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What does board capital really bring to the table?
Authors: Fernandez Whitney Douglas , Thams Yannick , Lehrer Mark 
Published: September 2019

Purpose
Although resource dependence theory (RDT) has substantially deepened the understanding of the function and role of boards, no systematic review of this body of work has yet been undertaken. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize prior research on the strategically relevant resources provided by board members to their organization in the light of RDT and indicate avenues for future research.

Design/methodology/approach
The review covers 79 research articles from 1978 to 2016 dealing with the resource provision of boards of directors.

Findings
Board capital research most often assumes a positive, linear relationship between board capital, resource provision and ultimately firm-level performance outcomes. This tendency tends to exclude from view the possibility of important trade-offs relevant to both theory and practice. Future research will need to incorporate more complex models that take into consideration nonlinear and curvilinear effects. The authors outline opportunities to advance board research by refining the methodological techniques employed.

Originality/value
By recommending investigation of the important trade-offs inherent in board composition, the authors seek to inspire future research that offers practical guidance for improving the effectiveness of corporate boards.
The influence of employer rankings, employment experience, and employee characteristics on employer branding as an employer of choice
Authors: Saini Gordhan K. , Jawahar I.M. 
Published: September 2019

Purpose
Drawing on the psychological contract theory and signaling theory, the purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to examine the effect of employer rankings and employment experience on employee recommendation of an employer as an employer of choice and second, to examine whether these effects vary by employee characteristics (i.e. full-time vs part-time, current vs former and newcomers vs established employees).

Design/methodology/approach
The authors used multilevel logistic regression on a sample of 39,010 Glassdoor employee reviews, drawn from the companies for which three-year employer rankings (from 2015 to 2017) were available, to achieve our research objectives.

Findings
The results show that employment experience influenced employees’ recommendation of an employer as an employer of choice. The average standardized rankings for three years (i.e. 2015–2017) was also associated with employees’ recommendation of an employer as an employer of choice. Employee characteristics such as employment type (i.e. full-time vs part-time), employment status (i.e. current vs former) and tenure significantly interacted with employment experience in affecting recommendations of a company as an employer of choice.

Originality/value
In contrast to the bulk of the research on employer branding that relied on job seekers, the authors studied factors that influence employees’ recommendation of an employer as an employer of choice, arguably the most important indicator of employer internal brand strength. The results offer fresh theoretical and practical insights in an area where research lags far behind practice.
A reliable model for the compensation loop of multistage amplifiers at high frequency
Authors: Aminzadeh Hamed 
Published: September 2019

Purpose
Multistage amplifiers require a reliable frequency compensation solution to remain stable in a closed-loop configuration. A frequency compensation scheme creates an inner negative feedback loop amongst different amplifying stages and shapes the frequency response such that an unconditionally stable single-pole amplifier results for closed-loop operation. The frequency compensation loop is thus responsible for the placement of the poles and zeros and the final stability of multistage amplifiers. An amplifier incorporating a sophisticated frequency compensation network cannot be, however, analyzed in the presence of a complex ac feedback loop. The purpose of this study is to provide a reliable model for the compensation loop of multistage amplifiers at the higher frequencies.

Design/methodology/approach
In this paper, the major part of the amplifier, including a two-port network comprising the compensation network, is characterized using a reliable feedback model.

Findings
The model integrates all the frequency-dependent components of the frequency compensation network, and it can evaluate the nondominant real or complex poles of an amplifier.

Originality/value
The reliability of the proposed model is verified through analysis of the frequency response of the amplifiers and by comparing the analytic results with the simulation results in standard CMOS process.
Favelas and townships: place making, everyday racialization, and the postracial
Authors: Rocha Franco Sergio Henrique 
Published: September 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to indicate how place making and belonging are still largely governed by race in Brazil and South Africa. As such, it engages with debates about the postracial informed by the study of two urban settings that are discernible by their relationship with race issues: Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships.

Design/methodology/approach
The study provides a brief account of post-racial discourses in each country: Brazilian racial democracy and South Africa’s self-imagination as rainbow nation. Subsequently, these two major national self-understandings are probed using data gathered in the fieldwork (participant observation and in-depth interviews) carried out in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and Johannesburg’s townships between 2013 and 2015.

Findings
The main accomplishment of the study is to approach debates about senses of place, understood here as place making and belonging, from the everyday experiences of favela and township inhabitants. The study suggests discrepancies between the racialized senses of place in Brazilian and South African urban milieus and any sort of post-racial rhetoric. Despite the existence of norms and institutions promoting equal rights of citizenship in Brazil and South Africa, place making is still largely encumbered by the legacy of racial domination in both countries.

