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Emotions and eye-tracking of differing age groups searching on e-book wall
Authors: Wu Ko-Chiu , Huang Yi-Hsieh 
Published: August 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of a large e-book touch-wall, on which the visualized interface provides information in a fun, hedonic-oriented fashion on readers of different ages browsing in a public library. The authors examined how emotions exert influence on the information-seeking behaviors of readers.Design/methodology/approachThe authors investigated the emotions and responsive eye movements of 38 readers in various age groups when operating the touch-wall interface of New Taipei City Library. They were monitored using an eye-tracker and a camera that videotaped their spontaneous facial expressions. A facial affect scoring technique was used to measure emotions and statistical analysis was used to explore the relationships among the scope of eye movements, emotions and information-seeking behavior of readers of different ages.FindingsResults revealed that participants experienced an array of emotions, such as contemplative, doubtful or peaceful. The older the participant was, the smaller the scope of eye movements was. Scope was also affected by emotions (both positive and negative).Originality/valueThese results serve as useful reference for exploration into human – information interaction, perceived ease of use, affected searching and the formulation of knowledge structures in visualized interfaces.
From walls to experience – servitization of workplaces
Authors: Petrulaitiene Vitalija , Korba Pia , Nenonen Suvi , Jylhä Tuuli , Junnila Seppo 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
New ways of working challenge workplace management: increasing mobility and diminishing organizational boundaries require re-evaluation of both workplace design and service delivery. However, structures and processes of workplace management are still traditional, and managers, together with outsourced facility service providers, often do not succeed at fulfilling the needs of mobile employees. The aforementioned changes stimulate discussions in many areas in both industry and academy. Nevertheless, workplace literature from business perspective seems to be scarce. In this paper, the focus is on workplace service offering for mobile knowledge workers. This paper aims to study the current state of workplace servitization. To answer this, the authors identify value offering elements that are used in office business market to deliver workplace as a service.

Design/methodology/approach
This study follows multiple case study methodology including five case studies. Primary data were collected through interviews with workplace service providers. Secondary data included observations and publicly available data. The authors took business model design approach to study selected business offerings.

Findings
The results indicate that workplace business models include elements of servitization on various levels. Physical space is no longer the central offering in the office business; instead, it acts as a component on which the service portfolio is built. The highest value from workplace comes from experience-related service offerings.

Originality/value
Academically, research contributes to the workplace management studies by providing servitization perspective to a topic previously approached with a more technical and psychological point of view. This study can also support service providers and customer organizations in their quest to make service provision more flexible and experience-oriented.
Revisiting the importance of casual dining experience quality: an empirical study
Authors: Hussein Ananda Sabil 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
This paper aims to explore the dimensions of experience quality in the area of Indonesia casual dining restaurant. Furthermore, this study scrutinizes the interrelationships among experience quality, customer satisfaction, restaurant image, brand engagement and customer loyalty in Indonesia’s casual dining restaurant industry.

Design/methodology/approach
To achieve the research objectives, two consecutive studies were conducted. The first study was an exploratory study involving two focus group discussions and survey with self-administered questionnaires. The second study was an explanatory study, in which data were collected through self-administered questionnaires. A total of 405 respondents participated in this study. In the first study, the collected data were analysed by exploratory factor analysis, while partial least squares was used in the second study.

Findings
The result of exploratory factor analysis indicated that casual dining experience quality has four dimensions, namely, food aspects, interaction quality, physical environment and service outcome. This study also tests the interrelationship between experience quality and customer loyalty, customer satisfaction, restaurant image and brand engagement. The hypothesis testing shows that food aspect and interaction quality significantly affect customer satisfaction and restaurant image. Furthermore, customer satisfaction, restaurant image and customer engagement are noted as the antecedents of customer loyalty.

