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Learning effect on labour productivity of repetitive concrete masonry blockwork: Fact or fable?
[ "Labour productivity", "Building construction", "Concrete masonry blockwork", "Labour inputs", "Learning curve theory", "Repetition" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The learning curve concept is fundamentally based on a premise that organisations, crews or individuals become more efficient at performing a task when the same task is performed repeatedly. The effect of learning on repet...
Factors facilitating effective use of electronic patient record systems for clinical audit and research in the UK maternity services
[ "Maternity services", "National Health Service", "Medical information systems", "Records management", "Clinical governance", "Clinical audit" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Government has made many claims about the benefits of electronic patient records (Department of Health, 2002; NHS Executive, 1998; 2001), and one central claim is that new electronic patient record systems will both suppo...
The impact of the brand management system on performance across service and product-oriented activities
[ "Brand performance", "Brand management system", "Formative scale", "Objective financial performance", "Services versus products" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The impact of brand management on firm performance is a major concern for chief executive officers (CEOs), who often question its efficiency and lack a clear view of brand management activities and their contribution to share...
Risky business in a volatile world: How should HRM respond to the need for better risk thinking?
[ "Resilience", "HRM", "Risk", "Organization culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nSeeing all the angles: The willingness to take risks - and knowing when to do so - is often seen as a hallmark of great entrepreneurs.\nGlobal volatility: In the same way, an organization's people are the ones ultimately responsible for cr...
Getting in with the "In" crowd: how to put marketing back on the CEO's agenda
[ "Strategy", "CEO", "CMO", "Emerging Consensus Technique (ECT)", "Role of marketing", "Strategic decision making" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: For decades, marketers have been trying to be more accountable and elevate marketing from a purely functional and tactical level (Gronroos, 2006, 2009; Reibstein et al., 2009) to a strategic level (Kumar, 2004; Piercy, 1991)....
Do environmental management systems affect the knowledge management process? The impact on the learning evolution and the relevance of organisational context
[ "Knowledge management", "Environmental management system", "Organizational context", "Green product innovation", "Human Capital training and development", "Learning evolution" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: According to the resource-based view of a business (RBV), the creation and keeping of strategic resources over time helps firms to build a sustainable competitive advantage (Wernerfelt, 1984; Peteraf, 1993). A strategic re...
Managerial effectiveness: an Indian experience
[ "Adaptability", "Flexibility", "Indian management", "Managerial effectiveness", "Productivity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Managerial effectiveness: The concept of managerial effectiveness has been a major concern for academicians and practitioners for several decades. This issue is, of course, important, for both public and private sectors in all economies...
Emotionally engaging customers in the digital age: the case study of "Burberry love"
[ "Digital channels", "Customer relationships", "Design and emotion", "Digital behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Disruption through digital innovation has in many cases seen the emergence of an entirely new class of competition in businesses. The challenge faced by companies is keeping up with these changes and in turn developing new...
Low-cost strategy through product architecture: lessons from China
[ "Management strategy", "Automotive industry", "China", "Design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The global financial downturn that began in 2008 has pushed much of the world's car industry into crisis; carmakers serving the US market, including strong performers like Toyota and Honda, have experienced double-digit de...
Authenticity matters more than intelligence and personality in predicting metacognition
[ "Five-factor model", "Intelligence", "Authenticity", "Metacognition", "Personality traits", "Self-alienation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Metacognition matters, in both academic and business settings. Described as \"thinking about your thinking\" (Flavell, 1979), or \"knowing about knowing,\" (Metcalfe and Shimamura, 1994), metacognition consists of strategies ...
Escaping accountability: a case of Australia's asylum seeker policy
[ "Australia", "Human rights", "Policy networks", "Asylum seekers", "Accountability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper addresses two research questions:\n2. Theoretical orientation and method: In this section we outline the theoretical orientation and methods used within the paper.\n3. Evolution of Australia's offshore processin...
A block-based inspection policy for a multi-component system subject to two failure modes with stochastic dependence
[ "Inspection", "Maintenance policy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Periodic inspection is one of the efficient maintenance policies that are carried out to check the condition of systems. Based on the probability of detection, we can characterize the failure modes of a system into two gen...
Construction labor productivity convergence: a conditional frontier approach
[ "Australia", "Modelling", "Construction industry", "Productivity capacity", "Productivity rate", "Economic theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Construction labor productivity is regarded as an effective indicator of the efficiency of the industry activities. Research into labor productivity is an area of interest to both economists and policy makers. The long-run tr...
