This article aims to present the findings from a study designed to gain a general understanding of community attitudes and experiences associated with gatecrashing at outdoor…
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Purpose
This article aims to present the findings from a study designed to gain a general understanding of community attitudes and experiences associated with gatecrashing at outdoor music festivals (OMFs).
Design/methodology/approach
This study was an exploratory, descriptive study with data collection involving a web based, survey tool and convenience and snowballing sampling methodologies. A total of 196 people from across Australia participated in the study.
Findings
The key findings were that 15.3 per cent of the respondents were supportive of others gatecrashing, 65.3 per cent were against others gatecrashing while the remaining study participants did not care either way (19.4 per cent). About 39 per cent of the respondents had considered gatecrashing an event however the majority of this group (86 per cent) did not go through with these intentions. The remainder of the respondents (61 per cent) had never personally considered gatecrashing an event. In total, 11 per cent of study participants reported having gatecrashed events and there was generally a level of planning associated with their gatecrashing experiences. The male respondents were more supportive and more likely to have considered gatecrashing an event than the female participants. Males also made up the majority of the study participants that had gatecrashed events.
Research limitations/implications
The collection of data involved the use of convenience and snowballing sampling methodologies and voluntary participation. As these methods are non‐probability based and so generalisations from this sample group were not be discussed in terms of the wider population.
Practical implications
It is expected that these findings will inform the work of event organisers and regulatory authorities involved in managing gatecrashing at these events.
Social implications
This study provides supportive evidence to inform education campaigns designed to reduce the impacts of gatecrashing at outdoor music events.
Originality/value
This study contributes to the body of knowledge on gatecrashing behaviour within the context of OMFs.
Is organization development (OD) culture‐bound to American and Western applied behavioral science or exportable? There is evidence that one concept and set of techniques (called…
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Is organization development (OD) culture‐bound to American and Western applied behavioral science or exportable? There is evidence that one concept and set of techniques (called ho'oponopono), which were developed in ancient Hawaii but are still practiced today, have close parallels to OD techniques in conflict management used by pace‐setting American corporations. Ho'oponopono is apparently culturally transferable. Thus OD has been uniquely addressed in a culture far removed from urban‐industrial America and is, with minor adaptations, applicable to contemporary corporations. Perhaps OD‐and certainly at least the ho'oponopono methodology for conflict management—can be made culturally fungible. The paper concludes with an explanation of how this transferability can be made in ho'oponopono.
Olivia Giles and Daniel Murphy
This paper aims to explore any potential link between the corporate issue of a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) with a changed environmental, social and…
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Purpose
This paper aims to explore any potential link between the corporate issue of a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) with a changed environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting focus as part of a complementary communicative legitimation strategy.
Design/methodology/approach
A longitudinal content analysis of the annual reports of three sample Australian corporations was undertaken, measuring changes in ESG disclosure levels and disclosure focus around the time a SLAPP was issued by each sample firm.
Findings
This paper provides support for the contention that both the number of ESG disclosures and the type of ESG disclosures changed after the sample firms issued SLAPPs.
Research limitations/implications
A number of limitations are identified within the paper, including difficulties identifying when SLAPPs are initiated.
Originality/value
To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first investigation of the relationship between SLAPPs and ESG reporting, and this study helps open up a new area of research into how ESG reporting is used by corporations in a strategic manner.
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Anna-Maija Multas and Noora Hirvonen
This study examines the information literacy practices of young video bloggers, focusing on the ways in which they construct their cognitive authority through a health-related…
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Purpose
This study examines the information literacy practices of young video bloggers, focusing on the ways in which they construct their cognitive authority through a health-related information creation process.
Design/methodology/approach
This study draws upon socially oriented information literacy research and nexus analysis as its methodological framework. Data, including YouTube videos, theme interviews and video diaries, were collected with three Finnish video bloggers and qualitatively analysed using nexus analytical concepts to describe the central elements of social action.
Findings
The study shows that video bloggers employ several information practices during the information creation process, including planning, information-seeking, organization, editing and presentation of information. They construct their cognitive authority in relation to their anticipated audience by grounding it on different types of information: experience-based, embodied and scientific. Trustworthiness, emphasized with authenticity and genuineness, and competence, based on experience, expertise and second-hand information, were recognized as key components of credibility in this context.
Originality/value
This study increases the understanding of the complex ways in which young people create information on social media and influence their audiences. The study contributes to information literacy research by offering insights into the under-researched area of information creation. It is among the few studies to examine cognitive authority construction in the information creation process. The notion of authority as constructed through trustworthiness and competence and grounded on different types of information, can be taken into account in practice by information professionals and educators when planning information literacy instruction.
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Marian H. Amin, Heba Ali and Ehab K. A. Mohamed
This paper scrutinizes the nexus between firms’ board characteristics; environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and industry sensitivity, with the aim of examining…
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Purpose
This paper scrutinizes the nexus between firms’ board characteristics; environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and industry sensitivity, with the aim of examining how the impact of board diversity on ESG performance would vary among sensitive versus non-sensitive industries and identify which board characteristics are more influential on ESG performance in these industries.
Design/methodology/approach
A large sample of 31,255 firm-year observations in 5,471 companies listed in the G-7 countries from 2010 to 2022 is examined using a Heckman two-stage least squares (2SLS) approach to address the potential endogeneity concerns within our proposed relationships.
Findings
The findings show that the positive influence of diverse boards on a firm’s ESG performance is particularly amplified in sensitive industries and may be attributed to the greater need of these industries to address stakeholder concerns (as posited by the stakeholder and resource-dependence theories) and mitigate agency conflicts (supporting agency theory). Interestingly, the impact of diversity in board gender and education qualifications appears to be particularly influential and remains robust across a series of regression analyses.
