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Value co-creation processes at sustainable music festivals: a grounded theory approach
Authors: Werner Kim , Griese Kai-Michael , Faatz Andreas 
Published: October 2019

Purpose
One of the most significant shifts in contemporary business thinking in the tourism and event industry is co-creation and the framework for adopting this collaborative approach is integral for achieving the fundamental goal of value creation. The purpose of this paper is to enhance the understanding of sustainable events by analysing value co-creation processes from the attendees’ perspective.

Design/methodology/approach
The methodical framework comprises two steps. First, the study analyses the literature related to festivals and value co-creation, with a focus on sustainable festivals. Second, data rooted research based on grounded theory is conducted, using 12 semi-structured interviews with music festival attendees.

Findings
Three distinct festival attendee categories were identified: the sustainable co-creation type, the calculating type and the experience type. Within each category, attendees have different attitudes, personal values and experiences as well as individual assessments of what exactly constitutes value and value creation. These three categories are regarded as key factors in describing different kinds of value co-creation processes in the festival context.

Research limitations/implications
Considering these three types and addressing their personal values, beliefs and value perceptions will allow festival organisers to better manage the development of sustainable festivals and their role as value co-creators.

Originality/value
This paper addresses the need to better understand how value is created in a festival context. The application of grounded theory also considers scholarly calls for a deeper search into the meaning and essence of value for festival attendees.
The Phygital experience in the smart tourism destination
Authors: Ballina Francisco Javier , Valdes Luis , Del Valle Eduardo 
Published: October 2019

PurposeInformation communication technologies (ICTs) of destination are not a mere mechanism of technical interaction; they are, above all, new mixed realities that integrate physical and digital resources. Using the utility of technology indicator, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate a new experiential model.Design/methodology/approachA survey of 377 tourists that stayed at hotels was conducted. It dealt with three different issues: the value of digital technologies when creating experiences, the different appeal of the digital device applications, and the measurement of the level of satisfaction with the destination, stay and expenditure.FindingsICTs are the main tool for building the value of the tourist experience and technological utilities increase the competitiveness of the destination. Furthermore, two types of ICT utility were identified: individual and social experience.Research limitations/implicationsThese include the problems of a sampling procedure, operating with a database of tourists’ opinions, and also the specificities of each destination in particular.Practical implicationsSmart tourism destination should be considered a part of the tourist service. They are not merely information feedback but facilitate the generation of experiences built on the new digital realities.Social implicationsThe Phygital phenomenon represents a radical change in the personal and social behaviour of tourists, incorporating technological matters as a direct component in their decisions and actions.Originality/valuePhygital experience is a radical change for co-creation in tourism. Tourists are not demanding improvements but rather a new experiential model.
Eco-design requirements in heavyweight vehicle development – a case study of the impact of the Euro 5 emissions standard on the Brazilian industry
Authors: Scur Gabriela , de Mello Adriana Marotti , Schreiner Lilian , José das Neves Fernando 
Published: October 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how technology-forcing regulations affect the product development process in the supply chain of heavyweight vehicles.

Design/methodology/approach
Through a case study, this paper seeks to understand how one of the leading companies in heavyweight vehicles manufacturing industry and its engine supplier in Brazil introduce eco-design practices into its engine development process.

Findings
Through case studies conducted in a heavyweight vehicle producer and its engine supplier, this study shows that, in addition to meeting the standards and legislation, the automaker uses ecodesign practices during the product development cycle such as a design that eliminates harmful and hazardous materials and a project that allows recycling, the reuse of parts and energy efficiency, thereby reducing the environmental impact. However, without the mandatory requirements imposed by federal legislation, products with lower environmental impacts would rarely be developed, as environmental performance is not demanded by customers, who are mainly cost driven. Technology-forcing regulations play an important role in enhancing the adoption of ecodesign practices, but market and competitive conditions also play an important role.

