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Motivation and satisfaction of mega-business event attendees: The case of ITU Telecom World 2006 in Hong Kong
[ "Hong Kong", "Tourism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: The importance of business travelers has been widely documented in the existing hospitality and tourism literature (Bauer et al., 2001; Davidson and Cope, 2003). Due to their large expenditures, this group of travelers is gener...
Co-production of service experiences: insights from the cultural sector
[ "Service-dominant logic", "Co-production", "Institutional logic", "Services marketing", "Cultural sector", "Value-in-cultural context" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Cultural organisations, including museums, galleries, parks and gardens (both botanical and zoological), are increasingly redefining the role played by the consumer from a passive observer to an interactive partner in the ...
Knowledge management ecological approach: a cross-discipline case study
[ "Interdisciplinary", "Music education", "Software business", "Software development", "Ecological approach" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In every academic discipline, new knowledge is systematically produced, framed and organized by specific theories and concepts (Krishnan, 2009). As individual disciplines become more complex, the connections between them stre...
Journalling and public health education: thinking about reflecting...
[ "Public health", "Higher education", "First year", "Reflective thinking", "Reflective journalling", "Qualitative", "Students" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Practicum in undergraduate clinical health degrees, such as nursing and dietetics, is an essential component of curricula to graduate clinically proficient students. A fundamental element of practicum is reflection or the abi...
Using corporate stories to build the corporate brand: an impression management perspective
[ "Content analysis", "Corporate reputation", "Impression management", "Corporate brand", "Corporate story" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A recent area of academic interest within corporate branding and reputation is the use of storytelling in order to differentiate the corporate brand (Janssen et al., 2012). This paper investigates the content of corporate sto...
Big Data promises value: is hardware technology taken onboard?
[ "Big Data", "Networking", "Storage", "Knowledge economy", "Microprocessor", "Technology trends" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Earlier technology only provided a platform for processing data to yield information in order to improve the performance of existing processes, businesses and activities. With the advancement and proliferation of technolog...
From "manager" to "strategist": An examination of the evolving role of persistent high-growth entrepreneurs
[ "Entrepreneurs", "High-growth firms", "High-growth entrepreneurs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Generally being considered as the engine for job creation in a region high-growth firms (HGFs) (Littunen and Tohmo, 2003), have received widespread attention in recent years, both in academic and policy research (Coad, Daunfe...
Knowledge sharing serves as a mediator between collaborative culture and innovation capability: an empirical research
[ "Innovation", "Knowledge sharing", "Product innovation", "Process innovation", "Collaborative culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Business environment is changing rapidly and becoming difficult to predict (Yasir et al., 2016). Innovation capability was considered a decisive factor in creating competitive advantage and improving organizational performanc...
The education of innovative engineers
[ "Construction engineering", "Education", "Innovation", "Tacit knowledge", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Dominant activities of an innovative engineer include: develop ideas, investigate, assess and balance risks, assess requirements, validate and optimise processes, verify and interpret outcomes, develop and evaluate design con...
Self-employment: the significance of ability, desire and opportunity
[ "Entrepreneurs", "Opportunity", "Desire", "Ability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The family is an important element for understanding an individual's decision to enter into self-employment. This has mainly been shown by illustrating that self-employment aggregates within families or that having a parent t...
Effects of social variables on urban children's consumption attitude and behavior intentions
[ "Children (age groups)", "Consumer behaviour", "Socialization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article.\nIntroduction: Marketers and consumer researchers have ignored children as a consumer segment because of their little disposable...
Fostering knowledge sharing and knowledge utilization: The impact of organizational commitment and trust
[ "Ethics", "Knowledge sharing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the modern business environment, resources and competencies are key factors that enable organizations to survive, innovate and grow (Subramaniam and Youndt, 2005). According to the knowledge-based theory, knowledge is o...
Overconfidence of vocational education students when entering higher education
[ "Self-efficacy", "VET", "Pathways", "Low socio-economic", "Overconfidence", "TAFE" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A key driver of Australian Federal Government higher education policy since the 1980s has been the recognition that greater participation in higher education is a central precondition for competitiveness, economic growth a...
