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The internationalization of meatpacking firms: a competence-based approach
Authors: Santos Alexandre Borges , Batalha Mário Otávio 
Published: May 2022

Purpose This study seeks to empirically and theoretically show how and why food chain specific advantages along with country-specific and firm-specific advantages impact the development of competences and shape distinct strategies for international growth.Design/methodology/approach Case studies were conducted with three Brazilian meatpacking firms with solid global operations. Top managers in charge of international operations were interviewed and documents were collected. Data were coded and submitted to triangulation. Content analysis was used as data analysis technique.Findings Results suggest that a meso-level of analysis is important to understand the development of competences and strategies for internationalization of meatpacking firms. Additionally, it was found that the internationalization process of meatpacking firms are supported by four supportive competences, namely: technical, production, sales and logistics competences. Findings also reveal that these companies tend to pursue either a raw material seeker or local taste supplier strategy.Originality/value International business scholars have struggled to incorporate meso-level characteristics into mainstream literature. This paper tries to fill in this gap by incorporating distinctive features from the food supply chain in the analysis. Two novel international strategy typologies were introduced by considering firm-, food chain- and country-specific advantages. It also proposes sound theoretical and managerial evidence to support public and private decision-making.
Risk management and corporate governance of Islamic banks: evidence from GCC countries
Authors: Reyad Sameh , Chinnasamy Gopalakrishnan , Madbouly Araby 
Published: May 2022

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to identify the effectiveness of risk management and corporate governance (CG) practices followed in Islamic banks (IBs) of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Hence, they are considered as critical performance indicators for financial institutions and IBs. Though the IBs are growing, there are still challenges associated with their operations because of Shariah noncompliance risks, governance, capital adequacy ratio and other risks.

Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a mixed-method approach, gathering qualitative data from senior risk managers of chosen IBs via semi-structured interviews and quantitative data from selected IBs financial reports using capital IQ resources. The information was gathered for a considerable time (2013–2019), and the CAMELS rating system was used to analyze it.

Findings
The results showed that GCC IBs manage their business risks well through effective CG except in certain areas like asset quality management and liquidity.

Practical implications
The result of this study can provide support to the banks’ top management, chief executives, regulators and government, in all practices related to risk assessment, management and mitigation.

Originality/value
This study contributes to the existing knowledge in risk management and CG practices. Furthermore, this study is a new attempt in knowing the risk management and CG practices followed in IBs in GCC countries using the mixed-method approach.
Boardroom characteristics and forward-looking information disclosure: evidence from Ghana
Authors: Effah Nana Adwoa Anokye , Kyei Baffour Tutu , Kyeremeh Gabriel , Ekor Nash William Kudjo 
Published: May 2022

Purpose
Amid growing stakeholder needs, this study aims to assess the effect of boardroom characteristics on the disclosure of forward-looking information by listed firms on the Ghana stock exchange (GSE). Further, it investigates the mediating role of firm size in the relationship between boardroom characteristics and forward-looking information disclosure (FLID).

Design/methodology/approach
Using data from the annual reports of a sample of firms on the GSE in 2019 and multiple regression analysis, the effect of boardroom characteristics on the disclosure of forward-looking information is ascertained.

Findings
The results depict that board gender diversity, i.e. female representation on the board, is positive and significantly related to firms’ disclosure levels on the GSE. Similarly, board independence and auditor type have a positive and significant relationship with FLID, whereas profitability and financial leverage do not affect disclosure levels. The further analysis depicts that the relationship between board size and FLID is mediated by firm size.

Practical implications
This study’s findings would aid management, market regulators and investors in Ghana and other developing contexts assess mechanisms that would increase FLID among firms to satisfy stakeholders.

Originality/value
This paper focuses on the extent of FLID after the setbacks and subsequent rejuvenation of Ghana’s financial and nonfinancial system. Specifically, this paper adds to the few studies on the African continent that examined the influence of boardroom characteristics on FLID.
Artificial intelligence in learning and development: a systematic literature review
Authors: Bhatt Parag , Muduli Ashutosh 
Published: May 2022

Purpose
The presented research explored artificial intelligence (AI) application in the learning and development (L&D) function. Although a few studies reported AI and the people management processes, a systematic and structured study that evaluates the integration of AI with L&D focusing on scope, adoption and affecting factors is mainly absent. This study aims to explore L&D-related AI innovations, AI’s role in L&D processes, advantages of AI adoption and factors leading to effective AI-based learning following the analyse, design, develop, implement and evaluate approach.

