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The analysis of OLC stages and the venture capital investors from Adizes life cycle theory
Authors: Verma Pratima , Kumar Vimal 
Published: July 2021

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the organization’s life-cycle stages influence the venture capital investor’s decision. The present study also aims to explore the relationships between life cycle stages and financing decisions of investors of an organization.

Design/methodology/approach
The research focuses on a qualitative approach and adopts descriptive and case study methods to perceive the data collected. By the multi-case research approach, the authors conducted interviews in analytics and technological companies. The data originates from semi-structured interviews and publicly available data with various venture capital firms.

Findings
In this research, 10 stages of the organization’s life cycle from the Adizes theory have been considered. It starts from the first two stages as courtship and infancy to bureaucracy and death to the final stages. The results and findings indicate that life cycle stages influence venture capitalist financing decisions.

Research limitations/implications
The implications of the current research help venture capitalist to take investment decisions according to the life cycle stage of the organization. Furthermore, according to the stage of the organization, the owner of a venture capital firm can approach various venture capitalists for the betterment of the organization.

Originality/value
The novelty of this research is to consider a case-based approach involving Adizes’ life cycle in all 10 stages of venture capital firms that affect venture capitalists.
Determinants of university reputation: conceptual model and empirical investigation in an emerging higher education market
Authors: Kaushal Vikrant , Jaiswal Deepak , Kant Rishi , Ali Nurmahmud 
Published: July 2021

PurposeThe study aims to explore and test the integrated relationships between university reputation and its key antecedents. In doing so, theoretically derived antecedents of university reputation were examined. The study reports the complex interplay among image, quality, value, satisfaction and attachment and their subsequent effect on reputation.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative method was used to achieve research objectives. Data collected from students enrolled in major private university in Northern India were analysed to test the proposed model directly and indirectly using structural equation modelling (SEM).FindingsThe findings confirmed most of the hypothesised relationships. Prominently, image construct was found to be significantly affecting students' quality perceptions along with satisfaction, attachment, value and importantly reputation. The study found evidence for the impact of students' attachment on university reputation. Findings also indicated the presence of several indirect relationships among the considered dimensions.Research limitations/implicationsCurrent research offers implications for universities that are met with the perpetual challenge of survival in the competitive higher education (HE) marketplace. Findings from the study not only help build theory on university reputation but make essential contribution towards guiding managers in developing effective strategies by building reputation via concentrating on the most crucial determinants.Originality/valueAlthough research in HE marketing is growing, effects of student attachment towards building reputation has not garnered attention, which is theoretically a vital construct. The paper presents new framework to realise university reputation with the help of integrated relationships among select dimensions in the setting of an emerging HE market.
Extending differences-in-differences frameworks to Granger equations: evidence from cutback management during three recessions
Authors: Buerger Christian , Sandel Riley M. , Reitano Vincent , Lofton Michelle L. , Jones Peter 
Published: July 2021

PurposeThe authors show how to extend difference-in-differences (DiD) frameworks to Granger (1969) equations, a technique that tests for the parallel trends assumption and measures changes in effect sizes over time. To illustrate how these equations work, they apply them to state cutback management decisions in three recessions.Design/methodology/approachThis study applies quantitative methods. The authors estimate DiD frameworks as Granger (1969) equations.FindingsAfter empirically analyzing recessions that started in 1990, 2001 and 2007, the authors find that states deepen expenditure cuts when economic declines lengthen and tend to make large cuts to specific expenditure categories instead of spreading cuts equally over all service areas.Originality/valueThe authors offer two contributions of methodological value. First, they introduce the estimation of Granger equations to the study of topics in public administration. Second, they show how this technique helps to evaluate the impact of economic declines on state spending. By instituting these contributions, they offer a unique way of analyzing cutback management decisions.
The effect of attendance on student performance: implications of using virtual learning on overall performance
Authors: Diab-Bahman Randa , Al-Enzi Abrar , Sharafeddine Wael , Aftimos Sapheya 
Published: July 2021

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the correlation between academic performance and attendance of e-learning, away from the conventional classroom setting.Design/methodology/approachThe study investigates the impact of attendance in the final grades of 389 undergraduate first- and second-year undergraduates taking Business Management classes online for the first time over the span of three consecutive academic semesters during an academic year.FindingsThe results show that there was a negative correlation between attendance and grades. However, splitting the results by year provided some insightful information as there was a difference between the relationships for first- and second-year students. Therefore, it can be concluded that both attendance and the year of the students did have a statistically significant influence on grades.Originality/valueAlthough the impact of students' attendance on their academic performance has not been the subject of extensive research, especially in the field of Management studies and in an online delivery medium, it is likely to be of interest to academics and policymakers as the pandemic continues to make e-learning more popular.
Uncertainty management in organizational crisis communication: the impact of crisis responsibility uncertainty and attribution-based emotions on publics' further crisis information seeking
Authors: Lee Yen-I , Lu Xuerong , Jin Yan 
Published: July 2021

