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Predicting of aging population density by a hybrid grey exponential smoothing model (HGESM): a case study from Sri Lanka
Authors: Rathnayaka R.M. Kapila Tharanga , Seneviratna D.M.K.N. 
Published: May 2024

PurposeThe global population has been experiencing an unprecedentedly rapid demographic transition as the populations have been growing older in many countries during the current decades. The purpose of this study is to introduce a Grey Exponential Smoothing model (GESM)-based mechanism for analyzing population aging.Design/methodology/approachTo analyze the aging population of Sri Lanka, initially, three major indicators were considered, i.e. total population, aged population and proportion of the aged population to reflect the aging status of a country. Based on the latest development of computational intelligence with Grey techniques, this study aims to develop a new analytical model for the analysis of the challenge of disabled and frail older people in an aging society.FindingsThe results suggested that a well-defined exponential trend has been seen for the population ages 65 and above, a total of a million) during 1960–2022; especially, the aging population ages 65 and above has been rising rapidly since 2008. This will increase to 24.8% in 2040 and represents the third highest percentage of elderly citizens living in an Asian country. By 2041, one in every four Sri Lankans is expected to be elderly.Originality/valueThe study proposed a GESM-based mechanism for analyzing the population aging in Sri Lanka based on the data from 1960 to 2022 and forecast the aging demands in the next five years from 2024 to 2028.
Is academic innovation need of an hour? The role of intellectual capital and dynamic capabilities in driving academic performance
Authors: Shahbaz Muhammad Hamid , Durrani Muhammad Kashif , Sharif Shahbaz 
Published: May 2024

Purpose
This study aims to explore the connections between intellectual capital and academic performance in Lahore, Pakistan’s higher education institutions (HEIs). The research delves into the mediation effect of dynamic capabilities, such as acquisition and exploitation, between intellectual capital and innovation within these educational institutions.

Design/methodology/approach
Grounded in the insights from a comprehensive literature review, the methodology uses a pre-tested questionnaire. Faculty members from private universities in Pakistan were chosen as the study's unit of analysis. Using a convenience sampling technique, data was gathered from 342 teachers and then analyzed using Smart (PLS) 3.3.3.

Findings
The results demonstrate that intellectual capital positively affects innovation. Acquisition and exploitation further mediate this influence, improving academic performance. Applying the knowledge-based view theory, the study confirmed the significance of all the posited hypotheses, underlining the positive interrelationships within Pakistan’s academic institutions.

Originality/value
The novelty of this research lies in its specific focus on the HEIs in Pakistan, demonstrating how intellectual capital and dynamic capabilities foster innovation, thereby enabling these institutions to maintain a competitive edge in a rapidly evolving educational landscape.
The role of noncognitive skills in educational mismatch: evidence from China
Authors: Liu Shiyang , Ma Weibiao , Deng Nanxin 
Published: May 2024

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of noncognitive skills on educational mismatch in the context of China and to further explore the potential mechanisms concerning how noncognitive skills determine mismatch outcomes.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses the Chinese Family Panel Survey of 2018, which provides the Big Five Personality Inventory to assess respondents' noncognitive skills and contains information on educational mismatch. The authors estimate the effects of noncognitive skills on educational mismatch by means of a probit model. Additionally, the correlated random effects (CRE) model and instrumental variable (IV) approach have also been exploited in the robust checks.FindingsThe findings show that the composite score of noncognitive skills reduces the probability of being overeducated and, conversely, increases the likelihood of being undereducated. When distinguishing the effects of different personality traits, the authors find significantly negative effects of agreeableness and openness on overeducation and a positive effect of openness on undereducation. With regard to heterogeneous analysis, the effects of noncognitive skills on educational mismatch exist mostly among white-collar employees and employees with fewer than 5 years of work experience. Finally, the authors provide two likely mechanisms related to job search effort and social capital, followed by the presentation of supporting evidence.Practical implicationsThe results of this paper underline the importance of noncognitive skills in raising the quality of jobs that individuals can obtain. This suggests that the development of noncognitive skills should be encouraged to be integrated into formal education systems and social job training programs in China.Originality/valueDespite a growing interest in its consequences in the labor market, the role of noncognitive skills in determining educational mismatch has rarely been discussed in developing countries. This study provides the first evidence regarding the effects of noncognitive skills on education mismatch in China. It contributes to the research on noncognitive skills' labor market outcomes and enhances the understanding of the factors driving educational mismatch.
The impact of social innovation on environmentally friendly product involvement
Authors: Güven Tayfun , Çam F. Burcu , Bilgili Bilsen , Erci̇ş Aysel 
Published: May 2024

