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Libraries, democracy, information literacy, and citizenship: An agonistic reading of central library and information studies' concepts
[ "Libraries", "Politics", "Democracy", "Information literacy", "Critical", "Citizenship", "Information studies", "Agonistic pluralism", "Radical" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The notion that tax-funded libraries are important prerequisites of a democratic society is firmly rooted in western culture. This relationship between democracy and libraries is included in the professional values of librari...
Counterfeit purchase typologies during an economic crisis
[ "Greece, Economic crisis, Consumer behaviour, Counterfeit brands, Generation Y" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Counterfeiting is an old phenomenon (Veloutsou and Bian, 2008), however, contemporary literature (Fernandes, 2013; Staake et al., 2012; Wiedmann et al., 2012), suggests that the extent of counterfeiting has increased, plaguin...
The aftermath of organizational restructuring: Destruction of old and development of new social capital
[ "Change management", "Social dynamics", "Networking", "Perception", "Business support services", "Organizational change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: One clear trend in organizational development is the interest in organizational change initiatives aimed at implementing team-based structures and improving team functioning. Small teams represent the basic working units of m...
Public perceptions of pre-incident information campaign materials for the initial response to a chemical incident: The "Remove, Remove, Remove" campaign
[ "Psychology", "CBRN", "Communication", "Preparedness and response" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The release of hazardous substances (e.g. chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) agents) may occur due to natural and man-made accidents (e.g. the Fukushima power plant disaster in 2011) and to deliberate attac...
Gaining the edge in new business development
[ "Strategic marketing", "Business performance", "Competitive advantage" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Increasing numbers of companies today are using a tool called strategic market positioning (SMP) to achieve profitable growth and add value. Simply stated, a \"strategic market position\" (also abbreviated as SMP) is your com...
Solving design management problems using lean design management: the role of trust
[ "Collaboration", "Trust", "Design", "Communication", "Design management", "Construction", "Information flow", "Construction project", "Lean design management (LDM)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Design management problems are major contributors to the failure of construction projects (Busby, 2001; Tilley, 2005a). From the main contractor's perspective, designers often lack competence in cost awareness, while the desi...
The role of employers opinions about skills and productivity of older workers: example of Poland
[ "Skills", "Poland", "Productivity", "Age management", "Employers", "Older workers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: From an employer's standpoint, one of the worker's key values is his or her productivity. Even if age does not directly and straightforwardly influence job performance, older age is usually perceived as a phase of lower pr...
HEI engagement with SMEs: developing social capital
[ "Social capital", "Social networks", "Owner‐managers", "Higher education", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Increasingly, it is being argued that economic actions associated with entrepreneurship are conditioned by the social relations and networks in which an entrepreneur is immersed (Aldrich and Zimmer, 1986; Young, 1998; Ander...
Does gender disparity in financial literacy still persist after retirement? Evidence from Ghana
[ "Financial literacy", "Gender disparity", "Retirees" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As acknowledged by the G20 Leader's Declaration in June 2012, gender disparity in terms of economic and financial opportunities has far-reaching consequences on wealth creation and financial security of countries. There is co...
Young adults and wine consumption a qualitative application of the theory of planned behavior
[ "Perceptions", "Consumer behaviour", "Wine", "Theory of planned behaviour", "Young adults", "Attitudes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Culture provides people with a sense of identity and with a perception of what is acceptable behavior within society. Beliefs and attitudes surrounding food and eating are among the most marked characteristics of any culture ...
Temporal dynamism in country of origin effect: The malleability of Italians' perceptions regarding the British sixties
[ "Fashion", "Music", "Temporality", "Country of origin", "Heritage branding" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Country of origin (COO) effect is derived from consumer perceptions of a country's identity, which means that products and brands, from their mere association with a specific country, gain benefits and equally accrue criti...
From health to performance: Amateur runners' personal health information management with activity tracking technology
[ "Information behaviour", "Personal information management", "Human–computer interaction", "Activity tracking technology", "Personal health information management", "Runners" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Regular physical activity is key to both the prevention and the treatment of lifestyle diseases such as cardiovascular diseases (Chomistek et al., 2015) and type 2 diabetes (Sigal et al., 2006). It also helps improve peopl...
