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A Markov decision process model case for optimal maintenance of serially dependent power system components
[ "Continuous-time Markov decision model", "Dependent components", "Electrical power system maintenance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nI. Introduction: In this paper, an investigation in conducted on the impact of the dependency of electrical power system components on field maintenance decision making. Specifically, considered is the case of conditioned-based maintenance...
A reliability diagnosis to support servitization decision-making process
[ "Decision making", "Servitization", "Decision process", "Product-service systems", "Decision process reliability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Increased competition has weakened the sustainability of classic differentiation strategies based on product innovation, technological empowerment, or lower prices (Gebauer and Fleisch, 2007; Baines et al., 2009). This con...
Effects of networks on learning during emergency events
[ "Social networks", "Learning", "Adaptability", "Emergency management", "Bushfire", "Fire", "Australia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Social network theorists have explored the significance of social communication and network structures on learning at individual and group levels (Granovetter, 1973; Powell et al., 1996; Kraatz, 1998; Knight and Pye, 2004). H...
GP and staff evaluation of the maturity matrix as a tool to assess and improve organisational development in primary care
[ "Quality improvement", "Employee involvement", "Organizational development", "Primary care", "Denmark" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Initiatives for quality improvement (QI) in primary care are increasing, but little is known about participants' evaluation of the process of QI initiatives. Abbreviations used are:* DK - Denmark.* EPA - European practice ass...
Effect of multilevel trust on effort-in-use and service co-design behaviour
[ "Value co-creation", "Customer participation", "Cross-cultural analysis", "Customer perceived value and loyalty", "Customer trust in brand", "Customer trust in employee" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Today's customers increasingly expect to receive services with greater value. How to create greater customer value through engaging customers in the service delivery process is of growing interest to both academics and execut...
Quality and reliability in new product development: A case study in compressed air treatment products manufacturing company
[ "Total quality management", "Six Sigma", "Reliability", "DMAIC", "New product development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Soon after Japanese products entered into the global market, the world community began to experience the intensification of competition. As Japanese products were accompanied by high degree of quality, the world community beg...
Statistical tolerancing through discretization of variables
[ "Mean absolute deviation, Distribution functions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Ensuring high quality in a product is a multistage multitask process. In fact quality in a product is embedded at three different stages - product design, product manufacturing and formation of lots. But the ultimate evalu...
Shifting the paradigm of return on investment: a composite index to measure overall corporate performance
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Accounting", "Sustainable development", "Sustainability indicators", "Externalities", "Company performance", "Management accountability", "Economic value added", "Sustainable value added", "Capital maintenance", "Public goods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In an effort to relate to their wider constituency, companies have broadened their reporting from economic performance for shareholders to CSR and sustainability performance, and various frameworks are being adopted for be...
The impact of instructional leadership, professional communities and extra responsibilities for teachers on student achievement
[ "Student achievement", "Instructional leadership", "Non-teaching roles", "Professional communities", "Teacher commitment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the twenty-first century the importance of education is growing and rising number of business leaders, politicians and educators are united around the idea that students need \"twenty-first century skills, teaching qual...
Development thresholds of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa
[ "Africa", "Development", "Foreign aid", "Political economy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The concern over the effectiveness of foreign aid has been widely debated since the institution of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) programs over five decades ago. A great chunk of the literature focussing on the ...
Factors affecting new product post-adoption behavior in a major US automotive supply chain: an examination of antecedents to technology internalization
[ "Supply chain management", "Technological innovation", "Technology adoption", "Technology led strategy", "Automotive industry", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article.\n1. Introduction: Increased competition is motivating organizations to find ways to maintain and enhance their competitive posit...
Researchers offer framework researchers to study effects of criminal history on workplace outcomes
[ "Stigma", "Motivation", "Selection", "Criminal history" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Researchers in the US have published a framework to help management scholars study the effect of criminal records on employment outcomes. The co-authors believe the unique nature of this population means special solutions mus...
