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COVID-19 vaccination: lower intention and coverage among entrepreneurs compared to employees
Authors: Wismans Annelot , van der Zwan Peter , Thurik Roy 
Published: September 2023

PurposeLockdowns and the forced closure of certain industries during the COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted workers, particularly entrepreneurs, who were financially and emotionally involved in their businesses. Two studies have shown that entrepreneurs have a lower willingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19 than employees. In this study, the authors try to replicate the vaccination gap between the two groups. Second, the authors study whether the difference persists when controlling for demographics, vaccination attitudes and the COVID-19 context, including the financial impact of the pandemic, its effect on the wellbeing of workers, and government attitudes. Third, the authors study whether there are differences in how the context of the pandemic relates to vaccination willingness for entrepreneurs and employees.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conduct regression analyses using three large datasets. The authors study vaccination status (February 2022) in a 27-country Eurobarometer sample, vaccination intention (December 2020) in a Dutch sample from the LISS panel and vaccination status (July 2021) in a sample from the Understanding America Study (UAS).FindingsAll datasets confirm that entrepreneurs have lower vaccination intention and coverage than employees. Even when controlling for the variables described in the LISS and UAS datasets, this negative difference remains. The study results also indicate that demographics, especially vaccination attitudes, are much more important than contextual influences in the decision to get vaccinated against COVID-19.Originality/valueThe authors are the first to dive further into the vaccination differences between entrepreneurs and employees. They advise further research into the drivers of this gap, specifically relating to the role of personality and social normative influences.
Exploring the indirect effects of innovation policy and innovation culture on business model innovation: a moderated mediation analysis
Authors: Chen Chih-Hung 
Published: September 2023

Purpose
While previous studies have investigated the factors influencing the internet adoption, the findings may not be transferable to explain blockchain technology adoption, despite its similarities to the internet. This study aims to address this gap by exploring the mediating effect of innovation culture and the moderating effect of innovation policies on business model innovation (BMI) outcomes in emerging economy firms. It investigates how these factors synergistically facilitate BMI, offering practical guidance for public authorities and managers to develop relevant policies and govern businesses effectively.

Design/methodology/approach
This study collected data from 287 valid responses among 948 listed companies on the Taiwan Stock Exchange using a structured questionnaire. This study used structural equation modeling and Process Model 5 to analyze direct and indirect effects, focusing on corporate key capabilities for BMI while exploring the combined impact of innovation culture and policies.

Findings
The study revealed that innovation culture and innovation policies synergistically facilitate BMI, accelerating firms’ progress toward BMI in the emerging economy context. These outcomes offer valuable guidance for public authorities and company managers in formulating relevant policies and managing businesses effectively.

Originality/value
This study contributes to the literature by uniquely exploring the combined influence of innovation culture and policies on BMI in emerging economy firms, shedding light on their compounding effect and offering practical implications for policy-making and business management.
Impact of lean management on work safety and operational excellence within Tunisian companies
Authors: Alguirat Ibtissem , Lehyani Fatma , Zouari Alaeddine 
Published: September 2023

Purpose
Lean management tools are becoming increasingly applied in different types of organizations around the world. These tools have shown their significant contribution to improving business performance. In this vein, the purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of lean management on both occupational safety and operational excellence in Tunisian companies.

Design/methodology/approach
A survey was conducted among Tunisian companies, and it resulted in the collection of 62 responses that were analyzed using the software SPSS. In addition, a conceptual model linking the practices of the three basic concepts was designed to highlight the hypotheses of the research. Subsequently, factor analysis and structural equation method analysis were conducted to assess the validation of the assumptions.

Findings
The results obtained have shown that lean management has a significant impact on occupational safety. Similarly, occupational safety has a significant impact on operational excellence. However, lean management does not have a significant impact on operational excellence.

Originality/value
This work highlighted the involvement of small and medium-sized enterprise’s managers from emerging economies in the studied concepts’ practices. Likewise, it testified to the impacts of lean management on occupational safety and operational excellence in the Tunisian context.
Anatomy of an eBay fraud
Authors: Bogenschneider Bret N. , Lu Lu 
Published: September 2023

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to describe in detail a recent eBay fraud and to provide a related framework of teaching tools for courses in business law and ethics. The case describes an eBay transaction involving return fraud. This study highlights the problem of fraudulent purchase tactics by an eBay buyer who exploited the eBay feedback mechanism and administrative procedures in attempt to obtain a price reduction or to receive the item for free as a concession.

Design/methodology/approach
The work is a case study providing the details and background information on an original eBay return fraud. The case itself provides the source documentation and some background on the eBay platform and its rules. The Appendix provides a set of teaching instructions and discussion questions with model answers related to the specifics of the case.

