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Consumer information search and credence services: implications for service providers
[ "Credence services", "Consumer information", "Involvement", "Information searches", "Information sources", "Information management" ]
[ { "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: \"Credence goods\" are goods and services characterised by high levels of information asymmetry where it is th...
Understanding effects of salesperson locus of control
[ "Job satisfaction", "Structural equation modelling", "Emotional exhaustion", "Locus of control", "Role stress", "Sales force" ]
[ { "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: While the linkage between role stress and job satisfaction among salespeople has been studied widely, less att...
Potential of blockchain technology in supply chain management: a literature review
[ "Blockchain", "Smart contract", "E-commerce", "Global sourcing", "Supply-chain management", "Logistics management", "Disruptive technology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper reviews the existing literature on blockchain technology, present some trends and consider its potential in supply chain management (SCM). Blockchain technology is claimed to be one of the most important and innova...
Relative measures in service research
[ "Loyalty", "Customer satisfaction", "Share of wallet", "Relative metrics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nWhy use relative measures?: Customer loyalty has been identified as one of the most important determinants of company growth. Since measures such as customer satisfaction, repurchase intent, brand preference or likelihood to recommend have...
Emerging themes and theories in the sharing economy: a critical note for hospitality and tourism
[ "Sharing economy", "Hospitality and tourism", "Theories", "Themes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: With the global economic downturn and increasing consumer trust in e-commerce and online payments, there has been a major shift towards sharing and collaborative consumption. Belk (2007, p.126) argues that sharing in any g...
Understanding the determinants of mobile banking continuance usage intention
[ "Malaysia", "Mobile banking", "Continuance intention", "Technology continuance theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Nowadays, self-service technologies (SSTs) reshape the relationships between organisations and customers and are widely used by firms in order to better serve their customers and inherently gain a competitive edge (Vakulen...
The impact of restaurant patrons' flow experience on SNS satisfaction and offline purchase intentions
[ "Restaurant", "Flow experience", "SNS", "Offline purchase intention", "SNS satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: According to a recent survey, approximately 96 per cent of marketers indicated that they engage in social networking site (SNS) marketing and 92 per cent regard SNSs as important for businesses (Stelzner, 2015). SNS is an int...
Deconstructing Candy Crush: what instructional design can learn from game design
[ "Online learning", "Instructional design", "Universal Design for Learning", "Candy Crush", "Course design", "Game design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2013 it was estimated that Candy Crush Saga, released in 2012 by King Digital Entertainment, had over 100 million daily active users (Sinclair, 2013) and that it was the most downloaded game on the Google Play Store chart ...
Mix flexibility and volume flexibility in a build-to-order environment: Synergies and trade-offs
[ "Bespoke production", "Mass customization", "Response flexibility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: From consumer electronics (Trommer and Robertson, 1997) to automobile (Howard et al., 2001) to apparel (Aichlmayr, 2001), firms in these and many more industries are striving to adopt what has been dubbed a \"build-to-order...
Spatial convenience: bridging the gap between shopping malls and shopping strips
[ "Convenience", "Shopping", "Patronage", "Malls", "Retail centres" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Despite the emergence of various hybrid versions, shopping malls and shopping strips (also referred to as the downtown area, central business district, Main Street or the High Street) still serve as the two predominant ret...
Parallelization and analysis of selected numerical algorithms using OpenMP and Pluto on symmetric multiprocessing machine
[ "Algorithms", "OpenMP", "Auto parallelization", "Code parallelization", "Hand parallelization", "Pluto" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Parallelization is the act of designing a computer program to process data in parallel. Without parallelization, computer programs compute data serially, they solve one problem and then move to the next. If a computer prog...
"Fact" and "fiction": enlivening health care education
[ "Popular culture", "Health care education", "New public management", "Health care", "Education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: When faced with the prospect of delivering a leadership program for health care professionals, we were looking for some types of workplace incidents that could be used both to simulate these and stimulate the students' imagin...
The impact of the Greek economic recession on workplace learning
[ "Informal learning", "Human resource development", "Workplace learning", "E-learning", "Strategic communication", "Formal training" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: On August 21, 2018, the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, announced the end of almost ten years of bailout agreements with the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that totaled EUR288.7bn - the wo...
