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A comparison of statistical and decision-making techniques in marketing mix evaluation
[ "Multi-attribute decision making", "Customer satisfaction", "Structural equation model", "Services marketing mix" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Nowadays, most firms and organizations around the world have been trying to retain their customers in the globalization and competitive world. In fact, they aim to assure the quality of services and satisfy the customers. ...
Measuring the benefits of tracking medical treatment through RFId
[ "Healthcare", "ICT", "Method", "Medical treatment", "Benefit evaluation", "RFId" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Nowadays, healthcare systems are facing the challenge of improving their overall performance, thereby attempting to deliver better care services in a more efficient way (Angst et al., 2011). As a matter of fact, health exp...
Determinants of patient satisfaction survey in a gastrointestinal endoscopy service
[ "Endoscopic instruments", "Patients", "Customer satisfaction", "Surveys" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The term \"customer satisfaction\" is widely used to denote satisfaction with commercial products and services. Nowadays, customer satisfaction is the core of business practices and systems, and leads to quality improvement o...
The role of autonomy, competence and relatedness: Applying self-determination theory to the integrated resort setting
[ "Brand attachment", "Integrated resort", "Brand compatibility", "Needs satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Companies use brands to create and express their identities (Fugate and Phillips, 2010). In addition, in the tourism industry, many countries have developed integrated resorts which refer to the facilities include casinos, ho...
Meeting career expectation: can it enhance job satisfaction of Generation Y?
[ "Careers", "China", "Generation Y", "Generational differences", "Job satisfaction", "Human resources management", "Hospitality management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The hospitality industry is a service-oriented business, and hotel employees play an important role in serving customers. The work attitude and service quality of employees are important in the success of a hotel - because...
Preventive maintenance scheduling for multi-cogeneration plants with production constraints
[ "Preventive maintenance", "Desalination", "Kuwait" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Cogeneration for power generation and fresh water production has been used by utility companies for many years as a reliable, efficient and economic means of generating power and simultaneously desalting sea water. An importa...
A strategic framework to achieve stellar results
[ "Corporate strategy", "Management effectiveness", "Leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Great leaders are distinguished by their ability to achieve results. Accomplished leaders know this intuitively. Aspiring leaders frequently stumble by making several mistakes in reaching for leadership excellence. However, t...
Delivering the mail: General Physics (UK) Ltd
[ "Training", "Maintenance", "Operations management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre (HWDC) - a new, state of the art facility, with the capacity to handle millions of mail items per day. There is no other site in the world that at the present time comes close in terms o...
Organizing ERP research: a knowledge-centric approach
[ "Literature review", "Enterprise resource planning (ERP)", "Intellectual contributions", "MacInnis framework" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are highly complex information systems (IS) that enable achievement of integration of information flow and business processes. These systems support business operations and functi...
Colleagues turn counsellors in BBC's pioneering program: CareerLink Plus supports employees threatened with redundancy
[ "Redundancy", "Career guidance", "Training", "Human resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: When the BBC announced the first round of 2,000 redundancies in late 2004, it decided to train a large number of its own employees - both within the HR department and outside it - to support their own colleagues during the pe...
Effect of precipitating events on information system adoption and use behaviour
[ "Information technology", "Adoption", "Propensity to act", "Intention", "UTAUT", "Precipitating event" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Information technology is considered a common denominator in the growth and the competitive stance of today's organisations (Alshawi et al., 2003). However, the issue of information system (IS) adoption and usage has matur...
Functional and dysfunctional conflicts in retailer-supplier relationships
[ "Conflict", "Retailers", "Supplier relations", "France" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Retailer-supplier relationships have long been of keen interest to marketing academics and practitioners, most particularly within the domain of business-to-business markets.Retailer-supplier relationships have been modelled ...
Aligning product variety with supply chain and business strategy
[ "Supply chain", "Business performance", "Structural equation modelling", "Product variety" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Globalisation promotes the need to customise products and services according to the target market or country, and provision of product scope is an issue in deciding if globalisation raises marginal variety's profit (Qiu an...
