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Gender differences in organizational commitment and rewards within Japanese manufacturing companies in China
Authors: Kokubun Keisuke , Yasui Misako 
Published: November 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate gender differences in organizational commitment (OC) and the relationship between OC and rewards among employees who work for Japanese manufacturing companies within China.Design/methodology/approachThis study utilized hierarchical regression analysis to examine survey data obtained from 27,854 employees who worked for 64 Japanese manufacturing companies within China.FindingsThe results reveal that autonomy and role clarity had a stronger influence, and co-worker support had a weaker influence, on OC for male employees than for female employees. These differences may be because more male employees than female employees prefer working with higher autonomy and well-defined roles than with co-worker support. After all, male employees, who place a great emphasis on independence, competition, decision-making and challenges, rely on intrinsic rewards more than social rewards.Research limitations/implicationsThis study used data collected from Japanese manufacturing companies to understand the differences between OC and rewards in local male and female Chinese employees. We recommend that future research uses other national affiliates to clarify the characteristics of male and female Chinese workers more objectively and to test the validity of this research.Practical implicationsThe results of this study support revising human resource management practices within multinational enterprises to enable female and male host-country workers to contribute to their companies on a long-term basis by taking into account the differences between the cultures of the home and host countries.Originality/valueAlthough previous research has elucidated the OC–rewards relationship in particular countries, it has not met the requirements of foreign managers from different corporate cultures who face differences in the OC–rewards relationship between their male and female employees. In this sense, this research is the first attempt to tackle this theme and contribute to the literature.
Factors influencing intention to follow the “stay at home” policy during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Sumaedi Sik , Bakti I. Gede Mahatma Yuda , Rakhmawati Tri , Widianti Tri , Astrini Nidya J. , Damayanti Sih , Massijaya M. Azwar , Jati Rahmi K. 
Published: November 2020

PurposeThis research seeks to simultaneously test the effect of attitude towards the behavior of following the “Stay at Home” policy, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, perceived susceptibility and perceived severity on people's intention to follow the “Stay at Home” policy during COVID-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected through an online survey with 148 respondents in the Greater Area of Jakarta, Indonesia. The data were then analyzed using multiple regressions.FindingsThe findings show that attitude towards the behavior, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control positively and significantly affect intention to follow “Stay at Home” during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, perceived susceptibility and perceived severity of COVID-19 do not significantly influence the intention to follow “Stay at Home” during the COVID-19 pandemic.Research limitations/implicationsThis research was limited to the Greater Area of Jakarta, Indonesia. Furthermore, sampling was done through convenience sampling. Therefore, future research should be conducted in a different context to test the generalization of this research's findings.Practical implicationsTo encourage citizens' adherence to the stay-at-home policy during the COVID-19 pandemic, they must be directed to have positive attitudes toward the policy. Financial and non-financial supports are critical to ensure citizens' ability to sufficiently observe the policy sufficiently. Another important aspect is the influence of leaders and public figures to consistently call for obedience consistently.Originality/valueThis is the first research that studies citizens' behavior related to the “Stay at Home” policy requisitioned by the government to hinder the spread of COVID-19.
Internal flexibility in health-care organizations: a value-laden perspective on sustainability
Authors: Kumar Pradeep 
Published: November 2020

Purpose
This study aims to identify the constituents of internal flexibility in health-care organizations for achieving sustainability. The study incorporates resources-based theory and resource-dependence theory to illustrate how health-care organizations exhibit internal flexibility to redress environmental uncertainties and maximize organizational responsiveness.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper conducts a case study in a health-care organization to explore how health-care organizations acquire several resources for attaining internal flexibility. A survey of health-care professionals was conducted to assess the relationships using partial least squares-structural equation modeling.

Findings
In the present study, the dimensions of internal flexibility in health-care organizations are identified. This study also established internal flexibility as a higher-order factor and explained its underlying aspects as a value-laden perspective on sustainability.

Research limitations/implications
The study was conducted in the public health-care context in India. The framework needs to be tested in another context. The sample size for the study was limited to health-care experts, which could be extended to include the customer’s perspective.

