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Tips to use partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) in knowledge management
[ "Partial least squares (PLS)", "Knowledge management (KM)", "Structural equation modelling (SEM)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years there has been a growing interest in knowledge management (KM), which has resulted in an exponential growth of almost 50 per cent per year in KM publications (Bontis and Serenko, 2009). Gaining control over...
The integration of green chemistry experiments with sustainable development concepts in pre-service teachers' curriculum: Experiences from Malaysia
[ "Higher education", "Teachers", "Sustainable development", "Chemicals" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The definition given for the sustainable development (SD) is generic and keeps evolving. However, the World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) in our common future defined SD as development that meets the needs ...
Typologies for co-working spaces in Finland - what and how?
[ "Workplace", "Facilities management", "Knowledge workers", "Teleworking", "Office", "Flexible working" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the past, knowledge work used to be carried out mainly in offices. However, globalization and advancements in information and communication technologies (ICT) have changed the content of work. New ways of working have b...
How public-private partnership projects impact infrastructure industry for economic growth
[ "Management", "Social economy", "Developing countries" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The aim of the present study is not to analyze the determinants of the economic growth but to examine the statistical causal relationship between gross domestic product (GDP) and a broad group of infrastructure. Infrastruc...
Web 2.0 integration into the graduate classroom: An appreciative inquiry into prospective school administrator strengths and leadership experiences
[ "Appreciative inquiry", "Web 2.0", "Blogs", "School administrator", "Preparation programs", "Learning environment", "United States of America", "Educational administration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction and purpose: Integrating Web 2.0 applications into the classroom preparation of prospective educational administrators may be one way to advance the recognition and development of prospective educational administrators' leader...
Merger control in the telecom industry: a landscape transformed
[ "Business models", "Business model innovation", "Sustainable competitive advantage", "AT&T/Time Warner", "Converged telecoms", "Fixed/mobile and content integration", "Liberty global/ Ziggo", "Merger control", "Merger remedies", "Over-the-top services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Convergence in telecommunications and the accompanying regulatory changes prompted a wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the sector. Companies introduced devices to perform multiple functions that previously require...
Translating sustainability: the role of the retail store
[ "Sensemaking", "Retail store", "Sustainable consumption" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Retailers' dominant position in the food supply-chain (Dobson and Waterson, 1999; Harris and Ogbonna, 2001) has caught the eyes of those assessing ways to make food consumption in Europe more sustainable (Bonini and Oppenheim...
How high-tech entrepreneurs bricole the evolution of business process management for their activities
[ "Business process modelling", "Entrepreneurship", "Discourse analysis", "Bricolage", "Strategy as practice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Business process modelling (BPM) is the subject of growing attention from the management sciences. The BPM approach is increasingly used to guide large companies and small- and medium-sized enterprises in establishing success...
Responses to job demands: moderating role of worker cooperatives
[ "Employee attitudes", "Partnership", "Employee behaviour", "Small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A recent development to explain occupational well-being is the job demands-resources (JDR) model proposed by Demerouti et al. (2001). According to Bakker et al. (2010), this model expanded the demand-control(-support) (DCS) m...
Organizational change - overcoming resistance by creating readiness
[ "Change management", "Organizational change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It has become a cliche to say that organizations change. Equally common is the assumption that people will resist change. However, the notion that people unequivocally resist change is ill founded. People do not necessarily r...
Growth and economies of scale among timber haulage companies
[ "Business development", "Profit", "Transportation", "Forest products", "Finland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Truck transport is the most important timber transportation means. Roughly 80 per cent of the Finnish forest industries' roundwood is delivered to the mills by truck. Nearly all of the roundwood used by these industries spend...
Dealing with supply chain risks: Linking risk management practices and strategies to performance
[ "Strategy", "Supply chain", "Risk management", "Supply chain management", "Agility", "Robustness", "Performance management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Researching supply chain risks (i.e. the exposure to a premise of which the outcome is uncertain, Rao and Goldsby, 2009), supply chain risk management (SCRM) is one of the fastest growing areas in logistics research. In a r...
