bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Financing social marketing programs through sponsorship: implications for evaluation
Authors: Madill Judith , O'Reilly Norm , Nadeau John 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to report on research designed to assess the impact of sponsorship financing of social marketing initiatives on the evaluation of those social marketing programs.

Design/methodology/approach
– The research utilizes an in-depth, multi-method case study of the Canadian Mental Health Association Calgary Region (CMHA-CR) who carried out a social marketing campaign concerning mental health behaviors that was largely financed by sponsors.

Findings
– The sponsorship of the CMHA-CR social marketing program was complex with a total of 15 stakeholders involved as sponsors, partners and grantors. The research reveals that while there is considerable sharing of objectives among the stakeholders in this sponsorship, not all objectives are shared between sponsors and sponsees, and not all objectives are shared between the public and private sector sponsors of the program.

Practical implications
– The research showed that because sponsors and sponsees share in many of the objectives of the social marketing campaign, the evaluation of the social marketing campaign, particularly its ability to achieve the social marketing-specific objectives, is of interest to all the stakeholder parties, and effective social marketing evaluation must also incorporate evaluation of the non-shared objectives of all sponsorship stakeholders.

Originality/value
– Increasing social needs, accompanied by reduced government funding and increased competition amongst not-for-profit (NFP) organizations for that funding, are driving NFPs to seek innovative approaches to financing their social programs. The research reports initial findings critical in this environment, as well as raises issues and questions related to future research.
Reflections on a decade in social marketing
Authors: McAuley Andrew 
Published: February 2014

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to reflect on trends within social marketing after ten years of involvement with the field, including being co-founding editor of this journal.Design/methodology/approach– The paper outlines personal interaction in the development of social marketing and then highlights five “millstones” that are identified as limiting factors.Findings– Social marketing has to be more than just communications, has to be more than a definitional toy, has to break free from the straightjacket of the 4Ps and must reach beyond the well-trodden path of services marketing and be prepared to work with industry.Originality/value– Observations on the evolution of social marketing through personal experience of engagement with the field.
The theoretical foundations of value-informed pricing in the service-dominant logic of marketing
Authors: T.M. Ingenbleek Paul 
Published: February 2014

Purpose– In the mainstream normative pricing literature, value assessment is virtually non-existent. Although the resource-based literature recognizes that pricing is a competence, value-informed pricing practices are still weakly grounded in theory. The purpose of this paper is to strengthen the theoretical grounds of such pricing practices.Design/methodology/approach– The paper applies the emerging service-dominant logic of marketing to pricing. More specifically, it apples the ten foundational premises of service-dominant logic to pricing and it places pricing in the frameworks of one of the major building blocks of service-dominant logic, namely the resource-advantage theory of competition.Findings– From a service-dominant perspective, price is the reward for the application of specialized knowledge and skills. Pricing is an operant resource, or competence, that assesses customer value, applies it in multi-dimensional price propositions, and implements it in processes of co-creating prices with customers. Value-informed pricing is the central pricing practice within such competences.Practical implications– Prices vary among others between “good” and “bad”, firms generate competitive advantage not only through value creation, but also through pricing. Learning is key to develop pricing competences.Originality/value– This paper is the first to ground value-informed pricing at high levels of abstraction in general marketing theory.
Capturing value from innovations: the importance of rent configurations
Authors: Duhamel Francois , Reboud Sophie , Santi Michel 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to devise recommendations for firms to formulate modes of value capture for their product innovations, ex ante. More specifically, the research question is: how can innovators try to maximize, ex ante, the appropriation of the rent they can derive from their innovating projects?

Design/methodology/approach
– A theoretical framework is developed and proposed to assess modes of value capture of product innovations and two illustrations are provided to show how the framework can work in practice for innovation projects.

Findings
– This paper presents a practitioner's view based on the development of an original concept of rent configuration and appropriable rent.

Research limitations/implications
– In terms of research limitations, the possible endogeneity of intellectual property protection and the timing of were not considered.

Practical implications
– The framework allows a set of predictions regarding modes of value capture for product innovators.

