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Organizing visions for data-centric management: how Norwegian policy documents construe the use of data in health organizations
Authors: Solberg Mads , Kirchhoff Ralf , Oksavik Jannike Dyb , Wessel Lauri 
Published: June 2024

PurposeNorway, like other welfare states, seeks to leverage data to transform its pressured public healthcare system. While managers will be central to doing so, we lack knowledge about how specifically they would do so and what constraints and expectations they operate under. Public sources, like the Norwegian policy documents investigated here, provide important backdrops against which such managerial work emerges. This article therefore aims to analyze how key Norwegian policy documents construe data use in health management.Design/methodology/approachWe analyzed five notable policy documents using a “practice-oriented” framework, considering these as arenas for “organizing visions” (OVs) about managerial use of data in healthcare organizations. This framework considers documents as not just texts that comment on a topic but as discursive tools that formulate, negotiate and shape issues of national importance, such as expectations about data use in health management.FindingsThe OVs we identify anticipate a bold future for health management, where data use is supported through interconnected information systems that provide relevant information on demand. These OVs are similar to discourse on “evidence-based management,” but differ in important ways. Managers are consistently framed as key stakeholders that can benefit from using secondary data, but this requires better data integration across the health system. Despite forward-looking OVs, we find considerable ambiguity regarding the practical, social and epistemic dimensions of data use in health management. Our analysis calls for a reframing, by moving away from the hype of “data-driven” health management toward an empirically-oriented, “data-centric” approach that recognizes the situated and relational nature of managerial work on secondary data.Originality/valueBy exploring OVs in the Norwegian health policy landscape, this study adds to our growing understanding of expectations towards healthcare managers' use of data. Given Norway's highly digitized health system, our analysis has relevance for health services in other countries.
Ramadhan effect towards Nifty Shariah indices in India
Authors: Kalimuthu Kokila , Shaik Saleem 
Published: June 2024

PurposeThis paper aims to analyse the weekday effect on the Nifty Shariah indices as per the Islamic calendar. The study is intended to know about the return and volatility of these indices during Ramadhan and non-Ramadhan days.Design/methodology/approachThe study focuses on analysing the Nifty Shariah indices and Sensex daily returns collected from NSE India and BSE India, respectively, during the period of 1 August 2016 to 31 July 2022. Descriptive statistics are used to analyse the data, while the Ordinary Least Square method is used to determine the impact of weekdays on the Nifty Shariah indices. Additionally, the study applies the GARCH statistical model to examine the influence of Ramadhan on the returns and volatility of the Nifty Shariah indices.FindingsAll of the Nifty Shariah indices produced positive returns during the overall sample period. According to the study, Tuesday index returns outperform other weekdays. The GARCH model indicated that the coefficient values for the Nifty 50 Shariah and Nifty 500 Shariah indices were negative. Ramadhan has a strong negative effect on volatility, according to this study.Originality/valueThe outcomes of the research are beneficial for investors aiming to exploit daily or weekly price fluctuations, rather than pursuing extended investment periods. Furthermore, fund managers can employ these findings to shape trading strategies, and academics can examine the performance of Shariah indices in the Indian context. This enables devout investors to make significant financial choices, thus advancing ethical values in society and upholding standards of both public and private morality.
Value-added services and e-commerce platform competitiveness: a game theoretic approach
Authors: Du Xueke , Li Wenli , Cui Li , Jia Yibo , Wu Lin 
Published: June 2024

PurposeIn response to the intense competition in the platform economy, e-commerce platforms are actively introducing value-added services to maintain their competitiveness. However, how effective these value-added services are in fulfilling this purpose remains unclear. This paper explores how value-added services can enhance e-commerce platform competitiveness, measured by both user scale and reputation, considering the effect of network externalities.Design/methodology/approachA bilateral e-commerce platform with potential high-quality sellers and low-quality sellers on one side and potential buyers on the other side was chosen as research setting. Game theory models are constructed to simultaneously consider the behaviors of all actors (including sellers, buyers and the platform).FindingsOn the one hand, to increase the seller scale, basic services play a substituting role in determining the effect of value-added services. On the other hand, to increase the buyer scale and improve platform reputation, basic services play a fundamental role in determining the effect of value-added services. Furthermore, the higher the loss rate of the product value, the bigger the room for providing value-added services. With increasing loss rate of the product value, participating buyers who are attracted by value-added services are the fastest growing indicators; this indicates that the most significant effect of value-added services is its increase in the buyer scale.Practical implicationsBasic services determine the lower limit of platform competitiveness, while value-added services set the upper limit. The results of this paper can instruct different types of platforms to enhance their competitiveness in different ways.Originality/value(1) While previous studies on how to enhance platform competitiveness only considered scale or reputation separately, this paper applies a new perspective of platform competitiveness, namely the improvement of both the seller scale/buyer scale and platform reputation. (2) According to the characteristics of bilateral platforms, game theory models are constructed to explore how value-added services can enhance platform competitiveness considering both positive and negative network externalities. (3) The existing literature studies basic services and value-added services in a fragmented state; this paper contributes to research on value-added services by considering the mutual effect between basic and value-added services.
Heinz von Foerster's operational epistemology: orientation for insight into complexity
Authors: Saratxaga Arregi Arantzazu 
Published: June 2024

