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The internet practices of hotel companies: an analysis from Greece
[ "Internet", "Information services", "Greece", "Hotels", "Customer satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The hotel industry is accepting the use of the web for electronic commerce, and many hotels have already established web sites to bring information about their products to the customers, to promote their services and products...
Editorial: taking some novel advice
[ "Writing style", "Article theme", "Storyline" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories [...] But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure it (Stephen King).\nOn writing style: Style isn't added to the work, i...
University-based incubators' performance evaluation: a benchmarking approach
[ "Taiwan", "Business incubators", "UBIs’ services", "UBIs’ performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Since its inception in the 1950s in developed countries such as the USA and after the last three decades of rapid growth, incubation centers (ICs) have become a phenomenon in many parts of the world and are considered as a...
Directors' stress in day care centers: related factors and coping strategies
[ "Day care center director", "Educational leadership", "Occupational stress", "Coping strategies", "Early childhood education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Several studies have shown that teaching is one of the most stressful occupations (e.g. Clement, 2017), and directors have an important role in supporting teachers in their job (Zinsser and Curby, 2014). Considering the impor...
Apparel import intermediaries' secrets to success: Redefining success in a hyper-dynamic environment
[ "Imports", "Marketing environment", "Garment industry", "Intermediaries", "Globalization", "Supply chain management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The movement of apparel production across international borders has fundamentally transformed the apparel industry, resulting in an extremely challenging business environment (Appelbaum and Christerson, 1997; Dicken, 2003; Jo...
The role of Indian school canteens in nutrition promotion
[ "India", "Food consumption", "Adolescents", "School canteen", "Food habits" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Globally, obesity has been identified as a major public health crisis (World Health Organization, 2013). Recent epidemiological evidence from the Indian sub-continent confirms the widespread occurrence of overweight and obesi...
Building a learning health system using clinical registers: a non-technical introduction
[ "Information technology", "Quality improvement", "Safety", "Healthcare", "Health information technology", "Learning health system", "Clinical registers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The purpose of the paper is to give an introduction for practitioners, managers and researchers to clinical registries and the learning health system (LHS) made possible by digital health technologies (DHTs). It aims to enabl...
Online learning during post-earthquake school closures
[ "Online learning", "Earthquake disasters", "Educational delivery", "Emergency education", "School closures" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the aftermath of natural hazards such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods, maintaining the educational delivery services becomes a challenge. In fact, disasters affect schools and educational processes in many ways. Howev...
Institutional change and routine dynamics in service ecosystems
[ "Co-creation", "Service ecosystem", "Service processes", "Service dominant logic SDL", "Value co-creation practices", "Routine dynamics", "Institutional change", "Actors", "Dialectics", "Coordination", "Agency" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: When multiple actors come together to create value, concerted action and interaction depend crucially on collective practices - ways of understanding, saying and doing things together (Schau et al., 2009). Service-dominant lo...
Improving new product development performance by risk management
[ "Risk management", "Commercialization risk", "Marketing risk", "NPD performance", "Organizational risk", "Technological risk" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: New product development (NPD) is one of the most important efforts of modern companies; it is essential for their development and survival. New products can offer unique, new, innovative and better solutions based on custo...
Abandon canon in American sociology
[ "Higher education", "Social theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: what is canon?: In the American sociological tradition, sociological theory is a contentious ground upon which the discipline draws its boundaries (Bourdieu, 1988). In sociology's boundary-making exercises, there exists a set...
Patterns of new service development processes in banking
[ "Banks", "Pattern", "Co-operation", "Open innovation", "Financial innovations", "New service development process" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The number of financial innovations introduced to the market has exponentially increased in the last ten years owing to the deregulation in the USA, Europe and Asia; market fragmentation, and the development of digital techno...
Applying the generalized autoregressive conditional Heteroskedastic model to analyze and forecast the field failure data of repairable systems
[ "GARCH model", "Reliability prediction", "Repairable system", "Product reliability", "Forecasting", "Time series analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Product reliability analysis and prediction are increasingly important for companies. A repairable system is a system that, after failing to perform one or more of its functions satisfactorily, can be restored to optimal perf...
