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Corporate impact of carbon disclosures: a nonlinear empirical approach
Authors: Mora Rodríguez Maria , Flores Muñoz Francisco , Valentinetti Diego 
Published: July 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of recent developments in corporate reporting, specifically from the carbon disclosure project (CDP) environment, in the evolution of European post-crisis financial markets.

Design/methodology/approach
Theoretical and instrumental advancements from nonlinear dynamics have been applied to the analysis of market behaviour and the online presence or reputation of major European listed banks.

Findings
The application of a nonlinear statistical methodology (i.e. the autoregressive fractionally integrated moving average [ARFIMA] estimation model) demonstrates the presence of a long history of collected data, thus indicating a certain degree of predictability in the time series. Also, this study confirms the existence of structural breakpoints, specifically the impact of the CDP reporting in both stock prices and online search trends of the sampled companies for certain periods.

Research limitations/implications
This study introduces new methodological perspectives in corporate reporting studies, as the application of nonlinear techniques can be more effective in capturing corporate transparency issues. A limitation to overcome is to explore whether the impact of reporting is different due to the specific reporting behaviour each company adopts.

Practical implications
The “breakpoint” concept should enlighten the importance to firms of providing more information in specific moments, which can impact on both traditional (i.e. stock prices) and modern (i.e. online popularity) performance metrics. Additionally, it should be taken into account by stakeholders, when analysing the accountability of firms to improve their decision-making processes and policymakers, for monitoring and contrasting speculative and insider trading activities.

Social implications
Online search trends represent a new public attitude to how society “measures” the effectiveness of firms’ disclosure behaviours.

Originality/value
Combining ARFIMA with structural break techniques can be regarded as a relevant and complementary addition to classic “market reaction” or “value relevance” techniques.
Sustainable human resource management: a systematic review of a developing field
Authors: Anlesinya Alex , Susomrith Pattanee 
Published: July 2020

PurposeThis study aims to systematically review sustainable human resource management (HRM) research with the aim of establishing its research themes, methods and contextual focus to develop a better understanding of the state of the field and the gaps in the research, as well as to propose a future research agenda.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses a systematic literature review method that involves the use of 122 studies from six reputable databases covering January 2003 to March 2020.FindingsThere is an over-concentration on the ecological perspective of sustainable HRM and managers dominate the examined population. Moreover, there are geographical imbalances in sustainable HRM research. More so, the idea of bundling sustainable HRM practices together has received scanty research attention relative to the individual sustainable HRM best practices. Consequently, from a strategic HRM perspective, the authors highlight various ways to bundle sustainable HRM practices together. Also, the authors suggest that the ability-motivation-opportunity enhancing (AMO) theory’s perspective provides particularly useful means for this investigation. Furthermore, the findings suggest that sustainable HRM can influence organisations to become more competitive and effective in their quests to ensure economic prosperity, social well-being and ecological outcomes for their stakeholders.Practical implicationsThe evidence reveals that there are significant gaps in the literature on the topic and confirms that the field is still at its developmental stage. Hence, there is a need for more rigorous research on the topic to help develop a better understanding of this new field.Originality/valueThis study contributes by providing the first comprehensive review of sustainable HRM themes, methods and contextual focus and by proposing future research agenda. It, therefore, offers a valuable point of departure for those moving into the sustainable HRM domain, as well as valuable insights for those already working in this space.
Development of a decision support system for assessing the supply chain risk mitigation strategies: an application in Indian petroleum supply chain
Authors: Tarei Pradeep Kumar , Thakkar Jitesh J. , Nag Barnali 
Published: July 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop a decision support system (DSS) to assist supply chain (SC) risk managers to select a suitablerisk management(RM) strategy and expedite the implementation of corresponding RM enablers. The relationship between RM strategies and RM enablers is explored by identifying the underlying factors between them, which is further used to build the DSS.Design/methodology/approachThe DSS is built by integrating heterogeneous techniques. Asystematic reviewapproach is employed to explore bothproactiveandreactiveRM enablers, and they are further mapped to various RM strategies by using correspondence analysis(CA). Anin-depth interviewis conducted to develop the rules for constructing the decision system. A rule-basedfuzzy inference system(FIS) is utilized to counteract the uncertainty involved in the decision variables. The efficacy of the proposed DSS is demonstrated by considering two conjectural scenarios in the case of Indian petroleum SC (IPSC).FindingsThe results reveal three primary underlying factors between the risk mitigation strategies viz. SC managers'preparednessto face risk, organization'sresource capabilityto deal with risk and thesophistication of the implementationof the RM enablers; with explained variances of 37%, 29% and 22%, respectively.Risk avoidancestrategy comprises of RM enablers such assupplier evaluation, technology adaption, information security,etc. Whereas, therisk-sharingstrategy includesrevenue sharing, insurance, collaboration, public-private-partnership, etc.as essential RM enablers. The DSS recommendsrisk-mitigationandrisk-sharingas effective RM strategies for the IPSC under the considered scenarios.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper develops a decision support framework for recommending an effective risk mitigation strategy and outranking the corresponding enablers. The study explicitly focuses on the risk mitigation step of the supply chain risk management (SCRM) process. Pre- and post-risk mitigation steps of the SCRM process, such as risk assessment and risk monitoring are beyond the scope of this research.Originality/valueThe operational procedure of the proposed DSS is explained by considering a real-life case of petroleum SC in the Indian scenario. The unique contributions of this study are presented astheoretical implicationsandmanagerial propositionsin the context of a developing country.
You are a brand: social media managers’ personal branding and “the future audience”
Authors: Jacobson Jenna 
Published: July 2020

