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Completing a PhD in business and management: A brief guide to doctoral students and universities
[ "Business and management", "Doctoral research", "Doctorate in business administration (DBA)", "PhD", "Publication strategy", "Rigour and quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A PhD degree is now almost mandatory to get short-listed for an academic job in a business/management school. Although definite statistics are hard to come by, it is safe to assume that thousands of students embark upon a ...
There is no there without a library
[ "Community", "Diversity", "Libraries", "Outreach", "Cultural", "Essential" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This writer once received a phone call from a gentleman identifying himself as the president of a public library board. As the Associate Director of a library consortium supporting services to many public and academic librari...
Convergence between performance and amateur management of a social organisation
[ "Performance management", "Nonprofit", "Multiplicity of practices", "Social organizations", "Unique features" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Nonprofit organisations play an increasingly relevant role in today's society. Unlike companies that focus on market values, nonprofit organisations seek to fulfil a social mission. The aim of nonprofit institutions is to ...
Do multi-stakeholder initiatives make for better CSR?
[ "Legitimacy", "Global Governance", "Stakeholder engagement", "CSR initiative", "Market maturity", "Multi-stakeholder" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been globally discussed and popularized over the past couple of decades. CSR is basically defined as a responsible business to incorporate social and environmental concerns into th...
Performance measurement, intellectual capital and financial sustainability
[ "Competitiveness", "Performance measurement", "Accounting and finance", "Knowledge management", "Intellectual capital", "Financial sustainability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the knowledge economy, intellectual capital (IC), because of its changeable and wide-ranging dynamic nature, has become the main mechanism in a company's capacity to stand out from its competitors (Brooking, 1996; Edvin...
Linking physicians' medical practice information needs, resources and barriers to job satisfaction: A moderated mediation model
[ "Job satisfaction", "Moderated mediation", "Mediation model", "Information-related barriers", "Medical practice information needs", "Online scholar resources", "Resources and barriers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Medical doctors of all specialties, within their everyday working environment, encounter a wide variety of information needs surrounding their key professional activities that support the quality of clinical decisions, saf...
Factors affecting awareness of preparedness after moderate earthquakes: An analysis of the Pohang earthquake in Korea
[ "Willingness to pay", "Earthquake experience", "Induced earthquake", "Moderate earthquakes", "Normalcy bias" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Korea has been relatively safe from earthquakes over the past decades. However, anxiety about earthquake risk grew after the 2016 Gyeongju earthquake (M 5.8), Korea's most severe earthquake since official recordkeeping beg...
Analysis of interactions between IT and organisational resources in a manufacturing organisation using cross-impact analysis
[ "IT business value", "Systems theory", "Interactions", "Cross-impact analysis", "IS/IT resources", "Resource-based theory (RBT)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The resource-based view or, more recently, resource-based theory (RBT) (Kozlenkova et al., 2014) suggests organisations have resources that lead to superior performance and competitive advantage. The link between organisat...
Statistical process control: Fuzzy -S control chart and process capability indices in normal data environment
[ "Fuzzy", "Statistical process control", "Process capability indices", "Quality control chart" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Statistical process control (SPC) is a technique for controlling processes in order to distinguish causes of variation and signal the need for corrective actions (Cheng, 2005). SPC has appeared over a wide range of industr...
Anxiety and self-efficacy as sequential mediators in US college students' career preparation
[ "Anxiety", "College students", "Career preparation", "Self-efficacy", "Sequential mediational analyses" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Career planning (e.g. applying for and securing post-graduate employment) is reported to be a major source of stress among college students using campus mental health services in the USA, and students report feeling this anxi...
Alignment of governance and senior executive perceptions of culture: Implications on healthcare performance
[ "Organizational culture", "Competing Values Framework", "Health governance", "Health performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Organizational culture has long been regarded as one of the crucial factors in determining healthcare organizational performance (Brazil et al., 2010; Carlstrom and Ekman, 2012; Davies and Mannion, 2013; Davies et al., 200...
A reconfigurable model for implementation in the closing phase of a wind turbines project construction
[ "Optimization", "Project management", "Construction planning", "Scheduling", "Queuing system", "Project closing", "Activities overlapping", "Reconfigurable model", "Renewable project" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The project closure phase is the last step taken toward project completion. It is a much awaited time for both the customer and the client when the project fully meets the due date. The project closing process is utilized ...
