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Improving sustainability in the financing of large infrastructure projects: what role for leaders?
[ "Leadership", "Finance", "Corporate social responsibility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Large dams are arguably the most controversial structures built by humans. Their controversial nature stems in particular from their vast impacts on surrounding communities (e.g., 1.3 million people had to be resettled for th...
Exploring the sustainable logistics innovation process
[ "Case study", "Innovation management", "Innovation process", "Sustainable logistics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Innovation is a key driver to sustainability in supply chains (Roscoe et al., 2016). Innovations within sustainability can significantly affect firm performance due to their positive impact on market share and reputation (...
Understanding intercultural dynamics: Insights from competition and cooperation in complex contexts
[ "Cross-cultural research", "Cross-cultural management", "Conflict across cultures", "Intercultural (cross-cultural) interactions", "Intercultural collaboration", "Intercultural competencies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Current cross-cultural management research has a decidedly comparative flavor; we tend to compare management practices in one nation vis-a-vis another. The globalization of trade and an increasingly mobile international workf...
Personality and occupational specialty: An examination of medical specialties using Holland's RIASEC model
[ "Personality", "Career development", "Medical personnel" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: How do personality traits influence people's vocational behavior once they have chosen an occupation? There is a wealth of research evidence examining the influences of personality on occupational interests and choices. Studi...
A survey of alternative livelihood options for Hong Kong's fishers
[ "Hong Kong", "Fisheries", "Stakeholder analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Fisheries worldwide are being overexploited, with global catches declining since the late 1980s (Pauly et al., 2002). Over half of the world's marine fish stocks are considered to be either fully exploited, overexploited, or ...
Improving to Smart Organization: An integrated ISM and fuzzy-MICMAC modelling of barriers
[ "Barriers", "Fuzzy-MICMAC", "Integrated model", "Interpretative structural modelling", "Smart organization", "Structural modelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Within the European Commission's research program, \"Information Society Technologies,\" the term \"smart organization\" was coined for organizations that are knowledge-driven, internet-worked and dynamically adaptive to n...
How can non-technical end users effectively test their spreadsheets?
[ "Decision support systems", "User participation", "End user", "Information Systems Development (ISD)", "Quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Software development involves a series of production activities in which there are many opportunities to make mistakes (Boehm and Basili, 2001). Following the advent of PCs in the 1980s and the proliferation of end-user co...
Manager mindsets and employee organizational citizenship behaviours
[ "Organizational citizenship behaviour", "Multilevel analysis", "Coaching behaviour", "Implicit person theories" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In her best-selling book, Mindset, Dweck (2006) exemplified the importance of mindsets in business. Her book provides several examples of how leaders with incremental mindsets, those who assume people's traits can and do chan...
Accrual management as an indication of money laundering through legally registered Mafia firms in Italy
[ "Fraud", "Money laundering", "Discretionary accruals", "Legally registered Mafia firms" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper aims to understand whether accounting information can contribute to understanding the mechanisms of criminal funding and money laundering in specific socio-economic and political contexts. On this matter, Compin...
Research in EE and ESD in Portuguese public universities
[ "PhD dissertations", "State of the art", "Education for sustainable developement", "Environmental education", "Portuguese universities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In Portugal, the incorporation of environmental education (EE) as a teaching and learning issue gained visibility after the Stockholm Conference held in 1972 (Teixeira, 2003). Besides, the implementation of an environmental p...
An econophysics non-monetized theory of value: The case of micro-finance in Sub-Saharan Africa
[ "Value", "Modelling", "Economic theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Mobile phones are radically transforming micro-finance in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Kenya, in particular. Because so much of the population is poor, by Western standards, individuals have not had access to the incumbent banking...
The role of collaborative knowledge building in the co-creation of artifacts: influencing factors and propositions
[ "Information technology", "Knowledge creation", "Knowledge management systems", "Knowledge transfer", "Knowledge management", "Knowledge sharing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Collaborative knowledge building refers to social collective processes carried out to produce artifacts in organizations (Singh et al., 2009). Artifacts represent crucial vehicles of human activities as well as mediated inter...
