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Determinants of employee engagement in public sector organisations: case of Zimbabwe
Authors: Chiwawa Nyashadzashe 
Published: August 2022

PurposeThe purpose of the study was to explore the contribution and determinants of employee engagement (EE) in the public sector.Design/methodology/approachA cross-sectional survey was used based on a deductive research approach. Data were collected and analysed quantitatively. The quantitative data were collected using a questionnaire from a sample of 248 civil servants.FindingsResearch findings indicate that prioritising the development of engaged workers reap substantial rewards for organisations in terms of productivity, efficiency and effectiveness. Findings further show that employees who are involved at work have been shown to perform better than their colleagues. The research accordingly recommends organisations to invest in ensuring EE as this has direct link to outcomes related to performance, which ultimately leads to optimisation of organisational resources and competitive advantage.Originality/valueThe study provides a critical analysis of the factors that determine EE in the public sector. EE, as a driver of public sector organisational effectiveness, is an area of research that has received little attention in the African milieu. This research provides a detailed understanding of EE as a tool for improving public sector performance and, as a result, lowering the performance gap and waste. EE is a product of the structural characteristics of the organisation as well as the parameters within which psychological presence of an employee is activated. EE, therefore, engenders employee support to pursue organisational goals in a coordinated system of collaboration.
Students leading students: a qualitative study exploring a student-led model for engagement with the sustainable development goals
Authors: Lee Bernice , Liu Katherine , Warnock Tyler Samuel , Kim Minji Olivia , Skett Sarah 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
Higher education institutions (HEI) play a critical role in developing student leaders equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to mobilize societal changes that the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for. To broaden this understanding, this study aimed to engage with student leaders of a grassroots, student-led initiative at the University of Calgary, the Sustainable Development Goals Alliance (SDGA), to better understand the experience of students who took on leadership roles in organizing SDG engagement activities.

Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative thematic analysis was used to understand the experiences of 12 student leaders involved in SDG programming. Semi-structured interviews asked participants to reflect on their key learnings, skills development and overall student’s experiences of leaders involved in SDG programming. Thematic analysis was applied to determine emerging themes.

Findings
Analyses showed that taking a leadership role in the SDGA empowered students to deepen their engagement with the SDGs and overcome barriers such as lack of knowledge and feelings of powerlessness. Secondary findings showed that community-building, flexibility and a sense of ownership were key strengths of the program and contributed toward student leaders’ feelings of hopefulness, self-confidence and inspiration.

Originality/value
This work offers a window into the experiences of student leaders who have worked to advance SDG engagement within their institution. Our findings suggest that student-led initiatives represent untapped potential for HEIs to prioritize and support to help deliver on their SDG implementation and engagement efforts. As HEIs offer a vital space for innovation, policy and capacity building towards implementation of the SDGs, this work demonstrates how student leadership can yield grassroots influence on HEI commitments and responses to the needs of students.
Tourism and income inequality
Authors: Subramaniam Yogeeswari , Masron Tajul Ariffin , Loganathan Nanthakumar 
Published: August 2022

PurposeTourism has grown to be one of the world's largest and fastest-growing economic industries. Tourism development is viewed as a tool to improve income distribution as it allows people at the bottom of the pyramid to get involved in the industry. This study aims to examine the impact of tourism on income inequality in the top income equality countries.Design/methodology/approachThe paper employs fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and dynamic ordinary least squares techniques to investigate the dynamic impact of tourism on income inequality in the world's most income equality countries, from 2001 to 2016.FindingsThe result shows that tourism is one of the major drivers of income equality. Thus, tourism can be used to reduce a country's income disparity.Practical implicationsAs a result, policymakers should support the tourism industry to reduce income disparity and enhance income distribution.Originality/valueGiven the conflicting findings in the literature, this study reexamines this link and attempts to backwardly assess if the top equal-income countries in the world are heavily dependent on tourism.
Cultural roadblocks? Acceptance of blockchain-based hotel booking among individualistic and collectivistic travelers
Authors: Strebinger Andreas , Treiblmaier Horst 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
Blockchain technology is predicted to revolutionize the tourism and hospitality industry through peer-to-peer hotel bookings with little or no involvement of intermediaries. Outstanding features of this technology are its distributed form of storing data, its collaborative way of identifying the “true state” of a system and the immutability of data. These features may lead to a perceived loss of controllability among travelers. Based on the Agentic Theory of Human Behavior, the purpose of this study is to propose that this assumed loss of control matters more to travelers with an individualistic rather than a collectivistic predisposition.

