Article
Business, Finance
Shuyi Jiang, Jay Y. Li
Summary: Banks' industry expertise developed through loan portfolios facilitates credit provision to other firms in the industry, reducing information asymmetry and helping buffer borrowers in times of credit crunch. Industry expertise is more pronounced for opaque firms and those facing foreign competition pressure.
JOURNAL OF BANKING & FINANCE
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Katarzyna Mikolajczak, Alexander C. Lees, Jos Barlow, Frazer Sinclair, Oriana Trindade de Almeida, Agnis C. Souza, Luke Parry
Summary: The relationship between psychological nature connection and ecological knowledge among colonist farmers in the Brazilian Amazon was investigated. It was found that farmers are capable of forming strong connections with nature, even with limited knowledge of local biodiversity. The complex and context-dependent relationship between ecological knowledge and nature connection highlights the importance of not assuming that changing one would automatically affect the other.
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Hui Wang, Yuting Xiao, Han Zhang, Xueshuang Chen
Summary: This study explores the negative impact of home-based telework on work engagement, focusing on the dual chain mediating paths of workplace isolation-negative emotion and telepressure-negative emotion, as well as the moderating role of family-supportive leadership.
PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH AND BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Review
Management
Nicole Blay, Mariana S. Sousa, Mick Rowles, Pauline Murray-Parahi
Summary: This study examined the profile of community nurses in Australia, revealing issues such as inadequate workforce planning, inconsistent data definitions, and lack of understanding of specific aspects of community nursing work. It suggests a global urgent need for nurse managers to focus recruitment on the community sector to maintain quality and ensure sustainability of the nursing workforce.
JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Business
Oscar Valdemar De la Torre-Torres, Maria Isabel Martinez Torre-Enciso, Maria de la Cruz Del Rio-Rama, Jose Alvarez-Garcia
Summary: This study tested the relationship between promoting workforce happiness and well-being through high performance work policies (HPWP) and the profitability (ROE), market risk (beta), and stock price return of European public companies. The findings suggest that there is no adverse impact on the profits, market risk, or stock price performance of European companies if they promote HPWP.
MANAGEMENT DECISION
(2023)
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Udara Ranasinghe, Liyaning Maggie Tang, Celia Harris, Weicong Li, Jed Montayre, Abilio de Almeida Neto, Mark Antoniou
Summary: With the ageing workforce becoming a concern in the construction industry, it is important to understand the physical and psychological issues faced by older workers and make recommendations to improve their health and safety. This paper reviews existing knowledge on health and safety in the ageing construction workforce and presents strategies to support older workers and improve their workability and productivity.
Article
Development Studies
Jan Eichhorn, Daniel Kenealy, Hayley Bennett
Summary: Previous studies have shown significant gaps in the knowledge of the UK public regarding the welfare state and the economy. This study explores which groups possess more knowledge and which groups possess less. Survey evidence confirms that many individuals overestimate the size of unemployment provision and levels of benefit fraud, and also struggle to answer factual questions about finance, employment rights, and benefit entitlements. While men, older people, and university degree holders demonstrate slightly better overall knowledge, significant discrepancies appear when specific domains of knowledge are considered.
SOCIAL POLICY & ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
Article
Ethics
Daniel Gregory, Malte Hendrickx, Cameron Turner
Summary: The study reveals that a large majority of the general US population believe in the idea presented in the experiment, that Mary does not know what it is like to see red before actually seeing red. This intuition was found to be pervasive across various demographic groups.
PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Applied
Matthew Fisher, Daniel M. Oppenheimer
Summary: As technology advances, people increasingly rely on external knowledge, but this may make it difficult for them to accurately assess their own abilities. Research has found that collaborating with knowledgeable sources can lead people to overestimate their future performance.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-APPLIED
(2021)
Article
Business
Kristen Madison, Joshua J. Daspit, Emily Garrigues Marett
Summary: The study found that innovation in family firms is influenced by the communication and shared knowledge perceptions between family and nonfamily employees. However, it was observed that the effects of communication differ between family and nonfamily employees, potentially hindering the development of shared knowledge perceptions.