Originality/value
By adding new evidence to the research on everyday racism, the study explores the mutual influences between senses of place and the persistent patterns of racial segregation in two urban contexts of the global South. Beyond this, it offers a comparative approach that connects micro-level social dynamics and macro-level discourses.
The impact of religious salience on purchase intentions: evidence from the UAE
Authors: Nickerson Catherine , Menon Nandialath Anup 
Published: September 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of religious salience on consumer purchase intentions in the multicultural environment of the UAE, more specifically on the willingness of a Muslim consumer to purchase a product labelled or packaged to include an Islamic appeal, i.e. an appeal with a heightened religious salience. While some attempts have been made in the literature to examine the impact of religious salience on purchase intentions, research amongst Muslim consumers remains under-explored.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors used a randomized survey experiment administered to 148 Emirati educated female nationals. The survey consisted of pairs of advertisements, where each advertisement promoted the same product and the same brand, varying on whether they included an Islamic appeal or not in the labelling, packaging or slogan. The respondents were asked about their attitude to the different versions of the advertisements, as well as their willingness to purchase the product. The authors used causal mediation analysis to explore the mechanisms through which causal effects on purchase intentions are determined.

Findings
This study shows that including an Islamic appeal, and therefore increasing the religious salience in product promotion, leads to higher purchase intentions amongst Muslim consumers. The authors also identified a number of additional moderating factors that influenced the consumer’s purchase intentions, such as product and/or brand awareness and the type of product being promoted, as well as the nature of the artefact that was included in the ad as the Islamic appeal. Finally, the causal mediation analysis suggests that Islamic appeals increases product attractiveness, which in turn leads to higher purchase intentions.

Originality/value
This paper investigates the effect of religious salience on consumer behaviour and their purchase intentions. This paper makes an empirical contribution to understanding consumer behaviour with particular relevance to retail hubs with a majority Muslim population.
Innovation climate mediating complexity leadership and ambidexterity
Authors: Diesel Rick , Scheepers Caren Brenda 
Published: September 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between complexity leadership and contextual ambidexterity as well as the mediating effect of organisational innovation climate in this link. This study is an answer to a call on which leadership approach and mediating factors can meet today’s seemingly contradictory challenges of efficiently managing business demands, while simultaneously searching for new opportunities.Design/methodology/approachThe researchers analysed 1,204 usable survey responses from employees of South African organisations. Analysis was in the form of structural equation modelling. Mediation analysis was carried out on estimates of the indirect effect.FindingsResults show that complexity leadership was a strong predictor of innovation climate; in turn, innovation climate positively impacts exploratory innovation by 64 per cent; complexity leadership and innovation climate positively affect exploitation by 57 per cent. The innovation climate plays a total mediator role between complexity leadership and exploratory innovation and a partial effect on exploitation.Practical implicationsThis study gives human resource management (HRM) insight into strategically directing leadership recruitment and development towards creating an organisational climate to enhance ambidexterity. HRM must conduct regular climate surveys to ascertain whether current leadership is creating an environment that enables exploratory and exploitative innovation.Originality/valueThe authors’ contribution includes a theoretical contribution to the emerging field of complexity leadership by offering conceptual as well as empirical evidence of its role in ambidexterity. This study extends previous research in highlighting organisational climate’s mediating role of being open to new ideas to enable exploratory innovation.
Testing customer’s knowledge on customer intimacy and its impact on repurchase intention
Authors: Nora Liza 
Published: September 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is testing customer’s knowledge on customer intimacy and its impact on repurchase intention, specifically to Bank Muamalat’s customers in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Design/methodology/approach
This research was conducted at sharia bank with research subject that is a customer of Bank Muamalat reasons to choose Bank Muamalat as a representative of other sharia banks as a place of research because it is the first sharia bank in Indonesia and more experienced in implementing sharia practices. The branch offices approved as research sites are only seven branch offices (Panglima Polim, Slipi, Tanah Abang, Kemayoran, Mangga Dua, Buaran and Kalimalang) in five areas of DKI Jakarta (Central Jakarta, West Jakarta, South Jakarta, East Jakarta and North Jakarta). Respondents at the seven branch offices are considered to represent customers of Bank Muamalat in the area of Jakarta. Data were collected from August to December 2017.

Findings
High customer knowledge is able to encourage customer intimacy, and high customer intimacy is also able to encourage repurchase intention. On the other hand, it was found that customer knowledge was not directly able to increase the intention of repeat purchase. However, from the mediation test (indirect effect) is seen with high customer knowledge, supported by the high customer intimacy, it can indirectly increase the high repurchasing intention.

