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Lean manufacturing practices in Indian manufacturing SMEs and their effect on sustainability performance
[ "Performance", "Lean", "Lean manufacturing", "Sustainable production", "Small- and medium-sized enterprises" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Manufacturing firms worldwide are set to confront their sustainability performances to satisfy their multiple stakeholders (Ganapathy et al., 2014). The stakeholder theory proposes that the \"business entity should be used...
Over-16s look to their future with Edwardian Group London: Traineeships provide insight into the hotel and hospitality industry
[ "Training", "Career development", "Graduates", "Young people", "Hospitality and tourism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Edwardian Group London has announced traineeships to give over-16s an insight into the hotel and hospitality industry and the chance to find out if they would like to build a career in it.\nGraduate management program: Meanwh...
Explaining customers' financial service choice with loyalty and cross-buying behaviour
[ "Retail banking", "Loyalty", "Cross-buying", "Choice model", "Customer choice behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Since the global financial crisis in 2008/2009, the banking industry has experienced significant cost cutting, and mergers and acquisitions of some providers have been necessary for them to survive. In some cases, financial s...
Repurchase intention: the effect of similarity and client knowledge
[ "Interaction intensity", "Similarity (appearance, lifestyle, and status) satisfaction with a bank and repurchase intention", "New Zealand" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: New Zealand has an open-door immigration policy and is subsequently a country with a great deal of diversity. As reported by Statistics NZ (2019), more than 100,000 short-term international visitors, and new permanent and ...
Diet, authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and predisposition to prejudice : Results of a German survey
[ "Gender", "Attitudes", "Vegetarians" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Vegetarianism is becoming more common and is increasingly socially acceptable in the western world (Leitzmann, 2014). The predominant motive for a meat-free diet in high-income countries is the well-being of other beings/enti...
The nature of luxury: a consumer perspective
[ "Luxury critical success factors", "Luxury industry", "Perceived value of luxury goods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction - the luxury market at a glance: In the last decade, the number of papers and books dealing with luxury - either expressly or as an ancillary topic - significantly increased following the exceptional growth experienced by t...
Employee engagement insights from Jamaica's hospitality industry: compounding the benefits of a service orientation through customer service training
[ "Employee engagement", "Hospitality industry", "Service orientation", "Customer service training", "Service leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Restaurant entrepreneur Danny Meyer observed that \"hospitality is almost impossible to teach, it's all about hiring the right people\". However, this remains a moot point, as others believe that providing great customer serv...
Evidence-based management collaboration
[ "Leadership development", "Organizational change and learning", "Management development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The rate at which research papers are published in management has increased drastically in the past few decades, likely due to the widespread influence of the internet and online publication initiatives. How can one make sens...
Mapping the "intellectual structure" of research on human resources in the "tourism and hospitality management scientific domain": Reviewing the field and shedding light on future directions
[ "Bibliometrics", "Human resources", "Citation analysis", "Document co-citation analysis (DCA)", "Hospitality and tourism industries", "Social network analysis (SNA)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Human resources (HR) are by far the most strategic or distinctive type of resource available to firms competing in hospitality and tourism industries. Indeed, from the RBV (resource-based view) of the firm, the achievement of...
Out of sight, out of mind? Supplier spatial proximity in French public procurement
[ "Public procurement", "France", "Supplier selection", "Spatial proximity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Relationships between customers (public contractors or procurers) and suppliers on public markets are governed by precise rules. Inviting suppliers to reply to calls for tenders is a powerful institutional basis to manage thi...
The impact of congruence in cause marketing campaigns for service firms
[ "Cause marketing", "Sponsorship", "Service industries" ]
[ { "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.Corporate expenditures for cause-related marketing programs have increased dramatically in recent as firms have sought opportunit...
Exploring the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and organizational justice in the Islamic Saudi Arabian context
[ "Organizational justice", "Islam", "Arab Middle East", "Organizational citizenship behavior", "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Employee performance has solicited the attention of researchers since the conception of the organizational behavior discipline. Traditionally, job performance has been restricted to task performance, which refers to the behav...
