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Development and validation of counterproductive work behaviour instrument
Authors: Na-Nan Khahan , Pukkeeree Peerapong , Sanamthong Ekkasit , Wongsuwan Natthaya , Dhienhirun Auemporn 
Published: January 2020

Purpose
Counterproductive work behaviour (CWB) is a type of behaviour of an individual that works against an organisation or employer, and he/she is usually discretionary (i.e. individuals make conscious choices as to whether they want to commit aberrant work behaviour). To deal with CWB in different contexts, organisations need to both understand and continually measure their employees in terms of behaviour and work. This study aims to develop an instrument to measure CWB for small and medium-sized enterprises in Thailand.

Design/methodology/approach
The study was conducted in three stages to develop a measurement scale for CWB. First, 27 questions were developed as a questionnaire based on concepts and theories of CWB and then verified using exploratory factor analysis with three CWB dimensions, namely “poor behaviour”, “misuse of organisational resources” and “inappropriate communication”. The questionnaire surveyed a total of 386 individuals working in SMEs. Finally, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and convergent validity were examined following the three CWB dimensions.

Findings
Three dimensions were developed to measure CWB, including aspects of poor behaviour, misuse of organisational resources and inappropriate communication.

Practical implications
The CWB questionnaire has practical use for assessing employee behaviour and can assist organisations and practitioners to better understand the CWB of employees. This know-how will help practitioners to assess employee behaviour and can be used to manage or develop this into good behaviour as valued members of the organisation.

Originality/value
The validity of the CWB questionnaire questions will facilitate the future research on the boundaries with CWB assessments spanning different SMEs contexts. Empirical study results validated that CWB measurement offered new perspectives to explore vital employee behavioural deviation that are necessary for the inspection employee behavioural deviation. This instrumental support will also help researchers to effectively understand CWB and explore its potential in future studies.
Motivating follower creativity by offering intellectual stimulation
Authors: Thuan Le Cong 
Published: January 2020

PurposeThe purposes of this paper are first to resolve the inconsistent relationship between leader intellectual stimulation and follower creativity by investigating a promising moderator and then to examine the role of follower creative ability and job autonomy as mediating mechanisms linking leader intellectual stimulation with follower creativity.Design/methodology/approachA time-lagged study was undertaken to gather data from employees working in the information technology sector in Vietnam (N= 415). This study used structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the gathered data.FindingsThis study found a positive direct relationship between leader intellectual stimulation and follower creative performance. Moreover, the follower proactive personality moderated this direct relationship. Furthermore, the results illustrated that follower creative ability and job autonomy partially mediated the positive effect of leader intellectual stimulation on follower creativity.Originality/valueThis is one of the first studies to investigate the moderating role of follower proactive personality in resolving the inconsistent relationship between leader intellectual stimulation and follower creativity. Moreover, with using follower creative ability and job autonomy as mediating mechanisms, this study provides evidence that leader behaviors have a partially indirect association with follower creativity through follower abilities and work characteristics.
Rising commodity prices and welfare in Brazil
Authors: Moncarz Pedro Esteban , Barone Sergio Victor 
Published: January 2020

Purpose
Brazil, a large developing economy whose main exports consist of primary commodities, benefited greatly from the boom in commodity prices during the first decade of the current century. However, with a large share of its population with low and very low incomes, there is a potential for some adverse redistributive effects. The purpose of this paper is to address this issue by simulating the ex ante effects using a mixed endogenous–exogenous social accounting matrix (SAM) price model.

Design/methodology/approach
The methodology consists of two parts. First, using a mixed endogenous–exogenous SAM price model, the authors obtain the elasticities of domestic prices (goods, services and factors) in response to the increase in international prices of three types of commodities: agricultural, oil/gas and minerals. Second, the authors run micro-simulations at the household level on welfare effects, as well as on some distributive indices. Analysis at the regional level is also carried out.

Findings
Following increases in the international prices of primary commodities, the responses of internal prices (goods, services and factors) mean a welfare loss all over the entire distribution of household per capita expenditure; the least affected are those households at the low end and around the median of the distribution. However, the differences among households are not very important. Moreover, once we take into account government transfers and payments from social security, the magnitude of the effects reduces even further. Also, inequality indices and poverty rates show little responsiveness to the simulated shocks. Finally, poorer regions are the most likely to be affected, but also the distribution of effects across households shows differences between regions.

