bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Does impact of price endings differ for the non-green and green products? Role of product categories and price levels
Authors: Tripathi Avinash , Pandey Neeraj 
Published: February 2018

Purpose
The discount image associated with odd-ending prices has led to its extensive use by retailers. The purpose of this study is to assess the impacts and applications of nine-ending vs round-ending prices on the purchase of green and non-green products at different price levels and under different purchase motivations.

Design/methodology/approach
Three experiments are conducted. The first experiment is a 2 (price ending: nine-ending vs round-ending) × 2 (product appeal: green vs non-green) between-subjects study; the second experiment is a 2 (price ending: nine-ending vs round-ending) × 2 (price level: low price vs high price) × 2 (product appeal: green vs non-green) between-subjects study; and the third experiment examined buyers’ preferences of price endings regarding the purchase of green products having either utility (utilitarian) or pleasure (hedonic) motivation.

Findings
This research highlights that consumers prefer zero-ending prices for green products and pleasure motivation products, but they prefer odd endings for low-priced and utilitarian products. These results support the increased reception of round-ending prices. Accordingly, this study contributes to the literature by providing a boundary condition for odd-ending prices. Specifically, the study finds that the effect of nine-ending prices becomes weaker as the price of the product increases.

Practical implications
The findings of this study have practical implications for managers, as the results indicate that pricing green products and high-quality perception products using round digits and pricing low-priced and utility perception products using odd digits will increase consumers’ purchase intentions. Moreover, pricing the products using round-ending prices will reduce the perception of low quality and deter brand loyalty emanating from a low-priced/discount image of a product.

Originality/value
This research contributes to theoretical and practical aspects of behavioural pricing literature. This research uncovers the buyers’ distinct preferences for zero-ending prices and odd-ending prices when purchasing different products based on different motivations and varied price levels. This is the first research of its kind to explore and compare the impact of psychological pricing on green products. The study also resolves a contradiction in past literature regarding the use of nine-ending prices by providing boundary conditions.
Children and their brands: how young consumers relate to brands
Authors: Lopez Alberto , Rodriguez Rachel 
Published: February 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to understand and explain the process by which child consumers form relationships with brands. Specifically, the authors attempt to understand how child consumers conceptualize brands, why and how they decide to engage in relationships with brands and why they decide to breakup with brands though sometimes reconcile with them.

Design/methodology/approach
A mixed methodology was followed in this research. On the basis of an ethnographic approach, ten in-depth interviews were conducted among 8-12-year-old girls. Subsequently, a survey was completed by 122 children (boys and girls) to quantitatively examine the hypotheses formulated after the qualitative phase.

Findings
Findings from both the qualitative and quantitative studies highlight and confirm that children conceptualize brands according to visual branding components, signs and promotional activities. Furthermore, children make moral evaluations of brand behaviors and judge them as “good” or “bad”. More importantly, the authors propose two typologies: one for the reasons children decide to engage in a positive relationship and another for why children engage in a negative relationship with a brand. Additionally, the authors found that children report having an active or passive relationship role according to the characteristics of the brand relationship. Moreover, despite their young age, children report having broken up relationships with several brands; the reasons are categorized into positive and negative breakups. Finally, the authors found that positive breakups lead to more probable brand relationship reconciliation than negative breakups.

Originality/value
Despite a vast body of literature in the child consumer behavior field, there is scarce research regarding brand relationship phenomena. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first empirical research conducted with child consumers, addressing brand relationship formation, dissolution and reconciliation.
Facing contradictory emotions in event marketing: leveraging on surprise
Authors: Addis Michela , Miniero Giulia , Soscia Isabella 
Published: February 2018

Purpose
This paper aims to explore the role of surprise in reducing the negative impact of an undesired emotion, such as embarrassment, on the attitudes and behavioral intentions of consumers taking part in an event.

Design/methodology/approach
In total, 220 consumers took part in a pre-test/post-test quasi-experimental within-subject design. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling.

Findings
Findings show that an in-store social event designed to elicit young customers’ surprise and feelings of romantic love might also give rise to a relevant negative emotion such as embarrassment, and that surprise can act as a powerful managerial tool in limiting the negative effects of this negative emotion. Moreover, brand attitude and purchase intention are outcomes of positive emotions elicited by the event.

Practical implications
The study shows that event marketing is an appealing but risky strategy. Evoking surprise is an effective way to manage negative emotions such as embarrassment that can arise unintentionally during an event.

