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Moderating role of personal values on managers’ intention to adopt Green IS
Authors: Dalvi-Esfahani Mohammad , Ramayah T. , Rahman Azizah Abdul 
Published: March 2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the moderating role of the personal values on the antecedents of managers’ intention to adopt Green information system (Green IS) utilising the norm activation theory and the Schwartz’s values system.Design/methodology/approachTo examine the effects of the identified factors on the behavioural intention, the survey method was employed. The questionnaire was distributed targeting decision makers of companies in three industries – oil/gas/energy, transportation and manufacturing and construction. With 146 valid questionnaires in hand, the collected data were analysed using the partial least squares structural equation modelling technique.FindingsThe results revealed that moral obligation (personal norm) of managers influenced their intention to adopt Green IS. While the awareness of consequences and ascription of responsibility are influencing the intention, but the analyses revealed that they are mediated by the personal norm. The moderating role of personal values was further analysed and the results showed that the managers with more orientation towards self-transcendence values have higher intention to adopt Green IS.Originality/valueThis study serves as a call to the IS literature to incorporate values, beliefs, and norms into their model of individual-level decision making towards contemporary innovation adoption. By enriching the understanding of the influence of values and attitudinal factors on the decision-making process, the research model sheds light on how managers intend to diffuse IS initiatives in their organisations for the purpose of environmental sustainability.
Segmentation and explanation of smartphone use for travel planning based on socio-demographic and behavioral variables
Authors: Vallespín María , Molinillo Sebastian , Muñoz-Leiva Francisco 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
Due to the advances in smartphones, many companies in the tourism industry have launched mobile applications intended to reach their target audience. Design of these smartphone strategies requires identification of the profiles of individuals that use tourism services. The purpose of this paper is to explore the predictors of smartphone use for travel planning.

Design/methodology/approach
To achieve this goal, the authors carried out a hierarchical segmentation analysis selecting a group of different socio-demographic (gender, age, education level, marital status, occupation, and income) and behavioral (length of smartphone use and number of yearly leisure trips) variables to explain the use of these devices to search and book tourism products. The study is based on an online survey of 618 Spanish travelers.

Findings
Smartphone use for tourism can be primarily explained according to the users’ degree of daily experience of mobile phone internet use. That is, a spillover effect can be identified from the context of everyday mobile phone use to travel planning. Age, gender and the number of yearly vacations can also be distinguished, to a certain degree, through the use of smartphones. Specifically, there is an inverted U-shape quadratic relationship between the variable of age and the behavior of a potential tourist.

Originality/value
The authors conducted a segmentation study selecting a series of different socio-demographic and behavioral variables with the greatest discriminant power to explain the use of these mobile devices for travel planning. The paper concludes with compelling implications for management.
Word-of-mouth generation and brand communication strategy
Authors: Andrei Andreia Gabriela , Zait Adriana , Vătămănescu Elena-Mădălina , Pînzaru Florina 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
Emerged from a theoretical contradiction, the purpose of this paper is to investigate whether perceptions and behaviors toward new brands depend on the priority assigned to promote the company’s intentions (warmth) vs its abilities (competence).

Design/methodology/approach
The research uses a two-level single factor experiment to test the effects of launch communication strategy (warmth-competence vs competence-warmth) on people’s perceptions and behavioral intents, and applies partial least squares structural equation modeling to explore the collected data.

Findings
Results offer valuable insights into the usage of communication strategy with a view to favor brand perception, referrals, and sales, laying stress on the underlying mechanisms. Research finds that warmth-competence communication strategy has a higher positive influence on brand perception than the reversed strategy. Revealing people’s proneness to promote the new companies perceived as warm and competent, results indicate that perception of warmth mediates word-of-mouth propensity.

Research limitations/implications
The present study brings novel insights for corporate communication, showing that people’s propensity to advocate on behalf of new brands is driven by the perception of company’s warmth. Explaining connections between communication strategy, brand perception, and WOM propensity (supportive or denigrating), the current study adds contributions to the previous findings on warmth and competence stereotypes applied to consumer-brand interactions.

Practical implications
From a managerial perspective, findings offer practical hints about how to use launch communication to improve brand perception and consumer supportive behaviors.

