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Implications of transforming climate change risks into security risks
Authors: Chmutina Ksenia , Fussey Peter , Dainty Andrew , Bosher Lee 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
A number of severe weather events have influenced a shift in UK policy concerning how climate-induced hazards are managed. Whist this shift has encouraged improvements in emergency management and preparedness, the risk of climate change is increasingly becoming securitised within policy discourses, and enmeshed with broader agendas traditionally associated with human-induced threats. Climate change is seen as a security risk because it can impede development of a nation. The purpose of this paper is to explore the evolution of the securitisation of climate change, and interrogates how such framings influence a range of conceptual and policy focused approaches towards both security and climate change.

Design/methodology/approach
Drawing upon the UK context, the paper uses a novel methodological approach combining critical discourse analysis and focus groups with security experts and policymakers.

Findings
The resulting policy landscape appears inexorably skewed towards short-term decision cycles that do little to mitigate longer-term threats to the nation’s assets. Whilst a prominent political action on a global level is required in order to mitigate the root causes (i.e. GHG emissions), national level efforts focus on adaptation (preparedness to the impacts of climate-induced hazards), and are forming part of the security agenda.

Originality/value
These issues are not restricted to the UK: understanding the role of security and its relationship to climate change becomes more pressing and urgent, as it informs the consequences of securitising climate change risks for development-disaster risk system.
Performance and environmental sustainability orientations in the informal economy of a least developed country
Authors: Eijdenberg Emiel L. , Sabokwigina Deo , Masurel Enno 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which performance and environmental sustainability orientations (ESOs) are developed, as well as their association, in a typical impoverished community: the informal economy of an African least developed country (LDC).

Design/methodology/approach
Based on a literature review and a pre-study on the spot, a questionnaire was developed before being completed by 140 informal food vendors – that is, “subsistence entrepreneurs” – in Tanzania. t-Tests, correlation analyses and regression analyses were carried out to approach the formulated hypotheses.

Findings
The results showed that a significant distinction can be made between basic and advanced performance. In addition, the respondents showed significantly higher levels of awareness of ESO practices that are intangible and are not fully within their control than the so-called personal tangible ESO practices. However, performance was minimally affected by ESOs.

Originality/value
While firm performance and environmental sustainability have been shortlisted on agendas outside academia (e.g. international development organisations) as a means to develop LDCs, the scientific community is lagging behind with regard to these two. This paper is one step forward in unravelling how performance and ESOs occur in LDCs.
Pattern versus level: a new look at the personality-entrepreneurship relationship
Authors: Zhou Wencang , Yang Xi , Li Yuanqing , Zhang Yanli 
Published: August 2018

PurposeBy using a nontraditional configuration approach, the purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of personality on entrepreneurial intention and success. Previous research has focused on why individuals become entrepreneurs and why some are more successful than others. However, most studies have investigated only single factors or primary personality traits. The current study investigates not only the strength of the personality-entrepreneurship link, but also clarifies the nature of the relationship.Design/methodology/approachUsing two independent samples and an innovative regression-based pattern recognition procedure, the study investigates whether the nature of the personality-entrepreneurship relationship is driven by individuals’ absolute trait levels or by their idiosyncratic configuration of personality traits. The non-entrepreneur sample consisted of 225 business students in Eastern China, specializing in a variety of business subjects. The entrepreneur sample consisted of 120 business owners in a university entrepreneurial park in Eastern China.FindingsResults support hypotheses that the two different types of entrepreneurship criteria are predicted by different personality profile effects. Entrepreneurial intentions are driven by individuals’ personality patterns (peaks and valleys in profiles). In contrast, entrepreneurial success is driven by personality levels (individuals’ relative standing on personality traits compared to other entrepreneurs).Research limitations/implicationsThe findings enrich the understanding of entrepreneurial personality. The more significant contribution of the present study was that it differentiated between personality profile pattern and level effects and investigated whether the nature of the personality-entrepreneurship relationship is driven by individuals’ absolute trait levels (i.e. how high or low they score compared to others), or by their idiosyncratic configuration of personality traits (i.e. their strengths and weaknesses).Practical implicationsThe findings of this study may help entrepreneurs to figure out how to be successful running their own businesses, if they are not graced with a personality pattern that is not favorable to entrepreneurship. In addition, these findings can help entrepreneurship educators to understand how best to train entrepreneurs.Originality/valueThe adoption of both person-centered approach and process perspective of entrepreneurship allowed this study to make major contributions to entrepreneurial personality research.
Institutional influence and the role of family in poor women’s micropreneurship
Authors: Xiong Lin , Ukanwa Irene , Anderson Alistair R. 
Published: August 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of how the institutions of family and culture play out in shaping family business practices. This study focusses on family business led by poor entrepreneurial women in a context of extreme poverty.Design/methodology/approachThe methods included participant observation, focus groups and interviews in two poor villages in South-East Nigeria. Thematic analysis was used to develop insight about how the institutions of family and culture shape family business practices.FindingsThe analysis demonstrated that the family, with associated responsibilities and norms, is a powerful institution that determines women’s role and business behaviours. Poor entrepreneurial women depend on the family to run their business, but also use the business to sustain the family. They make use of their limited resources (e.g. time, money, skills) to meet families’ basic needs and pay for necessities such as children’s education. These are family priorities, rather than maximising profits.Research limitations/implicationsThe study was limited to rural Africa, in particular to a small sample of rural women entrepreneurs in South-East Nigeria, and as such, the findings are not necessarily generalisable, but may be at a conceptual level.Practical implicationsThe study has highlighted the need to tailor micro-enterprise development programmes that facilitate change, add values to entrepreneurial activities and support women to fulfil their roles and ease institutional pressures affecting rural women economic activities. In short, such programmes need to account for cultural institutions.Social implicationsThis study presents insights of the influence of institutions (family and culture) in business led by rural Nigerian women.Originality/valueThis research fills a gap in the family business literature by offering conceptual insights about how the institutional obligations of family mean that micro-enterprising should be conceptualised as an entity, rather than as a family in business or the family business.
Shaping service ecosystems: exploring the dark side of agency
Authors: Mele Cristina , Nenonen Suvi , Pels Jaqueline , Storbacka Kaj , Nariswari Angeline , Kaartemo Valtteri 
Published: August 2018