The role of institutional pressures and top management support in the intention to adopt cloud computing solutions
[ "Cloud computing", "Outsourcing", "Institutional theory", "Technology adoption", "Software as a service", "Top management team" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Cloud computing is a new form of information technology outsourcing (ITO) whereby computing resources are purchased over the Internet on a pay-per-use basis (Yigitbasioglu et al., 2013; Ross and Blumenstein, 2013; Marston ...
Solving strategy for unintended criticism in online space: Consumer response to firm crisis in online discussion forum
[ "Online discussion forum", "Bias information adoption", "Confirmatory information search", "Regulatory focus" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Online discussion allows people to interact with other people in web (Schellens and Valcke, 2005; Wright and Street, 2007; Kaiser and Bodendorf, 2012). An online discussion is not fixed in time or space: participants can l...
Improving managerial performance: a study on entrepreneurial and leadership competencies
[ "Managerial", "Leadership competencies", "Performance improvement", "Entrepreneurial competencies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Competent employees are not only linked to enriched work environment but also help in improving the organization's performance as a whole. This has created urgency among many organizations to develop their executives with ade...
Specification and empirical exploration of a usability concept in the workplace
[ "Usability", "Office environment", "Work performance", "Usefulness", "Office satisfaction", "User-friendliness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In workplace management, end-users' satisfaction and customer orientation have received a lot of interest in recent years. At the same time, attention has been paid to creating performance evaluation methods and tools for ...
Comparison of relationship perception in the international fresh produce business
[ "Buyer‐seller relationships", "Exports", "Imports", "Fruits", "Vegetables" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Background and justification\nLiterature review: Relationship quality\nHypotheses: The hypotheses are based on the argument that the retailers' business practices exhibit relatively more use of power. However, such business p...
Does big data analytics influence frontline employees in services marketing?
[ "Big data analytics (BDA)", "Frontline employee (FLE)", "Service typology", "Frontline employee typology", "Big data maturity level", "Service adaptation", "Service customization", "Service delivery", "Co-creation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In service organisations, frontline employees (FLEs) are rightfully referred to as boundary spanners (Bettencourt and Brown, 2003; Bettencourt et al., 2001) because they represent the face of the provider organisation to t...
Transfer of training: does it truly happen? An examination of support, instrumentality, retention and learner readiness on the transfer motivation and transfer of training
[ "Environmental support", "Instrumentality", "Transfer motivation", "Training transfer", "Learner readiness", "Phased trainee supports", "Malaysia", "Training" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Training transfer is one of the important elements in the training effectiveness criteria which help the employees and organizations to improve their performance. Previous researchers have highlighted numerous factors whic...
Just what are tomorrow's SME employees looking for?
[ "Recruitment", "Social capital", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There are few, if any, organizations today that would not agree with the premise that people are the most important asset of any organization and they provide a measure of significant competitive advantage. As organizations, ...
Benchmarking holiday experience: the case of senior tourists
[ "Service quality", "Poland", "Importance-performance analysis", "Senior tourists", "Tourism product attributes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Tourism is one of the major services contributing to economies worldwide and is expected to grow at an annual rate of 6 percent globally till 2020 (World Tourism Organization, 2010). Consequently, many countries are lookin...
Libraries in continental Europe: the 40s and the 90s
[ "Information science", "History", "Information profession", "Censorship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: There must be some 50-year periods in human history during which very little change took place, when the world of year 50 looked and felt pretty much like the world of year one. The last half of the twentieth century is most ...
Mathematics and STEM teacher development for flipped education
[ "Flipped classroom education", "Professional teacher development", "Mathematics education", "STEM education", "Technology-enhanced learning environments", "Student-driven learning environments" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Creativity, critical thinking, adaptability or other 21st-century skills should form one pillar of education according to experts in the field of education (Fadel, 2008; Saavedra and Opfer, 2012). Also, the European Commis...
Multi-level governance in Norway: universalism in elderly and mental health care services
[ "Governance", "Elderly people", "Elder care", "Mental health services", "Norway" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: As much of the contemporary literature emphasises, central-local relations must be understood as multi-level governance, shaped by changing approaches towards the coordination and control of the devolved welfare state (Bach...