Building knowledge integration in buyer-supplier relationships: The critical role of strategic supply management and trust
[ "Survey", "Empirical", "Knowledge management", "Supply chain management", "Resource based view (RBV)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Recent studies argue that superior value creation extends beyond the boundaries of one organization and involves collaborative practices with suppliers (Stevens, 1989; Paulraj et al., 2008; Mishra and Shah, 2009; Paulraj, ...
Select the best supply chain by risk analysis for Indian industries environment using MCDM approaches
[ "Risk management", "ANP", "Supply chain management", "MOORA" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Supply chain management (SCM) is the most important part of production system. There has been growing interest in SCM since late 1980s. SCM has gained attention as it focuses on material, information and cash flows from ve...
Lives in the balance: an analysis of the balanced scorecard (BSC) in healthcare organizations
[ "Balanced scorecard", "Health services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In healthcare, the balanced scorecard is the current \"meal for today\", with consultants advocating this \"miraculous treatment\" (Aidemark, 2001, p. 23). The healthcare industry has a long tradition of extensive and detaile...
Supporting students to become autonomous learners: the role of web-based learning
[ "Science education", "Knowledge integration", "Autonomous learners", "Technology-enhanced instruction", "Web-based science learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Programs that encourage autonomous learning prepare students for the complex and interconnected challenges they will encounter in their lives. In a study on \"How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School\", Bransford ...
Value creation from a food traceability system based on a hierarchical model of consumer personality traits
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Food safety", "Personality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Recently, consumers have faced numerous food safety incidents, such as outbreaks of mad cow disease, and have consequently become more concerned with the quality and safety of the food they eat. According to the UK Food St...
Using research methods courses to teach students about sustainable development - a three-phase model for a transformative learning experience
[ "Project-based learning", "Transformative learning", "Higher education for sustainable development", "Empirical research methods", "Real-world laboratories" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Teaching and researching sustainability development is often an inclusive, practice-based and challenging initiative, which is designed to promote system innovation through social learning (Sengers et al., 2016). Teaching ...
Tackling everyday risks through climate adaptive organic farming
[ "Climate adaptation", "Food security", "Organic farming", "Climate adaptive farming", "Drought adaptive farming", "Smart agriculture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nSummary: Gunungkidul district in Yogyakarta province is dominated by karst limestone areas where the land is less fertile and suffers long dry periods. With the shifting patterns of rain and dry periods as a result of global climate change...
Industrial relations in Spain - strong conflicts, weak actors and fragmented institutions
[ "Strategic choice", "Trade unions", "Collective bargaining", "Corporatism", "Industrial relations in Spain", "Semi-peripheral Fordism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The cross-national comparative literature on employment relations is full of triple classifications such as \"concertation\", \"political isolation\" and \"pluralistic fragmentation\" (Regini, 1986); \"contestation, pluralism...
Researching migrants who hold nomadic identities: Analysing multi-level dynamic discourses of power
[ "Migration research", "Nomadic identity", "Power discourses", "Researcher identity", "Refugees", "Highly educated" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Social researchers, especially in qualitative studies, have often chosen to study populations with whom they share certain characteristics (e.g. gender, ethnicity), roles, educational and professional background or experience...
Servitization: revisiting the state-of-the-art and research priorities
[ "Organizational change", "Servitization", "Advanced services", "Systemic literature review" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Interest in the role of services in manufacturing continues to grow (Bustinza et al., 2015). Since Vandermerwe and Rada (1988) exposed the servitization phenomena in a manufacturing context, and Wise and Baumgartner (1999)...
The QEB questionnaire as an instrument to examine opinions on food and nutrition and indicators of the quality of diet
[ "Women", "Diet index", "Opinions of food and nutrition", "QEB questionnaire", "Quality of diet" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Human nutrition is a dynamically developing field of science. Nutritional behaviour and human health are significantly affected by environment, culture, demographic and social, including nutritional knowledge gained at var...
Characterisation of fresh fruit consumption in Spain based on food-related lifestyle
[ "Market segmentation", "Food", "Personal values", "Spain", "Fruit", "Lifestyles" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Fruits, along with vegetables and other basic foodstuffs, are essential components of a healthy diet. Low fruit consumption is associated with poor health and the risk of non-communicable diseases (WHO, 2003) such as coronary...
