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In recent decades, a large body of literature has dealt with universities’ contributions to regional development. Maintaining their traditional roles in research and teaching, universities have seemingly broadened the scope of interaction with their respective environments, for example by supporting the industry through diverse technology-transfer mechanisms. Nowadays, some universities display even greater regional involvement by governing the local interplay among industry, the public sector, and academia in joint innovation endeavors. While established conceptual models view universities as less proactive contributors, recent studies consider universities as the main orchestrators—the so-called keystones—of nascent regional innovation ecosystems. This novel framework encompasses universities’ pursuits within regions more comprehensively, but also challenges the prevailing notion that innovation ecosystems form around keystone firms. In this paper, we review the extant literature to compare keystone universities and firms, and the outcomes of their respective orchestration activities. We find that keystone universities are described as more considerate of regional needs, less driven by their economic interests, and more committed to knowledge dissemination compared to their firm counterparts. The outlined differences imply good reasons why universities should be considered keystones of nascent innovation ecosystems from the perspective of universities, but especially from the perspective of regional policymakers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Effective physical activity (PA) interventions are needed to counter the insufficient and declining levels of PA in youth. These require an updated, comprehensive planning framework that consolidates recent decades of progress in promoting PA in young children, children, and adolescents. Effective PA interventions require program planning and conceptual model development that target a coordinated and multilevel set of age-specific PA determinants. Accordingly, this paper presents a comprehensive planning framework that researchers can use to design intervention research to promote PA in youth. Methods: The first author conducted targeted searches through Google Scholar to compile PA models/frameworks/guides applicable to youth, a comprehensive set of PA determinants, and determinant-linked strategies to promote PA focusing on review articles. The information was summarized in tables, synthesized, and used to create a planning framework, all of which were reviewed by coauthors. Results: The APPLE Framework for Planning PA Opportunities for Youth (APPLE = Age, PA focus, Place and time, Leverage relevant influences and strategies, and ensure Enjoyable PA opportunities) incorporated all core elements from targeted reviews to create a comprehensive planning framework. The APPLE Planning Framework has a set of questions/prompts that guide the intervention planning process and conceptual model templates to organize planning efforts for designing intervention research. Conclusions: The APPLE Framework for Planning PA Opportunities for Youth will enable researchers to develop comprehensive conceptual models to guide the design of PA interventions for youth. Future research should refine the model and its components to enable PA intervention research in youth to move forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is seen as one of the key areas of sustainability for sport organizations. Although the rapid development of professional sport is evidenced, the evaluation and classification of CSR is still an under-researched area, especially in the eastern context. This study proposes a conceptual CSR model of the Chinese Super League (CSL) clubs, including five dimensions: economic, youth, community, environmental, and cultural responsibility. The establishment of the conceptual model is based on sound theoretical foundations, such as sustainable development, positive youth development, a sense of community, and globalization theories. Each dimension's validity is assessed while considering the uniqueness of Chinese Super League. This study provides theoretical evidence to support the multidimensional nature of CSR, which adds value to CSR research in the Chinese professional sport context. At a strategic level, it enlightens club managers and the Chinese Football Association to develop better CSR strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I present a sociological approach to the problem of meaningful work that dwells on its broad social and cultural sources, as opposed to the focus on subjective and organizational factors currently prevailing in the field. Specifically, I consider two sociological perspectives, those of community and autonomy, as important conceptual tools for understanding the ambivalent character of modern culture in providing individuals with a sense of meaningfulness of their activities. I also review some of the existing research on meaningful work and interpret it through this conceptual distinction, both to show the latter's relevance for the field and to identify the gaps it might help fill. As a result, based on the sociological perspectives, I propose a general conceptual model and discuss five directions to further advance the theoretical comprehension of meaningful work, and I suggest some implications of these perspectives for normative business ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the 1990s, the marketing literature has seen the emergence of research dedicated to consumers with disabilities (CWD). This work is mostly based on the social model of disability, which encourages practitioners to eradicate the physical and architectural barriers faced by individuals. However, in the field of disability studies, the social model is increasingly criticised both for being too radical and for neglecting the subjective experience of disability. In this paper, we attempt to illuminate existing views, while advocating new perspectives, for conceptualising and representing disability in consumer research. With this in mind, we first briefly present the major conceptual foundations and models of disability research. Then, we systematically review marketing literature on CWD to examine the perspectives used when studying this phenomenon. Finally, we propose a research agenda aimed at advancing the understanding of consumption and disability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Style—or the aesthetic dimensions of public presentation—is a dominant mode of symbolic expression. However, no one has explored how style functions as a coherent and generalizable symbol system influencing public conversations about athletic recruitment. The purpose of this essay is to fill this gap by developing a critical framework for theorizing the rhetoric of style in athletic recruitment discourse and significantly, how this is done through social media. We analyze sports journalism, recruiting websites, and the public messaging of athletic departments and athletes on social media according to five structural components: stylistic homologies, aesthetic rationales, primacy of text, imaginary communities, and market contexts. Our analysis offers practical lessons for athletes, journalists, and college athletic departments, but we also highlight several conceptual, methodological, and theoretical implications for scholars of communication and sport and social media interested in better understanding social influence in a dynamic and hyper-competitive context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A sustainability perspective on careers builds a resilient career system by simultaneously considering individual's current career needs and long-term career outcomes. The individual career agent's strategy for achieving a sustainable career is a powerful approach to career development in an environment where an individual's proactive career competencies are emphasized. Mid-career individuals, especially those facing career transitions, need to increase their sustainability by maintaining, renewing, and developing their current careers. To support sustainable career development for mid-career employees, a tool is needed to objectively diagnose the level of career sustainability, taking into account the characteristics of their career transitions. The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a mid-career employee career sustainability scale. The research methodology comprised four systematic scale development processes. First, an integrated literature review was conducted to develop a conceptual model of mid-career career sustainability. Second, an initial pool of career sustainability items was