Findings
The eBay resolution of the matter is provided in the Epilogue section of the Appendix. All negative feedback by the buyer against the seller in an attempt to get the item for free was removed by eBay, and the buyer further relinquished all selling privileges on eBay.

Originality/value
This study is unique because it provides the original eBay listing and screenshots of eBay correspondence and the eBay resolution of the matter. The specific type of return fraud is also unusual, as it was directed by the eBay buyer against the seller which appears to be an evolving problem for online retail.
Progress in partial least squares structural equation modeling use in logistics and supply chain management in the last decade: a structured literature review
Authors: Wang Siqi , Cheah Jun-Hwa , Wong Chee Yew , Ramayah T. 
Published: September 2023

PurposeThis study aims to evaluate the usage of partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) in journals related to logistics and supply chain management (LSCM).Design/methodology/approachBased on a structured literature review approach, the authors reviewed 401 articles in the field of LSCM applying PLS-SEM published in 15 major journals between 2014 and 2022. The analysis focused on reasons for using PLS-SEM, measurement model and structural model evaluation criteria, advanced analysis techniques and reporting practices.FindingsLSCM researchers sometimes did not clarify the reasons for using PLS-SEM, such as sample size, complex models and non-normal distributions. Additionally, most articles exhibit limited use of measurement models and structural model evaluation techniques, leading to inappropriate use of assessment criteria. Furthermore, progress in the practical implementation of advanced analysis techniques is slow, and there is a need for improved transparency in reporting analysis algorithms.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the field of LSCM by providing clear criteria and steps for using PLS-SEM, enriching the understanding and advancement of research methodologies in this field.
Proactive food waste prevention in grocery retail supply chains – An exploratory study
Authors: Winkler Tobias , Ostermeier Manuel , Hübner Alexander 
Published: September 2023

PurposeRegarding the retail internal supply chain (SC), both retailers and research are currently focused on reactive food waste reduction options in stores (e.g. discounting or donations). These options reduce waste after a surplus has emerged but do not prevent an emerging surplus in the first place. This paper aims to reveal how retailers can proactively prevent waste along the SC and why the options identified are impactful but, at the same time, often complex to implement.Design/methodology/approachThe authors follow an exploratory approach for a nascent topic to obtain insights into measures taken in practice. Interviews with experts from retail build the main data source.FindingsThe authors identify and analyze 21 inbound, warehousing, distribution and store-related options applied in grocery retail. Despite the expected high overall impact on waste, prevention measures in inbound logistics and distribution and warehousing have not been intensively applied to date.Practical implicationsThe authors provide a structured approach to mitigate waste within retailers' operations and categorize the types of barriers that need to be addressed.Originality/valueThis research provides a better understanding of prevention options in retail operations, which has not yet been empirically explored. Furthermore, this study conceptualizes prevention and reduction options and reveals implementation patterns.
COVID-19 vaccine hesitation and brand choice uncertainty
Authors: Rodrigues Paula , Borges Ana Pinto , Brochado Ana , Sousa Ana 
Published: September 2023

Purpose
This study aims to examine individual behaviours regarding coronavirus disease-2019 vaccine brands.

Design/methodology/approach
Firstly, qualitative research identified the reasons for vaccine hesitancy in relation to specific brands using data gathered from 36 semi-structured interviews and processed with Leximancer software. Secondly, a new conceptual model was developed with data from 917 questionnaires and analysed using partial least squares-structural equation modelling. The model integrates health treatment effectiveness, vaccines’ immediate health benefits and individuals’ hope as antecedents of perceived vaccine brand reliability and company reputation and their relationships with choice uncertainty.

Findings
The results reveal that vaccine hesitancy can be linked with individual, group and contextual and vaccine brand influences and that brand reliability and company reputation antecedents have variable but statistically significant effects on choice uncertainty.

Practical implications
This research’s contribution lies in its analyses of vaccine acceptance and uncertainty from a vaccine brand perspective. The results can guide brand management policies implemented by public and private organisations.

Originality/value
This study contributes to academic literature by filling in two gaps. The first was that no prior studies have directly addressed vaccine brands’ impact, whereas the second gap was the need for brand management policies that public (e.g. governments and public health agencies) and private organisations (e.g. pharmaceutical laboratories) can apply.
Platforms, perceptions, and privacy: ethical implications of student conflation of educational technologies
Authors: Greenhalgh Spencer P. , DiGiacomo Daniela K. , Barriage Sarah 
Published: September 2023

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine how higher education students think about educational technologies they have previously used – and the implications of this understanding for their awareness of datafication and privacy issues in a postsecondary context.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted two surveys about students’ experience with the ClassDojo platform during their secondary education. In both surveys, the authors included a question asking students to identify which ClassDojo-like platform they used in school. For this study, the authors examined responses to these screening questions, identifying the technologies that responses referred to and sorting technologies into categories.