"Power to the workers": Empowering shop floor workers with worker-centric digital designs
[ "Innovation", "Information management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Changing demands in the global markets lead manufacturing companies to increasingly transform previously mass-produced items into individualized products (Koren, 2010), thereby making the flexibility of production practice...
Compromise is so ... compromised: Goldilocks, go home
[ "Research", "Gap analysis", "Marketing", "Consumers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: I read recently about a cat burglar who snuck into a luxurious house one night at about 3:00 am, got confused in the dark, tripped on a child's toy, hurt himself, and successfully sued the homeowner for medical damages. Presu...
Visitors' use of corridors in internal medicine wards: Modalities of territoriality, proxemics, and privacy while waiting
[ "Healthcare", "Privacy", "Post occupancy evaluation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This study analyzes visitors' waiting behavior in corridors of an internal medicine ward in Israel. Inpatient hospital corridors present unique challenges for spatial planning, as different users with conflicting needs share ...
Applying IT governance balanced scorecard and importance-performance analysis for providing IT governance strategy in university
[ "IT governance", "IT governance balanced scorecard", "Importance-performance analysis", "Thai universities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Information technology (IT) has become a vital and integral part of many business activities. The pervasive use of IT in many organizations brings IT governance to become a more significant issue. After the concept of IT go...
Food insecurity among college students in West Texas
[ "Determinants", "Food security", "College students", "Food insecurity", "Texas" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Food insecurity is a growing challenge among developed (Taylor and Loopstra, 2016; Loopstra et al., 2015) and developing countries (Melgar-Quinonez et al., 2006). Households in developing countries, however, seem to be more a...
Supply chain risk mitigation: modeling the enablers
[ "Supply chain management", "Risk management", "Modelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Today the key issues in supply chain management (SCM) are the formation of the supply chain and its efficient coordination with objectives of customer satisfaction and sustaining competency. This requires complex flow of info...
New product development best practice in SME and large organisations: theory vs practice
[ "United Kingdom", "Ireland", "Product development", "Best practice", "Large enterprises", "Small enterprises" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent 99 per cent of the total enterprises in the (European Union Commission, 2003). The ability of SMEs to innovate and successfully develop new products is crucial for both the ...
Improving resilience in high-risk organizations: principles for the design of innovative training situations
[ "Training", "Resilience", "Sensemaking", "Risk management", "Safety", "Enaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Safety is a major challenge in high-risk organizations, which are characterized by a critical vulnerability to specific hazards, combined with the likelihood and probability of them occurring. Hollnagel (2014) proposed a comp...
Internal elements that hinder a better industrial service offering
[ "Marketing", "Innovation", "Services", "Organizational processes", "Value added" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Industrial services are strategic for manufacturers (Araujo and Spring, 2006; Gebauer et al., 2007; Kumar and Kumar, 2004; Mathieu, 2001; Spreng et al., 2009; Vargo and Lusch, 2004) and are a trend in the industry (Kowalko...
Intangible resources influencing the international performance of professional service SMEs in an emerging market: Evidence from India
[ "International marketing", "Internationalization", "Entrepreneurialism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the last few decades, liberalization of markets along with advances in information and communication technologies has spurred the rise of emerging economies, where strong economic growth patterns above the world average ...
Determinants of user behaviour and recommendation in social networks : An integrative approach from the uses and gratifications perspective
[ "Loyalty", "Attitude", "Social networks", "Theory of Planned Behaviour", "Uses and Gratifications Theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Constant innovation in the information and communication industry has contributed to the development of new social communication platforms known as friend social networks. Friend social networks are spaces for exchanging i...
Questioning: a path to student learning experience
[ "Dialogue", "Motivation", "Educational objectives", "Knowledge and beliefs", "Learning and achievement", "Questioning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Contemporary literature indicates that tutors' questions are of little value unless they have some impact on the performance of students (Beyer, 1997; Dantonio and Besienherz, 2001; Collay, 2011; McDonald, 2010). For examp...
