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How diverse is corporate brand management research? Comparing schools of corporate brand management with approaches to corporate strategy
Authors: Schmidt Holger J. , Redler Jörn 
Published: January 2018

PurposeThis paper contrasts research streams in corporate brand management (CBM) with perspectives on corporate strategy (CS). The aim is to examine whether CBM research is as diverse as research on CS and to identify potentially new research perspectives within CBM.Design/methodology/approachFirst, the main dimensions to capture approaches and directions in general strategy research are carved out and integrated into a framework for subsequent analysis (strategy descriptor cube). Second, research streams within CBM are clustered into predominating schools. Third, the framework is then used to classify the identified schools, allowing further evaluation. In doing so, an innovative view on the status of and developments in CBM research is provided.FindingsMost schools of CBM are built on rational and prescriptive approaches, while political and emergent conceptions are hardly addressed. Thus, from the strategy-derived dimensions, approaches to CBM are surprisingly homogenous, with only one school diverging from the dominating pattern. A variety of perspectives as found in strategy research cannot be validated for CBM. Alternative conceptualizations to CBM in terms of assumptions about the genesis of strategic directions and the perspective of analysis might provide impetus for progress in CBM research.Research limitations/implicationsThe question arises why emergent and political perspectives have not been seriously pursued in the past decades of brand research. Researchers might seize opportunities to be further stimulated from the many faceted research approaches in CS. Further dimensions for description, as well as alternative clusterings of CBM schools, should be discussed.Practical implicationsA broadening of perspectives, including potentially a more attentive reception of agile trends in CBM, might become increasingly relevant for CBM practitioners. As new realities shape the present and future of corporate brand building, new paradigms should be explored and tested.Originality/valueThe corporate brand strategy link is evidently important; however, to date, few papers have such a focus. This is the first paper to apply reasoning and perspectives that have contributed to significant developments in CS research to the current situation in CBM research. It introduces a novel way to analyze and discuss developments between and within CBM schools.
Transferring outranking models to real estate management
Authors: Metzner Steffen 
Published: January 2018

PurposeFor the purpose of decision-making in real estate portfolio management, alternatives are to be collected, assessed and prioritized. Due to the complexity of real estate markets, investment products and management processes, the respective decision situations are subject to several parameters. Multi-criteria models must be used to exactly evaluate and prioritize alternatives. Such models can be found in other economic and social areas but must be transferred or re-developed for the purposes of real estate management. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approachThe paper includes the transfer of the basic outranking methodology, the PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking Organization METHod für Enrichment Evaluations) method in particular, to real estate issues. Methods used outside the real estate industry are analyzed, selected and adapted by using real estate parameters (transfer approach).FindingsStructured multi-criteria processes such as PROMETHEE are suitable for the solution of complex real estate selection decisions. The methodology with regard to the respective issues is much more consistent and efficient. PROMETHEE avoids the restriction of criteria in mathematical calculations and the restriction of quality in simple scorings.Research limitations/implicationsThe target system and decision criteria of investors were used exemplarily. The individual parameters and criteria can lead to new model solutions.Practical implicationsMulti-criteria models such as PROMETHEE stringently and transparently solve complex decision problems and alternative evaluations in real estate portfolio management. They can be developed for strategic, tactical and operative decision situations. The decision quality and verification for compliance requirements improve.Social implicationsMulti-criteria models such as PROMETHEE can also be developed for social, societal and political decision situations.Originality/valueFirst adaption of the outranking procedure PROMETHEE to a real estate decision situation in market analysis and portfolio management.
Bubbles in US hotel/lodging real estate investment trusts
Authors: Almudhaf Fahad 
Published: January 2018

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to test for the presence of bubbles in the US lodging/hotel real estate investment trust (REIT) subsector from 1994 to 2016. It also compares the profitability of a buy-and-hold strategy with several technical trading rules when applied to lodging REITs.Design/methodology/approachTo investigate speculative bubbles, the sequential right-sided unit root tests of Phillips, Shi and Yu (2015a, b) are used.FindingsThe results confirm the possibility of the existence of multiple bubbles and explosive behavior in prices and the price-dividend ratio. One of the detected bubbles coincides with the financial economic crisis of 2008 using both measures. In addition, several technical rules are found to be superior to a naïve buy-and-hold strategy even after adjusting for risk.Practical implicationsThese findings will be of interest to policy makers, who can use such models as an early alert to take anticipative action to avoid bursting of bubbles and consequent negative effects on the economy. The findings also provide important information to investors attempting to devise trading rules that utilize the signals from bubble detection, as well as to hotel executives devising policies aimed at reducing risk and creating more firm value to maximize shareholder wealth. Moreover, valuation and bubbles are important to lenders and creditors who use assets as collaterals for financing hotel REITs.Originality/valueHotels are a unique hybrid of retail and housing that combine operating business with real estate. This paper is the first to investigate speculative bubbles in lodging REITs.
Betterment: a taxing problem
Authors: Grover Richard 
Published: January 2018

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to review the issues involved in land value taxation and betterment and the issues involved in apportioning value between land and improvements.

