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Relevance of internal controls for risk management: empirical evidence from the perception of its executors and reviewers in a multinational company
Authors: Beuren Ilse Maria , Machado Vanessa Noguez , Dall Agnol Alexsson Jr 
Published: March 2023

Purpose
The perception of the relevance of risk management reports and the system of internal controls permeates the risk management of multinational companies. Shedding light on perceived relevance, on the one hand, can serve as a guide for improvements in communication between headquarters and subsidiaries; on the other hand, it can lead to greater involvement of subsidiaries in company policies. Thus, this study aims to analyze the relevance of internal controls for risk management in the perception of its executors and reviewers in a multinational company.

Design/methodology/approach
A survey was conducted with the executors and reviewers of the internal controls of a multinational company. To the collected data, structural equation modeling was applied.

Findings
The perceived relevance of internal controls by the subsidiaries directly and positively influences the perceived relevance of the reporting of their specific and standardized reports for all subsidiaries. In addition, the perception of the relevance of standardized reports for all subsidiaries demonstrates a direct and positive influence on the familiarity with the regulations regarding the reporting of internal controls.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first to examine the relevance of internal controls for risk management in the perception of its executors and reviewers of subsidiaries of a multinational company. In this way, it provides a useful contribution to the literature and insights to promote improvements in the communication process between headquarters and subsidiaries of different countries regarding risk management reports and the system of internal controls.
What happens when leader is ambivalent and employee is indifferent? A moderated mediation model of LMX ambivalence and employee creativity
Authors: Lin Xinyue , Du Juan 
Published: March 2023

Purpose
Leader–member exchange (LMX) relationship is a crucial context for individuals’ generation of creative ideas. Unlike the fruit research between LMX quality and employee creativity, the relationship between LMX ambivalence and employee creativity is scarce. This study thus aims to examine the effect of LMX ambivalence on employee creativity.

Design/methodology/approach
This study conducted an on-site survey of research and development teams in China and distributed paired questionnaires with a time lag of one month. Data from 116 leaders and 484 subordinates were collected and analyzed.

Findings
The results showed that LMX ambivalence was directly negatively or indirectly negatively related to employee creativity via self-efficacy. Employee cynicism acted as a potential personal moderator of the effect of LMX ambivalence, specifically, employee cynicism attenuated the negative influence of LMX ambivalence on employee creativity via self-efficacy.

Originality/value
This study extends our knowledge of the complex effects of LMX relationships by empirically exploring whether and how LMX ambivalence influences employee creativity, with self-efficacy introduced as one crucial underlying mechanism. Meanwhile, this study enriches the existing cynicism literature by demonstrating the role of employee cynicism as a buffer in the relationship between LMX ambivalence and employee creativity.
Wage returns to job tasks and personality traits in Germany
Authors: Rohrbach-Schmidt Daniela , Wehner Caroline , Krueger Sabine , Ebner Christian 
Published: March 2023

PurposeThis article aims to examine whether specific job tasks measured at the individual level or personality traits are associated with wages and whether the relationship between personality traits and wages differs depending on the job tasks that individuals perform.Design/methodology/approachThis study analyzes the association between job tasks and personality traits, and their interaction, with regard to wages using German employee data from 2017/2018.FindingsResults suggest that nonroutine manual, interactive or analytic tasks are associated with significantly higher wages compared to routine manual tasks, and while extraversion and emotional stability are related to higher wages, agreeableness and openness tend to be associated with lower wages also within occupations. Moreover, the association between personality traits and wages varies depending on the job task requirements at the workplace. A high degree of extraversion in particular is associated with higher wages when the employee performs nonroutine manual, interactive or analytic tasks.Originality/valueTo date, especially the interaction between individual job tasks and personality traits on wages has not been extensively studied because data on both job tasks and personality at the employee level are scarce. This study contributes to the understanding of wage differences among employees.
How consumers react differently toward humanoid vs. nonhumanoid robots after service failures: a moderated chain mediation model
Authors: Zhang Mengwei , Cui Jinsheng , Zhong Jianan 
Published: March 2023

