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Governance and performance in co-exploitation and co-exploration projects
Authors: Solís-Molina Miguel , Hernández-Espallardo Miguel , Rodríguez-Orejuela Augusto 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThis study aims to investigate how contractual vs. informal governance influences the performance of collaborative innovation projects considering their exploitation vs. exploration character.Design/methodology/approachData are collected from a sample of 218 companies that have developed innovative projects in collaboration with other organizations. Regression models are estimated to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results indicate that contractual governance is the most effective for co-exploitation projects compared to informal governance. Specialization in either contractual or informal governance is more effective for co-exploration projects.Practical implicationsDeveloping collaborative innovation projects with other organizations is an alternative for firms to innovate either by exploiting complementary assets or by exploring new opportunities. Thus, the success of the collaborative innovation project is significantly affected by the way the collaboration is governed. On the one hand, for co-exploitation projects, companies should rely on contracts to improve their performance. On the other hand, for co-exploration projects, governance may specialize in either contracts or informal mechanisms to reach higher performance.Originality/valueDespite previous studies analyzing the effect of contractual or informal governance on the performance of collaborative innovation projects, no research has focused on comparing simultaneously these effects, by using the innovation character of the project of co-exploitation or co-exploration as a moderator. Therefore, this paper explores comparatively the most effective type of governance mechanism for co-exploitation and co-exploration projects.
Long-term unemployment
Authors: Apergis Emmanuel , Apergis Nicholas 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThis paper empirically explores the role of skill losses during unemployment behind firms' behaviour in interviewing long-term unemployedDesign/methodology/approachThe analysis makes use of the Work Employment Relations Survey in the UK, while it applies a panel probit modelling approach to estimate the empirical findings.FindingsThe findings document that skill losses during long-term unemployment reduce the likelihood of an interview, while they emphasize the need for certain policies that could compensate for this deterioration of skills. For robustness check, the estimation strategy survives the examination of the same predictors under different types of the working environment.Originality/valueThe original values of the work 1 combines for the first time both duration and technology as predictors of interview probability. Until now, the independent variables were used to test whether an individual has managed to exit unemployment, thus skipping the step of the interview process.
Understanding the lived experience of British non-offending paedophiles
Authors: Dymond Harriet , Duff Simon 
Published: February 2020

PurposeResearch into paedophilia mainly uses offender samples; thus, little is understood about non-offending paedophiles. The limited body of research has been conducted in North America or Europe whose health and legal systems differ from those in the UK. Using semi-structured interviews, the purpose of this study is to explore the experience of three non-offending British paedophilic males.Design/methodology/approachThe interview discussed their paedophilia, refraining from offending and perspectives on treatment initiatives. Data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis.FindingsThree superordinate themes emerged: “paedophilia as more than a sexuality,” “acceptance leads to management” and “barriers to support.” These encapsulated how paedophilia was understood, how accepting one’s sexual attraction is tantamount to well-being and the various obstacles to providing support were discussed.Research limitations/implicationsAcknowledging the sampling considerations (size and recruitment), the results implicate research into paedophilia. The onset of paedophilia was chronologically associated with typical sexual attraction, and not the result of sexual abuse as some theories suggest. Furthermore, the tenets of attraction to children extending beyond sexual desire were highlighted. Practically, the results influence future research into the area and highlight the dearth in our understanding of diverse behavioural management techniques (i.e. computerised images of children or human-like dolls).Originality/valueThis paper presents novel insight into the aspects of paedophilia, excluding offensive behaviour and highlights the need for affordable, UK-based services targeted towards people with a paedophilic attraction to manage child sexual abuse preventatively and not reactively.
Adoption of renewable energy technologies (RETs) using a mixed-method approach
Authors: Geddes Nicholas Morgan 
Published: February 2020

Purpose
This paper aims to propose that the socio-technical perspective is under-represented when appraising the adoption potential of renewable energy technologies (RETs) in late-industrialising countries and that this results in under-adoption. It also aims to identify a methodological approach that allows the socio-technical perspective to be integrated into management decision-making, alongside the more typical economic appraisal methodology.

Design/methodology/approach
A case study and novel mixed-methodology approach is used, which applies the diffusion of innovations framework, innovation system (IS) framework and system dynamics modelling (SDM) alongside traditional economic modelling and appraisal techniques. This approach is used to assess the adoption potential of solar photovoltaic (PV) and diesel water pumping systems in the wildlife conservation sector and surrounding rural communities in Kenya. The case study approach tests the merits of the mixed-methodology approach.