Design/methodology/approach
The theoretical and valuation issues in betterment are reviewed and a case study of a betterment tax introduced in the UK is used to illustrate the practical problems in implementation.

Findings
The idea of land value taxation depends upon being able to apportion property values between land and improvements. This raises both theoretical and practical problems that are difficult to overcome.

Practical implications
The apportionment property values between land and improvements produces results that cannot be verified by market evidence, suggesting that an alternative approach be adopted through value-based recurrent property taxes revalued at frequent intervals.

Originality/value
Much of the literature has concentrated on the theoretical advantages of land value taxation rather than examining the practical problems of implementation. These suggest a different approach with less emphasis on betterment taxes and more on how recurrent property taxes can be an effective instrument for value capture.
‘Other Spaces’ for the Dangerous Dead of Provincial England, c.1752–1832
Authors: HURREN ELIZABETH T. 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThe Murder Act (1752) decreed that homicide perpetrators should be hanged and sent for post‐execution punishment. This article explores the event management of criminal dissections by penal surgeons in situ. It reveals that the punishment parade of the condemned did not stop at the scaffold, contrary to the impression in many standard historical accounts. Instead, ordinary people accompanied criminal corpses to many different types of dissection venues. Penal surgeons hand‐picked these performance spaces that were socially produced for legal and practical reasons. They had to be able to process large numbers of people who wanted to be part of the consumption of post‐mortem ‘harm’ in English communities. Event management on location had to have emotional and visual appeal, moral coherence, be timed appropriately, and, if successful, would enhance the deterrence value of the capital code. Yet, managing the ‘dangerous dead’ involved a great deal of discretionary justice with unpredictable outcomes. It often happened in ‘counter‐sites’ of punishment in the community and involved a great deal of immersive theatre. Some events worked well, others threatened the social order. In ‘Other Spaces’ the ‘Dangerous Dead’ was hence a fascinating feature of the Murder Act outside the Metropolis from 1752 to 1832.
‘Give mee a Souldier's Coat’: Female Cross‐Dressing during the English Civil War
Authors: STOYLE MARK 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThis article lifts the veil on the women who dressed as men during the English Civil War –and on contemporary reactions towards them. The piece begins by noting that – although it is often claimed that the armies of king and parliament were accompanied by many females who had ‘counterfeited their sex’ in order to march into the field – those claims rest on a surprisingly slim evidential base. Next, the article considers the ways in which both cross‐dressed women and women in quasi‐masculine attire were viewed during the half century before the war began – and suggests that attitudes towards such women may sometimes have reflected broader politico‐religious attitudes. Finally, the article explores the handful of cases in which the presence of cross‐dressed women in the rival armies is genuinely attested to – and asks what these cases reveal about reactions to such women during the conflict itself.
The Inquisition and the Repression of Erotic and Pornographic Imagery in Early Nineteenth‐Century Madrid
Authors: SOYER FRANÇOIS 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThis article focuses on the repression of erotic and pornographic imagery (artworks, statues and figurines) by the Inquisition in Madrid during the last six years of its existence between 1814 and 1820. This period in the Inquisition's history has tended to be overlooked and dismissed as insignificant. After tracing the history of the Spanish Inquisition's desultory attempts in earlier years to suppress sexual imagery deemed to offend public piety, this article examines an unusual cluster of cases involving erotic or pornographic images during those six years. The article examines these cases and argues that we need to eschew simplistic narratives in which historians have presented the Inquisition as a moribund institution pathetically pursuing insignificant cases. The documentary evidence suggests that the inquisitors in Madrid were, if anything, fiercely determined to restore the fortunes of the Inquisition and its position within the absolutist monarchy of King Fernando VII. The inquisitors’ campaign against erotic and pornographic imagery was, alongside a focus on freemasonry, part of a quest for political and social legitimacy in a changing and increasingly hostile environment.
Impact of the IADPSG criteria for gestational diabetes, and of obesity, on pregnancy outcomes
Authors: Cheung N. Wah , Jiang Shan , Athayde Neil 
Published: January 2018

