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Contesting digital finance for the poor
Authors: Ozili Peterson K. 
Published: May 2020

Purpose
This paper aims to critically assess digital finance as a pro-poor intervention in the development finance space.

Design/methodology/approach
Using critical policy discourse analysis, this paper explains the turn from microfinance to digital finance, and thereafter discusses four issues: the lack of evidence that digital finance for poor people actually promotes socioeconomic development; the risks that poor people are exposed to, which arises from their exposure to digital finance technology; the lack of evidence that digital finance actually brings poor people immediate benefits; and the weak business rationale for digital finance.

Findings
The expectation for digital finance serving as a major pro-poor private sector intervention lacks justification.

Originality/value
The paper reflects on the effect of digital finance for poor people.
Investigation of magnetohydrodynamics in Ag-TiO2/water hybrid nanofluid in a Shamse knot shaped cavity
Authors: Ma Yuan , Rashidi Mohammad Mehdi , Mohebbi Rasul , Yang Zhigang 
Published: May 2020

Purpose
The nanofluid natural convection heat transfer in a hollow complex enclosure, which is named as Shamse knot shape, is studied numerically. This paper aims to present how the Rayleigh number, nanoparticle volume fraction, Hartmann number and hollow side length affect the fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics.

Design/methodology/approach
The continuity, momentum and energy equations have been solved using lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). Numerical simulation has been obtained for a wide range of Rayleigh number (103 ≤ Ra ≤ 106), nanoparticle volume fraction (0 ≤ ϕ 0.05) and Hartmann number (0 ≤ Ha ≤ 60) to analyze the fluid flow pattern and heat transfer characteristics. Moreover, the effect of hollow side length (D) on flow field and thermal performance is studied.

Findings
The results showed that the magnetic field has a negative effect on the thermal performance and the average Nusselt number decreases by increasing the Hartmann number. Because of the high conduction heat transfer coefficient of nanoparticles, the average Nusselt number increases by rising the nanoparticle volume fraction. The effect of adding nanoparticles on heat transfer is more effective at low nanoparticle volume fraction (0 ≤ ϕ ≤ 0.01). It was also found that at Ra = 106, when the hollow side length increases to 3, the flow pattern becomes different due to the small gap. The averaged Nu is an increasing function of D at low Ra and an opposite trend occurs at high Rayleigh number.

Originality/value
For the first time, the effects of magnetic field, Rayleigh number, nanoparticle volume fraction and hollow side length on natural convection heat transfer of hybrid nanofluid (Ag-TiO2/water) is investigated in a complicated cavity.
Effect of supply chain strategic collaboration announcements on shareholder value: an empirical investigation from China
Authors: Liu Weihua , Wei Wanying , Si Cheng , Xie Dong , Chen Lujie 
Published: May 2020

PurposeThis study empirically examines the impact of announcements on supply chain strategic collaboration (SCSC) on companies' shareholder value.Design/methodology/approachThis study analyzes changes in shareholder value of companies listed in China based on data of 208 SCSC announcements. The signaling theory is applied to determine correlation among SCSC announcements and the market. An event study is used to estimate the stock market reaction to SCSC announcements. The common market model estimates stock abnormal returns after the event. The least squares method and regression model calculate the model parameter value.FindingsThere is a positive and statistically significant relationship between SCSC announcement and shareholder value. Market reaction to product development collaboration is significantly higher than to technology-sharing collaboration, market collaboration, and other SCSC types. The market reacts more positively to suppliers and companies with greater supply chain control power than to buyers and companies with lower control power. Announcements from the service supply chain can lead to stronger market reactions than those from manufacturing supply chains.Practical implicationsThe findings provide a systematic assessment of how SCSC announcements contribute to firms' shareholder value. The result provides a benchmark of value promotion that can be expected from SCSC announcements.Originality/valueThis study fills the research gap that using secondary data to assess changes in companies’ shareholder value caused by SCSC announcements and firstly examines these changes by constructing the signaler–signal–receiver progress based on signaling theory. The research results provide a new reference and inspiration for deeper understanding of the impact mechanism of SCSC. Furthermore, this study contributes to the development of the signaling theory using an empirical study in an emerging market, China.
Investigating the environmental behavior of business and accounting university students
Authors: Kyriakopoulos Grigorios , Ntanos Stamatios , Asonitou Sofia 
Published: May 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to explore the underlying dimensions of environmental behavior (EB) and examine how environmental education (EE) and ecological sensitivity (ES) motivate the EB of Business Administration and Accounting students (BAS).

Design/methodology/approach
A questionnaire survey was conducted and a sample of 190 BAS was randomly selected from the departments of Business Administration and Accounting and Finance at the University of West Attica (UNIWA), Greece.

