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Managing complexity: addressing the civil conflict component of international-civil militarized conflicts (I-CMCs)
Authors: Owsiak Andrew , Diehl Paul F. , Goertz Gary 
Published: May 2023

Purpose
The purpuse of this study is to answer the following two questions. Do conflict management efforts mitigate the recurrence and severity of civil conflict? If so, how? Do some conflict management strategies fare better than others in these tasks? This study theorizes about the connection between the costliness of a conflict management strategy – with respect to both the disputants and third parties – and civil conflict outcomes. This theory produces two contradictory predictions: that more costly strategies either increase or decrease violence. This study not only adjudicates between these two possibilities but also incorporates the role of timing. The early use of more costly strategies, for example, may encourage disputants to reduce violence in civil conflicts.

Design/methodology/approach
To evaluate the predications that the authors derive from their theoretical argument, the authors quantitatively analyze the effect of conflict management strategies’ relative cost on various measures of civil conflict recurrence and severity. The authors first identify the set of international–civil militarized conflicts (I-CMCs) during the period 1946–2010. I-CMCs contain two dimensions – interstate and intrastate – making them the most complex and dangerous form of militarized conflict. To each I-CMC, the authors then link all third-party attempts to manage the I-CMC’s civil conflict dimension. Finally, after developing quantitative indicators, a series of regression equations explore the relationships of primary interest.

Findings
Two main findings emerge. First, when third parties use a relatively more costly conflict management strategy to manage a civil conflict (e.g. a peace operation or military intervention, as opposed to mediation), the severity of the conflict increases, while conflict recurrence rates remain unchanged. Second, this study uncovers a trade-off. The early use of a relatively more costly management strategy lowers a civil conflict’s severity in the short-term. It also, however, increases the likelihood – and speed with which – civil conflict recurs. The timing of certain conflict management strategies matters.

Originality/value
Scholars typically isolate conflict management strategies in number (i.e. consider efforts as independent of one another, even those within the same conflict) and kind (i.e. examine mediation but not peace operations). This study, in contrast, includes the following: the full menu of conflict management strategies available to third parties – negotiation, mediation, adjudication/arbitration, peace operations, sanctions and military intervention – over a lengthy time period (1946–2010); theorizes about the relative merits of these strategies; and considers the timing of certain conflict management efforts. In so doing, it highlights a policy trade-off and proposes promising areas for future research.
Status of primary healthcare services in a geographically disadvantageous area: a study of Alipurduar district, West Bengal, India
Authors: Biswas Barnali , Basu Roy Piyal , Saha Ankita , Sarkar Abhijit 
Published: May 2023

Purpose
The locational disadvantage of a health-care centre often restricts adequate delivery of health-care services in an area. The purpose of this study is to examine the status of primary health-care services in such a geographically disadvantageous area which is confined by forests, tea gardens and undulating topography.

Design/methodology/approach
Necessary secondary data of 13 primary health centres and 236 sub-centres has been collected from the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health. Based on obtained data, Health-care Infrastructure Index has been prepared which has been validated by an expert panel, and subsequently, the Thiessen Polygon method has been applied through Arc GIS software to show spatial variation of health-care services delivered by different health-care centres.

Findings
In the study area, there is wide variation found in the case of physical facilities, caregivers and connectivity of road networks, which altogether affect the overall status of health-care services. Among all the indicators, some health-care centres experience staff shortages for prolonged non-recruitment, inaccessibility and inconsistent patient load in different health centres.

Originality/value
In spite of the unfavourable geographical landscape, health-care centres have to be set up wherever possible. There is a need to make new roads and simultaneously the existing road connectivity should be improved so that patients and caregivers can move quickly whenever required. Existing physical facilities need to be renewed or redeveloped along with increasing the number of doctors and other health-care providers as per the need of people with an adequate and optimum level of services.
Corporate philanthropy and corporate social irresponsibility during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from China
Authors: Ishfaq Ahmad Muhammad , Cepel Martin , Battisti Enrico , Ur Rehman Ramiz 
Published: May 2023

