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Review of global mental health research in the construction industry: A science mapping approach
[ "Organization", "Mental health", "Management", "Construction safety", "Scientometric review", "Construction personnel" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The workplace is becoming more stressful as a result of intensified work assignments (European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, 2007). The construction industry is characterized by high rates of work-related accidents (A...
The career decision-making competence: a new construct for the career realm
[ "Employability", "HRM", "Decision-making", "Career decision-making competence", "Debiasing training", "Heuristics and biases" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Within the current work environment, the complexity of professional jobs has considerably increased (Demerouti, 2015), contemporary careers are viewed as boundaryless (Arthur et al., 2005) and organizations must be considered...
Performance evaluation of tourism supply chain management: the case of Thailand
[ "Analytical hierarchy process", "Supply chain performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent decades, the service sector has become a significant part of the world economy and has been the driving force of economic growth for many countries (Cho et al., 2012) including Thailand. Currently, Thailand's eco...
Perceived fit and deal framing: the moderating effect of perceived fit on sales promotions in line and brand extensions
[ "Sales promotion", "Prospect theory", "Line/brand extension", "Perceived fit", "Performance risk" ]
[ { "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: While the variety of sales promotions is truly staggering, most of them can be categorized as monetary or nonmoneta...
Market-led systems development: when customers become users
[ "Communication technologies", "Project management", "Customer orientation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The importance of information systems and technology (IS&T) in organisations cannot be over-emphasised. For example, it enables business transformation; supports re-design initiatives and also enables organisations to deliver...
Examining perception of competency through practicum competencies outline
[ "Competences", "Self-assessment", "Competence-based training", "Implicit/explicit competences", "Practicum" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: From a socioconstructivist view, competence has inter-subjective, cultural and contextual features and results from dynamic interactions between people participating in communities of practice (Wenger, 1998). Specifically, so...
The challenges of lean manufacturing implementation in SMEs
[ "Manufacturing strategy", "SME", "Small-to-medium-sized enterprises", "Lean production", "Lean implementation", "Lean process" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The initial stimulus for undertaking this study of lean manufacturing implementation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) was dictated by the author's experience gathered during project work, and by a personal interest i...
Evolution of German corporate governance (1995-2014): an empirical analysis
[ "Governance", "Corporate governance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction to the corporate governance debate in Germany: The international corporate governance debate reached Germany rather comparatively late, in the second half of the 1990s (du Plessis and Saenger, 2012, p. 16). This was partly a r...
Retrieval performance of Google, Yahoo and Bing for navigational queries in the field of "life science and biomedicine"
[ "Search engines", "Precision", "Recall", "Relative recall", "Retrieval effectiveness", "Retrieval efficiency", "Navigational Queries", "Google", "Yahoo", "Bing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Web is enormously dynamic because every day a large number of web pages are published and some irrelevant or old pages are eradicated from it, while sometimes the content of most of the web pages is modified. Hence, searc...
t-statistics for weighted means in credit risk modeling
[ "Credit", "Mathematical modelling", "Risk management", "Samples" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A common statistical question arises when two random samples, X1,X2, ... ,Xn and Y1,Y2, ... ,Ym are drawn from two different normal populations, possibly with different variances, and we wish to know whether or not the means ...
A maturity model for the servitization of product-centric companies
[ "Servitization", "Case studies", "Service operations", "SMEs", "Maturity model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: To increase revenues and build sustainable competitive advantage, product-centric companies are increasingly undergoing servitization (Neely, 2008; Baines et al., 2009). To be successful in this transformation, they should...
Customer reactions to service failure and recovery in the banking industry: the influence of switching costs
[ "Satisfaction", "Loyalty", "Bank services", "Service failure", "Switching costs" ]
[ { "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.\n1. Introduction: Customer loyalty is an important marketing variable for most of the companies, especially those working in mor...
Two routes of service modularization: advancing standardization and customization
[ "Service innovation", "Qualitative research", "New service development", "Business-to-business services", "Service infusion", "Modularization", "Standardization", "Customization", "Case study method", "Service modules" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Amid the increasing importance of services, both traditional service and manufacturing firms seek strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their service businesses (Bitner and Brown, 2008). One such strate...