Findings
The life-cycle costs of solar PV water pumping systems are lower in nearly all financing and utilisation scenarios; offer additional social, technical and environmental benefits; and the conditions exist for greater adoption. The use of an integrated diffusion of innovations and IS framework generates significant qualitative data that can support management decision-making. The use of SDM techniques aid conceptualisation of the community economic, water and institutional systems into which water pumps may be diffused and provide a starting point for formal SDM simulation. The results suggest that these techniques capture the socio-technical perspective well and, when used alongside traditional project appraisal approaches, produce more complete information with which to support management decision-making.

Originality/value
This mixed-methodology approach could be used by practitioners to increase the diffusion and adoption of RETs in more complex contexts in late-industrialising countries. The emergent theory built through the case-study approach should be tested further to assess the merits of applying these techniques to support RET management decision-making in other contexts and more broadly.
Decoding service brand image through user-generated images
Authors: Bakri Marlini , Krisjanous Jayne , Richard James E. 
Published: February 2020

PurposeDespite the growing number of studies surrounding user-generated content (UGC), understanding of the implications, potential and pertinence of user-generated images (UGI), the visual form of UGC, on brand image in services is limited. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept and a comprehensive framework of image word of mouth (IWOM), which identifies UGI as visual articulations of service experiences that result in consumer judgment of service brand image. The framework takes a consumer-focussed approach and covers key branding issues relevant to services marketers such as identifying and linking valued services dimensions, made evident through IWOM, to ideas and thoughts inferred by consumers (viewers) of the brand image and consequent consumer intentions.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reviews and synthesises current services, marketing and branding literature surrounding electronic word of mouth (WOM) and UGC, where it highlights the need to consider interpretations of UGI as persuasive forms of visual WOM or IWOM, as well as a critical stimuli of brand image.FindingsThe paper illuminates the importance of adopting a visual perspective that applies constructs developed in cognitive psychology, to decode how viewers (consumers) interact and form associations of brand image via IWOM.Originality/valueThe paper examines, integrates and adds to extant literature surrounding WOM, UGC, visual images and brand image within services.
Bulgarian authors’ open access awareness and preferences
Authors: Boock Michael , Todorova Tania Yordanova , Trencheva Tereza Stoyanova , Todorova Radostina 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe the findings of a survey of Bulgarian faculty about the extent to which their research is openly available, awareness of the European Union Competitiveness Council open access goal, support for the goal and preferences for achieving it.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a survey of 584 faculty at six universities in Bulgaria using the Qualtrics online survey software. There were 222 effectively surveyed respondents.FindingsBulgarian researchers are aware of arguments in favor of open access and believe that it benefits researchers in their discipline. Only a little more than a third of Bulgarian faculty are familiar with the E.U. goal of open access to all publicly-funded research by 2020. Once the goal is explained, they support it. Authors may not understand the intricacies of green and gold open access, but they are willing to meet the E.U. goal by either publishing in open access journals (the gold method) or depositing articles in open access repositories (the green method).Research limitations/implicationsThe results are useful to countries and funding agencies interested in achieving open access to state funded research.Originality/valueTo date, there has been no research that seeks to determine the degree to which researchers are aware of the E.U. Competitiveness Council’s goal or that seeks to determine faculty preferences for achieving that goal. This paper explores methods available for achieving open access to the results of publicly funded research in Bulgaria.
If we eat soy, do we keep the beneficial effects of the Mediterranean diet?
Authors: Aulisa Giovanni , Binda Claudio , Padua Elvira , Pratesi Antonio , Bellia Alfonso , Bellia Chiara , Lombardo Mauro 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThis study aims to evaluate if soya consumption can compromise or positively influence the effects of the Mediterranean diet (MD).Design/methodology/approachA full literature review has been conducted as part of a proposal of a new point of view on the consumption of soya and its derivatives in areas where until a few decades ago this type of food did not exist at all.FindingsThere does not seem to be any contraindications for soy systematic use, therefore, excluding historical-geographical reasons, soya could be included in an MD without altering the benefits associated with it.Practical implicationsSoya is not advised as a typical food in the MD, but promoting its use could probably contribute to increase the variety of the diet and likely consolidates the positive health benefits characteristic of MD.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this review is one of the first to evaluate soybean consumption within the MD.
Formal mentoring support, person–environment fit and newcomer's intention to leave
Authors: Cai Zhenyao , Wu Dandan , Xin Ying , Chen Yang , Wu Haining 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate how and why formal mentoring support reduces newcomers' intention to leave from the perspective of uncertainty reduction theory.Design/methodology/approachTime-lagged data were collected from two sources, mentors and newcomers, and 193 paired data sets were included in the analysis.FindingsThe results showed that formal mentoring support was positively related to newcomers' person–organisation fit (P–O fit) and person–job fit (P–J fit). In addition, P–O fit and P–J fit mediated the relationship between formal mentoring support and newcomers' intention to leave. Moreover, newcomers' uncertainty avoidance orientation strengthened the relationship between formal mentoring support and perception of fit, and it strengthened the indirect effect between formal mentoring support and newcomer's intention to leave, via the perception of fit.Originality/valueThis study enhances our understanding of the underlying mechanism between formal mentoring support and newcomers' intention to leave. Moreover, it demonstrates that uncertainty avoidance orientation is an important boundary condition during the process of organisational socialisation. The findings also contribute to the organisational socialisation and the mentoring literature by providing evidence from a blue-collar sample.
Improving customer satisfaction and loyalty through mHealth service digitalization
Authors: Cobelli Nicola , Chiarini Andrea 
Published: February 2020

