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Community responses to the removal of bottled water on a university campus
[ "University", "Sustainability", "Behavior", "Australia", "Bottled water", "Pro-environmental" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Despite that most in the developed world are overwhelmingly served by clean, safe and reliable drinking water, the consumption of bottled water continues to be a highly profitable but increasingly controversial global indu...
Student-led campus climate change initiatives in Canada
[ "Canada", "Global warming", "Universities", "Energy management", "Students" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: There are a variety of campus climate initiatives taking place on universities and colleges in Canada. These range from renewable energy production to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through energy efficiency, beha...
Repatriation readjustment of international managers: An empirical analysis of HRD interventions
[ "Expatriates", "Human resource development", "Training", "Career development", "Singapore" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Increased globalization of business activity has augmented the importance of effective expatriation and repatriation of multinational enterprise (MNE) managers (Adler, 2008; Avril and Magnini, 2007; Bossard and Peterson, 2005...
An approach to enhance availability of repairable systems: a case study of SPMs
[ "Reliability", "Maintainability", "Capacity utilization", "Mean time between failure (MTBF)", "Mean time to repair (MTTR)", "Overall equipment efficiency (OEE)", "Event plot", "Duane plot", "Failure rate", "Hazard plot" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Availability A is the probability that a system is operating satisfactorily at the time t (Govil, 1983). In general, a reliable machine has high availability but an available machine may or may not be very reliable. Availa...
Commander's evaluation in the context of business decision-making: a multi-perspective approach
[ "Decision making", "Learning", "Management development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Decision-making is one of the most fundamental components of effective management and leadership. As organizations continue to experience intensified competitive pressures associated with globalization, rapid technological in...
An overview of strategic responses of Vietnamese higher education institutions
[ "Higher education", "Strategic management", "External environment", "Five forces", "Government planning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Vietnam's education system has undergone transformational changes ever since the government decided to pursue market-driven economy in 1986. Before the reform era, the system was highly centralized with maximum involvement...
Implications of securities class actions for cost of equity capital
[ "Securities", "Legal action", "Equity capital", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: How does the filing of a securities class action lawsuit affect the firm's cost of equity capital? Determinants of cost of capital are of immense economic significance. Public companies rely on their ability to raise capit...
Logistics service providers in China: Current status and future prospects
[ "Service delivery", "Management standards", "China", "Competitive strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Under the central economic planned system, the Chinese government assumed a high degree of responsibility and control over the procurement, production, distribution and the price consumers pay for goods. A three-tier distr...
Evaluating after-sales service units by developing inverse network data envelopment analysis model
[ "Data envelopment analysis (DEA)", "After-sales service" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: After-sales service implies services that are provided to customers after products are delivered. The after-sales services can become a crucial differentiator for companies (Vitasek, 2005). They are considered as a signifi...
Contagion across exchange rates: New evidence on the role of information spillovers and eight major exchange rates
[ "Contagion effects", "Exchange rates", "Information spillovers", "Parametric and non-parametric methodologies", "Currency markets", "F41", "F30", "C10" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Despite a substantial volume of theoretical and empirical research, no consensus has emerged regarding the true drivers behind contagion effects in asset markets. This paper makes use of the concept of contagion in relevan...
Faculty support and student engagement in undergraduate engineering
[ "Faculty support", "STEM", "Engineering", "Engagement", "Emotion", "Motivation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nThe importance of faculty: Faculty can influence student experiences in college both through formal class support and interactions that contribute to students' academic integration in college and through informal interactions such as those...
The narrative strategies of B2B technology brands
[ "Narratives", "Internet of things", "Artificial intelligence", "B2B brands", "Transmedia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: \"Position: Marketing Storyteller - Digital Story\n2. Conceptual background: 2.1 Business-to-business brands and narratives\n3. Methodology: The aim of this research is to analyze the assemblage of the elements comprising ...
Aligning competitive priorities in the supply chain: the role of interactions with suppliers
[ "Supply chain management", "Strategic alignment", "Competitive advantage" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the last decade the competitive landscape has pushed organizations to compete not solely on their own capabilities but with their entire supply chain (Hult et al., 2007). Increased customer requirements coupled with comp...