PurposeWith the increasing use of robots in service scenarios in hospitality industries, service failure frequently occurs during the service process, and consumers may react differently toward humanoid vs. nonhumanoid robots due to different performance expectancies. This study focuses on consumers' reactions to service failures by humanoid vs. nonhumanoid robots and the different impacts on brand forgiveness and revisit intentions through performance expectancy for different genders.Design/methodology/approachThe study used a sample of 280 participants to test the moderated chain mediation model. The participants were instructed to report their performance expectancies for humanoid/nonhumanoid robots and imagine a hotel check-in scenario in which a service failure occurs. Brand forgiveness, brand revisit intention and other demographic information were assessed.FindingsThe results show that consumers have higher performance expectancy for nonhumanoid robots. This performance expectancy generates brand forgiveness and revisit intentions for male consumers but does not affect female consumers' forgiveness and revisit behaviors.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature by taking a long-term perspective to investigate the outcomes after service failure, providing evidence for pending questions in previous studies and enriching studies of gender differences. Additionally, this study provides practical implications to consider the use of anthropomorphism in robots, advocate for functional confidence in robots and target consumers across genders.
Medical device companies crisis communication response to stakeholders during COVID-19: pre-crisis stage to new normal
Authors: Taneja Bharat , Bharti Kumkum 
Published: March 2023

Purpose
During COVID-19, this study aims to evaluate the crisis communication strategies (CCS) of Fortune 500 medical device businesses. These companies’ CCS adoption is evaluated using data from the microblogging site Twitter.

Design/methodology/approach
A total of 11,569 tweets were collected over the course of a year, from 31 December 2019 to 31 December 2020, and analysed using COVID-19’s pre-crisis, crisis and new normal stages. The data acquired from Twitter is assessed using latent Dirichlet allocation-based topic modelling, valence aware dictionary for sentiment reasoning sentiment analysis and emotion recognition analysis and then further examined using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to build a configurational model. The findings were compared to Cheng’s (2018, 2020) integrated strategy toolkit for organisational CCS, which included 28 strategies.

Findings
With positive sentiments across stages, companies chose “information providing”, “monitoring” and “good intentions” as the CCS. In the crisis and new normal stages of COVID, the emotion of “depression” was observed.

Research limitations/implications
Researchers would be able to assess the CCS used through visual aids in the future by conducting a cross-industry examination using image analytics. Furthermore, by prolonging the study’s duration, long-term changes in the CCS can be investigated.

Practical implications
Companies should send real-time information to their stakeholders via social media during a pandemic, conveying good intentions and positive sentiments while remaining neutral.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is one of the first studies to investigate the CCS patterns used by medical device businesses to communicate via social media during a pandemic.
Inclusive marketing: Muslims’ influence on marketers' behaviour in non-Muslim majority country: evidence from New Zealand
Authors: Wisker Zazli Lily Lily 
Published: March 2023

Purpose
Emerging public discourses on Islam and Islamophobia in Western countries have led to religious discrimination among this group. This exploratory study aims to understand how marketers promote anti-discrimination efforts against Muslims on the notion of future collective unity.

Design/methodology/approach
This exploratory study uses Social Identity theory to explain the behaviour and attitude of vulnerable Muslims. The dimension of racialisation, the Whiteness theory, the oppression model and the ethnocentrism theory were synthesised to explain the practice of racism and oppression. The theory of customer diversity, equity and inclusion was synthesised to understand the importance of inclusive marketing. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews with 15 senior marketing executives.

Findings
This study observed how the minority Muslims had influenced the marketers' behaviours in combating anti-religious discrimination through various tactics such as extending the corporates' products and services offerings, being inclusive and avoiding stereotyping in their marketing communication styles and shifting the company's processes and systems to meeting this group's cultural needs.

Research limitations/implications
While this study sample's demographics were motivated by senior marketing executives' profiles, most of the participants were highly educated, had similar cultural backgrounds and were mainly from the West.

Originality/value
This study attempts to shed light on the understanding of Muslims’ discrimination or Islamophobia in non-Muslim majority countries. It is hoped that this study acts as a catalyst for collective unity and would galvanise communities, including marketers to tackle discrimination through a better understanding of a targeted group like Muslims in the marketplace. In this current time of racial and religious tension, business leaders and marketers can act as mediators of social change to normalise more positive relations between minority and mainstream consumers.
The optimal capacity decision of the catering merchant in omnichannel – service, production and delivery capacity
Authors: Zhan Wentao , Jiang Minghui , Wang Xueping 
Published: March 2023