Knowledge based facilities management
[ "Facilities", "Knowledge management", "Strategic management", "Competences" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The range of facilities management services is widely accepted as being broad and highly inclusive of a number of functions and roles played out by practitioners (Chotipanich, 2004). Indeed, it is difficult to determine ju...
Comparative study of the impact of competency-based training on 5 "S" and TQM: a case study
[ "Total quality management", "5 “S”", "Competency-based training" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Changing business environments are lagging indicators for twenty-first century organizational managers to anticipate market needs, sustain a competitive advantage and review niche areas in terms of long-term goals (Parumasur ...
"Think sustainable, act local" - a stakeholder-filter-model for translating SDGs into sustainability initiatives with local impact
[ "Sustainable development", "Sustainability", "Hospitality management", "Hospitality industry", "Sustainable innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2012, all 195 member states of the United Nations committed to create a unified framework of 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) and their 169 targets. These SDGs constitute the follow-up to the original eight millenni...
The Lean Discovery Process: the case of raiserve
[ "Uncertainty", "Business model", "Lean startup", "Digital business", "A/B testing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are critical to the health of most economies. In the USA, for example, small businesses account for 99.6 percent of US employer firms (US Census Bureau, 2018). In most competitive ma...
Machine learning-based anomaly detection via integration of manufacturing, inspection and after-sales service data
[ "Manufacturing process", "Machine learning", "Data integration", "After-sales service", "Anomaly detection", "Heavy machinery engine" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In a manufacturing process, it is highly important to manage the quality of the manufactured product. Poor quality leads to increases in cost of handling defects that occur within the warranty period, and degradation of re...
Financial assets, linear and nonlinear policy rules: An in-sample assessment of the reaction function of the South African Reserve Bank
[ "Monetary policy", "Nonlinearity", "Financial Conditions Index", "Economic policy", "Banks", "South Africa" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: We investigate the objectives of the South African Reserve Bank (the SARB) in the light of instrument rules. More precisely, we make use of the Taylor rule model and its extensions (Taylor, 1993; Clarida et al., 2000), wher...
Third-party logistics provider customer orientation and customer firm logistics improvement in China
[ "Distribution management", "Customer orientation", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Despite the current economic downturn, opportunities for third-party logistics (3PL) providers to contribute to customer success are abundant in Mainland China (Langley et al., 2006; www.3plsummit.com, 2009). The dynamic grow...
Vulnerable work and strategies for inclusion: an introduction
[ "Job quality", "Vulnerability", "Inclusion", "Precariousness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Vulnerable work is not new; what is new is that many workers, occupations and sectors seem to be susceptible to vulnerability at work. This situation has occurred as a result of workforce restructuring and structural change, ...
The dual impact of traditional and national cultural values on expatriate ethnic groups' attitudes and willingness to buy
[ "China", "Singapore", "Women", "National cultures", "Ethnic groups", "Expatriates", "Consumer behaviour", "Cosmetics", "Purchase intention", "Cultural values", "Traditional Chinese values" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As China represents almost a fifth of the world population today (CIA, 2010 July estimate), the Chinese consumer has been the focus of increasing attention in the area of consumer behavior research (Yau, 1988; Zhang and Jolib...
Higher education for sustainable development: a systematic review
[ "Teaching", "Sustainability", "Higher education", "Curriculum", "Concept", "Systematic reviews" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: After the Human Environment Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972, the international community began to consider the issues of education for sustainable development (ESD) and environmental education (EE). These phenomena g...
Multiproduct slot allocation heuristic to minimize storage space
[ "Logistics", "Material handling", "Multi-item inventory", "Storage policies", "Warehouse management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction to the storage location assignment problem: According to several studies, capital and operating costs of warehouses represent about the 23 per cent of logistics costs in the USA (Davis et al., 2011) and 39 per cent in Europe (...
Human resource development practices as determinant of HRD climate and quality orientation
[ "Human resource strategies", "Human resource development", "Quality standards", "Malaysia", "Economic conditions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Examples from successful organizations demonstrate that they have gone a long way to design effective human resource system. It includes effective manpower planning, recruitment and selection process, realistic performance pl...