Originality/value
– The paper's contribution lies in the proposal of an integrative framework based on the concept of rent configuration, separating analytically three dimensions of innovation value, namely volume, profit and duration. This concept allows the authors to present a richer set of recommendations in comparison to previous frameworks, in order to avoid adopting the form of a yes/no decision tree that tends to over simplify the issues at stake. The authors also contemplate not only erosion effects, but also amplification effects on the rent, which constitutes another contribution of this paper.
Value creation and organisational practices at firm boundaries
Authors: La Rocca Antonella , Snehota Ivan 
Published: February 2014

Purpose– Growing awareness that value for the customer is created in relationship between the supplier and the customer has consequences for sales and marketing functions, and businesses are increasingly experimenting with new organisational approaches and solutions. The purpose of this paper is to investigate organisational issues involved in implementing value programs in B2B firms and examine implications for managerial action.Design/methodology/approach– After a literature review on value creation in business relationships, the authors illustrate the case of a large industrial business experimenting with organisational solutions to support value-creation processes in customer relationships.Findings– The authors identify three issues management has to address in organising the customer interface: involvement of a variety of actors to access elements of effective customer-value solutions; supporting and orchestrating the interaction processes among those involved; and differentiation of the customer interface and sales approach to match the substantial differences in customer relationships.Research limitations/implications– There is a need for further, more systematic empirical studies of value-creation practices and solutions in how businesses organise the customer interface for value creation.Practical implications– Coping effectively with creating value in customer relationships implies experimenting with novel approaches and solutions in organising the sales and marketing activities as open networked sales organization and requires specific managerial capabilities.Originality/value– While creating customer value is generally believed to be positively related to the firm's performance and development, the organisational implications of focusing on creating value have been less explored. The original contribution of this work lies in zooming in on the organisational solutions to support the customer value-creation processes.
Why are CFO insider trades more informative?
Authors: S. Knewtson Heather , R. Nofsinger John 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– The authors examine whether the stronger information content of chief financial officer (CFO) insider trading relative to that of chief executive officers (CEOs) results from a different willingness to exploit the information asymmetry that exists between executives and outside shareholders (scrutiny hypothesis) or from differing financial acumen between CFOs and CEOs (financial acumen hypothesis). The authors consider the information content of equity purchases for CEOs and CFOs. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors examine purchase-based insider trading portfolio returns before and after the implementation of SOX in firms with high versus low regulation, for routine and opportunistic managers, and in samples of CEOs with prior CFO experience.

Findings
– The authors provide evidence that SOX affected executives differently and provide support for the scrutiny hypothesis. CFO-based portfolios remain the most profitable post-SOX, but the magnitude of returns has fallen in absolute and relative terms compared to returns for CEOs. Superior financial acumen of CFOs does not appear to be supported. CEO purchase trade returns appear to be lower than CFO returns because CEOs face greater visibility and scrutiny and thus limit their own trading aggressiveness.

Originality/value
– This research contributes to the literature in explaining why CFOs best CEOs in their insider trading purchases and documents that in the post-SOX period, CFO insider trading superiority disappears.
An empirical analysis of the dynamic relation among investment, earnings and dividends
Authors: A. DeFusco Richard , M. Dunham Lee , Geppert John 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine the dynamic relationships among investment, earnings and dividends for US firms. The sample period is 1950-2006.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors use a firm-level vector auto-regression (VAR) framework to examine the firm-level dynamics among investment, earnings and dividends. The firm-level VAR yields Granger causality results, impulse response functions, and variance decompositions characterizing the dynamics of these three variables at the firm level.

Findings
– For the average firm in the sample, Miller and Modigliani dividend policy irrelevance is not supported, even in the long run; the shocks to dividends do have long-run consequences for investment and vice versa. Dividend changes are an ineffective signal of future earnings in both the short and long-term. The cost of an increased dividend is on average an immediate decrease of $3 in investment for every dollar increase in dividends and the effect is persistent up to six years after the increase in dividends.

Research limitations/implications
– The firm-level VAR used in the study requires that sample firms have long histories of investment, earnings and dividend data. The study addresses the interaction between dividends and investment and therefore necessitates examining dividend-paying firms. By the nature of the research question, the sample firms will not be representative in all respects to the universe of firms. The most striking difference between the sample and the universe of firms is firm size. As such, the study's conclusions are most applicable to larger, stable, dividend-paying firms. The study is also limited to dividend payout. Alternative payout policies, such as share repurchases, are not considered in this work.

Practical implications
– In theory, increases in dividends can signal higher future earnings; however, the evidence does not support this hypothesis. When capital markets are constrained or incomplete, increases in dividends come at a cost to investment. Firms should consider alternative methods of signaling future earnings that have less of an impact on investment. Investors should carefully evaluate the possible impact of an increase in dividends on investment and future earnings growth.

Originality/value
– This study is the first to examine the dynamics of earnings, dividends and investment at a firm level and over such a long sample period. By including the dynamics of earnings, the authors emphasize the potential opportunity costs that increasing dividends has on investment when capital markets are imperfect. The dynamic system also allows the authors to consider long-run effects as well as immediate responses to system shocks.
An empirical study on the dynamic relationship between oil prices and Indian stock market
Authors: Nath Sahu Tarak , Bandopadhyay Kalpataru , Mondal Debasish 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– This study aims to investigate the dynamic relationships between oil price shocks and Indian stock market.