A study of event quality, destination image, perceived value, tourist satisfaction, and destination loyalty among sport tourists
[ "Destination image", "Perceived value", "Tourist satisfaction", "Destination loyalty", "Event quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Many countries and regions are fiercely competing to obtain advantage in the tourism industry (Gibson et al., 2008), and loyalty is of great significance in terms of survival of the fittest and future success of a destination...
Spatio-temporal dynamics of web pages diffused in WeChat
[ "WeChat", "Diffusion velocity", "Geo-spatio dynamics", "Spatio-temporal popularity", "Temporal dynamics", "Topological analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The rise of social media facilitates people to view or share blogs, images, videos and other user-generated contents. Although a large number of contents are produced every day in social media, only a few of them have pote...
Prominent retailing authors and institutions: 2009-2015
[ "Institutions", "Retailing", "Research productivity", "Research impact", "Authors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Within the marketing domain, a rapidly growing and changing discipline is retailing. According to a PWC/National Retail Federation (2014) report, retailing contributes approximately 42 million jobs and over $2.5 trillion in G...
Valproate in acute mania: is our practice evidence based?
[ "Valproate", "Mania", "Bipolar disorder", "Evidence‐based guidelines", "Drug administration", "Auditing guidelines", "Clinical audit", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: All guidelines recommend that a manic episode requires pharmacological treatment in an appropriate clinical setting. Monotherapy with valproate or an antipsychotic agent is recommended as first-line treatment for acute mania ...
El Al soars from crisis to success: Top management lead learning process
[ "Learning mechanism", "Organizational learning", "Corporate branding", "Brand awareness", "Learning organizations", "Israel", "Organizational performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nCognitive, structural and procedural mechanisms: When Israeli airline El Al became a private company in January 2005 after five decades as the government-owned national carrier, the new owners decided that a new service culture should be a...
Financial distress determinants among SMEs: empirical evidence from Sweden
[ "Financial distress", "Risk buffer", "Global financial crisis", "SMEs", "Cross-sectional sample" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in economic growth, wealth creation, supply of products and services and employment generation. It is also well known that, regardless of their business envi...
Impact of knowledge enabling factors on organizational effectiveness in construction companies
[ "Construction industry", "Knowledge management", "Organizational effectiveness", "Construction companies", "Knowledge enabling factors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In today's highly competitive environment, knowledge is increasingly considered as a valuable organizational asset (Anantatmula and Kanungo, 2010; Lee and Wong, 2015; Chen and Liang, 2016; Inkinen et al., 2017). Managing k...
Applying configurational theory to build a typology of ethnocentric consumers
[ "Methods", "Buying", "Consumer ethnocentrism", "Buyers", "FsQCA", "Causal recipe", "MRA" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Consumer ethnocentrism (CE) is a popular construct in international marketing research that continues to receive attention from researchers (e.g. Alden et al., 2013; Cleveland et al., 2009; Evanschitzky et al., 2008; Josiasse...
Study of Greek workers shows staffing policies benefit all ages, but especially younger employees
[ "Greece", "Staffing", "Ageing workforces" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A study of 1,254 employees in Greece has demonstrated the effectiveness of staffing practices for all ages, but the results indicated they were more helpful for younger than older employees. The paper is the first to examine ...
Are managerial women in "extreme jobs" disadvantaged?
[ "Hours of work", "Women", "Gender", "Job satisfaction", "Performance levels", "Managers", "Canada" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Interest in the effects of long work hours and work intensity has increased over the past ten years (Burke, 2007; Dembe, 2005; Schor, 1991; Spurgeon et al., 1997; van der Hulst, 2003). This has likely resulted from the influx...
British Food Journal: gaining global ground
[ "Bibliometrics", "Internationalization", "British Food Journal", "Editorial policy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This editorial reviews the publications in the British Food Journal (BFJ) over the past 11 years whilst under the stewardship of the present editor. During this time the journal has further advanced onto the international sta...
Earthmoving trucks condition level prediction using neural networks
[ "Artificial neural networks", "Condition prediction", "Discriminant analysis", "Earthmoving", "Trucks" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Earthmoving activities form part of almost all civil projects and their successful materialization is heavily dependent on the efficient use of earthmoving equipment. However, the earthmoving equipment deteriorates over time ...
