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Assessment of organizational agility in response to disruptive innovation: a case of an engineering services firm
Authors: Vasanthan Perinbanathan , Suresh M. 
Published: May 2021

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework to manage the strategy to counter disruptive innovation by identifying stronger attributes and key strategic areas for improvements in an engineering services context with less freedom to orchestrate product innovation. The authors also validate the combined use of multi-grade fuzzy, Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) and gap analysis in developing the strategy to mitigate turbulence.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper presents a framework using a combination of Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Agility to develop the strategy. The study uses data gathered from a 60-member engineering project team working on an Aircraft Engine Controller design to identify 50 attributes and the related importance and performance ratings. The research study is designed using a three-tier approach. First, multi-grade fuzzy is utilized to measure the overall firm response agility index. In the second step, the IPA is used to analyze the strength and weaknesses of the firm and to identify the attributes where the firm needs to focus. In the past step, gap analysis is used to prioritize the identified attributes. The findings are validated by panel discussions with a different group of experts from the project team and action points were arrived at.

Findings
This research work finds that the firms’ response agility index of 6.97 is comparable to that of the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) from previous literature, but still needs a better agility score to effectively counter turbulence from disruptive innovations. It also identifies seven key areas for improvement and their relative priority to effectively improve the response agility by utilizing the least number of resources, the reasons for the gap and the mitigation strategy to close the gap. The findings highlight a few key differences between an engineering services firm in comparison to OEMs and Software Services firms.

Practical implications
The findings help the practitioners with a comparative agility score of an engineering services firm, and an effective way of measuring agility, identify key focus areas and prioritize the actions using a simple set of data that could be collected regularly to keep track of the improvements. The provided strategic framework to improve the agility score can be used for continuous improvement.

Originality/value
This paper contributes to the existing literature by developing a framework for outsourcing services companies to cope with the turbulence by using dynamic capabilities and organizational agility. It also adds to the literature by extending the validity of IPA and gap analysis in making strategic decisions in an industrial set-up.
Data-driven digital advertising: benefits and risks of online behavioral advertising
Authors: Aiolfi Simone , Bellini Silvia , Pellegrini Davide 
Published: May 2021

PurposeThe research aims to investigate how individuals can be persuaded to make purchases through repeated and personalized messages. Specifically, the study proposes a framework of the potential benefits and risks of the online behavioral and data-driven digital advertising (OBA), which can help researchers and practitioners to better understand shopping behavior in the online retailing setting. In addition, the research focuses on the role of privacy concerns in affecting avoidance or adoption of OBA.Design/methodology/approachThe authors apply a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach with partial least square (PLS) regression method to test the research hypotheses through data coming from a structured questionnaire.FindingsOBA is a controversial type of advertising that activates opposing reactions on consumers' perspective. Specifically, acceptance of the OBA is positively related to relevance, usefulness and credibility of the personalized advertisements, while the intention to avoid personalized ads is strictly related to the privacy concerns. Consequently, OBA acceptance and avoidance affected the click intention on the ad and the behavioral intention that are decisive for the success of data-driven digital advertising.Originality/valuePrior research came up with complex theoretical frameworks that explain antecedents of OBA focusing only on ethical issues in marketing, on the effectiveness of a single OBA campaign or on how to create a successful advertising campaign. However, no study focuses on the intended or actual behavior of shoppers. Specifically, filling the gap in the existing literature, our research applies an SEM approach to identify both benefits and risks and the antecedents of the actual behavior of individuals in terms of actual purchases promoted by OBA.
Big data-driven strategic orientation in international marketing
Authors: Akter Shahriar , Hossain Md Afnan , Lu Qiang (Steven) , Shams S.M. Riad 
Published: May 2021

PurposeBig data is one of the most demanding topics in contemporary marketing research. Despite its importance, the big data-based strategic orientation in international marketing is yet to be formed conceptually. Thus, the purpose of this study is to systematically review and propose a holistic framework on big data-based strategic orientation for firms in international markets to attain a sustained firm performance.Design/methodology/approachThe study employed a systematic literature review to synthesize research rigorously. Initially, 2,242 articles were identified from the selective databases, and 45 papers were finally reported as most relevant to propose an integrative conceptual framework.FindingsThe findings of the systematic literature review revealed data-evolving, and data-driven strategic orientations are essential for performing international marketing activities that contain three primary orientations such as (1) international digital platform orientation, (2) international market orientation and (3) international innovation and entrepreneurial orientation. Eleven distinct sub-dimensions reflect these three primary orientations. These strategic orientations of international firms may lead to advanced analytics orientation to attain sustained firm performance by generating and capturing value from the marketplace.Research limitations/implicationsThe study minimizes the literature gap by forming knowledge on big data-based strategic orientation and framing a multidimensional framework for guiding managers in the context of strategic orientation for international business and international marketing activities. The current study was conducted by following only a systematic literature review exclusively in firms' overall big data-based strategic orientation concept in international marketing. Future research may extend the domain by introducing firms' category wise systematic literature review.Originality/valueThe study has proposed a holistic conceptual framework for big data-driven strategic orientation in international marketing literature through a systematic review for the first time. It has also illuminated a future research agenda that raises questions for the scholars to develop or extend theory in this area or other related disciplines.
Understanding the effects of self-peer-platform incentives on users' physical activity in mobile fitness apps: the role of gender
Authors: Yin Qiuju , Li Lun , Yan Zhijun , Guo Chenxi 
Published: May 2021