Originality/value
The study contributes to the body of knowledge by identifying the specific dimensions of internal flexibility and explains as a higher-order factor. It enhances the understanding of sustainability from a flexibility perspective of the firm.
Should a family firm communicate their family identity and country of origin? A cross-cultural study from Chile and Spain
Authors: Alonso Dos Santos Manuel , Llanos Contreras Orlando , Calabuig Moreno Ferran , Augusto Felicio Jose 
Published: November 2020

PurposeThis paper investigates the influence of firms' communication in terms of family firm identity and country-of-origin on consumer response.Design/methodology/approachA self-supplied online experiment in Chile and Spain is employed using as dependent variables brand trust and intention to buy. The experiment includes the following factors: family firm identity (family vs non-family), country of origin (national vs foreign) and as a manipulation check (type of product: hedonic vs utilitarian).FindingsThe results indicate that communicating the family firm identity increases brand trust and purchase intention. Consumers show higher scores on trust and purchase intention when exposed to national country of origin products. The effect of the variability on the dependent variables is greater when the family firm identity is communicated. Trust and purchase intention are different in Chilean and Spanish consumers when the family firm identity is combined with a national country of origin cue.Originality/valueThis article contributes to family business theory by exploring how to capitalize on the family firm identity component in brand communication. It also contributes to the theory of corporate brand identity by proposing a communication model oriented toward consumer behavior. It also examines firms' communication (family firm identity and country-of-origin) on consumer.
Intrapreneurial behaviors of organizational members. A conceptual view: how contextual expectations can explain the entrepreneurship roles in organizations?
Authors: Arun Korhan , Begeç Suat , Okun Olcay 
Published: November 2020

Purpose
This study aims to develop theoretical arguments about the factors promoting nascent intrapreneurship relative to role theory. These arguments principally draw on contributions from interactional and structural sociology. Fixed theoretical tools for intrapreneurship are not quite enough. So, structural and interactionist perspective of sociology is necessary to understand the intrapreneurship concept because intrapreneurs live in a society and shape their course per the expectations of others. Previous approaches depend on individual, organizations or environment to push potential employees to be intrapreneurs. Expectations may be a keystone for intrapreneurship because intrapreneurs have been trying to explain or make progress about what is seen as crucial; more importantly, they learn their roles.

Design/methodology/approach
This is a conceptual paper about explaining intrapreneurship. Foregoing literature has been trying to explain the phenomenon by individual, organizational or environment endeavors to transform employees to be intrapreneurs. Role theory stems from interactional and structural sociology. Promoting the internal entrepreneur process by overcoming resistance to switching to a more structured management approach and adopting management systems and processes in a timely way is still a vague approach. So, the structural and interactionist perspective of sociology is necessary to understand the concept because intrapreneurship is a contextual factor rather than activity.

Findings
Expectations can convey what others consider particularly important or necessary. Intrapreneurship is a type of personal entrepreneur role influenced by expectations.

Practical implications
Intrapreneurship is not solely entrepreneurship in organizations but is also governed by the specific combinations of circumstances generally outside of the organizational environment, such as families, coworkers and friends.

Originality/value
The present paper seeks to answer three primary research questions: how differentiation among subunits changes intrapreneurship role expectations, how the intrapreneurs’ role has been affected from unlike expectations and are group or team-level expectations on intrapreneurs’ roles distinctive than organization and individual levels.
Authenticity, rapport and interactional justice in frontline service: the moderating role of need for uniqueness
Authors: Lindsey-Hall Kristina K. , Jaramillo Susana , Baker Thomas L. , Arnold Julian M. 
Published: November 2020

Purpose
This paper aims to investigate how perceptions of employee authenticity and customer–employee rapport influence customers’ interactional justice assessments and related service evaluations, and how customers’ need for uniqueness impacts these relationships.

Design/methodology/approach
A multi-method, three-study design is used to test the research model. Specifically, structural equation modeling provides tests of the main hypotheses, and two supplemental experimental studies tease out conditional effects providing insightful managerial contributions.

Findings
Results indicate that customers’ perceptions of employee authenticity affect customers’ interactional justice evaluations, particularly when customers identify high levels of customer–employee rapport. Additionally, the aforementioned relationships are contingent upon customers’ need for uniqueness, such that customers with higher levels of need for uniqueness experience lower levels of customer–employee rapport and, consequently, provide poorer interactional justice assessments. Finally, conditional effects are found given the type of provider and frequency of visit.

Originality/value
This research extends prior efforts to understand how customer–employee dynamics influence customers’ service encounter evaluations. In particular, it furthers understanding of authentic FLE–customer encounters, explores drivers of interactional justice and explicates how consumers’ varying levels of need for uniqueness have differential effects on service outcomes.
Religiosity, idealism, and ethical consumption: the mediating effect of perceived customer effectiveness and moral obligation
Authors: Alsaad Abdallah , Saif-Alyousfi Abdulazeez Y.H. , Elrehail Hamzah 
Published: November 2020

Purpose
The cognitive processes through which religiosity and idealism affect ethical consumption have received little attention in prior research. This study aims to explore the influence of religiosity and idealism on ethical purchasing intention through moral obligation and perceived customer effectiveness (PCE).

Design/methodology/approach
The study analyses data from 149 Muslim participants in Saudi Arabia, using structural equation modelling.

