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Strategic foresight of xerox servitization: look back and look forward
Authors: Harris Wesley L. , Wonglimpiyarat Jarunee 
Published: March 2020

Purpose
This study aims to explore the strategies of Xerox Corporation (Xerox) in the copier industry, as its inception to date. In particular, it examines the process of Xerox’s creating platform advantage (the capability to engender an increasing future and continuing success of new innovations or businesses). The study provides insights on Xerox’s pursuit of specific strategies in managing technological innovations in the midst of fierce market competition.

Design/methodology/approach
The research study uses a case study methodology to explore the strategic foresight of Xerox servitization. The study develops the new methodological tool to analyse the process of technology platform and business platform creation. The model can be applied to any industry to understand the pursuit of strategies in high-tech based market competition.

Findings
The analyses of Xerox’s strategies, as its inception to date, have revealed the process of platform creation (technology platform and business platform), which enabled Xerox to enjoy a continuing advantage. The results have shown that the pursuit of specific strategy is motivated by risk considerations as much as by a search for profit. Xerox has continually upgraded its platforms to get ready for the competition under the digital transformation of servitization.

Originality/value
The main contribution of this research study is the development of a new methodological framework, which can be used to analyse the process of platform creation in any industry. The new framework introduces a dynamic concept (rather than a static concept generally found in the previous literature) of technology and business platforms. This research study contributes to the body of knowledge in the areas of strategic management of innovation.
To be attractive or to be authentic? How two competing motivations influence self-presentation in online dating
Authors: Peng Kun 
Published: March 2020

PurposeThis paper examines how and why online daters, differentiated by gender, strategically self-present in online dating profiles when pursuing two competing goals: attracting potential daters and avoiding detection as a liar.Design/methodology/approachA survey and a content analysis were employed to test four hypotheses.FindingsThe results revealed that seeking to project an attractive image in online dating was significantly associated with acquisitive self-presentation. The online daters adopted falsification more than any other strategies, and women were more likely than men to embellish their self-presentation, especially their physical appearance.Originality/valueThe findings clarify people's mate selection processes in light of the interpersonal deception theory (IDT) and the information manipulation theory (IMT) as well as take an evolutionary psychological perspective on computer-mediated communication. For practitioners, they provide a more nuanced picture of deceptive communication in online dating and, for online daters, can guide the adaptation of their online behaviors.
The relationships between student engagement and learning outcome in the undergraduate sports science program in Ethiopia
Authors: Tadesse Tefera , Edo Beshir 
Published: March 2020

PurposeWhereas the influence of engagement on learning outcomes has been extensively investigated, this has not been studied for undergraduate students of sports science major field. The objective of this study was to measure the extent of student engagement and learning outcomes and further examine their relationships in the context of a sports science program in the Ethiopian public higher education system.Design/methodology/approachThe study used a cross-sectional survey design collecting quantitative data from a random sample (n=83) of volunteered undergraduate sports science students from four public universities in Ethiopia. The student engagement theories were used as guiding frameworks.FindingsFindings reveal above-average levels of engagement and learning outcome scores and low to moderate relations between the scores of engagement and outcomes measured. Both independently and interdependently, the student engagement factors reveal statistically significant relationships with all the measured outcomes, adjusted R2ranging between 17 and 50 percent (p< 0.001).Research limitations/implicationsBecause of disciplinary focus on sports science and small sample size, generalization is limited in scope.Practical implicationsHigher education teachers and administrators who work with undergraduates of sports science major should take into consideration the contexts and the relevance of student engagement for greater learning outcomes, especially student-teacher relationships. Hence, mandating instructional interventions to promote engagement through authentic faculty development and increasing academic rigor should be serious concerns.Originality/valueUndergraduate students of sports science major field have received little attention in the higher education research literature, and discipline-based education research is a growing field of inquiry. This study addresses this gap.
The buyer–seller relationship: a literature synthesis on dynamic perspectives
Authors: Hussain Khalid , Jing Fengjie , Junaid Muhammad , Shi Huayu , Baig Usman 
Published: March 2020

Purpose
Contemporary scholars contend that the buyer–seller relationship is dynamic in nature, so it grows, matures and declines over time. However, most studies that adopt the dynamic perspective debates its conceptualization and how dynamic effects are captured. This scholarly discourse has led to multiple dynamic perspectives and resulted in fragmented and scattered literature on the subject. This study aims to synthesize the large body of research on dynamic perspectives in a systematic way.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper follows a systematic review approach to extract and review 192 research articles from four electronic databases: Web of Science, EBSCOhost Business, ScienceDirect and Emerald. Based on the inclusion criteria that the articles examine time-dependent relationship development in light of a generalizable dynamic perspective, 61 articles were selected for the final examination and reporting.