Reform in the Indian real estate sector: an analysis
[ "Real estate", "Real estate regulation", "Real Estate Regulatory Authority", "Union budget" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The real estate industry (REI) has become an attractive sector over the past few years, proving its value to investors around the world. Industry analysis by PWC, 2016, suggests that the emerging trend of REI in the USA an...
Responsibility, authority, and accountability in school-based and non-school-based management: Principals' coping strategies
[ "Principals", "Accountability", "Authority", "Responsibility", "School-based management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Neoliberal reforms over the past three decades emphasized globalization, while governance led to decentralization processes using a major reform policy - school-based management (SBM) - which Leithwood and Menzies (1998) defi...
Competences management for improving performance in health organizations: The Niguarda Hospital in Milan
[ "Performance management", "Human resource management", "Assessment", "Healthcare organization", "Clinical competence", "Privileges" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Professionals, especially in health organizations, play a key role as specialists. In hospitals, as in all local health organizations, along with levels of technology and propensity to innovation and research, experience and ...
Board governance of independent schools: A framework for investigation
[ "Schools", "Governance", "Leadership", "Australia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: In terms of governance, schools can generally be categorized into one of three categories. For example, in Australia, the largest is the public school sector, comprising state school systems, catering for approximately 67.5 per...
Crowdsourcing to manage service gaps in service networks
[ "Industrial marketing", "B2B marketing", "Business networks", "Crowdsourcing", "Service networks", "Service quality gaps" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: For industrial marketers, the delivery of services is becoming both more important and more complex. Today, service offerings are increasingly used as part of a strategy to respond to changing markets because they can offer f...
Factors affecting choice and image of ethnic restaurants in Serbia
[ "Service quality", "Image", "Price", "Ethnic restaurants", "Interior/exterior", "Quality of food" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The increasing trend of eating out is becoming a mainstream way of life in most developed nations. With increasing pace of life, many individuals are turning to dining out in local establishments ranging from fast-food stalls...
Scaling the notion of Islamic spirituality in the workplace
[ "Workplace", "Spirituality", "Islam", "Indonesia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Recently, researchers have sought to understand why employees' workplace behavior has increased levels of deviant behavior such as theft, vandalism, fraud, and sabotage. This has sparked them to explore the area of spirituali...
From an "idea generator" to a "solution facilitator": A study of the changing roles of advertising professionals in the social media marketing era
[ "Change management", "Role identity", "Social media marketing", "Organization studies", "Advertising professional" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The emergence of social media marketing has brought tremendous changes in consumption patterns and consumer culture, and the use of social media becomes dominant in the marketplace. Based on this assumption, consumers are pot...
The influence of corporate social performance on employer attractiveness in the transport and logistics industry: Insights from German junior talent
[ "Logistics", "Human resources", "Talent", "Transport", "Corporate social performance", "Employer attractiveness", "Job seekers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In aging societies, such as western Europe or Japan, talented and highly educated employees are becoming scarce (Beechler and Woodward, 2009). Human capital is becoming more important as a critical success factor. At the same...
The antecedents of salespeople's relational behaviors
[ "Relationship marketing", "Business‐to‐business marketing", "Salespeople", "Relational behaviours", "Singapore", "China", "Sales force", "Behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Empirical research has demonstrated a link between salespeople's characteristics and customer relationships. Those characteristics include familiarity (Brown, 1995), expertise (Brown and Swartz, 1989), customization (Smith...
Exploring the ambiguity: what faculty leaders really think of sustainability in higher education
[ "Sustainable development", "Higher education", "Universities", "Academic staff", "Educational personnel", "Faculty", "Canada" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The increased awareness of environmental degradation and environmental problems threatening human and ecosystem health has resulted in pleas from the international community to adopt the principles of sustainable developmen...
Service recovery system antecedents: a contingency theory investigation
[ "Contingency theory", "Service recovery", "System design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: At some point, all service firms make mistakes. Subsequently, all firms need to proactively correct the errors. The collective activities taken by firms to rectify service failures, titled \"service recovery\" (SR), have posi...