Self-employment and job satisfaction: an empirical analysis
[ "Job satisfaction", "Conditions of employment", "Spain", "Self employed workers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Entrepreneurship has been a relevant research topic during the last few decades. Not only is there a relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development but also new firms are thought to be involved in innovative a...
Rewards and sacrifices in elite and non-elite organizations: Participation in valued activities and job satisfaction in two symphony orchestras
[ "Job satisfaction", "Employee participation", "Performing arts" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: What could be more blissful than earning a living playing some of the most beautiful music ever composed, surrounded by gifted and motivated musicians as one's colleagues, being showered with the enthusiastic applause of soph...
Estimating individual promotional campaign impacts through Bayesian inference
[ "Bayesian statistics", "Customer choice", "Loyalty programs", "Marketing effectiveness", "Multi-channel marketing", "Probabilistic analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Background: 1.1 Challenges in promotional campaign analysis\n2. Analysis of a promotional campaign: In this paper, we analyze a large field experiment in the form of a multi-channel incentive promotion run by a large international trave...
Fashion entrepreneurship education in the UK and China
[ "China", "United Kingdom", "Higher education", "Universities", "Fashion industry", "Entrepreneurialism", "Employability", "Entrepreneurship", "Fashion entrepreneurship", "Enterprise education", "Evaluation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction and research background: The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has a long established and extremely successful record of partnerships in China, which began in the 1980s. UCLan has been actively establishing joint aca...
A spatial and integrated flood risk diagnosis: Relevance for disaster prevention at Ourika valley (High Atlas-Morocco)
[ "Vulnerability", "Evacuation plan", "Ourika valley", "Risk indice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years, there has been an increase in the impact of natural disasters. This results from a combination of extreme natural events and exposure of vulnerable populations (Ruin et al., 2008; Fekete, 2009; Vinet et al...
Process-aware FMEA framework for failure analysis in maintenance
[ "Decision making", "Analytical hierarchy process", "Failure mode and effect analysis", "Maintenance", "Business processes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Advances in information technology have enabled more efficient collection, monitoring and supervision of the production process. However, these factors do not increase process efficiency without timely interventions and im...
Perceived value for customers in information sharing services
[ "Information services", "Knowledge sharing", "Customers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Nowadays, to raise customer relationship intention, many manufacturing firms have begun to develop services which can create value-added benefits for their enterprise customers (Neu and Brown, 2008; Kowalkowski et al., 2009...
New media: debunking the myths
[ "Information media", "Internet", "Electronic commerce", "Entertainment", "Surveys" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: \"Novelty is always welcome,\" Irving Thalberg once commented, \"but talking pictures are just a fad.\"\n", "role": "user" }, { "content": "Purpose: - This article describes emerging trends in the usage of new med...
Revisiting control aversion: the role of financiers in connecting entrepreneurs to the marketplace
[ "Entrepreneurship", "SME", "Banking", "Service marketing", "Market connection", "SME lending" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Research on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has demonstrated their dependence on market conditions. Whereas larger organizations possess established relationships and legitimacy in the marketplace, smaller organiza...
Benefits, criteria and activities of supplier development: a categorical literature review
[ "Supplier development", "Vendor development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Supply chain management (SCM) is increasingly viewed as a source of competitive advantages as the manufacturing organizations continue to concentrate on core competencies and outsource non-core products and services to ext...
Web services access control architecture incorporating trust
[ "Worldwide web", "Trust", "Managers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Today, organisations that seek a competitive advantage are adopting virtual infrastructures that share and manage computing resources. The trend is towards implementing collaborative applications that are supported by web ...
Developing a socially responsible property investment index for UK property companies
[ "Social responsibility", "Property", "Investments", "Business performance", "Benchmarking", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has taken on increased importance in recent years (Capaldi, 2005; Sparkes and Cowton, 2004), as investors have given an increased priority to environmental, social and governance issues i...
Building high performance employment relationships in small firms
[ "Psychological contracts", "Performance management", "United Kingdom", "Small enterprises", "Employee relations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nConceptual overview: Small firms are widely recognised as being of significant importance in the UK, both in terms of their financial contribution to the economy and in terms of their impact on the lives of the millions of employees who wo...
