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The mechanism underlying the empowering leadership-creativity relationship
[ "Empowering leadership", "Motivation to learn", "Employee creativity", "Openness to experience", "Trust in leader" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In an increasingly competitive and rapidly changing business world, innovation and creativity are critical factors to success. Leaders have a significant influence on what forms of creative behavior their employees engage in....
Alternative representation of the deadweight loss triangle in oligopoly: The input/output inefficiency decomposition
[ "Decomposition", "Oligopoly", "Deadweight loss triangle", "Imperfectly competitive markets", "Input inefficiency measure", "Area under the market supply curve", "D6", "D43" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Since Harberger's (1954) first estimate of welfare loss in US manufacturing industry, an extensive literature has emerged in this area. Assuming a unitary market demand elasticity and constant long-run costs for both the m...
A customer satisfaction evaluation model for logistics services using fuzzy analytic hierarchy process
[ "Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process", "Customer satisfaction evaluation", "Logistics service" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Manufacturing, referring to the production of merchandise by utilizing various resources like manpower, machines, tools, etc., plays an important role in supporting our lives and developments (Chryssolouris, 2013; Ruiz-de-Arb...
Consumer receptiveness to international retail market entry
[ "International trade", "Consumer behaviour", "Retail trade", "Country of origin", "Competitive strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The internationalisation of retailing is usually considered from the perspective of the internationalising operation (Alexander and Myers, 2000; Doherty and Alexander, 2004, 2006). Research has tended to focus on the process ...
Development and validation of a parental social media mediation scale across child and parent samples
[ "Social media", "Conceptualization", "Scale development", "Operationalization", "Parental mediation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the past decade, social media have become an essential part of individuals' lives, changing the ways they think, feel, behave and interact. However, social media use conveys various risks. Individuals, especially childre...
Valuing firm's financial flexibility under default risk and bankruptcy costs: a WACC based approach
[ "Bankruptcy costs", "WACC", "Financial flexibility", "Debt management", "Risky debt", "Tax shield", "G30", "G31", "G32", "G33" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In a seminal paper, Modigliani and Miller (1959) showed that the use of debt financing can increase the market value of a firm as a consequence of the debt tax shield. However, the presence of debt in the capital structure...
Problematizing profit and profitability: discussions
[ "Problematising", "Theoretical perspectives", "Profit", "Profitability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction (by special issue editors): 1.1 Introduction to the discussion contributions\n2. Contributions: 2.1 Alice Bryer: a reflexive project\n3. Concluding remarks (by special issue editors): 3.1 A brief overview of how our contrib...
Product-level profitability: Current challenges and preconditions for data-driven, fact-based product portfolio management
[ "Product portfolio management", "Data governance", "Master data", "Fact-based analysis", "IoT data", "Transaction data" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Achieving company competitive advantage through operational effectiveness depends on adopting best practices throughout the entire value chain, including business IT solutions (Porter and Heppelmann, 2014). However, remain...
Keeping boards in the loop: getting directors the right information
[ "Knowledge visualization", "Group dynamics", "Cognitive biases", "Board information", "Clear story telling", "Steward the process" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The author of this paper, when working with dozens of boards in the area of governance and strategy for more than 10 years, has observed board members expressing a repeated concern over the quality of information they receive...
Is management education preparing future leaders for sustainable business? Opening minds but not hearts
[ "Cognitive empathy", "Affective empathy", "Perspective taking", "Management education", "Sustainability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Educational institutions play a critical role in preparing future leaders to engage in sustainable development (Leal Filho, 2011). Studies have highlighted new developments and trends in higher education concerning the develo...
Antecedents and outcomes associated with a sense of place toward the organization of Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand
[ "Leadership", "Turnover", "Diversity", "Cross-cultural management", "Organizational climate", "Migrant workers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Most of the migrants that have crossed the border to find work in Thailand come from different regions of Myanmar, accounting for 80 percent of all migrant workers (Jaisat et al., 2014). According to Sornbanlang and Bamrun...
Marketing activity of international new ventures - application of the EMICO framework
[ "Entrepreneurial marketing", "International new ventures", "EMICO", "Polish SMEs", "Post-transformation countries" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Recently, there have been considerable changes happening in the marketing environment of economic activity in Poland, which was once a centrally-planned economy. First, in trading with Western countries, Polish companies \...
