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Post COVID-19 pandemic possible business continuity strategies for construction industry revival a preliminary study in the Malaysian construction industry
Authors: Gamil Yaser , Al-Sarafi A.H. , Najeh Taoufik 
Published: June 2022

Purpose
COVID-19 pandemic has unprecedentedly shattered the entire world economy and development. Without exclusion, the construction industry has undergone very extreme disruption. Many projects have been suspended, many employees lost their jobs and many construction companies bankrupted. This study aims to explore the possible business continuity plans, a roadmap to recovery and strategies to revive the construction industry after COVID-19.

Design/methodology/approach
Mix mode method approach was used to address the research problem, and that includes interviews with 16 selected construction experts who have been working in the Malaysian industry for more than 10 years and a questionnaire with 187 construction practitioners. The aim of conducting the interviews is to get an insight into the current impact of the pandemic on the construction industry, and the questionnaire aims to statistically rank the importance of revival strategies using a Likert-type scale. Further, the data were analysed using a univariate approach by calculating the relative importance index to assess the importance of each strategy.

Findings
The findings showed that the pandemic has severely affected the Malaysian construction industry in many aspects and effective restoration strategies are necessary to cope with the changes. The strategies were categorized into four different aspects includes health and practice, technology, operational, legal and governmental strategies. The finding shows that the topmost ranked strategy in terms of importance is introducing COVID-compliant operating procedures and protocols on-site by adjusting current working procedures, urgent government stimuli (loan, financial aid to the affected firms) and other financial incentives, leveraging digital and online technology for virtual meeting and communication, comprehensive and revision study of the health guidelines to suit construction activities and digital transformation of work. The study suggests a more in-depth study to evaluate the impact and assess the success of strategies for the betterment of the future of the Malaysian construction industry.

Practical implications
The study presented a better understanding of the possible business continuity strategies for construction industry revival, which are important for decision makers and the government to reconsider for the revival of the industry. The findings also are of interest to the construction stakeholders.

Originality/value
There have been many research addressing the impact of the pandemic on the construction industry, but less are available on the possible strategies for continual and revival of construction industry amid and after the pandemic. It is, therefore, crucial to address this topic, especially the assessment of these strategies based on their importance.
Political connections, financing decisions and cash holdings: empirical evidence from Gulf Cooperation Council
Authors: Tawfik Omar Ikbal , Elmaasrawy Hamada Elsaid , Albitar Khaldoon 
Published: June 2022

Purpose
This study aims to investigate the relationship between political connections, financing decisions and cash holding.

Design/methodology/approach
Based on historical data from 181 active non-financial firms listed on Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Stock Exchange Markets during the period of 2009–2016, this study uses ordinary least squares and dynamic system-generalized method of moments to test the research hypotheses. The final data set comprises a total of 1,448 firm-year observations from ten major non-financial industry classifications.

Findings
This study finds a positive relationship between political connections and each of internal financing proxied by retained earnings ratio and external financing proxied by short- and long-term debt to total asset. The findings also show a positive relationship between political connections and cash holding.

Practical implications
The findings of the study provide a better understanding of the role of politically connected directors in financing decisions and cash holding in the GCC. Investors can consider the presence of royal family members in the board of directors when making investment decision. Policymakers are encouraged to develop more effective policies that encourage listed firms to provide information on the political positions of the board of directors, managers and major shareholders/owners of companies.

Originality/value
This study contributes to the literature by providing empirical evidence on the relationship between political connections and financing decisions by focusing on the GCC region. This study also highlights that boards in connected firms in the GCC have lower monitoring role owing to political interventions, and that connected firms face higher agency problems as they have weak governance and boards compared with non-connected firms.
Mapping the key challenges and managing the opportunities in supply chain distribution during COVID-19: a case of Myanmar pharmaceutical company
Authors: Kumar Vimal , Ya Kyaw Zay , Lai Kuei-Kuei 
Published: June 2022

Purpose
This study aims to present a study on the supply chain process of a Myanmar-based pharmaceutical company (named ABC Pvt. Ltd. in this study) that produces pharmaceutical products across Myanmar and aims of bringing quality medical products and best care for Myanmar people’s health. The study aims to identify the key supply chain challenges and manage the opportunities executed by this pharmaceutical company to improve the supply chain process during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Design/methodology/approach
This work used a case study and conducted semistructured interviews with the manager, senior managers and senior staff of the ABC Company to improve the supply chain process and develop a comprehensive structural relationship to rank them to streamline the uncertainties, real-time information and agility in a digital supply chain using grey relational analysis (GRA) method.

