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.
Akter, S, Dwivedi, YK, Sajib, S, Biswas, K, Bandara, RJ & Michael, K 2022, 'Algorithmic bias in machine learning-based marketing models', Journal of Business Research, vol. 144, pp. 201-216.
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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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Commodities are the most volatile markets, and forecasting their volatility is an issue of paramount importance. We examine the dynamics of commodity markets volatility by employing three typical long-memory models: fractional integrated generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic (FIGARCH), fractional stochastic volatility (FSV), and heterogeneous autoregressive (HAR) models. Based on a high-frequency futures price dataset of 22 commodities, we confirm that the volatility of commodity markets is rough, and volatility components over different horizons are economically and statistically significant. Long memory with anti-persistence is evident across all commodities, with weekly volatility dominating in most commodity markets and daily volatility for oil and gold markets. HAR models display a clear advantage in forecasting performance compared to the two other models for short horizons, while fractional volatility models yield comparative better forecasts for longer horizons.
Ali, I, Arslan, A, Chowdhury, M, Khan, Z & Tarba, SY 2022, 'Reimagining global food value chains through effective resilience to COVID-19 shocks and similar future events: A dynamic capability perspective', Journal of Business Research, vol. 141, pp. 1-12.
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Aliyev, N & He, X 2022, 'Ambiguous Price Formation', Journal of Mathematical Economics, vol. 106, p. 102842.
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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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Energy demand in Bangladesh is consistently rising due to the country's rapid population growth and economic expansion. As a result, solar energy holds substantial potential in the Bangladeshi energy portfolio. This study aims to identify and evaluate the key drivers behind the sustainable development of solar energy in Bangladesh, an emerging economy in South Asia. We do this by adopting an integrated methodology. First, through a literature review and expert feedback, we identify 12 drivers of solar energy development. We then employ the best-worst method (BWM) to rank the drivers based on their significance and use the ISM-MICMAC to analyze the interrelationships among them. The findings indicate that favourable geographical location in terms of solar irradiation, government policy toward sustainable renewable energy, the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and large bodies of water constitute the most significant drivers behind the sustainable development of solar energy in Bangladesh. This research is expected to contribute to the literature on sustainable solar energy development in a systematic way that can benefit both decision-makers and end-users.
Anker, TB, Gordon, R & Zainuddin, N 2022, 'Consumer-dominant social marketing: a definition and explication', European Journal of Marketing, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 159-183.
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PurposeThe emerging consumer-dominant logic of marketing captures consumers’ active and primary role in a range of mainstream marketing processes such as branding, product development and sales. However, consumers’ active role in driving pro-social behaviour change has not yet received close attention. The purpose of this paper is to introduce and explore consumer dominance in social marketing. The authors propose a definition of consumer-dominant social marketing (CDSM) and explicate five key elements which underpin the phenomenon.Design/methodology/approachThis conceptual study offers an analysis informed by exemplars with significant representations of consumer-dominant pro-social behaviours and projects. The methodological approach is characterised as “envisioning conceptualisation”, which is explained in terms of MacInnis’ (2011) framework for conceptual approaches in marketing.FindingsAs a phenomenon, CDSM operationalises the following elements: power, agency, resources, value and responsibility. The authors demonstrate how these elements are interconnected and define their meaning, significance and implications in the context of social marketing and pro-social behaviour change. The authors also identify this new form of social marketing as existing on a continuum depending on the level of involvement or dominance of the consumer and of social marketers; at one end of this continuum, exclusive CDSM is entirely consumer-driven and does not engage with businesses or organisations, while on the other end, inclusive CDSM encompasses partnership with external stakeholders to achieve pro-social behaviour change.Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 141, pp. 104387-104387.
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We analyze trading in a modified continuous double auction market. We study how more or less information about trading in a prior round affects allocative and informational efficiency. We find that more information reduces allocative efficiency in early rounds relative to less information but that the difference disappears in later rounds. Informational efficiency is not affected by the information differences. We complement the experiment with simulations of the Individual Evolutionary Learning model which, after modifications to account for the CDA, seems to fit the data reasonably well.
Anufriev, M, Chernulich, A & Tuinstra, J 2022, 'Asset price volatility and investment horizons: An experimental investigation', Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 193, pp. 19-48.
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We study the effects of the investment horizon on asset price volatility using a Learning to Forecast laboratory experiment. We find that, for short investment horizons, participants coordinate on self-fulfilling trend-extrapolating predictions. Price deviations are then reinforced and amplified, possibly leading to large bubbles and crashes in asset prices. For longer investment horizons such bubbles do not emerge and price volatility tends to be lower. This is due to the fact that, for longer horizons, there is more dispersion in participants’ forecasts, and participants extrapolate trends in past prices to a lesser extent. We also show that, independent of the investment horizon, if the initial history of asset prices is already relatively stable before participants start their prediction task, price volatility remains small, with prices close to their fundamental values for the duration of the experiment.
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 stu...
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 comple...
Bádéjọ́, F, Maclaran, P, Chatzidakis, A, Pettigrew, S, Gordon, R, Spotswood, F & Dibb, S 2022, 'Reflections on some key issues and challenges for marketing for social good', Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 38, no. 11-12, pp. 1203-1217.
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Bádéjọ, FA & Gordon, R 2022, 'See finish! Scunnered!! A vernacular critique of hierarchies of knowledge in marketing', Marketing Theory, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 229-249.
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Our paper presents a critique of how a totalising consumer voice predominates, as does a globalised marketing knowledge. We argue that it is time to release ideas from the marginalised, the unhinged and the peripheral. We feature a fictional dialogue between two characters using vernacular language: Ọmọ Naija, a Pidgin-speaking Yorùbá woman from Nigeria, and Rab, a Glasgow Patter-speaking man from Scotland. The conversation traverses two important areas of critique regarding hierarchies of knowledge in marketing: (1) decolonisation and (2) marginalisation of the vernacular. Our characters draw upon ancient and contemporary thinkers, writers and cultural icons to substantiate their critiques. Our analysis foregrounds how hierarchies of knowledge in marketing serve academic imperialism, an untranslatability of vernacular life and ignore the terroir of everyday existences.
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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Governments worldwide are increasingly focused on promoting innovation activity to generate much needed economic growth. Innovation precincts are seen as providing the strategic opportunity to leapfrog economies and deliver a future competitive advantage. However, there are limited insights into how innovation activity in precincts takes place. In particular, the factors that enable successful innovation precincts, how they are measured and how their locations influence improved economic outcomes. This paper presents an analysis of the important enablers of innovation precincts, with a focus on measuring the relative importance of these enablers and their contribution to innovation and economic outcomes. A novel mixed-methods approach involving the use of a ‘double-blind doubled-scoring’ methodology and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) are applied to score and determine the relative importance of enablers of innovation precincts.
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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We study Dutch and first-price auctions with expectations-based loss-averse bidders and show that the strategic equivalence between these formats no longer holds. Intuitively, as the Dutch auction unfolds, a bidder becomes more optimistic about her chances of winning; this stronger “attachment” effect pushes her to bid more aggressively than in the first-price auction. Thus, Dutch auctions raise more revenue than first-price ones. Indeed, the Dutch auction raises the most revenue among standard auction formats. Our results imply that dynamic mechanisms that make bidders more optimistic raise more revenue, thereby rationalizing the use of descending-price mechanisms by sellers in the field.
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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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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AbstractThis study examines the impact of IFRS 10 adoption on consolidated financial reports. Our evidence suggests that the new standard is associated with firms consolidating fewer subsidiaries and consolidating fewer subsidiaries with non‐majority ownership. The results also indicate that the effects of IFRS 10 adoption are associated with financial reporting incentives. Finally, our results suggest that post‐IFRS 10, the value relevance of equity increased and the value relevance of profit decreased for firms reporting fewer subsidiaries. The findings are of particular interest to accounting standard setters who are currently undertaking their post‐implementation review of the impact of IFRS 10 adoption.
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).
Bedford, DS, Bisbe, J & Sweeney, B 2022, 'The joint effects of performance measurement system design and TMT cognitive conflict on innovation ambidexterity', Management Accounting Research, vol. 57, pp. 100805-100805.
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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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The MJA-Lancet Countdown on health and climate change in Australia was established in 2017 and produced its first national assessment in 2018 and annual updates in 2019, 2020 and 2021. It examines five broad domains: climate change impacts, exposures and vulnerability; adaptation, planning and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co-benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement. In this, the fifth year of the MJA-Lancet Countdown, we track progress on an extensive suite of indicators across these five domains, accessing and presenting the latest data and further refining and developing our analyses. Within just two years, Australia has experienced two unprecedented national catastrophes - the 2019-2020 summer heatwaves and bushfires and the 2021-2022 torrential rains and flooding. Such events are costing lives and displacing tens of thousands of people. Further, our analysis shows that there are clear signs that Australia's health emergency management capacity substantially decreased in 2021. We find some signs of progress with respect to health and climate change. The states continue to lead the way in health and climate change adaptation planning, with the Victorian plan being published in early 2022. At the national level, we note progress in health and climate change research funding by the National Health and Medical Research Council. We now also see an acceleration in the uptake of electric vehicles and continued uptake of and employment in renewable energy. However, we also find Australia's transition to renewables and zero carbon remains unacceptably slow, and the Australian Government's continuing failure to produce a national climate change and health adaptation plan places the health and lives of Australians at unnecessary risk today, which does not bode well for the future.
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, MJM & Patel, V 2022, 'Informed options trading prior to FDA announcements', Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, vol. 49, no. 7-8, pp. 1211-1236.
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AbstractWe 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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Bradbury, M, Fargher, N, Potter, B & Taylor, S 2022, 'Going Concern Uncertainty: What Do Firms Disclose?', Australian Accounting Review, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 294-314.
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AbstractWe examine disclosure of going concern uncertainties by Australian companies. We begin by outlining the extant reporting framework applicable from accounting and auditing standards, and compare the approach to this issue taken across several different countries – Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. We then examine reporting of going concern uncertainties for a selection of 127 Australian companies reporting at 30 June 2020 that also receive modified audit reports highlighting going concern issues. Our results indicate substantial variation in the specific requirements of audit and accounting standards impacting going concern disclosure across jurisdictions, with relevant disclosure guidance for Australian entities primarily contained in auditing, rather than accounting, standards. Not surprisingly then, we also observe significant variation in management reporting practices. These results inform our understanding of existing disclosure requirements and highlight how regulatory reliance on auditor discussion of going concern issues likely results in relatively limited management disclosure. We suggest that additional guidance may be required from accounting standard setters and also regulators with respect to management discussion of going concern uncertainty.
