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Understanding the erosion of US competitiveness: Managed education and labor in Japanese "corporate castle towns"
[ "Japan", "Competitive disadvantage", "Corporate castle towns", "Managed education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: USA's commitment to industrial competitiveness (supply-side or neo-liberal economics) as a means of restoring, maintaining and enhancing wealth is well established (Konzelmann and Fovargue-Davies, 2013). However, it is discon...
Leveraging social network sites for new product launch
[ "Motivation theory", "Social media", "Social networks", "Advertising", "New product launch" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: New product launch (NPL) constitutes the final, and often very expensive, stage of the innovation process. Successful NPL is a key driver of business performance (Bruce et al., 2007; Di Benedetto, 1999; Hultink et al., 1997) ...
Older female consumers' environmentally sustainable apparel consumption: The impact of time perspective and advertising appeals
[ "Socioemotional selectivity theory", "Older consumers", "Advertisement appeals", "Environmentally sustainable apparel", "Time perspectives" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Elderly consumers create opportunities for the apparel industry thanks to the growth of this population and its increases in post-retirement consumerism (Kohlbacher and Herstatt, 2011; McKinsey Global Institute, 2016). Person...
The thematic landscape of literature in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM): A review of the principal facets in SSCM development
[ "Sustainable supply chain management", "Conceptual", "Literature review", "Comprehensive", "Research themes", "SLR" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) addresses the management of the integration of economic and non-economic issues in a supply chain. Furthermore, SSCM explicitly integrates the social and environmental dimensions wit...
Toward a theory on workplaces for smart workers
[ "Teleworking", "Flexible work", "New workplace", "Smart work center", "Smart working", "Remote work" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the past few decades, traditional work practices have been dramatically transformed, with an increased diffusion of new ways of working, designed to give employees a degree of freedom and flexibility over how much, wh...
Trust, commitment, customer intimacy and customer loyalty in Islamic banking relationships
[ "Islamic banks", "Trust", "Commitment", "Customer loyalty", "Customer intimacy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Nowadays, Islamic banking is not merely competing with conventional and foreign banks, but also with Islamic dual-banking systems. They are competing in the same market segments in terms of offering products and services, ...
Real estate ownership and closely-held firm value
[ "Closely-held business", "Real estate ownership", "Real estate value", "Small firm value" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nI. Introduction: Ownership of commercial real estate (CRE) by businesses has been an area of interest in the finance and real estate literatures for some time. Prior work focuses upon publicly-traded firms. Those studies, examining the imp...
Ownership structure and financial performance in European football
[ "Ownership structure", "Corporate governance", "Financial fair play", "European football industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction and motivation: The football industry has experienced significant growth during the past two decades evidenced by enhanced revenue streams mainly attributed to the re-organization of the largest football leagues (England, S...
Using personality facets to understand the nature of personality-satisfaction relationships: Findings from meta-analytic bifactor latent modeling
[ "Well-being", "Meta-analysis", "Personality", "Life satisfaction", "Job satisfaction", "Extraversion" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Satisfaction with one's job is one of the most meaningful variables to consider when examining individual differences in life outcomes (Judge and Kammeyer-Mueller, 2011). Psychological responses to one's job constitute job sa...
Facebook marketing campaign benchmarking for a franchised hotel
[ "Performance", "Facebook", "Benchmarking", "DEA", "ELM", "Marketing campaign" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Social media values a prominent marketing strategy using Facebook (FB) to influence receivers' attitude and share messages with others. Liking (reactions) or comment-sharing in social media achieves message diffusion and popu...
A spatial and organisational analysis of Asian panethnic association in Perth, Western Australia
[ "Asian", "Asian Australian", "Ethnic association", "Panethnicity", "Racialization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Migrants from Asian countries of origin are the fastest growing segment within the Australian population (Department of Immigration and Border Protection, 2014). These individuals come from many different homelands across the...
Credit risk and banking stability: a comparative study between Islamic and conventional banks
[ "Capital", "Islamic banks", "Credit risk", "Conventional banks" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The recent financial crisis started in the sub-prime mortgage sector in the USA in the fall of 2008 to propagate and trigger a financial crash that shook the international stock markets and led to the collapse of the pilla...
