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New design for reducing interfacial stresses of reinforced structures with FRP plates
[ "Interfacial stresses", "Taper", "Shear stress", "FRP composites", "Strengthening" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: The use of fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) plates in strengthening damaged structures offers an effective and rapid repair solution. This has made bonding an excellent alternative for conventional reinforcing techniques such as welding, riveting, ...
Competitive strategies and their shift to the future
[ "Competitive strategies", "Hybrid form of competitive advantage", "Hybrid strategies", "Hybridization", "Strategic purity" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The perspective of business-level strategies in 1980 was a milestone in the strategic management and marketing literature. Until then, strategy was not able to answer the question of how to create competitive advantage in each business unit (also kn...
The impact of Sino-western cultural differences on IT products consumption
[ "China", "Culture (sociology)", "Consumer behaviour", "Marketing management", "Technology led strategy" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: In the past decade, relationships of consumption and culture have received considerable attention by consumer behaviour scholars. Many studies draw attention to the cross-fertilizations and transformations experienced as a result of cultural and eco...
Survey of Venlafaxine prescriptions following the 2004 NICE guidelines on depression
[ "Medical treatment", "Depression", "Antidepressants", "Primary care", "Secondary care", "United Kingdom" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: In December 2004 the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, (NICE), in the UK, published its guidelines on the management of depression in primary and secondary care (National Institute for Clinical Excellence, 2004). Both NICE, and the Committ...
Code of ethics and employee governance
[ "Ethics", "Governance", "Social behaviour" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1 Introduction: Business and society have entered a new world in a new century by the confluence of a range of different factors such as technology, growth of big business, environmentalism and human rights. In this new world, the business entity known as the fir...
Diversity in the British NHS: the business versus the "moral" case
[ "Discrimination", "Diversification", "Employment legislation", "Equal opportunities", "Ethnic minorities", "Health services", "National Health Service", "United Kingdom" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The arrival of the current conservative-led coalition government frames the context of an intriguing time for those interested in matters of diversity and equality of opportunity, particularly in the context of the health service and the UK public s...
Wavelet and multiple linear regression analysis for identifying factors affecting particulate matter PM2.5 in Mumbai City, India
[ "Statistics", "Outlier", "Principal component analysis", "Wavelets", "Regression", "Air quality" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: There is a growing need of controlling the pollution levels in major cities in India and also understanding on identifying the behavior of various pollutants in a city. Studies have shown that particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5) plays a significant ...
Radio frequency identification and food retailing in the UK
[ "Radio waves", "Food industry", "Retailing", "Supply chain management", "Control systems", "United Kingdom" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: In recent decades the UK's major food retailers have been very much at the forefront of technological innovation and development within the retail sector of the economy. The introduction of article numbering and scanning from the early 1980 s onward...
Nudge your way to higher value
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Decision making", "Consumer marketing", "Sales" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: I confess: it was the cover of the book that caught my eye. Bright yellow, with a single-word title: Nudge. In black silhouette, a mama elephant gives her baby a shove on his rump with her trunk.
Gender differences in brand commitment, impulse buying, and hedonic consumption
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Gender", "Brands", "Marketing strategy", "Men", "Women", "Gender differences", "Impulse buying", "Brand commitment", "Hedonic consumption" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article. 1. Introduction: Gender is one of the most common segmentation criteria used by marketers. This makes sense, given that the male-female divide is "easy ...
A new empirical approach for balance sheet management effects on performance and financial variables development
[ "Financial management", "Methodology", "Business development", "Management development", "Management strategy", "Business analysis" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: The literature on the unconventional management development at the zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate has relatively stimulated research and has led organizations to comprehensively extend the understanding of financial management and ...
The impact of relationships on changes in internationalisation strategies of SMEs
[ "International business", "Channel relationships", "Strategic change", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "New Zealand", "Sweden" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: In most countries small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent the majority of firms. For instance, in New Zealand 97 per cent of businesses employ 19 or less full-time employees (Ministry of Economic Development, 2004) and in Sweden 98 per ce...
Accounting for the "working poor": analysing the living wage debate in Aotearoa New Zealand
[ "Social accounting", "Income inequality", "Pragmatic sociology", "Accounting for inequality" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Accounting discourses, rationales, technologies and calculations, have long been recognised as supporting the hegemonic discourses of capitalism and neo-liberalism (Catchpowle et al., 2004; Cooper, 1995; Rose, 1991). Until recently, however, account...