Design/methodology/approach
The presented research has adopted a systematic literature review method to critically analyse, synthesise and map the extant research by identifying the broad themes involved. The review approach includes determining a time horizon, database selection, article selection and article classification. Databases from Emerald, Sage, Francis and Taylor, etc. were used, and the 81 research articles published between 1996 and 2022 were identified for analysis.

Findings
The result shows that AI innovations such as natural language processing, artificial neural networks, interactive voice response and text to speech, speech to text, technology-enhanced learning and robots can improve L&D process efficiency. One can achieve this by facilitating the articulation of learning module, identifying learners through face recognition and speech recognition systems, completing course work, etc. Further, the result also shows that AI can be adopted in evaluating learning aptitude, testing learners’ memory, tracking learning progress, measuring learning effectiveness, helping learners identify mistakes and suggesting corrections. Finally, L&D professionals can use AI to facilitate a quicker, more accurate and cheaper learning process, suitable for a large learning audience at a time, flexible, efficient, convenient and less expensive for learners.

Originality/value
In the absence of any systematic research on AI in L&D function, the result of this study may provide useful insights to researchers and practitioners.
Determinants of research performance of university academics and the moderating and mediating roles of organizational culture and job crafting
Authors: Mohd Rasdi Roziah , Tauhed Siti Zainab , Zaremohzzabieh Zeinab , Ahrari Seyedali 
Published: May 2022

Purpose
This paper aims to identify the role of organizational and individual factors in predicting the research performance of academics when job crafting is a mediator variable and organizational culture is a moderating variable.

Design/methodology/approach
This study was conducted by collecting responses from academics at five Malaysian research-based universities. The sample size was 273. Standard questionnaires were used to collect the data. The data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling.

Findings
The most significant predictors of research performance were organizational culture, individual effort and professional development, whereby job crafting was most optimally predicted by work engagement and transformational leadership. While organizational culture moderated the relationship between transformational leadership and research performance, the mediating role of job crafting was insignificant between work engagement and research performance.

Research limitations/implications
The findings have important implications for human resource development practitioners (HRD) in terms of improving overall academic research performance. Practical interventions are suggested to assist academics in enhancing their performance. This study highlights how academic performance can be managed more effectively.

Originality/value
The findings extend the HRD literature in higher education and offer a framework that enhances the understanding of the organizational and individual factors that influence academics' research performance within a specific context of research universities in a non-Western context.
Beyond “good company”: The mediating role of innovation in the corporate social responsibility and corporate firm performance relationship
Authors: Yoo Changsok , Yeon Jihwan , Lee Seoki 
Published: May 2022

PurposeThe link between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate firm performance (CFP) has been extensively studied, but a significant research gap remains when considering potential mediating factors that can provide a more comprehensive and complete picture of the CSR-CFP link. Among the possible mediators, innovation is one of the most noteworthy factors, but previous studies have found inconsistent results between CSR and innovation in the service industry context. Existing studies have reported an insignificant or negative relationship between CSR and innovation in the service industry, including the hospitality industry. To clarify this controversy, this study aims to propose the positive mediating role of innovation to explain the CSR-CFP link in the hotel and casino industry.Design/methodology/approachTo discover the relationship among CSR, innovation and CFP, a panel data analysis, the two-way fixed-effects model, is used with robust standard errors. Particularly, to examine the mediating role of innovation, this study conducts Sobel, Aroian and Goodman tests. The sample period is from 2000 to 2017, consisting of 342 firm-year observations.FindingsWith a sample of publicly traded US hotel and casino firms, this study confirms the mediating role of innovation and suggests a strategic direction of CSR, highlighting the importance of innovation in the hospitality industry.Practical implicationsThis study presents an important piece of evidence regarding non-technological innovation and proposes a strategic direction of CSR in the hotel and casino industry to achieve competitive advantages.Originality/valueAdopting a new measurement method of innovation using data envelopment analysis, this study serves as a reference for a better understanding of a role of innovation in the CSR-CFP link for hospitality scholars.
Biophilic design for urban hotels – prospective hospitality employees’ perspectives
Authors: Guzzo Renata Fernandes , Suess Courtney , Legendre Tiffany S. 
Published: May 2022

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate a holistic way of incorporating biophilic building design that creates a restorative environment attractive to prospective urban hotel employees. This study additionally examines the role of perceived well-being from nature attributes and associated impacts on emotions and likelihood to choose to work for a hotel with nature attributes.

