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Exploring the ROI in leadership development: a global energy company case study
[ "Leadership development", "Return on investment", "Action learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Leadership development and training programs continue to be a staple of organizations large and small despite considerable problems in demonstrating that they are worth the costs. Compared to demonstrating return on investmen...
Barnard's model of decision making: a historical predecessor of image theory
[ "Chester Barnard", "Image theory", "Decision making", "Management theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: While I was working with William Scott on our Barnard papers the image theory work was going on at the same time. So, I'm sure there was spillover in terms of ideas. But, I do not think Lee (Beach) and I explicitly talked abo...
Economic development and channel evolution in The People's Republic of China
[ "China", "Channel flow", "Economic development", "Government policy", "Marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between economic development and channel structure. A number of studies have raised the proposition that a country's distribution channel structure is a function of e...
Introducing a multimedia course to enhance health professionals' skills to facilitate communities of practice : Experiences of the first cohort of course participants
[ "Networks", "Technology", "Qualitative research", "Communication", "Open learning", "Continuing professional development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Health professionals who exchange information and learn new ways to practice as they interact with trusted colleagues function as communities of practice (COP) (Aveling et al., 2012). COP are defined as groups of people who s...
Entrepreneurial intention of Danish students: a correspondence analysis
[ "Denmark", "Students", "Correspondence analysis", "Entrepreneurial education", "Entrepreneurial intention" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The importance of entrepreneurial activity as a driver of employment opportunities (technological), innovation and national as well as international competitiveness has been widely acknowledged (Nabi and Linan, 2013; Wenneker...
When social media traumatizes teens: The roles of online risk exposure, coping, and post-traumatic stress
[ "Coping", "Post-traumatic stress disorder", "Cyberbullying", "Online privacy", "Online safety", "Online sexual solicitation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Most adolescents use social media daily (Lenhart et al., 2010), which necessitates an examination of the potential \"dark side\" of social media use for teens. Adolescent internet use has been associated with decreased wel...
The long-term linkages between direct and indirect property in Australia
[ "ARFIMA", "Cointegration", "Commercial property indices", "De-smoothing", "Granger causality", "REITs", "A-REITs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Australian property has emerged as an important asset class in the investment mandate of both local and international investors. By December 2012, the total market value of the Australian commercial property market was est...
Financial mechanism for the relief expenditure in India: some observations
[ "India", "Natural disasters", "National economy", "Emergency measures", "Capital expenditure" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: India is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. The location and geographical features render it vulnerable to a number of natural hazards such as cyclone, drought, floods, earthquakes, landslides etc. (see Ta...
Rhetoric, narrative and management: learning from Mad Men
[ "Management", "Rhetoric", "Narrative", "Kenneth Burke", "Mad Men", "Richard Lanham" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: persuasive rhetoric and narratives: The conferences on \"Rhetoric and narratives in management research\" and the related publications highlight the importance of research on \"the interpretation of situations, the creation o...
Typology of university students regarding attitudes towards food waste
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Factor analysis", "Food waste", "Attitude surveys", "Young people", "Cluster analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Food safety, environmental issues, food prices and the discussion about concerns about hunger have increased the attention to food waste in the last years (Glanz, 2008; Gjerris and Gaiani, 2013). Food waste means that valuabl...
CGIJ review
[ "Organizational learning", "Organizational development for effective clinical governance", "Accreditation", "Continuous quality improvement", "Clinical effectiveness", "Emerging healthcare delivery structures" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nDoes hospital accreditation improve the quality of care: Turkish nurses' views: Accreditation of hospitals to meet international standards for care is a significant component in the improvement of healthcare standards worldwide. Hospital a...
A classification framework for facilities and real estate management: The Built Environment Management Model (BEM2)
[ "Built environment", "Facility management", "Real estate", "Process taxonomy", "Building information modelling", "Maturity models", "Taxonomy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Facility and Real Estate Management (FM/RE) activities contribute to about 5-10 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) of advanced industrialized countries. The total value of FM activity, including support services, is ...
Looking out or looking up: gender differences in expatriate turnover intentions
[ "MNCs", "International assignments", "Turnover intentions", "Female expatriate", "Female talent" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the past few decades, women have made much progress in the traditionally male-dominated corporate world, with their increasing representation in the talent pool at the entry level. However, women's representation in seni...
