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Myriad of quality challenges in the Koudiet Eddraouch GIS substation project in sub-Sahara Africa
Authors: Kumar Sunil , Shrivastava Ravindra 
Published: June 2024

Learning outcomes
After completion of the case study, the participants will be able to understand the significance of quality as a pivotal domain within project management and to analyze the issues related to quality and offer logical solutions.

Case overview/synopsis
In this case, the Bharat Bijlee Construction Limited (BBCL) group, with a proven track record of over five decades in the transmission and distribution business in India, decided to venture into international projects, considering the prevailing stagnant domestic power sector. They secured contracts worth $85m from the “Shariket Karhaba Koudiet Eddraouch Spa,” a state-owned company responsible for power generation, transmission and distribution in Algeria. However, during the execution phase of these projects, BBCL encountered significant challenges related to product and service quality. These challenges arose due to the tight schedule constraints and cost considerations, as well as a lack of understanding of the dynamics involved in executing international projects, especially in the demanding conditions of the sub-Saharan desert. This case study addresses the complex issue of ensuring and maintaining high-quality standards in large-scale substation projects situated in the challenging environment of the sub-Saharan desert, highlighting the importance of effective project management and international project execution expertise. The case study is from quality management knowledge area and focuses on identification of root cause of quality noncompliance and for better decision-making in projects.

Complexity academic level
The teaching case is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in project management, civil engineering and architecture domain. The participants will be able to understand the application of various quality tools, statistical process tools and control charts in problem identification, categorization, root cause identification and decision-making.

Supplementary material
Teaching notes are available for educators only.

Subject code
CSS2: Built environment
Impact pathways: technology-aided supply chain planning for resilience
Authors: Sengupta Sourav , Dreyer Heidi C. , Jonsson Patrik 
Published: June 2024

PurposeDue to emerging uncertainties, supply chain planning (SCP) has become complex for many companies, and practitioners are unsure how emerging technologies can help. We address this gap by identifying pathways of how digital technologies may aid planned flexibility in SCP.Design/methodology/approachThe research builds on engaged scholarship and co-creation of knowledge. Eight senior managers from two companies participated in three rounds of workshops with us discussing and contrasting their planning challenges and potential solutions using examples of industry 4.0 applications drawn from the literature.FindingsBased on a novel framework for digital transition in SCP, this research shows how emerging technologies may aid SCP in building resilience to emergent uncertainties and open new research avenues through four impact pathways.Research limitations/implicationsThe SCP literature is ruefully short on studies that address technology-aided SC resilience. The research explains why this calls for a paradigm shift in SCP research.Originality/valueThis research argues that resilience-building SCP requires planned flexibility and presents a digital transition framework that allows for it.
Sports celebrities and advertising on Instagram: a case study of brand sponsorship in Spain
Authors: Gordillo-Rodriguez Maria-Teresa , Marín-Montín Joaquín , Fernández Gómez Jorge David 
Published: June 2024

PurposeThe aim of this paper, which analyses the use of sports celebrities in advertising discourse, is to understand the strategic use to which brands put them in their commercial and corporate communication on Instagram.Design/methodology/approachTo this end, a content analysis was performed on the Instagram posts of the brands Santander, Movistar, Red Bull and Iberdrola during the period 2021-2022.FindingsThe results indicate that, strategically speaking, these brands use the celebrity endorsement strategy to pursue emotional objectives and to adopt a position depending on the type of user. Likewise, these findings show that they single out uniqueness as the principal celebrity characteristic, while also mainly leveraging sports values, especially competence. These values represented by sports celebrities are markedly social in nature, which implies that they enjoy a degree of public recognition that is transferred to the brand to which they lend their image.Research limitations/implicationsThe conclusions connect celebrity endorsers with strategic branding issues and aspects of sports.Originality/valueAn empirical approach is followed here to study the representation of sports celebrities in the advertising of well-known brands linked to the sports world.
Towards the recalibration of US dollar’s international dominance
Authors: Iliyasu Jamilu , Mamman Suleiman O , Abubakar Attahir Babaji 
Published: June 2024

Purpose
This paper aims to examine the impact of United States (US) financial sanctions on the international dominance of the US dollar.

Design/methodology/approach
The survival analysis technique, which incorporates survival and hazard probabilities to determine the probability of central banks' reserve recalibration, is adopted for analysis.

