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The impact of values on consumer adoption of takāful with mediating role of religiosity and moderating role of confusion
Authors: Sarfraz Amer , Khurshid Mian Asif 
Published: June 2021

Purpose
This study aims to address a leading challenge of confusion about the concept of takāful confronted by existing and potential consumers of the insurance industry. There are multiple sources of confusion, including the lack of consensus among religious scholars to implement a standardized business model of takāful, the lack of knowledge or awareness and the lack of skilled or trained personnel, which prevent existing and potential consumers from adopting takāful products or services. The fundamental concept of takāful is introduced mainly to fulfill the religious, social and economic needs of Muslims. Thus, the choice of takāful activates the religious, cultural, family and tradition values of individuals. Hence, the primary purpose of this study is to determine the impact of tradition value and stimulation value on consumer adoption of takāful services. Further, the scope of this study is extended to establish the mediating role of religiosity and moderating role of confusion on the association between tradition value and consumer adoption of takāful services.

Design/methodology/approach
This study follows quantitative research methods and a cross-sectional approach for data collection. Thus, the sample is collected from 768 respondents belongs to rural and urban areas by using a close-ended questionnaire. The mediation and moderation analysis are performed by using Andrew F. Hayes process Models-4 and −5.

Findings
The result reveals that religiosity mediates and confusion moderates the relationship of tradition value and consumer adoption of takāful. However, the tradition value shows a negative effect on consumer adoption of takāful. Moreover, the confusion negatively moderates the association between tradition value and consumer adoption of takāful. Finally, the stimulation value also reflects a negative effect on consumer adoption of takāful services.

Originality/value
The findings of this study shed novel insights into the existing literature of takāful and basic human values. The outcomes of stimulation values contradict with the findings of Wang et al. (2008). The result of mediation analysis reveals that religiosity plays a vital role in activating the goals of tradition value, which motivates consumers to adopt takāful services. The present study is useful for takāful operators to understand the value priorities of prospect clients belong to rural and urban areas.
A mixed-method approach for modelling customer-centric mobile phone reverse logistics: application of social media data
Authors: Shokouhyar Sajjad , Dehkhodaei Amirhossein , Amiri Bahar 
Published: June 2021

PurposeRecently, reverse logistics (RL) has become more prominent due to growing environmental concerns, social responsibility, competitive advantage and high efficiency by customers because of the expansion of product selection and shorter product life cycle. However, effective implementation of RL results in some direct advantages, the most important of which is winning customer satisfaction that is vital to a firm’s success. Therefore, paying attention to customer feedback in supply chain and logistics processes has recently increased so that manufacturers have decided to transform their RL into customer-centric RL. Hence, this paper aims to identify the features of a mobile phone which affect consumer purchasing behaviour and to analyse the interrelationship among them to develop a framework for customer-centric RL. These features are studied based on website analysis of several mobile phone manufacturers. The special focus of this paper is on social media data (Twitter) in an attempt to help the decision-making process in RL through a big data analysis approach.Design/methodology/approachA portfolio of mobile phone features that affect consumer’s mobile phone purchasing decisions has been taken from website analysis by several mobile phone manufacturers to achieve this objective. Then, interrelationships between the identified features have been established by using big data supplemented with interpretive structural modelling (ISM). Apart from that, cross-impact matrix multiplication, applied to classification analysis, was carried out to graphically represent these features based on their driving power and dependence.FindingsDuring the study, it has been observed from the ISM that the chip (F5) is the most significant feature that affects customer’s buying behaviour; therefore, mobile phone manufacturers realize that this is to be addressed first.Originality/valueThe focus of this paper is on social media data (Twitter) so that experts can understand the interaction between mobile phone features that affect consumer’s decisions on mobile phone purchasing by using the results.
Procuring healthcare public-private partnerships (PPPs) through unsolicited proposals during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Casady Carter B. , Baxter David 
Published: June 2021

Purpose
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has left nations around the world scrambling to procure emergency healthcare capacity, services and equipment. To meet this unprecedented demand on global healthcare systems, governments are increasingly looking to partner with the private sector via public-private partnerships (PPPs). However, the protracted procedures of traditional PPP procurements are not suitable for times of crisis. This is where unsolicited proposals (USPs) may play a pivotal role.

Design/methodology/approach
To explore the relevance of USPs for the current pandemic, this Viewpoint paper describes both the advantages and challenges of USPs, discusses the emergence of several PPPs to combat COVID-19 as well as some of the ad hoc processes governing current USP consideration, highlights an example of streamlined USP solicitation from Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation and articulates a pragmatic and practical approach for encouraging and procuring healthcare USPs.

