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A search for new paths in Chinese industrial relations: Collective bargaining explores different approaches
[ "China", "Industrial relations", "Collective bargaining", "Trade unions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nA world apart: A commonly held view of modern China has it that it combines some of the worst aspects of authoritarian government with an unbridled form of capitalism.\nRule from the top: CB in China is state-centered. Neither companies no...
Project execution game (PEG): training towards managing unexpected events
[ "Project management", "Risk management", "Training", "Education", "Management games" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Projects usually fail in achieving their targets (e.g. Johnson et al., 2001; Zwikael and Globerson, 2006). Common reasons include lack of customer involvement, lack of management support and inadequate requirement specific...
How are we tempted into debt? Emotional appeals in loan advertisements in UK newspapers
[ "Interviews", "Content analysis", "UK", "Emotional advertising", "Loan advertisements" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: When compared to levels of debt in similar European economies, UK personal debt remains one of the highest in Europe (OECD, 2017). Household debt has been steadily rising in the UK (The Money Charity, 2017, 2018; BBC, 2019), ...
Racial diversity in professional selling: an empirical investigation of the differences in the perceptions and performance of African-American and Caucasian salespeople
[ "Equal opportunties", "Cross‐cultural management", "Personal selling" ]
[ { "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: \"Is there a difference in the performance and work-related behaviors between salespeople of different races?\" I...
Exploring relational asymmetry in supply chains: the retailer's perspective
[ "Supply chain management", "Retailers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: At the most fundamental level, a supply chain is composed of a series of relationships among multiple firms (Cooper et al., 1997; Phillips and Liu, 1998). Competitive pressures, environmental uncertainties, and increasing con...
Public and patient involvement in research on ageing and dementia
[ "Ageing", "Dementia", "Involvement", "Patient", "Public" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Three years ago, I wrote a brief review of public and patient involvement (PPI) in health research (Ashton, 2017). Here, I take a closer look at research on ageing and dementia, through three interviews with people with exten...
Appreciative leadership: delivering sustainable difference through conversation and inquiry
[ "Evaluation", "Development", "Learning", "Values", "Appreciative inquiry", "Appreciative leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust (LCFT) was established in 2002 and employs 7,000 people across more than 400 sites, providing a wide range of healthcare and well-being services for around 1.5 million people.\nIntroduction:...
The direct and indirect effect of NFC on marketers' work norms, vocational socialization, individual ethical position, and ethical perceptions
[ "Marketing", "Ethics", "Marketing management", "Individual ethical position", "Need for cognition (NFC)", "Vocational socialization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: Theories of decision-making under ethical conditions in organizations allow for the influence of both individual characteristics and environmental factors (Hunt and Vitell, 1993). There is a dearth of empirical research into et...
What were the lessons learned from implementing clinical audit in Latin America?
[ "Clinical audit", "Communicable diseases", "South America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: In many low-income countries, disease-specific programmes help in targeting attention and resources towards key priorities. Recently, there has been a 26 per cent increase in the financial support given to such programmes (Maes...
An integrated model for online transactions: illuminating the black box
[ "Online transactions", "Information privacy", "Government intrusion and surveillance", "Causal model", "Greece", "Internet" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Personal information privacy has been identified as one of the major problems that make individuals hesitant to engage in online transactions (Phillips, 2004). Personal information privacy is defined as \"the ability of the...
How does human capital affect the performance of small and mid-cap mutual funds?
[ "Fund management", "Human capital", "Personality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The extensive media coverage afforded to mutual fund managers, particularly to the designated \"stars\" and \"superstars\", would suggest that managerial human capital does affect performance in a meaningful way. Mincer (1973...
A semiotic analysis of the extendibility of luxury brands
[ "Luxury", "Semiotics", "Brand extendibility", "Brand extension potential", "Brand narratives and contracts" ]
[ { "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 issue.\nIntroduction: Maintaining sustainable growth is a challenge for any brand. Faced with increased competition in mature markets, br...
Framework for productivity and safety enhancement system using BIM in Singapore
[ "Productivity", "BIM", "Safety", "System" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Singapore Government is well known for its formulation of a long-term vision and planning for the individual industries and the economy as a whole (Henderson, 2012; Ofori, 2002; Yuen, 2011). In the construction industry i...
