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Review of empirical research on knowledge management practices and firm performance
[ "Performance", "Review", "Empirical", "Knowledge management", "Knowledge management practices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Nowadays, the decisive drivers for firm performance are the differences in the firms' knowledge bases and capabilities of using and developing knowledge (Grant, 1996; Kogut and Zander, 1992; Spender and Grant, 1996). The p...
Probing on the institutional arrangements of supervisory functions in the governance of listed companies in China
[ "China", "Legislation", "Stakeholder analysis", "Corporate governance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In practice, there has been inadequate restraint over the behaviors of the major shareholders of the listed companies in China. Problems such as the unfulfillment of directors and the executives, etc., have deteriorated th...
Czech civil sector face-to-face with freelance activism
[ "Volunteering", "East-central Europe", "Freelance activism", "Member activism", "Voluntary organizations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Well-known American sociologist, Robert Putnam et al. (1993), in the spirit of Alexis de Tocqueville, views civil society organizations (CSOs) as schools of democracy, that is, as places where citizens are socialised to the v...
Optimizing a workplace learning pattern: a case study from aviation
[ "Simulation", "Reflective practice", "Learning through practice", "Performance assessment", "Practice-based learning", "Workplace learning patterns" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Preparing people for the workplace is a significant and enduring task for society. Although there have been broad and ongoing critiques on how learning within training settings transfers to the workplace (Billett and Choy, 20...
Africa 2060: what could be driving the good news from Africa?
[ "Africa", "Developing countries", "Emerging economies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The 2010 Football World Cup hosted by South Africa has once again shone a spotlight on the continent. The tournament's theme song - \"This time for Africa\" sung by Shakira - resounds on television sets, iPods, and stereo sys...
CARVER+Shock method and its application in a catering company in Poland
[ "Poland", "Catering", "CARVER+Shock", "Food defence", "Food terrorism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: According to leading food security experts, food and water supplies are at risk of both accidental and deliberate contamination due to the wide farm-to-table continuum and to the inherent characteristics of product manufactur...
A hospital recreation room quality improvement intervention
[ "Quality improvement", "Hospital environment", "Long-stay patient", "Needs-based", "Recreation facilities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: There is little literature that specifically examines recreation or day room provision in an acute hospital - a topic not commonly researched by nurses. Some research has been carried out into hospital-built environments by nur...
Managing information flow and design processes to reduce design risks in offsite construction projects
[ "Design management", "Risk management", "Project management", "Quality of information", "Design risks", "Offsite construction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Responding to the ever-increasing complexity and demanding requirements associated with the design and construction of buildings, many construction professionals are still striving to secure more innovative ways of facilitati...
Music, musicians and information seeking behaviour: A case study on a community concert band
[ "User studies", "Information behaviour", "Information research", "Concert band community", "Music information", "Survey" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Modern information technologies and the rapid availability of information resources on the web, has changed beyond doubt the way musicians express themselves, communicate and seek information in order to enhance their prac...
Does gender matter? A study of trust and its outcomes in the manufacturing sector in mainland China
[ "China", "Trust", "Gender", "Supervision", "Organizational citizenship behaviour", "Knowledge sharing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The differences between men and women in leadership positions have occupied the attention of researchers for many years (Hoyt, 2010; Kanter, 1977; Koenig et al., 2011; Powell, 1990; Ryan et al., 2011; van Engen and Willemsen,...
Leaving employees to their own devices: new practices in the workplace
[ "Information technology", "Adoption logics", "BYOD", "CIO", "Consumerization", "Individualization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the past, organizations, and their information technology (IT) departments in particular, chose which IT and applications their workers would use, as well as why, how and when they could use them. In modern organizations, ...
Making our leaders look out of the window: The importance of blended approaches to leadership development
[ "Leadership development", "Learning development", "Training", "Human resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: For those people who live outside the US and do not share its intimate relationship with baseball, they will have always been slightly perplexed at some of the terminology used in business that originates from that sport. Phr...
The greying church: the impact of life expectancy on religiosity
[ "Beliefs", "Religion", "Life expectancy", "Churches", "Decision making" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Many religious establishments have reported a steep decline in outward religious expression and participation in recent years. According to the latest estimates of the World Values Survey Dataset (2009)[1], the percentage o...
