in infrastructure projects', International Journal of Project Management, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 28-39.
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Noguti, V 2022, 'Consumption of marketer-generated content: consumers as curators of marketing messages that they consume on social media', European Journal of Marketing, vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 3545-3567.
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Purpose
This paper aims to understand how structural characteristics of social media enable consumers to satisfy needs related to marketer-generated content (MGC) and identify the consequences of consumer exposure to MGC.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper revisits research on antecedents and consequences of advertising consumption to build an emergent conceptual model applied to MGC through the investigation of consumer experiences in social media. Thirty-three semi-structured interviews were conducted with consumers who follow brands on Instagram. The interview transcripts were coded and analysed using a grounded theory approach.
Findings
This study finds that, structurally, MGC consumption is characterised by the combination of: consumer micro-control over both content and timing/place of consumption and ease of consumption, enabling consumers to seek pleasure and utility without effort. The data show that MGC is only likely to be shared to a restricted group with strong social connections, such as family members and close friends with similar interests, with whom new interactions develop over brands and products, online or in person. MGC consumption experiences also generate significant consumer learning that improves purchase outcomes for consumers. Three types of MGC consumers were identified in the data: “enthusiasts”, “circumstantial” and “occasional”.
Research limitations/implications
This study updates previous literature, offering a conceptual framework that specifies how the structural characteristics of social media are conducive to consumer exposure to self-curated MGC flow...
Noguti, V, Ho, H, Padigar, M & Zhang, SX 2022, 'Do Individual Ambidexterity and Career Experience Help Technological Startup Founders Acquire Funding?', IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, pp. 1-13.
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Noury, L, Ahuja, S, Parker, M, Sturdy, A & Tyler, M 2022, 'In praise of boredom at work', Organization, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 791-805.
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In the context of management and organisational literature, boredom has largely been seen in individual, psychological and negative terms, both for those experiencing it and for organisational outcomes. Through selective references to a wider sociological, historical and philosophical set of perspectives, we make a case here for refiguring boredom at work as a more relational and political notion. Rather than being seen as negative or trivial, we suggest that it is central to the concerns of organisation studies (and more widely) as a ambivalent everyday condition and experience. In particular, boredom is intimately linked to the project and promises of modernity and its associated effects on time, from factory industrialisation to contemporary work platforms. Both in terms of philosophical argument and applied fields such as art, literature, architecture and design, we suggest that boredom is both emancipatory/productive and alienating. Such an understanding establishes opportunities for research which would be central to the experience of contemporary paid employment and wider experience.
O’Rourke, A-M, Carrillat, FA & Wang, PZ 2022, 'Is brand differentiation necessary for success? The role of purchase goal and confidence in the brand’s position', Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 38, no. 3-4, pp. 369-397.
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O'Flynn, L, Schweinsberg, S & Wearing, S 2022, 'Applying Theory of Change to the Sustainable Financing of Protected Areas', Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 25-44.
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The sustainable financing of protected areas (PA) is a worldwide challenge and a barrier to the effective management of over 15% of global land area (Protected Planet, 2021). The purpose of the paper is to outline one approach that has been used to address the challenge of the sustainable financing of the publicly managed terrestrial PA estate in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Also, PA practitioners internationally may find the case study useful in addressing the challenge of insufficient funding for PAs under their care and control. The paper provides the Theory of Change (ToC) as a mechanism for the sustainable financing of the PA estate in NSW, identifying six pathways to change: government support, institutional effectiveness, appropriate business model, strategic planning and innovation, communication and advocacy, and collaboration and partnerships. It demonstrates how the success of each pathway depends on a suite of enabling conditions which help to dismantle the impediments to the sustainable financing of the PA estate. The ToC is intended to guide actions to address the sustainable financing of the PA estate and to achieve the overall impact of the effective management of PAs with respect to conservation and other aligned objectives. The ToC presented in the paper is focused on NSW, however it considers policy and management implications and lessons from the case study that can be applied to PAs in an international context.
O'Flynn, L, Schweinsberg, S & Wearing, S 2022, 'Financing Protected Areas: The Social and Environmental Impact Bond's Role in Terrestrial Protected Area Sustainability', Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 123-139.
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Insufficient funding for terrestrial protected areas is a global challenge, and the ability of a protected area management agency to secure sustainable financing is an obstacle in the effective management of these important areas. While the role of public sector agencies in establishing, financing, and managing protected areas, and in providing a supportive legislative and policy environment will remain essential into the future; the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recommends that alternative finance mechanisms be adopted to help achieve financial sustainability. With this recommendation in mind, one approach is to look to other policy areas which traditionally rely on governments as their primary funding source, to understand the alternative finance mechanisms they have adopted and appraise the suitability of these mechanisms for terrestrial protected areas. One alternative finance mechanism is the social and environmental impact bond which is a subset of impact investment and an example of a pay for success or results-based contract. This paper reviews literature on the social and environmental impact bond with a view to assessing its potential applicability to assist in the effective management of terrestrial protected areas that fall within the management categories defined by the IUCN. Three examples of existing and proposed impact bonds with an environment focus are explored, including the world’s first environmental impact bond in Washington D.C., the publicly offered Atlanta environmental impact bond and the proposed wildlife conservation bond in South Africa. The selected impact bonds will help to illustrate the establishment, operation, and evaluation of impact bonds in a real-world context. It will be argued that the social and environmental impact bond can be a useful finance model for a range of uses in a variety of social sectors and conservation settings, including terrestrial protected areas. The paper further co...