The consideration of building maintenance at design stage in public buildings: The current scenario in Malaysia
[ "Building maintenance", "Sustainable design", "Building life cycle", "Maintenance management", "Design for maintenance", "Maintenance programmes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The concept of building maintenance is to keep, restore or improve every facility to an agreed standard, and the benefit of having effective maintenance is to obtain a maximum value for money that is invested in the property....
Green care governance: between market, policy and intersecting social worlds
[ "Governance", "Norway", "Health services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Green care may be defined as \"The utilization of agricultural farms as a basis for promoting human mental and physical health in cooperation with health authorities\". This definition covers horticultural therapy, animal-ass...
The ethical gap of firms' marketing practices: A comparison between the Brazilian and French markets
[ "Emerging markets", "Business ethics", "Brazilian and French markets", "Business ethical behaviour", "Ethical gap of marketing", "Marketing practices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The marketing activities of companies seek to meet the market demands by offering value to consumers. The companies' demands may ultimately focus on their shareholders or, more broadly, on its stakeholders, which includes ...
Management development through self managed learning: the case of West Sussex County Council
[ "Self managed learning", "Strategic management", "Learning contracts", "Reflection" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The Advanced Management Development Programme (AMDP) was introduced by West Sussex County Council, UK, in 1999. The programme runs in partnership with the University of Chichester, which offer a Post Graduate Diploma in Strat...
The corporate communication process between listed companies and financial analysts: A focus on trends and challenges
[ "Corporate communications", "Trend setters", "Information sources", "Information frequency", "Stock markets", "Financial analysis", "Managers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The communication process on the stock market between management teams and financial analysts is interesting to study. Besides being both time and capital consuming for the company, this process requires the management tea...
Derivations of design concepts for video search interfaces
[ "Think-aloud protocol", "Design concepts", "Exploratory video search behaviour", "Learning support", "Quality search", "Video system interfaces" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Finding information to fill knowledge gaps is an human behavior. The easy accessibility and pervasiveness of the internet have made it one of the most important online sources for finding information. Information-seeking b...
Selecting the reliable supplier by using the advisor agents
[ "Reliability", "Suppliers", "Buyers", "Agents" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: One of the main challenges faced by the industries is rapid reconfiguration of purchasing systems to handle rapid change in business environment without human intervention (Alsafi and Vyatkin, 2010). One important criterion o...
Steps toward promoting consistency in educational decisions
[ "Intuition", "Decision making", "Problem solving", "Decision support systems", "Israel" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The decisions made in the field of education are assisted by intuition, common sense and systematic thinking. The literature addresses both the advantages and faults of intuition in making judgments. This article examines the...
Perceptions of care quality and the effect on patient satisfaction
[ "Patient satisfaction", "Healthcare quality", "Multi-year case study" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Service quality and patient satisfaction are key metrics used by healthcare providers in their continuous process improvement efforts. More recently in the USA, healthcare insurers use the results of patient satisfaction s...
Digital athletics in analogue stadiums: Comparing gratifications for engagement between live attendance and online esports spectating
[ "Sports consumption", "Digital culture", "Online games", "Uses and gratifications", "Esports", "Spectating" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The term \"esports\" was coined in the late 1990s (Gestalt, 1999) and first entered academic discussion approximately a decade ago (Wagner, 2006). Esports is defined as a form of sports \"facilitated by electronic systems\", ...
Inevitable knowledge strategy: A paradigm shift in strategic HRM practices to augment firm's performance
[ "Knowledge strategy", "Firm performance", "Organization learning", "Strategic HRM" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: India experienced the historical growth of human resource management (HRM) in different phases, namely, labor welfare (1930s and 1940s); the Factories Act, 1948; the concepts of personnel function in the 1950s, personnel mana...
Surfacing ERP exploitation risks through a risk ontology
[ "Manufacturing resource planning", "Information systems", "Risk management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: As defined by Kumar and Hillegersberg (2000), enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are \"configurable information system packages that integrate information and information-based processes within and across functional...
