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Food logging: an information literacy perspective
Authors: Cox Andrew Martin , McKinney Pamela , Goodale Paula 
Published: May 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the meaning of information literacy (IL) in food logging, the activity of recording food intake and monitoring weight and other health conditions that may be affected by diet, using applications (apps) accessed through mobile devices and personal computers.Design/methodology/approachData were gathered from a small group of food logging app users through a focus group and interviews. Analysis was informed by practice theory and the growing interest in IL outside educational settings.FindingsFood logging revolves around the epistemic modality of information, but it is the user who creates information and it is not textual. Food logging is associated with a discourse of focussing on data and downplaying the corporeal information associated with eating and its effect on the body. Social information was an important source for choosing an app, but data were rarely shared with others. Food loggers are very concerned with data quality at the point of data entry. They have a strong sense of learning about healthy eating. They were not well informed about the data privacy and access issues.Practical implicationsFood loggers need to be better informed about data risks around food logging.Originality/valueThis is the first study of food logging from an IL perspective.
Design and evaluation of a movie recommendation system showing a review for evoking interested
Authors: Ishida Yuto , Uchiya Takahiro , Takumi Ichi 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
In recent years, e-commerce (EC) sites dealing in various goods and services have increased along with internet popularity. Now, very few EC recommendation systems present a concrete reason for their recommendations. Therefore, because user preferences strongly influence outcomes, evaluation and selection are difficult for items, such as books, movies and luxury goods. The purpose of this paper is evoking interest by showing the review as a reason for a user’s decision-making factor. This paper aims to presents the development and introduction of a recommendation system that presents a review adapted to user preference.

Design/methodology/approach
The system presents a review to the user, which indicates the reason for matching the item contents and user preferences. Thereby, this system enables the creation of personalized reasons for recommendations.

Findings
Recommendation sentences conforming to user preferences are effective for item selection. Even with a simple method, in this paper, it was possible to present a review which is an item selection factor sufficient for the user.

Originality/value
This system can show a recommendation sentence that conforms to a user’s preferences merely from a user profile with the tag data of a product. This paper dealt in movies, but it can easily be applied even for other items.
ICT-FLAG: a web-based e-assessment platform featuring learning analytics and gamification
Authors: Gañán David , Caballé Santi , Clarisó Robert , Conesa Jordi , Bañeres David 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present an innovative web-based eLearning platform called ICT-FLAG that provides e-assessment tools with general-purpose formative assessment services featuring learning analytics and gamification.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper reports on the technical development of the platform driven by the Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing software methodology, which guides the platform construction, including the analysis and design steps.

Findings
The ICT-FLAG platform is technically tested by integrating it into a real e-assessment tool. Results are positive in terms of functional and non-functional aspects as well as user’s satisfaction on usability, emotional state, thus validating the platform as a valuable educational tool.

Research limitations/implications
Because of the chosen technical paper as article type, validation of the impact of the ICT-FLAG platform in the learning process is not provided. Ongoing research with this platform is to measure the learning outcomes of its use in a real context of eLearning.

Practical implications
The paper shows implications of the main technical issues and challenges encountered during the integration of the ICT-FLAG platform with external eLearning tools, involving relevant aspects of interoperability, security, modularity, scalability, portability and so on.

Originality/value
This platform can fill the gap of many e-assessment systems, which currently do not have built-in analytical and gamification tools for learning, thus providing them with the experience to improve the quality of education and learning.
Towards micro-foundations of institutional change
Authors: Bruce Kyle , von Staden Peter 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
Given managerial choices and the sociocultural context in which they are made are at the heart of management history, then an understanding of both is critical. This paper argues that the “late” North (2005) provides such an understanding.

Design/methodology/approach
This study is a research review synthesizing much disparate but cognate literature across the new institutionalism in organizational sociology/studies and in economics.

Findings
“Late” North (2005) provides an important ontological frame for dealing with the so-called “paradox of embedded agency”, an approach that may afford management historians a more thorough account of how institutions are formed and change over time. North has always maintained that institutional change is the outcome of deliberate or intentional choices made by actors. However, and unlike his earlier work which ignores how humans come to make the said choices, North (2005) explicates the sociocognitive process by which intentionality emerges with expanded consciousness, as humans construct ideas and beliefs about reality, beliefs that shape decisions to alter the said reality via the process of institutional change.