Originality/value
The research contributes to the understanding of the role of contradictory emotions in a specific social experience, namely, the event, and focuses on unplanned and undesired the affective contributions of customers.
Customizing persuasive messages; the value of operative measures
Authors: Kaptein Maurits 
Published: February 2018

Purpose
This paper aims to examine whether estimates of psychological traits obtained using meta-judgmental measures (as commonly present in customer relationship management database systems) or operative measures are most useful in predicting customer behavior.

Design/methodology/approach
Using an online experiment (N = 283), the study collects meta-judgmental and operative measures of customers. Subsequently, it compares the out-of-sample prediction error of responses to persuasive messages.

Findings
The study shows that operative measures – derived directly from measures of customer behavior – are more informative than meta-judgmental measures.

Practical implications
Using interactive media, it is possible to actively elicit operative measures. This study shows that practitioners seeking to customize their marketing communication should focus on obtaining such psychographic observations.

Originality/value
While currently both meta-judgmental measures and operative measures are used for customization in interactive marketing, this study directly compares their utility for the prediction of future responses to persuasive messages.
Integrating antecedents of workplace deviance: utilizing AHP approach
Authors: Malik Pooja , Lenka Usha 
Published: February 2018

PurposeThis paper aims to propose an integrated conceptual framework depicting the antecedents of workplace deviance. This framework demonstrates three broad categories of antecedents of workplace deviance incorporating individual, interpersonal and organizational antecedents. The identified antecedents were later ranked in the order of their impact on workplace deviance.Design/methodology/approachPRISMA diagram was used to conduct the systematic literature review and identify the antecedents of workplace deviance. The identified antecedents were later ranked using analytic hierarchy process (AHP). For AHP, data were collected from 20 HR managers and academicians employed in various Indian organizations and institutes.FindingsThis study identified three categories of antecedents of workplace deviance, namely, organizational, interpersonal and individual antecedents. Results of AHP indicated that organizational antecedents have the most significant role in overcoming workplace deviance (18.92 per cent), which was followed by individual (1.47 per cent) and interpersonal level antecedents (1.28 per cent).Practical implicationsThis study posits that organizations should avoid unfavorable exchange with its employees by providing suitable organizational and interpersonal practices and by conducting ethical programs and workshops to discourage deviant practices. Moreover, organizations should conduct integrity tests, personality assessment tests to avoid individuals with negative personality characteristics.Originality/valueThis study adds to the literature on workplace deviance by identifying and classifying all the proposed antecedents of literature in an integrated framework. Moreover, this study used techniques of PRISMA and AHP, which represents novelty in the literature of workplace deviance.
Proposing a sequential operationalization of absorptive capacity
Authors: Chaudhary Sanjay , Batra Safal 
Published: February 2018

PurposeThis paper makes an attempt to demonstrate the importance of breaking absorptive capacity (AC) into two sequential components, to effectively measure and utilize the construct.Design/methodology/approachData on potential AC, realized AC and firm performance were collected utilizing survey questionnaire administered to 284 Indian SMEs operating in the automotive service segment.FindingsTo test the proposed hypotheses, the authors broke AC into its two sequential components – potential AC and realized AC, and tested their linkages with firm performance. The authors not only found the sequential components to be more reliable, but also found better explanation of firm performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings in this paper have crucial implications for researchers working in the domain of AC and knowledge management. By demonstrating the operationalization of AC as two sequential components, the authors make a case for more effective utilization of the construct in future studies.Originality/valueThis study is among the few research attempts that have tried to create a sequential operationalization of AC. The findings clearly reveal that potential AC is an enabler of the realized AC, which in turn enhances firm performance.
Ozone effects on European forest growth—Towards an integrative approach
Authors: Cailleret Maxime , Ferretti Marco , Gessler Arthur , Rigling Andreas , Schaub Marcus 
Published: February 2018

Abstract

The phytotoxic impacts of tropospheric ozone on cellular and molecular processes are increasingly understood and quantified. They generally lead to a decrease in plant carbon uptake that is mainly detectable at leaf scale. At larger scales, most of the empirical and modelling studies reported negative ozone effects on productivity, but the latest empirical studies and model developments temper these observations and simulations.

Ozone impacts on European forest growth are controversial and seem negligible because of (1) differences among tree sizes and species, sites, data sources and methodological approaches, (2) the moderate link between adult tree growth and carbon uptake, (3) the presence of several confounding factors such as drought or nitrogen fertilization, and of legacy effects of past land use and management on stand development, and (4) the presence of compensatory processes such as tree acclimation, population adaptation and changes in competition intensity and species composition.