Classification of rolling element bearing fault using singular value
[ "Wavelet transform", "Feature extraction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Nomenclature\n1. Introduction: Rolling element bearing (REB) is one of the critical components of rotating machines in domestic and industrial applications. Proper functioning of these machineries depends, to a great extent, ...
A stages of change perspective on managers' motivation to learn in a leadership development context
[ "Learning", "Leadership development", "Training", "Managers", "Leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Increasingly, leadership development efforts are expected to play key roles in organizations' attempts to enhance their competitiveness and transform themselves and their cultures (Armenakis et al., 1999; Tichy and Cohen, 199...
Graduates construct their management careers from day one: Development program concentrates on providing practical experience
[ "Management development", "Construction industry", "Graduates" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A UK trade distributor of plumbing and heating products and supplier of construction materials has launched a training program that sets participants on the road to management jobs from day one.\nPractical approach to learnin...
Robustness and flexibility of human resource management practices: The results of a repeated survey of Russian subsidiaries of multinational corporations
[ "Russia", "Multinational corporations", "Human resource management", "Surveys", "Manufacturing subsidiaries" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Despite the current political tensions between Russia and the west and the retaliatory exchange of economic sanctions, subsidiaries of foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) continue to occupy a very important place in the...
What matters for knowledge sharing in collectivistic cultures? Empirical evidence from China
[ "Knowledge management", "Knowledge sharing", "Collectivistic culture", "Motivation", "Trust", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the rapid development of knowledge-based economy, knowledge and knowledge management has become one of the most important success factors for organizations (Bruton et al., 2007; Lam and Lambermont-Ford, 2010; Lin, 2011; Za...
Analysing the accounting measurement of financial sustainability in local governments through political factors
[ "Financial sustainability", "Income statement", "Local governments", "Political factors", "Users of financial information" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The structural gap in public finances, provoked by the unsustainable tendency of all governmental levels to spend more than they collect (Bailey et al., 2014), has intensified the international situation of economic and fi...
IT disaster recovery: Oman and Cyclone Gonu lessons learned
[ "Natural disasters", "Contingency planning", "Risk assessment", "Business continuity", "Communication technologies", "Oman" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: In today's business environment information technology (IT) resources, including data, are some of the most important assets owned by organizations. Earthquakes, cyclones, hurricanes, floods, hackers, computer viruses, sabo...
Does the "capstone" of the "comply or explain" system work in practice? Evidence from Athens Stock Exchange
[ "Legitimacy", "Compliance", "Corporate governance codes", "Mimetic behaviour", "Quality of explanations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Nowadays, it is essential for companies listed on the stock exchange to disclose information on their performance. Diouf and Boiral (2017) marked that 53 per cent of the 500 largest companies listed on the US Stock Exchang...
The failure of non-binding declarations to achieve university sustainability: A need for accountability
[ "Agreements", "Universities", "Organizational change", "Sustainable design", "Australia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Many high-level commitments to sustainability have been made by universities in the last decade (ULSF, 1990; UNESCO, 1997), but it has become clear that universities in general have had a very low-success rate in translating ...
Learning about sustainability: an interdisciplinary graduate seminar in biocomplexity
[ "Teaching", "Sustainability", "Biocomplexity", "Graduate education", "Interdisciplinary" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The intense and rapidly changing nature of environmental challenges necessitates novel approaches for teaching the next generation of researchers and teachers (Kurland et al., 2010). Scientists often must cross disciplinary...
It's 2008: do you know where your talent is? Connecting people to what matters
[ "Employees", "Social networks", "Management technique" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In today's competitive talent environment, organizations tend to address workforce shortages by engaging in a war for talent (Athey, 2004). They aggressively recruit and then try to stanch the outflow of their top people with...
A comparison of local management of regeneration in England and Greece
[ "Local government", "Economic development", "England", "Greece" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: some foundations for comparative local government studies: The comparative study of political systems has now generated an extensive literature. One of the most important contributors thereto, Peters (1998, p. 10) postulates ...