PurposeAlthough uncertainty has been identified as a key crisis characteristic and a multi-faceted construct essential to effective crisis management research and practice, only a few studies examined publics' perceived uncertainty with a focus on crisis severity uncertainty, leaving crisis responsibility uncertainty uninvestigated in organizational crisis settings.Design/methodology/approachTo close this research gap empirically, this study employed data from an online survey of a total of 817 US adults to examine how participants' crisis responsibility uncertainty and their attribution-based crisis emotions might impact their crisis responses such as further crisis information seeking.FindingsFirst, findings show that participants' crisis responsibility uncertainty was negatively associated with their attribution-independent (AI) crisis emotions (i.e. anxiety, fear, apprehension and sympathy) and external-attribution-dependent (EAD) crisis emotions (i.e. disgust, contempt, anger and sadness), but positively associated with internal-attribution-dependent (IAD) crisis emotions (i.e. guilt, embarrassment and shame). Second, crisis responsibility uncertainty and AI crisis emotions were positive predictors for participants' further crisis information seeking. Third, AI crisis emotions and IAD crisis emotions were parallel mediators for the relationship between participants' crisis responsibility uncertainty and their further crisis information seeking.Practical implicationsOrganizations need to pay attention to the perceived uncertainty about crisis responsibility and attribution-based crisis emotions since they can impact the decision of seeking crisis information during an ongoing organizational crisis.Originality/valueThis study improves uncertainty management in organizational crisis communication research and practice, connecting crisis responsibility uncertainty, attribution-based crisis emotions and publics' crisis information seeking.
Patient characteristics and burden of disease in Japanese patients with generalized pustular psoriasis: Results from the Medical Data Vision claims database
Authors: Morita Akimichi , Kotowsky Nirali , Gao Ran , Shimizu Reiko , Okubo Yukari 
Published: July 2021

AbstractGeneralized pustular psoriasis (GPP) is a rare and severe systemic, neutrophilic skin disease. To date, accurate clinical profiling of patients with GPP remains poorly understood. In this study, we present the characteristics and estimate the burden of disease in patients with GPP compared with those with plaque psoriasis, in Japan. This retrospective study was conducted using the Medical Data Vision database between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2019. Patients with at least one confirmed inpatient or outpatient diagnostic code for GPP (L40.1) or psoriasis vulgaris (L40.0) were included for analysis. The main outcome measures included comparisons of the prevalence of comorbidities, medication use, and healthcare resource utilization between patients with GPP, patients with plaque psoriasis, and a general population‐matched cohort. In total, 718 patients with GPP and 27,773 patients with plaque psoriasis were identified. Patients with GPP were more likely to be female than those with plaque psoriasis (51.6% vs. 38.7%). During the 12‐month follow‐up period, patients with GPP were more likely to experience comorbidities than those with plaque psoriasis, including psoriatic arthritis, other forms of psoriasis, osteoporosis, interstitial pneumonia, and peptic ulcer disease. Medication use also differed between those with GPP and those with plaque psoriasis: patients with GPP were more likely to be prescribed antibiotics and psychiatric medication. Patients with GPP were also more likely to require more healthcare resource utilization with longer hospitalizations than those with plaque psoriasis. Overall, in Japan, patients with GPP have a higher burden of illness than those with plaque psoriasis.
Predator abundance drives the association between exploratory personality and foraging habitat risk in a wild marine meso‐predator
Authors: Dhellemmes Félicie , Smukall Matthew J. , Guttridge Tristan L. , Krause Jens , Hussey Nigel E. 
Published: July 2021

Abstract

In recent years, the incorporation of lower levels of organization to the understanding of population ecology, has led to an increase in interest for animal personality and individual foraging specialization. Despite these topics investigating comparable phenomena, that is, individual consistency in behaviour and in food resource use respectively, they have rarely been investigated together.

Food resource use is thought to be at the interface between personality and life history. More explorative individuals in a population, for example, are thought to increase encounter rates with food resources and consequently have faster growth than less explorative conspecifics.

Such hypotheses have so far only received partial support, and the link between personality and life history is increasingly speculated to be plastic and dependent on spatio‐temporal variation in ecological conditions. Intraspecific competition and/or predation risk, for example are known to influence foraging specialization.