Originality/value
This study explores the dimension of Indonesian casual dining experience, and it proves that the casual dining experience construct based on Indonesian perspectives consists of four dimensions. Moreover, this study builds a comprehensive model to explain the interrelationship among experience quality, restaurant image, customer satisfaction, brand engagement and customer loyalty in the perspective of Indonesian casual dining restaurant.
Small family business in Russia: formal or informal?
Authors: Chepurenko Alexander 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to deal with informal entrepreneurial activity of micro and small family businesses in the specific transitional environment.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses two cases – an informal micro business (“marginal” family business), and a formal retail small firm (“simpleton” family firm), respectively, of a panel conducted in 2013–2015 in Moscow.

Findings
First, the real distribution of responsibilities between family members is informal; it relies more on interpersonal trust and “common law.” Second, exactly the ease of governing such trust-based businesses for the founders’ generation sets limits of succession of small-scale family businesses. Third, as trust in the state is very low, the policy of Russian authorities to quickly force informal entrepreneurs to become legalized is substantially wrong; the results would be either a transformation of “simpleton” into “marginal” businesses or quitting business.

Research limitations/implications
Research limitations of the study are the number of observations and the localization of the panel only in the capital of Russia.

Practical implications
The fundamental failure of Russian State policy toward small-scale family businesses is its attempt to convince “marginal” to formalize and to oppress “simpleton” family businesses pushing them into informality. In fact, it should be designed vice versa: tolerate “marginal” businesses and let them to “live and die” while shaping a friendly environment for “simpleton” family firms.

Originality/value
The paper argues that the most important facet of informality in small family entrepreneurship is the informal property rights and governance duties’ distribution among the family members.
What influence users’ e-finance continuance intention? The moderating role of trust
Authors: Zhou Wangyue , Tsiga Zayyad , Li Boying , Zheng Shuning , Jiang Shuli 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to identify antecedents of e-finance continuance intention with Alibaba’s Yu’E Bao as an example.

Design/methodology/approach
An online questionnaire was used to collect the data (n=293), and partial least squares structural equation modeling was employed for data analysis. Four e-finance features (perceived reputation, website quality, e-finance familiarity and situational normality) are introduced with trust acting as a moderator between the users’ satisfaction and continuance intention to use an e-finance platform.

Findings
The results find that website quality, familiarity and situational normality can influence perceived ease of use (PEOU) and perceived usefulness (PU). PEOU and PU, together with reputation, are positively associated with confirmation which further leads to satisfaction. The positive effects that satisfaction and trust have on e-finance continuance intention are confirmed, and trust is found to be a significant moderator on the relationship between satisfaction and continuance intention.

Practical implications
The findings can be used to guide e-finance providers to improve their platform design and services to retain users.

Originality/value
This study combines the theory of trust, Technology Acceptance Model and Expectations Confirmation Theory to investigate the factors that influence the continuance intention in the context of e-finance in China.
Effect of radiation absorption and buoyancy force on the MHD mixed convection flow of Casson nanofluid embedded with Al50Cu50 alloy nanoparticles
Authors: Ashwinkumar G.P. , C. Sulochana 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to report the effects of radiation absorption and buoyancy forces on the boundary layer analysis of Casson nanofluid past a vertical plate in a porous enclosure filled with Al50Cu50 alloy nanoparticles.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors reconstructed the controlling equations as a group of nonlinear ODEs and solved analytically using perturbation technique. The vital interest in this analysis is to examine the influence of sundry physical parameters on the common profiles (velocity, temperature and concentration) conferred through the plots. Tabular values are listed to discuss the skin friction factor, heat and mass transfer rates. Dual solutions are observed for Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid cases.

Findings
Acquired results indicate that the Casson fluid plays a major role in controlling heat and mass transfer rates as compared with Newtonian fluid. Also, raise in volume fraction of nanoparticles regulates the thermal fields, discerns the velocity fields. The authors established the comparison of present results with previously published results and they are found in good agreement for limited cases.