Clinical governance: an assessment of New Zealand's approach and performance
[ "Assessment", "New Zealand", "Clinical governance", "Survey", "Case studies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As a small country with a unitary political system, policy change often moves quickly in New Zealand with health care policy no exception to this. A simple announcement by the government or health minister can be enough to sp...
In their own words: employee attitudes towards information security
[ "Attitudes", "Information security", "Personal construct psychology", "Social acceptability bias" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Organisations experience security breaches through a wide range of employee actions. Sometimes such actions are malicious, but often, they are inadvertent or occur because security gets in the way of business processes. Ev...
Fifty years of entrepreneurship and SME: a personal view
[ "France", "Entrepreneurialism", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Business development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nFifty years of entrepreneurship research in France - a personal view: Introduction: is France allergic to entrepreneurship?\n1 1955-1965: the \"dark decade\": 1.1 The decline of the pre-modern small business (1955-1960)[...]\n2 1965-1975: ...
The moderating role of 360-degree appraisal between engagement and innovative behaviors
[ "Innovation", "Behaviour", "Engagement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The Gallup organization estimates the cost of disengaged employees to be in the order of billions worldwide. For example, the estimated yearly cost of disengagement in Germany is between EUR75.6bn and EUR99.2bn (Nink, 2016...
The association between health-related individual traits and dairy avoidance
[ "Health behavior", "Health locus of control", "Hypochondriasis", "Dairy avoidance", "Resistance to dairy consumption" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The current era is one of polarization, fake news and the wide spread of misinformation (Zmigrod et al., 2019). In recent years, many websites have been propagating messages related to health issues as the Web 2.0 has given r...
Procedural justice and voice: a group engagement model
[ "Organizational behaviour", "Organizational justice", "Organization-based self-esteem" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Voice, the expression of improvement-oriented ideas, solutions or concerns about work-related issues, has drawn research attention in both Western and non-Western societies in recent years (e.g. Chamberlin et al., 2017; Liang...
Does marital status affect how firms interpret job applicants' un/employment histories?
[ "Discrimination in employment", "Unemployment", "Hiring", "Field experiments", "Internet job boards", "Marital status", "Résumé correspondence audit study" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In this project, a large-scale field experiment is conducted to investigate how firms that advertise their position openings on internet job boards respond to female applicants' un/employment histories and marital status. ...
Health and fitness online communities and product behaviour
[ "Social media", "Community participation", "Product management", "Online community", "Health and fitness products" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Health and fitness products have experienced a \"second boom\" in the past few years, which sheds a new light on the relation of individuals to their health (Millington, 2016) and health-related consumption. This boom, suppor...
The mobile future of university libraries and an analysis of the Turkish case
[ "Academic libraries", "Turkey", "Mobile devices", "Information and communication technologies (ICTs)", "Library items", "Mobile library services", "Mobile research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: According to Helft and Vance, the most important current technologies are those that are wearable and easily portable, rather than those that are desktop-based (Hu and Meier, 2010; Tonta, 1999). The most common current exa...
Understanding relational virtual community members' satisfaction from a social learning perspective
[ "Social media", "Learning", "Satisfaction", "Beliefs", "Relational virtual community" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Learning through the virtual community (VC) is receiving an increasing amount of attention for both researchers and practitioners (Guo et al., 2016; Salehan et al., 2017). Learning refers to the process of knowledge manage...
Gender, knowledge and motivation for wine purchasing
[ "Gender", "Portugal", "Surveys", "Wines", "Structural equation models", "Consumer behaviour", "Subjective knowledge" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The buyer's gender is one factor that significantly influences the decision process when shopping for experience goods (Park et al., 2009). It is considered that, compared to females, males try to accomplish the purchase usin...
Understanding social media governance: seizing opportunities, staying out of trouble
[ "Employee communication", "Reputation management", "Social media governance", "Strategic communication management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The rise of social media has drastically changed the media landscape in organizations (Booth and Matic, 2011; Dekay, 2012; Haigh and Wigley, 2015). For instance, through \"approved\" or \"official\" corporate accounts, social...
Analytical cognitive style moderation on promotion and turnover intention
[ "Analysis", "Promotion", "Turnover intention", "Cognitive style", "Analytical cognitive Style" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: For all employees worldwide, promotion is considered a very important element of the job. In South Africa in private sector universities the procedure for promotion is not adopted as it is adopted properly in public sector un...
