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Persuaded self-tracking with wearable technology: carrot or stick?
[ "Health insurance", "Wearable technology", "Smart services", "Self-tracking", "Fitness tracker" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the past few years, self-tracking - also referred to as life-logging or the quantified-self (QS) - has emerged as a major trend in lifestyle and personal optimization (Hoy, 2016; Lupton, 2016; Pfeiffer et al., 2016; Swan...
Analysis of financial close delay in PPP infrastructure projects in developing countries
[ "Nigeria", "Infrastructure", "Delays", "Developing countries", "PPP projects", "Financial close" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have received much attention in the development and financing of the public infrastructure facilities and services in the last two decades due to its inherent benefits (Li et al., 2005a)....
Identification of local information items needed during search and rescue following an earthquake
[ "Earthquake", "Search and rescue operations", "Local information", "Residential buildings", "Natural disasters", "Information management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Recent disasters have resulted in thousands of deaths, such as the Marmara earthquake in 1999 and the Haiti earthquake in 2010 (Unlu et al., 2010; BBC News, 2010). In the case of an earthquake, the probability of rescuing ...
Ranking of maintenance wastes present in Indian organizations (a statistical analysis)
[ "Maintenance strategies", "Maintenance", "Industrial maintenance", "Wastes", "Wastes in maintenance", "Total productive maintenance (TPM)", "Maintenance error" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Before the manufacturing revolution in England close to the middle of the eighteenth century, maintenance was only adopted by craftsmen such as carpenters, blacksmiths and masons in their work, which was mostly done by mak...
The impact of quality culture on quality management practices and performance in Chinese manufacturing firms
[ "Structural equation model", "Core quality practices", "Infrastructure quality practices", "Quality culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: China has taken the cost advantage to become the world production center and attracted tremendous amount of foreign direct investment for at least two decades. With the intense global competition, customers have become mor...
Telephone consultation in primary care: A retrospective two-year observational analysis of a public healthcare system
[ "Public health", "Healthcare", "Primary healthcare", "Teleconsultation", "Telephone consultation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The current communications technology provides an opportunity to improve access to medical care and make virtual consultation between physicians and patients a promising healthcare tool (Gonzalez and Castro, 2006; Gonzalez...
Analysis of management practices in performance-based outsourcing contracts
[ "Outsourcing", "Contract management", "Contract manager" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Outsourcing consists of contracting out activities that are performed in-house to an outside organisation that will perform them more competitively and with a higher level of quality (Ghodeswar and Vaidyanathan, 2008; Freytag...
Female entrepreneurship in the UAE: a multi-level integrative lens
[ "UAE", "Multi-level analysis", "Constraints", "Gender", "Women entrepreneurs", "Institutional theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Entrepreneurship has long been regarded as a significant factor in national economic growth and development (Schumpeter, 1934; Baughn and Neupert, 2003; Wennekers and Thurik, 1999). Previous studies found a positive relations...
Tools and techniques to resolve organizational conflicts amicably
[ "Leadership development", "Organizational performance", "Organizational development", "Conflict management", "Conflict resolution" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it(Steven V. Thulon).\nMerits and demerits of conflicts: Conflicts are inevitable in life. They have both merits and demerits. The merits include identifying what did not work paving ...
A fuzzy AHP approach for inbound supply risk assessment
[ "Supply chain management", "Analytical hierarchy process", "Supplier evaluation", "Risk management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Purchasing and supply management are widely acknowledged as strategic for companies, because they contribute to build and maintain a competitive advantage (Hsu et al., 2006). The purchasing function is no longer an operatio...
Mobile-banking: can elephants and hippos tango?
[ "Strategic alliances", "Banking", "Economic convergence" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As behemoth banks and mammoth mobile carriers consider the next generation of service offerings, mobile banking[1] occupies the focal point of growth strategies in both industries. Indeed, the ability to fit a financial insti...
Sustainability as corporate mission and strategy
[ "Sustainability", "Social responsibility", "CSR", "The Eden Project", "Corporate strategy", "Sustainability management", "Social enterprise" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The concept of sustainability has for some time attracted increased attention by practitioners and academics (Hult, 2011). As described by Unruh and Ettenson (2010, pp. 94-5), a \"recent IBM survey found that two-thirds of ex...
