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Does CEO openness matter when explaining firm internationalization decisions: evidence from China
Authors: Chen Weihong , Zhong Xi , Lan Hailin 
Published: November 2022

PurposeThe impact of executive characteristics on firm internationalization has already been extensively explored. However, relatively few studies have examined the critical role of chief executive officer (CEO) personality attributes, and especially CEO openness, in firm internationalization. This research aims to deepen the understanding of firm internationalization, by exploring whether and when CEO openness influences firm internationalization.Design/methodology/approachA sample of private high-tech listed firms in China is used, with data from 2004 to 2020.FindingsBased on upper echelons theory, this study theorizes and finds that CEO openness will positively influence firm internationalization. Further, based on the behavioral theory of the firm, this study finds that the performance aspiration gap weakens the positive effect of CEO openness on firm internationalization, but also finds that the potential slack strengthens this effect.Originality/valueFirst, the study reinterprets firm internationalization strategies from the perspective of CEO openness, a personality attribute; CEO openness is an important but so far rarely discussed topic in the field of international business. Second, for the first time, problemistic search and slack search into a research framework are introduced to explore the relationship between CEO characteristics and firm internationalization. This approach can further define the boundary conditions under which CEOs can project their values, preferences and personalities into the process of formulating and implementing a firm's internationalization strategy.
Does financial inclusion reduce income inequality? Empirical evidence from Asian economies
Authors: Verma Anushka , Giri Arun Kumar 
Published: November 2022

PurposeThe present study examines the significance of financial inclusion in reducing income inequality in the Asian context.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses panel estimation techniques such as the Pedroni cointegration test, Kao residual-based test, FMOLS, ARDL and Granger causality, a dataset consisting of the Gini coefficient index, three dimensions of financial inclusion measures and one added variable on financial depth, spanning from 2005 to 2019.FindingsThe study finds that in the long-run, income inequality disparity is highly influenced by financial inclusion indicators, such as the number of bank branches, deposit accounts, outstanding loans and domestic credit to the private sector. Whereas in the short run, disparities in income are unaffected by all the indicators of financial inclusion. Further, unidirectional causality from financial inclusion indicators to income inequality necessitates the need for policymakers to design policies and programs that would enhance access to financial services as an essential mechanism to reduce income disparity.Originality/valueStudies based on a panel of Asian countries that have undergone impressive growth of financial inclusion initiatives since the past decade—but are still facing widening income inequality—are conspicuously rare in the literature. The empirical analysis fills this void by showing the significant role financial inclusion indicators play in steering the Asian economies toward income equality throughout the study period.
Detection and measurement of beam deflection in the Madeira Airport runway extension using digital image correlation
Authors: Barros Francisco , Aguiar Susana , Sousa Pedro J. , Cachaço António , Ramos Nuno V. , Tavares Paulo , Moreira P.M.G. , Oliveira Santos Luís , Xu Min , Franco Elsa 
Published: November 2022

PurposePart of the runway at Madeira Airport is a platform above the sea at a 60 m height, supported by a series of frames. When aircraft land on this section, a load is exerted on the structure, resulting in bending of the beams which constitute the frames. A vision-based monitoring system was devised and implemented to measure the deflection of the runway's beams when a landing occurs.Design/methodology/approachAn area on the midspan of two beams, located on the area where aircraft are most likely to land, was prepared with a speckle pattern, and a camera was assembled above a column on each of the adjacent frames, enabling the computation of displacements using digital image correlation (DIC). The camera continuously acquires images of the monitored area and compares them to a reference using DIC. If a displacement is detected, a number of frames before and after this event are saved for further DIC processing.FindingsThe installed systems successfully detected several events corresponding to landings and, for each of those events, measured the deflection of the beams over time and computed displacement fields for critical images, with strain values obtained up to this point being too small to measure using the current system.Originality/valueThis work provides novel insights into the behaviour of a unique structure and constitutes the first use of a vision system in its structural monitoring operations. It is also a valuable development in the implementation of automated DIC monitoring systems in locations of difficult access.
Monitoring corporate credit risk with multiple data sources
Authors: Ni Du , Lim Ming K. , Li Xingzhi , Qu Yingchi , Yang Mei 
Published: November 2022