Findings
This Viewpoint paper concludes that USPs could play a crucial role in the COVID-19 pandemic as boundary spanners between public agencies and the private sector in the PPP procurement process.

Social implications
Deploying proactive and strategic healthcare PPPs at speed and scale through digital USP platforms may help mitigate the pandemic’s long-term effects. Digital USP platforms may also serve as crucial tools for effective crisis communication, decision-making and partnership.

Originality/value
Using the digital USP platforms proposed in this paper, infrastructure organizations can develop and maintain effective partnerships with other sector organizations prior to and during crises like COVID-19.
Organisational and professional challenges amid the evolution of sustainability reporting: a theoretical framework and an agenda for future research
Authors: Lai Alessandro , Stacchezzini Riccardo 
Published: June 2021

PurposeThis paper aims to trace subsequent steps of the sustainability reporting evolution in terms of changes in the organisation fields and professional jurisdictions involved. As such, it highlights the (interrelated) organisational and professional challenges associated with the progressive incorporation of “sustainability” within corporate reporting.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on Suddaby and Viale’s (2011) theorisation of how professionals reshape organisational fields to highlight how organisational spaces, actors, rules and professional capital evolve alongside the incorporation of sustainability within corporate reporting.FindingsThe paper shows organisational spaces, actors, rules and professional capital mobilised during the recent evolution of sustainability reporting, starting from a period in which there was no space for sustainability, to more recent periods in which sustainability gained increasing momentum beyond initial niches, and culminating in more integrated forms of sustainability reporting.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough the analysis is limited to empirical evidence collected by prior research and practice on sustainability reporting, the paper offers a view to imagine how the incorporation of sustainability within corporate reporting relies on and affects organisational fields and professional jurisdictions.Originality/valueThe paper offers a lens to interpret corporate and professional challenges associated with the more recent evolutions of sustainability reporting practice and standard setting. It also allows framing the papers accepted in the special issue on “new challenges in sustainability reporting” and concludes by suggesting an agenda for future research.
Depressive symptoms, developing friendships, and social support through online gaming: a mixed-method analysis of online gaming network communication
Authors: Prochnow Tyler , Hartnell Logan , Patterson Megan S. 
Published: June 2021

Purpose
Online gaming offers avenue to connect with others producing social capital especially for individuals lacking in-real-life (IRL) social support; however, there is concerns related to mental health and depressive symptoms (DS). Virtually mediated social connections are particularly important during times of social distancing. This paper aims to investigate discussant networks established through an online gaming site and their possible association with DS and social support.

Design/methodology/approach
Participants (n = 40) recruited from an online gaming site reported DS, online and IRL social support, and site members with whom they discussed important life matters. Participants also reported topics of conversation discussed and reason for communication. Quadratic assignment procedure multiple regression was used to determined significant associations between network structure, DS and social support.

Findings
DS were significantly associated with online (ß = 0.39) and IRL social support (ß = −0.44). Online social support was significantly associated with network structural factors. Topics reported by members most often were bridging capital topics while topics reported by members in most recent conversation were bonding capital topics. Members mentioned bonding social capital concepts as motivation for conversation.

Social implications
Building online relationships to provide bonding social capital could supply buffering effects for those feeling socially isolated during social distancing.

Originality/value
This paper is among the first to approach online gaming communication through social network analysis and qualitative analysis mixed method approach.
Trickle-down effect of moral leadership on unethical employee behavior: a cross-level moderated mediation model
Authors: Jiang Rui , Lin Xinqi 
Published: June 2021

PurposeMoral leadership is a common leadership style in Chinese society and is of great significance to Chinese organizations. Unethical employee behavior also widely exists in all kinds of social organizations and brings great harm. The research on the relationship between moral leadership and unethical employee behavior has not been involved yet, but it is important. This paper studies how moral manager (senior leader) leadership trickles down to unethical employee behavior through moral supervisor (employee direct supervisor) leadership, and discusses the moderating effect of LMX and ethical climate.Design/methodology/approachThrough the questionnaire survey of 406 pairs of leaders and employees, and use multilevel path analysis, we test the hypothesis in this paper.FindingsThe research results show that (1) Moral manager leadership is negatively related to unethical employee behavior. (2) Moral supervisor leadership mediates the relationship between moral manager leadership and unethical employee behavior. (3) LMX positively moderates the relationship between moral manager leadership and moral supervisor leadership, and moderates the mediating effect of moral supervisor leadership. (4) Ethical climate positively moderates the relationship between moral supervisor leadership and unethical employee behavior, and moderates the mediating effect of moral supervisor leadership.Originality/valueFirst, this study further proves that moral leadership is a popular positive leadership among the three dimensions of paternalistic leadership that extends its influence to unethical employee behavior. Second, this study traces the source of the moral leadership of employees' supervisors and reveals the action mechanism of how moral manager leadership affects unethical employee behavior. Finally, LMX provides the organizational context of the trickle-down effect and the occurrence of unethical employee behavior.
“I felt like I was not just a student:” examining graduate student learning at academic and professional conferences
Authors: Campbell Anne , Wick David , Marcus Amy , Doll JoAnn , Yunuba Hammack Aleena 
Published: June 2021