The relationships amongst leader-member exchange, perceived organizational support, affective commitment, and in-role performance: A social-exchange perspective
[ "Affective commitment", "In-role performance", "Leader-member exchange", "Perceived organizational support" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Social interactions involve tangible and/or intangible exchanges between at least two parties (Homans, 1961). Social interactions can be construed as comprising economic exchanges and/or social exchanges. Economic exchanges i...
Optimizing fixed and variable compensation costs for employee productivity
[ "Renumeration", "Variable pay", "Employee productivity", "Cash flow", "Financial management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Organizations and human resources (HR) professionals are continually in search of ways to motivate and reward employees in order to increase their motivation and performance. One primary HR tool that is used to affect motivat...
The corporate strategy function: improving its value and effectiveness
[ "Corporate strategy function", "Corporate strategy organization", "Organizational design", "Decision making", "Corporate strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Very few functions seem as well-positioned to create value as the corporate strategy function. Even the name, corporate strategy, suggests access to critical information and decision-makers, as well as distinctive contributio...
An analysis of technical information for mechatronics research
[ "Subject guides", "Bibliometric analysis", "Citation analysis", "Engineering information", "Mechatronics information", "Reference and research resources" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A definition of Mechatronic is: an \"approach aiming at the synergistic integration of mechanics, electronics, control theory, and computer science within product design and manufacturing, to improve and/or optimize its funct...
Policy instrument choice for construction and demolition waste management: the case study of Shenzhen, China
[ "China", "Construction and demolition waste (CDW)", "Exploratory factor analysis (EFA)", "Influential factors", "Policy instruments choice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Construction and demolition waste (CDW) has become a global issue and attracted extensive attention from both researchers and politicians (Bakshan et al., 2015; European Commission, 2015a; b; Hossain and Poon 2018; Li et a...
IT outsourcing intent in academic institutions in GCC countries: An empirical investigation and multi-criteria decision model for vendor selection
[ "GCC", "Multi-criteria decision making", "Grey theory", "IT outsourcing", "Academic institutions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Information technology (IT) outsourcing has been described as the process of turning over part or all of an organization's technology/systems-related functions to an external services provider(s) (Loh and Venkatraman, 1992; G...
Measuring emotions toward dining alone by frequency of single dining events
[ "Emotion", "Food consumption", "Dining alone", "MMR" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Globally the number of single-person households is on the rise, as people have become more independent and individualized in a society influenced by technology-driven industrialization. As a result, eating alone is a common p...
Combining goods and service-dominant logics in purchasing strategies
[ "Service", "Logics", "Management consulting", "Purchasing strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The service-dominant logic has developed into a key perspective in marketing research since its introduction in 2004 (Vargo and Lusch, 2004, 2016). For example, Vargo's (2009) paper on the conceptualization of relationships u...
Supply chain integration configurations: process structure and product newness
[ "New product development", "Supply chain integration", "Supply chain management", "Configuration", "Process structure" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Supply chain initiatives that lead manufacturing organisations towards greater integration are generally perceived as positive developments (Mitra and Singhal, 2008). Integration with customers and suppliers across certain op...
Controversial fashion, ethical concerns and environmentally significant behaviour: The case of the leather industry
[ "Ethical concerns", "Environmentally significant behaviour", "Luxury value perceptions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Worldwide the demand for genuine leather goods is increasing and is predicted to grow at a CAGR of almost 5 per cent in 2021, with bags and accessories the fastest growing category (Deloitte, 2017; Technavio, 2018). The pe...
A model for reliability analysis of multi-state manufacturing systems
[ "Reliability analysis", "Manufacturing system", "Multi-state system", "Workstation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A manufacturing system (MS) consists of a series of operations and actions to change the shape, size, or properties of materials into final products. As shown in Figure 1, the main components of a MS include labor/personne...
The national identity as a motivational factor for better performance in the public sector: The case of the volunteers of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games
[ "Performance measures", "Sports", "Greece" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Open questions for a public sector performance measurement: Going through the current bibliography on public sector performance and productivity, one could sort the relevant concepts and the methodological and practical tools into two m...
Communities of practice: a model for their cultivation
[ "Communities", "Knowledge management", "Business analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The term communities of practice (CoPs) was coined by Lave and Wenger (1991) to describe an activity system that includes individuals who are united in action and in the meaning that action has for them and for the larger col...