PurposeInvolvement plays a crucial role in understanding consumer behavior. In recent years, the concept of social innovation has gained momentum, resulting in the development of eco-friendly products and initiatives to tackle societal issues. This trend is driven by consumers, who are increasingly aware of the social benefits of the products they buy. The present study aims to investigate how socially innovative, environmentally conscious consumers can influence their engagement with eco-friendly products.Design/methodology/approachResearchers aimed to investigate the “impact of social innovation on involvement in environmentally friendly products.” They selected active members of various environmental organizations operating in the country to conduct the study. Convenience sampling was used to reach out to these members, and the managers of these organizations sent an electronic questionnaire to all members' email addresses.FindingsThe study found that socially innovative, environmentally conscious consumers tend to be more interested in the symbolic meaning and pleasure of products, leading to a decrease in perceived risk and risk importance.Originality/valueThere are limited studies examining the relationship between social innovation and product innovation. Therefore, the novelty of this research lies in its exploration of the relationship between these two concepts. Unlike previous studies, this research found a negative relationship between the dimensions of risk importance and risk probability. This result was interpreted as environmentally friendly products being sensitive to public welfare and not being perceived as risky by environmentalists.
The individual nature of cultural friction in cross-border M&As: exploring the role of face when working with Asian counterparts
Authors: Durand Muriel , Lamotte Olivier , Thomas Mark 
Published: May 2024

Purpose
This study aims to address a significant gap in the literature by exploring the individual nature and microfoundation perspective of cultural friction during the integration phase following cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBMAs). It focuses on the role of face, a pivotal facet of interactions within Asian organizations, elucidating its importance in post-M&A integration outcomes.

Design/methodology/approach
Using a conceptual approach, this study draws on three bodies of literature, namely, cultural friction, microfoundations and face concerns. It reconsiders cultural friction as a microfounded construct and introduces face concerns as a pivotal element to understanding the challenges faced by managers at the forefront of CBMAs involving Asian companies. The conceptual approach is illustrated with examples for the world of practice.

Findings
This research makes two significant contributions to the fields of CBMAs and cultural friction. First, it demonstrates the relevance of the concept of cultural friction at the individual level, shedding light on the complex post-CBMA integration process. Second, this study demonstrates the critical role of face concerns in the sociocultural integration following CBMAs. This is underexplored in extant literature.

Originality/value
The crucial role of face is well known to those working in Asia. Yet academic inquiry remains underdeveloped on this issue for CBMAs. The friction derived from face concerns provides additional insights into the nature of the cultural challenges confronting managers during sociocultural integration and elucidates the micro-mechanisms influencing individuals’ responses to cultural friction. This research responds to calls to examine the human side of M&As uncovering previously neglected issues within intercultural managerial encounters.
Principal rotation in China: policy goals and succession strategies adopted by rotated principals
Authors: Zheng Yulian , Qian Haiyan , Chen Shuangye , Walker Allan David 
Published: May 2024

PurposeThis study examines principal rotation in China to gain empirical insights from the policy analysis and succession strategies that principals employ to gain internal and external support in their new schools.Design/methodology/approachWe employed document analysis and a case study approach. Interviews were conducted with officials in 5 local educational agencies and 40 principals from 5 different regions who were undergoing rotation. Thematic analysis was used to identify common patterns and themes in the interview responses.FindingsWe explored how the principal-rotation policy was implemented, including the goals, standards, targeted principals, tools and other aspects of the policy in China. The study revealed the challenges faced by the rotated principals and their succession strategies.Originality/valueOur study contributes to the field of educational leadership by shedding light on the implementation and impact of principal rotation in mainland China.
Re-visit project success: evaluation of visitor perspectives in the Sungai Melaka flood mitigation project
Authors: Shahrin Farah , Abu Hassan Zerafinas , Zahit Ross Azura 
Published: May 2024

Purpose
This interdisciplinary study re-evaluates the Sungai Melaka flood mitigation project’s impact on community success in Malaysia’s UNESCO World Heritage site, broadening the definition of success considering historical and cultural significance. This study aims to revisit success metrics, focusing on the project’s influence on people’s interactions, cultural well-being, social cohesion and heritage preservation.

Design/methodology/approach
This study explored visitors’ reviews of their experience visiting Sungai Melaka in several data collection stages. The first data collection involved a Web survey posted on Facebook to capture diverse perspectives of the population and grasp the core strand of knowledge to focus on the second data collection, the questionnaire. The final stage involved interviews to generate rich qualitative data.

