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The impact of consumer knowledge on profitable consumer loyalty through perceived service quality and psychological involvement in non-profit sport clubs
Authors: Behnam Mohsen , Pyun Do Young , Doyle Jason P. , Delshab Vahid 
Published: August 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this research was to test the influence of consumer knowledge management on attitudinal and behavioral loyalty through service quality and psychological involvement.Design/methodology/approachThe participants (N = 396) were recruited through a convenience sampling technique from non-profit sport clubs in Iran. Data were analyzed with the Structural Equation Modeling using Mplus 7.4.FindingsThe results revealed that the effects of service quality on psychological involvement were dependent on consumer knowledge management. Furthermore, there were the mediating effects of service quality and psychological involvement in the relationships between the consumer knowledge management and loyalty.Practical implicationsThe research findings provide valuable insights for non-profit sport club managers seeking to better attract and retain their consumers by demonstrating the importance of investing in consumer knowledge management initiatives. Managers should thus integrate knowledge orientation into their marketing and relationship management strategies and apply the strategy into consumer knowledge within club services.Originality/valueThis study empirically highlights the important role of knowledge from, for and about the consumer on perceived service quality and loyalty building among the non-profit consumer base.
Improved random sampling consensus algorithm for vision navigation of intelligent harvester robot
Authors: Li Bin , Yang Yu , Qin Chengshuai , Bai Xiao , Wang Lihui 
Published: August 2020

Purpose
Focusing on the problem that the visual detection algorithm of navigation path line in intelligent harvester robot is susceptible to interference and low accuracy, a navigation path detection algorithm based on improved random sampling consensus is proposed.

Design/methodology/approach
First, inverse perspective mapping was applied to the original images of rice or wheat to restore the three-dimensional spatial geometric relationship between rice or wheat rows. Second, set the target region and enhance the image to highlight the difference between harvested and unharvested rice or wheat regions. Median filter is used to remove the intercrop gap interference and improve the anti-interference ability of rice or wheat image segmentation. The third step is to apply the method of maximum variance to thresholding the rice or wheat images in the operation area. The image is further segmented with the single-point region growth, and the harvesting boundary corner is detected to improve the accuracy of the harvesting boundary recognition. Finally, fitting the harvesting boundary corner point as the navigation path line improves the real-time performance of crop image processing.

Findings
The experimental results demonstrate that the improved random sampling consensus with an average success rate of 94.6% has higher reliability than the least square method, probabilistic Hough and traditional random sampling consensus detection. It can extract the navigation line of the intelligent combine robot in real time at an average speed of 57.1 ms/frame.

Originality/value
In the precision agriculture technology, the accurate identification of the navigation path of the intelligent combine robot is the key to realize accurate positioning. In the vision navigation system of harvester, the extraction of navigation line is its core and key, which determines the speed and precision of navigation.
Exploring management control system typologies: an organisation-level view
Authors: Jukka Tapio , Pellinen Jukka 
Published: August 2020

PurposeManagement controls are the processes and mechanisms managers use to influence the behaviour of individuals and groups towards the organisation’s objectives and goals. Discrete management controls and management control system (MCS) frameworks have been extensively researched, but there is little research on organisation-level MCS types. This study aims to identify organisation-level MCS types.Design/methodology/approachThis study draws on the MCS type literature, the competing values framework and the upper echelons theory to form organisation effectiveness and top management team constructs to characterise firms. Cluster analysis was used to group a sample of 318 firm-years into MCS types.FindingsThis study reports a theory-based measurement construct that is initially validated with new empirical data. The authors found from the empirical data four different categories of firms based on the general type of their MCSs labelled clan, adhocracy, market and hierarchy.Originality/valueThis study makes two contributions to the MCS literature. Firstly, it presents a theory-based measurement construct to identify organisational and top management attributes that can be used to classify organisations’ overall MCS types. Secondly, it demonstrates how information from annual reports and other publicly available data sources can be used to identify the overall MCS types of organisations.
Accountability moderates the effects of egoistic and altruistic appeals in prosocial messages
Authors: Pittman Matthew 
Published: August 2020

Purpose
This paper aims to clarify the relationship between consumer accountability and responses to egoistic and altruistic appeals. It proposes that when consumers’ relationships with others are heightened in the form of accountability, different prosocial message appeals become effective. The study expands the understanding of how marketing may enhance the efficacy of prosocial campaign messages.

