Linking entrepreneurial orientation and managerial capacity to performance in dairy farms

The main objective of the study is to develop and test a model that emphasizes the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and managerial capacity (MC) to the performance of dairy farms. This article also examines the effect of these variables on performance expectations as well as the succession planning of farms. Cross-sectional data were collected out of a sample of 158 dairy farmers in 2017 in Brazil. A path analysis approach has been applied to validate the hypothesized model. Results show that between EO dimensions, innovativity has the greatest impact on performance as well as on MC. MC is not significantly related to the current performance on dairy farms, but it is so to the performance expectation, which in turn has an impact on the succession planning of farms. The age of the farmers moderates the relations hypothesized in the model, especially between innovativity, proactivity, and MC in the farms’ performance.

Service Failure, Recovery, and Sustainable Development

Extant literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and marketing shows that CSR plays an important role when a service fails; thus, application of recovery strategy becomes crucial for sustainable development. CSR creates greater performance expectations amongst stakeholders as well as helps to legitimise organisational activities when a service fails. This study maintains that CSR is crucially important not only in legitimising organisational actions, but in ensuring that stakeholders' loyalty, trust, and justice are assured. This CSR, service failure, and recovery nexus is more needed in the controversial extractive industry in Nigeria, which has a history of illegitimacy, irresponsible corporate responsibility, lack of accountability, and failure of justice, which have triggered and sustained corporate-stakeholder conflict. This landscape has negative impact on sustainable development, peace, and justice in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, where oil is extracted.

Successful factors determining the significant relationship between e-governance system and government operational excellence

Every government's major objective is to provide the greatest services in order to establish efficiency and quality of performance. Syria's government has understood how critical it is to go in the direction of information technology. However, there are gaps and poor links across government sectors, which has tainted the image of Syrian e-governance. As a result, one of the main aims of this study is to figure out what factors impact Syrians' acceptance of the e-government system. A total of 600 questionnaires were delivered to Syrian individuals as part of a survey. The data was analysed using the structural equation model (SEM) using AMOS version 21.0. User intention to utilise an e-government system was shown to be influenced by performance expectations, effort expectations, system flexibility, citizens-centricity, and facilitating conditions. Assurance, responsiveness, reliability, tangibles, and empathy are five fundamental factors that have a major impact on government operation excellence. Behavioural Intention is being utilised as a mediator between the government operation excellence (GOE) initiative and the e-government platform.

Multitasking in Older Adults’ Daily Activities: A Preliminary Investigation

The ability to multitask, defined as conducting two or more activities simultaneously, is important in daily life. The majority of prior work has examined multitasking in laboratory settings. However, less is known about how multitasking in daily activities is related to older adults’ executive functioning and perceptions of aging. The current study investigated these relationships in a sample of 33 older adults aged 65-81 (M=70.0, SD=3.6). Participants were asked to describe activities they did each day and estimate time spent in each activity across fourteen days; multiple activities reported in the same time frame were considered multitasking. Executive function was measured at baseline using the Trail Making Test Part B (TMTB), with higher scores indicating worse performance. Expectations regarding aging were measured at baseline using the Expectations Regarding Aging (ERA-12) survey, with higher scores indicating more positive perceptions. Twenty-seven participants (81.82%) reported at least one instance of multitasking in the fourteen-day period. Participants were divided into three groups based on the median number of reported multitasks: no multitasking (n=6), low multitasking (≤4; n=15), and high multitasking (>4; n=12). Although there were no significant differences within the ANOVA, participants who reported low multitasking trended towards poorer executive function and more positive expectations of aging (M_TMTB=100.28, M_ERA= 64.88) than both no multitasking (M_TMTB=82.12, M_ERA=50.46) and high multitasking groups (M_TMTB=94.90, M_ERA= 54.29). Additional research should investigate these possible relationships in larger samples and explore how covariates, such as gender and age, may moderate possible relationships.

Anti-drug Antibody Validation Testing and Reporting Harmonization

Evolving immunogenicity assay performance expectations and a lack of harmonized anti-drug antibody validation testing and reporting tools have resulted in significant time spent by health authorities and sponsors on resolving filing queries. Following debate at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences National Biotechnology Conference, a group was formed to address these gaps. Over the last 3 years, 44 members from 29 organizations (including 5 members from Europe and 10 members from FDA) discussed gaps in understanding immunogenicity assay requirements and have developed harmonization tools for use by industry scientists to facilitate filings to health authorities. Herein, this team provides testing and reporting strategies and tools for the following assessments: (1) pre-study validation cut point; (2) in-study cut points, including procedures for applying cut points to mixed populations; (3) system suitability control criteria for in-study plate acceptance; (4) assay sensitivity, including the selection of an appropriate low positive control; (5) specificity, including drug and target tolerance; (6) sample stability that reflects sample storage and handling conditions; (7) assay selectivity to matrix components, including hemolytic, lipemic, and disease state matrices; (8) domain specificity for multi-domain therapeutics; (9) and minimum required dilution and extraction-based sample processing for titer reporting. Graphical Abstract