We provide a comprehensive review of the empirical and modelling approaches available for ozone risk assessment by detailing their respective main outputs, advantages and limits, and examine research gaps.

Synthesis. To disentangle between the forcing factors and to better understand ozone impacts at each ecosystem level and feedbacks across levels, and to reinforce the strength of ozone impact predictions, we recommend to combine ozone‐controlled experiments and long‐term monitoring data with physiological and forest succession process‐based models.
Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity, Engagement, and Performance
Authors: LI SHELLEY XIN , SANDINO TATIANA 
Published: February 2018

ABSTRACTMany service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by JAR, to test whether an information sharing system recording employees’ creative work affected the quality of creative work, job engagement, and financial performance. We found that, on average, this system did not have a significant effect on any of these outcomes. However, it significantly improved the quality of creative work in stores that had accessed the system more frequently and in stores with fewer same‐company nearby stores. It also improved creative work and job engagement in stores in divergent markets, where customers needed more customization. We found weak evidence of better financial results where salespeople had lower creative talent before the system was introduced. Our findings shed light on those conditions in which information sharing systems affect employees’ creative work.
Stem cell transplant in systemic sclerosis: An Indian experience
Authors: Nair Velu , Vasdev Vivek , Kumar Abhishek , Shankar Subramanian , Nair Vivek , Sharma Ajay 
Published: February 2018

AbstractAimTo prospectively evaluate long term outcomes in a cohort of patients with Systemic sclerosis treated with Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT).MethodThis is a prospective observational study of four SSc patients who underwent HSCT at a tertiary care center in India between 2008–2012. The selection criteria included young individuals with rapidly progressive disease and at least one major organ involvement. We used granulocyte colony‐stimulating factor for peripheral blood stem cell mobilization, pre‐transplant conditioning with fludarabine, cyclophosphamide and rabbit anti‐thymocyte globulin followed by re‐infusion of autologous stem cells as per standard institute protocol.ResultsA total of four patients (one male and three females) underwent autologous HSCT for SSc. Patients had heterogeneous disease manifestations including severe Raynaud's phenomenon with vasculopathic ulcers, gastrointestinal problems and mild interstitial lung disease (ILD). Patients were followed up for a mean duration of 7 years. There was significant sustained improvement in skin score, vasculopathy and gastrointestinal manifestations. Interstitial lung disease did not show any deterioration. The quality of life indices showed remarkable improvement in all subjects. No complications related to transplant were noted.ConclusionIn absence of an effective pharmacotherapy for SSc, autologous HSCT has a huge potential in management of cutaneous and internal organ manifestations.
Twenty‐year analysis of implant treatment in an Australian public dental clinic
Authors: Duong A , Dudley J 
Published: February 2018

AbstractBackgroundThis retrospective cohort study reviewed dental implant treatment completed at the Adelaide Dental Hospital over a 20‐year period.MethodsThe database of implant treatment completed between 1996 and 2015 was analysed for patient, implant, prosthesis and operator specifics together with known implant status.ResultsThree hundred and twenty patients (mean age, 51.50 years) were treated with 527 implants. One hundred and eighty‐four female patients received 296 implants and 136 males received 231 implants. Three hundred implants were restored with single crowns, 147 implants were restored with 63 mandibular implant overdentures, five implants were restored with two maxillary implant overdentures and 67 implants were restored with 20 full‐arch fixed prostheses. The overall known implant survival rate was 87.67%. Mandibular implant overdentures had a risk of implant failure four times that of single implant‐retained crowns that was statistically significant (P = 0.0100).ConclusionsImplant treatment completed in this public sector clinic using finite resources and a defined system of patient and restorative selection criteria demonstrated a high known implant survival rate. Utilizing a structured and maintained patient recall protocol, it would be ideal to investigate further parameters of interest, particularly those that could improve treatment delivery and longevity.
Evidence for species‐specific plant responses to soil microbial communities from remnant and degraded land provides promise for restoration
Authors: Smith Monique E. , Delean Steven , Cavagnaro Timothy R. , Facelli José M. 
Published: February 2018

