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Organizational justice and employee acceptance of management decisions: the mediating role of perceived organizational adaptation to hindering external conditions
Authors: Burdziej Stanisław , Haffer Rafał , Moszyńska Anna , Karwacki Arkadiusz 
Published: July 2024

PurposePrevious research has demonstrated that the experience of fair treatment (organizational justice) motivates workers to accept their leaders’ decisions, even when these decisions are viewed as unfavorable. We aim at extending these findings by testing for mediating effects of the perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the organization as a particular example of a hindering external condition. We expected that employees’ perception of management response to the pandemic would partly mediate the effect of organizational fairness on employee compliance.Design/methodology/approachIn Study 1 we surveyed a nationally representative (N = 1,001) sample of employees. In Study 2 we used a representative sample (N = 250) of those workers who were laid off during the pandemic.FindingsWe show that an organization’s perceived ability to adapt to the pandemic partly mediated the relationship between organizational justice and acceptance of management decisions. Employees who were treated fairly were more ready to accept management decisions and viewed their organization as better prepared for hindering external conditions such as COVID-19. Their perceptions of organization’s ability to adapt partly mediated the effect of organizational justice on decision acceptance.Originality/valueOur study is among the first to identify a link between organizational fairness and organizational adaptation. We show that employees perceive fair organizations as better prepared for external shocks.
A systematic review of the literature on the use of information technologies in supply chain management
Authors: Al-Talib Moayad , Al-Saad Walid , Alzoubi Anan , Anosike Anthony I. 
Published: July 2024

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore the opportunities provided by information technologies (IT) to improve supply chain processes. It aims to conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) to identify research areas that require further exploration to leverage IT and enhance supply chain performance.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs a systematic literature review methodology to analyse a set of 177 publications, including journal papers, conference papers, periodicals, theses, and books published between 2013 and 2023. Thematic synthesis was chosen as the most appropriate approach to amalgamate the findings obtained from the systematic literature review conducted in the study. This method involves interpreting thematic information and facilitating the development of a comprehensive understanding of the literature being reviewed.FindingsThe literature review reveals that certain information technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, artificial intelligence (AI), Blockchain, information and communications technology (ICT) and information sharing, offer significant potential for improving supply chain processes. However, the application of these technologies in the field of supply chain is currently under-researched. The findings highlight the need for further exploration of these technologies and their impact on supply chain redesign and enhancement.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the existing body of knowledge by providing a systematic overview of the potential benefits of IT in the context of supply chains. It emphasises the under-researched nature of specific technologies and their potential to support organisations in improving their supply chain processes. The originality of this study lies in its comprehensive analysis of relevant literature and its identification of research gaps that need to be addressed in future studies.
Analysis of load carrying capacity of bridges strengthened by extracorporeal prestressing after five years of operation: a case study
Authors: Wan Lijun , Qiao Jiaqi , Sun Quansheng 
Published: July 2024

PurposeThe application of reinforcing old bridges by adding external prestressed steel bundles is becoming more and more widespread. However, the long-term safety performance test of the strengthening method is rarely carried out. In this paper, the bearing capacity of a 420 m prestressed concrete (PC) continuous girder bridge after five years of strengthening is analyzed.Design/methodology/approachThe bridge model of the bridge structure and strengthening scheme is established by the finite element software of the bridge. The theoretical load-bearing capacity of the bridge under the latest standard load grade is obtained by finite element analysis. The actual bearing capacity of the bridge is obtained by field test. Through the comparative analysis of theory and practice, the health state of the bridge after five years of reinforced operation is judged. The damage to the overall stiffness and external prestressing of the bridge is also analyzed.FindingsThe results of deflection and strain show that the stiffness and strength of the secondary side span and the middle span decrease slightly, and the maximum reduction of bearing capacity is 4.5%. The static stiffness of the whole bridge decreases as a result of cracks, and the maximum decrease is 21%. In the past five years, the relaxation loss of the external prestressing of the bridge is 3.31–3.97%, which is the main reason for the decrease in bearing capacity.Originality/valueThrough the joint analysis of the bridge stiffness and the loss of external prestressing, the strengthening condition of the bridge after five years of operation is effectively analyzed. The strengthening effect of the external prestressed steel beam strengthening method is analyzed, which can provide a reference for similar bridge strengthening.
Give me credit! Microcredit for sustainable development and ethical finance in Rione Sanità, Naples
Authors: Gatto Andrea , Mosca Rosa , Elia Gianluigi , Piscopo Paolo 
Published: July 2024