Design/methodology/approach
In two studies (n = 475 and n = 196) using verbal scenarios, this study manipulates the perceived controllability of a blockchain-enabled hotel booking app by varying the number of additional services linked to the app. This study tests for the interaction of controllability with individual-level measures of individualistic versus collectivistic (I-C) predisposition.

Findings
Collectivistic travelers are more willing than individualistic travelers to use blockchain technology for their hotel bookings. This effect can be mitigated by offering additional services that give individualistic travelers an enhanced sense of “being in control”.

Practical implications
Blockchain-enabled applications facilitating direct hotel bookings without any additional intermediary services are more readily accepted by travelers with a collectivistic mindset. Blockchain applications addressing individualistic travelers require added services that establish a sense of controllability.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first to investigate the interaction of I-C predisposition with perceived controllability in tourism and hospitality. Furthermore, it is the first in the technology-acceptance literature to test this interaction using individual-level measures of I-C predisposition and an experimental manipulation of perceived controllability.
The contingent roles of market turbulence and organizational innovativeness on the relationships among interfirm trust, formal contracts, interfirm knowledge sharing and firm performance
Authors: Sun Jing , Tekleab Amanuel , Cheung Millissa , Wu Wei-Ping 
Published: August 2022

PurposePrior research on interfirm collaborations has demonstrated that trust and contract are two central governance mechanisms that influence a firm’s knowledge sharing decision and the subsequent effect on performance. However, we know little about how effective these mechanisms are in different market conditions and levels of organizational innovativeness. This study aims to advance the literature on interfirm knowledge sharing by exploring these contingencies and by providing an alternative explanation of the contradictory effects of knowledge sharing on firm performance.Design/methodology/approachThe authors collected 156 firms’ relationships with their suppliers in two batches from 300 firms in the 2017 list of Statistics in the Zhejiang province in China. The authors used unstructured interviews and formal questionnaires to collect data from these firms.FindingsMarket turbulence served as a boundary condition for the effect of interfirm trust and formal contracts on knowledge sharing. Both interfirm trust and formal contracts, as governance mechanisms, are effective in raising interfirm knowledge sharing only when the firms operate in high turbulent markets. On the contrary, knowledge sharing negatively affected firm performance when firms exhibit low organizational innovativeness. Moreover, a three-way interaction among market turbulence, organizational innovativeness and knowledge sharing revealed that when market turbulence and organizational innovativeness were both low, interfirm knowledge sharing was detrimental to firm performance.Practical implicationsBased on the results, this study recommends managers consider external (market turbulence) and internal (organizational innovativeness) when firms decide to share knowledge and benefit from such activities.Originality/valueThis study extends prior research on the determinant of knowledge sharing and clarifies the inconsistent findings of knowledge sharing on firm performance. Thus, strategic organizational leaders need to pay attention to when they need to share information with suppliers to best benefit from those collaborations.
Dynamic pricing for the successive-generation products in the presence of strategic customers and limited trade-in duration
Authors: Yuan Xigang , Ma Zujun , Zhang Xiaoqing 
Published: August 2022

PurposeThis paper investigates the dynamic pricing strategy of a firm for the successive-generation products under the conditions of the limited trade-in duration and strategic customers. Further, it explores the effect of a limited trade-in duration on the choice of the myopic and strategic customers, besides the optimal dynamic pricing and trade-in strategy of the firm.Design/methodology/approachBased on the choice behavior of the myopic and strategic customers, the authors have developed a two-period game-theoretic analytical model to decide the optimal retail prices of the successive-generation products and the optimal trade-in rebate when the firm adopts a dynamic pricing strategy and then investigate three extensions of the basic model to discuss the change in the results owing to the relaxation of certain conditions.FindingsThe authors find from the results that, in terms of profit maximization, it is better to extend the limited trade-in duration, and hence, the firm should implement a dynamic pricing strategy. However, in the situation of using a static pricing strategy, the firm should extend the limited trade-in duration only if the incremental value of the new generation products is below a certain threshold. Moreover, the firm should use a dual rollover strategy instead of a single rollover one. If all customers in the market are myopic, then the firm should also extend the limited trade-in duration.Research limitations/implicationsThis study mainly discusses the impact of limited trade-in duration on the firm's dynamic pricing strategy when facing strategic customers, which provides several directions for future research. First, if the government offers subsidies to consumers, how will strategic consumers make purchase decisions? How would the enterprise make its pricing decision? Second, when asymmetric information exists between consumers and firms, how will it affect consumers' choice behavior and firms' pricing decisions? All these issues are worth exploring in the future.Practical implicationsThese results offer certain managerial insights for the firm in the decision making on pricing within the trade-in program.Originality/valueThis is the first work to study the dynamic pricing strategy of the firm for the successive-generation products under the conditions of the limited trade-in duration and strategic customers. Further, this work discusses the changes in results owing to the relaxation of certain conditions.
Investigation of environmental potentials on supply chain of textile and yarn industry using smart and sustainable life cycle assessment
Authors: Jain Toshit , Jain Jinesh Kumar , Agrawal Rajeev , Johri Shubha 
Published: August 2022