PurposeMonitoring corporate credit risk (CCR) has traditionally relied on such indicators as income, debt and inventory at a company level. These data are usually released on a quarterly or annual basis by the target company and include, exclusively, the financial data of the target company. As a result of this exclusiveness, the models for monitoring credit risk usually fail to account for some significant information from different sources or channels, like the data of its supply chain partner companies and other closely relevant data yet available from public networks, and it is these seldom used data that can help unveil the immediate CCR changes and how the risk is being propagated along the supply chain. This study aims to discuss the a forementioned issues.Design/methodology/approachGoing beyond the existing CCR prediction data, this study intends to address the impact of supply chain data and network activity data on CCR prediction, by integrating machine learning technology into the prediction to verify whether adding new data can improve the predictability.FindingsThe results show that the predictive errors of the datasets after adding supply chain data and network activity data to them are made the ever least. Moreover, intelligent algorithms like support vector machine (SVM), compared to traditionally used methods, are better at processing nonlinear datasets and mining complex relationships between multi-variable indicators for CCR evaluation.Originality/valueThis study indicates that bringing in more information of multiple data sources combined with intelligent algorithms can help companies prevent risk spillovers in the supply chain from causing harm to the company, and, as well, help customers evaluate the creditworthiness of the entity to lessen the risk of their investment.
Analysing the effect of AMO framework on the employee's voice behaviour
Authors: Doshi Parinda , Nigam Priti 
Published: November 2022

PurposeThe paper is built upon the conceptual framework of ability, motivation and opportunity (AMO) to identify the effect of the high performance work system (HPWS) on the voice behaviour of the organisation.Design/methodology/approachThe human resource department of the steel plants was approached to facilitate the data collection. A standardised questionnaire was used to collect responses from 169 full-time employees working at different levels and departments in the steel plant in India. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to validate and examine the model identifying the relationship of AMO enhancing practices with the voice behaviour in the organisation.FindingsAMO was found to affect voice behaviour in the organisation. The positive and significant effect of ability enhancement practices was examined on the acquiescent voice and the opportunity enhancing practices on the acquiescent and defensive voice in the organisation.Practical implicationsEven though the organisation has tried to improve the employee's ability through proper training and development efforts, the organisation still fails to develop confidence in the employee for giving the suggestion or opinions without hesitation. The research papers try to provide valuable suggestions to the human resource management (HRM) and other managers for improving the voice behaviour of the employees based on the current study that identifies the effect of AMO practices on the voice behaviour of the employees.Originality/valueFactors affecting voice behaviour are not yet extensively studied in the Indian context. The researcher examined the effect of HPWS, considering the AMO framework on the organisation's acquiescent voice, defensive voice, and prosocial voice behaviour.
COVID-19 fake news among the general population: motives, sociodemographic, attitude/behavior and impacts – a systematic review
Authors: Balakrishnan Vimala , Abdul Rahman Luqman Hakim , Tan Jia Kai , Lee Yee Sin 
Published: November 2022

PurposeThis systematic review aims to synthesize the literature reporting the motives, sociodemographic, attitude/behavior and impacts of fake news during the COVID-19 pandemic, targeting the general population worldwide.Design/methodology/approachA systematic review approach was adopted based on PRISMA, targeting articles published in five databases from January 2020 to November 2021. The screening resulted in 46 eligible papers.FindingsResults indicate low level of awareness, knowledge, media/health literacy, low trust in science/scientists and entertainment/socialization to be the main motivating drivers for fake news dissemination, whereas the phenomenon is more prominent among those with low socio-economic status, and males. Negative impacts were reported due to fake news dissemination, especially violation to precautionary measures, negative affections, and low trust in government/news, with many believing that others are more susceptible to fake news than themselves.Social implicationsConsidering the pandemic is still on-going and the deleterious consequences of fake news, there is a need for cohort-based interventions from the concerned authorities.Originality/valueThe systematic review covers a wide timeline of 23 months (i.e. up to end of 2022) targeting five well-known databases, hence articles examined are deemed extensive and comprehensive. The review specifically focused on the general population with results revealing interesting motives, sociodemographic profiles, attitude and impact of this phenomenon during the COVID-19 pandemic.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-02-2022-0082.
Gender, Pobladoras and Ollas Comunes in Chile: Re‐Activating Memory and History in Order to Survive the Coronacrisis
Authors: Hiner Hillary , Peña Saavedra Anita , Castillo Delgado Alondra 
Published: November 2022

AbstractDuring the COVID‐19 global pandemic, pobladora women in Valparaiso were crucial in the organisation of their communities and the ollas comunes (common pots). Many observers linked these new ollas comunes to the ones that existed during the Pinochet dictatorship, in this manner citing a politics of gendered memory and local feminist history that allowed them to re‐organise in record time. The article explores this comparison, using women's narratives on ollas comunes in the past and the present in order to critically assess their similarities and differences. Additionally, it analyses how, and why, pobladora popular feminist memory regarding food insecurity resistance strategies and ollas comunes is transferred between generations. This article uses interviews done with popular‐sector and feminist women in the Chilean port city of Valparaiso during 2020 and 2021, as part of the project, ‘Women's Solidarity Networks Take on COVID‐19: the case of Valparaíso, Chile’.
Conflicts of interest and agent heterogeneity in buyer brokerage
Authors: Kryzanowski Lawrence , Wu Yanting , Zhou Tingyu 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThis article investigates the incentives of agents working with buyers (buying agents) under the fixed percentage commission system and the implications on housing market outcomes. Our model shows that the absence of a binding contract creates a risk of losing clients for buying agents, which helps mitigate the conflict of interest between buying agents and their clients. Both the buying agent's prediction accuracy regarding their client's reservation prices and the level of tolerance given by the buyer to the buying agent affect the binding force. Results from simulations and empirical analyses using house transactions in Canada support our model predictions.
Evaluation of the (hu)MANid program for sex and ancestry estimation in a diverse, contemporary CT scan‐based sample
Authors: Farhi Matan , Tomas Natalie , Marion Ian , Avenetti David , Atsawasuwan Phimon , da Fonseca Marcio , Al Atabbe Mustafa , Nicholas Christina L. 
Published: November 2022

