bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Developing organizational performance through talent management practices: employee satisfaction’s mediating role in learning organizations
Authors: Shah Naimatullah , Bano Safia , Saraih Ummi Naiemah , Abdelwaheed Nadia A. Abdelmageed , Soomro Bahadur Ali 
Published: April 2024

PurposeTalent management research today is increasing as organizational requirements attempt to meet the challenges of effectively managing talent to achieve organizations’ strategic agendas. However, in learning organizations specifically, investigations of talent management practices are limited, with this study exploring the role of talent management practices in employee satisfaction and organizational performance in Pakistan.Design/methodology/approachThe study was conducted in various universities (public and private) in Pakistan using a quantitative approach. Cross-sectional data are collected through a questionnaire, with analysis and conclusions based on completed questionnaires from 403 respondents.FindingsThe study’s findings from the analysis by structural equation modeling (SEM) emphasize the positive and significant effects of most talent management practices (i.e. talent identification, talent development, talent culture and talent retention) on employee satisfaction and organizational performance (talent attraction is the exception). Employee satisfaction positively and significantly affects organizational performance and is found to have a mediating effect, bridging the relationships of most talent management practices (talent identification, talent development, talent culture and talent retention) with organizational performance.Practical implicationsThe study’s findings support human resource professionals, academics and policymakers in managing talent practices to enhance organizational performance. The findings assist in developing core skills and talent-related competencies to achieve organizational goals and success.Originality/valueThe study fills the research gaps by developing a framework of talent management practices for employee satisfaction and organizational performance in learning organizations, which warrants further consideration.
Natural disasters and agricultural trade in China: analyzing the role of transportation, government and diplomacy
Authors: Zhao Yixin , Cheng Zhonghai , Chai Yongle 
Published: April 2024

PurposeNatural disasters profoundly influence agricultural trade sustainability. This study investigates the effects of natural disasters on agricultural production imports in China within 2002 and 2018. This exploration estimates the mediating role of transportation infrastructure and agriculture value-added and the moderating role of government effectiveness and diplomatic relations.Design/methodology/approachThis investigation uses Probit, Logit, Cloglog and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) models.FindingsThe results confirm the mediating role of transportation infrastructure and agriculture value-added and the moderating role of government effectiveness and diplomatic relations in China. According to the findings, natural disasters in trading partners heighten the risk to the agricultural imports. This risk raises, if disasters damage overall agricultural yield or transportation infrastructure. Moreover, governments’ effective response or diplomatic ties with China mitigate the risk. Finally, the effect of disasters varies by the developmental status of the country involved, with events in developed nations posing a greater risk to China’s imports than those in developing nations.Originality/valueChina should devise an early warning system to protect its agricultural imports by using advanced technologies such as data analytics, remote sensing and artificial intelligence. In addition, it can leverage this system by improving its collaboration with trading partners, involvement in international forums and agreement for mutual support in crisis.
Responding to representations of fatphobia in prose and comics
Authors: Amato Nicole Ann 
Published: April 2024

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore teacher candidates’ response to young adult literature (prose and comics) featuring fat identified protagonists. The paper considers the textual and embodied resources readers use and reject when imagining and interpreting a character’s body. This paper explores how readers’ meaning making was influenced when reading prose versus comics. This paper adds to a corpus of scholarship about the relationships between young adult literature, comics, bodies and reader response theory.

Design/methodology/approach
At the time of the study, participants were enrolled in a teacher education program at a Midwestern University, meeting monthly for a voluntary book club dedicated to reading and discussing young adult literature. To examine readers’ responses to comics and prose featuring fat-identified protagonists, the author used descriptive qualitative methodologies to conduct a thematic analysis of meeting transcripts, written participant reflections and researcher memos. Analysis was grounded in theories of reader response, critical fat studies and multimodality.

Findings
Analyses indicated many readers reject textual clues indicating a character’s body size and weight were different from their own. Readers read their bodies into the stories, regarding them as self-help narratives instead of radical counternarratives. Some readers were not able to read against their assumptions of thinness (and whiteness) until prompted by the researcher and other participants.

Originality/value
Although many reader response scholars have demonstrated readers’ tendencies toward personal identification in the face of racial and class differences, there is less research regarding classroom practices around the entanglement of physical bodies, body image and texts. Analyzing reader’s responses to the constructions of fat bodies in prose versus comics may help English Language Arts (ELA) educators and students identify and deconstruct ideologies of thin-thinking and fatphobia. This study, which demonstrates thin readers’ tendencies to overidentify with protagonists, suggests ELA classrooms might encourage readers to engage in critical literacies that support them in reading both with and against their identities.
No use of schools: the heterogenous effects of conflict in Pakistan on enrolment rates of boys and girls
Authors: Gillani Abbas Ali , Bari Khadija M. 
Published: April 2024

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to estimate the impact of conflict witnessed in Pakistan on the enrolment rates of boys and girls. Pakistan has the world’s second-highest number of out-of-school children, with an estimated 22.8 million children aged 5–16 years not attending school.

