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Assessing risk allocation preferences of partners in international construction joint venture projects in Ghana
Authors: Akunyumu Stephen , Fugar Frank D.K. , Adinyira Emmanuel 
Published: August 2024

Purpose
Equitable risk allocation is important for the effective management of inevitable risks in International Construction Joint Venture (ICJV) projects. Previous studies have documented risks facing ICJV projects. However, there is a dearth of studies on the risk allocation preferences that take into consideration the opinions of both the local and foreign partners. This study aims to fill this gap by ascertaining the risk allocation preferences of the partners of ICJV projects for effective risk management.

Design/methodology/approach
Through a survey, data on risk allocation preferences were collected from both local and foreign partners of ICJV projects using a comprehensive register of 74 risks.

Findings
Following analysis, six risks were allocated to the local partner, 11 were allocated to the foreign partner, 51 risks were shared, four were allocated to a third party and two were to be negotiated based on the specific circumstances of the project. Practically, the study’s findings will help ICJV partners in drafting their ICJV contracts to adequately allocate risks and reduce contract negotiation time considerably.

Practical implications
The findings from this study will help partners in drafting their joint venture contract agreement and also reduce the period for contract negotiation. Knowledge of the preferred risk allocation is important in allocating risks in the contract agreement to the relevant partner for effective management.

Originality/value
This study, to the best knowledge of the authors, is one of the early studies to ascertain the risk allocation preferences of ICJV project partners in the Ghanaian construction industry – a departure from previous studies which focused on the identification and evaluation of risks. This study is also different from previous studies by considering the allocation preferences of both partners of the ICJV. The collection of data from both partners of the ICJV helped to consider their perceptions on risk allocation and evaluation, essentially leading to cross-cultural and optimal risk allocation preferences.
The role of digital resilient agility: how digital capability incompatibility affects knowledge cooperation performance in project network organizations
Authors: Liu Fengcai , Zhang Lianying 
Published: August 2024

Purpose
This paper aims to explore how digital capability incompatibility affects knowledge cooperation performance through the mediating effect of digital resilient agility and the moderating effect of project complexity in project network organizations (PNOs).

Design/methodology/approach
A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted with 207 middle and senior managers in PNOs. Based on validated questionnaire items and construct definitions, a dynamic panel regression was performed using 292 project-focused firms’ annual reports.

Findings
The results show that digital capability incompatibility facilitates knowledge cooperation performance by enhancing digital resilient agility in PNOs. Increased project complexity strengthens this relationship, promoting better knowledge cooperation performance.

Practical implications
Managers can use partner firms’ diverse digital knowledge to quickly develop technologies and tackle digital transformation challenges, thereby improving knowledge cooperation. They can also evaluate the project environment to manage digitally-supported cooperation effectively.

Originality/value
This research reveals how firms in PNOs transform digital capability incompatibility into knowledge cooperation performance through digital transformation efforts. This research extends the boundary of this relationship to project-level factors and proposes digital resilient agility as a digital transformation effort for knowledge cooperation in PNOs than previous research.
Investigation of synergy: emotional intelligence and authentic leadership among nurse managers
Authors: Koç Aslan Saliha , Eryiğit Sarıca Eda , Akın Bestegül , Soyer Er Özlem 
Published: August 2024

Purpose
Emotional intelligence (EI) and authentic leadership are essential attributes for effective healthcare management. Understanding their interplay can inform leadership development and improve patient care outcomes. This study aims to determine the relationship between EI and authentic leadership among nurse managers.

Design/methodology/approach
Study conducted a cross-sectional study, collecting data from 198 nurse managers using surveys assessing EI and authentic leadership. Correlation and regression analyses were used to explore the relationship and impact of EI on authentic leadership. STROBE checklist used to report the study.

Findings
The findings revealed a positive and significant relationship between nurse managers’ EI and their authentic leadership characteristics. Higher EI scores were associated with increased authenticity in leadership. EI, particularly interpersonal EI, plays a crucial role in authentic leadership. Enhancing nurse managers’ EI can foster more authentic leadership, positively impacting healthcare settings.

Originality/value
This research underscores the importance of EI in leadership development and its potential for improving patient care and organizational outcomes.
Digital age imperatives and firm internal control quality: evidence from CEOs personal trait and type of state-owned enterprises
Authors: Maqsood Umer Sahil , Wang Shihao , Zahid R.M. Ammar 
Published: August 2024

Purpose
In the context of an evolving digital-based global economy, this study aims to investige the impact of digital transformation (DT) on a firm’s internal control (IC) quality. It also explores how the personal traits of (CEOs) – such as age, gender and educational background – intersect with DT to shape the IC quality in various types of state-owned enterprises (SOEs).

