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SMEs, environmental management and global warming: a fusion of influencing factors?
[ "Environmental management", "Global warming", "SMEs", "Stakeholder theory", "Internal information systems" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Firms are institutions and form part of the social community. The decisions made by management influence parties other than just shareholders (Suojanen, 1954). Management decisions result in business activities that utilise n...
Can digital technologies speed up real estate transactions?
[ "Commercial real estate", "Real Estate transactions", "PropTech", "Property passport", "Blockchain", "Automated valuation models", "K25", "L85", "O33", "R33" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Land shelters us, feeds us and provides us with space for recreation, shopping and work. With total global real assets valued at more than $ 238 trillion (Savills, 2017), land as an investment is a significant component of...
The effect of managerial coaching on salesperson's relationship behaviors: new evidence from frontline bank employees in China
[ "China", "Relationship marketing", "Coaching", "Customer orientation", "Sales performance", "Adaptive selling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: China's banking industry has undergone important changes since Deng Xiaoping started the Chinese economic reform in 1978. China's admission into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 has further accelerated and intensifi...
Service quality and satisfaction in healthcare sector of Pakistan-- the patients' expectations
[ "Pakistan", "Service quality", "Patient satisfaction", "Public health service", "SERVQUAL", "Private healthcare" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: With rising population (and healthcare issues) and a rising focus on improvement in each sector of the economy to achieve competiveness in national economy, the issues of patient satisfaction and service quality are seeking i...
The current state and influential factors in the development of digital literacy in Thailand's higher education
[ "Thailand", "Digital literacy", "Thai universities", "Digital literacy development", "Factors for digital literacy development", "Higher educational institutions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Approximately two-thirds of Thailand's population currently has access to mobile broadband networks and information and communication technology services. There is also a huge increase in the use of internet - from 2.3 mil...
Prevalence of Salmonella spp. and Listeria monocytogenes in different cheese types produced in Turkey
[ "Dairy products", "Bacteria", "Food poisoning", "Turkey" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Cheese is one of the oldest human foods and is thought to have been developed approximately 8,000 years ago. Cheese is a fermented milk product with an extended shelf life and is more shelf-stable over the raw material used p...
A flow direction weighting scheme for facility layout in cellular manufacturing
[ "Cellular manufacturing", "Facilities design", "Group technology", "Manufacturing systems" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Cellular manufacturing systems (CMS) can be defined as \"grouping dissimilar production equipment into machine cells, where each cell specialises in the production of a number of components or work part families\" Groover (20...
Studying the influence of strategic human resource competencies on the adoption of green human resource management practices
[ "Malaysia", "Green HRM practices", "Strategic HR competencies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Increased concern about environment issues in recent years has made the \"go green\" concept a focus point by organizations. Subsequently, companies have taken several green initiatives such as green marketing, green suppl...
Value-at-risk performance in emerging and developed countries
[ "Value-at-risk", "Artificial neural networks", "ARCH models", "Copula functions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The topic of risk has been one of the main issues studied and discussed in recent years, perhaps because of the recurring crises that the market witnessed in recent decades. However, it was from the 1970s that the financia...
Is co-creation really a booster for brand equity? The role of co-creation in observer-based brand equity (OBBE)
[ "Co-creation", "Expertise", "Intensity of integration", "Non-integrated consumers", "Observer-based brand equity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2011, McDonald's conducted a co-creation campaign in Germany with the theme \"Mein Burger\". About 116,000 \"concepts\" for future burger recipes were proposed by consumers via a project-specific Facebook platform - that i...
Integrated management system: The experiences of three Australian organisations
[ "Environmental management", "Management techniques", "Quality management", "Occupational health and safety", "Case studies", "Australia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The implementation and certification of quality, environmental and occupational health and safety (OHS) systems has been a major activity for many organisations in light of increasing pressure from their internal and external...
Determinants of wine consumption of US consumers: an econometric analysis
[ "Consumer behavior", "Market orientation", "Regression analysis", "Wines", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The driving forces of globalization have significantly altered the competitive landscape of the wine industry. While the demand for wine in the USA is growing, US wineries continue to lose domestic market share. In order to c...