A model of idiosyncratic deal-making and attitudinal outcomes
[ "Human capital", "Social capital", "Idiosyncratic deals (i-deals)", "Leader-member exchange", "I-deals receipt", "I-deals request" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) are voluntary, personalized agreements of a nonstandard nature, negotiated between employees and employers regarding terms that benefit each party (Rousseau et al., 2006). I-deals are increasingl...
Collaborative supply chain network using embedded genetic algorithms
[ "Programming and algorithm theory", "Supply chain management", "Production management", "Corporate strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In this ever-changing global market, collaborative and cohesive relationships among the entities in the supply chain network are essential for maintaining the competitiveness of the supply chain network. In addition, customer...
What makes employees engaged with their work? The role of self-efficacy and employee's perceptions of social context over time
[ "Work engagement", "Self-efficacy", "Perceptions of social context", "Two-wave study" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The need for an inspired and motivated workforce able to go \"the extra mile\" is an issue of increasing importance in contemporary organizations (Bakker and Demerouti, 2008). For this reason, the study of work engagement (an...
A road for achieving an international measure and understanding on leaders' behaviors
[ "Leaders", "Behaviour", "Transformational leadership", "United States of America", "Spain", "Costa Rica" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nI. Introduction and literature review: There have been a number of studies conducted in the USA on behavioral factors associated with transformational leadership. These studies have attempted to identify the behaviors that comprise what Bu...
Older adults' household cooking: card sort analyses
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Older people", "Human capital", "Cooking", "Card sort", "Kitchen equipment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Adults frequently engage in household food preparation. Older American adults spend slightly more time cooking and cook dinner at home more often than younger adults (Hamrick et al., 2011), with 60 percent of adults age 65+ p...
Are personal innovativeness and social influence critical to continue with mobile commerce?
[ "Perceptions", "Continuance intention", "Mobile commerce", "Acceptance", "Personal innovativeness", "Social influence" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Almost a decade ago, studies forecasted the adoption of wireless internet services via mobile technology and the possible impact of technology characteristics (perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use), personal char...
The effect of leadership orientation on innovation and its relationship with competitive advantages of small and medium enterprises in Indonesia
[ "Competitive advantages", "Innovation", "Leadership orientation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: From a global perspective, it is accepted that a small business plays a very important role in development and economic growth, in both developing and developed countries. In many developed countries, small businesses are ...
PAHS: a Nepali project with international implications
[ "Clinical medicine", "Education", "Rural areas", "Nepal" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Few healthcare systems face challenges as severe as those to be found in rural Nepal. With huge logistical, economic and educational barriers, Nepal can be seen as a bellwether for initiatives in rural medicine: with apologie...
Deploying Six Sigma practices to General Electric subsidiaries in a developing economy: An empirical analysis
[ "Six Sigma", "Brazil", "Developing countries", "Quality management", "General Electric" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Modern organizations are striving to apply appropriate strategies in order to improve their overall performance due to the increasing competition (Srinivasan et al., 2016). Six Sigma has been recognized as a powerful strat...
Benchmarking energy use of iron and steel industry: a data envelopment analysis
[ "Benchmarking", "Iron and steel industry", "DEA", "Energy efficiency" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The environmental impacts of the industrial sector have become an increasingly important topic of public debate. World industry contributes about 37 per cent of the global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), of which over 80 p...
Greening the campus of a Brazilian university: cultural challenges
[ "Higher education", "Sustainability", "Brazil", "Organizational culture", "Environmental management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Given the critical environmental dilemmas faced by mankind, such as climate change and the depletion of non-renewable sources of energy, the implementation of environmental management practices within organizations is gaini...
Building customer loyalty in retail banking: a serial-mediation approach
[ "Brand equity", "Customer experience", "Retail banking", "Customer satisfaction", "Customer loyalty", "Serial-mediation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Customer loyalty is a function of brand equity-customer satisfaction relationship, which is expected to be associated with customer experience in the context of retail banking. Customer loyalty is defined as the \"strength of...
Generalist or specific studies for engineering entrepreneurs? Comparison of French engineering students' trajectories in two different curricula
[ "France", "Entrepreneurialism", "Higher education", "Careers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Developing the entrepreneurial intention of engineering students is important for the emergence of high-tech business in dynamic and innovative areas, thus promoting significant economic growth and increase in employment (Rob...