The productive service employee: personality, stress, satisfaction and performance
[ "Employee satisfaction", "Service delivery", "Frontline service employees", "Service productivity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Service employee productivity continues to be a major area of interest for both service researchers and managers (Ye and King, 2016; Bigelow, 2016; Harris et al., 2014; Marinova et al., 2008). Recent work in organizational fr...
Making sense of the Latin American "other": executive women in Argentina
[ "Gender", "Latin America", "Identity", "Argentina", "Critical sensemaking", "Multi-national organizations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As many writers have observed (Barragan et al., 2012; Calas and Smircich, 2005; Canizares and Garcia, 2010; Rodriquez, 2010), globalization does not erase the relationship between dominant majority groups (European/American m...
The outlook is bright for apprentices at Days: On-the-job training benefits young people and company as a whole
[ "Training", "Retention", "Young people", "Customer service", "Apprenticeships", "Qualifications" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A company with an 18-year history of hiring apprentices for administrative and accounting roles believes that the scheme helps to provide it with highly motivated, experienced and knowledgeable workers capable of offering a b...
Plant function deployment via RCM and QFD
[ "Maintenance reliability", "Quality function deployment", "Preventive maintenance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In this paper the concepts and techniques of quality function deployment (QFD), which is a well-known tool of total quality management (TQM), are added to the methodology of reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) to improv...
Non-financial performance measures and the BSC of multinational companies with multi-cultural environment: An empirical investigation
[ "Balanced scorecard", "Financial measures", "Non-financial measures", "Performance measurement system", "Social variables" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In general, the Middle East is a region in which the political have dominated the economic variables and where the interests of the state have often eclipsed those of the society. It is a region in which the states and gov...
Corporate message strategies for global CSR campaigns: The mediating role of perceived altruism
[ "Multinational companies", "Corporate social responsibility", "Altruism", "Consumer criticism", "Global campaign", "Message sidedness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Operating in a complex and dynamic environment, companies actively take corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives (Eteokleous et al., 2016). CSR, which refers to a company's voluntary commitment to contribute to the b...
Using news to predict Chinese medicinal material price index movements
[ "Text mining", "Chinese medicinal material price index", "Movement prediction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years, the prices of Chinese medicinal materials have fluctuated violently and frequently, which has had a negative impact on farmers and investors. The ability to forecast future price changes can support farmer...
Situations-vacant fall where employees are engaged: Involvement boosts various aspects of organizational performance
[ "Performance", "Employee engagement", "Retention", "Costs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: There is much evidence to suggest that many, perhaps most, employees are not very happy at work and the situation is not improving.\nThe impact on performance: Before the past few years, there was little credible evidence sup...
Factors affecting consumer acquisition of secondhand clothing in the USA
[ "Sustainability", "Clothing acquisition", "Clothing consumption", "Secondhand clothes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: With the growing attention to sustainable clothing consumption (Clark, 2008; Fisher et al., 2008; Nordic Fashion Association, 2012), the acquisition of clothing other than new ready to wear (RTW) becomes increasingly importan...
Relationship between retailers' return policies and consumer ratings
[ "Retail", "Service strategy", "Word-of-mouth", "Return policy", "Consumer ratings", "Price discount", "Brand image" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Return policies are commonplace in today's retail environment and are viewed as a risk- allaying factor by customers (Petersen and Kumar, 2009). Return policies are considered important while making purchases, and there is an...
Effects of store attributes on retail patronage behaviors: Evidence from activewear specialty stores
[ "Satisfaction", "Consumers", "Store attributes", "Activewear", "Repatronage behavior", "WOM" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The specialty retail segment, accounting for 35.1 percent of the overall US retail market, is a lucrative sector (MarketLine, 2011). Many of today's specialty retailers have become successful by personalizing service and sele...
Determinants of switching intention to cloud computing in large enterprises
[ "Cloud computing", "Switching intention", "Large enterprises", "Two-factor theory", "Enterprise information systems", "Technology–organization–environment framework" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In global business environments, cloud computing has recently become a popular form of information technology (IT). Enterprises are increasingly using cloud technologies to improve their business operations and competitive...