Production sourcing strategies and buyer-supplier relationships: A study of the differences between small and large enterprises in the Hong Kong clothing industry
[ "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Large enterprises", "Sourcing", "Buyer‐seller relationships", "Garment industry", "Hong Kong" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The textile, clothing, and footwear sectors in Hong Kong have played a key role in sustaining the economy of the territory over the last several decades. Of all three sectors, the biggest by far is the clothing industry. In 2...
Highly talented and "only" an apprentice? Selected results of a longitudinal study and its consequences for vocational research of the highly-gifted
[ "Vocational training", "Pupils", "Switzerland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This article discusses the above-average ability of young people who choose to undertake vocational apprenticeships rather than completing a high-school certificate (A-Level equivalent) through high school education. Justific...
Doctors as health managers: an oxymoron, or a good idea?
[ "Health care", "Health management", "Health managers", "Clinical directorates", "Hospital management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Hospitals have evolved from being straightforward centres of advice and healing based in temples in ancient Greece (Risse, 1990) into complex organisations (Baker, 2001; Shoemaker, 2010). Hospitals in Australia consume 3.4 pe...
Reinforcing innovation through transformational leadership: mediating role of job satisfaction
[ "Innovation (INN)", "Jordanian telecommunication sector (JTS)", "Transformational leadership (TL)", "Job satisfaction (JS)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Continuous innovativeness in terms of products and services will allow companies to maintain an excellent position among competitors (Lengnick-Hall, 1992; Vorhies and Morgan, 2005). Consequently, scholars have shown more i...
"The Irish Conflict" and the experiences of female ex-combatants in the Irish Republican Army: Power, resistance and subjectivity
[ "Foucault", "Imprisonment", "Power", "Ex-female combatants", "Irish Conflict" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The fundamental purpose of this paper is to critically explore the importance of the experiences of female former combatants during the Irish Conflict, colloquially known as \"the Troubles\" and outline key moments of resista...
Critical factors of effective implementation of IT-enabled ISO-9000 QMS
[ "Information technology", "Competitive positioning", "Critical factors", "ISO-9000 quality management standards" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The increasing global competition has placed a renewed focus on quality enhancement for the long-term survival of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) (Flynn et al., 2015; Kharub and Sharma, 2015). Research studies have arg...
Knowledge transfer in alliances: determinant factors
[ "Knowledge transfer", "Strategic alliances" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Knowledge-based activities are the basis of sustainable competitive advantage in today's economy. Resource- and knowledge-based theorists claim that firms should focus on the creation and accumulation of knowledge-based compe...
Consumption-oriented engagement in social network sites: Undesirable influence on personal well-being
[ "Social comparison", "Consumer socialization", "Anxiety", "Self-esteem", "Materialistic values" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The proliferation of social network sites (SNSs) like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter over the last decade has considerably changed the ways in which people, especially young people, interact and socialize with peers within t...
Effective leadership development in information technology: building transformational and emergent leaders
[ "Leadership", "Mentoring", "Leadership development", "Information technology", "Transformational leadership", "Emergent leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Effective leadership has been identified as important for organizational success by increasing agility (Lewis et al., 2014), change management capability (Kotter, 2013), employee commitment, trust, and job satisfaction (Top e...
Where will the axe fall? An integrative framework for understanding attributions after a business failure
[ "Decision", "Business failure", "Attribution", "Organisational decision-makers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the past three decades, we have witnessed the dramatic improvements in decision support systems and technologies in an array of areas including employee evaluation, production planning and control and strategic formulati...
Consumers gain equivalent levels of happiness from sharing about an experience and an object
[ "Happiness", "Word-of-mouth", "Experiences", "Objects" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Firms have become increasingly aware of the importance of word-of-mouth (WOM) for both experiences (Filo et al., 2015; Gelper et al., 2018; Romaniuk and Hartnett, 2017) and material products (Babie Rosario et al., 2016; Consi...
Developing serving culture: focus on workplace empowerment
[ "Service quality", "Employee participation", "Serving culture", "Workplace empowerment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: While drawing on literatures on organizational culture and workplace empowerment, this paper puts forward and empirically tests a new model that aims to answer the following research question:\nLiterature review and hypothese...