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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AbstractBackgroundMobile 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.ObjectivesThe 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.MethodsA 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 ConclusionsStudents 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.ImplicationsWhen teachers design m‐learning tasks that enhance personalization, collaboration, and authenticity, students are predicted to perceive improvements in their le...
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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Energy efficiency has long been considered a key component of an industrial company's competitive repertoire. However, despite the potential benefits of adopting so-called energy efficiency measures, their uptake in such companies remains low. In response, this study proposes a framework aimed at supporting key decision-makers in undertaking a thorough assessment of energy efficiency measures. This involves, on the one hand, providing a complete characterization of a general industrial energy efficiency measure and, on the other, identifying the multiple impacts stemming from its adoption based on a novel performance measurement system that encompasses sustainability features and is defined at the shop floor level. Once theoretically validated through literature, the framework is empirically tested with a heterogeneous sample of Italian companies. The preliminary results demonstrate the framework's ability to thoroughly assess energy efficiency measures, highlighting characteristics and impacts that are sometimes considered more critical than energy saving by industrial decision-makers and therefore able to guide the outcome of the adoption decision.
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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The field of entrepreneurship education (EE) is still new, but it is growing very quickly, with potential to strengthen business education, innovation and economies. Only recently has attention been paid to the quality of the research being produced. Building on previous reviews, this paper uses systematic review methodology to search and grade the most recent literature in EE in higher education. This process finds that some high-quality research is being done but much of the field is held back by methodological limitations, including inadequate description of EE programs, heavy reliance on correlational survey designs, common self-selection bias and a paucity of studies able to establish causal effects on entrepreneurial outcomes. A small number (10) of high-quality studies provide evidence of the effectiveness of experiential programs, within university extracurricular programs; and provide a range of findings to inform current EE practice. Gaps for future research and methodological possibilities are outlined, so that EE research can address current weaknesses and fulfil its potential to inform EE, enabling effective teaching and learning and the prospect of long-term educational, economic and social outcomes.
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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AbstractDashboards are commonly used to inform data‐driven decision‐making by multiple stakeholders within and across businesses. The purpose of this article is to show how a comprehensive marketing model, the NBD‐Dirichlet, can be used to construct coherent and integrated dashboards. This is demonstrated using an example that offers practical guidance to practitioners and researchers for incorporating the model into a dashboard and showing how it can enhance visualisation, communication, and decision‐making. The example concerns digital media consumption behaviour, specifically the section choice behaviour of readers of an online magazine. The example demonstrates the utility of the NBD‐Dirichlet model to underpin a marketing management dashboard (RQ1), where model parameters are estimated from unstructured log‐file data (RQ2) using log‐likelihood estimation (RQ4). The example also shows the applicability of the model in analysing a non‐brand attribute, specifically magazine content sections (RQ3). From inspection of graphical and tabular dashboards, it is evident that magazine section content is read by consumers in ways we might expect given the well‐known Double Jeopardy (DJ) pattern of the NBD‐Dirichlet model (RQ5). There is no evidence of change‐of‐pace behavioural loyalty (RQ6), nor niche behavioural loyalty (RQ7). Finally, the article highlights the benefits of the NBD‐Dirichlet in business as not only a tool for underpinning dashboards but also for scenario planning (RQ8).
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, 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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The literature on digitalization and accessibility changes to public transport in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is limited. This paper reports on the urban public transport measures against COVID-19 launched by a Spanish transportation operator, TMB (Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona), to ensure safe journeys where digitalization of services have been intensified. This study responds to the current trend whereby transport operators are quickly digitalizing their transportation services as a response to COVID-19. The outcome of the research is to apply contemporary academic theory to assist transportation managers in designing and enhancing transportation services for this group during the COVID-19 pandemic. While transport operators have improved their services to better address the needs of PwD, these changes are far from universal in approach. At the end of 2020, as part of an academic–industry collaboration with a Spanish transportation operator, 12 PwD, six transport staff members, and two representatives of two disability advocacy associations took part in an inclusive urban transportation research project in the city of Barcelona using the service-dominant (S–D) logic co-creation process with PwD through a comparative approach. Specifically, we assessed the value outcome perceived by PwD in their Metro experience when resources resulting from the co-creation process were digital (Study 1) and when they were a combination of digital and non-digital (Study 2). To examine the PwD experience, a qualitative methodology was employed that incorporated online focus groups, ethnographic techniques and post-experience surveys with participants. Study 2 indicted better outcomes and explained how ensuring the appropriate combination of digital and non-digital resource allocation for PwD can improve the public transport experience. Our findings can be used by public transport policymakers for enhancing accessibility to improve public transport experien...
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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This study develops a vaccine supply chain (VSC) to ensure sustainable distribution during a global crisis in a developing economy. In this study, a multi-objective mixed-integer programming (MIP) model is formulated to develop the VSC, ensuring the entire network’s economic performance. This is achieved by minimizing the overall cost of vaccine distribution and ensuring environmental and social sustainability by minimizing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and maximizing job opportunities in the entire network. The shelf-life of vaccines and the uncertainty associated with demand and supply chain (SC) parameters are also considered in this study to ensure the robustness of the model. To solve the model, two recently developed metaheuristics—namely, the multi-objective social engineering optimizer (MOSEO) and multi-objective feasibility enhanced particle swarm optimization (MOFEPSO) methods—are used, and their results are compared. Further, the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) model has been integrated into the optimization model to determine the best solution from a set of non-dominated solutions (NDSs) that prioritize environmental sustainability. The results are analyzed in the context of the Bangladeshi coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine distribution systems. Numerical illustrations reveal that the MOSEO-TOPSIS model performs substantially better in designing the network than the MOFEPSO-TOPSIS model. Furthermore, the solution from MOSEO results in achieving better environmental sustainability than MOFEPSO with the same resources. Results also reflect that the proposed MOSEO-TOPSIS can help policymakers establish a VSC during a global crisis with enhanced economic, environmental, and social sustainability within the healthcare system.
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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Ciani, E, Delavande, A, Etheridge, B & Francesconi, M 2022, 'Policy Uncertainty and Information Flows: Evidence from Pension Reform Expectations*', The Economic Journal, vol. 133, no. 649, pp. 98-129.
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Abstract We examine how workers’ expectations about pension reform vary with proximity to reforms, information availability and worker characteristics. Using newly collected data, we find that (1) expectations about reform are revised upward by about 10 percentage points in the year prior to a reform, from a median of 50%, regardless of whether the reform is announced; (2) expectations increase more the stronger the media activity about imminent reforms; (3) the effect of information on expectations varies systematically with characteristics that proxy cognitive ability and information value; (4) expectations do not converge as a result of reform announcements or implementations.
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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Collender, S, Gan, B, Sklibosios Nikitopoulos, C, Richards, K-A & Ryan, LS 2022, 'Climate Transition Risk in Sovereign Bond Markets', Global Finance Journal, vol. 57, pp. 100868-100868.
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Is climate transition risk factored into sovereign bond markets? We find that carbon dioxide emissions, natural resources rents, and renewable energy consumption—as measures of transition risk—significantly affect yields and spreads. Countries with lower carbon emissions incur lower borrowing costs. Advanced countries with reduced earnings from natural resources rents and increased renewable energy consumption are associated with lower borrowing costs, which differ from the effects in developing countries. Given the threat that climate change poses to the global economy and the fast materialization of transition risk, we advocate an increase in the significance of climate transition risk factors as determinants in sovereign bond markets.
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...
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, 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.
Dadpour, R & Law, L 2022, 'Understanding the ‘region’ in COVID-19-induced regional migration: mapping Cairns across classification systems', Australian Geographer, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 425-443.
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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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© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All forms of arts participation are likely to lead to positive outcomes, but the nature and reach of these outcomes will differ. While arts programs have increasingly found favor in disability communities, these programs historically have been oriented toward therapeutic outcomes. They have not been taken seriously in terms of artistic outputs, the deeper benefits for participants, or potential wider societal impact. At the same time, there is anecdotal evidence of increasingly sophisticated artistic engagement involving artists with disability that are gaining wider public attention, popularity, and enabling a serious leisure experience for the artist with the opportunity for professional artistic career development. This article demonstrates how disability arts projects enable opportunities for casual leisure, serious leisure, and professional artistic engagement and examines the resultant social impact for each. To do this we investigate the characteristics and outcomes of three projects through an abductive research design involving a comparative qualitative case-based approach.
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.
Docherty, P 2022, 'Responding to Financial Crises: Why Didn’t Keynes Make Greater Use of the Bagehot Principle in the Treatise on Money?', Review of Keynesian Studies, vol. 4, pp. 21-45.
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In the Treatise on Money, Keynes outlines a theory of cycles that includes the case of financially-induced asset price inflation in which banks provide credit to speculators who over-extend themselves. This can lead to bubbles which, after bursting, generate economic downturns. While Keynes has something to say in the Treatise about how central banks ought to respond to the possibility of economic fluctuations, he does not cite Walter Bagehot’s principle of lending freely to solvent banks in a crisis, despite being aware of Bagehot’s analysis in Lombard Street. This paper highlights the surprising nature of this omission on first inspection by comparing the treatment of financial crises in the Treatise with that in Lombard Street, and finding a significant degree of similarity. But it also offers a possible explanation for Keynes’s omission of the Bagehot principle by suggesting that Keynes advocated an alternative that made an appeal to this principle unnecessary. Rather than advocating Bagehot’s prudential policy of accumulating a banking reserve that could be deployed ex post once a crisis occurs, Keynes recommended the ex ante use of monetary policy to prevent crises from occurring in the first place. By maintaining Bank Rate at the natural rate of interest, investment and saving can be kept in balance, which not only leads to stable prices within the theoretical framework of the Treatise, it also makes the trade cycle and financial crises obsolete. A comparison of the policy responses to financial crises in Keynes’s Treatise and Bagehot’s Lombard Street thus raises the question of the respective roles played by prudential regulation and monetary policy in dealing with this phenomenon, a question of enduring relevance.