The case method - does learning theory matter?
[ "Case studies", "Learning methods", "Business schools" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nWhy case studies?: Case studies were originally used as a pragmatic attempt to engage the attention of managers through the use of written material on problems or incidents in organizations, written up by academics and then analyzed by cou...
The effect of demographic and personality characteristics on fashion shopping proneness: A study of the Indian market
[ "India", "Personality", "Consumer demographics", "Fashion shopping", "Fashion shopping proneness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Fashion generally implies popular trend or current style. The term fashion goods encompass a wide range of products such as clothing, food, perfume, music, automobiles, and beauty products. Fashion has become an integral part...
5S - a quality improvement tool for sustainable performance: literature review and directions
[ "Total quality management", "Kaizen", "Lean manufacturing", "5S", "Production improvement", "Quality environment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The global marketplace has become highly competitive in the last few decades, thereby compelling the organizations for imbibing the challenge of continuous improvement for sustained customer satisfaction and organizational...
Combining faith and CSR: a paradigm of corporate sustainability
[ "Christianity", "Corporate social responsibility", "Competitive advantage" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: A firm is an open system, whereby its internal and external variables are constantly interacting with each other in a dynamic way. The interactions are shaping its organizational behaviors, outcomes and core approaches to t...
A cultural paradox in authority-based advertising
[ "Advertising", "Cross‐cultural studies", "Young adults", "South Korea", "Thailand", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Recent studies have examined the role of culture in shaping responses to persuasive techniques used in global advertising (Aaker and Lee, 2001; Albers-Miller and Gelb, 1996; Fam and Grohs, 2007; Han and Shavitt, 1994; Okazaki...
From breaking-ice to breaking-out: integration as an opportunity creation process
[ "Immigrants", "Entrepreneurial opportunity", "Integration process", "Opportunity creation process", "Acculturation theory", "Sweden", "Breaking-in", "Breaking-out", "Breaking-ice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The economic and social integration of immigrants in the new host country is important because of the increased global migration, the challenges of maintaining social cohesion between immigrants' home and host countries (V...
A view from the field: the process of improving equitable systems leadership
[ "Improvement", "Educational administration", "Equitable leadership", "Principal supervision", "School districts" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Many district offices in the USA are shifting their role from monitoring compliance to supporting instructional improvement (Honig et al., 2010; Rigby and Hall, 2015). This change is particularly evident in the role of the pr...
Employee engagement antecedents and consequences in Vietnamese businesses
[ "Engagement", "Employee engagement", "HRD", "Vietnamese businesses", "Integrative literature review" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Business organizations are on a constant path to achieve excellence via improved effectiveness and performance (Thor and Johnson, 2011). In essence, human resources play a critical role in determining the success or failure o...
Modelling company generic production capabilities in process industries: A configuration approach
[ "Manufacturing strategy", "Grounded theory", "Configuration modelling", "Process industries" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Background and introduction: The process industries span multiple industrial sectors and constitutes a substantial part of the entire manufacturing industries. One difference between companies in the process industries and those in othe...
Integrating sustainability in higher planning education through international cooperation: Assessment of a pedagogical model and learning outcomes from the students' perspective
[ "Learning outcomes", "Education for sustainable development", "Higher planning education", "Pedagogical model", "Students’ perspective" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Recognition that the world is becoming increasingly urban and that cities are facing a complex web of different development challenges stemming from climate change, migration, technological development and environmental de...
Do land transfers to international investors contribute to employment generation and local food security? : Evidence from Oromia Region, Ethiopia
[ "Africa", "Ethiopia", "Food security", "Technology transfer", "Propensity scores matching" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Countries in the global south have recently leased out 227 million hectares of land to international investors (Oxfam, 2011). African countries have leased out an area as large as 4.8 per cent of the continent's total agri...
Parallel methods for the generation of partitioned inverted files
[ "Information retrieval", "Databases", "Parallel programming" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The generation of inverted indexes for text databases is a computationally intensive process that requires the exclusive use of processing resources for long periods. The following considers techniques that could be used in...
