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Swimming not drowning – resilience as a key determinant of success for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pre-tertiary students
Authors: Hall Lisa , Maughan Catherine , Wilkes Michaela , Thorpe Tony , Forrest Joanne , Harrison Angela 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore how one tertiary enabling programme designed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students uses a specifically designed pedagogy which goes beyond a focus on discrete academic skills to help students develop the resilience and knowledge about learning they need to be successful in tertiary learning contexts.

Design/methodology/approach
– A narrative methodology is used to explore how graduates analysed and evaluated their experience of the course.

Findings
– The stories show that for these students, resilience is a dynamic and multifaceted construct. Strength, confidence and resilience for these students come from seeing and valuing the strength and resilience that already exists in Indigenous people and Indigenous knowledge systems and using this as a basis for developing their own resilience.

Originality/value
– This focus on resilience can provide a transformative experience for students who have largely been marginalised from the mainstream educational system, assisting them to build the crucial “cultural capital” required to be successful in their tertiary studies, while reinforcing the strength and knowledge they already bring with them. Through this process students are offered a way of navigating the higher education landscape on their own terms.
Expressing herself through brands: the Arab woman’s perspective
Authors: Alserhan Baker Ahmad , Halkias Daphne , Boulanouar Aisha Wood , Dayan Mumin , Alserhan Omar Ahmad 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– This paper aims to extend Wallström et al.’s (2010) six-nation study on brand use and notions of self-expression to Arab women in the UAE. Additionally, it extends the scope of investigation to include an extensive qualitative data corpus to inform and explain the consumption practices of this large, very wealthy and under-researched sector of the global marketplace.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper uses mixed methodology emphasizing qualitative research as a means of building on the results of Wallström et al.’s (2010) quantitative study.

Findings
– Results reveal that Arab women are less committed to the idea that beauty care products are a locus of self-expression, and their purchase choices are based on perceived quality of care products, scene of use and their lack of value in the culture as vehicles of conspicuous consumption cues.

Originality/value
– The paper offers valuable insights to researchers and practitioners into the use of beauty care products as a means of self-expression, and emphasizes the value of word-of-mouth communication in enhancing reach in this category. The authors recommend the investigation of relationships between expressing self through brands and variables revealed in this study such as respondents’ relationships to religiosity and health concerns. An extension of this research is also recommended to produce a cross-cultural body of literature on women’s self-expression through brands and how the variable of self-expression can be an important driver of consumer preferences and choices in this population.
Innovation and cause-related marketing success: a conceptual framework and propositions
Authors: Christofi Michael , Leonidou Erasmia , Vrontis Demetris , Kitchen Phillip , Papasolomou Ioanna 
Published: July 2015

Purpose– This paper aims to illustrate how innovation typologies may lead to cause-related marketing (CRM) success when applied to services.Design/methodology/approach– Hence, the paper identifies product/service and brand factors that underpin CRM success, undertakes an innovation theory application in CRM and examines its theoretical and practical significance.Findings– The paper develops a conceptual framework that may serve to facilitate CRM success.Originality/value– Intended contributions include: a critical review of academic research related to CRM success; identification of underdeveloped connections between five innovation types and CRM success; enrichment of the innovation and CRM literature by developing a framework that combines these; managerial guidelines to achieve successful CRM practice in services; and an agenda for future research in CRM via a multi-dimensional concept of innovation.
Eliciting positive social change: marketing’s capacity to drive prosocial behaviours
Authors: O'Cass Aron , Griffin Deborah 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– While social marketing has been utilised to bring about positive social change, ultimately, the decision to engage in prosocial behaviour resides with the individual. The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants and outcomes of prosocial behaviours.

Design/methodology/approach
– A web-based self-administered survey was used to collect data from a convenience sample of largely university staff and students. Data obtained were analysed using SEM-based partial least squares methodology.

Findings
– The results show that individuals who are future oriented and issue involved are more likely to engage in prosocial behaviour. Also, these individuals are more likely to assess fewer negative consequences and experience more positive feelings as a result of their prosocial behaviour.

Research limitations/implications
– While the study focuses on two social issues, it does provide some explanation of self-reported behaviour, rather than intention to behave. However, future research could pay attention to a wider array of social issues and undertake post hoc testing to measure the characteristics of the chosen social issues. This may enhance findings, and provide greater support for the generalisability of the model. Also, future research could be directed towards the examining the role of perceived risk and feelings as an outcome of behaviour.