PurposeOmnichannel sales have provided new impetus for the development of catering merchants. The authors thus focus on how catering merchants should manage capacities at the ordering, production and delivery stages to meet customers’ needs in different channels under third-party platform delivery and merchant self-delivery. This is of great significance for the development of the omnichannel catering industry.Design/methodology/approachThis paper formulates the capacity decisions of omnichannel catering merchants under the third-party platform delivery and merchant self-delivery mode. The authors mainly use queuing theory to analyze the queuing behavior of online and offline customers, and the impact of waiting time on customer shopping behavior. In addition, the authors also characterize the merchant’s capacity by the rate in queuing model.FindingsThe authors find that capacities at ordering stage and food production stage are composed of base capacities and safety capacities, but the delivery capacities only have the latter. And in the self-delivery mode, merchants can develop higher safety capacities by charging delivery fees. The authors prove that regardless of the delivery mode, omnichannel sales can bring higher profits to merchants by integrating demand.Originality/valueThe authors focus on analyzing the capacity management of omnichannel catering merchants at the ordering, production and delivery stages. And the authors also add the delivery process into the omnichannel for analysis, so as to solve the problem of capacity decision-making under different delivery modes. The management of delivery capacity and its impact on other stages’ capacities are not covered in other literature studies, which is one of the main innovations of this paper.
Do depositors discipline the banking sector? Evidence from an emerging economy
Authors: Afzal Ayesha , Mirza Nawazish , Firdousi Saba 
Published: March 2023

Purpose
Market discipline is an important part of financial regulation, under Basel II and III. This paper aims to provide evidence on market discipline in Pakistan. Specifically, the authors have analyzed the impact of CAMEL variables on costs of funds and deposit switching.

Design/methodology/approach
This study has used panel data related to different banking and macroeconomic variables. The sample period is 2004–2017 so it has covered the changing regulations that became binding for banks under Basel II and III. Quarterly data has been collected from the financial disclosure of publicly listed banks. The total number of banks in the sample is 26. Among these, 24 are publicly listed. Foreign banks have not been included because their activities in Pakistan are quite limited.

Findings
It has been found that efficiency, liquidity, asset quality and capital adequacy are negatively related to costs of funds for banks. Capital adequacy, liquidity and profitability are negatively related to deposit switching.

Research limitations/implications
These results indicate the presence of market discipline and have generated valuable implications for bank managers and regulators.

Originality/value
In this study, the case of Pakistan is interesting. The country has experienced financial liberalization that sought to avoid government intervention and encourage a more “market-based” approach. This change in the system was made more pronounced by the privatization of nationalized banks, improvement in the market structure, reduction in barriers to entry and consolidation of smaller banks. As a result, the banking system has emerged as an important source of financing and it provides us motivation to look deeper into depositor discipline in banking sector.
Behavior of partial-length stiffened and full-length stiffened CFDST columns under axial load
Authors: Hassan Aamir , Bhat Javed Ahmad 
Published: March 2023

Purpose
Concrete-filled double skin tube (CFDST) columns are considered one of the most effective steel-concrete composite sections owing to the higher load carrying capacity as compared to its counterpart concrete-filled tube (CFT) columns. This paper aims to numerically investigate the performance of axially loaded, circular CFDST short columns, with the innovative strengthening technique of providing stiffeners in outer tubes. Circular steel hollow sections have been adopted for inner as well as outer tubes, while varying the length of rectangular steel stiffeners, fixed inside the outer tubes only, to check the effect of stiffeners in partially and full-length stiffened CFDST columns.

Design/methodology/approach
The behaviour of these CFDST columns is investigated numerically by using a verified finite element analysis (FEA) model from the ABAQUS. The behaviour of 20-unstiffened, 80-partially stiffened and 20-full-length stiffened CFDST columns is studied, while varying the strength of steel (fyo = 250–750 MPa) and concrete (30–90 MPa).

Findings
The FEA results are verified by comparing them with the previous test results. FEA study has exhibited that, there is a 7%–25% and 39%–49% increase in peak-loads in partially stiffened and full-length stiffened CFDST columns, respectively, compared to unstiffened CFDST columns.

Originality/value
Enhanced strength has been observed in partially stiffened and full-length stiffened CFDST columns as compared to unstiffened CFDST columns. Also, a significant effect of strength of concrete has not been observed as compared to the strength of steel.
The evolving copiotrophic/oligotrophic dichotomy: From Winogradsky to physiology and genomics
Authors: Soler‐Bistué Alfonso , Couso Luciana L. , Sánchez Ignacio E. 
Published: March 2023