From digital currencies to digital finance: the case for a smart financial contract standard
[ "Standardization", "Fintech", "Block-Chain", "Complete contracts", "Smart contract", "Smart financial contracts" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nUniqueness of financial contracts: The role of contracts in economics has recently received some high-profile attention. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics was awarded to two distinguished economists for parsing the challenges of contra...
Eco-innovation in hospitality research (1998-2018): a systematic review
[ "Hospitality industry", "Eco-friendly practices", "Systematic review" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Background\nAnalytical approach: This systematic literature review began by outlining the aims and objectives of the study based on which a review protocol containing information on search terms and screening criteria was dev...
Integration of economic production quantity in optimization design of control chart based on loss function and random process shift
[ "Production planning and control", "Production processes", "Control charts", "Process control", "Predictive process" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Production process starts to produce in in-control state. After a period of time, the process will shift from in-control state to out-of-control state due to aging or faults. According to Taguchi's loss function, in additio...
General performance factors and group differences in assessment center ratings
[ "Selection", "Development", "Emerging markets", "Cognitive load", "Assessment centers", "Ethnic group differences", "General performance factors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizational psychology researchers have, for decades, attempted to confirm if dimensions or exercises are the main components being measured in the assessment center (AC) (Lance, 2008). AC scholars have subsequently arrive...
Knowledge management and organizational performance: an exploratory analysis
[ "Knowledge management", "Organizational performance", "Surveys" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the past 15 years, knowledge management (KM) has progressed from an emergent concept to an increasingly common function in business organizations. As evidence of its maturity as an area of academic study, an increasin...
Employee disengagement: is there evidence of a growing problem?
[ "Employee behaviour", "Trust", "Motivation (psychology)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Lengthy episodes of distraction, rapid task saturation, a slow tempo of activity, poor decision making, too many days away from work, and lack of interest in work are symptoms displayed by individuals who do not engage in the...
Bosses who admit "we could do better": Leadership surveys offer cause for concern - but hint that the tide might have turned
[ "Competitive strategy", "Development", "Leadership", "Research", "Training" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nVolatile world: There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that the quality of business leaders has improved during the last decade.Worse, you could argue that the need for good leadership is greater than ever. According to a recent, world...
The mediating role of work atmosphere in the relationship between supervisor cooperation, career growth and job satisfaction
[ "Supervisors", "Career development", "Job satisfaction", "Working conditions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the modern era, business organizations are facing several challenges because of the dynamic nature of the work atmosphere (Raziq and Maulabakhsh, 2015). One of the many challenges for a business is to satisfy its employees...
Causes and consequences of grudge-holding in service relationships
[ "Trust", "Service failures" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers can be found at the end of this article.\nTheory and hypothesis development for grudge-holding: reasons, antecedents, and consequences: Why do people hold grudges?\nMethodology: The methodolo...
Green supply chain management practices and performance
[ "Performance", "Institutional theory", "Green supply chain management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Environmental concerns and the inclusion of green practices within the supply chain is a subject that has become topical in academic literature. This interest is mirrored by the increasing interest in the environment and cl...
A study of boosted evolutionary classifiers for detecting spam
[ "Genetic algorithms", "Genetic programming", "Support vector machine", "Bayesian classifier", "Naive bayes", "Classification accuracy", "F-value", "False positive rate", "Greedy stepwise search", "AdaBoost" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In today's electronic world, information sharing between the units of an organization is necessary to be competitive and sustainable in business. Email is an essential and useful tool for rapid and cheap communication. It ...
Today's executives develop those of tomorrow at Eli Lilly: Storytelling fosters leadership talent
[ "Leadership", "Leadership development", "Training", "Pharmaceuticals industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: General practitioners dread the appearance on the main television news bulletins of a story announcing a scientific breakthrough in the treatment of, for example, arthritis or cancer. They know that people wanting the new tre...
The market-to-book value gap and the accounting fallacy
[ "Intellectual capital", "Behavioural finance", "Market-to-book gap", "Theory of the firm" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Market-to-book value (MBV) and intellectual capital (IC) are usually considered as two congenial twins, since the former is seen to be at the same time both a symptom of and the metrics for the latter.\n2. The MBV approach...