How to present donations: the moderating role of numeracy in cause-related marketing
[ "Numeracy", "Presentation format", "Product type", "Cause-related marketing", "Donation amount", "Percentages" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Donating money to a charitable cause is often perceived as a positive action that can improve a company's reputation. Companies often make efforts to display social responsibility to address consumer expectations (Ferguson an...
A performance measurement system for change initiatives: An action research study from design to evaluation
[ "Change management", "Action research", "Performance measurement systems", "Change initiative" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Both practitioners and academics frequently use cliches such as \"what gets measured gets done\" and \"the only constant thing in business is change.\" Thus, it is not surprising that several authors discuss the importance...
Quantitative analysis of Six Sigma, Lean and Lean Six Sigma research publications in last two decades
[ "Six Sigma", "Lean Six Sigma", "Lean management", "Research publications" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The last two decades have witnessed a clear boom in the widespread management and improvement of quality in the international context. This was the result of increased pressure from customers to promote continuous implementat...
Main causes that lead strategies to decline at execution phase: an analysis of Brazilian companies
[ "Strategic management", "Implementation", "Business performance", "Strategic planning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Unfavorable economic factors have contributed to increased business market volatility and complexity, increasing competition between companies (Berman et al., 2010; Hitt et al., 2011; Teeratansirikool et al., 2013; Deif an...
Motor carrier spot market: trust-building in public e-marketplaces
[ "E-marketplace", "Motor carrier", "Trust", "Cue", "Assurance", "B2B", "Content analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Across industries, notably in the trucking capacity market, e-marketplaces (EMs) dedicated to spot markets can add value by reducing purchase prices and decreasing lost revenue (Petersen et al., 2007). However, little researc...
The roles of employee job satisfaction and organizational commitment in the internal marketing-employee bank identification relationship
[ "Employee commitment", "Internal marketing", "Job satisfaction", "Employee identification" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As more and more organizations face increased competition in their sectors, more and more of them are seeking ways to differentiate themselves and their employees from others in their sector. In fact, many companies have begu...
The effects of knowledge creation process on organizational performance using the BSC approach: the mediating role of intellectual capital
[ "Pharmaceutical industry", "Intellectual capital", "Balanced scorecard", "Knowledge creation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In today's knowledge-based economy, it is well established that knowledge has a critical role in organizational success (Argote and Ingram, 2000). The present uncertain and rapidly changing economic environment has led kno...
Information technology's impacts on productivity and welfare: a review
[ "ICT and economic welfare", "ICT and social change", "Information technology and productivity", "O3", "D2", "D6" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Within a relatively short period of time, use of modern information and communication technology (ICT) has become widespread and its use is continuing to grow at a rapid rate. According to one account, total global expendi...
Understanding healthcare innovation systems: the Stockholm region case
[ "Innovation systems", "Healthcare innovation", "Challenges in healthcare", "Stockholm" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Healthcare faces a constant need to adapt, learn, and develop to meet the needs of patients, providers, and payers. To meet these needs, innovation is increasingly seen as a critical capability for healthcare organizations...
The effect of individualism on private brand perception: a cross-cultural investigation
[ "Individual psychology", "Brands", "Cross‐cultural management", "Customer satisfaction", "Israel" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article.\nIntroduction: Private labels have accounted for a considerable portion of total sales in the western world for the past several...
Organizational boundaries and beyond: A new look at the components of a boundaryless career orientation
[ "Measurement", "Boundaries", "Boundaryless career concept", "Boundaryless career orientation", "Contemporary career" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The boundaryless career (Arthur, 1994; Arthur and Rousseau, 1996) has become one of the most prominent and influential contemporary career concepts. In their seminal edited book, Arthur and Rousseau (1996) explained that \"[....
Development of performance measurement system in managing supplier relationship for maintenance logistics providers
[ "Performance measures", "Supplier relations", "Benchmarking", "Airlines", "Hong Kong" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Many authors believe that maintenance logistics is the new frontier of management. It is concerned with the handling and disposition of returned products and with information (Meyer, 1999). It involves the process of planni...