Here, we investigated the relationship between exploration personality of juvenile lemon sharks Negaprion brevirostris (measured in captivity) and foraging habitat use (high risk vs. low risk; measured via stable isotope analysis in the field) in relation to conspecific and predator abundance.

We identified predator abundance as the main driver for the association between foraging habitat and exploration personality. When predators were less abundant, increased exploration was associated with foraging in riskier habitats. When predator abundance increased, an inverse relationship occurred, with less explorative individuals using more dangerous habitat.

We conclude that the relationship between personality and resource use is plastic and context dependent, which could explain the inconclusive results of previous studies investigating links between personality and life history.

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Rethinking the Post‐Truth Polarisation Narrative: Social Roles and Hinge Commitments in the Plural Public Sphere
Authors: Ashton Natalie Alana , Cruft Rowan 
Published: July 2021

AbstractThis article critically evaluates what we call the ‘popular narrative’ about the state of the public sphere. We identify three elements of this popular narrative (the post‐truth element, the polarisation element and the new technology element), and draw on philosophical work on hinge epistemology and social roles to challenge each one. We propose, instead, that public debate has always depended on non‐evidential commitments, that it has always been home to significant, deep division, and that social media, rather than causing these phenomena, has just made them more visible. Finally, we recommend some changes to traditional and social media which we believe would help foster a healthier, more inclusive, public sphere.
Interest group networks in the European Union
Authors: BUNEA ADRIANA , IBENSKAS RAIMONDAS , WEILER FLORIAN 
Published: July 2021

AbstractInterest group networks are crucial for understanding European Union (EU) integration, policymaking and interest representation. Yet, comparative analysis of interest organisation networks across EU policy areas is limited. This study provides the first large‐scale investigation of interest group information networks across all EU policy domains. We argue that interest groups prioritise access to trustworthy and high‐quality information coming from partners with shared policy goals. Thus, interest organisations form network ties with other organisations if the latter are from the same country, represent the same type of interest, or are policy insiders. The effect of these three factors varies across policy domains depending on the extent to which the institutional setting assures equal and broad organisational access to decision‐making. Our empirical analysis operationalises information ties as Twitter‐follower relationships among 7,388 interest organisations. In the first step of the analysis, we use Exponential Random Graph Models to examine tie formation in the full network and across 40 policy domains. We find strong but variable effects of country and interest type homophily and policy insiderness on the creation of network ties. In the second step, we examine how the effect of these three variables on tie formation varies with policy domain characteristics. We find that shared interest type and policy insiderness are less relevant for tie formation in (re‐)distributive and especially regulatory policy domains characterised by more supranational decision‐making. Sharing an interest type and being a policy insider matters more for tie formation in foreign and interior policies where decision‐making is more intergovernmental. The effect of country homophily is less clearly related to policy type and decision‐making mode. Our findings emphasise the importance of institutional and policy context in shaping interest group networks in the EU.
An evaluation of the Be Your Own Baby public awareness campaign
Authors: Marthey Daniel , Rashid Hira , Xie Liyang , Boudreaux Michel 
Published: July 2021

AbstractObjectiveAssess the impact of the Be Your Own Baby (BYOB) public awareness campaign including population‐level exposure, the effectiveness of ad platforms, and the effect of the campaign on family planning clinic attendance, the campaign's primary goal.Data SourcesThe study relied on administrative data on traffic and engagement from the campaign's website, population survey data measuring campaign exposure, and clinic attendance volumes from state‐by‐year restricted‐use versions of the Office of Population Affairs' Family Planning Annual Reports (2006–2018).Study DesignBivariate analyses were used to assess website traffic and engagement and population‐level exposure across key subgroups. We then used the synthetic control method to examine the impact of the BYOB campaign on per capita Title X clinic attendance among the target demographic, women 18–29 years of age.Data Collection/Extraction MethodsNot applicable. We relied on secondary sources.Principal FindingsPrimary media platforms used by the campaign included social media, digital display, streaming audio, YouTube, and search. Website traffic was driven primarily by digital display ads, but engagement was highest for search. Our results suggest nearly 12% of Delaware women 18–29 years of age were exposed to the campaign. However, exposure was measured at the end of the campaign and was likely much larger during its peak. Our results indicated that the campaign was associated with between 13 and 23 additional Title X clinic visits per 1000 women compared with 110 users per 1000 at baseline in 2014.ConclusionsOur findings suggest the BYOB campaign was successful at increasing clinic attendance among the target demographic. These results have important implications for other programs seeking to use public awareness messaging to increase participation in the health care system and are especially important for Title X administrators who have faced declining patient volumes for over 10 years.
The limits of telecommuting: Policy challenges of counterurbanisation as a pandemic response
Authors: Denham Todd 
Published: July 2021