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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AbstractIncreased attention to environmental sustainability has created pressures to adopt the circular economy (CE) principles. The transition toward CE requires system redesign and business process modification. Embracing disruptive technologies produces several benefits including improved productivity and resource utilization. Thus, organizations become eager to adopt and sustain digital supply chains (DSCs) in globally competitive markets. Additionally, the linkage between DSC with CE and the impact of DSC on organizational performances from the perspective of CE remain unexplored in previous studies. This study aims to develop a framework for DSC adoption from the perspective of CE. The present study recognizes the barriers through literature review and experts' opinions that must be eradicated to attain the objectives of DSCs. In this study, 19 potential barriers to DSCs were identified. A fuzzy best–worst method (BWM) was adopted to prioritize the identified barriers. Further, the study formulates strategies for integrating the CE with DSCs to overcome the barriers. A modified Total Interpretive Structure Model (m‐TISM) was developed to highlight the different levels of suggested strategies. This study contributes to the existing literature by analyzing the identified barriers to DSCs and suggesting overcoming strategies. The integrated methodology assists organizations to develop efficient and integrated strategic measures toward DSC adoption through the application of enhanced knowledge of CE and environmental sustainability. The findings reveal that the “lack of digital skills and facilities” is the most influential barrier in DSC development. Further, the findings indicate that financial and regulatory supports are the primary steps toward a digitalized economy.
Dwyer, L 2022, 'Destination competitiveness and resident well-being', Tourism Management Perspectives, vol. 43, pp. 100996-100996.
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Dwyer, L 2022, 'Tourism contribution to the SDGs: applying a well-being lens', European Journal of Tourism Research, vol. 32, pp. 3212-3212.
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Human well-being is an essential dimension of sustainable development. This implies that an understanding of well-being outcomes and associated indicators is necessary to determine the success of the global tourism industry in meeting the SDG 2030 Agenda. It is argued that assessment of tourism’s progress toward achievement of the SDGs is incomplete without a full accounting of the outcomes of tourism development on human well-being. In addition to standard indicators of tourism industry performance, a ‘well-being lens’ is proposed comprising indicators that inform tourism stakeholders about changes in resident well-being, promoting sustainable development, and enabling a more comprehensive assessment of tourism’s progress in fulfilling each SDG. The implications of this original proposal for tourism participation in the 2030 SDG agenda are highlighted and discussed.
Eckert, C, van Heerde, HJ, Wetzel, HA & Hattula, S 2022, 'Spotlight Personnel: How Hiring and Turnover Drive Service Performance Versus Demand', Journal of Marketing Research, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 797-820.
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In many sectors of the entertainment industry, a few employees attract the public spotlight when performing the core service. For example, in professional team sports, a team of players competes in games, and in TV shows, a cast of artists acts in different episodes. These employees, coined “spotlight personnel,” are an essential but expensive element of ongoing service delivery. Despite their importance and cost, very little is known about how changes in spotlight personnel affect service performance and demand. To address this gap, this article uses unique data on professional German soccer teams, tracking the quantity (number of players) and quality (average transfer price) of spotlight personnel hiring (incoming transfers) and turnover (outgoing transfers), objective service performance (winning percentage), and demand (ticket sales) across four decades, using both traditional and novel time series methods. The results show that service performance and demand are primarily affected by spotlight personnel hiring rather than by turnover. Hiring quantity decreases service performance yet increases demand, whereas hiring quality benefits both service performance and demand. The analysis further uncovers that these effects are subject to dynamic interactions and nonlinearities. Investment scenarios showcase how understanding these effects can substantially improve managerial decision making.
Edwards, D 2022, 'Delegate Views on Face to Face and Online Conference Attendance', International Journal of Business Events and Legacies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-22.
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Research has confirmed that F2F conferences generate significant benefits for destinations, communities, industries and economies. In addition to the immediate economic effect of a contribution to the visitor economy of the destination, F2F conferences build knowledge economies and networks, driving industry innovation and trade and investment. There has also been significant criticism of F2F conferences, particularly in terms of their negative environmental impacts, inequity of accessibility, and the ineffectiveness of traditional event design. The travel barriers associated Covid19 pandemic disrupted F2F conferences and accelerated the global move to online conferencing. While F2F attendance is returning, there is a growing trend for conferences to offer both modes of attendance; the hybrid conference is becoming the norm. Drawing on recent literature and a survey of international delegates, this study explores the advantages and disadvantages of both F2F and online modes of conference attendance and discusses ways in which we might leverage better outcomes from hybrid conferences in order to maximise outcomes for all stakeholders.
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.
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 recommende...
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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In many contexts people can choose how many charities to help. This paper presents results from a laboratory experiment that varies whether the subjects have a choice in the number of charities to donate to and whether they are given an option to opt out. We find that the choice increases donation frequency, but does not influence donation amounts. If the choice also includes the opt-out option, there is no increase in the donation frequency or amount.
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.
Ferguson, A, Hu, W & Lam, P 2022, 'Political uncertainty and deal structure: Evidence from Australian mining project acquisitions', Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, vol. 73, pp. 101756-101756.
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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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Drawing on both sociological and consumer behaviour literature, this study explores the influence of territorial geographic boundaries on shaping localized football preferences. Survey responses of 16,515 Australian metropolitan residents were demarcated to perform analysis across 43 territories, with four football codes analyzed (Australian rules, rugby union, rugby league and soccer). Preferences were evaluated utilizing chi-square tests, with football interest in Sydney found to vary significantly across territorial boundaries. Territories associated with a highly localized team typically exhibited higher interest toward their respective sport, with the inverse found in deterritorialized regions. Although most sport teams have a city based identity, consumer interest can vary widely within such cities. Given that teams typically retain one venue, they must therefore be conscious of maximising their physical availability across a desired population catchment. The findings support the theorized positive relationship between physical product availability and product popularity in a sport setting. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2020.1807953.
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 & Weatherall, R 2022, 'Domestic violence and work: setting a workplace agenda', Labour and Industry, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 339-348.
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Gavin, M, Fitzgerald, S & McGrath-Champ, S 2022, 'From marketising to empowering: Evaluating union responses to devolutionary policies in education', Economic and Labour Relations Review, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 80-99.
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Major reforms in education, globally, have focused on increased accountability and devolution of responsibility to the local school level to improve the efficiency and quality of education. While emerging research is considering implications of these changed governance arrangements at both a school and system level, little attention has been afforded to teacher union responses to devolutionary reform, despite teaching being a highly union-organised profession and the endurance of decentralising-style reforms in education for over 40 years. Drawing upon a power resources approach, this article examines union responses in cases of devolutionary reform in a populous Australian state. Through analysing evolving policy discourse, from anti-bureaucratic, managerialising rhetoric to a ‘post-bureaucratic, empowerment’ agenda, this article contributes to understandings of union power for resisting decentralising, neoliberal policy agendas by exposing the limits of public sector unions mobilising traditional power resources and arguing for strengthening of discursive and symbolic power. JEL Code: J5.
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.
Gavin, M, Poorhosseinzadeh, M & Arrowsmith, J 2022, 'The transformation of work and employment relations: COVID-19 and beyond', Labour and Industry, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 1-9.
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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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AbstractWe develop two models for index futures arbitrage that take the financing constraints faced by real‐world arbitrageurs into account. Our models predict that the price of an index futures contract and the value of its underlying index should deviate further from their theoretical cost‐of‐carry relationship when (a) the contract has a long time to go before expiry, and (b) volatility is high. The fact that these predictions enjoy considerable empirical support highlights the importance of financing constraints for explaining index futures mispricing.
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', The European Journal of Finance, vol. 29, no. 18, pp. 2075-2106.
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We formulate a continuous-time model of a deposit taking bank, operating subject to capital adequacy regulation, and where the bank's loans are exposed to default risk. The bank maximises its market value of equity by appropriately controlling loan and equity issuance, dividend payments, and endogenous closure. Of interest to regulators, we show how the bank responds to the span of capital adequacy requirements and to changes in default variance. We find a nonmonotonic response of bank lending to increased capital requirements (initially increasing and then decreasing). We also find that the probability of early closure (through either insolvency or endogenous closure) can be minimised for a well-chosen capital adequacy ratio. Moreover, the level of capital requirement that minimises the probability of early closure and maximises lending is fairly robust to changes in the bank's default variance/risk; contributing to the ongoing discussion on optimal bank capital.
Goldsmith, R, Havery, C, Edwards, E, James, N, Murphy, A, Mort, P, Nixon, D, O'Donoghue, G, Yang, JS & Yeo, J 2022, 'A multi-faceted evaluation of the impact on students of an Australian university-wide academic language development program', Journal of English for Academic Purposes, vol. 60, pp. 101192-101192.
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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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This paper examines the potential effect of Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) advertising on consumers’ behavioral intentions in relation to a medical issue. Using an online experiment, 1295 people were randomized to two information conditions. One group watched an advertisement for a hypothetical cold sore medicine, while a second (control) group did not view the advertisement, before both groups answered questions on symptoms. The responses were analyzed based on group allocation and the respondents’ experience with cold sores. Results indicate that those who viewed the advertisement were more likely to choose the product, and the advertisement had larger effects based on consumer experience.
Gordon, R, Bádéjọ́, FA & Gurrieri, L 2022, 'Towards a framework for critical social marketing: what is to be done for emancipation?', Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 38, no. 17-18, pp. 2135-2163.
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Gordon, R, Harada, T & Spotswood, F 2022, 'The body politics of successful ageing in the nexus of health, well-being and energy consumption practices', Social Science & Medicine, vol. 294, pp. 114717-114717.
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Gordon, R, Spotswood, F & Dibb, S 2022, 'Critical social marketing: towards emancipation?', Journal of Marketing Management, vol. 38, no. 11-12, pp. 1043-1071.
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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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SUMMARYThis 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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AbstractCOVID‐19‐related public health measures have severely impacted the Australian higher education system (AHES). This paper examines the resilience of the AHES, particularly its past reliance on onshore international students to generate revenue that cross‐subsidises operational and research expenses. By our measure, ten universities are at risk of financial default. With a different approach on the part of the Government and university leadership, surplus monies could have contributed to building a more resilient AHES. Our findings correct widely held misconceptions about the state of the AHES and aim to provide valuable learnings to individual universities and the sector more broadly.