Examining US college students' career information sources across three decades
[ "Generational differences", "Millennials", "Generational change", "Career exploration", "Career information", "Career management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Career exploration has many positive outcomes for job seekers (Greenhaus et al., 2009). However, it has been suggested that applicants have a small amount of information related to job choice (Turban, 2001; Collins and Steven...
Examining the antecedents of the technology acceptance model within e-procurement
[ "Survey", "E-business", "E-procurement", "Technology acceptance model (TAM)", "Acceptance and adoption", "E-procurement quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the last 20 years, e-procurement has become central to supply chain management (Ba and Johansson, 2008; Brandon-Jones, 2017; Kauppi et al., 2013; Wiengarten et al., 2013). A growing body of literature suggests that e-...
Reasons for food losses during home preparation
[ "Food loss", "Food waste", "Household", "Preparation loss", "Cooking loss", "Possibly avoidable food waste", "Excessive removal", "Consumer behaviour", "Preparation behaviour", "Residue", "Peeling", "Qualitative study" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Food losses are foods that are wasted or lost within the food system. Food losses have sometimes been called \"food waste\" or \"food losses and waste\" and have included both edible and inedible parts of food. In this study,...
What does the owner-manager want and get out of the business?
[ "Owner‐managers", "Small enterprises", "Dividend distribution", "Drawings strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been a target on interest because the importance of SMEs as major job suppliers, innovators, and sources of growth in free market economies have long been recognized (Robson an...
Symptom awareness and cancer prevention: exploratory findings from an at-risk population
[ "Cancer", "Patients", "Health education", "Risk assessment", "Communities", "Elderly people" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Cancer incidence in the UK has increased from the 1970s (Quinn et al., 2005) and is now the most common cause of death for both men and women. Around a third of all people in the UK will develop cancer, with the majority of c...
Do tenants pay energy efficiency rent premiums?
[ "Sustainability", "Climate change", "Social responsibility", "Energy", "Office", "NABERS" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nI. Introduction: Public policymakers and industry are interested in whether energy efficient buildings exhibit superior value characteristics relative to less efficient buildings. Warren-Myers (2012) provides a comprehensive survey of earl...
Benefit segmentation of TV home shoppers
[ "Television", "Home shopping", "Market segmentation", "Consumer behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: TV home shopping, the major player of t-commerce, has recently received much attention with the digital TV transition and the development of interactive shopping service (Creamer, 2007; Yang and Duan, 2010). Phenomenal growth...
Gendering expert work and ideal candidacy in Finnish and Estonian job advertisements
[ "Finland", "Estonia", "Job advertisements", "Doing gender", "Expert position", "Ideal candidacy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Open job advertisements are among the first tools for employers to contour the desired gender of prospective employees and at the same time, to promote their organizational brand. Job advertisements are also one of the ear...
The design of EWMA control chart for average with type-I censored data
[ "Design", "Control charts", "Production processes", "Statistical analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In view of the highly developed manufacturing technologies, most products have been designed with high reliabilities. Thus, life data often are collected with censoring for saving the test time and cost. Designing a control c...
How digital natives make their self-disclosure decisions: a cross-cultural comparison
[ "Privacy", "Cross-national study", "Trust", "Structural equation modelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Social network sites (SNSs) have become an integrated aspect of individuals' lives. In the USA, 68 percent of adults use Facebook (Greenwood et al., 2016). Moreover, in 2016, internet users spent 118 min on average per day on...
An intelligent hot-desking model harnessing the power of occupancy sensing data
[ "Office buildings", "Office management", "Productivity", "Smart buildings", "Intelligent buildings", "Hotdesking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction and background: 1.1 Context\n2. Literature review: This section examines existing research surrounding hot-desking, its current performance as a concept, the potential for digital innovations and the means for assessing the...
Emotional labor's impact on hoteliers outside the workplace
[ "Grounded theory", "Emotional labour", "Life-to-work conflict", "Mixed-methods", "Partying" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Full-time work is considered a net positive for a person's well-being (Waldron, 2007). Careers are defined as the accumulated professional experiences of an individual (Hall, 1976). Beyond the economic, some associated ben...
Health, well-being and education: Building a sustainable future. The Moscow statement on Health Promoting Schools
[ "Health Promoting Schools", "Social change", "Child and adolescent health", "School health promotion" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. The Health Promoting Schools approach and its development: The Ottawa Charter, adopted in 1986, was a milestone in the development of a holistic and positive understanding of health that requires actions at different levels, from health...