Managing e-books in a business school library: case study of Ebrary Academic Complete
[ "Electronic books", "Academic libraries", "E-books", "Ebrary", "Business library", "Evaluating collections" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: E-resources like electronic journals and databases form an important part of the collection in management libraries. Among the various e-resources like journals, reports, databases, newspapers and magazines, electronic books ...
Safety risk assessment in industrial maintenance
[ "Maintenance", "Risk assessment", "Occupational health and safety" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Occupational risk assessments have traditionally been based on the identification of hazards in the workplace. As subcontracting industrial services becomes more and more typical, the focus of risk assessment changes. While t...
Conceptualizing the relative openness of supply chain and its impact on organizational performance
[ "Supply chain", "Organizational performance", "System theory", "Open system", "Closed system" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Cavinato (1992) suggests drawing upon system theory in order to develop a holistic view of the supply chain. Organizations operate in a highly dynamic and competitive business environment and constantly need to adapt to ex...
Knowledge integration, teamwork and performance in health care
[ "Performance", "Knowledge sharing", "Teamwork", "Health care", "Teams", "Questionnaires", "Knowledge integration", "Shared mental model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Interprofessional teamwork is one of the most important quality criteria for health care organizations (Antoni, 2010; Kuhlmey, 2011; Gibbon et al., 2002; O'Leary et al., 2012; Ezziane et al., 2012). The complexity of the heal...
What affects organizational performance? The linking of learning and knowledge management
[ "Self‐managed learning", "Workplace training", "Knowledge management", "Organizational performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The recent technological advancement opens a new era, in which a global competitive environment has emerged. Traditional organizational management is no longer considered an appropriate strategy in this highly competitive g...
Corporate financial policy and the value of cash under uncertainty
[ "Cash holdings", "Idiosyncratic uncertainty", "Macro uncertainty", "Marginal value of cash", "Sources of uncertainty", "G32", "G34", "D81" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Recent findings indicate that cash holdings of non-financial firms have dramatically increased. For example, Bates et al. (2009) report that the average cash-to-asset ratio for the US industrial firms was more than doubled...
Supply chain adaptations for the base-of-the-pyramid business: towards a theoretical model
[ "Base of the pyramid", "BoP", "Multimethod", "Supply chain adaptations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Eradicating poverty through profits can be a new source of competitive advantage, this was the central tenet of Prahalad and Hammond's (2002) proposal for businesses to tap into the market comprising 4bn people who live on $5...
Adoption of information and communication technology: Impact of technology types, organization resources and management style
[ "Innovation", "Communication technology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Recently, ICT has become a strategic asset which can help improve business processes and change the function of markets. Thus, it is necessary for organizations to continue their efforts in developing and implementing the u...
Emerging contractual and legal risks from the application of building information modelling
[ "Project management", "Building information modelling", "Construction management", "Legal risks" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The scope of building information modelling (BIM) is evolving rapidly, and its full benefit realisation is expected to be attained with time. There has been an extensive research, investigating the usage of ICT technologies i...
The lure of simplicity: learning perspectives on innovation
[ "Innovation", "Knowledge management", "Learning organizations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organisational learning is important to organisations. Learning can lead to improved processes, new products and new services. Corporate survival frequently rests on the renewal of the organisation. Few corporate success case...
Over the worst or at the eye of the storm?
[ "Learning", "Adult education", "E‐learning", "Wales" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Being in higher education (HE) often feels like being in a maelstrom. There are disruptions that have both positive and negative impacts. Disruption is defined in a number of ways. It can be perceived as something unwelcom...
Foreign retailers in China: the first ten years
[ "Retail internationalisation", "Expansion strategies", "Post‐entry", "Localisation", "Emerging markets", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Studying the experience of foreign retailers in the Chinese market during the period of its transition to a more open economy provides a deeper understanding of the retail internationalization process. It can help managers of...
Interim reflections on the corporate university and SME academy business development innovation and its diffusion
[ "Corporate universities", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Human resource management", "Lifelong learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nECUANET project overview: This article describes the emergence of the corporate university concept and practice in a professional an innovative diffusion process for managing lifelong education, training and work-based learning. It describ...