The effect of supply chain integration on technical innovation in Jordan: The mediating role of knowledge management
[ "Technical innovation", "Customer integration", "Knowledge management", "Supply chain integration", "Supplier integration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Supply chain management (SCM) has recently become a prevalent research topic. Particularly, SCM-related outcomes have received considerable attention from researchers, and a wide stream of published research focuses on the...
How re-designing angular logos to be rounded shapes brand attitude: consumer brand commitment and self-construal
[ "Self construal", "Brand commitment", "Advertising framing", "Logos", "Consumers" ]
[ { "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.\nTheoretical underpinnings: Berlyne's (1960) seminal work led to a steady stream of research examining the psychological process...
Global consumer culture: epistemology and ontology
[ "Global consumer culture", "Appropriation", "Globalization", "Acculturation", "Indigenization", "Creolization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Jules Verne chronicles the voyage of Phileas Fogg, who, after having made a wager to his colleagues, fulfills the quest as described in the book's title. Circumnavigating the globe i...
Segmenting Australian online panellists based on volunteering motivations
[ "Volunteering", "Respondents’ motivations", "Online panels" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In most primary marketing research there is a reliance on people's opinions or reactions (as consumers, potential consumers, managers and respondents at large) to provide the necessary information to examine the phenomenon un...
World-class broadband
[ "Governance", "Economic performance", "Broadband networks", "Benchmark", "Competiveness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Many countries have adopted national broadband plans (OECD, 2011; Roetter, 2013), with targets to match or to beat their economic rivals and neighbours, some aim to be world class, raising questions about the helpfulness of s...
Factors affecting relevance judgment: a report from TREC Legal track
[ "Information retrieval", "Information management", "Assessment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In concluding his two-part essay on a further examination of the relevance notion, Saracevic (2007b) wrote: \"Relevance is timeless. Concerns about relevance will always be timely.\" Indeed, not only discussion of the rele...
The role of reasonable notice legislation in organizational downsizing decisions in Canada
[ "Canada", "Downsizing", "Job loss", "Lay-off", "Reasonable notice", "Rermination notice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of lay-off legislation on organizational downsizing decisions, based on empirical evidence from 1,147 mass lay-off events in Ontario, Canada, from 2001 to 2008. Organiz...
How service quality influences brand equity: The dual mediating role of perceived value and corporate credibility
[ "Service quality", "Consumer based brand equity", "Corporate credibility and perceived value", "Brands", "Banks", "Pakistan" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Recent research in the area of consumer-based brand equity suggests a fundamental shift from conceptualizing and measuring the construct, to exploring its causal relationships with analytically and cognitively driven concepts...
Literature review on service quality in hospitality and tourism (1984-2014): Future directions and trends
[ "Literature review", "Service quality", "Citation", "Content investigation", "Pathfinder network" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: After Gronroos (1984) and Parasuraman et al. (1985) published their service quality models, a large quantity of papers on service quality research began to appear. Ever since, service quality in hospitality and tourism has...
Sustainability practices in tourism supply chain: Importance performance analysis
[ "Hotels", "Importance performance analysis", "Sustainability practice", "Action grids", "Tourism supply chain" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Tourism is one of the largest resource consuming industries in the world with respect to the energy, water and minerals used. The tourism industry is also the fastest growing and important industry in the world in terms of...
The global refugee crisis and the career ecosystem
[ "Media", "Refugee", "Career ecosystem", "Global refugee crisis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the last decade, images of individuals, families and children forced to flee their homes and communities in search of safety, survival and better futures have occupied news channels and other global media outlets to refl...
How to evaluate multichannel communication packages: a case study on mortgage information
[ "Functional analysis", "Media synchronicity theory", "Multichannel communication", "Task-channel fit" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Some products and services need to be carefully considered by prospective clients or buyers. Hence the organizations and companies offering them need to provide a good deal of information and advice on them. We will use the t...
Storytelling as a means to increase consumers' processing of financial information
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Financial services", "Communication", "Marketing communications", "Services marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The importance of citizens choice of retirement savings has increased substantially over the last two decades (Gough and Niza, 2011). Globally today, pension systems both enable and encourage active participation. At the same...