Understanding Chinese university students' experiences: an empirical analysis
[ "Service quality", "Student satisfaction", "Multi-level model", "Higher education", "China", "Universities", "Students" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: China's higher education sector has experienced political changes, social adjustment and economic reforms since the establishment of modern universities at the end of the nineteenth century (Duan, 2003). After adopting an ope...
On the impact of outside blockholders' voting power
[ "Corporate governance", "Ownership", "Voting power" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Existing literature has not established an unequivocal conclusion of the relationship between ownership structure and firm value (Dalton et al., 2003). For example, recent empirical studies (Coles et al., 2012) challenge the ...
Creativity-oriented HRM and organizational creativity in China: A complementary perspective of innovativeness
[ "Customer orientation", "Innovative culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizational creativity has been recognized as critical for organizational competitive advantage and long-term survival (Anderson et al., 2014; Jeong and Shin, 2019). As an emerging economy, China is going through the trans...
Developing a new key performance index for measuring service quality
[ "Process analysis", "Service industries", "Service quality assurance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years, the value produced by service industries has become a main source of social wealth, and has exceeded the corresponding wealth generated by manufacturing industries in most advanced countries. Job opportuni...
Wicked problems: turning strategic management upside down
[ "Wicked problems", "Conventional problems", "Decision models", "Knowledge complexity", "Misaligned structures", "Problem-solving culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Most decision-makers know well the challenges of environment complexity. The underlying causes include globalization of trade and finance, the digital revolution and the Internet and the explosion of education and income disp...
Legal and regulatory barriers to effective public-private partnership governance in Kazakhstan
[ "Governance", "Institutional framework", "Public-private partnership (PPP)", "Legal constraints", "Regulatory barriers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Collaborative growth initiatives have emerged over the last 20 years between public institutions and private actors. A public-private partnership (PPP) exists where the public and private sector partners share resources, resp...
Constraints faced by women entrepreneurs in developing countries: review and ranking
[ "Developing countries", "Challenges", "Literature review", "Women entrepreneurs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Promoting women entrepreneurship contributes to socio-economic development of countries (Jamali, 2009; Verheul et al., 2006). The rate of increase of women entrepreneurship, especially in developing countries, has created a p...
Evaluating supply chain relationship quality, organisational resources, technological innovation and enterprise performance in the palm oil processing sector in Asia
[ "Resources", "Relationship quality", "Technological innovation", "Business performance", "Resource-based view (RBV)", "Supply chain relationship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Understanding how organisations perform successfully and what factors contribute positively towards placing them ahead of the competition remains nebulous and often contentious. It is argued that the same strategy often produ...
Developing an authenticity model of traditional food specialties : Does the self-concept of consumers matter?
[ "Consumer marketing", "Consumer attitudes", "Behaviour", "Certification", "Consumer perceptions", "Buying behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Consumers today have access to a greater number of food products than ever before, but not all products are considered as equally authentic. The effects of the globalization of agricultural markets are usually associated with...
The impact of national culture on corporate social performance
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Business performance", "National cultures" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Corporate responsibility has been the subject of intense, and intensifying, debate for at least four decades now. Early on during this period, the question about the role of the corporation in society was discussed in the str...
The missing link: journal usage metrics
[ "Serials", "Quality", "Measurement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nThe need for usage-based metrics at the journal level: Citations tell us a lot about the scholarly communications system as seen from an author perspective. The citation indicators produced annually by ISI Thomson Scientific offer us insig...
The role of institutions in output growth volatility-financial development nexus: A worldwide study
[ "Financial development", "Institutions", "Growth volatility", "System GMM", "C23", "E32", "F22", "O16" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A large theoretical and empirical literature exists on the causal impacts of financial development on economic growth. Examples of those studies that have contributed to the argument in the literature include, King and Lev...
Utilisation of zakah and waqf fund in micro-takaful models in Malaysia: an exploratory study
[ "Waqf", "Zakāh", "Micro-takāful", "Financial inclusion" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Micro-takaful is an Islamic form of micro-insurance designed to provide protection to low-income and underserved communities against risk and misfortune. As opposed to regular takaful products which target participants with f...
