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Fostering service-oriented organizational citizenship behavior through reducing role stressors
Authors: Kang Juhyun , Jang Jichul 
Published: July 2019

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the influence of role stressors on service-oriented organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) mediated by depersonalization, with a moderator of social capital.Design/methodology/approachA self-administered online survey was completed by 265 current hotel frontline employees in the USA.FindingsThe study reveals that role ambiguity has a detrimental impact on service-oriented OCB. The results show that depersonalization is found to be a critical mediator that modifies the implications of both role ambiguity and role conflict for service-oriented OCB. Furthermore, the negative effect of role conflict on depersonalization is buffered by social capital.Practical implicationsHotel firms that would like to encourage employees to exert proactive behaviors in their jobs might benefit from developing an effective way to reduce role stressors in their jobs. However, given that such role stressors are inevitable in the workplace, hotel firms should place more emphasis on enhancing social capital as an effective way to manage role stressors in the workplace.Originality/valueThis study advances previous studies on role stressors and service-oriented OCB by addressing how and why role stressors influence employees’ service-oriented OCB. This study incorporates advanced job demand-resource theory by identifying social capital as a critical job resource to buffer the detrimental impact of role conflict on depersonalization in the hotel context.
Households’ potential to decrease their environmental impacts
Authors: Ahvenniemi Hannele , Häkkinen Tarja 
Published: July 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to quantify the potential levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) and cost savings from a set of households’ energy saving measures, considered as “everyday choices”.Design/methodology/approachFour areas of living were selected for the study: household electricity, space heating, transport and food consumption. The study used a quantitative research approach in which the impact of selected scenarios of an average Finnish household was assessed.FindingsFindings suggest that GHG savings from behavioural change regarding household electricity remain marginal in comparison to savings gained from transportation related measures. Transportation also provides the most cost-efficient ways to decrease GHGs but not in all cases. Based on the results, the authors suggest that smart technologies, such as on-line, active feedback systems could have a major role in guiding household energy use. Also, given the high GHG savings from transport, the authors highlight the importance of providing infrastructure and services for clean mobility, and in designing well-functioning and compact cities enabling shorter travels.Originality/valueThe aim of our study was twofold – by analysing the case household’s choices, we obtained information on environmental and economic impacts, but in addition to this, the aim was to open discussion on the role of households in tackling climate change and how to support households in making sustainable choices. Although research regarding household energy behaviour is vast, so far very few studies have focused on both economic and environmental impacts of households’ everyday actions.
Audit committee effectiveness, isomorphic forces, managerial attitude and adoption of international financial reporting standards
Authors: Bananuka Juma , Kadaali Arafat Walugyo , Mukyala Veronica , Muramuzi Bruno , Namusobya Zainab 
Published: July 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report the results of a study carried out to establish the contribution of audit committee (AC) effectiveness, isomorphic forces and managerial attitude to the adoption of international financial reporting standards (IFRS).Design/methodology/approachThis study is cross-sectional and correlational. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey of 67 MFIs that are members of the Association of Microfinance Institutions of Uganda (AMFIU).FindingsBoth AC effectiveness, isomorphic forces and managerial attitude significantly contribute to the adoption of IFRS. However, the explanatory power of managerial attitude is subsumed in isomorphic forces and AC effectiveness. Results further indicate that AC effectiveness partially mediates the relationship between isomorphic forces and adoption of IFRS. In terms of control variables, ownership and capital structure are not significant predictors of adoption of IFRS.Originality/valueTo the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to investigate the contribution of AC effectiveness, isomorphic forces and managerial attitude to the adoption of IFRS in MFIs using evidence from a developing country on the African scene like Uganda. Further, earlier literature has not tested the mediating effect of AC effectiveness in the relationship between isomorphic forces and the adoption of IFRS which has been reported in this paper.
Western influences in Turkish advertising
Authors: Karamullaoglu Nazife , Sandikci Ozlem 
Published: July 2019

Purpose
This purpose of this paper is to explore how Western design, fashion and aesthetic styles influenced advertising practice in Turkey in the post-Second World War era. Specifically, the authors focus on the key targets of the consumerist ideology of the period, women and discuss the representations of females in Turkish advertisements.

