Johanna Sofia Adolfsson, Arve Hansen and Ulrikke Wethal
How to change consumption patterns remains one of the most wicked global sustainability challenges, and it is increasingly acknowledged that such wicked problems require…
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How to change consumption patterns remains one of the most wicked global sustainability challenges, and it is increasingly acknowledged that such wicked problems require interdisciplinary solutions. In this chapter, we ask what can be learnt from contrasting two approaches to sustainable consumption that only to a very limited extent interact. First, psychological approaches to consumption have been immensely influential concerning individual behavioural change, particularly through their theorisations of ‘nudge’ and ‘choice architecture’. Second, social practice theories (SPTs) have obtained a dominant position in sociocultural approaches to consumption, focusing on how bodily, social and material elements combine into taken-for-granted daily routines that make up shared patterns of (unsustainable) social life. Interestingly, despite the theoretical approaches' different ontologies and analytical loci, nudge theory and practice theories seem to end up in surprisingly similar recommendations for facilitating sustainable change. In this chapter, we explore the differences and similarities of two theoretical bodies that rarely interact, with the aim to explore the room for breaking out of disciplinary silos and investigate potentials for cross-field pollination. We use the empirical case of continuity and change in meat consumption, but the dynamics discussed are arguably relevant for all fields of consumption. We demonstrate that while cross-pollination between nudge and practice theories could potentially increase political attention as well as be used to deliver more precise and tailored interventions, the diverging ontological underpinnings of these directions of thought significantly reduce the potential for further co-development.
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Abu Rashed Osman and Ruswiati Surya Saputra
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between service quality, program quality, institutional image and student satisfaction in the context of higher…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between service quality, program quality, institutional image and student satisfaction in the context of higher education. Additionally, the study attempts to describe the mediating impact of institutional image between service quality, program quality and student satisfaction.
Design/methodology/approach
The structural equation modeling was used to analyze the influence of mediating variable and hypotheses testing. The population of this study was fourth-year business students of nine “grade one” private universities in Bangladesh. Data (n = 310) were gathered from students pursuing studies at different private universities in Bangladesh.
Findings
The findings of this study revealed that image occupied full mediation role between service quality and student satisfaction. Furthermore, it also disclosed that the direct path of service quality and student satisfaction was not statistically significant.
Practical implications
These unique findings imply that academic authorities should nurture the institutional image and program quality rigorously to enhance student satisfaction. The findings of this study would benefit both practitioners and academics, especially in the perspective of Bangladesh private higher education.
Originality/value
Past researchers have examined the direct affiliation between service quality and student satisfaction. Hence, there is a deficiency of indirect link between service quality and student satisfaction. This study has incorporated image as a mediating variable to fulfill the deficiency in higher education.
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Zuraidah Zainol, Rusliza Yahaya, Juliana Osman and Nor Asiah Omar
This study aims to determine the effect of health knowledge on nutrition-label use and attitude, and consequently on healthy food choice among Malaysian Muslim consumers.
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Purpose
This study aims to determine the effect of health knowledge on nutrition-label use and attitude, and consequently on healthy food choice among Malaysian Muslim consumers.
Design/methodology/approach
This study adopts the positivist, deductive and quantitative approach. A sample consisting of 257 Muslim consumers, at least 15 years old, were selected using systematic street-intercept sampling method. Data collected using a self-administered questionnaire were analysed using descriptive statistics and structural equation modelling (SEM).
Findings
The findings reveal the significant positive effect of health knowledge on nutrition-label use and attitude towards nutrition label, but only attitude towards nutrition label significantly predicts healthy food choice.
Research limitations/implications
Though the findings add to the existing literature, provide useful information on how nutrition label could guide the consumer to make healthier food choices and serve as a reference point that could stimulate and guide future researchers and other relevant parties, this study is limited by several factors that require replication in future research.
Originality/value
This research is perhaps one of the first attempts to consider the role of nutrition label as one of the ways to comply with the Tayyib principle.
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Bahram Jalili, Milad Sadinezhad Fard, Yasir Khan, Payam Jalili and D.D. Ganji
The current analysis produces the fractional sample of non-Newtonian Casson and Williamson boundary layer flow considering the heat flux and the slip velocity. An extended sheet…
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Purpose
The current analysis produces the fractional sample of non-Newtonian Casson and Williamson boundary layer flow considering the heat flux and the slip velocity. An extended sheet with a nonuniform thickness causes the steady boundary layer flow’s temperature and velocity fields. Our purpose in this research is to use Akbari Ganji method (AGM) to solve equations and compare the accuracy of this method with the spectral collocation method.
Design/methodology/approach
The trial polynomials that will be utilized to carry out the AGM are then used to solve the nonlinear governing system of the PDEs, which has been transformed into a nonlinear collection of linked ODEs.
Findings
The profile of temperature and dimensionless velocity for different parameters were displayed graphically. Also, the effect of two different parameters simultaneously on the temperature is displayed in three dimensions. The results demonstrate that the skin-friction coefficient rises with growing magnetic numbers, whereas the Casson and the local Williamson parameters show reverse manners.
Originality/value
Moreover, the usefulness and precision of the presented approach are pleasing, as can be seen by comparing the results with previous research. Also, the calculated solutions utilizing the provided procedure were physically sufficient and precise.