Examination of the relationship between servant leadership and agency problems: gender matters
[ "Gender", "Cyprus", "Servant leadership", "Ethical leadership", "Agency problems" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Accountability, transparency and public criticism are important discussion topics with the increased media reporting of the corporate scandals (Leslie and Canwell, 2010). Although it is required by organisations to "enforce ethics" (Jones, 2011, p. ...
How to run successful e-internships: a case for organizational learning
[ "Mentoring", "E-internship", "Virtual internship", "Organizational learning", "Diversity" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Increasingly, organizations utilize new technologies so they can offer internship schemes with distant interns. These e-internships offer employers the opportunities to access a larger pool of candidates and talent than they might locally. In additi...
Reach out and touch: student training community projects for sustainability - a case study
[ "Case study", "Capacity building", "Empowerment", "Sustainability", "Academic outreach", "Student training projects" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Sustainable development at universities has recently received quite some attention. Recent research has recommended that implementing sustainable development at universities can result from concrete actions in five general domains, namely, internal ...
The landscape of Chinese open educational resources research
[ "Social network analysis", "Citation analysis", "Open educational resources" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: With the aim of providing a range of opportunities to share knowledge, improve education fairness and expand higher education participation (UNESCO, 2002), the open educational resources (OER) movement is booming worldwide. In recent years, incre...
Nutritional knowledge, nutritional labels, and health claims on food: A study of supermarket shoppers in the South East of England
[ "Nutritional claims", "Health claims", "Product class involvement factors", "Health locus of control", "Nutrition", "Food and drink", "Shopping", "Consumers" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: In response to the growing interest in diet and health which the obesity debate has fuelled, food manufacturers have increased the amount of nutritional information on food packaging and extended the use of claims, emphasizing the nutritional val...
A model for improving the role of IT in BPR
[ "Process management", "Organizational performance", "Financial performance", "Business process re‐engineering", "Communication technologies" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1 Introduction: The original approach to business process re-engineering (BPR) (Hammer and Champy, 1993) has caused problems for companies that attempted to undertake programmes to implement such "pure" BPR in real-world organisations (Silvestro and Westley, 2002...
Expanding the academic discipline of real estate valuation: A historical perspective with implications for the future
[ "Real estate", "Asset valuation", "Modern history", "Property marketing" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Our intent in this paper is to use a historical perspective to trace the evolution of the academic discipline of real estate valuation and to use the resulting lessons to provide insights to the likely future evolution of the field. We will build of...
Emotional intelligence and board governance: leadership lessons from the public sector
[ "Emotional intelligence", "Boards", "Leadership", "Public sector organizations", "Governance" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: Learning to govern effectively within the context of representative democracy is the most critical issue in board development ... Governing is a collaborative activity (Doug Reeves, founder of Center for Performance Assessment, interviewed by Americ...
Implementation of SDGs at the University of South Africa
[ "Distance education", "Sustainability in higher education", "SDGs", "Campus greening", "SDG implementation", "Unisa" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Background The role of universities in sustainable development goals implementation: Universities are uniquely placed to lead the cross-sectoral implementation of the SDGs by providing an invaluable source of expertise in research and education acro...
Factors predicting the US birth rate
[ "Demographics", "Expected unemployment", "Forecast evaluation", "Marital formation", "Michigan Surveys of Consumers" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Declining birth rates continue to pose a challenge for policymakers in developed countries. According to the Central Intelligence Agency (2013) Factbook, Australia, Canada, and all of the developed East Asian countries have birth rates lower than...
Construction service quality and satisfaction for a targeted housing customer
[ "Service quality", "Construction", "Customer satisfaction", "Housing", "Expectations", "Product quality" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Service quality is linked to the increasing dominance of the services sector in meeting customer satisfaction and marketing needs (Lusch, 2011). In construction contracting, service quality may compete with more obvious customer criteria such as pri...
Economic role of politics and corporate governance: reforms captured in Malaysia's setting
[ "Malaysia", "Politics", "Corporate governance" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The phenomenon of global financial crisis has caused numerous failures in the corporate sector which, lead to the increasing number of research on corporate governance decision-making and reformations. Corporate governance failures have been among p...
Exploring multimodal writing in secondary English classrooms: a literature review
[ "Writing" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: Over the past two decades, literacy researchers, responding to changes in society and literacy studies, have explored the notion of multimodality, the mixture of communicative modes such as audio, video, images or gesture and the ways in which these...