The role of online product reviews on information adoption of new product development professionals
[ "Heuristic and systematic model", "Information adoption", "New product developer", "Online product review", "Review helpfulness", "Title attractiveness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Currently in the information technology (IT) industry, companies are launching new products more frequently than before, due to everlasting decreases in the price of raw materials (e.g. memory chips) and rapidly changing c...
Versatility in corporate writing Brochures from oil and gas companies
[ "Versatility", "Corporate brochures", "Generic structure", "Oil gas industry", "Textual features" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Corporate brochures are published to introduce the organizations they represent and to enhance their corporate image. Before the advent of the World Wide Web, brochures used to be the only medium for these purposes. In recent...
Job satisfaction of project managers in green construction projects: Influencing factors and improvement strategies
[ "Construction", "Project management", "Questionaire survey" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Construction activities play a crucial role in urbanisation and generate significant economic, environmental and social impacts (Zuo and Zhao, 2014). The negative impacts of construction activities include resource consumptio...
Do halal certification country of origin and brand name familiarity matter?
[ "Country of origin", "Halal certification", "Halal product", "Sharia compliant" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The market for halal products (permissible products according to Islamic Law or Sharia) in ASEAN countries has been gauged to be US$46 billion per year and worldwide US$150 billion (Fisher, 2012), accounting for 20 per cent o...
Application of MCDM-based TOPSIS method for the selection of optimal process parameter in turning of pure titanium
[ "Manufacturing", "Advanced manufacturing technologies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Commercially pure (CP) titanium (grade 1-4) and its alloys are most widely used in aerospace, automotive, biomedical, surgery and medicine, aircraft, power generation, chemical and marine industries because of their admira...
The impact of self-congruity and virtual interactivity on online celebrity brand equity and fans' purchase intention
[ "Brand equity", "Self-congruity", "Human brand", "Online celebrity", "Virtual interactivity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the network 2.0 era, any internet user can become a creator or distributor of knowledge and information on social media. Such content is generated not only by independent companies or individuals but also by sustained mult...
Performance evaluation in a matrix organization: a case study (Part Two)
[ "Performance appraisal", "Matrix organizations", "Performance management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nCritical incidents at CAE: Part Two of this article will describe a real-time case study and examine performance evaluations in depth as they relate to this case analysis. As described previously, CAE is a world leader in providing simulat...
Measuring efficiencies of Bangladeshi and Indonesian microfinance institutions: A data envelopment analysis and latent growth curve modeling approach
[ "Efficiency", "DEA", "MFIs", "Independent t-test", "LGCM", "Mix market" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide varieties of financial services to low-income earners who have no access to commercial banks' funding in the society (Servin et al., 2012). Similar to other MFIs from other part of ...
Mary, Mary, quite contrary: In a male-dominated field, women contributed by bringing a touch of spirituality to early management theory and practice
[ "Mary Parker Follett", "Mary Barnett Gilson", "Spirituality", "Early management", "Management theory", "Women", "Men", "Management history" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The segregation of occupations by sex is substantial and has declined only slightly across the last century (Goldin, 1994). In an age of prevalent male dominance and pervasive female domesticity, however, some women beat the ...
Another failed M&A: misaligned business models as culprit
[ "Business model", "SME", "Failure", "Acquisition", "Practitioners", "Key factors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Under the pressure of a changing environment, managers are compelled to design and renew their business models (BMs), and although conceptual and empirical works on this subject have greatly increased, there are still a li...
A process model of brand cocreation: brand management and research implications
[ "Brands", "Brand management", "Consumer behaviour", "Marketing communications", "Product development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article.\nIntroduction: According to Kotler and Armstrong (1997, p. 62) brand managers \"plan long-term brand strategy and watch over the...
Flash flood disasters in Uttarakhand
[ "Natural disasters", "Floods", "India", "Risk management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Flash flooding has become the convective storm-related event annually producing the most fatalities. Whereas the system for reducing casualties from cyclones and floods, including not only forecasts and warnings, but also pub...
Can hospital dashboards provide visibility of information from bedside to board? A case study approach
[ "Healthcare", "Key performance indicators", "Dashboards", "Visibility of information" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Amongst the challenges, which hospitals in Europe are currently facing, are the phenomena of aging populations and the related rise in chronic non-communicable diseases. These are leading to an increase in demand for traditio...