Firm insurance and sickness absence of employees
[ "Insurance", "Absence", "Moral hazard", "Sickness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Sickness absence brings high costs to society and to the entire economy through the loss of working hours and production. Vast empirical evidence in economic literature suggests that higher income replacement in sickness spel...
Translation and validation of the Graham-Harvey survey for the Brazilian context
[ "Surveys", "Translation services", "Corporate finances", "Emerging markets", "Brazil" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Over the past 60 years, research in finance has made significant strides in developing ever more complex theories to guide managerial decision making toward the maximization of shareholder wealth. Theoretical advances in the ...
Technological knowledge breadth and depth: performance impacts
[ "Performance management", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Few would argue against the proposition that technological knowledge is an important source of firm performance. A host of studies in strategic management and industrial organization economics observed the expected positiv...
Complexities and challenges in the work-family interface
[ "Family", "Sociology of work" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Work-family relationships are complex and multidimensional and remain an important ongoing academic and social policy area that requires multidisciplinary and multi-level investigation and collaboration. Growing out of resear...
Understanding citizens' participation in service delivery protests in South Africa's Sedibeng district municipality
[ "South Africa", "Cities", "Public policy", "Local government", "Public services", "Citizen complaints", "Citizen participation", "Local public policy", "Public evaluation", "Public service delivery", "Citizen protests", "Municipality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Background: South Africa has committed itself to a developmental local government (RSA's Constitution, Section 153) whose objects are to provide democratic and accountable government for local communities, ensure the provision of service...
Failure of foresight: had the Cold War more than one origin?
[ "Marxist economics", "Capitalist systems", "Nuclear weapons" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Our foreign policy is [one] of preserving peace and strengthening trade relations with all countries ... Those who want peace and seek a business relationship with us will always find our support. And those who try to attack ...
South Africa's economic response to monetary policy uncertainty
[ "DSGE", "Volatility", "Nonlinear", "Uncertainty", "C10" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As you are aware, heightened uncertainty is one of the defining characteristics of the monetary policy environment in many emerging market countriesDaniel Mminele (Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank (2015).T...
Sustainability in the global hotel industry
[ "Hospitality", "Sustainability", "Global hotel industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Since the early 1900s the concept of sustainability has attracted increasing attention in political, media and investment circles. In Ernst & Young and the GreenBiz Group's recent review of trends in corporate sustainability ...
A case study of the investment yields of high street banks
[ "Investment", "Great Britain", "Influencing factors", "Yields", "Banking-halls", "Portfolio building" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: During the past two decades, many of the UK's leading companies have released value from their operational property through the process of sale-and-leaseback. Much of the wealth of these companies has traditionally been he...
Adoption of internet banking: proposition and implementation of an integrated methodology approach
[ "Consumer behavior", "Internet", "Electronic commerce" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The 1980s witnessed a marked shift in the distribution channels of banking services towards self-servicing alternatives. Pressured by rising costs, ever more demanding customers, and the need to preserve profitability while s...
Intrinsic motivation a powerful tool
[ "Development strategies", "Management development", "Engagement and learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Inter-employee knowledge sharing has become one of the most critical issues faced by contemporary managers.\nA mutual goal by generating a common goal: In contrast to the negotiated exchange, which explicitly promotes persona...
The partial shock mode in reforms of local state-owned SMEs
[ "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Economic reform", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: State-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SOSMEs), which had a large number of enterprises and created considerable industrial outputs and job opportunities, played an important historical role in many old industrial ba...
Effect of foreign aid on corruption: evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries
[ "Development", "Developing countries", "Corruption", "Governance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The subject of corruption has increasingly become a hymn among the scholars, policy makers and development community. Scholars have significantly attempted to measure its effects on development and the effectiveness of for...
Financial productivity issues of offshore and "Made-in-USA" through reshoring
[ "Supply chain management", "Sourcing", "Financial productivity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Many apparel brands focus on a mass market interested in fast fashion and aim to increase profits by cutting costs through offshoring - the relocation of a company's manufacturing or business processes to outside of the ho...