Drivers of entrepreneurial intentions in sustainable entrepreneurship
[ "Sustainable entrepreneurship", "Work values", "Entrepreneurial intention", "Attitude towards sustainability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Entrepreneurship has an important role in economic growth and employment at the societal level (Schumpeter, 1934; Shane and Venkataraman, 2000). However, recently entrepreneurship has been proposed to also have a central role...
Mind the perception gap: An integrative performance management framework for service supply chains
[ "Data envelopment analysis (DEA)", "Service supply chain", "Perception gap", "Integrative performance management", "Key performance indicators (KPI)", "Middle-range theorizing (MRT)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the service industry success often favours those who deliver higher performances and value in the eyes of their buyers (i.e. partners and/or end-consumers). The performance of the delivered service, however, may not always...
Study of social ties as one kind of switching costs: a new typology
[ "Switching costs", "Customer satisfaction", "Customer loyalty", "Customer social ties" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Switching costs have always been a hot spot in studies regarding customer loyalty (Burnham et al., 2003; Jones et al., 2007). Together with customer satisfaction, they have been perceived as relevant antecedents of customer l...
Finding spaces for transformational learning in a neo-liberal world
[ "Adult learning", "Empowerment", "Transformation", "Adult literacy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Learning is an inherent aspect of being human (Tuomi and Miller, 2011). From the earliest sense of humanity to the present a consistent theme has involved the ongoing negotiation and renegotiation of meaning. The construction...
Human capital routines and sustainability trade-offs: The influence of conflicting schemas for operations and safety managers
[ "Sustainable operations", "Schema", "Human capital routines" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Sustainability is becoming an essential element of operations strategy. Characterized as the triple bottom line (TBL), sustainability encompasses economic prosperity, social welfare and protection of the natural environmen...
Assessing behavior before it becomes behavior: An examination of the role of intentions as a link between satisfaction and repatronizing behavior
[ "Service industries", "Customer satisfaction", "Behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Intentions serve as main dependent variables in much service research (Boulding et al., 1993; Zeithaml et al., 1996). One would expect, then, that intention is the subject of careful conceptualization. But this is seldom the ...
Assessing the awareness of the agile manufacturing for organizational change in Indian small manufacturing firms: An empirical investigation
[ "Organizational change", "Small and medium enterprises", "Awareness", "Agile manufacturing", "Agility index" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the global competitive environment, many small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are focussing on ensuring their sustainability in their market. SMEs are \"the life blood\" of the modern economy and many of them now ...
Preventing identity theft: Identifying major barriers to knowledge-sharing in online retail organisations
[ "Qualitative method", "Case study" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Information has become an increasingly valuable asset, and hackers are frequently accessing and abusing the sensitive information of organisations and individuals for financial gain (Liu et al., 2011). The total direct cos...
An EWMA control chart based on the Wilcoxon rank-sum statistic using repetitive sampling
[ "Average run-length", "Average sample size", "Repetitive sampling", "Nonparametric EWMA control chart", "Wilcoxon rank-sum statistic" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In statistical process control and monitoring (SPCM) field, we expect an efficient control chart to detect shifts in the process as quickly as possible. Shifts in the process reveal the presence of variability in the outpu...
Brave new World of Warcraft: a conceptual framework for active escapism
[ "Coping", "Hedonic consumption", "Stress", "Consumer escapism", "Experiential consumption" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Escapism is a term that is widely used, generally understood, yet surprisingly under-researched. Certain genres of films and books are often referred to as escapist fare, by both critics and everyday consumers. An implicit un...
An integrated framework to improve quality and competitive positioning within the financial services context
[ "Financial services", "Product positioning", "Banks", "Bank marketing", "Consumer behaviour", "Pricing", "Bank selection criteria", "Quality function deployment", "Analytic hierarchy process", "Service quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Nowadays, an increased number of bank organizations strive to become more customer oriented by implementing various tools to improve customer relationships. In retail banking, service quality remains a critical issue for b...
Reverse knowledge transfer and innovation in MNCs
[ "Innovation", "Absorptive capacity", "Tacit knowledge", "Coordination mechanisms", "Reverse knowledge transfer", "Organizational distance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Innovation is considered to be one of the most important sources of a firm's competitive advantage and performance (Damanpour and Gopalakrishnan, 2001; Dittrich and Duysters, 2007; Kim et al., 2012; Anderson et al., 2014)....