Construction of international brand portfolios: impact on local brands
[ "Brand portfolios", "Brand management", "International", "Reduction", "Global", "Local", "P&G", "International business" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Marketers have traditionally focused on managing their brands individually. Most recently however the emphasis has shifted and with a tendency for companies to consider these issues in the context of more generalised brand po...
Time rationalities: Complementing "the orientation from the present" and the focus on "short" and "long terms" in performance measurement
[ "Performance measurement", "Time orientation", "Time rationality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The time orientation of performance measurement has been studied extensively in the accounting literature (Merchant, 1990; Dechow and Sloan, 1991; Chow et al., 1996; Van der Stede, 2000; Abernethy et al., 2013; Pugh, 2017)...
Hospitality quality: new directions and new challenges
[ "Customer services quality", "Hospitality services", "Hotels", "Customer satisfaction", "Leadership", "Employees" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Hospitality organisations are in the relatively unique position of attempting to bridge two worlds - the domestic and the commercial - as they deliver on the service promise. Lashley (2001) described this as an attempt to \"s...
Distance, online and campus higher education: reflections on learning outcomes
[ "Blended learning", "Summative grades", "Education", "Online education", "Sweden", "United Kingdom", "Learning methods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The paper investigates the use of information and communication technology in education. The use of information technology is today an integrated part of higher education (Ryan et al., 2000; Hillman and Corkery, 2010; Lockwoo...
The employability skills of business graduates in Syria: Do policymakers and employers speak the same language?
[ "Higher education", "Syria", "Employability skills", "Business graduates" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: For most countries, the dilemma of university graduates' employability becomes a critical issue involving different social, economic, cultural and national aspects (Asonitou, 2015; Pavlin and Svetlik, 2014; Garrouste and R...
"Green" wine packaging: targeting environmental consumers
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Wines", "Packaging", "Marketing strategy", "Green marketing", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic shift in environmental consciousness worldwide. Consumers have begun to change their behavior integrating environmental considerations into lifestyle choices. This change include...
Sorry for your loss, now when will we be paid? Customer service after death of a customer
[ "Customer service management", "Financial services", "Brand equity", "Services marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: While there is near-universal knowledge of the adage \"there are no sure things except death and taxes,\" companies too frequently ignore the certainty of death in establishing customer service plans. One would indeed expect ...
Operations and supply chain management: The role of academics and practitioners in the development of research and practice
[ "Career development", "EurOMA", "Research competences" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As a scientific discipline, operations and supply chain management (O&SCM) continues to look for practical relevance and theoretical impact for its research. Problems and opportunities in practice are diverse and call for ...
Flexibility and crisis resistance: quantitative evidence for German establishments
[ "Labour market flexibility", "Financial crisis", "Flexible firm", "Numerical flexibility", "Labour", "Labour market", "Finance", "Flexible organizations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) on the German economy, the subsequent reactions by companies, social partners and policy makers, as well as the relative resilience and stability of the German economy compar...
Turkish foreign direct investment and peace in Somalia: a new political stabilization policy
[ "FDI", "Conflict", "Infrastructure", "Peace building", "Post-conflict economy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Somalia is one of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states that have been suffering from prolonged conflicts. Africa is associated with armed conflicts and most of the conflicts are centered on resources. Si...
An integrated Bayesian-Markovian framework for ascertaining cost of executing quality improvement programs in manufacturing industry
[ "Manufacturing industry", "Cost of quality", "Quality improvement program" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Nomenclature\n1. Introduction: The dynamics of manufacturing industry particularly product-centric manufacturing has evolved from the era of mid-to-late twentieth century (Spring et al., 2017). Between the period of 1960s-199...
From the stakeholder viewpoint: designing measurable objectives
[ "Organization objectives", "Strategy", "Strategic planning", "Stakeholders", "Behavioural outcomes", "Measures", "New paradigm" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. An illogical mess: Organization objective setting has long been a core ingredient in the diet of CEOs and senior management teams. It is a necessary condition for developing clear and concise organization strategy. As the saying goes: i...
Relationship among school size, school culture and students' achievement at secondary level in Pakistan
[ "Schools", "Students", "Pakistan" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nAbout Pakistan: Pakistan is located in South East Asia. It comprises four provinces: Punjab, Sindh, North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Balochistan and other regional territories called Federally Administrative Tribal Areas (FATA), Federa...
