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Do emotions, desires and habits influence mutual fund investing? A study using the model of goal-directed behavior
Authors: Sourirajan Sunderarajan , Perumandla Swamy 
Published: June 2022

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine whether affective factors such as goal desires, positive anticipated emotions, anticipated regret and non-volitional actions like habits influence retail mutual fund investing.Design/methodology/approachUsing the model of goal-directed behavior (MGB), the impact of affective factors and habits was compared against a cognitively driven model. Data were collected through a survey of 321 mutual fund investors across India and analyzed using the partial least squares method.FindingsGoal-based desires were a significant driver of investing intentions while actual investing was driven by habits. Anticipated regret strongly influenced desires. The overall explanation of variance in intentions and investing behaviors was improved by 27 and 28% respectively by the new model.Research limitations/implicationsThe current investments in mutual funds is used as a proxy for future investing behaviors so results need to be interpreted accordingly. Future research directions could include the effects of mood, impact of language, religion and culture.Practical implicationsFor “emotionally complex” cultures, impact of emotive drivers and habits play a significant part in investing and fund houses need to orient their marketing accordingly.Social implicationsAwareness programs on how emotive issues and habits can hinder as well as enhance investment performance in markets would benefit retail investors.Originality/valueThe study is unique in analyzing affective and non-volitional factors and in showing that intentions are not sufficient to explain behaviors. It analyzes not just intentions as most studies do, but end behaviors of investors as well. It uses the MGB theoretical framework from behavioral psychology that has not been applied to financial behaviors before.
Analyzing the impact of COVID-19 on the financial performance of the hospitality and tourism industries: an ensemble MCDM approach in the Indian context
Authors: Ghosh Swagata , Bhattacharya Mousumi 
Published: June 2022

Purpose
The Indian hospitality and tourism industries, major economic growth drivers and employment generators, have been greatly affected by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In FY 2020, the Indian tourism sector created 39 million jobs and contributed nearly US$194.3bn, or 6.8%, to India’s gross domestic product. The purpose of this study is to focus on ranking 22 listed hotels and 9 listed travel agencies in India based on their performance across 14 selected financial parameters in both the pre-COVID-19 year ending in March 2019 and the post-COVID-19 year ending in March 2021 to understand how the pandemic affected their businesses.

Design/methodology/approach
This research proposes to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the financial performance of 22 listed Indian hotels and 9 listed travel agencies evaluated over 14 financial parameters using a pipeline of two recently developed multicriteria decision-making techniques, method based on the removal effects of criteria (MEREC) and grey-based combined compromised solution (CoCoSo). First, the criteria weights are objectively determined using MEREC, and then the financial performances of the selected companies in both the hospitality and tourism industries are separately assessed using CoCoSo to get their overall performance score, based on which the companies are ranked in order of preference.

Findings
It was observed that Westlife Development, Lemon Tree Hotels, Indian Tourism Development Corporation, Royal Orchid and Country Club performed significantly poorer than their peers in the aftermath of the pandemic, whereas EIH, Advani Hotels and Resorts and TGB Banquets performed relatively better. Travel agencies Easy Trip and International Travel House performed particularly poorly because of the pandemic, but VMV Holidays performed relatively better in FY 2021.

Practical implications
The findings of the analysis will aid portfolio construction, corporate investment decisions, competition research, government policymaking and industrial analysis.

Originality/value
The proposed model is novel because it fills the research gap in the application of the integrated MEREC–CoCoSo method to study the impact of COVID-19 on the hospitality and tourism sectors in India.
Health literacy, health literacy interventions and decision-making: a systematic literature review
Authors: Ghorbanian Zolbin Maedeh , Huvila Isto , Nikou Shahrokh 
Published: June 2022

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship between elderly people's health literacy skills and those people's decision to make use of digital health service platforms. Despite the substantial influence of digitisation on the delivery of healthcare services, understanding how health intervention strategies might help empower elderly people's health literacy skills is critical.Design/methodology/approachThis paper analyses the existing trends in research on the convergence of health literacy, health intervention programmes and digital health service platforms by reviewing 34 studies published between 2000 and 2020.FindingsThe findings of the review indicate three primary themes (health literacy skills, health management competency and attitude/confidence), which provide a summary of the current literature, and in all three the results show that health intervention programmes help to enhance health literacy skills of elderly people. Based on the review results and by organising the fragmented status quo of health intervention research, the authors develop a comprehensive research model and identify future research directions for research in this domain.Practical implicationsThe findings will be useful to health professionals in two ways: (1) the findings provide practical information about the growing need to implement health literacy intervention programmes to satisfy elderly people's appetite for accessing health services due to cognitive and physiological impairments, and (2) the finding help them to understand that with digital health platforms, elderly people have quicker access to health services, improving the quality of care provided to them.Originality/valueThis paper presents a comprehensive research model for analysing the impact of health literacy skills on older people's ability and intention to access digital health information sources, considering various health intervention approaches.
Leveraging the potential of a technologically heterogeneous suppliers – a dynamic approach
Authors: Gelei Andrea , Kenesei Zsófia 
Published: June 2022