Anxiety attachment and avoidance attachment: antecedents to self-gifting
[ "Anxiety", "Retailing", "PLS-SEM", "Avoidance", "Self-gifting", "Insecure attachment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nAttachment anxiety and attachment avoidance: antecedents to self-gifting: Self-gifting is a popular consumption activity with 70 per cent of consumers saying they splurge on themselves (National Retail Federation, 2017). Self-gifting repre...
Facilitating age diversity in organizations - part I: challenging popular misbeliefs
[ "Age", "Stereotypes", "Ageing workforce", "Demographic change", "Age diversity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The demographic changes that take place in many industrialized countries create unique difficulties as well as challenges for the management of work organizations. In particular, a continuously growing number of older workers...
Differences in orientations between Western European and Chinese service organizations
[ "Manufacturing industries", "Service industries", "Customer orientation", "Performance levels", "Switzerland", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The service business in traditional manufacturing companies has become an imperative for businesses seeking competitive advantages. Over the last couples of years, manufacturing firms have improved their financial service-rel...
Mental health promotion in schools by strengthening self-efficacy
[ "Mental health services", "Learning", "Motivation (psychology)", "Germany" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The school as a setting for mental health promotion\nThe interventions and their methods of evaluation: Two studies investigating different approaches to self efficacy\nEffects of the interventions: School self-efficacy refer...
Impact of TPM implementation on Indian manufacturing industry
[ "Manufacturing performance", "Total productive maintenance", "Overall equipment effectiveness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Due to the prevailing intense global competition and increasing demand for high-quality product at lower cost; companies are striving to improve and optimize their manufacturing productivity to stay competitive. TPM is a p...
Factors affecting quality management at the Thai national institute of health
[ "Thailand", "Quality management", "Confirmatory factor analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Thai National Institute of Health (NIH) is authorized as a national reference laboratory. The Institute managers' vision is to become a leading laboratory for solving public health issues including testing for emerging an...
Multinationals and emerging markets
[ "Multinational companies", "Emerging markets", "Corporate strategy", "India" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Emerging markets are increasingly becoming the growth drivers of the global economy. There is increased scrutiny and interest in emerging markets since the 1990s. The interest can be viewed from a demand and supply perspectiv...
Family ownership, board committees and firm performance: evidence from Hong Kong
[ "Corporate governance", "Remuneration committee", "Nomination committee", "Firm performance", "Family control", "Family firms", "Public companies", "Hong Kong" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Board of directors is an important internal control mechanism and is one of the most discussed issues in the corporate governance literature. Previous empirical studies of board structure have mainly focused on US companie...
State fragility, rent seeking and lobbying: evidence from African data
[ "Africa", "Lobbying", "Nation building", "Rent seeking", "State fragility", "C43", "H11", "O20", "O43", "O55" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: There has been renewed interest in state fragility by scholars and international development agencies. It has been substantially documented that Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is one of the regions in the world that eloquently r...
"We must have the wrong consumers" - a case study on new food product development failure
[ "Case studies", "New product development", "Convenience foods", "Consumer research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A newly founded food company became engaged in a new food development project. Its brand owners had an idea about introducing a new convenience food onto the market. Consumer research was conducted by an outsourced marketi...
Do women perform better in family firms? Exploring the moderating role of family firm status
[ "Performance", "Econometric model", "Regression", "Family business", "Moderation", "Wine industry", "Female involvement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent decades, the growing presence of women in company leadership positions, as both entrepreneurs and members of top management teams, has stimulated the academic debate regarding the effects exerted by female involv...
Evaluating cabin crew food safety training using the Kirkpatrick model: an airlines' perspective
[ "Food safety", "Airlines", "Kirkpatrick", "Training evaluation", "Cabin crew" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2015, the World Health Organisation (2015) described food contamination and foodborne disease as a growing global problem. To ensure its safety, most airline food is prepared in centralised production units employing hazar...
Why do you publish? On the tensions between generating scientific knowledge and publication pressure
[ "Motivation", "Performance indicators", "Publishing", "Career stage", "Narrative interviews", "Research profession" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Scientific research is concerned with the production of knowledge, in order to achieve a better understanding of the world. Scholarly publications ensure a wide distribution and constructive exchange of the generated knowledg...