Purpose This study aims to investigate the perspective of corporate philanthropy during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China for firms with various levels of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Specifically, the study appraises the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the stock returns and sustainable development of Chinese-listed companies and determines the likelihood of paying donations vis-à-vis firm reputation.Design/methodology/approach The study used data from 117 Chinese-listed firms engaged in philanthropy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors also utilized the stock returns and cash donation data, and owing to the cross-sectional data and continuous nature of dependent variables, they employed the ordinary least squares regression to test the research hypotheses.Findings The results show that irresponsible actions have a positive relationship with donations. The study particularly reveals that irresponsible firms have significant negative abnormal returns during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Originality/value To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical study to explore the perspective of corporate philanthropy during the COVID-19 pandemic for companies with different CSR levels. This study contributes to the empirical research on CSR and provides insights for managerial-cum-financial decisions to encourage managers of irresponsible firms to pursue philanthropic behaviors after crisis events.
Modeling enablers of agility of healthcare organizations
Authors: Prashar Anupama 
Published: May 2023

PurposeThis purpose of the study is to investigate enablers of building agility capabilities in healthcare organisations in developing countries. The key research questions are: (1) What are the key enablers for building healthcare agility? (2) Is there an interdependence among the enablers of healthcare agility? (3) What is the driving and dependence power of the enabling factors of healthcare agility?Design/methodology/approachThe enablers for building capabilities of organisational agility were identified from the extant literature. Perceptual responses for pair-wise comparison of identified enablers were collected from 17 clinical and non-clinical professionals working in Indian hospitals through online interviews. Participants were selected from India which supposedly represents the socioeconomic contexts and healthcare systems in developing economies. Next, the data was analysed using multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques to develop a structural framework depicting the enablers and their interdependence.FindingsThe TISM framework showed that the two most influential enablers of healthcare agility in developing countries are policy and regulatory support and strategic commitment and resource availability. The results were based on the analysis of four enablers identified from the literature. The results of MICMAC analysis revealed the driving and dependence power of each enabler and classified the enablers into driving, autonomous, dependence and linkage groups.Practical implicationsThe study will help stakeholders and academics in the healthcare domain in devising effective strategies for building agility within healthcare systems and processes.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the service operations literature on building agile systems for dynamic and complex service environments.
Short video marketing: what, when and how short-branded videos facilitate consumer engagement
Authors: Dong Xuebing , Liu Hong , Xi Nannan , Liao Junyun , Yang Zhi 
Published: May 2023

PurposeThis study explores whether and how four main factors of short-branded video content (content matching, information relevance, storytelling and emotionality) facilitate consumer engagement (likes, comments and shares), as well as the moderating effect of the release time (morning, afternoon and evening) in such relationships.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses Python to write programs to crawl relevant data information, such as consumer engagement and short video release time. It combines coding methods to empirically analyze the impact of short-branded video content characteristics on consumer engagement. A total of 10,240 Weibo short videos (total duration: 238.645 h) from 122 well-known brands are utilized as research objects.FindingsEmpirical results show that the content characteristics of short videos significantly affected consumer engagement. Furthermore, the release time of videos significantly moderated the relationship between the emotionality of short videos and consumer engagement. Content released in the morning enhanced the positive impact of warmth, excitement and joy on consumer engagement, compared to that released in the afternoon.Practical implicationsThe findings provide new insights for the dissemination of products and brand culture through short videos. The authors suggest that enterprises that use brand videos consider content matching, information relevance, storytelling and emotionality in their design.Originality/valueFrom a broader perspective, this study constructs a new method for comprehensively evaluating short-branded video content, based on four dimensions (content matching, information relevance, storytelling and emotionality) and explores the value of these dimensions for creating social media marketing success, such as via consumer engagement.
Expectation confirmation and assimilation of enterprise technology
Authors: Assadi Pooria 
Published: May 2023

PurposeEnterprise information systems (EISs) are intricate technological artifacts with wide user base within organizations. While much is known about the adoption and implementation of EISs, little is known about what subsequently follows them, i.e. the assimilation of EISs. This article aims to examine the assimilation of the EISs which is consequential to realizing any benefits from such enterprise technology.Design/methodology/approachThe author conceptually draws on the insights from the expectation confirmation theory, theory of reasoned action, equity theory, and prospect theory to examine the assimilation of the EISs. In doing so, the author generates competing testable hypotheses regarding the relationship between individual users' psychological and social influences through expectation (dis)confirmation and the users' intention to assimilate the EISs.FindingsBy conceptually articulating the individual users' psychological and social influences through expectation (dis)confirmation, the author offers a more complete account of the assimilation of EISs, and provide several avenues for future empirical and theoretical research on enterprise technology assimilation.Originality/valueThe extant research that there is on the assimilation of the EISs focuses more on the organizational – as opposed to individual – level determinants of EISs assimilation and largely considers the functional – rather than psychological and social – drivers. This article addresses these important, yet understudied, factors to offer a more nuanced account of EISs assimilation.
Retaining talent in knowledge-intensive services: enhancing employee engagement through human resource, knowledge and change management
Authors: Kossyva Dorothea , Theriou Georgios , Aggelidis Vassilis , Sarigiannidis Lazaros 
Published: May 2023