Effects of retail employees' behaviours on customers' service evaluation
[ "India", "Retailing", "Customer satisfaction", "Service levels", "Employee behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: While some retail consumption may take place at a group level, the majority of retail consumption episodes are individual in nature. Most retail service consumption episodes are characterised by an individual consumer interac...
Paper mill plant performance evaluation with power supply in standby mode
[ "Markov process", "Reliability indices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the present era of technology, system availability has a high rank of status. System availability is a particular arrangement of reliability and maintainability. It is expected standard of the performance of the system ...
Implicit managerial theories about followers and customers
[ "Customer relationships", "Management", "Leadership styles", "Customer service", "Theory X", "Implicit customer theories", "Implicit theories", "Theory Y" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Imagine Manager X who works for retail chain X. Because he is sure that his employees do not work properly when he is away on business travel, he monitors by surprise calls if his employees are working regular hours - which t...
Talent development gamification in talent selection assessment centres
[ "Talent management", "Liminal space", "Rites of passage", "Talent assessment centre", "Talent development gamification", "Talent learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The growing use of talent management programs, comprising the systematic attraction, identification, development, retention and deployment of individuals with high potential who are of particular value to an organization (Sta...
Predictors of parents' satisfaction with their children's school
[ "Demographics", "Parents", "Schools", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Recent legislation that empowers parents to choose their children's schools underscores the importance that parent satisfaction with their children's school hold for school leaders (Bauch and Goa, 2000; File et al., 1992; Pot...
Medicine and interest politics a study of decision-making processes in the area of vascular surgery in Norway
[ "Norway", "Decision-making processes", "Interest politics", "Medical technological developments", "Organizing health care" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Decision-making in health care on financing, provision and distribution of services is challenging with competing logics of managerialism, professionalism and \"localism\" (Garpenby and Backman, 2016; Choi et al., 2011; Ma...
Operational and relational governances of buyer-supplier exchanges
[ "Operational governance", "Relational governance", "Supply chain", "Reciprocity", "Commitment", "Performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the era of globalization, efficient supply chain operations have attracted operations management researchers' attention. From different viewpoints, various factors have been shown to be the determinants of the improvement ...
Two decades of business negotiation research: an overview and suggestions for future studies
[ "Negotiation", "Literature review", "Business negotiation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: One of the most critical elements in a business exchange process is the negotiation (Anderson and Narus, 2004; Fang, 2006, Brooks and Rose, 2004; Sharland, 2001). In a negotiation, two or more parties try to influence each...
Board gender diversity and US corporate bonds
[ "Propensity score matching", "Board gender diversity", "Corporate debt" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Gender diversity on the board is a significant topic for policymakers and investors around the world. For example, the Norwegian Indian and Spanish governments mandate boards to have women on the board of directors (e.g. T...
The nature and consequences of price unfairness in services: a comparison to tangible goods
[ "Prices", "Consumer behaviour", "Sales prices", "Profit", "Customer relations", "Customer loyalty" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It is acknowledged that long-term loyalty is achieved only by firms that establish an image of fairness and trust (Singh and Sidershmukh, 2000). Thus, fairness is central to any transaction, but it is particularly salient in ...
Student perceptions of school culture and achievement: testing the invariance of a model
[ "Students", "Perception", "Schools", "Culture techniques", "Educational administration", "Cyprus" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: School effectiveness researchers have identified a number of important factors that can make a difference in student achievement (e.g. Heck and Marcoulides, 1996; Lee and Croninger, 1994; Louis et al., 1999; Mortimore, 1991, ...
Shifting the paradigm: reevaluating resistance to organizational change
[ "Organizational change", "Resistance", "Dialogic", "Good Lives Model", "Primary Human Goods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizational change remains a popular topic in the extant literature. Given the nature of our dynamic organizational environments, change, as the saying goes, is inevitable if organizations are to remain competitive. Howeve...
Successful executive selection in recessionary times
[ "Senior management", "Recruitment", "Teambuilding", "Recession" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In recessionary times, companies often take advantage of the slowdown to eliminate redundant positions in their operations, lay off under-performing workers and reorganize for a more efficient future. This practice primarily ...
