bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Private tutoring and the subjective rationalities of parents: the experiences in South Korea and Singapore
Authors: Tan Charlene 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThis article proposes a model of subjective rationalities to shed light on the global phenomenon of parental reliance on private tutoring for their children. The model is illustrated using the examples of the rational decision-making process and outcome of parents with regards to enrolling their children in private tutoring in South Korea and Singapore.Design/methodology/approachThis is a theoretical paper that relies on a critical review of official documents, academic publications and newspaper reports.FindingsThis article proposes an original model to shed light on the global phenomenon of parental reliance on private tutoring for their children. The model highlights the following: the dynamic interactions between parents, education policy and private tutoring; the active role of private tutoring providers; and the socio-culturally embedded and complex nature of educational decisions.Research limitations/implicationsThis is a conceptual paper that proposes a theoretical model, so there is no empirical data.Originality/valueThis article fills an existing research gap on the dynamic interactions between the parents, education policy and private tutoring. It offers an original model that illuminates the rational decision-making process and outcome of parents that pertains to private tutoring for their children.
A test of Hofstede's model of culture following his own approach
Authors: Minkov Michael , Kaasa Anneli 
Published: October 2020

PurposeRecent studies exposed serious issues with Hofstede's popular model of culture, especially his uncertainty avoidance (UA) and masculinity-femininity (MAS–FEM) dimensions. However those studies did not focus on work-related issues as in Hofstede’s research.Design/methodology/approachWe followed Hofstede’s approach to his dimensions more closely than anyone before in a large cross-cultural study. We used data from the nationally representative International Social Survey Program (over 50,000 respondents from 47 countries), measuring work goals and work-related stress in a way similar to Hofstede's.FindingsUA and MAS–FEM, as measured and described by Hofstede, did not replicate. They lack internal consistency and the items that target them are not associated with Hofstede's UA and MAS–FEM indices. Instead, some of those items follow a very different and sound logic, invalidating Hofstede's UA and MAS–FEM theories. Our study provides additional evidence that UA and MAS–FEM are misleading artifacts of Hofstede's IBM database, with no analogues outside IBM. An improved, recently reported version of individualism-collectivism (IDV-COLL) replicated nearly perfectly, solidifying the validity of that dimension of national culture. A revised version of long-term orientation, called flexibility–monumentalism (FLX–MON) also replicated well.Research limitations/implicationsWe discuss lessons for the cross-cultural field, including cross-cultural management, as well as policy-making by national governments, to be drawn from the controversial story of Hofstede's model. We advise a stronger focus on empirical confirmation and replication rather than excessive faith in fascinating, yet unproven theory.Practical implicationsTo avoid further confusion, we advise researchers, consultants and managers to reconsider the use of Hofstede's UA and MAS–FEM and focus on the valid dimensions in the revised Minkov-Hofstede model.Social implicationsA number of national governments recently launched large-scale studies of their national cultures, based on Hofstede's model. The goal of those studies was to involve culture in the design of social and economic development policies. Studies of this kind should be founded on empirically sound models or else they can result in the formulation of flawed policies.Originality/valueThis is the first study of large samples from many nations showing that even when Hofstede's method is followed closely by focusing on work-related issues, UA and MAS–FEM do not emerge from the data, and this is not because of data deficiencies but because the logic of UA and MAS–FEM is demonstrably flawed. Our study also demonstrates new methods for the replication of IDV-COLL and FLX–MON, though without claiming that they are superior to existing ones.
ESG impact on performance of US S&P 500-listed firms
Authors: Alareeni Bahaaeddin Ahmed , Hamdan Allam 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate whether there are relationships among corporate disclosure of environmental, social and governance (ESG) and firms’ operational (ROA), financial (ROE) and market performance (Tobin’s Q), and if these relationships are positives or negatives or even neutral.Design/methodology/approachThe study sample covers US S&P 500-listed companies during the period 2009 to 2018. Panel regression analysis was used to examine the study hypotheses and achieve the study aims.FindingsThe results showed that ESG disclosure positively affects a firms’ performance measures. However, measuring ESG sub-components separately showed that environmental (EVN) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure is negatively associated with ROA and ROE. EVN and CSR disclosure is positively related to Tobin’s Q. Further, corporate governance (CG) disclosure is positively related to ROA and Tobin’s Q, and negatively related to ROE. More importantly, ESG, CSR, EVN and CG tend to be higher with firms that have high assets and high financial leverage. Furthermore, the higher level of ESG, EVN, CSR and CG disclosure, the higher the ROA and ROE.Originality/valueThe study limns a vision of the role of ESG on firm performance. This study tries to determine whether there are relationships among all ESG disclosure and FP, and if they are positive, negative or even neutral.
