bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Situational strategic versus personal influences on negotiation medium choice
Authors: Geiger Ingmar , Laubert Christoph 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
This study aims to compare predictions from media synchronicity theory (MST) with the influence of personality variables in an attempt to explain how negotiators choose the communication media for negotiation.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors examine media choice in two scenario-based experimental studies with students (n = 209) and professionals (n = 302) in a negotiation setting. For the analysis of the data, the authors use multilevel modeling.

Findings
This study offers support for the central proposition of MST, namely, that the type of communication subtask (conveyance or convergence) determines the degree of media synchronicity needed and therefore media choice (face-to-face or email). The support for its boundary conditions and contingent situational determinants is weaker. With the affect for communication channel scale, this study also captures individual media preferences for face-to-face or email communication, which have consistent influences on negotiators’ media choice. The personal influence variables on average account for similar variance in the data compared with the MST-based determinants.

Originality/value
This study sheds new light on diverging empirical results concerning media influences in negotiation and offers some reconciling suggestions. Furthermore, this study is the first to test boundary conditions of MST. Also, it stresses the importance of negotiators’ media preferences for media choice.
Crowd-sourcing (who, why and what)
Authors: Ikediego Henry Oluchukwu , Ilkan Mustafa , Abubakar A. Mohammed , Victor Bekun Festus 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
There is growing interest in innovative online problem-solving models such as crowdsourcing to serve individuals, firms and the society as a whole. Crowdsourcing is the combination of efforts from various sets of individuals who are either volunteering or working part-time for socioeconomic production, basically in the cyber world. This hybrid work model is already in use by businesses and entrepreneurs; some of the platforms include Amazon mechanical Turk, 99designs, Hit RECORD and Design Crowd.

Design/methodology/approach
Much has been parleyed and published, and this is primarily because of the efficient socioeconomic potentials crowdsourcing offers.

Findings
This paper addressed the following three questions to help have a better understanding of crowdsourcing: who can perform crowdsourcing? why it is relevant to crowdsource in this present proliferated internet age and if there are going to be some changes in the future and the last but not the least what can be done to promote it in the society?

Originality/value
This paper discusses the three W’s and concludes with challenges facing the crowdsourcing work model.
Macroeconomic uncertainty, corporate governance and corporate capital structure
Authors: Chow Yee Peng , Muhammad Junaina , Bany-Ariffin A.N. , Cheng Fan Fah 
Published: March 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine how corporate governance moderates the relationship between macroeconomic uncertainty and corporate capital structure.Design/methodology/approachThis paper employs the two-step system generalized method of moments regression, considering a sample of 907 listed non-financial firms from seven Asia Pacific countries during the period 2004-2014.FindingsThis study finds that macroeconomic uncertainty has a significant negative impact on the capital structure decisions of firms. The results also reveal that the overall effect of macroeconomic uncertainty on capital structure among firms with better governance quality is significantly negative. The evidence suggests that corporate governance acts as an effective mechanism to curb the usage of leverage during times of high volatility. Further analysis shows that board independence, the separation between the roles of CEO and chairman of the board and blockholders’ ownership are effective governance mechanisms, whereas similar observations do not hold for board size and institutional ownership.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings of this study may be useful to policy makers to formulate appropriate policies to mitigate the adverse effects caused by macroeconomic uncertainty. This is important because macroeconomic uncertainty may have potential destabilizing effects on a country’s or region’s development by jeopardizing the firms’ ability to formulate sound investment, production and financing decisions. Additionally, the results suggest that good governance quality can act as a check and balance to ensure that firms use less leverage when they are facing volatility in the macroeconomic environment. These findings could help to reinforce the importance of good governance among policy makers of a country as well as managers of firms.Originality/valueThe authors make the first attempt to examine the moderating effect of corporate governance on the relationship between macroeconomic uncertainty and corporate capital structure.
Hedge fund variables and short-run SEO returns
Authors: Hull Robert Martin , Kwak Sungkyu , Walker Rosemary 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to determine if hedge fund variables (HFVs) are associated with short-run daily buy and hold abnormal returns (BHARs) for a 30-day window around announcement dates for seasoned equity offerings (SEOs).

