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The impact of marketing activities on service brand equity
Authors: Kumar Ravi Shekhar , Dash Satyabhusan , Malhotra Naresh K. 
Published: January 2018

Purpose
This study aims to propose and empirically test new improved customer-based brand equity (CBBE) creation framework, which advocates marketing activities create CBBE through customer experience (CE). The proposed framework is in contrast to extant literature suggesting marketing activities directly create CBBE.

Design/methodology/approach
Qualitative interviews with patients, followed by interaction with respondents using a structured questionnaire, were used to collect the data.

Findings
The results suggest that CE is the focal mediating variable for the relationship between marketing activities and CBBE. Out of 15 marketing activities, 8 positively impacted CBBE through CE and 2 negatively affected CBBE through CE. Among the remaining five, three had only a direct positive impact on CBBE and two neither directly nor indirectly impacted CBBE.

Research limitations/implications
The effects of only individual marketing activity, and not of the interaction among marketing activities, were assessed.

Practical implications
The study provides insights into the importance of CE in building CBBE for credence-dominant services (e.g. healthcare). This work will help managers in implementing experiential marketing by designing suitable activities for creating service CBBE.

Originality/value
The study outlines service CBBE creation through CE, offering specific insights for the healthcare market.
Bringing sensory anthropology to consumer research
Authors: Scott Rebecca O. , Uncles Mark D. 
Published: January 2018

PurposeMultisensory stimulation is integral to experiential consumption. However, a gap persists between recognition of the importance of multisensory stimulation and the research techniques used to study the effects of such stimulation on consumption experiences. This article draws on sensory anthropology to narrow the gap.Design/methodology/approachSensory anthropology has the potential to help consumer researchers understand multisensory stimulation and its effect on consumption experiences. To highlight this potential, ethnographic fieldwork is reported for two related experiential settings: yacht racing and adventure racing.FindingsIt is shown how consumer researchers can apply concepts and data collection techniques from sensory anthropology to derive powerful insights into consumption experiences. A set of guidelines and examples is derived from the embodied concepts associated with sensory anthropology, namely, kinaesthetic schema, bodily mimesis, the mindful body and local biology. These concepts are used to comprehend how consumers experience sensations phenomenologically, understand them culturally and re-enact them socially.Practical implicationsBy acknowledging and engaging the senses, researchers can acquire embodied information that would not be evident from the conventional interview, survey or experimental data. Sensory anthropology adds to what is known from psychological, social and cultural sources to enable organisations to differentiate their offerings by means of the senses and sensory expressions, not only in yacht and adventure racing but potentially in many other experiential settings, such as travel, shopping, entertainment and immersive gaming.Originality/valueThis article offers distinct and original methodological insights for consumer researchers by focusing on concepts and data collection techniques that assist the study of experiential consumption from an embodied and corporeal perspective.
A case-based generalizable theory of consumer collecting
Authors: Saridakis Charalampos , Angelidou Sofia 
Published: January 2018

Purpose
Collecting behaviour is a special type of consumption, which consists of several traits, such as “completion”, “perfection”, “caring” and “cooperation”. The purpose of this study is to shed light on this complex consumption behaviour, by effectively developing an empirical typology of collectors and explaining their motivation to engage in collecting.

Design/methodology/approach
In total, 208 questionnaires were collected among Thai collectors. A set-theoretic comparative approach was implemented – namely, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. The value of the proposed approach over conventional correlational methods, is illustrated through an examination of a set of relevant research propositions.

Findings
The study develops an empirical typology of collectors, on the basis of the various collecting behaviour traits. It has been suggested that different combinations of motives are sufficient for identifying collector types accurately, and the proposed typology is stable and generalizable across collectors of different demographic characteristics. Specifically, “expert professionals” are mainly driven by adventure and social motives, while the role of idea motive is crucial for “introvert focusers”. Adventure and social motives are necessary conditions for “extrovert altruists”, while gratification has a deleterious role. The presence of social motive is necessary for “hobbyists”, while the absence of value motive is also required.

Practical implications
The brand collectible market is booming, and the collectibles can be a strategy for brands to maintain existing users and reinforce loyalty levels. Global brands, such as Swatch and Coca-Cola, have been acquired for collection rather than typical consumption purposes. Marketers and brand managers should therefore monitor the motivation behind this complex consumption behaviour. The mosaic of motives to engage in collecting behaviour varies across different types of collectors, and therefore specifically tailored strategies are proposed.