BackgroundThe adoption of the International Association of Diabetes Study Groups (IADPSG) criteria for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in Australia has been controversial. Obesity in pregnancy is also a growing concern.AimsTo assess the impact of IADPSG criteria on the incidence of GDM and pregnancy outcomes, and to compare this to the effect of obesity, particularly among women who would not have GDM by the Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society 1998 criteria (ADIPS1998).Material and MethodsA retrospective observational cohort study linking results of 75 g glucose tolerance tests with demographic and pregnancy data was conducted.ResultsIn our cohort of 6175 pregnancies, GDM was present in 926 (15%) women by the ADIPS1998 criteria; it increased to 1098 (17.8%) women by the IADPSG criteria. Among the 5248 pregnancies which did not meet the ADIPS1998 criteria and were not treated for GDM, women with IADPSG GDM had increased risk of gestational hypertension, pre‐eclampsia, induction of labour (IOL), primary caesarean section (PCS) and large for gestational age (LGA) compared to women without GDM (all P < 0.05), whereas obese women had increased risk of gestational hypertension, pre‐eclampsia, IOL, PCS, small for gestational age (SGA) and shoulder dystocia compared to women of normal weight (all P < 0.05). On multivariate analysis, IADPSG GDM was an independent risk factor only for IOL (P = 0.04) and LGA (<0.001). Obesity was an independent risk factor for gestational hypertension, pre‐eclampsia, IOL, PCS, shoulder dystocia and SGA (all P < 0.001).ConclusionsWithin our population, of women who are not currently treated for GDM, obesity is associated with greater pregnancy risk than GDM diagnosed by IADPSG criteria.
Influences of dietary supplementation with Lepidium meyenii (Maca) on stallion sperm production and on preservation of sperm quality during storage at 5 °C
Authors: Del Prete C. , Tafuri S. , Ciani F. , Pasolini M. P. , Ciotola F. , Albarella S. , Carotenuto D. , Peretti V. , Cocchia N. 
Published: January 2018

SummaryStallion semen is damaged by oxidative stress during cooling and transport. Semen processing and extenders have been tested to improve the fertilizing capacity of semen and to preserve semen during transport. Dietary supplementation with natural antioxidants has been proposed to prevent oxidative damages. In this study, for the first time, the effect of dietary supplementation with Lepidium meyenii (Maca) on the characteristics of fresh and chilled stallion semen was evaluated. Maca is a traditional Andean crop used as a nutraceutical for the fertility‐enhancing properties that are linked with antioxidant activity. The diet of five stallions was supplemented with 20 g of Maca powder daily for a total of 60 days. A control group of five stallions received the same diet without Maca. Semen was collected once before the administration of Maca (D0), twice during the administration at 30 and 60 days (D30 and D60), and finally twice at 30 and 60 days after the end of the administration (D90 and D120). Ejaculates were processed for cooled shipping at 5 °C and evaluated in the laboratory for total and progressive motility, acrosome integrity, and lipid peroxidation after collection and after 24, 48, and 72 h of storage. Dietary supplementation with Maca improved sperm concentration (from 213 ± 80.4 to 447 ± 73.1 × 106 spz/mL) and total sperm count (from 10,880 ± 4377 to 24,783 ± 4419 × 106 spz). The beneficial effects of Maca supplementation on motility and acrosome integrity in the raw semen were detected from the end of treatment with Maca (D60) until the end of the study (D120). Furthermore, during cooling storage, total motility, progressive motility, and acrosome integrity declined more slowly in the Maca‐treated group than in the control group. Lipid peroxidation did not change during cooling storage in either group and did not show a significant difference between the two groups. In this study, the dietary supplementation with Maca increased sperm production and stabilized semen quality during chilled storage.
A Scalable Multi-Resolution Spatio-Temporal Model for Brain Activation and Connectivity in Fmri Data
Authors: Castruccio Stefano , Ombao Hernando , Genton Marc G. 
Published: January 2018

SummaryFunctional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a primary modality for studying brain activity. Modeling spatial dependence of imaging data at different spatial scales is one of the main challenges of contemporary neuroimaging, and it could allow for accurate testing for significance in neural activity. The high dimensionality of this type of data (on the order of hundreds of thousands of voxels) poses serious modeling challenges and considerable computational constraints. For the sake of feasibility, standard models typically reduce dimensionality by modeling covariance among regions of interest (ROIs)—coarser or larger spatial units—rather than among voxels. However, ignoring spatial dependence at different scales could drastically reduce our ability to detect activation patterns in the brain and hence produce misleading results. We introduce a multi-resolution spatio-temporal model and a computationally efficient methodology to estimate cognitive control related activation and whole-brain connectivity. The proposed model allows for testing voxel-specific activation while accounting for non-stationary local spatial dependence within anatomically defined ROIs, as well as regional dependence (between-ROIs). The model is used in a motor-task fMRI study to investigate brain activation and connectivity patterns aimed at identifying associations between these patterns and regaining motor functionality following a stroke.
Modeling Survival Distribution as a Function of Time to Treatment Discontinuation: A Dynamic Treatment Regime Approach
Authors: Yang Shu , Tsiatis Anastasios A. , Blazing Michael 
Published: January 2018