The association between independent directors and company value. Confronting evidence from two emerging markets
[ "Ownership concentration", "Independent directors", "Common law", "Civil law" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Studies on independent directors (IDs) and their influence on company performance in highly industrialized nations abound, yet few have looked at IDs impact on company performance in less developed countries. Under the aeg...
Building brand community membership within organizations: a viable internal branding alternative?
[ "Brands", "Brand management", "Internal marketing" ]
[ { "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.\nLiterature review: As firms attempt to differentiate themselves in crowded, competitive, multi-national markets and enhance cus...
International political economy reference sources: an annotated bibliography
[ "Economics", "Politics", "International politics", "World economy", "Reference services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As defined by Dr Benjamin Cohen, the Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, International Political Economy (IPE) is \"a broad-based movement to integra...
Exposure to online hate material and social trust among Finnish youth
[ "Social networking (e.g. Facebook, Second Life)", "Web 2.0", "Information society", "Trust" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Trust is vital for social interaction. It is the foundation of romantic relationships, the cornerstone of communities, and the basis for a working society. Be it interactions between two individuals or the functioning of i...
Management-employee relations, firm size and job satisfaction
[ "Britain", "Firm size", "Job satisfaction", "Linked employer-employee data", "Managerial attitudes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Job satisfaction is a primary policy priority in any organization. This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size. A good management-employee relationship i...
Archival research: a neglected method in organization studies
[ "Knowledge management", "Mixed method", "Archival research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Archival research is a much under-rated and under-utilized method of research in management studies. Austin et al. (2002; as cited in Aguinis et al., 2009) observe that:In the past 20 years or so, archival designs hover ar...
Knowledge productivity for sustainable innovation: social capital as HRD target
[ "Social capital", "Professional learning", "Sustainable innovation", "Knowledge productivity", "Organisational innovation", "Spread HRD" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organisations will only survive global competition if they are able to innovate permanently (Drucker, 1993, 1999). The ability of employees to create new knowledge, in terms of both products and of services, in order to maint...
Improving operational and business performance in the petroleum industry through quality management
[ "Quality management", "Oil industry", "Petroleum", "Human resource management", "Iran" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Quality management has emerged as a management paradigm for enhancing organizational effectiveness and competitiveness (Grandzol and Greshon, 1997; Dow et al., 1999; Sanchez-Rodriguez and Martinez-Lorente, 2004; Sila, 2007...
Ophelia, Emma, and the beast from the east effortful engaging and the provision of sign language interpreting in emergencies
[ "Effort", "Deaf people", "Emergency interpreting", "Irish Sign Language", "Sign language interpreting (SLI)", "UNCRPD" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In January 2015, the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) and the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters (WASLI) published guidelines on best practice for ensuring access to information for deaf sign language (SL) user...
A study of the activities and impact of the Asian Productivity Organisation (APO)
[ "Asia", "Asian Productivity Organization (APO)", "Productivity", "National productivity organization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The growth and expansion of Asian domestic markets coupled with the preference of many western organisations to outsource their manufacturing activities to Asian manufacturers has led to the rapid growth of manufacturing in A...
Recycling attitude and behaviour in university campus: a case study in Hong Kong
[ "Recycling", "Attitude", "Theory of planned behaviour", "Facilities", "University campus", "Environmental management", "Students", "Hong Kong" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: To conserve natural resources and reduce the demand for landfill sites, the Hong Kong government consider waste reduction and recycling to be very important elements in the policy framework of waste management (Environment...
Embracing the organic way: is consumer preference the same for all brands?
[ "Brand extension", "Organic products", "Categorisation", "Perceived fit" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There has been a growing number of studies on organic products in the recent past (Olsen et al., 2014). This increase is consistent with the growing consumption of organic products over the years. Organic products are increas...
The effect of fiscal transparency on government spending efficiency
[ "Panel data", "Fiscal transparency", "Public expenditure" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Empowering citizens with control mechanism on public spending is an ongoing challenge for both scholars and international organizations (Cangiano et al., 2013). Among the alleged virtues of fiscal transparency, meant as \"...
