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Maternal and Indoor Smoking Are Associated with Increased Risk of Acute Respiratory Infection in Under-Five Children: A Meta-Analysis of National Survey Data from Eight Asia-Pacific Countries
(2026) Odo, Daniel Bogale; Dinku, Yonatan; Yadav, Uday; Shifti, Desalegn Markos; Mengesha, Zelalem ; Babu, Giridhara Rathnaiah; Prasad Sapkota, Bhim ; Maddox, Raglan
Background: Early exposure to tobacco smoke can harm children’s developing respiratory systems, increasing the risk of acute and long-term health consequences. This study examined the association of maternal and indoor smoking with acute respiratory infection (ARI) in under-five children living in eight Asia-Pacific countries. Methods: We analysed Demographic and Health Survey data collected between 2015 and 2022. A logistic regression model was fitted separately to each country’s data to obtain the odds of ARI in children for maternal tobacco use, daily indoor smoking, and occasional indoor smoking. Then, a meta-analysis using the Der Simonian and Laird method was used to obtain a pooled odds ratio (pOR) of ARI across the included countries. Results: We included a weighted sample of 302,841 children, among whom the prevalence of ARI was 4.12% (95% CI: 4.05, 4.19). The pooled prevalence of maternal tobacco use and daily indoor smoking was 3.45% (95% CI: 3.38, 3.51) and 29.61% (95% CI: 29.45, 29.77), respectively. In random-effects meta-analyses, exposure to daily indoor smoking (pOR = 1.13; 95% CI: 1.02, 1.25) and occasional indoor smoking (pOR = 1.23; 95% CI: 1.13, 1.35) were both associated with increased odds of ARI, as was maternal tobacco use (pOR = 1.67; 95% CI: 1.21, 2.31). Conclusions: Secondhand smoke exposure was associated with higher odds of ARI among under-five children, underscoring the need for smoke-free home policies across Asia-Pacific countries, particularly as the tobacco industry expands marketing and lobbying against such policies in low-income settings
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Using the past to map out the future of occupational health and safety research: where do we go from here?
(2020-01-02) Fan, Di; Zhu, Cherrie Jiuhua; Timming, Andrew R.; Su, Yiyi; Huang, Xinli; Lu, Ying
The purpose of this study is to take stock of the extant research on occupational health and safety (OHS) with the aim of identifying gaps and mapping out a future research agenda for human resource management (HRM) scholars. A comprehensive review of OHS research from 1956 to 2019 was first conducted. A total of 564 articles from 17 leading journals were then identified and categorized into five distinct, yet inter-related, themes: (1) antecedents and work-related factors influencing OHS; (2) industrial policy and regulations surrounding OHS; (3) OHS management practices; (4) approaches to, and models of, managing OHS and (5) outcomes of OHS management. The review also discusses OHS research methodologies and design foci. Overall, we found that OHS research is poorly integrated into the field of HRM, and we identify a plethora of opportunities for HR researchers to add value to this field of research. A future agenda is formulated, encompassing new OHS theory-building, novel directions for empirical research, and innovations in research design and methodology.
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How EMNEs choose location for strategic asset seeking in internationalization?: Based on strategy tripod framework
(2019-07-31) Gao, Qiuling; Li, Zijie; Huang, Xinli
Purpose: Based on the strategy tripod perspective, this study aims to address how emerging economy multinational enterprises (EMNEs) make a strategic decision of choosing a foreign location for their strategic asset seeking and under what mechanism EMNEs make foreign direct investment (FDI) location choice. Design/methodology/approach: This paper first reviews the literature on strategy tripod and strategic asset seeking strategy of EMNEs. Then, six cases of Chinese multinational enterprises operating in manufacturing industry have been introduced, emphasizing on interactions within three dimensions of strategy tripod framework, namely, resource-based dimension, industry-based dimension and institution-based dimension. By triangulating with multiple sources of archival and interview data, this paper identified a conceptual model presenting location choice mechanisms. Findings: Based on a comparative multi-case study, four mechanisms of EMNEs’ location choice when seek strategic asset by FDI within a strategy tripod framework have been revealed. Specifically, EMNEs make their strategic decision of choosing a foreign location for their strategic asset seeking under mechanisms of seeking complementary resources based on industry characteristics; echoing with institutional dimension of home country when exploitation of resource; matching institutional dimension of host country when consider industry fitness; and institutional leveraging combined with understanding of resource and industry dimensions inside strategy tripod. Originality/value: The findings shed novel insights into the mechanisms under which EMNEs choose their location for strategic asset-seeking FDI. It also broadens the strategy tripod framework by looking deeper into the characteristics of each dimension within a new research context of EMNEs’ FDI location choice.