SummaryWe consider estimating the effect that discontinuing a beneficial treatment will have on the distribution of a time to event clinical outcome, and in particular assessing whether there is a period of time over which the beneficial effect may continue after discontinuation. There are two major challenges. The first is to make a distinction between mandatory discontinuation, where by necessity treatment has to be terminated and optional discontinuation which is decided by the preference of the patient or physician. The innovation in this article is to cast the intervention in the form of a dynamic regime “terminate treatment optionally at time v unless a mandatory treatment-terminating event occurs prior to v” and consider estimating the distribution of time to event as a function of treatment regime v. The second challenge arises from biases associated with the nonrandom assignment of treatment regimes, because, naturally, optional treatment discontinuation is left to the patient and physician, and so time to discontinuation may depend on the patient's disease status. To address this issue, we develop dynamic-regime Marginal Structural Models and use inverse probability of treatment weighting to estimate the impact of time to treatment discontinuation on a time to event outcome, compared to the effect of not discontinuing treatment. We illustrate our methods using the IMPROVE-IT data on cardiovascular disease.
Correlates of students’ internalization and defiance of classroom rules: A self‐determination theory perspective
Authors: Aelterman Nathalie , Vansteenkiste Maarten , Haerens Leen 
Published: January 2018

BackgroundIt is generally accepted that well‐established classroom rules prevent problem behaviour, while also supporting students’ achievement gains. Yet, there might be considerable variability in students’ underlying motives to comply or refrain from complying with classroom rules, with some students adhering to them because they fully accept them as their own, and others feeling compelled by external or internal demands to do so or even defying the rules altogether.AimsGrounded in self‐determination theory, this study aimed to examine whether students’ reasons for following (i.e., internalization) and for refraining from following (i.e., defiance) classroom rules differentially and uniquely predict student outcomes, including feelings of resentment, acting out, cheating, and truancy.SampleA total of 1006 students (46.7% boys; M = 14.18 years ± 1.73) out of 56 different secondary school classes participated in the study.MethodsStudents were invited to fill out an online survey about experiences with their head teacher.ResultsFor three out of four outcomes, identified regulation and external regulation to follow classroom rules were found to be, respectively, negatively and positively related, whereas a null relationship with introjected rule following was found. Controlled non‐rule following was most strongly predictive of maladaptive functioning, as indexed by more feelings of resentment, acting out, cheating, and truancy.ConclusionsWhereas students’ ownership of rules is critical to prevent classroom misbehaviour, their pressured non‐adherence is a risk factor.
Capital Regulation, Bailout and Banking Asset Correlation
Authors: Sui Peng , Zhou Dandan 
Published: January 2018

AbstractWe study the effect of capital regulation on banking asset correlation. Banks are more efficient users of banking assets. This implies that it may be ex post optimal to bail out a failed bank. We show, under Basel 1 capital regulation, that the financial regulator is committed to a mixed bailout strategy in the state of systemic failure, which reduces banks’ incentive to choose highly correlated assets. The mixed strategy is not creditable under mark‐to‐market capital regulation. In the subgame perfect equilibrium, banking asset correlation increases, resulting in a high probability of systemic failure. We then discuss social losses under different capital regulations.
Oxygen vacancy formation in the SrTiO3 Σ5 [001] twist grain boundary from first‐principles
Authors: Behtash Maziar , Wang Yaqin , Luo Jian , Yang Kesong 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThe SrTiO3 5 [001] twist grain boundary (GB) is studied using first‐principles density functional theory calculations. Three types of GB structures, SrO/SrO (S/S), SrO/TiO2 (S/T), and TiO2/TiO2 (T/T), are modeled and their relative thermodynamic stabilities are examined. Our calculations show that the S/S and S/T structures can be formed within appropriate synthesis conditions, with the S/S structure thermodynamically favored over the S/T structure within a wide range of chemical potentials, while the T/T structure is unlikely to form. The segregation behavior of oxygen vacancies is also investigated by calculating oxygen vacancy formation energies with respect to the distance from GB plane. In the S/S system, oxygen vacancies tend to segregate to the layer adjacent to the GB layer, while in the S/T system, oxygen vacancies tend to segregate to the GB layer itself. In both S/S and S/T systems, oxygen vacancy formation energy is lower than that in bulk SrTiO3. To clearly show the experimental conditions necessary to promote oxygen vacancy formation in the 2 GB systems, we also generate grain boundary phase diagrams for oxygen vacancy with respect to synthesis temperature and oxygen partial pressure. Our calculations reveal different segregation behaviors and distributions of oxygen vacancies in the S/S and S/T systems, providing a possible avenue for GB engineering.