Re: duplication of corporate governance codes and the dilemma of firms with dual regulatory jurisdictions
[ "Codes", "Corporate governance", "Boards of directors", "Corporate ownership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The concept of corporate governance was popularised by the spates of corporate scandals which have continued to shock institutions across the globe (Rose, 2005; Shivdasani and Zenner, 2002; Kakabadse et al., 2001). Globally r...
Exploring the values in the Italian public sector using the tri-axial model
[ "Values", "Tri-axial model", "Public sector in Italy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The study of values in the public sector gained momentum especially after the reforms (New Public Management) made in the public sectors in Europe (Kernaghan et al., 2000; Van Thiel and Van der Wal, 2010; Van der Wal, 2008). ...
The impact of training on productivity: evidence from a panel of Italian firms
[ "Training", "Productivity rate", "Workplace training", "White-collar workers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Human capital is widely acknowledged as a key factor for economic performance, at both microeconomic and macroeconomic level (Becker, 1964; Acemoglu and Pischke, 1998). Despite the fact that a large part of human capital a...
Implementing Lean Six Sigma into curriculum design and delivery - a case study in higher education
[ "Lean Six Sigma", "Lean", "Higher education", "Shainin KVST" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The application and implementation of Lean programmes within higher education has been the focus of much academic debate and development over the years. Following its original application the manufacturing industry Lean ha...
Effectiveness of full range leadership development among middle managers
[ "Leadership development", "Asia", "Transformational leadership", "Action research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: While organizations generally devote energy and resources to develop effective leadership capacity, only a few training programs actually achieve more than 10-15 percent productive transference of learning to work (Cromwell a...
A double whammy effect of ethnicity and gender on consumer responses to management level service failures
[ "Gender", "Ethnicity", "Stereotypes", "Service failure", "Blame attributions", "Role Congruity Theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Service failures are frustrating, especially when such failures occur at the management level. The current study examines service failures caused by mid-level managers such as front office managers. Previous research demon...
Learning from the pioneers: A multiple-case analysis of implementing Lean in higher education
[ "Lean higher education", "Challenges Lean higher education", "Continuous improvement higher education", "Factors impacting positive Lean outcomes education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This case study on the implementation of Lean in higher education is an attempt to capture success factors, challenges faced, and lessons learned. This research began in 2008, when Winona State University (WSU) served as an e...
Customer response to service encounter linguistics
[ "Customer language preference", "Employee choice of language", "Interaction quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Globalization and its allied factors have created a more culturally diverse and complex marketplace (Sharma et al., 2015; Sharma et al., 2016). Culturally diverse marketplaces represent service encounters among customers and ...
The review of "green" research in hospitality, 2000-2014: Current trends and future research directions
[ "Hospitality industry", "Content analysis", "Literature review", "Green practices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Green practices have been evolving for decades in the hospitality industry, gaining substantial momentum in the 1990s (Buckley, 2012) and continuing to grow in importance and significance (Nicholls and Kang, 2012). Thanks to ...
What matters most in the service-profit chain? An empirical test in a restaurant company
[ "Leadership", "Management", "Service-profit chain", "Service climate", "Time lags" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Effective leaders act on and invest in what matters most to their organization's performance. While this is true across all organizations, it is especially important for organizations that co-produce service experiences wi...
When do high prices lead to purchase intention? Testing two layers of moderation effects
[ "Marketing management", "Pricing", "Consumer perception" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Price plays an important role in consumers' decision-making processes; for this reason, price-related promotions are common in the marketing sector and have been studied in numerous contexts. While in previous studies researc...
Global organizations and supply chain: New research avenues in the international human resource management
[ "Strategy", "Supply chain", "International HRM", "Upper echelons theory", "Co-evolutionary theory", "Human capital", "Global organization", "Logistics and distribution" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Strategic supply chain management and logistics (SCML) are increasingly becoming crucial parts of economics and of firms' activities all over the world (Schuler et al., 2002), regardless of the type of economy (emergent, tran...
Optimal knowledge transfer methods: a Generation X perspective
[ "Knowledge management", "Age groups" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Throughout the centuries, the study of knowledge intrigued and perplexed humans. The twentieth century witnessed an increased interest in the study of knowledge within the organization as a result of the recognition that a...
