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Impact of government science and technology policies with a focus on biotechnology research on commercial agricultural innovation in China
Authors: Jin Yanhong , Hu Yahong , Pray Carl , Hu Ruifa 
Published: July 2017

PurposeThe Chinese Government has used a number of policies to encourage commercial agribusiness firms to do more innovation. These include public sector agricultural research and development (R&D), public sector biotechnology research and innovation, subsidies for commercial research, encouraging foreign firms to invest in China as minority shareholders in joint ventures, and allowing commercial companies to raise money on the stock market. The purpose of this paper is to assess whether these policies were effective in stimulating innovations by commercial firms in China.Design/methodology/approachThis study estimates the impact of public biotech research and other policies by employing an econometric model of patenting by commercial firms. It uses a unique data set collected from commercial agribusiness firms for the years 2001, 2004, 2005, and 2006. Addition data were collected from public research institutes and universities and patent data from the Derwent Innovations Index database. It employs four count data models for the empirical analysis.FindingsThis study finds a positive impact of public biotechnology (measured by the number of biotech patents of government research institutes and public universities) on commercial innovation measured by the number of patents granted to the commercial firms. As expected the firm’s research expenditure and having their own R&D center (as opposed to contracting R&D or no R&D investment at all) have a positive and statistically significant effect on the number of patents granted. The impacts of public R&D investment spending have no statistically significant effect on commercial innovation. Multi-national firms and publicly traded firms have fewer patents than their counterparts suggesting that policies to encourage multi-nationals and financing through stock markets had no impact on innovation.Originality/valueThis study is one of the first studies to untangle the relationship between government policies and innovation by commercial agricultural research output and public R&D investment and biotechnology. The main findings suggest that simply increasing research money to public research does not increase commercial innovations, but moving resources to the development patentable biotech does improve commercial research productivity. The results also suggest that policies to increase commercial research will also increase innovation. These could include strengthening the legal framework and institutional resources for public institutes to the protection and enforcement of intellectual properties.
Economic impacts of commercializing insect-resistant GM maize in China
Authors: Xie Wei , Ali Tariq , Cui Qi , Huang Jikun 
Published: July 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the potential economic impacts of China’s insect-resistant GM maize and provide new evidence for decision making concerning its commercialization.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses data drawn from the production trials of insect-resistant GM maize and expert interviews to determine the impacts of commercializing GM maize at farm level under three scenarios with varying severity of insect pest attacks in maize production. Economic impacts are simulated using a modified Global Trade Analysis Project model.FindingsIn farm terms, insect-resistant GM maize increases crop yield and reduces both pesticide and labor inputs. In national terms, China can increase its GDP by USD8.6 billion and maize self-sufficiency by about 2 percent given normal insect pest attacks if China commercializes GM maize. Additional beneficiaries include consumers and the livestock industry. Non-maize crops can also benefit from land saving through GM maize commercialization. Chemical is a sector with the decrease in its output because demand for pesticides will fall.Originality/valueAlthough China has announced a roadmap for commercializing GM crops for use as feed and in processing after nearly two decades of producing GM cotton, no clear timetable for producing GM maize as feed has been established due to several concerns, including the potential for economic gains from GM maize. This study is the first to assess the economic impacts of commercializing China’s GM maize. The findings should have significant policy implications for the development and commercialization of GM crops in general and GM maize in particular.
Consumer perceptions of online banking in Spain using netnography: a positioning story
Authors: Clemente-Ricolfe Jose-Serafin 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to determine the current positioning of online banking in Spain.

Design/methodology/approach
Netnography, a new technique for obtaining information.

Findings
The collection and analysis of 261 valid messages from two online consumer portals enables us to observe the existence of two competitor groups and two types of attributes. On the one hand, consumers perceive online banking as competitors depending on their size; and on the other hand, negative (or positive) aspects are compensated (or accepted) as a result of greater (or lesser) profitability. This means that different forms of value creation are offered with online banking clients.