Generalizing the appeal of B2C site features across domains
[ "Online shopping", "B2C website design", "E-commerce websites", "Website domains", "Website feature preferences" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: What features of a shopping website are successful in attracting consumers' attention and generating positive evaluations, in providing an effective portal for e-commerce, and in translating to sales has been an active are...
Exploring the consequences of knowledge hiding: an agency theory perspective
[ "Organizational behaviour", "Employee well-being", "Counterproductive work behaviour", "Negative workplace behaviours" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In early summer 2010, a former president of the United States, Barack Obama, described the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as \"the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced\" (CNN, 2010). Taking the lives of 11 rig wor...
From informational reading to information literacy: Change and continuity in document work in Swedish schools
[ "Information literacy", "Reading", "Sweden", "Literacy", "Document theory", "Information behaviour", "Information practices", "Primary education", "History of information" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Research within the Library and Information Science (LIS) sub-fields of Information Seeking and Learning and Information Literacy is often motivated by the notion that new digital technologies for producing, organising, fi...
Intelligent topology analyzer for improved plant operation
[ "Plant efficiency", "Topology", "Operating systems", "Process management", "Modelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Plant operation includes activities and tasks related to: the execution of operating procedures, process control, maintenance management, and quality control. In addition, it includes tasks related to other life cycle activ...
Organizational objectives for information security governance: a value focused assessment
[ "Decision objectives", "Organizational security governance", "Value-focused thinking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizational governance of information technology is a set of responsibilities and practices that are exercised by the executive management to provide a strategic direction such that risks are managed appropriately and an o...
Playing in the backstore: interface gamification increases warehousing workforce engagement
[ "Gamification", "Controlled experiment", "Warehouse management system (WMS)", "Employee engagement", "NeuroIS" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Only 13% of employees worldwide consider themselves engaged in their work (Mann and Harter, 2016). This statistic is worrisome considering that a recent meta-analysis of 339 research studies across 230 organisations in 49 ...
Organic management of frameworks and systems, but not people: An interview with Richard Davis
[ "Measurement", "Quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Q: You are a master of organic management. What could that mean in light of your having transformed a small, mediocre company into a large, superb one?\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Purpose: - The purpose of...
Wine consumers in British Columbia, Canada: Towards understanding how Millennials differ from previous generations
[ "Canada", "Market segmentation", "Surveys", "Consumers", "Millennials", "Survey research", "BC wine" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: An update about the global wine market by Lecat et al. (2019) states that old world wine producers are innovating to compete with the large brand portfolios dominating the new world wine countries such as the USA, Australia, ...
Transcending the power of hierarchy to facilitate shared leadership
[ "Hierarchy", "Jerry Garcia", "Shared leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: This report shows how we really work. We do business the way artists do business. The reason there is a Grateful Dead Productions is because the State of California requires that we identify ourselves as a business. [...]\nSh...
Intellectual capital role in ambidexterity emergence: A proposal of a multilevel model and research agenda
[ "Social capital", "Human capital", "Multilevel perspective", "Ambidexterity", "Paths" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Today's complex markets demand organizations to develop a combination of both efficiency and innovative strategic capabilities, developing exploratory and exploitative activities simultaneously. These types of organizations t...
Involving teachers in reducing children's media risks
[ "Teachers", "Prevention", "Media", "Schools", "Intervention", "Children" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The risks of children's media use\nMethods: Phases in data collection\nResults: Quantitative survey\nDiscussion: Overall satisfaction\nConclusions: To date, few interventions have pursued a universal approach to the preventio...
Greece is failing properly to manage public-sector redundancies: HR lacks strategy to deal with lay-offs and their consequences
[ "Employee engagement", "Closing public organizations", "Dismissed employees", "Dismissed public servants", "Merging public services", "Remaining employees" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The financial crisis in Greece is causing thousands of public servants to lose their jobs, but there is apparently no coherent HR strategy to deal with the manner of these lay-offs or their wider implications.\nEmployees in p...
Memory loss? Corporate knowledge and radical change
[ "Change management", "Knowledge management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An organization's ability to collect, store and use knowledge it has generated through experience can have important consequences for its performance. Storing and using stored knowledge effectively can buffer the organization...
