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Passive but defiant: the role of innovative capabilities in knowledge management and corporate entrepreneurship
Authors: Khalil Muhammad Azhar , Khalil Muhammad Khuram , Khalil Rashid 
Published: August 2021

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the role of organizational innovative capabilities (OIC) on the relationship between knowledge sharing (KS), corporate entrepreneurship (CE) and firm performance (FP). Specifically, this study uses the knowledge-based view to develop a model that examines the mentioned relationship.Design/methodology/approachUsing survey data from 520 participants across 75 service sector companies in Thailand, measurement and structure models are tested through structural equation modeling to quantify the impact between constructs.FindingsThis study shows that KS and CE positively affect OIC and FP. A positive relationship is also found between KS and CE. The mediating impact of OIC strengthens the relationship between KS and CE on FP.Research limitations/implicationsLike all research using survey methods, the research is prone to respondent biases and generalizability. However, this paper has put the best effort to minimize such effects by rigorous methodological testing to avoid such biases.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study suggest that to improve organizational learning and knowledge-based performance, commitment and understanding of the employees in the entire organization is crucial. KS significantly contributes to developing innovative abilities because of its characteristics of providing firm-specific and socially complex advantages. The way a firm transforms and exploits its knowledge may ascertain its level of innovativeness, such as coming up with certain problem-solving procedures and new product development according to the rapid change in the market demand. However, organizations may only instigate to effectively organize knowledge when their employees are ready to share knowledge. Continuous KS boosts entrepreneurial practices and contributes innovativeness across individuals, groups, units or the entire organization.Originality/valueThe relationship between CE, organization innovative capabilities and FP in the presence of KS is rarely discussed in both theoretical and empirical literature. This study contributes to the literature by arguing that apart from the direct impact of KS on FP, KS can lead the firms toward generating important competitive advantage by forming innovative capabilities that can significantly influence FP.
The role of financial factors and non-financial factors on corporate bond and sukuk rating Indonesia
Authors: Laila Nisful , Rusmita Sylva Alif , Cahyono Eko Fajar , Azman-Saini W.N.W. 
Published: August 2021

Purpose
This study aims to analyze the determinants of ratings of corporate bonds and sukuk issued by firms listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) for the 2013–2019 period.

Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a quantitative approach by testing hypotheses and using logistic regression. Ordinal logistic endogenous (or dependent) variables (Y) in ordinal logistics use data in the form of levels (ordinal scale). Independent (or exogenous) variables (X), include financial and non-financial factors for dependent (or endogenous) variables (Y), namely, of corporate bonds and sukuk ratings. There are two approaches to the study they are Logit and Gompit (Negative Log-Log. The population of the study is Indonesian companies listed on the IDX that issued bonds and sukuk for the 2013–2019 periods. The sampling technique is purposive. In total, 16 corporate companies adhering to the above criteria and issuing bonds and sukuk were chosen. In total, 270 types of bonds and 280 types of sukuk were selected as samples.

Findings
The results of the Logit and Gompit regression show that leverage ratio, firm size, security structure and maturity date are important determinants of corporate bond ratings while profitability and liquidity ratios appear to have no influence on the rating. In the case of sukuk, profitability, liquidity and maturity date play important roles in influencing the corporate sukuk rating. However, there is no evidence to suggest that leverage ratio, company size and security structure may affect sukuk ratings.

Research limitations/implications
For both sukuk and bond issuers, it is necessary to pay attention to the factors that may affect the ratings. Specifically, Sukuk issuers need to pay attention to the return of asset, current ratio, growth and structure. On the other hand, bond issuers need to consider depth to equity, structure and maturity. As for investors, the findings of this study reveal that both bond and sukuk ratings reflect their performance.

Practical implications
This study provides useful information for investors that allows them to assess the risk of sukuk or bonds chosen based on rating and financial performance.

Originality/value
The novelty of this study lies in its econometric methodology used to identify factors which influence sukuk and bond ratings. Specifically, this study used two different techniques that allow a robust conclusion to be drawn. Furthermore, this study provides a systematic analysis which allows comparison between factors which affect bond and sukuk ratings in Indonesia.
Niklas Luhmann's anti-totalitarian observation of systems
Authors: Harste Gorm , Laursen Klaus Brønd 
Published: August 2021

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the philosophical roots of Luhmann's theory in relation to its anti-totalitarian elements.Design/methodology/approachThe paper offers a conceptual discussion of the critical and anti-totalitarian angle in Niklas Luhmann's system theory.FindingsThis paper finds that systems theory has a critical potential.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors' knowledge the anti-totalitarian element of Niklas Luhmann's system theory has not be discussed before the present contribution.
Linking sustainability and non-financial reporting directive 2014/95/EU through isomorphism lens
Authors: Stefanescu Cristina Alexandrina 
Published: August 2021

Purpose
This study aims to explore the connection between sustainability and non-financial reporting (NFR) settled by the Directive 2014/95/EU, aiming to shed light on how institutional isomorphic pressures (mimetic, coercive and normative) are expressed in terms of sustainability issues influenced its enactment at the European Union (EU) level.