developed and subjected to expert content validation. Third, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted on 257 participants to verify the reliability and validity of the preliminary items. Finally, a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted on 534 participants to finalize the final items. The participants were all mid-career employees aged 40–55 currently employed in Korean organizations. The new scale reliably and validly measured mid-career career sustainability across four dimensions: meaning perception of career sustainability, skill acquisition for career sustainability, relationship building for career sustainability, environmental awareness for career sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Facial recognition payment (FRP), a new method of contactless payment, has attracted considerable attention over the past few years. However, the research on this topic remains nascent. This study assessed the drivers of customers' FRP continuance intention from the perspectives of coolness and inspiration. We use online survey data from 610 Chinese FRP customers as the basis for our conceptual model. The results show that the coolness factors of subculture, attractiveness, utility, and originality have positive and significant effects on customers' inspired-by states and that subculture and utility also promote inspired-to. Inspired-by is positively associated with inspired-to, which in turn enhances customers' FRP continuance intention. Furthermore, the relationship between inspired-to and FRP continuance intention is negatively moderated by financial risk. In addition to contributing to the literature on FRP, coolness, and customer inspiration, this study offers several suggestions for implementing and developing FRP systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a methodology to investigate how the conceptual structure of a model may have borrowed from an already existing model in a different field. From a reverse perspective, it amounts to hypothesizing that an already existing model was somehow transferred to a new field and incorporated into a newly constructed model with the purpose of explaining some additional phenomena. We use two well-known theoretic models, Robert Malthus' model of human population and Darwin's model of organism population included in the theory of evolution by natural selection, to exemplify this "incorporation of a conceptual structure" methodology. By highlighting how the conceptual structure of Malthus' model actually sits within that of Darwin's model, we show how Darwin's model may have been constructed, on the one hand, and how Malthus' model may have been transferred, on the other hand. In order to show how the construction and transfer occur, we outline five epistemic strategies that could be underlying incorporation. Overall, this methodology can be viewed as a diadic and bijective perspective on models that can be applied to other similar cases, using "construction" and "transfer" as complementary handles to probe the available conceptual, structural, and historiographical material. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite increasing acknowledgement of the diversity and different approaches at play in research on sustainability transitions, systematic comparisons of these approaches are scarce. This is a problem for sustainability research, as the coexistence of multiple approaches to sustainability in the absence of an overarching comparative vocabulary may result in disparate and potentially incommensurable assumptions affecting the analysis, implementation, and impact of sustainability transitions. By means of a review and conceptual investigation, we develop a conceptual model for comparing multiple and diverse sustainability approaches. Investigating both the descriptive (stationary) and actionable elements of sustainability, we create a comparative space based on distinguishable parameters shared among sampled sustainability approaches as empirical literature-based units: (1) from instrumentalist to intrinsic valuations of nature; and (2) from holistic to particularistic system considerations. Using a vector-based method to represent a sustainability approach, we systematically compare various perceptions of sustainability problems and solutions, thereby allowing us to characterize different movements towards imagined sustainable futures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This research proposal aims to address the growing significance of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the field of records and information management (RIM) within the African context. Despite the increasing prevalence of AI, there is a lack of comprehensive understanding regarding the factors influencing AI readiness and adoption in RIM. The primary purpose of this paper is to explore these factors and propose an AI readiness and adoption conceptual framework. Design/methodology/approach: A comprehensive literature review was conducted to identify the proposed variables and support the hypothesis development. The theoretical foundation of the proposed conceptual framework is based on three theories: the technology acceptance model (TAM), the technology readiness index (TRI) and the cognitive appraisal theory (CAT). Findings: The literature reveals that there is a lack of empirical investigation of AI readiness and adoption within the RIM context. Through the proposed conceptual model, the researcher anticipates uncovering critical insights into the factors influencing AI readiness and adoption in RIM practices across African nations. Research limitations/implications: The proposed model is not yet empirically tested and the study's scope is limited to African nations. Originality/value: The proposed model takes a pioneering approach to empirically investigate AI readiness and adoption within the RIM field, specifically in an African context which is understudied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of community-based tourism, this study investigates the determinants of tourist loyalty to homestays, with a focus on sustainable rural tourism development in China. Using the stimulus–organism–response (SOR) framework, we propose a conceptual model to examine how connected experiences influence tourist emotions and, in turn, their loyalty. Data were gathered through onsite surveys of tourists, and structural equation modeling was applied to assess the relationships between key variables. The analysis reveals that tourists' emotions mediate the effect of connected experiences on loyalty, while the unique local characteristics of homestays significantly moderate the link between emotions and loyalty. These findings provide valuable insights for policymakers and practitioners aiming to enhance the sustainability of rural tourism through strategic management of community-based homestays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the factors that lead to the failure of some rewards to induce knowledge sharing behavior among employees, with much focus on employees' attitudes and leadership's knowledge of employees' preferences, and presents a model that depicts the linkages. Design/methodology/approach: To investigate why the provision of some rewards fails to induce knowledge sharing behavior among employees, this study uses the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses framework to identify and analyze 56 articles published from 2000 to 2021. Findings: Knowledge sharing is positively linked to organizational performance. Further, employees' negative attitudes toward a reward system negatively relate to knowledge sharing behavior. Furthermore, management's lack of knowledge of employees' preferences regarding rewards leads to the provision of incorrect rewards that do not enhance knowledge sharing behavior. Finally, a conceptual model depicting the linkages among the variables under consideration has been presented. Research limitations/implications: Through the present study, employees' attitudes toward rewards and leadership's knowledge of employees' preferences have been presented as critical factors that can lead to the failure of some rewards to induce knowledge sharing behavior. Further, the conceptual framework that can guide managers and leaders in strategizing on how best to develop and implement correct reward systems has been presented. Originality/value: The present study is a significant contribution to the literature by focusing on the negative side of rewards toward knowledge sharing behavior with a focus on employees' attitudes and leadership's awareness of employees' preferences regarding rewards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many clients cope with the consequences of transformative life experience (TLE) in psychotherapy. TLE often involves a radical, profound reorganization of or change in one's life because of resulting formative, life-changing choices. Yet the essence of the mechanism people use to process and make sense of a TLE is unclear. This study is a phenomenological exploration of such experiences that aims to offer a heuristic theoretical view of how such change is constructed and played out. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 120 adults who had coped with the consequences of a TLE. Data analysis was guided by a hermeneutic phenomenology paradigm that postulates that people account for their experience within the four existentials of temporality, spatiality, corporality (embodiment), and relationality. Those lifeworld existentials were utilized as a framework and lens through which to organize the data. This procedure was followed by a hermeneutical interpretation to identify common features of lived experience along all four domains of analysis with the purpose of constructing a conceptual model that illustrates the essence of change during TLE. Implications are considered for utilizing theoretical and applied insights from the model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Building upon the evidence supporting the interpersonal benefits of trait mindfulness, efforts to understand mindfulness in the context of intimate relationships (i.e., relationship mindfulness) have been made to better predict relationship outcomes. To further understand the relationship benefits of mindfulness, it is crucial to take a closer look at for whom and under what conditions trait mindfulness translates into relationship mindfulness. In this study, we examined the moderating effects of one's own and their partner's mental well-being on the positive link between trait mindfulness and relationship mindfulness. Specifically, we expected this link to be weaker for those who themselves or their partners reported worse mental well-being as poor mental well-being may pull couples inward, away from showing up mindfully in relationships. A sample of 115 different-sex married couples completed an online questionnaire that included measures of trait mindfulness, relationship mindfulness, and markers of mental well-being (i.e., depression, anxiety, loneliness). A series of actor-partner interdependence moderation models showed that, consistent with our hypotheses, the link between husbands' trait mindfulness and relationship mindfulness was weaker if husbands or their wives reported higher depression or anxiety. Therefore, couples may benefit more if mindfulness-based couple interventions directly target how partners can use mindfulness skills to stay connected even when facing mental health challenges. This study also further highlights the importance of considering various relational contexts for mindfulness research and interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate how commercial influencers retain their followers and successfully persuade them to consider purchasing newly recommended products and services within the food industry. We explored the impact of followers' purchase satisfaction upon their repurchase intention for newly promoted food products and services, directly and by the mediating roles of followers' affective commitment and loyalty toward commercial food influencers. Design/methodology/approach: Our conceptual model design was supported by the tricomponent attitude model, which helps explain followers' emotional attachment to the influencers. We validated the proposed model using a sample of 200 followers of renowned commercial food influencers in Iran. We used partial least squares structural equation modeling for data analysis, with the assistance of Warp PLS (version 8.0) software. Findings: We found that followers' purchase satisfaction exerts a positive influence upon their repurchase intention, both directly and through the mediating roles of affective commitment and loyalty toward commercial food influencers. Practical implications: This study elucidates the role of followers' satisfaction with their previous purchases in influencing their intention to buy newly recommended products. There is a multiplicity of important implications for restauranteur's business models, as this marketing approach rewards a digital equivalent of a strong customer relationship and an honest, high-quality product. Our results also suggest that food influencers can operate effectively in the affiliate marketing sphere by operating and sustaining enduring relationships. Originality/value: This work addresses how the influencer–follower relationship, followers' purchase satisfaction and emotional attachment toward influencers, shape both follower retention and future repurchase intentions. This is from the perspective of the tricomponent attitude model within the food industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Marital adjustment is an important predictor of coping with stress among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A randomized controlled trial conducted on 60 parents of children with ASD showed that integrative SFT and double ABCX therapy, conducted over ten sessions of multiple family therapy in group counseling for five weeks and a one-month follow-up at special needs children's centers in Jordan, resulted in a 48% increase in marital adjustment and a 34% reduction in parenting stress. These therapies significantly improved the well-being of parents of children with autism, while the control group did not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study was to characterize the network structure of grief-related functional impairment symptoms as measured by The Grief Impairment Scale (GIS) in 520 Peruvian individuals who have experienced the death of a family member or loved one. A psychological network model was applied to evaluate the estimation, stability, and accuracy of the network during the analysis sequence. The results indicated that the inability to perform activities at work, school, or home was the most central symptom in the entire network. However, the presence of high instability in the centrality indices indicates that the central node may differ in other cultural contexts. The networks were invariant according to sex. The most influential node in the women's group was their inability to perform activities at work, school, or home. In men, the most central node was the presence of health problems due to bereavement. The results would help to better understand functional impairment due to bereavement [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the growing importance of digital transformation, on the one hand, and the recognized importance of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EE) on the other, we find that these are two fragmented fields in the literature and that they lack a systematization of the literature. Our research aims to develop a systematic literature review, in which we will study the relationship between entrepreneurial ecosystems and digital transformation, at the micro, meso and macro levels. For this, we used the Web of Science to collect our database, and we analysed 73 articles that were included in our study for their purpose. In our analysis, we were able to identify the characteristics of the environments of entrepreneurial ecosystems, the actions of digital technology approaches to digital transformation and the necessary skills in the scenario of entrepreneurship. Thus, we proposed a conceptual model with the presentation of the relationship between entrepreneurial ecosystems and digital transformation, which may be useful in future studies. The greatest contribution of our investigation is the offer of this systematization to this field of study, allowing us to see the different paths of investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Earthquakes with very similar waveforms have been recognized as repeating earthquakes, or repeaters, which are interpreted as repeated ruptures of an isolated, frictionally locked asperity patch that are caused by stress loading due to aseismic slip in the surrounding stable regime of the fault. Ideally, the repeated ruptures of the same asperity result in the same source dimension and stress drop. However, significant variations in the stress drop have been observed during fluid-injection experiments even for a single repeater sequence. This study focuses repeater sequences in three different tectonic regimes beneath the Japanese Islands and investigates variations in the source dimension and stress drop in the same repeater sequences. The obtained results show that the variation in the source radius is mostly within 20–30 per cent in individual repeater sequences