Metadata analysis of knowledge management in supply chain: Investigating the past and predicting the future
[ "Supply chain", "Knowledge management", "Literature" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: With the rapid changes and pressure of global competition in the supply chain (SC), knowledge is recognized as an important source of competitive advantage (He et al., 2013; Tesang, 2009; Cheng et al., 2008). Also, the fie...
Industry loss warranties: contract features, pricing, and central demand factors
[ "Insurance", "Loss", "Warranties", "Reinsurance", "Industry loss warranties", "Alternative risk transfer", "Pricing", "Basis risk", "Moral hazard" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The convergence of insurance and capital markets, in addition to the development of new and innovative products, are driven by several trends. One aspect is the limited supply capacity in the traditional reinsurance and ret...
The role of product innovation and customer centricity in transforming tacit and explicit knowledge into profitability
[ "Customer centricity", "Profitability", "Explicit knowledge", "Tacit knowledge", "Product innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Knowledge management is an essential element of managing any type of business (Gloet and Terziovski, 2004) and is a key enabler of competitive advantage (Yang, 2010). Discussions on knowledge are becoming increasingly importa...
Futures Triangle 2.0: integrating the Futures Triangle with Scenario Planning
[ "Futures Triangle", "Visualization", "Scenario Planning", "Graphic", "Futures method", "Foresight method" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The Futures Triangle (Figure 1) is a simple yet powerful futures method introduced by Inayatullah (2002, 2008). It has three dimensions, corresponding to the three angles of the figure: the pulls of the future, the pushes ...
Six Sigma for improving aesthetic defects in aluminum profiles facility
[ "Pareto analysis", "FMEA", "Six Sigma", "Aesthetic defects", "Aluminum industry", "Control charts" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Aluminum's first industrial form showed in 1700s, where it has been used in statues by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Nowadays, aluminum is used commonly in the construction projects because of its light weight, flexibilit...
Framework for measurement of supplier satisfaction
[ "Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)", "Supplier relationship management", "Factors affecting supplier satisfaction", "Supplier Satisfaction Index" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Supplier performance and supplier development are widely discussed terms among supply chain practitioners and have received much research attention. Most of the literature on supplier performance and supplier development t...
BIM-based life-cycle environmental assessment of prefabricated buildings
[ "Prefabricated construction", "Building information modelling", "Environmental evaluation", "Construction simulation", "Modelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The construction industry has been considered a key contributor to economic growth in many nations, playing a significant role in sustainable development (Ofori, 2015; Oesterreich and Teuteberg, 2016; Habibi and Kermanshac...
Development, present status and performance analysis of agriculture insurance schemes in India: Review of evidence
[ "Crop insurance", "Agriculture insurance", "Agriculture risks", "PMFBY", "Weather index insurance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Agriculture is an important economic sector in many developing nations and is a source of revenue and food security to households who reside in rural areas. Besides fulfilling the food requirements of the country, agricult...
Digital collection development for unique users: a veterinary medicine library's approach
[ "Academic libraries", "Collection development", "Digital collections", "Electronic books", "Electronic resources", "Medical libraries", "Special libraries", "Veterinary medicine libraries" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Collection development in academic libraries varies in each institution based upon user populations, information needs and the overall curriculum of an academic unit. For a niche collection, the library should collect materia...
A morphological analysis of research literature on Lean Six Sigma for services
[ "Lean Six Sigma", "Systematic literature review", "Quality", "Services", "Morphological analysis", "Research gaps" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Process improvement (PI) is among the central aims of organisations, which seek to achieve quality and operational excellence (Assarlind et al., 2012). Although strongly associated with the quality movement of the 1980s, P...
Partnering motives and partner selection: Case studies of Finnish distributor relationships in China
[ "Distribution operations", "Distribution and inventory management", "Partnership", "Distribution channels and markets", "Finland", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Foreign distributors take the responsibilities of marketing the manufacturers' products and servicing customers in local market. In comparison with other foreign market entry alternatives, such as joint venture arrangements o...
Executive compensation and corporate social responsibility: does a golden parachute matter?
[ "Corporate finance", "Executive compensation", "Golden parachute", "Corporate social responsibility", "Interlock", "Tenure" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Executive compensation and firms' performance has produced a litany of exciting discussions and debates. An enduring consensus among scholars is the concept that, inherently, executives are selfish by nature and thus are n...