Workload, generic and work-family specific social supports and job stress: Mediating role of work-family and family-work conflict
[ "Hospitality management", "Human resource management", "Job stress", "Family-friendly policies", "Specific work–family social support", "WFC", "FWC" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The tourism industry and specifically the hospitality industry must constantly improve the quality of services to satisfy the needs of customers and to remain competitive. The increased competition between companies and highe...
Financial service providers and banks' role in helping SMEs to access finance
[ "Commercial banks", "Case study", "SMEs financing", "Financial service provider", "Supply chain finance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The recent economic downturn and variations in international trade have caused a serious problem of insufficient liquidity and working capital for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), including a significant increase in the c...
Typologies of e-commerce retail failures and recovery strategies
[ "Service failures", "Electronic commerce", "Critical incident technique" ]
[ { "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 advent of electronic commerce (e-commerce) has introduced great opportunities into the retail sector. Consumers...
Mediation effect of dynamic capability in the relationship between knowledge management and strategic leadership on organizational performance accountability
[ "Knowledge Management", "Organizational performance", "Dynamic capability", "Strategic leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The general policy of government c/q Ministry of Health Strategic Policy and Hospital Service Program, is to adhere to the RS-oriented principle: economic-equity-quality, which means that every RS organization must be effe...
Price bundling and framing strategies for complementary products
[ "Discounts", "Fast moving consumer goods", "Prices", "Consumer behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article.\nIntroduction: Price bundling is an important area in marketing. While price bundling is frequently used by marketers, its effec...
From international travelling consumer to place ambassador: Connecting place image to tourism satisfaction and post-visit intentions
[ "Country of origin", "Country image", "Post-visit intentions", "Product country image", "Tourism destination image", "Tourism satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: More than ever before, consumers today are exposed to global media, are better educated, have access to a broader range of international products and services, have greater purchasing power, and are more likely to travel a...
Street marketing: how proximity and context drive coupon redemption
[ "Coupon campaign", "Mobile marketing", "Coupon redemption", "Context", "Coupons", "Marketing strategy", "Fast foods", "Food industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executives can be found at the end of this article.\n1. Introduction: In 2009, US coupons set a new record of 367 billion coupons distributed (CouponInfoNow.com, 2010). Yet, while coupon ...
Run out of steam? Here's how to create a growth action plan
[ "Corporate strategy", "Business development", "Customer requirements" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Few companies can offer investors a compelling plan for a five-year runway for growth, because their businesses are weak at the core. The stock market's continued anemic performance has made this reality all the more obvious....
The relationship between self-employment and unemployment in the long-run: A panel cointegration approach allowing for breaks
[ "Europe", "Unemployment", "Self-employment", "Structural breaks", "Long-run", "Panel cointegration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years, the relationship between business ownership (or self-employment) and unemployment has received considerable attention from policy makers in European countries (Baptista and Thurik, 2007). However, the theo...
On happiness, sadness or indifference: Investigating the carryover effect of outcome valence in service perceptions
[ "Service quality", "Valence", "Experimental study" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In today's retailing environment, establishing superior customer experience is widely recognized as the main theme driving strategies of service firms. As advocated by Verhoef et al. (2009), customer experience is holistic in...
Older women's responses to current fashion models
[ "Advertisements", "Fashion", "Market segmentation", "Older consumers", "Women", "Buying behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: By the year 2030, it is anticipated that the 65 and older population in the USA will almost double (Administration on Aging, 2003), becoming the most influential consumer group in the marketplace (Moschis et al., 1997). In fa...
Analyze innovation strategy of technical-intensive industries: scenario analysis viewpoint
[ "Technology led strategy", "Demand", "Innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Miles (1995) proposed knowledge-intensive services for the concept-intensive industries. The main characteristic of service providers for high-density knowledge or technology is to help clients deal with the authorization ...
Learning opportunities for group learning: An empirical assessment from the learning organization perspective
[ "Wine industry", "Spain", "Group learning", "Learning organization", "Learning culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Nowadays, research on group work behaviour is focused on variables or factors at individual, group or organizational level that affect the development of processes in such groups (Albon and Jewels, 2014). More specifically, t...