Findings
From the data analysis and results, “Impact of political factor,” “Delay in import process” and “Weak internet connection,” and “Weak knowledge of the use of digital platform,” “Poor information sharing in online by employees” and “Information flow from top management to operational level” have been identified as top and bottom three key challenges, respectively. “Inventory management,” “Selection of transport method” and “Operational cost”, and “Marketing and brand Innovation,” “Online delivery of products” and “E-commerce enablement (Launching applications, tracking system)” are identified as the top and bottom three managing the opportunities, respectively.

Research limitations/implications
The findings of the study help to supply chain decision-makers of the company in their establishment of key challenges and opportunities during the COVID-19 era. As a leading company, it always tries to add value to its product through a supply chain system, effective management teams and working with skillful decision-making toward satisfying the demand on time and monitoring the supplier performance.

Originality/value
The novelty of this study is to identify the key supply chain challenges and opportunities by the GRA method to rank them, considering the case of Myanmar pharmaceutical manufacturing company as a case-based approach to measuring its performance during the COVID-19 outbreak era. This work will assist managers and practitioners help to the company to provide optimal services to its consumers on time in this critical situation.
The power of knowledge management: how top management team bricolage boosts ambidexterity and performance
Authors: Chang Che-Yuan , Chang Yi-Ying , Tsao Yu-Chung , Kraus Sascha 
Published: June 2022

Purpose
This paper aims to explore the relationship between top management team bricolage and performance and also examines unit ambidexterity's mediating role. More essentially, to understand the black box of organizational knowledge dynamism, a multilevel moderated mediating model is established by exploring the effects of two firm-level moderators, namely, potential absorptive capacity and realized absorptive capacity.

Design/methodology/approach
To test the cross-level moderated mediation model, this study used multisource data from 90 R&D units in 45 Taiwanese manufacturing firms through two-wave surveys and retrieving the archival data for assessing unit performance.

Findings
This study’s evidence revealed that unit-level ambidexterity mediates the effect between firm-level top management teams’ (TMT) bricolage and unit-level performance. This study also found that firm-level potential absorptive capacity positively moderates the effect between firm-level TMT bricolage and unit-level ambidexterity. Moreover, firm-level realized absorptive capacity strengthens the indirect relationships between firm-level TMT bricolage and unit-level performance via unit-level ambidexterity. The findings shed light on how and why TMT bricolage influences unit ambidexterity and performance in knowledge-intensive sectors.

Originality/value
This paper adds to the existing knowledge-based theory literature by disentangling the association between top management team bricolage and unit performance and identifying the pivotal role of absorptive capacity at both the firm and unit levels.
Viewpoint: designing transformative service to overcome eudaimonic-hedonic outcome conflict
Authors: Nguyen Adam 
Published: June 2022

Purpose
The potential displeasure (e.g. strain, uncertainty and lack of control) involved in the process of obtaining eudaimonic outcomes (e.g. becoming healthier or more knowledgeable) may turn consumers away from a transformative service or hinder their coproduction. This paper aims to propose a service design that could overcome this conflict.

Design/methodology/approach
To allow for concrete discussions of service design, the proposed design is developed in the context of a specific transformative service: the higher educational service.

Findings
It is possible to transform the relationship between hedonic and eudaimonic outcomes from conflicting to complementary goals by replacing passive pleasure that is irrelevant or in conflict with eudaimonic well-being with active pleasure that is complementary to eudaimonic well-being. To facilitate simultaneous attainment of active pleasure and eudaimonic well-being, the transformative service provider needs to structure the elements of the service to create the conditions for the optimal experience to occur.

Research limitations/implications
The proposed design is extendable to other human service contexts.

Originality/value
To the best of the author’s knowledge, this research is the first that shows how a transformative service can be effectively designed to overcome the potential conflict between its eudaimonic versus hedonic outcomes, such that the service will be well received by consumers while remain faithful to its transformative goal.
Research on modeling the relationship between agricultural informatization level and economic growth in green ecological environment
Authors: Feng Ling , Huang Yu 
Published: June 2022

PurposeIn order to improve the current level of agricultural informatization and the large deviation of economic growth. Combining the cost input of the green ecological environment and the level of economic growth, the relationship model between the level of agricultural informatization and economic growth is established in the green ecological environment.Design/methodology/approachThe authors establish an evaluation index system for the level of agricultural informatization and calculate the total index of agricultural informatization under the index system. Combining the cost input of the green ecological environment and the level of economic growth, the authors establish the relationship model between the level of agricultural informatization and economic growth in the green ecological environment.FindingsThe research results show that the regression coefficient of determination including agricultural informatization elements from 2014 to 2018 is 5.105466, indicating that the model fits well. The sum of the variables is greater than 1, indicating that the mutual influence of agricultural informatization factors is also obvious. The condition of the hypothesis test in this study is significant (5%), which shows the positive relationship between the elastic coefficient of agricultural informatization and the elements of informatization. The results show that the continuous advancement of the informatization process can effectively promote agricultural economic growth.Originality/valueThe condition of the hypothesis test in this study is significant (5%), which shows the positive relationship between the elastic coefficient of agricultural informatization and the elements of informatization. The continuous advancement of the informatization process can effectively promote agricultural economic growth.
Control transfer and old shareholder governance of the “seller”: who hinders the management retention?
Authors: Wang Yan , Dai Rong , Xu Shufang , Luo Li 
Published: June 2022