Findings
The findings of this study revealed that the impact exceeded tangible outcomes, as the project impacted people’s interactions and practices. This research assesses cultural benefits, incorporating these indicators into evaluating cultural ecosystem services by capturing local visitors’ and communities’ perceptions, preferences and behaviours. The findings found that other project success attributes include identities, capabilities and experience, further defining learning, health, economics, connection to nature and symbolism.

Originality/value
This research explores the meaning of project success beyond the traditional metrics by capturing success from the users’ perspectives and people’s interaction and their impact on culture and well-being. The cultural ecosystem services framework used in this study is applied to explore the interactions between people and the facility and its effect on the people.
Does environmental, social and governance performance affect acquisition premium?
Authors: Zrigui Mouna , Khanchel Imen , Lassoued Naima 
Published: May 2024

Purpose
From a target perspective, this paper aims to examine the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transaction valuations.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper uses a sample of 629 international transactions conducted between 2002 and 2020. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression was applied by using ESG aggregate score and the three ESG pillars: environment, social and governance.

Findings
This paper finds that the ESG performance of targets has a negative and significant impact on acquisition premiums. However, this paper finds that targets receive lower premiums by increasing their ESG score, suggesting that targets would do better to focus on ESG to increase shareholder wealth. Thus, results of this paper support the view that ESG-focused firms create shareholder value through the M&A process. Furthermore, results of this paper indicate that environmental and social aspects of ESG drive the acquisition premium. The governance score does not seem to be related to acquisition premiums.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first study to assess whether ESG performance impacts the valuation of M&A transactions by decomposing ESG into its three components.
Safety and effectiveness of guselkumab in Japanese patients with psoriasis: 20‐week interim analysis of a postmarketing surveillance study
Authors: Tada Yayoi , Sugiura Yukako , Kamishima Manami , Tanaka Yoshihito , Tsuchiya Hiroaki , Masuda Junya , Yamanaka Keiichi 
Published: May 2024

AbstractA 52‐week postmarketing surveillance study was initiated to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of guselkumab, a human anti–interleukin 23 subunit p19 monoclonal antibody, in Japanese patients with psoriasis vulgaris, psoriatic arthritis, generalized pustular psoriasis, and erythrodermic psoriasis in real‐world practice. Here, we report results of the 20‐week interim analysis of the ongoing postmarketing surveillance study. Patients who received guselkumab between May 2018 (the date of commercial launch in Japan) and October 2020 were registered in this study. In total, 411 and 245 patients were included in the safety and effectiveness analysis sets, respectively. Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) occurred in 6.6% (27 of 411) and serious ADRs in 2.2% (nine of 411) of patients. The most frequent ADRs by System Organ Class were “Infections and infestations” (2.4%), with nasopharyngitis being the most frequently observed ADR (0.7%). The mean Psoriasis Area Severity Index score decreased from 11.6 at baseline to 6.5 at week 4 and 2.2 at week 20, with improvements achieving statistical significance at each time point. Clinical Global Impression, Dermatology Life Quality Index, and Nail Psoriasis Severity Index outcomesalso showed substantial improvements. Our findings demonstrate that guselkumab is well tolerated and effective in Japanese patients with psoriasis through 20 weeks of treatment in real‐world clinical practice, showing significant effectiveness observed as early as 4 weeks. The study was officially registered with the University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trials Registry with the identifier UMIN000032969.
A Bayesian analysis of adaptation of mountain grassland production to global change
Authors: Elleaume Nicolas , Locatelli Bruno , Oszwald Johan , Crouzat Emilie , Lavorel Sandra 
Published: May 2024

Abstract

In mountains, grasslands managed for livestock production sustain local economies, culture and identity. However, their future fodder production is highly uncertain under climate change: While an extended growing season may be beneficial, more frequent and intense summer droughts could also reduce fodder quantity and quality. Land use and land cover (LULC) changes are another major driver of grassland biomass production, but combined effects of future land use transitions and climate change are rarely quantified.

We modelled combined climate and LULC scenarios for grassland production of the Maurienne Valley (French Alps) by 2085. We built a Bayesian Belief Network (BBN) from long‐term grassland production monitoring data complemented with expert knowledge. We assessed the potential of two candidate adaptations, intensification as an incremental solution and silvopastoralism as a transformative solution to compensate combined impacts of two climate scenarios and three land use change scenarios.

Total biomass production was far more sensitive to LULC than to climate scenarios. Production losses were largest under the conservation LULC scenario (−28% on average between 2020 and 2085), followed by the tourism development scenario (−7%) and the business‐as‐usual scenario (+3%). Climate change under representative concentration pathways (RCP) 8.5 altered the seasonality of production by increasing potential production from May to July while decreasing summer regrowth.