Design/methodology/approach
Empirically, the contribution of this study relied on the complexity of the research design that uses the same statistical methods and techniques (e.g. principal component analysis, correlation and regression analysis) within two stages of analysis (main and robustness) to increase the trustworthy of the results reached.

Findings
The results reveal that countries with sound sustainable management pillars (economic, environmental and social) and development goals promoting economic prosperity, environmental protection and societal well-being (prosperity, planet and people) are more likely to bring active support in enhancing NFR by regulating its framework.

Research limitations/implications
The empirical nature of the research left space for some limitations, as long as it relied on country-level data, thus being quite challenging to gauge the commitment to harmonization with the new Directive. Moreover, the model’s explanatory power remains questionable, as the explanatory variables might be measured differently in the model specifications.

Practical implications
The study addresses academia/regulators/practitioners by ascertaining their potential to better understand/promote/apply the new Directive. Thus, each could support the steps toward standardized sustainability reporting by keeping up to date with the latest improvements/addressing cross-country inconsistencies in the transposition/managing future implementation in a more effective and accountable way.

Originality/value
This paper approaches the harmonization process of NFR across Europe in connection with sustainability issues, grounding on institutional isomorphism. Thus, it fills an existing literature gap, as research studies approaching the new Directive from the institutional theory’s perspective are still scarce and focused on particular countries.
Assessing road pricing effects on a multimodal network based on macroscopic fundamental diagram hysteresis
Authors: Wahaballa Amr M. , Hemdan Seham , Kurauchi Fumitaka 
Published: August 2021

Purpose
Road pricing is an efficient strategy for managing urban traffic to relieve congestion. The macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD), which relates the average network density and flow, is a simple tool for assessing road pricing effects on transportation network performance. However, recent research indicates that it may have complexity (an MFD hysteresis loop), especially for city-scale networks. Although ignoring MFD hysteresis may provide inaccurate results, pricing models that consider this hysteresis are scarce. This paper aims to assess road pricing effects on network performance considering MFD hysteresis characteristics.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper evaluated different pricing strategies spatially and temporally and compared network performance based on MFD shape in the presence of MFD hysteresis loops. These strategies were developed on a multimodal (cars and buses) network using a multi-agent transport simulation (MATSim).

Findings
This study found that pricing some links for a short duration with an optimum charge calculated based on the MFD provides higher travel time savings than the previous relevant studies.

Originality/value
These findings may facilitate assessing road pricing effects on multimodal network performance considering MFD hysteresis.
Effect of oxygen concentrations and branched‐chain amino acids on the growth and development of sub‐seafloor fungus, Schizophyllum commune 20R‐7‐F01
Authors: Zain Ul Arifeen Muhammad , Ma Zhi‐Jun , Wu Si , Liu Jun‐Zhong , Xue Ya‐Rong , Liu Chang‐Hong 
Published: August 2021

SummaryFungi have been reported to be the dominant eukaryotic group in anoxic sub‐seafloor sediments, but how fungi subsist in the anoxic sub‐marine sedimental environment is rarely understood. Our previous study demonstrated that the fungus, Schizophyllum commune 20R‐7‐F01 isolated from a ~2 km sediment below the seafloor, can grow and produce primordia in the complete absence of oxygen with enhanced production of branched‐chain amino acids (BCAAs), but the primordia cannot be developed into fruit bodies without oxygen. Here, we present the individual and synergistic effects of oxygen and BCAAs on the fruit‐body development of this strain. It was found that the fungus required a minimum oxygen concentration of 0.5% pO2 to generate primordia and 1% pO2 to convert primordia into mature fruit body. However, if BCAAs (20 mM) were added to the medium, the primordium could be developed into fruit body at a lower oxygen concentration up to 0.5% pO2 where genes fst4 and c2h2 playing an important role in compensating oxygen deficiency. Moreover, under hypoxic conditions, the fungus showed an increase in mitochondrial number and initiation of auto‐phagocytosis. These findings suggest that the fruit‐body formation of S. commune may have multiple mechanisms, including energy and amino acid metabolism in response to oxygen concentrations.
Sociological contributions to race and health: Diversifying the ontological and methodological agenda
Authors: Nelson Hyeyoung Oh , Spencer Karen Lutfey 
Published: August 2021