You are what you wear: examining the multidimensionality of religiosity and its influence on attitudes and intention to buy Muslim fashion clothing
[ "Religiosity", "Sharia clothes", "Affective attitude", "Self-presentation", "Purchase intention" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Fashion clothing has historically been associated with a symbolic meaning of status, which helps an individual express his/her personal identity, image and moral quality (Craik, 2003; Michaelidou and Dibb, 2006). When it come...
The impact of brand trust and satisfaction on retailer repurchase intentions
[ "Retail trade", "Trust", "Customer satisfaction", "Brands" ]
[ { "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.\nIntroduction: The sign in the window reads: \"We proudly carry Bose audio products for your listening pleasure.\" It is nothing new. For years, retai...
Driver turnover research: exploring the missing angle with a global perspective
[ "Dispatcher", "Driver scam", "Driver turnover", "External freight customer", "Internal processes", "Long-distance trucking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: At the highest level of abstraction, we are all in \"services\" in the sense that we all serve or provide some service to earn a livelihood or fulfill the obligations of a role productively. At a more pragmatic level, all off...
Effect of appeal orientation in sponsored ad forwarding on a microblog platform
[ "Social media", "Social advertising", "Appeal orientation", "Sponsored ad forwarding", "Online word of mouth", "Social commerce" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Online social media, such as microblogs, social networks and forums, are powerful tools for marketing communication (Lee et al., 2015; Phang et al., 2013; Risius and Beck, 2015). For example, Facebook alone accounted for 1...
Local retailers' perspectives on social responsibility
[ "Community", "Local", "Social responsibility", "Retailers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Small businesses are an important part of the US economy. Defined as an independent business employing less than 500 people, it was estimated in 2015 that approximately 28.2 million small businesses are operating in the USA (...
Measuring the academic library: Translating today's inputs and outputs into future impact and value
[ "Academic library", "Frameworks", "Digital environment", "Research outcomes", "Teaching outcomes", "University learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Impact and value are hot topics in Australian academic libraries. In a constantly changing university environment, - where all aspects of academic endeavour are scrutinised and measured - academic librarians are thinking diff...
Perceived prevalence and personal impact of negative online reviews
[ "Internet", "Stress", "Customer satisfaction", "Complaints", "Coping", "Online reviews" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Customers are increasingly using the internet to express opinions regarding the products and services they purchase (King et al., 2014). Over the past decade, the advent of the internet, particularly web 2.0, and the prolifer...
Signaling in joint venture capital: a social network perspective
[ "Venture capital", "Social network analysis", "Information superiority", "Network embeddedness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Venture capital (VC) refers to the financial capital provided to start-up firms and small businesses with perceived potential for long-term growth. VC is a crucial source of funding for startup firms with less access to fi...
Co-creation and higher order customer engagement in hospitality and tourism services: A critical review
[ "Co-creation", "Service-dominant logic", "Customer engagement", "Co-production", "Co-creative modalities", "Experience marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The quintessential service in a tourism and hospitality environment can be characterized as a consummate \"personalized boutique\". It caters to exclusive guests with highly demanding requirements through customized offerings...
Power and environmental reporting-practice in business networks
[ "Sustainability", "Power", "Corporate social responsibility", "Business networks", "Voluntary reporting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Companies face numerous choices regarding their environmental reporting and practice, particularly around voluntary engagement. Despite the global importance of environmental practices (Schmidt et al., 2017) and reporting ...
Estimating transaction costs in the New Zealand construction procurement: A structural equation modelling methodology
[ "New Zealand", "Construction management", "Estimating", "Procurement systems", "Structural equation modelling", "Transaction costs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Ronald Coase first introduced the concept of transaction costs (TCs) in 1937. He subsequently further investigated pricing mechanisms and concluded that there are costs related to searching for relevant prices, negotiating...
Influence of physical ability on initial emergency response performance
[ "Physical ability", "Emergency", "Emergency response", "Emergency response performance", "Emergency incidents", "Emergency services", "Fire services", "Physical testing", "Malaysia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Concerns have been raised about the physical fitness of emergency responders particularly on how it could potentially affect their emergency response performance. This is because emergency response work demands vigorous ph...
