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Reconceptualization of price mavenism: do Chinese consumers get a glow when they know?
Authors: Byun Sang‐Eun , Sternquist Brenda 
Published: July 2010

PurposeBuyers in China often communicate positive and negative purchasing experiences through word‐of‐mouth (WOM), which creates special problems and opportunities for marketers. Price mavenism, which is associated with price‐information searching and price‐sharing behavior, is often considered a negative dimension of price. The purpose of this paper, however, is to propose price mavenism as an outcome variable arising from both positive perceptions of price (prestige sensitivity) and negative perceptions (price and value consciousness) and examine that the “know” (price mavenism) will positively impact the “glow” (shopping hedonism) among the Chinese.Design/methodology/approachData were collected through a survey in Shanghai, China. The conceptual model was tested using structural equation modeling.FindingsThis study found that prestige sensitivity, price consciousness and value consciousness shaped price mavenism among the Chinese, supporting the idea that price mavenism arises from both positive and negative perceptions of price. In addition, for the Chinese, being a source of price information and sharing the knowledge with their social groups fulfill a hedonic motivation for shopping. While value consciousness was positively associated with shopping hedonism, price consciousness per se was not.Research limitations/implicationsThis study challenges the idea that price mavenism is mainly explained by a negative perception of price.Practical implicationsBy understanding the drivers of price mavenism and their impacts on shopping hedonism, international marketers can fine‐tune their marketing strategies to appeal more effectively to price mavens in China.Originality/valueThis study highlights the importance of cultural perspectives in understanding the structure of price mavenism and its theoretical and marketing foundations.
Advertising effects of songs' nostalgia and lyrics' relevance
Authors: Chou Hsuan‐Yi , Lien Nai‐Hwa 
Published: July 2010

PurposeWhen using popular music in advertising, the songs' release period (nostalgia) and the lyrics' relevance to the product are two important characteristics but neglected in previous music‐related studies. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of these two variables on consumers' responses to advertisements.Design/methodology/approachA 2 × 2 experimental design was used to examine the effects of a song's period and the lyrics' relevance. The hypotheses were tested with a structural equation analysis.FindingsPreviously heard old songs have positive ad effects due to evoking consumers' good moods or by generating more favorable nostalgia‐related thoughts. High‐relevance lyrics facilitate the production of favorable ad execution‐related thoughts, which improve ad attitude directly and indirectly through good moods.Research limitations/implicationsOnly undergraduate students are sampled. Further, the experiment focuses solely on music‐dominated ads for low involvement products.Practical implicationsFor advertising targeting the young generation, the use of a popular song released during their childhood can elicit feelings of nostalgia and lead to good moods as well as favorable brand attitudes. Such effects, can be strengthened by high‐relevance lyrics.Originality/valuePlacing a previously heard popular song in a TV ad can evoke nostalgic feelings and generate favorable ad effects even when the product and other ad design elements are not related to nostalgic themes. The persuasion mechanism of nostalgia follows a dual‐route process, in which the cognitive route seems to be more influential than the affective route. The importance of lyrics' relevance is demonstrated to the extent that its impact on brand attitude can exceed that of song's nostalgia.
Asset recovery and kleptocracy
Authors: Simser Jeffrey 
Published: July 2010

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a discussion of the corrosive effects of corruption and techniques, both criminal and civil to recover the proceeds of corruption.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines the Canadian and international perspective on the issue.FindingsCivil asset recovery is a viable technique although there are a number of barriers that need to be addressed.Research limitations/implicationsFurther research on the effectiveness of recovery measures needs to be conducted.Practical implicationsThe paper examines the practical implications of the asset recovery techniques to address corruption.Originality/valuePerspectives on asset recovery are brought to bear from an anti‐money laundering and forfeiture practitioner.
Non‐disclosure of human capital‐based information: theoretical perspectives
Authors: Samudhram Ananda , Sivalingam G. , Shanmugam Bala 
Published: July 2010

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss a framework of accounting theoretical bases that could promote research into little understood areas of human capital accounting.Design/methodology/approachThe possible forces that hinder greater disclosure of human capital‐based information are analyzed by reviewing several theoretical viewpoints that offer a framework of different possible reasons for the low frequency of human capital‐based disclosures.FindingsThe paper explores several possible reasons for the reluctance of firms to disclose greater amounts of human capital‐based information, from the perspective of relevant theoretical bases. The predominant reasons may differ in different circumstances, industries and environments.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper explores theoretical bases that explain the barriers to widespread reporting of human capital‐based information. The theoretical bases discussed are not empirically validated.Practical implicationsThe validation of the theoretical bases explored in this study, and the possible uncovering of new bases in the future through empirical studies, will enable academics, policy makers and accounting standard setters to better understand the reasons for the limited disclosures of human capital‐based information by listed firms to capital markets. This will help in the promulgation of widely accepted accounting standards for the disclosure of human capital‐based information, which address and overcome the forces that currently hinder the reporting of human capital‐based information.Originality/valueThis is the first paper that explores a framework of several pertinent theoretical viewpoints that specifically address the non‐disclosures of human capital‐based information to capital markets.
Looking back, going forward: reflecting on research into the SME internationalisation process
Authors: McAuley Andrew 
Published: July 2010