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Varieties of institutional systems, the belt-road initiative, and the patterned investment flows
(2023) Fan, Di; Zhang, Ya'nan; Huang, Xinli; Su, Yiyi
Although the Belt-Road initiative (BRI), as a ‘model’ government initiative, has attracted great attention from both academia and industry, one central question related to the location choice of Chinese investment remains under-researched. Our study is motivated to reveal how institutional configurations of BRI participant countries that lead to a high volume of Chinese outward investment vary with the BRI. Utilizing the varieties of institutional systems (VIS) framework, we compare two Waves (2008–2013 and 2014–2019) of Chinese outward investment flows into 120 BRI participant countries. Using institutional elements—the roles of the state, financial markets, human capital, social trust, and corporate governance—as a holistic lens, some intriguing findings of patterned Chinese outward investment are observed. Instead of a single best form of institutional environment, various combinations of institutional arrangements are equally effective, but they differ subtly before and after the BRI in attracting Chinese outward investment. Four prototypes of institutional configurations of BRI participant countries are identified, including configurations with compatible institutional settings, institutional voids, ‘idealistic’ VIS conditions, and emerging institutional elements. Corresponding propositions are proposed for future theoretical advancement.
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Mapping the terrain of international human resource management research over the past fifty years: A bibliographic analysis
(2021) Fan, Di; Zhu, Cherrie J.; Huang, Xinli; Kumar, Vikas
This review aims to take stock of the extant international human resource management (IHRM) research by identifying gaps and mapping out a future research agenda for IHRM scholars. Based on an extensive bibliographic analysis of 1924 articles published in the field of IHRM, we confirm three key clusters of existing knowledge: (a) expatriation management; (b) global human capital; and (c) international human resource policies and practices. Moreover, using scientific mapping tools, sub-themes in each cluster are classified, issues and deficiencies are examined and discussed. Furthermore, a future IHRM research agenda is proposed, including managing global work to cope with the adverse social and economic conditions, and to localize emerging market multinationals; building global human capital towards developing sustainability and nurturing digital multinationals; developing new perspectives and theories on transferring IHRM policies and practices; and embracing rigorous or innovative empirical methods in the field.
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The Micro-Foundation of Ambidextrous Foreign Direct Investment
(2021) Huang, Xinli; Fan, Di; He, Xiaoming; Su, Yiyi
Pursuing ambidextrous foreign direct investment (FDI) has been suggested as a desirable strategic choice of emerging economy (EE) firms in their internationalization. Yet, reconciling explorative and exploitative activities overseas is complicated due to their conflicting and tensional nature. This study explores why some EE firms can achieve high levels of ambidextrous FDI while others cannot. Drawing on upper echelons theory, we propose a micro-foundation perspective of ambidextrous FDI by studying top management teams' (TMTs) attributes. Applying a configurational approach to a sample of 294 EE firms' FDI observations (of which 43 are ambidextrous FDI in nature) from 2011 to 2015, we not only confirm the equal importance of both TMT incentive and cognitive factors as causal conditions to achieve a high degree of ambidextrous FDI, but also provide original evidence on the interactive configurations of those factors that lead to ambidextrous FDI.
