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"Of age - off school": sexual maturation, girls' education and capabilities
[ "Gender", "Inequalities", "Education", "School health promotion", "Mental and physical well-being" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Despite significant progress in ensuring increased access to girls' education in Nigeria since Jomtien Conference 1990, which has seen the gender parity index for gross enrolment in primary and secondary schools increase from...
The role of learning in value co-creation in new technological B2B services
[ "Value co-creation", "Learning", "Value-in-use", "Business service", "Customer perceived value" ]
[ { "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.\n1. Introduction: The topic of value creation in business-to-business (B2B) marketing has attracted considerable interest in curre...
Developing vocational competences during secondary school?
[ "VET", "Young people", "School-to-work transition", "IBCP", "Skills and competences", "Transferability of skills and knowledge" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent years, many employers have criticised secondary schools as not teaching sufficient transferable skills (European Commission, 2011). Employers emphasised the importance of social or behavioural issues (Winterton, 200...
Determinants of banking consumers' engagement in post service failure positive word-of-mouth: Examining mediating mechanisms
[ "PLS-SEM", "Service recovery", "Brand equity", "Importance-performance map analysis", "Positive word-of-mouth" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Service failure is often a concern for most service firms. Thus, firms with a consumer orientation and long-term perspective typically attempt to minimize such failures. However, in reality, it is not possible to achieve a...
Risk perception and propensity in bid/no-bid decision-making of construction projects
[ "Risk perception", "Construction management", "Risk", "Bid/no-bid", "Experimental questionnaire", "Risk propensity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Globalization has created and provided opportunities for contracting enterprises to expand into the international construction contracting market (Oo et al., 2007). Bidding decision for international construction projects ...
Are business schools doing their job?
[ "Switzerland", "Business schools", "Curricula", "Master of Business Administration", "Business education", "Teaching methods", "Leadership development", "Management skills", "Learning methods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Are business schools focussing their teaching on the right things?: Every serious business school seeks to prepare future leaders to deal with the complex and far-reaching decisions that businesses face. Why then, do so many seem to fai...
Sustainable manufacturing practices in Malaysian palm oil mills: Priority and current performance
[ "Manufacturing management", "Sustainable production", "Manufacturing performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As one of Malaysia's main agroindustrial commodities, palm oil plays a significant role as part of the country's economic backbone and has helped to create the nation's current prosperity (Umar et al., 2013; Tan et al., 20...
Users and non-users of counterfeits: motivations, emotional outcomes and neutralization processes
[ "Counterfeiting", "Consumer behaviour", "Qualitative research", "Counterfeits", "Brand choice", "Genuine brands", "Original brands", "SES Groups" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Counterfeit trade is still one of the most significant phenomena shaping the world economy with a yearly worth of nearly half a trillion dollars, around 2.5 per cent of global imports (OECD, 2016). Further enabled by internat...
Interpretive structural modelling of critical risk factors in software engineering project
[ "Company performance", "Decision support systems", "Corporate strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Software engineering concerns with design, creation and maintenance of software using latest tools, techniques and practices from computer science, project management, information technology and other application domains (...
Drivers of supply chain integration and the role of organizational culture: Empirical evidence from Indonesia
[ "Organizational culture", "Firm performance", "Indonesia", "Supply chain integration", "Structural equation modelling", "External-internal drivers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The implementation of supply chain management (SCM) practices has been widely spread among organizations since they realized the benefits of collaboration with supply chain partners. The collaboration among organizations w...
The social assistance policy in urban China: a critical review
[ "China", "Social assistance", "Special assistance programs", "Urban Dibao (minimum living standard guarantee system)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In its centrally planned economy, the Chinese government had adopted a policy of low salaries and high rate of employment, which created the employment-based social security system whereby the state guaranteed its workers lif...
Democratization of organizational change process through deliberation
[ "Case study", "Organizational change", "Deliberation", "Democratic leadership", "Organizational jury" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organization is a form of life that emerges in the communicative activities that together construct organizational identity (Taylor and Van Every, 2000). Therefore, any proposed change may be seen as a threat and a challenge ...