Teach how to learn and learn to teach: Shared responsibility for continuing development
[ "Learning", "Organizational development", "Training methods", "Employee development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nEncouragement the key to education motivation: A chance meeting between two men who, 40 years previously, had been schoolteacher and pupil, led to a conversation about how people are motivated to learn, the ex-pupil taking the view that he...
Intelligent evaluation of suppliers using extent fuzzy TOPSIS method: A case study of an Indian manufacturing SME
[ "Fuzzy TOPSIS", "Decision support systems", "Small-to-medium-sized enterprises", "Sensitivity analysis", "Case study", "Supplier evaluation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In developing economy like India, the small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) sector has a vital role to play in its gross domestic product, industrial production and employment creation. According to Ministry of Micro,...
The communicative stance of CSR: reflections on the value of CSR communication
[ "CSR", "Value creation", "Corporate social responsibility communication" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Nowadays, in the contemporary globalised society, both individuals and organisations are witnessing an extraordinary increase in information circulation. This increase is what Webster (2014) denotes as informatization. Inform...
How do human resource management practices affect employee well-being? A mediated moderation model
[ "Human resource management practices", "Employee well-being", "Organizational justice", "Integrity leadership", "Signaling theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Improving employee well-being (EWB) is an important human resource management issue (Pawar, 2016; Huang et al., 2019). EWB is an essential part of employees' overall life satisfaction (Jaiswal and Dyaram, 2019). Employees who...
The utility of a board game for dengue haemorrhagic fever health education
[ "Health education", "Indoor games", "Philippines" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Dengue fever and its more severe form of dengue haemorrhagic fever is an increasing global health problem. Dengue is now endemic in all continents except Europe. Nearly 100 million people are afflicted with dengue annually (G...
Health education online: Issues arising from the development and roll-out of a pilot distance education programme for NHS staff
[ "National Health Service", "Distance learning", "Electronics industry", "Video", "Digital communication systems", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Background\nMethods: Overall design\nFindings: A number of issues emerged as the development of the project unfolded. These cover a variety of technical, organisational and logistical matters concerning the infrastructure sup...
Breaking with tradition: Improving learning through classroom design
[ "Learning", "Interactive learning", "Classroom design", "Classrooms", "Teaching methods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Back in 1928, Abbe Dimnet pointed out that \"children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves\". Fast-forward to the twenty-first century and it seems that the words of this writer have been t...
A decision support system of green inventory-routing problem
[ "Decision support system", "2-opt and 1-1 λ-interchange heuristic method", "Green inventory routing problem", "Greenhouse gas emission", "Heuristic-Tabu combination method", "Savings method" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Nomenclature\n1. Introduction: Transportation and inventory costs are inter-related and comprise the greatest part of total logistics cost (Ballou, 2004). One of the renowned topics typically discussed in this regard is the i...
Apprenticeships: silver bullet or hard slog?
[ "Apprenticeships", "Workforce skills", "Youth unemployment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In March 2013, to mark the start of National Apprenticeship Week, Prime Minister David Cameron met with young apprentices at Mercedes-Benz in Milton Keynes. There he delivered a powerful statement \"I want it to be the new no...
Capturing intangibles for improved IA management and benchmarking
[ "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Benchmarking", "Knowledge capture", "Intellectual capital", "Scotland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground and aims of Scotland's Intellectual Assets Centre: The ability to exploit intellectual capital is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage and company value, and will drive productivity in knowledge-based busine...
Comparing benefit- and attribute-based menu assortments: an exploratory study
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Experimental design", "Perceived variety", "Restaurant menu" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Retailers with large product offerings often categorize their wares to ease consumers' decision-making processes. In today's digital world, consumers can choose how they want to view product assortments. For example, J. Cr...
Detection of Escherichia coli and Salmonella in chicken rinse carcasses
[ "Samples", "Brazil", "Bacteria", "Food safety", "Animal products" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Salmonella is an important worldwide food borne pathogen (Humphrey, 2004) that causes mild to severe diarrhoea, fever, abdominal discomfort, and occasionally vomiting (Daum et al., 2002). Serious bloodstream infections can oc...