Findings
The results reveal that religiosity leads to PCE but not to moral obligation and that idealism leads to both PCE and moral obligation. Mediation analysis indicated that PCE mediates the effect of both religiosity and idealism, although moral obligation only mediates the effect of idealism.

Research limitations/implications
This research enriches the understanding of ethical consumption and contributes to the debate on how religiosity and idealism affect ethical consumption. It also has significant implications for theory and the development of sustainable marketing initiatives. Marketing campaigns and other promotional activities may focus on the interconnection between ethical purchase and the religious and ideology dimensions of consumers. Also, while formulating a communication strategy, it is necessary to emphasize the religious dimension of the sustainable use of the product.

Originality/value
Moral obligation and PCE have been shown as cognitive and psychological mechanisms explaining the links between religiosity or idealism and ethical purchasing behaviour.
Effects of red tape in public sector organizations: a study of government departments in Pakistan
Authors: Rauf Sana 
Published: November 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the emergence and integration of red tape and how its negative effects on public sector organizations' performance have weakened the economies of developing countries such as Pakistan.Design/methodology/approachA structured questionnaire survey was completed by 121 respondents working in 35 government departments in Punjab, a province of Pakistan.FindingsThe findings revealed a link between red-tapism and employees' motivation and work. When there is excessiveness of rules and regulations, employees are prevented from completing assigned tasks, ultimately resulting in decreased work commitment. This indicates that the integration of red tape into public organizations not only affects employees' behavior and attitudes but also impacts the overall performance of public sector organizations.Originality/valueThis paper provides recommendations for the Pakistani government. For example, conducting training and motivational workshops for public sector employees can help them stay engaged with their work. Government departments should also review the steps and procedures involved so as to eliminate unnecessary steps and reduce red-tapism.
Influences of structural parameters on the thermal properties of coated glass fiber fabrics under ablation condition investigated by numerical model
Authors: Zheng Zhenrong , Wang Jiawei , Zhang Qian , Mao Kezhu , Luo Lijuan , Liu Yuanjun 
Published: November 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of structural parameters of fabric on thermal insulation properties of the coated fabric.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors established a numerical model for the ablation of silicone resin-coated fabric under high heat flow, and the simulation results have been validated by quartz lamp ablation experiment. The model was used to investigate the effects of structural parameters of glass fiber fabrics on the heat transfer process of the coated fabric.

Findings
The numerical values were in agreement with the experimental values. The thermal insulation of the coated glass fiber fabric was better than coated carbon fabric. Thermal insulation performance of the coated glass fiber fabrics was in order plain < 2/1 twill < 3/3 twill < 5/3 stain fabric. Increasing the warp density, from 100 to 180 ends/10 cm, the temperature of the back surface of the coated glass fiber fabric was reduced from 601°C to 553°C. Thermal insulation performance dramatically increased as yarn fineness went from 129 to 280 tex, and the temperature difference was 63°C.

Research limitations/implications
In the ablation process, to simplify the calculation, the combustion reaction of silicone resin was ignored, which can be added in the future research.

Originality/value
This paper provides the ablation model of the silicon-coated fabric based on the 3D geometry model to explore the influence of the structural parameters of coated glass fiber fabric on its thermal protection performance.
Black powder handgun shots—Cases analysis and literature review
Authors: Smędra Anna , Berent Jarosław 
Published: November 2020

AbstractBlack powder weapons are rarely used in countries where access to firearms is easy. Poland has a fairly restrictive law regarding possession of firearms but under the Weapons and Munitions Act of May 21, 1999, as further amended, the possession of black powder weapons using separate loaded ammunition and manufactured before 1885, or replicas thereof, is legal without a permit. When the amendment was introduced, forensic pathologists anticipated a rush of cases involving such weapons, mainly suicides, but also accidents and homicides, but in our own practice in Lodz over the past 10 years (2010–2019) we have encountered only 7 such cases. Although the number is not particularly high, it does nevertheless account for nearly one‐fifth of all gunshot deaths in the area. The aim of this paper is to present a series of deaths involving the use of black powder handguns. In analyzed cases, the victims were mostly men, they were sober, and their manner of death was suicide. As far as age was concerned, no regularity was found. All black powder handgun shots were characteristic enough in comparison with those from conventional firearms that they could be identified easily—the entrance wounds were larger than usual, there was a lot of gunpowder around them and in the wound canal, the bone fractures were extensive. Analysis of the literature and of our own material indicates that easy availability is not the only factor affecting the choice of a weapon; ease of use and reliability are also important.
Effect of a 1‐year short message service in detoxified alcohol‐dependent patients: a multi‐center, open‐label randomized controlled trial
Authors: Lucht Michael , Quellmalz Anne , Mende Meinhard , Broda Anja , Schmiedeknecht Anett , Brosteanu Oana , Höppner‐Buchmann Jacqueline , Langosch Jens , Stuppe Markus , Schomerus Georg , Klauer Thomas , Grabe Hans J. , Freyberger Harald J. , John Ulrich , Meyer Christian 
Published: November 2020

