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“Can’t direct the wind? Adjust the sails”: a mediation model of intellectual capital, adaptive capability and project performance
Authors: Rangaswamy Uma Shankar , Batra Safal 
Published: January 2025

PurposeThe IT services industry faces ongoing disruptions due to rapid technological changes and corresponding shifts in customer expectations and competitor actions. Successfully addressing these disruptions entails IT firms to channelize their intellectual capital toward enhancing their ability to adapt. In this study, we propose a mediation model to examine the influence of a project team’s intellectual capital on project performance.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 215 project leaders across different business units within an Indian IT services organization with large operational teams. Mediation analysis was conducted to test the model.FindingsOur findings provide evidence for enhanced team performance through the indirect benefits of adaptive capability accruing from the teams’ intellectual capital. Superior performance is achieved when the intellectual capital steers the adaptive capability of the firm.Practical implicationsProject leaders within IT organizations should constantly enhance their knowledge base and intellectual capital, enabling them to exploit the available knowledge to gain a competitive advantage. This intellectual capital created within the project team can be tapped to foster an adaptive capability, eventually leading to better performance.Originality/valueOur findings provide unique insights regarding the importance of investing in the intellectual capital of the teams, which results in the enhancement of adaptive capability and thereby the project performance. Data collected from a non-western setting also add to the existing body of knowledge on intellectual capital.
Performance motivation and knowledge hiding: exploring the role of moral disengagement in education sector
Authors: Kumar Chitresh , Garg Neha , Talukdar Asim , Ganguly Anirban 
Published: January 2025

Purpose
This paper aims to study the adverse effects of performance motivation and goal setting. The study investigates the unethical behavior of knowledge hiding that requires moral disengagement. The research further investigates the influence of performance motivation on knowledge hiding, along with investigating the mediating effect of moral disengagement.

Design/methodology/approach
Structural equation modeling has been adopted to understand the relationships. Data was collected from 288 students from Indian higher education institutions to understand how social cognitive aspects of performance influenced knowledge hiding.

Findings
The findings revealed that students hide knowledge from peers and rationalize the hiding process through social cognition of moral disengagement to justify the hiding process. It was further observed that performance motivation has a stronger relationship with rationalized knowledge hiding as compared to evasive knowledge hiding or playing dumb.

Research limitations/implications
By exploring the potential unintended yet detrimental consequences of performance motivation, this study adds to the scant literature on the drawbacks of ambitious goal setting. It also advances the performance motivation and knowledge hiding literature by exploring these constructs through the behavioral ethics lens of moral disengagement.

Practical implications
Awareness about the ill-effects of performance motivation of students and understanding the role of moral disengagement in the same will help administrators and policymakers to cautiously promote performance-driven culture within academia as well as in designing effective interventions for curbing the same.

Originality/value
The current study advances the extant literature on the negative side of ambitious goal setting and provides new insights into how it can encourage moral disengagement and knowledge-hiding behavior. Further, academic research on moral disengagement among students has been scarce. This study thus investigates how moral disengagement among students can promote detrimental behavior(s) of knowledge hiding. The study is one of the early studies to uncover moral disengagement as an antecedent to knowledge hiding.
Exploring sustainability in start-ups: the impact of knowledge management on achieving sustainable goals
Authors: Alfiero Simona , Battisti Enrico , Nirino Niccolò , Papa Armando 
Published: January 2025

Purpose
This study aims to investigate how knowledge management (KM) influences the achievement of sustainable objectives in new ventures, considering the mediating roles of board composition and financial performance.

Design/methodology/approach
This study considers primary and secondary data from 177 Italian start-ups. Data collection involved a standardized questionnaire to assess KM processes and sustainable practices, supplemented with secondary data on financial performance and the gender composition of the board of directors (BoD). The analysis was conducted using partial least squares structural equation modeling to evaluate the relationships between KM practices, gender diversity, financial performance, and sustainable outcomes.

Findings
The results reveal a significant positive impact of KM on firms’ sustainable practices. Specifically, gender diversity within the BoD and higher financial performance were identified as mediators in start-ups’ sustainability programs. Our study supports the hypothesis that KM practices influence sustainability, highlighting the critical role of specific practices such as knowledge transfer.

Originality/value
This study highlights the significance of KM in improving the sustainability performance of start-ups, addressing a research gap in the intersection between KM and environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations in new ventures. Furthermore, it highlights the pivotal roles of gender diversity and financial performance as critical factors mediating the relationship between KM and ESG practices.
Rose Pesotta and the boundaries of management history
Authors: Schachter Hindy Lauer 
Published: January 2025

Purpose
This paper aims to offer a critical biography of labor union organizer Rose Pesotta (1896–1965) as a case study attempt to extend management history’s boundaries of who is considered a model in the field to a woman who worked as a labor union organizer and who developed innovative inclusion strategies to bring new people into her union. The biography has importance to the field because it shows how contemporary concepts such as intersectionality and inclusion can help explain historical organizational conflicts and difficulties motivating workers.