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to explore what new knowledge is gained at academic and professional conferences by describing how this knowledge complements or contradicts campus-based learning and previous experiences of graduate students. Through gaining insights into conference-based learning, researchers and policymakers can create more complex and dynamic graduate student learning experiences and design conferences that welcome and encourage graduate student perspectives and voices.

Design/methodology/approach
Rooted in transformative learning theory, this qualitative study explores what and how master’s level graduate students learn at professional and academic conferences.

Findings
Findings point to four categories of learning through conferences: students acquired empirical knowledge, gained insights into professional and scholarly trends and values, explored diversity of the conference body and their own belonging and benchmarked their knowledge in relationship to scholars and professionals. Interviewees gained this knowledge by linking conference-based learning to their graduate school curriculum and previous knowledge and experiences.

Practical implications
Findings suggest considerations for educators, policymakers and administrators to enhance learning in graduate programs through in-person and virtual conference attendance.

Originality/value
This study adds to minimal existing research on graduate student learning beyond the campus that contributes to holistic learning at the master’s level. The findings on conference-based learning for graduate students go beyond the common notion of conferences as places of socialization for graduate students. These findings are increasingly relevant as academic and professional conferences are being reconsidered in the shift to the virtual space.
Mobility industry call center location selection under sustainability: a two-phase decision-making approach
Authors: Ding Shishu , Xu Jun , Dai Lei , Hu Hao 
Published: June 2021

Purpose
This paper aims to solve the facility location problem of mobility industry call centers comprehensively, considering both investment efficiency and long-term development efficiency.

Design/methodology/approach
In this paper, a two-phase decision-making approach within a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework has been proposed to help select optimal locations among various alternate locations. Both quantitative and qualitative information is collected and processed based on fuzzy set theory and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process. Then the fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution method is incorporated in the framework to assess the overall feasibility of all alternates.

Findings
A real case of a mobility giant in China is applied to verify the effectiveness of the proposed framework. Sensitivity analysis also proves the robustness of the framework.

Originality/value
This two-phase MCDM framework allows the mobility industry call center location to be selected considering economic, human resource and sustainability elements comprehensively. The framework proposed in this paper might be applicable to other companies in the mobility industry when deciding optimal locations of call centers.
Fertilisation with dehydrated sewage sludge affects the phytophagous Hemiptera, tending ants and Sternorrhyncha predators on Acacia mangium (Fabaceae)
Authors: Silva Júlia Letícia , Leite Germano Leão Demolin , Guanabens Rafael Eugenio Maia , Azevedo Alcinei Mistico , Fernandes Geraldo Wilson , Zanuncio José Cola 
Published: June 2021

AbstractMacro‐ and micronutrients from dehydrated sewage sludge are important for the development of plants such as Acacia mangium in processes for recovering degraded areas. The abundance, diversity and species richness of phytophagous Hemiptera, tending ants and Sternorrhyncha predators on A. mangium plants fertilised with dehydrated sewage sludge in a degraded area, compared to trees which did not receive this fertiliser, were evaluated. The experiment was completely randomised, with two treatments (either with or without dehydrated sewage sludge) and 24 replications. The abundance of phytophagous Hemiptera and tending ants was higher on plants fertilised with dehydrated sewage sludge and was similar between the two treatments for Sternorrhyncha predators. The diversity and richness of tending ant species were lower and higher in the treatments with or without dehydrated sewage sludge, respectively. Aethalion reticulatum and Quesada gigas Olivier were more abundant on fertilised plants, Acrogonia sp. was more abundant on nonfertilised ones, and other sucking insects were similar between the two treatments. The abundance of Brachymyrmex sp., Cephalotes sp., Pseudomyrmex termitarius and Syrphus sp. was higher on A. mangium plants which had been fertilised with dehydrated sewage sludge, and that of Cycloneda sanguinea was higher on nonfertilised plants. Membracis sp., Phenacoccus sp. and Q. gigas showed higher abundance as the total number of A. mangium leaves increased. Aleyrodidae abundance increased with Brachymyrmex sp., while Chrysoperla sp. reduced that of Aleyrodidae and Phenacoccus sp. The larger plant crown of A. mangium fertilised with dehydrated sewage sludge explains the greater abundance of phytophagous Hemiptera and tending ants and indicates its potential for recovering degraded areas.
The Nature of Affective Polarization: Disentangling Policy Disagreement from Partisan Identity
Authors: Dias Nicholas , Lelkes Yphtach 
Published: June 2021