The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative: education, advocacy and inspiration for libraries
[ "Interlending", "Document delivery", "Resource sharing", "Future of libraries" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nMission: Libraries and librarians enjoy an established role and an accepted place in society - to connect people with information. Despite any and all other changes in the information world, or in the world at large, that purpose remains a...
Sustainable healthcare design: Existing challenges and future directions for an environmental, economic, and social approach to sustainability
[ "Sustainability", "Healthcare", "Energy saving", "Sustainable buildings", "Evidence-based design", "LEED certification" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The healthcare industry strives to promote high-quality, safe services (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2008). At the same time, the healthcare industry - a US$2.8 trillon industry in the USA (Centers for Medic...
Financial applications of ARMA models with GARCH errors
[ "Volatility", "Forecasting", "Estimation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Recently there has been growing interest in the use of non-linear time series models in finance and economics (see Granger, 1998; Thavaneswaran et al., 2005a). Many financial series, such as returns on stocks and foreign exch...
Perceived organizational culture and engagement: the mediating role of authenticity
[ "Authenticity", "Organizational culture", "Engagement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Senior executives are starting to recognize the potential implications of authentic behaviors at work as they relate to motivation and productivity. Authenticity can be defined as a consistency between one's external expressi...
The place of leadership in turnaround schools: Insights from organizational recovery in the public and private sectors
[ "Leadership", "Turnarounds", "Schools", "Public sector organizations", "Private sector organizations", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the last decade, the notion of turning around failing schools has burst onto the educational landscape in various countries throughout the world. Powered by government accountability systems and a growing body of knowled...
An analysis of critical information technology issues facing organizations
[ "Information systems", "Information technology success variables", "Longitudinal", "Organization size", "Critical", "Important", "Information technology issues", "Critical issues", "Company size", "Longitudinal analysis", "Information technology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Information technology (IT) continues to have a mixed record with regard to performance and user satisfaction. Trading Economics (2011) estimated that nearly 9 percent of our gross national product is spent on IT (Trading E...
Digital transformation: harnessing digital technologies for the next generation of services
[ "Big Data", "Strategy", "Customer value", "Customer service", "Service encounters", "Business model", "Digital", "Service", "Customer experience", "Digital economy", "Digital transformation strategy", "Data-driven business models", "Machine learning", "AI", "Digital technologies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Customer expectations in both the business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) worlds are being ramped up as market entrants endlessly innovate to enhance their services. However, companies can also see the oppor...
Accounting without accounting: Informational proxies and the construction of organisational discourses
[ "Management accounting", "Business discourses", "Discourse theory", "Rhetoric analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Organisations are complex networks of interconnected discourses. Sets of complementary and conflicting discursive articulations operate within an organisation, including growth, entrepreneurship, strategy, management, prod...
The impact of forecast information quality on supply chain performance
[ "Forecasting", "Information", "Quality", "Supply chain management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Several studies and authors have emphasized the importance of sharing information between customers and suppliers in supply chains, especially point-of-sale (POS) and forecast data (Stank et al., 1996; Kelle and Akbulut, 2005...
An investigational analysis on forecasting intraday values
[ "Forecasting", "Intraday", "Neural network", "Support vector regression", "MARSPlines", "High frequency" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: There is a belief that the stock market is the vibrant place of investing for good returns. To get a good return, the individual should know about the operations of the stock market, movements of the stock price and other ...
BYOD-related innovations and organizational change for entrepreneurs and their employees in SMEs: The identification of a twofold security paradox
[ "Change", "Innovation", "SME", "Entrepreneur", "BYOD", "Security paradox" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The development of mobile technologies is an important driver of organizational change (Bayerl et al., 2013) that disrupts work practices and is increasingly blurring the boundaries between private and professional lives. ...
Benchmarking success of building maintenance projects
[ "Buildings", "Critical success factors", "Maintenance programmes", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Buildings have been considered as one of the most valuable assets of a nation to provide people with shelter and facilities for work and leisure. As time passes by, maintenance of buildings becomes an invaluable process in re...
Multiple criteria decision-making techniques in higher education
[ "Higher education", "Resource allocation", "Performance measurement (quality)", "Decision making" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Intellectual capital is the major ingredient of successful companies or nations. The more intellectual capital a company or a nation possesses, the more competitiveness it has. In order to achieve this goal, a company may ...