Design/methodology/approach
The primary methodology involved close reading and analysis of unpublished primary sources such as letters and memos dealing with Rose Pesotta’s 1933–1941 career as an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) as well as contemporary analyses of garment unions and gender relations in the interwar period.

Findings
While positionality, intersectionality and inclusion are relatively new research terms, this analysis of ILGWU organizing in the 1930s and early 1940s shows the importance of these concepts in understanding the union’s politics at that time.

Originality/value
This paper, to the best of the author’s knowledge, is one of the first in the management history literature to present a biography of a labor leader who returned to the ranks at some point in her adult career and earned her living as a sewing machine operator. It thus expands the representativeness of the people whom the field sees as important for students of management to study and learn from.
Learners, environments and differences – insights from literacy research
Authors: Comber Barbara 
Published: January 2025

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to introduce qualitative research in literacy that has been significant in educators understanding difference in young people’s literacy learning.Design/methodology/approachThe approach has been to select influential investigations that have impacted over time and to summarise the insights provided.FindingsThis article foregrounds research that helps educators understand learner difference as positive resources and that contests approaches which perpetuate deficit discourses.Originality/valueThe article offers a distinctive and selective reading of literacy studies to highlight and remind readers of what is known about language and literacy learning that should not be ignored in designing further research nor in interpreting existing studies.
They misused me! Digital literacy’s dual role in AI marketing manipulation and unethical young consumer behavior
Authors: Qadri Usman Ahmad , Moustafa Alsadig Mohamed Ahmed , Abd Ghani Mazuri 
Published: January 2025

Purpose
Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven marketing has transformed the landscape of consumer interactions, but it also raises ethical concerns regarding perceived manipulation and subsequent unethical young consumer behavior. This study aims to investigate the direct and indirect effects of AI-driven marketing on unethical young consumer behavior, with digital literacy as a moderating variable. The authors introduce and conceptualize a digital literacy construct that influences how young consumers perceive and react to manipulative AI-driven marketing tactics.

Design/methodology/approach
Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) and the Persuasion Knowledge Model (PKM), this research explores how digital literacy influences the reception of AI-driven marketing and moderates the effects of perceived manipulative tactics. This study adopts a three-wave, time-lagged survey method among young consumers in urban Pakistan, integrating measures of AI-driven marketing techniques, perceived manipulation, digital literacy and unethical consumer behavior.

Findings
The results reveal that perceived manipulation mediates the relationship between AI-driven marketing and unethical young consumer behavior. Digital literacy significantly moderates this effect, indicating that higher digital literacy levels can mitigate the negative impacts of perceived manipulation. Conversely, lower digital literacy amplifies the negative impacts of perceived manipulation.

Practical implications
The findings underscore the need for marketers to foster transparency and ethical practices in AI-driven strategies. Enhancing consumer digital literacy can serve as a protective factor against unethical marketing practices.

Originality/value
This study contributes to the understanding of digital literacy’s protective role against unethical AI-driven marketing practices. It extends existing models of persuasion and consumer response by demonstrating how digital literacy reshapes traditional consumer response frameworks in the context of AI-driven environments.
Caregivers perspective about the outcome of applied behaviour analysis intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders in Ghana
Authors: Ahorsu‐Walker John , Ntim Edward Kofi , Kpodoe Ivy Ama , Agyei Doris Adu , Domaley Vincent Laweh 
Published: January 2025

