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Association between employee department and responsible gambling program perceptions: extension and follow-up study
Authors: Abarbanel Brett , Kraus Shane , Huang Qing (Tiffany) , Gray Heather , Louderback Eric , LaPlante Debi , Bernhard Bo 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThis study investigates how employees perceive responsible gambling (RG) programs, which are part of a corporate social responsibility (CSR) framework for minimizing negative impacts associated with problematic gambling. Casino employees have different levels of interaction with gamblers, which could affect employees' opinions about RG.Design/methodology/approachSurveys at two time periods – baseline (N = 2,192) and one-year follow-up (N = 852) to a new RG program – asked employees at MGM Resorts International (MGM) about their (1) perceptions of program effectiveness, (2) gambling behaviors and beliefs and (3) perceived level of employer support. Two one-way MANCOVAs, with years employed in the gambling industry as the covariate, extended results from a prior study. An additional two-way MANCOVA examined contact-level and year-over-year differences.FindingsEmployees who have high contact with gamblers, such as those in security or casino dealer positions, viewed RG programs as less effective than employees who have low contact with gamblers, such as those in culinary or corporate positions.Practical implicationsEmployees are vital to harm reduction CSR strategies and MGM should work toward a program with varied RG training content and delivery, depending on the likelihood of employee interaction with active gamblers.Originality/valueRG programs are key CSR initiatives for hospitality organizations with gambling licenses. Employees play an interactive role in delivering these programs, so their perceptions and understanding help assess program value. This is the first study to examine employee perceptions of a newly-implemented RG program with baseline and follow-up data.
Motives and performance outcomes of mass customization capability: evidence from Chinese manufacturers
Authors: Sheng Hongyan , Feng Taiwen , Chen Lucheng , Chu Dianhui , Zhang Weijie 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study aims to develop and test a motives-mass customization (MC) capability-performance model by dividing MC capability into product-oriented MC capability and service-oriented MC capability.Design/methodology/approachThis research tests the hypothesized relationships using survey data from 277 Chinese manufacturing firms.FindingsThe results indicate that instrumental, relational and moral motives all have significantly positive impacts on product-oriented and service-oriented MC capability. The authors also find that product-oriented MC capability partially mediates the impacts of relational and moral motives on operational, environmental and economic performance, while service-oriented MC capability partially mediates the impacts of instrumental, relational and moral motives on operational, market, environmental and economic performance.Originality/valueThis study complements the existing MC literature by describing MC capability into two dimensions: product-oriented MC capability and service-oriented MC capability.
Ideological and financial spaces of budgetary responses to COVID-19 lockdown strategies: comparative analysis of Russia and Ukraine
Authors: Vakulenko Veronika , Khodachek Igor , Bourmistrov Anatoli 
Published: October 2020

PurposeTo compare Russian and Ukrainian central governments' reaction to the pandemic, reflected in extraordinary budgetary allocations and to provide our understanding of how those allocations can be attributed to the two countries’ different social, economic and political contexts.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is built on secondary data analysis over a six-month period, i.e. January–June 2020, during which the real-time events were documented in a research diary. The data sources included budgetary and other relevant legislature, official reports from international agencies, news, press conferences and videos of interviews with key stakeholders.FindingsThe findings showed that uncertainty caused by COVID-19 and the corresponding lockdown policies in Russia and Ukraine have produced two divergent patterns of budgetary allocations: step-by-step budgetary allocations in Russia vs one emergency budget decision in Ukraine.Originality/valueThe paper explains the divergence of the central governments' budgetary decisions based on the same lockdown policy, in light of the different ideological and financial legitimized action spaces that frame governmental decisions.
Analysis of discrete-time semi-Markov model for a two-unit warm standby system subject to degradation
Authors: Temraz Neama 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThe present paper analyzed a model consisting of one unit with a warm standby unit where the main unit has three states: up, degraded and down.Design/methodology/approachThe semi-Markov model under the regenerative method is used to construct the mathematical model for the system.FindingsThe effectiveness measures of the system are discussed such as availability, reliability, steady-state availability and mean time to system failure. The life and repair times of the system units are assumed to be discrete follow discrete Weibull distribution. Also, the parameters of the discrete Weibull distribution are assumed to be fuzzy with bell-shaped membership function. An application is introduced to show the results obtained for the system and the profit of the presented model.Originality/valueRarely papers in literature treated the topic of the discrete-time semi-Markov process using a regenerative point technique.
Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance in a sanctioned economy – does the CEO play a role?
Authors: Cannavale Chiara , Zohoorian Nadali Iman , Esempio Anna 
Published: October 2020