Originality/value
The study tackles the lack of literature specifically focussing on collecting behaviour in relation to motivation. This is the first attempt to empirically derive a collectors’ typology and provide a nuanced coverage of how financial and nonfinancial (hedonic) motives and their combinations affect different collector types.
Influence of aggregated ratings on purchase decisions: an event-related potential study
Authors: Shen Yongchao , Shan Wei , Luan Jing 
Published: January 2018

Purpose
In an online shopping environment, individual reviews and aggregated ratings are important anchors for consumers’ purchasing decisions. However, few studies have considered the influence of aggregated ratings on consumer decision-making, especially at the neural level. This study aims to bridge this gap by investigating the consumer decision-making mechanism based on aggregated ratings to uncover the underlying neural basis and psychological processing.

Design/methodology/approach
An event-related potential experiment was designed to acquire consumers’ electrophysiological records and behavioral data during their decision-making processes based on aggregated ratings. The authors speculate that during this process, review valence categorization (RVC) processing occurs, which is indicated by late positive potential (LPP) components.

Findings
Results show that LPP components were elicited successfully, and perceptual review valence can modulate its amplitudes (one-star [negative] and five-star [positive] ratings evoke larger LPP amplitudes than three-star [neutral] ratings). The electroencephalogram data indicate that consumer decision-making processes based on aggregated ratings include an RVC process, and behavioral data show that easier review valence perception makes the purchase decision-making easier.

Originality/value
This study enriches the extant literature on the impact of aggregated ratings on consumer decision-making. It helps understand how aggregated ratings affect consumers’ online shopping decisions, having significant management implications. Moreover, it shows that LPP components can be potentially used by researchers and companies to evaluate and analyze consumer emotion and categorization processing, serving as an important objective physiological indicator of consumer behavior.
The interactive impact of online word-of-mouth and review helpfulness on box office revenue
Authors: Lee Sangjae , Choeh Joon Yeon 
Published: January 2018

Purpose
While a number of studies examined the eWOM (online word-of-mouth) factors affecting box office, the studies on the impact of review helpfulness on box office are lacking. The purpose of this paper is to fill the void in previous studies and further extend prior work regarding eWOM and box office. In order to explain the interaction effect of helpfulness with other variables on product sales, this study posits that review characteristics such as number of reviews, review rating, review length interact with review helpfulness to have an influence on box office. Further, as the studies that have examined whether eWOM factors are significant in box office performances for the international markets other than US are lacking, this study is targeting Korean markets to validate the effect of eWOM on box office.

Design/methodology/approach
This study used publicly available data from www.naver.com to build a sample of online review data concerning box office. The final sample of the study included 2090 movies.

Findings
The results indicated that in cases when the review is helpful, the number of reviews and review length are more greatly influencing box office. Review rating, review extremity, and helpfulness for reviewer are important determinants for review helpfulness.

Practical implications
Managers can concentrate on the review rating and review extremity of online customer reviews in the design of online sites for movies. The design of user review systems can follow the direction that promotes more helpfulness for online user reviews based on an enhanced understanding of what drives helpfulness voting.

Originality/value
Given that previous studies on the effect of review helpfulness on box office are lacking, it contributes to eWOM literature by investigating the impact of review helpfulness on box office revenue.
Ethical consumption and consumers’ decision making: the role of moral intuition
Authors: Zollo Lamberto , Yoon Sukki , Rialti Riccardo , Ciappei Cristiano 
Published: January 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the understudied antecedents of moral reasoning and cognitive processes that ultimately shape the ethical consumption. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the socio-intuitionist model are integrated. Holistic, inferential, and affective dimensions of intuition are identified as critical antecedents of environmental concerns that then influence the ethical consumption.

Design/methodology/approach
Structural equation modeling is used to analyze intuitive judgments and ethical concerns in 256 US undergraduates. The New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) is used to measure ethical concerns and the ecologically conscious consumer behavior (ECCB) instrument is used to measure ethical consumption.

Findings
The results indicate that inferential intuition, but not affective intuition, significantly predicts the ethical concerns (NEP), which in turn significantly influence all five dimensions of ethical consumption behavior (ECCB).

Practical implications
Managers and marketing strategists should focus on non-rational influences such as moral intuition to effectively promote ethical and responsible consumption.

Originality/value
The TPB and the intuitionist theory are integrated to reveal empirically how intuitive judgments may affect consumer attitudes and to provide new insights regarding the ethical consumption.
Internet of Things‐based wireless networking for seismic applications
Authors: Jamali‐Rad Hadi , Campman Xander 
Published: January 2018