Recognition and reward in the academy: Valuing publication oeuvres in biomedicine, economics and history
[ "Research quality", "Research evaluation", "Content analysis", "Peer review", "Reward system of science", "Academic careers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: We appreciate the value and significance of a scholar only from his writings; he who does not write, seems unsuited to the world of scholarship today, and when someone applies for a position, one always asks what he has writt...
The role of truck driver on sustainable transportation and logistics
[ "Appreciative inquiry", "Institutional pressures", "Sustainable transportation and logistics", "Top management commitment", "Truck driver" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The steep rise in contributions in the field of sustainable transportation demonstrates active debate in this area (Black, 1996; Steg and Gifford, 2005; Litman and Burwell, 2006; Shafiee and Topal, 2009; Amekudzi et al., 2...
Mentors and minorities: How to create a united workplace
[ "Workplace", "Mentoring", "Career development", "Integration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Workplace mentoring has become highly valued to the extent that it is now perceived as a key human resource (HR) strategy within many organizations. Greater harmony between management and employees and improved output are jus...
Mobile technology-enhanced asset maintenance in an SME
[ "Open-source software", "Business process improvement", "Asset maintenance", "Mobile and wireless technologies in manufacturing", "Security strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The increasing use of mobile technology is impacting on manufacturing just as it is across many spheres of activity. This paper presents an overview of how mobile devices are being integrated into a developing range of com...
Measuring business performance in the airport context: a critical review of literature
[ "Performance measurement", "Efficiency", "Airport", "Data envelopment analysis", "Critical literature review" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The proliferation of empirical studies assessing the efficiency at the level of airport infrastructures is such that today it is one of the key research issues within airport economics and management. Based on its strategi...
Preschool teachers' resilience and their readiness for building children's resilience
[ "Teachers", "Resilience", "Child development", "Mental health promotion", "Educational practice", "Kindergartens" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is no doubt that early childhood institutions have a strong influence on a child's development, since these institutions, alongside parents, are central in a child's socialization (Ronnau-Bosse and Froflich-Gildhoff, 20...
Lending a helping hand: Provision of helping behaviors beyond professional career responsibilities
[ "Gender", "Altruism", "Individual behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Helping behaviors can be defined as activities entailing more commitment than spontaneous assistance in which time is given freely to benefit another person, group, organization or cause (Wilson, 2000). Helping behaviors can ...
Taxonomy of payments: a repertory grid analysis
[ "Payment instruments", "Repertory grid", "Taxonomy of payments" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Payments play an integral role in the purchase of goods and services from vendors. Over the last few decades, innovations and new payment instruments have significantly diversified the ways we can pay (McKinsey 2014). Plastic...
Going back to school: Using science to rethink recruitment, learning and development
[ "Organization development", "Leadership", "Management", "Knowledge exchange", "Organizational cognitive neuroscience" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nReview: It sounds like a scene from a science fiction movie. A woman walks into a sleek, glass-covered office building, reports to reception where a robot checks her details. She goes to the elevator and rises to a floor above, exits, and ...
Multilayer document model for semantic document management services
[ "Legislation", "OWL", "Document management systems", "Document model", "Document ontology", "Semantic document management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Document management system (DMS) is an information system intended for managing electronic documents life cycle which is the period from the conceptual idea to the logical and physical deletion of a document, consisting of in...
Challenges and barriers to establishing infrastructure asset management: A comparative study between Libya and the USA
[ "Infrastructure", "Barriers", "Implementation", "Questionnaire", "Assets management", "Developing and developed country" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It is important to manage infrastructure assets, especially those in transportation, systematically in both the construction and maintenance phases (FHWA, 2007; Uddin et al., 2013). In particular, reliable and safe transporta...
The role of mass communication methods in the development of tourism industry in Iran
[ "Customer relationship management", "Tourism", "Iran", "Communication", "Web site" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years tourism industry has been considered as a profitable and entrepreneurial industry. Iran has a large number and wide variety of tourism attractions that give it a strong potential for tourism development. To...
Understanding small-firm reactions to free trade agreements: Qualitative evidence from New Zealand
[ "Small- and medium-sized enterprises", "New Zealand", "Exporting", "Free trade agreements", "International marketing models" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The negotiation of regional and bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) among increasing groups of nations contrasts with the slow progress in agreeing another round of multilateral trade negotiations through the WTO (the \...