Innovation as a key to strengthen the effect of relationship benefits on loyalty in retailing
[ "Loyalty", "Relationship benefits", "Relationship innovation", "Retailing innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The empirical investigation in the context of contingency theory suggests that the level of dynamism in the environment generated through innovation is a key factor in a firm's strategic decisions (Miller, 1987; Miller and...
Reply to: "Analysing accounting discourse: avoiding the 'fallacy of internalism'"
[ "Lauguage", "Accounting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In \"Analysing accounting discourse: avoiding the 'fallacy of internalism'\", Ferguson (2007) elaborates a critique of critical discourse analysis (CDA) focusing especially on the work of Norman Fairclough and, as an example ...
Analyzing the social capital value chain in community network interfaces
[ "Man machine interface", "Design", "Interface management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Community networks implement technology to tie together diverse members. Definitions of community networks and related terminology can be confusing. Mynatt et al. (1997) describe network communities as technology-mediated env...
The process of export information exploitation in French and Romanian SMEs
[ "France", "Romania", "Small and medium‐sized enterprises", "Exports", "Information management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In response to increasing levels of globalization, more and more firms, regardless of their size, search beyond their domestic markets, not just to expand but also to ensure their very survival. In a global economy, the capac...
Practice or lip service: exploring collaboration perspectives in purchasing
[ "Collaboration", "Procurement", "Grounded theory", "Supply chain management", "Purchasing", "Supply chain relationships" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Supply chain management (SCM) theory has developed in recent decades to a point where close relationships with external partners are expected as the norm rather than an opportunity to gain a competitive advantage. It is a ...
The alignment of appropriate firm and supply strategies for competitive advantage
[ "Transaction costs", "Economics", "Resources", "Supply", "Structural theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The strategic nature of supply has been debated for several decades, Farmer (1972) began the debate in the UK in the 1970s questioning why purchasing was not linked to the corporate strategy of the firm (Ellram and Carr, 1994...
Cultural adaptation of web design services as critical success factor for business excellence : A cross-cultural study of Portuguese, Brazilian, Angolan and Macanese web sites
[ "Cross-cultural management", "Business excellence", "International marketing", "Cultural adaptation", "Web design services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The market globalization made cultural adaptation of multinational companies' web sites an important issue. The cross-cultural researches state that cultural adaptation of web sites improves effectiveness of companies' int...
Strategy's main failure: the extermination of livelihood?
[ "Cost‐based strategies", "Non‐cost‐based strategies", "Unemployment", "Imagination", "Labor cost", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Business strategies are famously divided by Michael Porter into two types: cost-based strategies, and non-cost-based strategies. I would submit that cost-based strategies are usually status-quo strategies. In order to beat a ...
On network externalities, e-business adoption and information asymmetry
[ "Computer networks", "Electronic commerce", "Information management", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Described as a demand-side economy of scale (Besen and Farrell, 1994), network externalities refer to the value of a network created as a by-product of an existing installed base (Kauffman and Wang, 2002) from which the user ...
Intervention analysis and classification: key to health outcomes optimization
[ "Intervention", "Healthcare measures", "Interrupted time series", "Intervention analysis", "Outcome optimization", "Robust-ITS", "Decay time", "Doubling time" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Current healthcare's driving force is aimed at achieving: improved patient experience; improved population health; and reducing costs (Tinker, 2016) - a goal that can be summarized as \"outcomes improvement\" (Merkley et al.,...
Exploring integrated thinking in integrated reporting - an exploratory study in Australia
[ "Sustainability", "Accounting", "Integrated reporting", "Integrated thinking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The International Integrated Reporting Council's (IIRC's) framework for integrated reporting (IR) has attracted academic attention in both mainstream corporate reporting and intellectual capital (IC) research. The IIRC was...
A price worth paying? Women and work - choice, constraint or satisficing
[ "Women", "Gender", "Employment", "Career satisfaction", "Individual perception", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Are women held back or holding back? Do women choose their jobs/careers or are they structurally or normatively constrained? This article sheds fresh light on these questions and contributes to an on-going debate that has ess...