Market and technology orientations for service delivery innovation: the link of innovative competence
[ "Market orientation", "Innovative competence", "Service delivery innovation", "Technology orientation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Customer issues have been emphasized in previous studies examining service innovation (Magnusson et al., 2003; Martin and Horne, 1993, 1995; Nicolajsen and Scupola, 2011; Oliveira and von Hippel, 2011; Santos-Vijande et al., ...
Understanding continuance intention in traffic-related social media: Comparing a multi-channel information community and a community-based application
[ "Continuance intention", "Commitment", "IS success model", "Multi-group analysis", "Traffic-related social media", "Waze" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The traffic congestion is considered hectic for commuters and travelers in major cities across the globe. INRIX reported, from its research from 1,360 cities throughout 5 continents within 38 countries, that drivers in Los...
Idiocentrism-allocentrism and academics' self-efficacy for research in Beijing universities
[ "Individual behaviour", "Collectivism", "Research", "Higher education", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Research achievements can strengthen both the teaching and academic reputation of universities (Clark, 1983). In China, universities have become primary providers of research intended to serve national development interests (...
Ratify, reject or revise: balanced scorecard and universities
[ "Balanced scorecard", "Strategic planning", "Universities", "Higher education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The balanced scorecard (BSC) has been called one of the most important innovations in strategic management in the twentieth century (Steele, 2001). It is a strategic management approach to performance measurement and evaluati...
The same day admissions unit for elective surgery: a case study
[ "Patients", "Surgery", "National Health Service" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In many hospitals in the UK, patients for elective surgery are currently being admitted to hospital at least one day prior to the procedure in order to be assessed and prepared for surgery. Most of these patients, however, do...
Monitoring process control chart with finite mixture probability distribution: An application in manufacture industry
[ "Quality management", "Control chart", "Alimentary sector", "Mixture distributions", "Multiple-stream processes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Statistical process control (SPC) has been widely used in many industries to monitor, diagnose, and improve processes characterized by a large number of quality characteristics (Ahangar and Chimka, 2016; Variyath and Vatta...
Improving service responsiveness and delivery efficiency of retail networks: A case study of Melbourne
[ "Segmentation", "GIS", "City logistics", "Retail logistics", "Market area", "Retail network" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Space, as a function of production (Harvey, 1990), is often considered as an impedance to the movement of goods (Berry, 1969; Hesse and Rodrigue, 2004), what Keith and Pile (2013) would label as a \"geography of resistance\"....
Academics' perceptions of bullying at work: insights from Pakistan
[ "Pakistan", "Workplace bullying", "Academics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Bullying at work involves a regular and persistent pattern of abrasive behaviors and hostile messages directed toward one or more persons of weaker power with a real or perceived intent to harm (Einarsen et al., 2011; Hershco...
Antecedents of employee performance: an empirical investigation in India
[ "Employees attitudes", "Employees behavior", "Human resource management", "Job satisfaction", "Workplace" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The increasing global spread of business and the growing prominence of multinational corporations (MNCs) in emerging economies have brought to fore the need to study management practices in different social and cultural conte...
Exploring determinants of state employee union density in the United States
[ "Human resource management", "Public sector management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The collective bargaining rights of public sector unions have been dramatically diminished during the economic downturn, as shown in many American states, including Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan. To address massive budget def...
Effect of intergroup-based emotions on attitude towards cross-ethnic products
[ "Multicultural", "Crossover consumption", "Ethnic crossover" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Demangeot et al. (2015) contended that multicultural marketplaces are becoming a more prevalent kind of marketplace and that the complexity of such marketplaces in marketing has not been well researched; they concluded that m...
Market effects of SEC regulation of short-term borrowing disclosure
[ "Corporate governance", "Financial risk and risk management", "Government policy and regulation", "Corporation and securities law", "Event studies", "Information and market efficiency" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Excessive bank borrowing was one of the key triggers[1] of the 2008 financial crisis that led to the failure of banks such as Lehman Brothers. In March 2010, Lehman's bankruptcy examiner confirmed that window dressing had ...
The cultural similarities of work as dignity: bringing sense of community in business organizations
[ "Development", "Organizational change and learning", "Learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Fixed graphic\nIntroduction: The pursuit of the culture of work as dignity is rarely a central focus of scholarly writings. One dominant, widely shared and accepted cultural value of work ethic is the belief that it is work t...