FAMILY BUSINESS REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Women's Studies
Evelina Johansson Wilen, Lena Gunnarsson
Summary: Sugar dating, often seen as a discreet form of prostitution or sex work, has gained media attention in recent years. While similar dating arrangements with financial compensation have been studied extensively in Africa and Asia, sugar dating has only been researched in the Global North for the past decade, coinciding with the rise of websites facilitating the practice. In this article, the authors critically assess the construction of knowledge about sugar dating in the Global North, with a specific focus on the role of sugar daters' own experiences. They argue for a more comprehensive theoretical examination of experience and suggest that feminist standpoint theory and feminist phenomenology offer valuable tools for understanding experience as both an ideological construct and a foundation of knowledge.
Review
Food Science & Technology
M. A. Rifat, Imdadul Haque Talukdar, Nishan Lamichhane, Vera Atarodi, Syeda Saima Alam
Summary: This systematic review focuses on the food safety knowledge and practices among food handlers in Bangladesh. The results show that the overall food safety knowledge and practices are not satisfactory and vary in different settings. More high-quality studies are needed, and measures such as strengthening the food safety monitoring system, providing training, and increasing awareness should be considered.
Review
Engineering, Industrial
Ting Chi (Alice) Cheng, Carlo Caponecchia, Sharron O'Neill
Summary: This paper examines the impact of globalization and technology on the management of workplace safety, particularly in the context of Future and Emerging Ways of Work (FEWW). The review of existing literature highlights the limited research in this field and the reliance on lower-level methodologies. The paper suggests that a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) perspective, can enhance the risk management processes in FEWW.
Article
Psychology, Social
Gabriela Hofer, Laura Langmann, Roman Burkart, Aljoscha C. Neubauer
Summary: This study tested who is the best judge of a person's abilities and found that while people are the most accurate in assessing their own abilities, they rely on informants or strangers to assess their verbal and spatial intelligence. This indicates a knowledge asymmetry between self and others.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PERSONALITY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yongyue Zhu, Prince Ewudzie Quansah, Anthony Frank Obeng, Guo Minyu
Summary: Despite investments in workplace safety, undesirable safety outcomes still occur in mines. This study investigates the impact of a high-performance work system (HPWS) on mineworkers' safety performance, mediated by workforce agility. The study also examines the moderating effect of safety locus of control (SLOC) on this relationship. The findings reveal significant influences of HPWS on safety performance and workforce agility, with proactivity, adaptability, and resilience playing a mediating role. SLOC has a moderating effect on some relationships between agility, resilience, and safety performance. This study highlights the mechanisms through which HPWS, workforce agility, SLOC, and safety performance are related.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
V. J. McGowan, N. Akhter, E. Halliday, J. Popay, A. Kasim, C. Bambra
Summary: The study found that collective control and some aspects of social cohesion are positively associated with better mental well-being and self-rated health among residents involved in the Big Local ABI project. These positive associations were particularly stronger among women and participants with lower educational levels. Increasing residents' collective control in ABIs could enhance the health effects of ABIs.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Kweku Bimpong, Katie Thomson, Courtney L. Mcnamara, Mirza Balaj, Nasima Akhter, Clare Bambra, Adam Todd
Summary: This study found significant gender pain inequalities across Europe, with women reporting more pain than men, especially in the back/neck and hand/arm areas. There is considerable variation in the gender pain gap across different European countries.
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Editorial Material
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Clare Bambra
Summary: This article explores how to reduce health inequalities globally through historical case studies. It suggests that welfare state expansion, improved health care access, and enhanced political incorporation are key factors in reducing health inequalities.
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Michelle Kelly-Irving, William Patrick Ball, Clare Bambra, Cyrille Delpierre, Ruth Dundas, Julia Lynch, Gerry McCartney, Katherine Smith
Summary: Persistent health inequalities pose challenges to researchers and policymakers. This paper highlights the tensions in the field of health inequalities research and discusses potential solutions. By analyzing evidence and debating key issues, it provides insights into causality, welfare systems, and policies addressing health inequalities.