Findings
The analysis was structured upon four underlying components under the EB of the sample: information seeking, recycling, green consuming and active participation. A positive relationship between EB and EE was revealed, while EB and ES were moderately interrelated. An important result was the hesitation of students to convert EE and ES to active participation and green consuming behavior, thus reaffirming similar results from other studies.

Research limitations/implications
The findings should be further developed using larger samples among other higher education institutions. Future research could be extended to students who reside at sub-urban or rural regions or students who are educated upon diverse academic disciplines. The basket of questions can be enriched with issues of immediate concern among future business executives such as the “ethical” role of accountants or the value creation for local societies.

Originality/value
The significance of this study lies on associating students’ EB with formal EE with personality characteristics such as ES. Educational policy-makers can enrich the curricula of BAS with environmentally oriented courses and teaching methods that can increase the active participation of students.
Workaholism and organizational citizenship behaviors: exploring gender role beliefs
Authors: Aziz Shahnaz , Pittman Christina , Wuensch Karl 
Published: May 2020

PurposeThe purpose of the current study was to examine the relationships among workaholism, organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) and gender role beliefs.Design/methodology/approachData were collected, through administration of an online survey, from 409 faculty and staff at a large Southeastern university.FindingsWorkaholism and OCBs were negatively related. Additionally, both feminine and masculine role beliefs were associated with OCBs.Research limitations/implicationsFuture researchers may benefit from examining a sample outside an educational institution.Social implicationsAs our society continues to change, gender role beliefs will become less restricted to our biological genders and it will become essential for organizations to understand how they relate to work behavior (e.g. OCBs). Namely, androgyny may be a desirable trait for employees.Originality/valueThis is the first study to investigate the relationships among workaholism, OCBs and gender role beliefs.
“Real-world:” preservice teachers' research competence and research difficulties in action research
Authors: Toquero Cathy Mae Dabi 
Published: May 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to provide an analysis of the teacher education program focused on the development of the research competence of the preservice teachers, difficulties they encountered in conducting action research and the need to provide them with realistic research opportunities.Design/methodology/approachThis qualitative study made use of data sources taken from observations, feedback sessions, presentations and follow-up written interview of 133 randomly selected preservice teachers.FindingsFindings reported that the multicultural preservice teachers have novice research skills and that the real-world application of their research skills developed their research competence. However, they encountered difficulties creating their action research, such as in the literature review and the research conceptualization.Research limitations/implicationsAside from the self-reported experiences of the students, the training on the action research mainly focused on the conceptualization, design formulation of interventions and proposal writing stage but were not implemented due to course constraints.Practical implicationsThis study can assist policymakers to integrate a mandatory research course as part of the curricular offerings and for the university to create space for students to practice their research skills based on real-life problems in the basic level institutions.Social implicationsUnderstanding the challenges, difficulties, and basic competence in the research development of the preservice teachers would strengthen the research practice of the future teachers for evidence-based teaching in the schools.Originality/valueThe limited literature focus on the development of research competence on teacher education students using action research, including the difficulties that university students experience in doing research based on a societal context.
The interaction between housing prices and housing credit: evidence from a country with rapid credit accumulation
Authors: Cuestas Juan Carlos , Kukk Merike 
Published: May 2020

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the mutual dependence between housing prices and housing credit in Estonia, a country that experienced rapid debt accumulation during the 2000s and big swings in house prices during that period.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use Bayesian econometric methods on data spanning 2000–2015.FindingsThe estimations show the interdependence between house prices and housing credit. More importantly, negative housing credit innovations had a stronger effect on house prices than positive ones.Originality/valueThe asymmetry in the linkage between housing credit and house prices highlights important policy implications, in that if central banks increase capital buffers during good times, they can release credit conditions during hard times to alleviate the negative spillover into house prices and the real economy.
Determinants of investment decision in a Ponzi scheme: Investors’ perspective on the Modaraba scam
Authors: Ullah Irfan , Ahmad Wiqar , Ali Arshad 
Published: May 2020

Purpose
This paper aims to identify the key patronage factors that encouraged the public for investment in the Modaraba scam – a Ponzi scheme perpetrated in Pakistan with a whim of Sharīʿah-compliant business and intermediation of religious clerics.

Design/methodology/approach
In a qualitative research, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the investors of the scam followed by thematic analysis to conclude on the subject matter.

Findings
The results reveal numerous stimuli, thematically categorized as the monetary stimulus, religiosity stimulus and lubricants, which mobilized investment towards the scam. In general, a lucrative rate of return on investment and personality of the agents, being religious clerics, were the two prominent reasons, which convinced unanimously all investors. In particular, the religiosity stimulus (agents’ personality and Sharīʿah-compliant business) was a novel and eye-catching slogan of the scheme.