Determining factors of success in internal communication management in Spanish companies: The influence of social media
[ "Employee relations", "Internal communications", "Social media", "Companies’ success" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The advent of the Web 2.0 era has changed the style of interaction inside organizations by creating an open corporate space where collective intelligence accrues added value on top of the mere sum of individual expertise poss...
Shaping knowledge management: organization and national culture
[ "Knowledge management", "National cultures", "Organizations", "Cross‐cultural management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Competitive advantage has been shown increasingly to rely on the effective management of knowledge (Bukowitz and Petrash, 1997; Stewart, 1997). This is particularly relevant for multinational firms, which may adapt not only t...
A case study of a simultaneous integration in an SME: Implementation process and cost analysis
[ "ISO 14001", "ISO 9001", "Cost analysis", "Small and medium-sized enterprise", "Management system integration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years the studies analyzing the implementation and integration of management systems (MSs) have increased (see, e.g. Douglas and Glen, 2000; Karapetrovic et al., 2006; Salomone, 2008; Bernardo, 2014; Domingues et...
C.U.L.T.U.R.E.: marketing education in the age of cultural diversity
[ "Cultural diversity", "Marketing education", "Assessment practices", "Learning approach", "Student attitudes", "Student perception" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: It is essential for marketing educators in Universities to prepare students with the core competencies required to compete in the global marketplace (Ackerman et al., 2003; Davis et al., 2002; Kelley and Bridges, 2005; Wal...
Lean information management: the use of observational data in health care
[ "Lean production", "Problem solving", "Quality improvement", "Continuous improvement", "Operations management", "Manufacturing systems" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Lean is a term that was first coined Womack, Jones and Roos (Womack et al., 1990; Womack and Jones, 1996) to describe the Toyota Production System (TPS) and the steps to continuously improve the efficiency and effectivenes...
Trickle-down effect of benevolent leadership on unethical employee behavior: a cross-level moderated mediation model
[ "Benevolent leadership", "Employee unethical behavior", "Trickle-down effect", "LMX", "Ethical climate" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Unethical employee behavior exists universally in various organizations, including business organizations, government agencies and academia (Kish-Gephart et al., 2010). In recent years, unethical behaviors have occurred frequ...
The new neck of femur fracture target: experience in a district general hospital
[ "Organisational performance", "Clinical guidelines", "Capacity management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Timely, efficient and co-ordinated multi-disciplinary neck of femur (NOF) fracture patient management can reduce morbidity and mortality (Fox et al., 1994; Holt et al., 1994; Rogers et al., 1995; Sexson et al., 1987; Villar e...
Shopping from a child's perspective: an anxiety-generating experience?
[ "Child", "Retail", "Shopscapes", "Drawing", "Anxiety", "Experience" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Because of their increasing spending power, children have become explicit targets for retailers who view the market segment they represent as a new opportunity to enlarge their existing clientele. Children are often depicted ...
Patterns of graduate students' information seeking behavior: a meta-synthesis of the literature
[ "Graduate students", "Information behaviour", "Doctoral students", "Students", "Information", "Information management", "Behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Graduate students have information needs that are often very different than those of undergraduates. Their needs can be more sophisticated and complex. Understanding the information seeking behaviors of graduate students may ...
Online consumers' reactions to price decreases: Amazon's Kindle 2 case
[ "Innovation diffusion theory", "Online product review", "Electronic word-of-mouth", "Consumers’ reaction", "Positive and negative emotion", "Price decrease" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As online shopping has become a regular part of our lives, online product reviews (OPRs), which form a collaborative social recommendation system for potential consumers, play a critical role during the decision-making pro...
Reliability improvement of electronics standby display system of modern aircraft
[ "Aircraft", "Failure modes and effects analysis", "Navigation", "Product reliability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The electronic stand by display system (ESDS) is presently under development for the usage in Military Aircraft. The ESDS displays the important parameters like, calibrated airspeed and vertical speed, Mach number, angle of a...
Estimation of building heat transfer coefficients from in-use data: Impacts of unmonitored energy flows
[ "Building thermal performance", "Heat transfer coefficient", "In-use measurement", "Occupied homes", "Unmonitored energy flows" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Discrepancies between as-designed and as-built thermal performance of dwellings are widely reported (Kelly et al., 2012; Stafford et al., 2012; Johnston et al., 2016), and in situ measurement is recognised as essential for...