Experts ' perspectives on the implementation of traceability in Europe
[ "Delphi method", "Europe", "Supply chain management", "Food safety" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Food chains are becoming increasingly complex, involving interrelationships between many different food chain actors (Fresco, 2006). At the same time, the occurrence of food safety issues, have resulted in the decline of the ...
Respecting the language: digitizing Native American language materials
[ "Digitization", "Collaboration", "Digital humanities", "Digital collection", "Native American language", "Zuni Pueblo" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2018, the University of New Mexico (UNM) Libraries launched the Zuni Language Materials Collection (ZLMC) on New Mexico Digital Collections (NMDC), a digitized collection of language learning materials for the language spo...
Scale to measure tourist value of destination restaurant service
[ "Values", "Scale development", "Experiential value", "Destination restaurant services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: International tourism markets have increased with 1,322 million international tourists in 2017 (UN World Tourism Organization, 2018). In addition to the rapid growth of international tourism, destination food tourism has rise...
Perceived price fairness of dynamic pricing
[ "Pricing", "Consumers", "Internet shopping" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Price discrimination is not a new concept (Krugman, 2004). Pricing discrimination is a pricing strategy providing an individual or some segments of consumer groups with different prices. It is initially applied in the tradi...
Psychological empowerment of employees for competitive advantages: An empirical study of Nepalese service sector
[ "Nepal", "Resource based view", "Psychological empowerment", "Competitive advantages" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: Over the past two decades, \"empowerment\" has attracted the interest of many organizational theorists and management practitioners (Argyris, 1998; Conger and Kanungo, 1988; Thomas and Velthouse, 1990; Wall et al., 2004; Spreit...
Technical subjects in secondary schools
[ "Education", "Technical training", "Secondary schools" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It is an interesting and important fact that technical subjects now have a recognised place in all kinds of secondary schools. Before the 1944 Education Act only a very limited number of schools, the Junior Technical Schools,...
Framing stakeholder considerations and business sustainability efforts: a construct, its dimensions and items
[ "Business", "Sustainability", "Stakeholder" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The extent to which companies influence society, the global economy and the natural environment cannot be denied. This is manifested by increasing inequities in society, economic recessions and the rapidly changing natural en...
Factors that influence informal learning in the workplace
[ "Learning", "Learning organizations", "Workplace learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nThe learning organization concept: Peter Senge (1990, p. 3), who has been credited with popularizing the learning organization concept in his book, The Fifth Discipline, characterizes a learning organization as a work environment in which ...
Do governance factors matter for happiness in the MENA region?
[ "Governance matters", "Happiness", "MENA countries", "Panel data" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Unhappiness has been recognized as one of the main factors that cause political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region[1] in recent years (Varian, 2010; Palmer, 2007). As a result of the political unrest, ...
An exploratory study of product placement in social media
[ "Social media", "Product placement", "Brand awareness", "Placement presentation", "Product prominence", "Vehicle and product match" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Media has become more diverse and the number of media has increased in the last 20 years. Due to the growth of the available media, it has been harder and harder to deliver marketing messages to potential consumers. As a resu...
Communicating packaging eco-friendliness: An exploration of consumers' perceptions of eco-designed packaging
[ "In-depth interviews", "Eco-design", "Ecological cues", "Packaging design", "ZMET interviews" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: With pollution levels increasing every year and consumers willing to make more sense in their daily consumption, packaging sustainability represents an important issue for industrials and retailers. Since 2007, Walmart is wor...
The role of culture in e-commerce use for the Egyptian consumers
[ "Electronic commerce", "National cultures", "Consumer behaviour", "Trust", "Egypt", "Systems analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Culture is used to name a group of individuals sharing a similar way of thinking, feeling or behaving (Thomas, 1997). There are a number of existing models, which aim to broadly classify different cultures according to part...
Research on the phenomenon of supply chain resilience: A systematic review and paths for further investigation
[ "Supply chain disruptions", "Systematic literature review", "Supply chain resilience", "Resiliency", "Sand cone model", "Supply chain elements", "Supply chain risk management", "Supply chain vulnerability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Supply chain disruptions exhibit both internal (e.g. a fire at a major manufacturing plant) and external risks (e.g. economic shocks). Not managing these risks can deteriorate operational and financial performance (Hendricks ...