Originality/value
The present study brings novel insights for corporate communication, showing that people’s propensity to advocate on behalf of new brands is driven by the perception of company’s warmth. Explaining connections between communication strategy, brand perception, and word-of-mouth propensity, the current study adds contributions to the previous findings on warmth and competence stereotypes applied to consumer-brand interactions.
Mobile applications in tourism: the future of the tourism industry?
Authors: Tan Garry Wei-Han , Lee Voon Hsien , Lin Binshan , Ooi Keng-Boon 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to extend the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology with psychological constructs, namely, perceived playfulness, mobile innovativeness in information technology and perceived expressiveness (PEX) to examine on the consumers’ intention to adopt mobile applications (m-apps) as another mean in purchasing tourism-related product and services via their mobile devices. The study also included gender as moderating variable.

Design/methodology/approach
Partial least square-structural equation modeling approach was adopted to test the research framework using 474 valid respondents.

Findings
The results demonstrated that only performance expectancy and PEX are non-significant with the intention to adopt. In addition, gender was found to have a moderating effect between social influence and intention.

Practical implications
The study has several useful implications for researchers, m-apps developers, travel-related organizations and even government agencies when rendering m-apps services and disseminating information to their potential consumers.

Originality/value
The study contributes to the growing literature on m-apps in tourism from a developing country’s perspectives.
Macroprudential measures in the housing markets – a note on the empirical literature
Authors: Eerola Essi 
Published: March 2017

PurposeThe global financial crisis has led to increased attention on the relationship of household indebtedness and systemic risks. As a result, macroprudential measures aimed at reducing the risks have been introduced in many countries. The purpose of this paper is to review the recent empirical literature on the measures targeted at households in the housing markets.Design/methodology/approachThis note reviews and discusses the recent empirical literature on macroprudential measures targeted at households in the housing market as well as housing-related tax policy measures.FindingsTo date, the literature mostly consists of cross-country studies using aggregate data and looking at a large set of different measures. The studies typically report associations between the measures and the outcome variables of interest (often credit growth and house price appreciation), but do not assess the causal effects of the different measures or the underlying mechanisms.Originality/valueExploiting household data together with policy reforms should be a useful step forward in understanding the effects of the measures and uncovering the mechanisms through which they operate. This would also allow studying the distributional effects of the measures. Understanding the distributional effects is important in its own right, but it is also required because the ultimate goals of the macroprudential policies are related not only to the aggregate level of credit but also to the distribution of leverage.
Gaps in performance: benchmarking of the Czech and Slovak city libraries
Authors: Vrabková Iveta , Friedrich Václav 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to identify gaps in performance of city libraries from the Czech and from the Slovak Republic engaged in the project Benchmarking of Libraries. The subject of research consists of input and output performance variables of selected 51 city libraries for the period of 2011-2015 and their mutual dependence and influence.

Design/methodology/approach
To analyse relationships among ten input and four output variables, the correlation and regression analyses were used. Regression analysis was focussed on four output variables – numbers of physical visitors of libraries, numbers of loans, numbers of visitors using the internet in the library, and numbers of registered readers. Interpretation of results was supplemented with classification multidimensional analysis Chi-square automatic interaction detection.

Findings
Findings reveal that besides others the significant gap in performance was represented by library additions, which means the renewal of library collections. Performance differences were also found between city libraries in the Czech Republic and those in the Slovak Republic.

Research limitations/implications
This paper evaluates gaps in the performance on representative sample of city libraries. The number of population served among individual selected 51 libraries ranges between 15 and 35 thousand inhabitants. Analysed data are from years 2011-2015.

Originality/value
The paper analyses, by using statistical methods, data that are generated within the benchmarking project. This methodology proves and reveals causalities among performance indicators of city libraries in an unconventional way.
“YouthTalk”: positively engaging young people in Edinburgh
Authors: Kilmurry Evelyn 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to describe the multi-agency approach adopted in Liberton/Gilmerton, Edinburgh in Scotland to positively involve young people in shaping local service provision and to tackle rising anti-social behaviour. The approach and methodology of the engagement process used is described in detail in order to enable other authorities and services to learn from established practice.

Design/methodology/approach
The approach was developed over two years and saw the expression of over 1,500 young people’s views, which influenced 40 local statutory and voluntary services to deliver on over 70 pledges locally to improve service provision in direct response to expressed need.

Findings
The paper summarises the positive outcomes delivered as a result of the work which has transformed the way that partners plan, design and deliver their services locally, and has resulted in many significant outcomes including a 17 per cent drop in youth crime, young people opening their own Youth Cafe, and launching their annual YouthTalk Awards Event. The initiative has been held up by the HMIe as a model of best practice, and is being replicated across the city through other library locations as a successful way to engage young people in improving the quality of life in their communities.

Practical implications
The paper includes implications for the development of library and other services to work in an integrated way to positively engage with young people in order for them to be included in decision-making processes.