AbstractThis study investigated caregivers' perspectives on applied behaviour analysis (ABA) intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Ghana. Using a qualitative case study approach, data were collected from 13 teachers and six parents across two schools in the Central and Greater Accra Regions. Thematic analysis revealed seven major themes, including perspectives on communication, challenging behaviour, self‐help skills, social skills, motor skills and attention. Findings suggest that ABA intervention yielded positive outcomes, with improvements noted in various skill areas. Children demonstrated increased independence in self‐help tasks, reduced challenging behaviours and enhanced communication through alternative methods. Social and motor skills also improved, while attention showed gradual progress. Despite limitations such as a small sample size and lack of standardised measures, this study contributes valuable insights into ABA effectiveness in Ghana, potentially informing future research and policy decisions regarding ASD interventions in Sub‐Saharan Africa.
Tail Tales: How Ecological Context Mediates Signal Effectiveness in a Lizard
Authors: Bian Xue , Zhao Wei , Qi Yin , Peters Richard 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACTAnimal signals are complex, comprising multiple components influenced by ecological factors and viewing perspectives that together impact their overall effectiveness. Our study explores how these factors affect the efficacy of multi‐component signals in the Qinghai toad‐headed agama, Phrynocephalus vlangalii. Using 3D animations, we simulated natural environments to evaluate how tail coiling and tail lashing—two primary tail displays—vary in effectiveness from both conspecific and predator perspectives under different ecological conditions. Baseline comparisons showed no significant difference in effectiveness between tail coiling and tail lashing without environmental constraints, though side‐on tail coiling was consistently more effective than front‐on displays. When noise proximity was introduced, tail lashing was more effective when the noise source was nearby, but this advantage diminished with distance. Conversely, tail coiling maintained consistent effectiveness across varying noise proximities, especially from a side‐on view. In complex habitats with diverse plant species and varying wind conditions, tail lashing proved more effective, particularly from a front‐on perspective, while tail coiling excelled from a side‐on view. From a predator's perspective, tail lashing was slightly more effective under low wind conditions at close distances, though its visibility decreased with higher wind speeds. These findings highlight the adaptive significance of multi‐component signals and the critical role of signal orientation in enhancing communication. This research offers insights into the evolutionary pressures shaping animal communication strategies.
Aberrant acetylation caused by a CDYL splicing mutation contributes to thin mid‐piece related asthenoteratozoospermia and male infertility
Authors: Yang Fan , Gao Yang , Han Bing , Zhu Wen , Wang Guanxiong , Liu Liting , Shen Qunshan , Song Bing , Lv Mingrong , Wu Huan , Tang Dongdong , Zhou Ping , Wei Zhaolian , Xu Yuping , Cao Yunxia , He Xiaojin 
Published: January 2025

AbstractObjectivesAcetylated tubulin is a hallmark of flagellar stability in spermatozoa, and studies have demonstrated the ability of CDYL to function as a tubulin acetyltransferase in spermatozoa. Of note, germline conditional knockout of Cdyl can lead to asthenoteratozoospermia and infertility in male mice. However, the role of CDYL gene in human fertility remains uncharacterized.Materials and methodsData were collected through in silico analysis for an infertile man with asthenoteratozoospermia of Han Chinese descent by performing whole‐exome sequencing. Light and electron microscopy were used to characterize the sperm cells of the proband, and the pathogenicity of the genetic factors was determined by functional experiments. To overcome fertility problems, intracytoplasmic sperm injections were performed in the couple.Main resultsHere, we recruited an infertile proband, born to first‐cousin parents, displaying idiopathic asthenoteratozoospermia. Whole‐exome sequencing identified a splicing mutation (c.103+1G>A) in CDYL, recessively cosegregating in the family. In vitro minigene assays demonstrated that the mutation resulted in aberrant alternative splicing. We found that CDYL co‐localizes with Ac‐tubulin along the flagella of human spermatozoa. In addition, the expression of Ac‐tubulin was severely reduced in spermatozoa from the patient with CDYL mutation. Disruption in CDYL results in thin mid‐piece related abnormal flagella morphology and decreased sperm motility. The primary manifestation of sperm ultrastructural abnormalities under the electron microscope is primarily characterized by disorder of axonemal protein complex and anulus.Discussion and conclusionWe demonstrated that a homozygous CDYL splicing mutation specifically induces a decrease in microtubule acetylation, resulting in thin mid‐piece related asthenoteratozoospermia, providing a novel marker for genetic counseling and diagnosis of male infertility.
Reference Ranges for Cerebral Oxygenation in Neonates During Immediate Transition After Birth: Differences Between Devices
Authors: Baik‐Schneditz Nariae , Pfurtscheller Daniel , Wolfsberger Christina H. , Schwaberger Bernhard , Höller Nina , Urlesberger Berndt , Avian Alexander , Pichler Gerhard 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACTAimThe aim was to define reference ranges for cerebral oxygen saturation (crSO2‐ROOT) during immediate transition after birth in stable neonates.MethodsIn a prospective observational study, the crSO2‐ROOT was continuously measured in neonates during the first 15 min after birth. The neonatal sensor was placed on the head and fixed with a bandage. Median values and 10th and 90th centiles were calculated for each minute. Additionally, cerebral fractional tissue oxygen extraction (cFTOE‐ROOT) was calculated using crSO2‐ROOT and arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2) measured with pulse oximetry. These crSO‐ROOT values were compared with already published reference ranges of cerebral oxygen saturation measured using different devices: crSO2‐INVOS and cTOI‐NIRO.ResultsThe data of 122 neonates (14 preterm/108 term neonates) were analysed. The crSO2‐ROOT values had a similar course when compared to cTOI‐NIRO values, whereas crSO2‐INVOS values were initially lower and exceeded during the first minutes after birth.ConclusionThe present observational study added reference ranges of crSO2‐ROOT in stable neonates immediately after birth. As there are differences regarding reference ranges of various near‐infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) devices, it is important to be aware of this information for future clinical use.
Survey of Secondhand Smoke for 3‐Year‐Old Children in the Current Era of New Tobacco Products
Authors: Muta Hiromi , Noda Takashi 
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACTAimTo investigate children's exposure to secondhand smoke and aerosols in the current era of new tobacco products.MethodsA total of 200 children were recruited from among children who had undergone health checkups for 3‐year‐olds at the clinic. We investigated the smoking status of their families using a questionnaire and measured urinary cotinine concentrations in their children. The children were divided into four groups based on their families' smoking status: no smokers (n = 114), exclusive combustion cigarette smokers (n = 35), both combustion cigarette and heated tobacco product smokers (n = 12) and exclusive heated tobacco product smokers (n = 39).ResultsOf the 200 children, 53 (26.5%) had detectable urinary cotinine levels. Of these, 12 (6.0%) were classified as having heavy exposure to secondhand smoke (urinary cotinine concentration ≥ 5 ng/mL). Urinary cotinine concentrations among children living with exclusive heated tobacco product smokers were significantly lower than those among children living with exclusive combustion cigarette smokers, but higher than those in children whose family members did not smoke at all. Relative to exclusive combustion cigarette smokers, exclusive heated tobacco product smokers were significantly more likely to smoke indoors.ConclusionsSecondhand aerosol exposure from heated tobacco products may be reduced but cannot be completely eliminated.
Effects of Webcam Access to Preterm Infants in NICUs on Parental Psychological Strain
Authors: Mause Laura , Hoffmann Jan , Dresbach Till , Hagemeier Anna , Hellmich Martin , Kastor Katharine Louise , Kuehne Benjamin , Reimer Alinda , Willerscheidt Christopher , Scholten Nadine ,   the Neo‐CamCare study group
Published: January 2025