Findings
Students identified a wide range of technologies when prompted to identify a technology similar to ClassDojo. Many responses suggested students have a broad, monolithic understanding of educational technology. This suggests the prevalence of a utilitarian tool perspective (rather than a platform perspective) that may be entrenched by the time that students reach higher education, hampering efforts to inform and educate them in that context.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there are few studies of students’ conflation of educational technologies in the extant literature. Furthermore, the platform perspective emphasized in this manuscript remains relatively rare in many fields associated with educational technology.
Predictive algorithms and racial bias: a qualitative descriptive study on the perceptions of algorithm accuracy in higher education
Authors: von Winckelmann Stacey Lynn 
Published: September 2023

Purpose
This study aims to explore the perception of algorithm accuracy among data professionals in higher education.

Design/methodology/approach
Social justice theory guided the qualitative descriptive study and emphasized four principles: access, participation, equity and human rights. Data collection included eight online open-ended questionnaires and six semi-structured interviews. Participants included higher education professionals who have worked with predictive algorithm (PA) recommendations programmed with student data.

Findings
Participants are aware of systemic and racial bias in their PA inputs and outputs and acknowledge their responsibility to ethically use PA recommendations with students in historically underrepresented groups (HUGs). For some participants, examining these topics through the lens of social justice was a new experience, which caused them to look at PAs in new ways.

Research limitations/implications
Small sample size is a limitation of the study. Implications for practice include increased stakeholder training, creating an ethical data strategy that protects students, incorporating adverse childhood experiences data with algorithm recommendations, and applying a modified critical race theory framework to algorithm outputs.

Originality/value
The study explored the perception of algorithm accuracy among data professionals in higher education. Examining this topic through a social justice lens contributes to limited research in the field. It also presents implications for addressing racial bias when using PAs with students in HUGs.
Effect of magnetic field on the lubricating performance of nano magnetorheological grease at different temperatures
Authors: Pan Jiabao , Li Rui , Wang Ao 
Published: September 2023

Purpose
The adverse effects of temperature on the lubricating properties of nano magnetorheological grease are reduced by applying of a magnetic field.

Design/methodology/approach
Nano magnetorheological grease was prepared via a thermal water bath with stirring. The lubricating properties of the grease were investigated at different temperatures. Then the lubricity of the prepared nano magnetorheological grease was investigated under the effect of thermomagnetic coupling.

Findings
As the temperature rises, the coefficient of friction of grease lubrication gradually increases, surface wear gradually increases and lubrication performance gradually decreases. Compared with grease, magnetorheological grease has a decreased coefficient of friction and enhanced lubrication effect under the action of a magnetic field at different temperatures.

Originality/value
A lubrication method using a magnetic field to reduce the effect of temperature is established, thereby providing new ideas for lubrication design under a wide range of temperature conditions.
Predicting dispersal and conflict risk for wolf recolonization in Colorado
Authors: Ditmer Mark A. , Wittemyer George , Zeller Katherine A. , Breck Stewart W. , Fletcher Robert J. , Crooks Kevin R. 
Published: September 2023

Abstract

The colonization of suitable yet unoccupied habitat due to natural dispersal or human introduction can benefit recovery of threatened species. Predicting habitat suitability and conflict potential of colonization areas can facilitate conservation planning.

Planning for reintroduction of gray wolves (Canis lupus) to the US state of Colorado is underway. Assessing which occupancy sites minimize the likelihood of human–wolf conflict during dispersal events and seasonal movements is critical to the success of this initiative.

We used a spatial absorbing Markov chain (SAMC) framework, which extends random walk theory and probabilistically accounts for both movement behaviour and mortality risk, to compare the viability of potential occupancy sites (public lands >500 km2 to minimally meet wolf pack range area). The SAMC framework produced spatially explicit predictions of wolf dispersal, philopatry and conflict risk ahead of recolonization prior to reintroduction efforts. Our SAMC model included: (1) movement resistance based on terrain, roads and housing density; (2) mortality risk and potential conflict (absorption) based on livestock presence, social tolerance, land ownership and state boundaries; and (3) site fidelity based on habitat quality. Using this model, we compared 21 public land units by deriving predictions of: (A) relative survival time outside each site, (B) intensity of use and retention time within each site and (C) the probability of use on adjacent public lands. We also predicted and mapped potential conflict hotspots associated with each site.

Among the units assessed, a complex of USFS Wilderness areas near Aspen, chiefly the Hunter‐Fryingpan and Collegiate Peaks Wilderness areas, had the best overall rankings when comparing predictions of each metric. The area balances high‐quality, well‐connected habitat with relatively low livestock density and high social tolerance.