Originality/value
This paper contributes to the studies on best practice in working positively with young people.
Public library planning: a routine practice?
Authors: Pacios Ana R. 
Published: March 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study whether organisations, in this case libraries, continue to plan after having done so at least once, and whether they conduct planning on a routine basis.

Design/methodology/approach
The websites of 71 libraries, that in 2006 had a strategic or long-term plan, were analysed to determine whether in 2016 they had a new plan in place. Where there was none or where the name of the plan had changed, e-mails were sent to the head librarian to ascertain the reasons.

Findings
A total of 71.83 per cent of the libraries in the sample had a new plan underway in October 2016, i.e., ten years later. A significant rise (+8.03 per cent) in the number of three-year plans was observed relative to 2006, perhaps because the crisis and resulting uncertainty have induced libraries to narrow their decision-making windows. A preference for the term “strategic plan”: over “long-range plan” was also detected in 2016.

Originality/value
The study provides empirical evidence of the existence of routine planning. The continuity of plans in a series of libraries shows that in practice planning is a systematic, continuous and iterative activity, as contended in planning theory.
In the presence of specialist root and shoot herbivory, invasive‐range Brassica nigra populations have stronger competitive effects than native‐range populations
Authors: Oduor Ayub M. O. , van Kleunen Mark , Stift Marc 
Published: March 2017

SUMMARY

The evolution of increased competitive ability (EICA) hypothesis predicts that release from specialist herbivores enables invasive plants to evolve increased growth. The most powerful tests of EICA hypothesis are provided by approaches that simultaneously assess the effects of specialist herbivory and competitive interactions. However, such approaches are extremely rare, and hence how simultaneous release from root and shoot herbivory influence competitive ability of invasive plants remains little understood.

Here, we tested whether invasive‐range Brassica nigra plants have evolved increased competitive ability, and whether expression of competitive ability depends on separate and simultaneous effects of specialist root and shoot herbivory. To do this, we grew B. nigra plants from eight invasive‐range and eight native‐range populations in the presence vs. absence of competition with a community of native plant species, and in the absence vs. presence of separate and simultaneous damage by a specialist root herbivore (Delia radicum) and a specialist shoot herbivore (Plutella xylostella). Brassica nigra performance was assessed by measuring biomass production and flowering of individual B. nigra plants.

In partial support of the EICA hypothesis, invasive‐range B. nigra had greater flowering than native‐range conspecifics in the absence of competition. However, contrary to a prediction of the EICA hypothesis, invasive‐range B. nigra produced less above‐ground biomass than native‐range B. nigra in the absence of shoot herbivory and competition. Moreover, with simultaneous root and shoot herbivory, invasive‐range B. nigra suppressed a competing community more strongly than native‐range B. nigra did.

Synthesis. Our results suggest that invasiveness may be driven by mechanisms other than increased individual size. Simultaneous root and shoot herbivory in the invasive range may enhance suppressive effects of introduced plant species that have not completely escaped herbivore damage in the introduced range.
Positive symptoms associate with cortical thinning in the superior temporal gyrus via the ENIGMA Schizophrenia consortium
Authors: Walton E. , Hibar D. P. , van Erp T. G. M. , Potkin S. G. , Roiz‐Santiañez R. , Crespo‐Facorro B. , Suarez‐Pinilla P. , Van Haren N. E. M. , de Zwarte S. M. C. , Kahn R. S. , Cahn W. , Doan N. T. , Jørgensen K. N. , Gurholt T. P. , Agartz I. , Andreassen O. A. , Westlye L. T. , Melle I. , Berg A. O. , Mørch‐Johnsen L. , Færden A. , Flyckt L. , Fatouros‐Bergman H. ,   Karolinska Schizophrenia Project Consortium (KaSP), Jönsson E. G. , Hashimoto R. , Yamamori H. , Fukunaga M. , Preda A. , De Rossi P. , Piras F. , Banaj N. , Ciullo V. , Spalletta G. , Gur R. E. , Gur R. C. , Wolf D. H , Satterthwaite T. D. , Beard L. M. , Sommer I. E. , Koops S. , Gruber O. , Richter A. , Krämer B. , Kelly S. , Donohoe G. , McDonald C. , Cannon D. M. , Corvin A. , Gill M. , Di Giorgio A. , Bertolino A. , Lawrie S. , Nickson T. , Whalley H. C. , Neilson E. , Calhoun V. D. , Thompson P. M. , Turner J. A. , Ehrlich S. 
Published: March 2017