Relationship between union strength and supervisor-subordinate power relations
[ "United States of America, Trade unions", "Employees relations", "Union strength", "Power", "Shared leadership", "Empowerment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The \"equalization of bargaining power\" (Kaufman, 1993, p. 5) between relatively powerless employees and increasingly large and corporate concentrations of employer prowess was a fundamental goal of early twentieth century r...
The applicability of growth machine theory to the knowledge economy: Social network analysis of Chattanooga's civic infrastructure
[ "Social network analysis", "Knowledge economy", "Civic infrastructure", "Growth machine theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nFoundations, nonprofits and their role in the growth coalition: Nonprofits traditionally address issues and concerns unaccounted for by private enterprises and government programs. To the layperson, nonprofits are flagship organizations su...
Effects of a changing climate on livelihoods of forest dependent communities: Evidence from Buyangu community proximal to Kakamega tropical rain forest in Kenya
[ "Climate variability/change", "Livelihoods", "Effects", "Buyangu community", "Kakamega forest" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Africa is one of the continents most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and variability, owing to its high exposure and low adaptive capacity. This is aggravated by multiple stress factors that are non-climatic, s...
A multi-dimensional joint confidence limit approach to mixed mode planning for round-the-clock projects
[ "Uncertainty", "Risk", "Monte Carlo simulation", "Joint confidence level", "Mixed mode planning", "Risk register" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the construction industry, one of many choices driving project performance is determining the most suitable planning strategy among numerous possible ones (Russell and Caselton, 1988). Planning strategies are often develop...
Efficacy of district tuberculosis co-ordinating team on health service performance for suspected TB patient in district hospital
[ "Health service performance", "Suspected tuberculosis patient", "TB co-ordinating team" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health problem as a cause of death from an infectious disease worldwide. In 2012, an estimated 8.6 million people developed TB and 1.3 millon died. Nearly 20 years after the World Heal...
China-based logistics research: a review of the literature and implications
[ "China", "Literature review", "Logistics research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Logistics is concerned with \"the process of planning, implementing, and controlling procedures for the efficient and effective transportation and storage of goods including services, and related information from the point of...
Applying artefact-based criteria to the recognition of "organisational" assets
[ "Intellectual capital", "Intangible assets" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the accounting domain \"asset measurement\", notably, transactions-based measurement, drives the \"asset recognition\" process based on the reasoning that if one can reliably measure an intangible asset (IA), de facto, one...
Assessing remaining useful life of lubricant using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
[ "Fourier transform infrared spectroscope (FTIR)", "Remaining useful life of lubricant (RULL)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The effectiveness of lubricant diminishes with use. Once the lubricants are stripped off their lubricating properties, they are drained off and new oil is poured in the machine. The time interval between pouring in of fres...
Determination of overnutrition using mid-upper arm circumference in comparison with bioelectrical impedance analysis in children and adolescents in Benin, Nigeria
[ "Adolescents", "Children", "Bioelectrical impedance analysis", "Mid-upper arm circumference", "Overnutrition", "Nigeria" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Overnutrition which consists of overweight and obesity constitutes one of the major contributors to the global burden of non-communicable diseases. The World Health Organization has estimated that non-communicable diseases wi...
Economic geography and multipolar strategies: an empirical analysis
[ "Geography", "Strategy", "Management development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the last decade of twentieth century, developed economies were the only major outward investors of foreign direct investment (FDI) investing initially in other developed countries and then in emerging ones. In twenty-first...
Knowledge sabotage as an extreme form of counterproductive knowledge behavior: conceptualization, typology, and empirical demonstration
[ "Knowledge sharing", "Critical incident technique", "Counterproductive workplace behaviour", "Knowledge sabotage" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As businesses become more knowledge-dependent, the optimization of intra-organizational knowledge flows has turned into a strategic priority for a successful contemporary organization. Efficient knowledge management practi...
Food industry case studies: a suitable medium for publication
[ "Case studies", "Serials", "Publications", "Food industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The British Food Journal (BFJ) is highly respected worldwide for its broad and unique multidisciplinary coverage of food-related research. As such its wide readership includes academics, industrialists, practitioners, legisla...