Lending a hand: perceptions of green credit cards
[ "Environmentalism", "Cause-related marketing", "Corporate social responsibility", "Volunteerism", "Donation framing", "Donation size" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: According to theories of attribute centrality, the centrality of a green or sustainable attribute indicates the degree to which specific attributes that conceptualize and categorize the product are associated with positive et...
Do global brands contribute to the economy of their country of origin? A dynamic spatial approach
[ "Intangible assets", "Country of origin", "Brand value", "Brand origin", "Global factory", "Economic geography", "Spatial regression" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Brands are widely recognised as an important source of a company's income and competitive advantage (Barwise et al., 1989, 1990). However, several factors can affect brand value, such as product quality (Dimitrova et al., 201...
Remuneration consultants' advice and its effect on pay
[ "Executive remuneration", "Executive remuneration benchmarking", "Remuneration consultants" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Executive pay setting process is primarily a task for the board of a company or its remuneration committee. Executive remuneration package has become so complex that the remuneration committee relies on the remuneration consu...
Developing the leaders of tomorrow in Abbey, part of the Santander Group
[ "International banks", "Senior managers", "Succession planning", "Leadership development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Santander is one of the most successful banks in the world. Its business model has weathered the financial storm very well, and its recent financial results - which saw Group profits increase by 9.4 per cent despite major acq...
Teacher support for career development: an integrative review and research agenda
[ "Career development", "Literature review", "Teacher support" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Support for students' career development has become an extremely important focus of attention in schools over the past decades, due principally to the ever-changing nature of the world of employment in this twenty-first centu...
Mark Hepworth: in memoriam
[ "Editorial", "Information literacy", "Information behaviour", "Information experience", "Mark Hepworth", "Library and information science teaching and research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: This special issue of the journal honours Mark Hepworth, Emeritus Professor at Loughborough University, who for many years pushed forward the boundaries in studies of people's information behaviour and their information exper...
Benchmarking industrial engineering programs
[ "Educational programmes", "Quality", "Curriculum", "Industrial engineering" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Industrial engineering (IE) as an undergraduate field of study was first offered in the USA at the beginning of the twentieth century (Elsayed, 1999; Kuo, 2001). Since then, IE in the USA has been popular and growing. Now, it...
Role of a hospital accreditation program in developing a process management system: A qualitative study
[ "Change management", "Process management", "Organizational change", "Qualitative study", "Accreditation", "Thematic analysis", "Hospital accreditation", "Process redesign" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Two decades of restless attempts have been invested on the landmark revelation of the Institute of Medicine regarding low quality and safety within the healthcare system (Chassin and Galvin, 1998). Following after, ideas of c...
Performance assessment using value-chain analysis in Mozambique
[ "Value chain", "Mozambique", "Hotels", "Restaurants", "Hospitality services", "Tourism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In hospitality, as in other industries, value creation takes place through a series of production and service (delivery) activities. If these activities are efficiently creating value, the end worth of the product or service ...
Principals' sense of efficacy: the influence of the Arkansas Leadership Academy
[ "Change management", "Decision making", "Leadership development", "Arkansas Leadership Academy", "Principal efficacy", "Outside support program", "School Support Program" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The job responsibilities of the school principal have grown over the past several decades. This role augmentation has resulted in an increase of responsibility driven by accountability mandates that has made school leadership...
Medical education governance based on strategic planning: An example of Kazakhstan medical universities
[ "Medical education", "Knowledge management", "Management", "Organizational learning", "Political strategy", "Health economics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Kazakhstan's strategic interests require an increase in the competitiveness of its domestic economy, and recognition of the fact that at present time the quality of the country's human resources is, along with innovation and ...
An integrative approach to understand vulnerability and resilience post-disaster: The 2015 cyclone Pam in urban Vanuatu as case study
[ "Urban resilience", "Vulnerable people", "Cyclone", "Coastal disasters", "Flash flood", "Storm surge", "Vanuatu" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The Republic of Vanuatu is an archipelago of 83 islands located in the South Pacific region. The country categorized as a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) is highly exposed to a wide range of natural hazards including ...
They did not start the fire: reviewing and resolving the issue of physician stress and burnout
[ "Healthcare burnout", "Physician burnout", "Physician occupational health", "Physician stress", "Physician wellness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Physician burnout is a serious concern in healthcare. Burnout, according to the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), is defined by three characteristics and criteria: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a diminished sens...