Originality/value
It is rather curious that despite North’s status as a “historian”, management historians – or at least those publishing in this journal from its founding in 1995 – do not seem to be terribly interested in North’s work. Although North rates a mention in rival journals, other than Dagnino and Quattrone’s (2006) study, papers in this journal invoking institutional theory align with the new institutionalism in organizational sociology/studies (NIOS) rather than North’s new institutional economics (NIE). Even in the related sub-discipline of business history, those professing an interest in institutions are more interested in the NIE of non-historians Coase and Oliver Williamson than they are in North’s NIE. And, in recent work analysing the place and significance of institutional theory in historical research, the foundations are unmistakeably NIOS rather than North’s NIE.
Asset growth and the cross-section of stock returns: evidence from Greek listed firms
Authors: Constantinou Georgios , Karali Angeliki , Papanastasopoulos Georgios 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether firm-level asset investment effects in returns found for US firms occur within the Greek stock market.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper utilizes portfolio-level tests and cross-sectional regressions.

Findings
The authors find that growth in total assets is strongly negatively related to future stock returns of Greek firms. In fact, the relation remains statistically significant, even when the authors control for other strong predictors of future returns (i.e. market capitalization and book-to-market ratio). Furthermore, the authors find that a hedge trading strategy on asset growth rate consisting of a long (short) position in firms with low (high) balance sheet growth generates positive returns, confirming that investment growth has significant predictive power for future returns of Greek listed firms.

Originality/value
The paper adds to the literature on the generalization of asset pricing regularities attributable to accounting figures in an emerging market.
SPACs: post-merger survival
Authors: Vulanovic Milos 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study how institutional characteristics of specified purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are related to their post-merger survival. SPACs are unique financial firms that conduct the initial public offering (IPO) with the sole purpose of using the proceeds to acquire another private company. The paper finds that institutional characteristics of SPACs are important in determining post-merger outcomes of new company, specifically when it comes to their survival/failure, i.e., increases in pre-merger commitment by SPAC stakeholders and initial positive market performance increase post-merger survival likelihood; on the contrary, mergers with higher transaction costs and focused on foreign companies exhibit increased likelihood of failure.

Design/methodology/approach
Using unique sample of companies conducting an IPO, namely, SPACs, with the sole purpose to execute an acquisition in the future date within limited time, this paper presents additional evidence on the survival and acquisition frequency of IPOs, and determinants of these choices.

Findings
Observing unique set of specified purpose companies, this paper documents that SPACs’ failure rate is at the level of 58.09 percent, higher than any previously reported failure rate in the post-IPO survival literature and comparable only to failure rates found by Hensler et al. (1997) at 55.10 percent for general companies. In addition, the paper documents similar findings to Bhabra and Pettway (2003) that prospectus and market characteristics of original companies have predictive power with respect to survival.