Design/methodology/approach
This paper utilizes the event study metric that computes BHARs. These BHARs are used in a regression model as dependent variables with HFVs and nonhedge fund variables (NFVs) as independent variables. For regression tests, standard errors are clustered at the month level.

Findings
This paper offers three new findings. First, HFVs are significantly associated with SEO BHARs. Second, HFVs are capable being associated with stronger statistical significance compared to NFVs. Third, not using HFVs can produce an omitted-variable bias.

Research limitations/implications
This paper does not have information on which individual hedge funds use a strategy during the month of the offering but only the proportion of hedge funds that do. A research implication is the proportion can be associated with SEO BHARs in a fashion predicted based on a long or short position.

Practical implications
Hedge funds can use trading strategies to capitalize on established patterns of price behavior.

Social implications
Hedge funds enjoy a trading advantage over smaller investors.

Originality/value
This paper is the first study to document the association between hedge fund stratagems and stock returns around a major corporate event. It shows researchers should consider institutional trading strategies when studying the market response to a major corporate event.
Non-farm proprietorship employment by US metropolitan area
Authors: Debbage Keith Graham , Bowen Shaylee 
Published: March 2018

PurposeThe entrepreneurial process is a result of an interaction between an individual entrepreneur and the surrounding entrepreneurial ecosystem. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether US metropolitan areas with disproportionately high shares of entrepreneurs are systematically linked to particular attributes of the entrepreneurial support system?Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, non-farm proprietorship (NFP) employment data from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis is used as a dependent variable proxy for entrepreneurship. NFP data are widely used in the entrepreneurship literature. Data on all independent variables were obtained from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and the Bureau of Labor Statistics by metropolitan area and subject to a stepwise linear regression analysis.FindingsThe relative share of NFP employment by metropolitan area exhibited a strong positive relationship with percentage of employment in finance, insurance and real estate, median age, percentage of Hispanic population and median home value. It is argued that the combination of significant predictors captures both out-of-necessity self-employment (e.g. low-skilled Hispanic and aging populations) and a self-employment of opportunity (e.g. access to capital).Practical implicationsPublic policies focused on nurturing entrepreneurial ecosystems must account for these divergent explanatory frameworks when attempting to encourage NFP employment.Originality/valueThe paper has an explicit spatial context that tends to be overlooked in the traditional entrepreneurship literature. The focus on out-of-necessity versus opportunity-based entrepreneurship, and how it is shaped by some key predictors at the metropolitan scale, is a relatively new angle.
Marriott Starwood merger: what did we learn from a financial standpoint?
Authors: Dogru Tarik , Erdogan Aysa , Kizildag Murat 
Published: March 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to measure and observe stock market and investor reactions (benchmark adjusted cumulative abnormal returns (CARs)) to the announcement of Marriott’s acquisition of Starwood and related merger and acquisition (M&A) news and related activities over a two-year period.Design/methodology/approachEmpirical models and quantifications were developed and tested through event study analysis to test the Marriot-Starwood M&A news and related activities and to observe the abnormal stock return patterns. Several data sources were employed including Factiva by Dow Jones,Wall Street Newspaper, CRSP/COMPUSTAT merged files, and ValueLine Research.FindingsThis paper provides financial insights and outcomes of pre-, during, and post-Marriot-Starwood merger. While equity returns to Starwood were mostly flat, Marriott experienced negative returns around the acquisition announcement and anytime a news article appears following the announcement. However, performance proxies showed that Marriott’s shareholders gained superior buy and hold returns following the acquisition in the long run.Research limitations/implicationsShort-term event study methodology might be less than perfect in examining the stock returns to acquisitions. Therefore, future research is encouraged to test and observe Marriot-Starwood merger using longer time periods with predictive analysis to check the further usability of the results.Practical implicationsThe study’s findings practically signal that overreaction in the short term is followed by a correction with an improvement in returns and sales performance of Marriot. In the majority of the acquisitions, integration process is not planned until after the acquisition announcement or the deal completion.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the existing literature by demonstrating the financial issues, challenges, and outcomes of the biggest merger in the history of the global lodging industry.
Implications of integrating e-leisure constraints and means-end hierarchies of young people’s perceptions toward video-sharing websites
Authors: Lin Chin Feng , Fu Chen Su 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is, based on leisure constraints and means-end theories, to identify the e-leisure constraints of using the video-sharing websites/apps; demonstrate how means-end theory can be used to reveal the differences between high- and low-leisure constraints in an e-leisure environment; and provide designers and marketers with valuable insights for developing e-leisure products and e-marketing strategies.