Diagnosing service brand strength: customer-dominant brand relationship mapping
[ "Customer-dominant logic", "Brand relationship", "Brand strength", "Service brand" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Service brands are often corporate brands (Berry, 2000), and this increases the strategic importance of branding issues (Madden et al., 2006; Lindgreen et al., 2010; Koll and von Wallpach, 2009). In this paper, we adopt a cus...
The relationship between corporate governance mechanisms and internet financial reporting in Iran
[ "Corporate governance", "Internet financial reporting", "Non-executive director", "The age of the company" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: For companies to benefit from the advantages of modern globalization, to be able to trade in the world's leading stock exchanges and to attract low-cost and long-term capitals, some factors, including a well-organized plan...
Trialability, observability and risk reduction accelerating individual innovation adoption decisions
[ "Computer simulation", "Health services", "Hospital", "Individual adoption decisions", "Induced diffusion of innovation", "Lean Systems Thinking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Evidence of waste, treatment delays, medical errors, inefficiency and unsustainable cost increases in many national health systems create imperatives for comprehensive and systemic change (National Health and Hospitals Reform...
Mediating mechanisms linking developmental feedback with employee creativity
[ "Intrinsic motivation", "Employee creativity", "Creativity-relevant skills", "Developmental feedback", "Domain-relevant skills" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Creativity plays a vital role in fostering organization innovation, enhancing organizational performance and efficiency as well as helping organizations to succeed and survive in the new global competitive environment (Alz...
Organizational form and efficiency of franchise chains
[ "Performance", "Efficiency", "Data envelopment analysis", "Franchising", "PCO", "Plural form" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Many authors analyzed performance in the retail and service industries, through the concept of efficiency (e.g. Barros, 2006; Barros and Alves, 2003; de Jorge Moreno, 2008; de Jorge Moreno and Sanz-Triguero, 2011; Mostafa,...
A framework for understanding managerial responses to supply chain complexity
[ "Complexity", "Supply chain", "Business strategy", "Project", "Strategic", "Ambidexterity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The impact of complexity on organisational operations has long been a source of major concern for managers, with success rates of complex organisational endeavours remaining at disappointing levels across a number of secto...
Work: meaning on Monday morning (and every other day)
[ "Students", "United States of America", "Workplace" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In the past few years I have had the honor to communicate with a large variety of people about the single topic that we all have in common during a major part of our lives: work.\nInternal context: So, why is turning inward n...
Relating multidimensional perfectionism and academic procrastination among Indian university students: Is there any gender divide?
[ "Gender", "India", "University", "Academic procrastination", "Graduate and post-graduate students", "Multidimensional perfectionism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Multidimensional perfectionism and the way it affects procrastination have been a subject of debate and research; in particular, academic procrastination assumes importance when the student community comprises the study po...
Have degree, will travel - well, maybe: Graduates weigh up the pros and cons of relocation
[ "Employment", "Culture", "Graduates", "Human resource development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Have degree will travel! That slogan might be useful as a unique selling point for newly qualified college graduates trying to get hired. Graduation, coupled with a willingness to up sticks and relocate to where the work is, ...
Using e-learning for student sustainability literacy: framework and review
[ "Skill development", "Pedagogy", "E‐learning", "Learner identity", "Student‐centred", "Sustainability literacy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: To achieve sustainability for human and ecological systems, universities must \"become leaders in the movement to prevent global ecological collapse\" (Moore, 2005, p. 326). The \"development of sustainability literacy as a...
Flexibility in the European telecommunications industry
[ "Flexibility", "Telecommunications", "Access price regulation", "Cost-based regulation", "Retail-minus regulation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A recent report released by the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications BEREC (2016) identifies as key drivers behind networks rollout in Europe: intensity of infrastructure competition, preponderance of ...
Building firm capability: managerial incentives for top performance
[ "Capabilities", "Competitive advantage", "Incentives", "Private equity", "Buyouts", "Interest alignment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Improving organizational capabilities for leadership, operations, marketing, customer service, research and development, production and human resources is a top priority for most companies. In 2014, a McKinsey survey of execu...
Procurement innovation for public construction projects: A study of agent-construction system and public-private partnership in China
[ "China", "Procurement", "Agent construction system", "Procurement innovation", "Public-private partnership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the course of procuring public construction projects, no matter whether it is in developing or developed worlds, widespread problems have been discovered such as cost overrun, late delivery, overstaffed organisations, and ...
