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Scientific accompaniment: a new model for integrating program development, evidence and evaluation
Authors: Lannen Patricia , Jones Lisa 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
Calls for the development and dissemination of evidence-based programs to support children and families have been increasing for decades, but progress has been slow. This paper aims to argue that a singular focus on evaluation has limited the ways in which science and research is incorporated into program development, and advocate instead for the use of a new concept, “scientific accompaniment,” to expand and guide program development and testing.

Design/methodology/approach
A heuristic is provided to guide research–practice teams in assessing the program’s developmental stage and level of evidence.

Findings
In an idealized pathway, scientific accompaniment begins early in program development, with ongoing input from both practitioners and researchers, resulting in programs that are both effective and scalable. The heuristic also provides guidance for how to “catch up” on evidence when program development and science utilization are out of sync.

Originality/value
While implementation models provide ideas on improving the use of evidence-based practices, social service programs suffer from a significant lack of research and evaluation. Evaluation resources are typically not used by social service program developers and collaboration with researchers happens late in program development, if at all. There are few resources or models that encourage and guide the use of science and evaluation across program development.
Innovating peer review, reconfiguring scholarly communication: an analytical overview of ongoing peer review innovation activities
Authors: Kaltenbrunner Wolfgang , Pinfield Stephen , Waltman Ludo , Woods Helen Buckley , Brumberg Johanna 
Published: August 2022

PurposeThe study aims to provide an analytical overview of current innovations in peer review and their potential impacts on scholarly communication.Design/methodology/approachThe authors created a survey that was disseminated among publishers, academic journal editors and other organizations in the scholarly communication ecosystem, resulting in a data set of 95 self-defined innovations. The authors ordered the material using a taxonomy that compares innovation projects according to five dimensions. For example, what is the object of review? How are reviewers recruited, and does the innovation entail specific review foci?FindingsPeer review innovations partly pull in mutually opposed directions. Several initiatives aim to make peer review more efficient and less costly, while other initiatives aim to promote its rigor, which is likely to increase costs; innovations based on a singular notion of “good scientific practice” are at odds with more pluralistic understandings of scientific quality; and the idea of transparency in peer review is the antithesis to the notion that objectivity requires anonymization. These fault lines suggest a need for better coordination.Originality/valueThis paper presents original data that were analyzed using a novel, inductively developed, taxonomy. Contrary to earlier research, the authors do not attempt to gauge the extent to which peer review innovations increase the “reliability” or “quality” of reviews (as defined according to often implicit normative criteria), nor are they trying to measure the uptake of innovations in the routines of academic journals. Instead, they focus on peer review innovation activities as a distinct object of analysis.
Public-school infrastructure ageing and current challenges in maintenance
Authors: Herath Nilupa , Duffield Colin , Zhang Lihai 
Published: August 2022

PurposeSchool infrastructure is one of critical factors that significantly contribute to the educational outcomes, and therefore, maintaining the high quality of school infrastructure becomes of critical importance. Due to the ageing of school assets over time in combination with budget constraint and rapid growth of student enrolment, many public schools are currently struggling to maintain the required standard for long term. However, to date, the goal of providing the best maintenance practices to public schools has not been achieved.Design/methodology/approachThe present study focuses on studying the balance between the asset and maintenance management strategies and the funding model through conducting state-of-the-art literature review and qualitative analysis in the context of public schools in Australia and other developed countries around the world. Review of journal articles, different government reports and other available resources were used to collect and analyse the data in this study.FindingsAs part of this review, significant under investment in maintenance and asset renewals were identified as main challenges in asset management in public school facilities. Although different maintenance strategies were used in school infrastructure, adequate funding, adequate robust asset management plans (AMPs) and the involvement of private sectors have been identified as the key factors that govern the success in school infrastructure maintenance. It also shows that funding of approximately 2–3% of asset replacement value (ARV) on school infrastructure is required to maintain school facilities for long-term. Further, the procurement methods such as public private partnership including private finance initiatives (PFIs) have shown great improvements in maintenance process in school infrastructure.Originality/valueThe study provides a review of different AMPs and funding models in school infrastructure and their efficiencies and shortcoming in detail. Different states and countries use different maintenance models, and challenges associated with each model were also discussed. Further this study also provides some conclusive evidence for better maintenance performance for school buildings.
Weather index insurance viability in mitigation of climate change impact risk: a systematic review and future agenda
Authors: Singh Pankaj 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
The purpose of the present paper is to review studies on weather index-insurance as a tool to manage the climate change impact risk on farmers and to explore the study gaps in the currently existing literature by using a systematic literature review.