Design/methodology/approach
Both qualitative and quantitative approaches are employed to collect data. By eliminating three participants whose age range did not meet our criterion (15 to 24 years old), 57 one-on-one in-depth interviews were then content analyzed to design the survey questionnaire. A total of 514 valid samples were collected for hierarchical value map (HVM) construction.

Findings
By comparing the full HVM vs the e-leisure constraints HVM, the analytical results indicate that the importance of attributes, consequences and values for the young people using video-sharing websites/apps is quite different. “Unable to resume the video after leaving the screen,” “creating playlist,” “providing movies” and “location restrictions” are extremely important features that influence the willingness of such users with high e-leisure constraints to participate in e-leisure activities. By understanding the differences between these two HVMs, it is possible to provide marketers or designers with valuable insights for website/app design and marketing strategies.

Research limitations/implications
This study only focused on young people’s perceptions of video-sharing websites/apps, so the findings are limited to those aged between 15 and 24 years old. Since managers today are challenged to design effective strategies that can meet target users’ demands across different ages with different economic, social and sub-cultural groups, future research may consider gathering a wider age range of respondents in order to obtain more robust results.

Originality/value
This is the first paper integrating leisure constraints theory and means-end theory to understand young people’s cognitive structure of using video-sharing websites/apps, especially when they encounter e-leisure constraints.
Study of the accessibility of a sample of scientific electronic journal publishing platforms
Authors: Navarro-Molina Carolina , López-Gil Juan-Miguel , Aleixandre-Benavent Rafael , Valderrama-Zurián Juan-Carlos 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the degree of accessibility of a set of electronic journals that are hosted on widely used online scientific journal publishing platforms and whose content quality has already been certified. Two studies were performed, in which the accessibility of the selected platforms was studied in 2011 and 2016.

Design/methodology/approach
The research was performed on publishing platforms than hosted more than 20 journals about human behaviour and factors that may influence it. The evaluation was carried out following the methodology described by the Web Accessibility Initiative in their Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology.

Findings
The results show that, in spite of an improvement in accessibility, all the analysed electronic consultation platforms contain errors that could hinder their users’ access to their content. The incidence of errors found varies considerably among platforms. As the user interface of each platform analysed is common to all the online scientific electronic journals it hosts, the results obtained are valid for all other journals hosted on a given platform.

Research limitations/implications
Obtained results were valid in the date and time the websites were analysed. Changes made on the websites since then make that the results of an accessibility analysis would be different.

Practical implications
Analysed platforms would require taking steps to ensure their accessibility.

Social implications
Users with disabilities cannot use these platforms appropriately due to the accessibility problems found. The lack of web accessibility also has implications regarding visibility of published articles and common users.