Cognitive and affective processes underlying career change
[ "Career transformation", "Cognitive decisions", "Self‐efficacy", "Goal revision", "Social cognition", "Career strategy", "Boundaryless", "Self‐employment", "Entrepreneurs", "Graduate degree", "Career development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nNavigating the seas of career change: Nearly 2,000,000 MBA degrees were awarded in the United States between 1970-2009 (US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2010).Identifying career identity\nVoluntary care...
Creating flex-lean-agile value chain by outsourcing: An ISM-based interventional roadmap
[ "Value chain", "Outsourcing", "Agile production", "Modelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The primary objective of any business organization is to create and deliver \"Value\" to all its stakeholders. Delivering value to the customer and in turn creating sustainable value for all its stakeholders has been the fo...
The interconnectedness between leadership and learning: a reaffirmation
[ "Leadership", "Learning", "Performance management", "Attitudes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nPurpose: Although the interconnectedness between leadership and learning has been established decades ago by scholars in organizational behavior such as Schein (1972), Argyris (1976), and Schon (Argyris and Schon, 1978), contemporary belie...
A review of performance based maintenance of road infrastructure by contracting
[ "Performance based maintenance", "Road infrastructure", "Contract", "Literature", "Review", "Performance management", "Roads" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A resourceful road infrastructure system is the key component for poverty eradication and economic sustainability of a country. Controlling the cost of road maintenance work as well as maintaining the efficiency of the roa...
Boards and governance of state-owned enterprises
[ "Corporate governance", "Ghana", "Developing country", "Boards", "State-owned enterprises" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper is part of a project that seeks to examine public sector reform programmes in Ghana and their impact on corporate governance practices of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The current study focuses on the governance ...
Determinants of school efficiency: The case of primary schools in the State of Geneva, Switzerland
[ "Efficiency", "Multiple sites", "School performance", "Two-stage data envelopment analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Context and objectives: The measurement of school efficiency is a major concern in Switzerland: improving efficiency in compulsory education is one of four reforms recommended by a recent OECD analysis to raise education outcomes (Fuent...
Chess makes a winning move with employee training: Program helps company to manage the challenges of growth
[ "Telecommunications", "Business development", "Training", "Quality awards" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Investing almost PS500,000 in employee training was a winning move for Chess Telecom, which scooped a partnership and collaboration prize in the UK National Training Awards.\nDescription of the training: The Chess Personal Pe...
The banana postharvest value chain analysis in Zimbabwe
[ "Africa", "Infrastructure", "Agriculture and food technology", "Value chain", "Storage management", "Distribution channels and markets" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Banana, a predominant all year round dessert food and cash crop in Zimbabwe, is growing in importance and occupies second position after potatoes in revenue generation at Mbare Musika (Knowledge Transfer Africa, 2015; pers...
Regulatory focus as a determinant of brand value
[ "Pricing", "Brands", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: According to regulatory focus theory (1997), goals may be classified within two general categories: \"ideals\" (e.g., hopes and aspirations) and \"oughts\" (e.g. responsibilities and obligations) (Higgins, 1987; Pham and Avne...
Dilemmas in information science (IS) and information retrieval (IR): Recurring challenges or new solutions?
[ "Information theory", "Information science", "Information retrieval" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nMotivations: The motivation for this paper came from the planning and delivering of an updated course on \"information retrieval and organisation\" at the School of Information and Library Studies, University College Dublin. This course is...
The evolution and future of logistics and supply chain management
[ "Supply chain management", "Distribution management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It has been my good fortune to experience the inception and growth of business logistics, and now supply chain management (SCM), as an area of academic study, research, and business practice. As a logistician, I will trace th...
Synergetic effects between fasting, well-being and anti-consumption within the walls of Orthodox monasteries and outside them
[ "Fasting", "Orthodoxy", "Well-being", "Monastery cuisine", "Synergetic effects" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: From a global point of view, modern people are currently faced with the introduction of new gourmet, artisan and craft food products to the market. However, there are neither many new discoveries in the field of culinary and ...
Adventure education - a new way to confront reality!