PurposeThe purpose of microcredit is to offer small loans to people who are not covered by traditional financial channels. It can facilitate entrepreneurship, boosting local socio-economic development and improving environmental and political factors.Design/methodology/approachThis paper aims to analyse microcredit in Italy, focusing on a project based in Rione Sanità, Naples. Rione Sanità is one of the poorest areas of Southern Italy, displaying high rates of criminality and unemployment, especially among youth, women, migrants and the vulnerable. The district is renowned for its fine and ancient handicrafts, food, trade and historical heritage – potential drivers for boosting tourism in the area. Qualitative methodologies were used to collect primary data through field visits and interviews with project bankers, local businesses, artisans, associations and religious representatives, project volunteers, as well as participation at local meetings. These data were corroborated by budget analysis based on the project's accounting.FindingsThe study shows encouraging results for the project and policy prospects. Despite the tiny starting numbers, there emerges a significant potential for microcredit to spread in the district, as in Southern Italy, providing an effective strategy to combat unemployment, usury and criminality, yielding community development and favoring broad societal challenges.Originality/valueWith this evidence, the paper attempts to shed some light and verify the potential of microfinance projects as a driver of sustainable development and ethical finance in poor areas of developed countries.
Implications of green knowledge sharing, organizational green culture and green training and development for organizational environmental citizenship behavior in the hotel sector
Authors: Andoh Raphael Papa Kweku , Owusu Nester Kumiwaa , Hayford Cecilia , Ansong Linda Obeng , Ansong Abraham 
Published: July 2024

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to investigate the implications of green knowledge sharing (GKS), organizational green culture (OGC) and green training and development (GTD) for organizational environmental citizenship behavior (OECB) in the hotel sector in Ghana.Design/methodology/approachUsing self-administered survey procedures, 415 operational-level employees in hotel facilities provided the data and was analyzed through partial least square structural equation modeling. Bootstrapping was conducted using 10,000 subsamples and Importance-Performance Map Analysis (IPMA) performed.FindingsIt was established that GKS influences both OECB and OGC. OGC also influenced OECB and played a mediating role in the influence of GKS on OECB. Similarly, GTD played a positive moderating role in the link GKS has on OECB. Finally, it was revealed via IPMA that OECB’s most important antecedent is GKS.Practical implicationsDue to the roles of GKS and GTD in promoting OGC and OECB, organizations should motivate their employees to share green knowledge and also invest more in GTD. Gamification and sponsoring employees to attend GTD programs are examples of actions to be taken in this regard.Originality/valueThis study explores antecedents of OECB which is overlooked in the literature in general and specifically, hospitality industry-focused green studies. Using IPMA, it also determines the most important antecedent of OECB which most studies focused on the hospitality industry do not go further to do.
CEO activism is not equal to CEO activism: a typology of executives' political statements
Authors: Rumstadt Franz , Kanbach Dominik K. , Arweck Josef , Maran Thomas K. , Stubner Stephan 
Published: July 2024