Auditing the identity of regional wine brands: the case of Swiss Merlot Ticino
[ "Switzerland", "Wines", "Brands", "Marketing communications", "Brand identity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Today's wine industry is enjoying growth in production, and consumption is increasing, especially in emerging economies[1]. This growth also means increased global competition, and several global brands developed by giant ...
Drivers of trust and trustworthiness
[ "Trust", "Beliefs", "Punishment", "Trustworthiness", "Norms", "C72", "C91", "D63", "Z10" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years, trust has been accepted as a central concept for understanding economic behavior and organization. Many activities, such as trade and cooperation, become much easier if people trust each other. Mistrust le...
A triple bottom line construct and reasons for implementing sustainable business practices in companies and their business networks
[ "Networks", "Sustainability", "Business sustainable practices", "Triple bottom line", "Sustainability", "Business sustainable practices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: When examining extant literature regarding sustainability, it is evident that sustainable business practices have come afore as a key topic in conversations about sustainability (Hogevold et al., 2014), as organisations are i...
Farmers' markets as small business incubators and safety nets: Evidence from New Zealand
[ "Agriculture", "Markets", "Rural areas", "Entrepreneurialism", "Business development", "New Zealand" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Rural entrepreneurship is increasingly accepted as a special area of study (Deakins, 2004). The comparatively recent phenomenon of rural enterprise within the farmers' market movement is worthy of investigation on two counts....
Linking loneliness to depression: a dynamic perspective
[ "Depression", "Loneliness", "Personality and depression", "Personality and loneliness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Depression may lead to devastating effects on people's lives (Gotlib and Hammen, 1992). According to World Health Organization estimates, depression will be the second leading contributor to the global disease burden by 2020....
From Anita Hill to Christine Blasey Ford: a reflection on lessons learned
[ "Feminism", "Racial discrimination", "Sexual discrimination", "Anita Hill", "Christine Blasey Ford" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroductory remarks: On October 11, 1991, Anita Hill, a young black Lawyer, sat alone in front of the looming all-male, all White Senate Judiciary Committee to tell her story of how the US Supreme Court nominee under question sexually har...
The denial of limits and interior aspects of descent
[ "Limits to growth", "Denialism", "Descent pathways", "Global emergency", "Human and cultural interiors", "Trajectory of development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The key question of our era is which complex system will tip first, the climate or the human response (Berners Lee & Clarke, The Burning Question, 2013).\nIntroduction: The emergence and success of denialism during the latter...
Understanding the HR inbetweeners: The role of intermediaries in outsourcing
[ "HR outsourcing", "HR intermediaries", "Small- to medium-sized enterprises “SMEs”" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nReview: It is perhaps unwise to equate the internal workings of political parties to corporations, but aside from sport and TV, there are a precious few bodies that we can publicly ogle at and discuss, aside from the organizations we ourse...
Complementarity effect of supply chain competencies on innovation capability
[ "Exploration", "Exploitation", "Supply chain flexibility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As organizations face globalization, development in emerging markets, heightened customer expectations, the rise of new technologies and harsh economic conditions, they find innovation to be one of the must-have capabiliti...
Potential effects of climate change on the habitat in Mexico
[ "Climate change", "Disasters", "Mexico", "Manmade Disaster", "Natural hazard", "Hydrometeorological hazards" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: uncertainty about phenomena observed in Mexico: This paper examines some of the potential effects of climate change such as floods, droughts and hurricanes, in an attempt to correlate the IPCC's global findings with the lo...
Motivation and personal involvement leading to wine consumption
[ "Intrinsic motivation", "Extrinsic motivation", "Personal involvement", "Push-pull factors", "Wine consumption" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Wine sales are at the highest volumes ever, reaching $37.6bn in retail value in 2013, with US residents consuming on average 2.82 gallons per person per year, up from 2.34 gallons in 2005 (Statista, 2015). Thornton (2013) not...
Critical success factors for Kaizen implementation in the Nigerian construction industry
[ "Continuous improvement", "Construction", "Implementation", "Kaizen", "Developing economies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Background of the study: Causalities of cost and time overruns have been studied without much impact on the construction industry. An introspective look at what is obtainable for the construction industry from the manufacturing and busi...