Purpose
Social media management is an emerging profession that is growing as companies increasingly adopt social media. The purpose of this paper is to analyze social media managers’ personal branding.

Design/methodology/approach
In-depth qualitative data is drawn from 20 semi-structured interviews with social media managers and supported by three years of orienting fieldwork in Toronto, Canada.

Findings
Social media managers are responsible for managing and executing organizations’ brands and presence on social media and digital platforms. As lead users of social media, social media managers provide critical insight into the emerging practices of personal branding on social media. “The future audience” is introduced to describe how individuals project a curated brand for all future unknown and unanticipated audiences, which emphasizes a professional identity. Due to workplace uncertainty, social media managers embody the mentality of being “always-on-the-job-market”, which is a driver for personal branding in their attempt to gain or maintain employment.

Originality/value
While personal branding is largely discussed by industry professionals, there is a need for empirical research on personal branding that examines how various employee groups experience personal branding. This research fills this gap by analyzing how people working in social media brand their identity and how their personal branding is used to market themselves to gain and maintain employment. The development of “the future audience” and “always-on-the-job-market” can be used to understand other professions and experiences of personal branding.
Self-presentation and interactivity: luxury branding on social media
Authors: Wang Ye , Chen Huan 
Published: July 2020

Purpose
This paper aims to examine the influence of different self-presentation strategies (cultural, personal and informational posts) and interactivity on luxury brands’ social media advertising.

Design/methodology/approach
Three pre-tests and a main experiment collected responses from 459 Chinese participants in total.

Findings
Cultural posts significantly influenced brand attitudes, interest and purchase intention, and the effects were mediated by perceived reinforcement of the brand’s social media account. Informational posts added to perceived informativeness of the brand’s social media account, but were more likely to trigger a perception that the brand was conservative and distancing itself from consumers. Interactivity increased perceived closeness and reduced perceived inactiveness and conservativeness of the brand’s social media account and subsequently improved brand attitudes. Perception of brand’s social media accountfully mediated the effects of self-presentation strategies and interactivity on brand attitudes, interest and purchase intention.

Research limitations/implications
Self-presentation transfers desirable brand associations to luxury brands, reinforces brand image, and subsequently influences responses to luxury brands. Interactivity largely influences relational perceptions and brand attitudes.

Practical implications
Curating content about brand heritage and culture creates a social media self-presentation that is effective and influential on consumers. Brand and product information satisfies informational needs. Interactivity maintains customer relationship.

Originality/value
A theoretical model of luxury brands’ advertising was generated from the findings.
How blockchain technology can monetize new music ventures: an examination of new business models
Authors: Owen Robyn , O'Dair Marcus 
Published: July 2020

Purpose
This paper aims to examine how blockchain technology is disrupting business models for new venture finance.

Design/methodology/approach
The role of blockchain technology in the evolution of new business models to monetize the creative economy is explored by means of a case study approach. The focus is on the recorded music industry, which is in the vanguard of new forms of intermediation and financialization. There is a particular focus on emerging artists.

Findings
This paper provides novel case study insights and concludes by considering how further research can contribute to building a theory of technology-driven business models which apply to the development, on the one hand, of new forms of financial intermediaries, more correctly referred to as “infomediaries,” and on the other hand, to new forms of direct monetization by artists.