A systematic model for improving theoretical garment fit
[ "Garment fit", "Evaluation of fit", "Fit value", "Garment measurement chart" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Clothing that fits well is critical to garment suppliers. Consumers should be able to rely on size labelling when selecting their apparel, especially when shopping online. Problems with fitting cause poor sales performance in...
The impact of knowledge and motivation management on creativity: Employees of innovative Spanish companies
[ "Creativity", "Intrinsic motivation", "Explicit knowledge", "Tacit knowledge", "Extrinsic motivation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Broad consensus seems to exist on the importance of human resources (HR) as one of the firm's key assets (Barney and Clark, 2007). In this line, HR management, including aspects such as staff qualifications, education and mot...
Framework for a dynamic and responsive: Time separated - lean-agile spare parts replenishment system in army
[ "Case studies", "Armed forces", "Lean", "Agile", "Logistics chain" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Logistics can be defined as the applied science of planning and implementing the acquisitions and use of resources (Jones, 2006). In contrast to commercial logistics, military logistics include all the processes used to en...
The influence of job characteristics on IT and non-IT job professional's turnover intentions
[ "Information technology", "Organizational behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Information technology (IT) professionals are a special group of staff that organizations often do not want to lose to other organizations. However, several studies have indicated that IT professional turnover is high and tha...
Dissonance in students' perceptions of sustainable development and sustainability: Implications for curriculum change
[ "Education", "Sustainable development", "Students", "Perception", "Learning", "Change management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Education for sustainable development\nThe survey: A main aim of the survey described here is to explore University of Plymouth students' current understandings and perceptions of, and attitudes towards, sustainable developme...
Using the fuzzy multicriteria decision making approach to evaluate brand equity: a study of privatized firms
[ "Branding", "Fuzzy sets", "Brand equity", "Brand name", "Corporate branding", "Brand performance", "Brand management", "Knowledge extraction", "Text mining", "Fuzzy logic" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the past 20 years, the topic of brand equity has received considerable attention in the marketing literature (Yoo et al., 2000; Tong and Hawley, 2009; Washburn and Plank, 2002). Rapid technological innovation, the glo...
An analysis of factors affecting mobile banking adoption
[ "Mobile banking", "Resistance to change", "Consumer behaviour", "Internet marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Life in the twenty-first century is so different from the years before - everything has become so easy, practical and fast-paced. Some might believe that this is a good kind of different, while others do not accept such chang...
Explaining process orientation failure and success in health care - three case studies
[ "Health care", "Actor Network Theory", "Medical profession", "Organization and control", "Process orientation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A couple of years after the introduction of New Public Management (NPM) in the health care sector there was criticism that health care provision was fragmentized and poorly coordinated (Bragato and Jacobs, 2003; Kurunmaki and...
Whither competition in Malaysia's banking industry ex post a restructuring
[ "Competition", "Lerner index", "Global financial crisis", "Market structure", "Malaysian banking consolidation", "Panzar-Rosse model", "D24", "G21", "L1" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction to banking industry competition: 1.1 Background to the study\n2. Overview of banking system: The country's financial system has been established slowly over many years, even before the country was granted independence by Br...
The influence of spiritual leadership on quality of work life, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior
[ "Organizational citizenship behavior", "SEM", "Spiritual leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the twenty-first century, the business world experiences a leadership crisis, especially to fulfill the demands for effective, capable and honest leaders with integrity. Spiritual leadership is an organizational develop...
Benchmarking responsible management and non-financial reporting
[ "CSR", "Benchmarking", "Fuzzy logic", "Non-financial reporting (NFR)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Organizations increasingly use non-financial reporting (NFR) to explain their responsible management[1] philosophy and practices. The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the most widely used tool for producing these repor...
Discovering the collective entrepreneurial opportunities through spatial relationships
[ "Relational proximity", "Collective entrepreneurial opportunities", "Digital fabrication", "Entrepreneurial network", "Spatial relationships" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The field of entrepreneurship is considered by Shane and Venkataraman (2000) as the \"scholarly examination of how, by whom, and with what effects opportunities that create future goods and services are discovered, evaluat...
A critical look at the use of SEM in international business research
[ "International marketing", "International business", "Structural equation modelling", "Covariance-based SEM", "Partial least squares SEM" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Researchers in international business and marketing face the challenge of constantly and rapidly changing research contexts owing to the growing internationalization of firms, the development of the global economy, and signif...