Leadership style desired by youth in Asia
[ "Culture", "South Korea", "Leadership", "Youth", "Brunei", "Asian studies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The relationship between leaders and youth has become crucial. As youth perceives leaders as someone who \"bring people together to get things done\" and someone who \"stands up for their beliefs and values\" (O'Connor, 2010)...
Synergy within the West African Triple Helix innovation systems as measured with game theory
[ "Africa", "Innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Africa's share to the world science is negligible, less than 1 per cent (cf. Adams et al., 2010). Indeed, science in Africa is still at its early stage (UNESCO, 2010, 2015); the entire continent annual scientific output is lo...
A holistic approach of quality: a case of UK chocolate manufacturing
[ "Quality control", "Process variation", "Defect reduction", "Chocolate manufacturing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Background of this research: The increasing competitive pressure and customer demands have led companies to focus on new strategies for improving production processes, range of products and product quality in order to satisfy the needs ...
Attaining improved resilience to floods: a proactive multi-stakeholder approach
[ "Decision making", "Floods", "United Kingdom", "Risk analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The floods during June and July 2007 were a wake-up call. The three months from May to July were the wettest since records began and the events that followed have been linked to the deaths of 13 people. They also resulted in ...
The role of alcohol in a sexually motivated situation
[ "Sexual behaviour", "Girls", "Alcoholic drinks", "Finland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Alcohol use and sexual behaviour\nMethod: Participants\nResults: The role of alcohol\nSummary: As a summary of the results, in the \"Everything under control\" narratives, internal self-control appeared to be a quite stable c...
Developing entrepreneurship in Africa: investigating critical resource challenges
[ "Governance", "Credit", "Entrepreneurship", "Electricity", "Quantitative approach", "Contract enforcement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the past three decades, most African countries have experienced positive economic growth, which is encouraging. Despite these positive trends, however, the livelihoods and unemployment conditions of most Africans need mu...
Building and marketing an image in child welfare
[ "Corporate identity", "Corporate image", "Organizational change", "Child welfare" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The privatization of human services has led to many challenges that have impacted social service agencies (Bell-Lowther, 1998). Researchers note various deleterious effects of privatization (Petr and Johnson, 1999). Furman (2...
Characterization of extended-spectrum and CMY-2 ss-lactamases, and associated virulence genes in Escherichia coli from food of animal origin in Mexico
[ "Escherichia coli", "Chicken meat", "CMY-2", "ESBL", "Pork meat", "Virotype" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Escherichia coli is a common inhabitant of the intestinal tract of most animals and humans (Torres, 2016), and can easily contaminate food products of animal origin destined to human consumption (Apata, 2009). These strain...
Return to general education and vocational education & training in Indian context: Policy implications
[ "India", "Vocational education", "Return", "Selection bias" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Until lately, India, when compared with developed and other developing countries, was in a very poor condition in terms of investment and development of vocational and technical education (Debroy, 2009; Tilak, 2002; ILO, 2...
Extending the efficient and responsive supply chains framework to the green context
[ "Comparative study", "Efficient supply chain", "Eco‐efficient supply chain", "Responsive supply chain", "Eco‐responsive supply chain", "POSCO", "SEC", "Supply chain management", "Recycling", "Korea" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the past decade, firms' ability to meet \"green\" demands has become an essential dimension of competition in the global business world (Krugman, 2010). In supply chain contexts, the management of \"green\" issues can ta...
Knowledge management in franchising: a research agenda
[ "Franchising", "Knowledge transfer", "Knowledge management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Knowledge plays a central role in firms' ability to identify opportunities and respond to changes in the business environment. As a result, knowledge transfer and management have emerged as two main areas of interest to pr...
Factors affecting mobile shopping: a Vietnamese perspective
[ "Self-efficacy", "Trust", "Mobile shopping", "TRA", "Perceived risk", "Perceived cost", "M31", "O33" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Mobile devices and technologies have developed significantly in recent years (Hanafizadeh et al., 2014; Malaquias and Hwang, 2016). Based on this platform, mobile applications and business services have proliferated rapidly a...