Thinking positive: The importance of resilience and listening to children and young people
[ "Schools", "Health education", "Research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Two guest editors, to reflect their complementary interests, have put this special issue together. Four papers represent the growing body of work on resilience in schools - a focus on work on social and emotional aspects of e...
Culture as a moderator of cognitive age and travel motivation/perceived risk relations among seniors
[ "Travel", "Motivation", "Perceived risk", "Cognitive age", "Senior", "Subjective age" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The number of seniors - persons aged 60 and above - currently stands at 810 million globally; it is forecast to reach more than 2 billion by 2050 (United Nations, 2012). This demographic phenomenon has begun in Western countr...
The office market: a lemon market? A study of the Malmo CBD office market
[ "Leasing", "Lemon market", "Office market", "Online advertising", "Quality in real estate management", "Quality signalling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The office market is a competitive market where we can observe market information asymmetry. In Sweden several independent internet sites for advertising premises have emerged in recent years. These sites act beneficially ...
Leader-follower narcissism and subgroup formation in teams: a conceptual model
[ "Personality", "Teams", "Leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Followers play a pivotal role in the leadership process, especially for their acceptance and reaction toward the leader's authority (Raskin and Hall, 1988; Padilla et al., 2007; Thoroughgood et al., 2012). Followers' characte...
Sensory evaluation and consumer perception of some commercial green table olives
[ "Green table olive", "Variety", "Quality", "Consumers", "Sensory", "Comparison", "Food products", "Sensory perception", "Turkey" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The fruit of the olive tree, Olea europaea L., has been one of the most important harvests in the Mediterranean countries for centuries of direct human consumption and olive oil production. From ancient mythologies to mode...
Understanding narrative effects: The impact of direct storytelling intervention on increasing employee engagement among the employees of state-owned enterprise in West Java, Indonesia
[ "State-owned enterprises", "Human resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Storytelling is an art that has existed since ancient times. The story is a series of events that are delivered, whether derived from real events (non-fiction) or non-real events (fiction). Everyone has a story to share. O...
P-TRANSQUAL: a service quality model of public land transport services
[ "Service quality", "Public transport", "P-TRANSQUAL", "Paratransit services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Recently, service quality is one of topics that is often discussed in the service management literature (Yusoff and Ismail, 2008; Alrubaiee and Alkaa'ida, 2011). The academicians and practitioners agree that focus on servi...
Behind closed doors! Homosocial desire and the academic boys club
[ "Boys club", "Hegemonic masculinity", "Homosocial desire", "Invisibility", "Masculinities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2011, two popular Sky sports presenters were caught making misogynistic and sexist comments about a female match official, when they thought their microphones were switched off. Following this \"scandal\", three senior Sky...
Law briefing
[ "Energy", "Efficiency", "Break option", "Condition precedent", "Market deprivation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Energy Act 2011, s 49 marked a significant shift in government policy towards the energy efficiency of commercial buildings. Arguably, it marked the point at which UK Government policy moved from incentive to compulsion as th...
Recruiting international postgraduate researchers: Challenges and strategic alternatives
[ "Higher education", "International", "Recruitment", "Postgraduate students", "Regional universities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction and context: The higher education (HE) sector has experienced significant changes over the past few decades with respect to globalization and internationalization (Coryell et al., 2012; Maringe and Mourad, 2012; Mazzarol and S...
Six sigma in action: Overcoming barriers to organizational change
[ "Six sigma", "Learning organizations", "Continuous improvement", "Knowledge sharing", "Finland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Organizational learning and continuous improvement (CI) are both linked to organizational change, which is currently one of the most widely discussed organizational phenomena.\nProcess improvement: Six sigma is a process impr...
Follow the leader: Project structure and leadership roles in a grant-supported collaboration
[ "Partnership", "Communication", "Leadership", "Public schools", "Higher education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Leadership is critical to a university and public school partnership and how that partnership matures throughout its life. Effective leadership leads to enduring partnerships that result in more effective teaching and greater...