Originality/value
This study extends the literature on post-IPO survival in following ways. First, the paper documents survival rates for unique set of companies organized with the sole purpose to acquire another company. Second, the paper presents evidence on how institutional characteristics of SPAC determine their post-merged outcomes, specifically when it comes to their failures. Finally, paper contributes to the scant literature on SPACs providing new evidence on their post-merger outcomes and performance.
Determinants of foreign-owned subsidiary performance in emerging economies
Authors: Dahms Sven 
Published: May 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to expand our understanding of performance determinants in foreign-owned subsidiaries (FOSs) located in an emerging economy.
Design/methodology/approachA survey has been conducted of all known FOSs in Taiwan.
FindingsThe results show that intra-organisational relationships and subsidiary competences are positively associated with various performance dimensions. Being located in a global city, as well as geographically distant from the home country, seem to have the opposite impact. The moderating factors of subsidiary age and authority are partially relevant.
Research limitations/implicationsThis study is based on a cross-sectional sample of FOSs in Taiwan.
Practical implicationsThe study shows that in an emerging market context, being strongly linked with the rest of the multinational enterprises might still be more conducive to subsidiary performance than venturing out. This is an important consideration, given the constant resource constraints for managers.
Practical implicationsThis study highlights important factors that ought to be taken into consideration by policymakers to attract suitable foreign direct investment.
Originality/valueThis study provides a comprehensive test of major performance determinants for FOSs located in an emerging economy.
ANTi-History and the entrepreneurial work of privateers
Authors: Secord Peter , Corrigan Lawrence T. 
Published: May 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to theorize the social role of management systems and their political connections using ANTi-History. In so doing, it engages with academic conversations around the writing of business history. The paper focuses on subjective experience in the context of colonial privateers and the vice-admiralty court in the Napoleonic Wars era.Design/methodology/approachANTi-History is proposed as a theoretical lens to examine the entrepreneurial work of privateers. ANTi-History destabilizes the idea of history as a dominant account of the past and is interested in controversies as to how history is produced. This paper also brings-in Bourdieu’s notion of officialization because historical knowledge is situated in official practices that conceal translations and political strategies that enable actor-networks to act as one.FindingsThe controls of the vice-admiralty court not only perpetuated the inherited British class system, but also created versions of reality that came to be accepted as recorded history. This shows that the rules and regulations of the court were not neutral accounting activities. The systems constituted the identity of actors and produced privateer history as a modernist knowledge of the past and officialized by western, white, male, elites.Originality/valueThe “historic turn” in management and organization studies has not been fully realized more than a decade after its introduction. This paper engages with the historic turn by providing a specific exemplar of history as applied to officialized accounts of colonial privateers. Using ANTi-History as a methodological approach also makes a contribution by promoting it beyond a prolonged descriptive phase.
Typology of measures of children engagement in parental purchase decisions
Authors: Dikcius Vytautas , Pikturniene Indre , Reardon James 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
Although there is a common agreement that children participate and impact parental purchase decisions, the research results are rather inconsistent. One of the reasons for the differences in the findings could be attributable to different operationalisations of a child engagement variable in surveys. This study aims to classify the instruments used to measure children engagement in parental purchase decisions and to develop a typology of these instruments.

Design/methodology/approach
In total, 67 articles that reported details and results of the surveys where a variable of children engagement in family decisions was operationalised were selected on a systematic basis. In total, 82 measures were extracted, reviewed and assigned to the particular category.

Findings
The typology of measures of children engagement into parental purchase decisions was developed. The features of particular measures, as well as their applicability for different types of child engagement measurement, are discussed.

Research limitations/implications
The sample of articles was limited to nine major scholarly databases and framed for 1985-2015, excluding conference presentations, dissertations, studies and other types of primary research publications.

Practical implications
The analysis demonstrates that authors who had seemingly similar or the same purpose of measuring variable of child engagement into parental purchase decision in fact have used different measures. The differences in measures tend to produce different size of engagement effect. The proposed typology will support scholarly community in establishing more clear definitions and measures of children engagement in parental purchase decision domain.

Originality/value
The typology of measures of children engagement into parental purchase decision is the first attempt to introduce systematised approach toward different domains within the field and their measurement.
Digital natives: the engagement experience to online protection
Authors: Recalde Monica , Gutiérrez-García Elena 
Published: May 2017

Purpose
This study aims to center on understanding how stakeholder engagement processes improve online child protection in telecom companies. The literature review and findings shed light on the management of networks to identify, prevent and mitigate the adverse impacts of information and communication technologies (ICTs)[1] and to find opportunities in terms of new policies and services development.

Design/methodology/approach
Three multinational telecom companies were analyzed with a qualitative focus combining three research tools: the analysis of 81 corporate reports, self-administered questionnaires and semi-structured interviews.

Findings
Firms establish a collaborative network with a large number of stakeholders such as public authorities, non-governmental organizations, educational institutions, representatives of families and expert researchers. The outcomes of these networks range from the development of new products and services (filters, child safety software and protection apps) to the co-creation of new corporate policies with a high social impact (self-regulation, sectorial codes, awareness initiatives and reporting).

Practical implications
This study outlines guidelines for the industry in identifying, engaging and making decisions in a collaborative way when managers have to engage with multiple stakeholders regarding child protection. The academic debate and the empirical findings have many practical implications for ICT companies whose users are children and teenagers.