Investigating employee creativity through employee polychronicity and employee resilience: a glimpse of nurses working in the health-care sector
Authors: Anser Muhammad Khalid , Yousaf Zahid , Sharif Muhammad , Yijun Wang , Majid Abdul , Yasir Muhammad 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the relationship between employee polychronicity and employee creativity. This study also explores the mediating role of employee resilience in the relationship between employee polychronicity and employee creativity.Design/methodology/approachThis study was based on a quantitative research design, and a survey instrument was used to collect data from doctors and nurses. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and four-step Baron and Kenney (1986) approaches were used to check the impact of nurses’ polychronicity on creativity through resilience.FindingsResults proved that employee polychronicity positively influences employee creativity. The finding indicates that employee resilience acts as a mediator in the relationship between employee polychronicity and employee creativity.Originality/valueThe worth of this study rests on the deeper understanding of the employee polychronicity–employee creativity link in the health-care sector. Moreover, by bringing to the fore employee resilience as a mediator of the polychronicity–creativity relationship, this study provided a new vantage point to explore the intricacies concerned with the relationships between polychronicity, resilience and creativity.
Do autonomous and trusting hospital employees generate, promote and implement more ideas? The role of distributed leadership agency
Authors: Jønsson Thomas Faurholt , Unterrainer Christine Maria , Kähler Helena Grøn 
Published: October 2020

PurposeEmployees constitute an important source of innovation in organizations. Innovation management strategies often include attempts of stimulating employees' innovative contribution by instilling managerial trust and granting job autonomy. However, the authors suggest and investigate the role of employees' distributed leadership agency (DLA) in hospital employee-driven innovation.Design/methodology/approachThe authors tested the hypotheses using survey data from 1,536 nonmanagerial employees at a hospital in Denmark. In order to deal with a methodological risk of survey designs, the authors assessed and adjusted the results for common method variance (CMV).FindingsThe authors validated a DLA measurement instrument and found an indirect relationship between job autonomy and trust in management on the one hand, via DLA, and with idea generation, promotion and implementation on the other hand. In addition, the results showed a small direct relationship between job autonomy and the three innovative behaviors. The results showed that CMV did bias relationships and reliabilities but only little.Practical implicationsThe study introduces distributed leadership to the field of innovation management and confirms that this concept is highly relevant for employee innovation. In order to strengthen an organization's innovative potential, leaders may not only need to grant autonomy and instill trust in their employees, but also gain from employee innovation by distributing leadership tasks to employees.Originality/valueThis study is one of the first to introduce distributed leadership to the field of employee innovation management. By identifying distributed leadership as a key variable, the findings add to one’s extant understanding of how employee involvement encourages employee innovation.
In-store marketing of private labels: applying cue utilisation theory
Authors: Mishra Sita , Malhotra Gunjan , Saxena Garima 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of in-store private label marketing to impact the attitude of consumers towards private label brands (PLBs) by influencing consumers' perceived quality variations between the PLBs and national brands.Design/methodology/approachThis study is based on “Cue utilisation theory” and focusses on how retailers can influence consumers' perception of quality variations by providing them in-store marketing cues. Data was collected through the mall intercept method in New Delhi, India. Data analysis was done using AMOS 25 and the PROCESS SPSS macro.FindingsThis study establishes the effect of in-store private label marketing in improving consumers' quality perception of PLBs vis-à-vis national brands and thereby leading to a positive attitude towards PLBs. Further, the national brand promotions attitude is found to moderate the relationship between private label marketing and attitude towards PLBs. However, contrary to the authors' expectations, it has a positive effect on this relationship. The study found an insignificant moderation influence of price consciousness.Originality/valueThis study complements existing literature on “Cue utilisation theory” by demonstrating the importance of in-store private label marketing in improving consumers' attitudes towards PLBs. It also extends to fill some gaps in the literature by studying the direct, mediating and moderating relationship among in-store private label marketing, perceived quality variations, price consciousness, national brand promotion attitude and attitude towards PLBs, especially in an emerging market such as India.
The interplay between product and retail service meaning
Authors: Artusi Federico , Bellini Emilio 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThe innovation of meaning paradigm is a strategy to radically innovate product and service meanings. While researchers have focussed on the role of product and retail space meanings as interlinked in the pursuit of innovation, no investigation has been directed towards understanding when the two meanings differ. This research explores how companies can manage two different meanings offered through their retail services and the products sold.Design/methodology/approachDue to the highly intangible and subjective nature of meaning, as well as the exploratory aim of the research, a case study approach has been adopted. In particular, the research compares two case studies of similar companies in the beauty industry. Data were triangulated across three different sources: a panel of experts, ethnographic research in the two companies' stores and extensive academic and practitioner publications.FindingsFindings suggest that innovating the service meaning can be a viable strategy to differentiate a retail offering the product meaning which is no longer perceived as different with respect to competitors.Originality/valueThe study applies the innovation of meaning concept to retail services, distinguishing the meaning given to the store from that given to products, thereby offering managers a strategy to innovate a suffering retail format.