Synthesis and applications. Our findings highlight the utility of the SAMC framework for assessing colonization areas and the capacity to identify locations for effective proactive management, especially of conflict prone species. The flexibility of the SAMC framework enables predicting likely areas of philopatry and human–wildlife conflict using spatially explicit metrics which can improve the success of conservation translocations and management of species with changing geographic extents.
Innovating fire safety with recombinant hydrophobic proteins for textile fire retardancy
Authors: Gilmour Katie A. , Arnadottir Thora H. , James Paul , Scott Jane , Jiang Yunhong , Dade‐Robertson Martyn , Zhang Meng 
Published: September 2023

AbstractFire retardancy for textiles is important to prevent the rapid spread of fire and minimize damage to property and harm to human life. To infer fire‐resistance on textile materials such as cotton or nylon, chemical coatings are often used. These chemicals are usually toxic, and economically and environmentally unsustainable, however, some naturally produced protein‐based fire retardants could be an alternative. A biofilm protein from Bacillus subtilis (BslA) was identified and recombinantly expressed in Escherichia coli with a double cellulose binding domain. It was then applied to a range of natural and synthetic fabric materials. A flame retardancy test found that use of BslA reduced fire damage by up to 51% and would pass fire retardancy testing according to British standards. It is therefore a viable and sustainable alternative to current industrial fire‐retardant coatings.
New Zealand: Political Developments and Data in 2022
Authors: BARKER FIONA , DREYER WILL 
Published: September 2023

AbstractPolitics in Aotearoa New Zealand continued to be dominated by COVID‐19 and its consequences in 2022. In the first quarter, the Omicron variant spread throughout the country. As community transmission of COVID‐19 became a part of regular life and the response framework was gradually dismantled, political attention shifted to emerging issues in crime and the cost of living. Pursuing at the same time several ambitious policy programmes, the government struggled to control the narrative and lost ground to the opposition in opinion polls. Popular support for government pandemic management, which had led it to the first single‐party majority government of the mixed‐member proportional system era in 2020, dissipated throughout 2022. The increasing divide in Aotearoa New Zealand was clearly demonstrated by the 23‐day occupation of the Parliament grounds, involving anti‐government, anti‐vaccine and anti‐mandate groups, as well as numerous conspiracy and fringe movements.
Challenges and opportunities in the implementation of advanced brachytherapy programs for cervical cancer in the Philippines
Authors: Bacorro Warren , Olonan Bianca Nikkola , Co Henri Cartier , Fineza‐Dela Cruz Anna Maria 
Published: September 2023

AbstractCervical cancer is the second most common cancer cause of morbidity and mortality in Filipino women; the age‐standardized annual incidence is 15.2 as of March 2023. The majority are diagnosed at a locally advanced stage and in the reproductive and working age group. This results in important treatment and productivity costs. The importance of image‐guided and interstitial brachytherapy (BRT) in local control and toxicity outcomes has been shown in recent meta‐analyses. We review the status of advanced BRT program training and implementation in the Philippines and important challenges and opportunities to move forward.
Upadacitinib effectiveness in moderate‐to‐severe atopic dermatitis: A real‐life multicentre and retrospective study
Authors: Melgosa Ramos F. Javier , González‐Delgado Víctor , Motilla José María Sánchez , Marta Galarreta Pascual , Mateu Puchades Almudena , Sergio Santos Alarcón 
Published: September 2023

AbstractThis was an observational and retrospective multicentre study conducted on adolescents and adults diagnosed with moderate‐to‐severe atopic dermatitis (AD) and treated with upadacitinib. Disease severity was measured by Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI), validated investigator global assessment for AD and pruritus Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) at baseline and Weeks 4, 16, 24 and 52 (when available). Twenty‐one patients were included. All patients had previously received topical and systemic corticosteroids. Rapid response to upadacitinib was observed: Mean (SD) EASI score was 19.8 (6.5) at baseline, and 3.1 (4.2), 0.9 (1.4), 0.6 (0.6) and 0.6 (0.6) at the Weeks 4, 16, 24 and 52, respectively. Itch was controlled at Week 4 in all patients (mean [SD] NRS score 7.6 [1.9] baseline, 1.5 [1.3] W4). Severe infections or major adverse cardiovascular events were not reported. We highlight effectiveness and rapid response of upadacitinib in achieving itch control even in long‐standing recalcitrant cases.
Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric
Authors: Duff Alexander S. 
Published: September 2023

AbstractAristotle's analysis in the Rhetoric of the intelligibility of passionately angry political speech is an urgently needed addition to the ongoing scholarly reassessment of his relevance to democratic practices. Aristotle shows his readers—both orators and their auditors, citizens who might both rule and be ruled—that anger is prone to exaggeration and distortion and is therefore liable to be amplified into hatred. He shows further though that if instead of simply being exaggerated, anger is taken “seriously,” then a more sober and measured politics can ensue, one less destructive of a good legal order.