Guideline development from an observational study
[ "Clinical governance", "France" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction, background and context: Clinical practice guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist physicians in their decision-making (Woolf, 1992). Although guideline development processes have improved over the past se...
Modeling critical failures maintenance: a case study for mining
[ "Maintenance", "Modelling", "Simulation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: In this paper we deal with a critical failure of a system, which is presented during a certain finite time of equipment specific operating conditions. Criteria to assess criticality of a failure can be very diverse: mainten...
A critical multimodal framework for reading and analyzing pedagogical materials
[ "Critical literacy", "English teaching", "New literacies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The prevalence of multiple semiotic resources in current communicative practices has gradually led to the increasing emphasis on teaching and researching multimodal literacies from a critical perspective (Ajayi, 2015; Albers,...
Tomato attributes and consumer preferences - a consumer segmentation approach
[ "Sustainability", "Regional", "Food choice", "Latent class", "Choice experiment", "Climate-friendly", "Breeding" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: To choose one tomato over another may seem easy, but food choice is in fact complex because it is influenced by previous experience, beliefs, available information and the situation (Steptoe et al., 1995). Moreover, food c...
Talk it (Racism) out: race talk and organizational learning
[ "Organizational learning", "Language", "Race", "Secondary schools" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Education researchers use a range of terms and concepts to describe the communication processes that individuals and groups use to grapple with race, racism and racial identities. For the purpose of this study, we use \"race ...
Moderation effect of organizational citizenship behavior on the performance of lecturers
[ "Performance", "Organizational commitment", "Job satisfaction", "Organizational citizenship behavior", "Personality", "Moderation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Improvement of human resources (HR) will determine the progress of a nation because the government is concentrating its attention on the development of HR. Government is concentrating in accordance with Indonesian Governme...
Lessons for successful BOP marketing from Caracas' slums
[ "South America", "Marketing strategy", "International marketing", "Disadvantaged groups" ]
[ { "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: The \"bottom of the pyramid\" proposition (Prahalad, 2004) brought back the old idea (Drucker, 1958) that marketing...
Stock ownership as a motivation of brand-loyal and brand-supportive behaviors
[ "Shareholders", "Brand loyalty", "Customer loyalty", "Repeat buying", "Investors" ]
[ { "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: Traditionally, individuals' consumption behaviors (e.g. product purchases and uses) and investment behaviors (...
The campus environmental management system cycle in practice: 15 years of environmental management, education and research at Dalhousie University
[ "Environmental management", "Education", "Research", "Canada" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 1991, Dalhousie University hosted the Conference on University Action for Sustainable Development in which one of the outcomes was the Halifax Declaration (Jenks-Clarke, 1992). This declaration built upon the Talloires Dec...
How employee training can better impact on job performance: Supervisor support is the catalyst
[ "Supervisor support", "Motivation", "Job performance", "Learning programs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nThe importance of organizational learning: Employee development is deemed critical in respect of more effective completion of daily tasks and the firm's ongoing progress. No wonder that training is becoming increasingly viewed in strategic...
An analysis of interlibrary loan services: a case study of a university in South Africa
[ "Universities", "Document delivery", "Interlending", "Document supply", "Resource sharing", "Interlibrary" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Libraries have long realized that \"no library is an island\" meaning that no matter how big the size or budget or amount of resources a library may have, it cannot meet all the possible needs of its users independently. T...
Public procurement of consulting services: Evidence and comparison with private companies
[ "Procurement", "Management consultancy", "Public sector organizations", "Private sector organizations", "Customer satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The public sector is increasingly operating in an environment defined by marketing principles and directed by business forces. This means that, to a certain extent, the public sector has to grapple with converting private sec...
Reducing queues: demand and capacity variations
[ "Care pathways", "Efficiency", "Lean thinking", "Management", "Organizational change", "Process management", "Sweden", "Health services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: Accessibility is considered by many experts to be an important service quality dimension and at the same time a never-ending dilemma for several healthcare providers (Institute of Medicine (IOM), 2001). One important health ser...
