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From paradoxes to trade-offs: metaroutine enabled multi level ambidexterity at Tata Motors, India
Authors: Dutta Swarup Kumar , Snehvrat Saurav 
Published: June 2021

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the multi-level ambidexterity challenges through the metaroutine lens. Further, while confronting the ambidexterity challenges, it is found that what is paradox at one level can be understood as tradeoffs at another level. This study uses an in-depth multi-level case study of Tata Motors, an Indian automotive giant highlighting the ambidexterity dynamics across strategic, business unit and functional levels to demonstrate that paradoxes at the strategic level are converted to manageable tradeoffs at the business unit/ operational level. Also, metaroutine-enabled ambidexterity explains a possible way through which multi-level ambidexterity can be promoted and managed within organizations.

Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a case-based methodology (Eisenhardt, 1989) similar to the approach of Adler et al. (1999). The field research consisted of in-depth interviews, which focus on gathering information from the key involved members in the field, thus enabling us to understand how multi-level ambidexterity is promoted within Tata Motors. A semi-structured interview guide was used to collect data for this study.

Findings
The metaroutine lens offers an alternative route to explain the multi-level ambidexterity dynamics at Tata Motors. The ambidexterity questions at different levels in Tata Motors seem to be a mixture of paradoxes and tradeoffs. However, a key trend emerges. At the strategic and business unit level, the firm wanted to exploit their existing products and explore new customer segments. At the product level, the strategic and NPI core team wanted to best combine the customer centric explorations with exploitations resulting in cost savings. The ambidexterity questions at these two levels seem to be paradoxes. However, as the authors analyze the functional domains, it appears that each individual domain was working under increased constraints. Hence, the ambidexterity questions at the domain level seem to be a tradeoff based on the constraints faced by individual functional domains.

Originality/value
This study presents an in-depth multi-level case study of an Indian automotive giant, Tata Motors. The authors present the role of metaroutines in shaping the ambidexterity issues during the development of passenger vehicles. This study builds on the seminal work of Adler et al., 1999, and extends the discussion to the framing of the ambidexterity question as a paradox and/or a tradeoff. The core argument of this paper is that balancing opposite polarities in business models is basically a paradoxical issue in the exploitation/ exploration relationship.
Antecedents and consequences of the perceived usefulness of smoking cessation online health communities
Authors: Li Chenglong , Li Hongxiu , Suomi Reima 
Published: June 2021

PurposeAn empirical study investigated the antecedents to perceived usefulness (PU) and its consequences in the context of smoking cessation online health communities (OHCs).Design/methodology/approachTo validate a research model for perceived informational support, perceived emotional support and perceived esteem support, the authors conducted a partial-least-squares analysis of empirical data from an online survey (N = 173) of users of two smoking cessation OHCs. The proposed model articulates these as antecedents to PU from a social support perspective, and knowledge sharing and continuance intention are expressed as consequences of PU.FindingsThe empirical study identified that the PU of smoking cessation OHCs is influenced by perceived emotional support and perceived esteem support, and perceived informational support indirectly affects PU via these factors. In turn, PU exerts a positive influence on both knowledge sharing and continuance intention. Also, knowledge sharing positively affects continuance intention.Originality/valueThe study contributes to scholarship on users' postadoption behavior in the context of smoking cessation OHCs by disentangling the antecedents to PU from a social support perspective and pinpointing some important consequences of PU. The research also has practical implications for managing smoking cessation OHCs.
How does the yield variability in rainfed crops respond to climate variables? Evidence from pulses yields in Telangana, India
Authors: Guntukula Raju , Goyari Phanindra 
Published: June 2021

PurposeThis paper aims to evaluate the effects of climate variables on the mean yield and yield variability of major pulse crops in the Telangana state of India.Design/methodology/approachAuthors have estimated the Just and Pope (1978, 1979) production function using panel data at the district level of four major pulses in nine former districts of Telangana for 36 years during 1980–2015. A three-stage feasible generalized least squares estimation procedure has been followed. The mean yield and yield variance functions have been estimated individually for each of these study crops, namely, Bengal gram, green gram, red gram and horse gram.FindingsResults have shown that changes in climatic factors such as rainfall and temperature have significant influences on the mean yield levels and yield variance of pulses. The maximum temperature is observed to have a significant adverse impact on the mean yield of a majority of pulses, and it is also a risk-enhancing factor for a majority of pulses except horse gram. However, the minimum temperature is positively related to the mean yields of the study crops except for Bengal gram, and it is having a risk-reducing impact for a majority of study crops. Rainfall is observed to have a negative impact on the mean yields of all pulses, but it is a risk-enhancing factor for only one crop, i.e. Bengal gram. Thus, rising temperatures and excess rainfall are not favorable to the productivity of pulses in study districts.Research limitations/implicationsThe present study is based on the secondary data at the district level and is considering only one state. Season-wise primary data, including farm-specific characteristics, could have been better. The projected climate change and its impact on the mean yields and yield variance of pulses need to be considered in a future study.Originality/valueAccording to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to empirically evaluate the impact of climatic variables on the mean yields and yield variability of major pulses in Telangana using a panel data for major pulses and nine districts of 36 years time-series during 1980–2015. The study has given useful policy recommendations.
Sustainable facility relocation in agriculture systems using the GIS and best–worst method
Authors: Yousefi-Babadi Abolghasem , Bozorgi-Amiri Ali , Tavakkoli-Moghaddam Reza 
Published: June 2021