The existence of a stable money multiplier in the small open economy of Kazakhstan
[ "Lending channel", "Credit view model", "Money multiplier" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: This paper investigates, for a small open economy of Kazakhstan, the existence of a stable long-run relationship between the money stock and monetary base, as embedded in a "mechanistic" version of the money multiplier model. This model, which wa...
Open supply? On the future of document supply in the world of open science
[ "Academic libraries", "Open access", "Service development", "Research data", "Open science", "Scientific information" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: The best way to predict your future is to create it. (Abraham Lincoln) What is the business?: The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) defines document supply as "making information in all formats available throug...
Court referral and Nigeria's Financial Regulation Advisory Council of Experts (FRACE)
[ "Nigeria", "Dispute resolution", "Sharīʿah compliance", "Sharīʿah governance", "FRACE", "Sharīʿah advisory council", "Islamic finance disputes", "Sharīʿah issues", "SAC" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Islamic finance has assumed an important place in Nigeria's banking and finance scene since its formal and full-fledged commencement in 2012. It is today a multibillion naira industry that comprises several institutions offering Islamic financial pr...
Job characteristics, work attitudes and behaviors in a non-western context: Distributive justice as a mediator
[ "Job descriptions", "Attitudes", "Behaviour", "United Arab Emirates" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: There is an established body of knowledge supporting the idea that certain jobs can enhance performance. It is experienced that well designed jobs can have a positive impact on work attitudes and behaviors. Thus, job design takes on special importan...
Personality predictors for the use of multiple internet functions
[ "Internet use", "Education", "Big-Five", "Gender", "Personality", "Multiple internet functions" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: The increasing use of the internet is unprecedented. According to Internet World Stats (2012), close to 34.4 percent of the global population are internet users. In highly wired countries such as Korea, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Sweden, the...
The guanxi ties of managers in mainland China - a critical analysis based on gender
[ "China", "Gender", "Social networks", "Guanxi", "Managerial career" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: China is a rapidly developing emerging economy with world-wide economic and political influence. In China, manufacturing is nowadays often compensated for by higher technology and professional services, which requires employees with high level skill...
Does migration make financial sense? The case of domestic workers from Vietnam to Taiwan
[ "Finance", "Vietnam", "Taiwan", "Migrant workers", "Labour migration", "Domestic workers" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: There are different kinds of migrants. Permanent or temporary, skilled or unskilled, irregular or regular and asylum seekers or refugees (Iredale et al., 2003). Research on labour migration in East and Southeast Asia show workers migrating from coun...
ERP systems in lean production: new insights from a review of lean and ERP literature
[ "Enterprise resource planning", "Lean production" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1 Introduction: It is generally accepted that lean production improves manufacturing processes with the application of recognized tools and techniques, and equally assumed that contemporary enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are essential for companies se...
Exploring effective work unit knowledge management (KM): roles of network, task, and KM strategies
[ "Network structure", "Task characteristics", "Knowledge management strategy", "Knowledge management effectiveness" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Many organizations have initiated knowledge management (KM) practices to improve the effectiveness of knowledge creation, transfer and utilization, as knowledge has been acknowledged as a sustainable basis for competitive advantage in organizatio...
Capital structure as a control mechanism of a CSR entrenchment strategy
[ "Earnings management", "Corporate social responsibility", "Capital structure", "Managerial discretion", "Entrenchment strategy", "M14" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: In recent years, customers, employees, suppliers, community groups, governments and some shareholders have devoted greater attention to the strategic implications of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Companies are increasingly more responsiv...
A framework for designing retrieval effectiveness studies of library information systems using human relevance assessments
[ "Evaluation", "Information retrieval", "Library systems", "Digital libraries", "Information systems", "Online catalogues", "Discovery systems", "Relevance assessments", "Search results" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: When it comes to information seeking, users expect modern library information systems (LISs) "to look and function more like search engines" (Connaway and Dickey, 2010, p. 5). Typical user information behaviour is characterized by a strong preferenc...
Immigration detention and liberal democracies: Is it all about power or money; if money, why, if power, why not?
[ "Privatisation", "Detention", "International human rights law", "Liberal democracy" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Detention as a matter of law means deprivation of liberty. It means confinement in a pre-arranged place such as prisons, closed camps, receptive centers or other restricted areas with certain restraints that inhibits detainees from the pursuit of...