Perceived organizational support's role in stressor-strain relationships
[ "Business support services", "Perception", "Stress", "Workplace", "Welfare" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Organizations increasingly are concerned about how to reduce workplace stressors and, ultimately, employee strains (Stamper and Johlke, 2003; Sullivan and Bhagat, 1992). Whereas workplace stressors are job or organizational c...
Short-term fixes fall short when it comes to keeping the best employees: Successful firms invest time, money and commitment in retention
[ "Job satisfaction", "Turnover", "Employee retention" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In some organizations, the drive to control employee turnover is acute. For most others, it probably should be.\nMost research is situation-specific: A review of research, reports and opinions covering the past eight years re...
Credibility of a peer endorser and advertising effectiveness
[ "Source credibility", "Brand attitude", "Product involvement", "Advertising effectiveness", "Attitude toward advertisement", "Peer endorser" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nEffectiveness of peer-endorser advertisements: Companies use various tactics to influence their target audience and achieve the goals set for advertising. One of the most common tactics is the use of endorsers. Batra et al. (1996) define a...
Establishing information security policy compliance culture in organizations
[ "Organizational culture", "Model", "Information security policy", "Behaviour intentions", "Compliance leadership", "User involvement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Information security breaches in organizations continue to be on ascendency (McCormac et al., 2017) despite the huge investment in technical solutions, and this is due to the lack of attention paid to the behaviour of empl...
Volume and value of postharvest losses: the case of tomatoes in Nepal
[ "Vegetables", "Value chain", "Monetary loss", "Postharvest loss" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Purpose: Globally, almost one-third of all food produced is lost before it reaches consumers. Food loss (i.e. losses that occur before food reaches consumers) is more serious in developing countries while food waste (i.e. losses that oc...
Measuring affective reactions to print apparel advertisements: a scale development
[ "Clothing", "Individual psychology", "Measurement", "Advertisements" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Affective reactions have profound impacts on attitudes toward an advertised product and persuasion because they influence the ways that a viewer processes advertising (Bagozzi et al., 1999; Guens and Pelsmacker, 1998; MacInni...
Organizational design, quality management and competitive advantage in hotels
[ "Quality management", "Organizational structure", "Spain", "Competitive advantage", "Hotel" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Quality management (QM) is used in many manufacturing and service firms (Boulter et al., 2013; Lee et al., 2009; Phan et al., 2011), including organizations in the tourist industry (Alonso-Almeida et al., 2012; Wilkins et ...
Coping with customs clearance uncertainties in global sourcing
[ "Logistics data processing", "Supply chain management", "Uncertainty management", "Government", "Public policy", "India" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: High-speed information links and improved transportation have eroded the barriers of time and space between countries. Firms are increasingly adopting global sourcing strategies as a means of enhancing competitiveness (Carter...
Applying an expectancy-value model to study motivators for work-task based information seeking
[ "User studies", "Cognitive motivation", "Expectancy value theory", "Information seeking", "Source choice", "Task" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The motivation for initialising and conducting information seeking has often been explained with reference to a need for information as developed or realised by the information seeker in a given situation (Case, 2007, p. 69)....
A conceptual foundation for expectations of corporate responsibility
[ "Expectations", "Corporate responsibility", "Social connection" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is a wide-spread agreement in the literature of corporate responsibility (CR) that identifying and meeting stakeholder expectations and societal expectations is an important factor for succeeding in CR (e.g. introductio...
Governmentality and performance for the smart city
[ "Performance measurement", "Governmentality", "Accounting", "Smart city", "Technology of government" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Modern cities are exposed to increasing levels of competition, market deregulation, resource constraints and marketisation (Skelcher et al., 2013; Kornberger and Carter, 2010). In this challenging context, cities strive fo...
Algorithmic detection of misinformation and disinformation: Gricean perspectives
[ "Algorithms", "Communication", "Information", "Philosophy", "Misinformation", "Disinformation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The internet is full of communication. Some of this communication consists of false, inaccurate, and untrue information. As a reaction to this we have lately witnessed an increased interest in automatic detection (through ...