Design/methodology/approach
The study utilized three online experimental studies to test hypotheses across different population samples and health product categories. Self-benefit and other-benefit appeals were tested to decrease meat consumption (Study 1), increase vaccination intent (Study 2) and purchase oxybenzone-free sunscreen (Study 3). Results provide converging evidence for the proposed interaction between appeal type and accountability.

Findings
When consumers believe their choices will be known or discussed with others, they are more persuaded by other-benefit or altruistic appeals. Contrary to some existing research, Study 3 found that when public accountability was heightened, hybrid appeals were less effective than a solely altruistic appeal in generating purchase intent, digital engagement and attitude change, even controlling for social desirability.

Research limitations/implications
Public accountability was manipulated only in an online setting, and future studies should replicate with greater ecological validity. Results inform how scholars, brands and organizations should approach message efficacy in prosocial campaigns, particularly when an individual’s relationship with others may become salient.

Practical implications
The paper includes implications for the development and deployment of various organizational strategies such as changing the appeal depending on where a message will be viewed by consumers. Importantly for digital campaigns, maximum digital engagement arises from an altruistic appeal in a public context.

Originality/value
This paper fulfills an identified need to understand how organizations can successfully encourage prosocial consumer behavior, as well as bridges literature gaps on accountability and appeal efficacy.
The impact of the 34th America's cup on taxable sales in the San Francisco bay area
Authors: Kahane Leo H. 
Published: August 2020

PurposeAn economic impact study conducted in 2010 predicted that hosting the 34th America's Cup in 2013 would result in $1.37 billion in total economic benefits to the San Francisco Bay Area. The goal of this paper is to examine the ex post effects of this competition on real taxable sales in the Bay Area.Design/methodology/approachA panel data set of quarterly observations on taxable sales transactions for all counties in the state of California is employed. These data are explored using two estimation methodologies: difference-in-differences and synthetic control.FindingsResults from a difference-in-differences analysis and a synthetic control analysis produce similar findings. Namely, the 34th America's Cup competition appears to have had a minimal, short-lived impact on San Francisco and no measurable impact on two nearby counties.Practical implicationsThe empirical results in this paper underscore the findings of previous research showing that ex ante economic impact studies tend to overstate the net economic benefits of hosting mega-events.Social implicationsThe results of this paper may serve as a warning to policy makers considering using tax dollars to host a mega-event that such events often do not generate the economic gains reported in typical economic impact studies.Originality/valueThis is the first paper to econometrically explore the impact of hosting the America's Cup on taxable sales transactions in a region. This paper also employs the relatively new empirical methodology called synthetic control.
Perceived overqualification and counterproductive work behavior: testing the mediating role of relative deprivation and the moderating role of ambition
Authors: Schreurs Bert , Hamstra Melvyn R.W. , Jawahar I.M. , Akkermans Jos 
Published: August 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to test the mediating role of relative deprivation in the relationship between perceived overqualification and counterproductive work behavior. In addition to testing this mediation, the authors posited that ambition would interact with perceived overqualification to predict relative deprivation and, through it, counterproductive work behavior.Design/methodology/approachSurvey data collected from 181 employees were analyzed using the SPSS macro PROCESS to test the proposed moderated mediation model.FindingsResults indicated that perceived overqualification positively associated with perceptions of relative deprivation, which were, in turn, positively related to counterproductive work behavior. This indirect relationship gained in strength with increasing levels of ambition.Originality/valueBy modeling and measuring relative deprivation, this study offers a direct test of the often-invoked relative deprivation explanation of the implications of perceived overqualification for counterproductive work behavior. The study also shows how ambition can have unintended consequences.
The consequence of waiters’ professional identity on passion for work and its effects on employee turnover: a qualitative approach
Authors: Jerez-Jerez M.J. , Melewar T.C. 
Published: August 2020