Adoption of Web 2.0 tools in higher education in India: a study
[ "User studies", "Web 2.0", "Social media", "Academic libraries", "Information technology", "Social networks", "Wikipedia", "Bibliographies", "Blog", "Worldwide Web", "Social networking sites" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Web 2.0 spectrum: Web 2.0 has emerged as a tremendous avenue for interactive communication and information sharing and as a user-centric and online collaborative platform for producing and distribution of Web contents. It has followed t...
Assessing value co-creation and value capture potential in services: a management framework
[ "Sales management", "Value creation", "Customer value", "Sales opportunity management", "Value capture", "Value-based selling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Creating superior customer value is a key to a company's success (Eggert et al., 2006; Slater, 1997). The capability to consistently implement a customer value-based strategy at the customer interface, by effective managem...
In spite of technology: a failure in student project ownership
[ "Collaboration", "Teamwork", "Groups", "Face-to-face", "Google docs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Groups, work groups, teams and their associated face-to-face communication are central tenets of organizational behavior pedagogy (and andragogy) and are created to enhance student learning (Burke, 2011; Davidson, Major, & Mi...
An interdisciplinary exploration of collegiate internships: Requirements for undergraduate and graduate programs
[ "Voice", "Workplace learning", "Stakeholder analysis", "Curriculum innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Students that attend college do so because they want to gain the insights, information, and experiences necessary to meet the entry-level qualifications of their chosen profession (Sides and Mrvica, 2007; Weible, 2010). Cours...
Making a meaningful contribution to theory
[ "Agility", "Advanced manufacturing technology (AMT)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The need to make a \"theoretical contribution\" is a presumed mandate that permeates any researcher's career in the social sciences. It starts with doctoral studies, where great emphasis is being placed on making a general...
The effects of healthcare governance and ownership structure on the performance of hospitals in Ghana
[ "Performance", "Hospital", "Ownership structure", "Health-care governance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The capacity of any government to provide good standard of health care is considered as one of the most important elements contributing to a country's standard of living, and hospitals play a major role in the delivery of ...
Achieving organisational competence for clinical leadership: The role of high performance work systems
[ "Medical personnel", "Human resource management", "Leadership", "Organizational behaviour", "Performance criteria", "Australia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent years clinical leadership has become a hot topic. A large part of this literature contains policy reports discussing the virtue of clinical leadership as a facilitator of improved quality and safety in public hospit...
The futures of the Singapore association of social workers: an analysis using CLA and the "Futures Triangle"
[ "Strategic planning", "Forecasting", "Organizational change", "Research methods", "Social services", "Analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: With the information age ushering in rapid digitalization and a fast evolution of technology in different aspects of living, professional associations have to re-evaluate their roles to remain relevant. Newsletters and journa...
Creating the asset of foreignness: Schrodinger's cat and lessons from the Nissan revival
[ "Cross-cultural management", "Inter-personal trust", "Cross-cultural communication", "Asset of foreignness", "Global leadership", "Liability of foreignness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Although foreignness is recognized as bringing both strengths and weaknesses to multinational enterprise (MNE) performance, foreignness is usually concluded to be a net liability. Most research in the field therefore focuses ...
An exploratory study of the migration pathways by international labour migrants from Vietnam
[ "Vietnam", "Asia", "International migration", "Internal migration", "Labour migration", "Migration pathways" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: King and Skeldon (2010) mapped the \"migration pathways\" as a schematic model, which sequences and links internal and international migration, including return migration. Using these pathways, they attempted to identify the ...
A linear approximation almost ideal demand system of food among households in South-West Nigeria
[ "Consumer", "Food", "Demand", "Elasticity", "Budget share", "Prices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Among the several needs of man, food remains the most important as it is needed for physiological sustenance, growth and development. This might have being the reason why food has been used as instrument during wars and in si...
Evidence of excess volatility based on a new robust volatility ratio
[ "Brownian motion", "Excess volatility", "Extreme value volatility estimators", "Variance ratio" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The phenomenon of the \"excess volatility\" in asset prices is one of the most influential critics of the efficient market hypothesis. According to the hypothesis of market efficiency, it is impossible to predict the futur...
Knowledge and capabilities for products/services development: the UK spin-off firms context
[ "Knowledge management", "University spin-offs", "Knowledge capabilities", "Product and service development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Interaction or knowledge transfer activities between universities and industry have been widely observed (Agrawal, 2001; Bekkers and Freitas, 2008; Azagra-Caro et al., 2017). An important category of technology transfer is...
