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SEC publishes risk alert on investment adviser use of social media
Authors: Robinson Keith T. , Kelly Joseph P. , Baron Andrea E. 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the implications of an SEC Risk Alert and two FINRA regulatory notices concerning the use of social media by registered investment advisers.Design/methodology/approachThe paper analyzes the SEC Office of Compliance and Inspections National Examination Risk Alert dated January 4, 2012, including general observations and factors for investment advisors to consider such as usage guidelines, content standards, policies for representatives and solicitors, monitoring procedures and third‐party content and testimonials. It discusses FINRA's detailed, bright‐line guidance in Regulatory Notice 11‐39 (August 2011) and Regulatory Notice 10‐06 (January 2010).FindingsThe paper recommends ways for investment advisers to address the use of social media.Practical implicationsUntil more concrete guidance and market practice has emerged, firms may benefit from taking a conservative approach by limiting the use of social media and the ability of non‐firm personnel to “like” or post content to the firm's social media website, and by retaining all records of social media interactions in case of examinations.Originality/valueThe paper presents analysis and practical guidance from experienced financial services lawyers.
US Securities and Exchange Commission amends dollar threshold tests under qualified client standard, requires exclusion of net equity in primary residence
Authors: Cohen Rory M. 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explain the SEC's new dollar threshold tests under the qualified client standard.Design/methodology/approachThe paper explains the amendments to the dollar thresholds, which provide for inflation adjustments to the assets under management and net worth tests every five years; the exclusion of net equity in the primary residence from the net worth calculation; and certain transitional provisions designed to allow investment advisers and their clients to maintain performance fee arrangements that existed when they entered into advisory contracts.FindingsThe paper finds that these increased dollar thresholds codify the increased thresholds that the Commission issued in its July 12, 2011 order as required by the Dodd‐Frank Act.Originality/valueThe paper provides practical guidance from an experienced financial services lawyer.
Lehman Brothers: treatment of TBA contracts
Authors: Sosnick Fredric , Schodek Ned S. , Loo Alexa J. 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to help parties to “TBA contracts” better understand how their claims would be treated in the event that a Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970 (SIPA) proceeding was commenced with respect to their counterparty.Design/methodology/approachThe paper explores the arguments made in favor of and against treating TBA contract claims as “customer claims” under SIPA in the Lehman Brothers Inc. SIPA proceeding and the resulting decision of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on the issue.FindingsThe Bankruptcy Court found that TBA contract claims are not “customer claims” under SIPA and properly are classified as general unsecured claims.Practical implicationsThis was an issue of first impression for the Bankruptcy Court and may have a binding effect on other TBA contracts (although other TBA contracts may have distinguishable facts). Future investors may alter the way they purchase and sell these securities in order to manage counterparty risk. Deeming TBA contract claims as general unsecured claims will also result in a larger pool of assets for creditors actually deemed customers of Lehman Brothers Inc. under SIPA.Originality/valueThe paper provides guidance from experienced bankruptcy lawyers.
UWIRS‐REC: integrating web information retrieval with recommendation services
Authors: Barraza‐Urbina Andrea , Carrillo Ramos Angela 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe UWIRS (Ubiquitous Web Information Retrieval Solution), an agent‐based Web Information Retrieval (WIR) solution designed taking into account the unique features of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the limitations of existing WIR solutions for ubiquitous environments.Design/methodology/approachUWIRS can offer recommendation services by using the Multi‐Agent Vizier Recommendation Framework (Vizier). Vizier was designed under a generic approach and therefore can provide services to information retrieval applications so these may offer product recommendations that consider several adaptation/personalization dimensions (e.g. user dimension, context, among others).FindingsOverall, the main challenge resides on: location, retrieval, integration and presentation of information from the WWW, quickly and accurately, to satisfy a user's singular information needs.Originality/valueIn UWIRS, agents cooperate in order to retrieve personalized information, considering user needs, goals, preferences and contextual features. UWIRS's agents are responsible for: interpreting user input and adding adaptation information by means of a query enrichment process; identifying and selecting the appropriate data sources taking into consideration the Profile Set (composed of User, Device and Information‐Provider Profiles); executing query routing and the information retrieval process; integrating and filtering the retrieved results; and lastly, coherent presentation of quality and relevant ubiquitous information (anytime, anywhere and anyhow) that satisfies the user's particular information needs and constraints associated to his/her access device.