Originality/value
This work offers a systematic analysis that includes manual accessibility evaluation, which has not been performed in scientific article publishing platforms to the extent presented in this paper. Articles found in the literature perform automatic analyses, which lack the depth of a manual one. Besides, when manual accessibility analysis is performed, usually the home page of a platform or journal alone is considered.
Fabrication and characterization of conductive poly(dimethylsiloxane)-carbon nanotube nanocomposites for potential microsensor applications
Authors: Akhtarian Shiva , Veladi Hadi , Mohammadi Aref Sajedeh 
Published: March 2018

PurposeThe purpose of the study is to explore the potential possibility of using the conductive and piezoresistive nanocomposites that consist of insulating poly(dimethylsiloxane), a very popular silicone polymer, and the amazing properties of carbon nanotubes (CNT) in sensing applications. This nanocomposite is prepared by an optimized process to achieve a high-quality nanocomposite with uniform properties.Design/methodology/approachThe optimized process achieved in this study to provide PDMS/CNT nanocomposite includes the appropriate use of ultrasonic bath, magnetic stirrer, molding and curing in certain circumstances that results in obtaining high-quality nanocomposite with uniform properties. Experiments to characterize the influence of some factors such as pressure, temperature and the impact of CNT’s concentration on the electrical properties of the prepared nanocomposite have been designed and carried out.FindingsThe obtained preparing method of this nanocomposite is found to have better homogeneity in comparison to other methods for CNT/PDMS nanocomposite. This nanocomposite has both desirable properties of the PDMS elastomer and the additional conductive CNT, and it can be used to create all-polymer systems. Furthermore, the conductivity values of these nanocomposites can be changed by varying some factors such as temperature and pressure, so that those can be used in temperature- and pressure-sensoring applications.Originality/valueIn the present research, a convenient, inexpensive and reproducible method for preparing CNT/PDMS nanocomposite was investigated. These nanocomposites with the unique properties of both PDMS elastomer and CNTs and also with high electrical conductivity, piezoresistive properties and temperature dependent resistivity can be used in different sensoring applications.
A review of routing protocols in internet of vehicles and their challenges
Authors: Senouci Oussama , Aliouat Zibouda , Harous Saad 
Published: March 2018

Purpose
This paper is a review of a number routing protocols in the internet of vehicles (IoV). IoV emphasizes information interaction among humans, vehicles and a roadside unit (RSU), within which routing is one of the most important steps in IoV network.

Design/methodology/approach
In this paper, the authors have summarized different research data on routing protocols in the IoV. Several routing protocols for IoV have been proposed in the literature. Their classification is made according to some criteria such as topology-based, position-based, transmission strategy and network structure. This paper focuses on the transmission strategy criteria. There exist three types of protocols that are based on this strategy: unicast protocol, broadcast protocols and multicast protocols. This later type is classified into two subclasses: geocast and cluster-based protocols. The taxonomy of the transmission strategy is presented in this study. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each type with a general comparison between the five types.

Findings
The authors can deduce that many challenges are encountered when designing routing protocols for IoV.

Originality/value
A simple and well-explained presentation of the functioning of the IoV is provided with a comparison among each categories of protocols is well presented along with the advantages and disadvantages of each type. The authors examined the main problems encountered during the design of IoV routing protocol, such as the quick change of topology, the frequent disconnection, the big volume of data to be processed and stored in the IoV, and the problem of network fragmentation. This work explores, compares existing routing protocols in IoV and provides a critical analysis. For that, the authors extract the challenges and propose future perspectives for each categories of protocols.
Efficacy of Human-Simulated Exposures of Ceftolozane-Tazobactam Alone and in Combination with Amikacin or Colistin against Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in an
In Vitro
Pharmacodynamic Model
Authors: Rico Caballero Veronica , Almarzoky Abuhussain Safa , Kuti Joseph L. , Nicolau David P. 
Published: March 2018