Leading by example: Do the biggest and most generous donors influence others to give more health aid?
[ "Development", "Health policy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The objective of this paper is to explore the interdependence between donor countries' foreign aid expenditure, with a focus on Development Assistance for Health (DAH) or simply health aid.\n2. Methodology and data: The an...
Human capital development in the international organization: rhetoric and reality
[ "Human capital", "International organizations", "Senior managers", "Rhetoric", "Denmark", "Norway", "Sweden" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: What is human capital? In the work of management scholars, the term \"human capital\" has been referred to as a key element in improving an organization's assets and employees in order to increase productivity as well as sust...
The trading profiles of community retail enterprises
[ "Retailing", "Small shops", "Communities", "Small enterprises", "Co‐operation", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: If modern societies are to try to switch towards supporting more sustainable lifestyles, whether in terms of individual product choices or in terms of overall levels of consumption of the Earth's resources, then distributi...
The cost of sustainability in higher education: staff and student views of a campus food culture
[ "Cost", "Sustainability", "Higher education", "Food culture", "Local food procurement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The production and consumption of food has far reaching impacts that affect all facets of society, including the environmental, individual and public health (Reisch et al., 2013) and social justice (Raynolds, 2012). The way i...
Choice editing as a retailers' tool for sustainable consumption
[ "Sustainability", "Consumption", "Choice editing", "Food retail", "Nudge" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Food consumption is responsible for 30 per cent of the negative impacts associated with overall household consumption (EEA, 2012). To reduce environmental impacts of food, consumption policy has traditionally focused on th...
Low phenylalanine breads as an alternative for patients with phenylketonuria
[ "Diet", "Amino acid", "Food" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an inborn metabolism error that has the deficiency of the phenylalanine hydroxylase enzyme as one of its causes. The consequence of this deficiency is a persistent increase in plasma concentration of ...
Career management systems: what are China's state-owned hotels practising?
[ "Career development", "Public ownership", "Employee attitudes", "Hotels", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Along with the boom in China's hotel industry, China's state-owned hotels (SOHs) have gone through several revolutionary changes. From their beginnings as political reception sites heavily dependent on the state in the past, ...
Dynamic vendor selection based on fuzzy AHP
[ "Cognition", "Supply chain management", "Vendors", "Analytic hierarchy process", "Dynamic model", "Vendor selection", "Fuzzy sets" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: In today's highly competitive and interrelated manufacturing environment, materials represent a substantial part of the value of products. In view of the high percentage of the material cost in total cost, the key objective...
Can workplaces foster an openness to diversity surreptitiously?
[ "Strategic vision", "Workload", "Perceived justice", "Meaning in life", "Openness to diversity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizations have introduced many programs, policies and practices - such as diversity training - to attract, support and utilize diverse employees (see Carstens and De Kock, 2017). Unfortunately, these attempts are often un...
Evaluating outsourcing partners' capability: a case study from the pharmaceutical supply chain
[ "Outsourcing", "Dynamic capability", "Pharmaceutical industry", "Supplier evaluation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Research and development (R&D) and manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry are knowledge-intensive, complex and risky processes, and have been traditionally contained in-house (Gupta et al., 2007; PricewaterhouseCooper...
Customer orientation and performance outcomes in supply chain management
[ "Customer orientation", "Value chain", "Modelling", "Supply chain management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In today's international business dynamic, globally competitive environment supply chain management is a critical strategic initiative. Many researchers argue that supply chain management creates competitive values through th...
Behavioural response patterns: an investigation of the early stages of major incidents
[ "Decision making" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the face of adversity and increasing number and frequency of natural and man-made disasters, countries nowadays try to make every possible effort to establish and maintain adequate levels of nationwide resilience. Enter...
Process reengineering by using the 4PL approach: A case study on transportation processing in the agricultural bulk logistics sector
[ "Transport", "Business process reengineering", "Simulation", "Fourth party logistics provider (4PL)", "German agricultural bulk logistics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Under the pressure of the steadily increasing world population and the concurrent decrease of agriculturally productive land (Alston and Pardey, 2014), the field of agricultural logistics is becoming progressively importan...