PurposeWhen CEOs are publicly weighing in on sociopolitical debates, this is known as CEO activism. The steadily growing number of such statements made in recent years has been subject to a flourishing academic debate. This field offers first profound findings from observational studies. However, the discussion of CEO activism lacks a thorough theoretical grounding, such as a shared concept accounting for the heterogeneity of sociopolitical incidents. Thus, the aim of this paper is to provide an archetypal framework for CEO activism.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used a multiple case study approach on 145 activism cases stated by CEOs and found seven distinct statement archetypes.FindingsThe study identifies four main structural design elements accounting for the heterogeneity of activism, i.e. the addressed meta-category of the statement, the targeted outcome, the used tonality and the orientation of the CEOs’ positions. Further, the authors found seven distinguishable archetypes of CEO activism statements: “Climate Alerts”, “Economy Visions”, “Political Comments”, “Self-reflections and Social Concerns”, “Tech Designs”, “Unclouded Evaluations” and “Descriptive Explanations”.Research limitations/implicationsThis typology classifies the heterogeneity of CEO activism. It will enable the analysis of interrelationships, mechanisms and motivations on a differentiated level and raise the comprehensibility of research-results.Practical implicationsThe framework supports executives in understanding the heterogeneity of CEO activism and to analyse personality-fits.Originality/valueTo the authors’ knowledge, this marks the first conceptualisation of activism developed cross-thematically. The work supports further theory-building on CEO activism.
Towards the circular economy from the perspective of new institutional theory: a systematic analysis of the literature with InOrdinatio protocol
Authors: de Oliveira Vieira Bárbara , Guarnieri Patricia 
Published: July 2024

Purpose
This study aims to analyse the publication stage on the transition to a circular economy (CE) from the perspective of the isomorphic mechanisms of the new institutional theory (NIT).

Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted a systematic literature review using the Methodi Ordinatio protocol across four databases, resulting in the analysis of 17 articles.

Findings
The authors identified a network of CE studies among universities in different countries. As a main result, this study contributed to demonstrating the diversity of approaches available to investigate CE, the importance of stakeholders in the process of transition from linear economy to CE and the means for the transition to CE, as well as the need for future studies covering the detailed analysis of the transition process and the comparison of the evolution of the states/regions of the same country in this process.

Originality/value
The study analyses and summarises the existing literature on CE through the lens of the NIT, analysing the stage of publication based on the phases of implementation of CE (micro, meso and macro). With a research agenda, it presents the current gaps, providing a possible direction for future studies.
Close to the edge: Spatial variation in plant diversity, biomass and floral resources in conventional and agri‐environment cereal fields
Authors: Sutcliffe Laura M. E. , Schellenberg Jenny , Meyer Stefan , Leuschner Christoph 
Published: July 2024

Abstract

Non‐crop (segetal) plants in arable systems are commonly perceived simply as ‘weeds’, that is, harmful at worst and undesirable at best. The increase in management intensity in European arable systems has vastly reduced the populations of all but the most disturbance‐tolerant plant species, negatively impacting the whole agricultural food web. In recent years, efforts have been made to promote agricultural biodiversity through measures such as flower strips and unsprayed field margins. However, studies of their impacts on the arable flora have rarely considered their spatial variation within the crop field.

We investigated the spatial distribution of vascular plant species richness and their contribution to the food web via biomass and flower units in conventional and agri‐environment cereal fields in six regions of Germany. We studied two types of in‐crop measures (extensive cereals without pesticides or fertiliser, and with or without intercropping with flowering species) and one adjacent measure (neighbouring flower strip), recording at 1‐m intervals from the field edge to the interior. These results were then extrapolated to illustrate the effects of these measures on resource provision at the field scale.

Species richness and plant biomass dropped off sharply after the first metre in the conventional treatments, regardless of the adjacent habitat. The ‘extensive’ treatments maintained a much higher level of diversity and resource provision in the field interior. At the field level, this can mean more than a 60‐fold difference in the provision of flowering resources between conventional management (1900 flower units/ha) and agri‐environment measures (AEMs) (127,000 units/ha for extensive cereals).