Crisis management as a critical perspective
[ "Business education", "MBA", "Crisis management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Private industry practices often exist in spite of evidence that shows they are harmful. Many managers are dedicated followers of fashion. They see other organizations doing something, and assume - quite irrationally - that t...
Modelling uncertain operational cash flows of real estate investments using simulations of stochastic processes
[ "Real estate", "Property investment", "Returns", "Cash flow", "Modelling", "Risk management", "Real estate returns", "Investment valuation", "Risk modelling", "Numeric simulation", "Operating costs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nThe issue: Uncertainty affecting future trends in the general conditions for real estate investments holds considerable risks for investors. In the appraisal of direct investments, which is the subject of this paper, obtaining the best pos...
Neural network cost estimating model for utility rehabilitation projects
[ "Pipework systems", "Water supply and waste systems", "Utility programmes", "Construction engineering works", "Costs", "Artificial neural network", "Cost estimate", "Utility projects", "Rehabilitation projects and water and sewer pipes", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Water and sewer pipes form a considerable part of the most capital intensive infrastructure systems in the USA. Many of these pipes have approached the end of their design life and their condition has deteriorated. In a recen...
A stronger voice: Action research in mental health services using carers and people with experience as co-researchers
[ "User involvement", "Organizational learning", "Empowerment", "Organizational change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper arises from an action research (AR) study set in a large health and social care English mental health trust. The study was designed to integrate service-user and carers views on implementing self-directed support (...
Challenging patient safety culture: survey results
[ "Patient care", "Safety", "Health and safety", "Belgium" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Complexity on the road towards patient safety is well known. The Institute of Medicine's report \"To err is human\" catalysed the modern patient safety movement while Reason taught us about the error mechanisms, the importanc...
From rumor to release: Does product release influence WOM in brand communities dedicated to technology products?
[ "Word of mouth", "Social media", "Content analysis", "Consumption community", "Product release", "Product rumors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Positive word of mouth (WOM) generated by consumers, both before and after product release, is a powerful marketing tool. While online WOM in general can drive sales outcomes, (Liu, 2006; Duan et al., 2008; Yang et al., 2012)...
The interactions of consumption characteristics on social norms
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Consumption", "Customer loyalty", "Youth" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article.\nIntroduction: The theory of planned behaviour (TPB), well known for predicting social (Ajzen, 2002) and consumer (Bansal and Ta...
An OD approach to leadership development: questions and consequences
[ "Competences", "Power", "Context", "Congruence", "Organization development", "Health leadership development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2009, the authors were working for an Organisation Development (OD) practice that was strongly informed by a view of organisations as complex, emergent and participative processes of interaction (Stacey, 2012) rather than ...
Experimental methods in entrepreneurship research: the status quo
[ "Experiment", "Literature review", "Entrepreneurship research", "Field experiment", "Laborartory experiment", "State of the art" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Research in entrepreneurship mainly focusses on how and why individuals perceive opportunities, and evaluate and exploit them while others do not. It also examines how the ramifications of these processes of judgment and deci...
Sustainable food procurement in British and Irish zoos
[ "Procurement", "Sustainable supply chain management", "Sustainable food", "Values-action gap", "Zoos" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Food procurement matters for sustainability. The scale of food production's socio-ecological impacts across the world necessitates an urgent engagement with sustainability issues in food supply chains (Maloni and Brown, 20...
Trigger events and crucibles in authentic leaders' development
[ "Authentic leadership", "Critical incidents", "Leadership development", "Trigger events", "Leadership crucibles" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The purpose of this study is to follow up on Klenke's (2007) call for more research examining the role of trigger events in the development of authentic leaders. This study was based on two leadership concepts. First, authent...
The impact of policy on immigrant entrepreneurship and businesses practice in Israel
[ "Government policy", "Immigrants", "Entrepreneurs", "Business development", "Israel" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Generally, immigrants are population groups that encounter many barriers when entering established labor markets. Entrepreneurship constitutes an alternative to employment, enabling immigrants to earn a decent income and obta...