Conceptualizing for managerial relevance in B2B research: a grounded theory approach
[ "Managers", "Business-to-business marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Several researchers have argued that one way to increase managerial relevance in business research is to provide managers with appropriate concepts (Astley and Zammuto, 1992; Jaworski, 2011). In a more recent study on the use...
Altice: creating a complex and constantly evolving empire
[ "Debt", "International expansion", "Altice", "Cable", "Mergers and acquisition" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Within Europe, arguably the most high-profile cable operator is Liberty Global. Although listed in the USA, the company operates solely across Europe, being the largest cable operator in both Germany and the UK[1]. Liberty...
K Bistro: a restaurant chooses the future
[ "Organizational development", "Survey", "Retailing", "Organizational analysis", "Case study research", "New business" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: K Bistro is a new restaurant that opened in the spring of 2012. The owner, Chef David Kay, has extensive culinary experience. Originally from Marion, Indiana, he has served as head chef for Marriott and Hilton hotels across t...
Collaboration and communication: Building a research agenda and way of working towards community disaster resilience
[ "Resilience", "Collaboration", "Communication", "Action research", "Hierarchal and horizontal networks", "Research-based planning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Disaster resilience is a term people both love and hate, depending on the perspective from which it is approached. However, one feels about it, it remains a prominent notion in the policy landscape. This paper reports on a Pa...
Interactivity in online pension planners enhances engagement with retirement planning - but not for everyone
[ "Interactivity", "Gender differences", "Heterogeneity", "Service technology", "Web-based pension communication", "Pension planners" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: According to a recent UN report (2015), the proportion of persons aged 60 and over is expected to double between 2007 and 2050. This fact, combined with continued low interest rates puts pension systems around the world under...
Builders and cleaners: A longitudinal study of strategic narratives
[ "Corporate strategy", "Narratives", "Senior management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Research based on leading actors in companies bear witness to how they view events in companies and their surroundings. These interpretations are not expressed in terms of tables and charts, or correlations between variable...
Real fruit substitution: the case of at-risk American families
[ "Packaging", "Heuristics", "At-risk families", "Fruit substitutes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Popular movements, from Michelle Obama's Let's Move! Campaign to groups like the Campaign to End Obesity, stress greater consumption of fruits and vegetables. As a result, fruit-branded products have experienced growth in the...
A Delphi-based approach for detecting key e-learning trends in postgraduate education: The Spanish case
[ "Higher education", "Delphi", "Spain", "E-Learning", "Trends" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The great changes in society, along with the development of technology, has meant that we are currently living a moment of profound change. Furthermore, the conception of education and training in firms has altered. An exa...
An analysis for service quality enhancement in electricity utility sector of India by SEM
[ "Service quality", "Structural equation modelling", "Indian consumers", "Customer service quality", "Electricity service quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Service is positioned at the center of economic activities in any society. As a matter of fact, no economy can function without the infrastructure that service organizations provide in the form of transportation, education...
Characteristics of emergent innovation
[ "Innovation", "Corporate strategy", "Sustainable development", "Workplace learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Regardless of the contemporary global economic environment, fresh ideas resulting in successful, protracted innovation is an essential element of corporate competitiveness (Kelley, 2001). Innovation provides the mechanism for...
Financial development and poverty reduction in India: an empirical investigation
[ "India", "Financial development", "Auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL)", "Poverty reduction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: There has been a growing emphasis from empirical work on the relationship between financial development and economic growth since early nineteenth century. Financial development is considered to be a vital component in eco...
Gender difference and informal competition: evidence from India
[ "Gender", "SMEs", "Obstacle", "World Bank Enterprise Survey", "Informal competition" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The purpose of this study is threefold. First, it examines the attitude of male and female managers toward competition from the informal sector. That is, we document which of the two - male or female managers - consider th...
An analytic network process approach for the election of green marketable products
[ "Green product", "Multi-criteria decision making", "Product quality", "Life cycle costing", "Analytic network process" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: During the past several decades, intensive competitiveness in the manufacturing industry has been highly influenced by the customers' awareness of quality issue. This competitiveness implies that manufacturers who are not ...