Leadership in female SHGs: traits/abilities, situational or forced?
[ "Gender", "Empowerment", "India", "Social policy", "Female SHGs", "Self-help" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Microfinance, and especially microcredit, has become a popular instrument of poverty alleviation and women's empowerment in developing countries such as India, Bangladesh and many African countries. Microcredit is provided th...
Resisting the crisis: short-time work in Germany
[ "Short‐time work", "Economic and financial crisis", "Germany", "Panel analysis", "Probit regression", "Truncated regression", "Hours of work", "Economic depression", "Financial performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Since the bank crash tossed the world into an economic crisis in the second half of 2008, politicians had eagerly been searching for interventions to ease the strain on the labour market. Germany managed rather successfull...
Family, community, and globalization: Wayuu indigenous entrepreneurs as n-Culturals
[ "Family", "Globalization", "Community", "N-Culturals", "Indigenous entrepreneurship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Recently, Indigenous entrepreneurship, that is, entrepreneurship by Indigenous people such as Maori in New Zealand, has received a lot of attention (Chan et al., 2016; Croce, 2017; Dana, 2015; Kawharu et al., 2017; Logue e...
The impact of training on firm outcomes: longitudinal evidence from Canada
[ "Training", "Firm performance", "Profit", "Voluntary turnover" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Training represents a fundamental and strategic means by which firms can develop their human capital. As noted by Van de Wiele (2010), \"in this era of knowledge and information, continuous education and training of workers a...
Intangible and financial performance: causes and effects
[ "Germany", "Management accounting", "Financial performance", "Intangible assets", "Management strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Numerous influencing factors have lead to enterprise-boundaries losing their character and alternative forms of organisation - in particular business networks - gaining increasing relevance (Parkhe, 1993; Ashkenas et al., 199...
Intellectual capital, knowledge management practices and firm performance
[ "Performance", "Innovation", "Knowledge management", "Intellectual capital", "Knowledge management practices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Academics, practitioners, and policy makers broadly agree that knowledge is a crucial driver for firm performance and value creation (e.g. OECD, 1996; Grant, 1996; Makadok, 2001; Hamilton, 2006; Ferreira and Hamilton, 2010). ...
Factors determining firms' perceived performance of mobile commerce
[ "Spain", "Organizational performance", "Mobile technology", "Relationship marketing", "Mobile commerce", "Fit", "Technology competence", "Customer value", "Competitive pressure", "TOE framework", "Fit‐viability model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: One business challenge currently facing enterprises is the possibility of mobile commerce. Liao et al. (1999) state that mobile commerce involves providing products and services using wireless technologies to facilitate ele...
Defusing the demographic time-bomb
[ "Older workers", "Knowledge management", "Retirement", "Skilled workers", "Process management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The reality of the demographic time bomb of an aging population is now upon us. Before the end of the decade, for the first time in human history, the proportion of people aged 60 or over in the West will exceed the proportio...
Innovative practice in the teaching and learning of human resource development
[ "Human resource development", "Teaching and training", "Human resource management research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: We begin this editorial with a short story and a question. The story unfolds as follows:The teaching team in a Business School in the UK, anxious to enhance their teaching of HRD, decide there is a case for change. Based on t...
The sufficiency economy and people-centered development: The case of the Huay Sai Royal Development Project in Thailand
[ "Action learning", "Community development", "People-centered development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nStatement of the problem and research questions: Economic turbulence and scarce resources are causing many countries, especially developing countries, to struggle, remain viable and survive. Traditionally, the main development paradigm for...
The bittersweet effect of power disparity: Implications for emergent states in collaborative multi-party systems
[ "Collaboration", "Psychological safety", "Conflict", "Emergent states", "Power disparity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Now more than ever, the society is confronted with complex issues such as environmental disputes, the management of natural resources or complex construction projects that involve (apparently) intractable conflicts among vari...
Personnel policy adjustments when apprentice positions are unfilled: Evidence from German establishment data
[ "Germany", "Firms", "Apprenticeship training", "Personnel policy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In Germany, the majority of training firms intends to retain their apprentices after the training period (Muehlemann and Wolter, 2014; Mohrenweiser and Backes-Gellner, 2010). Retaining apprentices has several advantages fo...