Design/methodology/approach
The study uses the data from China A-shares non-financial enterprises, listed on Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges between 2007 and 2020. Using the fixed effect regression method alongside various statistical techniques, such as propensity score matching, alternative analysis and instrumental variables analysis, yields robust findings. These methods effectively address issues related to functional form misspecification and potential biases from omitted explanatory variables.

Findings
The findings reveal a positive impact of DT on firm IC quality, and this impact is more pronounced in firms when the CEO is female, young and possesses a higher level of education. Notably, the study also distinguishes between central and local state-owned enterprises (SOEs), highlighting that DT has a greater influence on IC quality in central SOEs, where CEOs often have higher political ranks and closer to government monitoring. Overall, the findings are robust and consist to alternative variable and other statistical methods.

Research limitations/implications
Following are the significant implications for both academia and business. First, firms that effectively adopt DT to enhance IC not only gain a strategic advantage over competitors but also establish efficient risk management practices and a robust IC system. Second, better IC resulting from DT can enhance investor and stakeholder confidence. This is particularly important for publicly traded companies, where investors and analysts closely scrutinize the robustness of IC systems. Third, DT could result in cost savings over time, as automation and streamlined processes may reduce the need for manual efforts and resource-intensive tasks associated with IC.

Originality/value
The findings are contributed to the literature in multiple ways. It enhances our comprehension of the intricate DT-IC quality relationship, and provides valuable insights into the transformative impact of DT on organizational operations and risk management. It also introduces a novel perspective by investigating how CEOs personal traits intersect with DT to shape IC quality, contributing to upper echelons theory. Furthermore, it expands the discussions on firm ownership by considering the types of SOEs (central vs. local), in the DT-IC quality context.
A comprehensive overview of sodium, total and saturated fat content in meat products sold in Brazil
Authors: Avelar de Sousa Camila Cristina , de Jesus Pereira dos Santos Luccas , da Silva Mauricio Costa Alves , Cavalheiro Carlos Pasqualin 
Published: August 2024

Purpose
Meat is a crucial source of protein and other nutrients for human health. However, excessive consumption of meat products is not advisable due to their elevated sodium and animal fat levels. Hence, there is a strong recommendation for reducing sodium and fat content in meat products. This study aims to delve into the current sodium, total and saturated fat content of meat products in the Brazilian market.

Design/methodology/approach
A total of 1,600 products underwent analysis.

Findings
The highest sodium concentrations were identified in jerked beef (5.48 g/100 g), charqui (5.21 g/100 g) and salted pork meat (2.58 g/100 g). In contrast, the highest total and saturated fat levels were observed in bacon (35.33 and 12.50 g/100 g), salami (26.00 and 9.25 g/100 g) and pork coppa (22.00 and 9.75 g/100 g). Most meat products were categorized as medium in terms of sodium (77.75%), total fat (52.93%) and saturated fat (48.25%). However, many meat products exhibited high total and saturated fat levels.

Originality/value
This study represents the first comprehensive examination of the sodium, total fat and saturated fat content listed on the labels of many meat products in Brazil.
Perceived age discrimination: what is the workplace experience?
Authors: Butler Steve 
Published: August 2024

Purpose
This study aims to investigate the existence of perceived discrimination as a covert form of discrimination present in the workplace and its relationship to age and gender in the context of the UK financial services industry.

Design/methodology/approach
This study used and validated the Workplace Age Discrimination Scale (WADS) to identify perceived age and gender discrimination in the workplace. The study used the results from WADS quantitative survey of 168 financial services industry employees to measure the extent of perceived age discrimination.

Findings
This study evidences that in the organisations researched there is a higher degree of perceived discrimination for younger workers which significantly decreases with age, while perceived gender discrimination in women is constant throughout their careers.

Originality/value
This research paper proves that the concept of perceived discrimination as a covert form of discrimination regardless of age or gender is present in the UK financial services industry.
Finite element algorithm for rigid pavement resting on Pasternak elastic foundation model under aircraft loading
Authors: Wani Khair Ul Faisal , K. Nallasivam 
Published: August 2024

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to numerically model the rigid pavement resting on Pasternak soil and to examine its various response parameters and stress resultants like deflection, rotation, bending moment and shear force when subjected to aircraft loading.

Design/methodology/approach
The study is carried out using a one-dimensional (1D) beam element based on the finite element method (FEM). Each node in this element has three rotational and three translational degrees of freedom (DOF). MATLAB programming is used to perform the static analysis of rigid pavement.