Practical implications
– A better understanding of the prosocial individual can assist in designing more effective social marketing campaigns. In particular, focusing on positive feelings as a result of engaging in prosocial behaviour has practical implications.

Originality/value
– Little attention has been given in the marketing and consumer behaviour literature to understanding the prosocial individual. To this end, this research empirically tests a model of prosocial behaviour for two social issues that integrates determinants (social responsibility, time orientation and issue involvement) and outcomes (assessment of negative consequences and feelings). Moreover, the results highlight that positive feelings are a significant outcome of prosocial behaviour.
An insight into pay-what-you-want pricing
Authors: Roy Rajat 
Published: July 2015

Purpose– Extant literature on pricing posits that consumers’ internal reference price (IRP) drives willingness to pay (WTP), when external pricing cues are available. This positive IRP-WTP relationship is further moderated by involvement and price consciousness. The purpose of this paper is to test how the IRP-WTP relationship will be moderated by involvement and price consciousness, albeit in the pay-what-you-want (PWYW) context. In the PWYW setting consumers can pay any amount of money (including nothing) and no external pricing cues are provided.Design/methodology/approach– A survey was engaged to measure the key variables, and the data was analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression with spotlight analyses.Findings– In the normal everyday pricing context, involvement strengthens the IRP-WTP relationship, while price consciousness weakens it. Contrary to this normal pricing wisdom, in the PWYW context, it was found that both involvement and price consciousness weaken the IRP-WTP relationship, thereby driving down consumers’ WTP.Research limitations/implications– Future studies should use experimental design to manipulate some of the independent variables used in the study, focus on the mediating processes that underlie PWYW decision-making and extend the findings in the context of wider demographics.Practical implications– Managers should focus on segmentation, branding and product experiences to ensure higher returns of PWYW businesses.Originality/value– This paper addresses lack of overall research in the PWYW area, and also addresses some key gaps left by extant research of Kimet al.(2009) that was published in theJournal of Marketing.
Self-marketing brand skills for business students
Authors: Manai Aicha , Holmlund Maria 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– Despite the widespread interest in self-marketing, scant research has been published about students’ self-marketing skills. The purpose of this paper is to address this research gap and develop a framework for self-marketing brand skills specific to business students.

Design/methodology/approach
– Aaker’s Brand Identity Planning Model (2002) was used to construct personal-brand-identity elements. Empirical data were gathered from interviews with 17 students from two business schools in Finland, who were selected using a snowballing sampling technique.

Findings
– Branding-related elements, together with empirically grounded themes, emerged and were developed into a framework for developing self-marketing brand skills. Self-marketing brand core, self-marketing brand goals and self-marketing brand activities were suggested and further divided into sub-topics, becoming the content of the new framework.

Research limitations/implications
– The study provides a starting point for further research on self-marketing skills from a branding perspective.

Practical implications
– The paper discusses several important practical implications for business students who wish to improve their job-seeking success.

Originality/value
– Rather than adopting a knowledge or activity perspective on self-marketing skills in job searching, the study extends the current knowledge by taking a complementary view, i.e. a branding perspective, and highlights students’ mental preparedness and drive.
An exploration of environmentally-conscious consumers and the reasons why they do not buy green products
Authors: Johnstone Micael-Lee , Tan Lay Peng 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to understand how and why environmentally conscious consumers rationalise their non-green purchase behaviour.

Design/methodology/approach
– Seven focus groups were conducted. A total of 51 people, aged 19-70 years, participated in the study. Theoretical thematic analysis was used to organise the data as various themes emerged.

Findings
– Through application of neutralisation theory, this study identified additional barriers to green consumption. Two new neutralisation techniques emerged, namely protecting (maintaining) one’s sense of self and consumer attachment to the brand. These techniques recognise the impact consumer culture has had on consumers.

Research limitations/implications
– The study took place in an urban centre hence the views of the participants may be different from those who live in rural centres; low-income consumers were under-represented; and more male participants would have been desirable.

Social implications
– Despite its limitations, this study reveals that consumers will rationalise their decisions in order to protect their self-esteem and self-identity. Until green becomes a social norm, consumers will continue to place individual goals over collective goals. Understanding this rationalisation process is important if marketers and policy makers want to encourage behavioural change.

Originality/value
– This study makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of the green attitude-behaviour gap. It provides fresh insights into how environmentally conscious consumers vindicate their non-green consumption behaviours and how marketers and policy makers can overcome these challenges. It also identifies two new neutralisation techniques and extends the theory to a consumer culture context.
Do changes in gross margin percentage provide complementary information to revenue and earnings surprises?
Authors: Lento Camillo , Sayed Naqi 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between gross profit percentage, abnormal market returns, revenue surprises and earnings surprises. Gross margin is relied upon by various market participants, as its predictive power is incremental and distinct from revenue and earnings signals; however, gross margin has received little researcher attention.