Synthesis and applications: Changes in LULC are more decisive for global biomass production than climate change. However, under the most extreme climate change scenario (RCP8.5), the seasonal shift in production and increased interannual variability threaten the current grass‐based protected designation of origin (PDO) production system. Only the intensification adaptation solution showed significant gains in total biomass production. Still, the silvopastoralism would require less investment compared to the intensification and have a similar efficiency when assessing the gains of biomass by the surface concerned with adaptation solutions. Along with decreased total annual production due to decreasing grassland area compounded by more extreme climate change, the seasonal shift in production and increased interannual variability threaten the current grass‐based PDO production system. Further Bayesian modelling co‐developed with local stakeholders and experts could greatly contribute to adaptation planning of the regional production system.
Problems in Dealing with Problems: How Breakdowns in Corrective Culture Lead to Institutional Failure
Authors: Hald E. Julie , Gillespie Alex , Reader Tom W. 
Published: May 2024

AbstractAlthough research investigating how organizational culture contributes to institutional failure has extensively conceptualized the causal factors (e.g. norms for behaving unsafely), how culture prevents such problems from being corrected is less well theorized. We synthesize theory on accidents, resilience and reliability and organizational learning to develop a conceptual model of ‘corrective culture’. This relates to distributed norms and behaviours for three interconnected elements: the detection of problems (‘identification’), appreciation of their meaning (‘interpretation’) and responses to prevent harm (‘action’). To investigate the model, and its role in institutional failure, we combined natural language processing and qualitative analysis to examine 54 UK public inquiries published during 1990–2020. Our mixed‐methods analysis found that distributed malfunctions in identifying, interpreting and acting on problems cause a breakdown in organizations’ ‘corrective loops’, which enables originating problems to compound and grow (e.g. risky, unsafe or poor conduct) and cause an institutional failure. We theorize that double‐loop learning is required to prevent this, whereby strong and unambiguous feedback compels organizations to acknowledge and address their problems in dealing with problems, thus enabling them to correctly identify, interpret and act on originating issues and thus prevent a spiral into failure.
Self‐reported respiratory and gastrointestinal outcomes in children with isolated congenital diaphragmatic hernia: A prospective multicentre study
Authors: Eastwood Mary Patrice , Van der Veeken Lennart , Joyeux Luc , Salazar Laura , Otano Juan , d'Souza Rashmi , Sidler Martin , Russo Francesca Maria , Prat Jordi , de Coppi Paolo , Gratacós Eduard , Deprest Jan 
Published: May 2024

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate medium‐term self‐reported respiratory and gastrointestinal (GI) outcomes in children with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH).DesignSelf‐reported respiratory and GI outcomes correlated with prenatal severity indicators.SettingProspective study at three fetal medicine units.PopulationFamilies of children prenatally diagnosed with isolated, left‐sided CDH surviving for >1 year.MethodsFamilies received validated questionnaires for GI outcomes (Infant Gastroesophageal Reflux Questionnaire Revised, I‐GERQ‐R, for infants aged <2 years, or Paediatric Gastro‐oesophageal Symptom and Quality of Life Questionnaire, PGSQ, for children aged aged 2‐8 years or >9 years) and respiratory outcomes (preschool respiratory outcome questionnaire, for children aged ≤5 years, or the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood asthma questionnaire, for children aged 6–8 years or ≥9 years). Prenatal data collected from the medical records included lung size (percentage observed/expected lung‐to‐head ratio, O/E LHR %), liver position, fetal endoluminal tracheal occlusion (FETO) gestational age (GA) at delivery, and perinatal data included birthweight, location, patch repair and respiratory support.Main outcome measuresThe GI and respiratory scores were correlated with O/E LHR using linear and logistic regression models. Univariate analysis was used to evaluate associations with perinatal variables.ResultsWe obtained 142 responses from 342 families (representing a response rate of 45%). The baseline characteristics of participants and non‐participants were comparable. No correlations between perinatal variables and respiratory or GI scores were identified. Children aged ≤5 years with lower O/E LHR values reported higher respiratory scores (P = 0.0175); this finding was not reported in older children. Overall, the children who underwent FETO (n = 51) had GI (P = 0.290) and respiratory (P = 0.052) scores that were comparable with those of children who were expectantly managed.ConclusionsFamilies and children with prenatally diagnosed CDH reported fewer respiratory symptoms with increasing age. There was no correlation between O/E LHR or the use of FETO and self‐reported outcomes.