Design, process and commercial benefits gained from AMT
[ "Performance measurement", "Statistical analysis", "Manufacturing performance", "Advanced manufacturing technology", "Manufacturing industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Maquiladora companies, also known as \"shared production plants\" or \"twin plants,\" emerged as a new manufacturing operation model, which are mostly located in the Mexico-US border (Munguia et al., 2018). Generally, maqu...
Ethnic communities: a factor of industrial clustering
[ "Confirmatory factor analysis", "Clustering factors", "Ethnic community", "Industrial/business clusters", "RMSEA" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Industrial clustering is a geographic concentration of associated businesses, factories, institutions and suppliers of a particular industry (Krugman, 1991; Porter, 1990). They are well recognized as a catalyst to increase th...
Gender performativity and hegemonic masculinity in investment management
[ "Investment management", "Hegemonic masculinity", "Blocked reflexivity", "Gender performativity", "Gendered behaviours" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Gender performativity is a central tenet of the work of Judith Butler and rests on the idea that gender is constructed through the ongoing and repetitive practice of dialogue and actions \"to produce the phenomena that it reg...
Rule-breaking and legitimacy: a failure of artful navigation?
[ "Entrepreneurship", "Enterprise culture", "Media", "Criminality", "Rule breaking", "Vance Miller" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is growing recognition of entrepreneurship as a process that takes place in a social and cultural context, where the interests of the individual entrepreneur, the firm, and a wider range of societal stakeholders are int...
Assessing the effects of exchange rate depreciation on the US economy: Evidence from a factor-augmented VAR model
[ "Contractionary", "Exchange rate depreciation", "Expansionary", "Factor-augmented VAR model", "US economy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The years 1971-1973 marked the end of the Bretton Woods system, with which exchange rates of most currencies in the world went float. Under this new floating exchange rate system, exchange rate shocks could pose major risk...
Lucky to reach the top? : Gendered perspectives on leadership acquisition across Qatar and Denmark
[ "Culture", "Leadership", "Networking", "Locus of control", "Serendipity", "Luck" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: When leaders are appointed, there is something appealing about the idea of meritocracy: a social system in which merit or talent is the basis for sorting people into positions and distributing rewards (Scully, 1997, p. 413). ...
Neoliberal governance in Indonesian universities: the impact upon academic identity
[ "Higher education", "Policy", "Indonesia", "Academic identity", "Neoliberal governance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The expansive colonisation of neoliberalism ideology reflected upon its market principles into higher education institutions has been breath-taking both in its depth and breadth (Ball, 2003; Billot, 2010; Harris, 2005; Deem, ...
Challenges and competencies for project management in the Australian public service
[ "Project management", "Barriers", "Competences", "Challenges", "Public service organizations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the last 20 years, the public service has changed its approach to program delivery to respond to the increasing and evolving expectations of government and the public. Known as new public management (NPM), this changed ...
Is the risk management committee only a procedural compliance? An insight into managing risk taking among insurance companies in Malaysia
[ "Malaysia", "Insurance companies", "Risk management", "Committees", "Risk management committees", "Audit committees", "Underwriting risk" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Financial crisis and unexpected collapse of many corporations and banks in the US have resulted in relentless consequences, including reduced economic activity, loss of public confidence, and unstable financial system. Many f...
Well-being and innovativeness: motivational trigger points for mutual enhancement
[ "Well-being", "Employees", "Motivation", "Innovativeness", "Public service development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Continuous improvement of services, products and processes is essential for organisations. Developing and renewing are no longer seen as purely the responsibility of managers or research and development departments, but rathe...
Customer segmentation based on buying and returning behaviour
[ "Strategy", "E-commerce", "Supply chain management", "Buying behaviour", "Customer segmentation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In shifting market conditions, the choice of supply chain strategies is a critical aspect of competing to serve customers (Gattorna, 2010). It is accepted in theory that the \"one size fits all\" approach to supply chain desi...
On creating the school-running characteristic of university
[ "University", "Category characteristic", "Core idea of education", "Institutional research", "School-running characteristic" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The developing process of things is a creative process. \"The future does not exist in the present\" Alfred North (see Mesle, 2009). Things are generated in the creative process. So far as Chinese university concerned, it has...
The knowledge of Italian wines on export markets: A nonparametric methodology to analyze promotional actions
[ "CBBE model", "Export market", "Foreign consumer preferences", "NPC test", "Wine knowledge", "Wine promotion" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In last decades, the world wine market has changed. Wine consumption is declining in traditional producers such as Italy and France and increasing in new consumers countries. From supply side, new producing countries were ...
