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Profitability and risk in interest-free banking industries: a dynamic panel data analysis
Authors: Trabelsi Mohamed Ali , Trad Naama 
Published: October 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Islamic finance could replace or complement the traditional financial system and could guarantee stability in times of crisis.

Design/methodology/approach
To achieve the aim, the authors examined both risk-taking and profitability of 94 Islamic banks (IBs) operating in 18 countries observed during the 2006-2013 financial crisis period. A series of bank-specific and other country-specific indicators are combined to explain profitability of IBs as measured by return on assets and return on equity, and risk divided into credit risk measured by impaired loans/gross loans and total equity/net loans, and insolvency risk measured by Z-score. Indeed, a bank is stronger than another if it is stable with a higher capacity to absorb risks, on the one hand, and increased performance on the other.

Findings
Using dynamic panel data econometrics (generalized moment method system), the authors estimated five regressions and found the following results: bank capital is found to be the main indicator that contributes to maximizing profitability and stability of IBs and reducing their credit risk. However, the study of liquidity and asset quality determinants often leads to inconclusive results. Nevertheless, they found that Gulf region-operating IBs are more profitable, more solvent and less risky than those operating in the South East Asian region. At the macroeconomic level, the authors could not find a significant relationship between inflation rate and IBs profitability. However, unlike for IBs in Southeast Asia, the authors found that inflation rate improves IBs stability and reduces their credit risk level.

Practical implications
The results of this study have numerous implications for bank management and the different stakeholders (investors, customers). This study identified several factors that may help bank managers to improve their financial outlook by controlling risk level and profitability. These factors could as well help to understand how macroeconomic indicators affect both banking risk and profitability, in particular Islamic banking. Likewise, portfolio managers can use these results to support their decisions to include IBs in their assets portfolios to mitigate potential risk.

Originality/value
This study contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, this paper provides fresh data and recent information on Islamic banking in Gulf Cooperation Council and South East Asian countries. Second, the obtained results helped us to conclude that the Islamic financial system cannot replace but rather supplements the traditional system. This result may be explained by the fact that Muslims look for Islamic banking products, which conventional banks are not offering.
Market challenges, learning and customer orientation, and innovativeness in IJVs
Authors: Park Chansoo , Oh Chang Hoon , Kasim Azilah 
Published: October 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to advance a theoretical framework that incorporates the relationship between market challenge and learning and customer orientations, and the influence of these orientations on innovativeness in an international joint venture (IJV) context.Design/methodology/approachThe authors estimate a structural equation model utilizing survey data collected from 199 IJVs in the Republic of Korea.FindingsThe authors found that while market challenge does not influence learning orientation in IJVs, it does have a significant positive influence on customer orientation. Further, the authors’ findings support that both learning orientation and customer orientation have positive impacts on IJV innovativeness. Another interesting finding shows that the impact of learning orientation on IJV innovativeness is significant only when IJVs have high levels of interaction with parent firms. The study also reveals that having a strong learning orientation amplifies the impact of customer orientation on innovativeness in IJVs.Originality/valueDespite increased interest in IJVs, there has been relatively little work linking IJV innovativeness with learning and customer orientations. The study contributes to recent streams of research that seek to understand the role of these orientations in IJV innovativeness.
Role of brand story on narrative engagement, brand attitude, and behavioral intention
Authors: Lee Seonjeong Ally , Jeong Miyoung 
Published: October 2017

PurposeThis study aims to investigate antecedents and outcomes of customers’ narrative engagement on hotels’ social networking sites (SNSs). Four different types of brand story were explored as antecedents for brand story.Design/methodology/approachA cross-sectional, self-administered, online survey was conducted with customers who have stayed at a hotel and have used hotel SNSs within the past 12 months.FindingsResults identified authenticity and humor brand story influenced customers’ narrative engagement, which further influenced their brand attitudes and behavioral intentions. However, reversal and conciseness types of a hotel’s brand story did not lead to customers’ narrative engagement.Research limitations/implicationsThe role of SNSs in the hotel industry is evolving; however, the use of a hotel’s brand story has not been closely examined to date. This study investigated the importance of a hotel’s brand story that influenced customers’ narrative engagement on SNSs.Practical implicationsThe prevalence of SNSs has changed hotel management practices. Hotels are suggested to pay attention to create persuasive brand stories that encourage customers’ visits to the hotel.Originality/valueThis study is an original attempt to propose a conceptual framework, explaining the relationships among different types of hotel brand stories, customers’ narrative engagements, their attitudes and their behavioral intentions in the SNSs context.
Factors affecting customers’ intention to use of location-based services (LBS) in the lodging industry
Authors: Kim Jungsun (Sunny) , Yoon Sungsik , Zemke Dina Marie V. 
Published: October 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of customers’ intentions to use location-based services (LBS) offered by a hotel. The study examined whether hotel customers’ coupon proneness, trust, privacy concerns and familiarity with LBS are significant determinants of their intentions to use LBS.