Synthesis and applications. The strong edge effects we found in conventional cultivation support the premise that reducing field sizes could play a role in promoting in‐crop biodiversity. However, incorporating extensive field margins as an AEM would be more efficient at maximising the diversity of generalists whilst maintaining high yields.
Epistemic uncertainty challenges aging clock reliability in predicting rejuvenation effects
Authors: Kriukov Dmitrii , Kuzmina Ekaterina , Efimov Evgeniy , Dylov Dmitry V. , Khrameeva Ekaterina E. 
Published: July 2024

AbstractEpigenetic aging clocks have been widely used to validate rejuvenation effects during cellular reprogramming. However, these predictions are unverifiable because the true biological age of reprogrammed cells remains unknown. We present an analytical framework to consider rejuvenation predictions from the uncertainty perspective. Our analysis reveals that the DNA methylation profiles across reprogramming are poorly represented in the aging data used to train clock models, thus introducing high epistemic uncertainty in age estimations. Moreover, predictions of different published clocks are inconsistent, with some even suggesting zero or negative rejuvenation. While not questioning the possibility of age reversal, we show that the high clock uncertainty challenges the reliability of rejuvenation effects observed during in vitro reprogramming before pluripotency and throughout embryogenesis. Conversely, our method reveals a significant age increase after in vivo reprogramming. We recommend including uncertainty estimation in future aging clock models to avoid the risk of misinterpreting the results of biological age prediction.
Effects of habitat quality on body condition and chronic stress in Brazilian non‐volant small mammals
Authors: de Oliveira M. M. , Rodrigues D. R. , Araújo L. M. G. , Leiner N. O. 
Published: July 2024

AbstractHabitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation of habitats are among the most pervasive impacts on species persistence. Mammals may vary in their response to these impacts, both in abundance and in physiological parameters. Herein, we verified how habitat quality influenced the small mammal nutritional status and stress levels among five semi‐deciduous forest remnants in the Brazilian Cerrado. To assess species' physiological responses, we used body condition as an indicator of nutritional status and neutrophil/lymphocyte (N/L) ratio as an indicator of chronic stress in Gracilinanus agilis and Rhipidomys macrurus. We sampled 264 animals belonging to the following species: G. agilis, Didelphis albiventris, Akodon montensis, Oligoryzomys spp., Rattus rattus, R. macrurus, Oecomys cleberi, Hylaeamys megacephalus, and three unidentified rodent species. We found no negative effect of reduced habitat quality on the body condition of G. agilis and R. macrurus, however, the N/L ratios of these species were lower only in high‐quality habitats, demonstrating that this parameter is an accurate indicator of chronic stress. Based on preliminary analysis, we also reported an impoverished fauna, mainly dominated by generalist species, in low‐quality habitats. Thus, we conclude that short‐term reduction in habitat quality leads to increased stress levels, which can in turn lead to future population declines and culminate in biotic homogenization.
Combining biological control approaches for managing insect crop pests in the field can generate interactive effects
Authors: Crowther Lucy I. , Wilby Andrew , Wilson Kenneth 
Published: July 2024

Abstract
With the loss of effective chemical controls of crop pests, a move towards biological controls is a way to future‐proof our agricultural system. Floral field margins have shown successes in reducing crop pests, though the effect may not be precise enough to control infestations in commercial crops. Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) may provide a more species‐ and time‐specific control and combining these methods may have synergy.
Three in‐field vegetation margins, divided into four plots each (two floral and two grass), were established in March 2022. Three strips of sprouting broccoli were planted parallel in April, May and June. Each strip had a split‐plot design, with eight replicates of four nematode treatments placed alongside each floral/grass plot: Steinernema carpocapsae, S. feltiae and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and a nematode‐free control.
Pest pressure was assessed using adult counts. Assessments of crop yield and crop damage associated specifically with the swede smidge (Contarinia nasturtii) were also made.
It was found that utilising a combination of control measures was successful in controlling a wider range of pests, though the success of each control method was highly dependent on the time of crop plantings. Field margins had a significant influence on crop damage associated with the swede midge. The EPN H. bacteriophora was an effective control method for the cabbage stem flea beetle and the swede midge, as well as reducing crop damage and yield loss.
Field margins and EPNs combined have an interactive effect on crop yield, highlighting the need for control methods to be tested in combination in future integrated pest management research to accurately understand their effects within an integrated system.
Letter: Critical appraisal of biologic therapy in early ulcerative colitis management—Addressing study limitations and the role of psychological resilience
Authors: Lan Qing , Guo Long , Xiong Zhifan 
Published: July 2024