Exploring the living learning laboratory: An approach to strengthen campus sustainability initiatives by using sustainability science approach
[ "Campus sustainability", "Sustainable development", "Sustainability science", "Living lab", "Institution of higher education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The living laboratory concept, or \"living lab\" for short, is defined as \"the co-creation process in integrating research and innovation in a systematic way, on a given territorial context\" (Von Hippel, 1986; Chesbrough, 2...
The drinking water response to the Indian Ocean tsunami, including the role of household water treatment
[ "Tidal waves", "South East Asia", "Disasters" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Background and introduction: The Great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004 released enough energy to supply the entire global population for six weeks (Bilham, 2005), and the tsunamis it generated devastated coastal regions o...
A maturity assessment model for manufacturing systems
[ "Action research", "Manufacturing management", "Manufacturing strategy", "Manufacturing systems", "Manufacturing performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Since the publication of Wickham Skinner's seminal papers (Skinner, 1969, 1966), manufacturing strategy (MS) has become an important research topic for the achievement of competitive advantages (Chatha and Butt, 2015). Usi...
Overcoming stakeholder social media fatigue: a trialogue approach
[ "Social media", "Strategies", "Influencer", "Relationship", "Fatigue", "Vicarious interaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The advent of Web 2.0 made social media both easily accessible and prevalent for stakeholder use, which has allowed them to communicate across multiple channels. On these social media platforms, stakeholders interact both wit...
Examining the willingness to produce organic vegetables in the Bono and Ahafo regions of Ghana
[ "Organic", "Vegetables", "Certification", "Environment", "Heckman selection model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Agriculture production throughout the world has improved with a synchronised development in pesticides, weedicides, fertilisers and other agrochemicals used to meet the growing population's demands for food (Pokhrel and Pa...
Patients ' preference on selecting a medical institution
[ "Conjoint analysis", "Patient preference", "Utility", "Hospital management", "Patients", "Japan" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Rapidly increasing medical expenses has been a serious issue from the perspective of national finance in Japan. Among the attempts recently made to control medical expenses, a daily prospective payment system (PPS) using Diag...
Using food choice motives to model Pakistani ethnic food purchase intention among tourists
[ "Pakistan", "Theory of planned behaviour", "Ethnic food", "Tourists", "Food choice motives" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: It is difficult to assess the exact eating habits, as a lot of factors affect the selection process of edibles (Vabo and Hansen, 2014). In spite of the fact that people are accustomed to eat their already settled social an...
Chained to a rock
[ "Social media", "Reputation", "Twitter", "Polarization", "Boycotts", "Brand threat", "Donald Trump" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: As a punishment for stealing fire from Olympus, Zeus had the immortal Prometheus tied to a rock in the Caucasus where an eagle pecked out his liver ever day before it grew back at night. For eternity. In this era of political...
Who is engaging with whom? Internationalizing opportunities for business schools in emerging economies
[ "Globalization", "Business schools", "Emerging economies", "Exchange programmes", "Networks" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The purpose of universities has long been debated. Recent critiques, fuelled by the latest global financial and economic crisis, suggest that universities need to direct more of their efforts to serving economic imperative...
Combining lean tools application in kaizen: a field study on the printing industry
[ "Line balancing", "Printing industry", "Kaizen", "Lean tools", "Field study", "Standardized layout", "Standardized work" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The printing industry in China is growing rapidly. In 2010, there were nearly 106,400 printing enterprises with 4.46 million employees in China, and the gross industrial output value reached 92 billion US dollars, ranking ...
Developing responsive Resource Sharing services at an Australian regional university: University of Wollongong Library
[ "Academic libraries", "Document delivery", "Electronic document delivery", "Document supply", "Consortia", "Interlibrary lending" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2011, the University of Wollongong (UOW) Library began a two-year project to transform its Resource Sharing services. The results of this transformation were published in 2014. This current paper provides an analysis of th...
Honoring the life and legacy of Michael J. Driver, 1936-2004
[ "Careers", "Leadership", "Simulation", "Entrepreneurialism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: This special issue honors the life and legacy of Michael J. Driver (Michael J. Driver), a renowned scholar whose contributions to research on careers, decision-making, and cognitive styles made an indelible impact on these fi...