AbstractBelow‐ground interactions between soil microbial communities and plants play important roles in shaping plant community structure, but are currently poorly understood. Understanding these processes has important practical implications, including for restoration. In this study, we investigated whether soil microbes from remnant areas can aid the restoration of old‐fields, and whether soil microbes from an old‐field encourages further invasive establishment. In a glasshouse experiment, we measured growth and survival of two native grasses (Austrostipa nodosa and Rytidosperma auriculatum) and an invasive grass (Lolium rigidum) grown in sterile soil inoculated with whole soil from three locations: an old‐field, a remnant grassland, and a seed orchard planted with native grasses 7 years ago. Plants grown in sterile, non‐inoculated soil acted as controls. The orchard inoculant was included to test whether soil microbes from an area cultivated with native grasses induced plant responses similar to remnant areas. The remnant treatment resulted in the highest biomass and no mortality for R. auriculatum. All inoculant types increased the biomass of the invasive species equally. The native grass, A. nodosa, was the most sensitive to the addition of inoculum, whereas the invasive L. rigidum suffered very low mortality across all treatments. Overall, mortality was highest in the old‐field treatment at 42.9%. These results give insights into how soil microbes can affect community structure and dynamics, e.g. the high mortality of natives with old‐field inoculant may be one mechanism that allows invasive species to dominate. Poorer performance of native species with the orchard inoculant suggests it would not make a suitable replacement for remnant soil; therefore, more work is needed to understand the requirements of target species and their interactions before this technique can be exploited to maximum benefit.
Can pelvic floor trauma be predicted antenatally?
Authors: Caudwell‐Hall Jessica , Kamisan Atan Ixora , Brown Chris , Guzman Rojas Rodrigo , Langer Susanne , Shek Ka L. , Dietz Hans P. 
Published: February 2018

AbstractIntroductionLevator trauma is a risk factor for the development of pelvic organ prolapse. We aimed to identify antenatal predictors for significant damage to the levator ani muscle during a first vaginal delivery.Material and methodsA retrospective observational study utilizing data from two studies with identical inclusion criteria and assessment protocols between 2005 and 2014. A total of 1148 primiparae with an uncomplicated singleton pregnancy were recruited and assessed with translabial ultrasound at 36 weeks antepartum and 871 (76%) returned for reassessment 3–6 months postpartum. The ultrasound data of vaginally parous women were analyzed for levator avulsion and microtrauma. The former was diagnosed if the muscle insertion at the inferior pubic ramus in the plane of minimal hiatal dimensions and within 5 mm above were abnormal on tomographic ultrasound imaging. Microtrauma was diagnosed in women with an intact levator and if there was a postpartum increase in hiatal area on Valsalva by >20% with the resultant area ≥25 cm2.ResultsThe complete datasets of 844 women were analyzed. Among them, 609 delivered vaginally: by normal vaginal delivery in 452 (54%), a vacuum birth in 102 (12%) and a forceps delivery in 55 (6%). Levator avulsion was diagnosed in 98 and microtrauma in 97. On multivariate analysis, increasing maternal age, lower body mass index and lower bladder neck descent were associated with avulsion. Increased bladder neck descent and a family history of cesarean section (CS) were associcated with microtrauma.ConclusionsMaternal age, body mass index, bladder neck descent and family history of CS are antenatal predictors for levator trauma.
The Griffiths Development Scales‐Chinese (GDS‐C): A cross‐cultural comparison of developmental trajectories between Chinese and British children
Authors: Tso W. W. Y. , Wong V. C. N. , Xia X. , Faragher B. , Li M. , Xu X. , Ao L. , Zhang X. , Jiao F.‐Y. , Du K. , Shang X. , Wong P. T. Y. , Challis D. 
Published: February 2018

AbstractBackgroundThe Griffiths Mental Development Scales (GMDS) are used in many countries to assess the development of children from birth to 8 years. There is a need for accurate and culturally appropriate developmental assessment tools for Chinese children. Here, we adapted the GMDS for use in Chinese children and compare the developmental trajectories between Chinese and British children.MethodsChildren with typical development were recruited from 7 urban cities in China between 2009 and 2013. The Griffiths Mental Development Scales‐Chinese (GDS‐C) were adapted and used to assess the development of urban Chinese children. Developmental curves were computed for 6 subscales using learning management system methods and compare against the British curves from the Griffiths Mental Development Scales‐Extended Revised (GMDS‐ER).ResultsThe GDS‐C were used to assess the developmental status of 815 Chinese children. Plots of the 1st, 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th, 95th, and 99th percentiles, and full percentile tables were obtained, which showed similar trends to data from the British GMDS‐ER.ConclusionsThe Chinese developmental curves obtained from the GDS‐C showed similarities and differences to the developmental curves from the British GMDS‐ER. The development of urban Chinese children should be assessed with the culturally appropriate GDS‐C.