Findings
Response parameters and stress resultants of the rigid pavement were determined. The FEM used in this work is validated by two closed-form numerical examples, which are in great accord with previous research findings with a maximum divergence of 4.64%, therefore verifying the finite element approach used in the current study. Additionally, various parametric studies have been carried out to study the variations in response parameters and stress resultants.

Research limitations/implications
The investigation at hand focuses exclusively on the static analysis of the pavement. The study constraints pertaining to the preliminary design phase of rigid pavements are such that a comprehensive three-dimensional finite element analysis is deemed unnecessary.

Originality/value
As limited previous research had performed the static analysis of rigid pavement on Pasternak foundation with 6 DOF. Furthermore, no prior study has done seven separate parametric investigations on the static analysis of rigid pavement.
The Detri2match conceptual framework: Matching detritivore and detritus traits to unravel consumption rules in a context of decomposition
Authors: Marchand Théo , Lecerf Antoine , Brousseau Pierre‐Marc , Chauvat Matthieu , Danger Michael , Forey Estelle , Handa I. Tanya , Hedde Mickael , Maunoury‐Danger Florence , Santonja Mathieu , Pey Benjamin 
Published: August 2024

Abstract

From soil to freshwater ecosystems, decomposition can be conceived as the result of interactions between organic matter and a diversity of organisms. This function is driven in part by detritivores, invertebrates that feed on detritus or graze on its associated microbes and that have a significant but extremely variable contribution to decomposition.
In order to better understand and predict detritivore–detritus pairwise interactions, we propose a conceptual framework, called Detri2match, to study the consumption of detritus by detritivores, using a trait‐matching approach at the individual detritivore level. Here, we focus on the interaction between saprophagous detritivores that fragment plant detritus.
We propose a novel definition of a saprophagous detritivore as an animal that consumes plant detritus when its traits match sufficiently the traits of its resource, passing through five interaction facets of consumption. These include (1) a spatial match rule regarding the encounter, (2) a biomechanical match rule regarding ingestion, (3) a digestive match rule regarding assimilation, (4) an energetic match rule regarding the fulfilment of metabolic needs and (5) a nutritional match rule regarding the fulfilment of chemical element needs in adapted proportions.
The main goal of this framework is to guide future research to establish generic rules of misunderstood detritus–detritivore pairwise interactions by identifying relevant interaction facets and their key associated traits for both detritivores and detritus. This investigation should be conducted over the temporal variability of trait‐matching constraints throughout the whole decomposition process. Coupled with adequate accumulation of trait information, the Detri2match framework could also facilitate predictions by inference of non‐tested pairwise detritivore–litter interactions.
We also outline conceptual, methodological and analytical challenges of this framework. The main challenge would be to scale up these pairwise rules at the detrital network level and to test their genericity, which would contribute to a better understanding of the functioning of the detrital network and its contribution to decomposition.

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Setting the stage for plant–soil feedback: Mycorrhizal influences over conspecific recruitment, plant and fungal communities, and coevolution
Authors: Eagar Andrew C. , Abu Princess H. , Brown Megan A. , Moledor Sara M. , Smemo Kurt A. , Phillips Richard P. , Case Andrea L. , Blackwood Christopher B. 
Published: August 2024

Abstract

Plant–soil feedback (PSF) plays a central role in determining plant community dynamics, yet our understanding of how different combinations of plants and microbes influence PSF remains limited. Plants of different mycorrhizal types often exhibit contrasting PSF outcomes, influencing plant recruitment and spatial structure. Generalizing across plant species based on mycorrhizal type creates the potential to examine broader effects on ecological communities.

We review mechanisms contributing to different PSF outcomes between arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal trees. We focus on how plant and fungal traits that differ between mycorrhizal types interact with pathogenic and saprotrophic microorganisms and nutrient and carbon cycling.

Synthesis. Building on this framework, we propose several new research directions. First, mycorrhizal‐induced changes in soils can operate beyond the conspecific level, spilling over from abundant plant species onto less abundant ones. This community‐level ‘mycorrhizal spillover’ is hypothesized to affect PSF in ways that are additive and interactive with conspecific density dependence. Second, we describe how mycorrhizal effects on PSF could structure the way plant communities respond to global change. Third, we discuss how they may influence plant evolution by altering the balance of selection pressures on traits and genes related to pathogen defence and mutualism formation.
3‐Hydroxypropionate production from myo‐inositol by the gut acetogen Blautia schinkii
Authors: Trischler Raphael , Rustler Stefanie M. , Poehlein Anja , Daniel Rolf , Breitenbach Milena , Helfrich Eric J. N. , Müller Volker 
Published: August 2024