AbstractA prominent aspect of many people's experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic has been a practice known as telecommuting, which typically involves working from home. Telecommuting has been a key response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, and it has translated into an increasingly and explicitly expressed desire to move out of cities and into nonmetropolitan areas where housing is less dense and infection rates are lower. This interest in counterurbanisation is an understandable response to self‐isolation. However, many postpandemic telecommuters are likely to be knowledge workers for whom some presence in the office during the working week may be required, and that may limit their counterurban moves to metropolitan hinterlands and regions. Commuter‐based population growth in metropolitan‐proximate and peri‐urban settlements may then lead to urban sprawl—that is, to disconnected and widespread suburbanisation. This article addresses emergent policy challenges for governments as they respond to the growing propensity for nonmetropolitan and particularly peri‐urban relocations that appears to be an outcome of the pandemic. Specific attention is paid to the distribution of employment and need to consider the variegated nature of population and demographic trajectories in nonmetropolitan Australia.
Development of a pest threshold decision support system for minimising damage to winter wheat from wheat bulb fly, Delia coarctata
Authors: Leybourne Daniel J. , Storer Kate E. , Berry Pete , Ellis Steve 
Published: July 2021

AbstractWheat bulb fly, Delia coarctata, is an important pest of winter wheat in the UK, causing significant damage of up to 4 t/ha. Accepted population thresholds for D. coarctata are 250 eggs/m2 for crops sown up to the end of October and 100 eggs/m2 for crops sown from November. Fields with populations of D. coarctata that exceed the thresholds are at higher risk of experiencing economically damaging infestations. In the UK, recent withdrawal of insecticides means that only a seed treatment (Signal 300 ES) is available for chemical control of D. coarctata; however, this is only effective for late‐sown crops and accurate estimations of annual population levels are required to ensure a seed treatment is applied if needed. As a result of the lack of postdrilling control strategies, the management of D. coarctata is becoming reliant on nonchemical methods of control. Control strategies that are effective in managing similar stem‐boring pests of wheat include sowing earlier and using higher seed rates to produce crops with greater pest tolerance. In this study, we develop two predictive models that can be used for integrated D. coarctata management. The first is an updated pest level prediction model that predicts D. coarctata populations from meteorological parameters with a predictive accuracy of 70%, a significant improvement on previous prediction models. Our second model predicts the maximum number of shoots for a winter wheat crop that would be expected at the terminal spikelet development stage. This shoot number model uses information about the thermal time from plant emergence to terminal spikelet, leaf phyllochron length, plant population and sowing date to predict the degree of tolerance a crop will have against D. coarctata. The shoot number model was calibrated against data collected from five field experiments and tested against data from four experiments. Model testing demonstrated that the shoot number model has a predictive accuracy of 65.7%. The foundation for a future decision support system using these models for the sustainable management of D. coarcata risk is described. It should be noted that these models represent a stepping‐stone towards a decision support system and that further model validation over a wider geographic range is required.
Nest survival of the threatened Campo MinerGeositta poeciloptera: a tropical cavity‐nesting grassland bird
Authors: Camargos de Meireles Ricardo , Esteves Lopes Leonardo , Pichorim Mauro , de Sousa Silva Machado Tamara Luciane , Duca Charles , Solar Ricardo 
Published: July 2021

AbstractNest survival is a key step in the reproductive biology of birds and is essential for understanding the strategies used to improve the chances of nest success. Here we studied the main factors driving nesting success of the Campo MinerGeositta poeciloptera(Scleruridae), a threatened Neotropical grassland bird that nests in cavities, usually along steep soil banks. We calculated the apparent success and modelled daily nest survival rates (DSR) based on 86 nests monitored to investigate the effects of nest‐related covariates on the nest survival. In the DSR modelling, we looked at the effects of reproductive phase (incubation and nestling periods), breeding seasons (years), temporal‐trends (linear and quadratic) rainfall and nest’s individual covariates (height, distance from the top of the cavity to the top of the bank, cavity depth and cavity entrance area). The overall apparent nest success was 58% and estimates based on DSRs were ˜45%. Nest phase, cavity entrance area, nest height and a linear time trend were the main factors influencing DSRs. The survival during incubation was lower (˜54%) than during the nestling period (˜83%), and both phases showed higher values in the beginning of the breeding season. Predation was the main driver of nest failure (23.3%,N = 20), followed by nest abandonment (10.5%,N = 9) and nest usurpation (7%,N = 6). Our results allow us to better understand and conserve this threatened species and also shed light in the reproductive ecology of a whole family endemic to the Neotropics.