Use of failure mode effect analysis (FMEA) to improve medication management process
[ "Quality management", "Continuous quality improvement", "Quality improvement", "FMEA", "Risk reduction", "Medication errors", "Medication management process" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The use of medications is an integral part of medical care in hospitals (Lau et al., 2000). The prescribing of a medicine by the consultant sets in motion a complex series of interrelated supply chain and workflow processes a...
School reputation and its relation to parents' satisfaction and loyalty
[ "Parent‐based school reputation", "Satisfaction", "Loyalty", "Scale development", "Norway", "Customer satisfaction", "Schools", "Educational administration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is a growing recognition among both academics and educational practitioners that a school's reputation is becoming increasingly important (Bond and King, 2003; Friedman et al., 2006; Friedman et al., 2007; Hausman and G...
Measuring the experience of off-price fashion shopping: scale development and validation
[ "Fashion retailing", "Measurement", "Scale development", "Shopping", "Off-price retail" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Off-price fashion retailers, like T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and Ross Stores, are expected to dominate the retail fashion sector over the next five years (Tuhy, 2015). As such, flagship brands, like J. Crew and Michael Kors, and de...
Perceptions of trust in the US construction industry
[ "Communications", "USA", "Construction management", "Contracting parties", "Effect of trust", "Factors that affect trust" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Leadership and trust can significantly contribute to the success or failure of construction projects (Brewer and Strahorn, 2012). Hyvari (2006) found that a project manager's leadership ability accounted for approximately ...
Improving health in the workplace: Effective diffusion of interventions
[ "Health promotion", "Health marketing", "Workplace health" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nHealth at work: An old adage informs us that prevention is better than cure. These are wise words indeed. And such sentiments obviously apply within a wide variety of contexts, with working environments being no exception.\nWorkplace healt...
Towards effective poster presentations: an annotated bibliography
[ "Posters", "Design", "Presentations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper is curious to understand better why the visual device of poster presentation remains overlooked as an area of skilled communicative practice within the marketing discipline. A comparison between conference arrangem...
An investigation on the impact of industrial symbiosis implementation on organizational performance using analytical hierarchical approach
[ "Decision making", "Hierarchical modelling", "Industrial symbiosis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: 1.1 Background and Motivation\n2. Background of industrial symbiosis: The field of industrial ecology marks its formal beginning with the publication of an article titled \"Strategies for manufacturing\" in which the autho...
Collegiality in business schools: Development of a collegiality measure and evaluations of its implications
[ "Faculty", "University", "Academia", "Business schools", "Collegiality", "Department" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: \"The school maintains a collegiate environment in which students, faculty, administrator, professional staff, and practitioners interact and collaborate in support of learning, scholarship, and community engagement\" AACSB I...
Impact not intent
[ "Harassment", "Bullying", "Conversation", "Distribution centres", "Personnel administration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Dramatic incidents of bullying and harassment are reported in the newspapers. We breathe a sigh of relief that in the organisations we work with there are no incidents of new starters being stripped naked and knocked around a...
"A True Account"
[ "Creative accounting", "Management accounting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nWriting up: More than 30 creative souls enrolled at APIRA 2007 in Auckland to exercise their talents in writing workshops. These workshops followed on the success of similar activities at APIRA 2004 in Singapore. There was more creative ar...
Forecasting inflation in G-7 countries: an application of artificial neural network
[ "Economics", "Forecasting", "Inflation", "Artificial neural network", "G-7 countries", "Hyperbolic tangent function", "Neural network", "Mean square error", "Backpropagation learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Economic forecasting is an arduous task for researchers, academics and practitioners. In time series forecasting different approaches based on univariate and multivariate modelling like Autoregressive integrated moving ave...
Pre-school practitioners, child poverty and social justice
[ "Social policy", "Poverty", "Social inclusion", "Social welfare", "Social exclusion", "Children (age groups)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Social justice is about the allocation of resources such as economic, cultural and social capital. Several ideas exist about social justice, welfare policies and how inequalities can be tackled to help families and children i...