PurposeBased on the reception of the principle of self-organization, the core of Heinz von Foerster's operational theories, I hypothesize how Heinz von Foerster's theory can be an orientation model for the epistemological problem of complexity. I have chosen this study to demonstrate complexity as an epistemological problem. This is because the question of how order arises - the core problem of complexity - is an epistemological question for which Heinz von Foerster developed an epistemology of self-organization. I do not present new research because HvF already had the complex organization of systems in mind. Rather, I build a critical approach to complexity on the research and work on operational epistemology in HvF.Design/methodology/approachThis article aims to provide an orientation for a philosophical and epistemological understanding of complexity through a reading of Heinz von Foerster's operational theory. The article attempts to establish complexity as an epistemological phenomenon through the following method: (1) a conceptual description of the science of complexity based on the turn to thermodynamic time, (2) a genealogy of complexity going back to the systemic method, and (3) Heinz von Foerster's cybernetic approach to self-organization.FindingsBased on the reception of the principle of self-organization, the core of Heinz von Foerster's operational theories, the conclusion is drawn that complexity as a description is based on language games.Research limitations/implicationsThe results present complexity not as an object of science, but as a description that stands for the understanding of complex description.Social implicationsThe hypothesis that complexity is a question of description or observation, i.e. of description for what language serves, has enormous social implications, in that the description of complexes and the recognition of their orders (patterns) cannot be left to algorithmic governmentality, but must be carried out by a social agency.Originality/valueHvF's operational epistemology can serve as an epistemological model for critical complexity theory.
Compulsory environmental pollution liability insurance and corporate risk taking: a difference-in-difference approach
Authors: Liu Sheng , Mai Qing , Chen Xiuying 
Published: June 2024

PurposeMany developing countries have encountered frequent pollution accidents during their rapid development, while the previously weak environmental insurance systems could seriously undermine the progress of sustainable development. Some developing countries like China has initiated and strengthened environmental pollution liability insurance, so how effective this system would be in resolving enterprises environmental risks need to be further revealed.Design/methodology/approachThis research identifies the possible consequence that compulsory environmental pollution liability insurance pilot (CEPLIP) policy would bring to the risk-taking capacity of heavy-polluting corporations of China by the Differences-in-Differences (DID) approach.FindingsThe result supports the implementation of CEPLIP policy in increasing corporate risk-taking capacity. Furthermore, the CEPLIP policy can promote the corporate’s risk-taking capacity by reducing financial distress constraints and enhancing trade credit, supporting its dual role of “fallback effect” as well as “external supervision effect” of environmental insurance. As a result of heterogeneity test, the policy is more pronounced in enterprise samples with mature life cycle stage or lower industrial concentration degree. Similarly, it is more significant in enterprise samples owned better environmental management capabilities or greater strategic deviance.Originality/valueThis paper verifies the effectiveness of the CEPLIP policy by strengthening its supervision mechanism and restraining opportunistic behavior tendency and provides implications for alleviating increasing environmental risk pressure and building more sustainable environmental protection management systems.
Generations X, Y, Z: the effects of personal and positional inequalities on critical thinking digital skills
Authors: Lissitsa Sabina 
Published: June 2024

PurposeIn a time of fake news, misinformation, and disinformation, critical thinking has become the most important skill for discerning false, incomplete, and outdated information and communication online. The study examines the effects of personal (gender, age, ethnicity, religiosity, and Big Five personality traits) and positional inequalities (education, occupational status, language proficiency) on critical thinking digital skills (CTDS) among generations X, Y, and Z.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey was conducted among 1,495 Israeli Jews between the ages of 18 and 57, belonging to the X, Y, and Z generations.FindingsThe findings show that CTDS among Gen X were significantly lower, by a large margin, than those of the younger generations, while Gen Z reported the highest level of these skills. Multivariate analysis indicated different effect patterns of personal and positional categorical variables on CTDS. We found that the contribution of personal demographic inequalities (gender, age, ethnicity and religiosity) to the explained variance in CTDS was most pronounced in Gen Y, compared to Gen X and Gen Z. The contribution of Big Five personality traits and positional social inequalities (education, occupational status and language proficiency) to explaining CTDS was similar between Gen X and Gen Y, but much less pronounced among Gen Z.Practical implicationsUnderstanding the intergenerational differences in CTDS is crucial for tailoring educational approaches, promoting inclusivity, and harnessing the diverse strengths of each generation to navigate an ever-evolving digital landscape successfully.Originality/valueFirst of its kind, this study combines Generational Cohort Theory with Resources and Appropriation Theory to identify which inequalities may hinder the acquisition of one of today’s most vital skills among three generations.
Coverage of the research documents with top altmetric attention scores in online news
Authors: Nabavi Majid 
Published: June 2024