Effects of brand love, personality and image on word of mouth: The case of fashion brands among young consumers
[ "Brand love", "Brand image", "Brand personality", "Word of mouth", "Fashion brands", "Brand identity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: For decades, branding in fashion research has gained increasing attention among scholars worldwide and specifically in the UK. Different studies focussed on various topics. To mention just a few; gaining a competitive adva...
Teaching introductory macroeconomics during the Greek financial crisis
[ "Global financial crisis", "Greek financial crisis", "Introductory macroeconomics", "Teaching economics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The subprime crisis broke out in late 2007, initiating the global financial crisis (GFC), which was \"a human disaster\" (Figart, 2010, p. 236) and the greatest slump of the global economy since the Great Depression. Econo...
Knowledge sharing in organisational contexts: a motivation-based perspective
[ "Knowledge management", "Learning organizations", "Human resource management", "Incentives (psychology)", "Motivation (psychology)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Knowledge sharing is a key process in translating individual learning into organisational capability (Frey and Oberholzer-Gee, 1997; Nahapiet and Ghoshal, 1998). But facilitating knowledge sharing is a difficult task: the wil...
Research methodologies and publication trends in manufacturing strategy: A content analysis based literature review
[ "Content analysis", "Manufacturing strategy", "Research methodologies", "Publication trends" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Williams and Plouffe (2007) assert, examination of knowledge development using systematic literature review of an academic field is \"a critical step in any discipline's growth and maturity\" (p. 408). They further state t...
Gender equality in the accounting profession: one size fits all
[ "Ireland", "Barriers", "Careers", "Perception", "Glass ceilings", "Accountants" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The past two decades in Ireland have seen dramatic social, economic and demographic changes, with an associated rise in employment from 31 to 61.1 per cent of the total population aged over 15 years (Haughton, 2005, p. 110; C...
NHS Lanarkshire's leadership development programme's impact on clinical practice
[ "Leadership development", "National Health Service", "Scotland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Impetus for leadership development emanating through the UK National Health Service (NHS) change agenda centres on reforming how healthcare is delivered through the redesign of services to secure better delivery and improve o...
Innovative management strategies for building and sustaining a digital initiatives department with limited resources
[ "Innovation", "Project management", "Digital scholarship", "Library management", "Library development", "Digital initiatives", "Digital humanities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroductions: Digital initiatives departments in academic libraries, although similar in mission, operate differently than traditional library departments. The operational difference is a unique combination of specialized skill sets. This...
Interactions in knowledge production: A comparative case study of immunology research groups in Colombia and Brazil
[ "Sciences", "Colombia", "Brazil", "Research work", "Group dynamics", "Information research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Science is by definition a collaborative and competitive endeavour. Collaboration may be formal or informal, within the same research organisation, between different institutions in the same country or involve individuals and...
Mobilizing information infrastructure, shaping patient-centred care
[ "Patient care", "Information strategy", "Innovation", "Health services", "Denmark" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is a widely held assumption that information technology can help in bridging gaps in healthcare and in placing patients at the centre of such care (PITAC, 2001; DK, 2003). At the same time, it is recognized that introdu...
The impact of the demographic transition on manufacturing: Effects of an ageing workforce in German industrial firms
[ "Demographics", "Older workers", "Employees", "Manufacturing industries", "Germany" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Several developments are currently reshaping the business environment that manufacturing companies are acting in. As most prominent issue, the technological state of the art changes rapidly; technological innovations have a s...
Information for decision-making in in-house and outsourced real estate management organisations
[ "Decision-making", "Information management", "Management", "Property management", "Real estate", "Commercial property" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years, a growing question regarding the gathering of information in organisations has been evolving. Agerwal and Hauswald (2010) argue that one of the fastest growing problems in organisations is the lack of esse...
The role of HRD in university - community partnership
[ "Community engagement", "HRD", "Leadership development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The need for university-community partnership (UCP) has been a subject of discussion among scholars for time immemorial. For example, Daniel Coit Gilman highlighted this idea in his 1876 inaugural speech as John Hopkin Univer...