AbstractSociologists have made fundamental contributions to the study of race and health in the United States. They have disrupted biological assumptions of race, uncovered individual and structural factors that drive racial health disparities and explored the effects of racism on health. In recent years, however, with broader shifts towards big data, the work to understand the dynamics between race and health has been increasingly pursued from a quantitative perspective. Often, such analyses isolate intermediary mechanisms to further explain race as a cause of disease. While important, these approaches potentially limit our investigations of underlying assumptions about race and the complexity of this critical social construct. We argue that the resulting dearth of qualitative research on race and health substantially limits the knowledge being produced. After providing an overview of the overwhelming shift towards quantitative methods in the study of race and health, we present three areas of study that would benefit from greater qualitative inquiry as follows: (1) Healthy Immigrant Effect, (2) Maternal Health and (3) End‐of‐Life Care. We conclude with a call to the discipline to embrace the critical role of qualitative research in exploring the dynamics of race and health in the United States.
Evaluating small vessel neutrophils as a marker for sepsis
Authors: Gorski Zuzanna , Parai Jacqueline L. , Milroy Christopher M. 
Published: August 2021

AbstractA retrospective case‐control study of 100 sepsis autopsy cases and 103 controls over a 9‐year period was conducted to analyze patterns of neutrophils in small caliber vessels of the liver, heart, and lungs in relation to sepsis as the cause of death. Data extracted included demographics of the decedent, cause of death, presence of conditions that could interfere with an inflammatory response, history of hospitalization, and results of microbiology cultures. Histologic sections of the liver, heart, and lungs were assessed. Organs were scored for neutrophilic inflammation based upon a predetermined grading system. Scores of 0, 1, and 2 were assigned according to mild, moderate, and florid neutrophilic presence, respectively; a total score was also assigned based on the sum of the scores from all three organs. Comparing the histologic grading between cases and controls found a statistical difference with the neutrophil grading in the liver (p < 0.001), lung (p < 0.001), and heart (p < 0.001) and between the combined total scores (p < 0.001). Combined neutrophilic scores of 4 and greater showed high specificities (90% to 100%) for sepsis‐related deaths. Examining the percentage of sepsis cases as the histologic neutrophilic score increased found a positive slope in all three organs. However, only the linear regression looking at the lung (p = 0.03) and the combined score (p = 0.001) were statistically significant. Despite the above results, sepsis cases with low scores and controls with moderate and florid neutrophilic infiltrates were also seen.
Conservative management of traumatic pneumothoraces: A retrospective cohort study
Authors: Gerhardy Benjamin C , Liebenberg Paul , Simpson Graham 
Published: August 2021

AbstractObjectiveTraumatic pneumothoraces (T‐PTXs) are traditionally managed with an intercostal catheter (ICC), despite little evidence for this. Success with conservative management of primary spontaneous PTX has been demonstrated, and our ED has adopted a conservative approach where safe for all PTX.MethodsWe reviewed all T‐PTXs at our institution over a 7‐year period to assess outcomes of those conservatively managed and compare with those who received an ICC. A total of 144 cases were identified, 65 managed conservatively and 79 invasively. Each was individually reviewed and variables including demographics, aetiology, smoking/lung disease history, T‐PTX size (apical interpleural distance and hemithorax percentage), length of stay, Revised Trauma Score, Injury Severity Score and delayed intervention/complications were recorded. Chi‐squared, Z‐score, Mann–Whitney U and t‐tests were used for analysis.ResultsThe mean apical interpleural distance was 26.8 mm (95% confidence interval [CI] 22.1–29.7 mm) in the conservative group and 49.1 mm (95% CI 41.2–57.0 mm) in the ICC group (P < 0.05 for difference between groups). Mean T‐PTX percentage 25.9% (95% CI 22.1–29.7%) in the conservative group versus 45.9% (95% CI 39.7–50.5%) in the ICC group (P < 0.05 for difference between two groups) and mean Revised Trauma Score 7.4 (conservative) versus 6.8 (invasive) (P < 0.05). No conservatively managed patient required a delayed intervention for their T‐PTX, and 2 of 79 (3%) patients in the ICC group had a complication (one infection, one haemothorax).ConclusionOur data support conservative management of selected T‐PTXs and shows a need for a prospective randomised trial to further examine this intervention.
Antibacterial films made with persimmon (Diospyros kakiL.), pectin, and glycerol: An experimental design approach
Authors: Matheus Julia Rabelo Vaz , Nogueira Talita Braga de Brito , Pereira Ana Paula Aparecida , Correia Thiago Ramos , de Sousa Ana Maria Furtado , Pastore Glaucia Maria , Pelissari Franciele Maria , Miyahira Roberta Fontanive , Fai Ana Elizabeth Cavalcante 
Published: August 2021