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The micro-foundation of ambidextrous opportunity identification in international expansion
(2021) Ren, Shuang; Fan, Di; Huang, Xinli; Li, Zijie
This study builds upon social cognitive theory and the research on micro-foundations to elaborate on how, and under what conditions, multinational enterprises (MNEs) identify various international opportunities (e.g., ambidextrous and non-ambidextrous opportunities). Using a qualitative approach, this study develops a theoretical framework for explaining the international opportunity identification behaviour in the empirical context of Chinese MNEs. The findings establish cognitive mechanisms enabled by international management teams relevant to international opportunity identification and clarify the specific constituents of self-efficacy in the ambidextrous opportunity identification process. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of findings for the international business literature.
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Global connectedness, local embeddedness and creative economies in European cities
(2021) Huang, Xinli; Fan, Di
Embracing the global–local debate, this study examines how cities configure their global connectedness and local embeddedness attributes in order to achieve the high performance of urban creative economies in Europe. Using the configurational approach, a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) is undertaken to investigate urban creative economy performance in a sample of 168 European cities from 30 countries during the period 2000–17. The findings reveal a taxonomy of four distinct types of cities with the high performance of the creative economy and the contingent effects of cultural vibrancy and industrial diversity. This study provides novel insights into the variations among creative cities.
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Viral marketing: influencer marketing pivots in tourism–a case study of meme influencer instigated travel interest surge
(2022) Zhang, Tenghao; Huang, Xinli
A young herder in western China accidentally went viral on the internet and aroused public interests to visit his scenic hometown. The subsequent collaborations between the herder and destination marketers on social media made him an influencer and further boosted the surge of public travel interests. Drawing on big data analytics and natural language processing techniques, this paper conducted two studies. Study 1 has proved that the local tourism authority has successfully pivoted tourism marketing strategies from viral marketing to influencer marketing. Study 2 corroborated the positive effects of influencer attraction and government tourism promotion on public travel interests. The moderating role of public suspicions about the pandemic disruptions was also identified.
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Nursery City Innovation: A CELL Framework
(2022-07-01) Fan, Di; Su, Yiyi; Huang, Xinli
How can innovative cities be cultivated and fertilized? Embracing and reframing insights from multidisciplinary academic discourse, we conceptualize three paired tensional dimensions, namely, the human-society, the market-government and the global–local tensions, to form a six-I city innovation framework. Also termed a CELL framework, the six I-related key elements are: human intelligence, societal incentives, government involvement, market inclination, global integration, and local interconnection. Taking a holistic view, the set of collective and interdependent institutional elements can serve to analyze the development of city innovation. The key assertion of the study is that a city's innovative ecosystem can be built up, and, more importantly, via configuring key institutional arrangements.
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Cluster linkages in the global production networks: Exploring the impacts on the expansion of emerging market multinationals
(2023) Wu, Sihong; Huang, Xinli; Fan, Di; Su, Yiyi; Li, Yongjian
The past two decades have witnessed the rapid penetration of emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) into global production networks. Although existing literature documents the agglomeration effect of industrial clusters in affecting firms’ strategic decisions, less is known about how the heterogeneous cluster linkages at the national level affect the foreign market expansion of EMNEs. Based on a supply chain perspective, this study investigates the different cluster linkages between countries based on their upstream/downstream relations. We find that upstream–downstream (U-D) cluster linkages reduce the EMNEs’ expansionary entries into a foreign country, while the downstream-upstream (D-U) linkages lead to an increase in expansionary entries. These relationships are adversely moderated by firm-cluster relatedness. We also find that the expansionary entries of EMNEs positively affect their performance, and the relationship is moderated by the institutional environments in host countries. In summary, this study informs a more holistic understanding of the complexity of global production networks, considering the interplay between firms, clusters, and institutions.