ABSTRACTThere is growing pressure from regulators on operators to adhere to increasingly stricter regulations related to the environment and safety. Hence, operators are required to predict and contain risks related to hydrocarbon production and their infrastructure in order to maintain their licence to operate. A deeper understanding of production optimisation and production‐related risk requires strengthened knowledge of reservoir behaviour and overburden dynamics. To accomplish this, sufficient temporal and spatial resolution is required as well as an integration of various sources of measurements. At the same time, tremendous developments are taking place in sensors, networks, and data analysis technologies. Sensors and accompanying channels are getting smaller and cheaper, and yet they offer high fidelity. New ecosystems of ubiquitous wireless communications including Internet of Things nowadays allow anyone to affordably connect to the Internet at any time and anywhere. Recent advances in cloud storage and computing combined with data analytics allow fast and efficient solutions to handle considerable amounts of data. This paper is an effort to pave the way for exploiting these three fundamental advances to create Internet of Things‐based wireless networks of seismic sensors.To this aim, we propose to employ a recently developed Internet of Things‐based wireless technology, so‐called low‐power wide‐area networks, to exploit their long range, low power, and inherent compatibility to cloud storage and computing. We create a remotely operated minimum‐maintenance wireless solution for four major seismic applications of interest. By proposing appropriate network architecture and data coordination (aggregation and transmission) designs, we show that neither the low data rate nor the low duty cycle of low‐power wide‐area networks imposes fundamental issues in handling a considerable amount of data created by complex seismic scenarios as long as the application is delay tolerant. In order to confirm this claim, we cast our ideas into a practical large‐scale networking design for simultaneous seismic monitoring and interferometry and carry out an analysis on the data generation and transmission rates. Finally, we present some results from a small‐scale field test in which we have employed our Internet of Things‐based wireless nodes for real‐time seismic quality control over clouds.
Impacts of Japan’s negative interest rate policy on Asian financial markets
Authors: Fukuda Shin‐ichi 
Published: January 2018

ABSTRACTThis study explores the spillover effects of Japan’s negative interest rate policy (NIRP) on Asian financial markets. Unlike quantitative and qualitative monetary easing (QQE) without a negative interest rate, the NIRP not only had limited impacts on the Japanese economy but also raised serious concern about the profitability of local financial institutions. It is, thus, likely that its spillover effects were different from those of QQE without a negative interest rate. In the analysis, we examine the spillover effects on Asian stock markets. We find that Japan’s long‐term interest rate decline had significantly positive effects on Asian stock prices in the NIRP period. The results imply that the NIRP, which lowered the long‐term rate below zero, might have benefitted Asian economies. We discuss that this might have happened because local financial institutions that lost their profit opportunities in domestic markets explored a new profit opportunity in emerging Asia after the NIRP was announced.
Long‐lasting pathological consequences of overexpression‐induced α‐synuclein spreading in the rat brain
Authors: Rusconi Raffaella , Ulusoy Ayse , Aboutalebi Helia , Di Monte Donato A. 
Published: January 2018

SummaryIncreased expression of α‐synuclein can initiate its long‐distance brain transfer, representing a potential mechanism for pathology spreading in age‐related synucleinopathies, such as Parkinson's disease. In this study, the effects of overexpression‐induced α‐synuclein transfer were assessed over a 1‐year period after injection of viral vectors carrying human α‐synuclein DNA into the rat vagus nerve. This treatment causes targeted overexpression within neurons in the dorsal medulla oblongata and subsequent diffusion of the exogenous protein toward more rostral brain regions. Protein advancement and accumulation in pontine, midbrain, and forebrain areas were contingent upon continuous overexpression, because death of transduced medullary neurons resulted in cessation of spreading. Lack of sustained spreading did not prevent the development of long‐lasting pathological changes. Particularly remarkable were findings in the locus coeruleus, a pontine nucleus with direct connections to the dorsal medulla oblongata and greatly affected by overexpression‐induced transfer in this model. Data revealed progressive degeneration of catecholaminergic neurons that proceeded long beyond the time of spreading cessation. Neuronal pathology in the locus coeruleus was accompanied by pronounced microglial activation and, at later times, astrocytosis. Interestingly, microglial activation was also featured in another region reached by α‐synuclein transfer, the central amygdala, even in the absence of frank neurodegeneration. Thus, overexpression‐induced spreading, even if temporary, causes long‐lasting pathological consequences in brain regions distant from the site of overexpression but anatomically connected to it. Neurodegeneration may be a consequence of severe protein burden, whereas even a milder α‐synuclein accumulation in tissues affected by protein transfer could induce sustained microglial activation.
Is TWEAK a valid screening questionnaire to identify alcohol risk drinkers among pregnant women in Denmark?
Authors: Præstegaard Camilla , Kesmodel Pia S. , Kesmodel Ulrik S. 
Published: January 2018