The missing link which was already there: Building operators and energy management in non-residential buildings
[ "Facilities", "Working practices", "Energy management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Jack Hug and Bruce Forbes (Hug and Forbes, 2000, p. 1.7) introduce a handbook of modern facility management with a nostalgic perspective on bygone times, when building operators still:[...] practiced stewardship of the facili...
An empirical analysis of the brand personality effect
[ "Brand image", "Experimental design" ]
[ { "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.Since the concept of brand personality emerged over three decades ago, there has been a burgeoning interest in the subject among ...
Am I a student and/or entrepreneur? Multiple identities in student entrepreneurship
[ "University", "Entrepreneurship education", "Multiple identities", "Student entrepreneurship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There can be little doubt that entrepreneurship education often challenges students to explore a new possible identity, being the identity of entrepreneur. While there recently has been a growing emphasis on that entrepreneur...
A meta-analytic investigation of cyberloafing
[ "Meta-analysis", "Productivity", "Cyberloafing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Technological advances positively contribute to employee productivity in many ways, increasing accessibility of critical information, catalyzing task completion, and enhancing collaboration in a variety of ways (e.g. telecomm...
Performance modeling of the skim milk powder production system of a dairy plant using RAMD analysis
[ "Reliability", "Availability", "Chapman-Kolmogorov differential equations", "Dependability", "Maintainability", "Markov modeling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The paper emphasizes the importance of reliability, availability, maintainability and dependability (RAMD) indices i.e. reliability, availability, maintainability, dependability, mean time between failures (MTBF), mean tim...
Scrap loss reduction using the 5-whys analysis
[ "Lean production", "Error analysis", "Pareto analysis", "Quality", "Scrap rates/improvement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Lean manufacturing philosophy is at the forefront in today's operations management and quality improvement practices. It is characterised by its goal of maximising productivity (Brown et al., 2008). Its primary focus is to...
"Authentic Alignment" - a new framework of entrepreneurship education
[ "Entrepreneurship education", "Authenticity", "Learning", "Assessment", "Instruction", "Constructive alignment", "Educational framework" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Entrepreneurship education (EE) in higher education continues to be of interest for policy makers, educators and researchers (e.g. Fayolle, 2013; Lackeus and Williams Middleton, 2015), particularly given recent calls to em...
Enhancing theory development in service research
[ "Collaborative theorizing", "Empeirical Knowledge", "Theoretical knowledge", "Theory development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nOverview: The first International Network for Service Research workshop was held at Karlstad in September 2014, with 37 renowned service researchers from 13 countries participating. The purpose of the network was to encourage collaboration...
Information confusion and intention to stop using social networking site: a moderated mediation study of psychological distress and perceived novelty
[ "Information confusion", "Psychological distress", "SNS using intention", "Perceived novelty" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Social networking site (SNS) has been an important part of many people' lives in modern society. Several SNSs such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, WeChat and so on have changed our lives in many ways. People use ...
Outsourcing contracts as instruments of risk management: Insights from two successful public contracts
[ "Outsourcing", "Information management", "Risk management", "Contracts" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Highly visible failures of information systems (IS) in recent outsourcing contracts in the public sector have brought the risks associated with this management practice into focus. For example, the State of Connecticut abando...
Inspection tables for single acceptance sampling with crisp and fuzzy formulation of quality limits
[ "Acceptance sampling", "Fuzzy hypotheses", "Hypergeometric test", "Sampling plans", "Statistical quality control" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The hypergeometric test is often applied in the field of statistical quality control as a right-tailed test of significance with the hypotheses H0: pp01 and H1: p>p11 with p01p11. The parameter p represents the true fracti...
Burden or blessing in disguise: interactions in supply chain complexity
[ "Complexity", "Food processing industry", "Case study research", "Supply chain complexity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The negative performance impacts of supply chain complexity (SCC) such as higher costs (Wu et al., 2007), lower delivery performance (Vachon and Klassen, 2002), schedule attainment or customer satisfaction (Bozarth et al.,...
Worker resistance and response to the crisis of neo-liberal capitalism
[ "Union", "Workplace conflict", "Restructuring", "Western Europe", "Employee attitudes", "Economic models" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Since late 2007, capitalism in the global north has undergone its most profound crisis in a generation. This has taken the form of a sustained economic, ideological and political crisis for an advanced form of neo-liberalism....