Originality/value
Several studies on the impacts of public policies and development for the automobile sector have been conducted, but there is a lack of studies in the area of commercial vehicles, especially in Brazil. Therefore, this research is justified by new demands of society, in addition to the necessity of complying with legal requirements and the adoption of good practices related to eco-design.
The impacts of customer involvement on the relationship between relationship quality and performance
Authors: Li Yi , Zhang Ying , Xu Jinpeng , Feng Taiwen 
Published: October 2019

PurposeThis paper aims to determine whether relationship quality should be measured as a disaggregated or as a composite construct, and investigate the causal relationship between relationship quality and customer involvement. The authors also explore the role of customer involvement in relationship quality-performance linkage in B2B settings.Design/methodology/approachThis study is based on 214 Chinese manufacturers and uses the structural equation model to examine this conceptual model and hypotheses.FindingsAs a reflective second-order construct, relationship quality not only has positive effects on performance but also positively affects customer involvement. More importantly, customer involvement partially mediates the relationship between relationship quality and performance.Research limitations/implicationsThis study only focuses on customer relationship, but neglects the supplier relationship.Practical implicationsWhen assessing the relationship quality with customers, suppliers must consider trust, commitment and investment dimensions simultaneously. In addition, to increase performance, suppliers must involve customers who are trusted and invested in training and logistics facility and then cooperate with them in new product design.Originality/valueThese findings contribute to this understanding on the relationship quality in B2B settings and provide theoretical contributions and managerial insights for both academics and practitioners.
A review: microstructure and properties of tin-silver-copper lead-free solder series for the applications of electronics
Authors: Aamir Muhammad , Muhammad Riaz , Tolouei-Rad Majid , Giasin Khaled , Silberschmidt Vadim V. 
Published: October 2019

Purpose
The research on lead-free solder alloys has increased in past decades due to awareness of the environmental impact of lead contents in soldering alloys. This has led to the introduction and development of different grades of lead-free solder alloys in the global market. Tin-silver-copper is a lead-free alloy which has been acknowledged by different consortia as a good alternative to conventional tin-lead alloy. The purpose of this paper is to provide comprehensive knowledge about the tin-silver-copper series.

Design/methodology/approach
The approach of this study reviews the microstructure and some other properties of tin-silver-copper series after the addition of indium, titanium, iron, zinc, zirconium, bismuth, nickel, antimony, gallium, aluminium, cerium, lanthanum, yttrium, erbium, praseodymium, neodymium, ytterbium, nanoparticles of nickel, cobalt, silicon carbide, aluminium oxide, zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, cerium oxide, zirconium oxide and titanium diboride, as well as carbon nanotubes, nickel-coated carbon nanotubes, single-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene-nano-sheets.

Findings
The current paper presents a comprehensive review of the tin-silver-copper solder series with possible solutions for improving their microstructure, melting point, mechanical properties and wettability through the addition of different elements/nanoparticles and other materials.

Originality/value
This paper summarises the useful findings of the tin-silver-copper series comprehensively. This information will assist in future work for the design and development of novel lead-free solder alloys.
Interpersonal trust and employee knowledge sharing behavior
Authors: Mohammed Neethu , Kamalanabhan T.J. 
Published: October 2019

PurposeThe main purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of benevolence-based, competence-based and integrity-based trust in peers on the employees’ voluntary knowledge contribution and knowledge seeking with them. In addition, this study aims to explore how engaging in knowledge-contribution and knowledge-seeking behavior with peers influences an individual’s creative performance at work.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire-based survey was used and data were collected from 401 professionals working in information technology companies. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses.FindingsBenevolence-based trust and competence-based trust positively influence the extent to which individuals voluntarily engage in knowledge contribution and knowledge seeking with peers. Contrary to expectations, integrity-based trust has a negative effect on knowledge-seeking behavior at workplace. The results also provide evidence for a significant positive relationship between both types of knowledge sharing behavior and employees’ creative performance.Originality/valueThe present study differs from existing studies by offering a theoretical model that integrates different types of knowledge sharing, its antecedents and the differential impact on employee creativity. The model incorporates the knowledge-seeking dimension of individual knowledge sharing behavior, which has received relatively less attention in extant literature, and provides a conceptual comparison of different behavioral contexts in a single study. While prior studies have predominantly explored the antecedents of knowledge sharing, this study is among the few that have simultaneously looked into the outcomes of knowledge sharing at individual level.
The return of the trophic chain: Fundamental vs. realized interactions in a simple arthropod food web
Authors: Torres‐Campos Inmaculada , Magalhães Sara , Moya‐Laraño Jordi , Montserrat Marta 
Published: October 2019

Abstract

The mathematical theory describing small assemblages of interacting species (community modules or motifs) has significantly improved our understanding of the emergent properties of ecological communities. It is not clear whether all interactions accounted for in such models will be realized in real communities.