Researcher proposes five-step framework for integrating displaced populations into the labor markets
[ "Entrepreneurs", "Migrant workers", "Labor market", "Ethnic groups", "Labor mobility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A research paper has used the example of Syrian refugees in Turkey to explore the best ways to overcome the many barriers to integrating displaced populations into labor markets. He proposed an original framework for integrat...
Building maintenance management activities in a public institution
[ "Management", "Case study", "International practice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Naturally, constructions undergo degradation processes, since various building systems have capacities reduced over life cycle (Castro, 2007; Ferreira, 2010; Silva, 2014). The maintenance is a tool to maintain the building...
Knowledge management activities in social enterprises: lessons for small and non-profit firms
[ "Social enterprises", "Knowledge management", "Hybrid organisations", "Knowledge activities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Social enterprises (SEs) are \"businesses that trade to tackle social problems, improve communities, people's life chances, or the environment\" (Social Enterprise UK, 2016). The impact of these organisations has significa...
The impact of supply chain security practices on security operational performance among logistics service providers in an emerging economy: Security culture as moderator
[ "Emerging economy", "Security operational performance", "Supply chain security practices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Supply chain security management is vital to support the organization in safely achieving its business goals and objectives (Sarathy, 2006). Closs and McGarrell (2004, p. 8) defined supply chain security management as \"the a...
The need for more multidisciplinary research
[ "Services marketing", "Service control", "Serials", "Research", "Customer satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In the past five years serving as an editor was a great experience. Knowing that the field of service marketing and management was emerging it was a pleasure to take part in that development by facilitating the communication ...
International differences in job satisfaction: The effects of public service motivation, rewards and work relations
[ "Job satisfaction", "Employee relations", "Employee attitudes", "Performance management", "National cultures" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the past four decades or so, job satisfaction has generated considerable interest among the research community across the globe. Although this research has sometimes produced conflicting findings, and the overall explana...
The effect of job insecurity on employees' job outcomes: the mediating role of job embeddedness
[ "Quitting intentions", "Job embeddedness", "Job insecurity", "Hotel employees", "Service recovery performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Job embeddedness (JE) is a retention (antiwithdrawal) strategy, which enables managers to retain (talented) employees and helps them understand why employees stay (Lee et al., 2004). There are three dimensions of JE, i.e. fit...
Cruise shipping review: operations planning and research opportunities
[ "Itinerary planning", "Cruise ship repositioning", "Cruise shipping", "Ship deployment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Cruise shipping uses a cruise ship or a cruise liner to provide cruise passengers with pleasure voyages. The voyages and the onboard activities bring rich experience and benefits for cruise passengers, as well as the shore...
A learning model of intelligent home
[ "Buildings", "Automation", "Learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The pace of development in intelligent building has become the ever fastest since its birth in the early 1980s. Intelligent buildings in the 1990s were characterized not only with their system controls and integration, but ...
Culture and dental health among African immigrant school-aged children in the United States
[ "Immigrants", "Africa", "Culture", "Dentistry", "Dental system", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is a dearth of scholarly research on the oral health of African immigrants living in the USA. Researchers working on the oral health of these African immigrants have concentrated their efforts on African refugees, espec...
Fit for global customers: how ALTANA mastered the journey to a customer-centric organization
[ "Key account management", "Customer-centricity", "Global business", "Global customers", "One company", "Sales transformation", "Global account management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In 2005, ALTANA started to focus on global customers in response to two developments that were threatening the position of this manufacturer of specialty chemicals for paint and automotive manufacturers, plastic producers and...
Effectuation, an emerging theory of entrepreneurship - towards a mature stage of the development
[ "Entrepreneurship", "Theory development", "Effectuation", "Causation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As interest in entrepreneurship has intensified, so new theoretical perspectives have emerged to explain the entrepreneurial behavior (Leitch et al., 2010; Fisher, 2012). Alternative theoretical perspectives on entrepreneuria...
The moderating effect of personal features on the consequences of an enjoyable co-creation experience
[ "New product development", "Crowdsourcing", "Brand co-creation", "Customer relationship management", "Co-creation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the era of digital transformation and social media, consumers who actively engage in previously firm-dominated domains of value creation have become a reality (Hutter et al., 2013; Schreier et al., 2012; Atakan et al., 201...