Revisiting women managers and organisational acceptance
[ "Women", "Managers", "Career development", "Organizational culture", "Australia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The numbers of women in senior management or executive roles remain low in Australia, the UK and the USA (Wood, 2008), despite decades of equal opportunity and affirmative action legislation. There is no adequate explanation ...
An empirical survey of the perceived benefits of implementing the Mandatory Building Inspection Scheme (MBIS) in Hong Kong
[ "Hong Kong", "Building maintenance", "Building inspection", "Building management", "Building safety", "Old private buildings" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Buildings provide a safe and comfortable environment for living, working and other human activities. However, they will become dilapidated as time goes by and may pose danger to the residents or even the general public. Th...
Market power and relational conflicts in Russian retailing
[ "Russia", "Retailing", "Channel relationships", "Retailer‐supplier relationship", "Market power", "Negotiated exchange", "Relational conflicts" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Russian retail sector faced continual confrontations and conflicts in retailer-supplier relationships. These conflicts reflected a power imbalance that originated from a funda...
Purchase offering quality: The effects of buyer behaviour on organizational supplying behaviour
[ "Satisfaction", "Purchase offering quality", "Supplier value" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The purpose of this work is to develop a framework for understanding the effects of buyer behaviour on suppliers, with a view to improving external resource management through an enhanced ability to influence supplier behav...
Country-level corporate governance and foreign direct investment in Africa
[ "Foreign direct investment", "Ethical behaviour of firms", "African economies", "Country-level corporate governance", "Efficacy of corporate boards" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Foreign direct investment (FDI), a major constituent of globalization and of the world economy, is a driving force behind job creation, progress in technology, productivity enhancement and, eventually, economic growth (Anyanw...
Franchising decision support system for formulating a center positioning strategy
[ "Artificial intelligence", "Fuzzy logic", "Decision support", "Franchising model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In a highly competitive environment, the franchising business model becomes an efficient choice for companies to expand their business scale and market share at a rapid rate. In order to join the franchising business, inte...
Supply chain integration in omni-channel retailing: a human resource management perspective
[ "Human capital", "Supply chain integration", "Omni-channel" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Omni-channel retailing (OCR) is viewed as an enabler to facilitate retailers to increase customer loyalty, enhance customer satisfaction and improve economic performances (Melacini et al., 2018). However, the channel alignmen...
Marketing relationships in Brazil: trends in value strategies and capabilities
[ "Value analysis", "Corporate strategies", "Competences", "Emerging markets", "Economic trends" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Creating superior market value is fundamental for a company's long term success and survival (Slater and Olson, 1997; Woodruff, 1997). In the 1980's, the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group (IMP) recognized that in busi...
Regenerative futures
[ "Futures", "Forecasting", "Sustainable development", "Forward planning", "Regenerative" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The consequences of unsustainable human behaviours have resulted in the global arrival at an unprecedented environmental precipice. The impacts of climatic change necessitate a particularly urgent and collective response. Con...
Feeling responsible vs acting responsibly: contributions of a leadership programme
[ "Organisational development", "Penitentiary organisation", "Responsibility", "Strategy implementation", "Leadership development and training" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: \"Ethics is about actions and behaviour, and much less about principles\" (Hoebeke, 2004, p. 84).\n1. Introduction: This paper describes the impact of a leadership programme, four years after its implementation in a penal ins...
Curriculum innovation in undergraduate accounting degree programmes through "virtual internships"
[ "Online learning", "Accounting education", "Scenario-based learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Undergraduate degree programmes in accounting are expected to provide high-quality education that prepares students for entry into their chosen profession (Jackson et al., 2014; Kavanagh and Drennan, 2008). This general ex...
How organization justice and perceived organizational support facilitate employees' innovative behavior at work
[ "Organizational justice", "Innovative behaviour", "Organizational culture", "Affective commitment", "Perceived organization support" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Employees' innovative behavior (IB) has immense significance for organizational effectiveness and its survival, which ultimately leads an organization toward sustainable development (Oldham and Cummings, 1996; Scott and Bruce...