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Nexus between running costs and building characteristics of commercial buildings: hedonic regression modelling
Authors: Geekiyanage Devindi , Ramachandra Thanuja 
Published: June 2020

PurposeTraditionally, early-stage investment decisions on buildings purely based initial capital costs and simply ignored running costs and total lifecycle cost. This was basically due to the absence of estimating models that yield running costs at the early design stage. Often, when the design of a building, which is responsible for 10–15% of its total cost, is completed, 80% of the total cost is committed. This study aims to develop a building characteristic-based model, which is an early-stage determinant of running costs of buildings, to predict the running costs of commercial buildings.Design/methodology/approachA desk study was carried out to collect running costs data and building characteristics of 35 commercial buildings in Sri Lanka. A Pareto analysis, bivariate correlation analysis and hedonic regression modelling were performed on collected data.FindingsAccording to Pareto analysis, utilities, services, admin work and cleaning are four main cost constituents, responsible for 80% of running costs, which can be represented by highly correlated building characteristics of building height, number of floors and size. Approximately 94% of the variance in annual running costs/sq. m is expressed by variables of number of floors, net floor area and working hours/day together with a mean prediction accuracy of 2.89%.Research limitations/implicationsThe study has utilised a sample of 35 commercial buildings due to non-availability and difficulty in accessing running cost data.Originality/valueEarly-stage supportive running costs estimation model proposed by the study would enable construction professionals to benchmark the running costs and thereby optimise the building design. The developed hedonic model illustrated the variance of running costs concerning the changes in characteristics of a building.
Opt-out stories: women’s decisions to leave corporate leadership
Authors: Frkal Robin Ayers , Criscione-Naylor Noel 
Published: June 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how the challenges to women’s authentic leadership identities contribute to their decisions to abandon leadership positions mid-career. It examines the critical career moments and underlying themes behind these women’s decisions to leave.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper is based on semi-structured interviews (n = 9) with women between the ages of 32-53 who had opted-out of mid-level corporate leadership positions.

Findings
The study found that work–life balance was not the primary factor in women’s decisions to leave. Instead, the women in the study reflected on their inability to be themselves and contribute perceived value to the organization as triggering their decisions to leave.

Research limitations/implications
There are limitations in using a small sample of women selected through the researchers’ social media networks resulting in limited cultural and racial diversity.

Practical implications
Misconceptions about women’s decisions to leave corporate leadership mid-career misleads human resource (HR) practices and initiatives focused on retaining female talent. Organizations need to recognize and reshape the organizational environment to support women to be their authentic self and make the value of their contributions more transparent.

Originality/value
The paper is original in that it examines opt-out from the lens of women’s leadership identities in corporate contexts. There are limited studies that have examined the connections between identity and women’s career decisions beyond work–ife balance. It provides practical value to HR practitioners and organizations focused on retaining female talent.
Employee performance and corporate cash holdings
Authors: Flugum Ryan , Harper Joel , Sun Li 
Published: June 2020

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the effect employee performance has on subsequent corporate cash holdings.Design/methodology/approachThe authors utilize panel data estimation, including an instrumental variable approach, to identify the relation between employee performance and subsequent corporate cash holdings. These panel data consist of 11,087 firm-year observations over the period 1992 to 2015.FindingsThe authors document a positive and statistically significant relation between firm employee performance and subsequent cash balances. A one standard deviation increase in employee performance is associated with an increase in cash holdings ranging from 1 to 2 percent. The findings support the view that firms seek to accommodate the preferences of better performing employees, thereby requiring greater levels of cash. This positive relation is most evident among firms with low bond ratings and firms with low managerial ability – characteristics that are indicative of a firm's ability to access capital markets.Originality/valueBetter corporate governance of the firm is commonly associated with lower levels of cash. The findings of this paper, however, suggest that holding greater levels of cash may be a consequence of corporate efforts to accommodate the needs of their employees. The predictive content of employee performance is orthogonal to existing determinants of corporate cash holdings shown in the literature. Furthermore, this paper shows the potential for firm cash balances to be an alternative and transparent measure that signals better employee performance and more socially responsible firm behavior.
Social consequences of economic globalization: experience of developed and developing countries and perspectives of optimization
Authors: Zankovsky Sergey , Bezbakh Vitali , Inshakova Agnessa , Rusakova Ekaterina P. 
Published: June 2020