PurposeTo avoid sub-optimization in wheat storage centers, one of the most strategic facilities, it is necessary to review and relocate them to be optimized regularly. The present study aims to propose an integrated method using geographic information systems (GISs) and an appropriate weighting algorithm for the relocation of wheat storage facilities.Design/methodology/approachTo achieve the goal mentioned above, sustainability pillars in facility location and relocation are initially developed; afterward, a set of suitable criteria are obtained from various scientific resources. Then, the weight of each sustainable development pillar and its corresponding sub-criteria were identified through utilizing the best–worst method (BWM). By applying the obtained weights in the ArcGIS software package, various geographical layers were designed, and land-use planning, logistics planning and sustainable logistics planning are carried out in the regions. The regions are ranked based on the scores obtained in the processes, and the best regions are selected for sustainable relocation problem.FindingsA case study including 430 regions (counties) in Iran is conducted to evaluate the efficiency of the suggested approach. The study results indicate that Iran possesses a superior state for establishing wheat storage centers in terms of infrastructural and social aspects. Also, it is established that 16% of counties are recognized as sustainable locations for relocating the wheat storage facilities.Research limitations/implicationsThere is no most suitable analysis of the wheat storage facilities, as well as their strategic position in the supply chain, and there is a lack of considering sustainability in wheat storage facility location, despite the particular importance of it to the supply chain.Practical implicationsThis framework is applied in an Iranian wheat-bread supply chain to find the best sustainable facilities. It is noted that this algorithm can be applied in other strategic facilities by minor and some major changes.Originality/valueDecision-makers can apply the proposed methodology to find the best relocation sites for wheat storage facilities as the main part of wheat-bread supply chain in order to prevent sub-optimization and improve the efficiency of their supply chain.
How nostalgia forges place attachment and revisit intention: a moderated mediation model
Authors: Cho Heetae 
Published: June 2021

PurposeAnalyzing sport fans' emotions has attracted much attention and offered important implications for research on sport consumer behavior. As such, diverse emotional factors have been considered to understand their behavioral responses. However, the concept of nostalgia has been examined to a lesser extent in the context of sport. Thus, this study investigated the role of nostalgia and its relationships with place attachment and revisit intention. The frequency of past experience was used as a moderator in this study.Design/methodology/approachData collection was performed during six professional baseball games in South Korea, and 461 responses were collected from sport tourists. This study tested the reliability and validity of the measurement model and examined the relationships between constructs.FindingsResults showed that nostalgia positively affected place attachment and revisit intention; place attachment played a mediating role between nostalgia and revisit intention. In addition, this study found that the relationship between nostalgia and place attachment was moderated by past experience.Originality/valueThis study identified how nostalgia can drive the development of a bond between place and sport fans, encouraging them to keep returning to the place where they are attached.
Automated activity and progress analysis based on non-monotonic reasoning of construction operations
Authors: Johansen Karsten Winther , Nielsen Rasmus , Schultz Carl , Teizer Jochen 
Published: June 2021