PurposeMobile fitness apps (MFAs) are increasingly popular for people to promote physical activity (PA) and further enhance health status via behavioral change techniques (BCTs), but the phenomenon of users abandoning MFAs is still common. For improving users' PA and decreasing dropout rates of MFAs, this study intends to gain insights into the effects of major BCTs-based incentive factors on users' PA under MFAs context and the gender differences in their effects.Design/methodology/approachBased on self-determination theory, three major incentive factors were chosen from the perspective of self-peer-platform incentives, i.e. self-monitoring (SM), social support (SS) and platform rewards (PR). A dataset of 4,530 users from a popular mobile fitness app was collected and was analyzed using fixed effects models.FindingsThe results show that all three types of incentive factors are positively associated with users' PA. The estimated effect sizes can be ordered as: SM > PR > SS. Moreover, social support has a stronger positive impact on PA of females than males, whereas platform rewards have a weaker positive effect on PA of females than males. In addition, the results also indicate there are no significant gender differences in the effect of self-monitoring.Originality/valueThere is insufficient research on systematically examining the effects of different types of incentive factors of MFAs on users' PA in one study. This study extends the current understanding of incentive factors by simultaneously examining different incentive factors and the role of gender. The findings can also provide insightful guidance for the design of MFAs.
Antecedents of halal brand equity: a study of halal food sector of Malaysia
Authors: Khan Mussadiq Ali , Hashim Sharizal Bin , Iqbal Asim , Bhutto Muhammad Yaseen , Mustafa Ghulam 
Published: May 2021

Purpose
Islamic marketing is an emerging field with a lot of potentials, so it is worthwhile to explore it. This paper aims to conduct research on the unexplored relationship of antecedents of the equity, image and consumers’ trust and satisfaction of halal brands.

Design/methodology/approach
A structured questionnaire was designed to conduct research to analyze the halal brand equity and its antecedents. Data were collected from 250 halal consumers of Kota Samarahan and Kuching, Malaysia through a self-administered questionnaire using a convenience sampling method.

Findings
The study finds a positive relationship of three antecedents of brand equity, which confirms a strong relationship between the image and satisfaction of halal brand equity. The results further showed that halal brand image is linked with halal brand trust, but the relationship between halal brand trust and its equity could not be proved.

Research limitations/implications
This has been a cross-sectional study that was limited to Malaysia, a Muslim majority country. Researchers can conduct a longitudinal study and can conduct it in non-Muslim societies to comprehend their diversity and wider impact. Additionally, this study was limited to halal food brands in Malaysia.

Originality/value
Islamic marketing has received great attention of researchers, academicians and practitioners that has rather been unexplored earlier particularly the relationships among antecedents of the equity, image and consumers’ trust and satisfaction of halal brands.
Service-oriented human resource practices and customer outcomes: the service-profit chain perspective
Authors: Chen Pei-Chi , Chi Nai-Wen 
Published: May 2021

PurposeBased on the service-profit chain perspective, this study investigates whether service-oriented human resource practices can enhance customer outcomes through motivational mechanisms (i.e. intrinsic/extrinsic satisfaction) as well as emotional mechanisms (i.e. emotional labor strategies).Design/methodology/approachThis study collected paired data from 220 service workers and their customers at different time points from 80 service firms. Multilevel path-analysis was conducted to test the proposed hypotheses.FindingsOur results indicate that firm-level extensive training is positively related to service workers' intrinsic job satisfaction, which in turn increases deep acting. In addition, firm-level incentive compensation is positively associated with service workers' extrinsic job satisfaction, which in turn reduces surface acting. Finally, service employee's deep acting enhances customer loyalty and willingness to recommend via customer satisfaction.Practical implicationsThe service organization should (1) stress the importance of incentive compensation to decrease surface acting via enhancing extrinsic job satisfaction and (2) provide extensive service training to improve service employees' intrinsic satisfaction and deep acting, leading to favorable customer outcomes.Originality/valueThe present study identifies the critical roles of motivational and emotional mechanisms in transferring service-oriented human resource practices to customer outcomes and employing rigorous research design to enhance the internal/external validity of our findings.
Elevated temperatures drive the evolution of armour loss in the threespine sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus
Authors: Smith Carl , Zięba Grzegorz , Przybylski Mirosław 
Published: May 2021