Originality/value
Originality is seen from testing the mediation effect of customer intimacy on the influence of customer knowledge on purchase intentions. Furthermore, inconsistencies put the customer’s familiarity with familiarity, and familiarity with the intention of repeat purchase, are re-examined in the context of sharia banks. It is assumed the test results will be different if done in different countries and institutions.
Dealing with growing forest insect pests: The role of top‐down regulation
Authors: Martínez‐Abraín Alejandro , Jiménez Juan 
Published: September 2019

Abstract

Forest insect pests are becoming increasingly common in Europe. A recent paper published in this journal dealt with a particular case of pest spreading in Portuguese coniferous forests.

The authors discussed the effect that mass trapping and clear‐cut belts had on slowing down the invasion and suggested that likely causes of pest spreading are stress due to global warming and the introduction of exotic species. Inspired by that paper, we defend here the point that forest communities are not only regulated by bottom‐up mechanisms, such as water stress, but also by top‐down mechanisms, such as predation.

We provide information from European metadata showing that forest biomass grew by 38% (1991–2015) whereas forest insectivorous passerine trends were stable (1980–2016).

Synthesis and applications. We suggest that rebounding European forests are too young to support large communities of insectivorous birds and that an effective way to solve pest problems could be to promote the use of nest boxes for them (and for other insect predators), as it was done in the past in large reforestations implemented in Spain. Additionally, the presence of large mammalian herbivores is needed to reduce the density of trees in forests. Priority should be given to this ecological management in comparison with massive trapping and clear‐cut belt construction or at least it should be used together with those engineering practices.
Management measures to control pine wood nematode spread in Europe
Authors: de la Fuente Begoña , Beck Pieter S. A. 
Published: September 2019

Abstract

Invasive pests, such as the pine wood nematode (PWN), threaten European forests. In De la Fuente, Saura, and Beck, Journal of Applied Ecology, 2018, 55, 2374, we modelled the natural spread of the PWN by the longhorn beetle (Monochamus galloprovincialis) on the Iberian Peninsula. We used the model to evaluate the effectiveness of several management measures to control the PWN spread: early detection and removal of infected trees, beetle mass trapping and clear‐cut belts. We simulated these particular measures because they have been or are being applied in PWN containment efforts on the Iberian Peninsula.

Martínez‐Abraín and Jiménez, Journal of Applied Ecology, 2019, suggested that two other management measures would be appropriate to halt the PWN expansion: installing nest boxes for insectivorous birds in order to increase predation on vector beetles and increasing the populations of large mammalian herbivores to lower forest tree density.

The results of De la Fuente, Saura, and Beck, Journal of Applied Ecology, 2018, 55, 2374 showed that a combination of measures is more likely to control PWN spread than any single one in isolation, indicating that halting this, and many other invasive species, requires a comprehensive approach.

Here, we review current evidence on the efficacy of the measures proposed by Martínez‐Abraín and Jiménez, Journal of Applied Ecology, 2019, as PWN management tools. This evidence suggests that, by themselves, these measures are unlikely to significantly slow down, let alone halt, the PWN spread on the Iberian Peninsula. Furthermore, we indicate how the model presented in De la Fuente, Saura, and Beck, Journal of Applied Ecology, 2018, 55, 2374 lends itself to assessing this quantitatively in future research.

Synthesis and applications. Lost biotic interactions in ecosystems can make them more vulnerable to invasions, and restoring interactions can in turn increase resilience. Ecosystem restoration can thus, in theory, also benefit invasive species management. Current evidence indicates however that managing natural species interactions, such as beetle predation from insectivorous birds or herbivory by large mammals, would need to be applied in combination with other measures if they are to halt or significantly slow down the expansion of the PWN in Europe.
Can germination explain the distribution of tree species in a savanna wetland?
Authors: Oliveira Patricia C. , Parolin Pia , Borghetti Fabian 
Published: September 2019