Design/methodology/approach
This study analyzed and reviewed the 374 articles on weather index insurance (WII) based on a systematic literature search on Web of Science and Scopus databases by using the systematic literature review method.

Findings
WII studies shifted their focus on growing and emerging areas of climate change impact risk. The finding shows that the impact of climate change risk significantly influenced the viability of WII in terms of pricing and design of WII. Therefore, the cost of WII premium increases due to the uncertainty of climate change impact that enhances the probability of losses related to insured weather risks. However, WII has emerged as a risk management tool of climate insurance for vulnerable agrarian communities. The efficacy of WII has been significantly influenced by repetitive environmental disasters and climate change phenomena.

Research limitations/implications
This study will be valuable for scholars to recognize the missing and emerging themes in WII.

Practical implications
This study will help the policy planners to understand the influence of climate change impact on WII viability.

Originality/value
This study is the original work of the author. An attempt has been made in the present study to systematically examine the viability of WII for insuring the climate change risk.
Shared accountability in distributed leadership for improved healthcare access: a study of a US dental institution
Authors: Bass A. Erin , Milosevic Ivana , Uhl-Bien Mary , Nadkarni Sucheta 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
Accountability within distributed leadership (DL) is critical for DL to drive positive outcomes in health services organizations. Despite this, how accountability emerges in DL is less clear. This study aims to understand how accountability emerges in DL so that distributed leaders can drive improvements in healthcare access – an increasingly important outcome in today’s health services environment.

Design/methodology/approach
The authors use an instrumental case study of a dental institution in the USA, “Environ,” as it underwent a strategic change to improve healthcare access to rural populations. The authors focused on DL occurring within the strategic change and collected interview, observation and archival data.

Findings
The findings demonstrate accountability in DL emerged as shared accountability and has three elements: personal ownership, agentic actions and a shared belief system. Each of these was necessary for DL to advance the strategic change for improved healthcare access.

Practical implications
Top managers should be cognizant of the emergence processes driven by DL. This includes enabling pockets of employees to connect, align and link up so that ideas, processes and practices can emerge and allow for shared accountability in DL.

Originality/value
The overarching contribution of this research is identifying shared accountability in DL and its three elements: personal ownership, agentic actions and a shared belief system. These elements serve as a platform to demonstrate “how DL works” in a healthcare organization.
Organizational legitimation of body-worn camera use in the Swedish private security industry
Authors: Hansen Löfstrand Cecilia , Backman Christel 
Published: August 2022

PurposeThe authors set out to show how key private security industry actors in Sweden establish body-worn cameras (BWCs) as a tool to protect private security officers from the public the officers police and to improve the work environment of the officers.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with key personnel involved in the implementation of BWCs. The authors' analysis focused on delineating recurrent moral stories and affirmative environments to show how BWC use was made legitimate as a work environment tool.FindingsThe authors show how BWC use by private security officers patrolling public spaces in Sweden is legitimized by four organizational narratives: (1) the vulnerable security officer and the caring employer, (2) defenders of protective regulation, (3) moral selves and morally dubious others and (4) function creep and moral guardians. The authors explain how such organizational narratives are key to establishing and legitimizing the use of BWCs as a tool to improve the work environment of private security guards, and how certain narrative environments promote such organizational narratives in Sweden to improve the work environment of private security guards.Originality/valueThe authors' findings in this article add to a small but growing literature on BWC use in policing outside of the USA and the UK as well as to the hitherto very limited research from the work environment and managerial perspectives. The authors illustrate the importance of organizational narratives and narrative environments for understanding organizational change involving legitimation of new technologies.
How far corporate governance and firms' characteristics are relevant toward environmental sustainability? An empirical investigation
Authors: Ghosh Suchismita , Pareek Ritu , Sahu Tarak Nath 
Published: August 2022

PurposeThe study aims to focus to ascertain the consequence of corporate management and different firms' characteristics on environmental sustainability.Design/methodology/approachThe sample includes 78 non-financial NSE 100 listed companies from 2010 to 2020. Here, the static and Arellano–Bond dynamic panel data model is considered to determine the effect of corporate governance mechanisms and different firms’ characteristics on environmental performance.FindingsThe empirical findings of this study indicate that board size is negatively related with environmental sustainability. Similarly a positive influence of age, size and market-based financial performance can be seen on sustainability of the firm.Originality/valueThe present study takes an initiative to determine endogeneity and the dynamism effect of corporate governance factors and specific firms' characteristics on environmental sustainability from an emergent nation.
Cultural influences on the quality of corporate social responsibility disclosures: an examination of carbon disclosure
Authors: Perkins Jon , Jeffrey Cynthia , Freedman Martin 
Published: August 2022

