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A time for heroes? Conceptualization, development and validation of the brand hero scale
Authors: Lin Yu-Ting , Foscht Thomas , Eisingerich Andreas Benedikt 
Published: May 2023

Purpose
Prior work underscores the important role of customer advocacy for brands. The purpose of this study is to explore the critical role customers can play as brand heroes. The authors developed and validated a measurement scale composed of properties that are derived from distinct brand hero motivational mechanisms.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted one exploratory pilot, using semi-structured interviews, with industry and academic experts, and employed three main studies across varying brands and market settings.

Findings
This study explores and empirically demonstrates how the brand hero scale (BHS) is related to, yet distinct from, existing scales of opinion leaders, market mavens, attachment and customer advocacy. The six-item BHS demonstrates convergent, discriminant, nomological and predictive validity across several different brand contexts.

Research limitations/implications
This research extends the extant body of work by identifying and defining brand heroes, developing and validating a parsimonious BHS, and demonstrating how its predictive validity extends both to a range of key advocacy and loyalty customer behaviors.

Practical implications
The study provides provocative insights for marketing researchers and brand managers and ascertains the important role heroes may play for brands in terms of strong customer advocacy and loyalty behaviors.

Originality/value
Building on the theory of meaning, this study shows that identifying and working with brand heroes is of great managerial importance and offers critical avenues for future research.
General and reproductive healthcare experiences of formerly incarcerated women in the United States: a qualitative study
Authors: O’Connor Sarah K. , Vanjani Rachna , Cannon Rachel , Dawson Mary Beth , Perkins Rebecca 
Published: May 2023

Purpose
The US prison population has recently reached an all-time high, with women representing the fastest growing subpopulation. Correctional health-care system in the USA remains fragmented and nonuniform in practice, particularly in women’s health care, with poor transitions between incarceration and release. This study aims to examine the qualitative health-care experiences of women while incarcerated and their transition into the community health-care setting. Additionally, this study also examined the experiences of a subset of women who were pregnant while incarcerated.

Design/methodology/approach
After obtaining institutional review board approval, adult, English-speaking women with a history of incarceration within the past 10 years were interviewed using a semi-structured interview tool. Interview transcripts were analyzed using inductive content analysis.

Findings
The authors completed 21 full interviews and identified six themes that were both the most significant and most novel: “feeling stigmatized and insignificant,” “care as punishment,” “delay in care,” “exceptions to the rule,” “fragmentation of care” and “obstetric trauma and resilience.”

Originality/value
Women face numerous barriers and hardships when accessing basic and reproductive health-care services while incarcerated. This hardship is particularly challenging for women with substance use disorders. The authors were able to describe for the first time, partially through their own words, novel challenges described by women interacting with incarceration health care. Community providers should understand these barriers and challenges so as to effectively reengage women in care upon release and improve the health-care status of this historically marginalized group.
The bright side of CEO narcissism and its impact on accounting conservatism
Authors: Shen Yun , Mollica Vito , Dalla Costa Aldo Fortunato 
Published: May 2023

PurposeThis study sheds new light on the personality trait and provides evidence regarding the relation between narcissism and desirable accounting practices, specifically the impact of CEO narcissism on accounting conservatism.Design/methodology/approachThe authors test the relation between CEO narcissism and accounting conservatism for a sample of 907 US companies and their corresponding CEOs for the period between 2010 and 2018. The authors apply three established models of accounting conservatism and measure executives' narcissism using a non-intrusive approach ubiquitous in the literature.FindingsThe authors find that CEO narcissism is associated with speculative accounting practices in the form of timely recognition of positive news and more prudent financial reporting of anticipated negative news. The authors provide the first empirical evidence that, despite its well-known negative effects on corporate financial reporting, executive narcissism can also produce positive outcomes.Originality/valueWhile managerial overconfidence has received much attention, the effects of executives' narcissism are still widely unexplored (Chatterjee and Hambrick, 2007). The authors thus contribute to the literature by investigating the relationship between CEOs' narcissism and accounting conservatism. The authors conjecture CEO narcissism should have a twofold effect on prudent financial reporting. On the one hand, CEOs' narcissism should be associated with low levels of unconditional conservatism due to excessively fast good news recognition. On the other hand, narcissistic executives should be associated with early recognition of negative news and hence with higher levels of conditional conservatism.
Parsing through paradigms: uncertainty and decision-making in human information behavior
Authors: Mestre Juliana 
Published: May 2023