Leadership and professional development: the quiet revolution
[ "Professional education", "Academic staff", "Management development", "New Zealand" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Professional development should be a critical concern of leaders and, in the field of educational administration, management and leadership, it has been impacted on by both evolutionary and revolutionary forces. In the last 6...
The library assemblage: creative institutions in an information society
[ "Libraries", "Philosophy", "Information society", "Social justice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: \"There is a whole order of movement in 'institutions' that's independent of both laws and contracts\" (Deleuze, 1995, p. 169).\nEscaping institution: We can use Deleuze's conception of the institution as an intervention into...
A cross-nationally validated decision-making model of environmental coaction
[ "Decision making", "Environment", "Coaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Human-induced climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity. Predictions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2014) suggest that unless drastic cuts are made to CO2 emissions, the inci...
Applications of latent growth curve modeling: a research agenda for hospitality management
[ "Hospitality management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: We can measure \"change,\" and we should!\nIntroduction: Most existing research in hospitality management exclusively uses cross-sectional designs to infer complex social phenomena at multiple time waves. However, when people...
Policing pornography in the workplace: the case of Australia Post
[ "Organizational culture", "Discipline", "Legal matters", "Unfair dismissal" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: For some the workplace is so much fun, where fantasies come alive with worldwide porn via the internet.\n1 The case: Three employees were dismissed for sending a number of e-mails with pornographic content including one with ...
Assessing information security attitudes: a comparison of two studies
[ "Theory of planned behaviour", "Information security (InfoSec)", "InfoSec behaviour", "Repertory grid technique (RGT)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: 1.1 Background\n2. Justification for this research: This current research is motivated by the need to understand the attitudes of employees toward InfoSec behaviours (Ajzen, 1991; McGuire, 1969). This will enable the imple...
Knowledge intensive business services: ambiguities and continuities
[ "Knowledge economy", "Knowledge-intensive business services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This journal featured an essay on \"knowledge-intensive business services\" (KIBS) a little over a decade ago (Miles, 2005; we shall refer to this as f2005 in the following discussion). The terminology of KIBS was then little...
Knowledge-sharing determinants, behaviors, and innovative work behaviors: An integrated theoretical view and empirical examination
[ "Iran", "Theory of planned behaviour", "Knowledge sharing", "Social exchange theory", "Innovative work behaviours", "Social capital theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Knowledge, in the era labeled as knowledge economy, is recognized as a critical asset for organizations to gain competitive advantage and to maintain long-term success.This recognition has encouraged many organizations to ...
Cross-sectional comparison of public-private partnerships in transport infrastructure development in Nigeria
[ "Nigeria", "Critical success factors", "Developing countries", "Partnership", "Procurement", "Private finance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Infrastructure has long been identified as a catalyst for economic growth. The demand for infrastructure development and the maintenance of existing infrastructure caused by economic growth and population increase has in m...
Excessive change and coping in the working population
[ "Change management", "Structural equation modelling", "Managerial psychology", "Organizational change", "Counterproductive work behaviour", "Negative workplace behaviours" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Excessive organizational change is an important challenge for managers and academics alike. Many authors have emphasized that organizations must change frequently and efficiently to deal with the increasing turbulence and ...
Total quality management and innovation: Relationships and effects on performance of agricultural R&D organisations
[ "Total quality management", "Innovation", "Gap scores", "Policy for agricultural R&D organisations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Performance assessment and improvement of agricultural research and development (R&D) organisations is a priority in many countries. As part of the assessment, the organisations are regularly requested for accountability, ...
Financial leverage phenomenon in hospitality industry sub-sector portfolios
[ "Firm-specific factors", "Hospitality industry", "Financial leverage proxies", "Macroeconomic indicators", "Sub-sector portfolios", "Degree of financial leverage" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A basic explanation regarding the financial leverage phenomenon is related to a blend of debt and equity and how firms utilize borrowed money to furnish potential total return in favor of shareholders. This borrowing leads...
Dealing with the knowledge economy: intellectual capital versus balanced scorecard
[ "Balanced scorecard", "Intellectual capital", "Knowledge management", "Performance measurement (quality)", "Performance management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The meagre relationship between accounting cues (earnings and/or book values) and market values provides a dramatic justification not only for the current interest in intellectual capital (Stewart, 1997; Sveiby 1997, Sullivan...