Design/methodology/approach
– The study used daily data for the period starting from January 2001 to March 2013. In this study, Johansen's cointegration test, vector error correction model (VECM), Granger causality test, impulse response functions (IRFs) and variance decompositions (VDCs) test have been applied to exhibit the long-run and short-run relationship between them.

Findings
– The cointegration result indicates the existence of long-term relationship. Further, the error correction term of VECM shows a long-run causality moves from Indian stock market to oil price but not the vice versa. The results of the Granger causality test under the VECM framework confirm that no short-run causality between the variables exists. The VDCs analysis revealed that the Indian stock markets and crude oil prices are strongly exogenous. Finally, from the IRFs, analysis revealed that a positive shock in oil price has a small but persistence and growing positive impact on Indian stock markets in short run.

Originality/value
– The study would enhance the understandings of the interaction between oil price volatilities and emerging stock market performances. Further, the study would enable foreign investors who are interested in Indian stock market helps in understanding the conditional relationship between the variables.
Testing the monthly anomaly with stochastic dominance
Authors: Ke Mei-Chu , Chou Jian-Hsin , Hsieh Chin-Shan , Chi Tsung-Li , Chen Cheng-Te , Liang Liao Tung 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– This study uses stochastic dominance (SD) theory to examine whether the traditional festival, such as the Spring Festival (often in February), affects the patterns of monthly anomaly for the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE). The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach
– The authors employ a new bootstrap-based test due to Linton, Maasoumi and Whang (hereafter LMW). The LMW test is well suited for financial time series data, such as monthly returns of various portfolios in this study, because it allows for general dependence among the prospects (distributions) and does not require the observations to be identically and independently distributed.

Findings
– The particular findings of this study are that the February effect and the February-size effect indeed exist in the TWSE. Furthermore, allowing part of investors' assets is invested in the risky asset and the remaining part in a risk-free asset, first finding for monthly anomaly in the extant literature, is useful in distinguishing the performance among various size-month portfolios.

Originality/value
– Instead of tax-loss and window dressing hypothesis, the Spring Festival money movement hypothesis can be used to well explain the findings.
Interpersonal trust, stress and satisfaction at work: an empirical study
Authors: Guinot Jacob , Chiva Ricardo , Roca-Puig Vicente 
Published: February 2014

Purpose– Due to the divergent conclusions about the effects of interpersonal trust on job satisfaction, the study aims to look more deeply into this relationship by introducing job stress as a mediator variable.Design/methodology/approach– The paper uses structural equation modeling to analyze the opinions of 6,407 Spanish employees, taken from the 2008 Quality of Working Life Survey carried out by the Spanish Ministry of Labor and Immigration.Findings– The findings show that interpersonal trust has a positive effect on job satisfaction, and that job stress partially mediates this relationship. Furthermore, interpersonal trust is negatively related to job stress, which in turn is negatively related to job satisfaction.Research limitations/implications– Despite the pertinence and size of the database used in the study, it is very heterogeneous. Future research might delimit the database by organization size or sector. Qualitative studies may also improve our understanding of the relationships studied and enable other concepts to be included.Practical implications– Cultivating a climate of trust may provide organizations with a strategy to improve levels of mental well-being and satisfaction among their employees.Originality/value– This research explains why interpersonal trust has a positive effect on job satisfaction. The paper's conceptualization of trust implies risk assumption and low risk perception; low perception of risk is presumed to reduce job stress, and in turn, increase job satisfaction. The paper also puts forward reasons for why “excessive” interpersonal trust has been related to negative effects on job satisfaction. “Excessive” trust might infer high risk perception, which might increase job stress, and in turn decrease job satisfaction.
Australian Muslim men balancing work, family and religion:a positive look at a negative issue
Authors: Sav Adem , Harris Neil , Sebar Bernadette 
Published: February 2014

Purpose
– This study explores how Australian Muslim men cope with potential conflict and achieve feelings of balance between their work, family and religious roles.

Design/methodology/approach
– The study is guided by the interpretive paradigm and is qualitative. Data is collected from participants via semi-structured in-depth interviews (n=20) and analysed using thematic analysis.

Findings
– Personal coping strategies (e.g. making permanent changes and time management) seem more effective in coping with immediate conflict and achieving work-life balance as opposed to external ones (e.g. supervisor support). Although some of the strategies mirror existing research, their extent of use and reasons for usage by Muslim men are different. Muslim men use these strategies in a preventive manner to actively achieve work-life balance rather than just cope with episodic work-life conflict.