AbstractThe relationship between seed germination and ecological niche is determined by matching germination characteristics with environmental features. In this study, we selected tree species occurring in the largest savanna wetland in South America – the Pantanal. Very few species are endemic or exclusively found in savanna wetlands, and the majority of tree species occurring in the Pantanal are also found in the neighbouring Brazilian Cerrado, a drier vegetation type that does not flood. We investigated the relationship between germination characteristics and occurrence of savanna trees in wetlands testing the hypothesis that such seeds are tolerant to flooding. We also addressed the question of whether seed tolerance to flood, assessed by survival analysis, explains tree distribution along a gradient of flooding intensity. In this flooding gradient, widely distributed species are those that occur in areas subjected to low as well as to high flooding intensity whereas restricted distributed species are those that occur only in areas subjected to a low level of flood. Seeds from tree species occurring in areas subjected to different flooding intensities were collected. Seed tolerance and germination during and after both one and two months of simulated flood were evaluated. Our results show that seeds of most of the studied savanna species tolerated submergence, which helps to explain their occurrence and wide distribution in wetlands. Nevertheless, germination behaviour checked by survival functions (i.e. how germination is distributed over time) partially explained tree species distribution along a flooding gradient. We conclude that seed tolerance to flooding is one of the components of the regeneration niche that determines tree occurrence and distribution at the regional scale, from savanna to wetland, but not at a local scale along a flooding gradient.
Exploring the link between tumour metabolism and succinate dehydrogenase deficiency: A 18F‐FDOPA PET/CT study in head and neck paragangliomas
Authors: Reichert Thibaut , Fakhry Nicolas , Lavieille Jean‐Pierre , Amodru Vincent , Sebag Frédéric , Romanet Pauline , Loundou Anderson , Castinetti Frédéric , Pacak Karel , Montava Marion , Taïeb David 
Published: September 2019

AbstractObjectivesNuclear imaging findings by virtue of phenotyping disease heavily depend on genetic background, metabolites, cell membrane specific targets and signalling pathways. PPGL related to succinate dehydrogenase subunits mutations (SDHx mutations) are less differentiated than other subgroups and therefore may lack to concentrate 18F‐FDOPA, a precursor of catecholamines biosynthesis. However, this 18F‐FDOPA negative phenotype has been reported mostly in SDHx‐PPGL of sympathetic origin, suggesting that both genotype status and location (from sympathetic vs parasympathetic paraganglia; adrenal vs extra‐adrenal) could influence 18F‐FDOPA uptake. The aim of this study was to test if SDHx drives 18F‐FDOPA uptake in presence of normal epinephrine/norepinephrine concentrations.DesignRetrospective studyPatientsA cohort of 86 head and neck PPGL patients (including three metastatic) with normal metanephrines underwent 18F‐FDOPA PET/CT. The relationships between 18F‐FDOPA uptake and tumour genotype were evaluated.ResultsIn nonmetastatic HNPGL (50 non‐SDHx/33 SDHx), no significant difference was observed between these two groups for SUVmax (P = .256), SUVmean (P = .188), MTV 42% (P = .596) and total lesion uptake (P = .144). Metastatic HNPGL also had high elevated uptake values.ConclusionsOur results suggest that SDH deficiency or metastatic behaviour have no influence on 18F‐FDOPA uptake in HNPGL probably due to their very‐well differentiation status, even at metastatic stage. The potential prognosticator value of 18F‐FDOPA uptake would need to be further explored in the setting of metastatic PPGL of sympathetic origin.
Feasibility of rapid on‐site cytological evaluation of lung cancer by a trained pulmonologist during bronchoscopy examination
Authors: Umeda Yasuaki , Otsuka Mitsuo , Nishikiori Hirotaka , Ikeda Kimiyuki , Mori Yuki , Kobayashi Tomofumi , Asai Yuichiro , Takahashi Yohei , Sudo Yuta , Kodama Kentaro , Yamada Gen , Chiba Hirofumi , Takahashi Hiroki 
Published: September 2019

AbstractObjectiveRapid on‐site cytological evaluation (ROSE) in bronchoscopy is a useful ancillary technique. ROSE is usually performed by a cytopathologist or cytotechnologist. However, because of staff shortages and reduced availability, ROSE cannot be performed in every hospital. We aimed to evaluate the accuracy of ROSE when performed by a trained pulmonologist, comparing the diagnosis results with the final diagnosis of cytopathologists.MethodsWe performed a retrospective cohort study on 125 patients who underwent bronchoscopy with endobronchial ultrasound‐guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS‐TBNA) and endobronchial ultrasonography with a guide sheath (EBUS‐GS) for peripheral pulmonary lesions by conventional bronchoscopy at Sapporo Medical University Hospital between March 2012 and September 2018. ROSE was performed by a pulmonologist who was trained by a cytotechnologist for a total of 1 month. DiffQuik® staining for ROSE was used to prepare cytology slides. The results of ROSE were compared with the final diagnosis obtained using Papanicolaou staining by cytopathologists.ResultsIn all procedures, the sensitivity, specificity and diagnostic accuracy of ROSE were 88.5%, 83.0% and 86.4%, respectively. There was no significant difference in the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value or accuracy between EBUS‐TBNA and EBUS‐GS.ConclusionsROSE of lung cancer by a trained pulmonologist can be highly accurate and deemed as feasible and useful for not only EBUS‐TBNA but also EBUS‐GS.