Patient assessment of primary care physician communication: segmentation approach
[ "Patient centredness", "Doctor-patient interpersonal relationship", "Primary care physician communication", "Segmentation approach" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Effective physician-patient communication is the foundation of compassionate and competent healthcare and a major contributor to high-quality medical services and patient satisfaction (Kaplan et al., 1989; Levinson et al., 20...
Local versus global food consumption: the role of brand authenticity
[ "Marketing", "Brand authenticity", "Global brands", "Local brands" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: After decades of food globalization, consumer markets have witnessed an increasing demand for locally grown and processed food and beverages over the past years. This development reflects a general consumer trend toward prefe...
Influence of selected factors in journals' citations
[ "Citation analysis", "Journal ranking", "Author self-citation", "Journal self-citation", "Recitation", "Skewness of citation distribution" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Academic journals play a crucial role in today's world of science communication with at least three objectives: validation, diffusion and archival. Journal publishing, thus, should have a meticulous quality control process in...
Issues in a down economy: blue oceans and new product development
[ "Economic depression", "Product development", "Competitive strategy", "Customer satisfaction", "Customer retention" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Conventional wisdom asserts that starting a company or developing a new product for release during a down economy is a risky proposition. More precisely, the gut reaction of many marketers is to cut back, suspend initiatives ...
Bridging the gap - interpersonal communication orientation to improving customer service
[ "Training", "Factor analysis", "Service quality", "Functional Fluency", "Transactional analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Customer service focusses on the encounter between the employees and the customers on interpersonal elements (Bitner et al., 1990). Customer service is an essential part of customer value proposition. This results in customer...
Mechanization of static mechanical systems inspection planning process: The state of the art
[ "Aging assets", "Inspection planning", "Maintenance", "Mechanization", "Risk-based inspection" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Oil and gas (O&G) production and process systems (topside and sub-sea) include different types of equipment that often run under rigorous and frequently changing operating conditions (Ratnayake, 2011, 2014a, b, c). This ca...
The effectiveness of transformational leadership on empowerment: The roles of gender and gender dyads
[ "Gender", "Transformational leadership", "Psychological empowerment", "Korea", "Female leadership", "Gender dyad" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Globally, growing numbers of female employees are involved in the economy (Eagly and Carli, 2003). The increasing representation of females in organizations has brought increased attention to gender issues in management resea...
Leader-member exchange and employee creativity: Knowledge sharing: the moderated mediating role of psychological contract
[ "Knowledge sharing", "Psychological contract", "Leader-member exchange", "Employee creativity", "Moderated mediation model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Previous researchers paid more attention to discuss visitors' behavior in theme park industry (e.g. Cheng et al., 2014). For example, Cheng et al. (2014) indicated that there are seven factors influencing visitor brand-switch...
A new coffee culture amongst Costa Rican university students
[ "Gender", "Culture", "Costa Rica", "University students", "Coffee", "Logistic regression" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: For over two centuries, coffee and bananas have been the major foreign exchange earners of Costa Rica. Over this time, the importance of coffee and its ubiquity has led to the development of a coffee culture which is part ...
Social networking as an enabler of change in entrepreneurial Brazilian firms
[ "Social networks", "Market orientation", "Organizational learning", "Biotechnology companies", "Organizational change", "Change management", "Brazil", "Learning organizations", "Entrepreneurialism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The growing importance of the use of social networks such a Facebook, Twitter, Xing, etc in the business world, requires scientific studies to put forward relationships as to how this type of technology tool can bring abou...
Selling rooms online: the use of social media and online travel agents
[ "Social media", "Hotels technology", "Online booking", "Online travel agents" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have had an unprecedented impact on the hospitality sector, revolutionizing the way hotel managers' carry out day-to-day business (Law, 2009). Although hoteliers have been slo...
College students' perceptions of campus sustainability
[ "Sustainable development", "Students", "Universities", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: In recent years, US colleges and universities have increased their awareness of and commitment to sustainable practices. Student organizations and special events have emerged to focus on sustainable practices regarding tran...