Design/methodology/approach
An online survey using a scenario-based narrative was administered to collect data from participants who have smartphones and have stayed at a full-service hotel within the previous 12 months. A research model tested data collected from 402 hotel customers, using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling.

Findings
Three proposed determinants (i.e. familiarity, coupon proneness and trust) positively influenced customers’ intentions to use LBS. Out of the four dimensions of privacy concerns (concerns of collection, error, unauthorized secondary use and improper access), only concerns about data collection negatively influenced customers’ intentions to use a hotel’s LBS.

Originality/value
This study extends the literature on LBS adoption and other technology with privacy issues by modifying existing models and empirically testing it in the new context of hotels.
The impact of cognitive style, entrepreneurial attitudes and gender on competitive price responses
Authors: Estelami Hooman , Nejad Mohammad G. 
Published: October 2017

PurposeWhile existing research has established various methods for pricing, the impact of a manager’s individual psychological profile on his/her price setting behavior is relatively unexamined. This is especially critical in the context of pricing decisions implemented in response to competitive forces. This paper aims to explore how a manager’s price responses to price cuts by a competitor are affected by his/her cognitive style, gender and entrepreneurial attitudes.Design/methodology/approachIn the first study, a simulation-based pricing environment is used in a lab setting to capture the dynamics of pricing decisions made in response to competitive price cuts. Participants’ price responses are captured in the form of the magnitude of price change implemented in a simulated environment in response to a competitor’s price reduction. The second study extends the scope of inquiry by using a national sample of business professionals and replicates and reinforces the findings of the first study by capturing participants’ attitudinal response on the decision to reduce prices in reaction to competitive price reductions.FindingsThe results of both studies indicate significant effects for cognitive style, gender and entrepreneurial attitudes. Individuals with stronger entrepreneurial attitudes and analytical cognitive styles, and females are less likely to engage in reactive price reductions.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings of this study indicate that managers’ propensity to engage in price changes in reaction to competitors can be linked to their psychological profile and gender.Practical implicationsGiven the existence of the relationship between price reactions of managers and their cognitive style and entrepreneurial attitudes, the training and development of pricing professionals may need to take these individual-level factors into account.Originality/valueThis is the first study that has linked managers’ propensity to engage in price changes in reaction to competitors to their gender and psychological profile.
Digital booking services: comparing online with phone reservation services
Authors: Schaarschmidt Mario , Höber Björn 
Published: October 2017

Purpose
Many booking services in traditional people-processing service areas such as gastronomy were recently transformed into online reservation services. While advantages for platform providers (i.e. a share of the respective business) and merchants (i.e. increased operational efficiency) seem obvious, it is less known about how customers respond to these new forms of online services. This paper aims to illustrate how booking traditional people-processing services online is different from booking it via phone.

Design/methodology/approach
This study conceptualized a 2 × 2 experimental survey design by manipulating users’ booking channel (online vs low) and the service complexity of different, less digitized people-processing services (high: dentist vs low: restaurant). After conducting several pretests, the authors surveyed 282 respondents familiar with online booking and reservation.

Findings
The results show that the booking channel (online reservation vs phone reservation) affects associated perceived booking risk and negatively affects users’ intention to use the reservation service. Additionally, users’ attitudes toward online reservation moderate the influence of booking channel on perceived booking risk.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first research that investigates adoption of online reservation in people-processing services.
How is the consumer passion for authenticity impacting holidaying?
Authors: Kasriel-Alexander Daphne 
Published: October 2017

Purpose
The paper aims to provide a general review on the importance of authenticity tourism options and on what makes an experience authentic.

Design/methodology/approach
Using statistical data provided from agencies and brands, the author takes a critical look at the evolution and importance of authenticity and experiences for the travel and tourism industry today.

Findings
Part and parcel of the pursuit of authenticity is a conscious debate about what actually counts as authentic; although in tourism, it typically involves an emphasis on experience. However, authenticity is a complex idea – with perceptions differing between people. The author also found that new technologies and social media can bring tourists nearer to the real.

Originality/value
Visual culture in an age of digital communications is unsurprisingly prominent in discussions about the authentic. While social media and selfie culture have affected insecurity about appearance, we are seeing a parallel interest in what is genuine.
The tourist experience in Portugal – how to maintain authenticity?
Authors: Costa Jorge , Carvalho Silva , Rodrigues Daniela 
Published: October 2017

Purpose
This paper aims to identify the importance of authenticity of the tourist experience, based on the main conclusions of the International Tourism Forum Round Table, attended by representatives of the main entities of the tourism sector in Portugal.