Internal control information disclosure and corporate governance: evidence from an emerging market
[ "Ghana", "Disclosure", "Corporate governance", "Financial reporting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The role of good corporate governance practice in the management of corporate organisations cannot be underestimated (Agyeman et al., 2013). According to Elliot and Elliot (2013, p. 804), a good governance system will ensu...
Effects of power concepts and employee performance on managers' empowering
[ "Empowerment", "Performance management", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Researchers and leaders worldwide have called for the empowerment of employees to help their organizations compete successfully in the highly competitive marketplace (Deming, 1993; Kirkman and Rosen, 1999). Leaders are to ass...
Unveiling the effects of figurative meanings in manipulated online hotel reviews on consumers' behavioral intentions
[ "Figurative meaning", "Language manipulation", "Linguistic error", "Online hotel review", "Review rating", "Purchase intentions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Online reviews assist travelers in making choices, comparing services, and planning their trips. Given the experiential nature of hotel services, customers often rely on information in online reviews and comments posted by ex...
Attitudes and orientation toward vegetarian food in the restaurant industry: An operator's perspective
[ "Vegetarianism", "Restaurants", "Attitudes", "Managerial perspective", "Menu choices", "Vegetarians" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Vegetarian: a person who eats only side dishes (Lieberman, 1983, p. 213).\nBackground literature: Vegetarianism and vegetarians\nMethodology: In order to address the objectives of the study, face-to-face structured interviews...
The supervised as the supervisor
[ "Relationships", "Supervision", "Doctoral students", "Difficulties", "Research supervisor" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Barnacle and Mewburn (2010) and Ryland et al. (2009) explain that completing a doctorate changes people. Doctoral study involves different people in different contexts from different disciplines who change in different ways. ...
Anchor-store quality in malls: an economic analysis
[ "Retailing", "Pricing", "Shopping centres", "Anchor stores", "Game theory", "Econometrics", "United States of America", "Canada" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Anchor stores, the small number of large-sized tenants found in most shopping malls, are valued by mall developers for their ability to attract shoppers as well as non-anchor tenants to malls (Brueckner, 1993; Benjamin et ...
Edible insects and young adults in a north-east Italian city an exploratory study
[ "Preference", "Traditional food", "Consumer acceptance", "Edible insects" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Humans have eaten insects for thousands of years. Up to now edible insects have been consumed as an important source of protein, as emergency food, and as delicacies (Durst and Shono, 2008). All tropical continents and eve...
Self-efficacy: core of employee success
[ "Self-efficacy", "Commitment", "Persistence", "Performance", "Motivation", "Self-regulated learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: This article will help managers improve workplace outcomes by increasing worker self-efficacy. Self-efficacy - how strongly someone believes in her or his own capabilities - helps determine how well someone actually performs ...
Governance and control in networks: a case study of the Universal Postal Union
[ "Institutional carrier", "Institutional entrepreneurship", "Inter-governmental", "Management control", "Network governance", "Public service" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This study analyzes the governance, accounting and control mechanisms in one of the oldest and largest inter-governmental networks[1]: the Universal Postal Union (UPU). The UPU was formed in 1875 as a treaty organization resp...
The role of leadership in international retail divestment
[ "Leadership", "Retailing", "Divestment", "Decision making", "Organizational restructuring" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent years, there has been a growing body of work that has sought to examine the divestment activity of international retail companies (Alexander and Quinn, 2002; Burt et al., 2005; Cairns et al., 2008; Palmer, 2004). Th...
Challenges facing social entrepreneurship: The implications for government policy in Egypt
[ "Egypt", "Challenges", "NGOs", "Policy", "Social entrepreneurship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Capitalism has always been a positive force in the world economy, but growth started to slow down in the 1970s and the side effects of that slow down started to appear. At the time, it has been argued that managers and exe...
Challenges in conducting and publishing research on the Middle East and Africa in leading journals
[ "Middle East", "Africa", "Academic research", "Delphi study", "Marketing/international business/advertising journals" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: International marketing research in emerging markets (EMs) is scarce. The relatively few papers drawing on data from EMs published in influential marketing journals include Batislam et al. (2007), Erdem et al. (2006), and ...
Employment security and workers' moonlighting behavior in Ghana
[ "Ghana", "Job security", "Employment contract", "Employment security", "Moonlighting", "Trade union" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Nations in the developing world have been striving for decades to raise the living standards of their populace with fluctuating successes. One cardinal feature of these developing countries has been the high incidences of pov...