PurposeThis study demonstrates how individual paradigms implicate the questions asked, methods used and results drawn in association with a common object of study in human information behavior (HIB) research – the relationship between uncertainty and decision-making.Design/methodology/approachThe author uses textual case studies to examine uncertainty and decision-making through the framework of four paradigms used in HIB research: positivism, cognitivism, collectivism and constructionism and suggests deconstructionism as a paradigm which raises new questions around this topic.FindingsPositivistic approaches to uncertainty are often systems oriented; cognitive approaches are often user-oriented; collectivist approaches are intersubjective; and constructionist approaches blend a subjective and intersubjective research orientation. Deconstructionism raises new questions around ethics and responsibility in relation to decision-making, and the author therefore situates it as a new paradigmatic approach for this topic in HIB research.Originality/valueDespite the presence of research aimed at recognizing and defining paradigms in HIB research, a comparative micro-examination of how individual paradigms implicate a specific research topic has yet to be conducted. Each paradigm uniquely shapes the ways in which uncertainty and decision-making are characterized, but the four central ones examined here have thus far left out questions of ethics and responsibility as being core elements of decision-making as tied to uncertainty. Therefore, this paper introduces deconstructionism as a paradigm new to HIB uncertainty research, arguing that it provides an important and novel complication of existent research questions and approaches.
Do good and measure well! – Examining the validity of two positive social change measurements in South African social enterprises
Authors: Kruse Philipp , Chipeta Eleanor Meda , Venter Robert 
Published: May 2023

Purpose
The creation of positive social change (PSC) is considered the primary success criterion when evaluating social enterprise performance. However, despite a proliferation of PSC-measurements, their empirical validity and applicability in emerging economies remain largely unclear. The quantitative study examines the validity of the PSC-measurement approaches proposed by Bloom and Smith (2010; Bloom and Smith approach [BSA]) and Weaver (2020b; Weaver approach [WA]) in South Africa.

Design/methodology/approach
Investigating a representative sample of 347 social entrepreneurs from Gauteng and Limpopo provinces, the authors use questionnaire data to explore the factorial, convergent and discriminant validity of both PSC-measurement approaches. Statistically, this is done by applying factorial and correlation analyses.

Findings
The results yield acknowledgeable differences. BSA has a high factorial and convergent validity, while its discriminant validity remains doubtful. For WA, problems concerning factorial validity occur.

Research limitations/implications
Despite limited generalizability, the authors provide a first guideline for scholars regarding the empirical validity of BSA and WA outside the context of developed economies.

Originality/value
The current study sheds light on the validity of two PSC-measurement approaches in an emerging economy context. This way, the authors contribute to the field by addressing the scarcity of empirical research and the restricted scope of developed economies regarding PSC-measurement.
Sizzle without the steak: the emerging strategic implications of receiving a free offering in the digital age
Authors: Desjardins Guillaume , Gould Anthony M. , Park Kathleen 
Published: May 2023

Purpose
This study aims to fill a gap in the literature. The notion of giveaways/free has not been well addressed in management history literature and arguably is a valuable contribution in that it has a strategic dimension.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper is conceptual. It is a structured survey of ideas/opinions about the notion of “free” in commercial endeavor. The survey is organized largely from a historical perspective.

Findings
Several categories of “free” are delineated and placed into a historical and strategic context.

Originality/value
The work has strategic implications and lays out a new research agenda for management historians.
Criteria explaining adoption of revolutionary business techniques
Authors: Brockhoff Klaus 
Published: May 2023

Purpose
The paper aims to identify adoption criteria for “revolutionary” business techniques; based on case material, it invites further research.

Design/methodology/approach
Building on the idea of scientific revolution, three cases from sub-disciplines of business administration are chosen to illicit adoption criteria for business techniques.

Findings
The analysis shows that a logical response to a problem, the availability of a controllable procedure, the software and the means to apply the procedure easily, and the hardware, jointly seem to explain the adoption of “revolutionary” business technologies.

Research limitations/implications
In case analysis in general, the results do not lead to induction. More research might identify additional success criteria. Furthermore, it might lead to determining adoption probabilities of techniques.

Practical implications
Managers being introduced to new techniques in business administration might use the criteria outlined here for their evaluation.

Originality/value
The author believes that the paper sheds new light on the development of business technologies and that this light might guide developers of technologies to come up with more potentially successful technologies.
The impact of Covid-19 on consumer behaviour – lessons to be learnt from the Latin America real estate shopping centre sector
Authors: Hollander Suzanne 
Published: May 2023