AbstractIntroductionIdentification of pregnant alcohol risk drinkers is crucial to prevent adverse birth outcomes. The TWEAK screening instrument has shown promising results for identifying risk drinkers. However, as the effectiveness of the screening questionnaire has only been investigated among American women with mainly low socioeconomic status, we aimed to investigate the ability of TWEAK to identify alcohol risk drinkers among pregnant Danish women.Material and methodsDuring 2000, Danish‐speaking women referred to the Midwife Center at Aarhus University Hospital (n = 1554) and Fredericia Hospital (n = 499) for routine antenatal care were invited to participate in the study at their first visit. The women were interviewed about their periconceptional and current drinking habits including average weekly alcohol consumption and binge drinking. Additionally, the women were also asked the questions related to the TWEAK questionnaire.ResultsWe found that the sensitivity of TWEAK to identify periconceptional risk drinking was quite low, but its ability to identify risk drinkers during pregnancy was marginally higher. Our results suggested that older age (odds ratio 1.46, 95% confidence interval 0.95–2.23), current smoking (odds ratio 2.33, 95% confidence interval 1.63–3.33), being single (odds ratio 2.38, 95% confidence interval 1.38–4.11) and a TWEAK score with a cut‐off score of ≥1 (odds ratio 2.75, 95% confidence interval 2.02–3.76) increased the risk of high‐risk drinking during pregnancy.ConclusionsIn a Danish setting, TWEAK does not seem as an optimal screening tool to identify periconceptional risk drinkers but it may be useful in identifying high‐risk drinking during pregnancy.
The distress thermometer provides a simple screening tool for selecting distressed childhood cancer survivors
Authors: van der Geest I.M.M. , van Dorp W. , Pluijm S.M.F. , van den Heuvel‐Eibrink M.M. 
Published: January 2018

AbstractAimWe investigated the value of the distress thermometer, a one‐item screening tool, in childhood cancer survivors.MethodsThe participants were 286 childhood cancer survivors who visited an outpatient clinic at Erasmus MC University‐Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, for the first time from 2001 to 2008 and completed the distress thermometer and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Higher scores reflected more distress. A HADS score ≥15 was used as the cut‐off point for emotional distress. We calculated the correlation between the HADS and distress thermometer, the relationship between the HADS anxiety and the HADS depression ratings, and the distress score and the sensitivity and specificity for different cut‐off scores of the distress thermometer.ResultsA moderate correlation was found between the HADS score and the distress thermometer (r: 0.56, p < 0.01, interclass correlation 0.40, p < 0.01). In total, 39% of the variability of distress, as measured by the distress thermometer, could be explained by the HADS anxiety and HADS depression ratings. A cut‐off score of at least three on the distress thermometer resulted in a sensitivity of 92% and specificity of 79%.ConclusionThe distress thermometer provided a rapid screening tool for identifying distressed childhood cancer survivors who needed further psychological support.
THE THEORY OF THE LABOR‐MANAGED FIRM: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Authors: DOW Gregory K. 
Published: January 2018

ABSTRACTThe economic theory of the labor‐managed firm dates back 60 years. Here I review the intellectual history of this field, with critical remarks and proposals for future development. The decades of the 1960s–1980s saw a burst of theoretical speculation that generally did not hold up well under empirical scrutiny. By the 1990s, progress on the mainstream theory of the firm was overtaking some of this early research. At the same time, a growing body of econometric work on labor‐managed firms was providing new stylized facts for theorists to explain. While the earlier period was characterized by an excess supply of theories relative to facts, more recently the balance has begun to tip in the opposite direction. I close by suggesting new theoretical directions that might shed light on the empirical asymmetries between capital‐managed and labor‐managed firms.
Impact of testosterone replacement therapy on thromboembolism, heart disease and obstructive sleep apnoea in men
Authors: Cole Alexander P. , Hanske Julian , Jiang Wei , Kwon Nicollette K. , Lipsitz Stuart R. , Kathrins Martin , Learn Peter A. , Sun Maxine , Haider Adil H. , Basaria Shehzad , Trinh Quoc‐Dien 
Published: January 2018

ObjectivesTo assess the association of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) with thromboembolism, cardiovascular disease (stroke, coronary artery disease and heart failure) and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA).MethodsA cohort of 3 422 male US military service members, retirees and their dependents, aged 40–64 years, was identified, who were prescribed TRT between 2006 and 2010 for low testosterone levels. The men in this cohort were matched on a 1:1 basis for age and comorbidities to men without a prescription for TRT. Event‐free survival and rates of thromboembolism, cardiovascular events and OSA were compared between men using TRT and the control group, with a median follow‐up of 17 months.ResultsThere was no difference in event‐free survival with regard to thromboembolism (P = 0.239). Relative to controls, men using TRT had improved cardiovascular event‐free survival (P = 0.004), mainly as a result of lower incidence of coronary artery disease (P = 0.008). The risk of OSA was higher in TRT users (2‐year risk 16.5% [95% confidence interval 15.1–18.1] in the TRT group vs 12.7% [11.4–14.1] in the control group.ConclusionsThis study adds to growing evidence that the cardiovascular risk associated with TRT may be lower than once feared. The elevated risk of OSA in men using TRT is noteworthy.