[ "Education", "Learning", "Performance management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Executive outdoor adventure has become mainstream for Fortune 500 companies. Wilderness adventures are more than an opportunity to get out of the office, these adventures are also a time for individuals to test their mettle, ...
Understanding students' preferences on school mid-day meal menu in India
[ "Mid-day meal", "Primary and upper primary students", "Student preferences", "Weekly menu" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In India, the presence of widespread child malnutrition is a major area of concerns for overall economic and social development, which has been analyzed by several researchers using anthropometric indicators such as weight or...
Gender and age preferences of hotel room design
[ "Servicescape", "Demographics", "Color preference", "Design style", "Hotel room design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Previous research indicates that physical environment influences consumer behavior in service settings such as banks, hospitals, professional offices and hospitality and retail establishments (Baker, 1986; Bitner, 1986). A...
Relationships between maternal characteristics and infant birth weight
[ "Physical activity", "Socioeconomic factors", "Birth weight", "Maternal characteristics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is an increasing attention to infants' birth weight (IBW) as a key factor in determining their future physical and mental development (Ryan et al., 2000). In fact, one of the most significant health indices in every cou...
Linking decision-control and decision-management uses of performance measurement systems
[ "Structural equation modelling", "Distribution channel", "Performance measurement system uses" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Recent studies offer numerous examples of the crucial role of performance measurement systems (PMS) in fostering the vitality of the supply chain, affecting its performance (e.g. Della et al., 2014; Moreira and Tjahjono, 2016...
Image, brand relationships and customer value: Exploring the moderating role of advertising spending- and labour-intensity in customer loyalty
[ "Advertising spending intensity", "Labour-intensity", "Loyalty formation", "Service brand", "Value creation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Brands are recognised as the most valuable intangible asset of the firm (Ailawadi et al., 2003; Keller and Lehmann, 2006), that contributes to customer equity and the bottom line (company's overall profit). Despite the value ...
Understanding changes within business networks: evidences from the international expansion of fashion firms
[ "Business relationships", "Fashion firms", "Network dynamics", "Relational paths", "Retail store openings" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: An area of interest of business network research is change dynamics and the understanding of business networks evolution over time. Over the years, several researchers have argued that business networks are dynamic and und...
How to recover trust in the banking industry? A game theory approach to empirical analyses of bank and corporate customer relationships
[ "Trust", "Transaction costs", "Relationship marketing", "Business-to-business marketing", "Banking industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Trust is crucial to economic growth and development in the international banking industry (Yousafzai et al., 2005). Sociology of trust theory (Mollering, 2001) indicates that trust can emerge in multiple forms, including inst...
Events and professional learning: studying educational practitioners
[ "Workplace learning", "Networking", "Professional education", "Knowledge creation", "Employee participation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Professional learning from events: a need for research: There is a long history of research on continuing professional development (CPD) in education, particularly with respect to schoolteachers. In the last decade studies have been pes...
When do salespeople pursue and win deals? a two-stage model of sales opportunity outcomes
[ "Sales force", "Sales management", "Conservation of resources theory", "Sales success versus failure", "Longitudinal design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Seven months later, Allison had just read the email from Dan Reynolds at Northern, indicating that Boise had lost the order. Only minutes earlier, Allison had felt satisfied that Boise had submitted a proposal that include...
Student personality and academic achievement: mediating role of psychological capital (PsyCap)
[ "Personality", "Mediation", "Psychological capital", "PsyCap", "Academic achievement", "CGPA" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A central objective of researchers, academic administrators and policy makers in educational management has been to study the predictors of academic achievement (AA). Significance of AA becomes more critical in the context...
Neuroscience in service research: an overview and discussion of its possibilities
[ "Employee", "Customers", "Neuroscience", "Service experience", "Servicescape", "Bodily changes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The neuroscientific method has considered valuable to advance a wide variety of scientific (sub)domains including consumer behavior, organizational behavior and psychology (e.g. Butler et al., 2016; Camerer and Yoon, 2015; Ha...
Jaypee takes the express-way to strategic HR: Outsourcing deal cedes control of toll employees
[ "Outsourcing", "Legal matters", "Strategic human-resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Check-in your bags on the El Al flight from Madrid to Tel Aviv, and the operation is handled by staff of the Spanish national airline, Iberia. Report a security concern to staff at an Asda supermarket in the UK, and you may w...