Developing a comprehensive safety performance evaluation framework for Saudi schools
[ "Safety", "School", "Saudi Arabia", "Exploratory factor analysis", "Partial least squares method", "Safety performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Background: 1.1 Safety in Saudi school environments\n2. Conceptual framework for evaluating SP for Saudi schools: Designing a comprehensive SP evaluation framework for Saudi schools requires a thorough understanding of the structure of ...
What kills innovation? Your role as a leader in supporting an innovative culture
[ "Leadership", "Innovation", "Culture", "Management", "Organizations", "Risk-taking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Executives see innovation as the way to long-term success. According to a McKinsey worldwide survey, over 70 percent of the executives view innovation as one of their top three growth drivers over the next three to five years...
Graduate recruitment and development: Sector influence on a local market/regional economy
[ "Graduates", "Recruitment", "Local economies", "Skills", "Jobs", "Northern Ireland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Given the recent expanded provision of higher education in the UK, concerns about student funding, as well as the suitability of graduate skills and competencies, debate has grown surrounding the challenges that employers fac...
Managing uncertainty: lessons from Xenophon's retreat
[ "Organizational learning", "Strategic change", "Innovation", "Uncertainty management", "Management theory", "Organizational change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Uncertainty is an intrinsic component of competition. The need for organizations to cope with or adapt to uncertainty represents an early focus of organizational research (e.g. Coase, 1937; Schumpeter, 1934; Thompson, 1967). ...
A multicriteria model on calculating the Sustainable Business Excellence Index of a firm with fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS
[ "Benchmarking", "Agility", "Sustainability", "Decision support systems", "Analytical hierarchy process", "Business excellence", "TOPSIS", "Multicriteria decision making", "European quality model", "FAHP" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Excellence is more than a simple term; it is a state of mind for employees, managers and every simple individual. Ancient Greeks used to refer to the word of \"arete\" which has the same root with \"aristos\" and describes...
The effect of knowledge management capability and dynamic capability on organizational performance
[ "Organizational performance", "Dynamic capability", "Knowledge management capability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Knowledge is the most important intangible asset, therefore business managers strive in many ways to use this asset to create the highest value (Quintas, 2002). However, how to efficiently control, apply, and develop knowl...
Benchmarking fuzzy logic and ANFIS approaches for leanness evaluation in an Indian SME: A case study
[ "Performance measurement", "Fuzzy logic", "Benchmarking", "Lean production", "Small-to-medium-sized enterprises", "ANFIS" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In Indian context, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have vital contribution to gross domestic product of the country. Government is promoting the implementation of lean manufacturing in SMEs (Dixit and Pandey, 2011). As...
Information practices among Taiwanese writers and makers: an exploration of digital natives
[ "Internet", "Change", "Behaviour", "Communities", "Information research", "Learning", "Communication", "Literacy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Many authors have examined the information behaviors and/or practices of writers (Brandt, 2005; Desrochers and Pecoskie, 2015; Ko, 2012), artists (Beaudoins, 2014; Hemmig, 2008, 2009; Mason and Robinson, 2011), welfare worker...
A picture is worth a thousand words! How visual storytelling transforms the aesthetic experience of novel designs
[ "Cognition", "Product design", "Marketing strategy", "Experimental design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The design has become significantly more important in today's highly competitive market, because, more than ever before, it can make or break a product. With so many competing products in the marketplace, product design plays...
Managing knowledge for spacecraft operations at ESOC
[ "Knowledge management systems", "Knowledge transfer", "Knowledge capture", "Spacecraft" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) is located in Darmstadt, Germany and is an establishment of the European Space Agency (ESA). ESOC is responsible for the operations of the European satellites. These operations i...
Exchange rate volatility and trade flows: a review article
[ "Exchange rates", "International trade" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nI. Introduction: After the post-war Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates collapsed in 1973, the relative prices of currencies began to fluctuate. These fluctuations brought increased uncertainty to traders; this risk may influence ...
Propensity to buy private label merchandise: The contributory effects of store image, price, risk, quality and value in the cognitive stream
[ "Quality", "Risk", "Value", "Price", "Store image", "Private label brands" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Private label brands (PLBs), also referred to as \"own brands\" or \"store brands\", are brands that are owned and controlled by a particular retailer and are sold solely within their retail chains (Herstein and Jaffe, 2007; ...
