Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Social media marketing and customers’ passion for brands

Purpose The modern-day digital marketers use social media as a tool for brand awareness and customer engagement. However, whether social media marketing can actually impact deeper into the users’ emotional level and instigate purchase intention is a popular moot point. The purpose of this paper is to investigate as to whether social media marketing is effective in inciting a sense of arousal or passion for the advertised brands and finally generate a purchase intention in the minds of the social media users. Design/methodology/approach A convenient sampling procedure was followed to collect relevant data using a structured questionnaire. The technique of structural equation modelling was used for model building using the software, AMOS 18. Findings The study reveals that efficient use of social media for marketing communications can generate a passion for the advertised brands in the social media users’ minds, as well as instigate a brand purchase intention. Research limitations/implications The study has been restricted to Indian smartphone customers who also spend a substantial amount of time on social media. Practical implications The use of social media for online customer engagement is a smart strategy that can be employed by digital marketers in order to emotionally connect the advertised brand with the users of social media. Originality/value This study is probably the first to investigate the direct impact of social media marketing on users’ brand passion.
Diversification, Efficiency and Risk of Banks: Evidence From Emerging Economies

Abstract This paper examines the impact of business diversification of banks on their risk, with efficiency taken into consideration as a conduit. Using bank-level data from more than 1000 commercial banks in 39 emerging economies during the period of 2000–2016, we find that increased business diversification exerts two competing effects on bank risk. The direct effect of increased diversification bolsters the stability of banks, but it is offset by the indirect effect whereby lowered efficiency, which is resulted from higher diversification, increases the riskiness of banks. Thus, the overall benefits from bank business diversification on bank stability rely on the trade-off of the two competing forces.
Dual Ownership and Risk-taking Incentives in Managerial Compensation

This paper studies how the three-way interaction among shareholders, creditors, and managers shapes firms’ executive compensation. Firms with a higher ownership share by “dual holders” – institutional investors that simultaneously hold equity and bond of the company—adopt a less risk-inducing compensation structure: less stock options and more inside debt. Exploiting financial institution mergers that increase or decrease dual ownership for portfolio companies, we identify a causal link between dual ownership and CEO compensation policies. Mutual fund proxy voting data suggest that shareholder voting is an important channel for dual holders to implement less convex contracts.
The management of intellectual capital in an enterprise that operates in an innovative environment

The management of intellectual capital is important to ensure that organizations create an innovative environment. Proper management of intellectual property makes it possible for organizations to design products that meet the needs of their client. The organizations that embrace innovativeness rely on information provided by customers through the research and development department. This article presents the effective management of intellectual capital in modern organizations.
Evaluation of Three Osteoporosis Prevention Programs for Young Women: Application of the Health Belief Model

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of theory-based osteoporosis prevention programs on calcium and vitamin D intakes and osteoporosis health beliefs in young women. Methods: Women (N = 152) aged 19 to 25 years were randomly assigned to one of 3 groups: a brochure group (n = 51), a computer-tailored program group (n = 51, and the same computer-tailored program (n = 50) with brief verbal feedback. Participants completed surveys regarding osteoporosis beliefs prior to and immediately after assigned intervention. They also completed surveys measuring osteoporosis behaviors before and 1 month after intervention. Results: Participants (n = 152) in all groups significantly improved calcium intakes from baseline to 1 month after interventions. All groups experienced significant decreases in perceived barriers to obtaining adequate vitamin D and significant increases in perceived osteoporosis susceptibility and severity. Discussion: Interventions that delivered osteoporosis material via a brochure or tailored computerized messages with or without brief feedback from a health professional were successful. These changes may be due to theory-based components of the interventions. Translation to Health Education Practice: Though future research is needed, this study holds promise for health education practice to use health behavior theory to plan cost-effective osteoprotective programs for young women.
Articles Review on Forward and Reverse Supply Chain/ Closed Loop Supply Chain Practices

Despite the increasing popularity of research in supply chain management significant number of research focused on forward supply chain management by neglecting one of the most important part of supply chain that is reverse supply chain management, which complete supply chain management as closed loop. Large numbers of prior research consider only one variable at a time to see performance of forward or reverse supply chain on organizational performance. However, supply chain performance is the function of different combination of variables. Therefore, this paper review the effects of transportation, inventory management, facility location and information sharing in closed loop supply chain practices on organization performance.
Managing professionals : An examination of management control systems in professional service firms

