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Advances in corporate brand, corporate heritage, corporate identity and corporate marketing scholarship
Authors: Balmer John M.T. 
Published: August 2017

Purpose
This article introduces the special symposium entitled “Advances in corporate brand, corporate heritage, corporate identity and corporate marketing scholarship” and provide a synopsis of the five articles constituting this symposium. By means of context, this article celebrates the anniversaries of four marketing milestones apropos the formal introduction of the corporate brand concept (1995), the formal introduction of the corporate heritage notion (2006), the first special edition (in this journal) devoted to corporate identity (1997) and the formal introduction of the corporate marketing philosophical approach (1998). The latter – corporate marketing – can be viewed as a revolution in marketing thought by noting that mutually beneficial company–stakeholder relationship can be based on corporate identities and corporate brands are not restricted to products and/or services.

Design/methodology/approach
Taking a retrospective, this paper explains the four marketing milestones detailed above and notes the revolutionary notion of corporate marketing. All of the aforementioned have meaningfully advanced marketing scholarship over the last 20 years.

Findings
This study provides 18 reflections of developments with the corporate brand and corporate identity fields. It also shows the seminal importance of European Journal of Marketing (EJM) special editions on the territory dating back to 1997.

Practical implication
This paper discusses how corporate identity, corporate branding, corporate heritage, corporate identity and corporate marketing have, increasingly, become mainstream marketing concerns.

Originality/value
In marking these milestones, this celebratory EJM symposium comprises cutting-edge scholarship on the aforementioned areas, penned by renowned and prominent scholars from Australia, England, Germany and the USA.
ICT services to students in the greater Accra region of Ghana
Authors: Dzandza Patience Emefa 
Published: August 2017

Purpose
This paper aims to describe an information and communication technology (ICT) training programme in the central library in Ghana, to discuss the benefits of the programme and the challenges faced by those delivering it and to relate this work to the broader development goals of the UN and the Africa Union (AU), offering some recommendations on how the programme can be made more effective.

Design/methodology/approach
The study adopted a qualitative approach to help determine the modality of the programme to two junior high schools (JHSs) in the area that benefit weekly from the training programmes offered at the ICT corner. Interviews were conducted with two staff of the ICT corner to help gather information on the services that the ICT corner offers and the challenges with the programme; ICT teachers and a library coordinator of the two JHSs were also interviewed to find out about their opinion on the programme and the impact they think the programme can make to help achieve the agenda of equipping the youth with ICT skills. Focus group discussions were held with two classes from the JHSs for them to indicate the ICT skills they have acquired from the training and what they can use the skills to achieve. The researcher also witnessed two training sessions and observed daily activities of the ICT corner and the method of instruction.

Findings
The study brought to fore the contribution GhLA is making to help Ghana achieve Agenda 2063 and 2030 by helping students acquire basic ICT skills that are motivating them to use computers in their daily activities.

Originality/value
The study highlighted the importance of libraries in the twenty-first century and recommendations were made, among others, that, the facility should be replicated in all public libraries to be used by schools that do not have their own ICT lab in Ghana and the library should employ more staff to help with the training.
The business of the library is service
Authors: Massis Bruce E. 
Published: August 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to suggest that today’s libraries function using business practices in its management of the library to ensure that its service-based mission is respected.

Design/methodology/approach
Literature review and commentary on this topic that has been addressed by professionals, researchers and practitioners.

Findings
Libraries have learned from business the importance of using not only the business practice of using a vigorous level of data-driven decision-making, but data-driven reporting as well to a public that expects a higher level of scrutiny, clarity and precision. Paired with evidence from those who have benefitted from the library’s programs and services most visibly, this combination of data and human-driven anecdotes can serve as the optimum marriage of business and service-based confirmation of library success.