Prosumer motivations in service experiences
[ "Prosumption", "Co-creation", "Qualitative", "Prosumers", "Service experience" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Prosumers have traditionally been viewed as consumers who produce for themselves by adapting, modifying, or transforming a proprietary offering (Berthon et al., 2007; Toffler, 1980). They engage in services such as crafts, do...
A cross-cultural investigation of work values among young executives in China and the USA
[ "Individual behaviour", "Collectivism", "Confucianism", "Employee attitudes", "China", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The size of China's displacement of the world is such that the world must find a new balance in 30 or 40 years. It is not possible to pretend that this is just another big player. This is the biggest player in the history of ...
Investor relations - a systematic literature review
[ "Strategic management", "Literature review", "Strategic communication", "Investor relations", "Financial reporting", "Financial information", "Financial markets", "Financial communication" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Shareholders constitute one of the most important corporate audiences - due to their power, the legal substance of their stake and the strategic significance of capital access (cf., Mitchell et al., 1997). Over the previou...
Investigating antecedents and consequences of brand identification
[ "Brand identity", "Brand loyalty", "Social marketing", "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.\nIntroduction: Brands are a most valuable, if intangible, asset for many companies (Lassar et al., 1995; Pappu et al., 2005). Ke...
Intellectual capital dynamics in universities: a reporting model
[ "Intellectual capital", "Universities", "Research organizations", "Management information", "Information disclosure" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: European higher education (HE) and research organizations have been undergoing a process of in-depth transformations in recent decades and these can be analysed taking into account two parallel processes.The first process i...
The relationship between feminist/womanist identity and leadership styles of women managers in Turkey
[ "Women executives", "Feminism", "Leadership", "Turkey" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Feminist thought emphasizes the inequalities between the two sexes and the abuse of women in society (Bierema and Cseh, 2003; Kark, 2004) therefore; one of the central aim of a feminist is the elimination of sexual discrimina...
All at sea with leadership styles: Control and command or engage people skills?
[ "Interaction", "Leadership", "Engagement", "Disengagement", "Levelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A business leader who adopts a \"When I say jump, jump!\" style of leadership expects orders to be carried out immediately and effectively by the people he or she leads - by definition, the followers. And why not? After all, ...
Strategic information systems planning in Malaysian public universities
[ "Malaysia", "Universities", "Information systems", "Project planning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Information technology (IT) has revolutionised business practices and plays a central part in business strategies. Enterprise-wide information systems, enabled by sophisticated technology, can help organisations adapt to the ...
The impact of leadership styles on knowledge-sharing behavior: a review of literature
[ "Performance outcomes", "Leadership styles", "Knowledge sharing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Knowledge sharing has been conceptualized in the literature as the process of conversion of an individual's knowledge to a form understandable and usable by others. It has been widely accepted by scholars and practitioners th...
Entrepreneurship education pedagogy: teacher-student-centred paradox
[ "Pedagogy", "Culture", "Entrepreneurship education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The effectiveness of the entrepreneurship education has been measured through entrepreneurial behaviour (Rauch and Hulsink, 2015; Souitaris et al., 2007), or through entrepreneurial intention constructs such as attitude, p...
Men and their groomed body: Understanding personal grooming as both a discursive and embodied practice
[ "Merleau-Ponty", "Body-subject", "Embodied concerns", "Embodied practice", "Male grooming", "The discursive body" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It is often assumed that men are less interested in personal grooming and that they dress for fit and comfort rather than appearance and presentation. Yet, in recent decades, marketers and academics alike have witnessed stron...
Internal audience segmentation and diversity in internal communication
[ "Human resource management", "Employee communications", "Diversity", "Segmentation", "Internal communications", "Internal marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The consciousness of diversity, defined as \"all characteristics and experiences that define each of us as individual\" (Bunton, 2000), can be translated into positive changes within several dimensions of an organization. Acc...
Open innovation in supply networks: an expectation disconfirmation theory perspective
[ "Open innovation", "Expectation disconfirmation theory", "Supply chain competence", "Supply network" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The development of new products and services, or the improvement of those an organization already provides, constitutes one of the key mechanisms that permits the organization to maintain its competitive advantage. This co...
