bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Analysing the diffusion of a mobile service supporting the e-grocery supply chain
Authors: Cagliano Anna Corinna , De Marco Alberto , Rafele Carlo , Bragagnini Andrea , Gobbato Luca 
Published: July 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to propose a systemic methodology to assess the potential of and facilitate policies for the diffusion of a smartphone based service enabling supply chain (SC) operations in the e-grocery sector.Design/methodology/approach– A System Dynamics (SD) model combining the Bass paradigm for innovation diffusion and an inventory management framework is developed. Semi-structured interviews are conducted to understand the industry business processes; a simple SD model is designed to capture the most important variables together with the relationships among them; a detailed SD model is calibrated and simulation outcomes are analysed.Findings– The efficiency and reliability of the service drive its diffusion among producers and consumers, who in turn persuade retailers to adopt. The assessment methodology can be part of feasibility studies and marketing investigations in order to understand the impact of e-commerce tools on SC processes.Research limitations/implications– This contribution stresses the need to analyse how mobile information technologies may benefit all the business processes of the e-grocery SC, and not just one single process or stakeholder.Practical implications– The approach offers a roadmap to identify the factors influencing the diffusion of mobile e-grocery services as well as the associated impacts on SC processes.Originality/value– The work contributes to overcoming the lack of approaches studying the diffusion of e-grocery by taking into account all the relevant aspects and stakeholders involved and not only the consumer perspective.
Performance measurement due to IT adoption
Authors: Behera Ajay , Nayak Narayan , Das Harish 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis on the relationship between information technology (IT) adoption and its usage and firm performance (banking and software firm) in India. Firm performance was measured with the help of three important variables: efficiency, effectiveness and productivity. Each one of the above has been described with a set of pretested questionnaires. Banks in India, in particular are geared for comprehensive banking solutions with extensive branch networks. Result from statistical analysis was validated with that achieved from ANN modeling.

Design/methodology/approach
– Survey instrument was pilot tested. The pilot survey was administered to 20 randomly selected Indian service firms, whose Standard Industrial Classification codes were 6,021 (nationalized commercial Banks) and 7,371 (software firms). A 50 percent response rate was received. Internal reliability using Cronbach’s α was carried out for the entire set of responses from the pilot study. In addition, qualitative follow up from respondents was done. Unreliable items were deleted and modifications wherever necessary were made.

Findings
– The research finds two important results with respect to IT adoption and firm performance. The first result is that service firms who implemented IT tools and techniques early achieved more turnover thereby greater market share from innovation/adoption (world-first and, to some extent India-first). These firms are able to better commercialize their service even if their most important innovations/adoptions supported by vendor’s to some extent. The second result is that service firms, which introduce new services, even if the service is already on the national or international front, derived more commercial sales from innovation, thus achieving more firm performance. Therefore, late followers (firm-first) would have higher sales from innovation by introducing services with high original content.

Originality/value
– Performance is measured due to IT adoption.
Financial competitiveness analysis in the Hungarian dairy industry
Authors: Tálas Dorisz , Rózsa Andrea 
Published: July 2015

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to analyse time-series change of the competitiveness of leading companies of the sector based on their financial position regarding the period of financial crisis.Design/methodology/approach– First, high level of revenue concentration was proved; consequently, strong competitive situation among few competitors was realised. Corporations having three common features (high amount of equity, high revenue and diversified product structure) were included in the sample. As the methodological background financial parameters were assigned to the definition of corporate competitiveness, and then comparative and comprehensive financial analysis of competitors was accomplished. Using relevant studies, liquidity based on balance sheets and cash flow statements, working capital processes, conventional and cash-flow based profitability were analysed.Findings– It was proved that sample companies continuously improved the efficiency of working capital management indicated by the decrease of the average cash conversion cycle from 45 to 23 days. It was realised that there is a Hungarian-owned firm having outstanding financial performance; consequently, it has significant position among competitors. This company has further opportunity to increase its market share and competitiveness in the future. Finally, important characteristics of the sector were identified concerning the low level of technological improvements (the average ratio was below 3 per cent of the revenue), and unfavourable profitability processes.Originality/value– In this paper, a separate analytic framework is established in view of the application of financial indicators to analyse competitiveness. This kind of analysis was not executed before in this sector.
Conceptualization of a holistic brand image measure for fashion-related brands
Authors: Cho Eunjoo , Fiore Ann Marie 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the holistic nature of brand image for fashion-related products and to complete the initial stage of scale development, determining content validity, for a new brand image measure.

Design/methodology/approach
– The conceptualization of brand image was based on a review of academic and industry literature and analysis of qualitative data from 11 in-depth interviews. To help assess content validity, four trained judges assessed the face validity of the initial 140 items generated; 137 scale items were retained.