Creating pre-conditions for change in clinical practice: the influence of interactions between multiple contexts and human agency
Authors: Myall Michelle , May Carl , Richardson Alison , Bogle Sarah , Campling Natasha , Dace Sally , Lund Susi 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore what happens when changes to clinical practice are proposed and introduced in healthcare organisations. The authors use the implementation of Treatment Escalation Plans to explore the dynamics shaping the translational journey of a complex intervention from research into the everyday context of real-world healthcare settings.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative instrumental collective case study design was used. Data were gathered using qualitative interviews (n = 36) and observations (n = 46) in three English acute hospital trusts. Normalisation process theory provided the theoretical lens and informed data collection and analysis.FindingsWhile each organisation faced the same translational problem, there was variation between settings regarding adoption and implementation. Successful change was dependent on participants' ability to manage and shape contexts and the work this involved was reliant on individual capacity to create a new, receptive context for change. Managing contexts to facilitate the move from research into clinical practice was a complex interactive and iterative process.Practical implicationsThe paper advocates a move away from contextual factors influencing change and adoption, to contextual patterns and processes that accommodate different elements of whole systems and the work required to manage and shape them.Originality/valueThe paper addresses important and timely issues of change in healthcare, particularly for new regulatory and service-oriented processes and practices. Insights and explanations of variations in implementation are revealed which could contribute to conceptual generalisation of context and implementation.
Analyzing the Chinese budgetary responses to COVID-19: balancing prevention and control with socioeconomic recovery
Authors: Wu Shaolong , Lin Muhua 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to analyze the scope and magnitude of Chinese budgetary responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThis study analyzes budgetary response in China by means of public reports, news reports and policy documents.FindingsThe Chinese responses were comprehensive, flexible and fast. Through the normal authorization process, simplifying procedures of budget allocation and special legislative approval after the surge of COVID-19 cases, China used many budgetary measures to help suffering businesses and households to buffer the economic difficulties caused by the pandemic. It also increased public health spending very quickly so subnational governments could control and prevent the pandemic with the necessary resources. International relief efforts have also been increased. These findings show the unique strength of the Chinese political system, which is very flexible and quick in resource mobilization.Originality/valueThis study offers a quick review of the Chinese budgetary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. It also highlights some of the future concerns and needs of the Chinese government in domestic and global health areas.
Corporate social responsibility in ports of Latin America
Authors: López-Morales José Satsumi , Huerta-Estévez Antonio , Andrade-Estrada Myrna Guadalupe , Zarrabal-Gutiérrez Claudia Guadalupe 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThe activities carried out in ports are disruptive to the environment where they are located. Therefore, the objective of this work is to analyze the presence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the missions and visions of the main ports of Latin America.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative technique of content analysis was applied to the missions and visions of 72 ports in Latin America. First, the missions and visions of the ports were collected (72). Second, it was assigned a value 1 if the mission had any evidence of CSR, 0 if it had no evidence and “-” if the mission was not found. The same procedure was performed with the visions.FindingsResults indicate that 20.83% of the ports allude to CSR in their missions, 34.72% of the ports allude to it in their missions and visions and 13.88% only allude to it in their visions (22 ports did not mention it in their missions or their visions). So, the main findings indicate that in Latin America the majority of ports do not consider elements of CSR in their missions and visions.Originality/valueThis paper is mainly focused on covering two gaps in the literature: first, to increase knowledge about the strategic bases of ports in Latin America through their missions and visions; and second, to visualize the coherence of the missions and visions with the activities of CSR.
A Nag‐like dioxygenase initiates 3,4‐dichloronitrobenzene degradation via 4,5‐dichlorocatechol in Diaphorobacter sp. strain JS3050
Authors: Gao Yi‐Zhou , Palatucci Mallory L. , Waidner Lisa A. , Li Tao , Guo Yuan , Spain Jim C. , Zhou Ning‐Yi 
Published: October 2020

SummaryThe chemical synthesis intermediate 3,4‐dichloronitrobenzene (3,4‐DCNB) is an environmental pollutant. Diaphorobacter sp. strain JS3050 utilizes 3,4‐DCNB as a sole source of carbon, nitrogen and energy. However, the molecular determinants of its catabolism are poorly understood. Here, the complete genome of strain JS3050 was sequenced and key genes were expressed heterologously to establish the details of its degradation pathway. A chromosome‐encoded three‐component nitroarene dioxygenase (DcnAaAbAcAd) converted 3,4‐DCNB stoichiometrically to 4,5‐dichlorocatechol, which was transformed to 3,4‐dichloromuconate by a plasmid‐borne ring‐cleavage chlorocatechol 1,2‐dioxygenase (DcnC). On the chromosome, there are also genes encoding enzymes (DcnDEF) responsible for the subsequent transformation of 3,4‐dichloromuconate to β‐ketoadipic acid. The fact that the genes responsible for the catabolic pathway are separately located on plasmid and chromosome indicates that recent assembly and ongoing evolution of the genes encoding the pathway is likely. The regiospecificity of 4,5‐dichlorocatechol formation from 3,4‐DCNB by DcnAaAbAcAd represents a sophisticated evolution of the nitroarene dioxygenase that avoids misrouting of toxic intermediates. The findings enhance the understanding of microbial catabolic diversity during adaptive evolution in response to xenobiotics released into the environment.