AbstractDemocrats and Republicans clearly dislike one another. Yet, scholars debate whether policy disagreement or partisan identity, per se, drives interparty animus. Past studies suggest the relationship between partisanship and interpersonal affect is spurious, driven by inferred policy preferences. We argue, instead, that policy preferences signal partisan identity when the parties' stances on an issue are well‐known. Using a nationally representative survey and four preregistered experiments, we disentangle the effects of policy disagreement and partisan identity on interpersonal affect. Our findings suggest that partisan identity is the principal mechanism of affective polarization, and that policy preferences factor into affective polarization largely by signaling partisan identity. However, our results also affirm that policy disagreement in itself drives interpersonal affect. This provides evidence that partisanship reflects an emotional attachment to a political party, not merely a running tally of rational considerations.
Metadehumanization erodes democratic norms during the 2020 presidential election
Authors: Landry Alexander P. , Ihm Elliott , Kwit Spencer , Schooler Jonathan W. 
Published: June 2021

AbstractThe present research directly replicates past work suggesting that metadehumanization, the perception that another group dehumanizes your own group, erodes Americans’ support for democratic norms. In the days surrounding the 2020 US Presidential Election, American political partisans perceived that their political opponents dehumanized them more than was actually the case. Partisans’ exaggerated metadehumanization inspired reciprocal dehumanization of the other side, which in turn predicted their support for subverting democratic norms to hurt the opposing party. Along with replicating past work demonstrating metadehumanization's corrosive effect on democratic integrity, we also contribute novel insights into this process. We found the most politically engaged partisans held the most exaggerated, and therefore most inaccurate, levels of metadehumanization. Moreover, despite the socially progressive and egalitarian outlook traditionally associated with liberalism, the most liberal Democrats actually expressed the greatest dehumanization of Republicans. This suggests that political ideology can at times be as much an expression of social identity as a reflection of deliberative policy considerations, and demonstrates the need to develop more constructive outlets for social identity maintenance.
Relations among motivation, behaviour, and performance in writing: A multiple‐group structural equation modeling study
Authors: Camacho Ana , Alves Rui A. , De Smedt Fien , Van Keer Hilde , Boscolo Pietro 
Published: June 2021

BackgroundWriting is a particularly demanding activity, which poses unique motivational challenges for students. Despite the wealth of research on the relation between writing motivation and writing performance, little is known about the role of students’ writing frequency in writing motivation and writing performance.AimsWe aimed to: (1) examine structural relations among two motivational variables (i.e., self‐efficacy and attitudes), a behavioural variable (i.e., writing frequency), and writing performance; and (2) inspect whether these relations varied across two text genres (i.e., narrative and opinion texts) and across two educational levels (i.e., students in grades 5–6 and grades 7–8).SampleSix hundred and five students from grades 5–8 participated in this study.MethodsStudents completed self‐report scales and wrote narrative and opinion texts. We conducted multiple‐group structural equation modeling to analyse the data.ResultsRegarding narrative texts, digital writing frequency was significantly associated with text quality for students in grades 7–8, but this relation was not significant in students from grades 5–6. Both attitudes and self‐efficacy for self‐regulation made a direct contribution to narrative text quality across educational levels. In addition, attitudes were associated with both literary and digital writing frequency across educational levels. Concerning opinion texts, no significant differences emerged in terms of educational level. Attitudes contributed to both literary and digital writing frequency as well as to opinion text quality across educational levels.ConclusionsThis study underlines the fundamental contribution of motivational variables to students’ writing performance. Accordingly, teachers need to adopt motivation‐enhancing practices in writing instruction across grade levels.
Cortical adult neurogenesis and its biological implication
Authors: Ohira Koji 
Published: June 2021

AbstractIt is well established that adult neurogenesis occurs in the subventricular zone and the subgranular zone, but a controversy remains about adult neurogenesis in other regions. The cerebral cortex is the most controversial site and has long been of interest to not only neuroscientists, but also scientists with broad backgrounds and medical doctors since the late 19th century. However, recent studies have been gradually clarifying that neurogenesis in the adult cerebral cortex occurs, especially under pathological conditions. These studies suggest that endogenous neural stem cells and/or progenitor cells might exist in or around the cerebral cortex, and be useful for regenerative cell therapy in cases of brain insults and diseases. In this review, recent literature regarding neurogenesis in the adult cerebral cortex is summarized, and the possibility of cell therapy for cortex‐related disorders is discussed.