Service operations: what have we learned?
[ "Service operations", "Service supply networks", "Service operations performance", "Customer and employee behaviour", "Servitization", "Knowledge-based services", "Participation roles and responsibilities", "Sustainable services", "Social impact services", "Sharing economy", "Delphi study", "J...
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: With economic activity worldwide increasingly shifting toward services, academic interest in service operations has followed suit. As this area of operations management (OM) continues to develop, reflecting on the current sta...
Employee empowerment in a technology advanced work environment
[ "Empowerment", "Employee attitudes", "Organizational change", "Communication technologies", "Taiwan" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Employees' organizational commitment is considered a critical factor which influences the employees' behavior of bringing positive benefits to an organization. Jaworski and Kohli (1993) pointed out that committed employees ...
Impact of knowledge sharing and absorptive capacity on project performance: the moderating role of social processes
[ "Knowledge management", "Absorptive capacity", "Project performance", "Social processes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Successful organizations continually invest in learning and acquiring new knowledge as a means for improving business performance and sustaining a competitive advantage (Jelenic, 2011). In the field of project management, ...
A hybrid approach for quantifying supply chain risk and prioritizing the risk drivers: A case of Indian petroleum supply chain
[ "Supply chain risk assessment", "DEMATEL", "ANP", "Petroleum supply chain" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction and motivation: In today's ever growing competitive and highly uncertain business scenario, the sheer objective of making an efficient supply chain (SC) makes it further vulnerable (fragile) and prone to risk. The risk in t...
A commentary on: corporate social responsibility reporting and reputation risk management
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Corporate image", "Risk management", "Economic sustainability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The purpose of this commentary, aside from fulfilling a request from the AAAJ editors to write one, is to present a different perspective on the contribution of Bebbington et al. (2008). Bebbington et al. (2008) use the term ...
Multidimensional engagement and store performance: The perspective of frontline retail employees
[ "Job satisfaction", "Job engagement", "Job performance", "Store performance", "Multidimensional engagement", "Organization engagement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the competitive retail business environment, having engaged employees is critical as it fosters high levels of employee and business performance (Bailey et al., 2015; Suhartanto et al., 2018), with emerging research inc...
Three-level quality assessment of a dental hospital using EFQM
[ "Self assessment", "European Foundation for Quality Management", "University dental hospital", "Pakistan", "Quality improvement", "Hospitals", "Health services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Quality assessment is the latest healthcare institution buzz word. It has been defined in various ways and depends on who is defining it, what you want out of it and how you measure it. In its broadest sense, quality is a deg...
Inclusive foresight
[ "Behaviour", "Social inclusion" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Foresight, as the act of looking forward, is an inherent human activity used every day by individuals throughout society and business. Recently, public institutions and many governments and international organisations, UN and...
Religion and social economics (a systemic theory of organic unity)
[ "History of political economic thought", "Economic philosophy/theory", "Critical theory", "Common good", "Global political economy", "Deontology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: For some time now, papers published in social economics have enriched a spectrum of intellectual diversity in heterodox economic thought. The history of economic thought including in it the social and moral elements of emi...
Hospital administrative characteristics and volunteer resource management practices
[ "Hospitals", "Human resources management", "USA", "VRM practices", "Volunteer directors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In 2013, the USA saw a continued decline in hospital and healthcare volunteerism for the first time in ten years (Bureau of Labor Statistics News Release, 2014). When asked about the biggest concerns in healthcare volunteer m...
The knowledge retrieval matrix: codification and personification as separate strategies
[ "Knowledge processes", "Knowledge management", "Management strategy", "Communities", "Virtual work" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Knowledge and its management have moved up the corporate agenda due to the idea that knowledge is a source of competitive advantage. Knowledge management strategies are used to identify where best practices and experts are lo...
How managers generate ideas and why it matters
[ "Senior managers", "Ideas generation", "Problem solving" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: What do we know about ideas? Where do they come from? What are their ingredients? How are they expressed? When do managers search for ideas? Where exactly do they get their ideas? Do they have certain styles or patterns of re...