Originality/value
Economies with comparative advantages in the production of primary commodities can benefit at a macro-level from the increase in the international prices of such commodities. However, when a large part of the population spends a high proportion of its income on goods whose prices may be affected by the increase in commodity prices, there is a room for some undesirable effects from a redistributive standpoint. This study provides valuable results about such potential effects for Brazil, a large developing economy.
Exploring how teachers support students’ mathematical learning in computer-directed learning environments
Authors: Kessler Aaron , Boston Melissa , Stein Mary Kay 
Published: January 2020

PurposeThis study explores the teacher’s role for implementing a cognitive tutor (CT) intended to increase students’ knowledge of proportional reasoning and potential impacts on students’ learning.Design/methodology/approachUsing a mixed methods approach to design-based research, the authors examine results from three different phases of the CT implementation using frameworks from mathematics education research.FindingsBased on observations of 10 educators, the authors identify 4 different types of interactions among the CT, students and educators. Using observations and student assessment results (n= 134), the authors begin to build an argument that different types of interactions have the potential to impact students’ opportunities to learn in computer-directed learning environments.Originality/valueThe authors conclude that research on the efficacy of computer-directed learning environments should consider differences in implementation of CT materials and that the types of CT, student and educator interactions described herein provide a framework to support such exploration.
The nexus between product market competition and the quality of analysts’ forecasts: empirical evidence from Chinese-listed firms
Authors: Iqbal Amjad , Jebran Khalil , Umar Muhammad 
Published: January 2020

Purpose
This study aims to explore the relationship between product market competition (competition hereafter) and the quality of analysts’ forecasts.

Design/methodology/approach
This study uses industry-level (i.e. Herfindahl–Hirschman index), as well as firm-level (i.e. Lerner index) measures of competition and uses forecast accuracy and forecasts dispersion as proxies for analysts’ forecast quality. Further, this study considers a sample of Chinese-listed manufacturing companies for the period spanning 2005 to 2016 and uses various estimation techniques to empirically test the hypothesized relationship.

Findings
The results show that firms in highly competitive industries are characterized by greater accuracy and smaller dispersion in forecasts. Further, this positive association is more pronounced in SOEs as compared to NSOEs, and in industries characterized by intense competition. The sensitivity analysis further endorses the main results.

Practical implications
Presenting theoretical and empirical evidence, this study suggests that regulatory bodies should take steps to promote the competitive environment in China. This can help financial analysts in developing more accurate and reliable forecasts and ultimately can bring informational efficiency to the market. Finally, investors would be able to perform their business valuation process in a better way and make economic-useful decisions regarding their capital resource allocation.

Originality/value
The contribution of the current research is threefold: first, it adds to the limited literature available on this specific topic; second, this study examines the issue in China and further single out the influence of state-ownership and intensity of competition on the relation between competition and forecast properties; and third, this study provides theoretical arguments for the positive association between competition and forecasts quality while setting directions for future research on the topic and suggests the potential channels such as the reporting quality channel and the information disclosure channel that need to be explored further, to better understand the mechanism where competition influences the quality of analysts’ forecasts.
Manufacturing SMEs, network governance and global supply chains
Authors: Cragg Tony , McNamara Tom , Descubes Irena , Guerin Frank 
Published: January 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how small manufacturing firms develop and manage relationships with global suppliers and distributors. In so doing the authors aim to contribute to knowledge about SMEs and supply chain management (SCM).Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted 12 in-depth case studies of SME final assemblers of machinery in the French farm equipment sector.FindingsThe most effective form of global supply chain governance used by successful SMEs is informal networks involving managers in similar complementary firms, which serve to concatenate links with foreign suppliers and distributors.Research limitations/implicationsThe principal limitation of this research is that it is specific to one sector and therefore questions of transferability are raised.Practical implicationsThe important implication for managers in manufacturing SMEs is that links with other complementary local firms in the same sector need to be developed, leveraged and valued.Originality/valueThe originality of this case research is that the authors draw on inter-organisational boundaries, power asymmetries and network governance to develop a conceptual framework for the study of SMEs and global supply chains. By focusing on the perceptions of boundary-spanning managers, the authors show how, in circumstances of demand uncertainty, soft network governance is an effective strategic choice.
Integrating collaborative topic modeling and diversity for movie recommendations during news browsing
Authors: Liu Duen-Ren , Chou Yun-Cheng , Jian Ciao-Ting 
Published: January 2020