Academic staff's perceptions of characteristics of learning organization in a higher learning institution
[ "Learning organizations", "Performance", "Organizational learning", "Satisfaction", "Academic staff" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The survival of today's universities depends on how they accept changes, how they can improve their practices and how they can increase their competitiveness. As with other organizations, universities have been using vario...
Multi-disciplinary decision making in general practice: A case study of switching between oral anticoagulants
[ "Decision making", "Healthcare", "General practitioners", "Pharmaceuticals" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Non-valvular Arial Fibrillation (AF) is an abnormal heart rhythm, which increases the risk of stroke (Roger et al., 2012) and of stroke severity (Marini et al., 2005) but patients have no artificial heart valve. To prevent st...
A model for measuring technology capability in the agrifood industry companies
[ "Innovation", "Technology management", "Agroindustrial systems", "Milk agrichain", "Technology capability index" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Technology capability (TC) plays an important role in achieving efficiency in a company's production process and degree of innovativeness. It is associated with the skills and knowledge necessary for a company to absorb, u...
The determinants of the choice of Islamic banks in Tunisia
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Islamic bank", "Trust", "Service quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Modern Islamic finance began with the 1975 establishment of the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) and the Dubai Islamic Bank, but its main growth is quite recent (Shoaib, 2007). The growth of Islamic banks ...
Forecasting energy storage technologies
[ "Energy technology", "Forecasting", "Patents" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The US Department of Energy constructs energy forecasts annually (Energy Information Association, 2009). In their February 2009 forecast, they estimate that our electricity demand will grow from 13,382 trillion Btu's in 2009 ...
Environmental practices and innovation performance of US small and medium-sized manufacturers
[ "Innovation", "Environmental management", "Manufacturing", "Collaboration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Environmental practices need to help companies address their internal as well as their external challenges. This is especially the case for small and medium-sized companies, which often have more limited resources and less...
B2c e-commerce logistics: the rise of collection-and-delivery points in The Netherlands
[ "Electronic commerce", "Distribution management", "Service delivery", "Retailing", "The Netherlands" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Online retail sales have grown rapidly in many developed countries. For example, between 1999 and 2005 online retail sales grew with 720 percent in the UK, 1,060 percent in Germany, and 1,403 percent in The Netherlands (Welte...
For better or for worse: the changing life of academic staff in French business schools
[ "Academic staff", "Technology", "Business education", "International", "Career development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Much academic research has been undertaken on what can be classified as negative aspects such as the poor quality of working conditions, the number of teachers leaving the profession, low salaries and stress resulting from an...
Hollowing out national agreements in the NHS? The case of "Improving Working Lives" under a "Turnaround" plan
[ "Work-life balance", "NHS", "Collective bargaining" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper evaluates the employment relations impact of implementing two distinct - and separate - policies, with seemingly conflicting agendas, in an NHS hospital. The NHS has long claimed to aspire to be a \"model employer\...
Research in UK Business Schools or management research in the UK?
[ "Management research", "Business schools", "History", "Financing", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: This paper has an intentionally ambiguous title in that amongst a number of confusions relating to the nature of management research is the difference between research that is conducted in Management and Business Schools (hen...
Reimagining career collections to increase usage and engagement
[ "Collections", "Outreach", "Engagement", "Career development", "Collection assessment", "Career services", "Usage" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2008, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Career Services department experienced major changes to its operations and staffing. As a result of the economic downturn, the University was looking for ways to cut expendi...
Gender and returns to entrepreneurship in Africa
[ "Sub-Saharan Africa", "Entrepreneurship", "Returns to entrepreneurship", "Gender gaps", "Quantile decomposition" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Improving the economic, social and political outcomes of women has been central to global and national development objectives in recent years. Especially, the promotion of female participation in non-farm employment has be...
Knowledge acquisition: the roles of perceived value of knowledge content and source
[ "Knowledge transfer", "Knowledge acquisition", "Learning", "Individual behaviour", "Knowledge economy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Knowledge has been recognized as a valuable resource for a company competing in an uncertain environment. A company tries to leverage this valuable resource by transferring the existing knowledge within the company itself as ...