PurposeThe extant service ecosystem literature rarely addresses the dark side of actors’ agency, which hinders further development of the service-dominant (S-D) logic, particularly with regard to understanding service ecosystem dynamics. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to delineate the dark-side facets of actors’ agency that adversely affect actor-to-actor relationships and resource integration, in the context of shaping service ecosystems.Design/methodology/approachWith abductive reasoning, this study seeks to reorient results from prior literature in accordance with empirical findings. The empirical data pertain to 21 firms in Finland, New Zealand, Singapore and Sweden, representing various industries, sizes, international reach, technologies, ownership forms and histories.FindingsThe dark side of agency emerges as an actor’s deliberate attempts to influence a service ecosystem to achieve self-interested benefits, despite understanding that these actions inhibit other actors from providing service and can be detrimental to other actors and the ecosystem. The findings also reveal three facets of the dark side: conflict, ambiguity and opportunism. The process of shaping service ecosystems is prone to systematic conflict, ambiguous and opportunistic behaviours occurring between the focal actors’ ecosystem and other ecosystems vying for the same set of resources.Research limitations/implicationsThis study advances the S-D logic by addressing the crucial role of agency in a dialectical relationship with institutions and structures. Service-for-service exchanges can take place in asymmetric, ambiguous, opportunistic situations driven by self-interested motives.Practical implicationsProcesses aimed at shaping service ecosystems can demonstrate the dark sides of actors’ agency, related to conflict, ambiguity or opportunism. Managers interested in shaping strategies should be prepared for this outcome.Social implicationsA service ecosystem perspective requires policy makers and regulators to reconsider their role in shaping processes. No “invisible hand” guides markets to equilibrium, so they should be more proactive in shaping ecosystems, rather than merely fixing market failures.Originality/valueThis research offers the first S-D logic-based investigation into the dark side of actors’ agency in shaping service ecosystems.
Making omnichannel an augmented reality: the current and future state of the art
Authors: Hilken Tim , Heller Jonas , Chylinski Mathew , Keeling Debbie Isobel , Mahr Dominik , de Ruyter Ko 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
This paper aims to explore the current and future roles of augmented reality (AR) as an enabler of omnichannel experiences across the customer journey. To advance the conceptual understanding and managerial exploitation of AR, the paper aims to synthesise current research, illustrating how a variety of current applications merge online and offline experiences, and provides a future research agenda to help advance the state of the art in AR.

Design/methodology/approach
Drawing on situated cognition theorising as a guiding framework, the paper reviews previously published research and currently deployed applications to provide a roadmap for future research efforts on AR-enabled omnichannel experiences across the customer journey.

Findings
AR offers myriad opportunities to provide customers with a seamless omnichannel journey, smoothing current obstacles, through a unique combination of embedded, embodied and extended customer experiences. These three principles constitute the overarching value drivers of AR and offer coherent, theory-driven organising principles for managers and researchers alike.