Design/methodology/approach
Data were analysed using a combination of social semiotic and compositional analysis methods. Compositional analysis focused on the formal qualities and design elements of the ads; social semiotic analysis sought to uncover their meaning potentials in relation to social, cultural, political and economic dynamics of the period. The advertisements of a prominent Turkish pasta brand, Piyale, published in the local adaptation of the American Life magazine, between 1956 and 1966, constitute the data set.

Findings
The analysis reveals that Piyale followed the stylistic and thematic trends prevailing in American and European advertisements at the time and crafted ads that constructed and communicated a Westernized image of Turkish women and families. In line with the cultural currents of the 1950s and 1960s, the ads emphasize patriarchal gender roles and traditional family values and address the woman as a consumer whose priority is to please her husband and take good care of her children.

Originality/value
This study contributes to the advertising history in non-Western contexts and provides an understanding of the influence Western advertising conventions and fashion trends had on developing country markets. The findings indicate that Western-inspired representations and gender roles dominated advertisements of local brands during the post-war period.
The role of service quality within Indonesian customers satisfaction and loyalty and its impact on Islamic banks
Authors: Asnawi Nur , Sukoco Badri Munir , Fanani Muhammad Asnan 
Published: July 2019

Purpose
Loyalty among customers is the baseline for services to use to grow and sustain their competitive advantage, particularly in the banking industry. There are two primary objectives of this research. First, this study aims to empirically test the Muslim Consumer Service Quality (MCSQ). Second, this study aims to test the mediating effect of Muslim Consumer Satisfaction (MCS) on the relationship between MCSQ and Muslim Consumer Loyalty (MCL) in Indonesian Islamic banks.

Design/methodology/approach
The proposed hypotheses were tested by collecting data from 280 Indonesian Islamic customers. The collected data were tested using PLS-Graph 3.0.

Findings
The findings indicate that MCSQ (consisting of Islamic values, Sharia compliance, honesty, modesty, humaneness and trustworthiness) positively influenced MCS and MCL significantly. Further, the results indicate that MCS partially mediates the influence of MCSQ on MCL.

Research limitations/implications
The data were mainly gathered in Indonesia and the model needs to be tested in other contexts. Furthermore, the questionnaire was distributed among the customers of Islamic banks, and future studies could compare it with the customers of conventional banks or dual account (Islamic and conventional bank) customers. Moreover, further studies should compare between the expectations and reality of the delivered services to understand the service quality gap, which this study did not measure.

Practical implications
The findings indicate that by measuring the service quality in the Islamic context of Islamic banks, such as MCSQ, the managers can design their services to specifically target their Muslim customers. Furthermore, customer satisfaction must be the focus for the bank’s managers when developing MCSQ to close the gap between the expectations and reality of the delivered services.

Originality/value
This study empirically tests the developed MCSQ in the context of Indonesian Islamic banks, which is expected to enrich the literature of service marketing. Furthermore, a partial mediation effect of MCS was identified on the influence of MCSQ on MCL, which few studies have discussed previously.
The importance of colour on the communication of financial data in management
Authors: Leong Kelvin , Sung Anna , Williams Taylor , Andoniou Costantine , Sun Flora 
Published: July 2019

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the importance of colour on the communication of financial data in management and to encourage future discussion on related topic.

Design/methodology/approach
Hypothesis was designed building on relevant literatures. Quantitative discrete data were collected through a mini-test activity in a lecture from students. The results were reviewed and evaluated by relevant statistical tool.

Findings
The authors found consistent statistical significance results in the mini-test. The findings support that users prefer to choose the financial data presented in cool colours in business management context.