Prioritizing decision criteria of flexible manufacturing systems using fuzzy TOPSIS
[ "Management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is defined as a computer controlled production system capable of processing a variety of part types. FMS is an automated production system which comprises of material handling and tran...
Evaluating the outcomes of VCA-led improvement projects: A case study of an Australian prawn fishery
[ "Australia", "Implementation", "Improvement", "Value chain analysis", "Value chain", "Food industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Competitive advantage increasingly involves chain vs chain rather than business vs business (Fearne et al., 2012; Lambert and Cooper, 2000; Porter, 2008). Thus, the analysis of performance along the entire chain of an industr...
An empirical study of performance measurement in manufacturing firms
[ "Performance measures", "Performance management", "Balanced scorecard" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Since the beginning of the 1990s, performance measurement has become an important issue for academics and practitioners. The professional literature has suggested that managers should design new performance measurement syst...
Discursive practice - lean thinking, nurses' responsibilities and the cost to care
[ "Lean management", "Work intensification", "Nursing practice", "Missed nursing care" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper reviews nurses' practice of care rationing as a symptom of work intensification. In work done by Willis et al. (2014) and Blackman et al. (2018), correlations between missed nursing care, work intensification and r...
The influence of perceived social media marketing elements on consumer-brand engagement and brand knowledge
[ "Social media marketing", "Consumer–brand engagement", "Brand knowledge", "Brand awareness", "Brand image", "Hong Kong" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Consumer-brand engagement (CBE) is an area of marketing research attracting substantial interest (Dessart et al., 2015; Dessart, 2017; Harmeling et al., 2017; Hollebeek et al., 2019; Maslowska et al., 2016). Reportedly, ov...
A comprehensive hierarchical model of retail banking
[ "Retail banking", "Structural equation modelling", "Behavioural intentions", "Comprehensive hierarchical modelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The world banking industry is constantly changing and has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years for several reasons, e.g., financial deregulation and globalisation, rapid technological advancement and changes in...
The DILIGENT knowledge processes
[ "Knowledge management systems", "Semantics", "Computer applications", "User interfaces" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: De-centralised knowledge management systems are becoming increasingly important. Especially the evolving semantic web (Berners-Lee et al., 2001) will foster the development of numerous use cases for this new paradigm. There...
Lost in translation: from B-school to business
[ "Research", "Working practices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nThe chasm between scholars and managers runs both ways: I plan to write a research paper\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Purpose: - The purpose of this brief article is to describe the chasm between academic research and ma...
Integration modes, global networks, and knowledge diffusion in overseas M&As by emerging market firms
[ "Innovation network", "Resource orchestration", "Knowledge diffusion", "Micro-foundation", "Integration mode", "Overseas M&As" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Merger and acquisition (M&A) activities effected by emerging markets multinationals (EMNEs) have considerably increased in the past few decades (Rao-Nicholson et al., 2016; Liu and Meyer, 2018). EMNEs prominently pursue cr...
Exploratory study of virtual communities of apparel retailers
[ "Electronic commerce", "Consumer behaviour", "Retailing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Networked computers are driving enormous social change by empowering people around the world to communicate without regard to geography or time. A network of people with common interests communicating with each other electron...
Knowledge exchange and social capital in supply chains
[ "Case study research", "Supply chain", "Knowledge exchange", "Social capital" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Knowledge exchange between firms has become increasingly important for companies needing to keep pace with increased competition, product innovation and the growing rate of change in new products and technologies (Liu et a...
Stakeholder approach for evaluating organizational change projects
[ "Stakeholder analysis", "Organizational change", "Project management", "Operating theatres", "Finland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Change management is a one of the key tasks for any manager. However, changing an organization is difficult and it is estimated that about 70 percent of all initiatives fail (Beer and Nohria, 2000; Higgs and Rowland, 2000). A...
Antecedents and dimensions of supply chain robustness: a systematic literature review
[ "Antecedents", "Systematic literature review", "Dimensions", "Supply chain robustness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: After decades of relative stability, Christopher and Holweg (2011) observed the emergence of a new era of turbulence in supply chains. The literature provides two main strategies for the way that supply chains and their entit...