Design/methodology/approach
This study used a conjoint analysis to detect the most resotrative individual and combinations of biophilic attributes that can improve employee well-being. In addition, nature attributes influence on emotions and intentions to work for a hotel were analyzed.

Findings
Results showed that not all nature attributes are equally evaluated by urban hotel prospective employees. In this study, the authors found that natural lighting, outdoor green views and indoor landscaping are important factors in the evaluation of an urban hotel with biophilic features. However, this tendency varies when the sample was divided by prospective employees’ who perceived higher or lower levels of well-being would be influenced by nature attributes.

Originality/value
Unlike previous studies, the authors tested a multiattribute design and results demonstrate the perceived restorative effect of nature attributes in an environment on prospective employees. In addition to extending the biophilic design in hospitality literature, the authors provide practical suggestions to urban hotels incorporating biophilic design and propose that specific elements have the propensity to enhance the well-being of prospective employees and reinforce positive emotions and intentions to work for urban hotels that incorporate them.
A comparative study of novice and habitual entrepreneur’s choice for founding team member
Authors: Das Willy , Das Satyasiba 
Published: May 2022

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate and compare what criteria novice and habitual entrepreneurs use while adding members to the founding team.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper uses conjoint analysis (CA) to provide the order of preference for the “choice attributes.” The logic of CA is that even if two or more attributes influence the choice, it is unlikely that those attributes will have equal importance for founders with different entrepreneurial experiences.

Findings
This paper found a significant difference in the ranking of the attributes by novice and habitual entrepreneurs. In novice entrepreneurs, the effect of direct ties in the form of kinship ties has the highest preference, followed by prior social contact and prior work relations. However, personal friendships and resource dependency received lesser importance than interpersonal attraction because of the similarity in vision, beliefs and values. Habitual entrepreneurs, however, valued resource dependency and prior work relations more than kinship ties. Also, unlike novice entrepreneurs, habitual entrepreneurs sought cofounders from their indirect ties.

Practical implications
There has been an explosion of interest and funding for programs that help entrepreneurs establish a cofounding team. The authors inform these programs related to the decision concerning assisting novice and habitual entrepreneurs.

Originality/value
While prior studies examined a single attribute at a time, the strength of this study lies in simultaneously tapping all attributes, along with multiple indicators for each attribute. Additionally, this study distinguishes the selection criteria of cofounders based on the entrepreneurial expertise of the lead founder.
Ownership structure and financial constraints – Evidence from an emerging market
Authors: Farooq Muhammad , Humayon Asad Afzal , Khan Muhammad Imran , Ali Sarmad 
Published: May 2022

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to examine the impact of corporate governance proxies by ownership structure on financial constraints for a sample of 215 non-financial Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) listed firms between 2010 and 2018.Design/methodology/approachThe dynamic generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator is used to determine the influence of ownership structure on financial constraints. The ownership structure of sample enterprises is measured using seven variables: managerial, family, institutional, foreign, associated, presence of block holder, and concentrated ownership, while financial limitations are determined using the KZ Index. The WW Index is used to assess the robustness of the results. In addition, for robustness, we also used OLS and FE.FindingsBased on the system GMM results, it was discovered that firm ownership structure has a significant impact on the likelihood of financial constraints. In the case of Pakistan, the results show that institutional ownership, foreign ownership, and the presence of a block holder in the ownership structure have a significant negative impact on financial constraints, whereas family ownership and ownership concentration have a significant positive impact. This finding remains true when financial constraints are measured using the WW Index.Practical implicationsThe findings of the study provide business managers and investors with more information regarding the relationship between corporate governance quality and the degree of financial constraint in Pakistani firms. Furthermore, this study contributes new information from emerging nations like Pakistan to the existing literature, which will help regulatory bodies and policymakers build long-term corporate governance solutions to manage financial constraints. It is well established that improving the quality of corporate governance practices improves capital market efficiency and lowers the likelihood of financial constraints.Originality/valueThe study adds to the body of existing work on corporate governance and the possibility of financial constraints, with a focus on Pakistan. The findings show that when projecting company financial constraints, regulators should pay special attention to the quality of corporate governance, specifically ownership structure.
Disclosed qualitative factors and underpricing: an empirical evidence from Indian IPO market
Authors: Sahoo Seshadev , Raj Rishita 
Published: May 2022