PurposeEntrepreneurship, in many low-resilient economies, plays a critical role in overcoming external shocks. Thus, it is crucial in such situation that entrepreneurial firms can survive and even grow so that the whole economy can benefit from a higher level of resilience. The purpose of this study is to understand how entrepreneurial orientation (EO) brings about firms' performance through the moderating role of CEOs' self-transcendence values in the context of a low-resilient sanctioned economy.Design/methodology/approachThis is a quantitative research that employs hierarchical regression analysis of a sample of 114 Iranian entrepreneurial firms composed of 62 knowledge-based and 52 creative firms.FindingsThe analysis revealed that in the low-resilient sanctioned economy, Iran, EO-performance link is moderated by the level of CEOs' self-transcendence value, that is, higher level of CEO self-transcendence leads to stronger impact of EO on performance. This moderation is not different in creative sector vs. knowledge-based sector of the economy.Originality/valueThis paper addresses a major gap in the traditional EO-performance relationship which is related to the role of CEO values. Also, the context of Iran's low level of economic resilience adds more novelty to this study, emphasizing on the role of CEO personal values of self-transcendence in times of crisis. The results could also be generalized in many economies now facing the COVID-19 pandemic crisis during which CEOs' self-transcendence values are vitally important in overcoming the difficulties of doing business in such situation.
The role of omnichannel tendency in digital information processing
Authors: Rodríguez-Torrico Paula , San-Martín Sonia , San José Cabezudo Rebeca 
Published: October 2020

PurposeNowadays some consumers consider themselves as “omnichannels” – they combine both physical and digital channels expecting a seamless shopping experience – since they view their shopping process from a multiple-channel viewpoint. Giving that situation, the aim of this paper is to test the role of consumers’ omnichannel tendency (omni-tendency) in the information processing in the digital channel.Design/methodology/approachBased on the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), emotions as well as utilitarian and hedonic experiences are proposed to understand consumer attitude towards the digital store. Through a survey, data were collected from 284 digital shoppers. PLS path modelling and PLS-MGA were used to test the research hypotheses.FindingsThe results confirm that emotions positively affect the evaluation of the experiences, which in turn improves the attitude towards the digital store. Focusing on the differences among consumers, the findings show that for consumers with low omni-tendency the emotions are key to improve the evaluation of their experiences. Moreover, regarding the attitude, consumers with more omni-tendency follow the central route to process the information; and consumers with less omni-tendency follow the peripheral route.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the literature in three ways. First, this research includes the study of omni-tendency, as a consumer trait, in the information processing developed in the digital channel, ignored in the literature. Second, this work contributes to information processing theories in digital context confirming, specifically the applicability of ELM into the omnichannel context. This offers support to the application of traditional theories to explain new phenomena. Third, and in line with the previous contribution, this work goes a step further in understanding ELM theory by including other constructs –the omni-tendency and emotions– to explain the information processing in the digital context.
The influence of high-commitment work system on work well-being: the mediating role of psychological empowerment and the moderating role of leader trust
Authors: Li Xiufeng , Lin Congcong 
Published: October 2020

PurposeWe draw on the conservation of resources theory to explore when and how a high-commitment work system (HCWS) improves employees' work well-being.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 64 branches in a high-tech company, involving 64 supervisors and 434 employees to examine the influence of branch-level HCWS on employees' work well-being at individual level.FindingsConsistent with our predictions, the results indicate that a well-designed human resource management (HRM) system (i.e. HCWS) helps to enhance employees' work well-being. Psychological empowerment is seen as an important mechanism linking HCWS with work well-being. The effects of HCWS on psychological empowerment and work well-being are significantly positive only when leader trust in employees is high.Originality/valueThis study indicates a novel resource theoretical perspective regarding the HRM system-employee well-being relationship. It provides insights into how contextual resources (HCWS) enhance employees' work well-being by potentiating the effect of personal resources (psychological empowerment). Just as the old saying goes, “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime,” the leader trust serves as a critical valve.
Ambiguous discursive practices in health-care project plans: a keyword-assisted critical discourse analysis of the term “patient”
Authors: Lunkka Nina , Lukkarila Pirjo , Laulainen Sanna , Suhonen Marjo 
Published: October 2020

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to investigate ambiguous language use in health-care project plans in a manner that accounts for the wider, institutional, public health-care context.Design/methodology/approachThe article deployed a case study approach and drew from Fairclough's critical discourse analysis (CDA) as well as a keyword analysis to investigate two time-sequenced versions of the same project planning document for a health-care project in Finland.FindingsIn the project plans investigated, the study identified patient as a keyword possessing various meanings within the public health-care context. By examining the discursive practices around the keyword patient, the study demonstrated their role in constituting the institutional context as well as the function of this context in constraining these practices.Originality/valueBy looking at the potential of the CDA to investigate discursive practices of the keyword in two sequential versions of a project plan within the broader context of public health care, the study adds to the scant existing literature on critically oriented health-care project communication studies.
Seismic dispersion and attenuation in layered porous rocks with fractures of varying orientations
Authors: Xu Denghui , Han Tongcheng , Fu Li‐Yun 
Published: October 2020