Originality/value
Current research has yet to provide a relevant, conceptually robust understanding of AR-enabled customer experiences. In light of the rapid development and widespread deployment of the technology, this paper provides an urgently needed framework for guiding the development of AR in an omnichannel context.
Ranking products with IF-based sentiment word framework and TODIM method
Authors: Wu Chong , Zhang Dong 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to rank products by combining sentiment analysis (SA) and multiple attribute decision-making (MADM).

Design/methodology/approach
This research constructs intuitionistic fuzzy (IF)-based sentiment word framework and corresponding computation rules, which aim to calculate the sentiment score of each sentiment phase. Based on intuitionistic fuzzy weighted averaging operator, the authors aggregate the overall performance of each feature for different products. Then, the MADM method can be used, TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese of interactive and multi-criteria decision making) in this paper, to rank product through online reviews.

Findings
The results of the research show the superiority and applicability of proposed method in ranking products with online reviews.

Originality/value
This paper proposes IF-based sentiment word framework and corresponding computation rules, which is a novel idea to express both the sentiment orientations (positive, negative and neutral) and emotional intensities. In addition, this research makes full use of knowledge from both experts and online reviewers. Further, attention degree of each feature is considered in the process of calculating weight of different features, which is rarely seen in current studies. This paper makes full use of SA, fuzzy control theory and MADM theory to handle vague information (online comments) and rank alternative products, which can promote future perspectives and developments.
An innovative procedure for introducing the lean concept into the internal drug supply chain of a hospital
Authors: Regattieri Alberto , Bartolini Alessandro , Cima Maddalena , Fanti Maria Giulia , Lauritano Diego 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
In a hospital, the management of different materials (i.e. waste, drugs, equipment, etc.) is fundamental from an economical point of view and also when considering its impact on patient treatment. The purpose of this paper is to introduce by an innovative approach lean principles in the management of this supply chain.

Design/methodology/approach
After the contextualization of the importance of the drug management in hospitals, authors analyze the literature in particular discussing the points of weakness. They propose an innovative methodology to implement a lean principle in this particular supply chain. After a general discussion authors discuss the application of the proposed methodology in the largest Italian hospital, the Policlinico Sant’Orsola – Malpighi in Bologna.

Findings
The results are very encouraging, confirm the value of the methods and motivate the authors to do further research. The proposed methodology takes into account both a technical approach and the real behavior of a hospital including logistics knowledge and motivation for material management in ward personnel. Real results are interesting both in term of economic impact and in term of effect on patient care.

Originality/value
Maximizing patient care is the mission of the healthcare system; however, poor management of drugs and materials can have serious effects on the quality of service. In the last years, several excellent technological solutions have been developed, but often their application in the field was limited and ineffective due to the gap in knowledge and commitment required and available in the ward’s personnel. The new methodology developed is focused to solve this gap and was tested in an important case study.
Are Risk Factor Disclosures Still Relevant? Evidence from Market Reactions to Risk Factor Disclosures Before and After the Financial Crisis
Authors: Beatty Anne , Cheng Lin , Zhang Haiwen 
Published: August 2018

ABSTRACTThe SEC's Disclosure Effectiveness Initiative (December 2013) highlights a difference between accounting regulators and academics in their perceptions of Item 1A risk factor disclosure effectiveness. Because most academic evidence relies on pre‐financial crisis data, we compare changes in risk factor disclosure informativeness before and after the crisis as a possible explanation for this disconnect. We further explore this discrepancy by considering (i) three classes of market participants, (ii) new, discontinued, and repeated disclosures, and (iii) nonmarket outcomes. Our results confirm previous findings but indicate that those results no longer hold in the subsequent period. Specifically, we find that although equity, option, and bond markets react to unexpected risk factor disclosures in the period leading up to the financial crisis (2006–2008), the market reactions decline significantly in the post‐crisis period (2009–2014). Perhaps surprisingly, the documented changes in informativeness are not driven by disclosures repeated from one year to the next but instead result from new disclosures initiated in the current year and, in the option and debt markets, also from disclosures discontinued from the previous year. Finally, using the Altman Z‐score as an objective bankruptcy risk measure, we find that the association between risk factor disclosures and companies’ future bankruptcy risk declines significantly in the post financial crisis period. Taken together, these findings contribute to the current disclosure effectiveness debate by highlighting that risk factor disclosures, which were informative in the preceding period, become less reflective of the underlying economic risks and thus less informative to investors in the post‐crisis period.La déclaration des facteurs de risque est‐elle toujours pertinente ? Données tirées des réactions du marché à la déclaration des facteurs de risque avant et après la crise financière
Beyond killing: intra‐ and interspecific nonconsumptive effects among aphidophagous competitors
Authors: Bayoumy Mohamed H. , Awadalla Hagar S. , Fathy Dina M. , Majerus Tamsin M. O. 
Published: August 2018