Incorporation of health consciousness into the technology readiness and acceptance model to predict app download and usage intentions
[ "Technology readiness", "Mobile apps", "Technology readiness and acceptance model", "MHealth", "Health consciousness", "Dietary and fitness apps" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Increasing rates of smartphone ownership and the high penetration of internet access have led to the pervasiveness of various smartphone apps using mainly either Android or Apple platforms (Carter and Yeo, 2016). West et a...
Assessment of efficiency of manual and non-manual human resources for tourist hotel industry: An application of the hybrid DEA model
[ "Performance measurement", "Human resource management", "Hotel industry", "Labour utilization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the wake of a more lax and open tourism policy toward visitors from mainland China, Taiwan's tourist hotel industry has boomed over the years to accommodate the new influx of eager travelers. According to public statist...
The development of school autonomy and accountability in Hong Kong: Multiple changes in governance, work, curriculum, and learning
[ "Accountability", "Education reform", "School autonomy", "School-based management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The government, which provides huge funding to aided schools, has a right to regulate the management of aided schools for the purpose of accountability [...] Autonomy cannot therefore be an absolute right\nThe development of ...
Depression affecting work performance: gender differentials across occupations
[ "Gender", "Occupations", "Depression affecting work performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The prevalence of mental health problems such as depression, bad nerves, stress and anxiety, among workers is of increasing concern in industrialized countries (ILO, 2000). These afflictions are a major cause of sickness abse...
Multidimensional impact of food security on household welfare: evidences from a household survey in three Indian states
[ "Endogenous switching regression", "Household welfare", "Food consumption score", "Income transfer", "National Food Security Act" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The basic objective of any public welfare policy is to improve the welfare of the intended beneficiaries while creating capabilities towards exercising entitlements (Sen, 1985). It carries critical significance particularly f...
Beyond traditional word-of-mouth: An expanded model of customer-driven influence
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Customer satisfaction", "Customer‐driven influence", "Word‐of‐mouth", "Goal theory", "Customer‐to‐customer interactions", "Dual processing", "Impulsive behavior", "Reflective behavior" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Companies are increasingly aware that their communications with customers about their brands, products, and services are often disrupted by customer-to-customer interactions. Customers exchange information about their experie...
International comparisons of patients' views on quality of care
[ "Patient care", "National cultures", "Surveys" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Quality of care is considered a multidimensional concept that has been given different meanings in the literature. Patients' opinion on the care received may be seen as one aspect of quality of care and an endpoint in quality...
The differentiated effects of CSR actions in the service industry
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Event study", "Market value", "Services firms" ]
[ { "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: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has received considerable scholarly attention over the decades, becoming an i...
What does healthy eating mean? Australian teachers' perceptions of healthy eating in secondary school curricula
[ "Curriculum", "Qualitative methods", "Teachers", "Food and nutrition", "School health promotion", "Dietary behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is renewed interest in secondary school food and nutrition education in many countries because of the impact that adolescent food behaviours have on their cognitive performance, diet quality, and health trajectories (Co...
Store managers - the seismographs in shopping centres
[ "Boundary spanning", "Location", "Shopping centre", "Store manager", "Retail environment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Store managers and shopping centres\nTheoretical framework: A transposition of Brass et al.'s (2004) view on networks to the context of shopping centres emphasises that actors (or nodes), that is, stores as a representation o...
Revisiting native speaking teachers of English in Hong Kong: An interpretivist policy study of change over time
[ "Hong Kong", "Educational reform", "Language education policy", "Native-speaking teachers", "Non-native-speaking teachers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 1997, Joseph Boyle wrote in the pages of Language and Education his critique of the Hong Kong Government's ten year-old policy of recruiting native-speaking teachers (NSTs) of English language into secondary schools Boyle ...
Engaging m-commerce adopters in India: Exploring the two ends of the adoption continuum across four m-commerce categories
[ "India", "Content delivery m-commerce" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: M-commerce services have permeated both the business and personal lives of consumers across the globe, with the Asian countries leading the track (Bina and Giaglis, 2007; Okazaki, 2006). M-commerce not only impacts the mar...