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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AbstractWe investigate the extent to which corporate reputation risk influences cash holdings for US listed firms over the period 2007–2018. Our results show that firms having a high reputation risk hold significantly more cash. This documented relationship persists even after controlling for other determinants of cash holdings, including corporate social responsibility performance, explicitly. Using a series of analyses, we show that this relationship is not driven by endogeneity problems. Further, we find that the positive relationship between reputation risk and cash holdings is more pronounced for firms with more financing constraints and agency problems, and for growth, mature and shake‐out firms. In an additional test, we show that firms having a low reputation risk are associated with a higher marginal value of cash than are their high reputation risk counterparts. Overall, we provide robust evidence that reputation risk matters for corporate cash holdings.
Hason Rudd, D, Huo, H & Xu, G 2022, 'Improved Churn Causal Analysis Through Restrained High-Dimensional Feature Space Effects in Financial Institutions', Human-Centric Intelligent Systems, vol. 2, no. 3-4, pp. 70-80.
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AbstractCustomer churn describes terminating a relationship with a business or reducing customer engagement over a specific period. Customer acquisition cost can be five to six times that of customer retention, hence investing in customers with churn risk is wise. Causal analysis of the churn model can predict whether a customer will churn in the foreseeable future and identify effects and possible causes for churn. In general, this study presents a conceptual framework to discover the confounding features that correlate with independent variables and are causally related to those dependent variables that impact churn. We combine different algorithms including the SMOTE, ensemble ANN, and Bayesian networks to address churn prediction problems on a massive and high-dimensional finance data that is usually generated in financial institutions due to employing interval-based features used in Customer Relationship Management systems. The effects of the curse and blessing of dimensionality assessed by utilising the Recursive Feature Elimination method to overcome the high dimension feature space problem. Moreover, a causal discovery performed to find possible interpretation methods to describe cause probabilities that lead to customer churn. Evaluation metrics on validation data confirm the random forest and our ensemble ANN model, with %86 accuracy, outperformed other approaches. Causal analysis results confirm that some independent causal variables representing the level of super guarantee contribution, account growth, and account balance amount were identified as confounding variables that cause customer churn with a high degree of belief. This article provides a real-world customer churn analysis from current status inference to future directions in local superannuation funds.
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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Since its emergence in 2008, there has been a growing interest in the meaning of Airbnb to various stakeholders. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, this paper examines the representation of Airbnb in the local newspapers of Sydney communities with the largest share of Airbnb listings. Analysis of these texts revealed a strong message concerning the costs to community and issues related to government regulation. Underlying the themes was a discourse of individual host rights to profit versus community wellbeing. The discourse of the industry as a sharing, welcoming form of hospitality was also evident, as was the persuasive language of technology to create an innovative platform and industry. We question the language used and the inherent meaning, arguing that Airbnb can be seen in many ways to fit the bill of ‘platform capitalism’ and ‘techno-chauvinism’, with the fallout being externalities for the communities in which Airbnb resides.
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.
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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The stakeholder perspective in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature emphasizes the role of CSR in firm value creation and suggests that chief executive officers (CEOs) would be rewarded for higher levels of CSR engagement. In contrast, the agency theory perspective from financial economics considers CSR as a potential executive agency problem for shareholders, suggesting that CEOs would not be incentivized for CSR engagement. The present study addresses this contentious issue by theorizing and examining CEO reputation—based on employee recognition and competence respectively—as important moderators of the CSR–CEO pay relationship, using data on a sample of public companies from 2010 to 2015. Findings show that the nature of the relationship between a firm's CSR engagement and CEO pay is conditional on the level of the CEO's reputation based on employee recognition but not when based on competence. Implications for the literature and for managerial practices are also discussed.
Hoek, J, Gendall, P, Eckert, C, Louviere, J, Ling, P & Popova, L 2022, 'Analysis of on-pack messages for e-liquids: a discrete choice study', Tobacco Control, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 534-542.
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BackgroundPolicymakers wishing to encourage smokers unable to quit to switch to using electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) also need to consider how to deter ENDS use among non-smokers. We examined whether reduced-risk messages could increase ENDS’ appeal among smokers and if increased-risk messages could decrease appeal among susceptible non-smokers, occasional and former smokers.MethodologyAn online discrete choice experiment tested three attributes: information message, nicotine content (0 mg or 3 mg) and flavour (tobacco, menthol or fruit). The sample comprised 352 current smokers, 118 occasional and former smokers, and 216 ENDS-susceptible never smokers. Smokers viewed reduced-risk messages that encouraged switching to ENDS, while other groups viewed increased-risk messages that discouraged ENDS use. All groups saw a typical addiction warning. We analysed the data by estimating multinomial logit regression and adjusted latent class analysis models.ResultsRelative to no message, reduced risk-messages increased the appeal of ENDS uptake among one class of smokers (33.5%) but decreased appeal among other smokers. However, among all smokers, reduced-risk messages increased preference more than a dissuasive addiction warning. By contrast, among occasional or former smokers, and susceptible non-smokers, all information messages discouraging ENDS use, including an addiction warning, decreased preference relative to no message.ConclusionsOn-pack relative-risk messages about ENDS could make transition more attractive to smokers while increased-risk messages could deter ENDS uptake among susceptible non-smokers, occasional and former smokers. Communicating diverse messages via discrete channels could recognise heterogeneity...
Hung, S-C, Lai, J-Y & Liu, JS 2022, 'Mapping technological trajectories as the main paths of knowledge flow: Evidence from printers', Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 863-889.
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AbstractIn this paper, we recognize that technological trajectories can be modeled as a series of problem-solving activities, manifesting the cyclical pattern of divergence–convergence knowledge flow. This recognition is applied to study the technological development of the thermal inkjet print head, using main path analysis and an assignee cross-citation network. Our analysis shows that the thermal inkjet print head experienced three cycles of divergence–convergence knowledge flow. Each of the cycles was evidently characterized by a problem of most concern and a referred solution. Our research contributes to explaining why, when, and how trajectories diverge and converge cyclically.
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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AbstractEmployers reward workers and researchers pay human subjects using different payment mediums. These payment mediums can have various psychological effects on workers/research participants, and thereby influence their effort provision. In this paper, we investigate the effect of payment medium on participants' effort in a lab experiment. We find evidence that payment mediums affect participants' productivity when a fixed payment scheme is used, but not under a performance‐based payment scheme.
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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This study develops an inventory model to solve the problems of supply uncertainty in response to demand which follows a Poisson distribution. A positive aspect of this model is the consideration of random inventory, delivery capacities and supplier's reliability. Additionally, we assume supplier capacity follows an exponential distribution. This inventory model addresses the problem of a manufacturer having an imperfect production system with single supplier and single retailer and considers the quantity of product (Q), reorder points (r) and reliability factors (n) as the decision variables. The main contribution of our study is that we consider supplier may not be able to deliver the exact amount all the time a manufacturer needed. We also consider that the demand and the time interval between successive availability and unavailability of supplier and retailer follows a probability distribution. We use a genetic algorithm to find the optimal solution and compare the results with those obtained from simulated annealing algorithm. Findings reveal the optimal value of the decision variables to maximize the average profit in each cycle. Moreover, a sensitivity analysis was carried out to increase the understanding of the developed model. The methodology used in this study will help manufacturers to have a better understanding of the situation through the joint consideration of disruption of both the supplier and retailer integrated with random capacity and reliability.
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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As sport users continue to evolve, so must the approaches sport organisations take to optimally serve them. From the field of management, design thinking arises as a promising means of pursuing the human-centred generation of value for users. To establish the suitability of design thinking activities for use in sport management practice, we undertook a qualitative case study intervention within a commercial sport organisation. An activity derived from design practice, known as the Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ), met emergent criteria of suitability for adoption in practice. Further, the introduction of the activity linked to themes of design thinking in a manner consistent with previous explorations of design thinking in sport management research and practice. As such, this study builds on nascent but evolving work on design thinking in sport management and carries implications for both fields.
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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We estimate the economic impacts of having your home damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster. Regressions with individual, area and time fixed-effects, indicate that experiencing a natural disaster has no impact on employment and income, but substantial impacts on financial hardship and risk aversion. Impacts are particularly large for smaller isolated disasters, which attract little government support. Conversely, impacts of residing in a disaster zone without experiencing residential destruction are small. Using a Group Fixed Effects estimator, we find predictors of financial vulnerability to destruction include age, parenthood, illness, and social support. These results can help improve the allocation of government assistance after future disasters.
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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AbstractThe circular economy is argued to be a way of organising industrial systems that support resilience through decoupling economic growth from material consumption. Yet, extant research exploring the impacts of circular economy business practices on resilience is nascent, with few studies detailing if and how these practices enable firms, industries and social‐ecological systems to adapt and transform in the face of shocks and disturbances. In this article, we seek to advance research on the circular economy by proposing a research agenda that connects the circular economy to resilience at multiple levels. Based on insights from resilience theory and findings from the limited literature on the circular economy that has considered resilience to date, our research agenda focuses scholarly attention on key areas of congruence and contestation. We posit that pursuit of answers in these areas has the potential for advancing circular economy business practices capable of supporting resilience at multiple levels.
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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We conduct the first dedicated study of absolute income mobility in Australia for the period 1950–2019. Approximately two‐thirds of 30–34‐year‐olds have higher real incomes than their parents did at the same age, and this has been stable for 25 years. This is a high level of mobility among countries where estimates are available. Nevertheless, mobility has declined. Over 80 per cent of baby boomers had higher incomes than their parents. Some two‐thirds of this decline is due to lower income growth. The remainder is due to rising inequality. The mobility estimate is higher (78 per cent) when income is adjusted (equivalised) for family size.
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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The circular economy (CE) concepts have attained great attention to achieve sustainable development goals. However, the implementation of CE requires identifying its drivers and barriers. These drivers and barriers further require identification of the pathways to execute the implementation plan. To address this gap, this study explores the drivers and barriers of CE implementation to evaluate their cause and effect relationships and implementation pathways in the context of the Pakistani manufacturing industry – an emerging economy. The results show that resource efficiency sits at the top of the list of internal drivers. Among the external drivers, support from parent company, social responsibility, and international competition and push appear as equally important drivers of CE. The results on the external barriers show a significant role of all three barriers: lack of government policies, lack of industrial support, and lack of supply chain integration and effects of supply chain complexity. Reduction of cost exhibits its multi-faceted effect on profitability/market share and customer-supplier relationship, and lack of expertise affects profit and market demand level. The study provides valuable guidelines for managers and policymakers to develop strategic approaches for CE adoption and transition manufacturing organizations of emerging and developing economies to sustainability.