Post M&A ill-health: Main, moderating and mediating effects of job stressors and perceived organizational support
[ "Employee attitudes", "Organizational change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are corporate change-related events that continue to be a common phenomenon, despite the numerous negative repercussions reported in literature, manifested as underperformance or poor employee ...
A qualitative approach to automated motels: a rising issue in South Korea
[ "Anonymity", "Automated motel", "Room rate", "Thematic factor" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Since the Dae-Bul hotel was opened in Incheon city in 1889, the history of hotels in Korea has evolved with the opening of the Son-Tak hotel in Seoul, Korea, in 1902, symbolizing the beginning of the modern era (Han, 2002; Ka...
Managing cooperation, coordination, and legitimacy: Control of contracted public services
[ "Outsourcing", "Contracting", "Privatization", "Inter-organizational management control", "Public sector services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Using the market instead of in-house capacities to deliver welfare services to the public has become a rather standard approach for government agencies in many countries (Brown et al., 2006; Fernandez, 2007; Cristofoli et al....
State Audit Institution in United Arab Emirates
[ "United Arab Emirates", "Auditing", "Law", "Auditing standards", "Financial reporting", "Financial control" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nExecutive summary: The State Audit Institution (SAI) (1977) was set up as an independent authority under the Federal Law of November 7, 1976. SAIs are organizations responsible for auditing government revenues and expenditures. Their main ...
Multicriteria model for selecting TQM consultancy and certification services
[ "Quality management", "Certification", "ISO standards", "Multicriteria decision" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The globalization of the economy, including the change to global markets, the creation of new trading blocs, and the advent of technology, prompted the growth of competitiveness. Therefore, as markets became increasingly c...
Recruitment goes virtual: Use web-based technology intelligently for best results in recruitment
[ "Online recruitment", "Social media tools", "Feedback", "Human capital", "HR management", "Yahoo", "Internet", "Recruitment", "Social media", "Human resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nSocial networking as a recruitment tool: Recruitment, like every other aspect of business today depends on speed and accuracy. With increasing numbers of qualified applicants chasing a decreasing pool of jobs, HR professionals need to find...
Discourse as strategic coping resource: managing the interface between "home" and "work"
[ "Work identity", "Change management", "Teleworking", "Individual behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: \"anywhere, anytime\" - \"somewhere, sometime\": Organizational boundaries, both internal and external, have become subject to change and challenge. As a consequence, new organizational patterns and forms emerge, some of whic...
Multi-faceted views on a Lean Six Sigma application
[ "Six sigma", "Lean production", "Lean six sigma", "Process improvement", "Case study" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Lean and Six Sigma are popular contemporary process improvement methodologies intended for companies striving for operational excellence (Arnheiter and Maleyeff, 2005). Both have roots in the industrial revolution started b...
Internship for accounting undergraduates: comparative insights from stakeholders
[ "Skills", "Accounting", "Stakeholders", "Undergraduate", "Internship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The idea of providing practical experience in professional environments for students studying at university, especially in the context of undergraduate accounting students, is generally accepted (Teed and Bhattacharga, 2002; ...
Knowledge management and social entrepreneurship education: lessons learned from an exploratory two-country study
[ "Entrepreneurship", "Knowledge management", "Education", "Pedagogy", "Social entrepreneurship education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Gregory J. Dees introduced the concept of social entrepreneurship in 1988. Six years later, Dr Dees is credited with teaching the first class on social entrepreneurship at Harvard University in 1994. As then, interest in soci...
Advancing real estate decision making: understanding known, unknown and unknowable risks
[ "Risk management framework", "Real estate performance", "Extreme risk events", "Real estate risk management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The word \"risk\" originated from the early Italian risicare which means \"to dare\". In this sense, risk is a choice of actions we dare to take. Since the beginning of recorded history, gambling is the very essence of ris...
Equity analysis of health system accessibility from perspective of people with disability
[ "Primary care", "Patient perspectives", "Emerging healthcare delivery structures", "Quantitative research", "Health law or regulation", "Public health regulations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Equity in healthcare is a desirable state and is considered to be a right of all individuals (Sowney and Barr, 2004) and implies that everyone should have a fair opportunity to access needed healthcare including minority subg...
Challenging the difference between white and brown Agaricus bisporus mushrooms: Science behind consumers choice
[ "Quality characteristics", "Brown A. bisporus", "Consumers choice", "White A. bisporus" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Agaricus bisporus is the most produced and the most consumed species of mushroom worldwide (Royse, 2014). It is highly valued for its delicious taste and high amounts of nutrients (Pei et al., 2016). Two varieties are pres...