An evaluation of the functional performance of research and academic laboratories using the space syntax approach
[ "Laboratories", "Functional performance", "Space syntax", "Spatial configuration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The research and teaching establishment across the globe is rapidly developing. Many nations continue to invest huge sums in programs intended to advance the state-of-the art in science and technology. This will ensure that t...
Identifying potential sources of value in a packaging value chain
[ "Value chain", "Packaging", "Customer requirements", "Customer satisfaction", "Customer 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 article.\n1. Introduction: Value is of special interest in business markets, where customers rely on the products and services they buy f...
Organizations workforce demographic age preferences: multiple case-studies from Brazil
[ "Diversity", "Inclusion", "Young workers", "Age preferences", "Older workers", "Organizational demography" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It is undeniable that diversity became a salient issue to organizational studies over the last decades. Although researchers express some legitimate concern about its effects on performance (e.g. Williams and O'Reilly, 1998) ...
Zurich learns to do it with passion: Program brings new confidence, motivation, enthusiasm and commitment
[ "Training evaluation", "Trainer attitudes", "Organizational development", "Benchmarking", "Financial services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Two of the trainers on a course I recently attended were equally uninspiring. Neither gave the impression of being on top of his material, let alone capable of presenting it in a lively and interesting way. They spoiled, for ...
Consumers' stock preferences beyond expected financial returns: The influence of product and brand evaluations
[ "Brands", "Europe", "Consumer behaviour", "Investments", "Stocks" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Traditionally, consumption markets and investment markets have been studied in distinct fields of research, i.e. marketing and finance, and considered to be rather isolated from each other. Only recently have marketing (Lo...
Adopting non-privately funded public-private partnerships in maintenance projects: A case study in Hong Kong
[ "Partnership", "Maintenance", "Facilities", "Private finance", "Hong Kong" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Many governments around the world are confronted with restricted fiscal budgets but a growing demand for infrastructure facilities, and practitioners and researchers believed that Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) is a mechan...
Sensitivity analysis in an imperfect substitutes model of preferential trade
[ "Trade policy", "Imperfect substitutes model", "Preferential trade agreements", "Trade policy analysis", "Behavioural parameters", "Equilibrium models" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: From both theoretical and empirical perspectives, trade policy analysis should ideally be conducted in a general equilibrium framework. However, there are many circumstances in which applied, partial equilibrium modeling beco...
Micro firms internet adoption patterns: the case of the Greek jewellery industry
[ "Greece", "B2B", "Cluster analysis", "Internet adoption pattern", "Very small firms" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: More than 99 percent of all European businesses are small to medium enterprises (SMEs). SMEs provide two out of three of the private sector jobs and contribute to more than half of the total value-added created by business...
Evaluating the effect of multi-touch behaviours on Android unlock patterns
[ "Graphical password", "Android unlock patterns", "Mobile security", "User authentication" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: User authentication is an important topic regarding computer and network security. Currently, the most commonly used method for user authentication is called text-based password in which users are required to input their o...
Making change work: closing the change gap
[ "Change management", "Human resource Management", "Management strategy", "Organizational change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Companies around the world are currently going through periods of great change, some are becoming increasingly global and many are wondering how the changing economy will impact on their business. These changes are determinin...
An institutional theory of quality outcomes in strategic supply chain partnership
[ "Quality", "Performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The trend towards globalization, along with a higher rate of innovation, has led to the development of networks of firms and supply chain systems as a major inter-organizational practice (Cao and Zhang, 2010; Cao et al., 2...
To tweet or not to tweet? Exploring the effectiveness of service recovery strategies using social media
[ "Service", "Service quality", "Qualitative analysis", "Service operations", "Service recovery strategies", "Social media" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: When service failures occur, customers expect effective responses and recovery from the service provider in a timely manner. Customers recovered from unsatisfied service experience tend to spread positive word of mouth, ma...
