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Impact of environmental, social and governance disclosures on market reaction: an evidence of Top50 companies listed from Thailand
Authors: Suttipun Muttanachai , Yordudom Thanyaorn 
Published: June 2021

Purpose
This study aims to survey the extent, level and trend of environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures of top50 listed companies from Thailand, to test the different level of ESG disclosures of the companies between high profile industry and low profile industries and to examine the impact of ESG disclosures on the market reaction of top50 listed companies in Thailand.

Design/methodology/approach
Population and sample were top50 listed companies from the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Using corporate annual reports from 2015 to 2019, content analysis by word counting was used to quantify the extent, level and trend of ESG disclosures, while the market reaction was collected by the average stock price. Descriptive analysis, independent sample t-test, correlation matrix and multiple regression were used to analyze the data.

Findings
There was an increased level of ESG disclosures during the period being study. The most common ESG disclosures were social disclosure following by governance and environmental disclosures. Moreover, there were different levels of environmental disclosure of top50 listed companies between high and low profile industries, while no different levels of social and governance disclosures between high and low profile industries were found. Finally, the study found that environmental and social disclosures had a positive impact on market reaction, while there was a negative impact of governance disclosure on market reaction.

Originality/value
Thai investors can use ESG disclosures for their decision-making on investment.
Organizational citizenship behavior and team effectiveness in service industry: a moderated mediation model
Authors: Ansari Khaliqur Rehman , Upadhyay Rajesh Kumar 
Published: June 2021

Purpose
The purpose of this study to explore the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), team effectiveness (TE), employee motivation (EM) and employee retention (ER) in the service sector. This study proposes an alternate heuristic TE framework, which is termed as IMMO (input-moderated mediation-output) by replacing M with MM (moderated mediation) in IMOI framework.

Design/methodology/approach
The research was conducted in service sector of Uttarakhand state and the data collected from the employees working in different service organizations (such as educational institute, banking, insurance several others). Collected data were analyzed by using different analytical tools like confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling for validating the constructs used in this study and to assess the relationship among different variables used for this study.

Findings
The result of this study reveals that OCB has positive impact on TE, and the relationship is mediated partially by EM, and the relation between EM and TE is moderated by ER.

Originality/value
This study contributes to the existing literature on OCB and TE. The relation between OCB and TE with the mediation of EM and the moderation effect of ER between the relation of EM and TE was investigated. This study suggests both theoretical and practical implications based on the findings.
Augmenting brand community identification for inactive users: a uses and gratification perspective
Authors: Dessart Laurence , Veloutsou Cleopatra 
Published: June 2021

Purpose
In an era where companies shift a part of their marketing budget to support their social media presence, very little is known about the antecedents and effects of participant identification in a social media community. This paper aims to examine the antecedents of community identification in a Facebook company-managed brand community, for inactive members, using the uses and gratification theory. Brand community identification is also expected to lead to higher levels of brand loyalty for these members.

Design/methodology/approach
This research reports the results of a quantitative with survey data from 389 members of a variety of different official Facebook pages.

Findings
The results reveal that inactive members of Facebook pages can be influenced to act in a way that is beneficial for a company. Perceived human and information value of the brand Facebook page lead members to identify with a brand community and identification is a strong predictor of loyalty to the brand.

Practical implications
This paper provides suggestions to managers on the development of brand community value that can increase brand community identification and loyalty of apparently inactive brand community members.

Originality/value
By showing that brand community identification and loyalty exist for users with low activity levels, this research challenges the widely accepted idea that only highly active members are valuable in online brand communities. Specifically, it reveals the most important motivations for these members to identify with the community and be loyal to the brand.
Watching participatory budgeting events or attending them produce different distributive outcomes
Authors: Lev-On Azi 
Published: June 2021

PurposeThe study examines the impact of presence, synchronicity of exposure and other variables on allocative decisions reached following a participatory budgeting event.Design/methodology/approachThe study analyzes the distributive decisions reached following a participatory budgeting event, which took place in an academic institution, and students were asked to determine the distribution of a portion of the student union budget. Some students viewed the event live (physically or remotely), while others watched it in delay.FindingsThe main variable affecting allocative decisions was whether decision-makers were exposed to the event physically or remotely. There was a significant and large difference between allocation decisions of participants who were physically present at the event and those who were exposed to it remotely.Practical implicationsThe discussion elaborates on the implications of the findings for the importance of presence and media selection in public engagement events.Originality/valuePublic engagement events are becoming widespread, with the Internet being a major tool in their administration. This study demonstrates that using the Internet to make such events accessible to the non-physically present can create significant changes in decisions reached by participants.
Incentive mechanisms for government officials' implementing open government data in China
Authors: Zhang Han , Bi Ying , Kang Fei , Wang Zhong 
Published: June 2021