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 fo...
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.Originali...
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/...
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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PurposeThis 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/approachThe 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.FindingsWhile 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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The information obfuscation hypothesis states that managers use corporate green practices intentionally to obfuscate or disguise negative information and environmental misbehaviour to extract rents for personal career concerns. In contrast, signalling theory suggests that green-oriented firms deliver a positive signal to the market, favouring “green” investors. Such pro-environmental signals ultimately translate into enhanced financial performance and reduced risk of a price crash. Using Chinese listed firms as the research setting, we further investigate the relationship between corporate green commitment and stock price crash risk. The results show that solid green commitment significantly reduces stock price crash risk. The effect is more pronounced in non-state-owned firms and when the stock market is in a downturn. We also find mediating effects of external governance by institutional investors and media that transmit the impact of green commitment onto price crash risk. Our findings have important implications for corporate resilience against unexpected crises.
Liu, S, Qiu, M & Zhang, S 2022, 'Customer Concentration and Corporate Real Estate Holdings', The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 492-523.
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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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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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Mashhadi Rajabi, M 2022, 'Dilemmas of energy efficiency: A systematic review of the rebound effect and attempts to curb energy consumption', Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 89, pp. 102661-102661.
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Mashhadi Rajabi, M 2022, 'The Rebound Effect Conundrum and the Rationale Behind a Carbon Tax', Sustainability and Climate Change, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 226-230.
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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.
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 successfullymanage to innovate continually. Thus, this article proposes six principles for firms to employto create breakthrough industry-changing innovations and maintain their success afterwards.It proposes the six principles based on the authors multidisciplinary academic backgroundsand their unique experience as delegates on an innovation mission that enabled them to visitand engage with executives from leading firms in the Silicon Valley and Seattle regions. Themission trip enabled the authors to visit many of these firms back-to-back over a short periodof time and also continuously engage with their delegation about what was being learned onthe trip. This, in combination with a review of the academic business literature, enabled theauthors to put together a set of best innovation practices repeatedly employed by thoseleading firms that should be implemented by other businesses looking to innovatecontinually.
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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PurposeThis 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/approachA 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.FindingsAn 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/implicationsAlthough 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 implicationsThe 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.Originalit...
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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Mitchell, R, Shen, Y & Snell, L 2022, 'The future of work: a systematic literature review', Accounting & Finance, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 2667-2686.
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AbstractThis paper provides a systematic review of literature pertaining to the future of work. Since the early 1990s, scholars have been engaged in research to better understand workplace culture change. By conducting a state‐of‐the‐art literature review, we identify the 32 most influential publications in the field that have developed into four distinct categories and we review each of these to identify the main contributions of these research areas. With a highlight on possible pathways for future research, this paper outlines these emerging trends to integrate on existing knowledge and pursue innovative research opportunities to expand the research frontier.
Moktadir, MA, Dwivedi, A & Rahman, T 2022, 'Antecedents for circular bioeconomy practices towards sustainability of supply chain', Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 348, no. -, pp. 131329-131329.
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The current emerging economy of the leather industry is primarily linear Increasingly rigorous legislative specifications for environmental preservation in developed countries have created huge pressure for the leather industry In light of international efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs a circular bioeconomy approach has gained compelling traction in addressing waste management challenges in the leather industry The concept of circular bioeconomy encourages recycling of wastes yielded from leather processing However as of now there is still a lack of research on bioeconomy concepts in the leather industry context Hence the purpose of this study is to put forth the antecedents for circular bioeconomy practices BEP in the leather processing industry LPI along which a firm can enhance its sustainability Seventeen antecedents of BEP have been identified from the extensive literature review and experts survey and their effects on each other are assessed using a blended grey based decision making trial and evaluation laboratory model Four major antecedents such as sustainable infrastructure for leather industry biodiversity advancement in sustainable products sustainability threshold levels for bioeconomy technologies are identified as the most crucial key antecedents for BEP in the context of the LPI In the present study six antecedents are identified as causal whereas eleven antecedents are identified as effect group antecedents The sustainable infrastructure for leather industry is identified as the most crucial driving antecedent in ensuring circular BEP The findings of this study provide a structural decision support model to the industry managers practitioners and relevant stakeholders that assists in knowing the cause and effect group antecedents of BEP towards attaining sustainability in the supply chain 2022 Elsevier Ltd
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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Energy management has been widely considered as an effective means for achieving energy efficiency and sustainable competitiveness in industrial organizations. However, several barriers prevent its diffused implementation. It is thus crucial to assess and evaluate energy management and the corresponding services in the industrial context in order to further promote them. Extent literature has neither defined industrial energy management services adequately, nor developed any models that consider the characterization of energy management services to support industrial decision making. In light of this, our study aims to provide a comprehensive framework to help key industrial decision-makers and policymakers in making better informed decisions regarding the adoption of energy management activities. We accomplish this by explicitly taking into consideration the characteristics of energy management services based on 25 attributes belonging to four categories i.e., implementation, impacted area, impact on production resources and productivity. In addition, we shed further light on the practical implementation of energy management activities by also placing focus on the link between the implications of their adoption on production resources and the subsequent impact on industrial operations. The framework is validated by a sample of selected energy management experts within Australian organizations, followed by an application in an industrial context. The study concludes with suggestions for industrial decision makers and an outlook on further research avenues.
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.
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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During the construction and operation phases, infrastructure projects face social unrest, such as community protests, boycotting of services as well as negative press reports of these events and other aspects of the project. There is a need to consider the concerns and moral issues of the community throughout the lifecycle and not just at the inception phase. From an organizational power perspective, we use frame analysis as a suitable lens to understand how projects shape community perceptions to try and construct sustainable legitimacy. The research reports on a case study of a metro rail project in India. 166 daily news articles, 446 user comments and 30 semi-structured interviews with the project team were analysed. We observed framing strategies used in practice, such as need framing, pride framing, community-centric framing and blame framing. These framing strategies observed in the project community had impacts labeled as the solution frame, the trend-setter frame, the important frame and the own-up frame. The relationship between the framing strategies and their effects are theorized through four propositions. We argue that through these framing strategies some issues were strategically hidden while some were strategically promoted, thereby influencing the perception of the project. An improved perception of the project can reduce resistance and conflicts during the construction and operation of the project.
Niu, Y, Yang, J & Zhao, S 2022, 'Robust stimulus of private investment: Tax rate cut or investment subsidy?', International Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 339-357.
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AbstractThis paper examines the net benefit accruing to a government when choosing between a lower tax rate on future profits and an investment subsidy as investment stimulation. We hypothesize that either the firm or the government faces Knightian uncertainty in contemplating investment. In the presence of the firm's Knightian uncertainty, the government prefers the investment cost subsidy to tax rate reduction as the conventional wisdom in prior literature. However, if the government is concerned about the model uncertainty, the optimal policy depends on the varying characteristics in reality, such as the ambiguity level, the growth rate, the volatility, as well as the interest rate environment. The tax rate cut is favorable when the growth rate, the discount rate, and the volatility are lower, and when the ambiguity parameter is higher. By taking into account Knightian uncertainty, we provide a potential rationale behind evaluating stimulus policies in different economic environments.
Niu, Y, Yang, J, Wu, Y & Zhao, S 2022, 'Corporate social responsibility and dynamic liquidity management', Research in International Business and Finance, vol. 59, pp. 101559-101559.
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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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PurposeThis 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/approachThis 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.FindingsThis 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/implicationsThis study updates previous literature, offering a conceptual framework that specifies how the structural characteristics of social media are conducive to consumer exposure to self-curate...
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, '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...
Olliff, L, Baak, M, Baddeley, M, Lino Lejukole, J, Munyonge, E, Saidi, I & Treuren, GJM 2022, '“We will start building from that”: Social capital, social networks and African migrants’ job‐seeking experiences in Australia', Australian Journal of Social Issues, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 725-742.
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AbstractThis article explores the job‐seeking experiences of Black African migrants in South Australia, focussing on the role played by social networks in labour market integration. While it has been long held that “who you know” matters when finding work, the quality and nature of interpersonal connections that can be put to use for job‐seeking purposes suggests that not all networks effectively leverage social capital when it comes to employment. This article argues that Africa‐born migrants in South Australia are a small, diverse population whose experiences of labour market integration are mediated by both reception (how they are received and perceived) and strategy and choice (decisions made by migrants themselves). There is evidence of these migrants’ evolving and expanding social networks; however, the strategy of building the “right” social networks only goes part‐way to addressing employment gaps, while racialised social hierarchies are embedded in the Australian labour market.
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 Southeast Asia', Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 41-50.
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AimsThe Covid‐19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on the mental health of the general public and high‐risk groups worldwide. Due to its proximity and close links to China, Southeast Asia was one of the first regions to be affected by the outbreak. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the prevalence of anxiety, depression and insomnia in the general adult population and healthcare workers (HCWs) in Southeast Asia during the course of the first year of the pandemic.MethodsSeveral literature databases were systemically searched for articles published up to February 2021 and two reviewers independently evaluated all relevant studies using pre‐determined criteria. The prevalence rates of mental health symptoms were calculated using a random‐effect meta‐analysis model.ResultsIn total, 32 samples from 25 studies with 20 352 participants were included. Anxiety was assessed in all 25 studies and depression in 15 studies with pooled prevalence rates of 22% and 16%, respectively. Only two studies assessed insomnia, which was estimated at 19%. The prevalence of anxiety and depression was similar among frontline HCWs (18%), general HCWs (17%), and students (20%) while being noticeably higher in the general population (27%).ConclusionsThis is the first systematic review to investigate the mental health impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic in Southeast Asia. A considerable proportion of the general population and HCWs reported mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety and depression; the pooled prevalence rater, however, remain significantly lower than those reported in other areas such as China and Europe.