PurposePurpose- This study aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between waiters’ professional identity and its antecedents such as work interaction, identity interferences, stigma, standardisation brand, authenticity, extroversion and education. “Salience” will be used as a moderator of this relationship to explain the prominence of the stimuli. The consequences of professional identity on passion and turnover intention will be analysed.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a qualitative methodology, which encompassed 3 focus group discussions (18 participants) and 11 in-depth interviews. Participants will be based on Michelin-starred restaurants in London. Founded on analysis of the qualitative data, the antecedents and consequences of professional identity were formulated.FindingsFindings demonstrate that the main factors of the formation of waiters’ professional identity are work interaction, identity interferences, stigma, standardisation brand, authenticity, extroversion and education, its consequences (passion and turnover intention) and salience as a moderator of this relationship to clarify the relevance of the stimuli. These factors have been demonstrated to have an effect on the formation of professional identity.Originality/valueThis study is relevant because the repercussion of perceptions, such as identity and identification for emerging exclusive job roles, is still under-examined in certain conditions. Restaurateurs need to work with and comprehend the quality individual framework of waiters in job roles because these have a stimulus on the fundamental interests, such as passion for work and turnover of the waiting workforce. Moreover, within the hospitality industry, there has been a predisposition to prominence more on chefs than waiting staff.
Motivating resellers of the international brand in competitive markets
Authors: Gupta Suraksha 
Published: August 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore how brand managers can motivate resellers who are not directly associated with the brand and know the brand through a local or a national level distributor. Findings of this study provide insights into factors that can lead a brand manager motivate resellers through a reseller motivation pyramid.Design/methodology/approachUsing qualitative data collected from brand managers, different themes of reseller motivations were evaluated.FindingsAn overlap between organizational goals, resource-related needs and capabilities of resellers are indicative of modification required in reseller management strategy to keep resellers motivated.Research limitations/implicationsThis research suffers from lack of quantitative data that could enable the researcher to establish the linkages discussed.Originality/valueThis research extends current understanding about intrinsic motivations of resellers to promote a brand in competitive markets.
Exploring the factors influencing consumers’ virtual garment fit satisfactions
Authors: Buyukaslan Evrim , Baytar Fatma , Kalaoglu Fatma 
Published: August 2020

Purpose
Virtual garment fit will be an important determinant for the online purchase decision of consumers in the near future. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop a conceptual model to explore the factors that might impact consumers’ virtual garment fit satisfactions (VFS).

Design/methodology/approach
Virtual body satisfaction (VBS), acceptance of the virtual try-on technology and virtual fabric properties were examined as factors that would potentially impact consumers’ VFS. Forty-five women, from 18 to 35 years old, were recruited for the study. Participants were scanned by using a 3D body scanner and their scans were used for virtual try-on. Seven circular skirts with different fabric properties were created by using a commercial 3D simulation software. Participants evaluated the fit of these virtual skirts on their own virtual bodies. Participants’ VFSs and their correlations with VBSs, acceptance of virtual try-on technology and virtual fabric properties were analyzed by Pearson’s correlation test.

Findings
Participants’ VBSs at hips were correlated fairly good with their VFSs (r = 0.50, N = 180, p < 0.01) and their acceptance of virtual try-on technology was weakly correlated to VFSs (r = 0.24, N = 180, p < 0.01). However, no significant correlation was found between virtual fabric properties and participants’ VFSs.

Research limitations/implications
This study did not examine the ideal beauty notion, which may affect consumers’ expectations about how the garments should fit on them. Another limitation was the use of a single skirt design as a stimulus.

Originality/value
Studies that explore virtual garment fit often measure the garment ease or the virtual fabric tension and ignore consumer perspective, which is essential for online purchase decision. This study is unique as it prioritizes consumers’ perspectives.
Root trait responses to drought are more heterogeneous than leaf trait responses
Authors: Lozano Yudi M. , Aguilar‐Trigueros Carlos A. , Flaig Isabel C. , Rillig Matthias C. 
Published: August 2020

Abstract

Drought can strongly modify plant diversity and ecosystem processes. As droughts are expected to intensify in the future, it is important to better understand plant responses to this global driver. Root traits are an overlooked but powerful predictor of plant responses to drought because they are in direct contact with the soil environment and are responsible for taking up nutrients and water.

Here, we determine which root traits are sensitive to drought and the magnitude of that response. We also tested whether root trait relationships with shoot biomass are affected by drought and to what extent all these responses depend on plant species identity. To do so, we conducted a glasshouse experiment with 24 plant species grown in pots (10 replicates per species), which included grasses, forbs and legumes. All replicates were well watered during the first month and then half of them were kept under drought (30% water holding capacity [WHC]), with the other half serving as control (70% WHC). After 2 months of treatment, leaf and root traits were measured.

Leaf traits had a strong and more uniform response to drought compared to root traits. Root trait responses were variable and differed among plant species. Overall, grasses and several forbs had increased root diameter with drought while forbs had decreased specific root surface area (SRSA) and specific root length (SRL). Increase of root diameter and reduction of root elongation or sacrificing fine roots are different strategies that may promote nutrient and water acquisition, depending on plant species identity.