Originality/value
The value in exploring this topic is to make the distinction between libraries whose supporters expect it to be formally managed like a business as opposed to those who suggest that business practices be used in library operations to ensure its mission as a service-based entity is maintained.
The effects of smileys on receivers’ emotions
Authors: Lohmann Katja , Pyka Sebastian Stefan , Zanger Cornelia 
Published: August 2017

PurposeNowadays, computer-mediated communication (CMC) is an inherent part of consumers’ daily interactions. That kind of communication, however, is associated with limited options to express emotions and, thus, impairs smooth interactions. Considering these shortcomings, existing research has paid attention to the use of smileys and examines their impacts on communication. Nevertheless, little is known about the effects of smileys on the receivers’ emotions as well as on the interaction between the communication partners. Against this background, the study aims to investigate the appropriateness of smileys in causing emotional contagion in CMC. That interpersonal mechanism fosters harmonic interactions and strengthens the relationship between interaction partners by sharing emotions.Design/methodology/approachField data of 1,745 females were obtained through an online experiment applying two scenarios that only differ by the use of either a positive or a negative smiley. The appropriateness of both smileys to express positive or negative emotions was pretested in a study with 18 respondents.FindingsThe findings support the assumption that emotions expressed by smileys affect receivers’ emotions through the process of emotional contagion. Furthermore, the effects of the negative smiley on the emotions of the receivers are moderated by the receivers’ susceptibility to emotional contagion.Originality/valueFindings contribute to current research on CMC by offering a deeper understanding of the impacts of smileys on interactions. In that way, the present study underlines the suitability of smileys to stimulate emotional contagion in a “cueless” environment.
Does the crowdfunding platform matter? Risks of negative attitudes in two-sided markets
Authors: Lacan Camille , Desmet Pierre 
Published: August 2017

PurposeCrowdfunding offers a popular means to raise donations online from many contributors. Open calls for contributions involve another actor too, namely, the internet platform that maintains the two-sided market. This paper aims to examine the effect of this intermediary on contributors’ willingness to participate in crowdfunding projects.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey measures the relative effect of contributors’ attitudes towards the crowdfunding platform on two key behaviours: willingness to share word-of-mouth and willingness to participate in a project.FindingsUsing the theoretical framework of a two-sided market, the empirical study reveals that attitudes towards a crowdfunding platform moderate contributors’ willingness to participate due to several risk factors that affect the platform’s perceived usefulness and ease of use. These factors have negative influences on attitude towards the platform, which reduces support for the project. The effects are stronger for willingness to participate than for word-of-mouth intentions.Research limitations/implicationsDeclarative measures and a focus on the utilitarian dimensions of contributor participation limit the external validity of the findings.Practical implicationsWith the results of this study, internet platforms can find ways to improve the attitudes of potential contributors. Project creators can use the findings to adapt their communication campaigns and reduce inhibitions that keep contributors from using platforms.Originality/valueThis study advances marketing and crowdfunding literature by highlighting the potential dark side of a platform that functions as an intermediary in a two-sided market.
Global products marketing strategy of two European MNCs in Vietnam
Authors: Wafler Beat Hans , Badir Yuosre F. 
Published: August 2017

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze how two multinational companies (MNCs) faced the challenge of market uncertainty and political instability in a newly emerging market, and how it affected the impact of their product marketing strategy (PMS) and product (brand) performance.

Design/methodology/approach
A comparative longitudinal paired case study of a market entry by two global MNCs. Twelve global brands (products) were studied, which were locally manufactured and launched by the two MNCs during their first ten years of operation in Vietnam.

Findings
The authors approached the investigation from a conventional point of view: standardization versus adaptation. The results showed that in addition to these two traditional processes, a third one was also operating, which the authors labeled semi-adaptation, or the midway PMS. Semi-adaptation refers to a product that has been introduced to Vietnam from a neighboring country.

Research limitations/implications
This research is based on two European MNCs active in the food and consumer-household goods industry in a newly emerging market: Vietnam.

Practical implications
This primary data indicate that the product standardization, semi-adaptation and adaptation process in practice is a technique applied to fit a product to a newly emerging market more by degree of change than by product category.