Merger repair: when M&As go wrong
[ "Acquisitions and mergers", "Integration" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: I am currently coming into a M&A situation which was managed very poorly and am having to clean up messes two-years following an acquisition (respondent to the 2006 "Current state of M&A integration" survey). Clear symptoms: How does a company know ...
Quality assurance staffing impacts in military aircraft maintenance units
[ "Quality assurance", "Maintenance", "Personnel administration", "Performance measures", "Aircraft industry", "United States of America" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Practical implications: An aircraft maintenance quality assurance unit requires personnel that collectively possess expertise across a wide variety of functional disciplines. Military aircraft maintenance managers must provide these experts from within their o...
Exploring role of gratitude in developing teacher leadership in Indian universities
[ "Gratitude", "Teacher leadership", "Necessary condition" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The leadership has a deep influence on every aspect of personal and professional life, and teacher leadership is one of the newest entrants of the field (Rupsiene and Skarbaliene, 2010). Teacher leadership was acknowledged as a pivotal and prominent...
Ethical climate in nonprofit organizations: a comparative study
[ "Ethics", "Nonprofit organizations", "Social services sector", "Japan", "United Kingdom" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Worldwide public sector reforms during the 1980s and early 1990s led to a shift from a system of public services delivery toward a mixed economy of care where the role played by private organizations (nonprofits and for-profits) became increasingly ...
Is there information content in corporate asset writedowns?
[ "Asset valuation", "Stocks", "Bonds", "Financial performance", "Financial information" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Corporate asset writedowns are viewed as official acknowledgment of a firm's impaired assets. Whether these writedown announcements have information content for the securityholders has been the focus of several studies. Past studies document that...
Relationship marketing strategy: Policy formulation and curricula development to enhance quality of care in the health sector of Ghana
[ "Quality healthcare", "Policy making", "Curricula", "Customer service/care", "Relationship marketing orientation/strategies", "Training institutions" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: There is the need to develop a suitable and more humane approach to healthcare service delivery to enhance quality care and patient satisfaction (Alrubaiee and Alkaa'ida, 2011). Some analysts anticipate that paying attention to the perspectives of c...
What drives the disintegration of the loan origination value chain in the banking business
[ "Lending", "Value chain", "Information sharing", "Vertical scope", "Banking", "Credit information" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: In the past, most banks adopted an integrated value chain model, in which a single bank conducted all the phases of lending production and distribution. A single bank originated the loan, subscribed it on its own, managed it and held it to maturi...
Intra-organizational communication, understanding, and process diffusion in logistics service providers
[ "Logistics service providers", "Organizational implants", "Process diffusion", "Intra-organizational", "LSP performance", "Cognitive congruence" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Ideas for process improvement and innovation within supply chains are often born from collaboration between firms (Cabanelas et al., 2013; Mackelprang et al., 2018; Piercy, 2009). This is especially true in supply chains where partners work together...
Effectiveness of flipped classrooms: A case of management education in central India
[ "Collaborative learning", "Active learning strategies", "Decision-making skills", "Flipped classroom model", "Management education in India" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: With more than 762 universities, 48,215 colleges and 36m students, almost 20 percent of students worldwide, the Indian higher education sector holds a significant position globally. The higher education segment in India is under tremendous pressu...
Analogical reasoning and regulatory focus: using the creative process to enhance consumer-brand outcomes within a co-creation context
[ "Creativity", "Consumer Behaviour", "New product development", "Regulatory fit", "Regulatory focus", "Co-creation", "Analogical reasoning", "Consumer psychology" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Consumers desire creative experiences and expect to have a voice when it comes to the development of new products, which is often expressed in the form of co-creation (Chang and Taylor, 2016; Cui and Wu, 2016). More specifically, co-creation occurs ...
Does urban form influence grocery shopping frequency? A study from Seattle, Washington, USA
[ "Geographic information systems", "Grocery shopping", "Shopping frequency", "Urban built environment" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: As the retail branch of the food system, grocery shopping habits link retail management and marketing, public health, and sustainability. Research concerning the frequency of grocery shopping has implications for understanding consumer behaviour and...
The impact of private label foods on supply chain governance
[ "Greece", "Supply chain management", "Private label", "Cheeses", "Feta", "Supply chain governance" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Across the globe, private label (PL) market share is growing. In Europe, the economic downturn has already led to changes in shopping patterns, the customer shift from branded to PL foods being a pertinent example of these changes (Euromonitor, 2...