Four essential dimensions of workplace learning
[ "Workplace learning", "Embodiment", "Practice theory", "Temporality", "Learning processes", "Texture", "Knowing in practice", "Sociomaterial", "Spatiality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Workplace learning can be understood as centrally relying on and being practised through connectedness in action, or a texture of practices (Gherardi, 2006; Gherardi and Nicolini, 2002). I argue that this connectedness or tex...
Ostracizing targets of workplace sexual harassment before and after the #MeToo movement
[ "Ostracism", "Workplace sexual harassment", "#MeToo movement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Workplace sexual harassment is an all too common phenomenon. Each year, over 12,000 US-based employees file sexual harassment claims with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC, n.d.), and the costs to the individu...
The effect of business advisers on the performance of SMEs
[ "Financial services", "Accountants", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Performance management", "Government agencies", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There has been a considerable rise in firm's use of business advice, whether from government agencies, professional service firms or research and educational organisations (Bennett and Robson, 1999). These authors, after prov...
Researching indicators of organizational intellectual capital in Serbia
[ "Intellectual capital", "Influence", "Serbia", "Modelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Measuring of intellectual capital (IC) is a complex problem. It is difficult to find an absolutely accurate and universal measuring system of such an \"intangible\" asset as IC, that with regard to its properties completel...
CRM collaboration in financial services networks: a multi-case analysis
[ "Customer relations", "Networking", "Financial services", "Europe" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The financial services industry is in the middle of a structural change (Lehmann, 2000). Increasing competition and customer demands require that financial services companies focus on core competencies in order to deliver bet...
Antimicrobial stewardship in Tanzania: A consideration of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges for maintenance and further development of efforts
[ "Health policy", "Management", "Leadership", "Governance structures", "Microbiology", "Antimicrobial resistance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground on antimicrobial stewardship (AMS): The emphasis on stewardship function in health system was championed by the World Health Report of 2000, in which it pointed out requirements for successful stewardship implementation to be \"...
Collection development in public libraries of Tehran
[ "Public libraries", "Collection development", "Collections management", "Public library system", "Iran" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the world of libraries, the public library assumes a special significance. Among the different types of libraries, public libraries are unique in their objectives, clientele served, governance, collection development an...
Family socioeconomic status and students' choice of STEM majors: Evidence from higher education of Cambodia
[ "Higher education", "Cambodia", "Socioeconomic status", "STEM majors", "Household poverty" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: With the current global development of science and technology, greater demand for highly trained graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) related fields has become one of the priority concerns. Th...
Total productive maintenance, kaizen event, and performance
[ "Performance", "Total productive maintenance", "Automotive industry", "Kaizen event", "Reliability analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Based on the National Automotive Policy (NAP) objectives, the automotive organizations are required to make substantial changes in their management systems or in maintenance systems, using the equipment, continuous improve...
How "critical" are the critical success factors (CSFs)? Examining the role of CSFs for ERP
[ "Performance", "Content analysis", "Critical success factors", "Enterprise resource planning", "Organizational performance", "Implementation", "ERP", "Success", "Antecedents", "Qualitative interpretive analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The birth of the concept of critical success factors (CSFs) in the 1960s can be said to have introduced a new organisational approach for helping to achieve performance goals and competitiveness.\n2 Background: CSFs are ide...
E-tail brand experience's influence on e-brand trust and e-brand loyalty: The moderating role of gender
[ "Gender", "E-brand loyalty", "E-brand trust", "E-tail brand", "E-tail brand experience", "Online brand experience" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Providing unique and memorable brand experience has become a vital strategy among retailers, and area of interest among academics (Verhoef et al., 2009). Brakus et al. (2009) defined brand experience as customers' \"sensation...
Educational mobility in transition: what can China and the UK learn from each other?
[ "UK", "Transition", "People’s Republic of China", "Student mobility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The UK and China are countries in transition. The Chinese paradoxical culture (Fang, 2003) allows them to develop their own interpretation of capitalism under a Communist Party and the country turns outward to the internat...
Training accounts for big improvements at Fairbairn Private Bank: Bespoke program blends internal and external expertise
[ "Banks", "Customer services quality", "Training", "Morale", "Organizational culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A bank's \"shop window\" - its customer-service center (CSC) - was transformed by a training initiative that changed staff attitudes and behavior and embedded a new client-centered approach in the organizational culture.\nThe...