Capability sequencing: strategies by township and village enterprises in China
[ "Management strategy", "Small enterprises", "Questionnaire", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the last ten years, the success of township and village enterprises (TVEs) in China has contributed substantially to the country's fast economic growth. The total industrial output of TVEs has surpassed that of state-owned...
Implications of dividend tax reforms on M-REITs performance
[ "M-REITs", "Dividend tax reforms", "Jensen α", "REITs performance", "Sharpe index", "Treynor index" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The development of real estate investment trusts (REITs) started in the USA in 1960 under the REIT Act of 1960. Following the success of the US-REITs, other countries started to establish their own REITs markets such as in...
Shock Therapy and Entrepreneurial Flare #Brexit
[ "Entrepreneurs", "Economic growth", "Financing", "International entrepreneurship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Many claim that Brexit benefits will lead to a reinvigorated UK economy, spurred on by competing in newly opened global markets through signing new and innovative trade deals (Minford et al., 2017). Underpinning competitive p...
Self-employed and online: (re)negotiating work-learning practices
[ "Self‐employed workers", "Workplace learning", "Virtual organizations", "Communities", "Online operations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: While many studies acknowledge the influence of web-based technologies, few probe how they redefine everyday learning activities and require working adults to re-negotiate the social, material, and political aspects of lea...
An analysis of risk for defaultable bond portfolios
[ "Risk analysis", "Bonds", "Autogressive processes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A corporate institution faces many types of risks. These risks affect its financial well being on a regular basis. In the extreme case, as a result of its exposure to such risks, the institution may not be able to survive ...
HR holds back economic development in Kazakhstan: ... and may thwart ambitions to be a top 50 nation by 2020
[ "Human resource management", "Economic development", "Developing countries", "Kazakhstan" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan announced in January 2010 that the country would focus on becoming one of the world's top 50 economies by 2020. For a country only 20 years old and emerging from more than seven de...
Ownership structure, business growth and financial performance amongst SMEs: From Australia's business longitudinal survey
[ "Corporate ownership", "Structures", "Business development", "Financial performance", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Australia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A theoretical perspective that has contributed significantly to modern financial theory is that of agency theory, which considers a business enterprise from the viewpoint of the various stakeholders it might have, and explore...
Influence of total quality management on human resource management practices: An exploratory study
[ "Sri Lanka", "Human resource management", "Total quality management", "Process management", "Human resource function", "Human resource practices", "Quality results" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The implementation of quality management techniques enables organisations to improve internal efficiencies, which is considered as a prerequisite to become competitive in global marketplace (Lambert and Ouedraogo, 2008; Stadi...
Finding that creative spark: Employee suggestion schemes and what makes them succeed
[ "Employees", "Innovation", "Suggestion schemes", "Workplace creativity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Innovation is critical for any company hoping to successfully meet challenges and remain competitive. Finding ways to enhance creativity among the workforce should therefore be high on the agenda.\nEmployee suggestion schemes...
Managing change, growth and transformation: Case studies of organizations in an emerging economy
[ "Emerging economies", "Organizational reputation", "Model of organizational change", "Value delivery capabilities", "Managing change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.(Arnold J. Toynbee)\n1. Introd...
Eliciting consumer preferences for credence attributes in a fine-dining restaurant
[ "Organic", "Consumer preferences", "Animal welfare", "Fine-dining restaurant", "Natural field experiment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The restaurant sector is a large and growing food sector that experiences tough competition. The knowledge about consumer preferences is needed for restaurants to survive. To date, most consumer studies on commercial full-...
Statistical and measurement pitfalls in the use of meta-regression in meta-analysis
[ "Meta-analysis", "Statistics", "Pitfalls" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An important aspect of almost all meta-analyses today is the search for moderators - study characteristics that correlate with study outcomes (which are usually r values or d values) and might have explanatory power. Moderato...
Documenting acousmatic music interpretation: Profiles of discourse across multiple dimensions
[ "Grounded theory", "Cultural heritage", "Acousmatic music", "Discourse profile", "FRBRoo", "Music information objects", "Performance documentation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The development of electroacoustic music during the second part of the twentieth century raised new questions concerning live performance in concert. Could a musical piece which is fixed on a physical medium and diffused thro...