Design/methodology/approach
The main conclusions resulting from the International Tourism Forum Round Table are presented and discussed. The event was organised by the Institute for Tourism Planning and Development, under the theme “Tourism in 2017: trends and opportunities for businesses and destinations”.

Findings
The International Tourism Forum Round Table concluded that the tourism industry worldwide and in Portugal in particular, is facing major challenges that call for innovative ways of managing the tourist experience. Several questions regarding the negative impacts of tourism have been discussed, with authenticity being one of the major concerns.

Originality/value
The profiling of the current state of Portuguese tourism, its opportunities and challenges allows the design of more effective strategies to improve the Portuguese tourist offer and the experience of tourists visiting Portugal.
Portuguese tourism strategy 2027 Leading the tourism of the future
Authors: Araújo Luís 
Published: October 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present the Portuguese Tourism Strategy for 2027.

Design/methodology/approach
The main political decisions related to tourism are analysed and are related to the sector’s present performance.

Findings
Current tourism results show the sector’s capacity in generating more revenue, more employment and the ability to increasingly spread out the activity throughout the year and across the territory.

Originality/value
This article concludes that there remain some challenges that the tourism sector faces, including the need to minimize the effects of seasonality, increase territorial cohesion, capitalize tourism companies, increase innovation and entrepreneurship, among others. All these are part of the main issues for Portuguese tourism in the next decade.
How are companies and destinations “surfing the wave” of global tourism?
Authors: Costa Jorge 
Published: October 2017

Purpose
This paper aims to introduce the papers in this issue and explain the pertinence of the strategic question.

Design/methodology/approach
A brief context for the strategic question is provided, as well as the issue alignment and a content analysis of the papers selected.

Findings
From the analysis of the papers selected for this theme issue, it becomes clear that tourism has become one of the major players in international commerce, and represents at the same time one of the main income sources for developed and many developing countries.

Originality/value
The papers selected for this issue shed light on an important problem: the maintenance of authenticity in tourist destinations and also the preservation of the quality of life for local inhabitants.
Are We Being Served? Emotional Labour in Local Government in Victoria, Australia
Authors: Rayner Julie , Lawton Alan 
Published: October 2017

AbstractThis paper explores how front‐line street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) cope with the expectations of citizens, clients, or ‘customers’ in daily work and how SLBs may be impacted by emotional labour. The study analyses data from 41 interviews with SLBs in local councils in Victoria, Australia. Although exploratory, it builds awareness and understanding of the emotional labour associated with public service. The situations that SLBs engage with on a daily basis are many and varied and take the form of increased expectations and intense encounters. Respondents experienced abuse, threats, violence, but also ‘sparkle moments’. Resources that helped SLBs cope are diverse and located both within and outside organisations. Implications are discussed and issues that merit additional investigation are raised concerning how SLBs can be supported to better meet the demands of the public. The research is of value to public managers and SLBs operating in a changing society with increased ‘customer’ expectations.
Hybrid bodies and the materiality of everyday life: how people living with pacemakers and defibrillators reinvent everyday routines and intimate relations
Authors: Oudshoorn Nelly 
Published: October 2017

AbstractTechnologies inside bodies pose new challenges in a technological culture. For people with pacemakers and defibrillators, activities such as passing security controls at airports, using electromagnetic machines, electrical domestic appliances and electronic devices, and even intimate contacts with their loved ones can turn into events where the proper functioning of their device may be at risk. Anticipation of potentially harmful events and situations thus becomes an important part of the choreography of everyday life. Technologies inside bodies not only pose a challenge for patients living with these devices but also to theorising body‐technology relations. Whereas researchers usually address the merging of bodies and technologies, implants ask us to do the opposite as well. How are we to understand human‐technology relations in which technologies should not entangle with bodies because they serve other purposes? Based on a study of the daily life practices of people with pacemakers and defibrillators in the Netherlands and the US, I argue that disentanglement work, i.e. work involved to prevent entanglements with objects and people that may inflict harm upon implanted devices, is key to understanding how hybrid bodies can survive in today's densely populated technological landscape.
A randomized trial of automated intermittent ropivacaine administration vs. continuous infusion in an interscalene catheter
Authors: Oxlund J. , Clausen A. H. , Venø S. , Nielsen M. D. , Pall M. , Strøm T. , Toft P. 
Published: October 2017