Linking to the past: an analysis of community digital heritage initiatives
[ "Cultural heritage", "Digital archives", "Community identity", "Digtial economy", "Semantic linked open data", "Qualitative research", "Scotland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Developments in digital technologies are facilitating community activity in the collation, production and communication of cultural heritage. Information and artefacts can be digitised, catalogued and archived and tools su...
A communication model of employee cynicism toward organizational change
[ "Organizational change", "Higher education", "Employee attitudes", "Communication" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The higher education environment has been undergoing tremendous changes during the past two decades, including reductions in financial resources, changing student demographics, and questioning from the public about the nature...
Branded restaurants employees' personal motivation, flow and commitment: The role of age, gender and length of service
[ "Restaurants", "Flow", "Commitment", "Personal motivation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Branded restaurants account for one of the largest shares of the restaurant industry (Ha and Jang, 2013). In the UK, this sector averaged 3.2 per cent year-on-year growth since 2010 (MarketLine, 2015), driven by consumers loo...
The role of justice for cooperation and contract's moderating effect in construction dispute negotiation
[ "Construction management", "Dispute resolution", "Negotiation", "Justice", "Contract completeness", "Cooperative behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Many construction projects can be described as one-off, long-term, highly complex, information asymmetric or as involving asset specificity (Maylor et al., 2008; Chang and Ive, 2007a). These features lead to incomplete or inc...
Semantic transportation planning for food products supply chain ecosystem within difficult geographic zones
[ "Ontology", "Interoperability", "Food perishability constraints", "Multi-agents systems", "Transportation planning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the transportation domain, distribution of large volumes is receiving greater attention (Ulku, 2012). Many efforts are being made for proposing solutions of transportation displacements concerning distribution to farawa...
The effects of organizational commitment and structural empowerment on patient safety culture: An analysis of a physician cohort
[ "Affective commitment", "Patient safety culture", "Structural empowerment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: At the organizational level, health care systems are highly complex and require dynamic interaction and coordination between various care providers to enhance overall patient care. Indeed, health care is often characterized a...
Exploring influencing factors of offline knowledge service transactions on an online-to-offline knowledge-sharing economy platform
[ "Knowledge sharing", "Sharing economy platform", "Quality", "Price", "Signaling theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In an increasingly globalized world, competition advances at a fierce pace and knowledge becomes one competitive resource for both individuals and organizations (Del Giudice and Della Peruta, 2016; Del Giudice and Maggioni...
Addressing alignment concerns into the design of domain-specific information systems
[ "Manufacturing strategy", "Manufacturing technology", "Modelling", "Business performance", "Business and IT alignment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Recent economic, cultural and technological phenomena such as globalisation and the upsurge of new technologies have impacted several industrial sectors and resulted in the need for many companies to improve their competitive...
Exploring perceptions of customer value: The role of corporate social responsibility initiatives in the European telecommunications industry
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Customer perception", "Customer value perception", "Ethical consumerism", "Prioritization of CSR initiatives" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Ethical consumerism has become an important topic in both the popular press and academic literature. High visibility issues such as the use of child labour in developing countries or the global environmental impact of product...
Feedforward or feedback - reframing positive performance management
[ "Feedforward", "Performance appraisal" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Traditional feedback processes, the basis of performance appraisal (PA) for many organizations, are increasingly under question. When Accenture[1] announced in 2015 that is was abandoning traditional annual performance review...
How to develop knowledge culture in organizations? A multiple case study of large distributed organizations
[ "Knowledge management", "Organizational culture", "Large enterprises" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The emergence of the knowledge economy necessitated many organizations to recognize knowledge as a crucial resource to achieve sustainable competitive advantage (Davenport and Prusak, 2000; Drucker, 1988; Hertog and Huizenga,...
Reflecting on competences to increase role clarity during service delivery in a Third World setting
[ "Reflection", "Tacit competences", "Explicit competences", "Role clarity", "Uganda", "Service delivery" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Ministry of Public Service in Uganda through the Public Service Reform Programme (PSRP) introduced a new public performance management system which requires managers in the District Local Governments (DLGs) to shift focus...