Leadership and organizational patterns in the Daodejing
[ "Daodejing", "Leadership", "Self‐organization", "Self development", "Sustainability", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Daodejing (commonly transcribed as Tao Te Ching or Tao Te King; below also abbreviated as DDJ) adopts a systemic approach to sustainability that resonates with the needs of today as the world faces a shortage of leaders w...
Impact of service failure severity and agreeableness on consumer switchover intention: Mediating role of consumer forgiveness
[ "Agreeableness", "Consumer forgiveness", "Service failure severity", "Services industry", "Switchover intention" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Hung-Che Wu (2014) stated that service quality significantly influences perceived value while perceived value is main determinant of customer satisfaction that affects behavioral intentions. It is because the cost of attracti...
Juggling on the line: Front line managers and their management of human resources in the retail industry
[ "Employee relations", "Line managers", "Human resource management", "Retail", "Front line managers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper sets out to examine the interplay between the role of front line managers' (FLMs) and their implementation of employee relations (ER) and human resource management (HRM). The importance of studying line managers is...
Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) and its application in analyzing factors inhibiting implementation of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
[ "ISM", "Barriers", "Implementation", "TPM", "Digraph", "Interrelationship", "Inhibiting factors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Understanding TPM: Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a philosophy to enhance an organization's productivity and produce high quality goods by minimizing waste thereby reducing costs (Poduval et al., 2013). The main emphasis in TPM i...
Value-added statement as a trigger to organizational unlearning
[ "Organizational unlearning", "Stakeholders approach", "Unlearning process", "Value-added statement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizational unlearning is the ability to question and discard existing knowledge to accommodate new learning. Unlearning is vital because sometimes learning promotes rigidity. Organizations learn by encoding past success f...
Simulation based method considering design for additive manufacturing and supply chain: An empirical study of lamp industry
[ "Simulation", "Design for additive manufacturing", "Decision support system", "Design for supply chain" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Additive manufacturing (AM) is a rapid prototyping (RP) technology that produces a 3D part by laying shapes of material layers. It first appeared in the 1980's (Campbell et al., 2012), and was utilized to generate mold mod...
Collection building in academic libraries in India: status, challenges and way forward
[ "India", "Acquisition", "Library automation", "Libsys", "Virtua", "Library software package" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Libraries in India have witnessed automation very late in comparison to the developed world. Notably, central universities in India have first introduced computer and software for creation of library database[1][2]. There ...
Framing stress and associated behaviours at work: An ethnography study in the United Kingdom
[ "Construction", "Constructions education", "Construction safety" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The study of stress among construction workers is widespread and has produced a high number of surveys, research studies, reports and case studies (e.g. Leung et al., 2010, 2014; Bowen et al., 2013, 2014). As the literature h...
Union for the Mediterranean: how realistic an exercise in foresight?
[ "European Union", "North Africa", "South Asia", "Pollution control", "International business" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: [La Mediterranee, c'est] non pas un paysage, mais d'innombrables paysages. Non pas une mer, mais une succession de mers. Non pas une civilisation, mais plusieurs civilisations.[The Mediterranean is] not a landscape, but count...
Building knowledge through action systems, process leadership and organizational learning
[ "Learning organizations", "Teambuilding", "Knowledge creation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other (John F. Kennedy, 22 November, 1963).The notion of \"organizational learning\" is overemphasized in much of the management literature. Because of the complexity involved...
Style and substance: a case study of the expansion of mature business-to-business relationships in the Italian clothing industry
[ "Relationship management", "Clothing industry", "Transaction cost economics", "Intention to expand a business relationship", "Mature business relationship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Maintaining and developing business relationships is of critical importance, as relationships with customers along the value chain can help foster market effectiveness and ultimately affect firms' profitability. Evidence i...
What is the state of hospitality and tourism research - 2018?
[ "Knowledge management", "Publishing", "Hospitality and tourism research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: This commentary is based on observations of a tourism academic who has almost 30 years of experience in the field.\nIntroduction: How much do we really know about hospitality and tourism? This question was asked by John Tribe...