BackgroundUltrasound‐guided interscalene nerve block with ropivacaine as local anesthetic agent given as boluses or continuous infusion is the preferred pain management after major shoulder surgery. The use of automated intermittent boluses has been shown to be superior to continuous infusion in sciatic and epidural nerve block. Hypothesis: Automated intermittent boluses reduce pain after major shoulder surgery.MethodsSeventy patients aged 18–75 years, scheduled for major shoulder surgery under general anesthesia with interscalene nerve block were included in this randomized controlled trial. Patients were allocated to either automated intermittent boluses with 16 mg ropivacaine every 2 h combined with patient‐controlled administration or to a conventional regimen of continuous infusion of 8 mg/h (4 ml/h) of ropivacaine combined with patient controlled administration (2 ml, lockout time 30 min). Pain (Visual Analog Scale, VAS) was assessed every 8 h postoperatively.ResultsFifty‐seven patients completed the study, 29 in the continuous infusion group and 28 in the automated intermittent bolus group. Shoulder arthroplasty was performed in 49 (86%) of the cases. There were no significant differences in VAS score from 8 to 48 h post‐operatively. No significant difference in opioid usage was observed. The automated intermittent bolus group reported significantly less force on coughing and more hoarseness. A significantly lower volume of ropivacaine was used in the automated intermittent bolus group.ConclusionAutomated intermittent boluses did not reduce pain or rescue opioid consumption compared with continuous infusion of ropivacaine. The automated intermittent bolus group had significantly less force on coughing and more hoarseness.
Modification of Automatic Alcohol‐Approach Tendencies in Alcohol‐Dependent Patients with Mild or Major Neurocognitive Disorder
Authors: Loijen Anke , Rinck Mike , Walvoort Serge J. W. , Kessels Roy P. C. , Becker Eni S. , Egger Jos I. M. 
Published: October 2017

BackgroundTo examine the applicability of an alcohol‐avoidance training procedure in patients with alcohol dependence and alcohol‐induced neurocognitive disorders (NDs), we trained 2 groups that differed in the degree of cognitive impairment: One group fulfilled the DSM‐5 criteria for alcohol‐induced mild ND, and 1 group was diagnosed with Korsakoff's syndrome (KS) (alcohol‐induced major ND, confabulatory/amnesic subtype; DSM‐5). The intervention is assumed to match the preserved cognitive capacity for implicit learning in both groups.MethodsFifty‐one inpatients with a mild ND and 54 inpatients with KS were trained. Six training sessions (including pre‐ and posttests) of a computerized implicit alcohol approach‐avoidance task were applied. Neurocognitive variables were available from the standard assessment procedure of the clinic.ResultsTraining of alcohol‐avoidance tendencies is feasible in a population with alcohol‐related NDs. The alcohol‐approach bias decreased for both groups in each session. Better learning results over time were obtained in participants with a larger baseline alcohol‐approach tendency. Learning effects were positively related to age and implicit (nondeclarative) memory functioning. No relation between training effects and executive or explicit memory functions was found.ConclusionsTraining of an alcohol‐avoidance tendency can be successfully applied in patients with alcohol dependence including those with alcohol‐induced NDs.
Effect of Chronic Alcohol Abuse on Anabolic and Catabolic Signaling Pathways in Human Skeletal Muscle
Authors: Shenkman Boris S. , Belova Svetlana P. , Zinovyeva Olga E. , Samkhaeva Nudlya D. , Mirzoev Timur M. , Vilchinskaya Natalia A. , Altaeva Erzhena G. , Turtikova Olga V. , Kostrominova Tatiana Y. , Nemirovskaya Tatiana L. 
Published: October 2017

BackgroundAnimal studies showed that alcoholic myopathy is characterized by the reduction in myofiber cross‐sectional area (CSA) and by impaired anabolic signaling. The goal of this study was to compare changes in CSA and fiber type composition with modifications in anabolic and catabolic signaling pathways at the early stages of alcohol misuse in humans.MethodsSkeletal muscle samples from 7 male patients with chronic alcohol abuse (AL; 47.7 ± 2.0 years old; alcohol misuse duration 7.7 ± 0.6 years) were compared with muscle from a control group of 7 healthy men (C; 39.7 ± 5.0 years old). Biopsies from vastus lateralis muscles were taken and analyzed for the changes in fiber type composition, fiber CSA, and for the alterations in anabolic and catabolic signaling pathways.ResultsAL patients did not have detectable clinical myopathy symptoms or muscle fiber atrophy, but the relative proportion of fast fibers was increased. There was a significant decrease in IGF‐1 in plasma and IRS‐1 protein content in muscle of AL group. Levels of total and phosphorylated p70S6K1, GSK3β, and p90RSK1 were not different between AL and C groups. Muscle of AL patients had increased mRNA expression of HSP70 and HSP90. A marker of anabolic pathway p‐4E‐BP1 was decreased, while catabolic markers (MuRF‐1, MAFbx, ubiquitinated proteins) were increased in AL patients when compared with C group.ConclusionsAt the early stages of alcohol misuse in humans, changes in the regulation of anabolic and catabolic signaling pathways precede the development of skeletal muscle atrophy and manifestation of clinical symptoms of alcoholic myopathy.