ABSTRACT

Combination therapy is an attractive option for the treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
infections; however, limited data are available on combinations with ceftolozane-tazobactam (C-T). The
in vitro
pharmacodynamic chemostat model was employed to compare human-simulated exposures of C-T at 3 g every 8 h alone or in combination with amikacin at 25 mg/kg of body weight daily or colistin at 360 mg daily against four MDR
P. aeruginosa
isolates. C-T alone resulted in 24-h changes in the number of CFU of −0.02 ± 0.21, −1.81 ± 0.55, −1.44 ± 0.40, and +0.62 ± 0.05 log
10
CFU/ml against isolates with C-T MICs of 4, 4, 8, and 16 μg/ml, respectively. Amikacin and colistin monotherapy displayed various results. The addition of amikacin to C-T resulted in −2.00 ± 0.23 (
P
< 0.001, additive)-, −1.50 ± 0.83 (
P
= 0.687, indifferent)-, −2.84 ± 0.08 (
P
= 0.079, indifferent)-, and −2.67 ± 0.54 (
P
< 0.001, synergy)-log
10
CFU/ml reductions, respectively. The addition of colistin to C-T resulted in −3.02 ± 0.22 (
P
< 0.001, additive)-, −3.21 ± 0.24 (
P
> 0.05, indifferent)-, −4.6 ± 0.11 (
P
= 0.002, synergy)-, and −3.01 ± 0.28 (
P
< 0.001, synergy)-log
10
CFU/ml reductions, respectively, against the MDR
P. aeruginosa
isolates with these MICs. Greater overall reductions in bacterial burden, including additive or synergistic interactions at 24 h, with C-T plus amikacin or colistin were observed against 3 out of 4 MDR
P. aeruginosa
strains tested, particularly those strains that were intermediate or resistant to C-T. Further studies assessing combination regimens containing C-T against MDR
P. aeruginosa
are warranted.
Draft Genome Sequence of a Mycobacterium heckeshornense Clinical Isolate
Authors: Ustinova V. , Smirnova T. , Varlamov D. , Monakhova Y. , Larionova E. , Andreevskaya S. , Andrievskaya I. , Chernousova L. , Ergeshov A. 
Published: March 2018

ABSTRACT

We report here the draft genome sequence of
Mycobacterium heckeshornense
, isolated from the sputum of a patient admitted to a tuberculosis hospital with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis.
Draft Genome Sequences of Two Novel Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Strains Isolated from Low-Moisture Foods with Applications in Food Safety Research
Authors: Radford Devon R. , Leon-Velarde Carlos G. , Chen Shu , Hamidi Oskouei Amir M. , Balamurugan Sampathkumar 
Published: March 2018

ABSTRACT

The genomes of two strains of
Salmonella enterica
subsp.
enterica
serovar Cubana and serovar Muenchen, isolated from dry hazelnuts and chia seeds, respectively, were sequenced using the Illumina MiSeq platform, assembled
de novo
using the overlap-layout-consensus method, and aligned to their respective most identical sequence genome scaffolds using MUMMER and BLAST searches.
Draft Genome Sequence of an NDM-1- and KPC-2-Coproducing Hypervirulent Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain Isolated from Burn Wound Infections
Authors: Wei Dan-Dan , Wan La-Gen , Liu Yang 
Published: March 2018

ABSTRACT

We report here the draft genome sequence of an NDM-1- and KPC-2-coproducing hypervirulent carbapenem-resistant
Klebsiella pneumoniae
strain, isolated from a 58-year-old male in the People’s Republic of China with a burn injury.
Draft Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas gingeri Strain LMG 5327, the Causative Agent of Ginger Blotch in Agaricus bisporus
Authors: Bahrami Tahereh , Zarvandi Samira , De Mot René , Gross Harald , Changi-Ashtiani Majid , Shahani Tina , Rokni-Zadeh Hassan 
Published: March 2018

ABSTRACT

The draft genome sequence of
Pseudomonas gingeri
LMG 5327 (NCPPB 3146), the causative agent of ginger blotch in
Agaricus bisporus
, is reported. Together with another mushroom pathogen,
Pseudomonas agarici
, it belongs to a distinct phylogenomic group.