Design/methodology/approach
– General regression specifications found in the prior literature are extended to assess the informational content of changes in gross margin percentage. In addition, various portfolios are created based around the nature of the signals (positive or negative), provided by each income statement metrics (revenue, gross margin and earnings). A sample of 5,582 quarterly observations of S
&
P 500 firms is compiled. The main regressions are exposed to three robustness tests that focus on industry sub-groupings, institutional ownership and fourth-quarter observations.

Findings
– The main findings reveal that gross margin percentage changes and earnings surprises are significantly related to abnormal market returns in the short window around the earnings announcement date and persist into a wider window measured as the quarter after the earnings announcement date. The relationship between gross margin percentage changes and abnormal returns is more pronounced when positive (negative) changes in gross margin percentage are accompanied by positive (negative) revenue and earnings surprises.

Research limitations/implications
– This study relies upon S
&
P 500 firms which are all relatively large firms. Therefore, the results may not be generalizable to smaller firms. In addition, the gross margin change is measured as the quarter-over-quarter percentage change because there is no analyst expectation for gross margin.

Originality/value
– This paper extends the prior literature by developing three testable hypotheses that investigate the linkages between abnormal market returns, gross margin and revenue and earnings surprises. This is the first known study to investigate the informational content of changes in gross margin percentage.
Auditor-provided tax services and long-term tax avoidance
Authors: Hogan Brian , Noga Tracy 
Published: July 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to determine the association between auditor-provided tax services (APTS) and long-term corporate tax rates.Design/methodology/approach– The paper uses empirical data and multivariate regression models to explore the relationship between a firm’s use of APTS and their long-term effective tax rate.Findings– An economically and statistically significant long-term negative relationship was found between firm levels of APTS and taxes paid. Further, a portion of this benefit is lost for some firms when returning to their auditor for tax services even after a short break.Originality/value– This paper contributes to the debate regarding the value of APTS by providing evidence of the apparent long-term negative consequences to firms who reduce their reliance on APTS, perhaps even through the engagement of separate accounting firms for their audit and tax functions, although these consequences may be mitigated upon return with a significant increase in APTS. However, this is the first study, to our knowledge, to explore, in a long-term setting, the consequences of a firm’s return to their auditors for a non-audit service previously reduced or terminated. Additionally, further incremental contributions are made to other studies that look at APTS and tax avoidance by studying the long-term relationship which allows firms to consider the cumulative cost/benefit relationship between independence and knowledge spillover.
The role of CEO inside debt holdings in corporate pension funding status
Authors: Yu-Thompson Yin , Cho Seong Yeon , Fu Liang 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this study is to examine how pension risk shifting can be explained and constrained by debt component in chief executive officer (CEO) compensation and to explore whether a CEO’s relatively large holdings of inside debt to equity compensation would result in a well-funded pension status.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors use two-stage least-squares model to control the potential unobserved and uncontrolled firm characteristics that could drive both CEO inside debt determinants and firm pension funding status.

Findings
– This paper finds a positive relationship between the CEO inside debt ratio and firm funding status. Additional tests show a positive association between the CEO inside debt ratio and financial slack measures and a negative association between this ratio and financial constraint measure. Additional evidence also shows that the CEO inside debt ratio is negatively associated with other contemporaneous investment activities. Overall, the findings suggest that CEO inside debt creates managerial incentives that can affect pension funding decisions and decrease pension risk shifting.

Research limitations/implications
– One of the difficulties facing the compensation literature is the unobservable nature of the entire compensation negotiation and design process. Pension funding status is another challenging topic given that management has discretion over the pension assumptions and the calculations themselves are complicated. Therefore, the determinants of pension status used in this paper are not all-inclusive. Although a two-stage least-squares methodology is applied to mitigate endogeneity, it is still possible that an omitted variable problem exists in both cases.