Originality/value
Because of the substantial properties of aluminium and its alloys such as, extreme corrosion resistance, exalted electrical and thermal conductivities and ease of fabrication they achieved tremendous applications in transportation especially in space and aircrafts, in the production of electrical transmission lines. In view of these, the current literature is perpetrated to probe the impact of radiation absorption and buoyancy forces on the heat and mass transfer analysis of Casson nanofluid in the presence of Al50Cu50 alloy nanoparticles.
Institutional perspectives of dividend policy in India
Authors: Baker H. Kent , Kapoor Sujata , Jabbouri Imad 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
This study aims to examine dividend policy from the perspective of institutional investors in India. It focuses on the level of importance these investors attach to the dividend policy of their investee firms, the level of influence they exercise in shaping such firms’ dividend policies and their reactions to changes in dividends. This study also reports how institutional investors view various explanations for paying dividends.

Design/methodology/approach
A mail survey provides a profile of respondents and their firms, as well as responses to 29 closed-ended questions involving various explanations for paying dividends and 22 closed-ended questions on various dividend issues.

Findings
The evidence shows that Indian institutional investors attach substantial importance to dividend policy and prefer high dividend payments. Their reactions to dividend changes are asymmetric. Taxes are a major driver for why they seek dividends, whereas liquidity needs to play little role in shaping their preferences. The two most commonly used methods of active monitoring are selling shares and communicating concerns to investee companies.

Research limitations/implications
The number of responses limits the ability to test for statistically significant differences between the various competing hypotheses.

Practical implications
The findings support multiple explanations for paying cash dividends and provide new evidence supporting the positive relation between inflation and dividend payments.

Originality/value
This study provides the first survey evidence on the views of institutional investors on dividend policy in India.
Managerial perspectives of big data analytics capability towards product innovation
Authors: Tan Kar Hooi 
Published: August 2018

Purpose
Although published research is limited to big data, some research focuses on the challenges that companies face in implementing big data projects. Specifically, in the field of information systems, researchers realize that the success of Big Data projects is not only the result of data and analytics tools and processes, but also includes broader aspects. To address this issue, people have come up with a perception of big data analytics capabilities, often defined as the ability of businesses to take advantage of data management, infrastructure, and talent to turn business into competencies.

Design/methodology/approach
This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.

Findings
The relationship between analytics and organizational performance has been the subject of the extant research. Prior studies have highlighted the direct influence of analytics on organizational performance. For example, big data analytics capabilities are significantly correlated with market performance and operational performance. The mechanisms through which analytics affect organizations were also examined from various perspectives.

Practical implications
The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.

Originality/value
The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.
Effect of corporate social responsibility on Jordan pharmaceutical industry’s business performance
Authors: Sharabati Abdel-Aziz Ahmad 
Published: August 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of implementing corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives (social responsibility, economic responsibility and environmental responsibility) on Jordanian Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (JPM) industry’s business performance.Design/methodology/approachThis study follows a quantitative descriptive design. The data were collected from 116 managers working at seven JPM organizations by questionnaire. After confirming validity and reliability of the tool, the statistical analysis means, standard deviations andt-values were used to test implementation and finally multiple regressions were used to test the hypothesis.FindingsResults show that there are relationships between CSR variables, and all the three variables are strongly related to business performance. The results also indicate that the three sub-variables together affect JPM industry’s business performance. The environmental responsibility has the highest effect on JPM industry’s business performance, followed by the economic responsibility, and then the social responsibility.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was directed toward pharmaceutical industry in Jordan. Generalizing the results to other industries and countries is questionable. Therefore, further research on other industries and countries will help mitigate the issue of generalizing conclusions.Practical implicationsCSR should be formulated clearly within JPM corporate strategy. The elements of CSR need to be integrated with the present performance management criteria, leadership development programs and organizational development programs, and a champion for CSR needs to be assigned.Social implicationsThe CSR initiatives should be derived from local culture and match with international initiatives because CSR is the responsibility of every person.Originality/valueStill the topic of CSR is not well implemented and does not have priority by Jordanian companies; therefore, this study may be considered as one of the few studies dedicated to study this topic and create awareness about it in Jordan.
Density‐dependent disease, life‐history trade‐offs, and the effect of leaf pathogens on a suite of co‐occurring close relatives
Authors: Parker Ingrid M. , Gilbert Gregory S. 
Published: August 2018