Organizational consciousness
[ "Consciousness", "Organizational analysis", "Organizational identity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It is time to hold up the metaphorical mirror and look at consciousness in the analysis of organizations. In this article, we shall argue that organizational consciousness is central to an organization's success at pursuing i...
Teaching social economics: Bringing the real world into the classroom and taking the classroom into the real world
[ "Teaching", "Neoliberalism", "Education", "Pedagogy", "Heterodox economics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: According to Alvaredo et al. (2018), \"the top 1% richest individuals in the world captured twice as much growth as the bottom 50% individuals since 1980.\" This ongoing accumulation of wealth at the top is fueling growing di...
Undergraduate students' interaction with online information resources in their academic tasks: A comparative study
[ "Online information seeking behaviour", "Academic information access", "Undergraduate students", "Online information resources", "User studies", "Undergraduates", "Internet", "Information retrieval" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: With the rapid development of communication and web technologies, scholars in all disciplines have access to an unprecedented wealth of information, tools and services (2008). The internet lies at the center of a global in...
The impact of collaborative decision-making on logistics service performance for container shipping services
[ "Organizational information processing theory", "Logistics information integration", "Collaborative decision-making", "Container shipping firms", "Logistics service performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Globalization has forced firms to increasingly outsource their logistics activities to third-party logistics providers to decrease cost and improve quality. Apparently, multinational enterprises have expanded their supply ...
International comparison of K-12 STEM teaching practices
[ "STEM education teaching practices", "K-12 STEM education", "Science", "Technology", "Engineering", "Mathematics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the last two decades, scholars have increasingly noted the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education in school classrooms (e.g. Thomas and Watters, 2015). With the technological boom an...
The rise and fall of stand-alone social reporting in a multinational subsidiary in Bangladesh: A case study
[ "Bangladesh", "Legitimacy", "CSR", "Tobacco", "Case study", "Social reporting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A major area of increased research interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting is that of examining and seeking to explain the rise of corporate disclosures on social, ethical and environmental issues (Owen...
Survival analysis of supply chain financial risk
[ "Resilience", "Disruption", "Supply chain", "Financial risk", "Bankruptcy detection", "Survival analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As supply chains (SCs) continue to become more global in scope, the risk of adverse outcomes increases. To contain these risks, SC risk management techniques are being used to first identify risks inherent in the SC, to estim...
A lean thinking and simulation-based approach for the improvement of routing operations
[ "Vehicle routing problem", "Lean routing", "Transportation efficiency", "Transportation waste elimination", "Value stream map" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The improvement of routing operations performance has been of great concern since the mid 1900s. For instance, one of the first models to optimise the cost, distance and time of routing operations was developed by Dantzig ...
Through the lens of self-construal: Cross-cultural variation in consumers' appreciation of harmony in marketing visuals
[ "Self-construal", "Attractiveness", "Congruity", "Hedonic", "Harmony", "Visual design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The visual attractiveness of artifacts is thought to be an aesthetic universal (Lidwell et al., 2010), positively influencing consumer response (Veryzer, 1993), even across different cultures (Hardonk, 1999). Visual attrac...
Betterment: a taxing problem
[ "Value capture", "Value-based recurrent property taxes", "Betterment", "Improvements", "1909 Budget", "Land value taxation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBetterment: the issues: A rise in the price of a property can come about in response to two types of change. First, the owner may have undertaken improvement works. In the case of commercial property, these could increase its income-genera...
A re-examination of service standardization versus customization from the consumer's perspective
[ "Perceived risk", "Perceived control", "Consumption goal", "Need for uniqueness", "Service customization", "Service standardization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Should service organizations standardize or customize their market offerings? Consider the following contrasting examples of two restaurants that serve hamburgers. On the one hand, McDonald's represents a classic example of s...