Originality/value
Keeping in view the amount of scam and number of victims, this research is a robust attempt to conclude on the determinants of investment decision in the Modaraba scam.
Corporate crime: a logical misconception, but with one analytical point
Authors: Alalehto Tage 
Published: May 2020

Purpose
In 1988, Donald Cressey published a previously overlooked article. According to Cressey, there was a lack in the agenda of corporate crime research concerning theory and conceptual precision of what exactly the scientific object was and how it could reinforce the understanding of white-collar criminality. Cressey stated the idea that a fictitious person, such as a corporation, upon which were bestowed properties such as a will of its own (intentions and motivations) and a consciousness to act morally and ethically have a responsibility to follow the order of law, leds to a fundamental theoretical problem in terms of discovering the causes of crimes committed by such a fictitious person. I follow this line of thought about the arguments made by representatives of corporate crime. Specifically, I follow the concept of “decoupling,” by using various techniques of formal logic. The conclusion is that the concept of corporate crime is a logical contradiction (an eternal false statement), but the research has one analytical point which must be incorporated into the research of white-collar criminality: how structural conditions of a corporation’s policy and strategy “produce” or influence the individuals within the corporation to make decisions. The aim of the paper is to prove on logical grounds that the direction of research on corporate crime is on the wrong track to find the truth (basic elements and mechanisms) about white-collar crime.

Design/methodology/approach
Using formal logic, specifically modal logic.

Findings
The concept “corporate crime” is a logical contradiction.

Research limitations/implications
Concerning the conclusion, the implications has to be that corporate crime is a misleading concept in the research agenda of white-collar crime.

Practical implications
The authors have to reconsider the whole research field of corporate crime research.

Originality/value
To best of my knowledge, no one has before done a critic of corporate crime concept by formal logic.
Keeping it in the family: a socio-cognitive approach to the prioritization of family goals
Authors: Ng Desmond , James Jr Harvey S. , Klein Peter G. 
Published: May 2020

PurposeAs the prioritization of family goals depends on the resolution of family conflict, this study's purpose is to explain how a dominant coalition (DC) of parental family members prioritizes their family economic and non-economic goals when faced with different types of family conflict.Design/methodology/approachA conceptual framework is developed drawing on a socio-cognitive approach to explain a family's goal formation process. This socio-cognitive approach extends the stakeholder salience underpinnings of family influence/essence theory. It shows that family conflict arises from the complex and novel social settings of a family business and that a DC prioritizes their family's goals by drawing on heuristic biases to resolve such family conflict.FindingsA key finding of this study is the introduction of a distinct type of agency to family influence/essence research. Unlike the salient explanations, a family's goal formulation process is attributed to a DC's heuristic response in resolving their family business conflict.Originality/valueScholars have called for a greater need to investigate the social and cognitive underpinnings of a family's goal formation process. While the social settings of a family business are often explained in terms of family conflict, an understanding of the sources of such conflict and their resolution have received limited attention. This study opens new avenues to understanding the sources of such family conflict and the cognitive mechanisms needed to overcome them. This understanding is critical not only to the prioritization of a family's goals but also to the idea that “influence” defines the essence of a family business.
How CEOs can engage boards to become strategic assets
Authors: Finzi Benjamin , Firth Vincent , Bujno Maureen , Lu Kathy 
Published: May 2020

Purpose
The authors suggest ways CEOs can orchestrate their relationship with their board to optimize its potential to become a strategic asset for the company, as distinct from its more traditional role as overseer of management.

Design/methodology/approach
To better understand how CEOs can actively engage their boards to make them become strategic assets, the authors conducted research involving more than 50 conversations with Fortune 1,000 CEOs, board chairs, directors, academics and external board advisors to ask them to share their experience and perspectives.

Findings
The challenge for both CEOs and boards is to fight the natural tendency to evade confrontations or smooth things over, rather than harness conflict to achieve higher-value decisions.

Practical implications
CEOs can also model confident transparency for their executive teams and send a strong signal that it is okay to share information about work in progress with the board even if it is not finalized.