Direct marketing channels in the French wine industry
[ "Distribution channels and markets", "France", "Wines", "Marketing strategy", "Direct marketing" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: In the last 25 years, the distribution of goods has evolved in two main directions, that may seem conflicting in scope: on one hand, mass distribution was fully developed in terms of distribution space, logistics, convenience, and standardisation of...
Plan for supply chain agility at Nokia: Lessons from the mobile infrastructure industry
[ "Agile production", "Supply chain management", "Project management", "Demand forecasting" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1 Introduction: Global markets are becoming more turbulent and volatile in most industries. The importance of ability to adapt to rapid and unexpected changes is, therefore, growing extremely fast. It is no surprise to notice how many operations managers have inc...
A new approach to talent management in law firms : Integrating performance appraisal and assessment center data
[ "Talent management", "Performance appraisal", "Assessment center", "General performance factor", "Law firm", "Rating bias" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: As knowledge worker firms (Drucker, 1959), law firms rely on lawyers' knowledge and talents to provide value to clients and to build organizational uniqueness (Buckingham and Vosburgh, 2001). Human resource management has always been essential to...
Electronic integration in the apparel industry: the Charles Vogele case
[ "Integration", "Electronic data interchange", "Information systems", "Supply chain management", "Garment industry" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: The use of electronic data interchange systems (EDI) to streamline supply chain processes and even create new business models is widespread and has proven its effectiveness in several European industries, in particular in the food (fast moving co...
Backpacking and hostel-picking: an analysis from Canada
[ "Tourism", "International travel", "Hospitality services", "Canada" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: of all tourism worldwide, 20 percent is from the youth and student market, according to the World Travel Organization (Tourism, 2003). The Hostelling International, the largest low budget accommodation network in the world, states that there are app...
Building sustainability strategy in business
[ "Corporate sustainability", "Accounting for sustainability", "Australian ASX 200 companies", "Business strategy alignment", "McKinsey seven S’s framework", "Sustainability policy and strategy adoption and implementation" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: The growth in sustainability thinking is challenging businesses to change how they operate. This paper explores the extent and the nature of environmental sustainability (eco-sustainability) policy and strategy in Australian Securities Exchange (ASX...
Business management software in high-tech firms: the case of the IT services sector
[ "General management", "Computer software", "Information services", "Service industries", "Technology led strategy" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article. Introduction: Information technologies (IT) are playing an important role in the service sector, improving accessibility to important information and it...
A general defender-attacker risk model for networks
[ "Risk analysis", "Risk management", "Resource allocation" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Nomemclature: G=a network composed of n nodes, m linksgi=degree of node if asset i is a node, and 1 if asset i is a linkn=total number of nodesm=total number of linksR(Ai, Ci)=total risk of a networkRinit=total initial risk of a networkRnorm=total normalized risk...
Artificial intelligence arrives in the library
[ "Services", "Libraries", "Librarians", "Artificial intelligence", "Virtual" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: "Artificial Intelligence (AI)," a term first officially coined in the 1950s, but perhaps imagined by some at an even earlier point in time, has reached a position in its continuing development where, today, software is being written to allow it to p...
Creating cross-functional strategic consensus in manufacturing facilities
[ "Survey research", "Manufacturing management", "Internal supply chain management processes", "Organizational information processing theory", "Strategic consensus" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Manufacturing firms in every industry are increasingly faced with intense global competition. Over four decades ago, Skinner (1969, p. 136) noted that the manufacturing function can be either "a competitive weapon or a millstone" because certain pro...
New times for HRM? Well-being oriented management (WOM), harmonious work passion and innovative work behavior
[ "Motivation", "Employee attitudes", "Employee behavior", "Employee relations", "Attitudes" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: There is widespread consensus in literature that innovation is fundamental for the development of competitive advantage (Smith, 2018). Organizational innovation depends on individual level creativity and proactive behavior, as employees have the ...
Overall equipment effectiveness of a manufacturing line (OEEML): An integrated approach to assess systems performance
[ "Manufacturing systems", "Process efficiency", "Plant efficiency", "Productive capacity" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The definition of metrics for measuring the productivity of manufacturing facilities has been an important field of research over the last decades. As a matter of fact, to meet the requests of an ever-changing market, inefficiencies and hidden losse...
Gender and change drivers: an exploratory study
[ "Organizational change", "Change drivers", "Change management", "Gender differences" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Organizations continue to face rapid and ongoing change in their external environments, and also continue with a variety of internally planned change initiatives. Yet, successful organizational change remains something of an enigma (Burke, 2008), wi...