Transformational leadership in teams - the effects of a team leader's sex and personality
[ "Gender", "Teams", "Personality", "Sex", "Transformational leadership", "Team leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Leadership theories are often presented as being either gender- or sex-neutral (Fletcher, 2004), but sex, gender and personality have been noted to influence leaders' behaviour and how subordinates evaluate leaders (Brandt an...
Meaning-making through research
[ "Disabilities", "Social groups" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This \"Professional Insights\" essay is an account of my experiences as a researcher and as an individual who studies \"stigmatized\" subjects in India: persons with a disability. Over a decade with this topic, I realized tha...
International brands in emerging markets: the myths of segmentation
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Segmentation", "Brands", "Emerging markets" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Emerging markets are countries characterised by low levels of infrastructure and resources, and high levels of growth. They are countries that are typically transitioning to a market economy, such as Brazil, Russia, India, Ch...
Using a multiple-informant approach in SCM research
[ "Research methods", "Survey research", "Systematic literature review", "Multiple informants" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Supply chain management (SCM) is a highly integrative discipline. From an internal perspective, it is closely connected with key management functions such as strategic management, marketing, and finance. From an external pers...
Trust, information asymmetry and professional service online referral agents
[ "Professional services", "Trust", "Information asymmetry", "Notaries", "Online agents" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Online recommendation agents (RAs) are software agents embedded in online platforms that elicit the preferences or needs of individual users, and refer producers, providers or merchants accordingly (Xiao and Benbasat, 2007). ...
Isolation and characterization of vinegar culture (Acetobacter aceti) from indigenous sources
[ "Fermentation", "Food products", "Acids", "Pakistan" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The profound and sweeping involvement of microbes in the natural world is inescapable. Although our daily encounters with them usually go unnoticed, human and microbial life are clearly intertwined on many levels. It is no wo...
New job matches and their stability before and during the crisis
[ "Business cycle", "Job tenure", "Job-separations", "J64", "C41", "E32" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The Great Recession has led to important adjustments in the labour market of most developed countries and has dramatically affected the Spanish labour market, which exhibits higher job destruction and lower job creation ra...
IoT adoption in agriculture: the role of trust, perceived value and risk
[ "Agriculture", "Value", "United States of America", "IT", "Trust", "Business-to-Business Marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Internet of things (IoT) technology and big data applications are poised to play a key role in ramping up global food production to feed billions in the coming decades. Experts are envisioning a data-driven future, wherein Io...
The S-D logic-informed "hamburger" model of service innovation and its implications for engagement and value
[ "Service innovation", "Value", "Customer engagement", "S-D logic", "Assimilation approach" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The customer engagement concept, which has been defined as \"a customer's motivationally driven, volitional investment of operant/operand resources into brand interactions\" has been subject to increasing scholarly attention ...
Goal directed project management methodology for the support of ERP implementation and optimal adaptation procedure
[ "Project management", "Optimization techniques", "Resource efficiency" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The past several decades have been marked by a rapid growth in the use of project management (PM) as a means by which organizations achieve their objectives. Project management provides an organization with powerful tools t...
Differentiation in financial markets: the human capital approach
[ "Human capital", "Financial markets", "Australia", "Hong Kong" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Human capital (HC) analysis appears to be relevant to a complex economy. As Senge (2000, cited in Beer and Nohria, 2000, p. 16) noted, the traditional linear view of optimising resources, which we can take to include HC, as...
Millennials' attitude toward chatbots: an experimental study in a social relationship perspective
[ "Chatbot", "Interaction style", "Avatar", "Social presence", "Trust", "Enjoyment", "Attitude" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the last few years, retailers have been providing customers with various digital touchpoints as part of their ongoing use of digital technologies in the shopping process (Hagberg et al., 2016). Many of them have adopted ...
Entrepreneurial leadership in Middle East sport businesses: The impact of gender differences in cultural values
[ "Gender", "Middle East", "Culture", "Entrepreneurial leadership", "Sport business" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As the number of women in sports leadership and management positions increases, a range of new issues develops. Women in the labour force face a range of significant gender-related challenges, including pay gaps, violence and...
Consumer relationship proneness: a reexamination and extension across service exchanges
[ "Relationship marketing", "Trust", "Customer loyalty", "Services", "Service delivery" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article.\nLiterature review and hypotheses development: Consumer proneness\nMethod: Data collection\nResults: Measurement models\nDiscuss...