Revalidating U.S. Army soldiers’ perceptions of combat arms job tasks: Frequencies, importance and expectations of performance

BACKGROUND: In 2013 the U.S. Army began developing physical tests to predict a recruit’s ability to perform the critical physically demanding tasks (CPDTs) of combat arms jobs not previously open to women. OBJECTIVE: To revalidate 15 CPDTs chosen by subject matter experts (SMEs) and researchers through questionnaires pertaining to task performance frequency, perceived importance, and performance expectations. METHOD: Web-administered job analysis questionnaires were completed by 2,090 soldiers. Seventy-three percent ranged between 25–38 years of age, 66%were staff sergeants or above, and 73%were in service for 7 + years. RESULTS: Overall, the nine SME-endorsed CPDTs were conducted more frequently and rated as more important than the six tasks identified by researchers. Foot march, dragging a casualty to safety, and connecting a tow bar (vehicle transport) were identified as the combined most important, most frequently performed and highly expected CPDTs to be performed. The canonical correlation between task performance frequencies and ratings of task importance across all 15 CPDTs was 0.82 (p < 0.001). Expectations of task completion were strongly associated with more frequent task performance (Cramer’s Vs ranged 0.22 to 0.71; all p‘s < 0.001), but not task importance (only four CPDTs at p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: This study revalidates the value of CPDTs chosen by SMEs and researchers. Soldier readiness should reflect tasks identified by incumbents as important to success (e.g., evacuating a casualty) be trained more often, whereas others classified as frequently performed, but less important (e.g., filling sandbags), be deemphasized while ensuring that standards are met.

How do designers and engineers practice design while Making? A narrative inquiry of designers who Make

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how designers and engineers practice design while Making. Motivated by their roots in constructionist learning principles, Makerspaces are increasingly used as sites to learn design, especially in undergraduate engineering education programs. However, there has been little work on how trained designers Make and how design emerges in their Maker practices. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, a conceptual framework is constructed to identify design practices within Making informed by theories of human-centered design and designerly ways of knowing. The framework is used to analyze narratives of ten experienced designers and Makers to understand how they enact design while they Make. Findings The rich and compelling narratives of the participants support the proposed conceptual framework, providing qualitative evidence for how designers practice and know design while Making. This study also reports on a strong theme of realizing purpose and personal meaning while Making across the participants’ narratives that sheds light on the unique and educationally meaningful value of Making, as in Making being a venue for agentive constructivist learning. Research limitations/implications As an educationally meaningful practice, Making can be explored from several lenses, and this research solely uses a design lens. Practical implications The motivations of the study are twofold. First, to understand how designers practice human-centered design and use design knowledge while Making. Second, to support the epistemological legitimacy of Maker knowledge by establishing connections with design knowledge. Originality/value This paper contributes to the limited body of scholarly work to conceptualize experienced designers’ Maker practices. Work in this area can inform learning outcomes and performance expectations in educational settings.

Penerapan Model UTAUT 2 untuk Menjelaskan Minat dan Perilaku Penggunaan Mobile Banking

The purpose of this study was to determine the factors that influence the interest and behavior of using mobile banking by applying the UTAUT2 model. The variables used in this study are performance expectations, business expectations, socio-cultural factors, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, price values and habits. This research was conducted in Badung Regency. Determination of the sample is done by accidental sampling technique. Data was collected by distributing online questionnaires. The analysis technique used is multiple linear regression. This study shows that interest in using mobile banking is influenced by performance expectations, socio-cultural factors, hedonic motivation and price values. The results of this study also indicate that the behavior of using mobile banking is influenced by conditions that facilitate, habits and interest in use. Keywords: UTAUT2; Interest in using Mobile banking; Mobile banking Usage Behavior.

Minat Generasi Z Menggunakan Kembali Transaksi Mobile Payment: Pendekatan Model UTAUT 2

Z generation is a generation that lives in the era of technology so that they are used to using technology in their daily lives, including mobile payments. This study was conducted to see the relationship between the variables contained in UTAUT 2 and additional variable trust with the desire to continuance use intention mobile payments. The UTAUT 2 variables used in this study are performance expectations, effort expectations, social influences, facility conditions, hedonic motivation, price value, habits and the additional variable used in this study is trust. Respondents involved in this study were Generation Z as many as 146 people, Generation Z is a generation that grew up in the midst of technological advances so that they are very accustomed to using technology and information systems including mobile payments. The variables of performance expectation, effort expectation, social influence, facility condition, hedonic motivation, price value have no significant effect on the creation of generation z to continuance use intention mobile payments transactions. Meanwhile, habits and beliefs have a significant influence on making z intentions to reuse cellular payment transactions. This is because generation z is a millennial generation who is used to using technology such as mobile payment transactions, and feels confident that their mobile payment transactions can maintain privacy for their data.