Religion and accounting texts in eighteenth century Scotland: Organizational practices and a culture of accountability
[ "Religion", "Scotland", "Christianity", "Accountability", "Accounting history", "Presbyterianism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Work on the impact of religion on accounting has challenged a division between the sacred and the profane, where accounting is seen to be proper to the latter (Laughlin, 1988; Booth, 1993; Carmona and Ezzamel, 2006; McPhail e...
Influence of organizational culture on quality healthcare delivery
[ "Organizational culture", "Quality of care", "Health services", "Managers", "Quality costs", "Ireland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nLiterature review: The literature identifies the many and varied relationships between culture and health care. These relationships contribute to the multidisciplinary perspectives that assist us in reaching an understanding of culture and...
Ways to maximize the triple bottom line of the telecommunication industry in Malaysia: The potentials of spiritual well-being through spiritual leadership
[ "Triple bottom line", "Workplace spirituality", "Spiritual leadership", "Spiritual well-being" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Tremendous challenges are confronted by organizations nowadays on the path to success (Bigliardi et al., 2012), which are forcing them to acknowledge the need to develop a business model that emphasizes on ethical leadership,...
The association between controls, performance measures and performance
[ "Organisational performance", "Intensity of controls", "Mutidimensional performance measures" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: While many management control system (MCS) studies have focussed on Simons's (1995) four levers of controls (i.e. belief, boundary, interactive and diagnostic) (Abernethy and Brownell, 1999; Bisbe and Otley, 2004; Henri, 2006...
Removing the boardroom glass ceiling
[ "Company board rooms", "Gender imbalance", "Quotas", "Dual careers", "Female management career development", "Boards", "Boards of directors", "Gender", "Sexual discrimination" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Pressure to remove the glass ceiling which is seen to prevent or inhibit women from becoming members of the boards of UK companies has been building over the past year. This pressure comes from women themselves, from sharehol...
Environmental sustainability features in large university campuses: Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) as a model of green university
[ "Sustainability", "Green campus", "Carbon foot print", "Jordan University of Science and Technology", "Semiarid region" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Institutes of higher education worldwide are change agents for sustainability (Huang and Lee, 2014) and are expected to be community role models and lead efforts in social and environmental responsibility. By the end of th...
Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature; 94
[ "Academic libraries", "Document delivery", "Copyright law", "Open access", "Higher education", "Big deals" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: After 15 years, this will be my last literature review as well as the last issue that I will edit. At 75, it is time to put down the editor's pen and turn to pastures new. All those books to read, those walks to walk, places ...
Public involvement in health priority setting: future challenges for policy, research and society
[ "Legitimacy", "Priority setting", "Public participation", "Authentic representation", "Equitable health coverage" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The articles in this special issue demonstrate that public involvement in health priority setting remains a complex subject matter in which both the modes and the effects of participatory endeavours are highly contextualized....
A technology enabler for green machining: minimum quantity lubrication (MQL)
[ "Lubrication", "Lubricating systems", "Cooling systems" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Shortly after the Industrial Revolution in America, Frederick Winslow Taylor flooded the tool-work interface with a heavy stream of water and discovered that the cutting speed could be increased by a factor of 2 or 3. This in...
Inter-organizational learning across levels: an object-oriented approach
[ "Learning organizations", "Networking", "Learning methods", "Individual psychology", "Psychology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The keen interest in inter-organizational collaboration has prompted researchers to discuss and reconsider the levels of analysis (Brass et al., 2004; Gittel and Weiss, 2004; Kekale and Viitala, 2003; Easterby-Smith et al., 2...
Developing international managers: the contribution of cultural experience to learning
[ "Emotional intelligence", "Cultural adaptation", "International managers", "Cultural experience", "Cultural intelligence", "Intercultural capability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The phenomenon of globalisation has challenged the education objectives of governments and universities, with the advent of borderless education (Wood et al., 2005). This has required courses for the development of internatio...
What do strategists mean when they talk about risk?