AbstractNearly 100 years ago, Winogradsky published a classic communication in which he described two groups of microbes, zymogenic and autochthonous. When organic matter penetrates the soil, zymogenic microbes quickly multiply and degrade it, then giving way to the slow combustion of autochthonous microbes. Although the text was originally written in French, it is often cited by English‐speaking authors. We undertook a complete translation of the 1924 publication, which we provide as Supporting information. Here, we introduce the translation and describe how the zymogenic/autochthonous dichotomy shaped research questions in the study of microbial diversity and physiology. We also identify in the literature three additional and closely related dichotomies, which we propose to call exclusive copiotrophs/oligotrophs, coexisting copiotrophs/oligotrophs and fast‐growing/slow‐growing microbes. While Winogradsky focussed on a successional view of microbial populations over time, the current discussion is focussed on the differences in the specific growth rate of microbes as a function of the concentration of a given limiting substrate. In the future, it will be relevant to keep in mind both nutrient‐focussed and time‐focussed microbial dichotomies and to design experiments with both isolated laboratory cultures and multi‐species communities in the spirit of Winogradsky's direct method.
Gender inequality in asset ownership and women's food security in sub‐Saharan Africa
Authors: Nga Ndjobo Patrick Marie 
Published: March 2023

AbstractUnequal asset rights remain an important driver of gender inequality and food insecurity in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Using cross‐sectional data from 31 SSA countries, this study examines the effect of gender inequality in asset ownership on women's food security in the region. The seemingly unrelated (SUR) bivariate probit framework has been adopted in analysing the data. This approach is used for addressing the possible endogeneity bias that occurs when the dependent variable and regressor are both endogenous and binary. The major finding of this study reveals that gender inequality in asset ownership increases women's risk of facing food insecurity. The aforementioned is more pronounced for women who are undereducated, live in rural areas, and suffer various forms of discrimination. It is therefore important that more egalitarian laws on asset ownership and inheritance be adopted in all SSA countries. This will significantly increase women's specific food security and thus contribute to improving inclusiveness in these countries.
Special tea products featuring functional components: Health benefits and processing strategies
Authors: Yang Gaozhong , Meng Qing , Shi Jiang , Zhou Mengxue , Zhu Yin , You Qiushuang , Xu Ping , Wu Wenliang , Lin Zhi , Lv Haipeng 
Published: March 2023

AbstractThe functional components in tea confer various potential health benefits to humans. To date, several special tea products featuring functional components (STPFCs) have been successfully developed, such as O‐methylated catechin‐rich tea, γ‐aminobutyric acid‐rich tea, low‐caffeine tea, and selenium‐rich tea products. STPFCs have some unique and enhanced health benefits when compared with conventional tea products, which can meet the specific needs and preferences of different groups and have huge market potential. The processing strategies to improve the health benefits of tea products by regulating the functional component content have been an active area of research in food science. The fresh leaves of some specific tea varieties rich in functional components are used as raw materials, and special processing technologies are employed to prepare STPFCs. Huge progress has been achieved in the research and development of these STPFCs. However, the current status of these STPFCs has not yet been systematically reviewed. Here, studies on STPFCs have been comprehensively reviewed with a focus on their potential health benefits and processing strategies. Additionally, other chemical components with the potential to be developed into special teas and the application of tea functional components in the food industry have been discussed. Finally, suggestions on the promises and challenges for the future study of these STPFCs have been provided. This paper might shed light on the current status of the research and development of these STPFCs. Future studies on STPFCs should focus on screening specific tea varieties, identifying new functional components, evaluating health‐promoting effects, improving flavor quality, and elucidating the interactions between functional components.
What's in a Name? Defining New Entrants to Farming
Authors: Creaney Rachel , Hasler Hannah , Sutherland Lee‐Ann 
Published: March 2023

SummaryNew entrants to farming are eligible for CAP targeted supports. The intention of these supports is to promote innovativeness and sustainability in the agricultural sector through generational renewal. However, new entrants (successors or those completely new into the industry), still face multiple barriers above other longstanding farmers, including lack of access to necessary capital, land and housing. There is also ambiguity about the success of new entrant supports in achieving their stated objectives. We draw on results from an online survey distributed to anyone involved in farming in Europe, including European new entrants and those working in new entrant support services. Survey respondents were asked how they would define a ‘new entrant farmer’. A clear majority of respondents indicated that new entrants should be new to the industry; that is, not successors to existing farm businesses. A substantial minority of respondents indicated that new entrants should be establishing innovative new businesses, with an overlapping cohort emphasising sustainability. Very few respondents identified age as an important criterion. We argue that the new entrant definition utilised in policy supports could be more targeted towards policy objectives, distinguishing social justice supports (enabling newcomers to enter the sector), from supports for innovation (e.g. venture capital funds) and sustainability (greening the CAP).