E-procurement quality from an internal customer perspective: Construct development, refinement, and replication using a mixed-methods approach
[ "Service quality", "Mixed methods", "Internal service", "Replication", "E-business technologies", "E-procurement quality", "Measurement and methodology", "Internal customer" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The proliferation of e-procurement technologies over the last 20 years is fuelled by the belief that they can deliver significant operational benefits, including reduced transaction costs, greater delivery accuracy, lower ...
Fulfilment time performance of online retailers - an empirical analysis
[ "E-commerce", "Online retail", "Fulfilment time", "Logistics", "Parcel delivery", "Omnichannel" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Online retail is growing rapidly and almost every retailer, regardless of product category, is challenged to market and deliver products through an online supply chain. US online retail sales as a portion of total retail sale...
The role of information governance within English clinical governance: Observations based upon the interim report from the NIGC of the Care Quality Commission
[ "Clinical governance", "Information management and governance", "Quality assurance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: a national information governance committee: This paper is a personal reflection based upon the interim report of the National Information Governance Committee (NIGC) of the Care Quality Commission (CQC)[1]. The Health and So...
Identifying and preventing health problems among young drug-misusing offenders
[ "Drugs", "Strategy", "Schools", "Health education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There are a wide variety of health problems that can be experienced by drug users, including dependency, infectious diseases, harmful physiological effects, and risk of overdose and death. These problems are important not onl...
How cosmopolitan are Indian consumers?: a study on fashion clothing involvement
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Fashion", "India", "Involvement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Indian government's policy of allowing foreign direct investment in multi-brand retailing has presented global luxury brands with immense opportunities (Amed, 2013). The economic and social trends suggest lucrative growth opp...
Information sharing and its integrative role: An empirical study of the malt barley value chain in Ethiopia
[ "Ethiopia", "Information sharing", "Agribusiness value chain", "Value chain integration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction and objectives: Information sharing helps value chain members to align operational and strategic plans (Holweg et al., 2005). Value chain members can improve their own and chain's performance through collaborations based on...
Unmasking the contributing factors of entrepreneurial activities among men and women in Ghana
[ "Ghana", "Entrepreneurial activity", "Perceptual variables", "Socio-demographic factors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Across the world and in particular developing countries, promotion of entrepreneurship has become a key policy focus as it is widely viewed as a means of creating jobs, reducing poverty and enhancing the overall welfare of...
Sustainability and human competences: a systematic literature review
[ "Systematic literature review", "Human competences", "Resourced-based view", "Competences for sustainability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A considerable number of researchers have been dedicated to studying strategy and sustainability and how they are associated, in organisations (e.g. Hart and Dowell, 2011; Husted and Allen, 2007; Porter and Kramer, 2006). ...
Impacts of supply chain uncertainty and risk on the logistics performance
[ "Performance management", "Logistics operations and management", "Supply chain management", "Risk assessment and management", "Third-party logistics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Supply chain uncertainty is becoming increasingly popular in business management. However, few studies have provided a depth discussion on the uncertainty so far. Due to the nature of uncertainty, uncertainty is not able to b...
How to pitch an algorithm
[ "Social media", "Facebook", "Influence", "Algorithm", "Narrative confirmation", "Sharing strategies", "Visual information" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The Pew Research Center's (2015) annual \"State of the Media\" report always provides intriguing insights into US media consumption habits, and the 2015 report continues in this robust tradition. This year, we find out that c...
Small family business in Russia: formal or informal?
[ "Transition economies", "Informal economy", "Family business", "Russia", "Informal entrepreneurial activity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the family entrepreneurship research (some recent overviews cf. Evert et al., 2016; Randerson et al., 2016; Bettinelli et al., 2017), there are still only a few papers on family entrepreneurship in \"transition\" econom...
Employees' reactions to IT-enabled process innovations in the age of data analytics in healthcare
[ "Data analytics", "Supply chain management", "Business process change", "Interorganizational business process standards", "Interorganizational systems", "RosettaNet" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In today's hypercompetitive global economy, efficient and effective execution of interorganizational business processes (e.g. supply chain processes) is a key to firm performance (Tang and Rai, 2014; Rai et al., 2006; Venkate...
Street food and innovation: the food truck phenomenon
[ "Innovation", "Data envelopment analysis", "Street food", "Efficiency performance", "Gourmet food truck", "Traditional food truck" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the last decade, the food sector has faced a constant increase in competition in a context of continuous and fast changes involving also people's life styles and eating habits. The increased interest in - and success of ...