Findings
The result shows that the probability of central banks recalibrating the dollar share of their official reserve currencies would increase by 60% for every ten additional financial sanctions by the United States. This could imply that more sanctions might have unintended consequences on the international reserve currency dominance of the US dollar.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study may be a novel attempt to use survival analysis to examine the impact of financial sanctions on the US dollar’s international reserve currency dominance.
Unveiling frustration: an exploration of principals' frustration in special education schools for complex disabilities
Authors: Dor-Haim Peleg 
Published: June 2024

PurposeThe study aims to explore the diverse meanings and sources of frustration among Israeli principals working in special education settings. The study poses two questions: 1. What are the perceived expressions of frustration among principals working in the context of special education? 2. What are the perceived sources of frustration among principals working in special education settings?Design/methodology/approachA total of 17 semi-structured interviews were conducted with principals working in special education schools for complex disabilities to investigate perceived expressions and sources of frustration.FindingsThe study identified four themes through data analysis: helplessness regarding the children, helplessness regarding bureaucratic aspects, frustration from conflicts and disappointment and frustration from feeling alone.Originality/valueDespite the extensive acknowledgment of emotions and feelings in the context of educational leadership, the experience of work frustration among special education school principals has not been explicitly investigated. This research provides empirical insights into the nuanced experiences of frustration among special education principals, offering both empirical and practical implications for understanding and addressing this critical aspect of their work.
Authentic leadership, proactive goal regulation and help-seeking behavior: a multilevel moderated mediation
Authors: Wang Zhining , Zhou Xuan , Cai Shaohan 
Published: June 2024

PurposeBased on self-regulation theory, this study aims to investigate the relationship between authentic leadership and help-seeking behavior, as well as the mediating effect of proactive goal regulation and the moderating effect of leader identification.Design/methodology/approachWe conducted a questionnaire survey on 489 employees from 94 teams and tested our research model through multi-level pathway analysis.FindingsThe analysis results suggest that (1) authentic leadership positively relates to employees’ proactive goal regulation; (2) employees’ proactive goal regulation positively relates to their autonomous (dependent) help-seeking behavior; (3) employees’ proactive goal regulation plays an intermediary role between authentic leadership and help-seeking behavior; (4) leader identification positively moderates the influence of authentic leadership on employees’ proactive goal regulation and (5) leader identification positively moderates the indirect relationship between authentic leadership and employees’ help-seeking behavior through employees’ proactive goal regulation.Practical implicationsBased on the findings of this study, organizations should foster authentic leadership in workplace to promote employees’ help-seeking behavior. In addition, managers should also attach importance to proactive goal regulation in promoting help-seeking behavior and leader identification in enhancing the positive influence of authentic leadership on employees’ proactive goal regulation.Originality/valueThis study finds that proactive goal regulation plays a key mediating role between authentic leadership and help-seeking behavior, and reveals the role of leader identification in reinforcing the positive impact of authentic leadership on help-seeking behavior.
Strategic insights into carbon markets, digital finance and geopolitical risks for advancing green sustainability investments
Authors: Mnif Emna , Jarboui Anis , Mouakhar Khaireddine 
Published: June 2024

PurposeSustainable development hinges on a crucial shift to renewable energy, which is essential in the fight against global warming and climate change. This study explores the relationships between artificial intelligence (AI), fuel, green stocks, geopolitical risk, and Ethereum energy consumption (ETH) in an era of rapid technological advancement and growing environmental concerns.Design/methodology/approachThis research stands at the forefront of interdisciplinary research and forges a path toward a comprehensive understanding of the intricate dynamics governing green sustainability investments. These objectives have been fulfilled by implementing the innovative quantile time-frequency connectedness approach in conjunction with geopolitical and climate considerations.FindingsOur findings highlight coal market dominance and Ethereum energy consumption as critical short- and long-term market volatility sources. Additionally, geopolitical risks and Ethereum energy consumption significantly contribute to volatility. Long-term factors are the primary drivers of directional volatility spillover, impacting green stocks and energy assets over extended periods. Additionally, SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) findings corroborate the quantile time-frequency connectedness outcomes.Research limitations/implicationsThis study highlights the critical importance of transitioning to sustainable energy sources and embracing digital finance in fostering green sustainability investments, illuminating their roles in shaping market dynamics, influencing geopolitics and ensuring the long-term sustainability required to combat climate change effectively.Practical implicationsThe study offers practical sustainability implications by informing green investment choices, strengthening risk management strategies, encouraging interdisciplinary cooperation and fostering digital finance innovations to promote sustainable practices.Originality/valueThe implementation of the quantile time-frequency connectedness approach, in line with considering geopolitical and climate factors, marks the originality of this paper. This approach allows for a dynamic analysis of connectedness across different distribution quantiles, providing a deeper understanding of variable interactions under varying market conditions.
Managerial coaching as antecedent to employee engagement and organization citizenship behaviors: evidence from India
Authors: Wangchuk Sonam , Murari Krishna , Das Pradip Kumar 
Published: June 2024

Purpose
Research on how managerial coaching effects employee cognitions and motivations is scarce, especially in the Indian context. This study aims to explore the association between managerial coaching, perceived investment in employee development (PIED), as antecedents, and employee engagement and organization citizenship behaviors directed to the organization (OCBO), as consequences, in the context of the pharmaceutical industry in Sikkim (India).