Findings
This review reveals that most research on the buyer–seller dynamic relationship follows at least one of four perspectives: the relationship lifecycle, relationship age, relationship velocity and the asymmetric–dynamic perspective. Each perspective offers a distinct conceptualization of relationship development and has certain advantages that enable researchers to capture information about relationships’ growth trajectory in a unique manner.

Practical implications
Firms need a set of diverse strategies for their customers, depending on the state of the relationships’ development, as strategies that pay off at initial levels may fail at later stages. This study helps managers select an appropriate dynamic perspective that best aligns with their customers’ stage of relationship development so they can devise customized relationship-management strategies.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this article is the first attempt to organize the discourse of a large body of research on dynamic perspectives, and therefore it helps academicians and practitioners to choose the dynamic perspective that best suits their objectives and research settings. This review documents key research areas that have been overlooked and highlights opportunities for future research.
Researcher-practitioner reflections: the therapeutic utility of the visually adapted repertory grid technique (VARGT) with stalkers
Authors: Wheatley Rachael , Kuss Daria J. 
Published: March 2020

PurposeThis paper outlines researcher–practitioner reflections on the use of a visually adapted repertory grid technique (VARGT) with men convicted of stalking. It draws on and assimilates participant experiences of the VARGT as a research engagement tool. Further, it extends discussion to propose its value as a generic engagement tool for when personal insights and collaborative case formulations may otherwise be difficult to access.Design/methodology/approachThe repertory grid technique, developed from Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory (1955), was adapted visually for utility in a mixed methods research study with those who commit stalking offences (Wheatley, in preparation). Analytical and reflexivity processes within this original study highlighted rich and recurrent data across the sample pertaining to the positive participant experience of the VARGT, unrelated to its core research question.FindingsThis paper presents reflections and psychological discussion for experiences of using the VARGT. Key features clustered around therapeutic alliance and engagement, enlightenment and a motivation for positive change.Practical implicationsThis paper suggests the VARGT has value in participant–client engagement, particularly where sensitive topics are being investigated and participants have difficulty directly articulating their psychosocial functioning.Originality/valueThis novel technique offers potential as an engagement tool for use in research and clinical settings.
Demographic change as a driver for tourism automation
Authors: Webster Craig , Ivanov Stanislav 
Published: March 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss how demographic changes in developed countries will continue to drive the tourism and hospitality industries to adopt automation in business operations.Design/methodology/approachThe approach is an analysis of the trends in human reproduction in the developed countries and a discussion of their implications for the travel, tourism and hospitality industries.FindingsThere are three major solutions to the demographic problem faced in developed countries and the replacement of human labour with automation is the most practical, immediate and has the fewest risks and negative externalities.Practical implicationsIndustry has to adapt to the new demographic reality and embrace automation of services, educate their customers and have policies to deal with the resistance expected by labour.Social implicationsSociety can expect that many of the tasks they commonly expect humans to be involved in will be done by machines and artificial intelligence in the near future, if demographic trends continue and massive immigration into developed countries is not a continuing phenomenon.Originality/valueThis links the relationship between demographic trends to the use of automation in the travel, tourism and hospitality industries.
Slow food tourism: an ethical microtrend for the Anthropocene
Authors: Fusté-Forné Francesc , Jamal Tazim 
Published: March 2020

Purpose
This study aims to discuss Slow Food Tourism (SFT) as an ethical paradigm and important tourism microdriver to address sustainability and climate change. Its key principles are based on slow, sustainable, secure and democratic processes for SFT.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper draws on published research to identify ethical parameters for a slow food paradigm for tourism.

Findings
Within the context of a global, technological and rapidly changing world, SFT is a pathway to contribute to locally based agricultural and food practices for sustainable development, food security, social sustainability and community well-being. SFT visitors are active participants in ecological, cultural and heritage conservation through co-creating with local producers the sociability, enjoyment and sharing of bioregional foods in diverse ethnic and cultural spaces.