Design/methodology/approach
By merging data on violence with the data on enrolment rates, this paper finds that exposure to violence is correlated with a decline in overall district-level enrolment rates in the short run at primary-level schools and middle-level schools.

Findings
However, for boys, violence is also negatively correlated with enrolment rates at middle-level schools in the medium run. One possible mechanism tested in this paper is the potential substitution of boys into the labour market during a period of conflict.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper adds to the existing literature in several ways. Firstly, the effect of conflict on the labour market by impacting schooling for boys and girls is examined for the first time in Pakistan. Secondly, the district-level data set on enrolment rates used for this study is novel and has not been used before for this type of analysis. Thirdly, while this study strengthens the evidence that the short run effects of conflict are stronger than the long-run effects, it also confirms the negative effects of conflict do not fade away immediately. Fourthly, this study emphasizes that each conflict is unique in terms of its heterogeneous effects across different cohorts, such as gender, as these effects are dependent on the mechanism through which conflict impacts each individual.
How and when effective customer journeys drive brand loyalty: the role of consumer-brand identification
Authors: Reitsamer Bernd F. , Stokburger-Sauer Nicola E. , Kuhnle Janina S. 
Published: April 2024

PurposeEffective customer journey design (ECJD) is considered a key variable in customer experience management and an essential source of brand meaning and pro-brand behavior. Although previous research has confirmed its importance for driving brand attitudes and loyalty, the role of consumer-brand identification as a social identity-based influence in this relationship has not yet been discussed. Drawing on construal level and social identity theories, this paper aims to investigate whether effective journeys and the resulting overall journey experience are equally powerful in driving brand loyalty among customers with different levels of consumer-brand identification.Design/methodology/approachThe present article develops and tests a research model using data from the European and US service sectors (N = 1,454) to investigate how and when ECJD affects service brand loyalty.FindingsAcross two cultural contexts, four service industries and 33 service brands, the results reveal that ECJD is a crucial driver of service brand loyalty for customers with low consumer-brand identification. Moreover, the findings show that different aspects of journey effectiveness positively impact the valence of customers’ experience related to those journeys – a process that is ultimately decisive for their brand loyalty.Originality/valueThis study is unique because it generates theoretical and practical knowledge by combining the literature streams of customer journey design, customer experience and branding. Furthermore, this work demonstrates that consumer-brand identification is a critical boundary condition to be considered in the relationship between ECJD and brand loyalty in services.
Digital technologies, poverty and microfinance in developing countries
Authors: Subramaniam Yogeeswari , Masron Tajul Ariffin 
Published: April 2024

PurposeThe objective of this study is to examine the moderating effect of microfinance on the digital divide in developing countries.Design/methodology/approachOn the methodology, the econometric method employed to estimate the equation is based on the two-stage least squares (2SLS).FindingsThis study confirms that microfinance can play an important role in mitigating the adverse effect of digitalization on poverty.Research limitations/implicationsThus, governments should prioritize and encourage the integration of digital technologies with robust microfinance systems to effectively combat poverty, given the importance of microfinance.Originality/valueGiven the importance of digital technology to businesses and economic development, we need to search for a better solution that allows digital technology to be further developed but at the same time, is not harmful to the poor. The issue of the poor, either financially or technically can be partially resolved if the poor is given the necessary and sufficient assistance. Therefore, this paper examines whether microfinance can be part of solutions to the digital divide in developing countries.
A research on the influence mechanism of humanization degree of service robots on user misbehavior
Authors: Wan Xiaoyu , Chen Haodi 
Published: April 2024

