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Sustainability funding in higher education: a literature-based review
Authors: Montenegro de Lima Carlos Rogério , Coelho Soares Thiago , Andrade de Lima Maurício , Oliveira Veras Manoela , Andrade Guerra José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade 
Published: April 2020

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report a literature review on sustainability funding in higher education and an analysis of the theoretical influence on academic research. The theoretical contribution and the most influential authors were examined to better understand the intellectual structure that links the theories and authors that have researched this topic. This study not only allows comprehension of the current research scenario but also, based on the gaps identified, provides guidelines for future studies on sustainability in higher education.Design/methodology/approachCitations and co-citations were analyzed in a sample of 745 papers, published between 1994 and 2018 in international journals, found in the Web of Science database on the topic of sustainability in higher education. Using the co-citations map, multidimensional scaling (MDS) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA), the conceptual and theoretical relations in these studies were identified.FindingsIt was possible to identify five clusters of the topics investigated, namely, sustainability competences; campus greening; co-creation and transfer of knowledge; sustainability science; and sustainability in university courses and curricula. A considerable number of studies were found in the areas of sustainability competencies and campus greening that focus on sustainability aspects. The clusters co-creation and transfer of knowledge, and sustainability science are related to the management of sustainability in higher education. The sustainability in university courses and curricula cluster focuses on actions within the scope of the courses and academic training.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough there are limitations related to the choice of a single database (Web of Science), as the study was limited to 745 papers, the analysis of the citations and co-citations provides important information on the study of sustainability in high education. The results are also limited to the presentation of the data grouped according to the factors extracted in the period analyzed, as it is not the objective of this study to examine in depth the characteristics of each of the 745 papers and their relationship with the theoretical dimensions identified.Originality/valueThis paper is original, as it identifies by applying MDS and EFA to scientific papers, the topic of sustainability in higher education and the clusters that constitute this field of study. The main contribution of this research is the finding that, although there are five different theoretical dimensions of sustainable financing, they are not treated separately. This study also contributes to increasing the knowledge on the main topics, concepts and relations, which can guide future research.
A new love–hate scale for sports fans
Authors: Shuv-Ami Avichai , Toder Alon Anat , Loureiro Sandra Maria Correia , Kaufmann Hans Ruediger 
Published: April 2020

PurposeThis study, an empirical research, aims to construct and validate a new love-hate scale for sports fans and tested its antecedents and consequences.Design/methodology/approachThe scale was designed and validated in three separate empirical survey studies in the context of Israeli professional basketball. In Phase 1, the authors verified the factorial validity of the proposed scale using exploratory factor analysis. In Phase 2, the authors conducted a confirmatory factor analysis using structural equation modeling. In Phase 3, the authors tested the nomological network validity of the scale.FindingsThe findings show that fans' involvement, loyalty and fandom significantly predicted their love–hate, which in turn significantly predicted self-reported fan aggression, fans' acceptance of fan aggression, price premium and frequency of watching games.Research limitations/implicationsThe model was tested on a relatively small sample of fans within a single country. This lack of generalizability should be addressed in future studies by examining the model in other sports contexts and countries.Practical implicationsThis study suggests that understanding the properties of the love–hate measure may assist team sports clubs in identifying, preventing and controlling potential fan aggression.Originality/valueThe study provides three incremental contributions above and beyond existing research: it develops and validates a scale for measuring the phenomenon of sports fans' love and hate as mixed emotions; it makes it possible to capture the variations in the magnitude of fans' love–hate; and it relates fans' love–hate to important attitudinal and behavioral outcomes.
Exploring differences in competitive performance based on Miles and Snow's strategy typology for the semiconductor industry
Authors: Lin Chinho , Chiu Yu-Wen , Chen Wen-Chieh , Ting Shu-Fang 
Published: April 2020

PurposeThe aim of this article is to construct a performance evaluation framework that can be employed in companies to enhance their business operations and strengthen their financial advantage in the current environment. To validate the approach, a case example has been included to assess the practicality and validity of this approach when applied in a real environment.Design/methodology/approachThis study focuses on an important part of the strategic planning process: internal scrutiny and environmental (external) scanning, in which an evaluation of company performance is divided into two stages by using network DEA and the cross-efficiency approach. In addition, this article employs Miles and Snow's typology for classifying the strategies used by companies.FindingsThe analytical results show that the proposed framework can be useful for companies seeking to evaluate which strategies may be the most appropriate, based on Miles and Snow's typology, to effectively reallocate limited resources.Research limitations/implicationsThe evaluation in this study only uses financial data and does not take other nonfinancial indicators into consideration.Originality/valueThis research provides value by classifying each company included in the study in terms of its capability and financial efficiency according to Miles and Snow's system of strategy classification. Second, an internal and external performance measuring framework is constructed. Finally, some propositions for top management are provided by analyzing the financial advantages of using a performance evaluation framework that can help top management make decisions more objectively.
Analysis of two financing modes in green supply chains when considering the role of data collection
Authors: Zhao Nenggui , Wang Qiang 
Published: April 2020