Originality/value
This paper supports a recent stream of research, which views Standardization or Adaptation as the two ends of the same continuum, where the degree of the firm’s PMS can range between them.
Experimental investigation on SFRC behaviour under elevated temperature
Authors: Goremikins Vadims , Blesak Lukas , Novak Josef , Wald Frantisek 
Published: August 2017

Purpose
This work aims to present an experimental study of steel fibre-reinforced concrete (SFRC) subjected to high temperature, especially focusing on residual behaviour.

Design/methodology/approach
Compressive strength and split tensile strength of SFRC cubes and ultimate bending strength of prisms were evaluated under ambient and elevated temperatures. The specimens were heated by ceramic heaters and then repacked for testing.

Findings
The results showed that a compressive strength of SFRC is reduced by 38 and 66 per cent, tensile strength is reduced by 25 and 59 per cent and ultimate bending force is reduced by 33 and 56 per cent in case of 400°C and 600°C, respectively, comparing with ambient temperature.

Originality value
The developed testing procedure could be used for determination of material properties of SFRC under elevated temperatures.
Planning for Brexit: the Case of the 1975 Referendum
Authors: Evans Adam 
Published: August 2017

AbstractBoth during and since the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union, concerns were raised as to the absence of contingency planning within Whitehall. This situation was in direct contrast with 1975, when extensive planning took place for the possibility of a vote to leave the European Community. However, there has been little in the way of detailed analysis of the contingency planning undertaken in 1975. Using archival evidence of the Wilson government's preparations, this article highlights the complex challenge that withdrawal would have posed for the UK in 1975, the tensions that existed between the political imperative for a swift withdrawal, in the event of a leave vote, and the civil service's concerns as to whether such a withdrawal was deliverable. Finally, it shows how dependent the UK's position would have been on the approach taken by the other members of the EC.
Trauma, innocence and the core complex of dissociation
Authors: Kalsched Donald E. 
Published: August 2017

AbstractTrauma survivors often lament that they have lost their innocence or lost their souls and that something vulnerable and whole about themselves has been ‘broken’ or annihilated. Yet when the psychotherapeutic relationship begins, and symbolic material from dreams and the transference emerges, discernible patterns become apparent, indicating that a core of innocence and vitality has not been totally lost or annihilated. On the contrary, it has been ‘saved’ by dissociation and its system of inner objects and their protective and/or persecutory narrative ‘scripts’ or ‘schemas’. The dissociative system splits off a wounded, orphaned ‘child’ in the psyche and clinging to this ‘child’ is a penumbra of innocence that apparently must be preserved at all costs. Unfortunately the costs of preservation are high because such encapsulated innocence becomes malignant, and the inner world turns perverse and destructive. Only when the wounded, orphaned, and innocent part of the personality is allowed to suffer experience again – this time with the promise of a new outcome – can true healing of trauma occur. How to facilitate this authentic suffering in the face of powerful resistances thrown up by the ‘system’, will be the focus of this paper.
The latency complex: the dead hand of anti‐development
Authors: Proner Barry D. 
Published: August 2017

AbstractIt is common knowledge that the same phenomena can be viewed in a variety of ways. This paper considers the implications of a constellation observed in some adult patients who have increasingly reminded the author of some of the children of latency age with whom he has also worked. In the literature these patients may also have been thought about in terms of ‘defences of the self’ (Fordham), patients who are ‘difficult to reach’ (Joseph), ‘psychic retreats’ (Steiner), and those who make ‘attacks on linking’ (Bion). They may equally be considered in terms of schizoid, narcissistic or borderline personalities, or as showing features on the autistic spectrum, such as mindlessness and extreme obsessionality.Writers such as Helene Deutsch with her concept of an ‘as‐if personality’, Winnicott with his ‘false self’, and Rosenfeld, discussing the split‐off parts of the personality in narcissistic patients, have also offered much to think about in their consideration of some of these phenomena. This paper proposes yet another vertex – the author's own imaginative conjecture – that is by no means mutually exclusive of any of these others.
Prevalence and risk factors of hand eczema in hospital‐based nurses in northern China
Authors: Zhang Dan , Zhang Jin , Sun Shuling , Gao Ming , Tong Ailing 
Published: August 2017