CRITICAL PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Clare Bambra
Summary: This article discusses the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and health inequalities, proposing four main pathways linking inequality and infectious disease. The study highlights the need to address the impact of inequality on disease spread and suggests research directions and policy actions to reduce inequalities in future outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR EQUITY IN HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
N. Akhter, V. J. McGowan, E. Halliday, J. Popay, A. Kasim, C. Bambra
Summary: The study found that community empowerment initiatives have a positive impact on the mental wellbeing of residents, with collective control and social cohesion being associated with better mental wellbeing. The benefits of improved mental wellbeing were more pronounced among men and participants with higher educational backgrounds, indicating the need for future interventions to ensure equal distribution of benefits.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Claire Welsh, Viviana Albani, Fiona Matthews, Clare Bambra
Summary: This study found ecological inequalities in COVID-19 mortality rates in England, and the first national lockdown had an impact on these inequalities. It is important to implement strict lockdown measures early and in the right places to reduce inequalities.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Viviana Albani, Heather Brown, Esperanza Vera-Toscano, Andrew Kingston, Terje Andreas Eikemo, Clare Bambra
Summary: This study investigates the impact of the introduction of the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) on the mental wellbeing of low-income pensioners in the UK. The findings suggest that the policy has contributed to a reduction in mental wellbeing inequalities for men, particularly for those living in the most deprived areas. This research provides valuable insights for future state pension policies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Viviana Albani, Claire E. Welsh, Heather Brown, Fiona E. Matthews, Clare Bambra
Summary: One of the most worrying features of the COVID-19 pandemic globally is the disproportionate burden on the most deprived areas. This study in England during the first wave of the pandemic reveals that inequalities in transmission and vulnerability factors explain the highest proportion of COVID-19 mortality by deprivation. Public health agencies need to develop strategies to alleviate these underlying inequalities for the most vulnerable communities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Rosemary Jenkins, Eszter P. Vamos, Kate E. Mason, Konstantinos Daras, David Taylor-Robinson, Clare Bambra, Christopher Millett, Anthony A. Laverty
Summary: Reductions in local government spending may increase the risk of hospital admissions for nutritional anaemias, particularly in deprived areas.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Ian Holdroyd, Alice Vodden, Akash Srinivasan, Isla Kuhn, Clare Bambra, John Alexander Ford
Summary: This systematic review examined the effectiveness of the National Health Inequality Strategy in England. The study found that while inequalities in life expectancy and infant mortality initially increased, they decreased over the implementation period when more accurate data and measures were used. However, there was a lack of improvement or even widening of inequalities in mental health, self-reported health, health-related quality of life, and long-term conditions. Overall, the strategy was successful in achieving its aims, highlighting the potential for long-term, multiagency, cross-government action to address health inequalities.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Amber Sacre, Clare Bambra, Josephine M. Wildman, Katie Thomson, Sarah Sowden, Adam Todd
Summary: This study aims to analyze the relationship between socioeconomic inequalities and vaccine uptake globally, and determine whether an individual's socioeconomic status, level of education, occupation, (un)-employment, or place of residence affects the uptake rate. The study will be conducted by searching multiple databases and performing data extraction and quality appraisal.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Neil McHugh, Rachel Baker, Clare Bambra
Summary: This study aims to explore the perceptions of policy actors on why and how the public should be involved in policymaking for health inequalities. Policy actors viewed public participation as intrinsically valuable for democratic reasons and instrumental in improving policies and achieving public acceptance. However, there is a tension between the importance of public participation and the belief that public views might hinder transformative change, and uncertainties exist regarding how to make public participation meaningful due to conceptual, methodological, and practical challenges.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR EQUITY IN HEALTH
(2023)
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Victoria J. McGowan, Clare Bambra
Summary: COVID-19 has further exacerbated health inequalities, resulting in higher mortality and morbidity rates among socially disadvantaged populations. This scoping review analyzed published evidence on geographical inequalities in COVID-19 mortality rates globally. The findings demonstrated that COVID-19 mortality rates are generally higher in areas of socioeconomic disadvantage. The discussion highlights the syndemic nature of the pandemic and the underlying endemic inequalities in chronic disease burden.
LANCET PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Charlotte E. W. Kitchen, Samantha Gascoyne, Elizabeth Littlewood, Elizabeth Coleman, Della Bailey, Suzanne Crosland, Caroline Pearson, Shehzad Ali, Jay Badenhorst, Clare Bambra, Catherine Hewitt, Claire Jones, Ada Keding, Dean McMillan, Claire Sloan, Adam Todd, Paul Toner, Cate Whittlesea, Michelle Watson, Simon Gilbody, David Ekers
Summary: Community pharmacies can offer brief psychological support to individuals with long-term health conditions to prevent depression. This feasibility study provides important considerations and design data for future pharmacy-based research.
PILOT AND FEASIBILITY STUDIES
(2022)