Originality/value
This research advocates that SFT is an important microtrend that supports a much-needed paradigm shift toward a conscious way of slow living, sustainable travel and responsible food production–consumption to help address the climate crisis and global environmental challenges in the Anthropocene.
A cognition-driven framework for the evaluation of startups in the digital economy
Authors: Simões Jéssica C.M. , Ferreira Fernando A.F. , Peris-Ortiz Marta , Ferreira João J.M. 
Published: March 2020

PurposeCapital restrictions normally exist in the creation of a startup, requiring investors to analyze funding alternatives in a highly competitive climate. Although different types of incentives to support startups exist, these incentives are only available to those companies that fulfill the requirements of the funding program to which they have applied. Due to social and economic changes introduced by the digital economy, however, existing mechanisms for assessing the potential growth of startups are scarce, outdated or simply incomplete, distorting the results of such evaluations.Design/methodology/approachEvaluating business opportunities and how to exploit them are critical activities for an entrepreneur. This study sought to address this issue through the combined use of cognitive mapping and the Decision EXpert (DEX) technique. Assuming a constructivist stance, the study brought together a panel of experienced entrepreneurs and business investors to identify and articulate the criteria to be considered in the evaluation and classification of startups.FindingsThe evaluation system created in this study was tested, and the results were validated by the expert panel on a collective basis, demonstrating that the dual methodology used can increase our understanding of the decision problem at hand and lead to more informed and potentially better evaluations of the potential growth of startups.Originality/valueThe authors know of no prior work reporting the integrated use of cognitive mapping and DEX in this study context.
A framework to dynamic identification of project risks
Authors: Moshtaghian Farzaneh , Golabchi Mahmood , Noorzai Esmatullah 
Published: March 2020

PurposeMerging and updating project information and recording changes can give dynamic risk identification at all stages of the project. The main purpose of this research is to create an integration in construction information.Design/methodology/approachIn this research, the 5D model was prepared and then all model information was entered into the database designed in SQL Server, the project report tables were coded, and finally, a database with four groups of information was ready for risk identification.FindingsCreating an integrated risk identification platform reduced rework and time and cost control and change management, which were positive effects of risk identification at the right time.Research limitations/implicationsIn order to identify risks, creating multilateral databases whose information integration enables timely completion of the project and compliance with the planning.Practical implicationsThis research is the basis for identifying project risks within the framework of building information modeling and can be an effective contribution to increasing the risk-taking efficiency of the project.Originality/valueAs a matter of fact, marked time and cost are terrific motivating forces for the building industry, materializing with identify risk well-time. In any case, identifying risk engaged with all of the dimensions depend on this industry.
Little direct effect of diurnal temperature amplitude on growing seasonal CO2 fluxes in alpine humid shrubland, Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau
Authors: Zhu Jingbin , Li Hongqin , Zhang Fawei , He Huidan , Li Yingnian , Yang Yongsheng , Zhang Guangru , Wang Chunyu , Luo Fanglin 
Published: March 2020

AbstractThe amplitude of the diurnal temperature (ADT) has been decreasing under climate change, with substantial anticipated effects on alpine grassland carbon budgets. Here, we quantified the temporal response of the growing seasonal CO2 fluxes to ADT over alpine shrubland on Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau (QTP) from 2003 to 2016. At a daily scale, net ecosystem exchange (NEE) and gross primary production (GPP) quadratically responded to ADT with optimum values of 15.4 and 13.4°C, respectively. Ecosystem respiration (RES) negatively linearly correlated with ADT. Partial correlation, and classification and regression trees (CART) analysis, both showed that the maximal (MaxTa) or minimal air temperature (MinTa), rather than ADT, played much more important role in daily variations of CO2 fluxes. At a monthly scale, GPP and NEE were both positively and negatively controlled by MaxTa while RES was negatively determined by MinTa, respectively. Monthly ADT exerted a negligible influence on monthly CO2 fluxes. At an annual scale, only MaxTa played a significant role in variations of GPP and RES. NEE did not significantly respond to ADT, MaxTa or MinTa. The little direct correlations between NEE and ADT at daily, monthly or annual scales contradicts a previous hypothesis that a larger ADT would enhance carbon sequestration capacity over alpine ecosystems. Given the positive impact of MaxTa on GPP and MinTa on RES, our study would suggest that a decreasing ADT could indirectly stimulate more carbon loss and weaken the carbon sequestration capacity of alpine shrublands under the scenario of further increases in MinTa over QTP.
Mind and Spirit: a comparative theory about representation of mind and the experience of spirit
Authors: Luhrmann T.M. 
Published: March 2020

AbstractThis special issue reports the findings of the Mind and Spirit project. We ask whether different understandings of ‘mind’, broadly construed, might shape the ways that people attend to and interpret thoughts and other mental events – and whether their judgements affect their experience of (what they take to be) gods and spirits. We argue in this collection that there are indeed cultural differences in local theories of minds, in the way social worlds draws the line between interior and exterior, and that these differences do affect the way people sense invisible others. This introduction lays out the ideas that inspired the project and the methods that we used. This is the first report on our work.
Thinking about thinking: the mind's porosity and the presence of the gods
Authors: Luhrmann T.M. 
Published: March 2020

