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Furniture configurations in an active learning classroom make further differences in student outcomes
Authors: Kepez Orcun , Üst Selin 
Published: December 2022

PurposeThe aim of this study is to understand the effect of class configurations in an active learning classroom (ALC) on students' self-perception of experiences and learning outcomes, namely participation, performance, motivation and creativity.Design/methodology/approachA self-administered survey (N = 131) was conducted in seven classes from the varied disciplines of communication, interior design and architecture. During the first half of the semester, all selected courses were conducted in traditional classrooms, whereas those in the second half were conducted in an ALC. ALC was designed to be used with several furniture configurations which could be easily set up by members of the learning community themselves. The survey was conducted at the end of semester before final exams, when students have a clear idea of the experiences in both the traditional and the new (ALC) classrooms, having spent equal time in each of these learning environments.FindingsThe main finding of the study is that students were eager to have future classes in the ALC rather than in traditional settings since the students experienced better learning outcomes in the ALC. During the second half of the semester, students who were in classes conducted following active learning (AL) pedagogies, with its supportive spatial configurations, were more aware of the learning outcomes facilitated by the physical environment. Further, the authors found that the increase in the number of furniture configurations has a statistically significant positive impact on learning outcomes.Originality/valueAL pedagogy is often studied as a way of teaching and rarely with its associated classroom environments. In most of the existing studies, the configuration of furniture has often been overlooked within an AL environment by a learning community. This study fills the gap in emphasising the spatial aspects of the ALC by focusing on the specific pedagogy being followed.
Pineapple: The growth challenges faced by a South African Insurtech disruptor
Authors: Tladinyane Lesego , Gumede Lungelo , Bick Geoff 
Published: December 2022

Subject area of the teaching case:
This case study is intended to supplement postgraduate business learning with the facilitation of an academic practitioner. The case draws on a culmination of subjects, and the participants are encouraged to juxtapose the case information with their professional experiences; however, the primary focus of the case material will be centred on strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

Student level:
The primary audience for the teaching case is management education programmes including: Master of Business Administration (MBA), Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip), specialist Masters in Management, and certain Executive Education programmes.

Brief overview of the teaching case:
This case is about protagonist Ndabenhle Junior Ngulube, the cofounder of an innovative technology-enabled insurance intermediary company called Pineapple. The company has identified an opportunity to resolve the inherent conflict of interest within the insurance industry, as well as the grudge association of non-life insurance purchases. While the competitive landscape of the sector is traditionally dominated by a few large incumbent market participants, Pineapple's digital distribution strategy is more effective at converting ‘clicks-to-clients’, at a fraction of the typical customer acquisition cost. The peer-to-peer business model also allows for superior risk-selection, greater affinity, and lower incidents of fraudulent claims. Ndabenhle and the team develop the company's customer acquisition strategy by drawing on technological trends, reputation drivers, and a concentrated social media approach that focusses on trust, access, product, and value. But, as 2020 begins, Ndabenhle faces choices about the means and methods of scaling the business operation. The case documents the first few years of Pineapple's operations, with a strong focus on business model innovation, distribution, scalability, and technological integration.

Expected learning outcomes:

To analyse the role disruptive technologies play within sectoral business model innovation
To evaluate the industry-specific competitive business landscape and complexities of building and maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage within a niche market segment
To assess the strategic growth opportunities for an emerging market Insurtech disruptor
To critically appraise the entrepreneurial complexities faced by decision-makers when looking to challenge incumbent market leaders
Savannah Informatics: Driving renewed growth in a Kenyan health informatics company
Authors: Nyakeri Willys Makoyo , Samuelsson Mikael , Bick Geoff 
Published: December 2022

Subject area of the teaching case:
The case is particularly well suited to entrepreneurship, marketing, technology, innovation, or strategy courses.

Student level:
This teaching case is aimed at postgraduate students in management or business programmes.

Brief overview of the teaching case:
This case follows the Kenyan healthcare tech company Savannah Informatics as they contemplate how the company will continue to grow in a post-pandemic world. Savannah is the market leader in electronic claims validation solutions for the Kenyan healthcare system. Their flagship product, the digital platform Slade 360, allows health insurers, healthcare providers, and patients to share claims information for health services in real time, drastically reducing payment transfer times, incidents of fraud, and account errors. The Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown mandates from the Kenyan government have reduced short-term revenues by driving down hospital visits for citizens overall, but they have also created a demand for telemedicine and more online healthcare solutions. CEO John Muthee and his co-founders are left to consider their options for growing Savannah Informatics: expanding into new markets, creating more solutions for their insurance and provider customers in Kenya, or diversifying.