The use of MOOCs in transnational higher education for accreditation of prior learning, programme delivery, and professional development
[ "MOOCs", "APL", "International branch campuses", "Transnational higher education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Although the literature pertaining to massive open online courses (MOOCs) falls within a wide spectrum of views, two distinct camps have emerged: one suggests that MOOCs herald the demise of higher education as we know it (Sh...
Corporate social responsibility and firms' cost of equity: how does culture matter?
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Cost of equity", "National culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent decades, as access to information has become easier and firms have become more transparent, society has focused more on corporate social responsibility (CSR). While CSR can be defined in many ways, each differing...
Understanding managerial response to employee voice: a social persuasion perspective
[ "Authentic leadership", "Employee voice", "Employee expertise", "Leader receptivity", "Social persuasion theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Voice refers to \"promotive behavior that emphasizes expression of constructive challenge intended to improve rather than merely criticize\" (Van Dyne and Lepine, 1998, p. 109). To date, scholars have significantly advanced o...
When small businesses go international: alliances as a key to entry
[ "Portugal", "SMEs", "Strategic alliances", "Internationalisation", "Business strategy", "Small and medium-sized enterprises" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: International strategic alliances are cooperative arrangements with cross-border flows of resources and capabilities of the organisations involved. Such alliances offer both potential synergies and opportunities to enter f...
HR lawyers' role in a successful global merger: Firms need to get a grip on the legal realities of cross-border operation
[ "Law", "Fashion industry", "Mergers and acquisitions", "Human resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The collaboration between a united group of lawyers and human resources (HR) departments across numerous jurisdictions has helped companies successfully overcome the HR challenges of mergers and the subsequent integration of ...
Factors affecting performance of co-operatives in Malaysia
[ "Relational capital", "Human capital", "Structural capital", "Co-operatives’ performance", "Members’ participation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The co-operatives sector has been found to play an important role in Malaysian economic development through the creation of employment opportunities and help to reduce the poverty rate in the country (Mahajar and Mohd Yunu...
Achieving alignment between demand and supply of HRD competencies: How to identify and meet employer requirements
[ "HRD competencies", "Employer expectations", "Job advertisements", "Online recruitment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Any degree of success in a tough business world is some achievement. For firms to sustain their competitive position is even more remarkable. Such operators will undoubtedly be the source of much admiration and envy in almost...
Investigating the impact of ECRM success factors on business performance: Jordanian commercial banks
[ "Business performance", "Customer information quality", "ECRM success factors", "Process fit", "System support" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The service sector is witnessing a significant expansion in today's market place, in terms of its size and its use of advanced technology in both developed and emerging countries (Lovelock and Wirtz, 2011). Rapid development ...
Is my fear of missing out (FOMO) causing fatigue? Advertising, social media fatigue, and the implications for consumers and brands
[ "Privacy", "Advertising", "Social networks", "Attitudes", "Information processing", "Media fatigue" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Casting a cursory glance at today's society, even the untrained eye can see media consumption in abundance. Consumers are glued to their smartphones in a pattern of habitual usage that provides them immediate access to news, ...
Examining United States military sexual misconduct policy processes
[ "United States", "Military", "Sexual harassment", "Policy", "Sexual assault", "Sexual misconduct" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In the wake of the #MeToo movement, society's awareness of sexual misconduct and its impact on women has heightened (Engler, 2017; Fonda et al., 2018). As a social movement, #MeToo has swept the USA, shedding light on women s...
The utilization of ISO 9004: case study of the maintenance area of a public transportation company
[ "Management system", "Brazil", "Maturity", "Maintenance", "ISO 9004" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The concept of the maturity of an organisation is related to the perfect conditions in which an organisation can achieve its objectives (Andersen and Jessen, 2003). According to ISO 9004:2009 (International Organization fo...
Culture based development: measuring an invisible resource using the PLS-PM method
[ "Cultural capital", "PLS-PM", "Regional development", "CBD" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The question of how culture influences socio-economic development has been of interest to various scientific disciplines for a long time and is the fundament of cultural economics today[1]. Moreover, questioning the link b...
Business coaching for Tunisian entrepreneurs: features and success factors
[ "Entrepreneur", "Tunisia", "Trust", "Communication", "Commitment", "Business coach", "Factor analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The business coach relationship has gained increased attention from many researchers in the past 20 years, because of its role in guiding future entrepreneurs to develop their carrier. McCleese and Eby (2010), define mento...