Here, we use community modules to experimentally explore whether the number of trophic links among species scales with community complexity (i.e. by adding species known to feed on each other from pairwise trials) in a simple mite community present in avocado orchards (Persea americana). By varying the presence of each of two predators (Euseius stipulatus and Neoseiulus californicus), one herbivore as shared prey (Oligonychus perseae) and pollen of Carpobrotus edulis as an alternative food resource, we mimicked communities with simple trophic chains, intraguild predation and/or apparent competition. We then assessed predation rates and the conversion of food into offspring in those communities.

We found that increasing the number of potential interactions did not result in more complex realized community modules. Instead, all species effectively fed upon a single food item, hence all community modules actually corresponded to one or two linear trophic chains.

Therefore, trophic links assumed to occur when species are assembled in pairs do not necessarily occur when other components of the community are present. Consequently, food web structure may be much less complex than predicted by theory.

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Explaining Heterogeneity in the Effect of the Exchange Rate and Exchange Rate Volatility on Foreign Direct Investment: A Meta‐Analysis Approach
Authors: Moraghen Warren , Seetanah Boopen , Sookia Noor 
Published: October 2019

AbstractThis study examines the effect of exchange rate and exchange rate volatility on foreign direct investment (FDI) by using a meta‐analysis. We filter out publication bias within the 1,329 estimates, pooled from 101 studies and employ Bayesian Model Averaging to reduce model uncertainty and explain the existing heterogeneity. The results reveal that the exchange rate system, estimation characteristics, and the modeling approach have an important and noticeable influence on the statistical significance and direction of the estimates. On one hand, the impact of exchange rate volatility is relatively lower in countries with higher trade openness, human capital and better protection of intellectual property rights. On the other hand, greater geographical distance and technology gap between the host and the home economy are associated with greater uncertainty and thus accentuate the negative causality between exchange rate volatility and FDI. Such sensitivities suggest that greater emphasis should be placed on reporting estimates of the impact of the exchange rate and its volatility on FDI across a variety of methodological characteristics and specification and estimation choices.
Banking Sector Development and Energy Consumption in Nigeria: Exploring the Causal Relationship and its Implications
Authors: Agbanike Tobechi F. , Nwani Chinazaekpere , Uwazie Uwazie I. , Anochiwa Lasbrey I. , Enyoghasim Michael O. 
Published: October 2019

AbstractThis study examines the causal relationship between banking sector development and energy consumption in Nigeria over the period 1971–2013 incorporating crude oil price and indicators of economic performance. An autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach to cointegration provides evidence of long‐run relationship among the variables. The long‐run and short‐run estimates suggest that a non‐linear inverted U‐shaped relationship exists between banking sector development and energy consumption in Nigeria, indicating that initially, energy consumption increases as the banking sector develops and then declines as the banking sector matures to generate efficiency in energy consumption. In addition, this study explores the direction of causality between the variables using the Toda–Yamamoto Granger causality test procedure. The results suggest that a unidirectional causality runs from crude oil price to banking sector development, from banking sector development to energy consumption and from energy consumption to economic growth. It may therefore be necessary for policy makers in Nigeria to incorporate banking sector development in the energy and sustainable economic policies.
Drought‐tolerant rice, weather index insurance, and comprehensive risk management for smallholders: evidence from a multi‐year field experiment in India
Authors: Ward Patrick S. , Makhija Simrin , Spielman David J. 
Published: October 2019

In rainfed production systems throughout India, agricultural activities are dependent upon the summer monsoon, and any aberration in monsoon rainfall patterns can have severe consequences for rice production. There is considerable policy interest in designing programs to lower small‐scale farmers’ exposure to these types of risk given the regularity with which adverse monsoon events occur. This paper introduces a field experiment conducted with two risk management options in the state of Odisha: a drought‐tolerant rice cultivar; and a weather index insurance product designed to complement the performance of the cultivar. Uptake rates for the cultivar itself and for the joint product are compared across two years alongside an analysis of factors that predict uptake. Results indicate high levels of demand for both the products, albeit with a significant degree of price sensitivity. But this sensitivity is agnostic to the nature of price reductions, suggesting that public investments that lower the costs of risk management may be sufficient to encourage broad uptake, without necessarily relying upon distortionary subsidies as is so often done. Sustained demand between years one and two is primarily explained where individuals were indemnified in year one and had a large number of peers also purchasing the product.
Framework for a Single Global Repository of Child Abuse Materials
Authors: Açar Kemal Veli 
Published: October 2019