ObjectiveBased on the role of the superior temporal gyrus (STG) in auditory processing, language comprehension and self‐monitoring, this study aimed to investigate the relationship betweenSTGcortical thickness and positive symptom severity in schizophrenia.MethodThis prospective meta‐analysis includes data from 1987 individuals with schizophrenia collected at seventeen centres around the world that contribute to theENIGMASchizophrenia Working Group.STGthickness measures were extracted from T1‐weighted brain scans using FreeSurfer. The study performed a meta‐analysis of effect sizes across sites generated by a model predicting left or rightSTGthickness with a positive symptom severity score (harmonizedSAPSorPANSS‐positive scores), while controlling for age, sex and site. Secondary models investigated relationships between antipsychotic medication, duration of illness, overall illness severity, handedness andSTGthickness.ResultsPositive symptom severity was negatively related toSTGthickness in both hemispheres (left: βstd= −0.052;P= 0.021; right: βstd= −0.073;P= 0.001) when statistically controlling for age, sex and site. This effect remained stable in models including duration of illness, antipsychotic medication or handedness.ConclusionOur findings further underline the important role of theSTGin hallmark symptoms in schizophrenia. These findings can assist in advancing insight into symptom‐relevant pathophysiological mechanisms in schizophrenia.
Diagnostic performance and costs of contingent screening models for trisomy 21 incorporating non‐invasive prenatal testing
Authors: Maxwell Susannah , O'Leary Peter , Dickinson Jan E. , Suthers Graeme K. 
Published: March 2017

BackgroundContingent screening for trisomy 21 using non‐invasive prenatal testing has the potential to reduce invasive diagnostic testing and increase the detection of trisomy 21.AimTo describe the diagnostic and economic performance of prenatal screening models for trisomy 21 that use non‐invasive prenatal testing as a contingent screen across a range of combined first trimester screening risk cut‐offs from a public health system perspective.MethodsUsing a hypothetical cohort of 300 000 pregnancies, we modelled the outcomes of 25 contingent non‐invasive prenatal testing screening models and compared these to conventional screening, offering women with a high‐risk (1 > 300) combined first trimester screening result an invasive test. The 25 models used a range of risk cut‐offs. High‐risk women were offered invasive testing. Intermediate‐risk women were offered non‐invasive prenatal testing. We report the cost of each model, detection rate, costs per diagnosis, invasive tests per diagnosis and the number of fetal losses per diagnosis.ResultsThe cost per prenatal diagnosis of trisomy 21 using the conventional model was $51 876 compared to the contingent models which varied from $49 309–66 686. The number of diagnoses and cost per diagnosis increased as the intermediate‐risk threshold was lowered. Results were sensitive to trisomy 21 incidence, uptake of testing and cost of non‐invasive prenatal testing.ConclusionContingent non‐invasive prenatal testing models using more sensitive combined first trimester screening risk cut‐offs than conventional screening improved the detection rate of trisomy 21, reduced procedure‐related fetal loss and could potentially be provided at a lower cost per diagnosis than conventional screening.
Who is and isn't having babies with Down syndrome in western Sydney: a ten year hospital cohort study
Authors: Moses Rebecca M. , Brown James H.W. , Wright Dale C. , Diplock Hayley , Melov Sarah J. , McGee Therese Mary 
Published: March 2017

BackgroundScreening for Down syndrome (DS) is a key component of antenatal care, recommended to be universally offered to women irrespective of age or background. Despite this, the diagnosis of DS is often not made until the neonatal period.AimsTo retrospectively describe and compare the differences in populations with an antenatal diagnosis (AD) and neonatal diagnosis (ND) of DS and to explore why an antenatal diagnosis was not made.Materials and methodsThe cohorts were women cared for at Westmead Hospital whose pregnancy received a diagnosis of DS between 2006 and 2015. The demographic variables of the AD and ND cohorts were examined and reasons why an antenatal diagnosis was not made in the ND cohort were analysed.ResultsThere were 127 diagnoses of DS in the 10‐year period, of which 41% were in the ND cohort (n = 52) and 59% in the AD (n = 75). Declaring a religious affiliation rather than Nil Religion was significantly more common in the ND cohort (88.5%) and especially the ND sub‐cohort who declined DS screening/testing (95.8%) than the AD cohort (72%, P < 0.05). Women who were not offered screening were significantly younger (P < 0.001) than those who were, with 69% and 20% being ≤30 years, respectively.ConclusionsThe proportion of DS pregnancies diagnosed in the antenatal period in western Sydney could be increased by ensuring younger women are not falsely reassured that DS screening is unnecessary for them. While religious affiliation may be a factor when women decline screening, ensuring appropriate counselling remains important.