PurposeThe purpose of the research is to determine the social consequences of economic globalization based on experience of developed and developing countries and to determine the perspectives of optimization of this process through regulation.Design/methodology/approachThe research method is correlation analysis, for it allows determining dependencies between the indicators without requirements to their close mutual dependence. The research objects are top ten developed and top ten developing countries as to the KOF globalization index in 2019.FindingsIt is determined that, contrary to high economic risks, social risks of globalization are very low. Instead of this, in the course of globalization the social advantages increase – they are expressed in the form of harmonization of the labor market, development of digital society and increase of population's quality of life – in particular, provision of balance of the global society by leveling the social disproportions between developed and developing countries. It is substantiated that consequences that stimulate the increase of population's quality of life in developing countries are more expressed than in developed countries. This means that developing countries, which are traditionally more inclined to limiting the influence of globalization on them due to economic reasons, have to reconsider their foreign economic policy and include the measures on stimulation of globalization in the interests of social development. Other than that, the differences in consequences for developed and developing countries are minimal. There is no imbalance of consequences that is peculiar for the economic sphere, in which the main advantages are obtained by developed countries, and developing countries bear most of the costs. From the social point of view, globalization could be characterized as a positive phenomenon of modern times.Originality/valueThe offered authors' recommendations will allow optimizing the influence of globalization on the social environment in developed and developing countries and ensuring usage of economic globalization as a mechanism of implementation of the global goals in the sphere of sustainable development.
Political instability and services of GCC banks: how important is the Yemen War?
Authors: Saif-Alyousfi Abdulazeez Y.H. 
Published: June 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the Yemen War on banking services (deposits and loans) at the aggregate and at the level of conventional and Islamic banks in GCC countries. The author also tests hypotheses of direct and indirect impacts of the Yemen War on bank services.Design/methodology/approachThe sample comprises a total of 70 banks (45 conventional and 25 Islamic banks) over the period 2000–2018. The static and dynamic panel generalized methods of moments (GMM) estimation techniques are applied.FindingsEmpirical results indicate that the Yemen War has a significant negative direct impact on deposits and loans of GCC banks. The results lend support for the direct channel hypothesis, but not for the indirect channel hypothesis. The negative direct impact is most prominent on banks in GCC countries that are directly involved in the Yemen War, although the war has an asymmetric effect on conventional and Islamic banks, the former being more vulnerable. The overall conclusion is that the Yemen War exerts an asymmetric impact on the GCC region, across both banks and countries.Practical implicationsThese results are a warning to policymakers to be cautious when formulating a strategy for macroeconomic stability.Originality/valueIt is widely recognized that the Yemen War has a significant impact on the economies of the GCC countries. However, the possible impact of the war on GCC bank services has not so far been subjected to robust empirical analysis. This paper therefore seeks to fill this gap by providing an in-depth quantitative analysis of this impact. It distinguishes between direct and indirect channels through which the Yemen War may affect bank services. It is also the first to examine the asymmetric impact of the Yemen War on the GCC region, across both banks (Islamic and conventional banks) and countries (whether or not involved in the war). The study uses both static panel and dynamic panel GMM estimation techniques to analyze the data.
Analysis of cyber-crime effects on the banking sector using the balanced score card: a survey of literature
Authors: Akinbowale Oluwatoyin Esther , Klingelhöfer Heinz Eckart , Zerihun Mulatu Fekadu 
Published: June 2020

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to review the effect of cybercrime in the banking sector.

Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a survey of literature and the balanced scorecard (BSC) to analyse the effect of cybercrime on the banking sector.

Findings
The literature reviewed confirms an increasing wave of cybercrime that has impacted negatively on the good will and economic growth of financial institutions, indirectly through loss of trust in the digital infrastructure or directly through fraud and extortion in both developing and developed countries.

Research limitations
This study is limited to the application of BSC to analyse the effect of cybercrime in the banking sector only.

Practical implications
To avert on going massive losses owing to cybercrime, the authors quest for development of an alert system that can create the awareness of both the banks and the customers by effectively implementing and integrating big data technology into their system to mitigate the negative impacts of cybercrime.