Literature on the management of professionals has focused on maximizing the work autonomy of professionals and avoiding bureaucratic forms of control as the best way of managing professionals. However, research also indicates that PSFs make use of bureaucratic control mechanisms, suggesting that there are benefits to using these types of controls. Using survey data from 308 professionals from a broad range of professional service firms, we explore two forms of control tightness as key attributes for the design of MCSs in professional service firms: explicit control tightness is the degree or scope of the MCS and implicit control tightness reflects the level of tolerance for deviations from the control system. We first examine the impact of the heterogeneity in the distinctive characteristics of professional service firms, on the use of both implicit and explicit forms of behavior, results, personnel, and cultural control. We then examine the impact of these control choices on individual performance both directly and indirectly through improved attitudinal outcomes. We find that contrary to popular belief, professional service firms do not reduce their use of bureaucratic control measures in response to the PSF characteristics. Furthermore, we find little evidence of a trade-off between implicit and explicit forms of control. However, we also find little evidence that the use of bureaucratic control measures has a negative impact on individual performance. Taken together these findings suggest that the use of bureaucratic control measures in professional service firms is less problematic than once thought, and while the use of bureaucratic control measures may not lead to significant improvements in individual performance, they also do not appear to be harmful.
Do Brazilian Publicly Traded Companies That Pay Less Tax Create More Jobs?

This article studies whether there is an association between effective tax rate and job creation in private companies, based on a tax accounting perspective. In macroeconomic terms, there is a widespread assumption – challenged by authors such as Anderson and Pizzigati (2017) – indicating that lower corporate taxation will lead to higher rates of job creation. The study explores the relationship between job creation and three proxies of tax avoidance, or tax aggressiveness, in Brazilian non-financial firms listed in the country’s stock exchange B3, in the period between 2011 and 2016. The estimates were conducted using the methods of ordinary least squares (OLS), and quantile regression. The results obtained from the estimates using OLS did not present significant evidence of an association between the rate of job creation and effective tax rates. Regarding the method of quantile regressions, it was possible to find a significant and positive relationship between job creation and effective tax rates, exclusively in quantile 25 of the effective tax rate on value added. Quantiles 50 and 75 presented negative relationships between job creation and effective tax rates in the different tax aggressiveness metrics. The results suggest that the firm’s tax aggressiveness profile influences the relationship. While in the less tax aggressive companies the reduction of the tax burden would potentially stimulate job creation, in those more tax aggressive the tax break may lead to the undesirable effect of a fall in job creation. This innovative and relevant study raises questions about the social efficiency of a general reduction of corporate taxes.
Nautical Stations

The Nautical Station concept is achieved through the establishment and/or assertion (depending on the extent of maturity) of a tourist destination arranged from maritime products that value, in a unified way, all the resources of a territory (foundation, environment, and sociocultural roots) and all the touristic offer already existing in this regional area. It combines a set of nautical activities that forms the central element of product management, based on a local/regional partnership, according to a set of quality criteria to be defined by the certifying entity, which in the Portuguese case is Forum Oceano – Association of Maritime Economy. This chapter analyzes the development of the certification process of the Portuguese Nautical Stations, the theoretical model that manages it, and its application to reality based on the study case constructed by the Nautical Station of Sines, one of the first 15 certified in Portugal.
In Which Group of Gastric Cancer Patients Is the Preoperative Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio a Significant Prognostic Factor?

Purpose: Several recent studies have reported on the clinical importance and prognostic significance of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in gastric cancer. The objective of this study was to identify the subgroups of patients with gastric cancer for which the preoperative NLR was prognostically significant. Methods: Data from 870 patients who were among those who had undergone surgery for gastric cancer between August 2005 and December 2013 were evaluated. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis was used to determine the cut-off value for NLR. The patients were classified into high-NLR (NLR≥1.7) and low-NLR (NLR Results: Univariate analysis identified age, gender, tumor location, tumor histology, tumor, node, metastasis (TNM) stage, and NLR as significant prognostic factors. Multivariate analysis identified age, TNM stage, and NLR as significant prognostic factors. In subgroup analysis, NLR was a significant prognostic factor except group of TNM stage I, II with age younger than 70 years. Conclusion: Except group of TNM stage I, II with age younger than 70 years, careful postoperative follow-up is warranted for those patients with elevated NLR.
Summarising the views on cognitive proximity in cooperation and networking processes