Findings
– Analysis of the interview data revealed that cognitive (mystery), emotional (intimacy) and sensory (sensuality) dimensions were important for brand image of fashion-related products. The results aligned with major themes proposed in the literature, but one additional theme (self-congruity) was uncovered. These findings support content validity of the brand image scale items.

Research limitations/implications
– The interviews were limited to female consumers in the Midwestern USA. The present study expands the existing brand image concept by identifying its multi-dimensional nature including sensory associations. Theoretically, an expanded brand image measure increases its explanatory power in empirical studies. In terms of practical implications, fostering cognitive, emotional and sensory dimensions is essential for creating an effective fashion-related brand image, which can enhance brand equity.

Originality/value
– Past brand image scales have emphasized cognitive and emotional dimensions. The new scale items represent a more holistic measure of brand image, as they include a comprehensive sensory dimension. It will be the first brand image scale geared toward fashion-related brands.
The impact of product innovation attributes on brand equity
Authors: Nørskov Sladjana , Chrysochou Polymeros , Milenkova Marina 
Published: July 2015

Purpose– This paper aims to examine the impact of product innovation attributes (complexity, relative advantage, compatibility, trialability and observability) on brand equity, and whether these attributes exert a different effect on low- versus high-equity brands. The moderating role of consumer innovativeness in this relationship is investigated further.Design/methodology/approach– The study is based on survey data from users of two brands of digital audio players of different brand equity levels.Findings– Overall, it was found that innovation attributes have an effect on brand equity, and this effect differs between low- and high-equity brands, with a low-equity brand being benefited more than a high-equity brand from perceptions towards a product’s innovation attributes. Additionally, it was found that the impact of complexity and relative advantage on brand equity increases when consumer innovativeness increases in the case of a high-equity brand. However, no significant difference was found between low- and high-equity brands regarding the proposed moderating effect of innovativeness.Research limitations/implications– The study only examines two brands belonging to one particular industry, which limits the findings’ generalizability. Thus, the use of more test brands from different industries should be the goal for future research.Practical implications– Managers should consider the firm’s current brand equity level and its competitive position to maximize the effect of product innovation attributes.Originality/value– The study makes an original contribution to the research on the relationship between product innovation and brand equity and provides theoretical and managerial implications in the field of innovation and brand management.
Promoting biodiversity: do consumers prefer feelings, facts, advice or appeals?
Authors: Schaffner Dorothea , Demarmels Sascha , Juettner Uta 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore consumers’ responses to emotional and normative communication in comparison with traditional informational campaigns promoting pro-environmental behavior in the context of biodiversity. By adopting the approach of likeability of the communication, the paper identifies which type of communication strategy is liked by consumers’ and which dimensions define likeability in the context of biodiversity. The goal is to improve the effectiveness of communication messages delivered by social marketers or public policy makers through a better understanding of consumers’ responses to different communication strategies.

Design/methodology/approach
– To investigate which communications strategies are perceived as likeable in the context of promoting biodiversity and to explore the dimensions that underlie likeability of the communication a qualitative study was conducted. First, the information design with the different communication strategies has been developed. Second, focused interviews with 25 individuals have been conducted.

Findings
– Results indicate that communication strategies using positive emotions led to most favorable responses. Further, findings suggest that informational strategies seem to result in positive attitudes when they tap on procedural knowledge. Favorable judgments are linked with communication strategies that create awareness or which are relevant and informative.

Research limitations/implications
– Further empirical research is suggested exploring consumers’ responses to communication strategies that combine emotions and facts.

Practical implications
– Based on the findings of this study, social marketers and public policy makers are recommended to use a combination of communication strategies that evoke positive emotions and provide consumers with the facts necessary to take action.

Originality/value
– The paper allows for an integrated view and contributes to an increased understanding of responses to communication strategies and provides valuable practical implications for social marketers and public policy makers.
Perceived health and taste ambivalence in food consumption
Authors: Luomala Harri , Jokitalo Maijastiina , Karhu Hannu , Hietaranta-Luoma Hanna-Leena , Hopia Anu , Hietamäki Sanna 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– This study aims to explore how certain consumer characteristics (dieting status, health motives and food values) together with products carrying ambivalent health and taste cues (light foods, convenience foods, “functional candies”) shape whether and why health and taste attributes are perceived as inclusive (“healthy is tasty” and “unhealthy is untasty”) or exclusive (“healthy is untasty” and “unhealthy is tasty”).

Design/methodology/approach
– A qualitative methodology not yet applied in examining consumers’ healthiness and tastiness perceptions of food was employed. It included gathering three separate data sets through both personal and group interviews (N = 40).