PurposeThis paper aims to analyze the inhibitory effect of non-controlling shareholders governance mechanism on the retention of self-interest management, which provides theoretical support and practical basis for standardizing the control transfer behavior of listed companies and improving the governance mechanism of non-controlling shareholders.Design/methodology/approachTaking A-share listed companies with control transfer from 2000 to 2017 as sample, this paper investigates the strategy, path and retention consequence of the target company’s market selected top management who collude with the new controlling shareholder to avoid the risk of being taken over by control transfer.FindingsThis research explores that negative earnings management behavior may reduce the real premium of control transfer after deducting the “shell value”. The lower the real premium of control transfer after deducting the “shell value”, the higher the probability of management retention after control transfer. This paper also reveals that the real premium of control transfer after deducting the “shell value” plays complete mediation role between the negative earnings management behavior of the management and their own retention. The mediation effect of “collusion and price reduction” in the control transfer will be inversely moderated by the governance mechanism of noncontrolling shareholders including the old shareholders of the seller.Originality/valueThis paper not only constitutes a supplement to the existing literature but also provides empirical evidence for standardizing the control transfer behavior of listed companies, and making good use of the old shareholders of the seller to improve corporate governance and alleviate agency conflict after control transfer.
Low adenylate kinase 5 expression is predictive of poor prognosis and promotes tumour growth by regulating the cell‐cycle pathway
Authors: Zhang Pengfei , Li Yan , Liu Yankui , Zhang Lihua , Hua Dong 
Published: June 2022

AbstractColon adenocarcinoma (COAD) is one of the most common malignant tumours of the digestive system. Specific molecular markers play an important role in COAD diagnosis and therapy. Adenylate kinase 5 (AK5) is an enzyme that is related to energy metabolism and cancer. However, the exact role of AK5 in the progression of COAD is still unclear. In this study, the expression of AK5 in tissue samples and non‐cancerous tissues of COAD patients was assessed by the bioinformatics method and western blot. Kaplan‐Meier survival analysis and Cox regression analysis evaluated the prognostic significance of AK5. The biological function of AK5 in tumour progression was assessed by MTT assay, colony formation assay, transwell assay, wound healing assay, western blot and mice xenograft models. The results showed that AK5 expression in tumour tissues was lower than in non‐cancerous tissues. Notably, the patients with high AK5 expression possessed a longer overall survival than the low expression patients, and low AK5 expression promoted proliferation and metastasis in COAD cells by regulating the cell‐cycle pathway. Importantly, in vivo results showed that reduced AK5 expression is required for tumour growth. This study confirmed the significant role of AK5 in the development and progression of COAD. Therefore, low AK5 expression levels can be an independent prognostic biomarker, which provides new sight for the clinical diagnosis and target therapy of COAD.
Atmospheric pollution, soil nutrients and climate effects on Mucoromycota arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Authors: Kowal J. , Arrigoni E. , Jarvis S. , Zappala S. , Forbes E. , Bidartondo M. I. , Suz L. M. 
Published: June 2022

SummaryFine root endophyte mycorrhizal fungi in the Endogonales (Mucoromycota arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, M‐AMF) are now recognized as at least as important globally as Glomeromycota AMF (G‐AMF), yet little is known about the environmental factors which influence M‐AMF diversity and colonization, partly because they typically only co‐colonize plants with G‐AMF. Wild populations of Lycopodiella inundata predominantly form mycorrhizas with M‐AMF and therefore allow focussed study of M‐AMF environmental drivers. Using microscopic examination and DNA sequencing we measured M‐AMF colonization and diversity over three consecutive seasons and modelled interactions between these response variables and environmental data. Significant relationships were found between M‐AMF colonization and soil S, P, C:N ratio, electrical conductivity, and the previously overlooked micronutrient Mn. Estimated N deposition was negatively related to M‐AMF colonization. Thirty‐nine Endogonales Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) were identified in L. inundata roots, a greater diversity than previously recognized in this plant. Endogonales OTU richness correlated negatively with soil C:N while community composition was mostly influenced by soil P. This study provides first evidence that M‐AMF have distinct ecological preferences in response to edaphic variables also related to air pollution. Future studies require site‐level atmospheric pollution monitoring to guide critical load policy for mycorrhizal fungi in heathlands and grasslands.
The ‘Republican’ Publican: ‘Honest’ Sam House, Visual Culture, and the General Election of 1784*
Authors: Smith Callum D. 
Published: June 2022