Onyx, J 2022, 'Methods in the Third Sector: Collective Memory-Work in a Complexity Framework', VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1132-1139.
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Paam, P, Berretta, R, García-Flores, R & Paul, SK 2022, 'Multi-warehouse, multi-product inventory control model for agri-fresh products – A case study', Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, vol. 194, pp. 106783-106783.
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Pappa, S, Chen, J, Barnett, J, Chang, A, Dong, RK, Xu, W, Yin, A, Chen, BZ, Delios, AY, Chen, RZ, Miller, S, Wan, X & Zhang, SX 2022, 'A systematic review and meta‐analysis of the mental health symptoms during the Covid‐19 pandemic in S outheast A sia', Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 41-50.
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Paul, S, Ali, SM, Hasan, MA, Paul, SK & Kabir, G 2022, 'Critical Success Factors for Supply Chain Sustainability in the Wood Industry: An Integrated PCA-ISM Model', Sustainability, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 1863-1863.
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Due to the increasing popularity of cost-based outsourcing and growing stakeholder concern about environmental, social, and technological issues, supply chain sustainability is vital in both developed and emerging economies. Bangladesh is an emerging economy and wood industry of Bangladesh is suffering from severe sustainability issues besides its growth. Hence, this article aims to examine the critical success factors (CSFs) for sustainability in the Bangladeshi wood industry, which is crucial to help supply chain managers engage in achieving sustainable development goals. This research investigated the CSFs and uncovered their interdependencies through the development of a methodology integrating a literature review, principal component analysis (PCA), interpretive structural modelling (ISM), and Matriced Impacts Croises Multiplication Appliquee aunClassement (MICMAC) techniques. PCA (n = 150) was used to identify and rank the CSFs for sustainability in the Bangladeshi wood industry while ISM (n = 9) and MICMAC were used to determine the driving and dependence power of the CSFs. The findings reveal that research and development, supplier relations, and using eco-friendly technology are the most significant CSFs of the Bangladeshi wood industry. Indispensable links revealing the driving and dependence power among the CSFs were also reported. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first of its kind that examined the CSFs for supply chain sustainability in the Bangladeshi wood industry. The proposed methodology and findings will help managers in the Bangladeshi wood industry as well as other similar industries to understand the CSFs and reduce the complexity of decision-making in managing business process towards sustainability journey.
Paul, SK & Jabbour, CJC 2022, 'Guest editorial', Journal of Asia Business Studies, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 425-427.
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Paul, SK, Chowdhury, P, Ahsan, K, Ali, SM & Kabir, G 2022, 'An advanced decision-making model for evaluating manufacturing plant locations using fuzzy inference system', Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 191, pp. 116378-116378.
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Pina e Cunha, M, Rego, A, Berti, M & Simpson, AV 2022, 'Understanding pragmatic paradoxes: When contradictions become paralyzing and what to do about it', Business Horizons.
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Pratap, S, Jauhar, SK, Paul, SK & Zhou, F 2022, 'Stochastic optimization approach for green routing and planning in perishable food production', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 333, pp. 130063-130063.
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Pritam, KS, Mathur, T, Agarwal, S, Paul, SK & Mulla, A 2022, 'A novel methodology for perception-based portfolio management', Annals of Operations Research, vol. 315, no. 2, pp. 1107-1133.
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Pugalia, S & Cetindamar, D 2022, 'Insights on the glass ceiling for immigrant women entrepreneurs in the technology sector', International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 44-68.
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PurposeTechnology sector is the pivotal element for innovation and economic development of any country. Hence, the present article explores past researches looking into challenges faced by immigrant women entrepreneurs in technology sector and their corresponding response strategies.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs a systematic literature review (SLR) technique to collate all the relevant literature looking into the challenges and strategies from immigrant women entrepreneur's perspective and provide a comprehensive picture. Overall, 49 research articles are included in this SLR.FindingsFindings indicate that immigrant status further escalates the human, financial and network disadvantages faced by women who want to start a technology-based venture.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the literature by categorizing the barriers and strategies on a 3 × 2 matrix reflecting the origins of the barrier or strategy (taking place at the individual, firm or institutional level) versus the type of the barrier or strategy (arising from being an immigrant woman and being a woman in the technology sector). After underlining the dearth of studies in the literature about the complex phenomenon of immigrant WEs in the technology sector, the paper points out several neglected themes for future research.
Pupovac, L, Carrillat, FA & Michayluk, D 2022, 'Slicing vs chunking product-harm crisis: antecedents and firm performance implications', European Journal of Marketing, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 1856-1884.
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Purpose
The high prevalence of product-harm crises (PHC) represents a continuing challenge to which firms sometimes react by announcing several smaller recalls (i.e. slicing) but at other times by announcing the recall of all faulty products at once (i.e. chunking). The slicing vs chunking phenomenon has not been identified by prior literature; this study aims to explore two research questions: Why do firms sometimes slice and other times chunk PHC? Do slicing and chunking affect firm performance differently?
Design/methodology/approach
The authors examined recall guidelines from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and conducted expert interviews as well as a quantitative analysis of 378 product recalls to determine the antecedents of slicing vs chunking. The authors further performed an event study to examine the impact of slicing vs chunking PHCs on firms’ financial performance.