Synergistic effect of lean practices on lead time reduction: mediating role of manufacturing flexibility
[ "Lean manufacturing", "Flexibility", "Lead time", "Complementarity", "Contingency", "PLS-MGA" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In today's globally competitive market, the top priority of businesses is to satisfy customers. The higher the customer satisfaction, the higher their loyalty, which subsequently could increase their purchases. To stay compet...
Information technology-enabled intrapreneurship culture and firm performance
[ "Communication technologies", "Innovation", "Business performance", "Entrepreneurialism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Investment in innovation has become a strategic imperative for firms that wish to compete successfully in their sector. Given the importance attributed to information technology (IT) resources in facilitating firm innovatio...
The spiritual worker: An examination of the ripple effect that enhances quality of life in- and outside the work environment
[ "Workplace", "Transformational leadership", "Organizations", "Quality of life" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: One of the prominent questions that keep arising when discussing the topic of spirituality in the workplace is how to establish this phenomenon when the average organizational environment, by definition, leans more toward tox...
Global learning for sustainable development in higher education: recent trends and a critique
[ "Sustainable development", "Learning", "Teaching", "Higher education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Education for sustainable development (ESD) has been one of the top priorities in national policy documents and on the global agenda since the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. It was again brought to the forefront of internationa...
Microencapsulation of natural vanilla (Vanilla planifolia) extract in b-cyclodextrin by using kneading method
[ "Stability", "Cyclodextrin", "Microencapsulation", "Microencapsulation efficiency", "Natural vanilla extract" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Vanilla (Vanilla planifolia) is a tropical, flowering, and climbing plant, which is a member of Orchidaceae family, only specie that can be used for human consumption. Vanilla beans or pods are mainly used as flavoring age...
An empirical investigation of the prevalence of spyware in internet shareware and freeware distributions
[ "Data security", "Computer software", "Internet", "Privacy", "Marketing strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As the internet permeates almost every aspect of our daily lives, many argue that the benefits of its use are diminished by threats to personal privacy (O'Neil, 2001). One controversial technology utilized on the internet ...
Lot sizing, preventive maintenance, and warranty decisions for imperfect production systems
[ "Preventive maintenance", "Warranties", "Lot size", "Numerical analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The classical economic production quantity (EPQ) model (Nahmias, 1997; Silver et al., 1998) assumes that the output of the production system is defect-free. Rosenblatt and Lee (1986) have found that when the production pro...
Factors affecting Halal meat purchase intention: Evidence from international Muslim students in China
[ "China", "Trust", "Self-identity", "Dietary acculturation", "Halal meat", "Moral obligation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The word Halal is derived from Arabic (in Arabic: Hll; in Chinese: Qingzhen Cai Qing Zhen Cai ) and it refers to the Islamic belief. It is practiced by Muslims and it is defined as things or actions permitted by the Shariah (...
Tweeting #Leaders: Social media communication and retweetability of Fortune 1000 chief executive officers on Twitter
[ "Twitter", "Social media", "Micro-blogging", "Corporate leaders", "Executive communication", "Information forwarding" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The social media presence of a chief executive officer (CEO) adds value to their organization's corporate reputation by potentially providing an influential voice online. Having the CEO of an organization engage with the p...
Taking account of what young women want from school sex education: Two groups from Scotland and Uganda
[ "Women, Sex education, Uganda, Scotland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Worldwide, young women are particularly vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV and unwanted pregnancies. But the situation is far less favourable for girls in low-income countries such as Uganda. Uganda has...
Lebanese perceptions of the glass ceiling
[ "Lebanon", "Women in management", "Gender discrimination", "Glass ceiling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Women have made enormous progress in entering the job market, as they currently account for 35 percent of the workforce, globally; yet their representation in top-level managerial positions in business remains nominal at 24 p...
The mediate effect of learning and knowledge on organizational performance
[ "Human resource management", "Organizational analysis", "Knowledge management", "Organizational performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: In recent years, the rapid advancement of technology has been accelerating a global transformation of the competitive environment. This technological revolution signals the dawn of a new era. Thus, traditional organizationa...
An empirical investigation of workplace factors affecting lean performance
[ "Training", "Organizational culture", "Knowledge acquisition", "Lean production (LP)", "Workplace practices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The lean concept originates from the Toyota Production System (TPS), a manufacturing philosophy, which initially was implemented by the Japanese engineers Taiichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo (Inman, 1999; Ono, 1988). Traditionally...