PurposeReal-time location sensing (RTLS) systems offer a significant potential to advance the management of construction processes by potentially providing real-time access to the locations of workers and equipment. Many location-sensing technologies tend to perform poorly for indoor work environments and generate large data sets that are somewhat difficult to process in a meaningful way. Unfortunately, little is still known regarding the practical benefits of converting raw worker tracking data into meaningful information about construction project progress, effectively impeding widespread adoption in construction.Design/methodology/approachThe presented framework is designed to automate as many steps as possible, aiming to avoid manual procedures that significantly increase the time between progress estimation updates. The authors apply simple location tracking sensor data that does not require personal handling, to ensure continuous data acquisition. They use a generic and non-site-specific knowledge base (KB) created through domain expert interviews. The sensor data and KB are analyzed in an abductive reasoning framework implemented in Answer Set Programming (extended to support spatial and temporal reasoning), a logic programming paradigm developed within the artificial intelligence domain.FindingsThis work demonstrates how abductive reasoning can be applied to automatically generate rich and qualitative information about activities that have been carried out on a construction site. These activities are subsequently used for reasoning about the progress of the construction project. Our framework delivers an upper bound on project progress (“optimistic estimates”) within a practical amount of time, in the order of seconds. The target user group is construction management by providing project planning decision support.Research limitations/implicationsThe KB developed for this early-stage research does not encapsulate an exhaustive body of domain expert knowledge. Instead, it consists of excerpts of activities in the analyzed construction site. The KB is developed to be non-site-specific, but it is not validated as the performed experiments were carried out on one single construction site.Practical implicationsThe presented work enables automated processing of simple location tracking sensor data, which provides construction management with detailed insight into construction site progress without performing labor-intensive procedures common nowadays.Originality/valueWhile automated progress estimation and activity recognition in construction have been studied for some time, the authors approach it differently. Instead of expensive equipment, manually acquired, information-rich sensor data, the authors apply simple data, domain knowledge and a logical reasoning system for which the results are promising.
Refining the referral process: Increasing diversity for technology startups through targeted recruitment, screening and interview strategies
Authors: Kaul Kelsey 
Published: June 2021

Purpose
In this paper, the author will help technology startups consider the importance of diversifying their teams. Since over 90% of startups fail, and most within the first three years, understanding the importance of team makeup can improve the viability of an organization. This paper aims to offer steps startups can make to increase their team’s diversity.

Design/methodology/approach
The author draws upon research about startup successes and failures as well as best practices in diversity and inclusion.

Findings
Through strategic steps to improve the referral, screening and interview process startups can diversify their teams and create better business outcomes.

Practical implications
If startups do not make an effort early on to hire diverse talent they may risk failure of their organization.

Originality/value
Diversity is more important than ever, and startups sometimes consider this step too late. This paper will offer steps that can be taken early on and with no cost to the team, with benefits that will be long-lasting.
Next‐generation sequencing for typing human papillomaviruses and predicting multi‐infections and their clinical symptoms
Authors: Kim Sang‐Yeon , Hwang Kyung‐A , Ann Ji‐Hoon , Kim Ji‐Hye , Nam Jae‐Hwan 
Published: June 2021

AbstractHuman papillomavirus (HPV) has more than 100 different types, some of which are associated with cancer. The most common example is that of cervical cancer, which is associated with HPV16 and HPV18. Here, we performed next‐generation sequencing (NGS) to type 2436 samples obtained from Korean women to elucidate the correlation between multiple infections, virus types, and cytology. NGS revealed that types 58, 56, and 16 were the most common in high‐risk (HR) types, whereas types 90, 54, and 81 were the most common in low‐risk (LR) types. The incidence of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS) or high‐grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) was 11.45% in single‐type cases and 27.17% in multiple infections by the two types of HPV. ASCUS or HSIL was 29.79% in only the HR type multiple infections and 29.81% in mixed high‐ and low‐risk types of multiple infections, whereas it was 18.79% in LR type multiple infections (P ≤ 0.0001). Co‐infection by LR‐HPV and HR‐HPV is therefore more likely to cause cell lesions. Collectively, these results show that the higher the incidence of multiple infections, the greater the frequency of cell lesions. Thus, to predict the clinical symptoms, it would be beneficial to confirm the HPV type and multiple infections using NGS, although this could be relatively expensive.
Decreased precipitation in the late growing season weakens an ecosystem carbon sink in a semi‐arid grassland
Authors: Yang Zhongling , Wei Yueyue , Fu Guangya , Xiao Rui , Chen Ji , Zhang Yaojun , Wang Dong , Li Junyong 
Published: June 2021