LINKED CONTENTThis article is linked to Strande et al papers. To view these articles, visit https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.18097 and https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.18187.
Normalisation of evacuation under slow emergencies: The imposed story of ‘Beautiful New Hong Kong’
Authors: Huang Shu‐Mei , Chen Ying‐Fen , Cheung Wing Yin , Leung King‐Hung 
Published: July 2024

AbstractHong Kong, in contrast to its previous image as a glamourous global city, has recently been associated with negative keywords such as oppression, fear, violence and even human rights emergency, following the 2019 Anti‐Extradition Law Movement and later the implementation of National Security Law (NSL) in 2020. Meanwhile, the Hong Kong Special Area Administration presented a post‐NSL policy direction as promising a ‘Beautiful New Hong Kong’. This paper is aimed at understanding how Hongkongers have continuously lived with/against the imposed (re)writing of Hong Kong. We examined how Hongkongers have been taking initiatives to raise awareness about the ‘slow emergencies’ in Hong Kong and to counter it in various forms of ‘evacuation’, whether they are on the move or staying put in place, in order to pursue future‐making. We carried out a multi‐sited study on the two kinds of Hongkongers between January 2020 and August 2023. We talked to those who already left Hong Kong for Taiwan, the UK, Canada, and so forth, and with those who were debating about relocation and at the same time preparing for departure if necessary. We strategically read ‘evacuation’ in two senses: First, evacuation responds to emergencies and therefore by adopting ‘evacuation’ is itself a disagreement with the Beautiful New Hong Kong policy as curated by the state. Second, evacuation responds to geography of future and politics of simultaneity. We conceptualised ‘normalisation of evacuation’ to understand the future‐making behind the move in Hong Kong. The particular kind of evacuation discussed took shape in two forms, relocation elsewhere and reorganisation in situ, both of which, in our analysis, are demonstrating Hongkongers' agency in pursuing geographies of future beyond the state‐led agenda.
Land‐use changes impact responses of termite functional and taxonomic diversity in the Colombian Amazon
Authors: Duran‐Bautista Ervin Humprey , Yalanda‐Sepulveda Katherin , Martínez‐Triviño Kenna , Gamboa Jean 
Published: July 2024

AbstractHabitat degradation, a common consequence of land‐use changes, reduces termite species richness. However, the impact of these changes on functional diversity remains poorly understood. This research aimed to assess the response of the taxonomic and functional diversity of termites in different land uses within the Colombian Amazon. Termites were surveyed in three habitat types (secondary forest, silvopastoral system, and agroforestry system) using a structured sampling design with 36 sampling points. Seven functional traits were measured from 30 individuals (worker caste) per species. We collected 23,140 individuals distributed in 2 families, 7 subfamilies, 50 genera, and 95 species. Results showed higher taxonomic diversity in the secondary forest compared to silvopastoral and agroforestry systems, which were similar. Likewise, the secondary forest presented higher functional species differentiation than the agricultural systems. Furthermore, land‐use intensification led to changes in functional traits, with body size increasing in degraded habitats. This research provides significant evidence of the consequences of land use changes on the taxonomic diversity and functional traits of termites, emphasizing the importance of considering functional diversity responses in future research.