1. Beyond killing, predators have nonlethal effects on their potential prey. Because aphids are highly aggregated, their predators aggregate as well, creating conditions optimal for nonconsumptive effects (NCEs) among competing larvae. Although intraguild predator (IGP) density can alter the balance between conflicting forces, little is known about its effect on competing prey.2. A partitioned Petri‐dish that permitted the passage of signals was used to examine the NCEs between competing stages of similar‐ or different‐sized, conspecific or heterospecific, individuals, on development, survival and reproduction of competing prey.3. Coccinella undecimpunctata L. larvae suffered developmental and reproductive costs resulting from the presence of conspecific and heterospecific larvae, but showed no impact on their survival. In contrast, larvae of Chrysoperla carnea Stephens and Hippodamia variegata (Goeze) gained developmental benefits, without reproductive costs. Faster development can be construed as adaptive, as it reduces immature mortality.4. Interestingly, threat‐sensitive prey responses appear to be species‐specific, regardless of predator density. In a C. carnea larva–H. variegata adult competing system, larvae responded to the threat posed by heterospecific adults, with accelerated development, but suffered reproductive costs. In a C. carnea larva–C. undecimpunctata adult system, no overall development costs in response to heterospecific adults were evident. The only cost was on survival at higher IGP density. Thus, the phenotype induced under H. variegata stress was adaptive for development in aphid colonies, whereas that under C. undecimpunctata stress was not.5. NCEs are not simple vertical forces affecting prey, but can affect guilds on the same trophic level. Co‐release of more than one species and density of these species may adversely increase the aphid populations.
How Robust Are Cross‐Country Comparisons of PISA Scores to the Scaling Model Used?
Authors: Jerrim John , Parker Philip , Choi Alvaro , Chmielewski Anna Katyn , Sälzer Christine , Shure Nikki 
Published: August 2018

AbstractThe Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an important international study of 15‐olds' knowledge and skills. New results are released every 3 years, and have a substantial impact upon education policy. Yet, despite its influence, the methodology underpinning PISA has received significant criticism. Much of this criticism has focused upon the psychometric scaling model used to create the proficiency scores. The aim of this article is to therefore investigate the robustness of cross‐country comparisons of PISA scores to subtle changes to the underlying scaling model used. This includes the specification of the item‐response model, whether the difficulty and discrimination of items are allowed to vary across countries (item‐by‐country interactions) and how test questions not reached by pupils are treated. Our key finding is that these technical choices make little substantive difference to the overall country‐level results.
Silodosin as second‐line α‐blocker monotherapy in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia: A prospective observational study
Authors: Ichihara Koji , Masumori Naoya , Iwasawa Akihiko , Taguchi Keisuke , Yamaguchi Yasuhiro , Nishimura Masahiro , Sasamura Hiroto , Suzuki Nobukazu , Haga Kazunori , Miyao Noriomi , Hirose Takaoki 
Published: August 2018

ObjectiveTo assess the efficacy of silodosin as second‐line α‐blocker monotherapy in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms as a result of benign prostatic hyperplasia.MethodsMen who were given an α‐blocker other than silodosin for ≥8 weeks, aged ≥50 years, had a total International Prostate Symptom Score ≥13 and quality of life index ≥4 were enrolled. After treatment with 8 mg/day silodosin for 8 weeks, symptoms and treatment satisfaction were assessed. If the patients still complained and hoped for readministration of the first‐line α‐blocker, the previous medication was administered again for 8 weeks in the case of persisting symptoms, and efficacy was again evaluated.ResultsA total of 73 patients were enrolled and analyzed at 8 weeks. Silodosin administration significantly improved the International Prostate Symptom Score and Overactive Bladder Symptom Score. The quality of life index was improved by at least 1 point in 49.3% patients, and its mean change was significantly greater in the group with previous naftopidil treatment than in those with tamsulosin. A total of 59 patients hoped to continue silodosin, and 13 requested administration of the first‐line α‐blocker. Previously taking naftopidil and having a shorter duration of prior α‐blocker treatment at baseline were associated with silodosin continuation. Although prior α‐blocker readministration in the 13 patients did not show significant efficacy, six preferred to continue the previous α‐blocker.ConclusionsSilodosin represents an effective second‐line α‐blocker monotherapy, even in those who still have moderate lower urinary tract symptoms.