AbstractDespite his ‘highest situation’ in life being that of a publican, Samuel House was the most frequently depicted member of the lower orders during the 1784 Westminster election and was directly credited in at least 33 different caricatures. To warrant such attention and depiction implies that House played a significant role as Fox's primary bridge to the plebeian Westminster vote; a demographic that was essential for Fox's victory. In spite of his positive electoral role in the Foxite campaign, House was effectively weaponised in hostile caricature as a discrediting plebeian anti‐Foxite caricature symbol, emphasising the vulnerabilities of the mingling of aristocratic‐plebeian sociability. Yet, in spite of his significance, and consistent inclusion in contemporary caricature, pamphlets and songs, House has remained largely unexplored by historians. Only John Brewer has produced a dedicated work on House, though the likes of H.T. Dickinson, Herbert Atherton, Diana Donald, Marc Baer, George Rudé, Harriet Guest and E.P Thompson have studied the role and impact of the mob and plebeian electoral contribution. Based on new work on the Foxites and visual culture and using contemporary biographical sources, poll books, parliamentary registers and contemporary newspapers this article will redress this imbalance and attempt to establish House's significance as a plebeian electoral campaigner for Fox, and as a discrediting symbol of plebeian drunkenness, sociability, and electoral corruption deployed by hostile caricaturists to disgrace his patron. So effective was the anti‐Fox campaign, bolstered by the activities of caricaturists, that Fox was prevented from taking his Westminster seat for ten months – from May 1784 until March 1785 – during a Pittite enforced scrutiny.
Choreography of Defeat: The Fall of the 1979 Government
Authors: Mitchell James , Williamson Clifford 
Published: June 2022

AbstractThis article reassesses the attempt by the Labour government in 1979 to overcome challenges faced without an overall majority; the collapse of the Lib‐Lab Pact; internal party dissent; and referendum results on Scottish and Welsh devolution. The efforts to patch together a parliamentary majority with other parties’ MPs while allaying opponents of devolution within the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) ultimately failed. Although the chronology of the defeat is well established and has formed the basis of many studies of British political history, less well understood is the choreography of defeat, the sequence of discussions and negotiations with smaller parties and internal debates within the government on how to respond to the results of the devolution referendums in Wales and Scotland held on 1 March 1979. Documents from the National Archives, Kew, including detailed accounts of the prime minister's conversations and discussions with cabinet colleagues and other party leaders, as well as an analysis of the decision‐making process inside 10 Downing Street highlight the limited choices available to the prime minister. It shows the difficulties the prime minister had in assessing the likely behaviour of MPs from the smaller parties as well as his own. James Callaghan rejected proposals from his deputy, Michael Foot, to avert defeat, preferring instead to avoid the possibility of dividing his party. This resulted in defeat in the no confidence vote that precipitated the general election that brought Margaret Thatcher to power.
Evaluation of rotary instruments with whipping motion in the biomechanical preparation of large root canals of young permanent teeth
Authors: de Carvalho Kleber Kildare Teodoro , Petean Igor Bassi Ferreira , Silva‐Sousa Alice Corrêa , Camargo Rafael , Mazzi‐Chaves Jardel Francisco , Silva‐Sousa Yara Teresinha Corrêa , Sousa‐Neto Manoel Damião 
Published: June 2022

AbstractShaping ability evaluation of taper ./01 instruments in large root canals, by microcomputed tomography (micro‐CT) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Maxillary central incisors with large diameter root canals were divided into two groups (n = 10): XP‐Endo Shaper (FKG‐Dentaire, Switzerland) and manual instrumentation (FKG‐Dentaire). Two‐ and three‐dimensional parameters from cervical to apical root thirds were evaluated by micro‐CT. Apical stop was evaluated by SEM images. Data were analysed by ANOVA and Tukey tests (α = 5%). XP‐Endo Shaper allowed a regular biomechanical preparation with less dentinal wear compared with manual instrumentation, which showed excessive wear of the thin root canal walls (p < 0.05). Roundness and SMI showed similarity between both protocols (p > 0.05). XP‐Endo Shaper SEM showed a regular and well‐defined shape of the apical foramen suggesting the formation of the apical stop. Reduced diameter and taper instruments promoted a conservative wear and a well‐defined apical stop formation in large root canals.