The role of product lean launch in customer relationships and performance in the high-tech manufacturing industry
[ "Lean", "Product launch", "Customer relationship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Outsourcing strategy plays a critical role in the high-tech industry. Gottfredson et al. (2005) suggested that firms focus on their core competencies and outsource other value added activities to suppliers. Consequently, firm...
Perceptions are relative: An examination of the relationship between relative satisfaction metrics and share of wallet
[ "Customer behaviour", "Consumer satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Managers widely believe that customer satisfaction is a fundamental determinant of long-term consumer behavior (Oliver, 1980; Yi, 1990). This widespread acceptance has made customer satisfaction the most widely used metric in...
Influence of personal attributes on perception of residential facilities management services
[ "Hong Kong", "Perception", "Performance evaluation", "Facilities management services", "Personal attributes", "Residential buildings" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In densely populated places, most residential buildings are multi-storey buildings occupied by multiple owners or tenants. The communal areas of these buildings, such as corridors, foyers, staircases, roofs and open spaces (g...
Time and cost constrained optimal designs of multiple step stress tests under progressive censoring
[ "Optimal design", "Tampered failure rate model", "Accelerated life testing", "Cost constraint", "Progressive Type-I censoring", "Step stress" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In reliability analysis, it is not easy to collect lifetimes on highly reliable products with very long lifetimes as very few or even no failures may occur within a limited testing time under normal operating conditions. T...
Being awkward: creating conscious culture change
[ "Leadership", "M&A", "Due diligence", "Communications", "Corporate culture", "Mergers & acquisitions", "Post-merger integration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In the first half of 2014, cross-border deals represented 46.1 per cent of all mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, the highest percentage ever, and with a total value of $724 billion, international M&A is back to pre...
The classification of supplier selection criteria with respect to lean or agile manufacturing strategies
[ "Lean manufacturing", "Agile manufacturing", "Suppliers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Today, businesses are under tremendous pressure to be competitive in their chosen markets. The existing market condition challenges manufacturing firms to strengthen and maintain their capabilities to compete in the marketpla...
Working with the divides: Two critical axes in development for transformative professional practices
[ "Higher education", "Professional development", "Academisation", "ESD competence(s)", "Sustainability transitions", "Whole institution development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As the 2015 climate talks in Paris have reminded us, we are currently witnessing a disturbing deterioration of the global situation, affecting our future prospects at a planetary scale (Rockstrom, 2015). While certain progres...
Lean Six Sigma for the healthcare sector: a multiple case study analysis from the Indian context
[ "Six Sigma", "Lean", "India", "Lean Six Sigma", "Healthcare", "Medical records" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Even though the contribution of the service sector to the Indian and world economy is significant, it faces many challenges (Soni, 2013). The healthcare sector is the world's largest and fastest-growing industry, and India...
Building theory on the negotiation capability of the firm: evidence from Ryanair
[ "Negotiation", "Knowledge management", "Strategy", "Capabilities", "Theory building", "Ryanair" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: 1.1 Research background and gaps\n2. Literature review: the gap at the interplay of strategy and negotiation: We reviewed the two relevant streams of literature - one in strategy and one in negotiation - to try to outline ...
An updated comprehensive review of website evaluation studies in hospitality and tourism
[ "Internet", "Technology led strategy", "Website performance", "E-strategic management strategies", "Hospitality and tourism", "Website evaluation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Since the 1980s, the rapid development of information and communications technology (ICT) has largely changed hospitality and tourism (Ho and Lee, 2007; Ip et al., 2011; Murphy et al., 2016). Operations in hospitality and ...
Implementing competitive strategies: the role of responsive and proactive market orientations
[ "Competitive strategy", "Product differentiation", "Costs", "Market orientation", "Resources" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organising marketing activities in ways that successfully enable business strategy implementation is recognised as one of the most difficult challenges facing managers [...] and researchers know little about how marketing act...