RDF packages: a scheme for efficient reasoning and querying over large‐scale RDF data
Authors: Ohsawa Shohei , Amagasa Toshiyuki , Kitagawa Hiroyuki 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to improve the performance of querying and reasoning and querying over large‐scale Resource Description Framework (RDF) data. When processing RDF(S) data, RDFS entailment is performed which often generates a large number of additional triples, which causes a poor performance. To deal with large‐scale RDF data, it is important to develop a scheme which enables the processing of large RDF data in an efficient manner.Design/methodology/approachThe authors propose RDF packages, which is a space efficient format for RDF data. In an RDF package, a set of triples of the same class or triples having the same predicate are grouped into a dedicated node named Package. Any RDF data can be represented using RDF packages, and vice versa.FindingsIt is found that using RDF packages can significantly reduce the size of RDF data, even after RDFS entailment. The authors experimentally evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme in terms of triple size, reasoning speed, and querying speed.Research limitations/implicationsThe proposed scheme is useful in processing RDF(S) data, but it needs further development to deal with an ontological language such as OWL.Originality/valueAn important feature of the RDF packages is that, when performing RDFS reasoning, there is no need to modify either reasoning rules or reasoning engine; while other related schemes require reasoning rules or reasoning engine to be modified.
AdaptRDF: adaptive storage management for RDF databases
Authors: MahmoudiNasab Hooran , Sakr Sherif 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a two‐phase approach for designing an efficient tailored but flexible storage solution for resource description framework (RDF) data based on its query workload characteristics.Design/methodology/approachThe approach consists of two phases. The vertical partitioning phase which aims of reducing the number of join operations in the query evaluation process, while the adjustment phase aims to maintain the efficiency of the performance of the query processing by adapting the underlying schema to cope with the dynamic nature of the query workloads.FindingsThe authors perform comprehensive experiments on two real‐world RDF datasets to demonstrate that the approach is superior to the state‐of‐the‐art techniques in this domain.Originality/valueThe main motivation behind the authors' approach is that several benchmarking studies have recently shown that each RDF dataset requires a tailored table schema in order to achieve efficient performance during query processing. None of the previous approaches have considered this limitation.
Stress, gender and compulsive buying among early adolescents
Authors: Roberts James A. , Roberts Camille 
Published: June 2012

PurposeDespite growing concerns over the increasing incidence of compulsive buying among young consumers, scant research attention has been focused on this darker side of consumer behavior among adolescent consumers. The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of compulsive buying as a coping mechanism in early adolescents.Design/methodology/approachThe present study is the first to experimentally manipulate a common and important stressor in the lives of adolescents, academic stress, and measures its impact on compulsive buying among a sample of 12‐13 year old seventh graders. Next, the authors investigate whether gender moderates the stress‐compulsive buying relationship.FindingsThe present study finds that early adolescents increasingly turn to compulsive buying in an attempt to cope with heightened levels of academic stress. Surprisingly, gender was not found to moderate this relationship. Both boys and girls were found to respond to higher levels of academic stress with higher incidences of compulsive buying. Results suggest that compulsive buying is a common coping strategy for adolescents from both genders.Research limitations/implicationsThe results of this study suggest that compulsive buying is a common coping strategy in early adolescents. Additionally, both boys and girls were found to use compulsive buying as a means to cope with stress associated with school. Whether compulsive buying can be considered an adaptive or maladaptive coping strategy when dealing with stress requires further study be conducted in this area of research.Originality/valueThe paper makes several unique and important contributions to the literature. First, it describes one of few studies to investigate compulsive buying in early adolescents – a hard to reach population. Second, it is the only study to experimentally manipulate stress levels to investigate its impact on compulsive buying. Third, the study's findings in regard to gender's impact (or lack thereof) on the stress‐compulsive buying relationship suggest that compulsive buying begins early in adolescence and is a common coping strategy for both boys and girls. How young people cope with common stressors such as school has important implications for their mental and physical well‐being.