Originality/value
The methodology used represents an innovative way to determine the positioning of online banking and could be extended to other digital products.
From corner store to superstore: a historical analysis of Sainsbury’s co-evolution
Authors: Aluko Olu , Knight Helen 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to explore the conceptualisation of co-evolution using a corporate history research approach. While the application of the co-evolutionary perspective to the organisational-environmental relationships has uncovered significant evidences, little is understood about how the co-evolutionary process occurs over time between organisations and their institutional environment.

Design/methodology/approach
A co-evolutionary corporate history approach in used, as the authors investigated Sainsbury’s historical trajectory, exploring the role specific family members played in the evolution of the firm and the co-evolution of Sainsbury’s with its environment. This research design framework encompasses longitudinal archival analysis which incorporates both external and internal engagement which fostered Sainsbury’s joint evolution.

Findings
The findings from this study clearly suggest that certain organisations can and do co-evolve with their environment. However, organisations need to build legitimate cases for co-evolution to occur. In addition, they need to acquire certain resources that can be used to stimulate changes within their institutional environment.

Originality/value
Through a corporate history archival analysis, this study presents a UK company’s evolutionary narrative. The authors contribute to the growing literature on co-evolution in management studies by presenting a detailed historical narrative and interpretation of Sainsbury’s evolution at different time periods.
From the industrial revolution to Trump
Authors: Gould Anthony M. , Bourk Michael J. , Joullié Jean-Etienne 
Published: July 2017

Purpose
This paper takes a long-term view of how the US public and private sectors have been viewed in relation to each other. It notes that since the time of approximately the Nixon Administration, each sector has not been viewed favourably by the public. Over the past 40 years, the private sector has been perceived as being run by the unscrupulous and the public sector by incompetents. The essay argues that Donald Trump was able to exploit these circumstances to win the 2016 election.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper presents a polemic. It relies on archival research and data to create a new view of historical eras in US business history. The object of analysis is the idea of relative legitimacy, the public image of the State vis-a-vis business and business managers.

Findings
Although the paper addresses business history, a novel argument is presented about the 2016 US Presidential election. It is proposed that Trump took advantage of unique historical circumstances; therefore, his win had more to do with the moment than with him personally.

Research limitations/implications
The paper interprets the 2016 Presidential race as the end-point of a 250-year journey. It sets a new agenda, in that previous analyses have mostly viewed the ascendancy of Trump as pertaining to distinctively post-industrial twenty-first-century phenomena.

Social implications
In analysing the 2016 Presidential race, the emphasis is largely removed from issues of personality or partisan politics.

Originality/value
The paper takes a view of the 2016 election which has not hitherto been adopted. It proposes a new concept – relative legitimacy – as having a substantial explanatory value.
Management as an integrating activity
Authors: Damart Sébastien , Adam-Ledunois Sonia 
Published: July 2017