AbstractWhile there is evidence of genetic and phenotypic responses to climate change, few studies have demonstrated change in functional traits with a known genetic basis.Here we present evidence for an evolutionary adaptive response to elevated temperatures in freshwater populations of the threespine sticklebackGasterosteus aculeatus.Using a unique set of historical data and museum specimens, in combination with contemporary samples, we fitted a Bayesian spatial model to identify a population‐level decline in the number of lateral bony plates, comprising anti‐predator armour, in multiple populations of sticklebacks over the last 91 years in Poland.Armor loss was predicted by elevated temperatures and is proposed to be a correlated response to selection for reduced body size.This study demonstrates a change in a functional trait of known genetic basis in response to elevated temperature, and illustrates the utility of the threespine stickleback as a model for measuring the evolutionary and ecological impacts of environmental change across the northern hemisphere.A freePlain Language Summarycan be found within the Supporting Information of this article.
Mixed Methods in Venture Capital Research: An Illustrative Study and Directions for Future Work
Authors: Levasseur Ludvig , Johan Sofia , Eckhardt Jonathan 
Published: May 2021

AbstractProfessor Wright's body of research on venture capital (VC) has advanced the field and facilitated recent research on new sources of financing for start‐ups, such as crowdfunding and blockchain. In this paper, inspired by Professor Wright's pursuit of encouraging new directions in research, we first demonstrate – with an illustrative study on VC learning – that mixed methods research, which combines quantitative and qualitative data, can be helpful in VC research. We also present some possible mixed methods directions for future research. We conclude with a short and critical discussion on both methods and research practices. In doing so, we hope to stimulate scholars’ interest in these underutilized methods.
Religious Controversy in Comparative Context: Ulster, the Netherlands and South Africa in the 1920s
Authors: Mathieson Stuart , Flipse Abraham C. 
Published: May 2021

AbstractThis article introduces a comparative element to the study of the fundamentalist–modernist controversies of the late 1920s, demonstrating that similar ideas are manifested differently in different spatial contexts. Although fundamentalism is primarily considered an American phenomenon, the article argues that the concerns animating fundamentalists in the United States also caused fierce debates elsewhere. It uses three heresy trials – in Belfast, Amsterdam and Stellenbosch – as case studies. In each case, the participants were part of an international Calvinist network, sharing the vast majority of their intellectual commitments and ecclesiastical structure. Yet these shared intellectual commitments did not result in the same outcomes when each group attempted to confront the idea of ‘modernism’ using their church disciplinary procedures. This study demonstrates that social and historical factors played a decisive role in the outcome of each trial. In Belfast, the violent legacy of the recent Irish War of Independence and partition of Ireland lent extra weight to calls for restraint and Protestant unity. In Amsterdam, the social structure of ‘pillarisation’ meant that debates were largely confined within one denomination, and so could be contested more fiercely. In Stellenbosch, meanwhile, the question of how the church should approach the fraught issue of race was the key factor.
Increasing facility delivery through maternity waiting homes for women living far from a health facility in rural Zambia: a quasi‐experimental study
Authors: Lori JR , Munro‐Kramer ML , Liu H , McGlasson KL , Zhang X , Lee H , Ngoma T , Kaiser JL , Bwalya M , Musonda G , Sakala I , Perosky JE , Fong RM , Boyd CJ , Chastain P , Rockers PC , Hamer DH , Biemba G , Vian T , Bonawitz R , Lockhart N , Scott NA 
Published: May 2021