The effects of using social network sites on academic performance: the case of Qatar
[ "Academic performance", "Social network sites", "Technology addiction", "Chen’s internet addiction scale", "Usage behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: With no doubt, Web 2.0 technologies revolutionized the usage of the internet. Internet users are not inert consumers of information anymore, but major contributors in creating most of today's internet contents. Social network...
Image, performance, attitudes, trust, and loyalty in financial services
[ "Financial performance", "Trust", "Customer loyalty", "Executive compensation", "Customer attitudes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Our paper centers on the post-2008 financial crisis period when commercial banks experienced one of their most dramatic declines in corporate image. Vella et al. (2012), Bravo et al. (2009) and Friedricks (2009) present compe...
Commitment-based HR systems and organizational outcomes in services
[ "Innovation", "Organizational performance", "Service industries", "Human resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Employees represent a key resource for firms in reaching their objectives because their knowledge and behaviours are essential to numerous organizational processes (Allen et al., 2013). Therefore, these resources have to b...
TQM dimensions and their interrelationships in ISO certified engineering institutes of India
[ "India", "Educational institutions", "Higher education", "Total quality management", "ISO 9000 series", "Engineering education", "Factor analysis", "AMOS" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Engineering educational institutes in India are increasing at a rapid rate to meet the growing demand for engineering graduates across the globe. There were more than 2,380 approved engineering institutes during 2010-2011. ...
Cultivating organizational wisdom for value innovation
[ "Organizational learning", "Value innovation", "Market orientation", "Knowledge management", "Organizational wisdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Market orientation is a starting point for a business's ability to learn about markets (Slater and Narver, 1995). The concept of organizational learning has been discussed extensively by numerous studies (Garvin, 1993; Senge,...
Tough times call for collaborative leaders
[ "Leadership", "Conflict resolution", "Partnership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nTough times call for collaborative leaders: Current trading conditions demand a high order of collaborative leadership at Board and project management level. With declining order books and greater pressure to deliver complex projects on ti...
Recruiter political skill and organization reputation effects on job applicant attraction in the recruitment process: A multi-study investigation
[ "Recruitment", "Political skill", "Organization reputation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Generally, hiring is the most important thing organizations do, and to hire effectively, it is necessary to recruit effectively, which refers to \"[...] a broad set of activities that connect applicants to organizations and j...
Expanding social actor-based explanations in labour market dualisation research: A combined macro-micro and micro-macro approach
[ "Inequality", "Labour markets", "Dualisation", "Power relationship", "Social divides" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Research on dualisation, segmentation, fragmentation and precariousness points to increasing divides in wages, working conditions and the quality of jobs (e.g. McKay et al., 2012; Gallie, 2007; Kalleberg, 2011). Growing divid...
Development of a multi-criteria hierarchical framework for maintenance performance measurement (MPM)
[ "Maintenance", "Hierarchical control", "Performance measurement (quality)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Maintenance is vital for sustainable performance of any industrial operation. The modern day asset managers and asset owners need to know the relationship between the output of maintenance process in terms of its total contri...
Technological and dietetic characteristics of probiotic acidophilus milk
[ "Milk", "Health foods", "Nutrition", "India" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent years, a considerable growing interest towards natural and healthy foods has been observed among the consumers throughout the world. Lactobacilli, being the normal resident of the gastro-intestinal tract (Mitsuoka, ...
Change agent sensemaking for sustainability in a multinational subsidiary
[ "Sustainable development", "Organizational change", "Change management", "United States of America", "The Netherlands", "Emergent strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Historically, the field of organisation development focuses on improving organisational effectiveness and employee wellbeing through planned change (e.g. Beer and Walton, 1987; Goodstein and Burke, 1991; Cummings and Worle...
Audit committee pre-Enron efforts to increase the effectiveness of corporate governance
[ "Audit committees", "Corporate governance", "Financial reporting", "Auditors", "Boards of Directors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent years instances of fraudulent financial reporting have increased with such frequency and in such dramatic ways that stakeholders at all levels have been astounded. Even before the Enron collapse (late 2001) started ...