Board composition and corporate social responsibility in an emerging market
[ "Board composition", "Corporate social responsibility", "Emerging market", "Family and non-family business" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Background of the study: Corporate governance (CG)[1] and corporate social responsibility (CSR)[2] are concepts intended to help organizations achieve a balance between profitable operation and ethical practice. By achieving this, organ...
Who cares about fish welfare? A Norwegian study
[ "Animal welfare", "Fish", "Attitudes", "Fish farming", "Willingness to pay" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Since midway through the twentieth century animal production has gone through a process of intensification in developed countries. More recently, similar changes have occurred in the developing countries. A latecomer in th...
The impact of an intelligent classroom on pupils' interactive behaviour
[ "Behaviour", "Schools", "Classrooms", "Learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A new learning environment\nMulti-method study approach: A multi-method system was used to carry out the research in order to avoid bias [as advocated by Zeisel (1984)]. He proposes using several methods to attack one problem...
Shaping innovation and coordination of healthcare delivery across boundaries and borders: A comparative case study
[ "Innovation", "Complexity", "Patient care", "Mobile bone density scanning services", "Osteoporosis", "Healthcare context", "Comparative case studies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Healthcare systems are increasingly complex, reflecting fragmentation of services across professionals, services and health sectors (Nugus et al., 2010). Effective healthcare delivery requires coordination across multiple bou...
Under the knife: a national survey of six sigma programs in US healthcare organizations
[ "Six sigma", "Health services", "Customer services quality", "Performance levels", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Healthcare system quality has become a major societal concern, as pointed out in latest reports such as The State of Health Care Quality (National Committee of Quality Assurance, 2006), and To Err is Human: Building a Safer H...
HRM systems and employee affective commitment: the role of employee gender
[ "Social exchange theory", "Human resource practices", "Gender role theory", "Human resource management system", "Employee affective commitment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Human resource management (HRM) researchers have recognized employee-level affective commitment as a key linkage between HRM and organizational outcomes (Chang and Chen, 2011; Kehoe and Wright, 2013). Literature also provides...
The mediation role of trust in knowledge sharing: A cognitive perspective in Chinese architectural design teams
[ "China", "Knowledge sharing", "Trust", "Mediation", "Personal construct theory", "Project teams" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Researchers always try to ascertain whether independent variables have effects on dependent variables. In many cases, an additional variable may clarify the nature of the relationship between them. As emphasized by Lazarsfeld...
Effects of absence positioning of unknown product ingredients on consumer evaluations
[ "Regulatory focus", "Product positioning", "Choice", "Product ingredients" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: When examining the ingredients section of goods such as processed foods, nutrition supplements, household cleaning or personal hygiene products, most consumers are unaware of the purpose of the unknown ingredients they might ...
A model for analysing the success of adopting new technologies focusing on electronic commerce
[ "Electronic data interchange", "Organizational culture", "Electronic commerce", "Technology led strategy", "Innovation", "Human resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Technological developments including EDI have promised improved business performance. Researchers and business analysts alike create models to assist in the adoption of new technology and to assess its impact on an organisati...
Age and size dependencies of firm failure processes: an analysis of bankrupted Estonian firms
[ "Estonia", "Age", "Bankruptcy", "Size", "Failure causes", "Firm failure processes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Firm failure is one of the key themes studied in various research streams. Management and business literature focuses on a wide variety of failure topics (Pretorius, 2008; Kucher et al., 2015) and the failure definition ca...
ISO 9001 and supply chain quality in the USA
[ "ISO 9000", "Supply chain", "Quality management", "Quality programmes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The integration of quality management systems across supply chains has become more common in the manufacture and delivery of products in the global marketplace (Flynn and Flynn, 2005). The question of whether quality manageme...
The fight is the coach: creating expertise during the fight to avoid entrepreneurial failure
[ "Entrepreneurial failure", "Deliberate practice", "Entrepreneurial cognition", "Entrepreneurial expertise" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is a growing consensus that in many instances, failure is a better source of learning than is success (e.g. McGrath, 1999; Sitkin, 1992), which has helped to motivate the study of unique learning opportunities that aris...