Editorial: beyond publish or perish: the importance of citations and how to get them
[ "Impact", "Publishing", "Citations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It almost goes without saying that, for researchers, it is important to publish their findings. As French mathematician and physicist, Francois Arago[1], observed:\nWhich journal to target?: Let's first take an author/researc...
The lead-lag relationship between stock index options and the stock index market: Model, moneyness, and news
[ "Stochastic processes", "Stock markets", "Options markets", "Stock prices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: In a perfectly functioning capital market, there would be complete simultaneity across markets. That is, any new information disseminating into the markets would be reflected simultaneously in them all. However, such factor...
Generation Y's dining information seeking and sharing behavior on social networking sites: An exploratory study
[ "Information sharing", "Generation Y", "Consumer opinion leadership", "Consumer susceptibility to interpersonal influence", "Dining information seeking", "Social networking websites" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Social networking sites (SNS), as recent technology innovation, have considerably affected the hospitality industry (Xiang and Gretzel, 2010). Various online communities, whether consumer- or market-developed, provide cons...
The impact of CSR on consumer-corporate connection and brand loyalty: A cross cultural investigation
[ "Global brand management", "Corporate brand loyalty", "Corporate competence associations", "CSR associations", "Personal self-concept connection", "Social self-concept connection" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Brands play an essential role in developing and maintaining customer relationship as well as determining corporate marketing performance (Schau et al., 2009; Sprott et al., 2009). Previous research has pointed out that global...
Gendered corrosion of occupational knowledge: Contracting-out Israeli social services
[ "Gender", "Social services", "Caring services", "Contracting out", "Occupational standards", "Sennett" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In his analysis of the ways in which the workplace has changed since the late 1980s, Richard Sennett (1998) directed attention to a dimension of flexibility that he named \"discontinuous reinvention.\" This dimension refers t...
The philosophical foundation of the lecture-versus-case controversy: Its implications for faculty teaching, research, and service
[ "Educational philosophy", "Teaching", "Lectures", "Case studies", "Academic staff" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Any adequate comparison between the lecture and the case methods of instruction necessarily requires a comparison of their underlying philosophies. This is based on the premise that foundational philosophies or worldviews u...
Loyalty formation toward Halal food: Integrating the Quality-Loyalty model and the Religiosity-Loyalty Model
[ "Satisfaction", "Religiosity", "Value", "Loyalty", "Halal food" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Halal food is food where ingredients and manufacturing processes are in accordance with Islamic values and teachings. This food is appealing to Muslim customers because it fulfils their physiological needs while adhering to t...
Platform management: Implication for new product development and supply chain management
[ "New products", "Product development", "Supply chain management", "Buyer‐seller relationships", "Hearing aids", "Denmark" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Management attention has moved from competition between firms to competition between supply chains, encompassing all firms from raw materials supplier to the end customer. The management's capability to establish trust-based ...
Identifying the underlying structure of perceived service fairness in restaurants
[ "Customer services quality", "Food service", "Factor analysis", "Restaurants" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Since an implicit promise of fairness commands a central role in human relations, enhancing perceptions of fairness as an effective route to business success has gained the attention of marketing practitioners and scholars (S...
Development of three scales to measure leader accountability
[ "Leadership", "Management accountability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Increased reports of corporate accounting scandals, clergy sexual and financial misconduct, as well as political upheaval at the federal and state level have exposed a need for systems to hold leaders accountable for their co...
Modeling corporate financial distress using financial and non-financial variables: The case of Indian listed companies
[ "Logit model", "Financial distress prediction", "Institutional holdings", "Promoter holdings pledged", "Sick companies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Predicting financial distress has been a topic of interest for many decades because of its significance to listed firms, interested stakeholders (which includes financial institutions, investors, government and researchers...
Emerging stock market co-movements in South Asia: wavelet approach
[ "South Asia", "Stock market co-movement", "Wavelet coherence", "Wavelet correlation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The phenomenon of co-movement among different stock markets has been a central issue of investigation in the contemporary financial and economics literature. The underlying reasons are: devising investment management strat...