AbstractNet ecosystem gas exchange (NEE), a balance between gross ecosystem primary productivity (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (ER), is an important indicator of terrestrial ecosystem CO2sink or source. Increasing frequency in droughts during different periods of the growing season may affect terrestrial ecosystem carbon (C) balance. However, detecting how drought timing controls ecosystem C processes is insufficiently explored because it is a challenge to accurately monitor and forecast drought dynamics.In a 5‐year (2015–2019) precipitation manipulation experiment in a temperate steppe in northern China, we imposed a 60% decrease in precipitation in the early (April–June, DEP) and late (July–September, DLP) growing seasons in plots under rainout shelters to simulate drought occurrence timing. The responses of GPP, ER and NEE to DEP and DLP were examined to determine how the timing of decreased precipitation affects CO2fluxes.Both DEP and DLP reduced GPP and ER. Decreased precipitation in the late growing season reduced NEE due to a greater decline in GPP than ER. In contrast, the lack of an effect of DEP on NEE can be attributed to a proportional decline in GPP and ER. Reduced normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and GPP induced by decreased precipitation explained the decline in GPP and ER respectively. Drought in the late growing season weakened the ecosystem C sink. The result indicates a low resistance in net C uptake to DLP. However, we did not find evidence that previous precipitation decreases resulted in a lower overall rate of ecosystem C exchange, indicating a high resilience in C processes in this semi‐arid grassland.Synthesis and applications. Our study provides solid evidence that drought in the late growing season weakens ecosystem C sink in the semi‐arid grassland. The findings suggest that management practices aimed at enhancing water availability during the late growing season should be preferred for increasing C sequestration.
Adaptation of Mediterranean forest species to climate: Lessons from common garden experiments
Authors: Ramírez‐Valiente Jose Alberto , Santos del Blanco Luis , Alía Ricardo , Robledo‐Arnuncio Juan J. , Climent Jose 
Published: June 2021

Abstract

Mediterranean ecosystems are biodiversity hotspots located between temperate mesic climates and semi‐deserts and deserts. Mediterranean climates are characterized by a drought season but its length and severity can be highly variable across regions. In this review, we explored population genetic variation in functional traits and fitness in Mediterranean oak and pine species. We tested the hypothesis that increased drought tolerance has evolved as an adaptation to xeric and warm areas of the Mediterranean climate while increased competitive abilities have been favoured in more mesic regions, following a productivity‐persistence trade‐off within species.

We first reviewed the literature and performed a meta‐analysis of studies on Pinus sp. and Quercus sp. from Mediterranean climates, and then analysed a set of unpublished data from Spanish common garden experiments of species from the Mediterranean Basin, searching for evidence of trait genetic variation among populations, local adaptation and trait–environment associations.

The meta‐analysis showed that 82.9% (95% CI 75.7–89.4) of traits per study showed significant population genetic differentiation and that 52.5% (35.6–69.2) of traits in studies with two or more Mediterranean environments exhibited population‐by‐environment interaction. Population differences in traits related to drought tolerance, cold hardiness and fitness were usually correlated with provenance precipitation and temperature gradients, suggesting that adaptation to different climatic regimes is an important process driving intraspecific genetic divergence. Within the Spanish trial network, however, predicted fitness functions based on climatic transfer distance failed to reveal significantly higher fitness of populations at experimental sites with climates closer to their provenances’ ones. Neither the literature review nor the new analyses of the Spanish trial network provided evidence of a negative association between growth‐ and persistence‐related traits at the intraspecific level.

Synthesis. Population genetic differentiation in functional traits and fitness is common in Mediterranean species, driven, at least in part, by the adaptation to contrasting temperature and precipitation regimes. Because of experimental constraints or biological reality, our study failed to detect a trade‐off between resource‐use strategies within species, calling for future studies to investigate further whether intraspecific evolution of stress tolerance occurs at the expense of growth potential in Mediterranean environments or not.
Risk stratification of emergency department patients with acute pulmonary thromboembolism: Is chest pain a reason to investigate?
Authors: Clements Warren , McMahon George AL , Joseph Tim , Goh Gerard S , Kuang Ronny JD , Smit De Villiers , Varma Dinesh 
Published: June 2021

AbstractBackgroundThis study aimed to risk‐stratify chest pain as a presenting symptom in patients with a diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism (PE) to assess for any association. In addition, this study aimed to assess traditionally acknowledged PE risk factors in an Australian population.MethodsThis was a retrospective single‐centre cohort study assessing patients who presented to our emergency department during the period of 1 January 2019 to 1 January 2020. 730 consecutive patients who went on to computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) examination after presentation were included.ResultsThe rate of CTPA being positive in this study was 11.6% (85/730). Chest pain was associated with a non‐significant reduction in the odds of PE (OR 0.774, P = 0.327). Univariate analysis showed significantly increased odds of a diagnosis of PE with presentation for leg pain/swelling (OR 6.670, P < 0.001). Multivariate analysis showed increasing age (OR 1.018, 95% CI 1.002–1.034, P = 0.024), clinical signs of a DVT (OR 3.194, 95% CI 1.803–5.657, P < 0.001) and positive D‐dimer (OR 1.762, 95% CI 1.011–3.071, P = 0.046) were associated with increased odds of PE.ConclusionIn this study, Emergency Department presentation with chest pain, whilst the most common reason to perform a CTPA, resulted in reduced odds with regard to the diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism. The use of CTPA in this setting may be rationalised according to other factors such as localised leg pain as a symptom, signs of DVT, increasing age or positive D‐dimer.