Originality/value
– This study provides direct evidence of the executive debt-like compensation’s effect on pension risk-shifting behavior and pension funding decisions and also contributes to the literature that investigates the association between CEO inside debt and firm risk by examining the trade-off between pension funding and other contemporaneous investment activities.
Psychophysical Effects of Increasing Oil Concentrations on Saltiness and Bitterness Perception of Oil‐in‐Water Emulsions
Authors: Torrico Damir Dennis , Prinyawiwatkul Witoon 
Published: July 2015

AbstractLimited research has been done to investigate saltiness and bitterness perceptions of NaCl, KCl, and caffeine in emulsion systems. Saltiness and bitterness intensities of emulsions prepared with different concentrations of oil [0% (that is, solution), 20%, 40%, canola oil] and different concentrations of 3 tastants (NaCl [0.5% to 1.0%], KCl [0.5% to 1.5%], and caffeine [0.05 to 0.15%]) were measured using the Spectrum™ descriptive method (N = 16) and the Electronic‐tongue (E‐tongue). Linear regression and the Stevens’ power law were used to model the taste intensities against the tastant concentrations. From the descriptive data, saltiness intensities in emulsions were higher than solutions, demonstrating a saltiness‐enhancing effect imparted by oil. Bitterness intensities in emulsions were lower compared to those of solutions for caffeine, but they were similar for KCl. This demonstrated that oil suppressed bitterness for caffeine. E‐tongue saltiness measurements were corresponding to those of the descriptive data; however, E‐tongue bitterness intensities of KCl showed an opposite pattern.
Microbiome changes associated with sustained eradication of Clostridium difficile after single faecal microbiota transplantation in children with and without inflammatory bowel disease
Authors: Hourigan S. K. , Chen L. A. , Grigoryan Z. , Laroche G. , Weidner M. , Sears C. L. , Oliva‐Hemker M. 
Published: July 2015

SummaryBackgroundLittle data are available regarding the effectiveness and associated microbiome changes of faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in children, especially in those with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with presumed underlying dysbiosis.AimTo investigate C. difficile eradication and microbiome changes with FMT in children with and without IBD.MethodsChildren with a history of recurrent CDI (≥3 recurrences) underwent FMT via colonoscopy. Stool samples were collected pre‐FMT and post‐FMT at 2–10 weeks, 10–20 weeks and 6 months. The v4 hypervariable region of the 16S rRNA gene was sequenced. C. difficile toxin B gene polymerase chain reaction was performed.ResultsEight children underwent FMT for CDI; five had IBD. All had resolution of CDI symptoms. All tested had eradication of C. difficile at 10–20 weeks and 6 months post‐FMT. Pre‐FMT patient samples had significantly decreased bacterial richness compared with donors (P = 0.01), in those with IBD (P = 0.02) and without IBD (P = 0.01). Post‐FMT, bacterial diversity in patients increased. Six months post‐FMT, there was no significant difference between bacterial diversity of donors and patients without IBD; however, bacterial diversity in those with IBD returned to pre‐FMT baseline. Microbiome composition at 6 months in IBD‐negative patients more closely approximated donor composition compared to IBD‐positive patients.ConclusionsFMT gives sustained C. difficile eradication in children with and without IBD. FMT‐restored diversity is sustained in children without IBD. In those with IBD, bacterial diversity returns to pre‐FMT baseline by 6 months, suggesting IBD host‐related mechanisms modify faecal microbiome diversity.
Pre‐transplant comorbidity burden and post‐transplant chronic graft‐versus‐host disease
Authors: Vaughn Jennifer E. , Gooley Ted , Maziarz Richard T. , Pulsipher Michael A. , Bhatia Smita , Maloney David G. , Sandmaier Brenda M. , Flowers Mary E. , Storb Rainer , Sorror Mohamed L. 
Published: July 2015

SummaryThe Haematopoietic Cell Transplantation‐Comorbidity Index (HCT‐CI) was designed as a predictor of non‐relapse mortality after HCT. Chronic graft‐versus‐host disease (GVHD) contributes to mortality after HCT. Here, we investigated whether the HCT‐CI could predict development of chronic GVHD or post‐chronic GVHD mortality. We retrospectively analysed data from 2909 patients treated with allogeneic HCT for malignant and non‐malignant haematological conditions at four institutions. In Cox regression models adjusted for potential confounders, increasing HCT‐CI was not statistically significantly associated with the development of chronic GVHD [hazard ratio (HR) = 1·02, P = 0·34]. Yet, the index was associated with an increased risk of non‐relapse mortality (HR = 1·29, P < 0·0001) as well as overall mortality (HR = 1·25, P < 0·001) following the development of chronic GVHD. The association between HCT‐CI and post‐chronic GVHD mortality was similar regardless of donor type or stem cell source. HCT‐CI scores could be incorporated in the design of clinical trials for treatment of chronic GVHD.