School principals' understandings of student difference and diversity and how these understandings influence their work
[ "Principals", "Diversity", "Sensemaking", "School leadership", "Inclusive leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Principals are uniquely positioned to either promote or undermine equity in their schools. Their role in creating equitable schools is especially important in Ontario, Canada, as student populations are becoming more diverse ...
Workplace aggression toward local government employees: target characteristics
[ "Risk factors", "Aggression", "Local government employees", "Victimology", "Violence climate" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Workplace aggression[1] is considered an important issue in organizations in various countries such as the USA (Howard and Wech, 2012; Rosen, 2001), Australia (Hills and Joyce, 2013), and many European countries (Van den Boss...
The impact of the Greek crisis on the consumers' behaviour: some initial evidences?
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Factor analysis", "Consumer attitudes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The Greek economic crisis is the outcome of a disastrous combination of two negative factors, occurring simultaneously, which are high public debt and high deficit. Of course this did not happen unexpectedly, but it was th...
Differences in attitudes about fraud and corruption across cultures: Theory, examples and recommendations
[ "Cross‐cultural studies", "Fraud", "Business ethics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: International trade is growing rapidly, for both developing and developed countries (World Bank Group, 2001), and economies of countries such as the USA and China have become increasingly intertwined (Atkinson, 2004). Mult...
Maintenance alternative integration to prognosis process engineering
[ "Maintenance", "Decision making", "Process planning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: With today's growing demand on system productivity, availability and safety, product quality, customer satisfaction and the decrease of profit margins, the importance of maintenance function has increased (Al-Najjar and Al...
Improved critical thinking in students using current events journaling
[ "Critical thinking", "Current events analyses", "Journaling", "Student interest" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Numerous teaching goals are addressed by having students engage in regular journaling. Regular journaling improves reading skills while helping students learn to understand perspectives and values of a subject. It prepares...
From strategic orientation to social media orientation: Improving SMEs' performance on social media
[ "SME", "Visibility", "Strategic orientation", "Sales and business development", "Social media orientation", "Social media performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Consumers interact on social media, and social media shapes their perception of businesses. In all, 83 percent of these people use social media daily (CEFRIO)[1], and more than half follow one or more firms. Facebook, the ...
Worker communicative behaviors during a crisis: The impact of employee position and relationship type
[ "Employee behavior", "Internal communication", "Employee position" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nEmployees and organizational crisis: Crises are an unfortunate fact of life for business organizations. Those that have not experienced a challenging issue or two during their existence can count themselves among the lucky few.\nSome key c...
Quest for a sustainable university: a review
[ "Sustainable development", "Management systems", "Sustainability management", "Sustainable education", "University system", "Sustainable university" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Of all questions that mankind faces today, the impact of economic growth on ecological systems shows one of the greatest paradoxes (Newman and Dale, 2008). On one hand, economical growth provides welfare to populations, bu...
HRM and temporary workers' well-being: a study in Portugal and Brazil
[ "HRM", "Well-being", "Work engagement", "Temporary agency workers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Temporary agency work is a category of temporary employment arrangements that is characterized by limited duration but has the specificity of a triangular employment relationship that includes the worker, the agency - the con...
Innovation in clusters: exploration capacity, networking intensity and external resources
[ "Innovation", "KIBS", "Network analysis", "Cluster", "Exploration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Industrial clusters (Porter, 1990) have traditionally received a great deal of attention in both the academic and the policy fields. Widely known as geographic agglomerations of economic activities that operate in the same or...
Strategy maps: the essential link between the balanced scorecard and action
[ "Literature review", "Strategy map", "Balanced scorecard", "Integration", "Performance measurement system", "Construct causality", "Pragmatic constructivism", "Strategy implementation", "BSC" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A strategy should not just exist as a vision among top managers in an organization. It should also be linked to a strategic performance measurement system (SPMS) that helps all employees achieve their strategic objectives in ...
Women's career development phases: Idealism, endurance, and reinvention
[ "Career development", "Women" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A career is broadly defined as a lifelong process of work-related activities that includes both objective and subjective aspects (Hall, 2002). Career development is defined as an on-going series of stages characterized by uni...