Research limitations/implications
Gaining the understanding of colour’s influence on decision making and behaviour is subjected to complexity. There are many other contextual factors should be taken into consideration in practice. Although the design of the mini-test in this study is relatively simple, it still provides clues for the issue. With the discussions and findings of this paper, the authors shed some light on the direction of potential uses of colour on the communication of financial data in management context. The findings could also be used by management educators to facilitate related discussions among students regarding the complexity of business communication and the importance of perception in decision making. For example, decision making could be affected by various factors (such as colour) outside verbal and text.

Originality/value
Managers often need to use financial data in communication for various purposes in work place. The authors believe this is the first time that a study like this had been conducted to specifically review and discuss the importance of colour on the communication of financial data in management. Hopefully, the work reported in this paper could be viewed as reference for management educators, researchers and managers in future research or practical applications on related topics.
Role of substrate shape on thermal energy transmission in robotized wire and arc additive manufacturing
Authors: Li Rong , Xiong Jun 
Published: July 2019

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to present how the thermal energy transmission of circular parts produced in robotized gas metal arc (GMA)-based additive manufacturing was affected by the substrate shape through finite element analysis, including distributions of thermal energy and temperature gradient in the molten pool and deposited layers.Design/methodology/approachThree geometric shapes, namely, square, rectangle and round were chosen in simulation, and validation tests were carried out by corresponding experiments.FindingsThe thermal energy conduction ability of the deposited layers is the best on the round substrate and the worst on the rectangular substrate. The axial maximum temperature gradients in the molten pool along the deposition path with the round substrate are the largest during the deposition process. At the deposition ending moment, the circumferential temperature gradients of all layers with the round substrate are the largest. A large temperature gradient usually stands for a good heat conduction condition. Altogether, the round substrate is more suitable for the fabrication of circular thin-walled parts.Originality/valueThe predicted thermal distributions of the circular thin-walled part with various substrate shapes are helpful to understand the influence of substrate shape on the thermal energy transmission behavior in GMA-based additive manufacturing.
Thriving in the era of the “connected customer”
Authors: Leavy Brian 
Published: July 2019

Purpose
How can strategists and their companies learn to survive and thrive in this new “connected customer” competitive environment? This is the question that Nicholaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch set out to address in their latest book, Connected Strategy: Building Continuous Customer Relationships for Competitive Advantage.

Design/methodology/approach
A guide to building better business models in a new “connected customer” competitive environment.

Findings
The key promise is that a connected strategy can allow a firm to increase the customer’s happiness – or ‘willingness to pay’ – while at the same time reducing the cost of creating this better experience. The efficiency frontier is the graphical representation of the trade-off between ‘willingness to pay’ and fulfillment cost.

Practical implications
Instead of selling a product, firms can sell an outcome by creating a pay-for-performance network.

Originality/value
The biggest potential of connected strategies is to be able to move up the hierarchy of needs of a customer. By learning more about a particular customer a firm is able to personalize the offering and create a better fit between the needs of a customer and the available product/service.
Managing groundwater in a mining region: an opportunity to compare best‐worst and referendum data
Authors: Hatton MacDonald Darla , Rose John M. , Johnston Robert J. , Bark Rosalind H. , Pritchard Jodie 
Published: July 2019

In nonmarket valuation, practitioners must choose a format for the valuation questions. A common approach in discrete choice experiments is the ‘pick‐one’ format, often with two alternative policy proposals and a status quo from which the respondent selects. Other proposed formats, include best‐worst elicitation, where respondents are asked to indicate their most and least favoured alternative from a set. Although best‐worst formats can offer efficiency in data collection, they can also lead to responses that are difficult to reconcile with neoclassical welfare estimation. The current article explores methodological issues surrounding the use of pick‐one versus best‐worst data for nonmarket valuation, focusing on framing and status quo effects that may occur within three‐alternative discrete choice experiments. We illustrate these issues using a case study of surplus groundwater use from Western Australian mining. Results identify concerns that may render best‐worst data unsuitable for welfare estimation, including a prevalence of serial choices in which the status quo is universally chosen as the worst alternative, rendering part of the choice process deterministic. Asymmetry of preferences and serial choices can be obscured when models are estimated using ‘naively’ pooled best‐worst data. Results suggest that caution is warranted when using best‐worst data for valuation, even when pooled results appear satisfactory.
The UK Politics of Overseas Voting
Authors: Collard Susan 
Published: July 2019