Expected learning outcomes:

Identify the key challenges facing Savannah
Analyse the organisation using the 5Cs model (company, customers, competitors, collaborators and context) and VRIO (value, rarity, imitability, and organisation) analysis
Assess the growth opportunities available to Savannah and make recommendations
Repositioning and diversification in crisis times: a case of ShakahariS by Awadhpuri
Authors: Sunil Anitha , Shah Neha 
Published: December 2022

Learning outcomes
Students discussing the case will be able to:▪ Evaluate and decide the marketing strategy that will best align the organizational resources and capabilities with the external environment.▪ Demonstrate the process of segmentation and choose the most attractive target market.▪ Analyze the competition and develop an effective positioning strategy.▪ Evaluate and use different growth strategies in business situations.

Case overview/synopsis
The case demonstrated the decision-making process behind the post-pandemic strategy of ShakahariS by Awadhpuri, a restaurant in the emerging Indian market. The restaurant was situated in Ahmedabad, one of the fastest-growing mini-metro cites of the Indian restaurant industry. It was known for authentic Indian vegetarian cuisine. The restaurant, originally named Awadhpuri, was started in 2012 by Ms. Vandana Singh. It was positioned as a non-vegetarian restaurant providing Awadhi cuisine in the fine-dining segment known for its ambiance and authentic taste. However, due to the predominant vegetarian market in Ahmedabad city, the restaurant was rebranded and repositioned as ShakahariS by Awadhpuri, serving only vegetarian cuisine in 2018. The years 2019–2020 were very harsh due to the Covid-19 crisis. During the uncertain times when the lockdowns and the guidelines kept on changing, it was difficult for the restaurant to even recover their costs. It was a good time to explore the possibilities of the cloud kitchen format, and they came up with multiple kitchens offering different cuisines and targeted new customer segments. The case highlighted these survival strategies adopted by the restaurant during Covid. Post-pandemic, the protagonist was now contemplating a long-term growth strategy for the restaurant to target a new market with a new offering. The dilemma for the restaurant is whether (or not) to align the marketing strategy by repositioning again to cater to the new target segment.

Complexity academic level
Undergraduate courses on Business Management (BBA) and specific topics in introductory courses on marketing management and strategic management of the post-management programs.

Supplementary materials
Teaching notes are available for educators only.

Subject code
CSS 8: Marketing.
The hope and burden of early intervention: Parents' educational planning for their deaf children in post-1960s Australia
Authors: Payne Aaron , Proctor Helen , Spandagou Ilektra 
Published: December 2022

PurposeThis article examines the educational decision-making of hearing parents for their deaf children born during a period (1970–1990s) before the introduction of new-born hearing screening in New South Wales, where the study was conducted, and prior to the now near-universal adoption of cochlear implants in Australia.Design/methodology/approachWe present findings from an oral history study in which parents were invited to recall how they planned for the education of their deaf children.FindingsWe propose that these oral histories shed light on how the concept, early intervention – a child development principle that became axiomatic from about the 1960s – significantly shaped the conduct of parents of deaf children, constituting both hope and burden, and intensifying a focus on early decision-making. They also illustrate ways in which parenting was shaped by two key structural shifts, one, being the increasing enrolment of deaf children in mainstream rather than separate classrooms and the other being the transformation of deafness itself by developments in hearing assistance technology.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to a sociological/historical literature of “parenting for education” that almost entirely lacks deaf perspectives and a specialist literature of parental decision-making for deaf children that is almost entirely focussed on the post cochlear implant generation. The paper is distinctive in its treatment of the concept of “early intervention” as a historical phenomenon rather than a “common sense” truth, and proposes that parents of deaf children were at the leading edge of late-20th and early-21st century parenting intensification.
Relationship sustainability-store equity across segments of retail customers
Authors: Marín-García Antonio , Gil-Saura Irene , Ruiz-Molina Maria-Eugenia , Fuentes-Blasco Maria 
Published: December 2022

PurposeThe study of sustainability in retail has experienced an exponential interest in recent years as a result of greater awareness on the part of consumers of the negative effects of the current way of producing and consuming on society and the environment. This work examines the heterogeneous evaluation based on behavioural variables in retail trade and how consumer perceptions towards sustainable practices implemented in stores can influence the overall store equity.Design/methodology/approachThe authors propose a theoretical model based on the literature, tested through a mixed regression model in a sample of 510 customers of food retail establishments.FindingsThe dimensions of sustainability are postulated as driving forces of brand equity towards the retail establishment. Specifically, social sustainability shows a greater impact on consumer perception, being the main factor in the development of the store's brand equity. Furthermore, the analysis of unobserved heterogeneity identifies three latent classes in which the effects of perceptions on sustainable retail activities vary across consumer segments.Originality/valueThe study analyses in a single model the effect of sustainability dimensions on store equity from the consumer's perspective, analysing the differences between these relationships as a consequence of the unobserved heterogeneity of consumers.
Reduced-form models of correlated default timing: a systematic literature review
Authors: Nguyen Ha , Zhou Xian 
Published: December 2022