PurposeEnvironmental impact and changes are becoming essential in textile and yarn industries, where reliable measurement of parameters related to processing harmful substances needs to be examined. Such findings can be cumulated using smart assessment like life cycle analysis. The ecological impact category, supply chain, and climate-changing factors were considered for the necessary assessment.Design/methodology/approachThis paper applies the Life Cycle Assessment technique in the textile and yarn industry to estimate critical environmental potentials. The critical input for the fabric and yarn industry was put in the GaBi software model to estimate various environmental potentials.FindingsGlobal warming potential, electricity, and raw cotton consumption in the fabric and yarn industry were critical concerns where attention should be focused on minimizing environmental potentials from cradle to gate assessment.Research limitations/implicationsThis qualitative study is made via the industry case-wise inputs and outputs, which can vary with demographic conditions. Some machine and human constraints have not been implemented in modelling life cycle model for smart simulation. Smart simulation helps in linking different parameters and simulates their combined effects on the product life cycle.Practical implicationsThis modelling approach will help access pollution constituents in different supply chain production processes and optimize them simultaneously.Originality/valueThe raw data used in this analysis are collected from an Indian small scale textile industry. In the textile fabrication industry, earlier assessments were carried out in cotton generation, impact of PET, cradle to grave assessment of textile products and garment processing only. In this research the smart model is drawn to consider each input parameter of yarn and textile fabric to determine the criticality of each input in this assessment. This article mainly talks about life cycle and circular supply assessment applied to first time for both cotton to yarn processing and yarn to fabric industry for necessary estimation of environment potentials.
Exploring dimensions of the customer experience at budget hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic: a netnography approach
Authors: Girija Smitha , Sharma Devika Rani , Kaushal Vaishali 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
In 2020, the world encountered travel restrictions because of pandemic, and the hospitality sector across the globe was one of the most affected industries. The purpose of this study is to further explore real-time experiences of guests who stayed in budget hotels and how pandemic has changed the expectations of its customer segment.

Design/methodology/approach
The current study uses netnography to examine customer experience of guests who stayed at budget hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic. A thematic analysis was conducted using NVivo 12 plus on 1,391 customer reviews collected from various travel portals.

Findings
The results suggested personalization and hygiene were the most significant themes that influence customer experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors’ analysis revealed that the use of self-service technologies like contactless services during check-in, checkouts and use of Quick Response codes in restaurants and other services would help reduce the perceived risk of guests and enhance the overall customer experience.

Originality/value
The branded budget hotel sector has pumped in lot of money envisaging growth just before the COVID crises emerged. Therefore, the fast recovery is of paramount importance for the sector. Additionally, majority of the pandemic-related studies in hospitality sector have focused on luxury hotels and failed to address the real-time experiences of customers with respect to budget hotels of a developing country. The outcome of this study will be relevant for the budget hotels and policymakers because they face the crucial task of reviving and sustaining enterprises and the industry at large.
Researchers’ hate-love relationship to performance measurement systems in academia – a Foucauldian perspective
Authors: Seger Karin , Englund Hans , Härström Malin 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to describe and theorize the type of hate-love relationship to performance measurement systems (PMSs) that individual researchers tend to develop in academia. To this end, the paper draws upon Foucault’s writings on neoliberalism to analyse PMSs as neoliberal technologies holding certain qualities that can be expected to elicit such ambivalent views.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based on a qualitative interview study of researchers from three Swedish universities, who were asked to reflect upon questions related to three overall themes, namely, what it means to be a researcher in contemporary academia, the existence and use of PMSs at their universities and if/how such PMSs affected them and their work as researchers.

Findings
The empirical findings show that the hate-love relationship can be understood in terms of how PMSs are involved in three central moments of governmentality, where each such moment of governmentality tends to elicit feelings of ambivalence among researchers due to how PMSs rely on: a restricted centrifugal mechanism, normalization rather than normation and a view of individual academics as entrepreneurs of themselves.