AbstractAgainst the tide of a huge amount of data, law enforcement agencies barely manage to focus on undiscovered child abuse materials (CAMs) to identify victims, abusers, and crime scenes. Currently, to alleviate this burden to some extent, there are international and national repositories of CAMs in place, such as Interpol's International Child Sexual Exploitation Database (ICSE DB), NCMEC's Child Recognition and Identification System (CRIS), and the UK's Child Abuse Image Database (CAID). This article introduced these global, regional, and national repositories and other related transnational initiatives comprehensively and also critiques the current trend of setting up more repositories and additional initiatives at local and regional levels. Later, the author elaborates on a plan for a single global repository governed by an international organization. Despite a significant decrease in the costs for a country to be actively involved in the fight against online child sexual abuse and emergence of new possibilities for more effective prevention strategies and investigational methods, such an idea of global centralization might face insurmountable opposition from current stakeholders, particularly because of organizational concerns and technological challenges.
New perspective to evaluate N1 staging: The peripheral lymph node metastasis status of non‐small cell lung cancer
Authors: Zhang Jiaqi , Liu Lei , Wang Guige , Huang Cheng , Chen Yeye , Zhang Ye , Guo Chao , Li Shanqing 
Published: October 2019

AbstractBackgroundLymph node (LN) metastasis status is the decision‐making basis for the surgical procedure and adjuvant therapy modalities. Fewer studies have previously focused on LN metastasis in N1 station, especially on peripheral lymph node (PLN) metastasis in N1 station. This study aimed to reveal the metastasis status of PLN of non‐small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and investigate its effects on N staging.MethodsWe retrospectively evaluated a consecutive series of patients who underwent curative resection for histologically confirmed N1 NSCLC. Propensity score matching (PSM) was used to analyze the effects of PLN on N staging.ResultsA total of 105 patients with confirmed pathological N1 (pN1) stage NSCLC with solitary nodule and without neoadjuvant therapy were enrolled into the study: 55 patients had intraperipheral LN metastasis (IPLNM), and 50 patients had extra‐peripheral LN metastasis (EPLNM). Before PSM analysis, type of location (P = 0.002), surgical procedure (P = 0.008), number of positive LNs (P = 0.029), number of LNs removed (P = 0.010), lobe of lung cancer (P = 0.031), and vascular invasion (P = 0.049) showed significant differences between the two groups. After PSM analysis, statistically there were differences in type of location (P = 0.034), number of positive LNs (P = 0.008) and vascular invasion (P = 0.049) between them.ConclusionPLN metastasis was a quite common pattern of LN metastasis in N1 station of NSCLC. IPLNM occurred more frequently in central NSCLC and NSCLC with vascular invasion, and thoracotomy was likely to secure more accurate PLN staging. Clinicians should pay great attention to PLN dissection. Follow‐up data will be needed in order to detect the prognosis of IPLNM patients.
popler: An r package for extraction and synthesis of population time series from the long‐term ecological research (LTER) network
Authors: Compagnoni Aldo , Bibian Andrew J. , Ochocki Brad M. , Levin Sam , Zhu Kai , Miller Tom E. X. 
Published: October 2019

Abstract

Population dynamics play a central role in the historical and current development of fundamental and applied ecological science. The nascent culture of open data promises to increase the value of population dynamics studies to the field of ecology. However, synthesis of population data is constrained by the difficulty in identifying relevant datasets, by the heterogeneity of available data and by access to raw (as opposed to aggregated or derived) observations.

To obviate these issues, we built a relational database, popler, and its R client, the library "popler". popler accommodates the vast majority of population data under a common structure, and without the need for aggregating raw observations. The "popler" R library is designed for users unfamiliar with the structure of the database and with the SQL language. This R library allows users to identify, download, explore and cite datasets salient to their needs.

We implemented popler as a PostgreSQL instance, where we stored population data originated by the United States Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network. Our focus on the US LTER data aims to leverage the potential of this vast open data resource. The database currently contains 305 datasets from 25 LTER sites. popler is designed to accommodate automatic updates of existing datasets, and to accommodate additional datasets from LTER as well as non‐LTER studies.

The combination of the online database and the R library "popler" is a resource for data synthesis efforts in population ecology. The common structure of popler simplifies comparative analyses, and the availability of raw data confers flexibility in data analysis. The "popler" R library maximizes these opportunities by providing a user‐friendly interface to the online database.