PurposeThis paper aims to provide an overview, a classification of existing research groups for correlated default models using a reduced-form method and an identification of future research opportunities in the field.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review is used for the identification, selection, evaluation and synthesis of relevant literature using keywords regarding the reduced-form default models in the Web of Science database. The authors also add articles from cross-referencing and expert recommendations to the literature. HistCite™program is used to generate a citation map of the literature.FindingsThe results show that reduced-form correlated default risk models are developing towards modelling credit risk with both observable and unobservable variables. The frailty correlated default model at the firm level is still a potential research field.Originality/valueThis is the first paper systematically reviewing the research on reduced-form models of default timing.
Authentic versus staged identity – problematizing tourism interventions for authenticity and integrity in historic cities
Authors: Jigyasu Niyati 
Published: December 2022

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to problematize authenticity and integrity in the context of tourist-based interventions in historic cities through a case study of skewed strategies in urban conservation programs. The paper aims to explore the paradoxes of tourists’ requisites against the heritage management imperatives.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology is a mix of case study and analytical study of theories, literature, and principles related to authenticity and integrity in urban conservation with a focus on tourism.FindingsIn the context of historic areas, while tourism is essential for generating the economic support necessary for conserving and managing a heritage site, lopsided strategies challenge the “authenticity” and “integrity” of the place.Practical implicationsBringing forth the point of the authentic or curated identity, the paper argues for a framework grounded in authenticity and integrity for achieving balance in the management of historic cities.Originality/valueThe paper brings together the subject of authenticity and integrity in the context of tourist-based strategies in historic cities. It highlights the gap in current practices, which often gets into inadvertent consequences of tourists appreciating the intervention that appear to be against the fundamentals of heritage conservation.
Assessing the link between market orientation and hotel performance: the mediating role of value-based marketing innovation
Authors: Sari Tria Mei Dian , Indriani Farida 
Published: December 2022

PurposeThis study examines how market orientation (MO) affects hotel performance through the value-based marketing innovation intermediate function.Design/methodology/approach:Structural equation modeling-partial least squares (SEM-PLS) analyses are performed to assess the proposed research model on a sample of 166 three-to-five-star hotels located in six provinces of Java Island, Indonesia.FindingsThe findings indicate that MO influences value-based marketing innovation and hotel performance. Additionally, it was demonstrated that value-based marketing innovation mediates the indirect link between MO and hotel performance.Practical implicationsThis research encourages the managers of hotels to adopt MO as the company's culture and to pay close attention to value-based marketing innovation to recognize the potential benefit of MO in hotel performance enhancement.Originality/valueThis research focuses on unifying MO and resource-based view into a cohesive approach to better understand the link between MO and value-based marketing innovation and how both aspects affect hotel performance.
A comprehensive study on using expanded silica gel size as hollow sphere material in different aluminum alloy-based syntactic foams
Authors: Yavuz Ibrahim , Şimşir Ercan , Yildirim Alev 
Published: December 2022

PurposeMetal foams are a structural and functional composite materials that have received wide attention due to their specific structures and properties. The aim of this study is to investigate the mechanical properties of syntactic foam by using expanded silica gel with the spacer technique.Design/methodology/approachIn this research paper, the vacuum casting production method was used to produce metal syntactic foams including AlSi12 and AlSi8Cu3 matrix and expanded silica gel fillers with diameters of 2–4.75 mm and 4.75–5.6 mm.FindingsAs a result of the study, it was observed that as the foam densities increased, the compressive strength values of the samples increased due to the increasing volume fraction of the metallic matrix. Samples with the AlSi12 matrix showed higher compressive strength than samples with the AlSi8Cu3 matrix.Originality/valueThe originality of the study is the comparison of two different main matrix alloys (AlSi12 and AlSi8Cu3) and different pores using expanded silica gel.
Investigating the impact of usage factors on satisfaction and intention to use e-resources
Authors: Vandana  , Garg Ruchi Jain , Kumar Vinod , Singh Alok Kumar 
Published: December 2022