The propaganda of universal fascism: peace, empire and international co-operation in British Union of Fascists' publicity from 1932 to 1939
[ "British Union of Fascists", "Propaganda", "Public relations", "Populism", "Nationalism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: One of the enduring historical myths of World War II is that a reasonable and united Britain stood alone in its fight against the threat of an alien fascist tyranny in Europe. Yet latent pacifist feeling in Britain was widesp...
Stakeholder complexity in large scale green building projects: A holistic analysis towards a better understanding
[ "Stakeholder", "Case study", "Social network analysis", "Green building project" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The global construction market has been asking for greener building solutions and practice; as a tremendous amount of raw material consumption, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to the construction sec...
Multi-criteria decision making for supplier selection using fuzzy AHP approach
[ "Case study", "Analytical hierarchy process", "Multi-criteria decision-making", "Supplier selection", "Fuzzy analytical hierarchy process", "Supplier evaluation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In today's competitive manufacturing environment, it is a challenge to produce high-quality products while offering competitive prices to the customers. Having reliable and competent suppliers is one of the critical factor...
Canadian chefs' workplace learning
[ "Workplace learning", "Professional chefs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Workplace learning is important to managers and organizations because more than 80 per cent of workers engage in job-related informal learning (Livingstone, 2010). Further, workplace learning contributes to a firm's ability t...
Intervention intermediaries flourish: matching firms with solutions to complex needs
[ "Motives", "Design", "Service", "Innovation intermediaries", "Models", "Mechanisms" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nMatching challenge: Most organizations struggle to evaluate and select innovative ideas and solutions from among the vast number of possibilities and partners in a universe that is no longer confined to the boundaries of the firm. To addre...
A process model framework for Participants area of AACSB standards
[ "AACSB", "Process", "Standard", "Accreditation", "Business school" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the last two decades, there has been a rapid increase in the number of business schools seeking accreditation (Elliott and Goh, 2013). Business schools consider accreditation as an important factor of future success (Cornu...
Destination image: to see or not to see? Part II
[ "Opinion polls", "Tourism", "Qualitative market research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A recent review of literature related tourism destination image (White, 2004) suggested that the conceptualisation and operationalisation of image as a construct was fragmented and incomplete. Some authors viewed it as a cogn...
A decision support tool for bi-objective risk-based maintenance scheduling of an LNG gas sweetening unit
[ "Reliability", "Genetic algorithm", "Risk-based maintenance", "Shutdown", "Simulation-based optimization", "Liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Nomenclature\n1. Introduction: Maintenance management is not only essential to manufacturing facilities but also highly critical to the asset intensive industries such as petrochemical, refineries and gas processing plants (B...
Expanding a Canadian community health centre
[ "Organisational development", "Governance", "Process management", "Quality healthcare", "Organisational effectiveness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Despite significant primary-healthcare literature, little is understood about processes required to expand primary healthcare - defined as enhancing organizational activities' scope and reach (Wilson, 1978). Our purpose is to...
Role of inter-organisational compatibility and IOIS integration in large firms and SMEs retailing chains
[ "Australia", "Organizational processes", "Retail management", "Information systems" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In today's dynamic business environment, organisations are facing significant pressure to enhance operational, technical and strategic business processes. Inter-organisational information systems (IOIS) are important for most...
Attraction in buyer-supplier relationships: Improving supply network performance through purchasing recognition and proficient collaboration initiatives
[ "Collaboration", "Customer attractiveness", "Supply chain relationships" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Collaboration between buyer and supplier can offer many opportunities and, during years, literature has explored factors affecting the success of these collaborations (e.g. Anderson and Narus, 1990; Badaracco, 1991; Jap an...
From hollow hero to expert empathiser: leadership in transition
[ "Leadership", "Management education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nSpecial issue aims: This special issue \"Hero or Human? Transformative approaches to leadership education in contemporary Business Schools\" examines leader centred teaching, deconstructs the hero leader, encourages more reflexivity to hel...
Mentors break down cultural boundaries: Research points to value of finding common ground
[ "Students", "Higher education", "Cross‐cultural studies", "Mentors", "North America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nSink or swim?: Mentoring has become an increasingly significant part of undergraduate programs, replacing the \"sink or swim\" mentality which prevailed largely a generation ago.For students from different countries and cultures, mentoring...