PurposeIn today’s turbulent environment, it is important that companies effectively leverage resources available both in-house and in their interorganizational ties. The purpose of this study is to focus on technology as a key resource and aims to analyse contextual factors of the relationship between the technological heterogeneity of suppliers and the buyer firm’s short- and long-term performance in a dynamic approach.Design/methodology/approachThis paper applies a mixed-method approach. The theoretical model has been developed based on extant literature, validated by a workshop with practitioners, and tested using structural equation modelling on a sample of 157 companies.FindingsSuppliers’ technological heterogeneity has a significant positive effect on both the buyer’s actual business performance and its research and development capability. Business performance captures the short term, while the long-term performance implications of heterogeneity are understood as a precondition for future, technology-based competitiveness. The results show that both short- and long-term consequences are mediated by the buyer’s supply chain management efforts (SCMEs), while the relationship between technological heterogeneity and these efforts is moderated by the buyer’s networking capability (NC).Research limitations/implicationsThis study provides the first evidence of potential long-term positive performance consequences of technologically heterogeneous suppliers. Additionally, it develops new insights into how the internal abilities of the focal firm might facilitate or hinder the positive implications of such heterogeneity. Specifically, the role of the buyer’s SCMEs and its NC is analysed. Industry-specific analyses offer new opportunities for future scholarship and future studies could extend research with other contextual factors.Practical implicationsManagers at different levels of the buyer firm should be aware of the organizational capabilities through which they can leverage the potential embedded in technologically heterogeneous suppliers. The results contribute to this understanding, which is especially important when a change in the environment (and the consequent changes in the level of technological heterogeneity) is constant.Originality/valueThis paper reflects on an important critique of the extant literature by applying a dynamic approach. Dynamization is twofold. Firstly, this study does not limit empirical analysis to short-term performance consequences. Secondly, this study discusses contextual factors that capture some aspects of the buyer’s ability to dynamically adapt to the changing environment. SCMEs align the supply chain of the buyer along customer requirements that change over time, while the NC is responsible for the ongoing reconfiguration of the supplier’s base.
Governing anticipation: UNESCO making humankind futures literate
Authors: Jennische Ulrik , Sörbom Adrienne 
Published: June 2022

PurposeThis paper explores practices of foresight within the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) program Futures Literacy, as a form of transnational governmentality–founded on the interests of “using the future” by “emancipating” the minds of humanity.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on ethnographic material gathered over five years within the industry of futures consultancy, including UNESCO and its network of self-recognized futurists. The material consists of written sources, participant observation in on-site and digital events and workshops, and interviews.FindingsBuilding on Foucault's (1991) concept of governmentality, which refers to the governing of governing and how subjects politically come into being, this paper critically examines the UNESCO Futures Literacy program by answering questions on ontology, deontology, technology and utopia. It shows how the underlying rationale of the Futures Literacy program departs from an ontological premise of anticipation as a fundamental capacity of biological life, constituting an ethical substance that can be worked on and self-controlled. This rationale speaks to the mandate of UNESCO, to foster peace in our minds, but also to the governing of governing at the individual level.Originality/valueIn the intersection between the growing literature on anticipation and research concerning governmentality the paper adds ethnographically based knowledge to the field of transnational governance. Earlier ethnographic studies of UNESCO have mostly focused upon its role for cultural heritage, or more broadly neoliberal forms of governing.
Corporate social responsibility, marketing capabilities and consumer behavioral responses
Authors: Kankam-Kwarteng Collins , Donkor George Nana Agyekum , Forkuoh Solomon Kwarteng 
Published: June 2022

