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Consecutive surgeries with complications: the impact of scheduling decisions
Authors: Diamant Adam , Shevchenko Anton , Johnston David , Quereshy Fayez 
Published: February 2023

PurposeThe authors determine how the scheduling and sequencing of surgeries by surgeons impacts the rate of post-surgical complications and patient length-of-stay in the hospital.Design/methodology/approachLeveraging a dataset of 29,169 surgeries performed by 111 surgeons from a large hospital network in Ontario, Canada, the authors perform a matched case-control regression analysis. The empirical findings are contextualized by interviews with surgeons from the authors’ dataset.FindingsSurgical complications and longer hospital stays are more likely to occur in technically complex surgeries that follow a similarly complex surgery. The increased complication risk and length-of-hospital-stay is not mitigated by scheduling greater slack time between surgeries nor is it isolated to a few problematic surgery types, surgeons, surgical team configurations or temporal factors such as the timing of surgery within an operating day.Research limitations/implicationsThere are four major limitations: (1) the inability to access data that reveals the cognition behind the behavior of the task performer and then directly links this behavior to quality outcomes; (2) the authors’ definition of task complexity may be too simplistic; (3) the authors’ analysis is predicated on the fact that surgeons in the study are independent contractors with hospital privileges and are responsible for scheduling the patients they operate on rather than outsourcing this responsibility to a scheduler (i.e. either a software system or an administrative professional); (4) although the empirical strategy attempts to control for confounding factors and selection bias in the estimate of the treatment effects, the authors cannot rule out that an unobserved confounder may be driving the results.Practical implicationsThe study demonstrates that the scheduling and sequencing of patients can affect service quality outcomes (i.e. post-surgical complications) and investigates the effect that two operational levers have on performance. In particular, the authors find that introducing additional slack time between surgeries does not reduce the odds of back-to-back complications. This result runs counter to the traditional operations management perspective, which suggests scheduling more slack time between tasks may prevent or mitigate issues as they arise. However, the authors do find evidence suggesting that the risk of back-to-back complications may be reduced when surgical pairings are less complex and when the method involved in performing consecutive surgeries varies. Thus, interspersing procedures of different complexity levels may help to prevent poor quality outcomes.Originality/valueThe authors empirically connect choices made in scheduling work that varies in task complexity and to patient-centric health outcomes. The results have implications for achieving high-quality outcomes in settings where professionals deliver a variety of technically complex services.
Dynamic coal blending under sustainability concerns: a case study from the Indian steel industry
Authors: Ahmad Md Tanweer , Firouz Mohammad , Srivastava Nishit Kumar 
Published: February 2023

PurposeIncreasing scarcity of natural resources and the adverse effects of unsustainable practices call for more and more efficient management strategies in the energy industry. The quality of the coke plays a significant role in the quality and durability of the output steel which is produced using the energy from the coal. This paper aims to investigate the dynamic coal blending problem under overall cost and coke quality constraints in the steel industry within a periodic cycle of operations.Design/methodology/approachConsidering the variability of the natural properties over a periodic cycle, this study proposes a multi-period mixed-integer non-linear programming formulation to optimize the total blending costs while taking various coke quality constraints into account. Besides, this study applies factorial design to investigate about the significant effect of coal proportions as well as improvement into the overall cost of blending.FindingsIn this case study, utilizing real data from a coal blending facility in India, through a factorial design, the authors obtain optimal desirable levels of coal proportions and their criticality levels towards the total cost of blending (TCB) or objective function. This analysis reflects the role of the coke quality constraints in the objective function value while characterizing the price of sustainability for the case study among other critical insights.Originality/valueObjective function (or TCB) includes basic coal cost, movement cost and environmental costs during the coal and coke processing at a coke-oven and blast furnace of steel industry. The price of sustainability provides managerial insights on that sacrifices the industry has to make in order to become more “sustainable”.
Foreign divestment, economic growth and development in South Africa: an empirical analysis
Authors: Matekenya Weliswa , Moyo Clement 
Published: February 2023

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of foreign direct divestments (FDD) on economic growth and development in South Africa for the period 1991–2019.Design/methodology/approachThe non-linear autoregressive distributed lag technique is used for the empirical analysis. Two regression models are specified, one for economic growth and the other for development which is proxied by poverty.FindingsThe empirical results suggest that foreign divestments are detrimental to both economic growth and development. Furthermore, the results suggest that the negative effects of foreign divestments outweigh the positive effects of FDI inflows.Practical implicationsSouth African policymakers should thus use policies that promote the retention of FDI inflows together with those that attract inflows. Furthermore, policies that promote economic freedom such as transparency and reduction in the time frame for granting government permits for business operations are also of paramount importance.Originality/valueMost of the available literature on FDD focuses on the firm perspective. Available studies on the effect of FDD on economic growth do not investigate the effect of divestment on economic development. Economic growth is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the achievement of socioeconomic development.
Blockchain technology for sustainable development: a systematic literature review
Authors: Joshi Parikshit , Tewari Vijaishri , Kumar Shailendra , Singh Anshu 
Published: February 2023