AbstractThe enfranchisement of non‐resident citizens has always been controversial in the UK, where for historical reasons, voting rights are not as closely associated with citizenship as elsewhere. The introduction of ‘overseas’ voting in the 1980s by the Conservatives was contested by Labour as a form of ‘international gerrymandering’ since expatriates were widely assumed to be disproportionately wealthy and therefore more likely to vote Tory. Expatriate campaigners have been increasingly vocal in denouncing the ‘electoral injustice’ of the ‘fifteen‐year rule’ which disenfranchises them after fifteen years abroad, and the exclusion of so many from the EU referendum highlighted their cause. A recent private member's bill proposing ‘votes for life’ for UK expatriates aimed to meet their demands to abolish the time restriction, now considered anachronistic. But their arguments were hijacked by historically embedded attitudes and disputes driven by party politics, ending in a dramatic and bewildering filibuster which this paper elucidates.
Neovagina creation methods and their potential impact on subsequent uterus transplantation: a review
Authors: Kölle A , Taran F‐A , Rall K , Schöller D , Wallwiener D , Brucker SY 
Published: July 2019

Congenital uterovaginal aplasia commonly occurs in Mayer–Rokitansky–Küster–Hauser syndrome. Various methods of neovagina creation exist, including nonsurgical self‐dilation, surgical dilation, and surgical procedures involving skin or intestinal transplants. Subsequent uterus transplantation is necessary to enable pregnancy. We review the main characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages of established neovagina creation methods and discuss their suitability regarding subsequent uterus transplantation. Suitability criteria include sufficient vaginal length, absence of previous major intra‐abdominal surgery, a natural vaginal axis, and a natural vaginal epithelium. In conclusion, Vecchietti‐based laparoscopically assisted neovagina creation provides ideal functional conditions for uterus transplantation. Nonsurgical self‐dilation and Wharton–Sheares–George vaginoplasty may also be suitable.Tweetable abstractThis review discusses the main advantages and disadvantages of neovagina creation methods with regard to subsequent uterus transplantation.
A risk‐based inventory of invasive plant species of Queensland, Australia: Regional, ecological and floristic insights
Authors: Osunkoya Olusegun O. , Froese Jens G. , Nicol Sam , Perrett Christine , Moore Kerri , Callander Jason , Campbell Shane 
Published: July 2019

AbstractInvasive alien plant species threaten agriculture and biodiversity globally and require ongoing management to minimise impacts. However, the large number of invasive species means that a risk‐based approach to prioritisation is needed, taking into account the spatial scale of management decisions and myriad of available information. Here, we developed a risk‐based inventory of invasive plants in Queensland, Australia, using both current species distribution/abundance and the severity of their impacts. Our assessment followed a comprehensive data collection process including a scoping of local government pest management plans, herbarium records, the published literature and structured elicitation of expert knowledge during a series of regional stakeholder workshops. From ~300 plant species that were identified as established and/or emerging invaders in the State, only one‐third were considered by practitioners to pose significant risks across regions to be considered management priorities. We aggregated regional species lists into a statewide priority list and analysed the data set (107 species) for historical, geographical, floristic and ecological patterns. Regions on the mainland eastern seaboard of the State share similar invasive plant communities, suggesting that these regions may form a single management unit, unlike the western/inland and the extreme far north (Torres Strait Islands) regions, which share fewer invasive plant species. Positive correlations were detected between invasiveness and time since introduction for some but not all plant life forms. Stakeholders identified research and management priorities for the invasive plant list, including biological control options, public awareness/education, effective herbicide use, ecology/taxonomy and risk analysis. In the course of the exercise, a statewide invasive plant priority list of high‐, medium‐ and low‐impact scores for policy, research and management was compiled. Finally, our approach to invasive plant species prioritisation highlighted that planning and policy documents are not necessarily reflected at the grass‐root level in terms of species identity and management priorities.
Maternal HLA‐DR, HLA‐DQ, and HLA‐DP loci are linked with altered risk of recurrent pregnancy loss in Lebanese women: A case‐control study
Authors: Aimagambetova Gulzhanat , Hajjej Abdelhafidh , Malalla Zainab H. , Finan Ramzi R. , Sarray Sameh , Almawi Wassim Y. 
Published: July 2019