Abstract

Plant pathogens reduce the performance of their hosts and therefore may contribute to ecological mechanisms of coexistence. In Chesson’s framework, pathogens contribute to stabilizing mechanisms when they intensify negative intraspecific interactions, such as density‐dependent disease. Additionally, pathogens contribute to equalizing mechanisms when they reduce differences in performance among species. Life‐history trade‐offs predict higher susceptibility to pathogens in rapidly growing species, which could equalize performance among fast‐ and slow‐growing species in the presence of pathogens.

In a coastal prairie in California, we studied the impact of leaf diseases on the performance of 17 co‐occurring species of Trifolium and Medicago (“clovers”). We transplanted clovers in randomized arrays into the natural prairie community in 3 years of common garden experiments. We quantified infection rates by isolating fungi from leaves, and we measured disease severity as per cent leaf area damaged. In a fungicide experiment, we measured the impact of infection on biomass and survival. We assessed whether disease on transplants was positively related to natural abundance of that species in the surrounding community, which we monitored over 5 years. We assessed life‐history trade‐offs by testing whether more rapidly growing species were more susceptible to pathogens.

Rank abundance of clover species was stable over 5 years despite marked environmental fluctuations. Across hosts, fungal infection was not linearly related to density, although transplants of species that were locally absent showed lower and more variable infection. Disease severity was greater for more abundant species, but in only 1 of 3 years, and response to fungicide was not stronger in more abundant species. As predicted by life‐history trade‐offs, faster‐growing species experienced greater fungal infection. However, the impact of that infection was less negative, not more negative, on faster‐growing species.

Our results suggest that life‐history trade‐offs in plant–pathogen interactions may influence equalizing mechanisms among species in this guild, but the combined effects of greater infection with greater tolerance may limit rather than promote coexistence. We also found modest evidence that density‐dependent disease may contribute to stabilizing mechanisms. Lack of host specificity, rapid evolution of host use and temporal variation in climatic conditions may all influence the role that pathogens play in coexistence of these closely related plants.
Do soil biota influence the outcome of novel interactions between plant competitors?
Authors: Cardinaux Aline , Hart Simon P. , Alexander Jake M. 
Published: August 2018

Abstract

Species are shifting their ranges, for example to higher elevations, in response to climate change. Different plant species and soil microbiota will likely shift their ranges at different rates, giving rise to novel communities of plants and soil organisms. However, the ecological consequences of such novel plant–soil interactions are poorly understood. We experimentally simulated scenarios for novel interactions arising between high‐ and low‐elevation plants and soil biota following asynchronous climate change range shifts, asking to what extent the ability of plants to coexist depends on the origin of the soil biota.

In a greenhouse experiment, we grew pairs of low‐ (Poa trivialis and Plantago lanceolata) and high‐ (Poa alpina and Plantago alpina) elevation plant species alone and against a density gradient of con‐ or heterospecific neighbours. Plants grew on sterilized field soil that was inoculated with a soil community sampled from either low or high elevation in the western Swiss Alps. We used the experiment to parameterize competition models, from which we predicted the population‐level outcomes of competition in the presence of the different soil biota.

In the absence of neighbours, three of the four species produced more biomass with the low‐elevation soil biota. As a result of generally similar responses across plant species, soil biota tended not to affect plant interaction outcomes, with the low‐elevation species generally predicted to competitively exclude high‐elevation species irrespective of the soil biota origin. However, the low‐elevation grass Poa trivialis was only able to invade communities of Poa alpina in the presence of a low‐elevation soil biota. This suggests that, at least in some cases, the outcome of novel competitive interactions between plants following climate change will depend on whether shifts in the distribution of plants and soil organisms are asynchronous.

Synthesis. Our results indicate that the changing soil communities that plants encounter during range expansion can influence plant performance. However, this is only likely to alter expectations for the ability of plants to coexist following climate change if plant species respond differently to the change in the soil community.