Tipping the scales: ambidexterity practices on e-HRM projects
[ "Human resource management", "Ambidexterity", "Exploration", "Exploitation", "Projects", "Strategic choices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As organisations face pressure to achieve both efficiency and effectiveness in their human resourcing (HR) operations, they have increasingly turned to HR technology in the form of electronic human resource management (e-HRM)...
De-commoditizing change management: A call for the re-positioning of change management on IT projects
[ "Ethics", "Leadership", "Decision making", "Change management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There exists an extensive literature detailing the failure of change initiatives. The information technology (IT) industry has not been immune to project failure and the consequences include cost and time overruns, industrial...
Crowdfunding in digital humanities: some evidence from Indonesian social enterprises
[ "Social enterprise", "Digital humanities", "Crowdfunding", "Social mission", "Sharing risk", "Voluntary workers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: \"Digital humanities\" is the area where computer science and humanities intersect. The wide range of computational tools has enabled social enterprises that work in humanities project to digitise archival materials for poste...
Assessing energy rating premiums in the performance of green office buildings in Australia
[ "Sustainability", "Green office buildings", "Green premiums", "Green Star", "NABERS energy rating", "Non-green discounts" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Sustainability has taken on increased importance in recent years at all levels of property stakeholders, including governments, tenants, investors, developers, owners and the community (World Green Building Council (WGBC), 20...
Meeting collection development needs in resource poor settings: the University of Zambia Medical Library experience
[ "Collections management", "Serials", "Financing", "Zambia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The University of Zambia (UNZA) Medical Library, a publicly funded institution, was established in 1970. It serves the School of Medicine, which is one of the professional schools of the University of Zambia. UNZA School of M...
Application of value stream mapping (VSM) for minimization of wastes in the processing side of supply chain of cottonseed oil industry in Indian context
[ "Edible oils", "Waste minimization", "Supply chain management", "Value chain", "India" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: India, the world's seventh largest producer of oil crops (2001-2003 average), is a major producer of soybeans, rapeseed, peanuts, cottonseed, and sunflower seed and their derived products. India is traditionally an importer...
The return of the hierarchy: SOEs in marketisation
[ "Case studies", "Denmark", "New public management", "Governance", "Public companies", "Public transport" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: When state-owned enterprises (SOEs) began to be privatised in the 1980s-1990s, either by divesting outright or by contracting out of activities (Hodge, 2000), it put the former preferred service providers of national public s...
The differentiated effect of information on the sensorial appreciation of wine
[ "Hedonic evaluation", "Knowledge", "Red wine", "Clustering", "Information effect" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper discusses how the provision of additional information changes consumers' appreciation of a complex product depending on their knowledge and their individual characteristics. The study concerns wine, which is among ...
Strategizing in horizons and verizons: Distinguishing between mediators and firms' mediating functions
[ "Strategizing", "Mediating firms", "Mediating functions", "Network boundaries", "Network verizon" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Strategy is intimately related to perceptions of the boundaries of both organizations and their surroundings. The present study focuses on strategizing in a network context, specifically with regard to perceptions of mediatio...
The dynamic role of rapport on satisfaction-commitment relationship: Testing alternative models
[ "Rapport", "Satisfaction", "Affective commitment", "Calculative commitment", "Normative commitment", "Relationship age", "Structural equation modeling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Rapport is defined as a bond between customers and employees during service interactions (Gremler and Gwinner, 2000). Constant attention on rapport from scholars (Macintosh, 2009a; Dagger and O'Brien, 2010; Delcourt et al., 2...
How to measure post-purchase customer experience in online retailing? A scale development study
[ "Customer experience", "Scale development", "Online customer experience", "Post-purchase" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Customer experience has been an area of intensive research since 1974 when Mehrabian and Russell first talked about experience economy and experiential marketing. The arrival of internet created an entirely new channel of cus...
A survey of absenteeism on construction sites
[ "Conditions of employment", "Data analysis", "Contingent workers", "Absenteeism", "Human resource management", "Construction industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In their editorial on the state of human resource management (HRM) in the construction industry, Dainty et al. (2007, p. 506) note that \"in this sector, neither markets nor morality help to improve HRM\". While the outloo...