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the past decade's research into small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises, internationalisation 1999‐2009 and compare the findings to a previous review 1989‐1998 to see if research directions suggested then have been followed or not.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents observations from a content analysis of papers fitting key criteria and comparing conceptual, empirical and methodological approaches.FindingsProgress has been made in some areas, for example, global and cross‐cultural coverage, multi‐sector and multi‐method approaches but in other ways there is more work to be done, for example, relevance to policy makers and longitudinal studies.Research limitations/implicationsThis work evaluates the contribution of relevant work 1999‐2009 and once again sets challenges for future research directions.Practical implicationsThe review provides a research agenda for the future.Originality/valueThe value is in the reflective nature of the approach to the topic and in attempting to highlight success and failure from the literature in the last ten years.
Entrepreneurship and the early American clock industry
Authors: Grinder Brian , Pascal Vincent J. , Schwartz Robert G. 
Published: July 2010

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the development of the early American clock industry as an entrepreneurial endeavor and to focus on the innovative marketing and financing practices that helped transform the industry during the first half of the nineteenth century.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses the historical method to identify the critical factors that allowed the clock industry to expand. Primary sources were consulted whenever they were available, and a survey of the existing clock literature was conducted.FindingsThe nineteenth century New England clock industry provides a rich field of exploration into the entrepreneurial practices of the early American Republic and provides us with many insights that are applicable to the modern entrepreneur. The clock makers and peddlers who moved clock making from a backwater cottage industry to a modern international industry are examples of entrepreneurship at its best. From a marketing perspective, the clockmakers made use of the existing peddler system in order to create a market for their products. From a financial perspective, the clockmakers innovated when a ready source of capital was unavailable and made extensive use of credit.Practical implicationsThis paper points out the importance of viewing entrepreneurship from a historical perspective. Furthermore, it finds that successful clock entrepreneurs understand the usefulness of connections, recognize traps to be avoided (such as the “Cottage Industry Syndrome”), and resolve to be persistent and optimistic in the face of adversity.Originality/valueThis is the first study of the early American clock industry to consider the entrepreneurial aspects that contributed to its successful transformation into an international industry.
Value co‐creation and resource based perspectives for strategic sourcing
Authors: Dobrzykowski David D. , Tran Oanh , Tarafdar Monideepa 
Published: July 2010

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop and illustrate a theoretically grounded framework capable of strategic guidance in making sourcing decisions.Design/methodology/approachBased on literature review and secondary data from the US operation of 7‐Eleven, a large international retailer, this study develops and supports a framework for understanding and undertaking business process sourcing decisions. The framework considers internal core competencies, as well as the role of external actors in value creation, in analyzing sourcing decisions for business processes.FindingsCase analysis reveals that a firm's successful sourcing decisions can be explained by resource based view (RBV) and value co‐creation theories. RBV is shown to provide an internal view of the firm considering its core competencies, while value co‐creation illuminates the external perspective considering the role of customers when making sourcing decisions. Further, these theories can be decomposed and simplified, thereby providing scholars with new theoretical insights for this phenomenon and practitioners with a decision‐making tool for undertaking sourcing decisions.Originality/valueThis paper explains in granular detail how effective outsourcing decisions can be made. It employs a rarely considered perspective by combining nascent literature from the value co‐creation stream with established beliefs about RBV core competencies to make three contributions. First, it shows how sourcing decisions can be explained not only by the RBV perspective but also by the value co‐creation view. Second, in considering the role of value co‐creation with the customer, it introduces the perspective of the customer as a decision‐making consideration for sourcing. Third, it provides practitioners with a sourcing decision‐making tool.
Protection of minority shareholders after the New Company Law: 26 case studies
Authors: Wei‐qi Cheng 
Published: July 2010