but the stress drop is largely variable by one order of magnitude or more. We propose a fluid-invasion hypothesis to explain our observations. When pore-fluid pressures gradually invade into an asperity, the edge of the asperity tends to behave as aseismic because of the reduction of the effective normal stress to values below the critical value of effective normal stress, which makes the source radius somewhat smaller. Simultaneously, the amount of the fluid invasion into the asperity fluctuates the shear strength of the asperity, with the stress drop being smaller for higher pore-fluid pressures. The reduced source radius and stress drop expected from the fluid-invasion hypothesis can explain positive correlations between the source radius and seismic moment. We propose a conceptual model for earthquake generation by involving the triggering of aseismic slip by the enhancement of pore-fluid pressures and subsequent rupture of asperity by the stress loading due to the aseismic slip, which can be potentially applied to the genesis of repeaters and non-repeaters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Grounded in Seligman's tripartite model of agency, the authors developed the 10-item Agency Scale. Using data from three waves (1994–1996, 2004–2006, 2013–2014) of the MIDUS national longitudinal study, results from midlife adults (N = 2,717) supported a three-factor structure, corresponding to self-efficacy, future-minded planning (as a measure of optimism), and imagination. Evidence for measurement invariance, construct validity, and reliability was provided. The three subscales of the Agency Scale uniquely and positively predicted effort, persistence, generativity (as an indicator of innovation), and perceived progress. Supporting Seligman's hypothesis, sequential mediation analyses revealed that effort, persistence, and generativity significantly mediated the self-efficacy-perceived progress, future-minded planning-perceived progress, and imagination-perceived progress relations, respectively. Significant mean differences across three timepoints indicated an overall declining trend in scores of agency (including self-efficacy, future-minded planning, and imagination) and perceived progress. Collectively, these findings provide support for Seligman's tripartite model of agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to explore the predictors of bystanders' intentions to intervene and types of intended intervention in domestic violence (DV) and sexual violence (SV) situations in South Korea. Using nationally representative data from the 2016 National Fact-Finding Survey on Gender Equality (N = 7,399) and logistic regression-based models, this study focused on two key predictors, bystander gender and attitudes about gender equality, while controlling for age, educational level, and employment status. Our findings indicated that males and females were equally likely to state intentions to intervene in both DV and SV situations. While both males and females were more likely to state that they would intervene indirectly rather than directly, females were even less likely to intervene directly than were males for both situations. Attitudes indicative of gender equality further increased the intention to intervene for DV and SV situations in multivariate models. Gender equality attitudes, however, decreased the intentions to intervene directly in DV but not SV situations. Limitations and implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

America has experienced a rapid increase in loneliness, substance use, and suicidality. This increase is particularly deleterious for Veterans, who, as compared to nonmilitary-connected civilians, experience elevated rates of loneliness, substance use, and suicidality. In this project we investigated the link between loneliness, substance use, and suicidality, paying particular attention to the mediational role of loneliness between substance use and suicidality. 1,469 Veterans (male, n = 1004, 67.2%; female, n = 457, 32.3%; transgender/non-binary/prefer not to say, n = 8, 0.5%) answered online surveys in the Mental Health and Well-Being Project. Items assessed participants on psychosocial antecedents of health and wellness. Pearson correlations and mediational models were used to determine if loneliness, substance use, and suicidality were related and if loneliness mediated the link between substance use and suicidality. Results indicated that loneliness, substance use, and suicidality were significantly and positively related (rs =.33–.42, ps <.01). Additionally, loneliness partially mediated the link between substance use and suicidality (β =.08 [.06–.10]), suggesting that, within the context of substance use in Veterans, loneliness may account for significant variance in suicidality. Together findings suggest the Veterans Health Administration should support, fund, and study community engagement activities that could reduce the development or intensity of substance use, loneliness, and suicidality in Veterans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Hypothesis Social cognitive impairments are central to psychosis, including lower severity psychosis-like experiences (PLEs). Nonetheless, progress has been hindered by social cognition's poorly defined factor structure, as well as limited work examining the specificity of social cognitive impairment to psychosis. The present study examined how PLEs relate to social cognition in the context of other psychopathology dimensions, using a hierarchical factors approach to social cognition. Study Design Online community participants (N  = 1026) completed psychosis, autism, and personality disorder questionnaires, as well as 3 social cognitive tasks that varied in methodology (vignette vs video) and construct (higher- vs lower-level social cognition). Exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) were used to model social cognition, with the best models being examined in association with PLEs and psychopathology dimensions. Study Results EFA and CFA supported a hierarchical model of social cognition, with 2 higher-order factors emerging: verbal/vignette task methodology and a multimethod general social cognition factor. These higher-order factors accounted for task-level associations to psychopathology, with relations to positive symptoms (r  = .23) and antagonism (r  = .28). After controlling for other psychopathology, positive symptoms were most clearly related to tasks with verbal methodology (β = −0.34). Conclusions These results suggest that broad social cognitive processes and method effects may account for many previous findings in psychosis and psychopathology research. Additionally, accounting for broad social cognitive impairment may yield insights into more specific social cognitive processes as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual model, ProvKOS, for tracking the provenance of change activities in a knowledge organization system (KOS). By extending current provenance practices, this model represents dynamic changes in a KOS more effectively. Design/methodology/approach: We take a five-step approach to develop the conceptual model, including content analysis of KOS editorial data, environmental scan of existing provenance models, development of persona-specific provenance questions and a participatory design with stakeholders to ensure the model's utility. Findings: We introduce (1) a taxonomy of editorial activities for a KOS; (2) a conceptual model ProvKOS, which extends existing models PROV and Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS). We also provide detailed data dictionaries for the entities, activities and warrants classes proposed in the model. A use case on "gender dysphoria" in Dewey Decimal Classifications (DDCs) is provided to illustrate the implementation of ProvKOS. This shows ProvKOS's ability to capture KOS changes effectively and to link external resources relating to the changes. Research limitations/implications: Further validation may be needed to implement the ProvKOS model across various types of KOSs. Practical implications: ProvKOS can help improve machine readability, querying and analysis of a KOS. Especially within the linked data environment, the enhanced provenance documentation through ProvKOS can enable a network of KOSs, which will then inform better linked data or knowledge graph designs. Social implications: By facilitating better tracking of changes within a KOS and across KOSs, ProvKOS can enhance the accessibility and usability of knowledge bases across different cultural and social contexts, thus better supporting inclusive information practices. Originality/value: The proposed model is novel in two ways: one, its ability to represent dynamic change activities in