[ "Risk management", "Strategic management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Few debates about strategy fail to mention risk. Yet risk is a neglected idea in much formal strategic thinking. The classic summary of major contributions from the 1970s and 1980s, Weitz and Wensley's Readings in Strategic M...
Introduction of life cycle assessment and sustainability concepts in chemical engineering curricula
[ "Education", "Employability", "Carbon footprint", "Key transferable skills", "Sustainable pedagogy", "Teaching LCA" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Sustainable development was defined in 1987 as \"development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs\" (WCDE, 1987). This concept has evolved durin...
Modeling the CSR barriers in manufacturing industries
[ "India", "Corporate social responsibility", "Manufacturing organizations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the contemporary age of climate changing conditions, global warming, and increasing interdependence among economies, organizations are facing huge pressure to be more responsible for their actions and get involved in co...
Independent and interdependent self-views and their influence on clothing consumption
[ "Individual psychology", "Consumer behaviour", "Bulgaria", "Market economy", "Emerging markets", "Eastern Europe" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It is widely acknowledged that cultural context has an important influence on consumer behaviour (Schiffman and Kanuk, 2010). The transforming socio-cultural, economic, and political organisation of Eastern European societies...
Experiencing documents
[ "Museums", "Transactions", "Documents", "Numinous", "Reader response", "Rosenblatt", "John Dewey" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The world is filled with documents - physical things that signify. Everywhere we look there are documents - in our homes, our libraries, our museums, our daily path to work. There are, in fact, so many documents in our lives ...
Happiness and productivity in the workplace: The role of transformational leadership
[ "Transformational leadership", "Employee well‐being", "Work engagement", "Career success", "Employees", "Employees attitudes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Intense competition and economic uncertainty are prevailing characteristics of today's business world. Such a challenging context demands rigorous endeavor on the part of any firm aiming to acquire or sustain a competitive ed...
How to strengthen the business model of an Italian family food business
[ "Innovation", "Cultural identity", "Tradition", "Food sector", "Family businesses", "Territory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The food sector is a relevant context in many countries because of its impact in terms of company revenues and employment (Giacosa, Giachino, Bertoldi and Stupino, 2014; Vrontis et al., 2016). Mostly - and Italy is a good ...
Past, present and future challenges in health care priority setting: Findings from an international expert survey
[ "Strategic management", "Hospital management", "Resource management", "Health and medicine", "Health authorities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Whether faced with times of surplus that enable investment or times of scarcity that necessitate disinvestment, all organizations must face the difficult task of priority setting. In health care, this exercise can prove to...
Charity ethical investments in Norway and the UK: A comparative institutional analysis including the impact of a sovereign wealth fund
[ "Institutional theory", "Charities", "Ethical investment", "Sovereign wealth fund" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper examines charity ethical investment practices in two distinctive institutional fields - Norway and the UK. Drawing on the Charity Commission for England and Wales (Charity Commission, 2011) we define ethical inv...
Comparing the performance of national public sectors: conceptual problems
[ "Governance", "Performance (public administration)", "Europe" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The demand for indicators that allow comparing the performance of countries' public sectors internationally is increasing. This trend existed for some time already in the development community, where such indicators are used ...
Quantitative research in tourism and hospitality: an agenda for best-practice recommendations
[ "Quantitative research", "Tourism and hospitality", "Best-practice recommendations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Interest in quantitative methodologies across various areas of tourism and hospitality research has increased significantly in recent years. To provide some best-practice recommendations, this article identifies primary ar...
Copac developments and the Copac Collection Management service
[ "Academic libraries", "Collection development", "Collaborative collection management", "National monograph strategy", "Union catalogues" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Copac is a freely available union catalogue, providing access to the merged catalogues of an increasing number of national, academic and research libraries within the UK and Ireland[1]. Our contributors range from the British...
Investigating preferred vs actual working hours: Are workers with disabilities more restricted?
[ "Work-life balance", "Disability", "Mismatch", "Working hours", "Actual hours", "Preferred hours" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: One of the most important elements of a job that employees consider is the number of working hours required. This has huge effects on life outside of the job and finding a work-life balance. Ideally, the number of hours an em...