Findings
The authors find that slicing vs chunking is not a deliberate strategy but rather the consequence of firms’ resource availability and constraints. Furthermore, the authors show that larger firms have a lower likelihood of slicing versus chunking. By contrast, larger R&D expenditures, and greater reputation, as well as larger recall sizes, increase the likelihood of slicing versus chunking. Finally, the results reveal that, compared to chunking, slicing PHC has a strong negative impact on firms’ stock value.
Research limitations/implications
The authors relied on recalls in the US automobile industry. A possible extension would be to study the same phenomenon in other industrie...
Qazi, A, Hasan, N, Abayomi-Alli, O, Hardaker, G, Scherer, R, Sarker, Y, Kumar Paul, S & Maitama, JZ 2022, 'Gender differences in information and communication technology use & skills: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Education and Information Technologies, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 4225-4258.
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Qin, W, jenny, J, Liang, Q, Lu, M & Shan, Y 2022, 'Social Trust and Dividend Payouts: Evidence from China', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 72, pp. 101726-101726.
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Rahman, T, Moktadir, MA & Paul, SK 2022, 'Key performance indicators for a sustainable recovery strategy in health-care supply chains: COVID-19 pandemic perspective', Journal of Asia Business Studies, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 472-494.
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Purpose
Supply chains’ (SCs’) sustainability practices and recovery strategies are attaining popularity in academia and industries to improve the resilience of the SCs and to manage large-scale disruptions. The global pandemic caused by the COVID-19 has raised the question of the sustainability of essential health-care products’ SCs of Bangladesh. It is an essential avenue for making the life of people safe and secure. Despite its importance, most of the health-care SCs in Bangladesh are struggling to meet the demand of its nation due to capacity shortage, technological backwardness of the manufacturers, delivery capacity shortages and less advanced forecasting capabilities. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the key performance indicators (KPIs) of a sustainable recovery strategy in the context of health-care SCs considering the COVID-19 pandemic.
Design/methodology/approach
This study used a dynamic method named graph theory and matrix approach to evaluate the most critical KPIs of a sustainable recovery strategy in the context of Bangladeshi health-care SCs.
Findings
The result revealed that dynamic forecasting and planning with a smooth delivery and distribution support system, production capacity diversification and having alternative or multiple suppliers during extraordinary disruptions may aid in the sustainability of the health-care SCs in Bangladesh.
Originality/value
This study is unique as no previous study has identified and examined the sustainable recovery strategy perspective KPIs considering the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of Bangladeshi health-care SCs. This stu...
Rahman, T, Paul, SK, Shukla, N, Agarwal, R & Taghikhah, F 2022, 'Supply chain resilience initiatives and strategies: A systematic review', Computers & Industrial Engineering, vol. 170, pp. 108317-108317.
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Raian, S, Ali, SM, Sarker, MR, Sankaranarayanan, B, Kabir, G, Paul, SK & Chakrabortty, RK 2022, 'Assessing sustainability risks in the supply chain of the textile industry under uncertainty', Resources, Conservation and Recycling, vol. 177, pp. 105975-105975.
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Raihan, AS, Ali, SM, Roy, S, Das, M, Kabir, G & Paul, SK 2022, 'Integrated Model for Soft Drink Industry Supply Chain Risk Assessment: Implications for Sustainability in Emerging Economies', International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 1148-1169.
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Rammal, HG, Rose, EL, Ghauri, PN, Ørberg Jensen, PD, Kipping, M, Petersen, B & Scerri, M 2022, 'Economic nationalism and internationalization of services: Review and research agenda', Journal of World Business, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 101314-101314.
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Raw, K, Sherry, E & Rowe, K 2022, 'Sport for social cohesion: exploring aims and complexities', Sport Management Review, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 454-475.
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Raw, K, Sherry, E & Schulenkorf, N 2022, 'Managing Sport for Development: An Investigation of Tensions and Paradox', Sport Management Review, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 134-161.
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Raw, K, Sherry, E, Rowe, K & Turner, S 2022, 'Safety and Relational Continuity in Sport for Development With Marginalized Young People', Journal of Sport Management, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 369-382.
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Sport for development (SFD) is often used to engage young people in programs that target a range of issues, such as disengagement or marginalization. However, if designed inappropriately, SFD can do more harm than good by reinforcing social divides or past trauma. Consequently, scholars suggest that future research should delve beyond program impacts and examine the importance of safe spaces within SFD programs. In light of this, we explored how program design, delivery, and staffing can impact the creation and maintenance of a safe space and continuity in an SFD program targeting young people and how this can change over time. Adopting an ethnographic approach, findings highlighted how safety and relational continuity was fostered via social networks, support, belonging, and external opportunities. Conversely, instability and discontinuity became an issue with staff departures and participants’ personal difficulties.
Reddacliff, C, Hemsley, B, Smith, R, Dalton, S, Jones, S, Fitzpatrick, A, Given, F, Kelly, J, Lawson, X, Darcy, S, Debono, D, Benfer, K & Balandin, S 2022, 'Examining the Content and Outcomes of Training in Dysphagia and Mealtime Management: A Systematic Review Informing Co-Design of New Training', American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 1535-1552.