Corporate life and death: who succumbs, who survives during disruption?
[ "Six Sigma" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nThe economy disrupted, 1996-2018: The purpose of this paper is to understand why a company dies, survives or thrives during periods of major macro transformation and what, specifically, we can learn from such diverse outcomes. This is part...
Exploring key antecedents of purchase intentions within different services
[ "Service quality", "Customer satisfaction", "Purchase intentions", "Physical environment", "Advertising campaign familiarity", "Service-oriented employee behavior" ]
[ { "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 recent global economic crisis has affected most businesses, including those in South Korea. Subsequently, the K...
Interaction, engagement, and perceived interactivity in single-handed interaction
[ "Behaviour", "Cognitive mapping", "Mobile communications", "Human-computer interaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Single-handed thumb interaction has widely been used for mobile devices with touch screens. This is because users generally prefer one- to two-handed interactions when operating mobile devices (Park and Han, 2010). Using s...
A study using a graphical syntax for actor-network theory
[ "Conceptual model", "Health information systems", "Medical record systems", "Care delivery", "Research methodology", "Actor-network theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. The adoption of actor-network theory (ANT) in information systems (IS) research: ANT, which originated in sociology and anthropology, denies any difference between human and non-human entities (actors) at an ontological level and explai...
The adoption of soft skills in supply chain and understanding their current role in supply chain management skills agenda: A UK perspective
[ "United Kingdom", "Supply chain management", "Soft skills", "Supply chain skills" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: The literature on supply chain skills indicates the need for a balance of both hard skills (functional) as well as soft skills (relational) in order to manage global supply chains (Cottrill, 2010; Ellinger and Ellinger, 2014; M...
Subordinates' helping, voice, and supervisors' evaluation of job performance: The moderating effects of supervisor-attributed motives
[ "Helping", "Job performance", "Motives", "Attribution", "Voice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Since Bateman and Organ (1983) introduced the concept of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), a great deal of research has examined its antecedents, consequences, and various dimensions (Podsakoff et al., 2000). Organ (...
A systematic approach for public-private partnership projects CSFs evaluation
[ "Management", "Case study", "Engineering", "Approach" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A public-private partnership (PPP) is defined as a long-term contractual arrangement between a public sector agency and a private sector concern, whereby resources and risk are shared for the purpose of developing a public...
Frontline employees' high-performance work practices, trust in supervisor, job-embeddedness and turnover intentions in hospitality industry
[ "Frontline employees", "Turnover intentions", "High-performance work practices", "Job-embeddedness", "Trust in supervisor", "Voluntary turnover" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The acquisition and retention of high-performing employees is critical for organizational success. The costs of employee turnover are high, both in terms of finances related to rehiring and training of new employees as well a...
The impact and interplay of national and global CSR discourses: insights from France and Brazil
[ "Social responsibility", "France", "Brazil" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Throughout the world, the relations between business and society are undergoing profound changes, leading to a redefinition of the role and responsibilities of companies. On the one hand, our societies are facing ever more co...
HRM formality differences in Pakistani SMEs: a three-sector comparative study
[ "SMEs", "Pakistan", "HRM formality", "HRM differences" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Global interlinking of economies has increased pressure for superior organizational performance (Kuruvilla and Ranganathan, 2010). Competitive pressures from institutional changes, technological advances and deregulation incr...
A new stochastic multi source approach to improve the accuracy of the sales forecasts
[ "Uncertainty", "Demand forecasting", "Monte Carlo simulation", "Forecasting model", "Sales forecasts", "Sales & operations planning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: One of the challenges that companies must face daily is being able to obtain an adequate and timely balance between:\n2. Literature review: There is an extremely rich bibliography in terms of innovative forecasting models ...
Connecting influence tactics with full-range leadership styles
[ "Leadership", "Influence tactics", "Transformational", "Transactional", "Full-range", "Passive avoidant" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Transformational and power-and-influence theories of leadership are among the most researched contemporary approaches to leadership (Dinh et al., 2014). However, little research has explored the potential conceptual and empir...
Sustainable development in an industrial enterprise: the case of Ontario Hydro
[ "Sustainable development", "Transformational leadership", "Organizational change", "Social change", "Canada" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Sustainable development has been identified as a key social, organizational and managerial concern for the new millennium (Agenda 21, 1992; Brundtland, 1987; Schmidheiny, 1992). The notion of sustainable development was artic...