PurposeThis paper investigates the news coverage of research documents with the top Altmetric attention score (AAS) using a descriptive and explorative approach.Design/methodology/approachA dataset comprising 1,000 articles with high AAS was retrieved from Altmetric.com. The DOIs of these articles were then used to retrieve citation data from Dimensions. Data collection was finalized on February 11, 2024, and separate Excel files were merged using SPSS. The research included subject analysis and conducted correlation and Mann–Whitney U statistical tests.FindingsThe study reveals that the highest number of articles with high AAS were published in 2020. News post correlation with citation count is stronger than with AAS score. From the top AAS documents, titles of those with the highest news post counts include public concern keywords, and their subjects were primarily biomedical and clinical sciences. While no significant difference exists between multidisciplinary and specialty journal news posts, there is an increase in the variety of news sources in 2020 and 2021. Documents on biomedical and clinical sciences receive the most attention primarily from US-based news outlets, and many of the news outlets covering top AAS documents do not have specific subject orientations.Practical implicationsResearchers and journal editors should prioritize factors influencing research news coverage, including subjects, writing styles, and publication sources. Science writers should expand their coverage to include academic publications from subject areas beyond biomedical and clinical sciences. They can also consider diverse publication sources, such as preprints.Originality/valueThis study offers insights into the news coverage of top social-attention academic articles and is among the first to analyze the news coverage of academic publications.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-12-2022-0666
Effects of perceived value dimensions on customer brand loyalty towards luxury cars
Authors: Femina E.P. , Santhi P. 
Published: June 2024

PurposeThe research aims to examine the influence of perceived value (PV) dimensions on brand loyalty of luxury car owners and to examine the mediating role of attitudinal loyalty (AL) between PV dimensions and behavioral loyalty (BL).Design/methodology/approachPrimary data for the study were gathered from the luxury car owners in Kerala, India. The construct measurements have been adopted from previous research studies. Structural equation modeling with the partial least square (PLS) technique was used to analyze the measurements and conceptual model.FindingsThe findings show that out of four PV dimensions among luxury car owners, the hedonic value (HV) significantly influences their AL. Economic value influences BL, and social values have an impact on AL as well as BL, but the relationship of functional value with any is not supported by the results. AL is a strong predictor of BL, and it actively mediates the relationship of HV and symbolic value with BL.Practical implicationsThe manufactures of luxury cars provide more importance to hedonic and symbolic elements while launching new models and consider the price perceptions of the targeted customers while making decisions related to brand attachment and brand loyalty.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the decision-making of the rapidly growing vehicle market by examining the perceptions and by providing the effects of perceived values among luxury car owners. Also, it extends the literature by developing a framework for PV dimensions on AL and BL and also incorporated the mediating role of AL.
Contrasting mechanisms of non‐vascular and vascular plants on spatial turnover in multifunctionality in the Antarctic continent
Authors: Cui Hanwen , Chen Shuyan , Song Hongxian , Liu Ziyang , Chen Jingwei , Zhang Anning , Xiao Sa , Jiang Xiaoxuan , Yang Zi , Li Xin , An Lizhe , Ding Haitao , van der Plas Fons 
Published: June 2024

Abstract

Dominant plants play crucial roles in supporting the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Plants can influence the spatial heterogeneity of environmental factors, as well as the spatial turnover in the composition of soil communities (i.e. β‐diversity of soil communities). However, we still poorly understand how dominant plants drive the spatial turnover in multiple ecosystem functions (β‐multifunctionality hereafter), and to which extent the effects of dominant plants are mediated by changes in environmental heterogeneity and the β‐diversity of soil communities.

Antarctica supports one of the most challenging environments on the planet including low temperature and water availability. Here, we collected soil samples under three dominant plants (lichen, moss and vascular plants) and bare ground. We measured carbon storage, nutrient availability, nutrient decomposition, microbial biomass and pathogen control to calculate β‐multifunctionality.

