Suggestions For Future Research Agenda Research Articles

VERIFYING THE DETERMINANTS OF BLOCKCHAIN ADOPTION INTENTION: A META-ANALYSIS ON SUPPLY CHAIN STUDIES

Numerous significant variables for the adoption of Blockchain technology in supply chains have been identified empirically. These variables, which influence adoption behavior in a variety of contexts, are discussed theoretically using technology acceptance theories and various other theories and methodological approaches. Given that research have been undertaken in many contexts, it is necessary to validate the previously proposed relationships between factors that facilitate blockchain adoption and the intention to utilize blockchain technology. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate and validate the critical variables that stand out in related studies by using meta-analysis. 38 studies published in SSCI and SCI-E-indexed journals were used after searching WoS, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases and employing various filtering criteria. In addition to the variables considered in the most widely accepted technological, environmental, and organizational classifications, the research results disclose newly emerging or relatively less interesting variables. While the study's empirical findings have managerial implications, this study also provides suggestions for future research agendas.

A scoping review of the literature on content and language integrated learning assessment

Abstract Despite being an essential element of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), CLIL assessment has received scarce research attention and remains a relatively underexplored area. Since few review studies have been conducted in the field of CLIL assessment, this article constitutes the first attempt to synthesise both theoretical and empirical studies on CLIL assessment around the globe with a view to yielding implications for the understanding, design, and improvement of assessment in CLIL and providing suggestions for future research agendas. Based on a thematic analysis of 77 pertinent publications selected among 763 search results, this scoping review first identified three prominent research themes in CLIL assessment including assessment issues, assessment practices, and assessment frameworks. Subsequently, the review elaborated each theme and discussed some interesting patterns of the literature in great depth. The review concluded with suggestions on future research directions with a view to advancing the uncharted area of CLIL assessment.

Visualising the Knowledge Domain of Reverse Logistics and Sustainability Performance: Scientometric Mapping Based on VOSviewer and CiteSpace

Considering reverse logistics’ benefit for sustainability, it has gained significant attention as a strategic decision. Additionally, a geometric expansion occurs in reverse logistics and sustainability performance. Despite this, little has been written about this evolution retrospectively. Therefore, this study aims to conceptualise and perform a systematic scientometric review of reverse logistics and sustainability performance to identify research hotspots and emerging trends and offer suggestions for future research agendas by reviewing, retrieving, and analysing 848 papers from the Scopus databases. Based on the analysis, there was a rapid rise in the number of publications within this domain, while, at the same time, increasing interdisciplinary subject research has appeared. Furthermore, scholars and institutions from China, India, and the USA were the most prolific in this research domain. Mainly, the current study underscored some pivotal research hotspots, such as assessing the reverse logistics effect on different sustainability performance dimensions and developing a reverse logistics and sustainability performance network. Moreover, emerging trends include game theory, artificial intelligence, Industry 4.0, the manufacturing industry of developing countries, and the circular economy. Finally, a moderator was also sought to be proposed to optimise the relationship between reverse logistics and sustainability performance due to the inconsistent link between them. Having a comprehensive overview of reverse logistics and sustainability performance over the last 24 years may help practitioners and researchers better understand global trends and directions in this field.

Round table: Decolonising Irish history? Possibilities, challenges, practices

AbstractThe nature of Ireland's place within the British Empire continues to attract significant public and scholarly attention. While historians of Ireland have long accepted the complexity of Ireland's imperial past as both colonised and coloniser, the broader public debate has grown more heated in recent months, buffeted by Brexit, the Decade of Centenaries and global events. At the same time, the imperatives of social movements such as Black Lives Matter and Decolonising the Curriculum have asked us to reflect on the assumptions, hierarchies and norms underpinning the structures of society, including the production of knowledge and the higher education system. This round table brings together scholars from diverse disciplinary and methodological backgrounds to examine the prospects, possibilities and challenges of what decolonising Irish history might mean for our field. It sets these discussions within broader frameworks, considering both the relationship of Irish historical writing to postcolonial theory and the developments in the latter field in the last twenty years. It also reflects on the sociology of our discipline and makes suggestions for future research agendas.

