Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Taryn Fransen, Jonas Meckling, Anna Stunzi, Tobias S. Schmidt, Florian Egli, Nicolas Schmid, Christopher Beaton
Summary: There is a gap between countries' pledged emissions reductions under the Paris Agreement and the actual outcomes resulting from their domestic policies. This gap consists of both the policies adopted by countries and the effectiveness of these policies.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Jennah Green, Jan Schmidt-Burbach, Angie Elwin
Summary: Wildlife farming is a trade practice aimed at meeting global demand for wildlife products. However, it raises concerns about animal welfare, public health, and biodiversity conservation. A study found at least 487 farmed wildlife species, with 34% considered threatened and 62% listed under CITES. Commercial breeding operations exist in 90 countries worldwide, suggesting the actual number of farmed wildlife is likely higher than reported.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Serena Tejpar, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Lindsay Wilson, Steven J. Hoffman
Summary: In the past six years, there has been unprecedented global attention on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), resulting in increased discussions at various multinational organizations and international forums. This study analyzes the commitments made by the global community regarding AMR following the implementation of the AMR Tripartite's Global Action Plan (GAP) in 2015. The analysis reveals emergent themes and gaps in the discourse on AMR, highlighting a lack of concrete and nuanced pledges to action between 2015 and 2021. The study also found a limited commitment to specific actions on AMR in the environment.
Review
Psychiatry
Giorgia Michelini, Luke J. Norman, Philip Shaw, Sandra K. Loo
Summary: The development of treatment biomarkers for psychiatric disorders, particularly for heterogeneous neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD, is challenging. However, available neuroimaging, electrophysiological, and genetic literature provides a solid foundation for biomarker discovery. Pre-treatment profiles that predict the efficacy of various treatments for ADHD show promise, particularly those based on low-cost and non-invasive EEG assessments. Studies also suggest that different treatments produce distinct changes in brain profiles, which correlate with treatment-related clinical improvements. These candidate monitoring/response biomarkers may help monitor treatment effects and identify targets for novel treatments.
TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Business
Michael P. Ciuchta, Jay O'Toole, Anne S. Miner
Summary: Scholars have produced a wide variety of organizational improvisation (OI) scholarship over the past 25 years, but due to its complexity and heterogeneous approaches used to study it, OI remains challenging to grasp. A review of literature on OI highlights specific theoretical and empirical gaps across different phases of the OI process, including the origination and content of initial improvisational actions, conceptual ambiguity regarding the prevalence of OI, and the confounding of causal factors impacting post-OI outcomes.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Business
Martin Friesl, Inger Stensaker, Helene Loe Colman
Summary: The text discusses the importance of strategy implementation (SI) as a managerial and organizational challenge, presents five implementation practices, and emphasizes that the perspective of strategy-as-practice offers exciting opportunities for future implementation research.
LONG RANGE PLANNING
(2021)
Article
Business
Davide Nicolini, Igor Pyrko, Omid Omidvar, Agnessa Spanellis
Summary: This paper provides a comprehensive review of work on communities of practice, examining different perspectives on their intended purposes and effects and suggesting new research opportunities and conceptual combinations.
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNALS
(2022)
Article
Economics
Thomas Gegenhuber, Johanna Mair
Summary: This essay traces the evolution from an organisation-centric view (OSI 1.0) to a multi-stakeholder, cross-sectoral perspective (OSI 2.0) in open social innovation. It highlights the need for concerted efforts from diverse stakeholders to address wicked and complex social and ecological problems. The essay specifies design dimensions for effective collaboration and coordination in OSI 2.0 and outlines key areas for future research.
INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION
(2023)
Article
Economics
Pablo del Rio, Christoph P. Kiefer
Summary: Auctions for renewable energy projects have gained significant attention and are rapidly expanding. This article provides a systematic review of the literature on auctions for renewable energy and proposes future research directions. The need for more research on institutional capacity, coordination with other procedures, and the inclusion of auctions in policy mixes is emphasized. Rigorous analysis of trade-offs between different criteria, exploration of underbidding, and evaluation of auction design are identified as key areas for future study.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Carina Lundmark, Jens Nilsson, Anna Krook-Riekkola
Summary: This paper provides an overview of knowledge transfer theory and conducts a cross-disciplinary scoping review of empirically oriented peer-reviewed articles. The review offers guidance for researchers seeking to effectively communicate with practitioners. It explores the effects of research communications, attempts to identify the most effective forms of communication, and highlights important considerations when designing knowledge transfer strategies.
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Pamela Giselle Katic, Stefania Cerretelli, Jeremy Haggar, Truly Santika, Conor Walsh
Summary: Most businesses rely on biodiversity either directly or indirectly through ecosystem services or supply chains. Negatively impacting biodiversity can lead to the loss of essential resources and services. This paper reviews and compares tools and approaches for measuring business performance on biodiversity issues, assessing their construction, measurement methods, usage, and contribution to international biodiversity targets. These tools are mainly applied at the product, site, and supply chain levels, and efforts are needed to align them with global biodiversity goals. There are knowledge gaps in capturing dependence on biodiversity and spatial spillover effects.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Mildred Sena-Vittini, Victor Gomez-Valenzuela, Katerin Ramirez
Summary: This paper conducts a systematic review of the literature (SRL) to update the relevance of social perception (SP) for managing protected areas. The results indicate that household income and education are linked to behaviors favoring conservation, while dissatisfaction regarding social well-being, access to natural resources and management generate behaviors that negatively affect the perception of the conservation role of protected areas.
Review
Computer Science, Information Systems
Abderahman Rejeb, Karim Rejeb, Horst Treiblmaier, Andrea Appolloni, Salem Alghamdi, Yaser Alhasawi, Mohammad Iranmanesh
Summary: Recent improvements in IoT have led to rapid developments in healthcare. This article provides a summary of previous studies on the applications of IoT in healthcare. Through a comprehensive review and bibliometric analysis, the growth of IoT research in healthcare is objectively summarized. The findings reveal significant research hotspots, including IoT healthcare applications, blockchain applications, AI techniques, 5G telecommunications, and data analytics.
INTERNET OF THINGS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ira A. Noveck, Nicholas Griffen, Diana Mazzarella
Summary: This paper presents the theoretical background and psycholinguistic findings on idiom processing, and compares it to metaphor and irony processing. It introduces an alternative account of idiom processing based on Relevance Theory, and provides empirical support for this account through linguistic-intuition tests and a pilot experiment.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hannah Gosnell, Kelsey Emard, Elizabeth Hyde
Summary: This study delves into the social sustainability of the U.S. beef industry, identifying six key themes and highlighting the inadequacy of the concept in capturing the positive futures desired by ranchers. Future research needs to explore alternative development paths for the U.S. beef industry by incorporating more diverse perspectives.