Organizational integration, practice capabilities, and outcomes in clinically complex medicare beneficiaries
Authors: Colla Carrie , Yang Wendy , Mainor Alexander J. , Meara Ellen , Ouayogode Marietou H. , Lewis Valerie A. , Shortell Stephen , Fisher Elliott 
Published: October 2020

AbstractObjectiveTo assess the association between clinical integration and financial integration, quality‐focused care delivery processes, and beneficiary utilization and outcomes.Data SourcesMultiphysician practices in the 2017‐2018 National Survey of Healthcare Organizations and Systems (response rate 47%) and 2017 Medicare claims data.Study DesignCross‐sectional study of Medicare beneficiaries attributed to physician practices, focusing on two domains of integration: clinical (coordination of patient services, use of protocols, individual clinician measures, access to information) and financial (financial management and planning across operating units). We examined the association between integration domains, the adoption of quality‐focused care delivery processes, beneficiary utilization and health‐related outcomes, and price‐adjusted spending using linear regression adjusting for practice and beneficiary characteristics, weighting to account for sampling and nonresponse.Data Collection/Extraction Methods1 604 580 fee‐for‐service Medicare beneficiaries aged 66 or older attributed to 2113 practices. Of these, 414 209 beneficiaries were considered clinically complex (frailty or 2 + chronic conditions).Principal FindingsFinancial integration and clinical integration were weakly correlated (correlation coefficient = 0.19). Clinical integration was associated with significantly greater adoption of quality‐focused care delivery processes, while financial integration was associated with lower adoption of these processes. Integration was not generally associated with reduced utilization or better beneficiary‐level health‐related outcomes, but both clinical integration and financial integration were associated with lower spending in both the complex and noncomplex cohorts: (clinical complex cohort: ‐$2518, [95% CI: −3324, −1712]; clinical noncomplex cohort: ‐$255 [95% CI: −413, −97]; financial complex cohort: ‐$997 [95% CI: ‐$1320, ‐$679]; and financial noncomplex cohort: ‐$143 [95% CI: −210, ‐$76]).ConclusionsHigher levels of financial integration were not associated with improved care delivery or with better health‐related beneficiary outcomes. Nonfinancial forms of integration deserve greater attention, as practices scoring high in clinical integration are more likely to adopt quality‐focused care delivery processes and have greater associated reductions in spending in complex patients.
Excellent suppression of physiological myocardial FDG activity in patients with cardiac sarcoidosis
Authors: Sankaran Shyam S , Kyprianou Katerina , Cherk Martin H , Nadebaum David P , Beech Paul A , Khor Robert , Zimmet Hendrik , Hare James L , Larby Annabel , Yap Kenneth SK , Barber Thomas W 
Published: October 2020

AbstractIntroductionSuppression of physiological myocardial FDG activity is vital in patients undergoing PET/CT for assessment of known or suspected cardiac sarcoidosis. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of physiological myocardial FDG suppression following a protocol change to a 24‐h high fat very low carbohydrate (HFVLC) diet and prolonged fast.MethodsA retrospective review of patients undergoing FDG PET/CT for the evaluation of cardiac sarcoidosis was performed. Prior to June‐2018, patients were prepared with a single very high‐fat low carbohydrate meal followed by a 12–18 h fast (group 1). After June‐2018, a protocol change was initiated with patients prepared with a HFVLC diet for 24‐h followed by a 12–18 h fast (group 2). Focal myocardial activity was classified as positive, absent activity as negative and diffuse/focal on diffuse activity as indeterminate.ResultsA total of 94 FDG PET/CT scans were included with 46 scans in group 1 and 48 scans in group 2. Studies were classified as positive, negative or indeterminate in 25 (54%), 7 (15%) and 14 (30%) scans in group 1 and in 13 (27%), 33 (69%) and 2 (4%) scans in group 2, respectively. In scans classified as negative, myocardial FDG activity was less than mediastinal blood pool activity in 5/7 (71%) scans in group 1 and 33/33 (100%) scans in group 2.ConclusionExcellent myocardial FDG suppression can be achieved using a 24‐h HFVLC diet and prolonged fast, resulting in a very low indeterminate scan rate in patients with known or suspected cardiac sarcoidosis.