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the factors influencing the behaviors of government officials during the implementation of open government data (OGD). By identifying and understanding the key factors that determine government officials' adoption of OGD in China, this study can create a valuable reference for other countries and their decision-making regarding government implementation of OGD.Design/methodology/approachThis research collected data by in-depth interviews with government officials in Chinese OGD departments. Through these interviews, the authors consulted 15 administrators from departments that are responsible for the information tasks in Beijing and other cities on their opinions about OGD. The authors also interviewed senior executives from information technology (IT) companies, as well as open data policy scholars from big data alliance and research institutions.FindingsThis paper provides insights about how to promote government officials in OGD implementation, including (1) strengthen social supervision for the environment, through developing and publishing OGD technology roadmaps, then attracting the public to actively participate in the implementing of OGD; (2) establish an OGD assessment mechanism for government officials, with bonus motivations, position promotion incentives, as well as spiritual incentives via regional or sector rankings; (3) alleviate the risks of officials' OGD decisions in actual practice, using the institution construction of OGD to guide its direction and strengthen security protection.Originality/valueThis paper fulfils an identified need to study how government officials' behavior can be motivated on OGD implementation.
Qualitative accounting research in the time of COVID-19 – changes, challenges and opportunities
Authors: Molinari Matteo , de Villiers Charl 
Published: June 2021

Purpose
COVID-19 restrictions have severely impacted access to the traditional data and data sources used by qualitative researchers. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the corresponding challenges and opportunities of conducting qualitative research in accounting.

Design/methodology/approach
This study highlights the opportunities opened up by the way the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting qualitative accounting research, discussing the most common qualitative accounting research methods, practices and techniques used during the different phases of research.

Findings
The COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping some of the traditional research methods, practices and techniques in qualitative accounting research. Particularly, academic researchers who are reluctant to use the new technologies need to adapt their research approach, deal with the new challenges and exploit the opportunities to conduct research in a COVID-19 environment. Some changes in research methods, practices and techniques will affect accounting research in the long term.

Research limitations/implications
This paper could be a valuable resource for qualitative accounting researchers.

Originality/value
This paper is one of the first to focus on the changes, challenges and opportunities for conducting qualitative accounting research in a COVID-19 setting. As such, this paper could be a valuable resource for different types of qualitative accounting researchers, specifically the discussion of ways to deal with the changes and challenges, as well as the opportunities, as summarised in the table.
Re-embedding embeddedness: what is the role of social enterprise in promoting democracy and protecting social rights?
Authors: Roy Michael J. , Dey Pascal , Teasdale Simon 
Published: June 2021

Purpose
In today’s “market society” almost every aspect of the everyday lives is shaped by market forces. In this essay, the purpose of this paper is to focus on the potential role of social enterprise as one means of re-embedding the economy into society to ensure the economy works for people, rather than the other way around.

Design/methodology/approach
This is primarily a conceptual paper: a provocation.

Findings
The authors argue that to work as an embedding force, social enterprise needs to ensure both reciprocity and market exchange while acting in a way that attempts to compensate for the retreat of the state through providing public services and promoting collective decision-making and public deliberation.

Originality/value
Drawing upon the work of Karl Polanyi to conceptualise social enterprise as an “alternative” economic actor within a plural economic system, the authors contribute to on-going debates about social enterprise as an alternative way of organising markets and society. The authors highlight the challenges involved in achieving such a vision and suggest ways these might be overcome.
Optimising spatial distribution of mass‐flowering patches at the landscape scale to increase crop pollination
Authors: Desaegher James , Sheeren David , Ouin Annie 
Published: June 2021

Abstract

The addition of floral resources is often recommended to improve entomophilous crop pollination. However, implanting new plots of mass‐flowering resources in landscapes can have both positive and negative effects on pollinator visitation rates to crops.

We investigated the effects of plot characteristics (size and nesting quantities) on the best places to locate new co‐flowering plots to optimise crop pollination. First, we parameterised and validated an existing pollination model with field data. We set up experiments to simulate the conversion of random plots into new sunflower fields versus wildflower plots (intended to provide more nesting sites than sunflower fields and co‐flowering with sunflower) and quantified the change in pollinator visitation rates to existing target sunflower fields.

We predicted a decrease in visitation rates (competition) when floral plots were established next to target fields and an increase in visitation rates (facilitation) when floral plots were established farther away. We identified the competition‐facilitation transition distance (CF distance) and the distance at which facilitation was maximal (Fmax distance). We interpreted competition effects as a dilution of pollinators among the floral resources and facilitation effects as an increase in habitat quality, thus supporting bigger pollinator populations. Implanting floral resources that provide more nesting sites, such as wildflower plots versus new sunflower fields, significantly increased facilitation and reduced CF distance (713 m vs. 1,241 m) and Fmax distance (1,138 m vs. 1,788 m). The size of the converted plot did not affect CF or Fmax distance.