The role of Yin-Yang leadership and cosmopolitan followership in fostering employee commitment in China: A paradox perspective
[ "China", "Japan", "Cosmopolitanism", "Yin-Yang", "Paradox", "Employee commitment", "Cross-cultural leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The cross-cultural and expatriate leadership literature relies heavily on cultural value differences between societies in the investigation of cross-cultural challenges (Stahl et al., 2017; Stahl and Tung, 2015). The predomin...
Highly focused document retrieval in aerospace engineering: User interaction design and evaluation
[ "Semantics", "Information retrieval", "User studies", "User interfaces", "Aerospace engineering", "Jet engines" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Organisational memory, the ability of an organisation to record, retain and utilise information from the past to bear on present activities (Stern, 1995), is a key issue for large organisations. The possibility of observin...
Resale prices in franchising: insights from franchisee perspectives
[ "Retailing", "Brand image", "Franchising" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Franchising is defined by the European Code of Ethics for Franchising (2008) as:\n2. A brief literature review of resale pricing in franchising: The literature on resale pricing in franchising remains scarce. Some scholars...
Female labour force participation and economic development
[ "Economic development", "Female labour force participation", "Panel fixed effect estimation", "Demographic transition", "Interactive modelling", "Arellano", "Bond estimates" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper presents a theoretical model and empirical results related to women's labour force participation and the process of economic development. Boserup (1970), Goldin (1995), and Mammen and Paxson (2000) recognise U-s...
Interorganisational collaboration at UK World Heritage Sites
[ "Tourism", "Business planning", "Heritage", "Conservation", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction and context: Interorganisational collaboration\nRationale and methodology: Within the tourism context, Jamal and Getz (1995, p. 188) have defined IOR collaboration in the following terms:... a process of joint decision-making ...
Cooperation and partnering in facilities construction - empirical application of prisoner's dilemma
[ "Partnership", "Game theory", "Buyer‐supplier relationships", "Construction industry", "Sweden" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: During recent years, the interest for partnering arrangements has increased in many countries in the context of construction (Bresnen and Marshall, 2000; Chan et al., 2003; Ng et al., 2002) and facilities management (FM) (Jon...
The incorporation of market orientation in the school culture: An essential aspect of school marketing
[ "Market orientation", "Education", "Schools", "Culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The research on school marketing has been receiving increasing attention in recent years as more and more researchers have illuminated marketing mechanisms within educational institutions, including schools, colleges and univ...
Exploring reduced global standards-based inter-organisational information technology adoption
[ "Survey", "Information management", "Collaboration", "Case study", "Supply chain management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Most scholars support the idea that integrated supply chains hold the key to operational excellence, and that information technology (IT) can play a crucial role in facilitating the integration between supply chain partners (...
The critical success factors for stakeholder management in the restoration of built heritage assets in the UK
[ "UK", "Critical success factors", "Stakeholder management", "Built heritage assets", "Restoration projects" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In his book, Understanding Historic Building Conservation, Michael Forsyth (2008) recounted the pre-history of English architectural history. According to him, the development of architecture in the UK can be traced back to t...
Waste in health information systems: a systematic review
[ "Lean", "Quality improvement", "Systematic review", "Waste", "Health information systems" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Health information systems (HIS) effectively reduce cost in health care delivery and medical error, and increase clinicians' productivity (Oliver, 2007; Goroll et al., 2009; Westbrook et al., 2009; Devine et al., 2010). Howev...
The impact of social media on L&D: and what we should be doing about it
[ "Social media", "Technology", "Learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: I was caught up in a Twitter storm recently. Someone drew attention to the fact that one of the slides I use in a presentation on neuroscience concerning the link between cognitive functionality and physical exercise had been...
Canadian researchers advise law firms to ensure employees feel empowered to negotiate work-life balance (WLB)
[ "Qualitative research", "Role negotiation", "Legal profession", "Work-life balance (WLB)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Canadian researchers have encouraged employers to promote work-life balance (WLB) by ensuring their employees feel empowered to negotiate their roles, especially with their colleagues. The advice was one of the most important...
As learning systems go digital and social, can we keep up?