The emergence of an accounting practice: The fabrication of a government accrual accounting system
[ "Public sector", "Accrual accounting", "Fabrication", "Artefact", "Controversies", "Fact" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper addresses an important issue in the NPM reforms of the past few decades: the implications for governments of adopting business-like principles of accounting practice, notably by the adoption of accrual accounting. ...
Development of sustainable assessment criteria for building materials selection
[ "Building materials selection", "Sustainable criteria", "Architects and designers", "Building industry", "Architecture", "Construction industry", "Sustainable development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The building industry is a vital element of any economy but has a significant impact on the environment. The construction, fit-out, operation and ultimate demolition of buildings is a huge factor of human impact on the env...
Core entrepreneurial competencies of students in departments of electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS) in universities
[ "College students", "Practicum", "Entrepreneurial competency", "University of technology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Technical and vocational education has a profound influence on Taiwan's economic development and social development. From the early agricultural society, industrial manufacturing, to the era with an emphasis on digital con...
Perceived managerial and leadership effectiveness in Mexico and the USA: A comparative study of effective and ineffective managerial behaviour
[ "Mexico", "USA", "Culture", "Managerial behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The economic relationship between Mexico and the USA (US) is remarkably important. Mexico is the third largest commercial partner of the USA just after Canada and China, with a total trade estimated at $579.7bn in 2016. The s...
Does e-readiness of citizens ensure better adoption of government's digital initiatives? A case based study
[ "Principal component analysis", "E-government", "Technology adoption", "E-readiness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Government of India during FY 2015/2016 earmarked USD394.84 million (Major Programmes under Central Plan, Budget 2015/2016, 2015) for the \"Digital India\" programme. The e-governance spending were in the tune of USD40.90 ...
Exploring the interactions among factors impeding the diffusion of prefabricated building technologies: Fuzzy cognitive maps
[ "Innovation", "Technology", "Construction", "Simulation", "Approach" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Buildings worldwide account for more than 40 percent of the global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and generate various environmental impacts (Darko et al., 2017; Pons and Wadel, 2011; Zhou et al., 2017). Prefabricated buildin...
Mission statements: what university research parks tell us about timing
[ "Mission statement", "Creation strategy", "Formulation strategy", "Knowledge and technology transfer organizations", "Research parks", "URP" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A mission statement is a declaration of an organization's reason for being that reveals what the organization wants to be and who it wants to serve (David, 1989). In other words, mission statements specify an organization's p...
Dynamic product line for Business Process Management
[ "Software product line", "Dynamic product line", "Service-oriented computing", "BPM lifecycle", "Dynamic processes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The current complexity of organizations as well as the competitive market have required dynamism from the Information Technology (IT) in order to provide technical solutions to conduct business (Overby et al., 2006). In th...
Making anticipatory systems more robust
[ "Innovation", "Change management", "Environmental management", "Communication technologies", "Complexity theory", "Governance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Anticipation, systems and robustness: When it comes to applying Rosen's anticipatory system perspective to social systems and macro change dynamics, the question is not to decide whether Rosen's proposal is the most appropriate one or t...
Assessing future travel demand: a need to account for non-transport technologies?
[ "Travel", "Transport", "Social norms", "Social processes", "Non‐transport technologies", "Unintended consequences", "Future travel demand" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world (James Fenimore Cooper)In this paper we...
Living beyond one's means: evidence from Malaysia
[ "Consumer credit", "Financial distress", "Financial behaviour", "Financial attitude", "Financial knowledge", "Household debt" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: One of the basic tenets of sound personal financial management is the ability to live within one's means. To do so, individuals must ensure their living costs do not exceed their income. When people live beyond their means...
Benchmarking with data envelopment analysis: a return on asset perspective
[ "Data envelopment analysis", "Benchmarking", "Variable selection", "Return on assets", "Performance measures" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Selecting pertinent variables is critical for analyzing data and affects the validity of a study. Choosing variables for data envelopment analysis (DEA) is not an exception. What variables and why they are selected should b...
