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Motivations and cognitive models associated with decentralized seed multiplication
Authors: Juma Okello Julius , Jogo Wellington , Kwikiriza Norman , Muoki Penina 
Published: September 2018

PurposeThe sustainability of decentralized seed producers established to enhance farmers’ access to seed of newly introduced biofortified crops is a major challenge. Understanding what motivates the multipliers of clonally propagated crops to engage in seed multiplication is critical for enhancing access to improved seed varieties. The purpose of this paper is to examine the structure and content of mental models associated with the decision to engage in biofortified sweetpotato vine multiplication as a business.Design/methodology/approachThe study focused on decentralized vine multipliers from Kenya and Ethiopia. These were stratified by orientation toward nutrition or commercial value addition. A total of 45 multipliers were interviewed. Means-end chain (MEC) analysis combined with laddering technique was used to generate mental constructs multipliers relate with the decision to engage in biofortified sweetpotato vine multiplication.FindingsThe structure and content of mental models of biofortified sweetpotato vine multipliers supporting nutrition-focused interventions and those supporting commercial value-addition sweetpotato interventions are different. Nutrition-focused multipliers are driven by the benefits of good health, while commercial value-addition interventions are driven by the benefit of making “more money.” The content and structure of mental models are also country/region specific.Research limitations/implicationsThis study has demonstrated that decision to engage in community seed production business is driven not only by the desire to make profits but, equally importantly, by personal and societal (social) factors. It has also discussed the limitations of current analysis and future research areas.Originality/valueThis study is the first to apply MES analysis to assess how decision to invest in seed multiplication business is affected farmers’ personal values and other psychosocial factors.
Determinants of job satisfaction among Malaysian youth working in the oil palm plantation sector
Authors: Kamaruddin Roslina , Abdullah Norehan , Ayob Mohammad Amizi 
Published: September 2018

Purpose
Oil palm is a labor-intensive crop where the labor issue is one of the most intransigent problems facing the industry. The negative perception toward this sector associated with the unattractive working environment which commonly refers to dark, dirty and dangerous has distress local youth to stay away from this occupation. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to explore the level of job satisfaction among oil palm plantation workers in Malaysia and analyze the factors that contribute to their satisfaction level.

Design/methodology/approach
The survey was conducted in 2014 through interviews from the selected samples of oil palm plantation workers who aged ranging from 16 to 40 years old, which was considered as youth category and staying within the location 5 km radius within the plantation area. The structural equation modeling is used to analyze the factors affecting job satisfaction among workers in the plantation sector.

Findings
The study found that the government and employer policies associated with plantation worker and economic profitability offered in this sector were the most significant factors that positively contribute to the joy of working among them. On the other hand, the negative relationship between working environment and perception of social job status with job satisfaction proven that these two factors were repulsion factors.

Research limitations/implications
Currently, with the local youth negative perception on the agriculture sector and Indonesia’s economy booming and wages on the rise, Malaysia is struggling to attract new expatriate workers and retain those already active in the sector. Oil palm plantation companies have to counter this by enhancing worker’s welfare to ensure their job satisfaction in plantation environment. This study is to convince the organization that worker’s job satisfaction is a crucial factor to enhance their performance. With the strategy recommended by this study, employees will be getting higher level of job satisfaction, thus increasing their performance and enjoying working in the plantation sector.

Originality/value
To the best of the author’s knowledge, there are yet to be studies that look at the agricultural employees’ job satisfaction particularly in the plantation sector. Most of the previous studies in the field of plantation sector highlight on the labor productivity, economic performance of palm oil plantation sector and environmental impact of oil palm plantation. Thus, this study provides a better understanding of the factors that contribute to job satisfaction among plantation workers.
The future of the Internet of Things: toward heterarchical ecosystems and service business models
Authors: Leminen Seppo , Rajahonka Mervi , Westerlund Mika , Wendelin Robert 
Published: September 2018