Purpose
This study aims to explore talent retention in knowledge-intensive industries by investigating the mediating processes between the existence and application of human resource management (HRM) and employee turnover. Toward this end, drawing on the conservation of resources and job demands–resources theories, a three-dimensional model is examined, which includes the relationship between HRM, knowledge management (KM) and change management (CM), as well as their relationship with employee engagement and employee turnover intention.

Design/methodology/approach
The proposed research model has been studied with a sample of 168 talented employees in over six European countries, using a quantitative approach, involving the structural equation modeling method. All data were gathered by a multidimensional questionnaire via prolific, an academic crowdsourcing platform.

Findings
Results indicated that knowledge-intensive services firms may achieve higher talent retention through the interaction of HRM with KM and CM practices, which may lead to enhanced employee engagement.

Research limitations/implications
Possible limitations of the study include the relatively small sample size, the self-rate questions for the collection of data and the use of cross-sectional data.

Practical implications
To retain their talented employees, organizations should identify ways to improve their HRM, CM and KM practices. In addition, HR practitioners ought to include their talented employees in all organizational change and KM processes and create mechanisms that successfully support knowledge acquisition, creation, sharing, retention and codification.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to examine various factors of retaining talented employees in knowledge-intensive services. Furthermore, the study took place in six European countries, i.e. UK, Poland, Italy, Germany, Portugal and Greece, where the research on talent retention is very limited.
Talent management and firm performance in emerging markets: a systematic literature review and framework
Authors: Battisti Enrico , Graziano Elvira Anna , Pereira Vijay , Vrontis Demetris , Giovanis Apostolos 
Published: May 2023

PurposeThe purposes of this study are to (i) systematically review the state of the existing research of talent management (TM) in emerging markets and its connections with firm performance; (ii) recap the results in an integrative and multidisciplinary framework and (iii) recognize potential research contradictions and gaps that offer avenues for future study.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, the authors apply a systematic literature review (SLR) methodology to review 31 peer-reviewed articles published in highly ranked journals (ABS journals list – ranking 3, 4 and 4*) over more than two decades.FindingsThis review shows that the state of the current research of TM in emerging countries and its connections with firm performance is characterized by complexity and fragmentation within the different countries investigated. This review summarizes and highlights five central categories of TM in emerging markets. In order to ensure that the field of research investigated continues to be relevant to diverse constituents, the authors incorporate the various prominent research perspectives into an integrative framework structured at macro (economies/countries), meso (industries) and micro (individuals/organizations) levels.Practical implicationsThis research provides guidance for chief executive officers, chief financial officers and human resource directors in emerging countries to develop TM within their organization in order to capture its relevant aspects, from a strategic (purposeful and competency modeling), organizational (talent planning and career track planning) and financial point of view (remuneration policy and firm performance).Originality/valueThe authors offer a first holistic overview of the features of TM in emerging markets and also introduce firm performance. The authors present an integrative multidisciplinary framework that can serve as a starting point of a summary of areas covered by the literature. Finally, the authors identify several knowledge gaps, emerging topics and limitation of current research, through which ideas for future investigations are offered.
Simultaneous random plus outlier attenuation and deblending based on L1‐norm misfit function
Authors: Sun Yaoguang , Cao Siyuan , Chen Siyuan , Yang Liuqing , Su Yuxin 
Published: May 2023

AbstractDeblending technology aims at separating simultaneous source seismic data between adjacent shots by allowing multiple sources to be shot simultaneously. Conventional deblending methods based on sparse inversion assume that the primary source is coherent, and the secondary source is randomized. The L2‐norm minimization constraint can effectively minimize the Gaussian random noise while deblending in the transform domain. Nonetheless, the L2‐norm misfit function is highly sensitive to outliers, negatively influencing the deblending performance. An effective optimization strategy is developed with deblending in pre‐stack seismic data to eliminate outliers and enhance deblending accuracy. For this reason, we introduce the deblending algorithm in the morphological component analysis framework, modify the L2‐norm misfit function to outlier‐robust L1‐norm and provide the corresponding derivation in detail via the alternating direction method of multipliers. Applications to synthetic and field data sets prove the improved robustness and efficiency of our deblending method.
Maritime connectivity and agricultural trade
Authors: del Rosal Ignacio 
Published: May 2023