Effect of product involvement and brand prominence on advergamers' brand recall and brand attitude in an emerging market context
[ "Internet marketing", "Advertising", "Media effects", "Persuasion", "Branding strategies", "Integrated marketing communication (IMC)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In today's world, smartphones play a major role in our lives. Along with making phone calls and the ordinary usage, consumers install apps and even games on their mobile devices (Cohen, 2016). For instance, on an average 16.1...
Editorial boards of accounting journals: gender diversity and internationalisation
[ "Editorial boards", "Diversity", "Gender", "Internationalization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Strength lies in differences, not in similarities(Stephen Covey, as quoted in Walter, 2014).Editorial boards of academic journals represent a key institutional mechanism in the governance and functioning of the self-regulated...
"We don't all see it the same way": The biasing effects of country-of-origin and preference reversals on product evaluation
[ "Country of origin", "Product evaluation", "Evaluation mode" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Country of origin (COO) is a widely researched, although not always well-understood internationally oriented consumer behavior variable (Tan and Farley, 1987; Verlegh and Steenkamp, 1999). Zhang (1996, p. 51) defined COO as \...
Learning how to learn: The four key concepts behind "the learning organization"
[ "Learning organizations", "Workplace learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The idea that businesses operate in a world of accelerated change goes hand in hand with a huge array of concepts to help them deal with change and stay ahead of the competition. Cynics argue that many such ideas are either t...
Regenerative failure and attribution: Examining the underlying processes affecting entrepreneurial learning
[ "Start-ups", "Business failure", "Attribution theory", "Entrepreneurial learning", "Hybrid attributions", "Regenerative failure" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Interest in business failure and exit has sustained in both the popular (e.g. Hammett, 2016; Gray, 2016) and academic press (see Mandl et al., 2016; Jenkins and McKelvie, 2016). However, our understanding of business failure ...
Industrial internet applications for efficient road winter maintenance
[ "Condition monitoring", "Smartphone", "Floating data", "Industrial internet", "Road roughness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the Scandinavian Arctic there are large-scale mining and forest industries that are depending on efficient transports (Prime Minister's Office, 2015). These industries require heavy haul on road or rail to final destina...
Assemblaging communities: Looking at how communities work for enacting critical literacies pedagogy in the classroom
[ "Standards", "Critical literacy", "English language arts", "Literacy teaching", "High-stakes testing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In the field of literacy studies, critical literacies are widely known as an imperative movement forward for literacy education, particularly in fueling social critique, change, activism and justice. Yet for many K-12 teacher...
Mediating effect of student engagement on social network sites and academic performance of medical students
[ "Performance", "Cognitive", "Engagement", "Social media", "Emotional", "Behavioural" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: From the past few years, the use of social media is considered to be an integral part of life, and it plays an essential role in building social relationships. The amalgamation of social media with education has been assumed ...
Clinical governance: assuring the sacred duty of trust to patients
[ "Clinical governance", "National Health Service", "Quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It didn't seem like an explosive situation. The audience had been quietly attentive. I had finished a talk and asked for questions. Then, out of the crowd, I noticed one angst-ridden face. That happens sometimes - the listene...
Relationship of ISO 9001:2000 quality system certification with operational and business performance: A survey in Australia and New Zealand-based manufacturing and service companies
[ "ISO 9000 series", "Manufacturing industries", "Service operations", "Performance management", "Australia", "New Zealand" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: This paper contributes to our understanding of an important practical problem, namely the effectiveness and validity of ISO 9000 quality management systems, in explaining key factors in their implementation and achievement ...
Developing international executives: the capacity-building approach
[ "Senior management", "Expatriates", "Management development", "Culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Expatriate failure is seldom a consequence of a lack of technical skills. The inability of both expatriates and their spouses to adapt is a far more important cause of expatriate failure. According to Shen (2005), studies hav...
Open, connected, social - implications for educational design
[ "Open learning", "E‐learning", "Communication technologies", "Learning methods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: This paper describes the development and facilitation of \"open, connected, social,\" a graduate course in educational technology first offered in January 2008, at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. This online...