Inter‐organizational cooperation and networking are at the top of academic interest. Critical success factors of long term and beneficial cooperation have been among the most important issues considered so far. This paper considers one of such factors labeled as cognitive proximity. As our literature review shows even though cognitive proximity has been acknowledged as a critical aspect of inter‐organizational homogeneity, it remains one of the most ambiguous and the less explored dimension of proximity. Thus, in order to address the identified knowledge gaps, this paper aims at providing literature‐based conceptualization and division of cognitive proximity. In general, based on the review, synthesis and integration of prior findings, it is claimed to perceive cognitive proximity as a multidimensional construct including four components related to inter‐organizational similarity of: mental models, technology, knowledge, and environmental conditions. Furthermore, it is suggested to adopt – especially during opera‐ tionalization process – a more detailed view on cognitive proximity as these four components can be further decomposed into thirteen analytically separate but conceptually interdependent sub‐components. The authors believe that the presented propositions not only integrate previous findings but also do open up new directions for future research aimed at investigating the cooperation and networking performance.
Who is Liable for an Attack on Cryptocurrency Consensus?

Cryptocurrencies are based on cryptography-based asset disposals broadcasted peer-to-peer to be validated decentrally according to consensus mechanisms in compliance with consented protocols. The consensus mechanisms are crucial for reaching a consistent state of a cryptocurrency ledger in a decentralized manner. However, there are several ways to attack consensus. The technical aspects of such attacks have been well explored in the literature, but the legal consequences of such attacks have been less explored. This paper discusses possible legal bases for liability for attacks on consensus and the limits of liability in deterring attacks and providing victim compensation.
Smallholder productivity under climatic variability: Adoption and impact of widely promoted agricultural practices in Tanzania

Food security in Tanzania is projected to deteriorate as a result of climate change. In spite of the Government's efforts to promote agricultural practices that improve productivity and food security, adoption rates of such practices remain low. Developing a thorough understanding of the determinants of adoption and updating our understanding of the impacts of these technologies under the site-specific effects of climate change are crucial to improve adoption. This paper addresses these issues by using a novel data set that combines information from two largescale household surveys with geo-referenced historical rainfall and temperature data in order to understand the determinants of the adoption of sustainable and productivity improving practices and their impacts on maize productivity in Tanzania. The specific practices analyzed are: maize-legume intercropping, soil and water conservation practices, the use of organic fertilizers, inorganic fertilizers and high yielding maize varieties. We find that farmers located in areas where the cropping season's rainfall has been highly variable have 15 percent lower maize yields. Similarly, farmers located in areas where maximum temperatures during the growing season exceed 30 degrees Celsius have approximately 25 percent lower yields. Both rainfall variability and hotter temperatures are expected to increase under climate change, underlining the importance of policies to buffer food security from the estimated effects of climate change. Our analysis identifies policy entry points both to improve maize productivity and the adoption of practices to do so through careful empirical analysis. This paper contributes to evidence base to support policies for climate smart agriculture and underlines the importance of integrating site-specific analyses of climatic variables in policy targeting to foster adoption of appropriate practices to improve food security under climate change.
The Role of Social Civil Competencies in Organizational Performance

 Abstract — The European Union supports social and civil competencies as being a core element to develop sustainability of organizations, people and regions. These competencies are fundamental for the well-being of the community because they include interpersonal, intrapersonal as well as their civil, active and democratic participation in organizations. The combination of these competencies reveals the organizational socio-emotional maturity and allows relevant levels of performance. It also allows the development of various capitals, namely, human, structural, relational and social, with direct influence on performance. But along this path, the emotional aspect has not been valued as a capital, given that contemporary society is based on knowledge capital and is flooded with information viewed as a capital. The present study, based on the importance of these socio-emotional capitals, aims to show that the competencies of cooperation, interpersonal understanding, empathy, kindness, ability to listen, and tolerance, to mention a few, are strategic in consolidating knowledge within organizations. This implies that the humanizing processes, both inside and outside the organizations, are revitalized. The question is how to go about doing this and its implementation; as well as, where to begin and which guidelines to take on. These are the foci that guide the present study, bearing in mind the directions of the knowledge
The Impact of Asymmetric Information in Vietnam's Health Insurance: An Empirical Analysis