AbstractBackground and AimsExisting evidence suggests that text message interventions can help people to reduce their alcohol consumption. However, studies with alcohol‐dependent patients are lacking. In this study a 1‐year automatic mobile phone‐based short messaging service (SMS) intervention on alcohol consumption in patients after alcohol detoxification in hospital was compared with treatment as usual.DesignMulti‐center, randomized, controlled, two parallel‐group, observer‐blinded trial.Setting and ParticipantsPrimary and secondary care: four hospitals and community (1 million residents, 7600 km2 area in Germany). A total of 462 patients with alcohol dependence (ICD‐10) were included during inpatient detoxification treatment. Patients were randomly assigned (1 : 1) to an SMS intervention and treatment as usual (SMS + TAU; n = 230; mean age: 45.4 years; 22.6% women) or TAU alone (n = 232 mean age: 44.5 years; 22.8% women). Planned, automated messages were sent to patients over 1 year to record assistance needs. A ‘yes’ or missing response triggered a telephone call from a hospital therapist. Outcome was assessed by an independent survey center.MeasurementsThe primary end‐point was a three‐category alcohol consumption measure covering months 10–12 after discharge: abstinence, non‐heavy drinking, heavy drinking [men > 60 g/day; women > 40 g/day equal to World Health Organization (WHO) criteria: high risk and very high risk, mean consumption]. Secondary end‐points were number of abstinent days over 12 months and frequency of abstinence.ResultsThe arms differed primarily in the heavy drinking category (intervention group 22.2%, TAU‐only group 32.3%) in months 9–12. This is reflected by an odds ratio (OR) = 1.68, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.11–2.54, P = 0.015 for heavy drinking versus non‐heavy drinking/abstinence. No difference between treatments was found with respect to any drinking versus abstinence (OR = 1.13). These results were confirmed by models adjusting for randomization strata.ConclusionsIn Germany, a 12‐month mobile phone short messaging service‐based intervention enhanced the reduction in heavy drinking for 1 year in routine care among adults with alcohol dependence discharged from inpatient alcohol detoxification.
Early or deferred initiation of efavirenz during rifampicin‐based TB therapy has no significant effect on CYP3A induction in TB‐HIV infected patients
Authors: Aklillu Eleni , Zumla Alimuddin , Habtewold Abiy , Amogne Wondwossen , Makonnen Eyasu , Yimer Getnet , Burhenne Jürgen , Diczfalusy Ulf 
Published: November 2020

Background and PurposeIn TB‐HIV co‐infection, prompt initiation of TB therapy is recommended but anti‐retroviral treatment (ART) is often delayed due to potential drug–drug interactions between rifampicin and efavirenz. In a longitudinal cohort study, we evaluated the effects of efavirenz/rifampicin co‐treatment and time of ART initiation on CYP3A induction.Experimental ApproachTreatment‐naïve TB‐HIV co‐infected patients (n = 102) were randomized to efavirenz‐based‐ART after 4 (n = 69) or 8 weeks (n = 33) of commencing rifampicin‐based anti‐TB therapy. HIV patients without TB (n = 94) receiving efavirenz‐based‐ART only were enrolled as control. Plasma 4β‐hydroxycholesterol/cholesterol (4β‐OHC/Chol) ratio, an endogenous biomarker for CYP3A activity, was determined at baseline, at 4 and 16 weeks of ART.Key ResultsIn patients treated with efavirenz only, median 4β‐OHC/Chol ratios increased from baseline by 269% and 275% after 4 and 16 weeks of ART, respectively. In TB‐HIV patients, rifampicin only therapy for 4 and 8 weeks increased median 4β‐OHC/Chol ratios from baseline by 378% and 576% respectively. After efavirenz/rifampicin co‐treatment, 4β‐OHC/Chol ratios increased by 560% of baseline (4 weeks) and 456% of baseline (16 weeks). Neither time of ART initiation, sex, genotype nor efavirenz plasma concentration were significant predictors of 4β‐OHC/Chol ratios after 4 weeks of efavirenz/rifampicin co‐treatment.Conclusion and ImplicationsRifampicin induced CYP3A more potently than efavirenz, with maximum induction occurring within the first 4 weeks of rifampicin therapy. We provide pharmacological evidence that early (4 weeks) or deferred (8 weeks) ART initiation during anti‐TB therapy has no significant effect on CYP3A induction.LINKED ARTICLESThis article is part of a themed issue on Oxysterols, Lifelong Health and Therapeutics. To view the other articles in this section visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.v178.16/issuetoc