PurposeThis study aims to understand their emergence and types of business models in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems.Design/methodology/approachThe paper builds upon a systematic literature review of IoT ecosystems and business models to construct a conceptual framework on IoT business models, and uses qualitative research methods to analyze seven industry cases.FindingsThe study identifies four types of IoT business models: value chain efficiency, industry collaboration, horizontal market and platform. Moreover, it discusses three evolutionary paths of new business model emergence: opening up the ecosystem for industry collaboration, replicating the solution in multiple services and return to closed ecosystem as technology matures.Research limitations/implicationsIdentifying business models in rapidly evolving fields such as the IoT based on a small number of case studies may result in biased findings compared to large-scale surveys and globally distributed samples. However, it provides more thorough interpretations.Practical implicationsThe study provides a framework for analyzing the types and emergence of IoT business models, and forwards the concept of “value design” as an ecosystem business model.Originality/valueThis paper identifies four archetypical IoT business models based on a novel framework that is independent of any specific industry, and argues that IoT business models follow an evolutionary path from closed to open, and reversely to closed ecosystems, and the value created in the networks of organizations and things will be shareable value rather than exchange value.
Discursive practice – lean thinking, nurses’ responsibilities and the cost to care
Authors: Harvey Clare Lynette , Baret Christophe , Rochefort Christian M. , Meyer Alannah , Ausserhofer Dietmar , Ciutene Ruta , Schubert Maria 
Published: September 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the literature regarding work intensification that is being experienced by nurses, to examine the effects this is having on their capacity to complete care. The authors contend that nurses’ inability to provide all the care patients require, has negative implications on their professional responsibility.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors used institutional ethnography to review the discourse in the literature. This approach supports inquiry through the review of text in order to uncover activities that remain institutionally accepted but unquestioned and hidden.

Findings
What the authors found was that the quality and risk management forms an important part of lean thinking, with the organisational culture influencing outcomes; however, the professional cost to nurses has not been fully explored.

Research limitations/implications
The text uncovered inconsistency between what organisations accepted as successful cost savings, and what nurses were experiencing in their attempts to achieve the care in the face of reduced time and human resources. Nurses’ attempts at completing care were done at the risk of their own professional accountability.

Practical implications
Nurses are working in lean and stressful environments and are struggling to complete care within reduced resource allocations. This leads to care rationing, which negatively impacts on nurses’ professional practice, and quality of care provision.

Originality/value
This approach is a departure from the standard qualitative review because the focus is on the textual relationships between what is being advocated by organisations directing cost reduction and what is actioned by the nurses working at the coalface. The discordant standpoints between these two juxtapositions are identified.
Teaching students out of harm’s way
Authors: Moon Esther Charlotte 
Published: September 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how changes in K-12 educational delivery methods in the USA impacts students as 1:1 device programs become a required tool for learning. This change produces gaps in knowledge and understanding of the digital environment and exposes minors to risk. Mandatory technology integration by school districts places the ethical responsibility on school districts to prepare students to use the digital environment to mitigate risk.

Design/methodology/approach
The author’s literature review focused on the impact of personal device integration in education on students. The author surveyed teachers in the district on what they perceived as risk to students accessing the digital environment and what they believe creates value in digital citizenship instructional content. The author also gathered information while serving on the school district technology steering committee and digital citizenship working group.

Findings
Mandatory 1:1 device programs used for learning provide unlimited access to the digital environment. This technology integration creates digital knowledge gaps in understanding among students and exposes them to risk or dangers such as loss of privacy, psychological harms and engaging in or being a victim of illegal online activities. School districts are responsible for providing a remedy to close this gap and mitigate risk by developing learning content resources for teachers.

Social implications
As 1:1 device programs continue to grow in school districts in the USA, it is essential for students to learn to apply protocols and understand norms of the digital world. Providing a digital citizenship curriculum in a format such as a Google Site will offer educators access to instructional content that teaches students to apply protocols, understand norms of the internet and social media and foster critical thinking to analyze power structures, biases and recognize manipulation online. Student must learn how to apply rules that challenge assumptions behind the digital content they see, and they must be able to identify and resolve digital practices and behaviors that are problematic, so they are prepared to participate in a digital society.