ObjectiveTo report on the effectiveness of a standardised core Maternity Waiting Home (MWH) model to increase facility deliveries among women living >10 km from a health facility.DesignQuasi‐experimental design with partial randomisation at the cluster level.SettingSeven rural districts in Zambia.PopulationWomen delivering at 40 health facilities between June 2016 and August 2018.MethodsTwenty intervention and 20 comparison sites were used to test whether MWHs increased facility delivery for women living in rural Zambia. Difference‐in‐differences (DID) methodology was used to examine the effectiveness of the core MWH model on our identified outcomes.Main outcome measuresDifferences in the change from baseline to study period in the percentage of women living >10 km from a health facility who: (1) delivered at the health facility, (2) attended a postnatal care (PNC) visit and (3) were referred to a higher‐level health facility between intervention and comparison group.ResultsWe detected a significant difference in the percentage of deliveries at intervention facilities with the core MWH model for all women living >10 km away (DID 4.2%, 95% CI 0.6–7.6, P = 0.03), adolescent women (<18 years) living >10 km away (DID 18.1%, 95% CI 6.3–29.8, P = 0.002) and primigravida women living >10 km away (DID 9.3%, 95% CI 2.4–16.4, P = 0.01) and for women attending the first PNC visit (DID 17.8%, 95% CI 7.7–28, P < 0.001).ConclusionThe core MWH model was successful in increasing rates of facility delivery for women living >10 km from a healthcare facility, including adolescent women and primigravidas and attendance at the first PNC visit.Tweetable abstractA core MWH model increased facility delivery for women living >10 km from a health facility including adolescents and primigravidas in Zambia.
Genetic engineering biofilms in situ using ultrasound‐mediated DNA delivery
Authors: Ng Chun Kiat , Putra Samuel L. , Kennerley Joseph , Habgood Robert , Roy Ronald A. , Raymond Jason L. , Thompson Ian P. , Huang Wei E. 
Published: May 2021

SummaryThe ability to directly modify native and established biofilms has enormous potential in understanding microbial ecology and application of biofilm in 'real‐world' systems. However, efficient genetic transformation of established biofilms at any scale remains challenging. In this study, we applied an ultrasound‐mediated DNA delivery (UDD) technique to introduce plasmid to established non‐competent biofilms in situ. Two different plasmids containing genes coding for superfolder green fluorescent protein (sfGFP) and the flavin synthesis pathway were introduced into established bacterial biofilms in microfluidic flow (transformation efficiency of 3.9 ± 0.3 × 10‐7 cells in biofilm) and microbial fuel cells (MFCs), respectively, both employing UDD. Gene expression and functional effects of genetically modified bacterial biofilms were observed, where some cells in UDD‐treated Pseudomonas putida UWC1 biofilms expressed sfGFP in flow cells and UDD‐treated Shewanella oneidensis MR‐1 biofilms generated significantly (P < 0.05) greater (61%) bioelectricity production (21.9 ± 1.2 µA cm−2) in MFC than a wild‐type control group (~ 13.6 ± 1.6 µA cm−2). The effects of UDD were amplified in subsequent growth under selection pressure due to antibiotic resistance and metabolism enhancement. UDD‐induced gene transfer on biofilms grown in both microbial flow cells and MFC systems was successfully demonstrated, with working volumes of 0.16 cm3 and 300 cm3, respectively, demonstrating a significant scale‐up in operating volume. This is the first study to report on a potentially scalable direct genetic engineering method for established non‐competent biofilms, which can be exploited in enhancing their capability towards environmental, industrial and medical applications.
SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA screening in routine pathology specimens
Authors: von Stillfried Saskia , Villwock Sophia , Bülow Roman D. , Djudjaj Sonja , Buhl Eva M. , Maurer Angela , Ortiz‐Brüchle Nadina , Celec Peter , Klinkhammer Barbara M. , Wong Dickson W.L. , Cacchi Claudio , Braunschweig Till , Knüchel‐Clarke Ruth , Dahl Edgar , Boor Peter 
Published: May 2021

SummaryVirus detection methods are important to cope with the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemics. Apart from the lung, SARS‐CoV‐2 was detected in multiple organs in severe cases. Less is known on organ tropism in patients developing mild or no symptoms, and some of such patients might be missed in symptom‐indicated swab testing. Here, we tested and validated several approaches and selected the most reliable RT‐PCR protocol for the detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA in patients’ routine diagnostic formalin‐fixed and paraffin‐embedded (FFPE) specimens available in pathology, to assess (i) organ tropism in samples from COVID‐19‐positive patients, (ii) unrecognized cases in selected tissues from negative or not‐tested patients during a pandemic peak, and (iii) retrospectively, pre‐pandemic lung samples. We identified SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA in seven samples from confirmed COVID‐19 patients, in two gastric biopsies, one small bowel and one colon resection, one lung biopsy, one pleural resection and one pleural effusion specimen, while all other specimens were negative. In the pandemic peak cohort, we identified one previously unrecognized COVID‐19 case in tonsillectomy samples. All pre‐pandemic lung samples were negative. In conclusion, SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA detection in FFPE pathology specimens can potentially improve surveillance of COVID‐19, allow retrospective studies, and advance our understanding of SARS‐CoV‐2 organ tropism and effects.