We predicted a benefit in isolating rather than aggregating multiple sunflower fields in terms of global crop pollination.

Synthesis and applications. Our findings highlight the opportunity to optimise the spatial distribution of mass‐flowering resources at the landscape scale to enhance crop pollination. We also suggest preserving or introducing nesting sites as a priority in areas with high‐density mass‐flowering resources to compensate for the negative consequences of pollinator dilution.
Canals as invasion pathways in tropical dry forest and the need for monitoring and management
Authors: Asth Matheus da Silva , Rodrigues Renato Garcia , Zenni Rafael Dudeque 
Published: June 2021

Abstract

Linear infrastructure intrusions are common around the world to meet the needs of a growing and interconnected human population. The implementation of linear infrastructures involves numerous forms and mechanisms of land‐use transformation that can facilitate and serve as pathways to the spread of invasive non‐native species. However, the type and intensity of land transformations change over time and this can affect the frequency and intensity in which linear infrastructures route the spread of invasive species.

Here, we present results collected over 5 years of monitoring surveys (2015–2019) to assess the relationship between the construction of one of the largest canals to date in Brazil and the spread of non‐native species. We studied the Integration Project of the São Francisco River (PISF), a canal fully inserted in the Caatinga biome, a tropical dry forest ecosystem for which information on invasion dynamics are little known.

Our results confirmed PISF canals served as habitat and dispersal corridors for non‐native plant species. Monitoring surveys recorded 26 non‐native species established along the 83.2 km2 PISF deployment area. Eleven years after the canal deployment area was completely cleared of vegetation, 92.3% of its extension had non‐native plant populations. Of the 10 species assessed for their population status, 8 had invasive populations.

The time immediately after construction work finished was the critical stage for the spread of non‐native woody plants, which increased their distributions with reduced levels of construction intervention, whereas most of the herbaceous species reduced their distributions. When human intervention was drastically reduced, many populations of non‐native plants rapidly formed at the deployment area.

Policy implications. Man‐made linear infrastructures can remove biogeographical barriers and serve as pathways for the spread of invasive species over long distances and across ecosystems. Thus, the planning, construction and management of such infrastructures should include measures and funding for risk assessment, prevention, monitoring and control of biological invasions. Agencies responsible for environmental licensing should mandate invasive species management as part of the installation and operation licensing conditions.
Moisture availability and ecological restoration limit fine fuels and modelled wildfire intensity following non‐native ungulate removal in Hawaii
Authors: Zhu Timothy R. , Litton Creighton M. , Giardina Christian P. , Trauernicht Clay 
Published: June 2021

AbstractThe removal and exclusion of non‐native ungulates for conservation of biodiversity is common globally, including on tropical Pacific Islands. However, the poorly quantified effects of ungulate exclusion on fuels and wildfire may represent an important conservation trade‐off.We measured fuels (live and dead fuel loads, type, height and continuity) and modelled potential wildfire behaviour (flame height and rate of spread) inside and outside of 13 ungulate exclosures, three of which received active ecological restoration (e.g. planting of native shrubs and trees), across a 2,740 mm mean annual rainfall (MAR) gradient on the Island of Hawaii. Differences in fuel characteristics and modelled wildfire behaviour inside versus outside of ungulate exclosures were assessed using linear mixed effects analyses.Non‐native ungulate removal, in general, increased fine fuel loading (average change ranged from −0.7 to 11.3 Mg/ha), shrub fuel loading (−0.1 to 5.6 Mg/ha) and modelled flame lengths (−0.2 to 1.9 m). Post‐removal fine fuel loading and modelled flame lengths increased linearly and positively with moisture availability, by as much as 56% in the wettest sites. Dead fine fuels, a key driver of fire intensity and combustion rates, also increased with ungulate removal. Sites undergoing active ecological restoration exhibited reductions in fuel loading, with greater reductions over time since ungulate removal; by the 10th year following ungulate removal, fine fuel loading was reduced at restoration sites by 41%.Synthesis and applications. Dry and mesic environments where wildfire occurrence is more frequent are of particular concern following non‐native ungulate removal, but with drought even typically wet environments can be at high risk of wildfire following ungulate removal. Given limited resources, managers in mesic and wet forests might focus first non‐native ungulates in non‐native grass‐dominated areas that contribute disproportionately to wildfire spread and are adjacent to fenced higher value areas, while managers in dry to mesic areas might focus on removing non‐native ungulates. Where possible, land managers in all situations should invest in long‐term fuel management strategies such as active ecological restoration to reduce fuel loads and the occurrence and intensity of wildfires.
Contribution of microbial photosynthesis to peatland carbon uptake along a latitudinal gradient
Authors: Hamard Samuel , Céréghino Regis , Barret Maialen , Sytiuk Anna , Lara Enrique , Dorrepaal Ellen , Kardol Paul , Küttim Martin , Lamentowicz Mariusz , Leflaive Joséphine , Le Roux Gaël , Tuittila Eeva‐Stiina , Jassey Vincent E. J. 
Published: June 2021