Strategic development and growth of emerging renewable energy ventures from China: Real options through mergers and acquisitions
[ "China", "Research and development", "Renewable energy", "Capital ventures", "Acquisitions and mergers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: China has responded to the global concerns of climate change with target to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emission. Pertinent policies have been formulated to stimulate the deployment of renewable energy and thereby gro...
Assessing performance-use preferences through an institutional logics lens
[ "Performance measurement", "Public sector", "Experiment", "Institutional logics", "Performance measurement systems", "Priming" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Performance is a notion that has preoccupied public administration scholars for decades (Amirkhanyan et al., 2013). It is considered essential that public sector organizations perform, and further that they measure and com...
E-retailing ethics and its impact on customer satisfaction and repurchase intention: A cultural and commitment-trust theory perspective
[ "Ethics", "E-commerce" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The internet has come as a strong alternative way of physical commerce. The internet itself is a global phenomenon, with over 2.7 billion users worldwide in 2013, up from 420 million in 2000 and one billion in 2005 (Intern...
Institutional strategies for developing enterprise education: A review of some concepts and models
[ "Corporate strategy", "Business enterprise", "Education", "Entrepreneurialism", "Universities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper seeks to answer two basic questions via the development of evaluative criteria and models of potential institutional practice in universities. First, what are the strategic approaches or models that could be adopte...
The formation of public-public partnerships: A case study examination of collaboration on a "back to work" initiative
[ "Partnership", "Public sector organizations", "Qualitative research", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has implemented a commitment of returning disabled people into employment through a variety of initiatives including the \"Pathways to Work\" programme (Department of Work and Pension...
Assessing organizational innovativeness - evidence from corporate narratives
[ "Innovation", "Communication", "Intangible assets", "Multinationals", "Annual reports" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nContext and research questions: Modern organizations must continuously adapt to today's highly dynamic environment (Salavou, 2004). Internally, they face constant pressure to innovate, alter managerial processes, and re-structure to fit ch...
Examining competence factors that encourage innovative behaviour by European higher education graduate professionals
[ "Competence", "Intrapreneurship", "Employee‐driven innovation", "Higher education", "Employees", "Innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Little research attention has been devoted to the competence factors that trigger innovative activity at work. This gap is also evident in closely connected topics related to the entrepreneurial behaviour of employees in esta...
Applying graph sampling methods on student model initialization in intelligent tutoring systems
[ "Computer-based learning", "Knowledge management", "Domain knowledge", "Domain knowledge graph", "Graph sampling", "Intelligent tutoring systems" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Throughout history, much time was dedicated to the idea of using the computer as a personal teacher. The complexity and the possibility of executing that idea grew after the appearance of intelligent teaching, with reference ...
The multiple facets of the bullwhip effect: refined and re-defined
[ "Stock control", "Value chain", "Value analysis", "Variance reduction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Supply Chain Management (SCM) has been of interest for many years in literature (Oliver and Webber, 1982; Jones and Riley, 1985, 1987; Houlihan, 1985, 1987; Snowdon, 1988). Stock (2000) states that SCM is an influential ingre...
How organizational culture can shape leadership style: The example of Nigerian universities
[ "Organizational culture", "Leadership style", "Social exchange", "Nigerian universities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Along with factors like strategy and innovation, leadership is widely regarded as being critical to business success. Indeed, US author John Maxwell once identified leadership development as the factor with most impact on a c...
Comprehending customer satisfaction with hotels: Data analysis of consumer-generated reviews
[ "Customer satisfaction", "Three-factor theory", "Hotel management", "Consumer-generated review" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: It is natural for hotel operators to invest a tremendous amount of resources in satisfying their customers. As customer satisfaction constitutes a critical barometer for assessing hotel performance, an in-depth appreciatio...
Organizational barriers to employee training and learning: evidence from the automotive sector
[ "Ghana", "Automotive industry", "Organizational learning", "Organization development", "Employee training", "Employee training and learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizational training is about equipping workers with skills, knowledge, new capabilities, and work attitude to enable them to perform their current job very efficiently and more effectively. It is generally accepted that e...