PurposeThis research aims to compare the contributions of two authors and practitioners from the 1920s whose work was, to a certain extent, at odds with the dominant scientific management approach of the period.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, a comparative textual analysis of texts written by Sheldon and Follett in the 1920s has been performed. This technique consists of a hierarchical descendant classification, which we use to uncover the thematic universes that Sheldon and Follett create in characterizing the fundamentals of management activity.FindingsThis comparative textual analysis shows that Follett and Sheldon developed two different ways of relying on a singular fundamental principle of management: integration.Originality/valueA comparative analysis of Follett and Sheldon’s work has never been attempted. While textual analysis has been used in management research, to the authors’ knowledge, such analyses are rare in research seeking to understand management history.
Reducing the harmful effect of role ambiguity on turnover intentions
Authors: De Clercq Dirk , Belausteguigoitia Imanol 
Published: July 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how employees’ perceptions of role ambiguity might increase their turnover intentions and how this harmful effect might be buffered by employees’ access to relevant individual (innovation propensity), relational (goodwill trust), and organizational (procedural justice) resources. Uncertainty due to unclear role descriptions decreases in the presence of these resources, so employees are less likely to respond to this adverse work situation in the form of enhanced turnover intentions.Design/methodology/approachQuantitative data came from a survey of employees of a large organization in the distribution sector.FindingsRole ambiguity enhances turnover intentions, but this effect diminishes at higher levels of innovation propensity, goodwill trust, and procedural justice.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings reveal several contingencies that attenuate the positive effect of role ambiguity on the desire to leave the organization. However, this study relies on the same respondents to assess all the focal variables, and it lacks a direct measure of the mechanisms by which the contingent factors mitigate the relationship between role ambiguity and turnover intentions.Practical implicationsOrganizations that fail to provide clear role information to employees can counter the resulting uncertainty with relevant personal, relational, and organizational resources.Originality/valueThis investigation shows how employees’ negative reactions to role ambiguity (turnover intentions) can be mitigated by three uncertainty-reducing resources: personal joy from developing new ideas, the extent to which relationships with colleagues is trustworthy, and perceptions that organizational procedures are fair.
Ex antei-deals, perceived external prestige and turnover intentions
Authors: Guerrero Sylvie , Challiol-Jeanblanc Hélène 
Published: July 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to conceptualizeex anteidiosyncratic deals (or i-deals) as a way to foster individual perceptions of a positive employer image by offering customized additional instrumental benefits.Design/methodology/approachA survey is led among 182 engineers in demand on a local labor market to test whetherex antei-deals combine to a more global and external perception of a good employer, measured by perceived external prestige (PEP), to explain turnover intentions.FindingsThe results validate all research hypotheses, and show that the moderating effect ofex antei-deals in the PEP-turnover intention relationship is significant during the first years spent in the company.Originality/valueThis research contributes to the literature on employees’ attraction and retention by building bridges between the literatures on employer image and i-deals.
Solar insolation in springtime influences age of onset of bipolar I disorder
Authors: Bauer M. , Glenn T. , Alda M. , Aleksandrovich M. A. , Andreassen O. A. , Angelopoulos E. , Ardau R. , Ayhan Y. , Baethge C. , Bharathram S. R. , Bauer R. , Baune B. T. , Becerra‐Palars C. , Bellivier F. , Belmaker R. H. , Berk M. , Bersudsky Y. , Bicakci Ş. , Birabwa‐Oketcho H. , Bjella T. D. , Bossini L. , Cabrera J. , Cheung E. Y. W. , Del Zompo M. , Dodd S. , Donix M. , Etain B. , Fagiolini A. , Fountoulakis K. N. , Frye M. A. , Gonzalez‐Pinto A. , Gottlieb J. F. , Grof P. , Harima H. , Henry C. , Isometsä E. T. , Janno S. , Kapczinski F. , Kardell M. , Khaldi S. , Kliwicki S. , König B. , Kot T. L. , Krogh R. , Kunz M. , Lafer B. , Landén M. , Larsen E. R. , Lewitzka U. , Licht R. W. , Lopez‐Jaramillo C. , MacQueen G. , Manchia M. , Marsh W. , Martinez‐Cengotitabengoa M. , Melle I. , Meza‐Urzúa F. , Yee Ming M. , Monteith S. , Morken G. , Mosca E. , Munoz R. , Mythri S. V. , Nacef F. , Nadella R. K. , Nery F. G. , Nielsen R. E. , O'Donovan C. , Omrani A. , Osher Y. , Østermark Sørensen H. , Ouali U. , Pica Ruiz Y. , Pilhatsch M. , Pinna M. , da Ponte F. D. R. , Quiroz D. , Ramesar R. , Rasgon N. , Reddy M. S. , Reif A. , Ritter P. , Rybakowski J. K. , Sagduyu K. , Scippa Â. M. , Severus E. , Simhandl C. , Stein D. J. , Strejilevich S. , Subramaniam M. , Sulaiman A. H. , Suominen K. , Tagata H. , Tatebayashi Y. , Tondo L. , Torrent C. , Vaaler A. E. , Veeh J. , Vieta E. , Viswanath B. , Yoldi‐Negrete M. , Zetin M. , Zgueb Y. , Whybrow P. C. 
Published: July 2017