Investigating the perceptions of Iranian employees on teleworking
[ "Teleworking", "Information technology", "Exploratory analysis", "Benefits and barriers", "Iran", "Individual perception", "Public sector organizations", "National cultures" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Telework - moving the work to the workers instead of the workers to work - is a term originated by researcher Jack Niles more 30 years ago (http://jala.com/definitions.php). It, often referred to as telecommuting, occurs wher...
A taxonomy of performance shaping factors for shield tunnel construction
[ "Human error", "Performance shaping factors", "Safety behaviour", "Shield tunnel construction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Shield tunnel construction (STC) is the most widely used construction method in current tunneling construction. STC is a complex, dynamic and high-risk process. The relationship among human being, machine and environment i...
The impact of exposure to missionaries on the English language proficiency and earnings of immigrants in the USA
[ "Earnings", "Immigrants", "Missionaries", "Protestant", "English language", "Schooling", "American Community Survey", "Catholic", "Proficiency" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Recent research shows that missionary activity of different denominations matters in their effect on economic outcomes within a developing country, but the economic impact of missionary denomination on outcomes of immigran...
Comparing the research-practice gap in management accounting: A view from professional accounting bodies in Australia and Germany
[ "Management accounting research", "Rigour", "Relevance", "Research-practice gap" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not (Albert Einstein).\n2. The need for a theoretical framework?: Numerous academics from a diverse range of applied disciplines have articulated their obs...
Sequential auction based parking space sharing and pricing mechanism in the era of sharing economy
[ "Sharing economy", "Market design theory", "Parking space allocation", "Sequential auction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper is motivated by searching for available parking spaces in big cities during regular working time. Obviously, finding a parking space in peak hours is always a big headache to almost all car drivers. Some studies...
Invisible communication: a challenge to established marketing communication
[ "Brand management", "Marketing communications", "Invisible communication", "Relationship communication", "Service‐dominant logic" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In traditional marketing communication the company is seen as the driver and director of the creation of meaning concerning corporate and brand images. Schultz (2006), a proponent of integrated marketing communication (IMC), ...
Learning and performance journeys
[ "Learning", "Performance management", "Corporate strategy", "Training" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nLearning - a lever of performance: Throughout the past two decades training has sought to \"justify\" the investment in training programs; doing so all too often from a pure training perspective. The specialist roles within training have h...
Determinants of consumers' intention to adopt mobile banking services in Zimbabwe
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Innovation adoption", "Behavioural intention", "Technology adoption", "Zimbabwe", "Mobile banking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Increased global competition in the banking sector has spurred banks to devise innovative ways to outwit competition (Alalwan et al., 2016; Cudjoe et al., 2015; Koksal, 2016). As such, banks have embraced new technologies tha...
Unseen: the sexual harassment of low-income women in America
[ "Gender", "Feminism", "MeToo movement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Although sexual harassment has been documented since at least the Industrial Revolution (Bularzik, 1978), it was only in the last quarter of the twentieth century that the issue reached public awareness, first as a joke, then...
Top management commitment, corporate social responsibility and green human resource management: A Malaysian study
[ "Sustainability", "Corporate social responsibility", "Emerging economy", "Top management commitment", "Green human resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Managing corporate environmental sustainability is a complex task, and can be considered one of the major challenges faced by organisations (Dubey et al., 2015). It has become imperative for any organisation not only to ac...
Hospital service quality and patient loyalty: the mediation effect of empathy
[ "Service quality", "Empathy", "Hospital management", "Patient loyalty" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The healthcare system in Asia has attracted worldwide attention from both researchers and practitioners in recent years (Wen et al., 2008; Cheng, 2015; Mok et al., 2013). Research in industrial marketing, however, has not eng...
"Involuntary self-employment" as a public policy issue: a cross-country European review
[ "Self employed workers", "Involuntary actions", "Industrial relations", "Public policy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The movement towards vertical de-integration, outsourcing and the use of new technologies are increasingly contributing to an erosion of conventional organisational structures and working arrangements (Beck, 2000; Boyle, 1994...