Purpose
Blockchain technology (BCT) is one of the latest disruptive innovations, brought along with-it immense scope of diverse applications contributing towards sustainable development (SD). The consistent increase in the publications reveal that the application of BCT for SD has become popular among researchers and practitioners in past few years, in turn, urged for a systematic literature review (SLR) to get an insight into the research journey travelled so far and setting directions for future research in this area. Therefore, this study aims to identify, map and synthesize the available literature on application of BCT for SD.

Design/methodology/approach
The automatic and manual search resulted into 1,277 studies from Scopus and Web of Science database. Further applying inclusion and exclusion criterion resulted in bringing out total of 157 studies, which were termed as primary studies. Based on the results of descriptive analysis, conducted through Bibliometric and VOSviewer software, the characteristics of BCT and its key capabilities, contributing towards shaping the recent SD literature, were critically examined. Identified research themes for clustering primary studies were aligned with United Nations Sustainability Development Goals (UNSDG). A mind-map was also prepared on the basis of thematic classification of primary studies.

Findings
The research themes “business practice and economic sustainability”, “agriculture and food security” and “business practice and environment sustainability” were found to be the focal points of scholarly attention. Synthesis and analysis of primary studies resulted into classification of research gaps under four categories – theoretical foundation, methodological limitation, research themes and technology implementation challenges. The study was concluded by sensitizing and sanitizing the concrete research questions for future research.

Research limitations/implications
The research findings shall be a roadmap for research scholars, academicians and practitioners to comprehend the present state of knowledge in the domain of “BCT application for SD” and decide upon adopting the future course of action to attain the UNSDGs by the year 2030.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the current study is the first attempt in its own sense to analyse and synthesize the available literature on “attaining SD through BCT” using SLR approach.
Idiosyncrasies, isomorphic pressures and decoupling in technology platform business
Authors: Iman Nofie 
Published: February 2023

Purpose
This study aims to explore the ways and contexts in which fintech firms are being developed, operated in the market and responds to competitive pressures and technological changes through isomorphism and decoupling mechanism.

Design/methodology/approach
How can new technology platform business successfully distinguish themselves from competitors while also ensuring that they are seen as legitimate and appropriate? This paper draws on a case study of fintech start-ups in Indonesia.

Findings
This study shows that managing market pressures for distinctiveness (customer-appealing) versus business pressures for profits (investor returns) drives firms’ quest for optimal distinctiveness. It is evident that fintech firms increase their control by consolidating themselves through their industrial association and by forming a close relationship with regulators. However, to escape the iron cage of the field, they increasingly control the coupling of profitability and compliance.

Originality/value
Through a qualitative-inductive approach, this study provides insights into technological development of platform business in the context of financial services and responsive movement towards cashless society.
Is economic complexity an enabler of environmental innovation? Novel insightful lessons from European region
Authors: Ha Le Thanh 
Published: February 2023

PurposeThis paper empirically examines the influences of economic complexity performance on environmental innovation implementation.Design/methodology/approachThe research is based on four measures designed to assess the effectiveness of environmental innovations in 24 European countries, including the percentage of enterprises implementing environmental innovation investment (% of surveyed firms), the percentage of enterprises implementing environmental innovation activities (e.g. implementation of resource efficiency actions, sustainable products or ISO 14001 certificates) measured, a number of enterprises having new ISO 14001 registration and a number of environmental innovation related patents. After conducting various tests for longitudinal correlations and asymmetry of the studied series, we examine the relationship between product proximity, economic complexity and environmental innovation (EI) implementation using the panel-corrected standard error model (PCSE) model in the following section. The feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) model is employed to further verify our findings by taking into account heteroscedasticity. An application of the two-step generalized mixed model (GMM) is considered to resolve an endogeneity issue. In addition, the dynamic fixed-effects estimate (DFE) estimator is applied to the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method in order to calculate both the short-run and long-run effects. As indicated by Ha (2022a, b) and Ha and Thanh (2022), the DFE-ARDL method can be used to identify both time-fixed effects and country-fixed effects.FindingsThe authors provide empirical evidence to propose the mechanism through which economic complexity encourages the implementation of environmental innovation through favorable impacts of economic complexity on environmental innovation investments of firms and governments and the public's awareness regarding the importance of environmental innovations.Practical implicationsThis research provides important implications for policymakers in promoting environmental innovations.Originality/valueThe study is the first to empirically examine economic complexity performance's influences on environmental innovation implementation. It is also the first to investigate the importance of institutional quality in enhancing the influence of economic complexity on environmental performance.
The importance of a holistic approach to the factors determining population abundances
Authors: Magrach Ainhoa 
Published: February 2023