Rough diamonds in emerging markets: legacy, competitiveness, and sustained high performance
[ "Human capital", "Emerging markets", "Core competencies", "Government support", "Institutional voids", "Transitional economies", "Deep localization", "Secular stagnation", "Inclusive markets", "Tiers in socioeconomic development", "Macro-meso-micro categories" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The aftermath of the 2007-2008 Great Recession has ushered in a period of low growth and persistent unemployment, or what pundits call \"secular stagnation,\" in several developed economies (Magdoff and Sweezy, 1987; Summers,...
Strategic account management as a value co-creation selling model in the pharmaceutical industry
[ "Pharmaceutical industry", "Value co-creation", "Buyer-seller relationship", "Business-to-Business marketing", "Strategic account management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the past decade, the pharmaceutical market has evolved, and a direct consequence has been to challenge the sustainability of the model companies use to market products and services and serve client needs (Patterson, 2...
Firm's strategic orientation, market context, and performance: Literature review and opportunities for international strategy research
[ "Performance", "Entrepreneurial orientation", "Market orientation", "International strategy", "Market context" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The complementary strategic orientations of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and market orientation (MO) and effects on firm's competitiveness have received considerable attention in the literature. However, meta-analyses sho...
Firing tax vs severance payments - an unequal comparison
[ "Welfare", "Business cycle", "Firing costs", "Severance payments", "Lay-off costs", "Firing tax" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: It is a stylized fact that many countries - especially continental European ones - provide workers with job-security measures. The study by Garibaldi and Violante (2005) shows that one has to distinguish between two immane...
Organisational value of healthcare quality awards in Andalusia
[ "Leadership", "Organizational culture", "Quality management", "Health services", "Quality awards", "Spain" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As a result of the efforts undertaken, especially in the last two decades, quality awards have become a consolidated tool for quality management, both in business companies and in public government. In the latter context, the...
Determining the value of undergraduate business programs from market vs academic perspectives
[ "Business programmes", "Data mining", "Value-added", "DEA" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Numerous studies have attempted to identify the best colleges and universities using a variety of data and methodologies. The most notable studies are those conducted by US News and World Report (USN&WR) and BusinessWeek (...
Work-family conflict across the lifespan
[ "Attitudes", "Age groups", "Work family issues" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: There is an abundance of literature on the intersection of work and family due to changes in the structure of work and workforce demographics (e.g. Allen et al., 2000). One of the most substantial demographic transformations ...
Does the availability of vocational qualifications through work assist social inclusion?
[ "VET qualifications", "Work‐based learning", "Indigenous people", "Cleaning", "Banking", "Vocational training", "Social inclusion", "Australia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: This paper uses data from a national research project in Australia to discuss whether gaining qualifications through work aids social inclusion. The paper is confined to qualifications delivered by the vocational education an...
Establishing spirituality in the workplace: The case of Guangxi Institute of Public Administration, P.R. China
[ "China", "Spirituality", "HRM" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nDefinition of spirituality at work: Although it has not been widely accepted, the following studies showed meaningful understandings. Lewis and Geroy (2000, p. 683) present Clark's (1958) definition of spirituality as follows: \"Spirituali...
Spatio-temporal differentials in street begging: the case of Ibadan municipality, Nigeria
[ "Models", "Land use" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The persistent problem of street begging has been a threat to humanity in both developed and developing nations of the world today and it is of great concern to diverse stakeholders. For instance, Jordan (1999) observes th...
Modelling and optimisation of Indian traditional agriculture supply chain to reduce post-harvest loss and CO2 emission
[ "Transportation", "Carbon dioxide emission", "Post-harvest losses", "Respiration", "Supply chain planning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Nomenclature\n1. Introduction: As the population increases, agriculture production and supply must increase to meet the increasing demand (Alexandratos and Bruinsma, 2012). In a supply chain (SC), increasing demand can be sat...
Managing skills and knowledge using online tools
[ "Knowledge management", "Skills" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Background: In looking for a historic precedent for the business climate in which we are currently operating, it is tempting to reach for the extremes of the crash of 1929 - certainly, with the freeze on lending, the lack of knowledge e...
Racial and low-income quotas in Brazilian universities: impact on academic performance
[ "Academic performance", "Brazil", "Brazilian universities", "Racial and low-income quotas" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Brazilian society is renowned for its historical socioeconomic and racial disparities. In spite of recent improvements in some indicators, such as reductions in both income inequality and poverty and greater participation ...
