The burgeoning food delivery sector has generated significant discussion in both academic and non-academic literature, capturing the attention of scholars in recent years. Nonetheless, research on the factors influencing perceived usefulness and affective commitment toward food apps, as well as their associated outcomes, remains limited, particularly across different international markets. Most existing studies on food app usage have focused primarily on users within a single country, thereby overlooking opportunities for expanding empirical research on this important topic. Investigating this issue using data from multiple countries could yield valuable insights for service providers operating in diverse markets. Grounded in the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) framework, this study examines the key determinants of perceived usefulness and affective commitment toward food apps, along with their post-adoption outcomes, utilizing data from both Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. Employing Partial Least-Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) analysis involving 911 food app users, we identify significant differences and similarities in the factors influencing perceived usefulness and affective commitment across the two markets. Our findings indicate varying weights assigned to these determinants and outcomes in Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, with most of the hypothesized relationships in our research model being supported at the country level. The implications of our findings for managerial practice and theoretical understanding are discussed throughout the manuscript.
The engagement quality review is a key component of an audit firm's quality control system. This study leverages unique data on individual engagement quality reviewers (EQRs) to examine how previous shared working experience between EQRs and engagement partners affects audit quality. While prior research suggests that within-firm network ties between predecessor and successor partners facilitate knowledge transfer, we find that prior shared working experience between EQRs and engagement partners is associated with lower audit quality. Mechanism tests indicate that such experience is associated with a higher likelihood of regulatory enforcement actions related to deficiencies in audit procedures, insufficient evidence, and a lack of professional skepticism. We also find that such experience corresponds with higher materiality thresholds, suggesting reduced scrutiny during audit planning and execution. Additional analyses reveal that these adverse effects primarily arise when previous shared working relationships did not produce adverse outcomes, when EQRs are not audit industry leaders, and when they face lower reputational risk. These findings are especially salient given that EQRs' previous shared working experience with engagement partners appears to weigh heavily in EQR assignments. Overall, our study provides important insights into the implications of EQR independence and the determinants of engagement quality review effectiveness.
Despite calls for an ecological turn in intercultural communication, critical scholarship on the anthropocentric climate crisis remains limited, particularly from Global South and Indigenous perspectives. Addressing this gap, this study analyzes environmental justice activism through frameworks that interrogate catastrophe colonialism and impacts of imperialist occupation and extractive capitalism. Focusing on Indigenous and Global South activist demonstrations at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, the study theorizes Indigenous embodied activisms and employs a decolonized critical discourse analysis to investigate how activists contest silencing and negotiate exclusion within global climate governance. Analysis foregrounds Indigenous and Global South resistance in spaces that routinely displace and erase their voices.
Objective This study explores the longitudinal association between the frequency of interparental conflict and parental literacy involvement among married couples. Couple relationship quality was examined as a potential mediator in this process, while conflict resolution was included as a potential moderator in the link between interparental conflict and couple relationship quality.Background Parental literacy involvement is an important factor in children's early literacy development. However, few studies have examined how couple relationship dynamics may influence both mothers' and fathers' literacy involvement with their children.Methods This study used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies (ECLS-B) dataset. The final sample of our study consisted of 3,955 children and their families. 51.8% (n = 2,049) of the children were boys and 48.2% (n = 1,906) were girls.Results Couple relationship quality significantly mediated the relationship between interparental conflict and both parents' literacy involvement. Additionally, constructive conflict resolution significantly moderated the association between interparental conflict frequency and couple relationship quality. However, no significant moderated mediation effect was found.Conclusion Findings suggest that conflict between parents may influence both couple relationship quality and parenting practices. Although constructive conflict resolution can buffer the negative effects of interparental conflict on couple relationship quality, parents' literacy involvement with children can still be influenced by conflict regardless of resolution strategies.Implication These findings highlight the importance of developing intervention and prevention programs as well as couple therapies that focus on parenting behaviors and conflict resolution skills in the context of conflict to promote better family and child outcomes.
Inorganic-organic hybrid polymer coatings (IOHPCs) enhance the sustainability and the quality of life during their use e.g., as PFAS-free hydrophobic coatings on glass surfaces. Although their modular structure is key to highly adaptable performance, it poses an environmental challenge because it hinders efficient recycling. This study fundamentally shifts the molecular design paradigm of IOHPCs to achieve harmony between performance and recyclability (Design for Recycling). Therefore, silicone chains are introduced as molecular scission points within IOHPCs to enable fluoride-triggered depolymerization. The resulting coatings exhibited hydrophobic surfaces and tunable mechanical properties (full range of pencil hardness from very soft to very hard) that depended on silicone chain length and concentration. Contact with the tetrabutylammonium fluoride (TBAF) catalyst induced the collapse of the hybrid network and total delamination in a single step. This process yields reusable outputs, such as cyclic siloxanes (mainly D4), suitable for silicone synthesis, and also preserves the substrate for direct reuse. These results demonstrate that recyclability can be successfully incorporated into the molecular design of IOHPCs, thereby making them compatible with existing silicone recycling techniques while preserving their coating performance.