How to inspire customers via social media
[ "Customer inspiration", "Social media", "Vividness of ads", "Media richness", "Social influence", "Promotion focus" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Recently, social media has emerged as a new communication channel enabling customers to share data, create contents and generate thoughts (Kietzmann et al., 2011). Many companies have included social media in their marketing strategies (Zhang et ...
Workgroup diversity: Surface-level actual similarity and deep-level perceived similarity in leader-member relationship communication
[ "Performance measurement", "Multilevel", "LMX", "Group", "Leader-member communication", "Perceived similarity" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: Leader-member exchange (LMX) theory assumes that the relationship quality between a workgroup leader and a workgroup member has a direct effect on the performance ratings of the workgroup member. However, prior research has pointed out that the dire...
Assessing environmental competencies of primary education pre-service teachers in Spain: A comparative study between two universities
[ "Education for sustainable development", "Environmental education", "Higher education", "Teacher education", "Teacher development" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The professional preparation and performance of teachers is the cornerstone for the appropriate functioning of schools; it is the factor that most affects the quality of school education (Hattie, 2003; OECD, 2005; Barber and Mourshed, 2007). It is t...
Validating a framework of stakeholders in connection to business sustainability efforts in supply chains
[ "Supply chain", "Business sustainability", "Stakeholder", "Networks" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The impact that companies have on the physical environment, society and the economy is inarguable. This impact is visible in widespread economic hardship, inequality between members of society and a deteriorating physical environment. According to E...
The preservation of indigenous accounting systems in a subaltern community
[ "Accounting", "Political systems", "Communities", "Developing countries", "Sri Lanka" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Despite recent work in the area the presence and effect of accounting categories and records beyond work organisations, such as those found in homes and small communities, have largely remained unexplored since initial calls for accounting to be stu...
An investigation into respiratory health problems of workers at stone crushing industries in Bangladesh
[ "Bangladesh", "Respiratory problems", "Spirometry", "Silicosis", "Lung fibrosis" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Occupational exposure to dust is a major concern for the health safety of workers in developing countries. The workplace health hazard and safety issues get less attention in public health discourse, academic debates and health policies in Banglades...
Decision making process of community organic food consumers: an exploratory study
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Organic foods", "Trust", "Canada" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article. Introduction: The last two decades were driven by two major trends in the agriculture industry:1. an increase in food-related diseases such as mad-cow d...
Management - decision and interpretation
[ "Management technique", "Rhetoric", "Influence" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: There has been a recent interest in the relation between rhetoric and management. This is based on the idea that rhetoric is about persuasion and management is about persuading people to do things in one way rather than another. The underlying assum...
IAS-38 disclosure compliance and corporate governance: evidence from an emerging market
[ "Corporate governance", "Intangible assets", "Mandatory disclosure", "IAS 38" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: This study investigates the possible corporate governance attributes that can influence companies in Ghana to disclose intangible assets in their annual reports to stakeholders. International Accounting Standard (IAS, 38), require business organi...
Exploring managerial behavior in small international firms
[ "Managerial strategy", "Small enterprises", "International business", "Entrepreneurs" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Small firms are becoming increasingly international, and they have been reported to contribute between 25 and 35 percent of world exports in manufacturing. Research has also found that about one-fifth of small manufacturing firms receive between 10 ...
"There is total silence here" Ethical competence and inter-organizational learning in healthcare governance
[ "Healthcare", "Management", "Governance", "Inter-organizational learning", "Ethical competence" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: During the last decades a series of actions and reforms have been introduced to increase cost efficiency and improve quality in Swedish healthcare. For instance, a market-inspired organizational model in the self-governing county councils has been i...
Effect of halal awareness, halal logo and attitude on foreign consumers' purchase intention
[ "Purchase intention", "Buying behaviour", "Attitude", "Halal awareness", "Halal logo", "Foreign consumers" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Halal industry is one of the rapidest growing businesses in the global market. It includes finance, tourism, service and food. Food is considered one of the most important factors for interaction among various ethnic, social and religious groups (Ri...
The impact of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards on the UK investment market: one year on
[ "Market value", "Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs)", "MEES regulations", "EPC assessors", "UK property market" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: The single most significant piece of legislation to affect our existing building stock in a generation.(John Alker, 2016) Introduction: On the 1 April 2018, the pricing and value of lettable real estate in the UK changed forever. As of this date, ne...