Originality/value
The novelty of this study lies in the fact that this study uses the BSC for the analysis of cybercrime in the banking sector, a problem that has not been sufficiently highlighted in the existing literature.
Corporate crime: a logical misconception, but with one analytical point
Authors: Alalehto Tage 
Published: June 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 our understanding of white-collar criminality. Cressey stated the idea that a fictitious person, like 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, leads 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.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper is a research paper based on the technic of formal logic. The design of this research is sentence and modal logic.

Findings
The concept of corporate crime is logically a contradiction. Thereby it has no value in the research agenda of white-collar criminality.

Originality/value
To the best of the author’s knowledge, no one has done a formal logical analysis based on modal logic to investigate the consistence of the concept corporate crime.
Effects of green construction on project’s economic performance
Authors: Onubi Hilary Omatule , Yusof Nor’Aini , Hassan Ahmad Sanusi 
Published: June 2020

PurposeThis study aims to examine the effects of green construction site practices on the economic performance of projects executed by “class A” contractors in Nigeria. The effects of stormwater management, materials management waste management and energy management on economic performance were examined.Design/methodology/approachData was collected through a survey of class A contractors in Nigeria, and 168 usable responses were received. The partial least-squares structural equation modelling technique was used to analyse the collected data.FindingsIt was observed that all the green construction practices studied had significant effects on the economic performance of construction projects with the greatest effect from energy management.Practical implicationsThe results imply that green construction practices generally lead to economic performance. The study has both theoretical and practical implications, as it helps both policymakers and contractors better understand the relationships between these variables of green construction practices and economic performance to better plan for their projects and for the government to formulate appropriate policies.Originality/valueThe study’s findings makes significant contributions to the ongoing discussion on the relationship between green construction practices and economic performance. The relationship established between stormwater management, waste management, materials management, energy management and economic performance in this study is different when compared with those in other similar studies.
Digital divide in light of religion, gender, and women’s digital participation
Authors: Tsuria Ruth 
Published: June 2020

Purpose
This paper aims to argue for the importance of considering religious and cultural background as informing participant's access and attitudes towards digital media.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper takes a socio-cultural theoretical approach. In terms of methodology, it refers to case studies based on discourse analysis of online content.

Findings
The paper argues that the online discourse in the case studies presented discourages women from using digital media for their own empowerment.

Research limitations/implications
Some limitation include that this research focuses only on a case study from Judaism. Future research should examine how other religious traditions impact internet access and uses.

Originality/value
The paper's contribution is in its novel inclusion of religion as an element of the digital divide.
Convective heat transport in a heat generating MHD vertical layer saturated by a non-Newtonian nanofluid: a bidirectional study
Authors: Reddy M. Gnaneswara , Vijayakumari P. , Krishna L. , Kumar K. Ganesh , Prasannakumara B.C 
Published: June 2020

PurposeIn this framework, the three dimensional (3D) flow of hydromagnetic Carreau nanofluid transport over a stretching sheet has been addressed by considering the impacts of nonlinear thermal radiation and convective conditions.Design/methodology/approachInfinite shear rate viscosity impacts are invoiced in the modeling. The heat and mass transport characteristics are explored by employing the effects of a magnetic field, thermal nonlinear radiation and buoyancy effects. Rudimentary governing partial differential equations (PDEs) are represented and are transformed into ordinary differential equations by the use of similarity transformation. The nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs), along with the boundary conditions, are resolved with the aid of a Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg scheme (RKFS) based on the shooting technique.FindingsThe impact of sundry parameters like the viscosity ratio parameter (β*), nonlinear convection parameters due to temperature and concentration (βT, βC), mixed convection parameter (α), Hartmann number (M2), Weissenberg number (We), nonlinear radiation parameter (NR), and the Prandtl number (Pr) on the velocity, temperature and the concentration distributions are examined. Furthermore, the impacts of important variables on the skin friction, Nusselt number and the Sherwood number have been scrutinized through tables and graphical plots.Originality/valueThe velocity distribution is suppressed by greater values of the Hartmann number. The velocity components in the tangential and axial directions of the fluid are raised with the viscosity ratio parameter and the tangential slip parameter, but these components are reduced with concentration to thermal buoyancy forces ratio and stretching sheet ratio.
Investigating consumer experience in hybrid museums: a netnographic study
Authors: Passebois Ducros Juliette , Euzéby Florence 
Published: June 2020