Transnational board interlocks: The influence of degree of internationalization and psychic distance
[ "Psychic distance", "Degree of internationalization", "Transnational interlocks" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Board interlocks are one of the most studied social structures in the field of inter-organizational relationships (Mizruchi, 1996, p. 283). These corporate connections are created when board members sit on the board of two or...
Time to take negotiation seriously
[ "Negotiating", "Skills training", "Skills shortages", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Avid fans of BBC2's The Apprentice regularly wince at the negotiation blunders of the hapless contestants. No one who watches the show will forget Syed ordering 100 chickens without negotiating on price, or project manager af...
Winston Churchill, a leader from history or an inspiration for the future?
[ "Leadership", "Management skills", "Communication skills", "Modern history" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Sir Winston Churchill is acclaimed as one of the greatest leaders of all time and is probably the greatest example of someone who exemplifies key leadership principles but is there any relevance to Churchill's leadership in t...
Sociological contributions to futures' theory building
[ "Sociology", "Philosophy", "Epistemology", "Forecasting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Foresights are the practice field of futures research. Foresight projects are committed to research methodologies, almost as an end in themselves, with scenarios being the hegemonic methodological approach (Miles and Keenan, ...
Progress on information and communication technologies in hospitality and tourism
[ "Information technology", "Review", "Tourism", "Communication technologies", "Hospitality", "Journal" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The development of information and communication technology (ICT) in general, and e-business in particular, presents unprecedented challenges and opportunities for tourism and hospitality businesses. The rapid deployment o...
Finding access and digital preservation solutions for a digitized oral history project: A case study
[ "Digital preservation", "Omeka", "Content management systems", "Cloud-based solutions", "Digitized oral histories", "DuraCloud" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Oral histories play a unique role in documenting cultural heritage and in preserving memories of historical and everyday events. They are vital to building public understanding of the place and social life of local communitie...
Is Yin-Yang superior for paradox research?
[ "Indigenous", "Paradox", "Yin-Yang", "Hegel", "Dialectic", "Superior" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: With the emergence of indigenous management research in China (Barkema et al., 2015; Leung, 2012; Lewin, 2014; Li, 2012a, 2014a; Li et al., 2012; Mathews and Tan, 2015; Redding, 2017; Redding and Witt, 2015; Tsui, 2004), more...
Variation in career and workplace attitudes by generation, gender, and culture differences in career perceptions in the United States and China
[ "Gender", "China", "USA", "National cultures", "Generational differences", "Generation", "Career perception", "Gender differences", "Cultural differences", "Manager expectations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Economic development and globalization make today's workplace more complex than ever before. Improved general health conditions lead to prolonged career life for employees. Many women joining the work force are finding their ...
Performance-related specification and payment modifiers in highway construction projects
[ "Quality management", "Construction", "Transportation infrastructure", "Pay factors", "Performance-related specification (PRS)", "QA/QC" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The concept of quality is of great interest to both practitioners and researchers alike and there are hundreds of research papers and books that address aspects of quality management. Furthermore, there are many definition...
Logistics-production, logistics-marketing and external integration: Their impact on performance
[ "Distribution management", "Organizational structures", "Supply chain management", "Fast moving consumer goods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Supply Chain Management (SCM) is \"an integrative philosophy to manage the total flow of a channel from the earliest supplier of raw materials to the ultimate customer, and beyond, including the disposal process\" (Cooper et ...
Whom do we trust? Cultural differences in consumer responses to online recommendations
[ "Cross-cultural study", "Quasi-experiment", "Online recommendation", "Other customers", "Source-credibility model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Today's information and communications technologies provide people with an easy access to abundant information almost whenever and wherever they want (Lai, 2013). Accordingly, people are increasingly searching for information...
When do customers engage in brand pages? Effects of social presence
[ "Customer engagement behavior", "Facebook brand page", "Social presence", "Customer–brand identification" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the era of social media, customers are no longer passive recipients of marketing messages; rather, they are active participants in the value-creation process and directly engage in marketing communication (Verma et al.,...
How network managers influence the export intensity: evidence from Italy
[ "Internationalization", "Italian firms", "Network alliances", "Network managers activities", "Network managers attitudes and characteristics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Globalization and the economic and financial crisis have caused a radical change in the competitive scenarios (Knight, 2000; Hassel et al., 2003; Zeng et al., 2009; Debrulle and Maes, 2015). These events have reduced the p...