Assessing the risk of the European Union carbon allowance market: Structural breaks and forecasting performance
[ "Risk assessment", "Structural breaks", "GARCH models", "European Union carbon emission allowance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Structural breaks in volatility (i.e. volatility shifts) are found to characterize the volatility dynamics of many conventional assets such as equities (Starica and Granger, 2005), commodities (Ewing and Malik, 2017) and c...
Stakeholders' views on the status of the fish quality and safety regulatory schemes: The case of the sultanate of Oman
[ "Survey", "Oman", "HACCP", "Food safety policy", "Seafood regulations", "Stakeholder views", "Food safety governance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The quality and safety of fish and fishery products[1] is an important public policy issue as it is inherently associated with various matters such as consumer welfare, public health, food security, sustainable resource ut...
Performance of engineering consultants in ISO 9000-based quality management systems implementation
[ "Quality management", "ISO 9000 series", "Constuction engineering", "Consultants", "Customer satisfaction", "Hong Kong" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The quality of service delivered by a consultant has seldom been a subject of thorough investigation, as certain clients have underestimated the impacts of substandard consultancy service to the success of a construction proj...
A neuroscientific perspective of a mixed-use lifestyle center
[ "Lifestyle centers", "Neuroscience", "Social servicescape", "Social presence", "Social interaction", "Social environment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: More than a quarter century ago, Bitner (1992) coined the term \"servicescape\" to denote elements in a service organization's physical or built environment that affect both consumers and employees, including ambient conditio...
Towards information leadership
[ "Leadership", "Infrastructures", "Information management", "Knowledge management", "Information leadership", "Information resources" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: \"[T]he continuing growth of information will come to change the texture of social, economic and institutional life considerably\" (Kallinikos, 2006, p. 162). In contrast to earlier largely theoretical and philosophical wo...
Introducing whole-systems design to first-year engineering students with case studies
[ "United States of America", "Universities", "Students", "Engineering", "Case studies", "Design", "Education", "Sustainability", "Whole‐systems design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Engineers have a leading role to play in the global shift towards sustainability. Equipping engineers with the skills necessary to lead this shift requires effective integration of sustainability into engineering education....
Signals of global advertising appeals in emerging markets
[ "Advertising", "Emerging markets", "Sub Saharan Africa", "Globalization", "Consumer behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent times, researchers have suggested that understanding of cross-cultural advertising in newly emerging markets (NEMs) is limited due to the paucity of cross-cultural advertising research in these markets (Milner, 2005...
Impact of ISO 9000 implementation on the organisation
[ "ISO 9000 series", "Organizational culture", "Stress" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Quality of products and services is essential for realising customer satisfaction. As a strategic management approach and an ongoing process, TQM employs statistical process control and engages the whole organisation on conti...
Prioritization of drivers, enablers and resistors of agri-logistics in an emerging economy using fuzzy AHP
[ "Enablers", "Drivers", "Agricultural-logistics", "Fuzzy AHP", "Resistors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: India is among the world's largest producers of rice, pulses, wheat and spice products. Agriculture continues to be the key sector in the Indian economy, accounting for 18 percent of the country's gross domestic product (G...
LIFENET hospitals (India): developing new services' case study
[ "Health services", "Medical management", "Managed care", "Quality function deployment", "India" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction and background: LIFENET was founded in 1983 as India's first corporate hospital. It offered sophisticated treatment in a comprehensive range of medical specialties. State-of-the-art medical technology operated by skilled techn...
Value co-creation and technological progression: a critical review
[ "Literature review", "Innovation", "Interaction", "Technology", "Value co-creation", "Service ecosystems" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Today, the concept of co-creation has received increasing recognition as an innovation of shared services by multiple consumers and service providers among academia and practitioners (Bharti et al., 2015; Gebauer et al., 2...
Surprise! We changed the logo
[ "Values", "Brand evaluation", "Logo design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In September 2015, Google decided to change its logo. Three weeks later, this change had not give rise to any resistance from Google users. Actually, Google customers were used to seeing regular and small logo changes done by...
