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The nexus between de‐globalization and OFDI from emerging economies: Moderating roles of institution and government
No full textThe recent wave of de-globalization has slowed the outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) process globally, with varying effects across countries. Using panel data from 25 emerging economies between 1980 and 2018, we examine the impact of de-globalization on OFDI. Our findings show that higher de-globalization pressure from developed countries drives emerging economies to invest more globally. Threshold regressions reveal that this positive effect is significant only when a minimum GDP threshold is met. Moreover, better institutional quality and increased government involvement strengthen the positive impact of de-globalization on OFDI
Storying connectivity and value: the south west creative technology network’s cultural ecologies as network visualisations
Get PDFThis paper explores the productive connectivity developed by university-industry knowledge exchange (KE) programmes for research and development (R&D) and their emergent cultural value. The South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) is our case study. We build on Dovey et al.'s. work to visualise the cultural ecology supported and created by cohort-led R&D programmes. Our visualisations, combined with interview data, evidence that new connections create diverse forms of value, including inspiration, mentoring, training, and recruitment opportunities, and cooperation through collaborative working. We supplement social network and visualisation tools with rich qualitative data to explore the “why,” “how” and “to what end” of new connections, contributing to the field of Mixed Methods in Social Network Analysis (MMSNA). This methodology is novel to the field of creative economy research. We argue for new forms of R&D funding for the creative sector to take a cultural ecology approach if we wish to take seriously and invest in the diverse forms of value beyond economic drivers, sometimes described as “intangible,” that play an important role in building regional capacity, innovation and productivity
Uncovering the impact of digital technologies on strategising: Evidence from a systematic literature review
No full textAdopting digital technologies in different organizations has become a trend over the last decade, yet our understanding regarding impact of digital technologies on strategising needs to be more cohersive. This paper reviews existing research on how digital transformation intersects with strategic management to adress this gap. Specifically, the aim is to explore how the digital context changes strategising. Based on a systematic review of empirical evidence from 163 journal papers, we showcased the manifestation of strategising in the digital age in terms of strategic practitioners, practices and praxis. By consolidating these findings, a typology of strategic actions in the digital age is developed and discussed, highlighting the interplay among changes in strategy‐as‐practice parameters. This framework clarifies in strategic scenarios of digital transformation and identifies various strategic directions and actions. Overall, we argue that although digital transformation has created additional strategic options, it has yet to change the underlying assumptions of strategising in firms
Closing the deal faster: The role of institutions and government involvement in cross-border M&A completions in Brazil
Get PDFDrawing on an integrative lens of the institutional theory and resource-based view, we investigate the effect of institutional distance, institutional quality, and government involvement on the duration of cross-border M&A deals in Brazil between 2000 and 2015. The larger institutional distance does not extend the duration of M&A deals for emerging home country (Brazil) and developed host country pairs. However, the larger institutional distance between emerging home (Brazil) and emerging host country pairs leads to longer M&A deal durations. We show a positive association between institutional quality and M&A deal duration in developed host countries but not emerging host countries. While no association between government involvement and M&A deal durations is reported for developed host country settings, we find that government involvement extends the deals' duration in emerging host countries. Thus, government involvement does not contribute as a firm-level asset in helping Brazilian acquirers shorten their M&A deal durations. We explain our findings with the importance of institutional quality and complex or sluggish bureaucratic structure, politics, or corruption that might emerge as transaction costs in emerging country contexts
Understanding flood risk in urban environments: Spatial analysis of building vulnerability and hazard areas in the Lisbon metropolitan area
Get PDFClimate change has brought about new risks while exacerbating existing ones, with floods now accounting for about 45% of global disasters. This trend indicates that the exposure to floods and resulting damages will continue to rise. This paper aims to contribute to the global efforts to enhance flood resilience in urban areas by introducing a physical vulnerability index for buildings in flood-prone urban areas and exploring its connection with flood hazard, as defined by the European Union Directive 2007/60/EC. An index-based methodology is proposed to assess the physical vulnerability of buildings to flooding, utilising the Portuguese Census and Georeferenced Buildings Database, collected on a nationwide scale. The physical vulnerability of buildings is evaluated in the context of the Lisbon metropolitan area (LMA) in Portugal, and the results are compared across different scales, contrasting flood hazard information for the entire LMA with the areas identified under the Flood Directive as having significant potential flood risk. Using cluster analysis, spatial patterns of flood risk are identified, highlighting areas where high flood depth and flood velocity overlap the high vulnerability of buildings. Lastly, potential adaptation paths are discussed, considering the diverse nature of the flood hazard and the lessons learnt from other flood events