Design/methodology/approach
The target population for the study is the first-level line managers and non-managerial employees of pharmaceutical companies in Sikkim (India). A cross-sectional study was conducted using samples collected through a self-reported questionnaire and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling.

Findings
The results indicate that managerial coaching is positively associated with employee engagement and OCBO. PIED was not found to be associated with employee outcomes. Implications for theory and practice, limitations, and recommendations for research are discussed.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to test the association of managerial coaching and PIED with employee engagement and OCBO in a single model.
What is at stake and what does it take? Collaborative governance and policy (in)action in the adoption of a National Forest Programme
Authors: Johansson Johanna 
Published: June 2024

AbstractInspired by collaborative governance theory, this study analyzes the process dynamics, outputs, and perceived impacts of a collaborative initiative launched by the Swedish government in 2014. It draws on extensive empirical sources related to the Swedish government's efforts to develop and implement a National Forest Programme (NFP) from 2014 to 2021. These sources include semistructured interviews, observations, public consultation comments, records of meetings and public hearings, reports from dialogues, and enacted policy documents. The results show that the collaboration initially provided a space for joint deliberation and capacity building on complex and contentious issues related to current land use. However, the final programme endorsed by the government in 2018 failed to initiate ambitious proposals on several key issues raised by participating actors, offering little indication of priorities and policy instruments to address fundamental gaps in current policy goals and their implementation. Consequently, the case reveals that it was not sufficient, and perhaps not even desirable, to address existing conflicts and policy problems in a comprehensive collaborative setting run by the Government Offices. The paper concludes with key insights for research on collaboration and suggests ways to move forward with policy designs that integrate multiple and competing policy goals in contested areas.
‘Shut Up! Sit Down!’: The Politics of Disruption and the 1886 Home Rule Crisis in England*
Authors: Lloyd‐Jones Naomi 
Published: June 2024

AbstractThis article examines the oral and physical disruption of ‘public’ meetings in England in the spring of 1886, when such activity formed part of broader contests over the legitimacy of extra‐parliamentary responses to the Liberal government's Irish Home Rule Bill. Disruption is an important example of the diverse ways in which home rule energised politics outside Westminster and of the heatedness of grassroots responses to it. For those who engaged in it, disruption offered forms of political interaction and participation that, additionally, made claims to representation and opinion. However, disruption was a practice of contestation that was itself the subject of contention and it was decried as transgressing the bounds of appropriate political conduct. Disruption could be seen, in both intent and effect, as a permissive or subversive, inclusive or exclusionary, behaviour. It could therefore legitimise or undermine claims that popular feeling was on the side of or opposed to the policy. The ‘politics of disruption’ both reflected and generated intense debate about the state of politics in an age of ‘mass democracy’ – of which home rule was the first major crisis – and about the sanctity of political rights and liberties. This article argues that our understanding of political disruption is enhanced by examining its practice and reception at historical moments, outside the episodic election cycle, when contemporaries believed that it was critically important that ‘public opinion’ on a political issue be ascertained and voiced, and when the validity of such opinion was disputed.
Harm perceptions across vaping product features: An on‐line cross‐sectional survey of adults who smoke and/or vape in the United Kingdom
Authors: East Katherine , Vu Giang , Sun Tianze , D’Mello Kimberly , Perman‐Howe Parvati Rose , Taylor Eve , Nottage Matilda , Brose Leonie Sarah , Robson Deborah , McNeill Ann 
Published: June 2024