Value creation and sustainability in knowledge-based strategies
[ "Performance measurement", "VAIC", "Intellectual capital", "Corporate social responsibility", "Sustainable value creation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction and research questions: Many scholars believe that a sustainable business strategy, achieved through investment in knowledge workers, is the greatest competitive weapon of today's organizations (Grant, 2010). By sustainable...
Australian Muslim women and fitness choices - myths debunked
[ "Religiosity", "Body image", "Fitness", "Muslim women", "Motivation for exercise" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Growing health awareness, stressful modern living and increasing discretionary income have stimulated the growth and global expansion of the fitness industry (Andreasson and Johansson, 2016) such that going to the gym now rat...
Supply chain evolution - theory, concepts and science
[ "Segmentation", "Differentiation", "Evolution", "Supply Chain", "Emergence", "Life cycle" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction - the changing supply chain landscape: Supply chains are not static - they evolve and change in size, shape and configuration, and in how they are coordinated, controlled and managed. New supply chains may emerge for many r...
Robotic Chinese language tutor: personalising progress assessment and feedback or taking over your job?
[ "Assessment and feedback", "Chinese language education innovation", "Educational robotics", "NAO robot" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction and background: Today, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are rapidly growing fields that have received significant attention in the UK parliaments and international scenes (AI Select Committee, 2017). The recent two...
The GRID scale: a new tool for measuring service mixed satisfaction
[ "Ambivalence", "Evaluative space grid", "Indifference", "Mixed feelings", "Overall service satisfaction measurement", "Semantic differential scale" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The assessment of overall customer satisfaction is an important issue in marketing research and practice because it is considered as a barometer of business performance that predicts other key marketing variables, such as pro...
When a good standard development process fails
[ "International standards", "Communication" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Standards-based international interlibrary loan communication is at a crossroads. In late October 2004 the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) 46 Standards Committee 4 (SC4) met in Wa...
Information disclosure of social media users: Does control over personal information, user awareness and security notices matter?
[ "Privacy", "Social networking (e.g. Facebook", "Second life)", "Risk", "Trust", "Information sharing", "Social computing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: With the advent of social networking, individuals are seen voluntarily disclosing personal information in various forms. This raises important questions for individual privacy and civil liberties. These concerns are further e...
Prediction of system reliability for single component repair
[ "Reliability management", "Preventive maintenance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In modern asset management, accurate predictability of the reliability of complex repairable systems is desirable because most physical systems in industries are repairable. A repairable system is usually defined as one th...
The impact of autonomy on the relationship between mentoring and entrepreneurial intentions among youth in Germany, Kenya, and Uganda
[ "Autonomy", "Self-determination theory", "Entrepreneurial intentions", "Entrepreneurial education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Self-employment or entrepreneurship has been adopted in many countries as a strategy for tackling unemployment and household poverty (Ahn, 2015; Falco and Haywood, 2016; Gindling and Newhouse, 2014). The world is today facing...
Anti-smoking practice in hospitals: An intercept survey among patients in Hubei Province, China
[ "Cigarettes", "Smoking", "China", "Hospitals", "Smoke free", "Tobacco", "Cessation counselling", "Surveys", "Counselling", "Medical personnel" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Every year approximately 5.4 million people die from tobacco-related diseases worldwide, including cancers, cardiovascular diseases and other chronic conditions (World Health Organization (WHO), 2008) and one-fifth of them ar...
Does the performance of other functions in the frontline influence salesperson conflict?
[ "Cross‐functional conflict", "Salespeople", "Cross‐sellers", "Servicers", "Group cohesion", "Cross‐functional training", "Frontline specialists", "Sales force", "Individual perception", "Automotive industry", "Conflict" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: When servicing customers requires specialized abilities and skills, frontline employees often specialize in performing different tasks (Johnston and Marshall, 2009; Harris et al., 2008; Moncrief and Marshall, 2005). For examp...
Hedge fund variables and short-run SEO returns
[ "Seasoned equity offerings", "Hedge fund strategies", "Insider ownership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Hedge funds are a small fraction of the investment market yet are responsible for a vast amount of daily trading. Hedge fund trading consists of applying aggressive strategies capable of profiting from distinct patterns of...