PurposeMore and more attention has been paid to the financing of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and environmental protection. Many literatures have done detailed research on them; yet, few of them studied the interaction between corporate financing behaviors and environmental concerns. This study aims to incorporate the impact of the role of data collection into the mathematical model to explore the optimal financial and ordering strategies when considering environmental protection.Design/methodology/approachA Stackelberg game modeling and backward induction methods are used to derive the optimal equilibrium solutions, using numerical experiments to further explore the influences of various financing strategies on the green degree of product and ordering policies.FindingsNo matter which financing modes the capital-constrained retailer chooses, both the loan interest rate and order quantity considering environmental protection are larger than that without environmental protection concerns. As the retailer's initial capital increases, the optimal loan interest rates under various financing modes are all decreasing. The application of big data technology would promote the environmental protection of enterprises and increase the accuracy of financing decisions.Originality/valueThis paper studies financing activities of a supply chain considering data collection and environmental protection behaviors, which provides meaningful guidance for the financing and environmental decision-making of enterprises.
What drives total factor productivity and its growth in post-communist countries? The case of the Czech food industry
Authors: Blažková Ivana , Dvouletý Ondřej , Machek Ondřej 
Published: April 2020

PurposeThe paper aims to investigate factors that drive the total factor productivity (TFP) and its growth in the Czech food industry over 2003–2017. The authors’ analysis focuses on firm-level characteristics such as location choice, sub-sector affiliation, use of debt, liquidity, asset turnover, firm size and firm age.Design/methodology/approachThe determinants of productivity were tested econometrically by estimation of multivariate regression models. The firm-level panel data set consisted of 14,488 observations (data of 980 firms spanning 15 years). TFP was estimated by three regression-based techniques – ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, instrumental variables (IV) approach and two-way generalized method of moments (GMM) regression. All three measures of TFP were used as outcome variables to estimate the impact of firm-level determinants on both TFP level and growth.FindingsThe results have shown statistically significant and reversed U-shaped relationship between the firm age and the TFP level (with a turning point in the age of 12.5 years). However, the dynamic models investigating the TFP growth have found that younger firms achieve higher productivity growth in comparison with older ones. Higher market share and assets turnover were positively associated with both TFP level and its growth.Research limitations/implicationsThis study brings several relevant propositions for future research. First, the authors recommend future researchers to study not only differences in the levels of productivity but also determinants of its growth. Second, the authors believe that adding a non-linear component to age as a factor explaining changes in the levels of productivity might be a very relevant contribution to the literature.Originality/valueAlthough it is generally accepted that successful and sustainable growth of firms, regions and economies can be achieved particularly through viable companies with high productivity, there is still a limited number of firm-level studies explaining the determinants of productivity levels and growth in agribusiness sectors in transition economies. Therefore, this study is expected to contribute to a better understanding of this important topic.
Spiritual leadership and intention to stay: examining the mediating role of employee voice behaviour
Authors: KA Zakkariya , Aboobaker Nimitha 
Published: April 2020

PurposeSpiritual leadership focuses on intrinsically motivating the workforce though shared values, attitudes and behaviours and is about achieving organizational excellence through shared aspirations. In the context of tough competition among organizations and relentless disruptions of existing business processes, leaders look forward to devise strategies that will help keep their employees stay alongside, offering constructive criticisms as well. This study aims to examine the influence of spiritual leadership style on employees' intention to stay with the organization, mediated through their voice behaviour.Design/methodology/approachThis cross-sectional study followed a descriptive research design, and data were collected from 357 employees working in the information technology sector in India. Validated instruments in the existing literature were used among the sample respondents, and structural equation modelling was done to test the proposed hypotheses.FindingsThe findings of the study suggest that employees' experience of dimensions of spiritual leadership style had varying influences on their voice behaviour and intention to stay with the organization. Also, employee voice behaviour mediated the relationships between two dimensions of spiritual leadership (hope and altruistic love) and intention to stay, but not the relationship between vision and intention to stay.Originality/valueThis study is pioneering in conceptualizing and testing a theoretical model linking spiritual leadership style, employee voice behaviour and their intention to stay with the organization. The results of the study emphasis the need for cultivating a leadership style of shared vision, value congruence and facilitating standards of excellence grounded on values of integrity, humility, compassion and perseverance. Implications for management development on how to promote employee voice behaviour are also discussed.
Migration intentions: a sign of a weak nation brand? A multi-group analysis between China and Pakistan
Authors: Yousaf Salman , Tauni Mohammad Zubair , Xiucheng Fan 
Published: April 2020