ObjectiveTo confirm prior findings that the larger the maximum monthly increase in solar insolation in springtime, the younger the age of onset of bipolar disorder.MethodData were collected from 5536 patients at 50 sites in 32 countries on six continents. Onset occurred at 456 locations in 57 countries. Variables included solar insolation, birth‐cohort, family history, polarity of first episode and country physician density.ResultsThere was a significant, inverse association between the maximum monthly increase in solar insolation at the onset location, and the age of onset. This effect was reduced in those without a family history of mood disorders and with a first episode of mania rather than depression. The maximum monthly increase occurred in springtime. The youngest birth‐cohort had the youngest age of onset. All prior relationships were confirmed using both the entire sample, and only the youngest birth‐cohort (all estimated coefficients P < 0.001).ConclusionA large increase in springtime solar insolation may impact the onset of bipolar disorder, especially with a family history of mood disorders. Recent societal changes that affect light exposure (LED lighting, mobile devices backlit with LEDs) may influence adaptability to a springtime circadian challenge.
Can smallholder farmers adapt to climate variability, and how effective are policy interventions? Agent‐based simulation results for Ethiopia
Authors: Berger Thomas , Troost Christian , Wossen Tesfamicheal , Latynskiy Evgeny , Tesfaye Kindie , Gbegbelegbe Sika 
Published: July 2017

AbstractClimate variability with unexpected droughts and floods causes serious production losses and worsens food security, especially in Sub‐Saharan Africa. This study applies stochastic bioeconomic modeling to analyze smallholder adaptation to climate and price variability in Ethiopia. It uses the agent‐based simulation package Mathematical Programming‐based Multi‐Agent Systems (MPMAS) to capture nonseparable production and consumption decisions at household level, considering livestock and eucalyptus sales for consumption smoothing, as well as farmer responses to policy interventions. We find the promotion of new maize and wheat varieties to be an effective adaptation option, on average, especially when accompanied by policy interventions such as credit and fertilizer subsidy. We also find that the effectiveness of available adaptation options is quite different across the heterogeneous smallholder population in Ethiopia. This implies that policy assessments based on average farm households may mislead policy makers to adhere to interventions that are beneficial on average albeit ineffective in addressing the particular needs of poor and food insecure farmers.
International research on vegetable improvement in East and Southern Africa: adoption, impact, and returns
Authors: Schreinemachers Pepijn , Sequeros Teresa , Lukumay Philipo Joseph 
Published: July 2017

AbstractThere is a lack of evidence for impact at scale of vegetable research and development, although the importance of vegetables for human nutrition and smallholder incomes is generally understood. We therefore study adoption and impact of improved tomato and African eggplant varieties developed through international agricultural research, released by national agricultural research and extension systems, and supplied to farmers by private seed companies in East and Southern Africa from 1990 to 2014. The study finds that in 2014, varieties developed by the World Vegetable Center accounted for 50% of tomato and 98% of African eggplant commercial seed production in East and Southern Africa. For Tanzania alone, investment in crop improvement generated economic gains of US$ 255 million for tomato and US$ 5 million for African eggplant up to 2014. The internal rate of return is 26% for tomato and 12% for African eggplant, though we project the latter to increase to 26% by 2024 as the variety was released only in 2007. These findings support the view that agricultural policy and investment reoriented towards contemporary nutritional challenges will give high returns to investment.
A Red Blood Cell Model to Estimate the Hemolysis Fingerprint of Cardiovascular Devices
Authors: Toninato Riccardo , Fadda Giuseppe , Susin Francesca Maria 
Published: July 2017