Emotional experiences in simulated classroom training environments
[ "Emotions", "Teacher preparation", "Game-based learning", "SimSchool", "Simulation games" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the last decades, the implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education changed dramatically the traditional teaching and learning context, providing new capabilities and tools for innovativ...
Efficacy of adaptive reuse for the redevelopment of underutilised historical buildings: Towards the regeneration of New Zealand's provincial town centres
[ "Resilience", "Historical buildings", "Adaptive reuse", "Efficacy", "Provincial", "Town centre regeneration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Old historic buildings typically possess features capable of contributing to society's culture and preservation of its architectural history in an extensive manner (Langston et al., 2007). A significant number of these histor...
Who pays the price for loyalty? The role of self-consciousness
[ "Consumer loyalty", "Price perceptions", "Self-consciousness" ]
[ { "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.\nConceptual development: Loyalty and price perceptions\nResults: All participants accurately recalled the retailers identified in ...
Consumer attitudes towards brand extensions of designer-labels and mass-market labels in Hong Kong
[ "Fashion", "Brand extensions", "Consumer behaviour", "Retailing", "Hong Kong" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Brand extensions are popular strategies among Hong Kong fashion retailers. The conventional wisdom underlying the implementation of a brand extension strategy is that it can increase the likelihood of trial and purchase by co...
Prosocial process fit: normatively expected purchasing increases the prosocial premium
[ "Decision making", "Willingness to pay" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Marketers increasingly work according to the premise that customers expect more from products than just high quality at a low price. Most assume customers want to feel good about the products they choose. Modern marketplaces ...
Enhancing Black Belts via academic mastery
[ "Sustainable development", "Lean Six Sigma", "Academic development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper explores the development and impact of a collaborative scheme between the Hewlett Packard (HP) company and the University of Portsmouth Business School (PBS), wherein an existing MSc degree course was adapted to...
Perceptions of European independent hoteliers: hard and soft branding choices
[ "Brand image", "Hotels", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Purchasing groups", "Hotel and catering industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Europe is estimated to be the world's largest region for hotel stock with approximately 6,550,000 rooms out of 18.4 million worldwide (Marvel, 2005). As tourism in Europe approaches maturity with relatively slow growth in arr...
Acting under spatial restrictions: success factors of German local food-marketing networks
[ "Regional marketing", "Food products", "Critical success factors", "Germany" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Increasingly, consumers\n2. Two examples: Since the late twentieth century, hundreds of local food networks have emerged with a clear focus on regional production and regional food supply. While this movement has not been ...
Forecasting long-term paper demand in emerging markets
[ "Paper", "Emerging markets", "Communication technologies", "Forecasting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Economic growth has historically been the most important element in further growth of paper demand - increasing gross domestic product (GDP) has resulted on increased paper consumption (Diesen, 2007). This positive relatio...
Comparison of training methods with ELECTRE I and Merrill's principles
[ "ELECTRE I", "Merrill’s first principles", "Quality management", "MCDA", "Training management", "Training methods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Nowadays, companies live in a very tight competitive environment. Several studies state that the competitiveness of international markets and the speed of technological evolution require companies to master and transfer their...
Management without theory for the twenty-first century
[ "Management theory", "Scientific management", "Science", "Postmodernism", "Positivism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In everyday language, a theory is a speculation or hypothesis, a loosely substantiated conjecture about a general or particular aspect of human experience. In scientific and scholarly literature, the term acquires a more prec...
Modeling parameter risk in premium risk in multi-year internal models
[ "Non‐life insurance", "Value‐based management", "Internal risk models", "Solvency II", "Parameter risk", "Insurance", "Insurance premiums" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Under Solvency II, regulators in Europe will require insurers to use either a new standard formula or their own internal risk model in determining risk-based capital standards. Since their development in the 1990s, internal...
Expanding the scope of affect: taxonomy construction for emotions, tones, and associations
[ "Reading", "Taxonomy", "Catalogues", "Affect", "Cataloguing", "Social tagging" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper provides a discussion and application of affect for the library and information science (LIS) field, specifically for those sub-disciplinary themes of bibliographic description, access, and readers' advisory (RA). ...