Organizational logic to prioritize between the elements of triple bottom line
[ "Environmental", "Triple bottom line" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The triple bottom line (TBL) is a play on words, arguing that companies should not only focus on the financial bottom line (final result in the annual report), but also on the environmental and social bottom lines (Elkington,...
One person's trash is another person's treasure: Profiling consumer-to-consumer e-commerce in Facebook
[ "Social media", "Customer value", "Facebook", "Retailing", "C2C e-commerce" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Consumer-to-consumer (C2C) electronic commerce (e-commerce) (i.e. consumers electronically transacting (buying and selling) directly with each other) is exerting pressure on conventional retailing. Digitization enables the de...
Cross-channel spillover effect of price promotion in fashion
[ "Price promotion", "Spillover effect", "Cross-channel", "Brand trust", "Fashion" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As the complexity of consumer shopping behaviour increases, virtually every company has adopted a new type of shopping experience across the entire purchasing process. Retailers have begun to build integrated distribution cha...
The effects of service recovery and relational selling behavior on trust, satisfaction, and loyalty
[ "Relationship marketing", "Banking industry", "Customer loyalty", "Service recovery", "Relational selling behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Taiwan's banking sector used to be predominantly state-owned. However, after the financial reform policy from the late 1980s to early 1990s, the banking sector shifted from a market dominated by a few state-owned banks to ...
Niche firms and marketing strategy: An exploratory study of internationally oriented niche firms
[ "Niche marketing", "Marketing strategy", "Product differentiation", "Small enterprises", "Product positioning", "International business" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Within marketing strategy, niche marketing can be viewed as a superior approach for small or specialised firms. Niche marketing is often understood as focused marketing towards a limited market consisting of a few customers a...
Global social media, local context: A case study of Chinese-language tweets about the 2012 presidential election in Taiwan
[ "Social network", "Twitter", "Social media", "Big data", "Chinese tweets", "Taiwan presidential election" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The emergence of real-time social media has blurred the distinctions between the global and the local. People from every corner of the globe can participate in any discussion of any event, in any country, and at any time. Whe...
WEB 2.0 implications on knowledge management
[ "Internet", "Knowledge management", "Worldwide web" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: WEB 2.0 is a hot topic. Articles are written, search engines are sending new alerts and adding new types of information (i.e. blogs) and a new spirit is out in the Internet. People, dealing with KM for nearly ten years, find ...
Adding value, reducing research waste, the role of the NHS research and development management community
[ "User involvement", "Management", "Quality", "Communication", "Patient perspectives", "Research methods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Creating and enhancing value within the research and development process through the reduction of waste has been a recurrent theme in health research in recent years. The need to reduce waste in medical research was identifie...
The great reanimation
[ "Capitalism", "Trade unions", "Income inequality", "Labor", "Socialism", "Strikes", "Corporation", "COVID-19" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It was automation that caused lace makers, cotton spinners and leather breech sewers to start the world's first trade unions and it may well be automation in part that leads to the great reanimation of labor organizing that a...
Risk appetite of real estate and property security markets: an empirical study of Hong Kong
[ "Risk management", "Real estate", "Property", "Securities", "Hong Kong" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: It is now generally accepted that the efficient market theory and the standard asset pricing model are not enough to account for the real price of risky assets, which contain uncertainty. More specifically, if the market i...
"Women doing their own thing": media representations of female entrepreneurship
[ "Women", "Entrepreneurialism", "Gender", "Entrepreneurship", "Media representations", "Women\n\t\t\t\t\t'\n\t\t\t\ts magazines", "Women\n\t\t\t\t\t'\n\t\t\t\ts work" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper discusses the impact-gendered media representations of entrepreneurs may have on the reality of female entrepreneurship which remains characterised by underrepresentation and inequality. Women-owned businesses a...
Descriptive menus and branding in hospital foodservice: a pilot study
[ "Hospitals", "Food service", "Consumer behaviour", "Procurement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Food consumption and production has recently been marked by a renaissance in consumer preference for quality, regionally dominated local ingredients and a greater appreciation of the provenance of menu constituents. Consumers...