Research limitations/implications
– The study is conducted with a small sample and the findings may not be generalizable to non-practising Australian Muslim men. To date, research has not clearly articulated how people who do not experience work-life conflict, make decisions to achieve balance. This study has a positive look at a negative issue by indicating that workers can go beyond coping with conflict and explore avenues to achieve work-life balance. The findings underscore the importance of preventive coping in achieving work-life balance and caution researchers about investigating how people cope with immediate work-life conflict only.

Originality/value
– In addition to work and family roles, this study focuses on religious commitments, with religion being a largely overlooked concept within the work-family coping literature.
The influence of global uncertainty on the cross-border performance appraisal
Authors: Maley Jane , Kramer Robin 
Published: February 2014

Purpose– The aim of this paper is to examine the practice of performance management in a cross-border context in times of global uncertainty.Design/methodology/approach– This is a conceptual paper.Findings– The findings expose global uncertainty to be wielding a significant influence on performance management.Practical implications– A practical framework is developed using real options theory. This approach offers suggestions for multinational corporations to increase the effectiveness of their performance management while at the same time focusing on profit-maximisation.Originality/value– This paper enhances international management research by recognizing that real options theory can effectively be applied to improve the effectiveness of performance management in global uncertainty.
Disentangling the mechanisms underlying functional differences among decomposer communities
Authors: Keiser Ashley D. , Keiser David A. , Strickland Michael S. , Bradford Mark A. 
Published: February 2014

Summary

Home‐field advantage (HFA) is a commonly used sports analogy, which has seen recent growth within the ecosystem ecology literature. It is most often invoked in litter transplant studies, where local adaptation (HFA) explains higher decomposition rates of leaf litter on ‘home’ soil communities.

In exploring the mechanisms driving functional differences among soil decomposer communities, a consistent quantitative framework is lacking.

We review methods for calculating HFA, propose a consolidated regression approach and demonstrate why HFA must be calculated along with a new ‘ability’ metric if we are to test definitively the competing hypotheses that soil decomposer communities are functionally equivalent versus dissimilar. We demonstrate that qualitative interpretations of HFA differ when the ability of a decomposer community is calculated simultaneously with HFA. For example, communities may differ in their ability to degrade litter in the absence of HFA, or apparent HFA may instead be caused by differing abilities, changing our ecological interpretation of the factors generating functional differences among decomposer communities.

Synthesis: We propose a single, statistical approach to help evaluate how and why soil decomposer communities differ in functional abilities. Our approach should help formalize mechanistic interpretations of why soil community composition commonly influences litter decomposition rates.
The Efficacy of Glucocorticoids for the Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation, or Length of Intensive Care Unite or Hospital Stay After Cardiac Surgery: A Meta‐Analysis
Authors: Liu Chao , Wang Jinghui , Yiu Daofeng , Liu Kunshen 
Published: February 2014

SummaryAimscardiopulmonary bypass and cardiac surgery are associated with a significant systemic inflammatory response that has been suggested playing a causative role in the development of perioperative atrial fibrillation (POAF). The goal of this meta‐analysis was to determine the efficacy of glucocorticoid prophylaxis in preventing POAF, or length of intensive care unite (ICU) or hospital stay.MethodsA systematic electronic database literature search of Cochrane controlled trials register (2013, issue 4) and MEDLINE (1966 to April, 2013) was conducted using specific search terms for all relevant articles. Including criteria were: randomized controlled clinical trials, participants were adults (≥18 years of age) undergoing cardiac surgery, evaluated glucocorticoid prophylaxis in cardiac surgery with adequately reported data on incidence of POAF, or length of ICU or hospital stay.ResultsForty‐two randomized controlled trials involving 7621 participants were included in the meta‐analysis. Overall, glucocorticoids prophylaxis significantly lowered participants' risk of developing POAF (Relative Risk [RR] 0.77; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.66–0.90), P < 0.01), reduced length of ICU stay by 0.25 day (95% CI −0.40 to −0.10, P < 0.01). Glucocorticoid prophylaxis in cardiac surgery was not associated with increased all‐cause of infection (RR 0.68; 95% CI 0.58–0.78, P < 0.01) and mortality (RR 0.75; 95% CI 0.52–1.08, P = 0.12).ConclusionsPooled evidence suggests that glucocorticoid prophylaxis may reduce the incidence of POAF. The beneficial effect on POAF is associated with reduced length of ICU and hospital stay, and infection rate.