Tourism Companies and Animal Welfare

Animals play an important role in a wide range of tourism activities, and animal welfare is an increasingly important issue within the tourist industry. While there is a growing volume of research on animal welfare within tourism, little work has been published in the academic literature on how tourism companies address animal welfare. This exploratory paper looks to add to, and extend, that literature by providing a review of how seven tourism companies. have publicly addressed animal welfare. The paper reveals that four themes: corporate commitment to animal welfare; policies on specific animals and on experiences and contacts with animals; the role of various stakeholders in the value chain in addressing animal welfare; and monitoring and audit processes, illustrated the companies approach to animal welfare. The authors also raise a number of wider issues and offers some suggestions for future research agendas. Keywords: animal welfare, animal welfare statements, tourism companies, stakeholders, auditing

Defining logistics preparedness: a framework and research agenda

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a more complete understanding of logistics preparedness. By comparing extant research in preparedness and logistics with findings from empirical analysis of secondary data, the authors develop a definition of and framework for logistics preparedness, along with suggestions for future research agenda. Design/methodology/approach The authors link the way in which humanitarian organizations define and aim to achieve logistics preparedness with extant academic research. The authors critically analyze public data from 13 organizations that are active in disaster relief and review papers on logistics preparedness and humanitarian logistics. Findings The authors found that, despite the increased attention, there is no unified understanding across organizations about what constitutes logistics preparedness and how it can contribute to improvements in operations. Based on the review of the academic literature, the authors found that the same is true for humanitarian logistics research. The lack of a common understanding has resulted in low visibility of efforts and lack of knowledge on logistics preparedness. Research limitations/implications On the basis of extant research and practice, the authors suggest a definition of and framework for logistics preparedness with related suggestions for future studies. Practical implications Findings can help the humanitarian community gain a better understanding of their efforts related to developing logistics preparedness and can provide a better basis for communicating the need for, and results from, funding in preparedness. Social implications Results can support improvements in humanitarian supply chains, thereby providing affected people with rapid, cost-efficient, and better-adapted responses. Originality/value The findings contribute to humanitarian logistics literature, first by identifying the issues related to the lack of a common definition. Second, the authors extend the understanding of what constitutes logistics preparedness by proposing an operationalized framework and definition. Finally, the authors add to the literature by discussing what future topics and types of research may be required.

Megalopolis unbound: Knowledge collaboration and functional polycentricity within and beyond the Yangtze River Delta Region in China, 2014

Recent work on world city networks, urban polycentricity and megapolitan urban forms share an interest in the economic functionality of inter-city linkages. The intersection of these bodies of literature is in the often overlooked defining features of megalopolitan forms – their being the ‘hub’ that links national to international urban systems and the ‘incubator’ within national urban systems (Gottmann, 1976). With this intersection in mind, this paper measures the functional polycentricity of China’s Yangtze River Delta Region (YRDR) at different geographical scales from an intercity knowledge collaboration perspective. The paper uses data on co-publications as an indicator of knowledge linkages between cities within and beyond this megalopolis. The YRDR can be seen as functionally polycentric at the megapolitan scale but this functional polycentricity decreases with increases in the geographical scale at which interurban linkages are considered. Furthermore, a multi-scalar analysis of functional polycentricity helps identify the hub role of Shanghai. The results show that Shanghai’s knowledge hub role is currently present at the national scale. It may take some time for Shanghai to become a knowledge hub at the global scale given its not-so-strong international links and relatively weak local links. The paper concludes with some suggestions for future research agendas.

Regionális kapacitásfejlesztés a Kárpát-medencében: A kutatási téma aktualitásáról és megjelenéséről Horváth Gyula munkásságában

Various aspects of ‘regional capacity development’ and ‘regional capacity building’ have gained considerable attention in recent years among scholars in regional science. The approach became popular due to regional adaptation of endogenous growth theory and the emergence of concepts related to social well-being. In the past few decades, in-depth analyses explored and analyzed the features and elements of regional capacity building, such as social capital, knowledge infrastructure, effective territorial leadership, self-governance and selfmanagement, collaborative advantage and regional resilience.Our aim with this work is to throw light on some of the underlying aspects of regional capacity building, to demonstrate the topic’s actuality, and to discuss its relationship with the views and works of Gyula Horváth. We present the most significant features and processes that determine the regional development in the Carpathian Basin and we also highlight some negative tendencies related to capacity building, e.g. the loss of regional functions, the conservation of territorial structure and the shortcomings concerning the regional institutional background.In a further section, we discuss the main dilemmas and opportunities of capacity building methodology. Both in a general sense and in terms of the regional development in the Carpathian Basin, we argue for an increased focus on the nature of capacity building elements. For instance, we stress that scientist should stop relying on the quantification of social capital because its essence is not defined by unevenness but by the unique and incomparable attributes available in each territory.Finally, we provide a few ‘regional capacity building’ suggestions for future research agendas by highlighting its relation to regional resilience. The article concludes with an emphasis on the global financial crisis in order to explore the features of capacity development to re-engineer regions.