What drives credit risk of microfinance institutions? International evidence
[ "Risk management", "Credit risk", "Microfinance institutions", "Debt enforcement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In order to boost for self-employment and income-generating projects, microfinance provides financial services to low-income clients that are often excluded from traditional banking services (Ledgerwood, 1999). It has grow...
Knowledge transfer within relationship portfolios: the creation of knowledge recombination rents
[ "Inter-organizational relationships portfolio", "Knowledge recominbination rents", "Recombination processes", "Inter-organizational relationships", "Relationship management", "Alliance and network portfolio", "Exploration/exploitation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent years, the strategic management of knowledge has increasingly turned its attention to the relational rents that can be created through inter-organizational relationships, partnerships and alliances (Dyer and Singh, ...
A study of ethnic perception gap on consumer boycott of Korean and Canadian University students
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Consumer ethnocentrism", "Boycott", "Consumer resist", "Business ethic" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Smith (2008) pointed out that the awareness of consumer role as citizen is increasingly emphasized. And not only stakeholders but also company's employees take part in the role of drivers of corporate responsibility. It is...
Extended TPB model to understand consumer "selling" behaviour: Implications for reverse supply chain design of mobile phones
[ "Consumer selling behaviour", "Extended TPB model", "Mobile phone waste", "Reverse supply chain design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Traditionally, many businesses have focused on improving their forward supply chain (i.e. manufacturer-wholesaler-retailer-consumer) for their products. However, as the present global business environment becomes increasin...
Young and unionised in the UK? Insights from the public sector
[ "Industrial relations", "Public sector", "Trade unionism", "Union responses", "Young workers", "Trade union membership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper analyses the initiatives of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union in its attempts to engage with young people in the British Civil Service. Whilst existing academic work on the unionisation of young peo...
Learning-path types, motives and strategies: an analysis of empirical research in occupations in The Netherlands
[ "Learning types", "Learning motives", "Learning, Learning path", "Learning strategies", "Human resource development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Employees today are often the facilitators of their own skills, learning, and professional development, both inside the workplace and externally, to progress in their careers. Research into how employees learn and develop is ...
The exercise of female sexuality between fantasy and discourse in the consumption of online pornography
[ "Consumption", "Online pornography", "Women", "Consumption culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: According to the evolutionary line of consumption studies proposed by Ostergaard and Jantzen (2000), consumption currently takes on a profile that goes beyond a field related to productive forces, toward an act of maximizatio...
Succession in family business: multi-source perspectives
[ "Interviews", "Family business", "Generational succession", "Leadership transition", "Multi-source perspective" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Leadership succession is a significant challenge for many family businesses. Family-business succession (FBS) is often complicated by the interplay between family (\"nonbusiness\") and business considerations (i.e. the idiosy...
Mobile shopping among young consumers: an empirical study in an emerging market
[ "Mobile shopping", "Convenience dimensions", "Stage of purchase", "Consumption experience", "Continuance usage intention", "Youth", "India" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The ubiquitous presence of mobile networks has resulted in growth of mobile commerce (m-commerce) via hand-held devices (Mahatanankoon, 2007). Technological advancement has offered opportunities for consumers to exercise thei...
The importance of tools in the data lifecycle
[ "Academic libraries", "Research support", "Research lifecycle", "Research infrastructure", "Data lifecycle", "Tools criteria" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In writing about economic growth, economists have long recognised technological advances as the \"key driving force\", with innovation an important pillar (Kim and Nelson, 2000, p. 1). The World Economic Forum (2014) has o...
Food choices and service evaluation under time constraints: the school lunch environment
[ "Schools", "Service delivery", "Food choices", "Hospitality services", "Social economics", "Time constraints", "School lunch", "School food service" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Background: Time is a finite economic resource and has been extensively studied in terms of its allocation to daily activities, such as eating and drinking (Kaufman et al., 1991; Cheng et al., 2007; Gummerson and Schneider, 2013). In ge...
Shifting sands of research domains, migrating knowledge clouds and academic journals as Zeppelins (editorial considerations in mid-2012)
[ "Migrating knowledge clouds", "Evolution of academic division of research domains", "Managing knowledge dissemination", "Knowledge management", "Change management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: We are witnessing a number of very serious tectonic movements in the immaterial layer of human knowledge wrapping the material planet and linking the less immediately material, though brain anchored minds. What will be the co...