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How do consulting firms share knowledge with clients in the Arab world? A cultural embeddedness perspective
(2022) Huang, Xinli; Gao, Qiuling; Fan, Di; Hassan, Zinab
This paper explores the challenges that consulting firms and client firms are facing in knowledge sharing in the context of the Arab management consulting industry, and how local culture works in solving these challenges. Taking knowledge sharing and the cultural embeddedness perspective as the theoretical lens, the study adopts a comparative case study design to explore how mechanisms of cultural contextualisation affect knowledge-sharing behaviours. The findings highlight the benefits of cultural embeddedness in knowledge sharing between consulting firms and client firms through identifying the importance of Wasta (a social network of interpersonal connections) in skill-set formation, follow-on consultancy, niche specialist cultivation, and the establishment of network consulting. Our study provides industry players with a holistic framework to leverage Wasta to achieve knowledge sharing, which sheds light on a neglected cultural aspect in the management consulting industry.
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4-Fluoro-2,6-dicyanopyridine
(Wiley, 2025-01-03) Ullrich, Sven; Nitsche, Christoph
InChI = 1S/C7H2FN3/c8-5-1-6(3-9)11-7(2-5)4-10/h1-2H InChIKey = OYXYUVMEIMAJAW-UHFFFAOYSA-N (electrophilic reagent for the facile preparation of 2,6-dicyanopyridine-substituted side chains in amino acids, peptides, and proteins) Alternative Names: 4-fluoropyridine-2,6-dicarbonitrile (IUPAC), 4F-DCP, FDCP. Physical Data: mp 101 °C. Solubility: soluble in acetone, CH2Cl2, CHCl3, DMF, DMSO, Et2O, EtOAc, MeCN, MeOH, PhCH3, THF; insoluble in n-hexane, n-heptane. Form Supplied in: white crystalline solid. Analysis of Reagent Purity: NMR, GC-MS, and IR. Preparative Methods: nucleophilic aromatic substitution of 4-chloropyridine-2,6-dicarbonitrile and CsF in DMSO at high temperature. Purification: liquid–liquid extraction followed by silica flash column chromatography. Handling, Storage, and Precautions: refrigerate solid; toxicity unknown.
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A linear approximation algorithm for the BPP with the best possible absolute approximation ratio.
(2015) Zehmakan, Abdolahad Noori; Eslahi, Mojtaba
The Bin Packing Problem is one of the most important Combinatorial Optimization problems in optimization and has a lot of real-world applications. Many approximation algorithms have been presented for this problem because of its NP-hard nature. In this article also a new creative approximation algorithm is presented for this important problem. It has been proven that the best approximation ratio and the best time order for the Bin Packing Problem are 3/2 and O(n), respectively unless P=NP. The presented algorithm in this article has the best possible factors, O(n) and 3/2.
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Bin Packing Problem: Two Approximation Algorithms
(2015) Zehmakan, Abdolahad Noori
The Bin Packing Problem is one of the most important optimization problems. In recent years, due to its NP-hard nature, several approximation algorithms have been presented. It is proved that the best algorithm for the Bin Packing Problem has the approximation ratio 3/2 and the time order O(n), unless P=NP. In this paper, first, a 3/2-approximation algorithm is presented, then a modification to FFD algorithm is proposed to decrease time order to linear. Finally, these suggested approximation algorithms are compared with some other approximation algorithms. The experimental results show the suggested algorithms perform efficiently. In summary, the main goal of the research is presenting methods which not only enjoy the best theoretical criteria, but also perform considerably efficient in practice.