PurposeExplore how the degree of humanization affects user misconduct, and provide effective misconduct prevention measures for the wide application of artificial intelligence in the future.Design/methodology/approachBased on the “Uncanny Valley theory”, three experiments were conducted to explore the relationship between the degree of humanization of service machines and user misbehavior, and to analyze the mediating role of cognitive resistance and the moderating role of social class.FindingsThere is a U-shaped relationship between the degree of humanization of service machines and user misbehavior; Social class not only regulates the main effect of anthropomorphism on misbehavior, but also regulates the intermediary effect of anthropomorphism on cognitive resistance, thus affecting misbehavior.Research limitations/implicationsThe design of the service robot can be from the user’s point of view, combined with the user’s social class, match different user types, and provide the same preferences as the user’s humanoid service robot.Practical implicationsThis study is an important reference value for enterprises and governments to provide intelligent services in public places. It can prevent the robot from being vandalized and also provide users with a comfortable human-computer interaction experience, expanding the positive effects of providing smart services by government and enterprises.Social implicationsThis study avoids and reduces users' misbehavior towards intelligent service robots, improves users' satisfaction in using service robots, and avoids service robots being damaged, resulting in waste of government, enterprise and social resources.Originality/valueFrom the perspective of product factors to identify the inducing factors of improper behavior, from the perspective of social class of users to analyze the moderating effect of humanization degree and user improper behavior.
From exclusion to establishment: Organizational birthmarks and imprinting within populist parties
Authors: Andersen Johan Erik , Trondal Jarle 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThis paper bridges literature on political parties and organizational studies by providing a new theoretical lens on political party developments. There has been growing scholarly interest in populist parties and the issues that serve as the raison d'être for their political platform. While the literature has been preoccupied with the journey of the anti‐hero rising to power, less has been written about the organization of the party once it has transcended to political influence. Likewise, whereas organizational birthmarks and imprinting have been integral concepts in the study of organizations, there has been little permeation of the concepts into the study of political parties. The Danish People's Party and Norwegian Progress Party provide two illustrative cases, showing that their original formation and later transformation into the current parties brought with it challenges to their structure and ideology. Our findings show that while an increase in external support to the political party, that is, votes, imprints organizational birthmarks, it is during a decrease in the very same external support that organizational birthmarks are uncovered and challenged. Through process‐tracing and our theoretical model, we identify organizational birthmarks and causal mechanisms in which competing organizational birthmarks create an internal division within the political party.
Using the Tasmanian Palliative and End of Life Care Policy Framework (2022) to assess service delivery in a rural general practice
Authors: Ridge Andrew , Seidel Bastian 
Published: April 2024

AbstractAimsThis commentary uses the Tasmanian Palliative and End of Life Care Policy Framework (2022; the TPE Framework) to reflect upon palliative care services delivered by a rural Tasmanian general practice.ContextRural populations have challenges in accessing many healthcare services, including palliative care. General practitioners (GPs) and other primary healthcare workers are frequently relied upon to deliver palliative care in rural Australia. Palliative care is often needed before the end‐of‐life phase and patients prefer this to be delivered in the community or at home. GPs face challenges and barriers in continuing to deliver home‐based palliative care services.ApproachAll Medical Benefit Scheme billings for after‐hours or home‐based palliative care provided by the practice, between September 2021 and August 2022, were identified and patient demographic and clinical details collated. To further understand this data, nine GPs were surveyed to explore their attitudes to provision of palliative care service to the local rural communities they serve. These data highlighted several priority areas of the TPE Framework. The TPE Framework is used here to add to the shared understanding of palliative care service delivery in a rural community, and to see if GP's responses align with the priorities of the TPE Framework. Of the 258 after‐hours and home‐visits delivered over a 12‐month period, almost 58% (n = 150) were for palliative care. Patients receiving palliative care were generally older than non‐palliative patients visited (79.9 years vs. 72.0 years respectively; p = 0.004). Patients not at imminent risk of death (64.0%) were more frequently recipients of home‐visits. Of the nine GPs responding to the survey, most intended to continue home visits for palliative patients. Disincentives to providing palliative care during home visits included a lack of time during the day (or after hours), low levels of interdisciplinary coordination or role‐definition, and inadequate remuneration.ConclusionExisting frameworks can be used as an implementation and evaluation guide to help understand local palliative care services. Using a Framework, a rural general practice in Tasmania reflected on their provision of palliative care services. Providing holistic palliative care services from a rural general practice is desirable and achievable with a coordinated, team‐based approach. Access to and integration with specialist services remains a key component of community‐based palliative care pathways.
vNOTES retroperitoneal sentinel lymph node dissection for endometrial cancer staging: First multicenter, prospective case series
Authors: Baekelandt Jan , Jespers Astrid , Huber Daniela , Badiglian‐Filho Levon , Stuart Andrea , Chuang Linus , Ali Oudai , Burnett Alexander 
Published: April 2024