Segmenting consumers for food defense communication strategies
[ "Food industry", "Business continuity", "Disasters", "Supply chain management", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: On December 3, 2004 as he was stepping down from the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy G. Thompson expressed grave concern about the possibility of an attack on the nation's food supply. He was quoted as...
Industrial development and unemployment in Nigeria: an ARDL bounds testing approach
[ "Unemployment", "Industrial development", "Autoregressive distributed lag model", "E24", "E31", "O11" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As a developing economy, Nigeria is confronted with a number of socio-economic issues which has in a huge way affected the standard of living of its people. One of such is the issue of unemployment. Onwachukwu (2015) defin...
Improving work-life policy and practice with an intersectionality lens
[ "Intersectionality", "Identity", "Work-life conflict" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: While there has been ample criticism directed at the fact that much work-life research has focused on the experiences of middle and upper middle class, younger, White, western and heterosexual women (Aycan, 2008), work is eme...
Issues affecting decisions on mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Japan
[ "Content analysis", "Adoption of IFRS", "Business Accounting Council (BAC) of Japan", "Global convergence" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has been largely responsible for developing a set of financial reporting standards that can be used internationally. The need for convergence[1] in International Financia...
An inter-linguistic and inter-cultural analysis of global corporate web sites
[ "Linguistics", "National cultures", "Worldwide web", "Corporate communications", "Aircraft industry", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the past ten years, the web has become one of the most direct and effective delivery medium for internal communication between their staff, and external communication between customers, extended viewers and the press. Corp...
Benchmark product features using the Kano-QFD approach: a case study
[ "Benchmark", "House of quality", "Kano model", "Quality function deployment", "Customer satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Due to increase in global competitiveness, manufacturing industries are being forced to re-think their approach to product development and manufacturing. Due to the higher competition in the market and continuously increas...
Engaging in digital technology: one size fits all?
[ "Academic staff", "Higher education", "Technological change", "Cross-cultural studies", "Classroom", "Disruptive technology", "Management change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The purpose of this enquiry is to explore the various ways in which digital technology is used in higher education by academics in the delivery of undergraduate business programmes, particularly the choice of certain sites an...
Searching for competitive advantage with the aid of the brand potential index
[ "Brand image", "Brand identity", "Food industry" ]
[ { "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: The developments on the world food market have, in recent years, been marked by rapid, unexpected and complex cha...
Investigating healthcare IT innovations: a "conceptual blending" approach
[ "Information technology", "Innovation", "Healthcare", "NHS", "Adoption", "Social systems theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the last decade fully integrated healthcare information technology (IT) has increasingly been seen as a critical lever for improving the quality, safety and efficiency of health systems (Chaudhry et al., 2006).\nStudying...
Technology mentors: enablers of ICT uptake in Australian small business
[ "Work-integrated learning", "Small business", "Technology mentors", "Work-based mentoring", "Technology mentoring for small businesses" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A team of academic staff with an interest in technologies and teaching from Victoria University (VU) in Melbourne was awarded a Telematics Trust Grant. The Telematics Trust funds projects that develop and use new informati...
A communications intervention to motivate disaster risk reduction
[ "Nepal", "Natural hazard", "Disasters", "Earthquake", "Risk mitigation", "Mitigation strategies", "Risk communications" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Natural disasters occurring between 1994 and 2013 have affected 218 million people worldwide, and claimed 1.35 million lives (Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), 2015). In the period between 1980 and ...
How passive voice weakens your scholarly argument
[ "Higher education", "Research", "Publishing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Traditionally, textbooks and academic journal articles have embraced passive voice, often bogging down the clarity of the discussion and argument. In recent years, one of the biggest complaints from university lecturers and p...
Exploring consumers' willingness to eat insects in Italy
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Entomophagy", "Model selection and evaluation", "New protein sources" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Edible insects are potential ingredients of food preparations and are nutritious and environmentally sustainable (MacDonald and Reitmeier, 2017; Menozzi et al., 2017b; Osimani et al., 2018). Recently, the European Commissi...