Originality/value
This perspective may be relevant to school districts contemplating personal device integration, providing insight into how 1:1 device use impacts students and develops an ethical position for creating digital citizenship resources for teachers.
Back to the future: historical nostalgia and the potentials for Islamic marketing research
Authors: El-Bassiouny Noha M. , Zahran Nada 
Published: September 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to draw Islamic marketing researchers’ attention to the potentials that historical nostalgia has for Islamic marketing research.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is conceptual in its approach, drawing on extensive literature review on the origins of nostalgia in general and historical nostalgia in specific. The paper also draws on the Holy Qur’an and Islamic marketing research.FindingsThe paper shows that the Islamic philosophy for life and death establishes continuity between the history of the believers in the mundane life and their accountability and, hence, prosperity in the transcendent afterlife (the hereafter). This has connotations for Islamic marketing research. Future research directions are, therefore, stipulated.Research limitations/implicationsThe research has implications for Islamic marketing research that draws on Islamic history and civilization.Practical implicationsThe research has practical implications toward Islamic marketing researchers who draw on Islamic history, culture and civilization in designing marketing appeals.Originality/valueThe paper is the first to draw attention to the potential overlap between historical nostalgia, and therefore nostalgia proneness and Islamic marketing research domains.
Articles 51 and 54 of the Jordanian Arbitration Act
Authors: Alawamleh Kamal Jamal , Aldabbas Ali Mohamed , Qouteshat Omar Husain 
Published: September 2018

Purpose
On two different occasions, the Jordanian Constitutional Court has ruled that Articles 51 and 54 of the Jordanian Arbitration Act no. 31 of the year 2001 are unconstitutional and null. In view of this, this paper aims to attempt to give the reader a brief preview of the Jordanian Arbitration Act, the Jordanian Constitution and the Jordanian Constitutional Court. It also highlights and critically analyzes the Jordanian Constitutional Court two decisions pertaining to the Arbitration Act and its special implications in this regard from the perspective of arbitration law and the distinct characteristics embedded in it.

Design/methodology/approach
To examine how effective is the approach followed by the Constitutional Court in ruling the unconstitutionality of the aforementioned Articles, this work makes use of the primary and secondary data available in this regard as the main method to complete such an examination. By critically analyzing and comparing the various data contained in these sources, this work identifies the problems associated with such decisions.

Findings
This work submits that while the Constitutional Court has rested its rulings largely on constitutional principles, concerns arising from the Arbitration Act perspective have not been dealt with adequately by the Court. Furthermore, it argues that while the principles of the constitution shall be respected, the distinct characteristics of the arbitration law warrant a more careful approach than actually followed by the Court.

Originality/value
Taking into consideration the importance of arbitration as an alternative mean for dispute resolution, the Jordanian legislator has addressed the application of arbitration as early as the year 1953. However, while the Constitutional Court’s questionable approach to the aforementioned articles would necessarily hinder the use of arbitration, no comprehensive scholarly work has either examined such approach or addressed its implications. Accordingly, this work derives its originality and value from being the first of its kind to examine and address such a matter.
Exploring employee well-being as underlying mechanism in organizational health: Indian R&D
Authors: Singh Anupama , Jha Sumi 
Published: September 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive organizational health (OH) framework for business organizations. The framework will present the antecedent-OH relationship with employee well-being (EWB) as a mediator.Design/methodology/approachThe present study conducted a cross-sectional study using case study approach in which concurrent triangulation design was followed, and the collection of qualitative as well as quantitative data was conducted concurrently. A total of 441 structured survey questionnaires and 21 semi-structured in-depth interviews were collected from 10 laboratories of an Indian R&D organization.FindingsThe findings showed that EWB acts as a mediator in an antecedent-OH relationship supporting the full mediation model.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings are limited to only R&D organizations. This framework can help organizations in establishing a proper communication channel and reducing occupational stress among employees by empowering the employees. Empowerment practices foster conditions which help the employee feel good about their job which shall help in enhancing EWB thereby, promoting culture for OH.Originality/valueIt is an attempt to conceptualize the concept of OH in business sector similarly as in the case of OH in the education sector.
How to create a resilient workforce
Authors: Harrington Christine 
Published: September 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to help HR professionals to create a resilience workforce and increase productivity.

Design/methodology/approach
Viewpoint article.

Findings
While becoming more resilient is a personal journey and the individual is responsible for focussing on their thoughts and feelings and examining their actions and responses during stressful periods, employers and HR professionals can also support the individual at an organisational level to help them become happier and perform better.