Perceptions and factors influencing the intention to do regular physical activities for the prevention of osteoporosis among Iranian working women
[ "Women", "Work and health", "Women’s health" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Osteoporosis is the most common metabolic bone disease characterized by low bone mass and structural deterioration of bone tissue, leading to bone fragility and an increased risk of fractures (wrists, spine and hip). Today's ...
Creating a school context of success: The role of enabling school structure & academic optimism in an urban elementary & middle school setting
[ "Principals", "Schools", "Organizational culture", "Educational administration", "Organizational structures", "Success" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of enabling school structure (ESS) on academic optimism (AO) and school achievement (SA) in a predominantly urban school setting. A recent body of literature has pointed to...
The effects of employer SNS motioning on employee perceived privacy violation, procedural justice, and leave intention
[ "Electronic monitoring", "Intention to leave", "Procedural justice", "Social networking sites (SNS)", "Facebook", "Privacy violation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Social networking sites (SNSs) are broadly defined as web-based services that allow members to construct a profile detailing their personal information, create and view a list of users they have connections with, and navig...
Using a business simulation to develop key skills - the MERKIS experience
[ "Management games", "Simulation", "Teaching methods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: MERKIS is a new comprehensive business simulation game that teaches team building, strategy, communication skills, financial management and an enterprise-wide perspective of how the whole organization works together, as well ...
Community-based social partnerships in crisis resilience: a case example in Greece
[ "Social capital", "Crisis", "Community resilience", "Community-based social partnership", "Community managed self-organized emerging networks", "Resilience building" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Global development has been challenged by the crises and disasters of recent years. In an interconnected world, new structures and strategies are needed to address these challenges effectively. Due to the interconnectednes...
The physician of Packingtown: the life and impact of Dr Caroline Hedger
[ "Labour", "Working conditions", "Management history", "Caroline Hedger", "Packingtown", "Public health history" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In February, 1906, Upton Sinclair published his novel The Jungle, which graphically described the living and working conditions of the residents of Packingtown, a Chicago slum located next to the stockyards district of the ci...
Environmental and social sustainability in Producer Organizations' strategies
[ "Sustainability", "Cluster analysis", "Environmental measures", "Firm strategies", "Producer Organizations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Since 1996, Producer Organizations (POs) have been the main instrument of EU Fruit and Vegetable (F&V) Common Market Organization (CMO). They mainly have the task to plan, aggregate and place the products of their members ...
School students' introduction to the world of work
[ "UK", "Work experience", "Employability", "Part-time work", "School students" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Reviewing two decades of research in Britain Hobbs and McKechnie (1997) found that for many young people their first experience of paid employment is gained while they are still school students. They focused on school student...
An examination of strategies under the financial tsunami
[ "Financial risk", "Research", "Business performance", "China", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, one of the most powerful players on Wall Street and the fourth-largest securities firm in the USA, filed for bankruptcy protection in September 2008 as the last resort to save the co...
Creating business intelligence from course management systems
[ "Management techniques", "Action research", "Knowledge management", "Data collection" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The streamlining of business practices and the more efficient use of information technology are necessary for higher education institutions (HEIs) to cope with pressures to improve productivity. To accomplish this, HEIs rely ...
An empirical study on productivity analysis of Indian leather industry
[ "Data envelopment analysis", "Productivity", "Indian leather industry", "Technology closeness ratio", "Grand efficiency" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Industrial revolution is considered as one of the landmark events in the history of social evolution. Over the years, the revolution has not only increased the production capacity but also intensified the competition among...
Agile manufacturing practices for new product development: industrial case studies
[ "Product development", "Agile manufacturing", "Product innovation", "Small- and medium-sized enterprises", "Engineering design", "Product strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The inevitable growth of competitiveness in the business world has led to the development of different management philosophies. Over many years these management philosophies were focussed on a competitive advantage based o...
Patients' perceptions of healthcare quality in Ghana: A review of public and private hospitals
[ "Customer loyalty", "Ghana" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The health services industry has witnessed significant changes in recent times in response to rising service expectations from patients, increasing competition, demand for greater accountability and emerging trends in holisti...