Brand knowledge transfer via sponsorship in the financial services industry
[ "Fit", "Sponsorship", "Corporate Image", "Brand awareness", "Insurance agents" ]
[ { "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: Both service providers and researchers understand the significance of branding as a marketing tool (Brown and Dacin...
Motives of mergers and acquisitions in the European public utilities: An empirical investigation of the wealth-anomaly
[ "Finance", "Markets", "Shares", "Public utilities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become popular means for firm growth and corporate restructuring (Uddin and Boateng, 2014). It is therefore not surprising that M&A have accelerated and have become a global phenomenon (...
Measuring complexity for building projects: a Delphi study
[ "Buildings", "Complexity", "Measurement", "Delphi method", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Building projects have become progressively more complex since World War II (Baccarini, 1996). Nowadays, many of them have high degrees of electrical and mechanical installations, employ sophisticated structure systems, an...
Role of workplace romance policies and procedures on job pursuit intentions
[ "Workplace romance policy", "Consensual relationship agreement", "Organizational justice", "Signalling", "Job pursuit intentions", "Recruitment", "Workplace", "Human resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It has been 35 years since Quinn (1977) published a seminal article on the formation, impact, and management of workplace romances. A workplace romance is a consensual relationship between two members of an organization that ...
Reclaiming history: dehumanization and the failure of decolonization
[ "Imperialism", "Colonialism", "Human rights", "Fanon", "Cabral" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Two events served to accelerate and accentuate the process of decolonization. First, the rise of Fascism and Nazism in Europe leading to the Second World War, and the establishment of the United Nations and its emphasis on hu...
Like us on Facebook: The role of online social media in language learning
[ "Facebook", "Social networking sites", "Learning management systems", "Moodle", "Language teaching", "Online social media" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nMain body of article review: For today's university students, social media online are an integral part of their everyday experience. Twitter, Facebook and so on let them share interests and enthusiasms with a network of friends. They use w...
Implementation, communication and benefits of public sector codes of ethics: A longitudinal study of Sweden
[ "Ethics", "Public sector organizations", "Business ethics", "Sweden" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There has been an increasing interest in research on codes of ethics since the early 1980s. The focus has mostly been on the private sector organizations. For example, a number of studies have been conducted in the private se...
An exploration of contemporary organizational artifacts and routines in a sustainable excellence context
[ "Big data", "Routines", "Learning", "Intelligence", "Artifacts", "Resilience" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Organizations are open systems operating under conditions of substantial turbulence, risk (known unknowns) and uncertainty (unknown unknowns) in which they seek to balance stability and coherence with flexibility and chang...
Relations of fit and organizational identification to employee-customer identification
[ "Person-organization fit", "Organizational identification", "Employee-customer identification", "Person-job fit" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In an era when strong working relationships between service providers and customers drive successful business transactions, service organizations have little room for failure. The key to success for many of these organization...
Progress and development of information and communication technologies in hospitality
[ "Communication technologies", "Hospitality services", "Tourism", "Serials" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: Ever since the 1980s, ICTs have been changing the way in which business is conducted in the hospitality and tourism industries (Buhalis and Law, 2008). Progress in ICTs has transformed business practices, strategies and industr...
Using behavioural and motivational thinking in food segmentation
[ "Marketing", "Consumer behaviour", "Milk" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground summary: At both the level of marketing theory and practice, the consumer is central to all activity. It is therefore critical for any food marketer to understand how a consumer behaves to ensure the successful delivery of their...
Insights into physician scheduling: a case study of public hospital departments in Sweden
[ "Quality improvement", "Staffing", "Resource efficiency", "Information management and technology", "Quality healthcare", "Sweden" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Timeliness is a healthcare quality dimension (Institute of Medicine, 2001, p. 6) that raises much concern in several countries (Health Consumer Powerhouse, 2009), particularly in Sweden (Thor et al., 2004). Timeliness is impo...
Climate change as a corporate strategy issue: A discourse analysis of three climate reports from the energy sector
[ "Business strategy", "Linguistics", "Corporate strategy", "Discourse analysis", "Responsibility", "Environmental issues", "Written communications", "Risk", "Climate change", "Oil industry", "Rhetorical behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: During the last couple of decades, climate change has slowly emerged as an issue in companies' annual and sustainability reports (e.g. Jenkins and Yakovleva, 2006; Harrison, 2009; Frandsen and Johansen, 2011; Pellegrino and L...