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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Locating a manufacturing plant is a complex multi-criteria decision-making problem as it involves many tangible and intangible criteria. This paper contributes to the existing theory by integrating a qualitative Delphi and a quantitative fuzzy inference system (FIS) for developing an advanced and intelligent decision-making framework for evaluating manufacturing plant locations. The Delphi method is used to identify the most significant manufacturing plant location selection criteria. The identified major criteria are used to develop an advanced FIS framework to evaluate potential manufacturing plant locations. A real-life case is presented to demonstrate the applicability of the developed decision-making framework. This paper contributes to the literature by developing an advanced decision-making framework for evaluating manufacturing plant locations and by integrating qualitative Delphi and quantitative FIS, which can help industrial managers locate their manufacturing plant locations intelligently and accurately.
Payzan-LeNestour, E, Doran, J, Pradier, L & Putniņš, TJ 2022, 'Harnessing Neuroscientific Insights to Generate Alpha', Financial Analysts Journal, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 79-95.
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Payzan-LeNestour, E, Pradier, L & Putniņš, TJ 2022, 'Biased volatility perceptions: Evidence from the laboratory and financial markets'.
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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Perishable food products present a production-inventory routing dilemma critical to logistics planning for several industries. Due to the speedy deterioration of perishable food products, proper production, inventory, and shipping planning are essential. Meanwhile, the growing impact of greenhouse emissions due to fuel usage indicates that mitigation for these impacts must be factored into the routing problem. As a result, the perishable food product industry's logistics planning must include production-inventory-routing coordination with carbon footprint considerations. This paper aimed to create an integrated production-inventory-routing problem for perishable food products that took into account capacity, time windows, and carbon emissions reduction. The inventory routing problems are NP-hard in nature. Therefore, the proposed problems were solved using two nature-inspired algorithms: flower pollination algorithm (FPA) and cuckoo search algorithm (CSA). The effect of model parameters on the response value was investigated using sensitivity analysis, and the computational experiment discussed the comparative results obtained from both algorithms for different case scenarios. The outcomes of the two algorithms were evaluated for ten instances, and the CSA consistently outperformed the FPA. By incorporating uncertain demands via a random variable with a specified probability distribution, the proposed framework generates compelling opportunities. Individual logistics units may use the proposed framework to mitigate the stochastic nature of problems in uncertain circumstances.
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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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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PurposeThe 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/approachThe 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.FindingsThe 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/implicationsThe authors relied on recalls in the US automobile industry. A possible extension would be to study the same phenomenon in other...
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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Even though information and communication technology (ICT) is essential for everyday life and has gained considerable attention in education and other sectors, it also carries individual differences in its use and relevant skills. This systematic review aims to examine the gender differences in ICT use and skills for learning through technology. A comprehensive search of eight journal databases and a specific selection criterion was carried out to exclude articles that match our stated exclusion criteria. We included 42 peer-reviewed empirical publications and conference proceedings published between 2006 and 2020. For a subsample of studies, we performed a small-scale meta-analysis to quantify possible gender differences in ICT use and skills. A random-effects model uncovered a small and positive, yet not significant, effect size in favor of boys (g = 0.17, 95% CI [-0.01, 0.36]). However, this finding needs to be further backed by large-scale meta-analyses, including more study samples and a broader set of ICT use and skills measures. We highlight several concerns that should be addressed and more thoroughly in collaboration with one another to better IT skills and inspire new policies to increase the quality of ICT use. The findings from this review further suggest implications and present existing research challenges and point to future research directions.
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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Social trust helps to reduce information asymmetry and agency conflicts between insiders and investors, and thus alleviates the pressure on firms to pay cash dividends. Consistent with this view, we find that Chinese firms in low-trust regions make higher dividend payouts than those in high-trust regions. The negative effect of trust is more pronounced in firms with lower information transparency and weaker corporate governance. We additionally find a lower market reaction to dividend announcements for firms in high-trust areas, and moreover that the role of social trust is more important for firms that are lacking in political connections and located in areas with weak institutions. Our results are robust to alternative measures of social trust and dividends and the use of the instrumental variable approach to alleviate endogeneity concerns. Overall, the findings highlight the important role of social trust in corporate governance and corporate dividend policy, along with its ability to substitute for formal institutions.
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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PurposeSupply 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/approachThis 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.FindingsThe 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/valueThis 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...
Rahman, T, Paul, SK, Shukla, N, Agarwal, R & Taghikhah, F 2022, 'Managing panic buying-related instabilities in supply chains: A COVID-19 pandemic perspective', IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 305-310.
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Global supply chains (SCs) have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic on several levels. For example, SCs suffered from panic buying-related instabilities and multiple disruptions of supply, demand, and capacity during the pandemic. This study developed an agent-based model (ABM) to predict the effects of panic buying-related instabilities in SCs and offered strategies to improve them. The ABM model includes a simulation and optimization model of a typical SC of an essential product manufacturer (i.e., toilet paper SC) for the analysis of scenarios and strategies to observe improvements in SCs. Among the four strategies identified, the findings suggest boosting production capacity to the maximum and ensuring optimal reorder points, order sizes, and trucks helped the essential product manufacturers reduce panic buying-related instabilities in their SCs.
Rahman, T, Paul, SK, Shukla, N, Agarwal, R & Taghikhah, F 2022, 'Managing panic buying-related instabilities in supply chains: A COVID-19 pandemic perspective.', IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 305-310.
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Global supply chains (SCs) have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic on several levels. For example, SCs suffered from panic buying-related instabilities and multiple disruptions of supply, demand, and capacity during the pandemic. This study developed an agent-based model (ABM) to predict the effects of panic buying-related instabilities in SCs and offered strategies to improve them. The ABM model includes a simulation and optimization model of a typical SC of an essential product manufacturer (i.e., toilet paper SC) for the analysis of scenarios and strategies to observe improvements in SCs. Among the four strategies identified, the findings suggest boosting production capacity to the maximum and ensuring optimal reorder points, order sizes, and trucks helped the essential product manufacturers reduce panic buying-related instabilities in their SCs.
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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Supply chain resilience (SCRES) is an emerging research area, which plays a crucial role in protecting supply chains (SCs) against small- to large-scale disruptions. Over the past few years, many researchers have focused on developing SCRES strategies that have significantly contributed to mitigating SC disruptions. While the number of papers on this subject has been gradually increasing, the absence of a systematic literature review means that it is unclear which SCRES strategies for mitigating SC disruptions have already been studied and which issues still need to be investigated. Therefore, there is a need to conduct a systematic literature review to provide a comprehensive overview of SC resilience initiatives and strategies. For the review and synthesis conducted in this paper, 151 relevant articles were identified through a systematic search and selection of papers published between 2010 and 2021. First, the main themes of the SCRES strategies were categorized. The development of SCRES strategies for preparedness, response, and recovery, aimed at mitigating SC disruptions, was reviewed. Second, a detailed analysis of research developments in SCRES strategies was conducted, along with an investigation into the methodological, theoretical, and contextual justifications for tackling SC disruptions. Third, literature on SCRES strategies was synthesized for mapping and identifying potential research gaps. The analysis revealed that there is a scarcity of simulation model-based and theoretically grounded studies to mitigate large-scale SC disruptions. Moreover, it was also found that most studies have identified SCRES strategies for low-demand luxury products, while high-demand essential products and services have largely been ignored. Finally, based on the analysis, this article identifies research questions and future research directions for the field of SCRES research. These can guide academics and practitioners in designing and leading effective res...
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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Today, sustainability has gained significant importance in supply chain management due to its strategic business advantages. Concurrently, industries are facing supply chain sustainability risks emanated from diversified sources. So far, however, literature is scarce regarding sustainability risk assessment. To fill this research gap, this paper presents a real-life case study of the textile industry to identify and quantify supply chain sustainability risks. In this paper, the fuzzy synthetic evaluation method is applied to compute the likelihood of occurrence, amount of impact, risk criticality of each risk factor group, and the total risk. This study finds five risk groups along with twenty sustainability risk factors. The risk groups are listed as ‘supplier’, ‘financial’, ‘social’, ‘transportation’, and ‘environmental’, based on their respective risk criticality values. The top three sustainability risk factors are ‘poor product transportation system’, ‘air, water, and soil pollution’, and ‘factory fire’. The overall risk criticality value of sustainability risks of the case industry is found as approximately high. An objective of this study is to guide practitioners to take the required strategic steps to assess and manage sustainability risks in their supply chains.
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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Randhawa, K, Wilden, R & Akaka, MA 2022, 'Innovation intermediaries as collaborators in shaping service ecosystems: The importance of dynamic capabilities', Industrial Marketing Management, vol. 103, pp. 183-197.
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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 effectivenes...
Richards, J, Sherry, E, Tamala, F, Schuster, S, Schulenkorf, N & Keane, L 2022, 'Netball Shoots for Physical and Mental Wellbeing in Samoa: A Natural Experiment', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 2663-2663.
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Sport-for-development programs claim to address key determinants of recreational physical activity participation and subsequent development outcomes in low-income settings. We conducted a natural experiment with pre–post measures taken from women in the 12 villages in Samoa, some of which voluntarily participated in the sport-for-development intervention. The intervention comprised a six-week netball league delivered by local volunteers who attended coaching workshops, received ongoing support from the national governing body and were provided with infrastructure and equipment to conduct local training sessions. Changes in netball participation, recreational physical activity, body composition, mental wellbeing and socio-ecological determinants of physical activity were compared between intervention and comparison villages using a univariate ANOVA. The intervention reached women who participated in little recreational physical activity and had poor physical and mental wellbeing. Program uptake was higher in villages with the strongest social support for netball participation. Local social support and capacity to independently organize netball activities increased. There were concurrent improvements in netball participation, physical activity levels, mental wellbeing and body weight in the intervention villages. Our findings support scaling-up of the intervention in similar settings but preceding this with formative evaluation to identify low active communities that are “primed” to participate in the proposed activity.