Originality/value
With over 40 years’ experience, Cardinal Clinic is dedicated to helping people struggling with mental health issues by providing treatment plans tailored to each patient’s needs to help them on their road to recovery. Cardinal Corporate was launched to help businesses support staff members dealing with mental health issues and implement strategies to ensure the overall well-being of their teams.
Metagenomic analyses highlight the symbiotic association between the glacier stonefly Andiperla willinki and its bacterial gut community
Authors: Murakami Takumi , Segawa Takahiro , Takeuchi Nozomu , Barcaza Sepúlveda Gonzalo , Labarca Pedro , Kohshima Shiro , Hongoh Yuichi 
Published: September 2018

SummaryThe glacier stonefly Andiperla willinki is the largest metazoan inhabiting the Patagonian glaciers. In this study, we analysed the gut microbiome of the aquatic nymphs by 16S rRNA gene amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. The bacterial gut community was consistently dominated by taxa typical of animal digestive tracts, such as Dysgonomonadaceae and Lachnospiraceae, as well as those generally indigenous to glacier environments, such as Polaromonas. Interestingly, the dominant Polaromonas phylotypes detected in the stonefly gut were almost never detected in the glacier surface habitat. Fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis revealed that the bacterial lineages typical of animal guts colonized the gut wall in a co‐aggregated form, while Polaromonas cells were not included in the aggregates. Draft genomes of several dominant bacterial lineages were reconstructed from metagenomic datasets and indicated that the predominant Dysgonomonadaceae bacterium is capable of degrading various polysaccharides derived from host‐ingested food, such as algae, and that other dominant bacterial lineages ferment saccharides liberated by the polysaccharide degradation. Our results suggest that the gut bacteria–host association in the glacier stonefly contributes to host nutrition as well as material cycles in the glacier environment.
Attributable Cost of Dementia: Demonstrating Pitfalls of Ignoring Multiple Health Care System Utilization
Authors: Lei Lianlian , Cooley Susan G. , Phibbs Ciaran S. , Kinosian Bruce , Allman Richard M. , Porsteinsson Anton P. , Intrator Orna 
Published: September 2018

ObjectivesTo determine dementia prevalence and costs attributable to dementia using Veterans Health Administration (VHA) data with and without Medicare data.Data SourcesVHA inpatient, outpatient, purchased care and other data and Medicare enrollment, claims, and assessments in fiscal year (FY) 2013.Study DesignAnalyses were conducted with VHA data alone and with combined VHA and Medicare data. Dementia was identified from a VHA sanctioned list of ICD‐9 diagnoses. Attributable cost of dementia was estimated using recycled predictions.Data CollectionVeterans age 65 and older who used VHA and were enrolled in Traditional Medicare in FY 2013 (1.9 million).Principal FindingsVHA records indicated the prevalence of dementia in FY 2013 was 4.8 percent while combined VHA and Medicare data indicated the prevalence was 7.4 percent. Attributable cost of dementia to VHA was, on average, $10,950 per veteran per year (pvpy) using VHA alone and $6,662 pvpy using combined VHA and Medicare data. Combined VHA and Medicare attributable cost of dementia was $11,285 pvpy. Utilization attributed to dementia using VHA data alone was lower for long‐term institutionalization and higher for supportive care services than indicated in combined VHA and Medicare data.ConclusionsBetter planning for clinical and cost‐efficient care requires VHA and Medicare to share data for veterans with dementia and likely more generally.
Analysis of microbial communities in natural halite springs reveals a domain‐dependent relationship of species diversity to osmotic stress
Authors: Ruhl Ilona A. , Grasby Stephen E. , Haupt Evan S. , Dunfield Peter F. 
Published: September 2018

SummaryMicrobial species diversity may peak at certain optimal environmental conditions and decrease toward more extreme conditions. Indeed, bell‐shaped relationships of species diversity against pH and temperature have been demonstrated, but diversity patterns across other environmental conditions are less well reported. In this study, we investigated the impact of salinity on the diversity of microorganisms from all three domains in a large set of natural springs with salinities ranging from freshwater to halite saturated. Habitat salinity was found to be linearly and inversely related to diversity of all three domains. The relationship was strongest in the bacteria, where salinity explained up to 44% of the variation in different diversity metrics (OTUs, Shannon index, and Phylogenetic Diversity). However, the relationship was weaker for Eukarya and Archaea. The known salt‐in strategist Archaea of the Halobacteriaceae even showed the opposite trend, with increasing diversity at higher salinity. We propose that high energetic requirements constrain species diversity at high salinity but that the diversity of taxa with energetically less expensive osmotolerance strategies is less affected. Declining diversity with increasing osmotic stress may be a general rule for microbes as well as plants and animals, but the strength of this relationship varies greatly across microbial taxa.