Responding to service failures with prevention framed donations
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Service recovery", "CSR", "Service failures", "Regulatory focus", "Donation", "Prevention", "Promotion" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Failures are inevitable during service delivery (Tax and Brown, 1998). It is therefore no surprise that in recent decades a large number of normative and positive investigations into service recovery or the actions an organiz...
Leadership style and the process of organizational change
[ "Change", "Structural equation modelling", "Transformational leadership", "Change process", "Recipient change reaction", "Transactional leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Organizational change has become the rule rather than the exception for many organizations (Kieselbach et al., 2009). At the organizational level, change has been associated with intention to quit (Holt et al., 2007; Oreg, 20...
Where is the fun in that? Understanding employees and where they find excitement at work
[ "Workplace", "Employee relations", "Organizations", "Human resources", "Fun" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nReview: The horror of the office Christmas party. The sheer terror of the Summer work barbecue. The unfathomable awfulness of the corporate celebration. Everyone has undergone these rituals and everyone tends to agree that they are forced,...
Breaking the myths on emerging consumers in retailing
[ "Retailing", "Low pay", "Consumer behaviour", "South America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The low-income segment in Latin America is estimated in 250 million of consumers who spend around $120.000 million annually only in consumer products, representing a significant portion of \"emerging markets\". Additionally, ...
End-user perspectives on use of project extranets in construction organisations
[ "Project management", "Internet", "Electronic commerce" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: With the proliferation of the internet, companies across several industries are increasingly leveraging the internet to achieve competitive advantage (Cheng et al., 2003). The construction industry is no exception. Web-based ...
Brand credibility, customer loyalty and the role of religious orientation
[ "Pakistan", "Consumer behaviour", "Brand loyalty", "Marketing competitiveness", "Relationship marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Customer experiences are major driving forces behind their decision-making related to brand re-purchase and re-use. Majority of companies have failed to adopt the marketing mix that dwells upon the needs of the consumers, a...
Policing class and race in urban America
[ "United States of America", "Policing", "Social class", "Race", "Social control", "Police force strength", "Conflict theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Social scientists have long tried to identify what determines police force strength, especially in the USA (Jackson, 1989; Koper et al., 2001; Sever, 2003; Stults and Baumer, 2007). Conflict theory (Turk, 1969) is a core theo...
When and how country reputation stimulates export volume
[ "Exports", "Empirical study", "Imports", "Trade" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Companies and countries rely on international trade - exports in particular - to grow (Czinkota and Ronkainen, 2003, 2011). As a result, many managers and policy makers are looking for new ways to stimulate export volume. For...
Challenging trickle-down approach: Modelling and simulation of public expenditure and human development - the case of Pakistan
[ "Human resource development", "Public policy", "Public finance", "Economic growth", "Pakistan" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The concept of human development (HD) puts people at the center stage of all aspects of the development planning. It is a process of enlarging people's choices by expanding human capabilities and functioning allowing them \...
Processes of vulnerability in England? Place, poverty and susceptibility
[ "Place", "Poverty", "Vulnerability", "Disasters", "Process", "Susceptibility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: On-going conditions of austerity in England give rise to concern regarding the possible perpetration of poverty[1]. The consequent contribution that poverty may make to causative processes of physical and socio-economic vulne...
Integrated resort employee competencies: a Macau perspective
[ "Competency", "Employee development", "Human resources", "Integrated resort", "Mismatch" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent decades, the emergence of \"integrated resorts\" (IRs) has attracted the world's attention due to the significant financial benefits generated by such operations (Eadington and Doyle, 2009). An \"IR\" is a multi-pur...
Workplace spirituality governance: impact on customer orientation and salesperson performance
[ "Salesforce", "Customer orientation", "Sales management", "Sales strategies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent years, an increasing number of incidents in which salespeople mistreat customers has damaged customers' confidence in companies. Huge fines have been imposed on a number of companies on charges of mis-selling, which...
Applications of benchmarking and classification framework for supplier risk management
[ "Performance measurement", "Classification", "Benchmarking", "Business performance", "Supplier management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The need for process improvement is apparent in all organizations (Kuula and Putkiranta, 2012). Continuous process improvement reflects effective management processes which consists of measurement, analysis, and improvement (...
