New Materials, Intelligent Systems, and Innovative Companies

@article{caputo_487,

title = {Intertwining the Internet of Things and Consumers' Behaviour Science: Future Promises for Businesses},

author = {Francesco Caputo and Veronica Scuotto and Elias Carayannis and Valentina Cillo},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162518305080?via%3Dihub},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-11-01},

journal = {Technological Forecasting And Social Change},

volume = {136},

pages = {277-284},

abstract = {Destructive changes and breakthrough innovations are embraced in the development of Internet of Things (IoTs). These network-connected smart devices or machine-learning algorithms transfer information on consumers to the Internet by small sensors and computing processors. Companies thus track consumers' behaviour and offer personalised products and services. However, consumers are still sceptical in using these devices due to privacy risks and a dearth of awareness about the technologies' perceived value. Therefore, to overcome these barriers, the research seeks to measure the relationships among the elements that affect customers' willingness and decisions to use IoTs-based products. On the basis of motivation theories, two categories of motivational factors are individuated: extrinsic factors such as entertainment and social interaction and intrinsic factors such as information acquisition, privacy risk, and technology readiness level. They are analysed using a sample of 782 early-adopter customers in Italy. The aim is to offer an explorative, quantitative study on the IoTs to enhance the existing knowledge and support business in the process of engaging more users and creating new personalised products. In line with this, the study's implications, limits, and recommendations for further research are presented.},

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@article{barlatier_3681,

title = {Delivering open innovation promises through social media},

author = {Pierre-Jean Barlatier and Emmanuel Josserand},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jbs-12-2017-0175},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-11-01},

journal = {Journal of Business Strategy},

volume = {39},

number = {6},

pages = {21-28},

abstract = {Purpose

This paper aims to explore how social media can be used strategically for delivering the promises of open innovation and examines the types of structure that can foster the integration of these new tools with more classic top-down innovation approaches.



Design/methodology/approach

A single case study of, ALPHA (pseudonym), a multinational company that combined an integrated strategy and the creation of a lean structure with the full potential of social media.



Findings

To take on the challenges of energy transition, ALPHA has implemented a low-cost approach allowing it to harness the promises of open innovation. This combined the introduction of a lean structure, two social media platforms and processes that ensured the integration of open innovation activities with existing departments.Research limitations/implications

The research is based on a single case study. Further research should be conducted to establish the generalization of the results.



Practical implications

This paper highlights the key success factors in making such a light approach successful, namely, controlling cost and disruption of open innovation; integration matters; leveraging complementarities with existing social media initiatives; and bottom-up adoption.



Originality/value

The research provides a unique approach that can be practically implemented to leverage social media to deliver the promises of open innovation and offers an original way of integrating social media lead innovation and open innovation strategies with more classic R&D activities.},

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@article{bueno_merino_2722,

title = {Emergence of a Higher Education Born Global in Africa: the Role of the Business Network},

author = {Pascale Bueno Merino and Alexandre Lavissière and Tibor Mandjak},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1465750318762864},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-08-01},

journal = {International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation},

volume = {19},

number = {3},

pages = {194-206},

abstract = {The aim of this article is to identify the role of the business network in the emergence of a higher education born global in Africa, which must become international as soon as it is created in order to ensure its longevity. The emergence of a new international business school in Togo is analyzed from a business network perspective. The establishment of key interorganizational relations thanks to signs of institutional and individual trust participates in the emergence of a new organization in an environment characterized by strong barriers to entry (national and international accreditations, media rankings, etc.). The application of theories borrowed from business networks and international entrepreneurship in the higher education sector is an original contribution to the research. Our results are focused on the emergence phase of the business network and greatly enrich the works that are more dedicated to the network consolidation phase.},

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@article{ding_2587,

title = {Collaborative mechanism on profit allotment and public health for a sustainable supply chain},

author = {L Ding and L Wang and Lucy (Ping) Zheng},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221717310688},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-06-01},

journal = {European Journal Of Operational Research},

volume = {267},

number = {2},

pages = {478-495},

abstract = {This paper explores the collaborative mechanism that motivates supply chain firms to collectively invest in environmental technology and produce environmental friendly products (EFPs) to reduce pollutant emissions and negative impacts on environment and public health. Our paper investigates how such firms can achieve the balance between economic feasibility and environmental and social sustainability under multiple sustainable constraints in terms of the triple bottom line dimensions. The work also describes the impacts of interrelated multiple sustainable constraints on optimal policy for the supply chain transfer price and profit allotment decisions. The case for the sustainable supply chain with multiple supplies assuming no competitions between suppliers is also addressed. Our findings suggest that government intervention plays a dominant role in governing the supply chain firms' behaviors in the context of environmental and public health sustainability. The profit allotment is determined through the process of negotiation of the transfer price interrelated with the government subsidy sharing between the supply chain firms.},