A normative decision-making model for cyber security
[ "Uncertainty", "Decision-making", "Risk analysis", "Perception", "Security", "Awareness", "Rationalisation", "Normative" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Security analysts regularly face the challenge of justifying decisions made under risk and uncertain conditions. Whilst uncertainty stems from various sources such as dynamic conditions and information limitations, complic...
Confucianism, growth and democracy
[ "Confucianism", "Growth", "Democracy", "Two-regime panel threshold model", "O43" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Confucianism is alleged to both promote and inhibit economic development in the economics literature. All possible results - ranging from a significantly positive effect to a significantly negative influence - have been re...
Sources of efficiency changes at Asian container ports
[ "Productivity", "Data envelopment analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Container ports and terminals form an essential component of the modern economy. Containerization since the middle of the twentieth century has largely reduced the transportation cost of international trade, resulting in dram...
Nurturing business ecosystems to deal with industry uncertainties
[ "Business ecosystem", "Emerging industry uncertainty", "Platform strategy", "Mobile computing industry", "Supply chain", "Supply chain management", "Computing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nAbbreviations: 1. OSV (operating system vendor) produces the operating system.2. ISV (independent software vendor) designs the application software running on the specific operating system.3. CP (content provider) provides the service via ...
Post-occupancy evaluation: a review of literature
[ "Knowledge management", "Supply chain management", "Strategic management", "Integrated practice", "Lifestyle costing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations (AECO) sector is responsible for creating and managing the built environment (both buildings and infrastructure) to facilitate human activities (i.e. work, leisure an...
Depoliticised activism? Ambivalence and pragmatism at the COP16
[ "Climate change", "Pragmatism", "Ambivalence", "Activism", "Post-politics", "UNFCCC COP" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: resisting the \"post-politics\" of climate change: The lesson of this feeble climate deal? Governments have played God and failed. It is up to the activists now\nAttempting scholar-activism: In order to explore activism in Ca...
Knowledge management audit framework and methodology based on processes
[ "Knowledge management", "Management audit", "Knowledge engineering" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Along with era of knowledge economy's arrival, the knowledge had already substituted for the traditional elements of production such as land, machinery equipment and so on and become the first element of production. Becaus...
Implementing total quality management (TQM) in the Palestinian construction industry
[ "TQM", "Critical success factors", "Infrastructure", "Construction industry", "Economy", "Project planning", "Palestine", "Gaza strip" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Quality is important in competitive business environments. Like the \"theory of relativity,\" quality is sometimes interpreted as a relative concept that depends on competitive business environments (Dahlgaard et al., 1998...
The global competitiveness of European wine producers
[ "European Union", "Wine industry", "Duration analysis", "Comparative advantages" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Since the 1980s, the traditional dominance of European wine-exporting countries in the world market has been in steady decline as New World wine producers have increased their export. Although countries in the European Uni...
Why do servitized firms fail? A risk-based explanation
[ "Service", "Organizational change", "Servitization", "Operations strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the manufacturing world, services are in vogue. As markets demand greater customization and faster innovation, academic, and management literatures alike suggest that supplementing products with value added services can...
The influence of unilateral supplier transaction-specific investments on international buyer opportunism: empirical findings from local suppliers in China
[ "Transaction-specific investments", "Supplier dependence", "International buyer opportunism", "Contract specificity", "Relationship length", "Cross-border outsourcing", "D22", "F23", "M11", "M16" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Suppliers from emerging economies are playing an increasingly important role in global value chains (GVCs) (Xie and Li, 2018). According to the United Nations' statistics, emerging economies accounted for about 40% of worldwi...
Dynamic safety prewarning mechanism of human-machine-environment using computer vision
[ "Prewarning mechanism", "Human-machine-environment integration", "Grey multihierarchical analysis", "Computer vision" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Safety management has always been a crucial issue in the construction industry. Despite a 0.6231% decrease in fatal construction injuries in the United States since 2015, 20.7% of worker deaths were in construction in 2017...
Communication key as Mapa gets a wiki: "Non-techie" staff unfazed by IT innovation
[ "Knowledge management systems", "Business development", "Benchmarking", "Knowledge sharing", "Communication" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The workforce could be counted on the fingers of one hand and not a technical expert among them. That was the situation at Mapa, a UK-based competitor-analysis agency for online financial services - a company that helps other...