AbstractSeaborne shipping is the dominant mode of transport in international trade in agricultural products, and an increasing part of seaborne agricultural trade is carried in containers. Furthermore, the majority of world containers are moved through liner shipping services, that is, regular transport services provided by global shipping companies which comprise a dense network connecting ports and countries around the world. Using a theoretically consistent gravity equation and a novel identification strategy based on the use of intra‐national trade flows, this paper investigates the effect of liner shipping connectivity on international trade in agricultural products. The results show that liner shipping connectivity has a positive and statistically significative effect on agricultural trade. Moreover, this positive effect can be observed for the majority of the agricultural products analysed and is also identified for countries at different stages of development. These findings appear especially relevant in terms of the objective of increasing less developed countries' participation in global agricultural trade.
Comments about selected recession parameters
Authors: Rutledge Albert T. 
Published: May 2023

AbstractRecession analysis can be used for qualitative comparisons between basins and for quantitative analysis involving the slope and the shape of the recession curve. The groundwater‐level recession hydrograph can be used to derive an estimate of the hydraulic diffusivity of a surficial aquifer. The recession index can be obtained from streamflow data and from a formulation that includes aquifer properties. The analysis of the method reveals nonlinear recession which can result from the down‐valley flow component, a dual‐aquifer effect, and leakage to or from the aquifer. Important concepts include the dominant recession index and secondary recession characteristics which can affect low flow. Under conditions of down‐valley flow, the cross‐valley flow component tends to be important for determining recession characteristics, including hydraulic diffusivity and the recession index. These findings are relevant to another recession parameter a which is the distance from the stream to the hydrologic divide and results are supported by test simulations of a technique for estimating recharge.
Absence of an association between gastrointestinal tract surgery and newly diagnosed psoriasis: A nationwide, population‐based, nested, case‐control study
Authors: Liu Yi‐Huei , Zhuo Xin‐Jie , Hung Yao‐Min , Wang Yu‐Hsun , Chang Renin , Wei James Cheng‐Chung 
Published: May 2023

AbstractBackgroundGastrointestinal tract surgeries could disrupt the microbiome and simultaneously cause trauma, which may result in psoriasis.ObjectiveTo examine associations between gastrointestinal tract surgeries and newly diagnosed psoriasis.MethodsThis nested case‐control study included patients with newly diagnosed psoriasis from 2005 to 2013, retrieved from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. We retrospectively (5 years from the index date) determined whether the patients had undergone gastrointestinal tract surgery.ResultsWe identified 16 655 patients with newly diagnosed psoriasis and matched 33 310 individuals as the control group. The population was stratified by age and sex. There was no association between age and psoriasis (<20 years: adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 0.80, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.52‐1.24; 20‐39 years: aOR 1.09, 95% CI 0.79‐1.51; 40‐59 years: aOR 0.89, 95% CI 0.57‐1.39; ≥60 years: aOR 0.82, 95% CI 0.54‐1.26). Similar findings were obtained by sex, with no differences among men (aOR 0.90, 95% CI 0.69‐1.17) and women (aOR 0.96, 95% CI 0.71‐1.29).ConclusionOur study indicates that gastrointestinal surgeries have limited age‐ and sex‐related effects on psoriasis. These findings provide new insights into the risk of developing psoriasis.
International negotiations for a pandemic treaty: A thematic evaluation of 43 member states
Authors: Patel Jay 
Published: May 2023

AbstractNegotiating a successful pandemic treaty should address a four‐fold purpose: to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from pandemics effectively (Phelan and Carlson, 2022, Science, 377, 475). Since the proposal for an international treaty on pandemic prevention and preparedness was endorsed by 26 heads of state and the WHO Director‐General in March 2021, WHO member states assigned an Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) with the responsibility of coordinating negotiations in anticipation of adopting an agreement by May 2024. To date, four INB meetings have been held. In this analysis, the interventions of 43 member states at the INB sessions in July 2022 were evaluated against components considered integral to an effective pandemic treaty. These were mapped against elements previously identified for a transformative treaty (Phelan and Carlson, 2022). This analysis outlines gaps in the current pandemic treaty working draft and the INB negotiations, which may identify opportunities to enhance the value of the remaining negotiations and guide refinement in developing further iterations of the working draft.