Our results identify changes in root morphological traits as mechanisms to likely tolerate drought and highlight that, although such drought responses are species‐specific, they are phylogenetically clustered.

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Range‐extending tropical herbivores increase diversity, intensity and extent of herbivory functions in temperate marine ecosystems
Authors: Zarco‐Perello Salvador , Carroll Gemma , Vanderklift Mat , Holmes Thomas , Langlois Tim J. , Wernberg Thomas 
Published: August 2020

Abstract

Climate change is modifying species distributions around the world, forcing some species poleward, where they can alter trophic interactions. Many tropical herbivorous fishes have successfully expanded their ranges into temperate ecosystems, and while it is clear they drive increases in herbivory rates in specific localities, little is known about how they might affect the diversity of herbivory functions across large spatial scales, considering their interaction with assemblages of native herbivores in temperate habitats.

We assessed the spatial overlap and habitat associations of native temperate and range‐expanding tropical herbivorous fishes in six subregions of south‐western Australia to determine how incursions of tropical species may have affected the diversity, redundancy (index of uniqueness) and the ‘spatial extent’ (addition of functions in new areas) and ‘intensity’ (increasing density of functional groups) of specific herbivory functions in recipient ecosystems.

Tropical herbivores had high abundances in temperate ecosystems, forming schools from 40 (parrotfish) to 200 (rabbitfish) individuals strongly associated with seagrass meadows and reefs with high cover of turf algae. Overlap with temperate herbivores was highest in the northern subregions, forming unique assemblages, with no apparent species displacements. The addition of tropical species increased functional diversity and uniqueness (the complement of redundancy), introducing novel herbivory functions to many locations. Seagrass browsing increased in spatial extent (27%) and intensity (15×), while seaweed browsing and grazing increased in intensity by up to 2.5× in regions with high abundances of tropical herbivores.

Our results suggest that the diversity, intensity and spatial extent of different herbivory functions can change as tropical species with different habitat affinities, behaviours and diets shift their distributions poleward. Changes in functional redundancy are likely to be heterogeneous in space and might not increase initially because the diversity of herbivory functions is relatively low in some temperate marine ecosystems. However, there is the potential for greater redundancy as further tropical species arrive, their abundances increase and the spatial and functional overlap of communities rises.

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Widespread and major losses in multiple ecosystem services as a result of agricultural expansion in the Argentine Chaco
Authors: Barral María Paula , Villarino Sebastian , Levers Christian , Baumann Matthias , Kuemmerle Tobias , Mastrangelo Matias 
Published: August 2020

Abstract

Where agriculture expands into tropical and subtropical forests, social–ecological impacts are typically strong. However, where and how frontier development impacts on ecosystem functioning and services is often unclear, including which services trade‐off against agricultural production. This constitutes a major barrier towards planning for more sustainable outcomes in deforestation frontiers.

Here we assessed spatiotemporal change in multiple ecosystem services in the Argentine Chaco, a global deforestation hotspot. We modelled and mapped five ecosystem functions (i.e. carbon storage in biomass, carbon storage in soil, erosion control, excess rainfall retention by vegetation and soil fertility) which together provide three ecosystem services (i.e. agricultural suitability, climate regulation and flood regulation) for 1985, 2000 and 2013. We then employed this information to identify and map: (a) main trade‐offs between ecosystem services and agricultural production, and (b) bundles of changes in ecosystem services through the use of Self‐Organizing Maps.

Our results highlight that land‐use changes since 1985 have led to widespread and drastic declines in ecosystem functions and services across the Argentine Chaco. Mean losses of ecosystem services ranged between 6% and 10% for flood regulation, climate regulation and agricultural suitability. The largest losses occurred in the Dry Chaco subregion between 2000 and 2013.

We find two main types of trade‐offs between regulating ecosystem services and agricultural production. Increases in crop and pasture production occurred along with large and moderate losses, respectively, in flood regulation and climate regulation over 20% of the region.

Our mapping of bundles identified five common patterns of change in ecosystem services, delineating areas of stable or degrading ecosystem service supply. This provides a powerful template for adaptive spatial planning.

Synthesis and applications. Using the Argentinean Chaco as an example, we demonstrate how combining fine‐scale land‐use maps with biophysical models provides deep insights into the spatiotemporal patterns of changes in ecosystem services, and their trade‐offs with agricultural production. The periodic updating of maps of trade‐offs and bundles of change in ecosystem services provides key inputs for the adaptive management of highly dynamic and threatened landscapes, such as those in tropical and subtropical deforestation frontiers.