Arvid Nikolai Kildahl, Kristin Storvik, Elisabeth Christina Wächter, Tom Jensen, Arvid Ro and Inger Breistein Haugen
Distinguishing between autism characteristics and trauma-related symptoms may be clinically challenging, particularly in individuals who have experienced early traumatisation…
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Purpose
Distinguishing between autism characteristics and trauma-related symptoms may be clinically challenging, particularly in individuals who have experienced early traumatisation. Previous studies have described a risk that trauma-related symptoms are misinterpreted and/or misattributed to autism. This study aims to describe and explore assessment strategies to distinguish autism and early traumatisation in the case of a young woman with mild intellectual disability.
Design/methodology/approach
A clinical case study outlining assessment strategies, diagnostic decision-making and initial intervention.
Findings
A multi-informant interdisciplinary assessment using multiple assessment tools, together with a comprehensive review of records from previous assessments and contacts with various services, was helpful in distinguishing between autism and trauma. This included specific assessment tools for autism and trauma. Autism characteristics and trauma-related symptoms appeared to interact, not merely co-occur.
Originality/value
The current case demonstrates that diagnostic overshadowing may occur for autism in the context of early trauma. The case further highlights the importance of not ascribing trauma-related symptoms to autism, as service provision and treatment need to take account of both. Overlooking autism in individuals who have experienced early traumatisation may result in a risk that intervention and care are not appropriately adapted, which may involve a risk of exacerbating trauma symptoms.
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Øyvind Ihlen and Øystein Berntzen
The purpose of this paper is to improve upon lobby theory by learning from a failed lobby campaign in which the lobbyist managed to annoy and anger key constituencies.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to improve upon lobby theory by learning from a failed lobby campaign in which the lobbyist managed to annoy and anger key constituencies.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is a qualitative case study, conducted on attempts made by the Norwegian oil industry in 2002‐2004 to achieve a tax amendment. Qualitative interviews were carried out with oil industry representatives, two former ministers, political advisers, and members of parliament, and with journalists who had followed the campaign.
Findings
The main argument being put forward in this paper is that lobbyists should use insights from stakeholder theory.
Research limitations/implications
The paper is a single‐case study and it is difficult to generalise its findings. This invites more research.
Practical implications
The paper combines lobby theory with an approach suggested by stakeholder theory which might temper single‐minded advocacy that is too preoccupied with getting immediate political results, and help organizations to remember that it is important to develop good long‐term relations with stakeholders.
Originality/value
The paper has potential to improve lobby theory and efforts.
Mohitul Ameen Ahmed Mustafi, Ya-juan Dong and Md Sajjad Hosain
At present, for any product, smooth marketing has become a major challenge due to the novel market challenges as well as sudden and extended changes. Thus, the concerns for the…
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Purpose
At present, for any product, smooth marketing has become a major challenge due to the novel market challenges as well as sudden and extended changes. Thus, the concerns for the marketers are essential to consider the choice of buyers and also to satisfy them. The purpose of this empirical research is to focus on the role of three organizational attributes (OA): job satisfaction (JS), organizational commitment (OC) and extrinsic motivation (EM) on the marketing performance (MP) mediated by the Chief Marketing Officers' (CMOs') political skill (CPS) in the telecommunication industries of China, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Sri Lanka.
Design/methodology/approach
In this paper, based on 132 survey responses collected from CMOs, the authors conducted descriptive statistics using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS-25) and tested the assumed hypotheses through covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) using AMOS software (version 25).
Findings
The authors found that JS has an insignificant role on MP while OC and EM have significant positive roles over the dependent variable. CPS has also a significant positive influence over MP. Further, the authors identified that CPS can fully mediate the relationship between JS and MP while it can partially mediate the relationship between OC and MP. On the other hand, CPS cannot mediate the relationship between EM and MP at all.
Originality/value
According to authors’ knowledge, this is one of the very limited initial attempts that have investigated the role of three important OA on the MP testing the mediating effect of CPS. The authors expect that the study outcomes will have an enormous impact on marketing academia as a torch-bearing research as well as for CMOs for formulating an effective marketing policy.
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Diego Stea, Stefan Linder and Nicolai J. Foss†
The attention-based view (ABV) of the firm highlights the role of decision makers’ attention in firm behavior. The ABV vastly improves our understanding of decision makers’ focus…
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The attention-based view (ABV) of the firm highlights the role of decision makers’ attention in firm behavior. The ABV vastly improves our understanding of decision makers’ focus of attention; how that focus is situated in an organization’s procedural and communication channels; and how the distribution of the focus of attention among decision makers participating in those procedural and communication channels affects their understanding of a situation, their motivation to act, and, ultimately, their behavior. Significant progress has been made in recent years in refining and extending the ABV. However, the role of individual differences in the capacity to read other people’s desires, intentions, knowledge, and beliefs – that is, the theory of mind (ToM) – has remained on the sidelines. The ToM is a natural complement to the ABV. In this study, we explore how the ToM allows for an understanding of the advantage that organizations have over markets within the ABV.