Abstract

Phototrophic microbes, also known as micro‐algae, display a high abundance in many terrestrial surface soils. They contribute to atmospheric carbon dioxide fluxes through their photosynthesis, and thus regulate climate similar to plants. However, microbial photosynthesis remains overlooked in most terrestrial ecosystems. Here, we hypothesise that phototrophic microbes significantly contribute to peatland C uptake, unless environmental conditions limit their development and their photosynthetic activity.

To test our hypothesis, we studied phototrophic microbial communities in five peatlands distributed along a latitudinal gradient in Europe. By means of metabarcoding, microscopy and cytometry analyses, as well as measures of photosynthesis, we investigated the diversity, absolute abundance and photosynthetic rates of the phototrophic microbial communities.

We identified 351 photosynthetic prokaryotic and eukaryotic operational taxonomic units (OTUs) across the five peatlands. We found that water availability and plant composition were important determinants of the composition and the structure of phototrophic microbial communities. Despite environmental shifts in community structure and composition, we showed that microbial C fixation rates remained similar along the latitudinal gradient. Our results further revealed that phototrophic microbes accounted for approximately 10% of peatland C uptake.

Synthesis. Our findings show that phototrophic microbes are extremely diverse and abundant in peatlands. While species turnover with environmental conditions, microbial photosynthesis similarly contributed to peatland C uptake at all latitudes. We estimate that phototrophic microbes take up around 75 MT CO2 per year in northern peatlands. This amount roughly equals the magnitude of projected peatland C loss due to climate warming and highlights the importance of phototrophic microbes for the peatland C cycle.
Reciprocal crosses between Magnolia stellata and Magnolia kobus do not show significant reproductive barriers in seed formation
Authors: Tamaki Ichiro , Wadasaki Naotaka , Ishida Kiyoshi , Tomaru Nobuhiro 
Published: June 2021

AbstractCongeneric invasive species reduce genetic endemism of native species through hybridization and sometimes cause extinction through genetic or demographic swamping. In the range of Magnolia stellata, a native rare subtree species, Magnolia kobus, an invasive planted/escaped tree species, can also be found. In order to examine possible natural hybridization between the two species, a reciprocal cross‐pollination experiment was conducted, and fruit set, seed set, female reproductive success in seed formation (FRS; fruit set × seed set) and seed weight were estimated. With M. stellata as the maternal tree, there were no significant differences in all measurements between intra‐ and interspecific crosses. With M. kobus as the maternal tree, there were also no significant differences in all measurements except fruit set. These results suggest that there are no reproductive barriers between the two species and planted/escaped M. kobus near the natural habitat of M. stellata presents a threat through hybridization.
‘Cry‐for‐help’ in contaminated soil: a dialogue among plants and soil microbiome to survive in hostile conditions
Authors: Rolli Eleonora , Vergani Lorenzo , Ghitti Elisa , Patania Giovanni , Mapelli Francesca , Borin Sara 
Published: June 2021

SummaryAn open question in environmental ecology regards the mechanisms triggered by root chemistry to drive the assembly and functionality of a beneficial microbiome to rapidly adapt to stress conditions. This phenomenon, originally described in plant defence against pathogens and predators, is encompassed in the ‘cry‐for‐help’ hypothesis. Evidence suggests that this mechanism may be part of the adaptation strategy to ensure the holobiont fitness in polluted environments. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were considered as model pollutants due to their toxicity, recalcitrance and poor phyto‐extraction potential, which lead to a plethora of phytotoxic effects and rise environmental safety concerns. Plants have inefficient detoxification processes to catabolize PCBs, even leading to by‐products with a higher toxicity. We propose that the ‘cry‐for‐help’ mechanism could drive the exudation‐mediated recruitment and sustainment of the microbial services for PCBs removal, exerted by an array of anaerobic and aerobic microbial degrading populations working in a complex metabolic network. Through this synergistic interaction, the holobiont copes with the soil contamination, releasing the plant from the pollutant stress by the ecological services provided by the boosted metabolism of PCBs microbial degraders. Improving knowledge of root chemistry under PCBs stress is, therefore, advocated to design rhizoremediation strategies based on plant microbiome engineering.