PurposeAs more companies choose to disclose corporate social responsibility (CSR) information, it is important to gain an understanding of the quality of disclosures and factors that influence quality. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of culture as a determinant of the quality of voluntary carbon emission disclosures.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses regression analysis to test the influence of culture on the quality of carbon disclosures. The sample of this study comes from companies who voluntarily report to the carbon disclosure project. The authors operationalize the quality of disclosure using the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index. The authors operationalize cultural values using both Hofstede’s metrics (Hofstede, 1980) and Project GLOBE (House et al., 2004).FindingsThis study predicts and finds a negative relationship between quality of disclosure and high individualism scores. This study also finds that the quality of disclosure is lower for companies located in countries with high power distance scores. The authors find that the quality of disclosure is higher for companies located in countries with gender/assertiveness scores that indicate a higher value on the environment than on the importance of economic growth. While quality is marginally related to uncertainty avoidance using Hofstede's measure, quality is not related to uncertainty avoidance using the Project GLOBE metric. The authors did not find a hypothesized negative significant relationship between quality and long-term orientation.Practical implicationsQuality is a measure of importance to users and regulators of disclosures.Social implicationsNational culture is an important determinant of CSR disclosure quality.Originality/valueThis study extends the previous research by using a metric for quality based on an independent evaluation of disclosures and by the role of culture in a multi-country study.
Not all CSR initiatives are created equally: the theoretical implications
Authors: Nord Walter R. , MacAulay K. Doreen , Kelso Jessica Lindsay 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
The purpose of this conceptual paper is twofold: to investigate the nature of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, and to discuss the effects that several factors have on CSR outcomes by drawing on concepts from organization theory.

Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative approach is used, wherein the authors review the extant literature on CSR theory with the goal of expanding upon theoretical perspectives underlying this area of research.

Findings
The findings show that both initiation and implementation influence CSR outcomes, and that these processes vary based on the degrees of centralization and routineness. In addition, the “fit” between the problems and the processes used influences the benefits of CSR. In short, the authors show that not all CSR initiatives are created equally.

Research limitations/implications
This paper does not address the potential magnitude of fit, only the direction of fit, and does not consider other factors that would play a role in successful initiation and implementation. It does not consider nor estimate the costs associated with different approaches to CSR activities. Lastly, it does not consider the history of an organization when discussing various CSR structures.

Originality/value
This study enriches CSR literature by filling the gap in the extant CSR literature and by proposing a more holistic view to CSR initiatives. The authors offer six propositions that purport the effects that various factors – (de)centralization, fit, CSR–human resources synergies, transformational leadership and pride – have on a company’s CSR activities and recruitment efforts.
Phenological and physiological advantages of invasive annuals are strengthened by nitrogen enrichment
Authors: Valliere Justin M. , Flores Rhay G. , Cason Branden J. , Hernández Mayra J. 
Published: August 2022

Abstract

Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition exerts profound influence on the composition and function of native ecosystems, commonly resulting in reduced plant richness and increases in nonnative plant invasion. Identifying differences in plant N responses and functional traits could help to explain the ongoing invasion and biological impoverishment of ecosystems subject to N deposition.

We compared the growth, emergence phenology and functional traits of 30 native and invasive annual plant species under high and low N availability, with the goal of evaluating if invasives exhibit functionally dissimilar responses to N compared with the native species they displace.

Invasives grew larger than natives, especially under increased N availability. Overall, invasives and natives did not differ in emergence phenology. However, these groups of species differed in relationships between growth and days to emergence, and N addition further strengthened these differences; invasives consistently grew larger than natives that emerged around the same time, whereas natives showed a strong negative effect of delayed emergence on plant growth.

Relative N responses for measures of plant growth and allocation did not differ between native and invasive species, but invasives exhibited greater plasticity in physiological traits. This included significantly lower leaf N content, higher CN ratios and greater water‐use efficiency (WUE) in plants grown under high N. Invasives also showed functionally different patterns of growth and water use. Across species, invasives showed a positive relationship between shoot growth and WUE. Native species showed a trade‐off between root allocation and WUE, whereas invasives displayed high values for WUE even despite reduced root: shoot ratios under high N.