HR's future in a global setting
[ "Human resources", "Best practice", "Universal culture", "Strategic human resources", "Role of human resources", "Human resource management", "Human resource strategies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As more and more organizations are touched by globalization and expand their activities beyond their home base, the critical question to me is whether they seek to export their current conception of HR management or are prepa...
MBA at the cross road: Integrating Western management with Eastern philosophy
[ "China", "Management education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: MBA, once regarded as a prestigious qualification for senior managers, has been gradually losing its lustre in the past decade. There have been substantial debates on its lack of practical value for real world managers and...
A mathematical model for the joint determination of optimal process and sampling plan parameters
[ "Quality control", "Quality", "Consumers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In a manufacturing environment, a product has to go across a number of processes, undergoing diverse operations before obtaining a final form. Due to the inherent and technological inconsistencies, especially systems of me...
Landlord and tenant update - hard times, strict compliance
[ "Landlord", "Tenant", "Break", "Option to determine", "Conditional", "Conditions precedent", "United Kingdom", "Landlord and tenant act", "Tenancy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Economic downturn breeds litigation. For landlords and tenants a frequent point of irreconcilable conflict is the exercise of an option to break, allowing the tenant to make an early exit from its lease and its associated obl...
The assessment of food safety culture in small franchise restaurant in Poland: The case study
[ "Poland", "Food safety", "Restaurants", "Franchising", "Culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The issue of food safety culture (FSC) underlies the general understanding of organisational culture and the need to create it in food industry enterprises. This is the key issue which addresses the needs of the modern market...
The post-war problems of continental libraries
[ "Libraries", "War" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: During the six years of war the whole of the civilized world followed with the greatest anxiety the news concerning the fate of continental libraries. It has happened twice in the lifetime of our generation that not only huma...
E-learning in higher inclusive education: needs, opportunities and limitations
[ "University", "E-learning", "Institutional environment", "Higher inclusive education", "I20", "O15", "Z18" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A new stage of scientific and technological progress, embodied in the digital economy, involves many counterprocesses. On the one hand, it is the constant development of new technologies, devices, interfaces; on the other ...
Workplace romances: examining attitudes experience, conscientiousness, and policies
[ "Organization", "Personality", "Policy", "Attitudes", "Conscientiousness", "Workplace romance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Although not usually discussed in polite company, workplace romances are far from uncommon. Some polls revealed that between 40-58 percent of employees report having been involved in a workplace romance (American Management A...
The effects of facial image and cosmetic usage on perceptions of brand personality
[ "Brand image", "Cosmetics", "Consumer behaviour", "Consumer satisfaction", "Marketing strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: All aspects of managing one's outward appearance are integral to the fashion process. Rudd and Lennon (2000, p. 152) define dress as \"the act of choosing how and with what items or processes to construct personal appearance\...
An exploratory study of enterprise resource planning adoption in Greek companies
[ "Uncertainty management", "Greece", "Resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Many enterprises are adopting enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for improving information flow and order processing efficiency. In the past, ERP was generally adopted by larger enterprises. Today, the adoption of E...
Timeshare research: a synthesis of forty years of publications
[ "Research agenda", "Shared ownership", "Timeshare", "Timeshare industry", "Vacation ownership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The lodging segment of the hospitality industry has evolved from traditional transient lodging hotels to mixed-use developments, with the majority of high-end resort developments incorporating at least one form of residential...
The digital article service at the State and University Library, Aarhus, Denmark
[ "Denmark", "Document delivery", "Copyright", "Delivery services", "End-users", "Licenses" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: The State and University Library is one of two national libraries in Denmark and has three national obligations:\nDanish library infrastructure: In Denmark, all libraries, public and academic, have an obligation to upload their...
Transforming hospital management a la francaise: The new role of clinical managers in French public hospitals
[ "Leadership", "France", "Professionals", "Doctors", "Hospitals", "Hospital management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Since the major reform of 1958, power within hospitals in France is shared between administrative management and the medical profession. However, from 2000 onwards, successive reforms have led to an increased degree of collab...