Adapting smart specialisation to a micro-economy - the case of Malta
[ "Innovation", "Malta", "Micro-economies", "Small firms", "Smart specialisation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Smart specialisation is a strategic approach predicated upon the need for regions to concentrate resources on key areas of economic potential. In the past, regional innovation strategies were frequently hampered by deficienci...
Making HR count: How to validate a "soft" function through employee-engagement strategy
[ "Employee development", "Human resource management", "Human resource management research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Kate Feather is an HR professional at PeopleMetrics, Philadelphia. In her article, \"Helping HR to measure up: arming the 'soft' function with hard metrics\", she establishes how HR, typically viewed as a discipline which doe...
Quality of physical surroundings and service encounters, airfare, trust and intention during the flight: Age-group difference (young, middle-aged, and mature)
[ "Age", "Airlines", "Service encounter", "Intention", "Airfare", "Quality of physical surroundings" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: For the past few decades, the low-cost segment offering affordable airfares to passengers has been one of the fastest growing sectors in the aviation industry (Forgas et al., 2010). This airline sector has been a major contri...
Strategic leadership competencies: what is it and how to develop it?
[ "Deliberate practice", "Experience density", "Strategic leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Strategic leadership involves dealing with issues commonly addressed by a firm's top management team. Developing strategic leadership competencies is distinct from developing supervisory skills or developing leaders to lead o...
Living dangerously: Oplosan, gambling and competition as everyday risk-taking in Java and East Kalimantan Indonesia
[ "Indonesia", "Gambling", "Poverty", "Oplosan", "Preman", "Risk-taking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nOn oplosan: Late at night, in 2004, I happened to be at Pasar Pagi, the wooden, makeshift market of Samarinda Seberang, a fast-growing urban area just outside the provincial capital of East Kalimantan across the giant Mahakam river. I had ...
Moderation effect on Islamic banking preferences in UAE
[ "Islamic financial services marketing", "Adoption of Islamic banking", "Awareness on Islamic banking", "Demographic impact in Islamic banking", "Level of Islamic financial literacy", "Moderation effect on Islamic banking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The essence of Islamic finance is that it strictly adheres to the rules of Sharia (Islamic law) in its day-to-day operations, and one of the most distinctive features of Islamic finance is the avoidance of interest in all ...
Shared leadership and gender: all members are equal ... but some more than others
[ "Social networks", "Gender", "Directive leadership", "Network centrality", "Shared leadership", "Supportive leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Despite of the steady growth of female representation in leadership positions, mainly at lower levels of responsibility (Catalyst, 2004, 2010), gender inequalities continue to be found in leadership. Particularly in group set...
Job demotions in the workplace: Some influential factors
[ "Human resource management", "Gender", "Education", "Careers", "Career mobility", "Demotion" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Organizations evolve and technology seems to advance almost incessantly. Such developments have massive implications for workers. Career mobility is one area significantly affected by the opportunities and threats that emerge...
Cognitive capacity for processing work-family conflict: an initial examination
[ "Job satisfaction", "Cognition", "Stress", "Employee attitudes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Recent work-family research has helped clarify the antecedents and consequences of work-family conflict (WFC) (see Eby et al., 2005; Kossek and Ozeki, 1998, for recent reviews). We know that situational (e.g. role conflict an...
Are leadership values different across generations? A comparative leadership analysis of CEOs v. MBAs
[ "Leadership", "Values", "Aeneid", "Traits" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Most experts agree that the traits of a successful leader do vary depending on time and context (Heames and Harvey, 2006; Zaccaro et al., 2004), across sectors (Stogdill, 1948) and generational labels such as Baby Boomers Gen...
Raising the next generation of public servants? Parental influence on volunteering behavior and public service career aspirations
[ "Careers", "Public sector organizations", "Employees behaviour", "Social psychology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Researchers have long sought to explain what causes people to elect public service careers and to participate in prosocial behaviors, such as volunteering. The link between motives and voluntary or non-task behaviors is of pe...
Health care accreditation surveyor styles typology
[ "Assessment", "Reliability management", "Health services", "Australia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Surveyors are a core part of a health care accreditation program. They are the eyes, ears and hands of any accrediting organisation, without which the accreditation process is unsustainable. Essentially the surveying role inv...