Analysis of interrelationships among excavator productivity modifying factors
[ "Productivity", "Excavators", "Independent variables", "Modelling output", "Modifying factors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A crawler (BSI ISO 7135, 2009) or \"hydraulic\" excavator is defined as a self-propelled machine with an undercarriage characterised by a track frame and steel crawler tracks; and an upper structure characterised by a revo...
Global perspectives on volunteerism: Analysing the role of the state, society and social capital
[ "Social capital", "State", "Big Society", "Volunteerism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The voluntary sector has become a crucial element of what binds a society together (Billis and Harris, 1996). There are different terms used for the voluntary sector. Primarily the voluntary sector is also known as the \"t...
Optimizing engagement: brand identification and alumni donation behaviors
[ "Brand identification", "University branding", "Alumni donor behaviours", "Alumni supportive behaviours", "Branding in higher education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the past four to five years, institutions of higher education have experienced severe decreases in funding from government sources (National Center for Education Statistics, 2011). These decreases in funding at the state a...
Organisational capabilities for internal complexity: an exploration in the Coop stores
[ "Organizational design", "Complexity theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizing in complex environments is a major challenge in theory and practice. Many authors tried to identify organizational solutions that allow to design a system to control, govern or at least face complexity, to rapidly ...
An investigation on competitiveness in services: Turkey versus European Union
[ "Trade in services", "Competitive advantage", "Revealed comparative advantage", "Service competitiveness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Although it might be difficult to find a consensus on a clear definition of services in the related literature, a broad range of characteristics associated with services exist to distinguish it from goods. Services include ...
Towards an integrated academic assessment: closing employers' expectations?
[ "Transferable skills", "Graduate employability", "Assessment criteria grid", "Employability skills" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Concerns have been raised regarding the gap between graduate employability skills and requirements of prospective employers (Andrews and Higson, 2008; Boden and Nedeva, 2010; Cranmer, 2006; Kaur and Singh, 2008; Pool and Sewe...
Examining the roles of shared vision and career growth opportunity in developing new employees
[ "Shared vision", "Well-being", "Turnover intention", "Career growth opportunity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Career growth opportunity (CGO) has been considered one of the key elements that could be tightly associated with employees' job satisfaction (Liu et al., 2015), organizational commitment (Nouri and Parker, 2013), voice behav...
Assessing forecast model performance in an ERP environment
[ "Manufacturing resource planning", "Demand forecasting", "Error analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Our study evaluates the sales forecasting models of SAP(r)'s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system using a quantitative methodology, details of which are explained in the following sections. SAP(r) is the largest European...
The two components of a fair price: social and personal
[ "Pricing", "Consumers", "Rents", "Pay" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Price fairness is of growing interest to marketing researchers (e.g. Campbell, 1999; Bolton et al., 2003; Xia et al., 2004; Maxwell, 2008). It is also of obvious interest to managers since being able to change a price depends...
What do we know about business process management training? Current status of related research and a way forward
[ "Training", "Business process management", "Structured literature review", "NVivo analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction and background: Business process management (hereafter referred to as BPM) as a discipline has reached a certain level of maturity (Houy et al., 2010) and has been widely applied, practiced and studied. BPM is accepted as a...
An investigation of government employees' support for public-private partnerships
[ "Public-private partnerships", "Employee commitment", "Attitudes of government employees" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Governments remain interested in public-private partnerships (PPPs) as a strategy for leveraging private sector resources and expertise to carry out public works and service projects of high importance to society. Yet, accord...
Open-ended real estate funds: from flows to property
[ "Property", "Open-ended mutual funds", "EME", "Liquidity transformation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Investors of open-ended real estate funds (OEREFs) seek to gain exposure to the property market yet many of these funds also hold an important part of their assets in cash and other liquid assets. In the EU liquid assets acco...
New educational services development: Framework for technology entrepreneurship education at universities in Egypt
[ "Entrepreneurship education", "Service marketing", "Center for innovation and entrepreneurship", "Curricula and courses for entrepreneurship", "Educators for entrepreneurship", "New educational services development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: At the beginning of the twenty first century higher education is still facing many challenges. In April 2009, the Global Education Initiative of the World Economic Forum issued a report entitled \"Educating the Next Wave of E...
