Not on my watch! The role of organisational resources and emotions in building family firms resilience

Some organisations, due to their inherent resources and capabilities will be able to respond to and adapt to extreme events or external shocks. While it has been suggested that family firms have a greater ability to overcome critical events, empirically a gap exists in our understanding of how family firms manage resources in time of crisis. We focus on how family firms responded to the uncertainty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic using emotions and organisational resilience as theoretical ...

The Influence of Subjective Wine Knowledge on Consumers' Perception of Wine Quality and Price

This paper explores the impact of Subjective Wine Knowledge (SWK) on consumers' perceptions of wine quality and price. The research proposes to investigate how different levels of wine knowledge influence the perceived relationship between price and quality. We expect that less knowledgeable consumers rely more on price as an indicator of quality, while more knowledgeable consumers evaluate quality based on intrinsic attributes of the wine. Additionally, the study will compare consumer percep...

Tenapanor for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome with constipation

Introduction: Irritable bowel syndrome with constipation is associated with higher rates of functional impairment, as compared to other subtypes of the syndrome. Conventional laxative-based pharmacologic therapy of IBS-C, which is mostly symptom-based, is often unsatisfactory. Tenapanor represents a first-in-class orally available inhibitor of NHE3, which is minimally absorbed in the GI tract, what constitutes a significant therapeutic benefit, as it may act on the drug target. Areas covered:...

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided gastro-enteric anastomosis in the COVID era: May the pandemic emphasize the benefit?