The complex concept of sustainable of diversity management: ... and why forming policies in this area is far from straightforward
[ "Employee attitudes", "Diversity", "Involvement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Fixed Graphic\nSustainable diversity management: Using sustainability reports from some of the biggest listed public organizations in the USA, Germany, Japan and China, Michael Muller-Camen's (Hanappi-Egger et al., 2014) expl...
Pre-departure cultural training: US managers in Mexico
[ "Mexico", "United States of America", "Consultants", "Managers", "Training" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Cushner and Brislin (1996) comment on the variety of problems encountered when interacting with people from other cultures, such as differences in attitude, mannerisms, and behavioural patterns. For foreign nationals operatin...
The relationship between organizational culture and quality techniques, and its impact on operational performance
[ "Survey", "Operational performance", "Quality techniques", "Structural equation modelling", "Organizational culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Most firms have adopted some form of quality management to improve quality and other indicators of performance. However, quality management initiatives do not always produce the intended results (Harari, 1993; Beer, 2003; ...
"The way things get done around here..." Exploring spatial biographies, social policy and governance in the North East of England
[ "Industrial policy", "Regional development", "Social policy", "Welfare reform" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2015 I was invited to contribute to a local radio roundtable discussion about the impact of the UK Government spending cuts and welfare reforms upon Stockton-on-Tees in the North East of England. The town suffers from high...
Comparisons of media types and congruence in positioning of service brands
[ "Advertising", "Qualitative research", "Financial services", "Media", "Positioning", "Quantitative methods", "Brand communication" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this issue.\nIntroduction: The employment of positioning strategies makes imitation by competitors difficult, and represents one of the bases...
The effect of corporate governance on earnings management around UK rights issues
[ "Corporate governance", "Earnings", "Rights issues", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Empirical evidence shows that US firms manage earnings around seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) and investors fail to recognise this. Teoh et al. (1998a), for example, find that firms boost earnings using discretionary curr...
Moving from conceptual ambiguity to operational clarity: Employability, enterprise and entrepreneurship in higher education
[ "Employment", "Entrepreneurialism", "Graduates", "Higher education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It has become increasingly evident that the word \"employability\" is often used carelessly and interchangeably with \"enterprise\", which in turn is confused with \"entrepreneurship\". Watts and Hawthorn (1992) acknowledged ...
Developing qualitative research streams relating to illegal rural enterprise: Reflections on researching qualitatively at the margins of entrepreneurship research
[ "Qualitative research", "Rural entrepreneurship", "Illegal entrepreneurship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Writing qualitatively, is a deeply personal act of writing, and indeed authorship, but it is only one small part of Qualitative Inquiry (Denzin and Lincoln, 2003) and qualitative research practice as we know it. However, w...
In-work poverty: reversing a trend through business commitment
[ "Greece", "Human resource management", "Small firms", "High performance work practices", "Business ethics", "In-work poverty" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The present study examines how human resource (HR) management practices can help tackle in-work poverty and assesses the business case for their adoption. So far, those few businesses who take anti-poverty measures do so on a...
You Shall (Not) Fear: The effects of emotional stimuli in social media campaigns and moral disengagement on apparel consumers' behavioral engagement
[ "Ethical consumption", "Moral disengagement", "Animal cruelty", "Negative arousal" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Recently, ethical consumption has emerged as a mainstream social movement (Humphery and Jordan, 2018; Papaoikonomou et al., 2016), and firms have responded to this emerging consumer culture by competitively publicizing corpor...
Politicising the sustaining of water supply in Ireland - the role of accounting concepts
[ "Actor-network theory", "Accounting concepts", "Calculative spaces", "Non-calculative spaces", "Sustainable water" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Water is essential to the sustaining of human life. It is \"a crucial constituent of any society, including cases of excess, as in flooding, or drought, as in deserts; and cases of infrastructure, as in canals and cases of ex...
Innovation performance of Italian manufacturing firms: The effect of internal and external knowledge sources
[ "Innovation performance", "Bayesian structural equation modelling", "Italian manufacture industry", "Knowledge sources" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Italian industry's production fell around one quarter after the 2008 crisis, whose impacts were especially felt in the manufacturing industry (Lucchese et al., 2016). Innovation is one of the main solutions for sustained ...