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Purpose:
Dysphagia (swallowing difficulty) impacts physical health, quality of life, and mealtime enjoyment. Staff who provide mealtime assistance to people with dysphagia require adequate training to help ensure that the mealtimes are safe and enjoyable. This systematic review examined literature relating to training in dysphagia (e.g., recognizing signs and symptoms) and mealtime assistance, its components, and benefits for people with dysphagia.
Method:
In July 2020, five scientific databases were searched for papers meeting the inclusion criteria relating to mealtime assistance training. The quality of the studies was evaluated using the Quality Assessment Tool for Studies of Diverse Design, with scores ranging from 38.1% to 83.3%. We completed a qualitative synthesis using the data extracted from the included studies.
Results:
Twenty-four studies met the inclusion criteria. Participants in these studies benefited from both group training and one-on-one training. Training programs had many formats including computer-based, face-to-face, individual training, and group training. Each included study demonstrated some level of positive impact to the learners, such as improved knowledge and skills in mealtime management for people with dysphagia. No studies reported negative outcomes. Training duration ranged from 30 min to 5 days.
Conclusions:
The benefits of different components of mealtime training (e.g., group training, or face-to-face training) for mealtime assistance for people with dysphagia were reviewed. Further research is needed to compare the effectiveness of diffe...
Reihlen, M, Habersang, S & Nikolova, N 2022, 'Realist Inquiry', pp. 55-77.
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Reihlen, M, Habersang, S & Nikolova, N 2022, 'Realist Inquiry', pp. 1-23.
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Richards, J, Spanjaard, D, O’Shea, M & Garlin, F 2022, 'The changing carnival: reimagining and recreating the match-day experience in multi-purpose stadiums', Journal of Sport & Tourism, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 269-284.
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Rosales, V, Gaim, M, Berti, M & Pina e Cunha, M 2022, 'The rubber band effect: Managing the stability-change paradox in routines', Scandinavian Journal of Management, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 101194-101194.
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Roxas, B 2022, 'Eco‐innovations of firms: A longitudinal analysis of the roles of industry norms and proactive environmental strategy', Business Strategy and the Environment, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 515-531.
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Roxas, HB & Marte, R 2022, 'Effects of institutions on the eco-brand orientation of millennial consumers: a social cognitive perspective', Journal of Consumer Marketing, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 93-105.
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Purpose
Given the lucrative millennial or generation Y market across the globe, this study aims to draw on social cognitive and institutional theories to tease out the crucial roles of regulatory and social pressures in shaping the eco-brand orientation of millennial consumers. The study focuses on millennials from a developing country – a context that is less explored in the literature on the social and institutional perspectives of green consumer behaviour.
Design/methodology/approach
Using data from a survey of 354 millennial consumers in the Philippines, the authors tested the hypotheses on the effects of two types of institutional pressures (social and regulatory) on the key constructs espoused by social cognitive theory. The authors followed the partial least square approach to path analysis to determine the significant empirical relationships and linkages of the constructs contained in the proposed model.
Findings
The results highlight the significant influence of the social-institutional environment on the internal drivers of millennials' orientation towards green or environmentally sustainable brands.
Research limitations/implications
Although the sample size has generalisability-related constraints, the findings extend the current understanding of green millennial consumer behaviour from a social cognitive perspective by highlighting the role of institutions – a concept that is less explored in the marketing and consumer behaviour literature.
Practical implications
It provides valuab...
Sameti, A 2022, 'The missing link in the evolution of product design: a strategy roadmap towards product development success', Journal of Product & Brand Management, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 899-937.
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Purpose
The literature on product design/development (PD) has attempted to understand the consumer but has not provided a comprehensive framework for product marketers and designers. Thus, this paper aims to compile and link the main topics in the literature on PD to create a foundation for strategic development in this field.
Design/methodology/approach
This research adopted a “fit-for-purpose” methodology, a cross-referencing method and a meta-narrative approach that are appropriate for reviewing studies in a field involving complex topics and areas in which the literature is still developing.
Findings
To enhance the quality of product development, there is a need for PD strategy based on a clear understanding of many factors: the consumer; the complex interrelations among a product’s values, dimensions and personalities; PD theories; and other related variables.
Practical implications
This study found that PD studies should concentrate more on codifying strategies to enhance product development success. This is particularly important in view of consumers’ varied and changeable tastes in the global market and the differing insights of product marketers and designers.
Originality/value
This comprehensive systematic review is a unique study that contributes to future business-to-consumer and business-to-business research by compiling scattered and hidden strategies, theories and variables in the PD/development literature.
Sameti, A, Koslow, S & Mashhady, A 2022, 'Are product design researchers and practitioners on the same page? The way professional product designers view creative design', Journal of Product & Brand Management, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 951-970.
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PurposeThis paper aims to explore professional product designers’ views on creative design and to compare their viewpoints with the related academic literature on product marketing.Design/methodology/approachTo find the designers’ views on creative design, face-to-face in-depth interviews based on repertory grid analysis and semi-structured questions were conducted with 32 professional and award-wining product designers who mostly design for international producers.FindingsAlthough marketing scholars often approach design as a noun – something that can be viewed and analysed as a bundle of attributes, dimensions or characteristics – professional designers view design differently. To them, design is a verb, a problem-solving process through which they meet the challenges consumers have with products. Comparing professional product designers’ views on design creativity with the main topics in the product marketing literature places scholars’ dispositionalism against designers’ situationalism; it also enables marketing scholars to improve their viewpoints on product design and to bring practical problem-solving and design thinking into their research. This also increases mutual understanding between marketers and designers.Research limitations/implicationsThis research enhances the knowledge of marketing scholars, marketers and designers about each other’s perspectives on product design creativity, which will improve their mutual understanding and the business-to-business relationship between marketers and designers.Originali...