PurposeThe purpose of the study was to examine the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and marketing capability on consumer behavioral responses in the mobile telecommunication industry in Ghana. Particularly, the study estimated the moderating effect of marketing capability on the relationship between CSR and consumer behavioral responses.Design/methodology/approachBoth customers and employees of three major mobile telecommunication companies were sampled for this work. A mixed linear regression technique was used to examine the relationship between corporate responsibility, marketing capability and customer behavioral responses.FindingsThe empirical results revealed that marketing capabilities moderate the relationship between CSR and consumer responses in the telecommunication industry.Research limitations/implicationsThe study proposes practical dimensions to the mobile telecommunication companies that the extensive development of strong marketing capabilities serves a conduit for CSR to achieve favorable consumer responses.Originality/valueThe results have opened up rather a limitation studies on the moderation role marketing capabilities in relationship between CSR and consumer behavioral responses in the telecommunication industry.
Stakeholder salience and environmental stewardship among hotels in Malaysia
Authors: Rassiah Puspavathy , Mohd Nasir Norita , Khan Ghazala , Munir Sa'adiah 
Published: June 2022

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the influence and impacts of stakeholders on the awareness and attitudes towards environmental management practices (EMPs) among hotel managers in Malaysia.Design/methodology/approachA total of 159 hotel managers participated in the survey. Structural equation modelling using the partial least squares (PLS) technique was used to test the hypotheses.FindingsOwners and regulators influence hotel managers' environmental awareness and attitudes and their adoption of EMPs. Managers with a greater environmental awareness are more likely to adopt basic EMPs, while those with a greater environmental attitude are more likely to adopt advanced EMPs. In addition, stakeholder influence on managers' awareness and attitudes differs for hotels with and without an environmental policy.Research limitations/implicationsOther types of accommodation and stakeholders, demographic variations of hotels and different data collection methods could provide additional insights into the hotel sustainability issue.Practical implicationsCoercion may be needed to translate hotel managers' environmental awareness and attitudes into practices. Therefore, regulators should provide rules and penalties to enforce mandatory requirements and incentives to encourage environmental sustainability initiatives.Social implicationsThe joint effort among stakeholders could create a societal norm that appreciates and maintains a sustainable environment and tourism industry.Originality/valueThis study emphasises the importance of stakeholder salience theory to understand the association between stakeholder influence on managers' awareness and attitudes and the adoption of EMPs by hotels in Malaysia. It is one of only a handful of studies that focuses on stakeholders' influence on environmental stewardship from managers' perspectives.
International tourists’ local African food consumption
Authors: Badu-Baiden Frank , Kim Seongseop (Sam) , Otoo Felix Elvis , King Brian 
Published: June 2022

Purpose
This study aims to examine international tourists’ local African food consumption experiences by using an attribute–benefit–value–intention (ABVI) framework.

Design/methodology/approach
A total of 336 respondents were collected in Ghana, Africa. A series of quantitative research methods were used in the data analysis to explicate the relationships.

Findings
By assessing critical structural relationships, 8 out of 14 hypothetical relationships were found to be empirically supported. They include the paths between food novelty, restaurant quality and food quality as antecedents of epistemic value, the path between restaurant quality and food quality and the path between restaurant quality and consumption value.

Originality/value
This study establishes the psychological mechanism behind tourists’ local food consumption experiences and further extends the utility of the consumption value theory and ABVI framework into the local food experience context. It confirms that tourists’ local food consumption experiences involve a sequential psychological process involving local food attribute evaluation, benefits sought, consumption values and future intention. This study offers a thorough explanation of variables that are crucial to promoting indigenous ethnic food consumption experience.
Shifts in dominance and complementarity between sessile oak and beech along ecological gradients
Authors: Jacobs Kristoffel , Jonard Mathieu , Muys Bart , Ponette Quentin 
Published: June 2022

Abstract

Whether tree species benefit from growing in a mixed forest depends on the relative importance of positive versus negative interactions, which varies according to abiotic conditions. In mixture with sessile oak Quercus petraea [Matt.] Liebl., European beech Fagus sylvatica L. is often competitively dominant. Sessile oak, however, is more resistant to water deficit stress. Under water‐limiting conditions, facilitation or even competition exerted by oak may gain in importance.