AbstractBackground/ObjectivesThis study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of hand eczema among nurses in northern China and to analyse associated risk factors.MethodsA retrospective self‐reported questionnaire was designed and distributed to 1322 nurses who were selected from three regional hospitals. Risk factors related to hand eczema in nurses were analysed using multivariable logistic regression.ResultsHand eczema was present in 183/934 respondents (20%) and was not significantly associated with gender or workplace (P > 0.05). Factors such as the use of moisturiser (odds ratio [OR] 0.6; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.3–1.0) and not wearing impervious gloves (OR 0.5; 95% CI 0.3–0.7) were associated with lower odds of developing hand eczema. A personal (OR 5.7; 95% CI 3.9–8.2) and family history (OR 2.3; 95% CI 1.5–3.5) of atopy, washing hands more than 20 times per day (OR 1.6; 95% CI 1.1–2.4), and more years working as a nurse (OR 1.1; 95% CI 1.0–1.1) were associated with higher odds of developing hand eczema.ConclusionsA personal and familial history of atopy, the prolonged use of impervious gloves, washing hands more than 20 times per day and more years in work as a nurse are all risk factors for increased hand eczema in nurses.
Contribution of maternal age, medical and obstetric history to maternal and perinatal morbidity/mortality for women aged 35 or older
Authors: Morris Jonathan M. , Totterdell James , Bin Yu Sun , Ford Jane B. , Roberts Christine L. 
Published: August 2017

BackgroundAs age is not modifiable, pregnancy risk information based on age alone is unhelpful for older women.AimTo determine severe morbidity/mortality rates for women aged ≥35 years according to maternal profile based on parity, pre‐existing medical conditions and prior pregnancy complications, and to assess the independent contribution of age.Materials and methodsPopulation‐based record‐linkage study using NSW hospitalisation and birth records 2006–2012. Maternal and perinatal mortality/morbidity were assessed for non‐anomalous singleton births to women aged ≥35 years.ResultsFor 117 357 pregnancies among 99 375 women aged ≥35 years, the median age at delivery was 37 years (range 35–56 years), including: 35 652 (30.4%) multiparae without pre‐existing medical or obstetric complications, 33,058 (28.2%) nulliparae without pre‐existing medical conditions and 30 325 (25.8%) multiparae with prior pregnancy complications. Maternal and perinatal mortality/morbidity varied by maternal profile with ranges of 0.9–3.5% and 2.4–11.9%, respectively. For nulliparae, each five‐year increase in age did not contribute significantly to maternal risk after controlling for medical conditions (adjustedodds ratio 1.08, 95% CI 0.93–1.25), but did confer perinatal risk (1.14; 1.05–1.25). For multiparae, each five‐year increase in age beyond 35 years was independently associated with adverse maternal (1.23; 1.09–1.39) and perinatal outcomes (1.23; 1.09–1.39).ConclusionsFor women aged ≥35 years, presence of medical conditions conferred a greater risk for morbidity/mortality than age itself. For multiparous women, the effects of medical and obstetric history were additive. The contribution of maternal age to adverse outcomes in pregnancies without significant medical and obstetric history is modest.
Letter: role of tenofovir to prevent mother‐to‐child transmission of hepatitis B virus
Authors: Zhang C.‐Y. , Ahir B.‐K. , Wu G‐B. , Zhong J.‐H. , Li L.‐Q. 
Published: August 2017

Linked ContentThis article is linked to Hyun and Lee papers. To view these articles visit https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.14068 and https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.14211.
Letter: role of tenofovir to prevent mother‐to‐child transmission of hepatitis B virus—authors’ reply
Authors: Lee Y.‐S. , Hyun M. H. , Kim J. H. , Yeon J. E. , Byun K. S. 
Published: August 2017