Sankaran, S, Clegg, S, Müller, R & Drouin, N 2022, 'Energy justice issues in renewable energy megaprojects: implications for a socioeconomic evaluation of megaprojects', International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 701-718.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate and discuss stakeholder issues faced by renewable energy megaprojects and in particular solar and wind power projects and their relevance to socioeconomic evaluation of megaprojects.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses secondary data collected from the recent literature published on stakeholder issues face by mega solar and wind power energy generation projects around the world. The issues are then analysed across specific challenges in five continents where these projects are being developed. The paper then focuses on the literature on energy justice to elaborate the type of issues being faced by renewable energy megaprojects contributing to the achievement of UN Sustainable Goal 7 and their impact on vulnerable communities where these projects are situated.FindingsRenewable energy megaprojects are rarely discussed in the project management literature on megaprojects despite their size and importance in delivering sustainable development goals. While these projects provide social benefits they also create issues of justice due to their impact of vulnerable populations living is locations where these projects are situated. The justice issues faced include procedural justice, distributive justice, recognition inequalities. The type of justice issues was found to vary intensity in the developed, emerging and developing economies. It was found that nonprofit organisations are embarking on strategies to alleviate energy justice issues in innovative ways. It was also found that, in some instances, smaller local projects developed with community participation could actually contribute more equitable to the UN sustainable development goals avoidi...
Sarkar, S, Kedas, S & Clegg, SR 2022, 'Categorizing and Crowdfunding Vegan Ventures: An Empirical Enquiry on Nascent Market Categories', Academy of Management Proceedings, vol. 2022, no. 1.
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Schlenker, K, Foley, C & Edwards, D 2022, ''It's More Than Sales!' Reexamining Exhibitor Motivations: Insights from the Conference Sector', Event Management, vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 1785-1800.
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Conference exhibitors are important stakeholders in the business events sector. Yet, industry professionals such as conference organizers, convention bureau, and convention centers have limited understanding of the needs and motivations of exhibitors at conferences. Research on exhibitor
motivations in the business events sector has largely focused on exhibitions and trade shows and neglected motivations for exhibiting at conferences. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to address this gap: to determine the motivations of conference exhibitors. The article presents findings
from semistructured interviews with 26 exhibitors from four conferences held in Sydney, Australia, representing four industry sectors—medical, engineering, technology, and community services. Surprisingly, sales were not a primary motivation for conference exhibitors. Conference exhibitors
are motivated to contribute to their respective industry sectors through sharing knowledge and information, building relationships, and building brand reputation within the industry space.
Schmidthuber, L, Hilgers, D & Randhawa, K 2022, 'Public crowdsourcing: Analyzing the role of government feedback on civic digital platforms', Public Administration, vol. 100, no. 4, pp. 960-977.
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Schulenkorf, N, Sherry, E, Siefken, K, Tauhalaliku, U & Richards, J 2022, 'Health interventions as vehicles for increased sport participation for women and girls: Socio-managerial insights from a Netball-for-Development Program in Tonga', Journal of Sport for Development, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 25-39.
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Against the background of ever-rising non-communicable disease rates, an area that has received increased attention from sport-for-development practitioners and academics is sport-for-health (SFH). SFH projects attempt to contribute to the development of healthy lifestyle behavior and physically active societies through sport-related programs and interventions. The purpose of this paper was to explore the socio-managerial challenges and opportunities of a netball-based SFH program in Tonga. Based on local focus group and interview data, findings were grouped under five overarching themes: strategic management of volunteer network, sociocultural barriers, public space management, events and tournaments as incentives, and collaboration across local and national sports. In discussing these findings in context, we provide implications for managing culturally sensitive SFH projects in the Pacific region and beyond.
Schweinsberg, S 2022, 'The epistemic authority of tourism academics', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 93, pp. 103351-103351.
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Schweinsberg, S, Sharpley, R & Darcy, S 2022, 'Competitive positioning of tourism academic knowledge', Tourism Management, vol. 91, pp. 104502-104502.
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Seremani, T, Farias, C & Clegg, S 2022, 'New Order and Old Institutions: South Africa and the institutional work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission', Organization Studies, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 573-593.
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The paper contributes to literatures on settlements and institutional maintenance work. It does so by unpacking post-settlement legitimation efforts required to maintain contentious institutions between previously conflicting actors. Settlements often necessitate the maintenance of institutions from the past whose legitimacy is dubious for the new regime. We study the role played by South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in re-legitimating and maintaining the institution of the armed forces in the transition from apartheid to democracy. Maintaining this legitimacy required collaboration between the incoming government as well as the apartheid era armed forces. We term these unexpected collaborative efforts ‘reluctant accommodation work’. Our findings show that the lines of allegiance may be more fluid than currently depicted in the literature. Actors that previously conflicted need to find an interest in collaborating in their efforts to shape central institutions. Second, we show that for settlements to shape the field, they need to agree on the terms of collaboration, what we term ‘passage points’, as well as engage in public ceremonies to broadly legitimate the settlement and the institution it seeks to preserve.