The new me or the me I'm proud of? Impact of objective self-awareness and standards on acceptance of cosmetic procedures
[ "Motivation", "Emotions", "Acceptance of cosmetic procedures", "Body image", "Objective self-awareness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Unlike most other species, humans experience self-awareness and perform self-evaluation (Silvia and Phillips, 2004). Focusing attention on the self (i.e. the state of objective self-awareness [OSA]) leads to judging oneself a...
The effect of climate information in pastoralists' adaptation to climate change: A case study of Rwenzori region, Western Uganda
[ "Uganda", "Climate change adaptation", "Climate information", "Indigenous forecasts", "Pastoralists", "Scientific forecasts", "Indigenous knowledge" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Despite access to climate information and implementation of sedentary pastoral development interventions such as the construction of valley dams and boreholes (Muchuru and Nhamo, 2017), pastoralists are still vulnerable to...
Organizational change capacity: the systematic development of a scale
[ "Organizational change", "Change management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Studies have shown that approximately 70 percent of planned organizational change initiatives fail. One of the primary causes for these failures is the lack of reliable and valid diagnostic instruments to assess and track an ...
Region of origin and its importance among choice factors in the wine-buying decision making of consumers
[ "Wines", "Consumer behaviour", "Country of origin", "Brands", "Decision making", "Australia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Increasing competition in domestic and global wine markets means there is a growing need for Australian wine producers to become more sophisticated marketers of their products and develop a better understanding of the need...
Consumer attitudes towards local wines in an emerging region: a segmentation approach
[ "Market segmentation", "Consumer behavior", "Wines", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Wine consumers today are presented with a bewildering selection of varietals and brands of both domestic and imported products. In addition, wine has been driven forward by opportunities in continuously growing emerging wine ...
Internet marketing research in hospitality and tourism: a review and journal preferences
[ "Research", "Internet marketing", "Correspondence analysis", "Hospitality and tourism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Marketing research in hospitality and tourism constitutes a major topic in both fields and have been growing steadily over the past three decades (Yoo et al., 2011), partially because it has been addressing a number of change...
Low carbon retrofit: attitudes and readiness within the social housing sector
[ "Sustainable retrofit, Social housing, Strategy, Drivers and Barriers, Housing, United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Modernisation, retrofit and refurbishment are used interchangeably in the literature (Bell and Lowe, 2000; Hong et al., 2009; Kelly, 2009; Jenkins, 2010; Reeves et al., 2010) to describe the upgrade of a property's physical c...
How CSR impact meaning of work and dysfunctional customer behavior
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Emotional exhaustion", "Dysfunctional customer behavior" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 1983, Hochschild first introduced the concept of emotional labor which requires frontline service employees (FSEs) to manage their own emotions while producing organizationally desired emotions in order to deliver quality ...
Moral conflicts in project-based learning in ISD
[ "Learning", "Information systems", "Ethics", "Project management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Success in information systems development (ISD) projects is heavily dependent on the project manager and the project team (Jurison, 1999; Hartman and Ashrafi, 2002). Research on ISD project teams has been carried out from ...
The impact of representation media on customer engagement in tourism marketing among millennials
[ "Telepresence", "Virtual reality", "Flow", "Customer engagement", "Enjoyment", "Online travel purchase" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The tourism sector is one where the experience is truly important (Williams, 2006). Due to this experiential nature, consumers not only wish to gather information on the physical destination characteristics and inspiration...
Optimizing efficiency-robustness trade-offs in supply chain design under uncertainty due to disruptions
[ "Scenario planning", "Robustness and resiliency", "Supply chain design", "Network design", "Complex networks", "Mathematical programming", "Supply chain management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: General Motors suffered heavy losses in first quarter of 2008, as their key supplier, American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. and The United Auto workers went on strike for a period of 11 weeks. The strike cost the au...
The political economy of CSR in Western Europe
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Political economy", "Social welfare policy", "Europe" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the last decade, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has risen steadily higher on the international agenda. Large West European and North American multinational companies are now finding it necessary to develop CSR pro...
Universities' contributions to social innovation: reflections in theory & practice
[ "Innovation", "Tacit knowledge" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is growing interest in understanding universities' contributions to territorial development (Huggins and Johnston, 2009), reflecting an acknowledgement that cities' development is increasingly shaped by knowledge proces...