We investigated the relative importance of dominance and complementarity in seven triplets of pure and mixed forests in Belgium's temperate oceanic climate. We analysed ring width data of 145 oaks and 138 beech trees along three distinct gradients: a spatial (i) and a temporal (ii) water availability gradient and a temporal gradient in growing conditions (iii). Gradient (ii) was represented by a precipitation variable, obtained by defining a large set of candidate climate variables over variable time frames, narrowed down using a species and site‐specific lasso model. Growing conditions on a temporal gradient (iii) were represented by standardized tree growth. Two sets of linear mixed‐effects models were used. Growth models assess mixing effects on ring width along gradients (i) and (ii). Mixing index models test for all three gradients how they affect the relative difference in average ring width of trees in mixed and pure stands.

Beech trees grew faster than oak trees, and mixing further increased beech growth while decreasing oak growth, except on drier sites where the negative effect on oak growth disappeared. Low precipitation years, in contrast, reduced the beneficial effect of mixing on beech. In years of low growth, the positive mixing effect on beech growth was reinforced, and the negative mixing effect on oak growth decreased.

Synthesis. Mixing buffered against growth limitations in general, though this depends on the nature of the limitation and the gradient over which it is measured. On dry sites, competitive dominance of beech was replaced by higher complementarity between species. During dry years, however, oak did not profit from a decreased mixing benefit of beech.
phylogatR: Phylogeographic data aggregation and repurposing
Authors: Pelletier Tara A. , Parsons Danielle J. , Decker Sydney K. , Crouch Stephanie , Franz Eric , Ohrstrom Jeffery , Carstens Bryan C. 
Published: June 2022

AbstractPatterns of genetic diversity within species contain information the history of that species, including how they have responded to historical climate change and how easily the organism is able to disperse across its habitat. More than 40,000 phylogeographic and population genetic investigations have been published to date, each collecting genetic data from hundreds of samples. Despite these millions of data points, meta‐analyses are challenging because the synthesis of results across hundreds of studies, each using different methods and forms of analysis, is a daunting and time‐consuming task. It is more efficient to proceed by repurposing existing data and using automated data analysis. To facilitate data repurposing, we created a database (phylogatR) that aggregates data from different sources and conducts automated multiple sequence alignments and data curation to provide users with nearly ready‐to‐analyse sets of data for thousands of species. Two types of scientific research will be made easier by phylogatR: large meta‐analyses of thousands of species that can address classic questions in evolutionary biology and ecology, and student‐ or citizen‐ science based investigations that will introduce a broad range of people to the analysis of genetic data. phylogatR enhances the value of existing data via the creation of software and web‐based tools that enable these data to be recycled and reanalysed and increase accessibility to big data for research laboratories and classroom instructors with limited computational expertise and resources.
Longitudinal changes in inflammatory biomarkers among patients with COVID‐19: A nationwide study in Iceland
Authors: Oskarsdottir Thora , Sigurdsson Martin I. , Palsson Runolfur , Eythorsson Elias 
Published: June 2022

AbstractObjectivesAll SARS‐CoV‐2‐positive persons in Iceland were prospectively monitored and those who required outpatient evaluation or were admitted to hospital underwent protocolized evaluation that included a standardized panel of biomarkers. The aim was to describe longitudinal changes in inflammatory biomarkers throughout the infection period of patients with COVID‐19 requiring different levels of care.DesignRegistry‐based study.SettingNationwide study in Iceland.PatientsAll individuals who tested positive for SARS‐CoV‐2 by real‐time polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR) from February 28 to December 31, 2020 in Iceland and had undergone blood tests between 5 days before and 21 days following onset of symptoms.Measurements and Main ResultsData were collected from the electronic medical record system of Landspitali–The National University Hospital of Iceland. Data analyses were descriptive and the evolution of biomarkers was visualized using locally weighted scatterplot smoothing curves stratified by the worst clinical outcome experienced by the patient: outpatient evaluation only, hospitalization, and either intensive care unit (ICU) admission or death. Of 571 included patients, 310 (54.3%) only required outpatient evaluation or treatment, 202 (35.4%) were hospitalized, and 59 (10.3%) were either admitted to the ICU or died. An early and persistent separation of the mean lymphocyte count and plasma C‐reactive protein (CRP) and ferritin levels was observed between the three outcome groups, which occurred prior to hospitalization for those who later were admitted to ICU or died. Lower lymphocyte count, and higher CRP and ferritin levels correlated with worse clinical outcomes. Patients who were either admitted to the ICU or died had sustained higher white blood cell and neutrophil counts, and elevated plasma levels of procalcitonin and D‐dimer compared with the other groups.ConclusionsLymphocyte count and plasma CRP and ferritin levels might be suitable parameters to assess disease severity early during COVID‐19 and may serve as predictors of worse outcome.