Customer orientation, social consensus and insurance salespeople's tolerance of customer insurance frauds
[ "Taiwan", "Insurance companies", "Sales force", "Employees behaviour", "Ethics", "Fraud", "Customer orientation", "Social consensus", "Salespeople" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Customer insurance fraud is a serious problem in the insurance industry (Crocker and Tennyson, 2002; Derrig, 2002; Dionne and Gagne, 2002), and the amount of empirical insurance research on customer insurance frauds has been increasing (Tennyson, 19...
Data-based school improvement: The role of principals and school supervisory authorities within the context of low-stakes mandatory proficiency testing in four German states
[ "Organization", "Principal leadership", "School supervisory authority", "Test-based school-reform" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: State-wide mandatory proficiency tests with a feedback function have been firmly institutionalised in recent years in order to assure quality of instruction in German schools (Maier and Kuper, 2012). These tests (in Germany so called Vergleichsarbei...
Assessing relationship between quality management systems and business performance and its mediators: SEM approach
[ "SEM", "Business performance", "Information quality", "ISO", "QMS" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: During the last couple of decades, organizations around the globe have implemented several quality management systems (QMS) as a strategic tool to improve processes, enhance competitiveness and improve business performance. These QMS include seve...
The safety of wooden cutting boards: Remobilization of bacteria from pine, beech, and polyethylene
[ "Hardwoods", "Softwoods", "Plastics", "Hygiene", "Food safety" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Wood and utensils made from it, e.g. wooden cutting boards, have been banned for many years from production sites in meat and poultry processing settings. Despite the work of Ak et al. (1994) and the lack of evidence of the presumed better sanitatio...
Psychometric evaluation of the "Men's Polarized Gender Thinking Questionnaire (MPGQ)"
[ "Gender stereotypes", "Equality", "Glass ceilings", "Sex and gender issues", "Gender discrimination", "Employee/employer attitudes", "Male norm system", "Gender strategies", "Male-dominated workplaces" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The purpose of this study was to develop and psychometrically validate a new measure of gender equality at male-dominated workplaces, allowing quantitative analyses of men's beliefs about gender-based inequality at work. Hopefully, this measure can ...
Off-site storage: an analysis
[ "Print media", "Archives management", "Information management", "Academic libraries", "United States of America" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: Ever since scrolls were stored in the library at Alexandria, scarce library shelf space has repeatedly been filled to capacity and beyond. The shifting paradigms of information storage - from scrolls and illuminated manuscripts to printed documents,...
Risk assessment
[ "Risk assessment", "Insurance" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Risk assessment: Dress up your superstitions with new names, the future is a cliff edge in the dark.
What makes the difference? Employee social media brand engagement
[ "Brand engagement", "Social media", "Business-to-business" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Brand engagement and brand equity: Brand equity, often referred to simply as the "value of a brand", or, as Keller (2012) views it, a customer's awareness of a brand's features and associations, is a critical indicator of the success of a firm's marketing stra...
Reaffirming the importance of managerial discretion in corporate governance: a comment on Andersen (2017)
[ "Corporate governance", "Organizational performance", "Managerial discretion", "Institutional antecedents" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Corporate governance refers to the ways in which the suppliers of finance direct and control their investment to receive a financial return (Shleifer and Vishny, 1997). Corporate governance research is underpinned by agency theory (Jensen and Meckli...
Designing complex socio-technical process systems - the airport example
[ "Airport passenger facilitation/flow", "Space-sensitive process model", "Contextual factors", "Configurable reference model", "BPMN", "Business Process Management", "Process configuration", "Process merging" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: 1.1 Complex socio-technical systems 2. Method and knowledge base: The application domain of this study is: airport passenger facilitation processes in Australia. The methodology is firmly based in design science, defined by Johannesson and Perjon...
Navigating the paradoxes of organizational diversity management: Expert strategies from workplaces in Israel
[ "Diversity", "Diversity management", "Diversity managers", "Paradox", "Change interventions", "Manifold strategy" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: Diversity management (DM) can be traced back to the 1960s, a time when multiple global shifts occurred including equal rights activism, technological changes, increased global competition, and minorities entering the labor market. The resulting tens...
A warranty based bilateral multi-issue negotiation approach
[ "Genetic algorithm", "Automated negotiation", "MTBF", "Multi-issue negotiation", "Warranty attractiveness index", "Warranty cost" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: With increasing competition, number of products are entering in the market. For the product to be competitive, manufacturers need to make their product more attractive. Warranty is one of the tools which can be used by a manufacturer to attract t...