AbstractResearch Highlight: Ogilvie, J. E., & CaraDonna, P. J. (2022). The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91, 2412–2423. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365‐2656.13825. As global change and its multiple impacts continue to unfold across most of the planet, understanding how populations of wild species respond to changing conditions has become a major focus of ecological studies. Ogilvie and CaraDonna (Ogilvie & CaraDonna, 2022) focus on understanding how biotic and abiotic conditions affect bumblebee abundances. A major advance in their work is that, rather than focusing on a single measure of abundance at a particular life stage for each of the seven bumblebee species they survey (e.g. adult abundance), they focus on understanding the drivers of population abundance across the different stages of the species' life cycles. The authors specifically assess how three factors in particular, climate conditions, floral resource availability and previous life‐stage abundances impact these abundances. A main finding in their study is that each of these three factors directly impacted a different life stage, showing that just focusing on a single life‐stage would have resulted on a biased and incomplete picture of how abiotic and biotic factors affect bumblebee population dynamics. Studies like this one emphasize the need to focus on understanding the demographic mechanisms that determine population abundances.
Utility of commercial high‐resolution satellite imagery for monitoring general flowering in Sarawak, Borneo
Authors: Miura Tomoaki , Tokumoto Yuji , Shin Nagai , Shimizu Kentaro K. , Pungga Runi Anak Sylvester , Ichie Tomoaki 
Published: February 2023

AbstractGeneral flowering (GF), irregular synchronous mass flowering of multiple tree species across multiple families, is a unique biological phenomenon of the mixed lowland dipterocarp forest in Southeast Asia. Characterizing the spatial extent and temporal dynamics of GF is essential for an improved understanding of climate–vegetation interactions and the potential climate change impact on this species‐rich rainforest. We investigated the utility of newly available high‐temporal (daily) and high‐spatial (3–4 m) resolution remote sensing by the PlanetScope commercial satellite constellation for detecting flowering trees in a dipterocarp rainforest at Lambir Hills National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia. Our study was focused on the latest GF event known to have occurred in the region in the year 2019. PlanetScope successfully acquired 13 clear‐sky or minimally cloud‐contaminated scenes over the park during a study period of January 1, 2019 to August 31, 2019 encompassing the 2019 GF event. In situ phenology observations verified that the PlanetScope images detected the flowering crowns of tree species that turned into white or orange. This multitemporal image dataset also captured the flowering peak and species differences. The correlation coefficients between the multitemporal image signatures and in situ phenology observations were moderate to very strong (0.52–0.85). The results indicated that the 2019 GF event was a whole‐park phenomenon with the flowering peak in May. This study reports the first successful satellite‐based observations of a GF event and suggests the possibility of regional‐scale characterization of species‐level phenology in the dipterocarp forest, key information for biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asia.
Warmer winters result in reshaping of the European beech forest soil microbiome (bacteria, archaea and fungi)—With potential implications for ecosystem functioning
Authors: Dahl Mathilde Borg , Kreyling Juergen , Petters Sebastian , Wang Haitao , Mortensen Martin Steen , Maccario Lorrie , Sørensen Søren J. , Urich Tim , Weigel Robert 
Published: February 2023