a KOS, which has not been discussed anywhere else; two, it supports the interconnectivity across KOSs by providing a "warrant" class to substantiate the context of changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous research revealed that meaning in life is related positively to psychological engagement with art (i.e., aesthetic engagement), such as interest in art, knowledge about art, awe around art, and supernatural attributions for art experiences. We extended this work by considering the relevance of dispositions toward aesthetics (i.e., aesthetic dispositions), such as openness to experience, creativity in general and in art, and religious belief salience. Specifically, we proposed a conceptual model relating aesthetic dispositions, aesthetic engagement, and meaning in life. We tested hypotheses derived from the model with an online sample of N = 696 artists. Correlational results supported our hypotheses and replicated previous findings. Path analytic results showed that interest in art mediated associations between aesthetic dispositions and meaning in life. The results contribute to empirical work on aesthetic cognitivism, the philosophical stance that art can lead to understanding, by shedding light on factors associated with meaningful interactions with art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper advances a conceptual model about the causes and processes that cause Dark Triad personalities' success and/or failure. The model a explains how and why those with Dark Triad personalities sometimes succeed and sometimes fail in achieving their personal goals in their organization. The model posits that those with Dark Triad personalities with higher levels of perceived success and high overconfidence, high perceived power, and a high level of risk-taking intention will be more inclined to ignore signals from their environment regarding the appropriate timing and circumstances to act – a vital characteristic for successful predators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is an essential concept in entrepreneurship research. Many scholars have shown CE theoretical and empirical implications for firms' survival, development, and growth. We use a systematic literature review approach to analyse and discuss 214 articles published in top-tier journals from 1985 to 2023. This review proposes a conceptual model and highlights that little attention has been given to discussing the role of context in the corporate entrepreneurial process. Thus, we propose a research agenda for contextualizing corporate entrepreneurship concerning business, social, spatial, institutional, organizational, and ownership contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Due to the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, increasing the use of AI in healthcare is critical, but few studies have explored the extent to which physicians cooperate with AI in their work to achieve productive and innovative performance, which is a key issue in operations management (OM). We conducted empirical research to answer this question. Design/methodology/approach: We developed a conceptual model based on the ambidextrous perspective. To test our model, we collected data from 200 Chinese hospitals. One senior and one junior physician from each hospital participated in this research so that we could get a more comprehensive view. Based on the sample of 400 participants and the conceptual model, we examined whether different types of AI use have distinct impacts on physicians' productivity and innovation by conducting hierarchical regression and post hoc tests. We also introduced team psychological safety climate (TPSC) and AI technology uncertainty (AITU) as moderators to investigate this topic in further detail. Findings: We found that augmentation AI use is positively related to overall productivity and innovative job performance, while automation AI use is negatively related to these two outcomes. Furthermore, we focused on the impacts of the ambidextrous use of AI on these two outcomes. The results highlight the positive impacts of complementary use on both outcomes and the negative impact of balance on innovative job performance. TPSC enhances the positive impacts of complementary use on productivity, whereas AITU inhibits the negative impacts of automation and balanced use on innovative job performance. Originality/value: In the age of AI, organizations face greater trade-offs between performance and technology management. This study contributes to the OM literature from the perspectives of operational performance and technology management in three ways. First, it distinguishes among different AI implementations and their diverse impacts on productivity and innovative performance. Second, it identifies the different conditions under which automation AI use and augmentation are superior. Third, it extends the ambidextrous perspective by becoming an early adopter of this approach to explore the implications of different types of AI use in light of contingency factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Smart control of energy interactions plays a key role in manipulating upconversion dynamics and tuning emission colors for lanthanide-doped materials. However, quantifying the energy flux in particular energy migration in the representative sensitizer-activator coupled upconversion system has remained a challenge. Here we report a conceptual model to examine the energy flux in a single nanoparticle by designing an interfacial energy transfer mediated nanostructure. We show that energy migration indeed occurs simultaneously with energy transfer in a sensitizer-activator system and the competition between them can be quantified by proposing a characteristic ratio parameter. Moreover, this model is also able to realize the color-switchable photochromic upconversion by temporal control of up-transition processes. These findings offer a deep insight into the understanding of upconversion dynamics and provide a versatile approach to manipulating the energy flux in nanostructures with tunable emission colors, showing great promise in applications of logic operation and information security. Upconversion nanoparticles can produce emission via sensitizer-activator energy transfer or by energy migration along the interlayer sublattice. Here, the authors quantify their competition and use it to realize color tunability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Earthquake ruptures produce fault slip and kilometer‐wide diffuse deformation of the host rocks. However, the origin of the diffuse deformation and its role in the rupture process are debated. We produce a refined slip model for the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, earthquakes, and analyze the relations between down‐dip rupture process, and surface diffuse deformation. We show that the decrease in coseismic slip toward the ground surface, also known as shallow slip deficit (SSD), correlates with the occurrence of diffuse deformation at the surface, which is not accounted for by models assuming elastic host rocks. Hence, we suggest that a significant part of the SSD in earthquake source models could be interpreted as a proxy for shallow diffuse inelastic deformation around faults. Revisiting earthquake source models for 28 continental earthquakes, we discuss the controlling parameters of the SSD and diffuse deformation, and propose a conceptual model of the near‐field coseismic surface deformation. Plain Language Summary: Earthquakes can rupture up to the ground surface, generating displacements along faults and fractures that are visible in the field. This surface deformation can also be accompanied by diffuse deformation that occurs at a wider, >0.5 km, scale around the faults, and is imperceptible from a field perspective. Here, we use numerical modeling combined with detailed surface observations for the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, earthquakes to show that reduction in fault slip near the surface correlates with the occurrence diffuse deformation at the surface. Therefore, the reduction in shallow slip suggested in earthquake rupture models could be interpreted as a proxy for non‐elastic diffuse deformation around the faults. Compiling data for worldwide earthquake ruptures, we show that this process occurs similarly for other events, and we analyze the controlling parameters. Key Points: Refined slip model for the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence from the inversion of InSAR, optical, and GNSS dataShallow slip deficit is partially accounted for by diffuse deformation which likely involves bulk elastoplastic yieldingA compilation of published data on strike‐slip earthquakes highlights possible controlling