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@article{ferraris_919,

title = {Dual relational embeddedness and knowledge transfer in European multinational corporations and subsidiaries},

author = {Alberto Ferraris and Gabriele Santoro and Veronica Scuotto},

url = {https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JKM-09-2017-0407/full/html},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-05-01},

journal = {Journal Of Knowledge Management},

volume = {24},

number = {3},

pages = {519-533},

abstract = {This paper aims to investigate the relationship between the level of subsidiaries' internal and external relational embeddedness and the degree of subsidiaries' knowledge transfer. More specifically, the aim is to explore dual embeddedness of subsidiaries involved in the knowledge transfer process within multinational corporations' (MNCs) network.},

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@article{kaine_3684,

title = {Mind the gap: Grass roots ?brokering' to improve labour standards in global supply chains},

author = {Sarah Kaine and Emmanuel Josserand},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726717727046},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-04-01},

journal = {Human Relations},

volume = {71},

number = {4},

pages = {584-609},

abstract = {While governance and regulation are a first step in addressing worsening working conditions in global supply chains, improving implementation is also key to reversing this trend. In this article, after examining the nature of the existing governance and implementation gaps in labour standards in global supply chains, we explore how Viet Labor, an emerging grass-roots organization, has developed practices to help close them. This involves playing brokering roles between different workers and between workers and existing governance mechanisms. We identify an initial typology of six such roles: educating, organizing, supporting, collective action, whistle-blowing and documenting. This marks a significant shift in the way action to improve labour standards along the supply chain is analysed. Our case explores how predominantly top-down approaches can be supplemented by bottom-up ones centred on workers' agency.},

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@article{mhenni_2613,

title = {SafeSysE: A safety analysis integration in systems engineering approach},

author = {Faïda Mhenni and Nga Nguyen and Jean-Yves Choley},

url = {10.1109/JSYST.2016.2547460},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-03-01},

journal = {Ieee Systems Journal},

volume = {12},

number = {1},

pages = {161-172},

abstract = {The main objective of this paper is the integration of safety analysis in a SysML-based systems engineering approach in order to make it more effective and efficient. It helps to ensure the consistency between safety analyses and system design and then to avoid late errors and to reduce system development time. To achieve this purpose, we tackled the following axes: 1) formalizing a SysML-based design methodology that will be the support for safety analyses; 2) providing an extension of SysML to enable the integration of specific needs for safety concepts in the system model; and 3) performing an automated exploration of the SysML models to generate necessary information to elaborate safety artifacts such as failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and fault tree analysis (FTA). The proposed methodology named safety integration in systems engineering (SafeSysE) is applied to a real case study from the aeronautics domain: electromechanical actuator (EMA).},

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@article{josserand_3683,

title = {Delivering sustainability in supply networks: Achieving networked multi?stakeholder collaborations},

author = {Emmanuel Josserand and Sarah Kaine and Natalia Nikolova},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bse.2065},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-02-01},

journal = {Business Strategy And The Environment},

volume = {27},

number = {5},

pages = {605-611},

abstract = {Corporate sustainability encompasses a number of inter?related yetoften competing demands (Wright & Nyberg, 2017). Tensionsbetween economic, social and environmental outcomes are not newbut are becoming more of a focus with questions being raised aboutthe hegemony of the ?business case thinking' that characterizes muchof the academic research in this area (Hahn, Preuss, Pinkse, & Figge,2014). Such layers of complexity have prompted calls for corporationsto reassess their core functions and purpose (Freeman, 2017). Forexample, BCorp organisations are hybrids between profit and notfor profits whose purpose is to create benefit for all stakeholders ?shareholders, employees, community, and environment},