PurposePresent research analyzes and evaluates the impact of e-resources usage factors (training modes, awareness, influencers, utilitarian benefits and ease of use) towards satisfaction and intention to use these e-resources.Design/methodology/approachThe data for present study were collected from postgraduate students of Delhi (India) and 248 valid responses were received through the survey. After reliability and validity tests, structural relationships between variables were studied.FindingsThe present study revealed that all five factors significantly affected satisfaction and intention to use e-resources. However, influencers were found to have the highest impact on satisfaction and intention to use e-resources.Originality/valueThe present study is a maiden attempt to explore the impact of e-resources usage factors on satisfaction and intention to use by postgraduate students at management schools in Delhi, India.
A STOMP-focused evaluation of prescribing practices in one assessment and treatment unit for people with intellectual disabilities
Authors: Painter Jon , Chio Winola , Black Liam , Newman David 
Published: December 2022

PurposeThis study aims to understand whether psychotropic prescribing practices for people with intellectual disabilities are in keeping with best practice guidelines.Design/methodology/approachThis service evaluation project was a retrospective analysis of routinely collected data from the care records of all 36 people with intellectual disability discharged from an intellectual disability assessment and treatment unit during the first five years of the Stop Over medicating People with Intellectual Disabilities and/or autistic people (STOMP) initiative. Data were gathered at four time points (pre-admission, discharge, 6- and 12-month follow-up) before being analysed to understand whether psychotropic prescribing differed among people with different clinical characteristics/traits/diagnoses. Changes over time were also explored to ascertain whether and how prescribing altered from admission to discharge, and over the subsequent year of community living.FindingsMost people with intellectual disabilities left the assessment and treatment unit on fewer regular psychotropic medications and at lower doses than at admission. These optimised regimes were still apparent 12 months post-discharge, suggesting effective discharge planning and community care packages. Inpatients with severe intellectual disabilities generally received more anxiolytics and hypnotics, at higher doses. Autistic people tended to receive more psychotropics in total and at higher cumulative doses, a pattern that persisted post discharge. A third of the sample were admitted on regular anti-psychotic medications despite having no corresponding psychotic diagnosis, a proportion that remained relatively stable through discharge and into the community.Originality/valueThis study highlights subsets of the intellectual disability population at particular risk of receiving high doses of psychotropics and a feasible template for providers intending to undertake STOMP-focused evaluations.
Here, there and everywhere: Ecology and biology of the Dependentiae phylum
Authors: Weisse Louis , Héchard Yann , Moumen Bouziane , Delafont Vincent 
Published: December 2022

AbstractOur view of bacterial diversity has been dramatically impacted by cultivation‐independent approaches such as metagenomics and 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Consequently, most bacterial phyla known to date are only documented by the presence of DNA sequences in databases and lack cultivated representatives. This bacterial majority that is yet‐to‐be cultivated, is forming the ‘Microbial Dark Matter’, (MDM) a consortium, whose ecology and biology remain largely unexplored. The Candidatus Dependentiae stands as one of many phyla within this MDM, found worldwide in various environments. Genomic evidence suggests ancestral, unusual adaptations of all Ca. Dependentiae to a host dependent lifestyle. In line with this, protists appear to be important for Ca. Dependentiae biology, as revealed by few recent studies, which enabled their growth in laboratory through host cultivation. However, the Ca. Dependentiae still remain to this day a poorly documented phylum. The present review aims to summarize the current knowledge accumulated on this often found, but rarely highlighted, bacterial phylum.
Beyond the theory: From holobiont concept to microbiome engineering
Authors: Biggs Eva , Taylor Michael W. , Middleton Danielle M. R. L. 
Published: December 2022

AbstractHolobiont research has increasingly moved from descriptive studies to sophisticated field‐ and laboratory‐based manipulations; however, the extent to which changes in the holobiont persist remains largely unknown. In this Burning Question, we ask whether the underlying principles of the holobiont concept, whereby an externally applied evolutionary pressure can lead to a beneficial change in host‐associated microbial community composition, could be used to facilitate microbiome engineering and thereby addition of a new ecosystem service that persists across generations. The answer to this question has potential implications for diverse fields including symbiosis, conservation and biotechnology.
How has horizontal gene transfer shaped the evolution of insect genomes?
Authors: Liu Chao , Li Yang , Chen Yun , Chen Xue‐xin , Huang Jianhua , Rokas Antonis , Shen Xing‐Xing 
Published: December 2022

AbstractAs the most diverse group of animals on Earth, insects are key organisms in ecosystems. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) refers to the transfer of genetic material between species by non‐reproductive means. HGT is a major evolutionary force in prokaryotic genome evolution, but its importance in different eukaryotic groups, such as insects, has only recently begun to be understood. Genomic data from hundreds of insect species have enabled the detection of large numbers of HGT events and the elucidation of the functions of some of these foreign genes. Although quantification of the extent of HGT in insects broadens our understanding of its role in insect evolution, the scope of its influence and underlying mechanism(s) of its occurrence remain open questions for the field.