Wine prestige and experience in enhancing relationship quality and outcomes: Wine tourism in Douro
[ "Relationship quality", "Experience", "Wines", "Customer satisfaction", "Consumer satisfaction", "Word-of-mouth", "Prestige", "Wine brand image", "Wine brand prestige", "Wine consumer experience", "Wine image" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The wine market today is much more complex than in the previous centuries, with different players from all around the world. Consumers are more sophisticated, and the endeavour to reach new customers is more demanding. Wha...
Bridging the gaps between e-government practice and research: A meta-study for policy development
[ "Research", "E-government", "Policy", "Discourse analysis", "Institutional theory", "Meta-study" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: After some decades of e-government research and practice worldwide, an important body of knowledge is now distinguishable in the literature which suggests that e-government is becoming an established field (Kraemmergaard a...
Professional training in organic food production: a cross-country experience
[ "Distance learning", "Questionnaire survey", "Mobile learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Andragogy, or adult education, is much more than just a theory of adult learning, being an educational ideology that is established on paradigms of learning and teaching (Slavkovic and Savic, 2015). Malcolm Knowles (1984), on...
Personality and learning processes underlying maverickism
[ "Learning style", "FFM", "HMLP", "Maverickism", "Sensation seeking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Individuals who are independent thinkers, decisive and goal focussed are often described as high in maverickism (Blohowaik, 1992). These individuals are thought to be experts in exploiting opportunities and creatively solving...
Perceptions of healthcare practitioners in Saudi Arabia regarding their training in oral cancer prevention, and early detection
[ "Cancer", "Health care", "Saudi Arabia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Oral cancer is the 11th most common cancer in the world, with approximately 389,000 new oral cancer cases per year (Stewart and Kleihues, 2003). Oral cancer often has a survival rate of 50 per cent or less (Ries et al., 2000;...
Fostering creativity and communicative soft skills through leisure activities in management studies
[ "Creativity", "Soft skills", "Divergent thinking", "Leisure activities", "University studies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: One of the objectives of higher education should be to offer the best preparation possible, both in terms of theory and skills, in order to facilitate students' integration into the job market. With this aim in mind, understa...
Organizational psychology and poverty reduction: The multi-dimensionality of the aid worker experience
[ "Poverty", "Aid work", "Fundraising", "Expatriate adjustment", "Self‐organizing", "Social support" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Poverty is unfortunately increasing, as are the number of natural disasters. Non-profit organizations are thus facing ever-increasing challenges. Until recently, industrial and organizational psychology (I/O) has been relativ...
Perceived workplace gender-bias and psychological impact: The case of women in a Moroccan higher education institution
[ "Higher education", "Morocco", "Females in the workforce", "Gender-bias", "Male-dominated countries", "Management and managerial behaviors perceptions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: We have seen an influx of women entering the workplace and filling larger, more substantial roles in multiple professional industries (academia, business, finance, etc.) (Catalyst, 2016). Despite this greater number of workin...
The emergence of data centres as an innovative alternative property sector
[ "Data centres", "Alternative property sector", "Risk-adjusted returns", "Innovation", "Institutional investors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The institutional property investment space has experienced many innovative developments in recent years, one of which is taking shape in the form of the alternative, non-traditional property sectors; either presented as soci...
Revisiting Environmental Kuznets Curve in Sub-Sahara Africa: Evidence from deforestation and all GHG emissions from agriculture
[ "Sustainability", "Agriculture", "Greenhouse gas", "Climate change", "Environmental Kuznets Curve", "SSA", "Deforestation", "Environmental economics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the tropics, deforestation and agricultural production are major environmental drivers of climate change (Bhattarai and Hammig, 2001). For instance, deforestation resulting from timber harvesting, commercial logging, an...
Curvilinear relationships between role clarity and supervisor satisfaction
[ "Role clarity", "Interpersonal justice", "Supervisor developmental feedback", "Supervisor satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Uncertainty and ambiguity are unavoidable aspects of organizational life (e.g. Baruch and Lambert, 2007). As today's business climate is increasingly characterized by constant change, scholars and practitioners have focussed ...