PurposeThe main purpose of this exploratory study is to investigate the attitude of pharmacists, as small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners, toward new technologies, and more precisely, toward the adoption of mobile apps for mobile health (mHealth). Such apps are generally used to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. This study measures pharmacists’ subjective experiences of mobile apps for mHealth and aims to understand how these pharmacists make sense of these apps.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted the narrative inquiry technique combined with critical event analysis. Participants' experiences were categorized based on how they viewed new technology tools. Interpretative inductive analysis identified precise aspects of the sense making illustrative of non-adoption or confused adoption of new technologies by pharmacists.FindingsThis study investigates to what extent new technology tools such as mobile apps affect retailers and more precisely the reasons why mobile apps are and are not adopted by retailers, as potential users, in the pharmaceutical industry. We identified four aspects of sense making that illustrated non-adoption or confused adoption of new technologies by pharmacists. These aspects are deeply discussed in the paper and are referred to the dimensions of confusion to confidence; suspicion to trust; frustration to education; mistrust to cooperation.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitation of the present study is the limited number of territories investigated. This limitation arose because of the exploratory nature of the available research, which is generally based on case studies, and the lack of clear operationalization of the research available at the time of data collection. Another limitation is that the sample included only SMEs operating in the Italian pharmacy industry.Originality/valueMany studies have highlighted the opportunities related to new mobile apps in the business-to-business market. Several have investigated customer interest in such new technology. If some contributions have indirectly investigated the acceptance of information technology tools, to the best of our knowledge, no study has been conducted to investigate directly and precisely the level of pharmacists' acceptance, use, and willingness to adopt information technology (e.g., mobile apps) for customer service in mHealth and mainly the reasons of non-adoption.
Carbon substrate re‐orders relative growth of a bacterium using Mo‐, V‐, or Fe‐nitrogenase for nitrogen fixation
Authors: Luxem Katja E. , Kraepiel Anne M. L. , Zhang Lichun , Waldbauer Jacob R. , Zhang Xinning 
Published: February 2020

SummaryBiological nitrogen fixation is catalyzed by the molybdenum (Mo), vanadium (V) and iron (Fe)‐only nitrogenase metalloenzymes. Studies with purified enzymes have found that the ‘alternative’ V‐ and Fe‐nitrogenases generally reduce N2 more slowly and produce more byproduct H2 than the Mo‐nitrogenase, leading to an assumption that their usage results in slower growth. Here we show that, in the metabolically versatile photoheterotroph Rhodopseudomonas palustris, the type of carbon substrate influences the relative rates of diazotrophic growth based on different nitrogenase isoforms. The V‐nitrogenase supports growth as fast as the Mo‐nitrogenase on acetate but not on the more oxidized substrate succinate. Our data suggest that this is due to insufficient electron flux to the V‐nitrogenase isoform on succinate compared with acetate. Despite slightly faster growth based on the V‐nitrogenase on acetate, the wild‐type strain uses exclusively the Mo‐nitrogenase on both carbon substrates. Notably, the differences in H2:N2 stoichiometry by alternative nitrogenases (~1.5 for V‐nitrogenase, ~4–7 for Fe‐nitrogenase) and Mo‐nitrogenase (~1) measured here are lower than prior in vitro estimates. These results indicate that the metabolic costs of V‐based nitrogen fixation could be less significant for growth than previously assumed, helping explain why alternative nitrogenase genes persist in diverse diazotroph lineages and are broadly distributed in the environment.
Phenotypic divergence of thermotolerance: Molecular basis and cold adaptive evolution related to intrinsic DNA flexibility of glacier‐inhabitingCryobacteriumstrains
Authors: Liu Qing , Song Wei‐Zhi , Zhou Yu‐Guang , Dong Xiu‐Zhu , Xin Yu‐Hua 
Published: February 2020

