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People experiencing homelessness often have multiple health and other support needs, requiring complex, coordinated support. Admission to hospital is potentially an opportunity to address these needs and begin integrating care, but so often it is a missed one. Our purpose in this research was to evaluate an ongoing, roll-out programme that offered government funding to 17 “test sites” across England to develop integrated care as part of post-discharge “step-down” support. In this paper, we examine senior stakeholder experiences of seeking to implement integrated care as part of specialist step-down care.

In this paper, we focus on data collected in interviews with key stakeholders (N = 10) who managed the mobilisation of local out of hospital care models for people experiencing homelessness. Interviews were conducted and analysed from a relational perspective, that is focusing on relationships between interactants, through which, for example, identities, understanding and integrating practice emerge.

A relational perspective on the data provides insights to better understand the complexity of integrating care at the point of hospital discharge for people experiencing homelessness.

Although in depth, the data were limited to certain perspectives on the issues. Other perspectives and data collection from in-depth study of case sites would be invaluable in developing the empirical evidence base for a relational understanding of integrating care.

A relational perspective highlights the emergent and ongoing nature of integrating care in this context of support for people experiencing homelessness. The need for different system agents to work to be constantly enacting the desired support is crucial to understanding future system changes for integrating care.

This is the first paper developing a relational analysis of integrating care. It highlights a different theoretical perspective on the issues and important insights.

The purpose of this paper is to invite Professor René Proyer, a leading positive psychologist and authority on play, to tell his story, share highlights from his research and insights into playfulness, mental health and positive psychology.

A positive autoethnographic case study approach is used to enable Professor Proyer to narrate his story while also addressing topics within a Q&A format.

Play is important for childhood, adolescent and adult mental health and well-being. Although distinct from one another, humor, laughter, creativity and playfulness exhibit overlap. Proyer’s research has even shown that just reflecting on playful moments can increase happiness and alleviate depression.

The experiences, perspectives and insight of one person are narrated in this case study and these cannot be generalized.

Play can be widely defined, and there are many ways to enjoy it freely and at no cost, making it highly accessible and practical to support mental health and well-being. By seeking out and creating playful situations, we can embrace playfulness as adults.

As Proyer relays by quoting Christopher Peterson, one definition of positive psychology is “Other people matter”. By finding ways to playfully interact with others, we can find immediate enjoyment but also build and strengthen relationships and support our health and well-being, and that of others too.

Professor Proyer is a positive psychologist and authority on playfulness. Here, he shares with us multiple insights in the areas of mental health and play.

Research generally believes that both corporate venture capital (CVC) and independent venture capital (IVC) promote the innovation value of entrepreneurial ventures, but their roles in innovation risk remain unclear. To reveal the bright and dark sides of CVC and IVC, we compare their influence on innovation performance and performance variability of entrepreneurial ventures as well as their interaction effects with innovation assets through physical and intellectual assets.

This study uses a panel dataset consisting of 630 high-tech ventures and the Heckman selection model to test the hypotheses and correct the endogenous problems.

We find that CVC improves the innovation performance of entrepreneurial ventures but at the cost of increasing their performance variability, whereas IVC is the opposite. We also find the combination effect of external and internal capital of entrepreneurial ventures. CVC and IVC complement intellectual assets to enhance innovation performance and dance with physical assets to reduce variability.

We use a value-risk dyadic perspective to reveal the bright side and dark side of CVC and IVC. We unveil the interplay mechanism between internal and external capital of entrepreneurial ventures and develop some kinds of capital configuration strategies to balance innovation value and risk.

With its presence, which can create inefficiencies, uncertainties and risks, information asymmetry poses a significant challenge to successfully managing the agri-food supply chain (AFSC). Understanding the variables that influence information asymmetry is crucial for devising more effective strategies to mitigate it. This study, therefore, explores the variables that influence information asymmetry in the AFSC.

A qualitative analysis was conducted, relying on semi-structured interviews with 17 experts representing different actors in the AFSC (e.g. seed producers, retailers, etc.) in Germany. The collected data was analysed using the GABEK® method.

The study confirms that the influencing variables derived from the existing theory, such as price performance, digitalisation, environmental, process and quality measures, contribute to information asymmetry. It further reveals new variables that associate with information asymmetry, including documentation requirements, increasing regulation, consumer behaviour, incorrect data within the company as well as crises, political conflicts and supplier–buyer conflicts. Furthermore, the study shows that supply chain actors counteract asymmetry by focusing on social behaviour and monitoring suppliers through key performance indicators, employees and social aspects.

The study was limited to the universal influence of the variables on information asymmetry in the AFSC, making the magnitude of the influence and its context-specific nature unexplained.

This study is one of the very few that examines information asymmetry across the AFSC from the perspective of different actors, providing a more overarching and deeper understanding of information asymmetry.

This study has three objectives: (i) to examine whether using a Big 4 auditor reduces loan interest rates; (ii) to analyze how loan interest rates differ between smaller firms, which face more acute asymmetric information problems, and larger firms; and (iii) to investigate whether the negative relationship between Big 4 auditors and loan interest rates is a function of client size.

The sample comprises all publicly traded nonfinancial companies listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange from 2007 to 2020. Pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) regression tests the hypothesized relationship between the dependent and independent variables.