Shaikh, I & Randhawa, K 2022, 'Managing the risks and motivations of technology managers in open innovation: Bringing stakeholder-centric corporate governance into focus', Technovation, vol. 114, pp. 102437-102437.
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Shan, Y & Wright, S 2022, 'Editorial', Australian Accounting Review, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 3-4.
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Shi, S, Zhang, H & Zhang, J 2022, 'The impact of a home purchase restrictions (HPR) policy on the distressed property market in Beijing', Journal of Housing Economics, vol. 58, pp. 101877-101877.
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Distressed property sales, which are carried out under court order by online auction, have increased rapidly in China in recent years. We examine how the implementation of home purchase restrictions (HPR) by the Chinese government in 2017 has affected the market for distressed properties in Beijing. We first use a stylized second-price auction model to derive theoretical predictions for how HPR should impact the number of auction entrants, auction prices/premia, and auction bidders’ average willingness to pay. We then test those predictions using data on court sales from the Taobao online auction platform from 2015 to 2018. By comparing legal auctions of housing before and after April 2017, we obtain empirical results consistent with the model's predictions. Specifically, our analysis documents that auction entrants fell by approximately 70% and auction premia by 16%–27% after the HPR policy was implemented. Furthermore, the average bidder's willingness to pay relative to the seller's valuation fell from 80% to 40%, which suggests that bidders who were affected by HPR had higher valuations, on average, than bidders who weren't.
Shrivastava, A, Tolani, K, Pugalia, S & Jain, G 2022, 'Decoding unethical youth buying behaviour: fair trade and unfair means', International Journal of Business and Globalisation, vol. 32, no. 2/3, pp. 287-287.
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Siminski, P & Yetsenga, R 2022, 'Specialization, Comparative Advantage, and the Sexual Division of Labor', Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 851-887.
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Simpson, AV, Rego, A, Berti, M, Clegg, S & Pina e Cunha, M 2022, 'Theorizing compassionate leadership from the case of Jacinda Ardern: Legitimacy, paradox and resource conservation', Leadership, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 337-358.
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During times of suffering such as that inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, compassion expressed by leaders helps to ease distress. Doing so, those in a position to provide resources that might facilitate coping and recovery are attentive to the situations of distress. Despite an abundance of leadership theorizing and models, there still is little academic literature on compassionate leadership. To address this limitation, we present an exploratory case study of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, someone widely recognized for her compassionate leadership and frequently described in paradoxical terms (e.g. ‘kind and strong’; embodying ‘steel and compassion’). We address her compassionate leadership through the lenses of paradox theory, legitimacy theory and conservation of resources theory. We contribute a heuristic framework that sees various types of legitimacy leveraged synergistically to build resources and alleviate suffering – providing further legitimacy in an upward spiral of compassionate leadership.
Singh, S & Jang, S 2022, 'Search, purchase, and satisfaction in a multiple-channel environment: How have mobile devices changed consumer behaviors?', Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, vol. 65, pp. 102200-102200.
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© 2020 The rapid adoption of smartphones and increasing reliance on the mobile Internet is influencing consumers’ shopping behavior with traditional Internet devices (e.g., desktop and laptop computers) and in stores. This research examines the effects of consumer perceptions of channels (i.e., mobile devices, computers, and offline stores) on their choices of search channels, purchase channel, and satisfaction level with the purchase channel. Using survey data from a sample of U.S. consumers, we find supplemental effects of mobile devices on computers do not alter the traditional substitution relationship between computers and stores during the search. The cross-channel effects indicate that perceived purchase benefits and costs of stores affect the purchase channel selection of mobile devices and computers, respectively. Satisfaction levels were highest when purchases were made on mobile devices. The insights from this study can help managers increase the effectiveness of advertising in different media and target distinct segments of consumers who rely on multiple channels for search and purchase.
Sousa, M, Cunha, MPE, Simpson, AV, Giustiniano, L, Rego, A & Clegg, S 2022, 'ServusorPater?How Paradoxical Intent Can Qualify Leadership: Inductions from the Kingdom of Bhutan', Journal of Change Management, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 321-353.
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Stacey, M, Fitzgerald, S, Wilson, R, McGrath-Champ, S & Gavin, M 2022, 'Teachers, fixed-term contracts and school leadership: toeing the line and jumping through hoops', Journal of Educational Administration and History, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 54-68.
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Stacey, M, Wilson, R & McGrath-Champ, S 2022, 'Triage in teaching: the nature and impact of workload in schools', Asia Pacific Journal of Education, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 772-785.
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Su, J, Pham, TD & Dwyer, L 2022, 'Political relations and bilateral tourism demand: The case of China and Japan', International Journal of Tourism Research, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 337-346.
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Taylor, SL & Tong, A 2022, 'How Important Are Semi-Annual Earnings Announcements? An Information Event Perspective'.
Tyma, B, Dhillon, R, Sivabalan, P & Wieder, B 2022, 'Understanding Accountability in Blockchain Systems', Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 1625-1655.
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Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine how accountability is constructed for blockchain systems. With the aim of increasing knowledge on accountability across three different types of blockchains (public, private and consortium), the researchers ask: how do blockchain systems construct accountability?
Design/methodology/approach
This study draws on theorising in the accountability literature to study how blockchains relate to our construction and understanding of accountability. A qualitative field study of the Australian blockchain technology landscape is conducted, with insights garnered from 18 blockchain experts.