Meat safety as a tool of differentiation for retailers: Spanish and French examples of meat "supply chain brands"
[ "Retailers", "Spain", "France", "Supply chain management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The question of consumer-oriented quality policies is timely inasmuch as the consumer is the final link in the food chain. In a competitive market, the objectives of farmers, processors and retailers should correspond to co...
Reviewing and improving a clinical effectiveness department's quality assurance model: Lessons learned
[ "Clinical audit", "Clinical governance", "European Foundation for Quality Management", "Primary care", "National Health Service", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Leeds North West (LNW) Primary Care Trust (PCT) was formed in April 2001 as part of the Department of Health's (DoH) National Health Service (NHS) reorganisation to meet strategic outcomes set out in a White Paper, The New NH...
Urban agriculture: connecting producers with consumers
[ "Economics", "Social entrepreneurship", "Food security", "Community building", "Urban agriculture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A convergence of multiple forces is suggestive of a promising role for urban farms in terms of food production and the vitality of urban communities. Global populations are rapidly urbanizing, with 54 percent residing in urba...
Developing indicators to improve educational governance in hospitals
[ "Training", "Organizational development for effective clinical governance", "Governance structures", "Hospitals" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Health systems are generally engaged in introducing novel processes and approaches to improve the quality of healthcare (Freeman and Walshe, 2004). Nowadays, quality improvement strategies have an important role in healthcare...
The managers' characteristics and their strategy development in the Palestinian NGOs: An empirical study in Palestine
[ "Palestine", "Management development", "Strategic management", "Managerial characteristics", "Non‐governmental organizations", "Organizational performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: an overview: A leadership study carried out by the American Management Association has shown that the most important competency for a leader to have is the ability to develop strategy. However, only a few percent could be ...
Development and validation of a multidimensional instrument for measuring internal marketing in Chinese higher education
[ "China", "Higher education", "Internal marketing", "Instrument validation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Internal Marketing (IM) is a set of activities used by human resource department in organizations to efficiently and effectively motivate, educate and train their employees to launch better services to customers (Tsai, 2014)....
Intellectual capital, strategy and financial crisis from a SMEs perspective
[ "Strategy", "SMEs", "Intellectual capital", "Financial crisis", "Wissenzbilanz's typology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This study investigates the relationship of Intellectual Capital (IC) with the strategy followed by small-medium enterprises (SMEs) and their executive decisions for the strategic management of their IC portfolio during a ...
Do accredited undergraduate accounting programmes in Australia meet the needs and expectations of the accounting profession?
[ "Accounting education", "Learning outcomes", "Employer expectations", "Graduate skills", "Language analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Professional undergraduate degree programmes in accounting are expected to produce graduates who possess the skills and knowledge required to enter the accounting profession successfully (Fleming, 2008; Jackson, 2016; Jackson...
How good is the marketing method? Measuring the process and the outcomes
[ "Strategy", "Metrics", "Processes", "Marketing", "Performance", "Audits" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Marketing measurement focuses mainly on outputs, either on a financial or non-financial basis. In the last two decades, hundreds of studies have addressed the theme, not only with the purpose of proposing or identifying th...
Selecting project delivery methods for water treatment plants
[ "Management", "Decision-support tool", "Water industry", "Design-build", "Project delivery method selection factors", "Alternative project delivery methods", "Construction management at risk" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Across the USA, water and wastewater treatment plants are aging and in dire need of renovation. According to an assessment performed by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), US water and wastewater infrastructure...
The underlying social identities of a nation's brand
[ "Brands", "Country of origin", "Consumer behaviour", "Customer loyalty", "Ethnocentrism", "Mozambique" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Recent studies expound the importance of a nation's brand on international product marketing and export (Gnoth, 2002; Kotler and Gertner, 2002; Pappu et al., 2007). A key related concept to national branding is ethnocentris...
Heuristics elements of information-seeking strategies and tactics: a conceptual analysis
[ "Heuristics", "Information search", "Strategy", "Information seeking", "Conceptual analysis", "Tactic" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Since the 1970s, researchers have identified a number of strategies and tactics for information seeking and searching (for an overview, see Savolainen, 2016). Following the classic definitions formulated by Bates (1979b, pp. ...