Effectuation and causation in new internet venture growth: The mediating effect of resource bundling strategy
[ "Effectuation", "Resource bundling", "Internet of Things", "Causation", "New internet venture growth" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the past several years, the internet has made venturing a completely different game than before. Since its inception in the 1990s, the internet has brought tremendous changes to all aspects of human life. Among all changes...
The factors contributing to construction accidents in Pakistan: Their prioritization using the Delphi technique
[ "Pakistan", "Developing countries", "Delphi survey", "Construction accidents", "Contributory factors", "Inter-rater agreement analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Construction industry plays an important role in the social and economic development of a country (Coble and Haupt, 1999); however, it faces multifarious challenges including a higher percentage of injuries. Such injuries ...
Alternative metric indicators for funding scheme evaluations
[ "Altmetrics", "Research evaluation", "Funding programme", "Funding scheme", "Funding stream", "Webometrics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Large funding agencies evaluate the effectiveness of their funding decisions, and the impact of the work they fund, through a combination of qualitative methodologies (e.g. surveys, focus groups) and quantitative evaluations ...
Addressing the achievement gap: Exploring principal leadership and teacher professional learning in urban and rural primary schools in Thailand
[ "Instructional leadership", "Thailand", "Teacher learning", "Trust", "Agency", "Urban rural" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An interest in strategies for improving schooling has long been shared across societies throughout the world (Levin and Lockheed, 1993). This is also the case in developing societies where increasing educational access and im...
Hays Challenge draws graduates to a career in recruitment: Serious gaming improves the quality of applicants
[ "Graduate recruitment", "Computer applications", "Gaming" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Poor industry image and a lack of knowledge about careers in recruitment were affecting the ability of a major provider of global recruitment services to attract the volume, caliber and diversity of graduates it sought.\nDesi...
Sustainability as a driver for innovation - towards a model of corporate social entrepreneurship at Odebrecht in Brazil
[ "Sustainable innovation", "Corporate social entrepreneurship", "Shared value", "Social intrapreneurship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2010 The World Business Council for Sustainable Development published the \"Vision 2050\" report (World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2010) which \"lays out a pathway leading to a global population of some ...
Library Loans Online: a new channel for a traditional service in England
[ "Public libraries", "Interlending", "Delivery services", "England" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There are 149 library authorities in England. A total of 149 chief librarians and 149 routes into the inter-library loan (ILL) system that enables book loans between library authorities.The ILL mechanism has remained largely ...
Perspectives of SME innovation clusters development in Russia
[ "Russia", "Organizational innovation", "Competitive strategy", "Innovation", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Networks", "Modeling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The business-to-business market in Russia can be described as networks of multidimensional exchange relationships between business actors. Firms increasingly depend on the resources controlled by other companies and organi...
Nascent multinationals from West Africa: Are their foreign direct investment motivations any different?
[ "Africa", "FDI", "Motivations", "Multinational enterprises", "MNEs", "EMNEs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Although international business researchers and policy actors have extensively engaged with emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) (Gammeltoft et al., 2010; Wang et al., 2012; Yang et al., 2014; Chimanade and Rebel...
Hostility in coronary artery disease patients and health care workers in Slovakia
[ "Cardiovascular disease", "Patients", "Medical personnel", "Stress", "Individual conflict", "Slovakia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: High level of hostility has been found to be predictive of both clinical coronary disease incidence and total mortality (Review Panel on Coronary-Prone Behavior and Coronary Heart Disease, 1981; Barefoot et al., 1983; Shekell...
The link between healthcare risk identification and patient safety culture
[ "Patient safety", "Risk management", "Quality improvement", "Safety culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It is widely recognised that medical errors pose a significant threat to patient safety and quality (IOM, 2000; James, 2013; Makary and Daniel, 2016). While earlier studies highlighted medical error rates worldwide, they also...
Employee empowerment: factors affecting the consequent success or failure - Part I
[ "Transformational leadership", "Empowerment", "Transactional leadership", "Organizational culture", "Leadership style" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nDefinition of empowerment: Empowerment is an ever evolving concept which can be interpreted and applied in many different ways depending on the players involved, the corporate culture in place and the overall context of the situation unfol...