AbstractIntroductionThe current standard treatment for endometrial cancer is a laparoscopic hysterectomy with adnexectomies and bilateral sentinel node resection. A retroperitoneal vNOTES sentinel node resection has several theoretical potential advantages. These include being less invasive, leaving no visible scars, operating without Trendelenburg, and therefore offering the anesthetic advantage of easier ventilation in obese patients and following the natural lymph node trajectory from caudally to cranially and therefore a lower risk of missing the sentinel node. The aim of this study is to determine the feasibility of a retroperitoneal vNOTES approach to sentinel lymph node dissection for staging of endometrial cancer.Material and methodsA prospective multicenter case series was performed in four hospitals. A total of 64 women with early‐stage endometrial carcinoma suitable for surgical staging with sentinel lymph node removal were operated via a transvaginal retroperitoneal vNOTES approach. The paravesical space was entered through a vaginal incision after injecting the cervix with indocyanine green. A vNOTES port was placed into this space and insufflation of the retroperitoneum was performed. Sentinel lymph nodes were identified bilaterally using near‐infrared light followed by endoscopic removal of these nodes.ResultsA total of 64 women with early‐stage endometrial cancer underwent sentinel lymph node removal by retroperitoneal vNOTES technique. All patients also underwent subsequent vNOTES hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo‐oophorectomy. The median age was 69.5 years, median total operative time was 126 min and the median estimated blood loss was 80 mL. In 97% of the cases bilateral sentinel nodes could be identified. A total of 60 patients had negative sentinel nodes, three had isolated tumor cells and one had macroscopically positive sentinel nodes. No complications with sequel occurred.ConclusionsThis prospective multicenter case series demonstrates the feasibility of the vNOTES approach for identifying and removing sentinel lymph nodes in women with endometrial carcinoma successfully and safely. vNOTES allows sole transvaginal access with exposure of the entire retroperitoneal space, following the natural lymph trajectory caudally to cranially, and without the need for a Trendelenburg position.
Honour, acculturation and well‐being: Evidence from the UK and Canada
Authors: Uskul Ayse K. , Cila Jorida , Gul Pelin , Kirchner‐Häusler Alexander , Hubená Barbora 
Published: April 2024

AbstractAdopting a social psychological approach, across three studies (N = 927) in two western immigrant‐receiving societies (UK and Canada), we examined the role of honour in acculturation variables (i.e., immigrants' heritage and mainstream cultural orientation and well‐being), controlling for some of the commonly studied predictors of immigrant adaptation. We assessed honour as concern (Studies 1 and 2) and as a desired attribute for men and women (Study 3) and studied well‐being in terms of acculturative stress (Study 1) and subjective evaluation of one's life (Studies 1 and 3). We examined our questions among groups of immigrants originating from honour (Studies 1 and 2) and dignity cultural groups (Study 1) and from first‐ and second‐generation immigrants (Study 3). Overall, despite some significant associations at the bivariate level between honour and acculturation outcomes, findings provided mixed support for the claim that honour (measured as concerns and cultural codes) plays a significant role in immigrant acculturation above and beyond commonly studied predictors of immigrant adaptation.
Trimodal therapy vs radical cystectomy in patients with muscle‐invasive bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of comparative studies
Authors: Ditonno Francesco , Veccia Alessandro , Montanaro Francesca , Pettenuzzo Greta , Franco Antonio , Manfredi Celeste , Triggiani Luca , De Nunzio Cosimo , De Sio Marco , Cerruto Mariangela , Crivellaro Simone , Kutikov Alexander , Autorino Riccardo , Antonelli Alessandro 
Published: April 2024

ObjectiveTo perform a systematic review and meta‐analysis of trials comparing trimodal therapy (TMT) and radical cystectomy (RC), evaluating differences in terms of oncological outcomes, quality of life, and costs.Materials and MethodsIn July 2023, a literature search of multiple databases was conducted to identify studies analysing patients with cT2‐4 N any M0 muscle‐invasive bladder cancer (MIBC; Patients) receiving TMT (Intervention) compared to RC (Comparison), to evaluate survival outcomes, recurrence rates, costs, and quality of life (Outcomes). The primary outcome was overall survival (OS). Secondary outcomes were cancer‐specific survival (CSS) and metastasis‐free survival (MFS). Hazard ratios (HRs) were used to analyse survival outcomes according to different treatment modalities and odds ratios were used to evaluate the likelihood of receiving each type of treatment according to T stage.ResultsNo significant difference in terms of OS was observed between RC and TMT (HR 1.07, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.81–1.4; P = 0.6), even when analysing radiation therapy regimens ≥60 Gy (HR 1.02, 95% CI 0.69–1.52; P = 0.9). No significant difference was observed in CSS (HR 1.12, 95% CI 0.79–1.57, P = 0.5) or MFS (HR 0.88, 95% CI 0.66–1.16; P = 0.3). The mean cost of TMT was significantly higher than that of RC ($289 142 vs $148 757; P < 0.001), with greater effectiveness in terms of cost per quality‐adjusted life‐year. TMT ensured significantly higher general quality‐of‐life scores.ConclusionTrimodal therapy appeared to yield comparable oncological outcomes to RC concerning OS, CSS and MFS, while providing superior patient quality of life and cost effectiveness.