From philanthropy to strategic corporate sustainability: a case study in India
[ "India", "Corporate social responsibility", "Corporate sustainability", "Corporate philanthropy", "Chemicals industry", "Emerging economy firms", "Small-firm CSR manifestation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Indian companies have been practising social responsibility, albeit with deep philanthropic underpinnings and rooted in tradition, spirituality and ethics, since ancient times. Traditionally, Indian companies viewed corpor...
A filter search algorithm based on machine-order space for job-shop scheduling problems
[ "Job production systems", "Order systems", "Algorithmic languages" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The machine-based decomposition method breaks a job-shop scheduling problem (JSSP) down into a number of single-machine problems and puts the single-machine solutions together to create a full solution. In other words, it s...
Crisis leadership competencies: the facility management sector in Thailand
[ "Facility management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Leadership is a fundamental process within organizations and is a significant factor in determining organizational success or failure. Globally, the study of leadership has been a significant and dominant part of the literatu...
Facilitating organizational change for embedding sustainability into academia: a case study
[ "Business schools", "Corporate responsibility", "Organizational change", "Change management", "Sustainability", "Embedding corporate responsibility and sustainability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the past decade and especially since the global financial crisis beginning in 2008 there has been an increasingly vocal debate inside the world's 13,000 business schools and related stakeholders in companies and elsewher...
The application of future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) to law: the cases of legal research, legislative drafting and law enforcement
[ "Law", "Future‐oriented analysis", "Foresight", "Scenario planning", "Modelling", "Strategic planning", "Forecasting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Future and Law[1] are two words that are rarely found in the same phrase. Law tends to adapt to the passage of time through a gradual process, and hesitates to anticipate forthcoming developments. Law, in this sense, has a...
Industrial relations in France: From the underdevelopment of collective bargaining to the failure of neocorporatist concertation
[ "Government policy", "Trade unions", "Industrial relations", "Collective bargaining", "Representativeness", "Tripartite concertation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The French model of industrial relations (IR) is often considered as part of a \"Mediterranean model\", which includes Italy, Spain and Portugal[1]. These countries have indeed some common features concerning the trade union ...
Maximizing aid benefits after urban disasters through partnerships with local water sector utilities
[ "Developing countries", "Natural disasters", "Emergency measures", "Public sector organizations", "Urban regions", "Water supply engineering" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Many urban dwellers, in particular in the developing world, are finding themselves increasingly at risk. Urban life carries its \"everyday day\" dangers, such as, criminality, road traffic or air pollution, but in addition, e...
Multivariate hybrid pathways for creating exceptional customer experiences
[ "Customer experience", "Customer loyalty", "Electronic support pathways", "Hybrid services", "Multivariate customer experience pathways", "Service touchpoints" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the past three decades there has been an evolution of ideas and a series of transformations resulting in shifting focus from manufacturing goods to service economy and ultimately in creating exceptional customer experience...
Integrating affect, cognition, and culture in Hispanic financial planning
[ "Decision making", "Insurance companies", "Familism", "Hispanic consumers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: More than half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to $12.68 trillion in 2017, a peak that has not occurred since the Great Recession of 2008 (Fortell, 2017). In total, 58 percent of Amer...
Big data analytics - enabled cyber-physical system: model and applications
[ "Big data analytics", "Big data processing", "Communication layer", "Cyber-physical system", "Smart data" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A cyber-physical system (CPS) is a continuous dynamic of physical and engineered systems, where physical operations are monitored, coordinated, controlled and integrated by computer-based algorithms (Cheng et al., 2018; Ra...
Promoting business with corporate gifts - major issues and empirical evidence
[ "Marketing communications", "Business ethics", "Airlines", "Incentive schemes", "Marketing mix" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Corporate gifts are an important tool in the marketing communication mix. In the corporate world, gift giving can be a double-edge sword (Pachter, 1995). If used properly, they provide the company with a valuable means of str...
The amazing bond among wine consumption, health and hedonistic well-being
[ "Italy", "Well-being", "Health", "Wine consumption", "Fuzzy cluster analysis", "Hedonistic approach" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Since thousands of years (10,000 BC), production of the earliest forms of alcoholic beverages has been attracting big human interest for social, personal and religious occasions besides health benefits (Haseeb et al., 2017; P...
The influence of real estate risk on market volatility
[ "Real estate", "Financial risk", "Financial services", "Economic fluctuations", "United Kingdom", "Rish analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In light of the recent financial crisis, a paper examining the source of the extreme market volatility that so devastated the world economy and financial markets is a very appropriate research stream to pursue. Furthermore...