Disasters, deaths and the Sendai Framework's target one: A case of systems failure in Hiroshima Landslide 2014, Japan
[ "Sendai framework", "Avoidable deaths", "Hiroshima Landslide 2014", "Systems failure" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: From the 19th to 21st of August 2014, the city of Hiroshima in Japan experienced a torrential rainfall triggering 166 landslides, which led to 107 debris flows and 59 shallow slides (Wang et al., 2015). These landslides were ...
Underdog effects: the role of consumption domain and retail crowding
[ "Hedonic–utilitarian consumption domains", "Retail crowding", "Underdog effects" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: An underdog is defined as an entity perceived to be attempting a difficult task in competition with explicitly or implicitly advantaged opponents and is therefore not expected to succeed (Kim et al., 2008). This term is used ...
Refocus your business for improved performance
[ "Organizational restructuring", "Strategic audit", "Strategic marketing", "Product positioning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Some of the most important decisions that business leaders make involve what to market and how to market it. What products and services does the company want to offer and promote? Which channels should be emphasized? Which cu...
Confucian nurturing doctrine of xin (heart-mind): Its enlightenment to organization research
[ "Confucianism", "Emotions", "Emotional intelligence", "Intelligence", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In management, studies on organization and individual behavior are easily confined by the utilitarian notion. The main characteristics can be summarized as: behavioral and organizational science's research more often takes se...
Innovative ICT-mediated activities for people, profit and planet
[ "Green Information Systems", "Activity Theory", "IT innovation", "Q‐methodology", "Information systems", "Environmental management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Information and communications technologies (ICT) are driving a continuing evolution of innovation for all human activities, transforming the ways we do things at home, at work and in the larger society. However, the use o...
Russian agon and the quest for theoretical sociology
[ "Analysis", "Society", "Knowledge management", "Thinking styles", "Conflict" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This article represents an epistemological analysis of Russian sociological scholarship. The author supposes that theoretical developments relate to agonality (from Greek agon (agon) with significance competition or dispute),...
Loaded with knowledge, yet green with envy: leader-member exchange comparison and coworkers-directed knowledge hiding behavior
[ "Leader–member exchange social comparison", "Feelings of envy", "Knowledge hiding", "Goal interdependence" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed. - Terry Goodkind\nLiterature review and hypotheses development: Upward leader-member exchange social comparison and knowledge hiding\nStudy 1: method: Sample and procedu...
Does innovation leadership enhance creativity in high-tech industries?
[ "Leadership", "Creativity", "Regulatory focus", "High-tech industry", "Promotion focus", "Innovation leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Creativity and innovation play an important role in business strategy for many organizations (Rothmann and Koch, 2014; Schweitzer, 2014). Creativity as a core competence of enterprise can help an organization maintain its com...
Power distance in India: Paternalism, religion and caste: some issues surrounding the implementation of lean production techniques
[ "Lean production", "Power distance", "Employee relations", "India", "Religion and caste", "Chamchagiri", "Yes boss", "Paternal relationship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction and outline: The concept and practice of lean manufacturing is well-established in the automobile industry and is also prevalent across various other sectors. The underpinning manufacturing principles of lean are the maximi...
Supply chain resilience: a systematic literature review and typological framework
[ "Supply chain resilience", "Supply chain risk", "Systematic literature review", "Supply chain vulnerability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Today's supply chains (SCs) are global, complex networks that aim to deliver products in the right quantity, right place and right time in unpredictable markets. Instability in global markets exposes SCs to disruptions (Petti...
An exploration of preferred teacher characteristics and hiring tools in Belize
[ "Teacher hiring", "Comparative leadership", "Teacher characteristics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Knowing that teacher quality is associated with student achievement gains (e.g. Rockoff, 2004), schools and districts naturally seek to hire and retain the best applicants possible. However, teacher quality researchers (e.g. ...
Group communication media choice and the use of information and communication technology to support learning: a case study
[ "Communication technologies", "Information media", "Learning", "Worldwide web", "Team working", "Performance management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The learning industry is undergoing a transformation process through the application of innovative products and tools from the information and communication technology (ICT) revolution. However, it is important that these too...
Living to work or working to live: Is a job so engaging that work feels like play only for the lucky few?
[ "Coaching", "Training", "Psychology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nFlowing into the zone: Being involved in a task that is so engaging that you never want to stop is sometimes called \"being in the zone,\" or as psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, renowned for his research on creativity, terms it, worki...