Country of origin, ethnocentrism and bicultural consumers: the case of Mexican Americans
[ "Country of origin", "Ethnocentrism", "Multicultural societies", "Social differentiation", "Consumer behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article.The country-of-origin (COO) effect has received extensive scrutiny in marketing and international business in recent decades and ...
Achieving engagement among hospitality employees: a serial mediation model
[ "Engagement", "Hotels", "Psychological empowerment", "Empowering leadership", "High-performance work practices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Tourism and its workplaces have undergone turmoil and transformation throughout the past decade (Baum, 2015). In fact, a profound transformation in human resources (HR) has occurred due to crisis and globalization. Service co...
An exploratory study of sustainable development at Italian universities
[ "Italy", "Reporting", "University", "Sustainability", "Deming Cycle", "Plan–Do–Check–Act" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The role of higher education institutions in the achievement of sustainability goals and their contribution to the education of students, staff and communities are recognized by international policies. During the past deca...
Improving distribution and business performance through lean warehousing
[ "Performance", "Logistics", "Lean", "Warehouse", "Delphi", "Distribution" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Organizations have long strived to adopt effective managerial tools and techniques that would improve the efficiency of their operations. This has largely been achieved building on lean thinking and tools. Lean has been on...
Four years beyond tsunami: Contours of a roadmap for a coordinated "multi-hazard (including tsunami) risk management action plan for tsunami-affected villages in Tamil Nadu": overview of ongoing/projected initiatives
[ "Tidal waves", "Risk management", "India" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: December 24, 2007 marked the third anniversary of the tsunami disaster. Often times, as it happens in our personal lives too, it is when faced with a crisis that one comes up with a plan. So it has generally been with countries...
The added value of service provision
[ "Service logic", "Service provision", "Augmented customer lifetime value", "Value facilitation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Studies in the contemporary service marketing literature have for the most part taken a customer perspective on service by focussing on service experiences as indications of value in use (e.g. Edvardsson et al., 2005; Helkkul...
Identification of guidelines for Hoshin Kanri initiatives
[ "Content analysis", "Guidelines", "Hoshin Kanri", "Strategy deployment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: It is not a novelty that companies struggle to link business strategy and business execution. Hoshin Kanri is a management framework that is recognized for building this link. It is grounded on the total quality management...
A conceptual model of HRIS-Trust: an understanding of suppliers'/customers' relationship
[ "Human resource information system", "HRIS‐trust", "Suppliers", "Customers", "Human resource management", "User expectation", "Manager KSAOs", "Trustor propensity", "Organizational performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: With the development of ICT, organization management has changed in the twenty-first century - known as the \"digital era\". The human resource (HR) function of organizations is also changing rapidly, reacting to a changin...
The region-of-origin effect in the choice of banks
[ "Perceived quality", "Spain", "Consumer ethnocentrism", "Financial sector", "Regional image" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Globalisation and the consequent increase in the level of competition have turned the origin or provenance of products into an attractive attribute that can be used to differentiate brands. Papadopoulos and Heslop (2003, p...
Replenishment decision and coordination contract in cluster supply chain
[ "Revenue-sharing contract", "Third-party logistics", "Cluster supply chain", "Replenishment decision", "Vendor managed inventory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: We consider a cluster supply chain with multiple vendors - one third-party logistics (TPL) provider and one retailer. The concept of cluster supply chain comes from industrial clusters. Companies in cluster supply can use ...
Weight discrimination and the glass ceiling effect among top US CEOs
[ "Glass ceilings", "Gender", "Obesity", "Discrimination in employment", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Chief executive officers (CEOs) play a critical role in the success or failure of an organization, and it is generally accepted that their selection should be based on job relevant competencies. However, research has called i...
Consumer preferences towards healthier reformulation of a range of processed meat products: A qualitative exploratory study
[ "Focus groups", "Consumer", "Preference", "Functional food", "Meat" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Processed meat refers to all meat items that are processed for preservation by salting, curing (addition of NaCl containing nitrite or nitrate), smoking, marinating or cooking, or those that have been bought as a ready-to-eat...
Managing successful change
[ "Change management", "Managing change", "Organizational change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In today's uncertain economic climate, many organisations are forced to make changes in order to survive. They need to react quickly to the global revolution while at a local and national level have to keep up with new techno...