Conceptualising social media support for tacit knowledge sharing: physicians' perspectives and experiences
[ "Information technology", "Knowledge sharing", "Social media", "Health care", "Physicians", "Tacit knowledge" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Knowledge sharing among medical practitioners is considered to be critical for improving the quality of patient care. In particular, tacit knowledge sharing among physicians, such as the sharing of clinical experiences, sk...
The "double dynamics" of activation: Institutions, citizens and the remaking of welfare governance
[ "Governance", "Organizational change", "Intergroup relations", "Social welfare organizations", "Labour market" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: My focus in this paper is on labour market activation as a condensate for a number of discussions about new configurations of power and authority. These reconfigurations involve a double dynamic: what Bonvin and Moachon (2006...
An analysis of Internet banking offerings and its determinants in India
[ "Banks", "Innovation", "Virtual banking", "Financial services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The competitive pressures and the evolving requirements of consumers have required the banks to develop new technologies and tools. Internet banking that has revolutionised the banking industry worldwide is a product of th...
Connecting the poor: the internet, mobile phones and financial inclusion in Africa
[ "Internet", "Africa", "Financial inclusion", "Mobile phones", "G21", "G28", "C33" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Can the internet and mobile phones spur the inclusion of the financially excluded poor? Generally, banking has document requirements and also cost to maintain. In Africa, where more than 33 per cent of the population live ...
Optimising NPD in SMEs: a best practice approach
[ "Innovation", "Germany", "Small- and medium-sized enterprises", "New product development process", "Design structure matrix" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are highly important for national economies. For instance, a total of 99 per cent of all enterprises operating in the European Union are SMEs (Muller et al., 2014). These firms emplo...
Success factors closing AstraZeneca's research site in Lund, Sweden
[ "Change management", "Organisation", "Transformation", "Global", "Local", "Leadership", "Communication", "Motivation", "Relocation", "Redundancy", "Exit process", "Hand‐over" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The pharmaceutical industry faces a major challenge with more than half of the sales going off patent within the next three years. Governments and payers put pressure on drug prices and market access and the use of generics i...
Leadership for a new vision of public school classrooms: Technology-smart and learner-centered
[ "Leadership", "Emerging technologies", "School change", "Public schools" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Technology has become a routine part of how school-age students live, socialize, play, work, and learn; however, it appears that most public school classrooms remain largely unchanged (Lawless and Pellegrino, 2007; Harris et ...
Co-ordination and delegation: the core development competencies to create a competitive edge (part 2)
[ "Delegation", "Group work", "Competitive advantage", "Competences", "Leaders" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: I concluded part 1 with the statement:In short, a whole-brained approach to strategy development and implementation is a necessary condition to creating long-term profitability. The sufficient condition is that the organisati...
Using toolkits to achieve STEM enterprise learning outcomes
[ "United Kingdom", "Universities", "Curricula", "Sciences", "Engineering", "Enterprise education", "Toolkits", "Simulation", "STEM", "Bioscience" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nContext of enterprise education at Newcastle University (UK): Newcastle University's employability statement encompasses employability, enterprise and entrepreneurship. \"Enterprise\" refers to the aspects of employability that promote an ...
Risk analysis and mitigation for perishable food supply chain: a case of dairy industry
[ "Dairy", "Risk mitigation strategies", "Supply chain management", "Interpretive structural modeling (ISM)", "Perishable food supply chain", "Risk mitigation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Risk is the potential for unwanted negative consequences to arise from an event or activity (Rowe, 1980). Risk is also defined as a subjectively determined expectation of loss; the greater the probability of this loss, the...
The incubation process of mid-stage startup companies: a business network perspective
[ "Business networks", "Business incubation", "Incubation process", "New business formation and development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The idea of supporting the successful development of new ventures by incubation serves a critical role in economic policies and practices for new business development since decades (Mian et al., 2016). Many studies have in...