Originality/value
This paper provides early insight into the emerging potential applications of blockchain technologies to streamline music industry business service models and improve finance streams for new artists. The findings have far-reaching implications across the creative sector.
Building positive resilience through vulnerability analysis
Authors: Kubacki Krzysztof , Siemieniako Dariusz , Brennan Linda 
Published: July 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to propose an integrative framework for vulnerability analysis in social marketing systems by identifying, investigating and problematising the relationships among several interrelated concepts, including power, power asymmetry, vulnerability and resilience, in the context of social marketing systems.

Design/methodology/approach
This is a conceptual paper synthesising literature from social marketing, sociology and marketing management.

Findings
The main outcome of the discussion is a proposed integrative framework for vulnerability analysis. The framework identifies the main groups of stakeholders within a social marketing system and the bases for their power and consequential power asymmetries. It focusses on the types and states of vulnerability to identify the distinct characteristics of the social conditions of vulnerability for micro-level system actors. It leads to building positive resilience through efforts aiming to change the power asymmetries at the downstream, midstream and upstream levels.

Originality/value
The integrative framework for vulnerability analysis answers the call from Wood (2019) for the development of practical approaches to better understand resilience-building approaches in social marketing programmes. The framework provides reconciliation for diverse dimensions of vulnerability as a natural characteristic of all social marketing systems and as a universal, constant and inherent social condition.
Utopian and dystopian ideological systems and unintended and adverse consequences
Authors: Usó Doménech José Luis , Nescolarde-Selva Josué Antonio , Lloret-Climent Miguel , Alonso Kristian , Gash Hugh 
Published: July 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate mathematically the impossibility of achieving a utopian society. Demonstrate that any attempt to correct deviations from a hypothetical trajectory whose ultimate goal is the utopia, increasingly demands more work, including measures that lead to terror, which may even be absolute, leading to the horrible paradox that in seeking paradise hell is constructed.

Design/methodology/approach
Scientific tools that the authors have used are: the theory of the system linkage, alysidal algebra, kinematic theory and vector analysis.

Findings
Myths are the substrate of some complex systems of beliefs and utopia is its ultimate goal. The use of the combination of the theory of trajectories, belonging to the alysidal algebra, the theorem of unintended effects and kinematics theory provides an approximation to deviations suffering utopian ideological currents and their corrections.

Originality/value
This paper is a continuation of other previous papers developing the theory of complex societies.
Tax increment financing and major league venues
Authors: Sroka Robert 
Published: July 2020

PurposeThis article intends to shine a light on venue-related tax increment financing (TIF) through the first comprehensive inventory of its use at the major league level.Design/methodology/approachFor each 2018 venue in the five North American major leagues, data was collected on TIF contributions to direct venue capital costs as well as to projects using TIF to enable real estate development ancillary to a venue. Neighborhoods surrounding a venue were also assessed for the presence of a TIF district. With both the direct and ancillary elements, data was collected from government, industry, academic, mapping and media sources. A review of this data set and findings are followed by a discussion of implications and directions for future work.FindingsOver one-third of the TIF eligible permanent stadiums and arenas studied in the five major leagues have a direct or strong TIF connection. Direct TIF contributions to sports venues, as well as TIF use intended to generate real estate development around these venues, are most frequent and financially significant in arenas and soccer-specific stadiums. Additionally, arena and stadium projects using TIF often accompany ancillary real estate development.Originality/valueA primary purpose of this article is to provide a previously missing general reference resource to governments and citizens of jurisdictions considering facility TIF use on the scope, nature, extent and identity of TIF projects related to major league sports venues. More generally, the inventory and assessment of TIF use in professional sports venues offered by this article sets the stage for future research on associative relationships between TIF contributions and facility finance outcomes as well as the normative value of venue-related TIF.
Experimental evidence of multiple ecosystem services and disservices provided by ecological intensification in Mediterranean agro‐ecosystems
Authors: Segre Hila , Segoli Michal , Carmel Yohay , Shwartz Assaf 
Published: July 2020

Abstract

Intensifying agricultural production in sustainable ways is pivotal to increasing food production while reducing environmental impacts. Ecological intensification is based on managing organisms that provide services underlying crop production to simultaneously intensify agricultural production and increase biodiversity. However, few studies address the interactions and trade‐offs between biodiversity, multiple ecosystem services and crop production.