Purpose
Hybrid structures are emerging in the leisure sector that are neither museums nor amusement parks, but which borrow elements from both. Dedicated to the exploration of a cultural theme (cultural heritage, ecosystems and historic events), they use experiential marketing levers to entertain large publics while at the same time pursuing the cultural integrity of heritage. This study aims to examine how visitors perceive and experience the offer proposed by these hybrid museums and how they manage the dual (cognitive and sensorial) stimulation. The authors then consider the extent to which the experiential levers used to dramatize these venues help to deliver a unique experience.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors developed a qualitative approach based on a case study methodology. The authors first selected the case studies (the Cité du Vin – a wine museum in Bordeaux, France and the Cité de l’Océan – a museum dedicated to the ocean at Biarritz, France) and analysed them from two angles. The authors began by examining the managerial perspective from secondary data to identify the experiential levers used by providers and the promises made to visitors in terms of experience. The authors then analysed the visitors’ experiences through a netnographic approach. The data were drawn from visitor reviews of their experience as posted on Tripadvisor.

Findings
The authors show that hybrid museums manage to provide visitors with edutainment value, but the promise made by managers for a memorable experience by way of an immersive journey is not kept. The authors demonstrate that a hybrid museum environment contains certain elements that prevent visitors from enjoying immersion. More specifically, the authors note issues regarding the way the theme is expressed through spectacular buildings, the way visitors are free to choose their visit and the scenarization presented through digital devices. The authors also show that hybrid museums are perceived largely as traditional museums and so are subject to culturally-established preconceptions.

Originality/value
This contribution concerns a topic that has drawn little attention in the marketing literature, namely, hybrid museums. The authors adopted a qualitative methodology from the perspective of both the provider and the consumer to gain a global understanding of the hybrid museum. The data were analysed using a manual thematic analysis, completed with a QDAS to support the findings.
Cluster of pregnancy‐associated melanoma: A case report and brief update
Authors: Van Rooij Nicholas , Adams Agnieszka , De’Ambrosis Brian , Nathan Vaishnavi , Hayward Nicholas , Whiteman David 
Published: June 2020

AbstractMelanoma incidence is increasing globally with Australia having the highest incidence in the world. Pregnancy‐associated melanoma is recognized in the published work; however, significant knowledge deficiencies exist. We present the case of a 34‐year‐old woman with dysplastic nevus syndrome who over a 15‐year period developed a total of nine melanomas, with eight clustered around an 18‐month peri‐ to post‐partum period. The first eight lesions were in situ with the ninth lesion invasive. No metastatic disease was observed over the 18‐year follow‐up period. This case identifies the potential sensitivity of a subset of melanomas to pregnancy‐related factors, with particular relevance to the development of lesions in the post‐partum period. We suggest that patients with a history of any documented melanoma risk factors, particularly dysplastic nevus syndrome, require close monitoring especially during pregnancy and early post‐partum.
Per‐gram competitive effects and contrasting soil resource effects in grasses and woody plants
Authors: Wilson Scott D. , Peltzer Duane A. 
Published: June 2020

Abstract

Plant species differ in their competitive effects by decreasing resource availability via uptake, but in some cases may increase resource availability via non‐uptake pathways. Here we explore differences between grasses and woody plants in their competitive effects, and relate these to differences in resource effects.

We grew five species each of grasses and woody plants in monocultures for 8 years. In the final two growing seasons, competitive effects were measured by growing transplants in all monocultures and in plots without neighbours.

Total competitive effects were significantly greater for woody plants than that for grasses. In contrast, the competitive effect per gram of grasses was about 17 times greater than that of woody plants.

For grasses, soil water (SoilW) and soil available N (SoilN) decreased significantly with increasing biomass. In contrast, for woody plants, SoilW and SoilN increased significantly with increasing biomass. The results suggest that the intense per‐gram competitive effects in grasses are related to the uptake of soil resources, and that the significantly lower per‐gram competitive effects of woody plants may be related to their positive effects on soil resources.

Synthesis. The results link differences in competitive effects between grasses and woody plants to differences in the direction of their effects on soil resources. These differences may contribute to the entrainment of negative feedback in grasslands, excluding trees by means of strong competition, and the entrainment of positive feedback beneath woody plants establishing in grasslands, resulting in a state change from grassland to woody vegetation.