Our results highlight the ability of invasives to rapidly accrue biomass, disproportionately benefit from early emergence and N addition and use water efficiently despite rapid growth. Natives, on the other hand, pay a higher cost for delayed emergence and may experience trade‐offs between growth and water use. The more pronounced functional differences between natives and invasives observed under high N likely play an important role in driving invasion and reduced species diversity under N enrichment. These differences could be used to inform successful management strategies for N‐impacted and water‐limited ecosystems.

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The role of diversity, body size and climate in dung removal: A correlative and experimental approach
Authors: Gebert Friederike , Steffan‐Dewenter Ingolf , Kronbach Patrick , Peters Marcell K. 
Published: August 2022

Abstract

The mechanisms by which climatic changes influence ecosystem functions, that is, by a direct climatic control of ecosystem processes or by modifying richness and trait compositions of species communities, remain unresolved.

This study is a contribution to this discourse by elucidating the linkages between climate, land use, biodiversity, body size and ecosystem functions.

We disentangled direct climatic from biodiversity‐mediated effects by using dung removal by dung beetles as a model system and by combining correlative field data and exclosure experiments along an extensive elevational gradient on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.

Dung removal declined with increasing elevation, being associated with a strong reduction in the richness and body size traits of dung beetle communities. Climate influenced dung removal rates by modifying biodiversity rather than by direct effects. The biodiversity–ecosystem effect was driven by a change in the mean body size of dung beetles. Dung removal rates were strongly reduced when large dung beetles were experimentally excluded.

This study underscores that climate influences ecosystem functions mainly by modifying biodiversity and underpins the important role of body size for dung removal.
Extremely low level of genetic diversity in Gentiana yakushimensis, an endangered species in Yakushima Island, Japan
Authors: Ishii Naohiro I. , Hirota Shun K. , Tsunamoto Yoshihiro , Matsuo Ayumi , Abe Harue , Suyama Yoshihisa 
Published: August 2022

AbstractRare or endangered species largely contributing to global biodiversity are essential components of ecosystems. Because genetic diversity depends not only on apparent population size but also demographic processes, the conservation priority of endangered species based on population genetics needs to be assessed by comparison with common congeners and demographic events. In this study, we performed population genetic analysis for Gentiana yakushimensis Makino, a rare and endangered plant species with an isolated distribution on Yakushima Island, Japan. We performed comparison of genetic diversity with the congener (Gentiana triflora Pall. var. japonica [Kusn.] H.Hara), demographic inference, and bottleneck test based on genome‐wide single nucleotide polymorphisms. The result was that G. yakushimensis had an extremely low genetic diversity level and a high inbreeding coefficient level compared with those of the congener. The population of G. yakushimensis was estimated to experience an expansion during the Last Glacial Maximum and a recent bottleneck by the demographic inference and the bottleneck test. Therefore, the low level of genetic diversity of this species might have resulted from the impact of the recent bottleneck and the long‐term maintenance of a small population size. Due to the long lifespan of the genus Gentiana, the current level of genetic diversity probably does not reflect a large part of recent demographic events, which requires long‐term monitoring of changes in genetic diversity to identify the time lag between the reduction in apparent population size and genetic diversity as a future outlook.
Comparison of SARIMA model and Holt‐Winters model in predicting the incidence of Sjögren's syndrome
Authors: Wang Shuai , Wei Feiran , Li Han , Wang Zemin , Wei Pingmin 
Published: August 2022

AbstractObjectiveTo analyze the prevalence trend of Sjögren's syndrome in the Department of Immunology and Rheumatology of Nanjing Zhongda Hospital from January 2015 to December 2019, and compare the application of SARIMA model and Holt‐Winters model in predicting the number of cases of Sjögren's syndrome.MethodsAll of the data from the Department of Immunology and Rheumatology of Nanjing Zhongda Hospital were collected. The number of monthly cases from January 2015 to December 2019 was regarded as the training set, and it was used to establish the SARIMA model and Holt‐Winters model. The number of monthly incidences from January 2020 to December 2020 was regarded as the test set, and it was used to check the model performance.ResultsThe optimal model of SARIMA is ARIMA (0,1,1) (2,1,1)12 model, and the optimal model of Holt‐Winters model is Holt‐Winters addition model. It was found that the Holt‐Winters addition model produced the smallest error.ConclusionHolt‐Winters addition model produces better prediction accuracy of the model.