Originality/value
The stakes have never been higher for CEOs as they are expected to manage, make sense of and take advantage of unprecedented levels of ambiguity and uncertainty. To help do this, they need board members who are fully engaged and willing and able to prod, push, challenge and champion–to work with their CEOs to get to better insight and decisions.
Multiple porokeratomas (porokeratotic acanthoma) coexisting with disseminated superficial porokeratosis: Clinical, dermoscopic and pathological observations, and review of published work
Authors: Xu Xiaoxi , Pradhan Sushmita , Wang Dan , Li Wei 
Published: May 2020

AbstractPorokeratoma is a recently described solitary or multiple tumor‐like acanthoma, sharing the histological feature of cornoid lamellae with porokeratosis. Whether porokeratoma is a variant of porokeratosis is controversial. We report a rare case of a 53‐year‐old Chinese woman who presented with multiple, symmetrical, hemispherical and verrucous plaques on her lower extremities that had been present for 20 years. The clinical manifestation resembled the fungal disease of chromoblastomycosis. The diagnosis of multiple porokeratoma coexisting with disseminated superficial porokeratosis was rendered according to the clinical, dermoscopic and pathological features. Oral acitretin (30 mg/day) and laser therapy were administrated. After 6 months of treatment, the number of plaques on her limbs was significantly reduced without recurrence. From this case, we speculate that porokeratoma is a rare and special variant of porokeratosis. In complex cases with multiple lesions, oral acitretin can be combined with surgery, cryotherapy and laser therapy.
Highways associated with expansion of boreal scavengers into the alpine tundra of Fennoscandia
Authors: Rød‐Eriksen Lars , Skrutvold Johanna , Herfindal Ivar , Jensen Henrik , Eide Nina E. 
Published: May 2020

Abstract

Habitat fragmentation may affect species distributions through, for example, altered resource availability and shifts in species interactions. Fragmentation by roads has had negative impacts on Fennoscandian alpine ecosystems, with reduction of habitats and connectivity for alpine species. Concurrently, infrastructure development causes influx of subsidies through roadkills and litter, which may facilitate expansion of boreal scavenging species, such as the red fox Vulpes vulpes, which may intensify negative interactions with alpine species. Hence, understanding the impact of subsidies within marginal alpine areas is imperative for successful conservation and management of particularly vulnerable alpine species.

We used snow tracking and camera traps in three alpine tundra areas in Norway to investigate whether the presence of boreal scavengers was positively associated with highways during winter, and if this contrasted the pattern of a critically endangered alpine species, the Arctic fox Vulpes lagopus. In summer, artificial nests were used to assess whether predation risk was related to proximity to highways.

During winter, the occurrence of red foxes was higher close to highways and decreased with increasing distance to highways, while the arctic fox showed no discernible pattern. Red fox occurrence increased with the number of edible items of anthropogenic origin located along highways, whereas arctic fox occurrence decreased.

The overall predation risk of artificial nests during summer was high (>31.2%) and increased with proximity to the highway in the area with highest traffic volume.

Synthesis and applications. Highways crossing alpine areas may attract boreal scavengers, possibly connected to increased access to subsidies of anthropogenic origin. Litter and food waste dominated available subsidies along highways in our study, and prevailing mitigating measures directed at reducing roadkill and movement restrictions may not be applicable to reduce negative effects of littering. We recommend actions focusing on informational campaigns, improved garbage disposal facilities and routines, and imposing fines for littering, to reduce negative impacts on vulnerable species. This is likely needed to achieve goals of ‘no impact’ from the physical loss of habitats due to road development.
Predicting effects of climate change on productivity and persistence of forest trees
Authors: Kramer Russell D. , Ishii H. Roaki , Carter Kelsey R. , Miyazaki Yuko , Cavaleri Molly A. , Araki Masatake G. , Azuma Wakana A. , Inoue Yuta , Hara Chinatsu 
Published: May 2020

AbstractGlobal climate change increases uncertainty in sustained functioning of forest ecosystems. Forest canopies are a key link between terrestrial ecosystems, the atmosphere, and climate. Here, we introduce research presented at the 66th meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan in the symposium “Structure and function of forest canopies under climate change.” Old‐growth forest carbon stores are the largest and may be the most vulnerable to climate change as the balance between sequestration and emission could easily be tipped. Detailed structural analysis of individual large, old trees shows they are allocating wood to the trunk and crown in patterns that cannot be deduced from ground, thus can be used to more accurately quantify total forest carbon and sequestration. Slowly migrating species sensitive to novel climatic conditions will have to acclimate at the individual level. Accounting for physiological responses of trees to climate change will improve predictions of future species distributions and subsequent functioning of forest ecosystems. Field experiments manipulating temperature and precipitation show how trees compensate physiologically to mitigate for higher temperatures and drought. However, it is difficult to measure acclimation responses over long timeframes. Intraindividual trait variation is proposed as an indicator of acclimation potential of trees to future conditions and suggests that acclimation potential may vary among regional populations within a species. Integrating whole‐tree structural data with physiological data offers a promising avenue for understanding how trees will respond to climatic shifts.