AbstractOne of the most relevant and open issues within cardiovascular prosthetic hemodynamic performance is a realistic quantification of the damage sustained by red blood cells (RBCs). Specifically, the optimal design of bileaflet mechanical heart valves (BMHVs) requires both low shear stresses along the leaflets and short particle resident times. This study approaches RBC damage estimation by developing a numerical model of RBCs and computing the damage sustained by a set of passive RBCs immersed within in vitro flows. The RBC is modeled as an ellipsoidal shell with size dependent on age. Mechanically, a viscous hyper‐elastic model was adopted to compute the stress‐deformation transmitted by the experimental flow field to the RBC layer. The rupture parameters were calibrated using experimental results on real RBCs submitted to Couette flow. Moreover, the integrated hemolysis index (HI) through a BMHV was computed for a set of RBCs injected in a flow field derived from an in vitro study and for multiple RBC passages. The main results are (1) a good capability of the RBC model to replicate in vitro experiments performed with real RBCs, finding realistic rupture parameters; (2) the spatial distribution for the HI, maximal along the leaflet boundary layer and for long resident times; (3) 90% of HI is produced by the less damaging trajectories, which are favored by local flow dynamics; (4) cumulated HI in 8 days is about 0.01% smaller than the clinical warning threshold, the latter being obtained only after a period of time comparable with the RBC lifetime.
Ultrastructure changes in buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) oocytes before and after maturation in vitro with sericin
Authors: Gustina Sri , Hasbi Hasbi , Karja Ni Wayan Kurniani , Setiadi Mohamad Agus , Supriatna Iman 
Published: July 2017

AbstractThe aim of this research was to identify the changes in the cytoplasmic ultrastructure of immature and matured oocytes in buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). Oocytes were matured in vitro in tissue culture medium−199 with and without sericin, and then analyzed by light and transmission electron microscopy. The experiment result showed that the nuclear maturation rate of buffalo oocytes was significantly higher in the presence of sericin (80.6%) than without sericin (68.1%) (P < 0.05). The immature oocytes were characterized by cortical granule clusters in the ooplasm and the absence of perivitelline space (PVS). In contrast, the oocytes matured either with or without sericin showed the formation of PVS, erected microvilli, the migration of cortical granules to the cytoplasmic periphery, and the clear appearance of the mitochondria and vesicle in the oolemma. Interestingly, matured oocytes with sericin have smaller cortical granules than do immature oocytes (P < 0.05). In conclusion, supplementation of 0.05% sericin in the maturation medium can enhance the maturation rate of buffalo oocytes. Several cytoplasmic ultrastructures were relocated and modulated during the in vitro maturation process of buffalo oocytes: PVS development, cortical granules migration to periphery, and mitochondria and vesicles in the cortical region. The ultrastructure was similar between the groups with and without sericin.
Effect of long‐distance transportation on serum metabolic profiles of steer calves
Authors: Takemoto Satoshi , Tomonaga Shozo , Funaba Masayuki , Matsui Tohru 
Published: July 2017

AbstractLong‐distance transportation is sometimes inevitable in the beef industry because of the geographic separation of major breeding and fattening areas. Long‐distance transportation negatively impacts production and health of cattle, which may, at least partly, result from the disturbance of metabolism during and after transportation. However, alteration of metabolism remains elusive in transported cattle. We investigated the effects of transportation on the metabolomic profiles of Holstein steer calves. Non‐targeted analysis of serum concentrations of low molecular weight metabolites was performed by gas chromatography mass spectrometry. Transportation affected 38 metabolites in the serum. A pathway analysis suggested that 26, 10, and 10 pathways were affected immediately after transportation, and 3 and 7 days after transportation, respectively. Some pathways were disturbed only immediately after transportation, likely because of feed and water withdrawal during transit. Nicotinate and nicotinamide metabolism, and citric acid cycle were affected for 3 days after transportation, whereas propionate metabolism, phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism were affected throughout the experiment. Four pathways were not affected immediately after transportation, but were altered thereafter. These results suggested that many metabolic pathways had marked perturbations during transportation. Metabolites such as citric acid, propionate, tyrosine and niacin can be candidate supplements for mitigating transportation‐induced adverse effects.