PurposeOnline news websites provide diverse article topics, such as fashion news, entertainment and movie information, to attract more users and create more benefits. Recommending movie information to users reading news online can enhance the impression of diverse information and may consequently improve benefits. Accordingly, providing online movie recommendations can improve users’ satisfactions with the website, and thus is an important trend for online news websites. This study aims to propose a novel online recommendation method for recommending movie information to users when they are browsing news articles.Design/methodology/approachAssociation rule mining is applied to users’ news and movie browsing to find latent associations between news and movies. A novel online recommendation approach is proposed based on latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), enhanced collaborative topic modeling (ECTM) and the diversity of recommendations. The performance of proposed approach is evaluated via an online evaluation on a real news website.FindingsThe online evaluation results show that the click-through rate can be improved by the proposed hybrid method integrating recommendation diversity, LDA, ECTM and users’ online interests, which are adapted to the current browsing news. The experiment results also show that considering recommendation diversity can achieve better performance.Originality/valueExisting studies had not investigated the problem of recommending movie information to users while they are reading news online. To address this problem, a novel hybrid recommendation method is proposed for dealing with cross-type recommendation tasks and the cold-start issue. Moreover, the proposed method is implemented and evaluated online in a real world news website, while such online evaluation is rarely conducted in related research. This work contributes to deriving user’s online preferences for cross-type recommendations by integrating recommendation diversity, LDA, ECTM and adaptive online interests. The research findings also contribute to increasing the commercial value of the online news websites.
The change in investor reaction to 10-K filings after Regulation Full Disclosure and the Sarbanes–Oxley Act
Authors: Bharati Rakesh , Crain Susan , Jategaonkar Shrikant 
Published: January 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the investor reaction to 10-K filings has changed since the implementation of Regulation Full Disclosure (FD) and the Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX) and examine whether the market still underreacts to 10-K content and exhibits the continuation of filing day returns (FDRs) documented by You and Zhang (2009) after the passage of these regulations.

Design/methodology/approach
The sample consists of 39,270 10-K filings over the sample period of 1996 to 2012. Performance of portfolios created based on FDRs around 10-K filings is examined. Regression models are used for multivariate analysis. Carhart αs are obtained using the four-factor risk adjustment model.

Findings
By comparing investor reaction to 10-K filings pre- and post-regulation, the paper shows a significant change in stock price behavior since the implementation of FD and SOX. Analogous to Burks (2011), results suggest improved price efficiency around 10-K filings. In the long-run of up to one year following the filing, the continuation of FDRs documented by You and Zhang (2009) disappears post-2000, especially after the implementation of SOX. Overall findings suggest that investors price the information in 10-K filings significantly differently after FD and SOX than before.

Research limitations/implications
The sample ends in 2012. Therefore, this study does not examine the implications of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Originality/value
The paper contributes to the literature related to the impact of FD and SOX and market reaction to filings of financial reports. The current literature documents that there is a continuation of FDRs up to a year. This paper shows that the continuation has disappeared since FD and SOX were implemented.
Are independent directors’ political connections valuable?
Authors: Chen Yanyu , Zheng Wenzhe , Huang Yimiao 
Published: January 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to use difference-in-difference method (DID) to study the influences of independent directors’ political connection on firm value.Design/methodology/approachFile No. 18 by the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee requires that the leading cadres in party and government offices are not allowed to act as independent directors; this restriction applies to retired officials as well. As a result, many listed companies lose the political connections of officers as independent directors. This paper takes it as an exogenous shock to evaluate the influence of the political connection of independent directors on firm value, effectively alleviating the endogeneity problem existing in previous studies.FindingsThe research finds the following: under the policy of compelled resignation, the loss of political connection of independent directors has a prominent negative impact on firm value; and compared to state-owned enterprises, the firm value of private enterprises receives a greater negative impact. However, the political advantage of state-owned enterprises is not obviously influenced. In the regions with worse external market environments, due to a greater reliance on resources brought about by political connection, the policy has a much greater influence on their listed companies.Research limitations/implicationsThe study faces several limitations, each of which represents a potential research direction. First, our analysis is based on the policy effects on the firm’s current Tobin’s Q and finds a negative effect of losing political connections. However, the long-term effects are still unclear, as some studies find a negative effect of political connections. Second, the paper focuses on one channel in which political connections may affect firm value. Other channels, such as subsidies and loans from state-owned banks, which need more granular data, should be explored in the future.Practical implicationsThe use of DID model can better objectively evaluate the implementation effects of ban policies and alleviate endogenous problems, which is also enlightening for further perfection of the system of independent directors in the A-share market.Social implicationsIt enriches existing researches of the value of independent directors from the perspective of political connection, which is conducive to understanding the influence and channel on the firm value after the loss of political connection and the value of independent directors in the corporate governance in a more comprehensive and accurate manner.Originality/valueThis paper extends the relevant research on the value of the political connection of independent directors from the perspective of political connection and enlightens the evaluation of the effect of ban policies.
Design and optimization of sensor array for magnetic gradient tensor system
Authors: Chen Shengzhi , Zhu Minghua , Zhang Qing , Cai Xuesong , Xiao Bo 
Published: January 2020