AbstractHuman remains from forensic and bioarcheological contexts are often fragmentary, requiring methods for estimating a forensic profile that are based upon limited skeletal features. In 2017, Berg and Keryhercz created an online application, (hu)MANid, that provides sex and ancestry estimation from mandibular morphoscopic traits and linear measurements. In this study, we examine the utility of the (hu)MANid application in a diverse, urban US adult sample (aged 20–45; n = 143) derived from computed tomography (CT) scans. We secondarily conduct a preliminary analysis of the program's utility in a sample of adolescents (aged 15–17; n = 40). Six morphoscopic, and eleven morphometric traits were recorded as directed by the literature associated with the (hu)MANid program. Percent correct classification and posterior predictive values were calculated for the sex and ancestry estimations output by the program; chi‐squared tests were employed to compare self‐reported and predicted ancestry. In the adult sample, sex was accurately predicted for 75.52% of the sample. Ancestry prediction, however, was less favorable ranging from 19.3% to 50% correct. For the adolescent sample, correct sex estimation (45%) did not surpass what could occur by chance alone, though ancestry prediction fared better than in the larger adult sample (percent correct prediction overall average: 47.5%, range 35.71%–71.43%). The (hu)MANid application shows utility for use with CT scan‐derived adult samples for sex estimation, but caution is warranted for ancestry estimation and use with samples that may not have reached full adult maturity.
Metabolites and chemometric study of Perilla (Perilla frutescens) from different varieties and geographical origins
Authors: Li Yuan , Zhang Yue , Wang Youyou , Li Xiang , Zhou Li , Yang Jian , Guo Lanping 
Published: November 2022

AbstractPerilla (Perilla frutescens, PF) is an annual labiaceae herb that can be used as vegetable, seasoner, and herb, which mainly includes red PF (P. frutescens var. crispa) and green PF (P. frutescens var. frutescens). Red and green Perilla is mainly used for medicine and food, respectively. In order to explore the differences between these two Perilla cultivars and the effects of origin on them, we studied the components of 130 Perilla samples from different origins by ultra‐high performance liquid chromatography quadrupole‐time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry combined with partial least squares discriminant analysis and orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis. In this study, 57 potential compounds were analyzed, mainly including organic acids, flavonoids, terpenoids, and anthocyanins. In different varieties of Perilla, anthocyanins were found only in red PF. In addition, the content of four flavonoids, two organic acids, and one coumarin in red PF is much higher than that in green PF. Among the same variety of Perilla, the contents of three metabolites were higher in the north of China for red Perilla, while five metabolites were higher in the south of China for green Perilla. Overall, this research provided a basis for distinguishing different varieties and sources of Perilla through the differential metabolites of Perilla.
Promoting lipid oxidation and release of volatiles of pork fat pulp by lipase, blue light with riboflavin in liquor immersion
Authors: Liang Shiya , Zhang Fengjiao , He Songgui , Li Weigang , Wu Zhenqiang 
Published: November 2022