AbstractBackground and aimsVaping products are diverse with a wide variety of features, and popular products change rapidly. This study examined the features and types of vaping products that people who smoke and/or vape perceive contribute to the health harms of vaping.Design, setting and participantsThis was a cross‐sectional survey co‐designed with adults who smoked/vaped and pre‐registered. An on‐line survey (November 2022) was used of a convenience sample of adults in the United Kingdom who smoked and/or vaped (n = 494).MeasurementsAs primary outcomes, respondents were asked to select any of 15 vaping product features they perceived might have any effect on the health harms of vaping (for each: selected, not selected). Independent variables were smoking/vaping status (smoke and vape; vape, formerly smoked; vape, never regularly smoked; smoke, do not currently vape); relative vaping harm perceptions [less harmful than smoking (accurate), equally/more harmful than smoking or do not know/refused (other)]. Binary logistic regressions were used to compare outcomes by current vaping/smoking status and relative harm perceptions, adjusting for age and sex.FindingsMost people (54.7%) selected between one and three features. The most frequently selected were nicotine concentration (62.2%) and amount of e‐liquid consumed (59.1%), followed by nicotine type (e.g. salt or freebase; 33.0%), source/purchase location (25.3%), flavours (24.7%), temperature to heat e‐liquid (21.1%), heat produced by device (20.9%), e‐liquid brand (20.9%), amount of emissions (18.6%), device type (e.g. disposable, pod, tank; 17.2%), material of tank (17.0%), power/wattage (13.0%), device brand (8.1%), device size (4.1%) and device weight (2.4%). Higher nicotine concentrations, more e‐liquid and salt (versus freebase) nicotine were perceived to confer greater harms. Disposables were perceived as slightly more harmful than reusable devices. There were few differences by current vaping/smoking status and between those with accurate (versus other) harm perceptions of vaping relative to smoking (P > 0.05 for most contrasts, adjusting for age and sex).ConclusionsCertain features and types of vaping products [higher nicotine concentrations, more e‐liquid consumed and salt (versus freebase) nicotine] were perceived to confer greater health harms among a sample of UK adults who smoked and/or vaped. Findings are consistent with pervasive misperceptions that nicotine is a major cause of harm, although e‐liquid volume is likely to contribute to harms.
Response matters in light chain amyloidosis, whatever it takes
Authors: Palladini Giovanni , Milani Paolo 
Published: June 2024

Access to upfront daratumumab for AL amyloidosis is expanding, but it is not universal. Bomsztyk et al. show that patients who do not receive front‐line daratumumab can be effectively rescued with this agent, indicating that deep haematological response should be pursued tenaciously.Commentary on: Bomsztyk et al. Response rates to second‐line treatment with daratumumab bortezomib dexamethasone (DVD) in relapsed/refractory light chain (AL) amyloidosis after initial bortezomib‐based regime. Br J Haematol 2024;205:138–145.
The psychosocial impact of prostate cancer screening for BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers
Authors: Bancroft Elizabeth K. , Page Elizabeth C. , Brook Mark N. , Pope Jennifer , Thomas Sarah , Myhill Kathryn , Helfand Brian T. , Talaty Pooja , Ong Kai‐Ren , Douglas Emma , Cook Jackie , Rosario Derek J. , Salinas Monica , Buys Saundra S. , Anson Jo , Davidson Rosemarie , Longmuir Mark , Side Lucy , Eccles Diana M. , Tischkowitz Marc , Taylor Amy , Cruellas Mara , Ballestero Eduard Perez , Cleaver Ruth , Varughese Mohini , Barwell Julian , LeButt Mandy , Greenhalgh Lynn , Hart Rachel , Azzabi Ashraf , Jobson Irene , Cogley Lynn , Evans D. Gareth , Rothwell Jeanette , Taylor Natalie , Hogben Matthew , Saya Sibel ,   IMPACT Study Steering Committee; IMPACT Collaborators, Eeles Rosalind A. , Aaronson Neil K. 
Published: June 2024

ObjectivesTo report the long‐term outcomes from a longitudinal psychosocial study that forms part of the ‘Identification of Men with a genetic predisposition to ProstAte Cancer: Targeted Screening in men at higher genetic risk and controls’ (IMPACT) study. The IMPACT study is a multi‐national study of targeted prostate cancer (PrCa) screening in individuals with a known germline pathogenic variant (GPV) in either the BReast CAncer gene 1 (BRCA1) or the BReast CAncer gene 2 (BRCA2).Subjects and MethodsParticipants enrolled in the IMPACT study were invited to complete a psychosocial questionnaire prior to each annual screening visit for a minimum of 5 years. The questionnaire included questions on sociodemographics and the following measures: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Impact of Event Scale, 36‐item Short‐Form Health Survey, Memorial Anxiety Scale for PrCa, Cancer Worry Scale, risk perception and knowledge.ResultsA total of 760 participants completed questionnaires: 207 participants with GPV in BRCA1, 265 with GPV in BRCA2 and 288 controls (non‐carriers from families with a known GPV). We found no evidence of clinically concerning levels of general or cancer‐specific distress or poor health‐related quality of life in the cohort as a whole. Individuals in the control group had significantly less worry about PrCa compared with the carriers; however, all mean scores were low and within reported general population norms, where available. BRCA2 carriers with previously high prostate‐specific antigen (PSA) levels experience a small but significant increase in PrCa anxiety (P = 0.01) and PSA‐specific anxiety (P < 0.001). Cancer risk perceptions reflected information provided during genetic counselling and participants had good levels of knowledge, although this declined over time.ConclusionThis is the first study to report the longitudinal psychosocial impact of a targeted PrCa screening programme for BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers. The results reassure that an annual PSA‐based screening programme does not have an adverse impact on psychosocial health or health‐related quality of life in these higher‐risk individuals. These results are important as more PrCa screening is targeted to higher‐risk groups.