Crane company raises the standards in employee development: Wide range of programs trains global workforce of tomorrow
[ "Career development", "Employee development", "Manufacturing", "Communications", "Management styles" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Self-assessment questionnaires conducted online are giving an international manufacturer of lifting equipment a clear picture of the behavior and preferred work styles of its employees at all levels in the business.\nKey lead...
The relationship between transformational client leadership and auditor objectivity
[ "Auditor objectivity", "Client identification", "Transformational client leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Accounting research has provided substantial evidence of the impact of financial incentives on auditor objectivity (e.g. Salterio, 1996; Mayhew et al., 2001; Kadous et al., 2003; Umar and Anandarajan, 2004; Hollingsworth a...
Organisational adaptation processes to external complexity
[ "Strategic manufacturing", "Manufacturing industries", "Complexity theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In many publications about management, one can find a prominent common theme explaining why management has become extremely difficult nowadays. The common theme is \"complexity\" that is supposed to have increased dramaticall...
The impact of reversibility on the decision to disclose personal information
[ "Privacy", "Self-disclosure", "Personal information", "Reversibility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent years, there has been increasing attention in the marketing literature to the collection of consumer data for tracking and targeting purposes (Yan et al., 2009; Farahat and Bailey, 2012) and the associated privacy c...
The meaning of career success: Avoiding reification through a closer inspection of historical, cultural, and ideological contexts
[ "Career success", "Subjective career", "Career reification", "Boundaryless career", "Career theory", "National cultures", "Globalization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A definition of career success commonly referred to in the contemporary literature is \"the experience of achieving goals that are personally meaningful to the individual, rather than those set by parents, peers, an organizat...
Personality and boredom at work: the mediating role of job crafting
[ "Big Five", "Mediation", "Job crafting", "Dark triad", "Boredom at work" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Boredom at work represents the state of low arousal and dissatisfaction, which is attributed to an inadequately stimulating work environment (Mikulas and Vodanovich, 1993; Reijseger et al., 2013). It is relatively common, 11-...
Open-mindedness and adaptive business style: Competences that contribute to building relationships in dissimilar export markets
[ "Trust", "Communication", "Adaptive business style", "Dissimilar cultures", "Export/import marketing", "Open-mindedness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: When business relations cross national borders, cultural differences between the partners pervade the relationship (e.g. Nevins and Money, 2008), which may include different views on the qualities of the relationship, e.g....
A content analysis of organic product package designs
[ "Content analysis", "Organic label", "Package design", "Organic products" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The market for organic products has shown impressive growth, accounting for US$80bn in 2014 from US$15.2bn in 1999 (Willer and Lernoud, 2016). Once considered a niche market, in some countries, its size indicates that this...
Actors and avatars: why learners prefer digital agents
[ "Second life", "Modelling", "Virtual reality", "Machinima", "Media in education", "Teaching/learning strategies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: 1.1 Using new technology\n2. Method: 2.1 Participants\n3. Data gathering: In analysing the data, there was a minimum predefined set of coding of data, which has been gathered at the interview stage. The set of predefined d...
Supervisor support and work engagement of hotel employees in Malaysia: Is it different for men and women?
[ "Hotels", "Human resource management", "Employee relations", "Employee attitudes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Tourism in Malaysia is booming. The number of tourist arrivals in Malaysia has increased dramatically in the past decade, with 16.4 million arrivals in 2005 growing to 27.4 million in 2014 (Tourism Malaysia, 2015b). The in...
Employee engagement and autoethnography: being and studying self
[ "Culture", "Context", "Autoethnography", "Self", "Qualitative research", "Employee engagement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: William Kahn (2010), arguably the pioneer of engagement research, has described employee engagement (EE) as \"an enormously appealing concept\" (p. 20). Despite Kahn (1990) employing ethnographic methods to develop his concep...
When it comes to the impact of absorptive capacity on co-innovation, how really harmful is knowledge leakage?
[ "Knowledge sharing", "Open innovation", "Crowdsourcing", "Incremental innovation", "Knowledge leakage", "Collaborative innovation platforms" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Amid the turbulence in the world economy caused by the trade war between the USA and China, it has become clear that knowledge leakage is one of the issues putting the most pressure on the relationship between the two powers ...