AbstractIn temperate regions, climate warming alters temperature and precipitation regimes. During winter, a decline in insulating snow cover changes the soil environment, where especially frost exposure can have severe implications for soil microorganisms and subsequently for soil nutrient dynamics. Here, we investigated winter climate change responses in European beech forests soil microbiome. Nine study sites with each three treatments (snow exclusion, insolation, and ambient) were investigated. Long‐term adaptation to average climate was explored by comparing across sites. Triplicated treatment plots were used to evaluate short‐term (one single winter) responses. Community profiles of bacteria, archaea and fungi were created using amplicon sequencing. Correlations between the microbiome, vegetation and soil physicochemical properties were found. We identify core members of the forest‐microbiome and link them to key processes, for example, mycorrhizal symbiont and specialized beech wood degraders (fungi) and nitrogen cycling (bacteria, archaea). For bacteria, the shift of the microbiome composition due to short‐term soil temperature manipulations in winter was similar to the community differences observed between long‐term relatively cold to warm conditions. The results suggest a strong link between the changes in the microbiomes and changes in environmental processes, for example, nitrogen dynamics, driven by variations in winter climate.
Interplay between transcriptional regulators and VapBC toxin–antitoxin loci during thermal stress response in extremely thermoacidophilic archaea
Authors: Cooper Charlotte R. , Lewis April M. , Notey Jaspreet S. , Mukherjee Arpan , Willard Daniel J. , Blum Paul H. , Kelly Robert M. 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThermoacidophilic archaea lack sigma factors and the large inventory of heat shock proteins (HSPs) widespread in bacterial genomes, suggesting other strategies for handling thermal stress are involved. Heat shock transcriptomes for the thermoacidophilic archaeon Saccharolobus (f. Sulfolobus) solfataricus 98/2 revealed genes that were highly responsive to thermal stress, including transcriptional regulators YtrASs (Ssol_2420) and FadRSs (Ssol_0314), as well as type II toxin–antitoxin (TA) loci VapBC6 (Ssol_2337, Ssol_2338) and VapBC22 (Ssol_0819, Ssol_0818). The role, if any, of type II TA loci during stress response in microorganisms, such as Escherichia coli, is controversial. But, when genes encoding YtrASs, FadRSs, VapC22, VapB6, and VapC6 were systematically mutated in Sa. solfataricus 98/2, significant up‐regulation of the other genes within this set was observed, implicating an interconnected regulatory network during thermal stress response. VapBC6 and VapBC22 have close homologues in other Sulfolobales, as well as in other archaea (e.g. Pyrococcus furiosus and Archaeoglobus fulgidus), and their corresponding genes were also heat shock responsive. The interplay between VapBC TA loci and heat shock regulators in Sa solfataricus 98/2 not only indicates a cellular mechanism for heat shock response that differs from bacteria but one that could have common features within the thermophilic archaea.
Comprehensive analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome ofMelanoplus differentialis(Acrididae: Melanoplinae) captured in Korea
Authors: Kim Dong Eon , Kim Philjae , Lee Heejo , Kim Nang‐Hee , Kim Dayeong , Lee Min‐Ji , Ban Young‐Gyu , Jang Beom‐jun , Park Jongsun 
Published: February 2023

AbstractIn this study, we determined the complete mitochondrial genome of the invasive insect speciesMelanoplus differentialiscaptured in Korea. The complete mitochondrial genome ofM. differentialisis 15,625 bp long and comprises 13 protein‐coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, and 22 transfer RNAs, with a GC ratio of 25.2%. In total, 353 SNPs and 11 INDEL regions (total length 67 bp) were found against the previously sequencedM. differentialismitochondrial genome recorded as public genome data. The number of interspecific variations was greater than the number of intraspecific variations in this insect. Phylogenetic tree analysis showed that the mitochondrial genome clustered theMelanoplusclade with two previously reportedMelanoplussequences. However, the sequences were not divided at the species‐level clade possibly as a consequence of misidentification caused by an error in the public database. Our results extend the molecular database status ofMelanoplusby providing a novel complete mitochondrial genome sequence forM. differentialisthat could serve as reference for further molecular studies.
Common good human resource management, ethical employee behaviors, and organizational citizenship behaviors toward the individual
Authors: Pham Nhat Tan , Jabbour Charbel Jose Chiappetta , Pereira Vijay , Usman Muhammad , Ali Moazzam , Vo‐Thanh Tan 
Published: February 2023

AbstractWhat happens to the behaviors of employees when their organizations' human resource management (HRM) systems take into account any challenges to the common good? Despite common good HRM (CGHRM) having recently been raised, the existing literature has not yet investigated the role played by CGHRM in relation to employee behaviors. Drawing on social exchange theory, we addressed this issue by exploring CGHRM and its influences on employee ethical behavior and organizational citizenship behaviors toward the individual (OCBI). We conducted this study in Vietnam, in two subsequent stages. Stage 1 involved a mixed‐method approach to develop and validate four items suited to measure CGHRM. In Stage 2, we examined a mediation‐moderation model showing the relationship between CGHRM and employee behaviors, and investigated the roles played by value commitment and spiritual leadership. We also included a survey using time‐lagged data and different sources. The findings reveal that CGHRM directly and positively influences ethical employee behaviors and OCBI, and indirectly and positively influences these two types of behavior via value commitment. Interestingly, the relationship between CGHRM and ethical employee behaviors was found to be significantly stronger when combined with high levels of spiritual leadership. Unexpectedly, however, spiritual leadership was not found to moderate the CGHRM‐OCBI relationship.