We experimentally quantified the effect of uncultivated field margins, a prominent practice of ecological intensification, on agricultural production, biodiversity, as well as on multiple ecosystem services and disservices, in an intensive Mediterranean agro‐ecosystem. We used a split‐plot design and sampled butterflies, rodent and arthropod pests, arthropod natural enemies (both parasitoids and predators), weeds, damage to crop and crop yield in different distances into the field in 3 tomato and 11 wheat crops along the growing season.

Field margins increased natural enemy densities, reduced pest‐damage to crop and consequently increased yield in tomato crops. Notably, we found that pest control by one predator species was dominant in the field centre, whereas parasitoid natural enemies were confined to the field edges. Pest control was more prominent in the late crop‐stage compared to early season sampling and field margins increased weed control in tomato crops by reducing weed cover.

Field margins increased natural enemy densities in wheat at the beginning of the season, but effects on arthropod pests were inconsistent. Field margins slightly increased weed cover, but had no impact on rodent densities and total yield.

Butterfly abundance, but not richness, was positively affected by vegetated field margins.

Synthesis and applications. Promoting ecological intensification requires a holistic approach that considers the complex relationships among ecological and economic aspects of agro‐ecosystems. We found that ecologically intensified field margins provided pest and weed control in the highly intensive tomato crop, yet they increased weed cover in wheat, which could potentially restrict yields at the field scale. Farmers' guidelines should therefore consider the interactive effects of multiple services on a variety of crops. Moreover, biodiversity components that do not provide crop production services should be independently targeted (e.g. by sowing plants that provide food resources).
Genotypic diversity weakens competition within, but not between, plant species
Authors: Noto Akana E. , Hughes A. Randall 
Published: July 2020

Abstract

Intraspecific diversity can affect the ecological function of communities. Because community function is the outcome of species interactions, understanding how intraspecific diversity affects species interactions may shed light on the mechanism by which intraspecific diversity affects communities. Competition among and within plant species may be particularly important, as the relative strengths of these interactions can influence species coexistence and community stability.

We established a field experiment in a New England salt marsh to determine how plant intraspecific diversity affects both intra‐ and interspecific competition. Focal plants of two species (Spartina alterniflora and Spartina patens) were planted with S. alterniflora neighbours that were either genotypically identical to one another (monoculture) or genotypically distinct (polyculture).

After two growing seasons, S. alterniflora performance was enhanced in the presence of polyculture conspecific neighbours compared to monoculture neighbours, whereas S. patens was not strongly affected by diversity of its S. alterniflora neighbours. This suggests that intraspecific competition was weakened by intraspecific diversity, potentially even shifting to facilitation, but we did not find strong evidence of intraspecific diversity impacting interspecific competition. By weakening competition within species, intraspecific diversity may promote coexistence of genotypes within that species.

Synthesis. The community‐level effects of intraspecific diversity may be mediated in part by its effect on intraspecific competition/facilitation. Furthermore, stronger intraspecific competition and decreased coexistence resulting from reduced diversity may exacerbate ongoing declines in biodiversity in response to global change.
Osmotic stress induces gut microbiota community shift in fish
Authors: Lai Keng Po , Lin Xiao , Tam Nathan , Ho Jeff Cheuk Hin , Wong Marty Kwok‐Shing , Gu Jie , Chan Ting Fung , Tse William Ka Fai 
Published: July 2020

SummaryAlteration of the gut microbiota plays an important role in animal health and metabolic diseases. However, little is known with respect to the influence of environmental osmolality on the gut microbial community. The aim of the current study was to determine whether the reduction in salinity affects the gut microbiota and identify its potential role in salinity acclimation. Using Oryzias melastigma as a model organism to perform progressive hypotonic transfer experiments, we evaluated three conditions: seawater control (SW), SW to 50% sea water transfer (SFW) and SW to SFW to freshwater transfer (FW). Our results showed that the SFW and FW transfer groups contained higher operational taxonomic unit microbiota diversities. The dominant bacteria in all conditions constituted the phylum Proteobacteria, with the majority in the SW and SFW transfer gut comprising Vibrio at the genus level, whereas this population was replaced by Pseudomonas in the FW transfer gut. Furthermore, our data revealed that the FW transfer gut microbiota exhibited a reduced renin–angiotensin system, which is important in SW acclimation. In addition, induced detoxification and immune mechanisms were found in the FW transfer gut microbiota. The shift of the bacteria community in different osmolality environments indicated possible roles of bacteria in facilitating host acclimation.