Exploring intersectionality and the employment of school leaders
[ "Leadership", "Racial discrimination" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Research underscores the need to increase the racial/ethnic and gender diversity of school leaders (Khalifa et al., 2016). Rationales for increasing leader diversity include evidence that leaders of color positively influence...
Top management team characteristics and firm growth: Evidence from a sample of listed companies
[ "IPO", "Firm performance", "Small firms", "Alternative investment market", "Firm growth", "Top management team characteristics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: An initial public offering (IPO) is one of the most significant phases in the firm's evolution process and one of the most important entrepreneurial settings since it is characterized by high levels of uncertainty. An IPO ...
A discriminant model for measuring competition intensity of construction market
[ "China", "Market competitiveness", "Construction competition", "Concentration", "Multivariate discriminant analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Competing for survival is an ongoing fact of life for business to operate in an industrial context. The selection rule of competition drives firms to orient business to the external changing market situations, and it has been...
From transactions to cooperation: Developing supply chain of ancient grains between relationships and joint interests
[ "Cooperation", "Supply chain management", "Ancient grain", "Joint interests", "Relationships among stakeholders" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Today, consumers prefer food production sites that are close to them, as they do not require long transportation, and it is easier to gather correct information about the production (Matzembacher and Meira, 2019). Consequentl...
Optimal in-store inventory policy for omnichannel retailers in franchising networks
[ "Omnichannel retailing", "Analytical model", "Inventory optimization", "Store fulfilment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The proliferation of sales channels and ongoing digitalization has changed the retail landscape dramatically in recent years (Verhoef et al., 2015). Retailers' search for synergy in their multiple channels and their goal to p...
Factors involved in the success of Hong Kong construction and property entrepreneurs
[ "Hong Kong", "Entrepreneurs", "Construction industry", "Property", "Culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Hong Kong's economic success in the world's financial markets in the past few decades has captured the attention of aspiring entrepreneurs as well as scholars. Popular literature and weekly magazines such as Asian Week and Th...
The visually impaired and consumption in restaurants
[ "Restaurant management", "Visually impaired", "Consumption", "Disabled people", "Blind people", "Hotel and catering industry", "Hospitality services", "Customer orientation", "Brazil" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Although studies that focus on people with disabilities (PWDs) as representatives of a market segment still little explored by businesses are becoming more commonplace, such works still deserves greater attention (Van Harten ...
Vertical versus horizontal line extensions: a comparison of dilution effects
[ "Line extension", "Rice discount", "Perceived fit", "Brand concept", "Brand dilution" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In response to an increasingly competitive marketplace and the high costs associated with developing and launching new products, an increasing number of apparel brands are extending parent brand names to new product offerings...
Construction of a one-stop document supply service platform
[ "China", "Document delivery", "Interlending", "Consortia", "CALIS", "CALIS Document supply service platform (CDSSP)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: China Academic Library and Information system (CALIS) provides academic libraries with a system for acquiring external resources, effective service policies and subsidy support that, in turn, promotes the development of inter...
Blindsided by linearity? Curvilinear effect of leader behaviors
[ "Leader behaviours", "Curvilinear relationship", "Subordinate outcomes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The notion of linear relationships has been challenged as limiting theoretically and potentially misleading empirically in recent conceptual work in both psychology and management (Grant and Schwartz, 2011; Pierce and Aguinis...
Consumption of graham snacks in after-school snack programs based on whole grain flour content
[ "Nutrition", "Children (age groups)", "Cereal foods", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Increasing scientific evidence, policy statements ( USDA/USDHHS, 2005a, b) and regulatory guidelines (Food and Drug Administration, 1999) all recommend a higher intake of whole grain foods to reduce risk for heart disease ( M...
LQAS usefulness in an emergency department
[ "Accident and emergency", "Quality indicators", "Sampling methods", "Spain" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Improving emergency department (ED) service quality is considered a fundamental task for health system efficiency and effectiveness since EDs represent a main access to healthcare. Half the population may use EDs during each ...
Does environmental leadership affect market and eco performance? Evidence from Korean franchise firms
[ "Performance", "Foodservice", "Environmental orientation", "Environmental leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Today, corporations are increasingly implementing environmental practices, including energy conservation, recycling, eco-design, green purchasing, ISO 14001 and total quality environmental management (Graves et al., 2013)....