[ "OD", "Learning", "Organizational culture", "Social media" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It is time to stop debating whether social media has a place in learning or not; that bit is a given. We now need to focus on how you harness it to add value to your learning environment.\nHow did we get started?: Bromford is...
The market reaction to the appointment of outside directors: An analysis of the interaction between the agency problem and the affiliation of directors
[ "Boards of Directors", "Market surveys" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nI. Introduction: The separation of the ownership of a company from the control of its resources provides the potential for a conflict of interest between owners (principals) and managers (agents); the managers may pursue objectives that ar...
The financial impact of a withdrawn ISO 9001 certificate
[ "ISO 9000", "ISO 9001", "Event study", "Certificate withdrawal", "Decertification", "Loss of certificate" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: ISO 9001 is a coherent set of standards developed in 1987 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) with the purpose of facilitating international trade (Marquardt, 1999). The principles of ISO 9001 were ...
Masking the bullwhip effect in retail: the influence of data aggregation
[ "Bullwhip effect", "Data aggregation", "Hierarchical linear modeling", "Retail supply chain management", "Seasonality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Researchers have long studied how demand variability propagates through supply chains. This work was framed in the context of production smoothing, which is the notion that companies smooth production, relative to sales, by u...
High or low season? Contrasting launch timing considerations for big-budget and low-budget entertainment products
[ "Seasonality", "Small firms", "New product launch", "Film industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The timing of new product release affects new product performance (Calantone et al., 2010; Ottum, 1996) and represents an important element of a firm's new product commercialization strategy. Accordingly, business scholars ha...
Business process improvement in services: case studies of financial institutions in Thailand
[ "Thailand", "Financial institutions", "Customer services quality", "Six Sigma", "Operations improvement", "Quality management", "Service quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: In spite of recent problems, the financial services sector continues to play a key role in the global economy, both in the developed world and increasingly, in emerging economies. Competition in financial services has incre...
Tertiary-level internet users' opinions and perceptions of cyberhate
[ "Gender", "Ethics", "Virtual community", "Community", "Human-computer interaction (HCI)", "Information society" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights underlines human beings' freedom, equality, dignity, and rights. In today's world, no one can question the rights of all humans to live without being exposed to discrimination, inc...
Organisational factors influencing sustainability of local non-governmental organisations: Lessons from a Ghanaian context
[ "Sustainability", "Non‐governmental organizations", "Management", "Leadership", "Ghana" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Increasingly, it is being accepted in many developing countries that the state can no longer be the sole provider of goods and services for eradicating poverty and ensuring sustainable development among its people. Accordingl...
Barriers to repeat patronage: the impact of spectator constraints
[ "Consumers", "Marketing strategy", "Sporting events" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The international prominence of spectator sport, its prevalence and fiscal importance, continues to draw attention from economists and marketers (Bambridge et al., 1996; Mason, 1999). The industry's magnitude is evident in gl...
Exploring antecedents of extended supply chain performance measures: An insight from Indian green manufacturing practices
[ "Performance management", "Manufacturing", "Supply chain management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Supply chain management was earlier viewed as a mean of movement of materials and goods. It was just considered as a process by means of which the organizations used to strategize. The best value supply chains focusses on ...
Estimating a measure of intellectual capital value to test its determinants
[ "Intellectual capital management", "Intangibles", "Intellectual capital", "Long-run value" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This study contributes to intellectual capital (IC) research by innovatively applying a measure from the area of mergers and acquisitions to IC research, which offers new research opportunities regarding IC value. Additionall...
Factors for successful e-learning: does age matter?
[ "Complexity", "Success factors", "Technical support", "Age", "Authentic learning", "Organizational e-learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is increasing reliance on the use of e-learning to facilitate learning and development in the workplace, and in Australia, for example, at least 48 per cent of all vocational education and training activity involves the...
Analysis of employability for the civil aviation maintenance graduates of Turkey
[ "Employability", "MRO", "Regression analysis", "Markov analysis", "Civil aviation", "Maintenance graduates" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The aviation sector is in the top ranks among the sectors with high value-added, where high technology is most considerably used (Bao and Ding, 2014; Hampson et al., 2012). The activity in the sector creates employment and re...
Social enterprise in health organisation and management: hybridity or homogeneity?