The role of learning and customer orientation for delivering service quality to patients
[ "Customer orientation", "Workplace training", "Customers", "Hospitals", "Greece" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Learning and market orientation are two organizational values that have attracted considerable attention with regards to both their interrelationship (Baker and Sinkula, 1999; Slater and Narver, 1995) and their separate and c...
Consumer behaviour in the Greek floral market: Comparative insights for the food industry
[ "Plants", "Consumer behaviour", "Greece", "Fast moving consumer goods", "Social behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Flowers have been used for sympathy, congratulations, courtship and worship reasons as well as given as gifts and used for the interior decoration of homes. Subsequently, specific semiotic codes have been evolved concerning t...
Trends in shopping centre waste management
[ "Waste management", "Innovation", "Shopping centres", "Taxation", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction and background: Landfill has traditionally been the UK's main waste disposal method closely followed by incineration. An over reliance on landfill has caused the UK to face shortages of landfill sites with the UK now facing pr...
Dissemination of quality improvement innovations by multisector health care alliances
[ "Dissemination of innovations", "Multiple holistic case study", "Multisector health care alliances" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The dissemination of innovative evidence-based practices to improve the quality of care and better manage the health of different patient populations has become a central concern of health care practitioners and policy makers...
Critical operations capabilities for competitive manufacturing: a systematic review
[ "Strategy", "Operations", "Review", "Capability", "Priority" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In a fast-changing and turbulent competitive environment, firms have to deal with an accelerated pace of technology, innovation, globalization of markets, and ever-increasing customer expectations (Hilletofth, 2012; Erikss...
Training staff for a lifetime's service: Coles Meyer Limited's model corporate university
[ "Corporate universities", "Human resource strategies", "Human capital", "Australia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Coles Meyer Limited (CML) is Australia's largest private sector employer, operating in such diverse businesses as retail, supermarkets and commercial products. It employs approximately 165,000 people in over 1,900 stores thro...
How does a foreign subsidiary's differentiation strategy fit competitive dynamics and mandate?
[ "Differentiation", "Subsidiary", "Strategy", "Fit", "Competitive dynamics", "Value-adding" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Global competitiveness of the industrial firm has been a popular research topic for a long time (Hult, 2012). Although, for example, Katsikeas et al. (2006) underscore that competitiveness relies on a strategy fit with local ...
Retail logistics in the transition from multi-channel to omni-channel
[ "Multi-channel", "Omni-channel", "Fulfilment", "Retail logistics", "Warehouse operations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is an increasing overlap of online and bricks-and-mortar (B\nConceptual background and terminology: A retail business with multiple channels goes through different stages in its level of interconnection and process inte...
Benchmarking suppliers' performance when some factors play the role of both inputs and outputs : A new development to the slacks-based measure of efficiency
[ "Benchmarking", "Data envelopment analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Supply chain refers to an integrated value system of suppliers, manufacturers, subcontractors, distributors and retailers working together with the prime purpose of creating value to the end-users (Chan and Burn, 2002). In...
Place crowd safety, crowd science? Case studies and application
[ "Place crowd safety", "Crowd science development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Managing crowded places is challenging. Over 100 years ago, in 1902, 25 people died and 517 were injured when the West Stand at Ibrox Park, Glasgow, UK collapsed during an international football match (Still, 2019). In 201...
Employees as ambassadors: embracing new role expectations and coping with identity-tensions
[ "Employee communication", "Ambassadorship", "Identity", "Identity work", "Identity-tensions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is a growing consensus within corporate communication that employees are important communicators, as \"interactions between organizational members and external stakeholders is of vital importance\" for intangible assets...
Reading "Canadian" management in context: development of English and French education
[ "Canadian management theory", "Archival data", "Longitudinal qualitative", "Textbooks", "Critical hermeneutics", "Management history" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The past half century has seen a tremendous change and standardized development in the management literature, and specifically, a process of institutionalization of managerialism in many social spheres (Mintzberg, 1989). Cana...