AbstractThe Mind and Spirit project found that the way a social world invites its members to experience thought appears to have consequences. When the boundary between inner awareness and outer world is culturally represented as porous, so that thoughts can be construed to move in and out of the mind as if they had agency and power, people are more likely to describe their experience of invisible others as if those others could be experienced with the senses. They are more likely to say that a god or spirit spoke in a way they could hear with their ears, or that they sensed a presence in the room.
Alternative balanced scorecards built from paradigm models in strategic HRM and employment/industrial relations and used to measure the state of employment relations and HR system performance across U.S. workplaces
Authors: Kaufman Bruce E. , Barry Michael , Wilkinson Adrian , Gomez Rafael 
Published: March 2020

AbstractThis paper constructs alternative balanced scorecards based on high‐performance work system (HPWS) and employment relations system (ERS) models. The models are depicted and compared in diagrams and used as framework skeletons for building separate HPWS and ERS scorecards, intended to provide a detailed data picture of the operational health and performance of an organization's employment/HR system and its operations, processes, and inputs/outputs. The scorecards are filled in with nationally representative data from 2,000+ U.S. workplaces using more than 50 employment/HR indicators, as reported by separate panels of managers and employees. The indicators for each workplace are aggregated into an overall HR/employment system score, ranked from low‐to‐high, and graphed as frequency distributions. These distributions provide a unique snapshot picture of the mean and dispersion of the state of employment relations and HR system performance for companies across the United State. They also reveal that “models matter” since the HPWS and ERS scorecards provide distinctly different evaluation assessments.
A reverse chemical ecology approach to explore wood natural durability
Authors: Perrot Thomas , Salzet Guillaume , Amusant Nadine , Beauchene Jacques , Gérardin Philippe , Dumarçay Stéphane , Sormani Rodnay , Morel‐Rouhier Mélanie , Gelhaye Eric 
Published: March 2020

SummaryThe natural durability of wood species, defined as their inherent resistance to wood‐destroying agents, is a complex phenomenon depending on many biotic and abiotic factors. Besides the presence of recalcitrant polymers, the presence of compounds with antimicrobial properties is known to be important to explain wood durability. Based on the advancement in our understanding of fungal detoxification systems, a reverse chemical ecology approach was proposed to explore wood natural durability using fungal glutathione transferases. A set of six glutathione transferases from the white‐rot Trametes versicolor were used as targets to test wood extracts from seventeen French Guiana neotropical species. Fluorescent thermal shift assays quantified interactions between fungal glutathione transferases and these extracts. From these data, a model combining this approach and wood density significantly predicts the wood natural durability of the species tested previously using long‐term soil bed tests. Overall, our findings confirm that detoxification systems could be used to explore the chemical environment encountered by wood‐decaying fungi and also wood natural durability.
Available Water Supplies in Beijing, China, Under Single‐ and Multi‐Year Drought
Authors: Chang Huanyu , Zhao Yong , Wang Qingming , Wang Jianhua , Li Haihong , Zhai Jiaqi , Han Jingyan , Jiang Shan 
Published: March 2020

AbstractSince its implementation in 2015, the Middle Route of the South‐to‐North Water Diversion Project (MR‐SNWDP) has transferred an average of 45 billion cubic meters of surface water per year from the Yangtze River in southern China to the Yellow River and Hai River Basin in northern China, but how that supply is able to cope with droughts under different scenarios has not been explored. In this study, using the water demand for 2020 as the guaranteed water target, a Water Evaluation and Planning system was used to simulate available water supplies in Beijing under different drought scenarios. In the case of a single‐year drought, without the MR‐SNWDP, Beijing’s water shortage ratio was 16.7%; with the MR‐SNWDP, this ratio reduced to 7.3%. In the case of a multi‐year drought, without the MR‐SNWDP, Beijing’s water shortage ratio was 25.3%; with the MR‐SNWDP, this ratio reduced to 7.4% and domestic water supply was improved. Our research suggests that to prepare for multi‐year drought in the Beijing area, the SNWDP supports increased supplies to the region that would mitigate drought effects. This study is, however, mostly focused on water supply provision to Beijing and does not comprehensively evaluate other potential impacts. Multiple additional avenues could be pursued that include replenishing groundwater, increasing reservoir storage, and water conservation methods. Further research is needed to explore the relative costs and benefits of these approaches.