Death rattle: critical review and research agenda

The aim of this critical review was to assess the literature regarding the treatment of death rattle at the end of life to provide an update information regarding this difficult issue. To provide suggestions for future research agenda, the approach was analytic and based on clinical considerations, rather than on raw evidence only. Both published and unpublished reports from an extensive search of electronic databases. Any randomized-controlled trial or clinical reports with a significant number of patients was considered. Eleven reports fulfilled the inclusion criteria in this systematic review. Four controlled studies, four comparative audits, and three clinical reports with a significant number of patients were selected. Despite anticholinergic or antimuscarinic medications are the drugs of choice in practice, there is a lack of supporting evidence for the use of anticholinergics to treat death rattle. Regardless of the methodological limitations of existing studies, an a priori observation was missed. Most studies were performed with the intent to treat rather than to prevent death rattle. However, from a pharmacological perspective, anticholinergic agents are unable to reduce the secretions once they are formed, but may just limit a further production. In conclusion, studies on the use of antisecretive agents provided only minor evidence of efficacy, ultimately raising questions about the routine inclusion of anticholinergic treatment in end of life pathways for the treatment of death rattle. However, this observation could be confuted by the use of these same drugs used earlier in a prophylactic perspective, in the context of a comprehensive management of the dying patients.

Identity work and the `unemployed' worker: age, disability and the lived experience of the older unemployed

This article seeks to explore how older individuals negotiate and manage their self-identity in relation to work while situated without paid employment. After reviewing the current positions of the older unemployed in the UK, noting the substantial overlap between age and disability, we turn our attention to conceptualizing the lived experiences of individuals through exploring `identity work' as a means of understanding a non-working work identity. Based upon focus group interviews, our empirical analysis focuses on key dimensions of participants' identity practice and how they sought to manage the following social processes: imposed identities; crafting working identities; and contesting unfavourable working identities.The conclusion contextualizes the findings against a backdrop of increasing individualistic discourses underpinning approaches to employability, closes with the policy implications arising from this study, and makes suggestions for future research agendas.

Saliva and inhibition of HIV-1 infection: molecular mechanisms.

Oral fluids are rarely a vehicle for HIV-1 infection in vivo, unlike other mucosal secretions. This unique property raises questions regarding (1) the molecular mechanisms responsible for the lack of salivary transmission, (2) the extent to which oral immunological responses mirror responses at other mucosal sites, (3) the use of promising salivary markers of HIV-1 disease progression, (4) the relationship between oral and blood viral loads, (5) cofactors that influence oro-genital transmission, and (6) the feasibility of oral-based antibody testing for HIV-1 diagnosis in the home. This paper discusses these questions and provides background summaries, findings from new studies, consensus opinions, practical relevance to developing countries, and suggestions for future research agenda on each of the key topics.

Business History in Latin America: The Experience of Seven Countries

The field of Latin American business history remains at an incipient stage of development, but this collection of essays offers an important assessment of its accomplish ments thus far, as well as suggestions for future research agendas. The authors offer some fairly coherent observations about business history in the seven countries that they examine. They agree that the level of development of business history varies dramatically from country to country, with Brazil and Mexico leading the list while Chile and Venezuela appear near the bottom. The essays also stress certain common limitations in the business historiography of the region. While there is general agreement that social and economic histories have contributed to a better understanding of business, the authors are critical of the focus on dependency and imperialism, which typified these works in the 1960s and 1970s. That focus on externalities, most of the authors believe, stereotyped Latin American business elites as weak and prone to domination by foreign capitalists, and discouraged more thorough research on local corporations. They are also critical of the fact that even as more researchers turn to the firm as the focal point of their interests, most have failed to apply the methodologies developed by such noted business historians as Alfred Chandler. While recognizing these shortcomings, the essayists do an impressive job of leading the reader through the literature on the subject.Most of the essays, especially those by Raúl García Heras (Argentina), Rory Miller (Peru), Colin Lewis (Brazil), Luis Ortega (Chile), and Carlos Dávila (Colombia) provide effective surveys of the literature that include not only the narrow base of works strictly concerned with business, but the broader range of works in economic and social history as well as those from other disciplines that have contributed to our understanding of corporate history. The articles also provide some limited observations and suggestions about archival materials although the emphasis is on secondary literature. While it would be difficult to summarize the research agendas for seven countries, there seems to be a consensus on the need to focus on individual firms and their institutional development, the history of business associations, and the legal and economic environment in which corporations developed in each country.The one significant disappointment in this collection is the essay by Mario Cerutti on Mexico. Cerutti notes that in the last three decades Mexico developed an impressive business historiography; he supports this assertion with a sixteen-page bibliography, but the essay itself is only ten pages long. Because of its brevity the article offers few specifics to guide the reader through this rich array of materials. As a group the essays provide limited treatment of the literature from labor historians, despite the fact that labor has been a central formative factor in the evolution of Latin American business enterprises. Finally, while the criticism of works on developmentalism and imperialism is warranted, it is also true that the concern with the economic, social, and political effects of private enterprise, typical of research concerned with Latin America, has given business history an immediacy and import that contrasts positively with studies that concern themselves exclusively with the internal working of corporations, as if they operated in splendid isolation from the world around them. But these are essentially quibbles with what is a valuable addition to business historiography that will guide scholars and students through the existing literature and encourage and direct future research.