ABSTRACTWave‐induced fluid flow plays an important role in affecting the seismic dispersion and attenuation of fractured porous rocks. While numerous theoretical models have been proposed for the seismic dispersion and attenuation in fractured porous rocks, most of them neglect the wave‐induced fluid flow resulting from the background anisotropy (e.g. the interlayer fluid flow between different layers) that can be normal in real reservoirs. Here, according to the theories of poroelasticity, we present an approach to study the frequency‐dependent seismic properties of more realistic and complicated rocks, i.e. horizontally and periodically layered porous rock with horizontal and randomly orienting fractures, respectively, distributed in one of the two periodical layers. The approach accounts for the dual effects of the wave‐induced fluid flow between the fractures and the background pores and between different layers (the interlayer fluid flow). BecauseC33(i.e., the modulus of the normally incident P‐wave) is directly related to the P‐wave velocity widely measured in the seismic exploration, and its comprehensive dispersion and attenuation are found to be most significant, we study mainly the effects of fracture properties and the stiffness contrast between the different layers on the seismic dispersion and attenuation ofC33. The results show that the increasing stiffness contrast enhances the interlayer fluid flow of the layered porous rocks with both horizontal and randomly orienting fractures and weakens the wave‐induced fluid flow between the fractures and the background pores, especially for the layered porous rock with horizontal fractures. The modelling results also demonstrate that for the considered rock construction, the increasing fracture density reduces the interlayer fluid flow while improves the dispersion and attenuation in the fracture‐relevant frequency band. Increasing fracture aspect ratio is found to reduce the dispersion and attenuation in the fracture‐relevant frequency band only, especially for the layered porous rock with horizontal fractures.
Corruption as Infrastructure: Rendering the New Saigon Global
Authors: Kim Hun 
Published: October 2020

AbstractCorruption is regularly treated as a barrier to infrastructure, development and growth. However, in Saigon, corruption itself has become an infrastructure in Vietnam's late‐socialist urban transformation. This infrastructure facilitates not only growth in the form of transnational investment, property speculation and construction, but allows for different kinds of planning and development practice as well. Perceptions about corruption in Vietnam, and in Saigon specifically, shape market and planning practices that structure the terms on which interested parties from abroad and internally speculate upon and ultimately develop urban projects. This is not a static formulation of corruption. Rather, corruption and the various political and policy responses to it constantly shape how brokers, developers and financiers renegotiate how the city becomes a knowable object for investment, legible to the calculations of both risk and reward used by global investors as well as to those who enact the embedded bureaucratic, legal and political practices that create Saigon's built environment. In this article I argue that different definitions and policy responses to corruption in effect create variable ways of seeing the city (as well as modes of being seen) that have an impact on the material realities of the metropolis—the types of connections produced with transnational finance, the legal and regulatory structure under which urbanization unfolds, and the types of players, firms and officials involved.
Association of placenta‐derived extracellular vesicles with pre‐eclampsia and associated hypercoagulability: a clinical observational study
Authors: Chen Y , Huang P , Han C , Li J , Liu L , Zhao Z , Gao Y , Qin Y , Xu Q , Yan Y , Wang Y , Ren J , Men J , Dong J , Zhang J , Xue F 
Published: October 2020

ObjectivePre‐eclampsia (PE) is a pregnancy‐associated condition initiated by placental factors. We have demonstrated that placental extracellular vesicles (pcEVs) cause hypertension and proteinuria in pregnant and non‐pregnant mice.Study designAn observational study with both case‐control and longitudinal designs.SettingA single centre at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Tianjin Medical University.PopulationWe collected blood samples and clinical information from 54 PE patients, 33 normally pregnant women at 30–36 gestational weeks and on postpartum days 1 and 4 for the cross‐sectional study, and at 22–31, 32–35 and 36–40 weeks for the longitudinal study. Non‐pregnant women were also recruited.MethodsBlood samples were analysed using flow cytometry, coagulation tests and ELISA.Main outcome measuresThe primary outcome was plasma pcEV and other extracellular vesicles (EVs), and their expressions of anionic phospholipids and von Willebrand factor (VWF). Secondary variables included coagulation, ADAMTS‐13 and the anionic phospholipid‐binding proteins.ResultsPlasma pcEVs progressively increased from pregnant women during non‐menstrual period (NW) to PE patients (interquartile range [IQR] for NW: 206/microlitre [116–255], normal pregnancy [NP]: 1108/microlitre [789–1969] and PE: 8487/microlitre [4991–16 752]) and predicted PE. EVs from endothelial cells, platelets and erythrocytes accounted for <10% of pcEVs. VWF became hyper‐adhesive in PE patients and contributed to the pregnancy‐associated hypercoagulability.ConclusionPlacental, platelet‐ and endothelial cell‐derived EVs were significantly elevated in PE patients, but only pcEVs predicted PE. These EVs played a causal role in the pregnancy‐induced hypercoagulability.Tweetable abstractPlacenta‐derived extracellular vesicles predict pre‐eclampsia and the associated hypercoagulability.
There is no place like home: Information asymmetries, local asset concentration, and portfolio returns
Authors: Ling David C. , Naranjo Andy , Scheick Benjamin 
Published: October 2020