Building bridges with women
[ "Equal opportunities", "Gender", "Recruitment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The recruitment and retention of women in the engineering industry is paramount to the sector being diverse, vibrant and creative. The fact that there is massive under-representation of women in the industry in the UK undermi...
Logical system of development economics of large countries
[ "Theoretical system", "Development economics of large countries", "Logical structure" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Development economics is a subject that studies the evolution of a developing country from poverty to prosperity. To put it in an academic way, it is a subject that studies how a developing country evolves into a developed co...
Accountability and satisfaction: organizational support as a moderator
[ "Job satisfaction", "Accountability", "Sweden", "Perceived organizational support (POS)", "USA" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Employee felt accountability, defined as the expectation that one's role performance including performing job duties and compliance with organizational norms will be assessed by an audience, is an essential component in the w...
Creating value for channel partners: the Cervena case
[ "Agriculture", "Meat", "Channel relationships", "International marketing", "New Zealand" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A number of researchers have stated that relationship marketing is an effective way of achieving competitive advantage in international markets (Sheth, 2001). Others have suggested that relationship-based strategies are requi...
From pre-service to early-career English teacher in the UK: negotiating powerful myths
[ "Storytelling", "Creativity", "Pre-service teacher education", "Standards-based reforms" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: For the past four years, every graduating teacher in England has been required to teach for a year as a \"newly qualified teacher\" (NQT) in a school and during the year his/her teaching has been regularly scrutinized by coll...
Challenges facing Islamic Azad University academic leaders in managerial positions
[ "Iran", "Academic leadership", "Internal environmental challenges", "Islamic Azad University", "External environmental challenges" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The role of higher education institutions is being challenged by the changing nature of knowledge and also by the shifting needs of today's complex societies (Gaynor, 2010). As a result of these challenges, a debate has devel...
Exploring wine knowledge, aesthetics and ephemerality: clustering consumers
[ "Marketing", "Value analysis", "Surveys", "Wines", "Marketing strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As the global economy pulls out of recession, the demand for luxury wine continues to grow. Total annual Bordeaux wine exports reached 277 million bottles in 2015, generating a turnover of US$2bn (www.lepanmedia.com/china-sho...
Developing social capital for collaboration in a research-practice partnership
[ "Social capital", "Leadership development", "Research-practice partnerships", "Rural school districts" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: School leadership is a complex field that faces many challenges. Among these challenges are growing demands for increased student achievement, limited resources and a shortage of people willing to serve as principals, especiall...
The pathway to security - mitigating user negligence
[ "Training", "Education", "Information security", "User education", "Behaviour modification", "User awareness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In a recent study performed by Symantec, employee negligence and system glitches account for 64 per cent of data breaches; this includes information mishandling, violations of regulations, inadvertent data dumps, stolen/lo...
The antecedents of organizational commitment: the case of Australian casual academics
[ "Job satisfaction", "Australia", "Universities", "Flexible labour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Intense international competition fuelled by globalization has prompted a number of changes in the way work is organized and the way people are deployed. One significant area of workplace change is the increased use of flexib...
Affirmative action decisions: when ignorance is bliss
[ "Affirmative action", "Justice", "Equal opportunities", "Recruitment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: To manage the growing diversity of the workforce, organizations may need to implement systems and practices so that the potential advantages of diversity are maximized and the potential disadvantages are minimized (Cox, 1994)...
Flexible working and the family: Factors affecting family-friendly work perceptions
[ "Gender roles", "Family", "Work-life balance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Today's society is becoming increasingly heterogeneous - traditional stereotypical gender roles of males as the provider and females as the caregiver are blending, as both the genders have careers and family responsibilities....
The meaning of a brand? An archetypal approach
[ "Brand personality", "Brand", "Brand identity", "Archetypes", "Costumer perception" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Consumers identify themselves with specific brands, not for their promises, but rather for the purpose that the brand embodies (Adi et al., 2015). Strong brands are much more than a product or service, are a unique set of com...
Assessing Lean adoption in food SMEs: Evidence from Greece
[ "Greece", "Lean principles", "Food SMEs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The rise of global trade, increased competition, greater product variety, and shorter product life cycles have made the business world complex and dynamic (Azadegana et al., 2013). Companies operate not only in this volatile ...