Findings
Findings reveal that different types of blockchains employ different forms and mechanisms of accountability and in novel ways previously less acknowledged in the literature. Importantly, this study finds that accountability does not require a principal–agent relation and can still manifest in less pure applications of blockchain technology across a wide range of stakeholders, contrary to that espoused in earlier exhortations of blockchain use in interdisciplinary literature. This study also finds that similar subtypes of accountability operate very differently across public, private and consortium blockchains and there exists an inverse relation between trust and consensus building through transparency as blockchains progress from public to private types. Overall, this study offers novel explanations for the relevance of greater accountability in blockchains, especially when the assumptions of public blockchains are softened and applied as private and consortium blockchains.
Originality/value
This study contributes to the accountability literature by addressing how different blockchain systems reshape the understanding of traditional accounting and accountability practices. This study questions the very need for a principal–agent relation to facilitate accountability and offers an additional perspective to how trust and transpare...
Veal, AJ & Piracha, A 2022, 'Meeting the need for a rational basis for open space and recreation planning in new high density residential areas: the Recreational Activity Benchmark model', Australian Planner, vol. 58, no. 1-2, pp. 63-68.
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Veal, AJ & Sivan, A 2022, 'Holding governments to account for leisure rights: a collaborative research agenda', World Leisure Journal, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 205-220.
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Verhoeven, D, Musial, K, Hambusch, G, Ghannam, S & Shashnov, M 2022, 'Net effects: examining strategies for women’s inclusion and influence in ASX200 company boards', Applied Network Science, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-26.
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AbstractConventional approaches to improving the representation of women on the boards of major companies typically focus on increasing the number of women appointed to these positions. We show that this strategy alone does not improve gender equity. Instead of relying on aggregate statistics (“headcounts”) to evaluate women’s inclusion, we use network analysis to identify and examine two types of influence in corporate board networks: local influence measured by degree centrality and global influence measured by betweenness centrality and k-core centrality. Comparing board membership data from Australia’s largest 200 listed companies in the ASX200 index in 2015 and 2018 respectively, we demonstrate that despite an increase in the number of women holding board seats during this time, their agency in terms of these network measures remains substantively unchanged. We argue that network analysis offers more nuanced approaches to measuring women’s inclusion in organizational networks and will facilitate more successful outcomes for gender diversity and equity.
Vesal, M, Siahtiri, V & O'Cass, A 2022, 'Do senior managers hold the keys to unlock innovation and environmental sustainability?', Industrial Marketing Management, vol. 103, pp. 83-96.
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Virmani, N, Agarwal, S, Raut, RD, Paul, SK & Mahmood, H 2022, 'Adopting net-zero in emerging economies', Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 321, pp. 115978-115978.
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Wang, J 2022, 'Market distraction and near-zero daily volatility persistence', International Review of Financial Analysis, vol. 80, pp. 102022-102022.
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Wearing, SL, Porter, D, Wearing, J & McDonald, M 2022, 'Exploring adolescent computer gaming as leisure experience and consumption: some insights on deviance and resistance', Leisure Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 28-41.
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Whales, L, Frawley, S, Cohen, A & Nikolova, N 2022, 'We are a team of leaders: practicing leadership in professional sport', Sport Management Review, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 476-500.
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Whyte, J, Naderpajouh, N, Clegg, S, Matous, P, Pollack, J & Crawford, L 2022, 'Project leadership: A research agenda for a changing world', Project Leadership and Society, vol. 3, pp. 100044-100044.
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Williamson, J & Hassanli, N 2022, 'Sharing, Caring, Learning: Role of Local Food in Domestic Trips', Tourism Analysis, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 107-111.
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Due to the social, economic, and environmental benefits of tourists' consumption of local food, national and local governments have developed specific strategies targeting food tourists. However, food tourists are not a homogenous group, with the importance of including local food within
domestic trips varying between them. As domestic tourists are a key market for regional destinations, their motivations to purchase local food was initially examined in this study and four dimensions were identified: Culture; Interpersonal; Health & Taste; Emotion. Next, a conceptual model
that identifies factors that influence the centrality of local food experiences in domestic trips was empirically tested. Results highlight that high-centrality local food tourists are motivated by opportunities where they can develop social relationships with friends, family, local food enterprises,
and community. Satisfaction with previous local food experiences was also found to be a predictor. The discussion provides theoretical and managerial implications with avenues for further research highlighted.
Williamson, J, Hassanli, N & Grabowski, S 2022, 'OzNomads: a case study examining the challenges of COVID-19 for a community of lifestyle travellers', Current Issues in Tourism, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 232-246.
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Wright, CEF 2022, 'Above board? Interlocking directorates and corporate contagion in 1980s Australia', Australian Economic History Review, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 290-312.
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Wright, CEF 2022, 'Australian Economic History: Transformations of an Interdisciplinary Field'.
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Yan, L & Murray, KB 2022, 'The motivational dynamics of arousal and values in promoting sustainable behavior: A cognitive energetics perspective', International Journal of Research in Marketing.
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Yates, M, Perry, L, Onyx, J & Levett-Jones, T 2022, '‘Grey nomad’ travellers’ use of remote health services in Australia: a qualitative enquiry of hospital managers’ perspectives', BMC Health Services Research, vol. 22, no. 1.