AbstractSpecies of the genus Blautia are not only abundant in the human gut but also contribute to human well‐being. Our study demonstrates that the gut acetogen Blautia schinkii can grow on myo‐inositol. We identified the pathway of myo‐inositol degradation through a combination of physiological and biochemical studies, genome‐wide expression profiling and homology searches. Initially, myo‐inositol is oxidized to 2‐keto‐myo‐inositol. This compound is then metabolized by a series of enzymes – a dehydratase, hydrolase, isomerase and kinase – to form 2‐deoxy‐5‐keto‐d‐gluconic acid 6‐phosphate. This intermediate is split by an aldolase into malonate semialdehyde and dihydroxyacetone phosphate, which is an intermediate of the Embden–Meyerhof–Parnas pathway. This pathway leads to the production of pyruvate and, subsequently, acetate. Concurrently, malonate semialdehyde is reduced to 3‐hydroxypropionate (3‐HP). The genes responsible for myo‐inositol degradation are clustered on the genome, except for the gene encoding the aldolase. We identified the putative aldolase Fba_3 and 3‐HP dehydrogenase Adh1 encoding genes bioinformatically and verified them biochemically using enzyme assays with heterologously produced and purified protein. The major fermentation end products were 3‐HP and acetate, produced in similar amounts. The production of the unusual fermentation end product 3‐HP is significant not only for human health but also for the potential bioindustrial production of this highly desired compound.
PUBLIC‐MAKING IN HYPER‐DIVERSITY: Politics, Elections and the Democratic Party in Queens, New York
Authors: DeFilippis James , Simon Elana R. 
Published: August 2024

AbstractQueens is the most diverse county in the country and much of its diversity comes from relatively recent immigration. It is therefore exactly the kind of place that a variety of theorists have argued cannot have ‘a public’ through which questions of politics, plans and policies can be discussed and debated. In this article we explore the potential for a public in such spaces of hyper‐diversity and do so through the lens of electoral politics and the state. A set of findings emerges from this research. First, the hyper‐diversity in Queens does not change the reality that much of what is happening is the very typical and mundane ‘drama’ of power politics in a city. Secondly, in that mundane competition for power, racial and ethnic differentiation are not preexisting forces of nature that determine political behavior, but are co‐constituted with political, economic and social processes that often play out in ideology and geography (neighborhood). Finally, this leads us away from views of ‘the public’ that implicitly accept or assume either a fixity of its identity or an essential set of characteristics in its constitution.
STRATEGIES AND TACTICS IN PLATFORM URBANISM: Contested Spatial Production through Quick Delivery Platforms in Berlin and Barcelona
Authors: Palacios Crisóstomo Nicolás , Kaufmann David 
Published: August 2024

AbstractAmid the Covid‐19 pandemic, the food and grocery delivery sector became a multibillion‐dollar industry, making riders with squared backpacks visible in our urban landscapes. We explore the role of quick delivery platforms in spatial production—and especially the strategies platforms employed and the tactics of platform workers in relation to this production. By adopting a Lefebvrian perspective, we introduce the concepts of ‘strategies of spatial abstraction’ and ‘spatial tactics of resistance’. We argue that strategies of platforms such as territorialization and digital Taylorism homogenize spatial relations, while platform workers use tactics to resist and to negotiate their everyday lives mediated by platforms. We draw on vignettes from Barcelona and Berlin to illustrate the spatial implications of these strategies and tactics. Territorialization anchors platforms to urban locations through physical infrastructure, while digital Taylorism utilizes algorithms to standardize spatial practices. These strategies contain contradictions: territorialization reduces worker atomization, while digital Taylorism catalyzes worker resistance tactics, especially logistical resistance around the platforms’ dark stores and warehouses. This article contributes to the growing body of literature on platform urbanism, revealing the complex and often contradictory nature of platform‐mediated production of urban space.
ZONING AND THE ‘RIGHT’ CITY: The Challenges of Zoning in the Global South and Possibilities for Unzoning Informality
Authors: Geyer Herman 
Published: August 2024

AbstractThis article presents a poststructuralist analysis of zoning practices and their implementation in the global South, critically analysing the development of two parallel housing processes arising as a consequence of zoning: informality and customary land use management systems in peri‐urban settlements. Using a Bourdieusian analysis, the article evaluates the tension between zoning and informality in which zoning furthers special interests and creates highly unequal power relations by commodifying space and marginalizing the urban poor. In response, pro‐poor forms of counter‐conduct such as inclusionary zoning and informality serve to alter the perspective of normative planning and create alternative spaces that generate agency for the urban poor. This raises questions regarding the nature of current zoning practices in terms of social justice and distributive ethics.