Purpose
This study aims to focus on the internal audiences of a nation brand, i.e. the citizens of a country and is built on the theoretical premise that migration intentions (MIs) prevalent among the skilled and educated elite of a home country signifies a weak nation brand.

Design/methodology/approach
Through the theoretical support of the migration motive theory of push and pull (Richmond, 1993), nation branding theory (Anholt, 2006) and the two-construct country image model (Roth and Diamantopoulos, 2009), the authors constructed a framework that incorporates the relationship between affective and cognitive country images of both home and migrant country and migration motives and intentions to migrate.

Findings
The findings reveal that push and pull factors are strongly affected by the images of the home country and the migrant country, respectively and strong home country images are associated with weak MIs, while the opposite is true if a strong migrant country image is possessed. Further, evidence of the dominance effect of cognitive images in complex decision-making environments such as migration was also provided. Moreover, the results also suggest significant differences between Chinese and Pakistani respondents.

Practical implications
This study guides nation branding researchers by opening up a debate on self-images and conceptually independent attitudinal constructs of country image. For policymakers in developing countries, the results reveal that they should primarily strengthen their internal brands and focus on cognitive images to stem the flow of brain drain.

Originality/value
This study takes the traditional country image debate to migration discourse, moves it forward, contextualizes it as a function of a nation’s brand strength and provides evidence that confluence of migration studies with the theoretical stream of nation branding can provide significant explanations for migrant behavior.
The logics of enclosure: deep‐time trajectories in the spread of land tenure boundaries in late prehistoric northern Europe
Authors: Løvschal Mette 
Published: April 2020

AbstractInvasive schemes involving the erection of land tenure boundaries are currently spreading quickly across vast areas throughout the globe, turning former unfenced forests and grasslands into closed‐off parcels. These processes pose intriguing questions about the deep history of colonizing assemblages consisting of particular tenure practices, temporalities, and technologies, as well as their potential long‐term repercussions. This article expands the temporal horizon applied to human‐nonhuman configurations, endeavouring to focus beyond the ethnographic present or the event on trajectories as a particular spatial and temporal logic of fencing and the virtuality that ensues. It explores the earliest large‐scale spread of land tenure boundaries across northern Europe, a process which occurred between the seventeenth and fifth centuries BCE, several millennia after Neolithization. Significant ebbs and flows in this process demonstrate how fencing exerts pressure on the future, a conspiring of forces and potentialities regarding what may or may not turn into long‐term paths towards ever‐increasing or enduring boundaries. By applying a 2,000‐year timespan to the study of material ontologies, this article explores new interfaces between archaeology and new materialism which reveal the presence of formative yet dynamic processes and quasi‐paths.
Comparison of high‐intensity focused ultrasound ablation and secondary myomectomy for recurrent symptomatic uterine fibroids following myomectomy: a retrospective study
Authors: Liu X , Tang J , Luo Y , Wang Y , Song L , Wang W 
Published: April 2020

ObjectiveTo compare the long‐term symptom alleviation and re‐intervention of high‐intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation and secondary myomectomy for women with recurrent symptomatic uterine fibroids following myomectomy.DesignA retrospective analysis.SettingA general hospital in China.PopulationOne hundred and eighty‐eight women with recurrent symptomatic uterine fibroids following myomectomy.MethodsWomen who underwent HIFU ablation (n = 101) and secondary myomectomy (n = 87) at Chinese PLA General Hospital from January 2008 to December 2016 were analysed. Symptom relief and recurrence were evaluated using the transformed symptom severity scale (tSSS). The additional intervention and treatment‐related complications were also recorded and compared.Main outcome measuresDifference in symptom alleviation, recurrence, re‐intervention and complications.ResultsFollow‐up time was comparable for the two groups (56 versus 60 months; P = 0.88). Regarding tSSS, at 3 months there was improvement in all tSSS for both treatment groups. The time to re‐intervention was shorter in the myomectomy group. The cumulative risk for re‐intervention after HIFU ablation at 1 and 3 years was lower than that after secondary myomectomy (0% versus 4.8%, 3.2% versus 11.9%, respectively); however, no significant difference was observed at 5 and 8 years. There were fewer adverse events in the HIFU ablation group than the myomectomy group (59.4% versus 77%, P = 0.01).ConclusionsHigh‐intensity focused ultrasound ablation of recurrent symptomatic uterine fibroids offers comparable long‐term alleviation of symptoms with longer time interval to re‐intervention and fewer adverse events compared with secondary myomectomy.Tweetable abstractHigh‐intensity focused ultrasound ablation of recurrent uterine fibroids offered a longer time interval to re‐intervention and fewer adverse events compared with myomectomy.
Valuing Initial Public Offerings Using Article 11 Pro Forma Financial Information in the Prospectus*
Authors: Chen Jerry W. , Zhou Jing 
Published: April 2020