The effect of pediatricians' obesity and gender on children's perceptions
Authors: Brudvig Susan , Borna Shaheen 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of pediatricians' obesity and gender on children's perceptions of physicians. In particular, to examine the extent and direction of obesity and gender on children's perceptions of likability, expertise, and trustworthiness.Design/methodology/approachThe study utilizes an experimental design. The actual sample is 138 children between six and 12 years of age.FindingsThe results indicate that physicians' gender did not influence children's perception of pediatricians' personal characteristics. However, physicians' obesity did influence children's perceptions. Specifically, obese pediatricians were judged less likable and less expert than non‐obese pediatricians.Originality/valueThe research informs two important gaps in the literature. First, personal characteristics influence perceptions of credibility, and children perceive obese persons negatively, just as adults do. Second, the paper lays out a rigorous experimental design that adapts scales and materials for use with child‐subjects.
Children's influence in family buying process in India
Authors: Chaudhary Monica , Gupta Aayushi 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is twofold: to categorize and rank products based on children's influence and to compare their influence on the different stages of the family buying process.Design/methodology/approachThe study was based on an extensive literature review and focus group discussions. Using a structured questionnaire, a survey was conducted with children aged 8‐12 years. The sample size was 175.FindingsFactor analysis revealed three distinct product clusters: “loud”, “noisy” and “quiet” goods. Children's influence was found to be highest for noisy goods, lesser for loud goods and lowest for quiet goods. One‐way MANOVA analysis found that for loud and noisy goods children's influence was highest in the initiation stage, and lowest in the search stage. For quiet goods, the highest influence was in the final decision stage followed by initiation and choice stage.Practical implicationsThe identified product clusters and children's relative influence across the buying stages for these clusters are expected to enhance marketer's understanding of children's role in family decision making. Marketers should take these observations into consideration while designing and implementing their marketing strategies.Originality/valueThe results are important because previous studies have dealt with children's influence for various products at a broad level. In this paper, an innovative segmentation for products based on children's influence level has been identified and the influence measured across these clusters.
Young Saudi adults and peer group purchase influence: a preliminary investigation
Authors: Opoku Robert 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe role that peer influence plays in shaping young adult consumers' products purchase decision cannot be overemphasized. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of peer influence in shaping young adult male consumers' product purchase decisions in Saudi Arabia.Design/methodology/approachTo measure peer influence in this study, a survey of around 200 university students aged between 16 and 30 was conducted using a structured questionnaire. Constructs were measured using well‐established scales. Hypotheses are tested by investigating and comparing mean levels of the susceptibility of these young adults to peer influence across four product categories.FindingsWith the products studied, the overall preliminary results suggest that the levels of influence were greater in normative influence than in informational situations. The results further provide a sense of the degree to which peer influence on purchase decision could be dictated by culture.Practical implicationsBased on the results of this study, practical implications for marketing strategies are suggested and future research directions proposed.Originality/valueThe paper adds richness to the peer influence theory from a unique culture such as Saudi Arabia, which is also under‐researched.
Best practices of the Finnish Government Information Society Policy Programme
Authors: Inkinen Tommi 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to classify the best practices selected by the “Finnish Government Information Society Policy Programme” with a framework that includes four segments: technology, supply, demand, and spatial impact scale. These segments are elemental parts of service development processes, the best of which are classified into seven distinct categories: Telecommunications; Citizen Readiness; Education and Research; Working Life; Public Sector Electronic Services; Social and Health Care; and Electronic Commerce.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical material includes the best practices as defined by the Finnish Government Information Society Policy Programme 2003‐2007. The best practices were analyzed through their project descriptions. The data were classified with textual content analysis into categories that were further analyzed numerically. The tools of statistical analysis included cross‐tabulations and chi‐square tests.FindingsThe results reveal differentiation among the best practices. The majority of service development concerns applications and software. However, physical infrastructure development was also present in the largest cities. Public sector organizations produced more than half of all of the best practices selected. Public‐private partnerships were also common, and the majority of service development was targeted to the national level.Research limitations/implicationsThe best practices analyzed illustrate the view of the Finnish Government Information Society Policy Programme. Consequently, the analysis highlights the values of the policy program. The data include only a small segment of on‐going development activity and represents a case study and therefore it is limited to the Finnish and Nordic context.Originality/valueThis paper uses a unique primary data set. The results obtained reflect the originality of the study and clearly provide sufficient grounds to consider electronic service development. The results are also transferable to public sector decision makers dealing with regional policies and development.
Environmental strategy: does it lead to competitive advantage in the US wine industry?