I'm worth it or I need it? Self-gift giving and consumers' self-regulatory mindset
[ "Mindset", "Prevention focus", "Promotion focus", "Self regulation", "Self-gift" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the context of current materialistic lifestyles, consumption is viewed as a means in the pursuit of happiness and the good life (Belk, 1985; Richins and Dawson, 1992). Consumers are increasingly self-oriented in their purc...
Attention and past behavior, not security knowledge, modulate users' decisions to login to insecure websites
[ "Information security", "Mechanical Turk", "Browser login", "Human subjects research", "Security expertise" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Users on the internet are regularly confronted with complex security decisions that can affect their privacy. They must decide whether it is safe to enter their username, password, credit card details and other personal in...
Organizational socialization: the missing link between employee needs and organizational culture
[ "Socialization", "Organizational culture", "Employee behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A major concern of every organization is how well its employees fit into it because a great deal of time, money, and effort are invested in preparing employees for their jobs. Concern has even been raised regarding hiring dis...
Citizen feedback as a tool for continuous improvement in local bodies
[ "Continuous improvement", "Policy making", "Accountability", "Citizen complaints handling", "Citizen feedback" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Legitimizing choices in public administration (PA) assume complex contours in concomitance with an ongoing financial crisis, forcing public institutions to maintain current service levels while facing reduced economic and hum...
Measuring trust and commitment in collective actions: Evidence from farmers' marketing organizations in rural Ethiopia
[ "Cooperatives", "Trust", "Social capital", "Choice experiment", "Collective action" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Trust is a psychological state embracing the intention to accept vulnerability based upon positive expectations of the intentions or behaviors of others (Rousseau et al., 1998). As others have noted (Colquitt et al., 2007; Fe...
Subjective well-being, knowledge sharing and individual innovation behavior: The moderating role of absorptive capacity
[ "Knowledge sharing", "Absorptive capacity", "Subjective well-being", "Innovation behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Innovation is the novel recombination of knowledge that an individual possesses and new knowledge that they obtain, which enables enterprises to seek new opportunities and exploit existing opportunities more efficiently (M...
Culture, religion and social capital: evidence from European regions
[ "Europe", "Culture", "Social capital", "Religion" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Social capital has been actively dealt with in the literature over the past decades and the sources of social capital have been widely discussed in the literature, especially at the individual level. However, social capita...
Voters' information behaviour when using political actors' web sites during the 2011 Scottish Parliament election campaign
[ "Information behaviour", "Election campaigns", "Political parties", "Candidates", "Internet", "Social media", "Twitter", "Facebook", "Scotland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In May 2011, the Scottish National Party (SNP) swept to power in the Scottish Parliament elections, winning 69 of the 129 available seats with a 45.4 per cent share of the constituency votes and a 44 per cent share of the reg...
Will normal-sized female models in advertisements be viewed as positively as small-sized models?
[ "Normal‐sized model", "Small‐sized model", "Instructional frame", "Adaptation‐level theory", "Brands", "Attractiveness", "Women" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: 1.1 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder\n2. Theoretical background and hypotheses: 2.1 The instructional frame and model evaluation of new brands\n3. Study 1: 3.1 Pretest\n4. Study 2: While study 1 provided empirical evid...
The role of budget speech: a Malaysian Government study
[ "Malaysia", "Government", "Hybrid", "Governmentality", "Budgeting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The aim of this paper is to explore the role of annual budget speech in the \"articulation\" of ways in which the government manages the economic and social life (Hopwood, 1984). Drawing on Miller and Rose (1990) and Miller e...
Teachers: emotional intelligence, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment
[ "Emotional intelligence", "Job satisfaction", "Organizational commitment", "Teachers", "Iran" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is evidence indicating that most teachers in most school systems are not satisfied with their jobs, moreover, there is high turnover or drop-in-drop-out syndrome among the teachers. It is also evident that people join t...
HRM spreads word to the world: When culture and country affect company
[ "Cross‐cultural management", "Human resource management", "International business", "International human resource management", "Leadership", "Multinationals", "Talent retention", "Transitional companies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nGood practice and fairness understood across continents: Wherever a company is based or wherever it employs people, there are some simple \"givens\" which are understood by all nationalities and cultures at all levels of a good organizatio...