[ "England", "Health organization and management", "Health care", "Social enterprise", "Hybridity", "Health and social care", "National Health Service", "Isomorphism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over recent decades, policy developments in public sector reform have increasingly emphasised the decline and fragmentation of established welfare bureaucracies. This disaggregation and decentralisation of services has led so...
The role of district leaders for organization social capital
[ "Mixed methods", "Social network analysis", "School districts", "District governance", "District leaders", "Organization social capital" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In many educational systems around the world, the responsibility for high-quality elementary education is increasingly placed in the hands of school district leaders (superintendents) at central offices. In the Netherlands...
Performance modeling and optimization for complex repairable system of paint manufacturing unit using a hybrid BFO-PSO algorithm
[ "PSO", "Sensitivity analysis", "Markov process", "BFO-PSO", "Long-run availability", "Paint manufacturing system" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Nomenclature\n1. Introduction: System availability is always being considered one of the major problems for the industries as it affects directly to the overall industrial performance in terms of maximum utilization of variou...
Why travelers use Airbnb again? An integrative approach to understanding travelers' repurchase intention
[ "Repurchase intention", "Sharing economy", "Airbnb" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The sharing economy differs from the traditional business model in its dominant reliance on the internet platform, its non-ownership of assets, its ability to access idle resources, its lower prices with more customized pr...
A comparison of link and URL citation counting
[ "Link analysis", "Webometrics", "URL citations", "Online impact", "Web sites", "Search engines", "Internet" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Link analysis is a broad term used for investigations based primarily upon counting or analysing hyperlinks to or between a set of web sites. For instance, many information science studies have assessed whether counts of link...
Sharing resources of Russian libraries: 10 years of consortia services development
[ "Cooperation", "Library services", "Document delivery", "Databases", "Consortia", "Resource sharing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The vast area of Russia has given rise to a large number of libraries. As a result, interlibrary communications face several basic problems. Creating a reliable infrastructure for efficient resource sharing was hardly possibl...
The fallacy of the multi-API culture: Conceptual and practical benefits of Representational State Transfer (REST)
[ "Web applications", "Information architecture", "Hypermedia", "REST", "Uniform interface", "Web APIs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: 1.1. General context\n2. Short history of web architecture: 2.1. Relevance of original Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) design\n3. The REST model and its implications: 3.1. Definition\n4. A sustainable REST architecture ...
Keeping found things found: Challenges and usefulness of personal information management among academicians
[ "Perceived usefulness", "Information fragmentation", "Challenges of PDIM", "Engineering faculty", "Memory load", "Pakistan University", "Personal digital information management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Growth of digital contents in the form of websites, databases, repositories and social media expanded the horizons of information landscape. Information explosion, technological advancements and use of digital technology in t...
Web structure and influence of the Arab universities of the MENA zone (Middle East and North Africa): Visualization and analysis
[ "Social network analysis", "Arab universities", "Influence", "Information visualization", "Web ranking", "Webometrics", "MENA" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The geopolitical zone known as MENA (Middle East and North Africa), occupying so many newspaper front pages last year owing to the \"Arab spring\" in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria, is at the same time largely ignored by ...
Exploring a suitable model of destination image: The case of a small-scale recurring sporting event
[ "Destination image", "Sport tourism", "Tourist satisfaction", "Attitudinal loyalty", "Behavioural loyalty", "Destination loyalty", "Small-scale sporting event" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Tourism remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economic sectors; bookings in 2017 reached almost $1.6 trillion and tourism accounted for a staggering 10.2 percent of global GDP (gross domestic product) (Now Boarding, ...
The impact of word of mouth on service purchase decisions: Examining risk and the interaction of tie strength and involvement
[ "Influence", "Risk", "Involvement", "Word of mouth", "Tie strength", "Service purchase decision" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Service purchase decisions are ubiquitous and seemingly omnipresent. Think about the last time that you ate at a new restaurant, took your car to a mechanic, got a new babysitter, or sought information on a suitable physician...
Literature review of managerial levers in primary care
[ "Literature review", "Managerial levers", "Primary care" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: One of the strategies adopted in response to the recent challenges in healthcare is the shift of the healthcare focus from the hospital level to the local and domicile levels (Dirindin and e Vineis, 2004; Compagni et al., ...