PurposeThe aim of this Real Estate Insight is to comment upon the impact of Covid on the shopping centre sector in the United States of America (USA) and lessons the USA can learn from Latin American shopping centres to survive and thrive.Design/methodology/approachThis Real Estate Insight will comment upon the real estate shopping centre sector. The nature of the “Insights” briefings mean that this is a personal view of the author based on her visit to over 70 shopping centres in Latin America, specifically Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Paraguay during her 2022 sabbatical.FindingsThis paper looks at shopping centre industry in a transitional post-Covid 19 marketplace and concludes that the shopping centres in Latin American have taken many steps to integrate themselves into the fabric of the community.Practical implicationsThe lessons learnt by owners of shopping centres in Latin America may help other investors with their management strategies in other centres globally.Social implicationsShopping is all about behaviour and social interaction. Vibrant centres encourage the community to use the centre as a focal point.Originality/valueThe value is to suggest strategies to help the shopping centre sector adapt, re-engineer change and thrive through challenging times.
The role of social marketing in promoting quality of life through the lens of sustainable consumption
Authors: Christie Lorna , Venter De Villiers Marike 
Published: May 2023

Purpose
This paper presents a unique conceptual model that promotes behaviour change with the goal of creating a more sustainable conscious society. It aims to provide social marketers with insight on how to influence consumers' buying behaviour, which is often guided by their misperception of what is a good Quality of Life (QoL).

Design/methodology/approach
By means of a comprehensive, analytical review of relevant literature, this paper took a conceptual approach that included the thematic analysis of data sources such as accredited journal articles, books and other credible published materials.

Findings
Against the backdrop of South Africa's socio-economic conditions, this model emphasises the crucial role of individual's social and personal environment in shaping behaviour. The role of social marketers is to capitilise on consumers immediate environment to persuade them to consume more sustainably. It further gives way to the long-term, positive consequences of behaviour change on consumer's Quality of Life. The basic premise underlying the conceptual model is eudaimonia, the long-term subjective well-being of consumers, as a result conscientious consumption practices. The authors integrate Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory (1986) and Christie's Nested model of Quality of Life (2018) and presents the Social Cognitive Model of Quality of Life.

Research limitations/implications
Such an integrative conceptual model can be used to justify policy implications, social marketing strategies and behavioural change for the individual consumer to promote their own subjective QoL while addressing and perhaps mediating the broader social and environmental concerns. However, the application of this concept within an emerging economy, remains to be a challenge, as the awareness around sustainable consumption is still in its infant stage.

Originality/value
With the rise of globalisation, consumers in emerging economies aspire to portray wealth through the acquisition of materialistic possessions. This is even though the majority live in poverty and cannot sustain a lifestyle that is driven by conspicuous consumption. As a result, social marketers have a significant responsibility to inRuence consumers buying behaviour towards sustainable consumption. This paper presents a model that guides social marketers on how they can encourage pro-environmental behaviour and create a more sustainably conscious society.
Exploring supply chain finance along different supply chain stages: a case-based research in the agri-food industry
Authors: Medina Elisa , Caniato Federico , Moretto Antonella Maria 
Published: May 2023

Purpose
Since 2008’s financial crisis, attention toward supply chain finance (SCF) has increased. However, most research investigates SCF considering single supply chain (SC) stages or buyer–supplier dyads and focuses on a single SCF solution. It is important to see how different solutions are adopted at different SC stages, by actors with different financing needs. This study aims to analyze SCF at different SC stages, to understand why different solutions are implemented at different SC stages and the contingency factors (regulation, SC stage, product category and size) influencing their adoption.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based on multiple exploratory case studies in the Italian agri-food industry, considering firms distributed at different SC stages and adopting multiple SCF solutions. The paper exploits a contingent approach (Sousa and Voss, 2008) to analyze how contingent factors influence SCF adoption at different SC stages.

Findings
Findings explain how and why different SC stages (producer, cooperative, processor and retailer) implement different SCF solutions (reverse factoring, dynamic discounting, inventory finance and Minibond), describing contingency variables’ impact on their adoption.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the research is original in its description of SCF at different SC stages, considering different SC actors’ drivers and barriers, and questioning the importance of a coordinated approach in SCF adoption along an entire SC. Moreover, the paper adopts a contingent approach, contributing to SCF research, seldomly based on theoretical lenses.
A path causal model of the effect of TQM practices on teachers' job satisfaction in schools in Qatar
Authors: El-Kassem Rima Charbaji 
Published: May 2023