Originality/value
Existing literature has provided several important insights into how the introduction and use of PMSs in academia tend to result in both negative and positive experiences and reactions. The current paper adds to this literature through theorizing how and why PMSs may be expected to elicit such ambivalent experiences and reactions among individual researchers.
Burnout in learning organizations: the roles of organizational respect, job satisfaction and job insecurity
Authors: Chan Sow Hup Joanne , Chan Kuan-Thye , Chan Yiuwah Evan 
Published: August 2022

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to explain when and how organizational respect is related to job burnout syndromes. Using the stimulus–organism–response framework, the authors found that organizational respect is negatively related to burnout via job satisfaction, with job insecurity moderating the relationship. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, the authors proposed and found that job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion sequentially mediate the relationship between organizational respect and depersonalization, and this relationship is also moderated by job insecurity.

Design/methodology/approach
Data analysis was conducted using responses obtained from 280 anonymous employees in the postproduction film industry. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, AMOS and PROCESS macro was used for data analysis.

Findings
The research findings show job satisfaction mediates the effects of organizational respect for all three burnout syndromes. Organizational respect predicts depersonalization not only indirectly through job satisfaction but also through emotional exhaustion. Job insecurity moderates the relationship between job satisfaction and depersonalization and between emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. Organizational respect reduces depersonalization through job satisfaction, but this effect depends on how secure the employees feel about their jobs.

Research limitations/implications
Samples from one industry but from countries under different management cultures may not show the true scale of burnout levels for the industry. Cross-sectional data from one industry may limit the generalizability to other industries. The finding on the reverse effects of organizational respect on depersonalization for satisfied employees could be further investigated.

Practical implications
The findings provide insights for learning organizations on the importance of cultivating a respectful atmosphere and reducing job insecurity to mitigate aspects of burnout.

Originality/value
The authors clarified the moderating role of job insecurity and the mediating role of job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion in the organizational respect–depersonalization relationship.
Five cases of new‐onset pemphigus following vaccinations against coronavirus disease 2019
Authors: Corrá Alberto , Barei Francesca , Genovese Giovanni , Zussino Martina , Spigariolo Cristina B. , Mariotti Elena B. , Quintarelli Lavinia , Verdelli Alice , Caproni Marzia , Marzano Angelo V. 
Published: August 2022

AbstractPemphigus is a group of blistering disorders characterized by the formation of intraepithelial blisters in skin and mucous membranes induced by the binding of circulating autoantibodies to intercellular adhesion molecules. The pathogenesis is complex and not fully understood; however, genetic predisposition and various triggers are widely accepted as key factors in pemphigus development. A few cases of new‐onset pemphigus following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) vaccination have already been published. The present paper reports a total of two cases of pemphigus foliaceous and three cases of pemphigus vulgaris that occurred following vaccinations against COVID‐19, with anamnestic, clinical, and diagnostic data collection suggesting assumptions over a possible causal correlation.
Bumble bee colony health and performance vary widely across the urban ecosystem
Authors: Theodorou Panagiotis , Kühn Olga , Baltz Lucie M. , Wild Christopher , Rasti Sirus Leonard , Bucksch Carolina Ruiz , Strohm Erhard , Paxton Robert J. , Kurze Christoph 
Published: August 2022

Abstract

Urbanization is a global phenomenon that can affect fitness and could challenge the persistence of most species, including wild bee pollinators. Yet, how and which environmental features affect bee health and fitness within the urban ecosystem remain unclear.

Here, we placed experimental Bombus terrestris colonies in sites spanning from the edge into a city's core to investigate bumble bee parasitism, foraging behaviour, energetic stress, colony growth and reproductive output. In each site, ambient temperature was recorded, the availability of floral resources was evaluated and landscape heterogeneity was characterized using land‐cover maps.

We found that Bombus terrestris parasitism levels increased across the season in line with colony growth but were negatively related to the proportion of impervious surfaces surrounding a site. Bombus terrestris foraging trip duration decreased with increasing ecotones (edge density) but, conversely, increased in sites with honey bee hives present. Energetic stress was evaluated as lowered trehalose titre in the haemolymph of returning foragers; stress increased with the proportion of impervious surfaces. Furthermore, our analyses identified ambient temperature to be a strong predictor of Bombus terrestris colony performance in that high ambient temperature reduced colony growth and indirectly the production of sexual offspring (gynes).

Our results highlight the importance of ecotones as well as minimizing the intensity of urbanization and urban honey bee beekeeping for bumble bee colony health and foraging behaviour. They also point to the importance of microclimate (i.e. temperature) for bumble bee colony performance and suggest that increasing temperatures could have a negative impact in slowing colony weight gain, and indirectly in reducing colony reproduction.