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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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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AbstractThere is scant empirical longitudinal evidence in the extant eco‐innovation literature on how industry norms, standards and expectations influence firms' strategic choices and innovation activities in the context of environmental sustainability. This study fills this research gap by determining the causal effects of industry norms that promote environmentally sustainable business practices on developing a firm's proactive environmental strategy, which propels a firm's eco‐innovation outputs or those innovations considered environmentally sustainable. It utilises two waves of survey data involving 274 small and medium enterprises and the cross‐lagged panel method of longitudinal analysis to bring to light the explanatory mediating power of a firm's environmental strategy as a response to industry norms that push firms to pursue eco‐innovations. Drawing on institutional and strategic adaptation theories, this study's main findings on the causal and predictive temporal effects of industry norms on firm strategy and eco‐innovation offer robust empirical evidence that extends and overcomes the shortcomings of previous studies on firm‐level eco‐innovation and its institutional and strategy‐related determinants. This article presents the significant theoretical, empirical, methodological and practical implications of the study.
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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PurposeGiven 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/approachUsing 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.FindingsThe 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/implicationsAlthough 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 implicationsIt provides valuable busin...
Saengchote, K, Putniņš, TJ & Samphantharak, K 2022, 'Does DeFi Remove the Need for Trust? Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Stablecoin Lending'.
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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PurposeThe 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/approachThis 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.FindingsTo 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 implicationsThis 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/valueThis 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.
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 go...
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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AbstractGovernment organizations increasingly use crowdsourcing platforms to interact with citizens and integrate their requests in designing and delivering public services. Drawing on attribution theory, this study asks how the causal attributions of the government response to a citizen request affect continued participation in crowdsourcing platforms. To test our hypotheses, we use a 7‐year dataset of both online requests from citizens to government and government responses to citizen requests. We focus on citizen requests that are denied by government, and find that the reasoning for denying a request is related with continued participation behavior. Citizens are less willing to collaborate further with government via the platform, when their requests are denied although the locus of causality is with the government. This study contributes to research on the role of responsiveness in digital interaction between citizens and government and highlights the importance of rationale transparency to sustain citizen participation.
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 netballbased 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 & Darcy, S 2022, 'Climate Change, Time and Tourism Knowledge: The Relativity of Simultaneity', Sustainability, vol. 14, no. 23, pp. 16220-16220.
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Climate clocks are currently ticking down to a point in time when it will be impossible to arrest the rate of CO2 emissions within the bounds of the parameters set by the Paris Climate Agreement. The tourism academy has been at the forefront of efforts to draw attention to the climate threat and to develop adaptation and mitigation responses in conjunction with industry. However, whilst the tourism academy is generally said to be in lock-step with the urgency of the climate threat and tourism’s need to respond, outliers do exist. Why might a tourism scholar view the urgency of the climate threat differently from his or her colleagues? Drawing on conceptual insights from Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, the present paper explores the sociological framing of time in relation to tourism academics and the implications for the development of a tourism knowledge force-field as a foundation for tourism knowledge creation.
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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Open innovation (OI) has drawn significant attention over the years, and there is considerable evidence documenting the benefits of technology firms opening the R&D process to external stakeholders. Less appreciated, however, are the intra-organizational risks of misaligned managerial motives and asymmetries across different stakeholders that are also invariably associated with OI. In this conceptual paper, we draw on stakeholder theory and use examples from the high-tech industry to underscore the corporate governance practices (rewards and control mechanisms) that incumbent technology firms can implement to minimize these OI risks. We develop a tripartite scheme of OI governance to clarify how senior leaders (primary agents) can be incentivized to generate OI from the top, how project leaders (secondary agents) can be motivated to absorb OI at the backend, and how external stakeholders (tertiary agents) can be engaged to disseminate the benefits of OI to society. We contribute to the discussion on the paradox of OI by demonstrating that despite senior leaders’ enthusiasm to generate OI, their current emphasis on appeasing myopic shareholders unwittingly sabotages the absorption and dissemination of OI at the backend, preventing incumbent companies from institutionalizing OI to benefit society. We highlight the value of holistic stakeholder centric OI governance as a superior alternative to the shareholder primacy model currently adopted by mature technology companies. To institutionalize OI fully, we stress the value of using non-pecuniary rewards and informal controls to ensure OI creates stakeholder value. Several implications follow for managers and scholars to mitigate OI risks and to advance our understanding of OI stakeholder governance to create shared value.
Shan, Y & Wright, S 2022, 'Editorial', Australian Accounting Review, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 3-4.
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Sharp, P, Bottorff, JL, Rice, S, Oliffe, JL, Schulenkorf, N, Impellizzeri, F & Caperchione, CM 2022, '“People say men don’t talk, well that’s bullshit”: A focus group study exploring challenges and opportunities for men’s mental health promotion', PLOS ONE, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. e0261997-e0261997.
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Men’s mental health promotion presents unique challenges including gender-related barriers and stigmas, which demand novel approaches to prevention, treatment, and management. The aim of this study was to explore men’s perceptions of mental health and preferences for mental health promotion. Seven focus groups (N = 59) were conducted in Sydney, Australia, including 5 groups of men (M = 50.65, SD = 13.75 years) and 2 groups of stakeholders who had frontline experience working with men (e.g., men’s groups, health clubs, mental health advocates). Data were analysed using thematic analysis and interpreted using a gender relations approach to explore connections between gender roles, relations and identities, and men’s mental health. Three overarching themes were identified; (1) Roles, identities, and the conceptualisation and concealment of mental health challenges, revealing challenges to mental health promotion related to perceptions of men’s restrictive emotionality and emotional awareness as well as difficulties with conceptualising the internalised experiences of mental health, (2) Constraining social contexts of stigma and gender relations, identifying how social context and the policing of gender roles often obscured opportunities for discussing mental health and help-seeking behaviour, (3) Anchoring mental health promotion to acceptable lifestyle practices, highlighting potential remedies included leveraging men’s social practices related to reciprocity, normalising mental health promotion relative to other behaviours, and embedding mental health promotion within acceptable masculine practices. Discussed are directions for men’s community-based mental health promotion and opportunities for how masculinities may be negotiated and expanded to embody mental health promoting values.
Shen, Y, Wallace, D, Reddy, K & Ramiah, V 2022, 'An investigation of CEO characteristics on firm performance', Accounting & Finance, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 3563-3607.
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AbstractThis paper considers the effects of different CEO demographic factors on firm performance in Australia. We investigate the impact of CEO characteristics on firm performance for the period January 2003 to December 2018 via panel regression models and the event study methodology. The results highlight that the CEO characteristics of gender, CEO–chairperson duality, CEO education level and CEO location have significant managerial effects on firm performance following debt‐ and equity‐related announcements. The CEO characteristics findings add support for the Upper Echelon Theory and provide important implications for board members and human resource departments investigating the efficiency and fairness of CEOs.
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.
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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Siminski, P & Yu, SHT 2022, 'The Correlation of Wealth Between Parents and Children in Australia', Australian Economic Review, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 195-214.
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AbstractWe present the first estimates of intergenerational wealth mobility for Australia. The rank correlation is 0.253, compared to 0.306 for the United States using comparable methods. This correlation varies greatly by child age when wealth is observed, from 0.1 before age 30, to 0.5 after age 40. This sharp increase with age is stronger than for other countries, is not explained by sample selection bias and is not specific to particular types of wealth. We also argue that neither income mobility nor wealth mobility, as operationalised in empirical work, align neatly with the wealth concept in the Becker & Tomes framework.
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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AbstractPolitical relations between countries can potentially affect and be affected by bilateral visitor flows. Applying various modified Granger causality tests, this article uses Japan and China as a case study of the possible bi‐directional linkages between tourism demand and political relations. Findings suggest that country relations do influence visitor flows, but not vice versa. The influence is statistically strong regarding visitor flows from China to Japan, but is weak and insignificant in the opposite direction, although this relationship appears to be time‐varying and strengthening recently. This article concludes with a discussion of policy implications and some suggestions for further research.
Summers, A 2022, 'The choice: violence or poverty', Labour and Industry, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 349-357.
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Taylor, S 2022, 'Standards for sustainability reporting: The role of research', Accountability in a Sustainable World Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 1.
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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PurposeThe 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/approachThis 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.FindingsFindings 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/valueThis 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...
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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Waitt, G, Cahill, H & Gordon, R 2022, 'Young men’s sports betting assemblages: masculinities, homosociality and risky places', Social & Cultural Geography, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 356-375.
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Walters, T, Hassanli, N & Finkler, W 2022, 'The role of academic conferences in the [re]production of gender inequality in business disciplines: not just a STEM problem', International Journal of Event and Festival Management, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 107-123.
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PurposeIn this paper the authors seek to understand how academic conferences [re]produce deeply embedded gendered patterns of interaction and informal norms within the business disciplines.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on Acker's (2012) established and updated theory of gendered organisations, the authors focus on the role of academic conferences in the reproduction of gendered practices in the business disciplines. The authors surveyed academics at top universities in Australia and New Zealand who had attended international conferences in their discipline area.FindingsAcademic conferences in the business disciplines communicate organisational logic and act as gendered substructures that [re]produce gendered practices, through the hierarchy of conference participation. Even in disciplinary conferences with a significant proportion of women delegates, the entrenched organisational logic is manifest in the bodies that perform keynote and visible expert roles, perpetuating the notion of the “ideal academic” as male.Practical implicationsThe authors call for disciplinary associations to formulate an equality policy, which covers all facets of conference delivery, to which institutions must then respond in their bid to host the conference and which then forms part of the selection criteria; explicitly communicate why equality is important and what decisions the association and hosts took to address it; and develop databases of women experts to remove the most common excuse for the lack of women keynote speakers. Men, question conference hosts when asked to be a keynote speaker or panelist...
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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Wang, Y, Niu, Y & Gong, S 2022, 'Robust consumption policy with the desire for wealth accumulation', Review of Economics of the Household, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 993-1025.
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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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HIGHLIGHTS Leadership is collectively performed through social action. Relational leadership recognizes and promotes mutual influence. Leadership is practiced through interactions and meaning making. Experience and intuition influence leadership practice. Shared understandings enhance collective performance. Guided by the emerging literature on relational leadership this paper discusses how leadership is socially constructed in the context of a professional sporting organization. An in-depth exploratory case study with a championship winning professional team was conducted for the duration of the championship season. Data was collected through interviews with various members of the organization as well as through observations of training and game sessions. The findings highlight that leadership is practiced through interactions between individuals, informed by established and ongoing relationships. Specifically, leadership is found to be practiced through verbal interactions, non-verbal interactions, and social processes of meaning making. The outlined relational approach is concerned with the collective performance of leadership through social action, revealing insights that can inform leadership practice, development, and recruitment in professional sporting organizations. The paper concludes by suggesting potential directions for research on leadership in professional sport based on conceptualizing leadership as a relational phenomenon.