A case-based generalizable theory of consumer collecting
[ "Consumer research", "Hedonic consumption", "Collecting behaviour", "Collector typology", "Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis", "Motive" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Collecting is a hedonic, highly involving passionate consumption, which differs from other types of consumption because it involves the formation of what is seen to be a set of items that are removed from ordinary use (Bel...
Graduates' perception of university training in light of occupational attainment and university type: The case of Lebanon
[ "Lebanon", "Higher education", "Labour market", "Graduates" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: University graduates in Lebanon, and more generally the Middle East, face the daunting task of finding their skills compatible to the actual demands of the labour market. In turn, graduate recruiters highlight personal transf...
Designing for public sector innovation in the UK: design strategies for paradigm shifts
[ "Service innovation", "Public services", "Design industry", "Service design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: \"In a world beset by change, design does not remain untouched\" (Heskett, 2001, p. 25). With the advent of the so-called \"knowledge economy\" and increased global competitive pressure, the UK Design Industry[1] has gone ...
Impact of contextual factors, brand loyalty and brand switching on purchase decisions
[ "Purchasing", "Brand loyalty" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article.\n1. Introduction: To better understand why and how people engage themselves in certain behaviours and refrain from risky habits,...
Contemporary Islamic philosophy response to reality and thinking outside history
[ "Egypt", "Epistemology", "Philosophy", "Islamic philosophy", "Religion", "Reform", "Secular", "Secularization", "Arab philosophy", "Liberal" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It is risky, no doubt, to design a critical, epistemological map of contemporary Islamic philosophy. Although philosophy was initiated more than two thousand years, there are differences in specifying the definition of the te...
Workplace inequality, trade unions and the transnational regulation of the employment relationships: The case of Europe
[ "Europe", "Industrial relations", "Labour", "Multinational companies", "Equality", "Trade unions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It is widely argued that employment relationships have become increasingly unstable in industrialized countries and this instability is undermining the regulatory regime of organized and governed labor markets and employment ...
Expanding horizons and expatriate adjustment: Perceptions of Western expatriate managers in multinational companies in the United Arab Emirates
[ "Expatriates", "UAE", "Expatriation management", "Global assignment", "Multinational companies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Due to the fast pace of globalization, international assignments have become a regular feature for the employees of MNCs. Thus, a more thorough understanding of the challenges of working and living in a foreign country has...
Research on emerging technology selection and assessment by technology foresight and fuzzy consistent matrix
[ "Forecasting", "Fuzzy logic", "Research and development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: National industry and enterprise competitiveness are mainly reflected in R&D inputs and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements - that is, the success ratio of technology commercialization and indus...
Search effort and retail outcomes: the mediating role of search disconfirmation
[ "Search", "Retail outcomes", "Retail search", "Search disconfirmation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The concept of consumer search has long been an important issue in the marketing literature. External search effort is \"the degree of attention, perception, and effort directed toward obtaining environmental data or informat...
Revealing the impact of operational logistics service quality on omni-channel capability
[ "Logistics service quality", "Dynamic capabilities", "Consumer perception", "Structural equation modelling", "Multi-channel management", "Omni-channel management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Today, retailers need to make a greater effort to provide integrated, consumer-focused technology in order to transform the \"channel\" experience into a total retail experience (PWC, 2014). These require the establishment...
The existence of buyer power in the Italian fresh milk supply chain
[ "Oligopsony", "Market competition", "Buyer market", "Fresh milk", "Price transmission" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent decades, buyer power has dramatically emerged as a relevant issue in the policy agenda throughout the world and in the presence of both perfect and imperfect competition among sellers.\n2. The Italian milk sector...
A closer look at the skilled labor demand increase in Brazil
[ "R&D expenditures", "Technical change", "Homothetic technology", "Skilled labour", "J24", "O15" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The macroeconomic stability seen in Brazil after the Real Plan in 1994 led to sustained economic growth. This improved Brazilian labor market but with uneven effects on workers. The share of unskilled workers in total empl...