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Strategic asset-seeking acquisitions by emerging market multinational enterprises and the liability of emergingness
(2024) Huang, Xinli; Liang, Yanze; Webber, Don
Emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) often engage in strategic asset-seeking acquisitions to promote innovation catch-up. However, it is unclear why only some EMNEs improve their innovation performance when they face the liability of emergingness (LoE) in overseas markets. To resolve this puzzle, we investigated how EMNEs leverage internal and external LoE to achieve high innovation performance through strategic asset-seeking acquisitions. Application of configurational analysis to data from 162 acquisitions initiated by Chinese multinationals between 2013 and 2017 reveals four scenarios associated with different levels of innovation performance. The results highlight that Chinese multinationals' post-acquisition innovation performance is greater (lower) when both internal and external LoE are low (high), and that entrenched diplomatic relationships are needed to benefit from strategic asset-seeking acquisitions when external LoE is high. Our methodological contribution generates findings that explain variations in EMNEs' innovation performance when pursuing strategic asset-seeking acquisitions, and these findings corroborate the theoretical stance that the effects of strategic asset-seeking acquisitions on innovation performance should be viewed through the lens of the complexities and nuances of LoE.
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Assessment of residential renewable energy investment under dynamic market environment: Aspect from household benefits
(2025) Xu, Qian; Chen, Changxu; Huang, Xinli; Yang, Weiyao
The adoption of residential renewable energy is pivotal for achieving the 'Net Zero' goal, yet financial assessments of household investments in this area remain complex due to dynamic market conditions. This study introduces a novel closed-form financial valuation framework for residential solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, explicitly addressing the uncertainties of electricity market price fluctuations (market risk) and energy policy changes (policy risk) using Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM). A case study in France demonstrates the framework's application, revealing that the discount rate is the most influential factor in solar PV valuation, followed by system lifespan and policy-driven Feed-in Tariff (FiT) rates. Sensitivity analyses further highlight how these variables interact to influence investment outcomes under various market scenarios. Key findings include (1) the identification of critical thresholds for solar PV investments, ensuring financial viability even under fluctuating conditions; (2) the validation of GBM as an effective tool for capturing long-term market and policy dynamics; and (3) actionable policy recommendations emphasizing market efficiency, policy stability, and end-of-life management. These insights contribute to advancing both household investment decision-making and policy design, addressing a significant gap in understanding the economic dynamics of residential renewable energy adoption. By bridging theoretical valuation models with empirical evidence, this research provides practical guidance for promoting decentralized renewable energy systems globally.
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A social influence view of the internationalization of cultural products
(2025) Huang, Xinli; Fan, Di; Soo, Christine
A thriving international cultural industry fuels the expansion of the global creative economy. Yet, what drives the international diffusion and performance of cultural products? This study adopts a social influence perspective to examine the international performance of film exports, addressing a critical gap in existing research that often isolates social influences without considering the impact of their (in)congruence. Given the subjective nature of cultural products and their vulnerability to multiple influences across global value chains, we theorize and empirically test the effects of congruence and incongruence between supply-side and demand-side social influences on films’ international performance. Analyzing 1676 U.S. films released between 2009 and 2018, our findings reveal that congruence between supply-side and demand-side social influences significantly enhances a film’s appeal, credibility, and international success. Moreover, this effect is amplified by two key moderators across global value chains, namely, upstream home-country adoption of social media promotion and downstream host-country press freedom. This study contributes to the understanding of the social influence view within global value chains by highlighting the importance of supply-demand congruence and the contextual factors that shape their effectiveness in driving the international performance of cultural products.
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Embodied Connections: Gender, Race, and Reproduction in Oceania: Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam, Christine Taitano DeLisle, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2021.: Moral Figures: Making Reproduction Public in Vanuatu, Alexandra Widmer, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2023.
(2025) Jolly, Margaret
This review article juxtaposes two books, Placental Politics and Moral Figures, which offer innovative decolonial, feminist approaches to reproductive politics and embodied connections in colonial and contemporary Oceania. They evince an extraordinary empirical and theoretical sophistication that has developed in scholarship over recent decades in analysing the racialised and gendered logics of colonialism, in researching the embodied relations between Indigenous and white settler women, and in developing the theory and practice of Oceanic feminisms.
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Matters of Scale:: An Afterword to Vanuatu dans tou ses etats. Histoire et anthopologie
(Inalco Presses, 2024) Jolly, Margaret

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