Linking improvisational behavior to customer satisfaction: the relational dynamics
[ "Customer satisfaction", "Exercised coercive power", "Industrial selling", "Relationship cordiality", "Salesperson improvisation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the current marketing environment, conditions in firms can change quickly (Gurhan-Canli et al., 2016). Thus, industrial customers' needs and the demands they make on salespersons are often set in a context of surprise and ...
A relationship between corporate sustainability and organizational change (part two)
[ "Transformation", "Corporate sustainability", "Corporate social responsibility", "Change management", "Business culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: During the past several decades, firms have seen an increasing need to manage an ever rougher sea of challenges such as technology, economic, industry growth and decline, competition, market, and environment (Rosenberg and Mo...
Agreement on service performance ratings between frontline employees and their supervisor
[ "Performance", "Employee", "Supervisor" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the service industry, the contribution of individual employees matters given firms' heavy dependence on frontline employees to deliver quality services. Service workers are boundary spanners that represent their company...
Kouzes and Posner's transformational leadership model in practice: The case of Jordanian schools
[ "Leadership", "Transformational leadership", "Jordan", "Public schools" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In the past three decades, changes in technology, economics, social, political, and cultural aspects of the world have imposed changes and forced reforms on many developed countries' educational systems. Surprisingly, in the ...
Guanxi as impetus? Career exploration in China and the United States
[ "Social interaction", "Culture", "Careers", "Jobs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Social networks have often been considered an important means to search for employment. Handbooks on effective job search commonly urge job seekers to tap their social networks to identify employment opportunities through inf...
Beyond branding: from abstraction to cubism
[ "Brands", "Customer relations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: There is an adage in marketing - indeed it may be the adage - that it pays to be close to the customer, suggesting a communion between the customer and the organization in an almost intimate way with both sides willing to ope...
Growth expectations for side activities in rural areas
[ "Side activities", "Growth expectations", "Rural small businesses", "Rural development", "The Netherlands", "Small enterprises" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent years, diversification of economic activities has become a prominent theme in rural development studies (Bezemer et al., 2003; O'Connor et al., 2006). The wide range of emerging activities in rural areas offers the ...
Reliability test plan for a series system with variable failure rates
[ "Reliability", "Optimization", "Exponential distribution", "Consumer’s risk", "Life testing", "Producer’s risk" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: While designing reliability test plans for any system (series/parallel or mixed), the primary objective is to evaluate the reliability of the system and demonstrate that it will perform all intended functions satisfactoril...
Safety management module to create social sustainability skills
[ "Social sustainability", "Safety", "Engineering education", "Discipline-specific engineering skills" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Naval architecture is a mechanical engineering discipline that considers (technical) systems for maritime use; such systems include boats, ships, offshore platforms and underwater systems. The use of these systems, for exa...
UNDP on good governance
[ "Individual development", "Governance", "Society", "State", "Government" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The term, \"good governance\" was first mentioned, causally, in the World Bank's (1989) report: Sub-Sahara Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth - A Long-Term Perspective Study. Within a decade, the idea crystallized in...
Unified trust establishment by leveraging remote attestation - modeling and analysis
[ "Trust", "Remote attestation", "Integrity measurement", "TPM", "Formulization", "Pervasive computing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nI. Introduction: Pervasive computing coined by Weiser (1991) is an emerging research field that has brought innovative concepts and ideas in computer science. It provides ambient services and applications that allow users, devices, and app...
The environment-strategy-structure fit and performance of industrial servitized SMEs
[ "Financial performance", "Organizational design", "Environmental factors", "Servitization strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The process of \"servitization,\" introduced by Vandermerwe and Rada (1988), is defined as the transformational process of shifting from a product-centric business model to a service-centric approach. Servitization is cons...
The "silent killers" of a STEM-professional woman's career
[ "STEM", "Intersectionality", "Discourses", "Anchor points", "Critical sensemaking framework" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Humans have been fascinated with the idea of space and its exploration since we first looked up at the stars and wondered about them. The space industry, as we know it today, grew from this curiosity to attempts to control th...