Construction duration of residential building projects in Germany
[ "Construction operations", "Residential property", "Regression analysis", "Germany" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The construction duration, and thus the speed with which building proceeds (construction speed), plays an important role in the commercial success of a construction project (see Bordoli and Baldwin, 1998). In this connection,...
Factors associated with participation and completion of a survey-based study: Analysis of work conditions and quality improvement in primary care
[ "Clinicians", "Quality improvement", "Primary care", "Healthy work place", "Survey completion", "Survey participation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Work conditions and clinician burnout play a key role in health care quality and patient outcomes, but the importance of these factors is often overlooked (DiMatteo et al., 1993; Firth-Cozens and Greenhalgh, 1997; Linzer et a...
International students' college choice is different!
[ "Marketing", "Internationalization", "Choice factors", "College choice", "Enrollment management", "International higher education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: International students are viewed by higher education providers mainly as a source of revenue (Altbach et al., 2009; Naidoo, 2010). According to the USA Department of Commerce (2016), international students contributed over $...
Understanding purchase intention of university students towards skin care products
[ "Brand awareness", "Purchase intention", "Brand loyalty", "Brand association", "Perceived quality", "Skincare products" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The cosmetic industry is one of the world's leading multi-billion-dollar businesses which encompasses a wide array of products, such as cleansers, toners, serum, moisturisers, foundations, compact powders, lipsticks, eyeliner...
What affects lifelong learning of scientists and engineers?
[ "The Netherlands", "Lifelong learning", "Skills", "Training", "Informal learning", "Innovation", "Skill demands", "Scientists", "Engineers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The durability of knowledge in the fields of science and engineering is much shorter than in other academic fields (McDowell, 1982). Therefore, scientists and engineers (S&Es) need to update their human capital at a regula...
HR technologies and HR-staff technostress: an unavoidable or combatable effect?
[ "Technostress", "Job satisfaction", "Job insecurity", "HR staff attitudes", "HR technologies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Although it is rarely discussed in the literature, HR staff can be on the horns of a dilemma with HR technologies (HRTs). Positive reactions are the expected response from anticipated workflow improvements. For example, HR so...
Assembling a practice of social belonging: The politics of budgeting in an alternative organization
[ "Budgeting", "Anthropology", "Alternative organizations", "Latour", "Social belonging" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Vignette 1: Introducing the work of belonging\n1. Introduction: The paper explores the socio-political roles and effects of budgeting anthropologically, drawing on the more recent work of Bruno Latour, to extend a long tradit...
Green building projects: schedule performance, influential factors and solutions
[ "Singapore", "Buildings", "Green building", "Retrofitting", "Delay", "Schedule" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Strengthened by the booming economy, construction demand in Singapore remains sturdy. New housings are reaping across the island to satisfy the pent-up demand, new offices are being constructed as Singapore perk-up its presti...
Does standardized service fit all? Novel service encounter in frontline employee-customer interface
[ "Creativity", "Service innovation", "Customer service", "Improvisation", "Services marketing", "Service encounter", "Frontline staff", "Standardized service", "Participant observation", "Method triangulation", "Retail outlets", "Tourists" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is increasing interest within the hospitality industry in employees' creativity and innovation during service encounters (Hon, 2013). A service encounter is the moment of interaction when a frontline employee delivers a...
Bank stems the loss of employees returning from abroad: Talent-management system helps to keep people loyal
[ "Retention", "Banks", "Talent management", "Repatriation", "Multinationals" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: One of the top five UK-based international banks wanted to understand why so many of its repatriated staff left the organization after a developmental assignment. The aim was to stem the flow of talent and improve the bank's ...
Is knowledge that powerful? Financial literacy and access to finance: An analysis of enterprises in the UK
[ "SMEs", "Growth", "Financial literacy", "Access to finance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The most common finding in the extant research is that small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) encounter external finance constraints, a topic of significant research interest for academics and policy makers world over. Th...
Gender differences in entrepreneurial networks: adding an alter perspective
[ "Entrepreneurship", "Social networks", "Alters", "Family", "Emotional support" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Most women entrepreneurship research is trying, from different theoretical perspectives and angles, to explore if and how females adapt practices throughout the entrepreneurial process that are different from those of males...