AbstractUsing a unique setting with significant cross‐market information asymmetries and a large sample of individual commercial property holdings, we provide robust evidence showing that local information plays a significant role in the linkage between local asset concentrations and return outperformance. We further document a significant positive relation between local asset concentration and portfolio returns in markets where information asymmetry is most severe. Two novel identification strategies that exploit a local lender's ability to price the local investor's information advantage and exogenous variation in sales price disclosure laws across states confirm an information‐based effect that is distinct from risk‐based or behavioral explanations.
Tofu products: A review of their raw materials, processing conditions, and packaging
Authors: Zheng Li , Regenstein Joe M. , Teng Fei , Li Yang 
Published: October 2020

AbstractTofu is a traditional product made mainly from soybeans, which has become globally popular because of its inclusion in vegetarian, vegan, and hypocaloric diets. However, with both commercial production of tofu and scientific research, it remains a challenge to produce tofu with high quality, high nutrition, and excellent flavor. This is because tofu production involves multiple complicated steps, such as soybean selection, utilization of appropriate coagulants, and tofu packaging. To make high‐quality tofu product, it is important to systematically understand critical factors that influence tofu quality. This article reviews the current research status of tofu production. The diversity of soybean seeds (the raw material), protein composition, structural properties, and nutritional values are reviewed. Then, selection of tofu coagulants is reviewed to provide insights on its role in tofu quality, where the focus is on the usage of mix coagulants and recent developments with new coagulants. Moreover, a comprehensive summary is provided on recent development in making high‐fiber tofu using Okara (the major by‐product during tofu production), which has a number of potential applications in the food industry. To help encourage automatic, environmental friendly, and high‐efficient tofu production, new developments and applications in production technology, such as ultrasound and high‐pressure process, are reviewed. Tofu packaging, including packaging materials and techniques, is evaluated as it has been found to have a positive impact on extending the shelf life and improving the quality of tofu products. Finally, the future research directions and potential areas for new developments are discussed.
Chromosome‐level genome assembly of Paralithodes platypus provides insights into evolution and adaptation of king crabs
Authors: Tang Boping , Wang Zhongkai , Liu Qiuning , Wang Zhengfei , Ren Yandong , Guo Huayun , Qi Tingting , Li Yuetian , Zhang Huabin , Jiang Senhao , Ge Baoming , Xuan Fujun , Sun Yue , She Shusheng , Yam Chan Tin , Sha Zhongli , Jiang Hui , Li Haorong , Jiang Wei , Qin Yanli , Wang Kun , Qiu Qiang , Wang Wen , Li Xinzheng , Ng Ngan Kee , Zhang Daizhen , Li Yongxin 
Published: October 2020

AbstractThe blue king crab, Paralithodes platypus, which belongs to the family Lithodidae, is a commercially and ecologically important species. However, a high‐quality reference genome for the king crab has not yet been reported. Here, we assembled the first chromosome‐level blue king crab genome, which contains 104 chromosomes and an N50 length of 51.15 Mb. Furthermore, we determined that the large genome size can be attributed to the insertion of long interspersed nuclear elements and long tandem repeats. Genome assembly assessment showed that 96.54% of the assembled transcripts could be aligned to the assembled genome. Phylogenetic analysis showed the blue king crab to have a close relationship with the Eubrachyura crabs, from which it diverged 272.5 million years ago. Population history analyses indicated that the effective population of the blue king crab declined sharply and then gradually increased from the Cretaceous and Neogene periods, respectively. Furthermore, gene families related to developmental pathways, steroid and thyroid hormone synthesis, and inflammatory regulation were expanded in the genome, suggesting that these genes contributed substantially to the environmental adaptation and unique body plan evolution of the blue king crab. The high‐quality reference genome reported here provides a solid molecular basis for further study of the blue king crab's development and environmental adaptation.