Customer satisfaction and loyalty in Malaysian Islamic banks:a PAKSERV investigation
[ "SERVQUAL", "Malaysia", "Islamic banking", "Service quality", "Customer satisfaction and loyalty", "PAKSERV" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The maintenance of desired levels of service quality is imperative for firms to stay competitive (Brown and Bitner, 2007). Service quality can only become a tool to guard competition if it has been measured by employing appro...
A factor-identifying study of the user-perceived value of collective intelligence based on online social networks
[ "Online social networks", "Collective intelligence", "User-perceived value" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Online social media services allow customers and organizations conveniently to interact and share experiences with each other (Cheung and To, 2016). Recently, the deployment of collective intelligence (co-intelligence) to ...
Are new work practices and new technologies biased against immigrant workers?
[ "Immigrants", "Employment", "New work practices", "New technology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In this study, we investigate whether, and to what extent, the problems faced by immigrants in the labour market are aggravated by changing organisational structures in the workplace and by the use of new technology in the...
What do faculty and students really think about e-books?
[ "Electronic books", "Academic staff", "Students" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nContext for the research: Until very recently, research into how digital resources are used within the academy has focused primarily on e-journals. Considerable steps have been made by CIBER in understanding journal user behaviour, through...
How capitalism abolishes itself in the digital era in favour of robo-economic systems: socio-economic implications of decentralized autonomous self-owned businesses
[ "Artificial Intelligence", "Blockchain", "Scenario thinking", "Future markets", "Robo-economic systems", "Self-owned businesses" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In 2015, Mike Hearn, a former Google software engineer and early Bitcoin core developer presented a bold vision for the future: taxi cars that would not only drive autonomously but would also operate autonomously and ultim...
Achieving impact with clinical process management in hospitals: an inspiring case
[ "Germany", "Hospitals", "Process management", "Clinical pathways", "Continuous improvement", "Diagnosis‐related groups", "Hospital management", "Process orientation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction and motivation: Hospitals in the OECD countries are coping with the challenges resulting from increased financial restrictions and growing competition (GBE, 2008). Process orientation is seen as an essential means of remaini...
What determines customers' engagement in the digital service process?
[ "Digitization", "Service operations", "Customer relations", "E-commerce", "Customer service management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Digitization has generated extensive changes for businesses. The complexity of the digital economy stems from its various functions. The digital economy provides global access to knowledge and information and thus affects the...
The impact of buyer-supplier relationships' social capital on bi-directional information sharing in the supply chain
[ "Buyer-supplier relationship", "Trust", "Social capital", "Business-to-business marketing", "Bi-directional information sharing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The adoption of supply chain management (SCM) initiatives has for more than two decades been considered to be essential for ensuring sustainable performance and cooperation in buyer-supplier relationships. The sharing of info...
Comparative cross-cultural service quality: an assessment of research methodology
[ "Data analysis", "Research work", "Serials", "Cross‐cultural studies", "Customer services quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: With the rise of globalisation, a growing number of service providers are marketing services internationally (Malhotra et al., 2005; Zhang et al., 2008). This growth has certainly created many opportunities for business man...
An evaluation of alternative scoring models in private banking
[ "Banking", "Financial risk", "Scoring procedures (tests)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Recently, the role of effective management of different financial and operational risks is especially important for bankers who have come to realize that banking operations affect and are affected by economic and social envir...
Luxury fashion and sustainability: looking good together
[ "Luxury fashion", "Environmental practices", "Triple bottom line", "Social practices", "Economic practices", "Sustainability best practices", "Sustainability challenges" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A groundswell of calls from governments, private organisations and consumers urges adopting new models of consumption and business that are more ecologically sustainable. Concerns about existing business practices are rooted ...
Optimal microfinance loan size and poverty reduction amongst female entrepreneurs in Pakistan
[ "Pakistan", "Education", "Microfinance", "Family health", "Household income", "Poverty reduction", "Women entrepreneurship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The global shift in gender dynamics indicates that \"women capital\" is increasingly important for the socio-economic and political development of emerging economies. This proposition is supported by Minnite et al. (2005) who...
Application of a multi-criteria model for determining risk premium
[ "Capital budgeting", "Risk management", "Analytical hierarchy process" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The analytical hierarchical process (AHP) has been proposed in recent literature as an emerging solution approach to large, dynamic, and complex real world multi-criteria decision-making problems (Albayrakoglu, 1996; Carlsson...