PurposeThe academic research into underpricing of initial public offerings (IPOs) offers many explanations, i.e. signalling, financial and market hypothesis. However, another set of information, namely, “Qualitative Factors” (along with financial and others), are largely reported by the issuing firms in the prospectus. However, to the best of the authors’ knowledge no such systematic study has been carried out on how firms’ qualitative factors impact the IPO valuation. This paper aims to addresses this gap.Design/methodology/approachUsing a sample of 82 IPOs issued from 2014 to 2020, we investigate the issuing firm’s pattern of reporting qualitative factors. These qualitative factors are subjected to factor analysis. The authors classify all reported factors across firms into a few categories using principal component analysis. The authors also investigate the impact of these factors on IPO underpricing using OLS regression.FindingsThe authors find that the qualitative information relating to market leadership, established brand image and modern scalable information technology infrastructure significantly influences underpricing. The authors also document that market leadership and brand image are the influential reported quality factors that reduce underpricing. Moreover, location advantage, good customer relationship, established relationship with a client, track record of growth and profitability, experienced promoter and management team failed to influence underpricing.Originality/valueThe outcome of this piece of research offers additional signalling as an attestation of quality for the issue. The authors further argue that the amount of qualitative information disclosed by the managers in the prospectus to support the pricing should not be ignored.
Being held accountable: why attributing responsibility matters
Authors: Josephides Lisette 
Published: May 2022

AbstractDebates over reconciliation, atonement, forgiveness, and forgetting involve political and personal elements, with substantial investments and commitments. I contrast two perspectives: one stresses unconditional forgiveness independent of atonement; the other reflects on the importance of moral responsibility for the formation of the person. Being held accountable, for Ricoeur, matters for the development of the self. For Derrida, forgiveness is a defining aspect of being human, becoming debased when seen as a legal form of justice. I use philosophical arguments and ethnographic writings from Papua New Guinea, Cyprus, and the Holocaust to examine reconciliation and irreconciliation as strategies for either reaffirming or reimagining a common world.
Chronic active Epstein–Barr virus enteritis: A literature review
Authors: Shen Yang , Wang Yu Fang 
Published: May 2022

Chronic active Epstein–Barr virus (CAEBV) enteritis is a rare disease that has not been well described. Owing to the similarities between CAEBV enteritis and inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, it is easy to be misdiagnosed and mistreated in clinical practice, resulted in complications and even death in severe cases. Through a literature review, this study aimed to summarize the clinical characteristics, pathological features, examinations, and treatment strategies of CAEBV enteritis and its similarities and differences with inflammatory bowel diseases.
Knowledge‐Production in a Provincial Network of the 1790s: The Educational Work of Thomas Beddoes, Thomas Wedgwood, Maria Edgeworth, and S. T. Coleridge
Authors: Fulford Tim 
Published: May 2022

AbstractI delineate in this article the knowledge‐production of a male/female provincial network that did not perpetuate traditional gender roles. Centred on Clifton, Bristol, it involved sociable conversation, correspondence, circulation of manuscript and privately printed material, publication, and practical pedagogy. Committed to social and political reform, it was an expression of middle‐class liberal dissent, the more radical successor to the Midlands Enlightenment. By 1808, it had made contributions to educational theory and practice. It is worth studying for this reason and because it reveals the development of Midlands Enlightenment projects by the next generation, updating our picture of knowledge‐production and network operation among liberal dissenters in the 1790s. Moreover, the educational schemes of two of its central figures, Thomas Beddoes and Thomas Wedgwood, have been relatively neglected by scholars owing to their inaccessibility. I revalue Beddoes's and Wedgwood's schemes based on my intensive study of their manuscript letters and notes. In the process, I recontextualize the educational publications of other network members who have hitherto mostly been considered separately, Maria Edgeworth and S. T. Coleridge.