Linked ContentThis article is linked to Zhang et al and Hyun and Lee papers. To view these articles visit https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.14189 and https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.14068.
Letter: a potassium‐competitive acid blocker vs a proton pump inhibitor for healing endoscopic submucosal dissection‐induced artificial ulcers after treatment of gastric neoplasms—authors’ reply
Authors: Kagawa T. , Iwamuro M. , Inaba T. 
Published: August 2017

Linked ContentThis article is linked to Ban et al and Ugimoto and Kagawa papers. To view these articles visit https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.14202 and https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.13747.
Editorial: oesophageal dilation in eosinophilic oesophagitis—can and should, but when and how?
Authors: Kia L. , Hirano I. 
Published: August 2017

Linked ContentThis article is linked to Moaward et al and Molina‐Infante and Lucento papers. To view these articles visit https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.14233 and https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.14123.
Effects of increased vertebral number on carcass weight in PIC pigs
Authors: Huang Jieping , Zhang Mingming , Ye Runqing , Ma Yun , Lei Chuzhao 
Published: August 2017

AbstractVariation of the vertebral number is associated with carcass traits in pigs. However, results from different populations do not match well with others, especially for carcass weight. Therefore, effects of increased vertebral number on carcass weight were investigated by analyzing the relationship between two loci multi‐vertebra causal loci (NR6A1 g.748 C > T and VRTN g.20311_20312ins291) and carcass weight in PIC pigs. Results from the association study between vertebral number and carcass weight showed that increased thoracic number had negative effects on carcass weight, but the results were not statistically significant. Further, VRTN Ins/Ins genotype increased more than one thoracic than that of Wt/Wt genotype on average in this PIC population. Meanwhile, there was a significant negative effect of VRTN Ins on carcass weight (P < 0.05). Thus, our results suggested negative effect of increased thoracic number on carcass weight in PIC pigs.
Dietary methionine source and level affect hepatic sulfur amino acid metabolism of broiler breeder hens
Authors: Wan Jianmei , Ding Xuemei , Wang Jianping , Bai Shiping , Peng Huanwei , Luo Yuheng , Su Zhuowei , Xuan Yue , Zhang Keying 
Published: August 2017

AbstractA study was carried out to investigate the effects of dietary methionine source and level on plasma free amino acids patterns and the expression of genes involved in hepatic methionine metabolism in broiler breeders. A total of 2184 broiler breeders were assigned to 13 dietary treatments, with eight replicates per treatment. The 13 treatments included one control group and 12 additional treatments employing two sources and six levels (0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25 and 1.00%). Higher plasma methionine concentration was measured for DL‐methionine (DLM) treated hens. Plasma alanine concentration was linearly increased as DLM or 2‐hydroxy‐4‐(methylthio) butanoic acid (HMTBA) supplementation level increased. There was a linear increase in concentrations of tyrosine, valine, glycine and serine as dietary DLM supplementation level increased. Hens treated with DLM had higher relative expression of ADA than those fed HMTBA. The expression of MS, ADA, SAHH and MAT2A changed quadratically as HMTBA supplementation level increased, while the expression of GNMT and SAHH changed quadratically as DLM supplementation level increased. In conclusion, the effects of HMTBA on plasma free amino acid patterns and the expression of hepatic genes involved with methionine are different from DLM.
The Influence of Adult and Peer Role Models on Children’ and Adolescents’ Sharing Decisions
Authors: Ruggeri Azzurra , Luan Shenghua , Keller Monika , Gummerum Michaela 
Published: August 2017

This study explores how the age (adult vs. peer) and the suggestion (to be fair vs. unfair) of models affect the sharing decisions of 9‐ and 12‐year‐olds (N = 365) from Italy and Singapore. Results demonstrate a developmental shift in the influence of models on children's and adolescents’ sharing decisions in both cultures: Children's decisions were more affected by an adult model's suggestion than by that of a peer model, whereas the opposite was true for adolescents. Regardless of the models’ influence, participants considered equal sharing to be the fair choice and reported being happier when their sharing decisions were generous. Our results highlight the crucial importance of social and developmental factors for the promotion of fairness judgments and emotions.