Findings
– Consumers’ dieting status, health motives and food values shape the perception of inclusivity and exclusivity of health and taste of light, convenience and candy products. Second, there are multiple sources for these perceptions including product type, ingredients, level of processing and marketing cues. These factors interact to produce a unique consumer understanding of the relationship between health and taste for each single food product.

Practical implications
– To ensure optimal consumer response, food companies and health educators need to understand how different target groups form their inclusive/exclusive perceptions of health and taste for various foods.

Originality/value
– The majority of pre-existing food consumption research supports imply that a good taste and a high degree of healthiness are incompatible with each other. The findings challenge this view. It appears that it is the “unhealthy is untasty” and “healthy is tasty” perceptions that predominate in certain consumer groups. A novel conceptual framework for understanding the ambivalence of health and taste perceptions in food consumption is offered.
Revisiting the concept of a competitive “cash advantage”
Authors: Calandro, Jr. Joseph 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to profile how ample cash holdings can serve as a competitive advantage by first mitigating the risk of becoming a forced seller during times of distress, and then positioning a firm to take strategic advantage of forced selling and other forms of distress-generated opportunities.

Design/methodology/approach
– The author reviews the changing role of cash over time in corporate strategy, and how inadequate cash has caused or contributed to corporate failures.

Findings
– The findings of this paper, which are supported by historical and contemporary examples, are that ample cash reserves can be a powerful source of comparative advantage.

Practical implications
– This article supports earlier work published in Strategy
&
Leadership that shows how Graham-and-Dodd-based analysis is a viable avenue of academic research and a viable method with which to assess and formulate corporate strategic initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, share buy-backs, risk management and, in this case, the strategic uses of cash.

Originality/value
– This paper offers leaders and financial executives a practical explanation of how ample cash holdings can serve as a competitive advantage.
The individual enterprise: all for one and one for all
Authors: Balboni Fred , Berman Saul J. , Korsten Peter J. 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– This article explains how, by combining the power of analytics with the ubiquity of mobile, organizations have the opportunity to provide employees with “mobility” solutions that will enable them to work more effectively than ever before, a new Individual Enterprise model.

Design/methodology/approach
– The article shows how organizations that design their business and information systems with this Individual Enterprise model in mind can evolve their business models, or even create totally new ones, and thus realize the full transformational benefits of mobility.

Findings
– Together mobile and analytics will redefine how companies deliver value to customers.

Practical implications
– Dynamically configurable platforms and apps will allocate organizational expertise precisely where and when needed, enabling employees to make faster, better-informed decisions.

Social implications
– By creating an Individual Enterprise, organizations will be able to discover, define and refine new and emerging customer wants and needs, and create truly unique, exciting customer experiences.

Originality/value
– By transforming in an Individual Enterprise a company evolves from managing employees to optimizing ecosystems; from assigning “a person for the process” to creating “a process for a person.”
Customer-focused IT: a process of continuous value innovation
Authors: Narayanan V. K. 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– Transition to a digital economy and the pervasiveness of IT in a firm’s operations together has brought the IT function in corporations to the threshold of a needed transformation: from an orientation that prizes technical excellence to one that achieves continuous innovation by finding new opportunities to provide value to customers.

Design/methodology/approach
– The author believes that companies need to adopt customer-focused IT, this requires a shift in organizational culture, from considering technical excellence as an end in itself, to respecting customers as the centrally important stakeholder of an organization.

Findings
– In many companies, rethinking the IT function to focus it on providing value to the customer presents an opportunity to empower frontline employees, to make innovations in the company value chain and to maintain and to enhance competitive advantage.

Practical implications
– Changing to a customer focus requires dedicated continuous innovation to enlist the full resources of the IT function – architecture, algorithms, big data and connectivity – to satisfy customer needs, solve customer problems and produce new customer value.

Originality/value
– The author argues convincingly that IT organizations will become focused on delivering value that matches evolving customer needs if, and only if, CIOs insist upon concentrating the resources of the organization on this goal Indeed, CIOs should consider themselves chief marketing officers, focusing on the customer and promoting the customer-focus competencies of their organizations.
Customer preeminence: the lodestar for continuous innovation in the business ecosystem
Authors: Denning Stephen 
Published: July 2015

Purpose
– The author analyzes why the transformation of customers from passive consumers to their new role as, in effect, the determining partners in corporate strategy has produced the need for a fundamental rethinking of how a corporation must be led and managed.”

Design/methodology/approach
– The author links the modern day preeminence of the customer to the rise of globalization, the failures of hierarchical management, the omnipresence of the Internet, Agile methodology, continuous focused innovation and the advent of the ecosystem platform.