The Vietnam Health Insurance Law in 2008 promulgated universal health care by 2014. To build up a sound and sustainable health insurance system towards this goal, we need to account for the effect of asymmetric information on the use of the health care services, namely moral hazards and adverse selection. This paper uses distinc- tive features of Vietnam's health insurance system to separately estimate the effect of each type. Our results show that the effect of asymmetric information is quite severe and prevalent for old people, and is insignificant for young people. The results can be used for the construction of health insurance policies for Vietnam.
The Opposite Effects of R&D Cooperation on Technological and Financial Performance in SMEs

This study analyzed the role of R&D cooperation in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), specifically, the mediating effects of R&D cooperation between firm size and two types of performance: technological and financial performance. In addition, we investigated how spontaneity of R&D cooperation influences the relation between firm size and R&D cooperation in the context of national R&D projects. Our empirical analysis included approximately 13,000 SME-supporting programs for three years, from 2013 to 2015. The results showed that R&D cooperation had mediating but opposite effects on the relationship between firm size and the two types of performance. While R&D cooperation had a positive effect on financial performance, it had a negative effect on technological performance. We conclude that the goal of R&D cooperation should be determined before conducting or supporting R&D cooperation in SMEs. Also, we verified that spontaneity had a moderating effect on the relationship between firm size and R&D cooperation; it strengthened the positive relation. Ours is also the only paper to analyze the effects of this variable on two types of performance at the same time. As the role of SMEs evolves, the findings of this study provide valuable information for both policy makers and researchers.
The influence of corporate global mindset on international franchising

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the influence of a corporate global mindset and international experience on the internationalization process of Brazilian franchisors. The purpose is to study the role played by global mindset in the internationalization process of franchisors from an emerging country by answering the question: What is the impact of a global mindset on the level of internationalization? Design/methodology/approach A survey of 104 companies was conducted with franchise managers to compare Brazilian (domestic-only and internationalized) franchisors to foreign franchisors with operations in Brazil. The collected data were analyzed through descriptive statistics, ANOVA and regression analysis. Findings Results showed that the firm’s experience in international markets (measured as the number of years in foreign countries) has a positive relation to corporate global mindset. Developing a corporate global mindset should help Brazilian franchises to grow internationally. The findings indicate that Brazilian franchisors fall behind their foreign counterparts in international experience, which affect the skills, knowledge, disposition and organizational structure needed to be successful outside their home market. Practical implications Franchisors who decide to internationalize should carefully consider the need for developing a global mindset, especially in terms of investing in communication technologies, adequate human resources and an organizational structure to support international operations. Originality/value This research contributes to the international franchising literature by exploring the role of a global mindset in the context of franchises from an emerging market. Using a multidimensional concept of corporate global mindset, comprised of global orientation, global knowledge and global skills, this study adds an aspect of international franchising beyond institutional and economic explanations.
The Impact of Social Commerce Determinants on Social Capital for Energy Sectors

This study investigates the constructs and related theories that drive social capital in energy sector from the intention perspectives. This research uses theories of ‘social support’ and ‘planned behaviour’ alongside satisfaction and perceived value to propose a research model that drives social capital for energy sectors in Malaysia. The model reveals that the Theories of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and Social Support Theory (SST) alongside satisfaction and perceived value factors promote social capital development in energy sectors. Using PLS–SEM to analyse data gathered from energy sector employees in Malaysia, this research demonstrates that social capital is present when there is trust and loyalty among the users and positively effects energy sectors in terms of the productivity, effectiveness, efficiency and profitability. The study also contributes to the understanding of individuals' use of social capital in energy sector. A survey is adapted and distributed to 100 respondents as a mean to study on the validity and reliability of the research factors. Results indicate that all seven hypotheses proposed significantly influence social capital.
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Reduce Earnings Management? The Moderating Role of Corporate Governance and Ownership

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate social responsibility and earnings management and the moderating effect of corporate governance and ownership structure on this relationship. Using panel data for a sample of French listed companies between 2010 and 2013, we find that CSR engagementconstrain earnings management practices suggesting that managers would comply with the ethical requirements and satisfy stakeholders’ interests. The results also show that the effect of CSR on earnings management is particularly stronger in more independent boards and with high institutional ownership structure. These corporate governance devices help mitigating managerial opportunistic behavior.