Multi-criteria decision-making approach to evaluate optimum maintenance strategy in textile industry
[ "Decision making", "Analytical hierarchy process", "Textile industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Maintenance system plays a key role in achieving organizational goals and objectives. It contributes in reducing equipment downtime, improving quality and increasing productivity. Selection of best maintenance policy is impor...
Examining the social and entrepreneurial development of women through Microfinance in Indian context
[ "Microfinance", "Decision making", "Women empowerment", "Entrepreneurial skills", "Self-help group" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Empowerment is the process that works on both levels that are individual and collective. Women should be acknowledged as a political force that ensures equal participation in decision making and equal control over the resourc...
Dangerous solutions: case study of a failed e-project
[ "Complexity theory", "Electronic commerce", "Supply chain management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: To stay competitive and improve responsiveness to changing customer demands, organizations have to think about more creative ways of using and integrating technology into their business processes (Czuchry and Yasin, 2003; Bir...
Understanding value creation in cultural industries: strategies for creating and managing meaning
[ "Valuation", "Meaningfulness", "Cultural product", "Culturization", "Selection system" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The artwork \"Molecular Structure\" by Damien Hirst was sold at Sotheby's in London for PS285,000. An anonymous buyer paid more than PS1,000 for two Hirst-designed ashtrays in a sale of fixtures and fittings from the former P...
Education for sustainable development beyond attitude change
[ "Education", "Sustainable development", "Attitudes", "Behavior change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The United Nations has declared 2005 to 2014 the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and among other initiatives has, through the United Nations University, established Regional Centers of Expertise (RCEs) on Educ...
Labor market performance of dropouts: the role of personality
[ "Education", "Dropout", "Unemployment", "Personality", "Employment", "Income" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Aggregate statistics and previous studies in economics have shown that education and degrees have labor market consequences in terms of earnings, employment, and labor supply (e.g. OECD, 2011, pp. 116-157). There are two m...
Wroe Alderson, IMP and the evolution of theory
[ "Transvection", "Distribution", "Marketing", "IMP", "Alderson", "Evolution of theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The third of the workshops preceding the symposium celebrating IMP's 40th anniversary was devoted to \"theories and methods in an interactive business world\". The overall ambition with this paper is to contribute to that ...
Website quality and internal business factors: An empirical investigation in the Italian wine industry
[ "Marketing strategy", "Regression", "Survey research", "Website quality", "Econometric model", "Internal business factors", "Italian wine industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The rapid diffusion of the internet and of digital technology, over the past few years, has brought about a gradual change in the business marketing orientation of companies, which in the past was almost exclusively directed ...
Examining the antecedents of online disinhibition
[ "Behaviour change", "Behaviour", "Virtual community", "Socio-technical theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Online communication frameworks are showing rapid usage and growth over the last decade; computer bulletin boards, instant messaging, video chats, and social networks are just a few examples of that. Such frameworks have beco...
Analysis of the behaviour of the users of a package of electronic journals in the field of chemistry
[ "Electronic journals", "Information research", "Information retrieval", "Chemistry", "Spain" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The ease with which it is currently possible to gather information on the behaviour of users in their use of electronic information resources has stimulated the interest of librarians in gathering statistical data for a varie...
The contested instruments of a new governance regime: Accounting for nature and building markets for biodiversity offsets
[ "Governance", "Accounting for biodiversity", "Biodiversity offsetting", "Ecological accounting", "Social studies of marketization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Biodiversity loss has been recognised as one of the most serious aspects of the ongoing environmental crisis in both academic and policy literature (MEA, 2005; Pimm et al., 2014; Seto et al., 2012; TEEB, 2008, 2010; Yule et a...
Improving service quality through customer journey analysis
[ "Customer journey", "Customer experience", "Service quality", "Empirical study", "Service improvement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Providing customers with quality experiences has been proven to be a sustainable, competitive advantage with a clear financial impact for companies (Fornell et al., 2006). With the rise in the service economy, the success of ...