Whitleyl, MA, Collison-Randall, H, Wright, PM, Darnell, SC, Schulenkorf, N, Kneel, E, Holt, NL & Richards, J 2022, 'Moving beyond disciplinary silos: The potential for transdisciplinary research in Sport for Development', JOURNAL OF SPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1-25.
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The Sport for Development (SfD) field is transdisciplinary by nature, and yet scholars tend to stay within their disciplinary perspectives in their study of SfD. There is a need for more collaborative and collective approaches in SfD research. Transdisciplinary research facilitates conceptual, theoretical, philosophical, and methodological innovations that transcend disciplinary boundaries, creating new knowledge that can advance a field. The purpose of this paper is to critically review the disciplinary trends in SfD research within (respectively) sport sociology, social anthropology, sport management, public health, leisure, sport pedagogy, and sport psychology, with a particular focus on where there may be intersection, duplication, obfuscation, and omission between these disciplines. Disciplinary intersections are then considered, along with gaps in the SfD evidence base that are ripe for transdisciplinary research. The paper concludes with an exploration of possibilities for future transdisciplinary research in SfD.
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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Project leadership increasingly occurs in the context of ecological risks, whether from a viral pandemic or an anthropogenically changing climate. It requires adaptability to change, especially as projects grow in complexity, becoming seen as interventions into wider systems. In this paper, we take a socialized perspective, synthesising recent work and proposing a new research agenda in three inter-related areas that need to be addressed by project leadership: 1) changing technologies, unpacking the values that technologies represent to achieve desirable outcomes; 2) organizational complexity, engaging multiple actors and addressing emerging complexity and uncertainty and 3), ecological concerns, addressing the demands for projects to intervene positively to create sustainable, resilient and just futures. Our contribution is to theorize what socialized leadership means for these crucial issues emerging in project studies and set out directions for further research on positive forms of project leadership in a changing world.
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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AbstractThe 1980s were an outrageous time in Australia's business history. This paper re‐examines this era of misconduct, assessing the role of interlocking directorates for corporate governance of diversified business groups. Professional interlocked executives—those with professional training, executive status and mobility between member firms—enabled the takeover culture of the time, and allowed managers to ignore promised strategic benefits and redirect associated firms towards speculative share ownership. These results demonstrate the importance of board independence for corporate governance, and the way that expertise has been weaponised within managerial capitalism to encourage trust in risky and exploitative corporate structures.
Wu, W, Niu, Y, Wu, Y & Xu, H 2022, 'Ambiguity, limited commitment, and the q theory of investment', The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, vol. 60, pp. 101639-101639.
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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 Queensl...
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 th...
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, p. e23.
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AbstractAimsThere 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.MethodsBibliographical databases, such asPubMed, Embase, Web of Science, PsycINFOandmedRxiv, 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.ResultsA 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, Chen, RZ, Xu, W, Yin, A, Dong, RK, Chen, BZ, Delios, AY, Miller, S, McIntyre, RS, Ye, W & Wan, X 2022, 'A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Symptoms of Anxiety, Depression, and Insomnia in Spain in the COVID-19 Crisis', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 1018-1018.
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Background: General population, frontline healthcare workers (HCWs), and adult students in Spain are at risk of anxiety, depression, and insomnia symptoms during the COVID-19 crisis. A meta-analysis of the individual studies on these symptoms would provide systematic evidence to aid policymakers and researchers in focusing on prevalence, risk, and best interventions. Objective: This paper aims to be the first meta-analysis and systematic review to calculate the prevalence of anxiety, depression, and insomnia symptoms in Spain’s adult population (general population, frontline healthcare workers (HCWs), and adult students) during the Covid-19 epidemic. Method: Random-effect meta-analysis was used to estimate the prevalence of anxiety, depression, and insomnia. Results: The meta-analysis includes 28 studies with 38 individual samples in Spain. The pooled prevalence of anxiety symptoms in 22 studies comprising a sample population of 82,024 was 20% (95% CI: 15–25%), that of depression symptoms in 22 articles with a total sample comprising 82,890 individuals was 22% (95% CI: 18–28%), and that of insomnia symptoms in three articles with a sample population of 745 was 57% (95% CI: 48–66%. Conclusions: The accumulative evidence reveals that adults in Spain suffered higher prevalence rates of mental symptoms during the COVID-19 crisis, with a significantly higher rate relative to other countries such as China. Our synthesis also reveals a relative lack of studies on frontline and general HCWs in Spain.
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, p. 2000132.
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Objective: To perform a systematic and meta-analysis on the prevalence rates of mental health symptoms including anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic in the general population in Eastern Europe, as well as three select sub-populations: students, general healthcare workers, and frontline healthcare workers. Data sources: Studies in PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and medRxiv up to 6 February 2021. Eligibility criteria and data analysis: Prevalence rates of mental health symptoms in the general population and key sub-populations during the COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Europe. Data were pooled using a random-effects meta-analysis to estimate the prevalence rates of anxiety and depression. Results: The meta-analysis identifies and includes 21 studies and 26 independent samples in Eastern Europe. Poland (n = 4), Serbia (n = 4), Russia (n = 3), and Croatia (n = 3) had the greatest number of studies. To our knowledge, no studies have been conducted in eleven Eastern European countries including Hungary, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The pooled prevalence of anxiety in 18 studies with 22 samples was 30% (95% CI: 24-37%) pooled prevalence of depression in 18 studies with 23 samples was 27% (95% CI: 21-34%). Implications: The cumulative evidence from the meta-analysis reveals high prevalence rates of clinically significant symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Europe. The findings suggest evidence of a potential mental health crisis in Eastern Europe during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Our synthesis also reveals a relative lack of studies in certain Eastern European countries as well as high heterogeneities among the existing studies, calling for more effort to achieve evidence-based mental healthcare in Eastern Europe.
Zhang, Y & Deng, X 2022, 'Booms and Busts in Chinese Agricultural Markets: An Agent-Based Model', Complexity, vol. 2022, pp. 1-10.
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This paper uses agent-based modelling to study the frequent booms and busts in Chinese agricultural markets. First, an artificial agricultural commodity market consisting of heterogeneous agents, such as producers, consumers, and speculators, is built. A numerical simulation suggests that speculation can cause large price fluctuations via nonlinear price dynamics. Then, parameters are estimated by the simulated method of moments using garlic and ginger price data in China from 2006Q2 to 2018Q3. The estimation yields a statistically significant speculative behavior parameter, supporting speculators’ existence. Based on the well-estimated model, a low-cost policy experiment aiming at market stabilization is carried out. The essence of this policy is to release the theoretical steady state of the estimated model as the government-guided price to producers. The guided price, even partially followed by producers, can reduce simulated price variances and weaken speculators’ negative impact on market stability. Robustness tests show that the effect of policy experiment is robust under a 20% change in any parameter value or a 5% change in the guided price.
Zhao, C, Xu, S, Wu, M, Yao, S & Luo, X 2022, 'LOAD FLOW PREDICTION OF INTELLIGENT LOGISTICS TRANSPORTATION NETWORK BASED ON LSTM ALGORITHM', Transformations in Business and Economics, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 305-321.
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As a major part of logistics activities the transportation network significantly impacts logistics efficiency The complex networks research method is one of the mainstream methods to analyze transportation complexity However due to the characteristics of large cities the contradiction between the enormous logistics distribution demand and the limited road traffic capacity is becoming increasingly apparent in central cities Therefore the prediction and research of road load flow are necessary In this study the reliability of urban logistics distribution networks is analyzed by considering highway transportation flow After analysis we propose to use the Long Short term Memory algorithm to calculate and predict the intelligent logistics transportation network load flow in the future Vilnius University 2002 2022 Brno University of Technology 2002 2022 University of Latvia 2002 2022
Zheng, X & Sun, A 2022, 'DIGITALIZATION AND INTERNATIONALIZATION: A STUDY OF THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN CHINA', Transformations in Business and Economics, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 772-791.
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This study takes cross-sectional data from 1323 publicly listed manufacturing firms in China and creates a 'Digital Ownership Advantage' denoted by three dimensions: digital infrastructure, digital technology, and digital investment. Based on the previous internationalization models and theories, this study examines the influence of digitalization on firm internationalization and the indirect effect of international innovation. We further explore how digitalization affects firm internationalization in different regions and resource intensities, and how digitalization performs at different stages of internationalization. The study reveals that the digital ownership advantage increases firm internationalization, which is greater in the primary stages of internationalization. International innovation plays an indirect effect, that is more significant in the advanced stages of firm internationalization. The combination of digitalization and capital can better promote the internationalization of firms.
Zhou, Y, Teresienė, D, Keliuotytė-Staniulėnienė, G, Kanapickiene, R, Dong, RK & Kaab Omeir, A 2022, 'The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Government Bond Yields', Frontiers in Environmental Science, vol. 10, p. 881260.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a real shock to society and business and financial markets. The government bond market is an essential part of financial markets, especially in difficult times, because it is a source of government funding. The majority of existing ESG studies report positive impacts on corporate financial performance regarding environmental, social, and governance. Thus, understanding governments’ financial practices and their relevant ESG implications is insufficient. This research aims to value the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on different government bond curve sectors. We try to identify the reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic in the government bond market and analyze separate tenors of government bond yields in different regions. We have chosen Germany and the United States government bond yields of 10, 5, and 3 years tenor for the analysis. As independent variables, we have chosen daily cases of COVID-19 and daily deaths from COVID-19 at the country and global levels. We used daily data from 02 January 2020–19 March 2021, and divided this period into three stages depending on the COVID-19 pandemic data. We employed the methods of correlation-regression analysis (ordinary least squares and least squares with breakpoints) and VAR-based impulse response functions to evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on government bond yields both in the long and short run. Our analysis revealed the impact of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic on government bond yields differs depending on the country and the assessment period. The short-term responses vary in direction, strength, and duration; the long-term response of Germany’s yields appeared to be more negative (indicating the decrease of the yields), while the response of the United States yields appeared to be more positive (i.e., increase of yields).
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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