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@article{buckley_2588,

title = {A retrospective and agenda for future research on Chinese outward FDI},

author = {P Buckley and J Clegg and H Voss and X Liu and Lucy (Ping) Zheng},

url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41267-017-0129-1},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

journal = {Journal Of International Business Studies},

volume = {49},

pages = {4-23},

abstract = {Our original 2007 Journal of International Business Studies article, ?The determinants of Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment?, was the first theoretically based empirical analysis of the phenomenon. It utilised internalisation theory to explain the internationalisation of Chinese state-owned enterprises. This paper showed that we had failed to ask sufficiently challenging questions about the effects of home country institutions on outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). This Retrospective builds on the extensive subsequent research to show the importance of context in constructing satisfactory theoretical explanations of OFDI. Building on these foundations, we propose research challenges for the next decade on Chinese OFDI that transcend the Chinese context and have wider theoretical applicability. Examining alternative forms of social and economic organisation allows the creation of special theories of foreign direct investment nested within the general theory. Following such a strategy would enable International Business research to make a contribution across the social sciences.},

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@article{del_giudice_158,

title = {The microlevel actions undertaken by owner?managers in improving the sustainability practices of cultural and creative small and medium enterprises: A United Kingdom-Italy comparison},

author = {Manlio Del Giudice and Zaheer Khan Khan and Muthu De Silva and Veronica Scuotto and Francesco Caputo and Elias Carayannis},

url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/job.2237},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-11-01},

journal = {Journal Of Organizational Behavior},

volume = {38},

number = {9},

pages = {1396-1414},

abstract = {This article discusses microlevel actions undertaken by owner?managers, and how such actions affect stakeholders in enhancing the sustainability of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the knowledge on which is lacking in the extant literature. The paper, by adopting an inductive analytical approach, draws key insights from the literature on microfoundations and sustainability and evidence from representatives of 5 Cultural and Creative Industry SMEs in Italy and of 5 in the United Kingdom. The findings suggest that owner?managers play a crucial role when engaging in sustainability activities jointly with employees and other stakeholders, through which individual?level actions enhance collective organizational?level sustainability practices. The U.K. and Italian cases highlight 2 contrasting approaches to dealing with sustainability; thus, the paper contributes to the emerging literature on SME microfoundations and sustainability.},

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@article{scuotto_160,

title = {A multiple buyer - supplier relationship in the context of SMEs' digital supply chain management},

author = {Veronica Scuotto and Francesco Caputo and Manuel Villasalero and Manlio Del Giudice},

url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09537287.2017.1375149},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-10-01},

journal = {Production Planning & Control},

volume = {28},

number = {16},

pages = {1378-1388},

abstract = {By underlining the relevance of the use of ICTs, knowledge sharing and electronic markets for SMEs, it emerges the need for stimulating a debate on digitisation process of supply chain management (SCM). Electronic infrastructure in the service sector are reducing each kind of cost and improving multiply buyer-supplier relationships, facilitating negotiations and transactions. However, since the coordination costs are still high, the use of ICTs is limited. This phenomenon thus attracts the interests of scholars and practitioners. Although it still needs to further investigate. Especially, the optimal use of ICTs within SMEs' SCM have not been studied yet. Therefore, by leveraging on four proxies: ICTs specialised human resources, knowledge sharing activities, buyer-supplier relationships, adoption of electronic markets this optimal was analysed via structural equation modelling based on a sample of 1254 SMEs operating in the service sector in Italy.},

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@article{randhawa_3685,

title = {Knowledge collaboration between organizations and online communities: the role of open innovation intermediaries},

author = {Krithika Randhawa and Emmanuel Josserand and Danielle Logue and Jochen Schweitzer},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JKM-09-2016-0423},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-10-01},

journal = {Journal Of Knowledge Management},

volume = {21},

number = {6},

pages = {1293-1318},

abstract = {Purpose - This research paper aims to examine how open innovation (OI) intermediaries facilitate

knowledge collaboration between organizations and online user communities. Drawing on a Community

of Practice (CoP) perspective on knowledge, the study lays out a framework of the knowledge boundary

management mechanisms (and associated practices) that intermediaries deploy in enabling client

organizations to engage in online community-based OI.

Design/methodology/approach - This research is based on an exploratory case study of an OI

intermediary and 18 client organizations that engage with online user communities on the

intermediary's platform. Results incorporate both the intermediary and clients' perspective, based

on analysis of intermediary and client interviews, clients' online community projects and other

archival data.

Findings - Results reveal that OI intermediaries deploy three knowledge boundary management

mechanisms - syntactic, semantic and pragmatic - each underpinned by a set of practices.

Together, these mechanisms enable knowledge transfer, translation and transformation,

respectively, and thus lead to cumulatively richer knowledge collaboration outcomes at the

organization-community boundary. The findings show that the pragmatic mechanism reinforces

both semantic and syntactic mechanisms, and is hence the most critical to achieving effective

knowledge collaboration in community-based OI settings.