“Context and safety are everything”: Exploring how pansexual individuals mark and express their identity
Get PDFSexuality marking serves to assert one’s sexuality to others. This can be done through language, behavior, esthetics, and/or other non-verbal cues (Morgan & Davis-Delano, 2016). This research explored how individuals who identify as pansexual mark their sexuality within different contexts. An online qualitative survey was completed by 45 participants aged between 18 and 58. Thematic analysis revealed 3 key themes: ‘You just don’t want to risk it’: The importance of safety on sexuality marking, ‘My sexuality wasn’t real’: Dismissal and stereotyping of the pansexual identity within intimate partner relationships, and ‘I’m very loud and proud’. This research is understood to be the first study on sexuality marking among the pansexual community and advances the understanding of the ways in which pansexual individuals navigate and express their identity
Hollywood remakes of iconic British films: Class, gender and stardom
No full textBook review of Hollywood Remakes of Iconic British Films: Class, Gender and Stardom, by Agnieszka Rasmus, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 192 pp., £85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4744-4878-
“Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940)
No full textMy Favorite Wife (1940) exemplifies the more “sex suggestive” style of screwball comedy in the late 1930s, posing significant problems for the Production Code Administration (PCA). Strategies for handling taboo content onscreen depended on ambiguity, displacing responsibility for textual interpretation onto the spectator. The article investigates these issues through three inter-related levels of sexual ambiguity: the PCA’s reliance on euphemisms such as “the sacred intimacies of private life”; the plot’s focus on sexual consummation and potentially adulterous love triangles; and the relationship between Cary Grant’s star persona and his performance of the protagonist, Nick Arden (including a cross-dressing scene). First, the film is placed into critical context by reviewing existing work on screwball comedy and the Production Code in relation to “deadpan” performance style, double entendre and gag structure. Archival research is then combined with close textual analysis, comparing the PCA’s recommendations to key scenes in the shooting script and the finished film. Ultimately, I argue that, while the film’s dependence on ambiguity enables potentially queer interpretations, the use of “straight” romantic rhetoric is equally important to the film’s successful navigation of PCA demands
Psychosocial experiences of Spanish-speaking parents of children with craniofacial microsomia
Get PDFCraniofacial microsomia (CFM) and microtia psychosocial research in the US is primarily with English-speaking participants. Given that 19% of the US is Latino, and there is a higher prevalence of CFM in Latino populations, this study aims to describe psychosocial experiences related to CFM among Spanish-speaking Latino caregivers to better inform health care. Narrative interviews (mean 73±17 min) were completed in Spanish with parents of children with CFM aged 3 to 17 (mean age 10.8±4.8 years). Transcripts were analyzed using quantitative linguistic analyses and reflexive thematic analysis. Participants (N=12) were mostly mothers (83%) who had immigrated to the US and had low socioeconomic status. Based upon analysis of grouped word counts, participants spent approximately half of their narratives discussing the first two years of their child’s life. Themes selected based on US Latino sociodemographics and cultural values included the Impact of Language, Healthcare Challenges, Supportive Healthcare Experiences, Caregiver Coping with CFM, Family Roles, and Addressing Social Implications of CFM. Results highlighted that the first years of care are of critical importance to parents and suggest this is an optimal time to focus on education and support services for families. Additional treatment suggestions include providing interpretation and informational materials in Spanish, addressing care barriers, supporting familial and child coping, accounting for the role of extended family, and helping address social concerns. Ongoing research with Latino families can further assist in guiding culturally sensitive CFM health care
Balanced multi-UAV path planning for persistent monitoring
Get PDFIn scenarios such as environmental data collection and traffic monitoring, etc., timely responses to real-time situations are facilitated by persistently accessing nodes with revisiting constraints using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, imbalanced task allocation may pose risks to the safety of UAVs and potentially lead to failures in monitoring tasks. For instance, continuous visits to nodes without replenishment may damage UAV batteries, while delays in recharging could result in missing task deadlines, ultimately causing task failures. Therefore, this study investigates the problem of achieving balanced multi-UAV path planning for persistent monitoring tasks, which has not been previously researched according to the authors’ knowledge. The main contribution of this study is the proposal of two novel indicators to assist in balancing task allocation regarding multi-UAV path planning for persistent monitoring. One of the indicators is namely the waiting factor, which reflects the urgency of a task node waiting to be accessed, and the other is the difficulty level which is introduced to measure the difficulty of tasks undertaken by a UAV. By minimizing differences in difficulty level among UAVs, we can ensure equilibrium in task allocation. For a single UAV, the ant colony initialized genetic algorithm (ACIGA) has been proposed to plan its path and obtain its difficulty level. For multiple UAVs, the K-means clustering algorithm has been improved based on difficulty levels to achieve balanced task allocation. Simulation experiments demonstrated that the difficulty level could effectively reflect the difficulty of tasks and that the proposed algorithms could enable UAVs to achieve balanced task allocation