Managing in the context of healthcare's escalating technology and evolving culture
[ "United States of America", "Health care", "Change management", "Innovation", "Organizational culture", "Technological change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Leading and managing change within the stabilizing forces of a strong culture is never straightforward or easy. Family physicians making house calls in the early days of our healthcare helped establish a number of cultural ex...
Oral care - identifying quality improvement areas
[ "Oral health", "Satisfaction", "Quality improvement", "Nursing staff", "Nursing quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Nurses have responsibilities for ensuring the highest possible nursing quality to meet individual needs (World Health Organization, 2006; Huotari and Havrdova, 2016). Nurses spend most time working directly with people with c...
The impact of capital structure on the performance of microfinance institutions
[ "Microeconomics", "Financial institutions", "Capital structure", "Ghana" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The existence of separation between ownership and control of firms and the resultant agency cost presents an embodiment of critical issues in modern corporate governance in both financial and non-financial corporate entities....
An improved model for the cost of quality
[ "Simulation", "Modelling", "Cost of quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Quality has become one of the core factors for almost all manufacturing and service companies that aim to win sufficient orders. Therefore, improving quality is considered to be one of the important strategies to attain cu...
Sealing the deal on international assignments in the oil and gas industry: Attracting women with a well-designed expatriation package
[ "International assignment", "Expatriate", "Compensation and benefits", "Flexpatriation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: For some, the dream of a corporate job paying for living abroad is a career-enhancing win-win. However, across the male-dominated oil and gas industry, women undertake just 12 per cent of expatriate assignments. A research pa...
Towards a marketing communications model for small political parties: A primary principles strategic perspective for developed countries
[ "Politics", "Strategy", "Marketing communications", "Small parties", "Developed countries" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Background\nLiterature review (objective 1): The following extensive literature review's aim is to scrutinise existing business marketing theory and through a meticulous sieving process, to eventually identify the degree and ...
Ten years as editor of ILDS and 35 years in ILL and document supply: thoughts of the outgoing editor
[ "Information growth", "Economic conditions", "End users", "Libraries", "Interlending", "Document delivery" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A note on nomenclature. In the ten years that I have edited this journal I have never settled on a satisfactory resolution to this difficult issue. For the purpose of this article and as a gesture of defeat I will use ILL (in...
Women withdrawers in engineering studies: Identity formation and learning culture as gendered barriers for persistence?
[ "Educational sociology", "Learning", "Gender", "Germany" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In Germany, dropout rates in engineering are very high. More than every second student leaves his or her university-level engineering degree without a qualification. Individual statistics at some universities indicate higher ...
Canadian researchers provide framework to encourage recruitment of Indigenous probation officers
[ "Diversification", "Indigenous", "Recruitment", "British Columbia", "Probation officers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A research paper from Canada has proposed a framework of experiences and events in order to gain a better understanding of the lives of Indigenous probation offices. The report was based on interviews with eight Indigenous pr...
Chinese consumers' purchasing: impact of value and affect
[ "Marketing", "Branding", "Consumer behaviour", "Fashion industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: For leading economies, recognisable challenges have emerged within the second decade of the new millennium. These have impacted on the sales of luxury goods within their respective markets. In Japan, USA and leading Europe...
Practices and problems in managing electronic services using SLAs
[ "Service levels", "Electronic commerce" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Electronic services increasingly influence the ability of enterprises to be competitive and to deliver in a continuously changing environment. These services include those that enable communication and collaboration, point-of...
Structural production factors' impact on the financial performance of agribusiness cooperatives in Brazil
[ "Agribusiness", "Cooperatives", "Financial performance", "Production diversification" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Cooperatives, and particularly agricultural cooperatives, have changed in recent decades (Chaddad and Iliopoulos, 2013; Hakelius and Hansson, 2016a), as they have developed from simpler organisational formats and slowly sl...
Leadership in challenging times of academic libraries
[ "Academic libraries", "Change management", "Librarianship", "Library profession" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Academic libraries are facing various challenges in today's environment of higher education, and these key challenges include an explosion of information resources, conversion from print into electronic formats, services to d...