Purpose
The differential magnetic gradient tensor system is usually constructed from the three-axis magnetic sensor array. While the effects of measurement error, sensor performance and baseline distance on localization performance of such systems have been widely reported, the research about the effect of spatial design of sensor array is less presented. This paper aims to provide a spatial design method of sensor array and corresponding optimization strategy to localization based on magnetic tensor gradient to get the optimum design of the sensor array. Based on the results of simulation, magnetic localization systems constructed from the proposed array and the traditional array have been built to carry out a localization experiment. The results of experiment have verified the effectiveness of magnetic localization based on the proposed array.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors focus on the localization of the magnetic target based on magnetic gradient by using three-axis magnetic sensor array and combine a design method with corresponding optimization strategy to get the optimum design of the sensor array.

Findings
This paper provides an array design and optimization method for magnetic target localization based on magnetic gradient to improve the localization performance.

Originality/value
In this paper, the authors focus on the magnetic localization based on magnetic gradient by using three-axis magnetic sensors and study the effect of the spatial design of sensor array on localization performance.
Impact of corporate social responsibility practices on employee commitment
Authors: De Silva Keshara Manindri , De Silva Lokuwaduge Chitra Sriyani 
Published: January 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to critically review the existing literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR) to develop a framework to analyse the impact of CSR on employee commitment to the organisation.Design/methodology/approachUsing the scoping review, this paper reviewed the published articles on CSR and employee commitment and how CSR and employee commitment were defined, theoretically supported and conceptualised for a comprehensive understanding of current and future research directions in the field.FindingsThis paper presents a framework developed through the analysis of existing literature on the impact of CSR) on employee commitment to the organisation. This framework aims to explore the impact of internal CSR and external CSR on employee commitment while using the contractual position of employees as an intervening variable.Originality/valueDuring a time where employee attraction and retention is widely discussed as a competitive advantage, this framework could be used by any industry, especially those with high staff turnover such as mining. The researchers propose to use this framework to explore how perception towards external CSR (directed towards external stakeholders) and perception towards internal CSR (directed towards the own employees) can influence organisational identification and commitment levels. To address several gaps in the literature, this model is based on the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Social-Identity Theory.
The perspective of citizens and the media concerning the responsibility of corporations
Authors: Röttger Ulrike , Dudenhausen Anna , Czeppel Dominik , Adolph-Selke Doreen 
Published: January 2020

Purpose
In the public debate, companies are confronted with conflicting expectations regarding their responsibility. An inconsistent understanding of the responsibility of corporations may affect the acceptance of corporate actions. The purpose of this study is to take this observation as a starting point and to analyze corporate responsibility assessments of different actors.

Design/methodology/approach
In the course of two online surveys conducted by a polling institute at the end of January 2017, 1,003 German citizens were asked about their expectations concerning the responsibility of corporations. One survey was mainly focused on clothing manufacturers, the other one on banks. Moreover, a content analysis of nationwide German quality newspapers aims at showing the media perspective. By using an extensive combination of keywords, 1069 articles were analyzed for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2016. The coding revealed 345 relevant articles containing 717 responsibility-related judgments.

Findings
Overall, the systematic comparison of both perspectives show differences between societal perspectives and therefore presents an explanation for conflicting expectations concerning the responsibility of corporations.

Research limitations/implications
The measurement of judgments on responsibility is a complex endeavor. Findings may be limited due to an extensive coding process and a restricted comparability of the two surveys and the content analysis. Moreover, findings are focused on clothing manufacturers and banks only.

Originality/value
A focus on responsibility assessments delivers a deeper understanding of different perspectives concerning the responsibility of corporations in the public debate.