Findings
– The author sees the emergence of the customer as the lodestar for guiding corporate value-chain decisions as a transformational feature of the 21st Century business landscape.”

Practical implications
– By having an ecosystem platform, rather than an individual or coach seeing to the needs of the customer, Apple is able to achieve massive scale, with hundreds of thousands of developers devising every conceivable App to meet the infinitely variable needs of hundreds of millions of customers.”

Originality/value
– The author’s insight is that this shift from vertical to horizontal management is a truly new core idea. It’s not just a new process or methodology, but a different ideology – a different way of viewing and acting in the world. And management will likely never be the same.
Human T‐lymphotropic virus type I proviral loads in patients with adult T‐cell leukemia–lymphoma: Comparison between cutaneous type and other subtypes
Authors: Yonekura Kentaro , Utsunomiya Atae , Seto Masao , Takatsuka Yoshifusa , Takeuchi Shogo , Tokunaga Masahito , Kubota Ayumu , Takeda Koichiro , Kanzaki Tamotsu , Uchida Youhei , Kawai Kazuhiro , Kanekura Takuro 
Published: July 2015

AbstractAdult T‐cell leukemia–lymphoma (ATL), characterized by various clinicopathological features, is divided into four clinical subtypes, namely, acute, lymphoma, chronic and smoldering types, and the treatment strategy differs according to the clinical subtype. The designation cutaneous type ATL has been proposed to describe a peculiar subgroup of smoldering type ATL in which the skin is predominantly affected. However, diagnostic criteria and prognostic factors for cutaneous type ATL remain to be determined. Therefore, we performed a retrospective study to obtain a precise method for subtype classification and to clearly define cutaneous type ATL. A total of 87 ATL patients (acute, n = 31; lymphoma, n = 6; chronic, n = 24; smoldering, n = 26) were enrolled. The human T‐lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV‐1) proviral load in peripheral blood and the serum soluble interleukin‐2 receptor (sIL‐2R) level were evaluated with respect to the clinical features of the different types of ATL. The HTLV‐1 proviral load was significantly increased in the acute and chronic type and the serum sIL‐2R level was increased in the acute and lymphoma type. The HTLV‐1 proviral load was significantly lower in cutaneous than other smoldering types of ATL without skin lesions. The clinical findings of cutaneous type ATL were also different from other subtypes. These results indicate that, in combination, determination of the HTLV‐1 proviral load and the serum sIL‐2R level is useful for distinguishing among the different types of ATL, and strongly suggest that cutaneous type ATL is a distinct clinical entity.
CARD14 Glu138 mutation in familial pityriasis rubra pilaris does not warrant differentiation from familial psoriasis
Authors: Inoue Nana , Dainichi Teruki , Fujisawa Akihiro , Nakano Hajime , Sawamura Daisuke , Kabashima Kenji 
Published: July 2015

AbstractSome familial cases of pityriasis rubra pilaris (PRP) have the CARD14 gene mutations that are also detected in familial psoriasis vulgaris. However, genotype–phenotype correlation in these two entities is poorly understood. Here, we report a case of PRP with a new mutation in CARD14. Genomic analysis of a 40‐year‐old female patient with sporadic PRP type V identified a heterozygous dominant c.412G>A mutation (p.Glu138Lys) in CARD14. Two types of CARD14 mutations causing Glu138 substitutions have been reported in cases of familial PRP and pustular psoriasis. All three types, including the present case, are predicted to cause similar loss of the negative charges at this site. This suggests that the difference in molecular charge and the resulting change in molecular interaction around the N‐terminal end of the coiled‐coil region of CARD14 molecule do not determine the phenotypic differences between psoriasis and PRP.
Clinical evaluation of 30 patients with localized nasal rosacea
Authors: Lee Woo Jin , Lee Ye Jin , Won Chong Hyun , Chang Sung Eun , Choi Jee Ho , Lee Mi Woo 
Published: July 2015

AbstractThe clinical features of localized nasal rosacea have not been described in detail. This study was designed to analyze the subtypes and severity of localized nasal rosacea. Our present study included 30 patients with localized nasal rosacea. The erythematotelangiectatic subtype (13/30, 43.3%) was the most common type, followed by the phymatous subtype (9/30, 30%). The duration of rosacea was shorter and the severity of localized nasal rosacea was lower in the erythematotelangiectatic subtype cases compared with the patients with mixed or phymatous subtypes. Almost all of the papulopustular eruptions or phymatous lesions were associated with erythematotelangiectatic lesions. These findings suggest that the erythematotelangiectatic subtype may be considered the initial phase of localized nasal rosacea.