A process account of the relationship between informal learning and expressions of anger and anxiety
[ "Stress", "Self-regulation", "Coping", "Emotion", "Informal learning", "Emotion regulation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Under stressful conditions, what determines whether an individual chooses to overcome obstacles through learning and personal development rather than submitting to their negative emotions? When does anger lead to sustained ef...
Do stock market and banking sectors development promote innovation efficiency?
[ "Banking development", "Innovation efficiency", "Stock market development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In today's globalized and highly competitive environment, innovation has certainly drives itself to be the top policy agenda for many countries. Innovation is crucial in propelling a country's long-term economic growth and...
Expatriates adjustment through transformation of social identity of Chinese expatriates working in Pakistan
[ "Pakistan", "Cultural differences", "Expatriate adjustment", "Social identity", "Chinese expatriates", "Social ties" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Recent years have witnessed China's growing investments in different countries around the globe (Buckley et al., 2007; Jackson and Horwitz, 2017) which have resulted in the movement of a large number of Chinese expatriates th...
Examining the frustration-aggression model among Tunisian blue-collar workers
[ "Stress", "Emotional exhaustion", "Locus of control", "Negative affectivity", "Work stressors", "Workplace aggression" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In October 2013, 52 Tunisian blue-collar workers broke into their cabling manufactory, a subsidiary of a German group. Their intrusion led to confrontations with security agents and managers causing injuries among both partie...
Persuasive speech in multi-professional change facilitation meetings: A rhetorical discourse analysis
[ "Healthcare", "Organizational change", "Hospitalist", "Persuasive speech", "Rhetorical discourse analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The healthcare sector has witnessed an increased number of changes during recent years. For this reason, it is important that professionals in this field understand the factors that prevent and promote changes (Chreim et a...
Viewpoint: service research priorities - bridging the academic and practitioner perspectives
[ "Co-creation", "Collaboration", "Academic perspective", "Practitioner perspective", "Service research priorities", "Managerial relevance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: You've got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around - Steve Jobs\nSynthesis of perspectives: Practitioner perspective\nBridging service research priorities of academ...
Determining the applicability of feminist theories by examining the mediation and moderation effects on non-economic performance in Lao micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises
[ "China", "Women", "Entrepreneurialism", "Personal factor", "Family factor", "Social factor", "Skills factor", "Social feminist theory", "Liberal feminist theory", "Non‐economic performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The main objective of this study was to establish whether social feminist theory (SFT) was more applicable for Lao micro, small, medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) than liberal feminist theory (LFT). More specifically, the ob...
Tasting green: an experimental design for investigating consumer perception of organic wine
[ "Consumer perception", "Organic food", "Experimental design", "Wine" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Referable to the increasing attention of organic products by consumers in the last two decades (Bonti-Ankomah and Yiridoe, 2006; Cicia et al., 2002; Wier and Calverley, 2002), especially since the 1990 s persists a multitude ...
Attributes and benefits of branded bread: case Artesaani
[ "Finland", "Bakery products", "Consumer behaviour", "Brand image", "Product attributes", "Benefits" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Bread is one of our oldest foods, and it is still eaten all round the world by all people. Bread plays an important role in our everyday eating as an energy source. In some parts of the world, bread may even comprise the main...
Understanding the working relationships between National Health Service clinicians and finance staff
[ "Quality of care", "Clinical and finance professions", "Effective engagement", "Outcomes", "Patient safety" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This is a time of unprecedented challenges in the National Health Service (NHS) including the financial challenges of a projected shortfall in funding of PS2 billion by 2020 (Roberts et al., 2015), PS8 billion if adult social...
Diffusion of process improvement methods in European SMEs
[ "Institutional theory", "Process improvement", "European Regions for Innovative Productivity (ERIP)", "Small-medium enterprise" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In 2013 there were 21.6 million SMEs in the European Union's non-financial business sector which was 99.8 per cent of the total number of companies. They employed 88.8 million people and generated EUR3,666 trillion of adde...
Strategic flexibility and SME performance in an emerging economy: A contingency perspective
[ "Strategic flexibility", "Competitive intensity", "Managerial ties", "Environmental munificence", "Resource combination" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Strategic flexibility is considered to be an important source of firm competitive advantage in turbulent environments (Hitt et al., 1998; Zahra et al., 2008). However, agreement on the link between strategic flexibility and f...