AbstractPersimmon is among the fruits with a significant postharvest loss over the last few years. Thus, it is important to investigate new technical feasibilities to obtain products with higher added value from this fruit. In this study persimmon puree films (Diospyros kakiL.) incorporated with glycerol and pectin by casting technique were formulated using a Plackett–Burman design and characterized. The puree showed high carbohydrate content (175.70 g/kg). In descending order, fructose, glucose, and maltohexaose were the sugars found in persimmon. All the independent variables studied—puree concentration, pectin, glycerol, and temperature—statistically influenced the tensile strength (0.75–1.30 MPa), elongation at break (17.69–26.02%), and Young's modulus (3.34–10.94 MPa) of the films. Water solubility ranged from 68.80% to 80.86%, which were very similar to other films based on puree fruit in the literature. Samples presented high vapor permeability (5.77–6.63 × 10−6g/h/m/Pa) when compared to biodegradable films. Scanning electron microscopy showed smooth surfaces and good plasticizer dispersion. The colorimetric coordinates indicated the films are reddish and yellowish, giving them an orange‐ish visual aspect. The films exhibited antimicrobial activity, especially againstEscherichia coliandStaphylococcus aureus. These results indicate that the developed films might be a good candidate for antimicrobial food packaging improving food quality and safety.Practical ApplicationThe production of fruit‐film packaging with functional and biodegradable characteristics might reduce postharvest loss of fruit and have the potential to develop active food packaging. In this sense, this study is in line with precepts of the circular economy, once it takes advantage of exceeded resources that would be discarded by generating biodegradable films which can be used as edible packaging. Furthermore, given the antimicrobial potential of the films developed, they might be applied as active packaging to improve food safety and extend shelf life.
The inflammatory bowel disease disk application: A platform to assess patients' priorities and expectations from treatment
Authors: Naftali Timna , Richter Vered , Mari Amir , Khoury Tawifik , Shirin Haim , Broide Efrat 
Published: August 2021

ObjectiveInflammatory bowel disease (IBD) significantly impacts on patients' well‐being. Patients' preferences for treatment outcomes do not necessarily fit physicians' goals. We aimed to investigate patients' priorities and expectations from treatment.MethodsA questionnaire based on the IBD Disk application was distributed to patients through social media. Patient's preferences were assessed by grading the 10 IBD Disk items on a Likert‐type scale from 1 to 10. A cluster analysis was used to classify patients into homogeneous subgroups according to their preferred items, using the K‐means method.ResultsAmong the 224 patients, 69.2% had Crohn's disease (CD). Their mean age was (38.9 ± 14.9) years and 62.9% were female. More CD patients compared with those with ulcerative colitis were treated with biologics compared with those with ulcerative colitis (71.0% vs 39.1%, P < 0.001). Most IBD Disk items ranked high in patients' preferences for treatment outcomes. Their leading preference was reducing abdominal pain, which was more prominent in CD patients, followed by regulating defecation and energy. Least important were interpersonal interactions, sexual functions, and body image. Patients were categorized into three clusters. Cluster 3 patients gave lower scores to most items and were characterized by tertiary education (P = 0.001), higher income (P < 0.001), less active disease (P = 0.02), and higher prevalence of successful treatment (P = 0.04).ConclusionsPatients' preferences for treatment outcomes are influenced by higher education, higher income, rural‐dwelling, and disease activity. Better understanding of individual patient's preferences and the factors that affect them might bridge the gap between patients' and physicians' priorities to achieve better teamwork in controlling disease outcomes.
Mining and engineering exporters for titer improvement of macrolide biopesticides in Streptomyces
Authors: Chu Liyang , Li Shanshan , Dong Zhuoxu , Zhang Yanyan , Jin Pinjiao , Ye Lan , Wang Xiangjing , Xiang Wensheng 
Published: August 2021

SummaryExporter engineering is a promising strategy to construct high‐yield Streptomyces for natural product pharmaceuticals in industrial biotechnology. However, available exporters are scarce, due to the limited knowledge of bacterial transporters. Here, we built a workflow for exporter mining and devised a tunable plug‐and‐play exporter (TuPPE) module to improve the production of macrolide biopesticides in Streptomyces. Combining genome analyses and experimental confirmations, we found three ATP‐binding cassette transporters that contribute to milbemycin production in Streptomyces bingchenggensis. We then optimized the expression level of target exporters for milbemycin titer optimization by designing a TuPPE module with replaceable promoters and ribosome binding sites. Finally, broader applications of the TuPPE module were implemented in industrial S. bingchenggensis BC04, Streptomyces avermitilis NEAU12 and Streptomyces cyaneogriseus NMWT1, which led to optimal titer improvement of milbemycin A3/A4, avermectin B1a and nemadectin α by 24.2%, 53.0% and 41.0%, respectively. Our work provides useful exporters and a convenient TuPPE module for titer improvement of macrolide biopesticides in Streptomyces. More importantly, the feasible exporter mining workflow developed here might shed light on widespread applications of exporter engineering in Streptomyces to boost the production of other secondary metabolites.