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Dale Domian, Rob Wolf and Hsiao-Fen Yang
The home is a substantial investment for most individual investors but the assessment of risk and return of residential real estate has not been well explored yet. The existing…
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Purpose
The home is a substantial investment for most individual investors but the assessment of risk and return of residential real estate has not been well explored yet. The existing real estate pricing literature using a CAPM-based model generally suggests very low risk and unexplained excess returns. However, many academics suggest the residential real estate market is unique and standard asset pricing models may not fully capture the risk associated with the housing market. The purpose of this paper is to extend the asset pricing literature on residential real estate by providing improved CAPM estimates of risk and required return.
Design/methodology/approach
The improvements include the use of a levered β which captures the leverage risk and Lin and Vandell (2007) Time on Market risk premium which captures the additional liquidity risk of residential real estate.
Findings
In addition to presenting palatable risk and return estimates for a national real estate index, the results of this paper suggest the risk and return characteristics of multiple cities tracked by the Case Shiller Home Price Index are distinct.
Originality/value
The results show higher estimates of risk and required return levels than previous research, which is more consistent with the academic expectation that housing performs between stocks and bonds. In contrast to most previous studies, the authors find residential real estate underperforms based on risk, using standard financial models.
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Igor Filatotchev, Steve Toms and Mike Wright
The paper seeks to present a novel conceptual framework that integrates the strategic dynamics of the firm with changes in its governance systems.
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Purpose
The paper seeks to present a novel conceptual framework that integrates the strategic dynamics of the firm with changes in its governance systems.
Design/methodology/approach
The agency research agenda is extended to include other corporate governance roles, such as resource and strategy functions, alongside monitoring and control functions. Theoretical arguments are supported by empirical data related to the founder‐manager/IPO, IPO/maturity, maturity/decline and reinvention thresholds.
Findings
The paper shows that corporate governance parameters may be linked to strategic thresholds in the firm's life‐cycle. Successful transition over a threshold is accompanied by a rebalancing in the structure and roles of corporate governance compared with each previous stage in the cycle.
Research limitations/implications
In the absence of longitudinal data relating to firms as they pass through all life‐cycle stages the study has been restricted to reporting illustrative data from different studies regarding each strategic threshold. Further research might usefully undertake detailed long‐term case studies using a combination of archival and interview data to trace the evolution of firms across the four thresholds.
Originality/value
This paper develops a novel conceptual framework that integrates the strategic dynamics of the firm with changes in its governance systems. It rejects the notion of a universal governance template and argues that corporate governance parameters may be linked to transitions from one stage to another in the firm's life‐cycle. Accordingly, it argues that changes in a firm's strategic positioning may be associated with rebalancing between the wealth‐protection and wealth‐creation functions of governance.
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Zahra Khayyer, Hamidreza Oreyzi, Karim Asgari and Sverker Sikström
A wide range of variables, including cognitive, emotional and relational factors, could affect the level of peacefulness. The purpose of this paper is to examine key variables…
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Purpose
A wide range of variables, including cognitive, emotional and relational factors, could affect the level of peacefulness. The purpose of this paper is to examine key variables (theory of mind (ToM) and harmony) that mediate the personality trait of peacefulness.
Design/methodology/approach
The participants were 182 university students recruited from three universities in Isfahan, Iran. Some different scales were applied in order to measure the intended peace variables.
Findings
The findings demonstrate that ToM, as the ability to attribute mental states, significantly mediates the association between interpersonal peacefulness and inhibition skill, interpersonal peacefulness and conflict resolution abilities, and interpersonal peacefulness and level of aggression. In addition, harmony mediates the relationship between intrapersonal peacefulness, hope, intrapersonal peacefulness and self-compassionate competency.
Practical implications
These findings indicate that peaceful feelings enable a person to provide more attention to the concerns of others and to relationship issues.
Originality/value
This an original type of study in the field of peace psychology.
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Øystein Jensen, Hyangmi Kim and Joseph S. Chen
The aim of this chapter is to delineate a product framework concerning managed visitor attractions (MVA), which highlights the supply-chain aspects of destinations. It first…
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The aim of this chapter is to delineate a product framework concerning managed visitor attractions (MVA), which highlights the supply-chain aspects of destinations. It first touches on the rationales for developing such a framework and then constructs a framework composed of a set of product components deriving from the extant literature. Consequently, an version of a product component framework, fastening on an accumulated sample of attraction cases, is presented through three illustrative cases. In the conclusion section, this study elaborates on the study limitation while connoting how the resultant data could shed light on the role of the components of the MVA product in the creation of visitor experiences.