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Abstract
Background
For more than the last two decades, older Australians travelling domestically in self-sufficient accommodation and recreational vehicles for extended periods of time have been referred to as ‘Grey Nomads’. By 2021 more than 750,000 such recreational vehicles were registered in Australia. Tourism data for the year to September 2017 show 11.8 million domestic camping and caravanning trips in Australia, 29% of which were people aged 55 and over. As the ‘baby boomer’ generation increasingly comes to retirement, the size of this travelling population is growing. This term applies to the spike in birth rates after World War II from 1946–1964. This growing group of domestic travellers are potential healthcare consumers in remote areas but relatively little is known about their travel, healthcare needs or care seeking practices. Grey nomads have been described as reflective of the age-comparable sector of the Australian population in that many live with chronic illness. Early concerns were raised that they may “burden” already stretched rural and remote healthcare services but relatively little is known about the impact of these travellers.
Methods
The aim of this study was to explore the utilisation of healthcare services in remote locations in Australia by grey nomads including women travellers, from the perspective of healthcare professionals working in these settings. The study objective was to interview healthcare professionals to seek their experience and details of service delivery to grey nomads.
In March 2020 [prior to state border closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic] a field study was conducted to identify the impact of grey nomads on healthcare services in remote New South Wales and Queensland. A qua...
Yerbury, H, Darcy, S, Burridge, N & Almond, B 2022, 'Are we talking the same language? Contestable discourses between university staff accommodating students with disability', Disability & Society, pp. 1-21.
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This study challenges the claim that in a university, a discourse of containment is predominant in the relationships that exist around students with disability and their requests for accommodations. It explores the work knowledges of those involved with the implementation of the processes of granting learning accommodations: the disability services staff and the academic staff liaison officers. Innovative analytical techniques were applied to interview data that identify the lexicons used by each group indicating they had different ways of conceptualising the process, with the former focussing on the development of the documentation that would stand as surrogate for the student and the latter concerned with tricky processes of negotiation with teaching staff, and problems arising from insufficient funding. These distinct work knowledges indicate the ‘messiness’ that predominates in the process of ensuring that students with disability can study ‘on the same basis’ as others.
Yerbury, H, Darcy, S, Burridge, N & Almond, B 2022, 'Bringing order or creating exclusion: systems for managing disability in a university', Journal of Documentation, vol. 78, no. 3, pp. 529-545.
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PurposeClassification schemes make things happen. The Australian Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), which derives its classification system from the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), legislates for adjustments to support the inclusion of people with disability. This study explores how students with disability enrolled in a university experience the systems intended to facilitate their studying “on the same basis” as students without disability.Design/methodology/approachThrough an online questionnaire and interviews comprising open and closed questions made available to students registered with the disability services unit of a university and follow-up interviews with a small number of students, students’ views of their own disability and effects on their participation in learning were gathered, alongside reports of their experiences of seeking support in their learning. Interview data and responses to open-ended questions were analysed using a priori and emergent coding.FindingsThe findings demonstrate that students are aware of the workings of the classification scheme and that most accept them. However, some students put themselves outside of the scheme, often as a way to exercise autonomy or to assert their “ability”, while others are excluded from it by the decisions of academic staff. Thus, the principles of fairness and equity enshrined in legislation and policy are weakened.Originality/valueThrough the voices of students with disability, it is apparent that, even though a student's classification according to the DDA and ...
Zhang, SX, Batra, K, Xu, W, Liu, T, Dong, RK, Yin, A, Delios, AY, Chen, BZ, Chen, RZ, Miller, S, Wan, X, Ye, W & Chen, J 2022, 'Mental disorder symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America – a systematic review and meta-analysis', Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, vol. 31.
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Abstract
Aims
There is a lack of evidence related to the prevalence of mental health symptoms as well as their heterogeneities during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Latin America, a large area spanning the equator. The current study aims to provide meta-analytical evidence on mental health symptoms during COVID-19 among frontline healthcare workers, general healthcare workers, the general population and university students in Latin America.
Methods
Bibliographical databases, such as PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, PsycINFO and medRxiv, were systematically searched to identify pertinent studies up to August 13, 2021. Two coders performed the screening using predefined eligibility criteria. Studies were assigned quality scores using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. The double data extraction method was used to minimise data entry errors.
Results
A total of 62 studies with 196 950 participants in Latin America were identified. The pooled prevalence of anxiety, depression, distress and insomnia was 35%, 35%, 32% and 35%, respectively. There was a higher prevalence of mental health symptoms in South America compared to Central America (36% v. 28%, p < 0.001), in countries speaking Portuguese (40%) v. Spanish (30%). The pooled prevalence of mental health symptoms in the general population, general healthcare workers, frontline healthcare workers and students in Latin America was 37%, 34%, 33% and 45%, respectively.
Zhang, SX, Miller, SO, Xu, W, Yin, A, Chen, BZ, Delios, A, Dong, RK, Chen, RZ, McIntyre, RS, Wan, X, Wang, S & Chen, J 2022, 'Meta-analytic evidence of depression and anxiety in Eastern Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic', European Journal of Psychotraumatology, vol. 13, no. 1.
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Zhou, Y, Wang, X, Dong, RK, Pu, R & Yue, X-G 2022, 'Natural resources commodity prices volatility: Evidence from COVID-19 for the US economy', Resources Policy, vol. 78, pp. 102895-102895.
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