Relational resources for emerging markets' non-technological innovation: insights from China and Taiwan
[ "Trust", "Communication", "Conflict", "Exploration", "Exploitation", "Relationship effectiveness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Chinese firms operating in emerging economies face complex challenges arising from intensified local and global competition, uncertainty, relatively weak formal institutions and increasingly sophisticated customers demanding ...
Classification of service quality attributes using Kano's model: A study in the context of the Indian banking sector
[ "Service quality", "Kano’s model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Economic liberalization in the early 1990s has brought significant structural and regulatory shifts in the banking sector of India. Structural and regulatory reforms have led many private players and multinational banks to st...
Heterogeneous adoption of quality standards in the hotel industry: drivers and effects
[ "Performance", "SEM", "Drivers", "Internalization", "Quality standards" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Many hospitality firms implement quality standards and service quality models to improve their results in response to external and/or internal motivations (Alvarez-Garcia et al., 2016; Amin et al., 2017; Lai and Hitchcock,...
How global leaders develop
[ "Leadership development", "Learning methods", "Learning", "Global leadership", "Learning from experience", "Human resource development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Globalization, the ongoing process of interdependence and integration of economies, societies, and cultures that occurs through a worldwide network of global communication and trade, has rapidly developed over the past 25 yea...
The impact of fraud prevention on bank-customer relationships: An empirical investigation in retail banking
[ "Germany", "Retail banks", "Customer relationship management", "Customer service management", "Fraud", "Banking fraud", "Customer loyalty" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Security is a fundamental and increasingly important issue in today's banking industry (Kanniainen, 2010). Over the last few years, the number of fraudulent transactions committed by third parties has risen tremendously (B...
Disaster resilience and complex adaptive systems theory: Finding common grounds for risk reduction
[ "Disaster risk", "Adaptation", "Resilience", "Complex adaptive systems theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Disasters have been part of human existence since the beginning of time, however the impact of these events have become more pronounced in recent decades leading to increase in loss of lives, livelihoods, infrastructure, b...
Which consumers opt for organic wine and why? An analysis of the attitude-behaviour link
[ "Organic food", "Consumer purchasing decisions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Organic wine is a product made from grapes that are grown according to the principles of organic production (EU Commission, 2012). Principles of organic production ensure implementation of environmentally friendly practice...
Social value, content value, and brand equity in social media brand communities: A comparison of Chinese and US consumers
[ "Brand equity", "Collectivism/individualism", "Extrinsic/intrinsic motivation", "Extroversion/introversion", "Social and content value", "Social media brand community" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A brand community is created by and for consumers (Fournier and Lee, 2009), who may feel that they have a relationship with the brand as well as with the community in which they participate (Madupu and Cooley, 2010; Muniz ...
What makes a brand interesting? Why care?
[ "Brand experience", "Brand", "Novelty", "Word of mouth", "Interestingness", "Purchase intent" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Rarely does a day go by without us thinking or proclaiming about something: \"This is interesting!\" Interesting is a reaction that applies to anything: movies, art, people, social or personal situations, news, products, etc....
A discussion forum on managerial interpersonal skills
[ "Management development", "Assessment", "Interpersonal skills" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Human resource development (HRD) professionals and management educators recognize the importance of interpersonal skills for the selection, assessment, training and development of managers and supervisors (Becker et al., 2001...
Smart specialisation in the tangled web of European inter-regional trade
[ "Complex networks", "Centrality indicators", "Inter-regional trade", "Regional competitiveness", "Regional innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper proposes the use of network methodologies to analyse the outward dimension of regional economies in the European Union (EU), with a special focus on trade flows. We build inter-regional trade networks of agricul...
Effectiveness of TPM implementation with and without integration with TQM in Indian manufacturing industries
[ "Total quality management", "Operations management", "India", "Total productive maintenance", "Manufacturing industries" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Today, global competition has reached every part of the world and area of business (Brooke, 1994; Koberg et al., 2003). An effective model of success for companies is total quality management (TQM), which is a management p...
Education for life? Quantifying the factors behind students' choice of HE
[ "Universities", "Recruitment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Higher education in the UK has changed considerably in the ten years since Tony Blair's government removed free tuition. The need for students to pay their way through college or university has resulted in a subtle shift in t...