ABSTRACTAimTo investigate whether webcam access for parents of infants in neonatal intensive care units influences parental postpartum depression and stress experiences.MethodsParents whose infants had a birth weight below 1500 g and who were admitted to one of the four participating tertiary care hospitals were eligible to participate in the study. The study followed the structure of a multi‐centre cross‐over pragmatic randomised controlled trial. Depending on their assigned study group, participants gained access to a webcam either in Weeks 1–4 of the observation period and abstained from webcam use in Weeks 5–8 (First‐Half Access Group) or vice versa (Second‐Half Access Group). Outcomes were measured at four time points utilising the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and the Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Effects were estimated using linear mixed‐effects regression modelling.ResultsData from 229 mothers and 211 fathers/partners were analysed; neither group's webcam access had a significant effect on the level of symptoms related to postpartum depression or stress experienced.ConclusionBased on the present results, webcam access has neither negative nor positive effects on parental psychological strain. Further research is needed to understand how individual preferences and physical presence influence the impact of webcams.
Does motivation lead to academic success, or conversely? Reciprocal relations between autonomous and controlled motivation, and mathematics achievement
Authors: Santana‐Monagas Elisa , Núñez‐Regueiro Fernando , Núñez Juan L. 
Published: January 2025

AbstractBackgroundWhile it's clear that autonomous motivation significantly boosts academic success, there are conflicting findings regarding the opposite relation. Besides, the reciprocal relations among controlled motivation and achievement present mixed results. Adequately distinguishing between variations among individuals and within individuals results key to acknowledge such relations.AimThis longitudinal study examines the reciprocal relations between controlled and autonomous forms of motivation and academic achievement using the RI‐CLPM methodology.SampleParticipants were 1042 high school students (M = 16 years, 52% male adolescents) from 16 different high schools in urban and rural areas.MethodsA random intercept cross‐lagged panel model (RI‐CLPM) was tested to estimate whether students' autonomous and controlled motivation predicted achievement and/or vice versa. Independent models were estimated for the two types of motivation.ResultsOverall, the RI‐CLPM results indicated a unidirectional relationship between autonomous motivation and achievement. As for controlled motivation, the results of RI‐CLPM models showed no reciprocal relationship between this type of motivation and achievement.ConclusionsThese results underline the importance of taking within‐ and between‐person processes into account when analysing reciprocal relations and provide crucial insights for enhancing student motivation and achievement in diverse educational contexts.