parameters of the SSD and diffuse deformation [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Existing literature primarily concentrates on the early stages of mobile device adoption, neglecting the investigation of how differentiated characteristics of mobile social media influence users' perceived values and outcomes after acceptance. Consequently, the principal objective of this research is to empirically examine the associations among the fundamental characteristics of mobile social media (i.e., interactive characteristic, informational characteristic, and personalized characteristic), perceived values (i.e., functional value and experiential value), and final consequences, especially user loyalty and positive WOM. Using uses and gratifications theory as a foundation, the current research proposes a conceptual model that investigates the key factors that determine individuals' loyalty and positive WOM on mobile social media by incorporating two perceived value variables. The research employed a quantitative methodology, which consisted of conducting a survey with a total of 826 participants in mainland China. The data was processed and analyzed using structural equation modeling 25.0 software and Amos 25.0 software. Obtained results of this research demonstrated that informational characteristic and personalized characteristic significantly influence mobile social media users' perceived functional value and experiential value. This study also indicated that experiential value influence user loyalty and positive WOM. However, interactive characteristic exhibits insignificant impacts on functional value. This article provides an essential contribution to the existing body of literature on mobile applications by presenting a comprehensive theoretical underpinning and practical implications that illuminate the ongoing utilization of mobile devices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is one of the most commonly used standard messaging protocols that enable the Internet of Things (IoT). The messaging standard specification document defines the transactions, attributes, conventions, timers, values, types, structures, etc. MQTT encounters wide implementation possibilities: hardware vendors need to implement MQTT drivers for their devices, software vendors need to implement it in their solutions, developers and researchers need an MQTT simulation framework, etc. The IoT technology can enable unlimited number of use cases, and each case has its implementation of the messaging protocol. From the above facts, on the basis that any user needs to have a deep understanding of the specification in order to implement the protocol and also developers need to study it well for improving the protocol, there is a need for a standard conceptual way that conveys the messaging standard specifications, integrates the specifications of the use cases built upon with a more abstracted mental representation, improves the communication between developers, and facilitates the protocols and applications developments. This paper addresses this issue by proposing a graphical conceptual modeling approach for MQTT-based IoT applications called Example-oriented System Conceptual Modeling for MQTT use cases (EoSCM-MQTT). The paper explains the EoSCM-MQTT and gives an example of its use in an MQTT simulation implementation for a specific IoT application: smart parking. EoSCM-MQTT was validated using three methods: comparison, analysis, and implementation. The details and results of the implementation and the conclusions from the comparison and analysis indicated that EoSCM-MQTT has the required characteristics of conceptual models: good syntactic semantic, and pragmatic quality, clarity, coherence, accuracy, flexibility, reliability, and effectiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the modern service sector, cyberloafing engaging in non-work-related internet activities during work hours has become increasingly prevalent. Although traditional research has often highlighted its negative impact, emerging studies have suggested potential benefits. This study explored the dual nature of cyberloafing, particularly its influence on employee creativity and well-being, with creativity as the mediating factor. Based on the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model and Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, we developed a conceptual framework to investigate these relationships. A cross-sectional survey of 379 employees across four service industries in Nigeria was conducted, and the data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) via SmartPLS 4.1. Comparative analysis of the original and alternative models revealed that specific cyberloafing behaviors are positively associated with enhanced creativity, which in turn contributes to improved employee well-being. However, the alternative model suggests that well-being may lead to increased creativity with the potential to result in cyberloafing. This highlights the need for balanced organizational policies. These findings challenge the traditional view of cyberloafing, as they suggest that, under certain conditions, it may foster innovation and improve morale. This study provides significant theoretical insights and practical implications, advocating a nuanced approach to cyberloafing within organizational policies and cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Motivated by important ecological applications, we study how immigration and noise can drastically change patterns of behavior of population systems. We explore this problem on the base of the Ricker conceptual population model and focus on two questions: (i) how random immigration can change regular and chaotic dynamic regimes of survival; (ii) how random disturbances cause extinction of population. For the initial deterministic model, we overview the variety of dynamic regimes and their transformations depending on the growth rate and intensity of immigration. For the stochastic model that takes into account random fluctuations in immigration intensity, probabilistic mechanisms for transforming order into chaos are identified and the key role of chaotic transients is revealed. A parametric study of the important population phenomenon of noise-induced extinction is given. For mathematical study of the considered stochastic deformations, a new approach based on confidence domains for regular and chaotic attractors was proposed and successfully applied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For more than a century, observations of cloudbursts have contributed to understanding physical processes producing "the sudden heavy fall of rain" – the American Meteorological Society definition of a cloudburst. Keen observers of cloudbursts include pioneers in the hydrological sciences, notably Robert Horton, G.K. Gilbert, Luna Leopold and John Hack. Horton transformed early 20th century understanding of cloudbursts into a conceptual model of thunderstorms that provided the foundation for his conclusion that "there is a natural limitation to rain intensity for any duration." The notion of bounds on rainfall and flood peaks has been ingrained in the philosophy of engineering design for high-hazard dams. The evolution of ideas linking cloudburst rainfall to the properties of short-duration rainfall extremes is examined in this paper through the lens of Robert Horton's cloudburst research, which provides useful insights to 21st century problems tied to cloudbursts and extreme, short-duration rainfall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop and validate the business streamlining (BS) model proposed in 2017. Design/methodology/approach: This study/paper develops and validates the qualitatively generated BS model, a conceptual model of service sourcing relationships, by testing it quantitatively. A survey was sent to chief exective officers, chief purchasing officers or facility managers in 764 private or public companies in Sweden with an annual turnover exceeding € 10m. The categories were tested and analyzed by means of factor analysis. Findings: The BS model for managing service sourcing processes was confirmed to be significant overall, meaning that it is applicable irrespective of service sourcing context. The efficiency pursuing (EP) was found to have an interlinking role that calls for a revision of the BS model. Furthermore, the four categories tended to load pairwise. Research limitations/implications: Although this cross-sectional study confirms the relevance of the BS model for managing service-sourcing processes, further studies should examine both the relative significance of its categories in different service-sourcing contexts and why the four main categories tend to pair. Practical