Authors: Atkin Thomas , Gilinsky Armand , Newton Sandra K. 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate and compare the perceptions of competitive advantage (cost leadership, differentiation, and performance) of those wineries which have implemented a clear business case for an environmental management system (EMS) and those which have not. Benefits and challenges of sustainability practices are also addressed.Design/methodology/approachData were collected via self‐report web‐based survey. Of the 98 respondents, over 80 per cent were family‐owned, family‐managed.FindingsThose respondents with a clear business case for EMS exhibited significant differences in cost leadership and differentiation advantages over those without a clear business case for EMS. Those with a clear EMS derived significantly greater supply chain optimization and operational efficiencies than those without a clear EMS. Those with a clear EMS also felt that they gained an enhanced ability to enter new markets to a much greater extent than those without a clear EMS. Results of this study demonstrate a significantly higher level of commitment by those respondents with a clear EMS when addressing sustainability initiatives during a current economic down turn over those who did not. Those respondents who had a clear EMS indicated that they had somewhat increased their sustainability commitments, rather than conducting business as usual with no change or somewhat decreasing sustainability commitments as those who did not have a clear EMS.Originality/valueActivities that create competitive advantages for wine businesses are understudied; this research bridges that gap.
Sustained wine business as reflected by the international alcohol policy
Authors: Hoffmann Dieter 
Published: June 2012

PurposeAfter a period of 20 years of successful growth in sales in the international wine business, the upcoming International Alcohol Policy is endangering the economic sustainability of the wine business. To reduce alcohol‐caused hazards and harm, the International Alcohol Policy favours taxes and minimum prices for all alcoholic beverages. This policy is based on a large number of empirical studies on the price elasticity of alcoholic beverages. The purpose of this paper is to ask whether higher taxes on alcoholic beverages can solve the problems caused by excessive alcohol consumption or whether they are largely ineffective while producing other sustained damage at the same time.Design/methodology/approachThe paper evaluates the results of studies on the price elasticity of alcoholic beverages by using the available results of studies on consumer decision making, focusing in particular on the relevance of price elasticity in comparison to the relevance of individually available budgets and prefer ences. In that case the contrast between alcoholics (consumer segment causing alcoholism) and average consumers is analysed using knowledge of the great differences in preferences between consumer segments.FindingsWine is highly affected by this alcohol policy due to the expectation of a decrease in overall consumption and the very high costs of alcohol content‐related taxes paid by all wine consumers. The price elasticity of demand for wine is analysed to be much higher than for beer and wine consumers are far away from alcoholism.Social implicationsThe big social problem of alcoholism has to be underlined here. This problem and its spread internationally demands an examination of the effectiveness of this alcohol policy on prices and the development of and checks on new instruments for the direct control of alcoholics.Originality/valueThe international alcohol policy is an important field which needs to be analysed scientifically in more depth and in the framework of sustainability, with a focus on harmonizing social, economic and environmental aims. The paper shows that the current instruments used internationally in the alcohol policy cause large economic problems for wine consumers, as well as for wine producers and merchants, without solving the social problems of alcohol‐related hazards and harm.
The influence of gender on wine purchasing and consumption
Authors: Forbes Sharon L. 
Published: June 2012

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the purchasing behaviour of consumers across four nations and evaluate the influence that gender has on wine purchasing decisions.Design/methodology/approachAn interviewer‐administered questionnaire was used to examine the actual purchase decisions made by 399 consumers inside stores in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and the USA.FindingsThe results indicate that gender has little significant impact on the frequency with which consumers purchase and drink wine. In addition, gender does not significantly influence the number of attributes which are evaluated by consumers nor the importance that they attach to them. In terms of product attributes, gender was found to significantly influence consumer utilisation of the discount price cue and the region of origin cue.Practical implicationsFor those wine marketers who are targeting the female consumer, one implication of this research is that this may be achieved by utilising price discounts. In general, however, the results provide little evidence of significant differences between males and females in terms of wine purchasing behaviour and therefore suggest that gender may not be a useful variable for segmenting the global wine market.Originality/valueThis paper adds to current knowledge regarding the influence of gender on purchase decision making. In particular, the paper is of significance because it has explored the behaviour of consumers during an actual purchase decision and examined the views of consumers across four nations.