PurposeThe paper aims to discuss the amended provisions relating to protection of minority shareholders (PMS) in the newly amended Chinese Company Law and evaluate whether it adequately protects the interests of minority shareholders.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 26 cases will be examined by discussing the characteristics of the relevant parties involved, specifically plaintiffs, defendants, their lawyers, judges and also the grounds of complaint. A comparison will be made between the cases decided by following the first Company Law (1994) and the cases decided in accordance with the newly amended Company Law (2006).FindingsThe findings indicate that the amended Company Law has removed certain drawbacks in PMS present in the first Company Law (1994) but the New Company Law can protect interests of minority shareholders only to a certain extent. Further amendments are still needed.Originality/valueThis is one of the first studies to actually examine the implementation of PMS‐related provisions in the newly amended Company Law.
Strategic invasion: response of the voluntary nonprofit to strategic processes
Authors: Sharp Ziva , Brock David M. 
Published: July 2010

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the encounter between the voluntary nonprofit organization (VNPO) and the strategic process in order to study how these organizations may harness strategic processes in a way that somehow does not threaten their cultures and social mission.Design/methodology/approachThe paper adopts an exploratory case study approach.FindingsThe case study identifies a set of complex, multi‐faceted behaviors that serve a dual role, functioning simultaneously as both inhibitors and enablers of the strategic process. As a framework for future research, the paper proposes a two‐dimensional scheme which models the scope and mode of organizational behavior in a strategic process. The case study indicates that VNPOs may tend to adopt what is classified as a “sectional‐organic” pattern of response. This pattern of response balances the organization's needs for continuity and change, enabling the execution of the process in a manner compatible with the specific organizational characteristics of the VNPO.Originality/valuePrevious studies of strategic processes in the VNPO have reported resistance and partial, stunted processes, stemming from the organization's need to protect its mission‐oriented identity from the threats posed by a strategic process. However, the results of this case study, in which the subject organization managed to successfully develop an effective strategic plan, suggest that the behavior pattern of the VNPO in a strategic process may not be strictly defensive.
Alcohol policy in South Africa: a review of policy development processes between 1994 and 2009
Authors: Parry Charles D. H. 
Published: July 2010

ABSTRACTBackground Implementation of effective policies to reduce harmful alcohol consumption requires both a good understanding of the policy development process and which strategies are likely to work.Aims To contribute to this understanding by reviewing four specific policy development initiatives that have taken place in South Africa between 1994 and 2009: restrictions on alcohol advertising and counter‐advertising, regulation of retail sales of alcohol, alcohol taxation and controls on alcohol packaging.Methods Material was drawn from a record of meetings and conferences held between 1994 and 2009 and a database of reports, newspaper clippings and policy documentation.Findings When the policy process resulted in a concrete outcome there was always a clear recognition of the problem and policy alternatives, but success was more likely if there was an alignment of ‘political’ forces and/or when there was a determined bureaucracy. The impact of the other factors such as the media, community mobilization, non‐governmental organizations (NGOs), the liquor industry and research are also discussed. Future avenues for policy research are identified, including the need for more systematic studies that give greater consideration to economic factors.Conclusions Alcohol policy development in South Africa takes place in a piecemeal fashion and is the product of various competing influences. Having a comprehensive national alcohol strategy cutting across different sectors may be a better way for other developing countries to proceed.
Behavioral economic analysis of cue‐elicited craving for alcohol
Authors: MacKillop James , O'Hagen Sean , Lisman Stephen A. , Murphy James G. , Ray Lara A. , Tidey Jennifer W. , McGeary John E. , Monti Peter M. 
Published: July 2010

ABSTRACTAims  Craving as a motivational determinant of drug use remains controversial because of ambiguous empirical findings. A behavioral economic approach may clarify the nature of craving, theorizing that subjective craving functionally reflects an acute increase in a drug's value. The current study tested this hypothesis via a multidimensional assessment of alcohol demand over the course of an alcohol cue reactivity procedure.Design  One‐way within‐subjects design.Setting  Human laboratory environment.Participants  Heavy drinkers (n = 92) underwent exposures to neutral (water) cues followed by personalized alcohol cues.Assessments  Participants were assessed for craving, alcohol demand, affect, and salivation following each exposure.Findings  Alcohol versus neutral cues significantly increased craving and multiple behavioral economic measures of the relative value of alcohol, including alcohol consumption under conditions of zero cost (intensity), maximum expenditure on alcohol (Omax), persistence in drinking to higher prices (breakpoint) and proportionate price insensitivity (normalized Pmax). Craving was significantly correlated with demand measures at levels ranging from 0.21–0.43.Conclusions  These findings support the potential utility of a behavioral economic approach to understanding the role of environmental stimuli in alcohol‐related decision making. Specifically, they suggest that the behavioral economic indices of demand may provide complementary motivational information that is related to though not entirely redundant with measures of subjective craving.
A safety grading scale to support dose escalation and define stopping rules for healthy subject first‐entry‐into‐man studies
Authors: Sibille Michel , Patat Alain , Caplain Henri , Donazzolo Yves 
Published: July 2010

WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS SUBJECT • After the TGN1412 incident in London, the European authorities reinforced the safety requirements for first‐entry‐into‐man (FIM) studies. Their recommendations on risk management included a risk minimization strategy based on clearly defined stopping rules. However to date, there are no approved grading scales for clinical adverse events or safety findings to support dose escalation and to define stopping rules in order to mitigate the risks for healthy subjects participating in FIM trials. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS • This paper proposes standardized methods for the grading of safety data (adverse events, laboratory tests, electrocardiogram and vital sign findings) based on relevant criteria. The proposed grading scale provides support both for dose escalation and the design of stopping rules. The derived safety thresholds are applicable at either an individual subject level or at a cohort level, and are specifically adapted to young male healthy subjects, who represent the majority of the subjects participating in FIM trials.AIMTo propose a relevant grading scale for clinical adverse events or laboratory results, electrocardiogram (ECG) and vital sign findings supporting both dose escalation and stopping decisions in first‐entry‐into‐man (FIM) studies conducted in young healthy subjects.METHODSA three‐level scale was used for the proposed grading system. The grading is directly derived from the observed severity of discontinuous variables, as are most of clinical adverse events. A ‘combined method’ based on normal ranges and spontaneous variation is suggested for grading the findings which are continuous variables mainly numerical in nature. One grade, at the subject level, and one algorithm, at the cohort level, support the proposed decision rules. This work was managed by a Club Phase I working group.RESULTSExamples of grade 1, 2 and 3 limits are given for the most frequent clinical adverse events and laboratory tests, ECG and vital sign findings. When available, the proposed NIH and FDA limits are also provided. The safety recommendation is to use the grade 2 at least as an alert for caution and the grade 3 as a maximum for stopping, applying the algorithm at the cohort level.CONCLUSIONSThis paper proposes a safety grading system based on relevant criteria which might be used by investigators and sponsors to support and rationalize dose escalation decisions in healthy young subject FIM studies. These proposals are designed not to be a guideline but some ‘points to consider’ helping the dose escalation process. This paper supports the recent reinforcement of the safety requirements for FIM studies by European authorities.
Atenolol blunts blood pressure increase during dynamic resistance exercise in hypertensives
Authors: Gomides Ricardo S. , Costa Luiz A. R. , Souza Dinoélia R. , Queiroz Andréia C. C. , Fernandes João R. C. , Ortega Kátia C. , Junior Décio Mion , Tinucci Taís , Forjaz Cláudia L. M. 
Published: July 2010

WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS SUBJECT • Dynamic resistance exercise promotes a sizeable increase in blood pressure during its execution in non medicated hypertensives. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS • Atenolol not only decreases blood pressure level but also mitigates the increase of blood pressure during dynamic resistance exercise in hypertensive patients. An increase in blood pressure during resistance exercise might be at least in part attributed to an increase in cardiac output.AIMSThis study was conducted to determine whether atenolol was able to decrease BP level and mitigate BP increase during dynamic resistance exercise performed at three different intensities in hypertensives.METHODSTen essential hypertensives (systolic/diastolic BP between 140/90 and 160/105 mmHg) were blindly studied after 6 weeks of placebo and atenolol. In each phase, volunteers executed, in a random order, three protocols of knee‐extension exercises to fatigue: (i) one set at 100% of 1 RM; (ii) three sets at 80% of 1 RM; and (iii) three sets at 40% of 1 RM. Intra‐arterial radial blood pressure was measured throughout the protocols.RESULTSAtenolol decreased systolic BP maximum values achieved during the three exercise protocols (100% = 186 ± 4 vs. 215 ± 7, 80% = 224 ± 7 vs. 247 ± 9 and 40% = 223 ± 7 vs. 252 ± 16 mmHg, P < 0.05). Atenolol also mitigated an increase in systolic BP in the first set of exercises (100% =+38 ± 5 vs.+54 ± 9; 80% =+68 ± 11 vs. +84 ± 13 and 40% =+69 ± 7 vs.+84 ± 14, mmHg, P < 0.05). Atenolol decreased diastolic BP values and mitigated its increase during exercise performed at 100% of 1 RM (126 ± 6 vs. 145 ± 6 and +41 ± 6 vs.+52 ± 6, mmHg, P < 0.05), but not at the other exercise intensities.CONCLUSIONSAtenolol was effective in both reducing systolic BP maximum values and mitigating BP increase during resistance exercise performed at different intensities in hypertensive subjects.