PurposeThis study aims to examine the relationship between TQM practices and teachers' job satisfaction in Qatar, visualizing this relationship through a path causal model.Design/methodology/approachA cross-sectional survey from different schools in Qatar was conducted, using a questionnaire administered to 359 teachers. Factor analysis was used to establish the construct validity of the questionnaire, using two statistical tests: Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measure of sampling adequacy, and Bartlett's test of sphericity.FindingsThe TQM practices measured were information, professional development, teachers' involvement in decision-making, teamwork and salary. Regression analyses showed that only four of the five constructs were significant in predicting teachers' job satisfaction. The path causal model's results revealed that each explanatory variable's direct effect was strengthened via the effect of the other independent variables.Practical implicationsTeachers who are highly satisfied with their jobs are willing to give their best. This study proposes a conceptual causal model for TQM adoption in the Qatar educational system. The proposed causal model will help policymakers and decision-makers in Qatari schools to draw strategies based on the antecedents and consequences of teachers' involvement in decision-making.Originality/valueEmpirically, this article has employed the concepts of TQM and job satisfaction to construct a causal model, demonstrating the effect of TQM practices on teachers' job satisfaction in schools in Qatar, thus bridging the gap between the two fields. To the best of the researcher's knowledge, no prior studies have examined this relationship within Qatari schools.
Study on multicomponent Amplitude Versus Offset forward modelling of thin layer gas hydrate using the Brekhovskikh equation
Authors: Zhang Jin , Gao Junjie , Wang Linfei , Dong Boyi , Cai Zhengkun , Cheng Ruodan 
Published: May 2023

AbstractAmplitude Versus Offset forward modelling plays a crucial role in identifying gas hydrate reservoirs. However, since gas hydrates commonly exist in thin intermediate seafloor layers, traditional Amplitude Versus Offset techniques based on the Zoeppritz equation with the semi‐infinite medium assumption may not accurately depict the reflection amplitude of hydrates. In this paper, multi‐component Amplitude Versus Offset forward modelling using the Brekhovskikh equation was performed to simulate the Amplitude Versus Offset response of thin‐layered gas hydrate reservoirs more accurately. The numerical experiments demonstrate that the overall trends of the P‐wave and S‐wave Amplitude Versus Offset curves calculated by the Brekhovskikh equation and the Zoeppritz equation are consistent under various reservoir thicknesses, porosities and hydrate saturations, but the Amplitude Versus Offset curves calculated by the Brekhovskikh equation reveal more details. When the angle is greater than 30°, the gradient of the P‐wave Amplitude Versus Offset curve calculated from the Brekhovskikh equation as a function of hydrate saturation and porosity is greater than that calculated by the Zoeppritz equation, whereas the S‐wave Amplitude Versus Offset is not sensitive to changes in hydrate reservoir parameters. To further validate the Brekhovskikh equation in practical Amplitude Versus Offset analysis of gas hydrates, a geological model of gas hydrates is established based on logging data in the South China Sea. Subsequently, the bottom simulation reflection Amplitude Versus Offset of the P‐wave was computed using the Brekhovskikh equation and the Zoeppritz equation. Comparison with the actual vertical cable seismic data indicates that the Amplitude Versus Offset curve using Brekhovskikh equation is more consistent with the amplitude trend than the Zoeppritz equation. This finding suggests that the Brekhovskikh equation holds great potential for establishing an Amplitude Versus Offset identification marker for gas hydrates and improving seismic data interpretation in gas hydrate exploration.
Protective effect of melatonin and ascorbic acid combination on sepsis‐induced lung injury: An Experimental study
Authors: Üstündağ Hilal , Demir Özlem , Çiçek Betül , Huyut Mehmet Tahir , Yüce Neslihan , Tavacı Taha 
Published: May 2023

AbstractThis study investigated the synergistic protective effects of melatonin (MEL) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C, ASA) in treating sepsis‐induced lung injury in rats. Rats were divided into five groups: control, cecal ligation and puncture (CLP), CLP + MEL, CLP + ASA and CLP + MEL + ASA. The effects of MEL (10 mg/kg), ASA (100 mg/kg) and their combination on oxidative stress, inflammation and histopathology were evaluated in septic rats’ lung tissues. Sepsis‐induced oxidative stress and inflammation were evident through increased levels of malondialdehyde (MDA), myeloperoxidase (MPO), total oxidant status (TOS) and oxidative stress index (OSI); decreased levels of superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione (GSH), catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx); and elevated levels of tumour necrosis factor‐α (TNF‐α) and interleukin‐1 β (IL‐1β) in the lung tissue. Treatment with MEL, ASA and their combination significantly improved antioxidant capacity and reduced oxidative stress, with the combination treatment being more effective. The combination treatment also significantly reduced TNF‐α and IL‐1β levels and improved peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor (PPAR), arylesterase (ARE) and paraoxonase (PON) levels in the lung tissue. Histopathological examination showed reduced oedema and lymphocyte infiltration with a lung tissue appearance similar to the control group. Immunohistochemical staining for caspase 3 demonstrated reduced immune positivity in the treatment groups. In conclusion, this study supports the potential synergistic protective effects of MEL and ASA in treating sepsis‐induced lung injury. The combination therapy could effectively reduce oxidative stress, inflammation and improve antioxidant capacity in septic rats, suggesting a promising strategy for treating sepsis‐induced lung injury.