Both non‐vascular and vascular plants were associated with increased β‐multifunctionality compared to bare ground. We further showed that lichen mainly affected β‐multifunctionality through soil temperature heterogeneity and β‐bacterial diversity. Similarly, moss mainly affected β‐multifunctionality through the spatial heterogeneity of soil water content and β‐bacterial diversity. However, vascular plants did not significantly affect environmental heterogeneity. Instead, the responses of β‐multifunctionality to vascular plants were mainly driven by the β‐diversity of soil communities. These results indicate that environmental heterogeneity is important for turnover in multiple ecosystem functions in early successional stages (dominated by non‐vascular plants), while the importance of soil communities' heterogeneity becomes more significant in late successional stages (dominated by vascular plants).

Synthesis. Our findings highlight the fundamental role of dominant plants in controlling the spatial turnover in ecosystem functions, and suggest that accelerated succession under current climate warming may increase bacterial β‐diversity but decrease abiotic heterogeneity, thereby leading to both increases (e.g. regarding functions related to microbial biomass) and decreases (e.g. regarding functions related to nutrient availability) in β‐multifunctionality and hence the spatial turnover in levels of ecosystem functioning.
Phytoremediating the air down under: Evaluating airborne particulate matter accumulation by 12 plant species in Australia
Authors: Roy Anamika , Mandal Mamun , Przybysz Arkadiusz , Haynes Alison , Robinson Sharon A. , Sarkar Abhijit , Popek Robert 
Published: June 2024

AbstractAtmospheric particulate matter (PM) is the most inhaled hazardous air pollutant that can cause adverse health impacts. Plants can remove such contaminants and act as biological filters through phytoremediation. In this study, we screened 12 Australian native species (two deciduous trees, three evergreen shrubs, and seven evergreen trees) growing in three regions to determine their potential in accumulating leaf surface (SPM) and in‐wax PM (WPM). Among the screened species, Lagunaria patersonia (139.22 μg cm−2) was the most effective PM accumulator, followed by Ficus obliqua (131.02 μg cm−2). L. patersonia is an Australian native tree with a dense crown that can efficiently trap PM due to air turbulence between its leaves and branches; broad leaves with a rough texture enhance the plant's ability to trap PM. On the contrary, morphological characteristics like evergreen leaves with hairy appendages may act as an efficient trap for PM in F. obliqua. Due to smoother leaves, the least effective species were F. rubignosa and Eucalyptus saligna. In addition to leaf shape, leaf structures and micromorphology influence PM accumulation. For instance, Pittosporum undulatum accumulated more PM due to its wrinkled and folded leaf structures despite a significantly lower waxes layer. The findings highlight the importance of planting efficient PM accumulator species to shield vulnerable areas from pollution and decrease human exposure to pollutants. The sink capacity of these species can be used in urban tree planning to combat air pollution and improve air quality.
Common‐garden study of introgression at loci associated with traits adaptive to coastal environment from Quercus dentata into Quercus mongolica var. crispula
Authors: Nagamitsu Teruyoshi , Uchiyama Kentaro , Izuno Ayako , Shimizu Hajime 
Published: June 2024

AbstractAdaptive introgression, which can provide genetic diversity resulting in the expansion to novel habitats and the creation of different ecotypes, has been proposed in oaks (genus Quercus). In northern Japan, Quercus mongolica var. crispula (Qc) is common in inland habitats, and Quercus dentata (Qd) occurs in coastal habitats. At the northern distributional limit of Qd, Quercus × angustilepidota (Qa), a hybrid taxon between Qc and Qd, occurs in coastal habitats. These taxa, Qc, Qa, and Qd, were transplanted to inland and coastal common gardens (sites). Genotypes at 27 495 loci, phenotypes of eight leaf and shoot traits, and the size of 30‐year‐old trees were measured for 224 individuals in both sites. Genotypic variation revealed a hybrid zone between Qc and Qd, including both northern‐edge Qd admixed with Qc and coastal Qa backcrossed to Qc. Phenotypes of Qa trees were intermediate between those of Qc and Qd trees. The size of Qa and Qd trees was smaller than that of Qc trees in the inland site but was larger in the coastal site, suggesting adaptation of Qa and Qd to coastal environment. Local ancestry was estimated from phased genotypes of admixed trees using reference genotypes of 47 Qc and 25 Qd trees, indicating heterogeneous ancestry along chromosomes. Admixture mapping of local ancestry detected loci significantly associated with a leaf trait, which were located in an introgressed genomic region with genes related to stress response. Further studies are necessary to elucidate the genetic basis of adaptive introgression resulting in Qd‐like phenotypes of Qa.