AbstractProblemWe investigated the association between idiopathic recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) and HLA‐DPB1, HLA‐DQB1, and HLA‐DRB1 alleles and DPB1‐DQB1‐DRB1 haplotypes.Method of studyCase‐control retrospective study involved 93 Lebanese women with unexplained RPL, and 113 multiparous Lebanese women with two or more successful pregnancies, and no miscarriages who served as controls. DPB1, DQB1, and DRB1 genotyping was performed by PCR‐SSP.ResultsExpected and observed DRB1, DQB1, and DPB1 frequencies were comparable, and HLA genotype frequencies were in Hardy‐Weinberg equilibrium. Significantly higher frequencies of DRB1*04:01:01 and DRB1*08:01:01, and decreased DRB1*07:01:01 frequency were seen in RPL cases than in controls. On the other hand, the distribution of DQB1 alleles was comparable between cases and control groups. Significantly lower frequencies of DPB1*04:01:01 and DPB1*14:01:01 were seen in women with RPL than control subjects. While the frequency DPB1*02:01:01 was markedly higher in RPL cases than in controls, the difference was not significant. DPB1‐DQB1‐DRB1 haplotype analysis identified haplotype DPB1*04:01:01‐DQB1*03:02:01‐DRB1*04:01:01 to be positively associated, while haplotype DPB1*04:01:01‐DQB1*02:01:01‐DRB1*07:01:01 to be negatively associated with RPL. Of these two haplotypes, only DPB1*04:01:01‐DQB1*02:01:01‐DRB1*07:01:01 remained significant after correction for multiple tests (Pc = .0008).ConclusionOur results confirm an association of select DRB1 and DPB1 alleles with RPL in Lebanese women, and the first to identify DPB1‐DQB1‐DRB1 linked with altered RPL susceptibility, further highlighting the immunological/inflammatory nature of RPL.
Labour Migration, Capitalist Accumulation, and Feudal Reproduction: A Historical Analysis from the Eastern Gangetic Plains
Authors: Sugden Fraser 
Published: July 2019

AbstractThis paper engages with the long‐running debate on the transition from farm‐based livelihoods to capitalism in the context of labour migration. Tracing the historic evolution of modes of production in the peripheral Mithilanchal region of the Eastern Gangetic Plains, it notes how the economic processes which are today driving the peasantry into the labour force through migration are not directly connected to the process of capitalist accumulation in the diverse locales where labour is employed, as is somtimes implied in the research on classic situations of “accumulation by dispossession”. The entry of the peasantry into the surplus labour pool is instead linked firstly, with a complex convergence of internal changes within a non‐capitalist feudal mode of production on an economic, cultural and political level, and secondly, with the stresses brought about in the wake of expanding capitalist markets. The paper notes however that migrant labour still generates substantial profits for capitalism with a sharing of surplus between the latter, and landlord‐money lenders. It argues that the relationship between modes of production in this context, is neither functional nor coincidental, and is linked instead with larger – at times opportunistic – class alliances which have evolved to fit the current political‐economic conjuncture.