Practical implications - The findings suggest that OI intermediaries have to implement all three

boundary management mechanisms to successfully enable knowledge collaboration for

community-based OI. More specifically, intermediaries need to expand their focus beyond the

development of digital platforms, to include nuanced efforts at building organizational commitment

to community engagement.

Originality/value - Drawing on the CoP view, this study integrates the knowledge management

literature into the OI literature to conceptualize the role of OI intermediaries in shaping knowledge

collaboration between organizations and communities. In engaging with the interactive nature of

knowledge exchange in such multi-actor settings, this research extends the firm-centric theorization of

knowledge that currently dominates the existing OI research.

Keywords Communities of practice, Open innovation, Knowledge management,

Innovation intermediaries

Paper type Research paper},

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@article{zheng_2589,

title = {The impact of regional and institutional factors on labour productive performance - Evidence from the Township and Village Enterprise sector in China},

author = {Lucy (Ping) Zheng and Michael Batuo and David Shepherd},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X17301237},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-08-01},

journal = {World Development},

volume = {96},

pages = {591-598},

abstract = {This paper investigates the impact of regional and institutional factors on labor productivity in China's Township and Village Enterprise (TVE) sector, one of the pillar industries of the economy. Employing a balanced provincial panel dataset, we find a significant variation in the factors determining regional labor productivity between the three macro-regions. The factors of capital investment intensity, foreign intensity, and export intensity behave differently with a significant regional diversity. Only human capital, the real wage, and firm size are identified as the common determinants across regions. A strong self-reinforcing effect has been found with a high degree of persistence in the behavior of, and hence slow or negligible convergence in labor productivity between regions. We find that the labor efficiency gains have been generated more from internal rather than external economies of scale across regions as well as the country as a whole. We also find that the government privatization reforms have had both a short run and increasingly long-term positive impact on the TVE labor productivity across the regions. This finding may indicate that institutional privatization can be an effective tool in promoting industrialization and labor productive performance in China as well as in other transitional economies.},

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@article{charki_3686,

title = {The paradoxical effects of legal intervention over unethical information technology use: A rational choice theory perspective},

author = {Mohamed Hédi Charki and Emmanuel Josserand and Nabila Boukef},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2016.07.001},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-08-01},

journal = {Journal Of Strategic Information Systems},

volume = {26},

number = {1},

pages = {58-76},

abstract = {While the IS literature offers rich insights into the kinds, causes and consequences of

unethical information technology use (UITU), we know little about the degree to which

legal intervention may mitigate UITU. Our research aims at understanding how legal intervention could mitigate UITU by influencing the cost-benefit analysis in determining the

decision to commit such unethical use of IT. Our contributions are twofold. First, we provide testable propositions on the role of legal intervention. Second, we offer an innovative

take on intervention - conceived as a multi-mechanism process that adapts to UITU as well

as to the way IT users negotiate the IT artifact.},

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@article{villeseche_3695,

title = {Formal women-only networks: literature review and propositions},

author = {Florence Villesèche and Emmanuel Josserand},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/PR-03-2015-0074},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-08-01},

journal = {Personnel Review},

volume = {46},

number = {5},

pages = {1004-1018},

abstract = {Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to review the emerging literature on formal women-only business

networks and outline propositions to develop this under-theorised area of knowledge and stimulate

future research.

Design/methodology/approach - The authors review the existing literature on formal internal and

external women-only networks and use the broader social capital and network literature to frame their

arguments and develop propositions.

Findings - Propositions are developed regarding how both internal and external formal women-only

business networks can be of value for members, firms/organisations and the wider social group of

women in business.

Research limitations/implications - The authors focus on the distinction between external and internal

formal women-only networks while also acknowledging the broader diversity that can characterise such

networks. Their review provides the reader with an insight into the state of the art and a set of propositions

that present opportunities for future research.

Practical implications - The paper provides insights into how women in business, organisations and

wider society can leverage value from both internal and external formal women-only business networks.

Social implications - The paper contributes to research showing that the social structure of interactions

and context can impact women's standing in the workplace.

Originality/value - The paper sheds light on the under-studied and under-theorised phenomenon of formal

women-only business networks. Beyond the individual member level, the authors suggest that such networks

can be of value for organisations and the wider social group of women in management and leadership positions.