Growing pains: work-life impacts in small-to-medium sized construction firms
[ "Organizations", "Small to medium-sized enterprises", "Small enterprises", "Work-life balance", "Human resource management", "Employees" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Work-life balance in construction\nResearch methods: Data collection\nResults: VicWAL survey data\nDiscussion: Work-life balance and company size\nConclusions: More research is needed into the experiences of workers in small ...
Women of color in the academy
[ "Women", "Racial discrimination", "Equal opportunities", "Education", "Career development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Sisters of the Academy (SOTA) and the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) held \"The Women of Color in the Academy\" Conference on October 22, 2010 at the university's campus...
Between appropriation and assassination: Pedagogical disobedience in an era of unfinished decolonisation
[ "Pedagogy", "International development", "Decolonial", "Epistemicide", "Decolonize" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nAbsences in the curricula: Building a pluriversal house means digging a new foundation.(Kothari et al., 2019, p. xxix)\nOutline of arguments: In this piece, I offer reflections as an inadvertent educator within the shifting domains of \"in...
New trends in intellectual capital reporting: Exploring online intellectual capital disclosure in Italian universities
[ "Universities", "Higher education", "Intellectual capital", "Disclosure", "Internet reporting", "Online disclosure" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the modern \"new knowledge economy\", intellectual capital (IC) is considered a key driver for value creation both in private and public organisations (Lev, 2001; Bezhani, 2010; Siboni et al., 2013; Low et al., 2015). P...
A simple method for dealing with aliasing in experimental design
[ "Design of experiments", "Fractional factorial experiments", "Aliasing", "Orthogonal arrays", "Experimental design", "Experimentation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Design of experiments (DOE) is a powerful technique for improving product or process quality and reducing their performance variability around the targeted level in an effective and efficient manner. It is a potent approach...
The impacts of competence-based marketing capabilities: relative attention, relationship learning and collaboration development
[ "Attention", "Relationship learning", "OEM suppliers", "Collaboration development", "Competence-based marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A large body of literature demonstrates that original equipment manufacturing (OEM) suppliers face challenges in buyer-supplier relationships, which consist of not only reviewing and evaluating the demands of buyers but al...
Mapping touchpoint exposure in retailing: Implications for developing an omnichannel customer experience
[ "Loyalty", "Segmentation", "Touchpoints", "Latent class cluster analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The proliferation of channels has led to an explosion in the number of different touchpoints within the customer journey (Hall and Towers, 2017; Pantano and Viassone, 2015; Simon et al., 2016). Touchpoints are the verbal or n...
Phenolic compounds, flavonoids and antioxidant activity in different cocoa samples from organic and conventional cultivation
[ "Cocoa", "Organic cocoa", "Phenolics", "Antioxidant activity", "Flavonoids", "Health foods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years, there has been an increase in interest in polyphenols and their derivatives because they are important sources of phenolic compounds. Studies have shown that the consumption of cocoa products has a positiv...
When the shoe doesn't fit: female consumers' negative emotions
[ "Qualitative", "Coping", "Consumer emotions", "Dissatisfaction", "Footwear" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Consumers have expectations about the potential performance of the products they buy. When the performance of the product meets their expectations, consumers are satisfied with the product and the purchase experience: In the ...
Productivity of the Indian non-life insurance sector: New evidence employing Fare-Primont index approach
[ "Efficiency", "Productivity", "Indian insurance sector", "Färe‒Primont index" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Insurance sector is an important component of the financial services industry, and its development has a positive impact on economic growth (Ward and Zurbruegg, 2000; Cristea et al., 2014; Pradhan et al., 2017). Insurance ...
Lean implementation in healthcare supply chain: a scoping review
[ "Supply chain", "Healthcare", "Lean production" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Due to the large volumes of resources consumed, healthcare organizations are under constant pressure to reduce costs, waiting times, errors, while improving services and patient safety (Aherne and Whelton, 2010; Waring and...
A Lean Six Sigma program in higher education
[ "Process improvement", "Lean Six Sigma", "Higher education", "Organizational development", "Business process management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In an ongoing competition for the brightest minds and external funding, the motivation for universities to redesign business processes is often to reduce the administrative overhead and improve the services delivered to st...