Informal economies and scholastic epistemocentrism: a reflexive rethinking
[ "Practice", "Reflexivity", "Informal economy", "Pierre Bourdieu" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The "informal economy" is a topical issue in many academic disciplines (e.g. Cling et al., 2014; Polese and Morris, 2015; Danielsson, 2016). In some fields, this marks a recent development. The disciplines of international relations (IR) and interna...
Managing emergent knowledge through deferred action design principles: The case of ecommerce virtual teams
[ "Deferred design principles", "Emergent knowledge", "Explicit knowledge", "Innovation", "Knowledge management systems", "Organizational knowledge", "Socio‐technical systems", "Tacit knowledge", "Theory of deferred action", "Electronic commerce" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Emergent organization is a counter to the view that organizations are stable. In emergent organizations, structure, business processes, and organizational procedures have the property of emergence. In this paper, the authors support the "emergent or...
Long-term effects of fiscal policies in Portugal
[ "Fiscal policy", "Budgetary control", "Portugal" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: The need for budgetary restraint has been the central feature of the economic policy debate in Portugal in recent years. The existence and persistence of substantial public deficits has become a matter of great concern in that it limits public ch...
At the heart of things: The role of the "married" couple in entrepreneurship and family business
[ "Entrepreneurialism", "Family firms", "Spouses" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: There has been a growing acknowledgement of the need to build bridges between the study of entrepreneurship and family firms. The fields can contribute to each other in many ways, to provide a better understanding of the role of the family in entrep...
State policy directives and middle-tier translation in a Swedish example
[ "Curriculum", "Decentralization", "Middle management", "Governance", "Implementation", "Local authorities" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: In recent decades, decentralisation and deregulation movements have been observable in many education systems around the world (Addi-Raccah, 2015; Hargreaves and Shirley, 2009; Seashore Louis, 2013). Such changes affect local education authorities (...
Leading to customer loyalty: a daily test of the service-profit chain
[ "Transformational leadership", "Employee engagement", "Diary study", "Service-profit chain" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Due to the growth in the service sector, marketing researchers are recognizing a paradigmatic shift from the exchange of tangible goods toward a service-based model of exchanges in which the customer plays a pivotal role (Lovelock and Gummesson, 200...
Cultural configurations and entrepreneurial realisation
[ "Entrepreneurial intention", "Leadership", "FsQCA" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: In developed countries, entrepreneurship has become a pillar of national governmental policies and decision makers need to increase the number of individuals that actually develop and implement opportunities (Jong, 2013). This emphasises the importa...
International manufacturing network: past, present, and future
[ "Network", "International manufacturing network", "Plant" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Indisputably, business today is becoming international. During the past decades, both international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) have increased explosively, resulting in the globalisation of markets and further leading to the widespr...
Shared or different realities: Self-other agreement on constructive and passive leadership and employee outcomes
[ "Well-being", "Work performance", "Questionnaire", "Leaders", "Learning climate", "Subordinates" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: In leadership development, leaders' perceptions of their behaviors are commonly compared with the perceptions of other stakeholders, such as their subordinates, as a strategy to identify leaders' strengths and weaknesses. Research on such initiative...
Business agglomeration in tourist districts and hotel performance
[ "Business performance", "Clustering", "Competitive advantage", "Hotel industry", "Business agglomeration", "Tourist districts" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Company performance depends on many factors. Penrose (1958), and Cyert and March (1963) use heterogeneity to analyze firm performance and strategy. Later, Wernerfelt (1984) and Barney (1991) develop a more resource-based view of performance, as o...
Reducing temptation to switch mobile data service providers over time: The role of dedication vs constraint
[ "Switching barriers", "Brand equity", "Customer loyalty", "Relationship length", "Alternative attractiveness", "Dedication-constraint-temptation model", "Mobile data service" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: The invention of mobile phones has ushered in a new era of information and communication technology (ICT), changing people's lives in a substantial way (Tseng et al., 2017). The ever-escalating competition in the ICT service market is the result ...
Effects of organizational values and employee contact on e-recruiting
[ "Recruitment", "Work values", "Human resource management" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: Organizations are increasingly using electronic recruiting (e-recruiting) to attract job seekers because it reduces recruiting costs, saves time, and reaches a wide array of potential applicants (Stone and Dulebohn, 2013). Research showed that 100 p...