AbstractThe deeply oxidized pork fat (PF) is the key in the production of Chi‐aroma Baijiu, a Chinese distilled spirit. Previous studies have not proposed an integrated method to promote lipid oxidation of PF, and the formation of volatiles has not been studied. In this work, an efficient method was established to promote lipid oxidation and release of volatiles of pork fat pulp (PFP) in an integrated treatment for the production of Chi‐aroma Baijiu. The results showed that the acid value of PFP by lipase pretreatment (T1) was significantly elevated (p < 0.05), compared to the control (T0). Lipase‐blue light‐riboflavin‐25°C (T2), lipase‐open vial‐dark‐25°C (T3), and lipase‐dark‐40°C (T4) further promoted lipid oxidation and reached the oxidation level of PFP by F0, while T2 show the best results. The peroxide value of PFP by T2, T3, and T4 was 41.96‐, 16.70‐ and 14.20‐fold higher, and the para‐anisidine value was 27.13‐, 6.94‐ and 6.70 fold higher than that in T1. The flavor and volatile analyses showed that PFP by T2 had higher response values than T0 at six electronic nose sensors. T2–T4 promoted the release of volatiles and T2 showed the best result. T2 potentially facilitated lipid oxidation, esterification, and substance exchange of PFP, resulting in a higher type (78.57%) and content (114.50%) of volatiles than T0. The integrated treatment with lipase hydrolysis, blue light with riboflavin could promote lipid oxidation and volatiles release to improve production efficiency of deeply oxidized PF. The results would be viably applied to the production of Chi‐aroma Baijiu.Practical ApplicationDeeply oxidized pork fat was the key to the production of Chi‐aroma Baijiu, while it took a long time (at least 4 months) to prepare. The integrated treatment with lipase hydrolysis, blue light with riboflavin could promote lipid oxidation and volatiles release to improve the production efficiency of deeply oxidized pork fat. The results would be viably applied to the production of Chi‐aroma Baijiu.
Attractiveness of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) to faeces from native mammals in different trophic guilds
Authors: Gigliotti Marcela Soares , Togni Pedro Henrique Brum , Frizzas Marina Regina 
Published: November 2022

AbstractDung beetles are predominantly coprophagous and use mammalian faeces as their main food resource and for offspring rearing. However, these resources are generally ephemeral and scarce. The objective of this study was to verify the attractiveness to dung beetles of the faeces of nine native mammal species of the Cerrado biome in different trophic guilds. This study was conducted during the rainy season (October 2016 to March 2017) in two sensu stricto areas of the Cerrado in the Brasília National Park (PNB), Federal District, Brazil. Pitfalls containing faeces of nine mammals native to the region were used as bait (from three herbivores, three carnivores and three omnivores) for the collection of dung beetles. We collected 203 individuals and 19 species, and the most abundant species were Uroxys aff. thoracalis, Oxysternon palemo, Coprophanaeus spitzi and Diabroctis mirabilis. The most attractive faecal bait was from the omnivorous Chrysocyon brachyurus (32.67% of the individuals and 13 species). This study reveals variation in the attraction of dung beetles to native mammal dung of the Cerrado, with more abundance in the faeces of omnivores and carnivores and less in the faeces of herbivores. The species composition in the carnivore baits did not differ from that of the omnivore baits. These data indicate that changes in Scarabaeinae assemblages result from changes in mammal species such as those that have occurred in the Cerrado biome with the conversion to cattle production, which in recent years has caused intense fragmentation of habitats, expansion of agricultural and livestock activities and the introduction of exotic species. The mammal C. brachyurus, vulnerable to extinction in Brazil, should be a focus for future research, since its faeces support a great diversity of dung beetles in the Cerrado.
Rural versus metropolitan comparison of processes of care in the community‐based management of TIA and minor stroke in Australia (an analysis from the INSIST study)
Authors: Gangadharan Shyam , Tomari Shinya , Levi Christopher R. , Weaver Natasha , Holliday Elizabeth , Bajorek Beata , Lasserson Daniel , Valderas Jose M. , Dewey Helen M. , Barber Peter Alan , Spratt Neil J. , Cadilhac Dominique A. , Feigin Valery L. , Rothwell Peter M. , Zareie Hossein , Garcia‐Esperon Carlos , Davey Andrew , Najib Nashwa , Sales Milton , Magin Parker 
Published: November 2022

AbstractObjectivesTo compare processes of care and clinical outcomes of community‐based management of TIAs and minor strokes (TIAMS) between rural and metropolitan Australia.DesignInception cohort study between 2012 and 2016 with 12‐month follow‐up after index event (sub‐study of INSIST).SettingHunter and Manning valley regions of New South Wales, within the referral territory of the John Hunter Hospital Acute Neurovascular Clinic (JHHANC).ParticipantsConsecutive patients of 16 participating general practices, presenting with possible TIAMS to either primary or secondary care.Main Outcome MeasuresProcesses of care (referrals, key management processes, time‐based metrics) and clinical outcomes.ResultsOf 613 participants with possible TIAMS who completed the baseline interview, 298 were adjudicated as having TIAMS (119 from rural, 179 from metropolitan). Mean age was 72.3 years (SD, 10.7) and 127 (43%) were women. Rural participants were more likely to be managed solely by a general practitioner (GP) than metropolitan participants (34% v 20%) and less likely to be referred to a JHHANC specialist (13% v 38%) or have brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) [24% v 51%]. Those rural participants who were referred, also waited longer (both p < 0.001). Recurrent stroke, myocardial infarction and death at 12 months were not significantly different between rural and metropolitan participants.ConclusionsAlthough TIAMS prognosis in rural settings where solely GP care is common is very good, the processes of care in such areas are inferior to metropolitan. This suggests there is further scope to support rural GPs to optimise care of TIAMS patients.