Keywords Gender, Networking, Career development, Qualitative, Literature review, Formal networks,

Women-only networks

Paper type General review},

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@article{chentsov_3306,

title = {An exact algorithm with linear complexity for a problem of visiting megalopolises},

author = {Alexander Chentsov and M. Yu. KHACHAI and Daniil Khachai},

url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0081543816090054#citeas},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

journal = {Proceedings Of The Steklov Institute Of Mathematics},

volume = {295},

number = {Suppl 1},

pages = {38-46},

abstract = {A problem of visiting megalopolises with a fixed number of "entrances" and precedence relations defined in a special way is studied. The problem is a natural generalization of the classical traveling salesman problem. For finding an optimal solution, we give a dynamic programming scheme, which is equivalent to a method of finding a shortest path in an appropriate acyclic oriented weighted graph. We justify conditions under which the complexity of the algorithm depends on the number of megalopolises polynomially, in particular, linearly.},

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@article{josserand_3696,

title = {Balancing present needs and future options: how employees leverage social networks with clients},

author = {Emmanuel Josserand and Achim Schmitt and Stefano Borzillo},

url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JBS-01-2016-0003},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Business Strategy},

volume = {38},

number = {1},

pages = {14-21},

abstract = {Purpose



This paper aims to analyze how business units can use their employees' external social capital to explore and exploit the resources available in their environment. Based on multiple interviews with the employees of the global commodity firm Gamma Chemical (around 50,000 employees), the research aims at gaining an understanding of the contextual conditions required to successfully build and leverage individuals' external social client network ties for business unit ambidexterity.

Design/methodology/approach



The authors conducted a single-case study at Gamma Chemical that entailed 33 semi-directive interviews, each of which lasted 1-4 h, at different organizational levels (ranging from top-level management to production workers). We had access to three regional business units. The interviews addressed the links between the individuals in the business units and external actors. The authors also collected information about the company's strategic objectives, the local competitive environment and work organization. Open-ended questions were used to allow the interviewees to freely relate anecdotes about their own network development. In particular, the authors asked the respondents to identify business contacts with whom they interacted privately and to describe the relationships.

Findings



The research findings are two-fold. First, and contrary to prior studies, the authors find that individuals' social capital contributes to both exploration and exploitation at the business unit level. Second, developing and leveraging individuals' external social capital requires a specific organizational context at the business unit level that allows employees to develop and nurture their personal business relationships with clients.

Research limitations/implications



The study is limited by the scope of the sample (a study of one large multinational firm). Further research conducted in similar contexts may therefore be useful for comparability purposes and to generalize the results.

Practical implications



Several practical recommendations describe how managers can effectively make use of their employees' social connections with clients. In particular, the results suggest that managers should seek business unit flexibility on the basis of team-based structures, an autonomous leadership style and by actively creating a degree of critical social network tie redundancy, encouraging a shared network culture. These three specific conditions allow employees' personal client networks to not only flourish but also contribute to business unit ambidexterity.

Originality/value



Prior social capital studies have analyzed intra-firm and inter-firm relationships in terms of contributing to firm ambidexterity. However, these findings have often been difficult to translate into specific organizational levels. Given business units' critical role in identifying and implementing business opportunities for a firm, the authors focus on the micro-foundations of exploratory and exploitative learning by using a social capital perspective to explore the link between employees' private external social relationships with clients and business unit ambidexterity. In this way, we contribute to the social capital literature and research on business unit ambidexterity and to extant contextual ambidexterity research by specifying the conditions that help firms develop and leverage their employees' own external social capital for exploration and exploitation.},

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@article{ding_2590,

title = {Assessing the economic performance of an environmental sustainable supply chain in reducing environmental externalities},

author = {H Ding and Q Liu and Lucy (Ping) Zheng},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221716303058},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-12-01},

journal = {European Journal Of Operational Research},

volume = {255},

number = {2},

pages = {463-480},

abstract = {This study investigates the mechanism that motivates supply chain firms to reduce environmental externalities while balancing the economic feasibility of the supply chain system under environmentally constrained circumstances in a competitive market. Taking government policy incentives into account, a quantitative model of an integrated supply chain that incorporates sustainable constraints is formulated to optimize supply chain firms' operational strategies of producing environmental friendly products (EFPs). This study contributes to the literature with a better understanding the interplay and interrelation of multiple sustainable constraints and their impact on supply chain firms' collaborative decisions. Our findings suggest that the decisions of operating EFPs are subject to sustainable constraints and that the government policy incentives play a dominant role overseeing supply chain firms' environmental behaviors toward sustainability.},

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