Originality/value
Despite its significance, stakeholder management is underexplored in the literature of protection for young people. The academic field and the professional arena appear to have little to say regarding how executives manage engagement processes.
How specialized is a diet specialist? Niche flexibility and local persistence through time of the Chisel‐toothed kangaroo rat
Authors: Terry Rebecca C. , Guerre Megan E. , Taylor David S. 
Published: May 2017

Summary

Rapid environmental changes are putting many species at risk, particularly niche specialists. In response, species can shift their ranges or remain in place by taking advantage of new resources. The potential for specialists to undergo in situ niche shifts is not well understood yet can buffer species from the effects of long‐term environmental change over centuries and millennia.

In the Great Basin of western North America, the Chisel‐toothed kangaroo rat, Dipodomys microps, is a folivore thought to be an obligate specialist on the desert shrub Atriplex confertifolia. Because of its association with A. confertifolia, D. microps is presumed to have tracked the shrub as it moved south during the last glacial maximum. However, recent phylogeographic evidence indicates that D. microps did not shift or contract its range into a southern refugium.

Here we evaluate the role that niche flexibility may have played in allowing this presumed dietary specialist to cope with a changing environment and resource base. We do so using carbon and nitrogen isotopes measured in D. microps bone collagen from modern and fossil specimens spanning the last 8000 years at Two Ledges Chamber (TLC) in northwestern Nevada.

δ13C values indicate that, contrary to expectation, the population of D. microps at TLC consumes a variety of plants other than A. confertifolia, an isotopically distinct C4 shrub, and has done so for millennia. Mixing models suggest that the proportion of C4 in the diet was highest (∼35%) in the middle Holocene, and has declined towards the recent, especially over the last 30 years. δ15N values are consistently elevated through time, suggesting that D. microps at TLC are potentially also consuming a high proportion of insects.

Our results indicate that this population of dietary specialists has greater niche flexibility than previously assumed. This implies that, at the species level, even presumed niche specialists may be capable of undergoing niche shifts over centennial to millennial time‐scales in response to changing environmental conditions, and highlights the unique role that historical and paleontological data can play in establishing resource‐use baselines of the past.

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On the relative importance of CSR ecological strategies and integrative traits to explain species dominance at local scales
Authors: Rosado Bruno H. P. , de Mattos Eduardo A. 
Published: May 2017

Summary

Identifying ecological strategies based on functional traits has been one of the main focuses of studies on plant community assembly. Recently, an important and timely tool, ‘StrateFy’, has been proposed for detecting plant strategies across the globe according to the CSR scheme. The CSR scheme is undeniably efficient across scales, and distinct CSR strategies among species have been proposed to explain differing degrees of dominance among species. However, in a previous study we showed that dominance ranking of woody species in a resource‐poor habitat (coastal sandy plain) was not explained by morphological traits commonly measured in functional approaches (such as those used to estimate CSR strategies), but by integrative traits (i.e. traits that are the result of different combinations of functional traits) more related to plant performance.

Here, we used CSR analysis and StrateFy on a dataset collected on a coastal sandy plain to test the hypothesis that the dominance ranking would be compatible with the CSR strategies; that is, that dominant species would show a greater proportion of the stress‐tolerance strategy (S%) than subordinate species.

Contrary to our hypothesis, all species exhibited an S/CS strategy, and the most dominant species had neither similar values nor the highest S%. The inability of CSR analysis (as applied using StrateFy) to predict dominance ranking suggests that it can explain relative dominance when different strategies co‐occur, but not in cases where dominant and subordinate plants share the same strategy.

We argue that the relative importance of CSR and integrative traits for describing dominance ranking may depend on how CSR strategies are filtered in each environment. In environments where only a narrow range of strategy classes are viable, integrative traits may be more important for explaining variation in degrees of dominance. Thus, the ability of a given species to achieve dominance may depend on integrative traits resulting from multiple trait arrays, not necessarily captured by the specific leaf area, leaf dry mass content and leaf area measurements that are used to calculate the relative proportions of strategies in StrateFy.

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