Measuring the perceived value of malls in a non-Western context: the case of the UAE
[ "Scale development", "UAE", "Shopping mall", "Customer-perceived value" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Customer-perceived value has gained much attention from marketing researchers over the last three decades, but is still hotly debated in the marketing literature. It plays an important role in predicting customers' choice and...
Mediterranean diet and mental distress: "10,001 Dalmatians" study
[ "Croatia", "Mediterranean diet", "Mental distress", "GHQ-30" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Mental health is an indispensable component of general well-being and health (Prince et al., 2007). Mental health practitioners use the expressions \"mental distress\" and \"psychological distress\" to define various symptoms...
Does one size fit all? A look at entrepreneurial motivation and entrepreneurial orientation in the informal economy of Tanzania
[ "Africa", "Entrepreneurial orientation", "Informal economy", "Entrepreneurial motivation", "Personal wealth" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: According to the Austrian School of Economics, entrepreneurs are perceived as economic actors, and their activities are the driving force of economic development (Schumpeter, 1934; Kirzner, 1997). Many entrepreneurial activit...
Intellectual capital and business performance: the role of dimensions of absorptive capacity
[ "Performance", "Social capital", "Intellectual capital", "Human capital", "Organizational capital", "Absorptive capacity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the current challenging business environment, intangible assets, such as learning capability, human capital, knowledge management and relationships with stakeholders are now the major sources of competitive advantage (M...
Risk information source preferences in construction workers
[ "Trust", "Construction workers", "Occupational risk communication", "Risk information source preference", "Source expertise", "Source proximity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Many researchers have investigated the determinants of workers' risk-taking/unsafe behaviours as a way to improve safety management and reduce accidents but there has been a general lack of research about workers' risk inform...
Antecedents of tax compliance of small business enterprises: a developing country perspective
[ "Technology acceptance model", "Institutional theory", "Theory of reasoned action", "Adoption of electronic tax system", "Attitude towards electronic tax system", "Isomorphic forces", "Tax compliance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In this paper, we report the results of a study carried out to investigate the contribution of attitude towards electronic tax system, adoption of electronic tax system and isomorphic forces to tax compliance of small busi...
Obsolescence - a cause for concern?
[ "Adaptive re-use", "Depreciated replacement cost", "Depreciation", "Obsolescence", "SERQUAL", "Valuation standards" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2014 the British supermarket chain, Sainsbury's PLC, reported that it had taken a PS92 million impairment charge on sites it no longer wished to develop as supermarkets and had also raised hurdle rates that new supermarket...
Expert groups as production units for shared knowledge in energy foresights
[ "Forecasting", "Knowledge sharing", "Team working", "Electronic engineering" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Modern society is flooded with foresight studies encompassing almost every field of society and technology, predicting all kinds of plausible futures. Most foresights involve expert assessments, assumedly because experts hold...
Seeking and measuring the essential behaviors of servant leadership
[ "Servant leadership", "Leadership development", "Scale development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: According to Dalakoura (2010), leadership development occurs in a broad collective environment of the organization and is usually conducted by the human resource department. Dalakoura also points out that leadership developme...
Responses to customized products: the consumers' behavioral intentions
[ "E-retailing", "Price sensitivity", "Endowment addition", "Expected likelihood of product return", "Online mass customization", "Product information framing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The popularity of offering online customization has been growing in both products and service industries. For instance, Dell.com has achieved great success with its online configuration system for customized computers, and Ex...
The impact of firm resources on innovation
[ "Innovation", "Networks", "Slack resources", "Biotechnology industry", "Human slack" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizational researchers have long studied the question of \"what drives firm innovation?\" from many different perspectives. Researchers have identified numerous factors such as industry characteristics, firm-level and int...
Improving team performance: Does Belbin role diversity really matter?
[ "Training and development", "Team performance", "Belbin", "Management roles", "Role diversity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nMain body of article review: Teamwork: highly valued by so many organizations - and often so very hard to achieve! As a result, many job specifications state that the role requires \"a good team player\". What is harder to find is evidence...
Effect of factors of organizational structure influencing nonphysical waste in road projects of developing countries
[ "Time overrun", "Cost overrun", "Organizational structure", "Road construction", "Roadwork", "Regression analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The issue of construction waste has increased the concerns around the globe due to rapid development in the construction industry. A big chunk of the construction material is wasted throughout the construction industries b...