Emerging adulthood, sharing utilities and intention to use sharing services
[ "Utility", "Sharing economy", "Emerging adulthood", "Access-based consumption", "Social applications" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Academic researchers have begun the arduous task of understanding the relatively recent consumer trend of using versus owning products in a phenomenon referred to as, among other terms, a sharing economy, collaborative consum...
Corporate social responsibility from a "stakeholder view" perspective: CSR implementation by a Swiss mobile telecommunication provider
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Telecommunications", "Switzerland", "Case studies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the following, we will focus on the micro-level of the thematic framework of this year's EABIS colloquium. Thereby we will introduce how corporate social responsibility (CSR) is implemented and managed at Orange[1] Comm...
Fit preferences of female consumers in the USA
[ "Fashion design", "Consumer behaviour", "Clothing", "Women", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Numerous studies (Kurt Salmon Associates, 2000; Goldsberry et al., 1996; LaBat and DeLong, 1990; Shim and Bickle, 1994) indicate that fit in women's ready-to-wear (RTW) is problem for both the individual and the apparel indus...
Identifying high potentials early: case study
[ "Leadership development", "Leadership potential", "High-potential employee", "Leadership talent" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Shortage of leadership talent is one of the greatest concerns for organizations today (e.g. Cappelli and Keller, 2017). To address the growing leadership gap, most companies implemented \"high-potential employee\" (HIPO) prog...
Effects of addition of Kappaphycus alvarezii on physicochemical properties and lipid oxidation of mechanically deboned chicken meat (MDCM) sausages
[ "Lipid oxidation", "Mechanically deboned chicken meat", "Physicochemical properties", "Sausage", "Seaweed" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Meat and meat products are a major component of food in developed countries as it is a source of protein, minerals and vitamins (Jimenez-Colmenero et al., 2001). Major changes in socioeconomic conditions are driving an inc...
Coverage of organic agriculture in North American newspapers: Media: linking food safety, the environment, human health and organic agriculture
[ "Organic foods", "Agriculture", "Safety", "Newspapers", "Information media" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A visit to a North American grocery store or farmers' market reveals an increasing presence of organic food products. Organic foods are generally defined as those grown, raised, and processed without the use of synthetic pest...
Managerial workarounds in three European DRG systems
[ "Germany", "Italy", "England", "DRG", "Diagnostic related group", "Managerial workaround" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Many attempts to increase healthcare providers' efficiency and contain the growth of costs have included a policy of paying healthcare providers through a Diagnostic Related Group (DRG) system. In practice that has involved m...
As good as new - valuing fashion brands in the online second-hand markets
[ "Fashion marketing", "Customer value", "Perceived value", "Online marketing", "Second-hand" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Second-hand markets represent an interesting and growing arena for consumers to buy and sell brands. Online fashion sales in particular have gained ground in recent years, in terms of both business-to-consumers (BtoC) and con...
Managerial framework for bank advertising
[ "Financial services", "Advertising", "Bank", "FCB grid", "Informational and emotional appeal", "Pollay’s appeal" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The financial service industry spends a significant amount of money on advertising; in 2016, US banks spent $17.1bn on advertising and marketing (EMI, 2017). The effectiveness of advertisement - using the right appeal - is mo...
The social and technological origins of the information society: An analysis of the crisis of control in England, 1830-1900
[ "History", "Railways", "Bureaucracy", "Standardization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nThe theory of the control revolution: In his book The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society, James Beniger (1986) proposed the argument that the American industrial revolution brought about a cri...
Evaluation of research methods to study domestic food preparation
[ "Reliability", "Validity", "Consistency in behaviour", "Food preparation", "Observation (through cameras)", "Self-reporting questionnaire" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Acceptability of prepared food depends mainly on the sensory, safety and health attributes (Costell et al., 2010). These attributes are, to a large extent, determined by the final preparation practices applied to the food by ...
Relationships between ethical climate, justice perceptions, and LMX
[ "Leadership", "Leader‐member exchange", "Ethical climate", "Organizational justice", "Interactional justice", "Ethics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The perception of trust is at the center of the organization-employee relationship. In an employment climate saturated with unrelenting news of unethical business behaviors, creating a positive image of a company is crucial t...