SummaryThe link between guanine–cytosine (GC) content and thermal adaptation is controversial. Here, we compared maximum growth temperature (TMGT) and genomics of 78Cryobacteriumstrains to avoid unreliable conclusions resulting from distantly phylogenetic groups. Phylogenomic analysis revealed this taxon had much higher diversification than we knew. Interestingly, these strains showed thermotolerance divergence with phylogenetic cohesion. A significant difference was found betweenTMGT≤ 20°C strains andTMGT> 20°C strains in genomic GC content which mainly caused by variation of GC3.TMGT≤ 20°C strains tended to use synonymous codons ended with A/U, butTMGT> 20°C strains tended to use G/C. Lower GC content at synonymous sites (≈GC3) ofTMGT≤ 20°C strains could provide lower intrinsic DNA flexibility which strongly associated with optimal molecular dynamics, and then guarantee DNA function at lower growth temperatures. This analysis of codon bias revealed close relationships for thermal adaptation, GC content at synonymous sites (≈GC3), intrinsic DNA flexibility and optimal DNA dynamics. Natural selection was main force driving this codon bias; strains with lowerTMGTendured stronger natural selection. Therefore, this study provided molecular basis for bacterial adaptive evolution from moderate temperature to low temperature.
The small secreted effector protein MiSSP7.6 of Laccaria bicolor is required for the establishment of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis
Authors: Kang Heng , Chen Xin , Kemppainen Minna , Pardo Alejandro G. , Veneault‐Fourrey Claire , Kohler Annegret , Martin Francis M. 
Published: February 2020

SummaryTo establish and maintain a symbiotic relationship, the ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor releases mycorrhiza‐induced small secreted proteins (MiSSPs) into host roots. Here, we have functionally characterized the MYCORRHIZA‐iNDUCED SMALL SECRETED PROTEIN OF 7.6 kDa (MiSSP7.6) from L. bicolor by assessing its induced expression in ectomycorrhizae, silencing its expression by RNAi, and tracking in planta subcellular localization of its protein product. We also carried out yeast two‐hybrid assays and bimolecular fluorescence complementation analysis to identify possible protein targets of the MiSSP7.6 effector in Populus roots. We showed that MiSSP7.6 expression is upregulated in ectomycorrhizal rootlets and associated extramatrical mycelium during the late stage of symbiosis development. RNAi mutants with a decreased MiSSP7.6 expression have a lower mycorrhization rate, suggesting a key role in the establishment of the symbiosis with plants. MiSSP7.6 is secreted, and it localizes both to the nuclei and cytoplasm in plant cells. MiSSP7.6 protein was shown to interact with two Populus Trihelix transcription factors. Furthermore, when coexpressed with one of the Trihelix transcription factors, MiSSP7.6 is localized to plant nuclei only. Our data suggest that MiSSP7.6 is a novel secreted symbiotic effector and is a potential determinant for ectomycorrhiza formation.
Endogenous timing game in a mixed duopoly with partial foreign ownership and asymmetric increasing marginal costs
Authors: Kawasaki Akio , Ohkawa Takao , Okamura Makoto 
Published: February 2020

AbstractThis study examines a timing game in a mixed duopoly wherein public and private firms compete by taking account of the increasing marginal cost of both firms, as well as partial foreign ownership of the private firm. This study finds that if the private firm has a strong cost advantage over the public firm, public leadership is a risk dominant equilibrium irrespective of foreign ownership ratio. This result means that the cost difference between the public and private firms matters in selecting the risk‐dominant equilibrium of the timing game. Additionally, if the private firm has only a weak cost advantage over the public firm, then private leadership (public leadership) is the risk dominant equilibrium if the foreign ownership ratio is (not) small.
Copper resistance genes of Burkholderia cenocepacia H111 identified by transposon sequencing
Authors: Higgins Steven , Gualdi Stefano , Pinto‐Carbó Marta , Eberl Leo 
Published: February 2020

SummaryCopper is an essential element but in excess is highly toxic and therefore cytoplasmic levels must be tightly controlled. Member of the genus Burkholderia are highly resistant to various heavy metals and are often isolated from acidic soils where copper bioavailability is high. In this study, we employed transposon sequencing (Tn‐Seq) to identify copper resistance genes in Burkholderia cenocepacia H111. We identified a copper efflux system that shares similarities with the plasmid‐based copper detoxification systems found in Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas syringae. We also found that several of the identified resistance determinants are involved in maintaining the integrity of the cell envelope, suggesting that proteins located in the outer membrane and periplasmic space are particularly sensitive to copper stress. Given that several of the resistance genes are required for the repair and turnover of misfolded proteins, we suggest that copper toxicity is caused by protein damage rather than by oxidative stress.