implications: The results support that the model is flexible and adaptable to a wide range of service-sourcing circumstances. Irrespective of the relative complexity of facility management (FM) sourcing processes, the categories can be adapted to fit the service sourcing context. Thus, it can be used as a tool to analyze and facilitate strategic decision-making. Originality/value: The paper validates that the BS model can represent the dynamics of different service-sourcing processes, regardless of the complexity of the context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Coal is a typical dual-porosity structural material. The injection of CO2 into coal seams has been shown to be an effective method for storing greenhouse gasses and extracting coal bed methane. In light of the theory of dual-porosity media, we investigate the impact of non-homogeneity on seepage anisotropy and examine the influence of CO2 gas injection on the anisotropy of coal and the permeability of fractures. The results demonstrate that under constant pressure conditions, coal rock has the greatest permeability variation in the direction of face cleats and the smallest changes in the direction of vertical bedding. The more pronounced the heterogeneity, the more evident the change in permeability and the less pronounced the decreasing stage of permeability. Additionally, the larger the diffusion coefficient is, the less pronounced the permeability change. The change in permeability is inversely proportional to the size of the adsorption constant and directly proportional to the size of the fracture. As the matrix block size increases, the permeability also increases, whereas the decrease in permeability becomes less pronounced. The findings of this study offer a theoretical basis for further research into methods for enhancing the CO2 sequestration rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the research field of bilingual lexical representation and organization, much attention has been given to whether two languages share a conceptual system and what factors modulate the connection between this conceptual system and the lexical systems of a bilingual's L1 and L2. One of the most valid ways in the psycholinguistics domain to explore these doubts is to examine the masked translation priming effect and the priming asymmetry through cross-language priming experiments. In this study, a masked priming lexical decision task was conducted with unbalanced English-Chinese bilinguals to investigate whether the masked translation priming effect exists in both translation directions, and to further reveal how the number of translations, which can be categorized into one-translation pair and more-than-one-translation pair conditions, affects the priming effects and modulates translation priming asymmetry. It was demonstrated that both translation direction and the number of translations influence the priming effect. Specifically, the priming effect was observable from L1 to L2 but not from L2 to L1, and the priming for one-translation pairs was significantly greater when compared to that for more-than-one-translation pairs. Moreover, the impacts of translation direction on the priming effect differed between the one-translation pair and more-than-one-translation pair conditions: under the former condition, substantial priming occurred in both directions, whereas for the latter condition, it was observed only in the L1–L2 direction. Several models of the bilingual mental lexicon, mainly the Revised Hierarchical Model and the Distributed Conceptual Feature Model, were used to elucidate the above results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: A complex systems perspective is gaining popularity in research on socioeconomic inequalities in health and health behaviour, though there may be a gap between its popularity and the way it is implemented. Building on our recent systematic scoping review, we aim to analyse the application of and reporting on complex systems methods in the literature on socioeconomic inequalities in health and health behaviour. Methods: Selected methods and results from the review are presented as a basis for in-depth critical reflection. A traffic light-based instrument was used to assess the extent to which eight key concepts of a complex systems perspective (e.g. feedback loops) were applied. Study characteristics related to the applied value of the models were also extracted, including the model evidence base, the depiction of the model structure, and which characteristics of model relationships (e.g. polarity) were reported on. Results: Studies that applied more key concepts of a complex systems perspective were also more likely to report the direction and polarity of relationships. The system paradigm, its deepest held beliefs, is seldom identified but may be key to recognize when designing interventions. A clear, complete depiction of the full model structure is also needed to convey the functioning of a complex system. We recommend that authors include these characteristics and level of detail in their reporting. Conclusions: Above all, we call for the development of reporting guidelines to increase the transparency and applied value of complex systems models on socioeconomic inequalities in health, health behaviour and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The adoption of videoconferencing has brought significant convenience to people's lives. However, as videoconferencing usage has skyrocketed, it has unveiled a range of side effects, most notably videoconference fatigue (VF). In response, this paper employed the Limited Capacity Model of Motivated Mediated Message Processing (LC4MP) as a theoretical framework to conduct two comprehensive investigations, centering on the impact of verbal communication overload on users' information overload and VF. We conducted two studies to test our propositions and conceptual model. Study One focused on the educational context and comprised a survey with 489 students. In Study Two, we expanded our exploration to the professional use of videoconferencing in two populations: Singapore and Germany. A total of 610 responses were collected in Singapore, with the German sample constituting a total of 948 participants. Results from both studies consistently demonstrated a positive relationship between videoconference frequency and communication overload. Additionally, perceived communication overload was positively associated with information overload and VF. Based on the findings of the two studies, we discuss the theoretical and practical implications and suggest new directions for videoconferencing research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Construction projects can be regarded as complex sociotechnical systems composed of diverse and dynamically interacting elements. Digital Transformation advancements can support construction companies in creating an environment to cope with complexity and improve performance. Nevertheless, reaching these advantages involves understanding how transformed processes should be managed and measured, such as using maturity assessment tools. The construction industry lacks maturity models encompassing the sector's main characteristics and focusing on its production context. Therefore, this work proposes a conceptual model for measuring the maturity of an Intelligent Construction Environment from a sociotechnical perspective. Thus, first, the concept of an Intelligent Construction Environment is introduced. Then, based on two empirical studies consisting of 17 interviews and 11 days of on-site data collection, as well as an extensive literature review, 19 measurement dimensions associated with 13 principles and five maturity levels are proposed. This work's theoretical contributions encompass an in-depth understanding of how the construction industry can be positioned in the digital transformation path from a sociotechnical perspective. Main practical contributions include the proposition of maturity measurement dimensions for an Intelligent Construction Environment, which indicates the aspects construction managers should focus on throughout the digital transformation process of the production environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a fresh perspective on the COVID-19 situation of higher education institutions from a disaster-management perspective. Based on conceptual models of disaster management theory and with the help of a longitudinal multi-method, multi-perspective approach, this research contributes to better understanding the challenges during and "after" such a crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic started with a single event (e.g. campuses are shut down because of a dangerous disease) and transformed into a situation where new events (like new virus mutants) deepened the crisis during the hypothetical restabilisation phases. This includes the switch from a very coherent problem perception of all institutional actors in the beginning, to different and conflicting viewpoints and preferences over time. The paper argues that these developments contribute to the already fragmented realities of higher education institutions, e.g. by never giving institutions the time to agree on how to deal with the abundance of options in the long run. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been recently implemented in various advanced government applications, including security, transportation, and healthcare. The wide variety of AI applications raised the issue of adoption difficulties in governmental usage, which is what this study investigates. More specifically, the present study examines the relationship between personnel perceptions and organizational, technological, and environmental factors that affect the AI acceptance and adoption in the governmental sector. To this end, a conceptual framework integrating the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with the Technology Organization Environment (TOE) is proposed and evaluated, where a survey for collecting relevant data from 179 employees working in four Palestinian ministries was utilized. The Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) analysis of data using Smart PSL 4.1.0.8 revealed a significant association between TAM constructs and AI acceptance and adoption. Specifically, the relationships between the TOE variables and TAM's Perceived Usefulness (PU) or Perceived Ease Of Use (PEOU) were significant, except for the legal framework and organizational readiness relationship with PEOU. Besides the analytical investigation, this paper contributes practical insights into AI implementation in the government sector emerging from personnel perspectives. Theoretically, the study analyzes the validity of the conceptual model and thoroughly investigates its constructs and factors, hence suggesting that the governmental ministries focus on the linkage between institutional factors and individual AI perceptions for the latter’seffective acceptance and adoption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is growing evidence about the importance of establishing clarity around the 'work readiness' concept. A conceptual understanding of its meaning, structure, and components, as well as the essential characteristics for developing and assessing work readiness (WR), is not well established. This conceptual paper examines how WR can be articulated with greater clarity for furthering research in the field. It critically reviews the literature to provide comprehensive insights on its meaning, structure, and components around three questions: How is WR defined? What constitutes WR? And how can it be conceptualised? Graduate WR is theorised as a set of multi-dimensional constructs of cognitive and non-cognitive skills evolving in an environment driven by three approaches: demand-, equilibrium-, and supply-oriented, each guided by three types of definitions: organisational-, process- or outcome-based. The structure consists of WR skills organised hierarchically into three-order skill levels. This paper integrates WR components into a comprehensive three-dimensional conceptual model which researchers can use to construct their conceptualisations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Program-level assessment is a holistic approach for arranging assessments throughout a degree program that supports sequential development of discipline knowledge, transferable skills and career readiness. Currently, the modular arrangement of courses means that student learning is partial, limited to passing the assessment and compartmentalized into independent course learning outcomes. In effect, the current practices prevent students developing broader educational attributes that are essential for future employment opportunities. Interviews were conducted with 18 academics, Associate Deans and Program Directors, from seven Australian universities in the fields of dietetics, physiotherapy and science disciplines in order to develop a conceptual model to guide program-level assessment. The proposed conceptual model is designed to support academics' assessment practices, enhance the quality of universities' programs and provides students with a more coherent assessment experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent decades, a particularly keen interest has been demonstrated in program evaluation methods and sustainability transition studies. This is true especially given that a sustainable transition generates several new challenges for program evaluation. Therefore, adapting the methodological and practical program evaluation tools to this specific context is imperative. How can experts evaluate programs in such dynamic systems leading to perpetual structural changes? The available literature on the topic offers promising technical and methodological avenues but needs help finding relevant fields of application. The present article attempts to highlight some of these new challenges generated by the context of sustainability transition for the program evaluation discipline and to bridge the gap between the features of the sustainability transition context and how to integrate them into the program evaluation process. In this vein, a conceptual model is proposed through a systematic literature review to help experts design the evaluation of sustainability transition programs. An illustration of the proposed conceptual model is included to clarify its potential applications. Hence, this article aims to support evaluators by providing useful conceptual tools for evaluating programs developed in an unpredictable context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We address the issue of resilience of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) given the many indications that this dynamical system is in a multi-stable regime. A novel approach to resilience based on rare event techniques is presented, which leads to a measure capturing "resistance to change" and "ability to return" aspects in a probabilistic way. The application of this measure to a conceptual model demonstrates its suitability for assessing AMOC resilience but also shows its potential use in many other non-autonomous dynamical systems. This framework is then extended to compute the probability that the AMOC undergoes a transition conditioned on an external forcing. Such conditional probability can be estimated by exploiting the information available when computing the resilience of this system. This allows us to provide a probabilistic view on safe operating spaces by defining a conditional safe operating space as a subset of the parameter space of the (possibly transient) imposed forcing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The primary aim of this research is to analyse the impact of family-supportive supervisor behaviours (FSSB) on the level of life satisfaction among individuals working in the police force. FSSB is informal support by supervisors, which is an emerging topic. Further, this study examines the intermediary role of career calling and job embeddedness in the association between supportive family behaviours of supervisors and life satisfaction. However, only limited studies have been conducted on how informal support by the supervisor performs for police personnel. This research aims to fill this gap. Design/methodology/approach: For the purpose of data collection from police personnel, we used a structured questionnaire. Variance-based partial least squares structural equational modelling (PLS-SEM) methodology was applied using SmartPLS software to investigate the conceptual model of the study. Additionally, using importance-performance map analysis (IMPA), we evaluate the importance and performance of each construct. Findings: The data analysis findings indicate that job embeddedness and career calling function as complete mediating factors in the association between FSSB and life satisfaction. Additionally, the study revealed that career calling is the most performing construct for promoting life satisfaction but is not perceived as important by the police department. Originality/value: According to the authors' knowledge, there has been no research in the Indian context that examines the effects of supervisor family supportive behaviours, especially among police. The incorporation of career calling and job embeddedness as mediators provides a novel perspective in the examination of the correlation between FSSB and life satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]