The perceptions of an EMBA experience in China: an exploratory study
[ "China", "Management development", "Master of Business Administration", "Executive MBA", "Career competencies", "Chinese managers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The statistics indicate an increasing number of applications to management education such as an Executive MBA (EMBA) programme in Asia (The Financial Times, 2012). However, little is known about the nature of career competenc...
The importance of CSR initiatives in building customer support and loyalty: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
[ "Customer support", "Perceived value", "Corporate social responsibility", "Loyalty", "Awareness", "Expectation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a strategic domain for businesses in which the trust between business and society can be built (Rasche et al., 2013; Woo and Jin, 2016). It is defined as \"a concept whereby compani...
A comparative study of recruitment and training practices between small and large businesses in an emerging market economy: The case of Barbados
[ "Human resources management practices", "Recruitment", "Training", "Firm size", "Institutional theory", "Resource‐based view", "Caribbean" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Human resources management (HRM) practices such as recruitment and training are critical to a business growth and sustainability. Small organizations have the tendency to overlook recruitment and training practices in compari...
Prioritizing determinants of effective whistle blowing (WB): Interpretative structural modeling approach
[ "Whistleblowing", "Corporate governance", "Malpractices", "Fraud", "Lawyers", "Determinants" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Background: Business organizations are the basic constituents of economic systems, and they face lot of problems because of the agency relationship. Macnab and Worthley (2008) asserted that there are several examples of expropriations, ...
Improving SME logistics performance through benchmarking
[ "Performance management", "Germany", "Benchmarking", "Logistics", "Small-to-medium-sized enterprises", "Supply chain management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nLogistics performance as a benchmarking object: Logistics performance as key success factor for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)\nApproaches to SME logistics benchmarking - literature review: Conducting a benchmarking exercise req...
Client values within post-disaster reconstruction contracting services
[ "Post-disaster reconstruction", "Contractors", "Client values", "Contracting services", "Reconstruction programmes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Procurement methods include the client values for management of design and construction services (Masterman, 2003). An entity that provides any construction services should comply with these client values (Yang and Peng, 2008...
Assessing sustainability knowledge of a student population: Developing a tool to measure knowledge in the environmental, economic and social domains
[ "Knowledge", "Sustainability", "Assessment", "Curriculum", "Literacy", "STARS" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Colleges and universities are increasingly focusing on campus sustainability. On many campuses, a wide range of efforts from transportation and recycling to energy efficiency and water conservation are underway. In addition, ...
Smoking cessation: why do smokers fail?
[ "Addiction", "Information media", "Information strategy", "Individual behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: More than 70 percent of smokers have expressed the desire to quit (Fiore et al., 2000), and 41 percent have attempted to quit for at least a day (CDC, 2005), but the success stories are few and far between. With such great mo...
E-books: the future for publishers and libraries
[ "Frankfurt Book Fair", "E‐books", "Pricing models", "Purchasing models", "Pricing", "Purchasing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The annual Frankfurt Book Fair is one of the largest, if not the largest, publishing trade fair in the world. Held every year in Frankfurt, Germany in mid-October, the book fair hosts thousands of publishers as well as other ...
Corporate governance practices and outcomes in social enterprises in the UK: A case study of South Yorkshire
[ "Corporate governance", "Innovation", "Globalization", "Social enterprise" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The discourse around social enterprise is increasingly gaining scholarly attention among researchers (e.g. Bull, 2008; Chell et al., 2010; Eversole et al., 2013). Current insights from the literature show that social enterpri...
Accreditation effects on health service quality: nurse viewpoints
[ "Quality management", "Effectiveness", "Health and safety", "Accreditation", "Military hospital" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Providing high-quality health services helps hospital managers to achieve their long-term goals (Bahadori et al., 2014). Quality healthcare services include appropriate methods to evaluate and improve service levels that incr...
The engagement continuum model using corporate social responsibility as an intervention for sustained employee engagement: Research leading practice
[ "Employee engagement", "Self-determination theory", "Corporate social responsibility", "Engagement continuum model", "Intrinsic motivating drivers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: \"The concept of employee engagement has generated enormous interest in both academic and practitioner domains\" (Albrecht, 2010, p. 3). It has become very popular in the fields of human resource management and, more recently...