Motivating teachers' commitment to change through transformational school leadership in Chinese urban upper secondary schools
[ "China", "Teachers’ commitment to change", "Transformational school leadership", "Urban upper secondary school" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Reform in high schools is a pervasive in the West, and it is the same in the Chinese context (Leithwood et al., 1999; Liu, 2013). Compared with other sectors of education, the significance of the role of upper secondary schoo...
Civil servant identity at the crossroads: new challenges for public administrations
[ "Work identity", "Ethics", "Civil service", "Canada", "Switzerland", "Public sector organizations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Public sector employees are currently confronted with new professional challenges arising from the introduction of new principles and tools inspired by the shift to new public management (NPM). Even though the NPM dynamic inc...
Inpatient flow management: a systematic review
[ "Hospital", "Inpatient units", "Patient flow management", "System-wide" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Hospital managers are currently striving to balance supply and demand (Hall et al., 2006). In an ideal world, hospitals always have unlimited supplies, specialized facilities, equipment and staff available to all patients upo...
Assessing emergency management training and exercises
[ "Emergency management", "Emergency measures", "Training", "Assessment", "Monitoring and evaluation local government", "Local government", "United States of America", "New Zealand", "Canada" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Natural, technological, and terrorist disasters occur within the sphere of responsibility of one or more local governments (Perry, 2003). In New Zealand, Canada, and USA, emergency management capacity is built from the grass ...
The recycling business for sustainability in Taiwan
[ "Recycling", "Waste", "Taiwan" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As all the countries in the rest of the world, Taiwan has experienced a challenging situation that there is a social need for extraction of recyclables from ever increasing solid wastes (Lee et al., 2000; Shih, 2001; Fan et a...
Of locals and insiders: A "localized" humanitarian response to the 2017 mudslide in Mocoa, Colombia?
[ "Development", "Conflict", "Colombia", "Humanitarian aid", "Disaster response", "Localization", "Peacebuilding", "Conflict disaster nexus" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the early morning of April 1, 2017, the city of Mocoa, Colombia, suffered a massive mudslide when torrential rains led three smaller rivers to burst their banks, releasing a giant flow of water, mud and rocks that destr...
Inclusive global education: implications for social justice
[ "Education", "Social justice", "Social inclusion", "Teachers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It is the gaps between me and those who think differently than I - which is to say everyone, and not simply those segregated by differences in generation, sex, nationality, sect, and even race - [that] define the real boundar...
Understanding structures and practices of meaning-making in industrial networks
[ "Networks", "Business-to-Business marketing", "Social semiotics", "Atmosemiosphere", "Structurational discourse" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The relationship \"atmosphere\" is a key concept in business-to-business marketing and specifically in the interaction approach to industrial marketing (Ford and Hakansson, 2006; Cantu et al., 2013; Ford and Hakansson, 201...
Is honest feedback always a good idea? And why is there concern about bullying?
[ "Feedback", "Managers", "Bullying" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The rhetoric of good management tends to suggest that giving feedback to people to help them with their learning is a good thing. Managers are exhorted to be honest with people and to help their direct reports to get a realis...
A new life: conversion of vacant office buildings into housing
[ "Office buildings", "Housing", "The Netherlands" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Problem\nVacancy: Market\nBuilding stock: Conversion to decrease the office supply\nWhich buildings are suitable for conversion?: Market\nBrakes, triggers and risks: Brakes\nCases: Introduction\nReflection and conclusion: Mos...
A hedonic model for effective web marketing: an empirical examination
[ "Internet", "Consumer behaviour", "User interfaces" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The last decade has seen breathtaking changes in the ways business is conducted. The key driving force is globalisation, which is facilitated by the rapid development of the internet and mobile technologies. The impact of the...
Entrepreneurial success of cottage-based women entrepreneurs in Oman
[ "Gender", "Rural" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Ongoing social and political societal changes in developing economies have significantly improved access to higher education, employment, political empowerment and economic independence for women but there are still signif...
The moderating influence of national culture on female and male entrepreneurs' social network size and new venture growth
[ "Culture", "Networks", "Entrepreneurship", "Gender stereotypes", "Gender differences", "New ventures", "Gender norms", "Relational orientation", "Gender egalitarianism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over 400m entrepreneurs are estimated to operate ventures in the world today (Asian Entrepreneur, 2019), with approximately 37 percent of ventures owned by female entrepreneurs (Entrepreneur, 2019)[1]. Despite cultural and in...