Research limitations/implications
This study has important implications for policymakers and legislators as it provides guidelines pertaining to the composition of boards operating in sensitive industries. For practitioners and firms, the results allow for better understanding of firms’ tendency towards sustainability practices, particularly in the context of sensitive industries.
Practical implications
This study has important implications for policymakers and legislators as it provides guidelines pertaining to the composition of boards operating in sensitive industries.
Originality/value
This study contributes to the increasingly growing literature that investigates the nexus between industry sensitivity, board characteristics and ESG performance.
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Malcolm Dowden and Emma Humphreys
Difficult economic and trading conditions make lease break options a point of significant legal tension between commercial landlords and tenants. For a tenant, the ability to…
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Purpose
Difficult economic and trading conditions make lease break options a point of significant legal tension between commercial landlords and tenants. For a tenant, the ability to break a lease provides a means of controlling costs and an exit from liabilities. For landlords, the loss of a tenant's covenant means an immediate adverse effect on the reversionary value of the property. The purpose of this paper is to examine recent English court rulings to highlight the need for strict compliance with break conditions if a tenant is to succeed in ending its liabilities.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper discusses recent rulings to assess the extent to which judicial interpretation of break clauses continues to favour landlords, and whether landlords' conduct in negotiations or correspondence leading up to the exercise of a tenant's break option might engage concepts such as estoppel to bind the landlord to a particular level of compliance or breach.
Findings
The paper concludes that the English court continues to apply a strict approach to compliance with break conditions, and that it remains the tenant's responsibility both to determine what needs to be done by way of compliance and to ensure that those steps are taken.
Originality/value
The authors place the most recent rulings on the perennially vexed issue of compliance with break conditions into a broader context, demonstrating that the judicial approach remains firmly based on the principle that a break option is negotiated for the tenant's benefit, and that any conditions precedent to exercise are highly likely to be construed against the tenant who agreed to a break conditional on anything other than service of notice.
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M. Camino Ramon-Llorens, Emma Garcia-Meca and María Consuelo Pucheta-Martínez
This paper aims to analyze the role of female directors on CSR disclosure. It assumes the existence of faultlines when studying gender diversity and classifies female directors…
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Purpose
This paper aims to analyze the role of female directors on CSR disclosure. It assumes the existence of faultlines when studying gender diversity and classifies female directors into three categories: industry experts, advisors and community leaders. It also examines the influence of the power of female directors as a moderator on the association between female director categories and CSR disclosure.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper bases on a dynamic generalized method of moments panel estimator which allows controlling for the unobservable heterogeneity and endogeneity and reduces the estimation bias.
Findings
Results confirm the double-sided nature of gender diversity, noting different behavior among female directors according to their experience and backgrounds. Moreover, the dominating owner position of female directors can balance and moderate the effect of female directors appointed for their technical knowledge or political and social ties. The results also confirm the necessity to not consider all women directors as a homogeneous group and explore the influence and interrelations of female faultlines on CSR disclosure.
Practical implications
The paper highlights the need to consider the specific skills, expertise, and connections of female board members when analyzing the effect of board composition, and supports the view that firms should emphasize the unique human and social capital of directors to understand how boards impact on firm strategies. Specifically, the authors support the recommendations of the European Commission (2011) regarding the need to increase skills and expertise when selecting new non-executive female board members.
Social implications
At a time when most governments are introducing active policies that require firms to nominate women to boards, the understanding of the consequences of women’s presence on boards and the interrelations between female power and the diverse categories of female directors is timely and important.
Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper that provides empirical evidence to the scarcely studied area of the human and social capital of female directors’ roles in CSR disclosure, providing an alternative view of the role of women in corporate board effectiveness.
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Deborah J. Morris, Elanor Lucy Webb, Emma Parmar, Grace Trundle and Anne McLean
People with developmental disorders are significantly more likely to experience adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), although the impact of ACEs on this population is not well…
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Purpose
People with developmental disorders are significantly more likely to experience adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), although the impact of ACEs on this population is not well understood. Furthermore, considerably less is known about the exposure to, and impact of, ACEs in detained adolescents with complex developmental disorder needs. This paper aims to explore the exposure to ACEs in an adolescent population detained in a secure specialist developmental disorder service.
Design/methodology/approach
A retrospective file review was used to explore ACEs and placement histories within a specialist developmental disorder inpatient service. Data was collated for a convenience sample of 36 adolescents, 9 of whom were female, aged 13–20 years (M = 17.28 years).
Findings
A total of 33 participants (91.7%) had experienced at least 1 ACE, with 58% experiencing 4 or more ACEs and 36% experiencing 6 or more ACEs. The most common ACEs reported were physical abuse (61.6%), parental separation (58.3%) and emotional abuse (55.6%). The majority of participants had also experienced high levels of disruption prior to admission, with an average of four placement breakdowns (range 1–13, standard deviation = 3.1). ACEs held a significant positive association with the total number of placement breakdowns and total number of mental health diagnoses.
Practical implications
Adolescents detained in specialist developmental disorder secure care had, at the point of admission, experienced high levels of adversities and had been exposed to high levels of experienced and observed abuse. The level of exposure to adversity and ongoing disruptions in care suggests that Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services’ developmental secure services should consider adopting dual treatment frameworks of developmental disorder and trauma-informed care.
Originality/value
This study explored the early-life and placement experiences of a marginalised and understudied population.