The study offers three notable findings. First, borrowers audited by Big 4 auditors receive significantly lower interest rates than those audited by non-Big 4 auditors. Second, banks offer lower interest rates to larger firms (i.e. firms with fewer informational problems) than to smaller ones. Third, no conclusive evidence exists that the beneficial effects of Big 4 auditors (in terms of reduced interest rates) differ significantly between larger and smaller firms. This finding is attributable to the idea that Big 4 auditors do not report more favorably for larger clients or more conservatively for smaller clients. The results remain robust, even after addressing the endogeneity arising from auditor self-selection bias, which is validated by the results of two econometric tests: Heckman’s two-stage procedure and propensity score matching.

To the best of the author’s knowledge, this study is the first to examine the relationship between auditor size and bank loan contracting in Saudi Arabia.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have posed profound challenges to social enterprises and public sector organizations engaged in social service delivery in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. This study examines the resilience strategies employed by these organizations and seeks to discern any notable divergences between social enterprises and public sector entities.

We employ a qualitative approach, utilizing semi-structured interviews with key personnel across 28 organizations within the Czech and Slovak Republics, comprising both social enterprises and public sector bodies.

Our findings reveal a consistent pattern: social enterprises primarily utilize offensive strategies, such as seeking new resources, exploring new markets and innovating products or services. In contrast, public sector organizations tend to rely on defensive strategies, focusing on streamlining operations, reducing expenses and supporting staff.

This study addresses a gap in scholarly understanding of how recent crises, including COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine, have impacted management practices in the public and nonprofit sectors across Central and Eastern Europe.

The set of 2,509 documents related to the human-centric aspect of manufacturing were retrieved from Scopus database and systmatically analyzed. Using an unsupervised machine learning approach based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation we were able to identify latent topics related to human-centric aspect of Industry 5.0.

This study aims to create a scientific map of the human-centric aspect of manufacturing and thus provide a systematic framework for further research development of Industry 5.0.

In this study a 140 unique research topics were identified, 19 of which had sufficient research impact and research interest so that we could mark them as the most significant. In addition to the most significant topics, this study contains a detailed analysis of their development and points out their connections.

Industry 5.0 has three pillars – human-centric, sustainable, and resilient. The sustainable and resilient aspect of manufacturing has been the subject of many studies in the past. The human-centric aspect of such a systematic description and deep analysis of latent topics is currently just passing through.

This study investigates how different presentation modalities (text-only, image with text and video with text) influence the perceived accuracy and sharing intentions of climate change-related fake news, examining the mediating role of perceived diagnosticity and the moderating effect of personal involvement.

An online experiment was conducted with 456 participants, who were presented with fake climate change news stories in various formats through Facebook posts. The study measured perceived accuracy, sharing intentions, perceived diagnosticity and personal involvement.

The experimental outcomes reveal the following: (1) Video with text significantly increased perceived accuracy compared to text-only modality, while the image with text modality had no significant effect; (2) The effect of presentation modality on perceived accuracy is mediated by perceived diagnosticity; (3) Personal involvement moderates these relationships, with highly involved individuals being less influenced by presentation modality and (4) Perceived accuracy positively correlates with sharing intentions across all presentation modalities.

Media literacy programs should emphasize the critical evaluation of multimedia content, particularly video, to mitigate the influence of fake news. Policymakers and platform developers should implement robust video content verification tools and tailored interventions to support users based on their involvement levels.

This research offers novel insights into the psychological mechanisms behind the believability of fake news across various presentation modalities. These findings have significant implications for researchers, practitioners and policymakers aiming to improve digital literacy in an increasingly AI-driven media landscape.

This study examines whether Confucian culture can promote enterprise total factor productivity (TFP), and it also studies how transmission mechanism works on enterprise TFP.

Based on the data of A-share listed companies on Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets from 2008 to 2019, this study measures the influence of Confucian culture on enterprise TFP by the number of Confucian academies and Confucian temples within three radius ranges of a company's registered address.

The empirical results show that Confucian culture has a positive effect on the enterprise TFP. The transmission mechanism test shows that Confucian culture can promote the TFP of Chinese enterprises through reducing agency cost, improving agency efficiency and enhancing innovation.

The findings in this study provide implications for policymakers, scholars and enterprises. The results show that Confucian culture can enhance the TFP of Chinese enterprises. Especially in emerging markets including China, the Confucian culture, as an informal institution, can effectively complement formal institutions, promoting enterprise TFP.

This study expands the literature on Confucian culture in two aspects: the influence of Confucian culture on TFP and its transmission mechanism. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first study to identify a link between Confucian culture and enterprise TFP.

The paper aims to optimise several concepts of the flat-upper-surface wing that could install the largest possible number of photovoltaic cells and test them in flight. A wing ideal flat upper surface was necessary to provide the same lighting conditions for each tested cell.

The optimised wings were built based on a developed family of airfoils having 75% of their upper surface flat. Within the developed parametric model of the wings, the design parameters described the spanwise distribution of base airfoils. Maximisation of the endurance factor was assumed as the main objective. The aerodynamic properties of optimised wings were evaluated using a panel method coupled with boundary layer analysis.

The paper proves that it is possible to design wings with 75% of their upper surface perfectly flat, which are also characterised by good aerodynamic properties.

The research conducted will allow designing an experimental unmanned aerial vehicle dedicated to investigating the properties of electrical propulsion systems at various altitudes. Data obtained in these investigations will help in the development of future generations of electric-propulsion aircraft.

The innovative wings, developed within the research are unique due to their unusual geometric and aerodynamic properties. They have 75% of their upper surface perfectly flat. That makes them ideal for testing various photovoltaic cells in flight. The biggest challenge was to design the wings so that their specific geometric features did not impair their aerodynamic properties. The paper proves that this challenge has been fully overcome.