Factors affecting maintenance management in hospital buildings: Perceptions from the public and private sector
[ "Jordan", "Public hospitals", "Mann-Whitney U-test", "Private hospitals", "Maintenance management performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Patients' satisfaction with services provided by hospitals is an important issue to professionals in the field. Besides, unsatisfactory services that can cause abnormal situations are required to be tackled to ensure excellen...
Effects of visual servicescape aesthetics comprehension and appreciation on consumer experience
[ "Satisfaction", "Emotions", "Willingness to pay more", "Behavioral intention", "Perceived perceptual experience quality", "Visual servicescape aesthetics comprehension and appreciation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Creating a pleasant service environment and understanding what drives customers' satisfaction and willingness to pay a premium price have become major keys to service management practices. Consumers are exposed to many brands...
Corporate makerspaces as innovation driver in companies: a literature review-based framework
[ "Digitization", "Team working", "Rapid prototyping", "R&D", "Product innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: During the last decade, makerspaces have become hotbeds for technological innovation and entrepreneurship, enabling inventors to bring their ideas from sketches to the market (Mortara and Parisot, 2018). These open digital...
Effective management of international technology transfer projects: Insights from the Brazilian textile industry
[ "Technology transfer", "Brazil", "Textile industry", "Stage-gate model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Increased global competition with the rapid integration of economies and the globalisation of products, markets, and consumer preferences, has forced companies to focus on their competitive priorities. This goal should be a...
Expatriates go shopping: food and shopping acculturation
[ "Food", "British", "Expatriation", "Consumer acculturation", "Buyer behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Migrants have long been the focus of consumer researchers who defined consumer acculturation as:The general process of movement and adaptation to the consumer cultural environment in one country by persons from another cou...
Inter-organizational learning within an institutional knowledge network: A case study in the textile and clothing industry
[ "Organizational learning", "Learning organizations", "Knowledge management", "Knowledge sharing", "Networks" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Organizational learning occurs in both technologically intensive industries (Alberti and Pizzurno, 2015) as well as in traditional businesses (Bigliardi and Galati, 2013; Galati et al., 2016; Segarra-Cipres et al., 2012). ...
Expectations gap, anticipated regret, and behavior intention in the context of rapid technology evolvement
[ "Behavioural intention", "Anticipated regret", "Expectations gap", "Intelligent CCTV for home use" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Rapid improvement of new technology based on information technology (IT) is being carried out. However, expectations on such innovative technological improvement can be a factor that leads to the delay of consumer decision to...
PASS: a new panel study for labour market research
[ "Unemployment", "Data collection", "Surveys", "Germany" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The new panel study \"Labour market and social security\" (PASS) is designed to cover a population at the lower end of the German income distribution which is under-represented in other surveys. The size of this population...
Application of the viable system model in a complex sugarcane supply chain
[ "Sugar industry", "Viable system model", "Systemic approach" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Sugarcane production and supply systems are complex. The complexity arises from environmental factors, but especially from the presence of multiple interacting agents who are interdependent, yet often have different views and...
Diffusing the boundaries between luxury and counterfeits
[ "Research paper", "Luxury", "Counterfeiting", "Meaning", "Authenticity", "Research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The luxury market comprises a large share of economic activity, and it is estimated to reach $2 trillion by 2010 (Kapferer and Bastien, 2009). However, the luxury industry loses billions because of counterfeiting. The glob...
A reconciliation proposal of demand-driven growth models in open economies
[ "Exchange rate", "Balance-of-payments constraint", "Income distribution", "O40", "O33", "E25" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The modern literature on demand-driven Keynesian growth in open economies can be traced back to the pioneering contributions of Dixon and Thirlwall's (1975) export-led growth model and Thirlwall's (1979) balance-of-payment...
Australian business graduates' perceptions of non-technical skills within the workplace
[ "Higher education", "Employment", "Employability", "Self-management", "Business graduates", "Non-technical skills" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A growing body of literature suggests that there is an increasing desire for graduates of higher education to demonstrate their employability (Barrie, 2007; Boden and Nedeva, 2010; Bridgstock, 2009; Sumsion and Goodfellow, 20...