Performance-based logistics - an illusive panacea or a concept for the future?
[ "Servitization", "Performance-based logistics", "Product service systems", "Logistic support", "Performance contracting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Today many manufacturing firms' offers contain more than physical products - they sell the output of their products, i.e. the product performance. The trend toward selling performance is especially apparent among manufactu...
Skills needs, integrative pedagogy and case-based instruction
[ "Workplace learning", "Adult learner", "Applying case-based instruction", "Case-based instruction", "Current/future skills", "Integrative pedagogy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: We propose that organizations involved with training of employees make greater use of case-based instruction (CBI) based on two important connections. First, CBI is linked to skill development in areas recognized as high valu...
Using EEG to examine the role of attention, working memory, emotion, and imagination in narrative transportation
[ "Imagination", "Emotion", "Social marketing", "Energy efficiency", "EEG", "Narrative transportation", "Attention", "Working memory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Storytelling is a powerful approach for influencing consumers and has attracted increasing attention from marketing researchers in recent years (Grayson, 1997; Thompson et al., 1998; Kozinets, 2008; van Laer et al., 2014). So...
Life-cycle cost comparison of chip seal and striping: in-house workers versus private contractors
[ "Management", "Construction", "Estimating", "Lifestyle costing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the USA, there are more than 4m center miles of roads (USDOT, 2016). According to a guideline, the structural design period of a road pavement can be up to 30 years (roads: materials and construction), and for a pavement s...
Design guidelines for boardroom's effectiveness: the case of Fortune 500 firms
[ "Corporate governance", "Boards of directors", "Boardroom effectiveness", "Boardroom performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Corporate governance refers to systems, protocols, procedures and institutions regulating the interaction patterns between the central organizational players to ensure the proper functioning of the firm. The board of director...
Application of regulatory focus theory to search advertising
[ "Search engine", "Google AdWords", "Internet advertising", "Online advertising", "Regulatory fit", "Regulatory focus", "Search engine" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In 2013, marketers spent over $45 billion in advertising across the top three search platforms (Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft Bing), with 33 per cent of total online marketing dollars spent on Google (eMarketer, 2013). In Q1 o...
Constraining and facilitating management control in times of austerity: Case studies in four municipal departments
[ "NPM", "Austerity", "Stewardship", "Management control", "Constraining", "Facilitating" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Since the financial crisis surfaced in 2008, many governments have taken austerity measures in order to bring their expenses closer to their revenues (Gordon Murray et al., 2012). For European countries such as Germany, Italy...
Faculty responses to business school branding: a discursive approach
[ "Branding", "Higher education", "Discourse analysis", "Business schools", "Brands" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Branding has become the zeitgeist of our society (Kornberger, 2010), no longer a practice that is exclusive to corporate, for-profit sectors. Universities, for instance, are increasingly turning to branding to enhance thei...
The warranty policy under fuzzy environment
[ "Warranties", "Failure (mechanical)", "Reliability management", "Maintenance", "Mathematical modelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Modern manufacturing firms face fierce competition because of rapidly changing technologies, nearly identical products, and better educated and more demanding customers (Murthy and Djamaludin, 2002). In promoting products,...
Prevalence of cognitive impairment among hill-tribe older people in the Northern part of Thailand
[ "Cognitive impairment", "Hill-tribe older people", "Thailand" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Like many countries worldwide, Thailand's ageing population is rapidly increasing. A Thai older person is defined as aged 60 years and above. It is anticipated that their numbers will increase from 11m in 2015 to 23m by 2050[...
Linking managerial competence to small enterprise performance within the dynamic capability logic
[ "Performance", "Entrepreneurial orientation", "Dynamic capability", "Managerial competence", "Small enterprise", "Willingness to change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Small enterprises often recognize and exploit opportunities ahead of their larger competitors, prompting scholars to acknowledge the importance of examining the processes in generating value for small enterprises. Dynamic cap...
Adolescents' views about an internet platform for adolescents with mental health problems
[ "Adolescents", "Mental illness", "Web sites", "Education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A high percentage of adolescents suffer from a variety of mental health problems (Patel et al., 2007). Prevalence rates among the general adolescent population range from 19 per cent to 28 per cent (Centraal Bureau Statistiek...