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Nurulhuda Abd Rahman, Muhammad Nazmul Hoque, Muhamad Rahimi Osman and Norazam Mastuki
This paper aims to provide insight on internal Shariah audit change process in Islamic banking institution using sociology of translationin and the identification of specific…
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Purpose
This paper aims to provide insight on internal Shariah audit change process in Islamic banking institution using sociology of translationin and the identification of specific Islamic legal maxim (ILM).
Design/methodology/approach
This paper gathered findings using qualitative approach where a single case study was selected. The study began with a preliminary study to assist the selection of the case study and later two phases of interviews done at the institution selected as the case study.
Findings
This paper has provided insights into the internal Shariah audit practices change using sociology of translation that incorporated ILM as the basis to strengthen the Islamic banking operations by achieving maqasid al-Shariah (MS). The findings of this paper provide distinguished insight on internal Shariah audit change process and ILM. The significance of this study is that a new contribution through exploring the viewpoints of the perception that satisfying the minimum legal requirements of Shariah compliance may not be sufficient for proper Shariah audit in IBIs. Therefore, the existence of ILM within a change process serves as a basis for best practices to be able to achieve MS through the means (wasa’il) used in realising IBIs’ objectives.
Originality/value
The application of ILM to internal Shariah audit change process that would guide Muslim auditors to be in line with Islamic principles. This paper focuses on the application of ILM to the Shariah audit practices changes as ILM embodied ethical value to the general concept of maslahah (well-being) under MS in the period of post-COVID-19.
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Kirstin Wilmot and Sioux McKenna
In the context of rapid change in higher education, there is a great demand for powerful theory and methods to address key issues, particularly related to teaching and learning…
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In the context of rapid change in higher education, there is a great demand for powerful theory and methods to address key issues, particularly related to teaching and learning. This chapter traces the uptake of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) in higher education studies in South Africa to make sense of how and why this theory has become so popular. LCT draws on the works of Bernstein and Bourdieu to provide a powerful theoretical and analytical toolkit with which to analyse social practices. In the chapter, we argue that the attraction of this theory is that it attends to a ‘knowledge blindness’ whereby much higher education research, particularly that focussed on teaching and learning, fails to consider the nature and effects of the discipline or field being learned. The use of this theory is illustrated in the chapter by reference to a number of publications. In doing so, we illustrate the importance of conceptual tools that allow an interrogation of what we are teaching, who we are teaching and how this social practice takes place.
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M.S. Mohammed, A.E.-S.I. Ahmed and R.M. Osman
A try to find some useful applications for some products prepared from agricultural waste by mixing them with cement to act as reinforcement agents. The paper aims to discuss…
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Purpose
A try to find some useful applications for some products prepared from agricultural waste by mixing them with cement to act as reinforcement agents. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach
Cement was mixed with microcrystalline cellulosic (MCC) fibres prepared from baggase, soaked in mixing water, followed by cubic pastes formation. The mixing was performed using different ratios of MCC; 0.5, 0.75, 1 and 3 per cent. The cement properties were followed at timed intervals, up to 90 days. The initial and final setting times of the pastes were determined. Bulk density, apparent porosity and compressive strength of the harden cement pastes were also identified. The hydration kinetic was followed by identifying free lime ratio and chemically combined water content. The structure of the hard cement pastes was followed by SEM, FTIR, DSC and XRD.
Findings
It was noticed that the weight of the prepared cement pastes using MCC was reduced, while the compressive strength was increased. In addition, lower ratios of MCC have shown better results at early ages of hydration and reported higher compressive strength than control. No interaction was reported between the fibres and cement constituents based on the performed analysis.
Research limitations/implications
Different types of agricultural wastes can be compared in producing the best type of MCC for the same purpose of this research.
Practical implications
This piece of work has suggested a simple way to convert a product prepared from agricultural wastes in a small uniform size to a reinforcement agent to cement. Consuming this type of waste reduces the risks resulting from its burning at some countries such as Egypt.
Originality/value
MCC fibres have well-known binding properties and used successfully on wide range in medical applications for tablets production with low costs. These fibres have reduced the pastes weight and increased the compressive strength using low ratios of them. Moreover, there is no indication of a reaction between these fibres and cement constituents.
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The challenges that Saudi female leaders face have a major effect on their wellbeing, because their life’s satisfaction as Gärling et al. (2015) pointed out is related to the…
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The challenges that Saudi female leaders face have a major effect on their wellbeing, because their life’s satisfaction as Gärling et al. (2015) pointed out is related to the balance between mental and physical circumstances that they experience. Additionally, female leaders in Saudi higher education experience considerable job-related stress, and they often lack the strategies and guidance which are necessary to enhance the social and emotional competencies that could help them to cope appropriately with challenges and maintain their wellbeing. Therefore, this chapter presents findings from a qualitative study and unravels Saudi female leaders’ strategies for managing challenges and sustaining their wellbeing in higher education organizations.
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The purpose of this paper is to develop a scale to empirically measure the self-centered leadership SCL pattern in Arab organizations.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to develop a scale to empirically measure the self-centered leadership SCL pattern in Arab organizations.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper depends on two Egyptian samples. It has conducted exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and multiple regression analyses to generate the proposed SCL measurement scale.
Findings
The analyses have revealed that the new measurement scale is valid and reliable. They have also confirmed the multidimensional structure of the self-centered leadership construct.
Originality/value
The Arab leadership literature is in short of scales which take into consideration the specialties of the Arab cultures. Therefore, this study fills a lacuna in international research which examines Arab leadership behaviors from a culture-bound perspective.