ABSTRACTWe investigate whether Article 11 pro forma financial information assists investors in valuing IPOs. While the SEC expects it to be helpful in assisting investment decisions, Article 11 pro forma financial information is based on registrants' understanding and assumptions, and registrants can exercise their own judgment when preparing pro forma financial statements. It is therefore an empirical question whether the information contained in pro forma financial statements is useful to investors. We examine the association between pro forma adjustments of earnings and book value of equity and the IPO offer value and find asymmetric results. While positive pro forma adjustments of earnings and book value of equity are positively associated with the IPO offer value, negative pro forma adjustments of earnings and book value of equity are negatively associated with the IPO offer value, suggesting that negative pro forma adjustments are priced as growth opportunities. Additional analyses reveal that the association between pro forma adjustments of book value of equity and the IPO offer value varies across different time periods and industries and that pro forma adjustments of book value of equity are initially mispriced by investors. In contrast, we do not find similar results for pro forma adjustments of earnings. Further empirical tests show that the asymmetric results of mispricing of pro forma adjustments of earnings and book value of equity may be explained by the requirements of Article 11 of Regulation S‐X for pro forma adjustments dictating that adjustments to earnings reflect only recurring items while adjustments to book value reflect both recurring and nonrecurring items.
Trading Prior to the Disclosure of Material Information: Evidence from Regulation Fair Disclosure Form 8‐Ks*
Authors: Campbell John L. , Twedt Brady J. , Whipple Benjamin C. 
Published: April 2020

ABSTRACTRegulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) Form 8‐K filings provide a venue where managers release information to the market as a whole that they designate as being material. Using this setting, we study trading patterns immediately prior to the public disclosure of material information. We offer three main results. First, using both intraday and daily trading data, we find abnormal trading volume of 21 percent (13 percent) in the hour (day) prior to the public disclosure, respectively. Second, we find that this pre‐disclosure abnormal trading volume is concentrated in firms that are smaller, have more growth opportunities, issue fewer voluntary disclosures, and have weaker external monitoring. Finally, we find that this pre‐disclosure volume is concentrated in subsamples in which the information relates to a firm's material contracts, a firm holds investor/analyst conferences, and there is insider trading activity in a firm's shares. Our results do not concentrate in a small number of firms or industries, and do not appear to be explained by the form through which managers first release the material information (e.g., Form 8‐K, press release, website posting, or social media). Our results are also robust to controlling for the firm's other filings and peer filings that occur around the disclosure. Overall, the trading patterns we document may show that, inconsistent with the spirit of Reg FD, a subset of investors trade on information managers deem material prior to its broad, public release.
Cannabis use disorder and the lungs
Authors: Gracie Kathryn , Hancox Robert J. 
Published: April 2020

AbstractCannabis is one of the world's most widely used recreational drugs and the second most commonly smoked substance. Research on cannabis and the lungs has been limited by its illegal status, the variability in strength and size of cannabis cigarettes (joints), and the fact that most cannabis users also smoke tobacco, making the effects difficult to separate. Despite these difficulties, the available evidence indicates that smoking cannabis causes bronchitis and is associated with changes in lung function. The pattern of effects is surprisingly different from that of tobacco. Whereas smoking cannabis appears to increase the risk of severe bronchitis at quite low exposure, there is no convincing evidence that this leads to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Instead, cannabis use is associated with increased central airway resistance, lung hyperinflation and higher vital capacity with little evidence of airflow obstruction or impairment of gas transfer. There are numerous reports of severe bullous lung disease and pneumothorax among heavy cannabis users, but convincing epidemiological data of an increased risk of emphysema or alveolar destruction are lacking. An association between cannabis and lung cancer remains unproven, with studies providing conflicting findings.