The confidence factor in pricing: driving firm performance
[ "Pricing", "Competences", "Business performance", "Business improvement", "Performance improvement", "Organizational capabilities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Pricing is a key performance driver. Implementing pricing effectively, however, is difficult. Contrast the experiences of companies such as Netflix and JC Penney with those of Clariant, GE, Apple or Amazon: The former two com...
How shopping motives, store attributes and demographic factors influence store format choice in Vietnam: A logistic regression analysis
[ "Vietnam", "Logistic regression", "Store choice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The study by Kantor World Panel predicted that 2016 would be a key year for modern trade development in Vietnam, with modern distribution channels expected to either establish or further expand their outlets. Vietnam's Wor...
Effective strategies for enhancing waste management at university campuses
[ "Recycling", "Integrated waste management", "Waste management framework", "Waste policy", "Zero-waste" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In today's consumption-driven societies, large amounts of paper waste, food waste, e-waste, plastics, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and excessive packaging are causing socio-economic and environmentally adverse impacts (...
The importance of fostering alignment to ensure sustainable nation building: The role of HRD in large Palestinian organizations
[ "NHRD", "Palestine", "Employability", "Alignment", "HCT", "Workplace development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper reports on an exploratory study examining the provision of human resource development (HRD) in large Palestinian organizations. Palestine is deemed to be a transitioning society as it is moving from a high dependen...
Markets
[ "Production", "Investment", "Ageing", "Farming", "Primary production", "Literature" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The edge of Jake's hat tipped forward as he heaved the crate of broccoli up out of the back of the old truck. Then the old akubra tumbled all the way off, landing on top of the rich purpled green heads - helped in its fall by...
How sociable is your university brand? An empirical investigation of university social augmenters' brand equity
[ "Egypt", "Brand equity", "Co-curricular activities", "Higher education marketing", "University branding", "University social augmenters" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: For many years, marketers have successfully employed branding strategies and techniques to brand their products and services in various business domains. These strategies have propelled firms into a formidable growth pace. Ma...
The influence of firm characteristics on profitability: Evidence from Italian hospitality industry
[ "Profitability", "Tourism", "Determinants", "Hotel firms", "Italian hospitality industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: It is well accepted that tourism industry is a large source of income for many developed and developing countries and it is one of the most profitable service industries. Actually, many studies consider tourism as one of t...
Digital platforms in Russia: competition between national and foreign multi-sided platforms stimulates growth and innovation
[ "Competitive strategy", "Multi-sided platforms", "Digital economy", "Digital business", "Digital platforms", "Russian economy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Digital transformation is an ongoing process, embracing all sectors of the economy and affecting the way people live. Digital platforms accelerate digital transformation. Rapid growth of digital platforms across the globe has...
An R&D knowledge management method for patent document summarization
[ "Document handling", "Knowledge management", "Information management", "Intellectual property" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Organizations are utilizing an ever expanding number of electronic knowledge documents. Engineers and researchers, in particular, are retrieving and processing large numbers of technical reports and patent documents to safe...
How adaption of historic listed buildings affords access
[ "Inclusion", "Accessibility", "Dementia", "Building conservation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Evolved over the last century, historic conservation is an active process sustaining and protecting heritage sites through preservation and/or enhancement, regulated through international heritage and conservation treaties as...
Endogenous evolution of patriarchal clan system in ancient China
[ "China", "Trust", "Clan", "Hierarchical preferences", "Preference falsification", "D71", "H41", "P40" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As a nation with over 5,000 years' history, China poses many interesting paradoxes to researchers. For example, one of the distinguishing features of Chinese society is patriarchal clan system. Anthropologist Hsu (1963) ident...
The nexus between early release of inmates and juvenile recidivism: A case study of Kaduna Borstal Training Institute
[ "Recidivism", "Delinquency", "Stigmatization", "Early release", "Inmate" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In today's society, crime is an aspect of life that is present whether it is acknowledged or ignored. Crime is being committed more frequently and more often by adolescents. Research shows that previously incarcerated youths ...
Introduction of weather-derivative concepts: perspectives for Portugal
[ "Rainfall", "Derivative markets", "Hedging", "Risk management", "Portugal" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nI. Introduction: Weather is more than an element of the environment; it is a major economic factor. Weather affects economies worldwide, having a serious impact on revenues and earnings. Until now, there was nothing a business could do abo...