"Jonny-No-Stars" is no more? McDonald's uses new techniques to engage graduates
[ "Graduates", "Training", "Training evaluation", "Workplace training" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Each generation of learners brings along its own benefits and preferences, and Generation Y is no different. Also known as \"Millenials\", the \"Net Generation\", the \"Me Generation\" and \"Generation D\" (digital), this rou...
Determinants of corporate financial performance relating to board characteristics of corporate governance in Indian manufacturing industry: An empirical study
[ "Corporate governance", "CEO duality", "Board characteristics", "Firms performance", "Tobins Q" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Corporate governance has become a popular discussion topic in developed and developing countries. Corporate governance comprises several elements of the structure of the government, which includes capital, labor, market and o...
Prediction of key sensory attributes of apple juices by multivariate analysis of their physicochemical profiles
[ "Quality control", "Sensory evaluation", "Regression analysis", "Fruit", "Drinks", "Food testing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The consumption of fruit juices has significantly increased during recent years because of their potential benefits to human health. One of the most widely consumed fruit beverages in the world is juice from apples.\nMaterial...
Managers' views on how intellectual capital is recognized and managed in practice: A multiple case study of four Swedish firms
[ "Intellectual capital", "Practice-based approach", "Case studies", "Measurement", "Resource allocation", "Sweden" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The increased importance of intellectual capital (IC) in today's knowledge economy has spurred scholarly interest, and has now become a considerable debate in the academic literature. IC research has evolved over the past ...
Adept smart meters using homomorphic encryption based on factor problem over groups
[ "Cryptosystem", "Factor problem", "Homomorphic encryption", "Smart metering" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: 1.1 Significance of information and learning science\n2. Mathematical primitives: In this section, we summarize the public key cryptography and significant mathematical background which is necessary to implement the propos...
A new look at the sports paradigm for business: performing isn't enough
[ "Sport", "Performance management", "Competitive strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: On Saturday September 19, 2007, Wales were eliminated from the Rugby World Cup following defeat to Fiji. Less than six months later, Wales beat France to secure a Grand Slam. How did a team go from being the third best in the...
Mind the mindset! The interaction of proactive personality, transformational leadership and growth mindset for engagement at work
[ "Mindset", "Work engagement", "Transformational leadership", "Proactivity", "Implicit theories" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: How to foster employees' work engagement is a question that has been studied intensively by academics and professionals alike. Engaged employees are considered to be a valuable addition to the organization, as they are commit...
Effects of complete products on consumer judgments
[ "Product completeness", "Product management", "Product assortment", "Price inferences", "Consumer behaviour", "Individual perception" ]
[ { "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.Complete products, such as Colgate Total, the new iMac desktop (\"all-in-one for everyone\" on the product webpage), or Sprint Mo...
Impact of leader member exchange, human resource management practices and psychological empowerment on extra role performances: The mediating role of organisational commitment
[ "India", "Organizational commitment", "Psychological empowerment", "Human resource management practices", "Extra role performance", "Leader member exchange" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Employee efficiency is vital to organizational success (Van Vuuren and Elving, 2008). However, in the service industry, customer satisfaction is given top priority. Therefore, employee efficiency and customer satisfaction ...
Nationwide Training Limited were chosen by Action for Blind People to design an ILM middle manager leadership and management programme
[ "Leadership", "Management programmes", "Critical thinking", "Discursive approaches", "Innovation and change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground to the organisation: Action for Blind People (Action) is a national charity with local reach, providing practical help and support to blind and partially sighted people of all ages. Founded in 1857, Action for Blind People has b...
Hiring discrimination, ethnic origin and employment status
[ "Employment", "Recruitment", "Labour market", "Discrimination in employment", "Ethnic minorities", "Unemployment", "Correspondence testing", "Ethnic origin", "Hiring discrimination", "C93", "J15", "J7" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Economic analysis of hiring rates in the French labor market has highlighted significant differences between individuals of distinct ethnic origins. French citizens of North African origin have an employment rate that is 2...
Changing demographics, changing practices: teacher learning in new immigrant destinations
[ "Professional learning", "Collaboration", "Professional development", "Teacher education", "English language learners", "New immigrant destinations", "Capacity-building" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Recently, a growing number of \"new immigrant destinations\" in parts of the USA with little experience serving immigrant populations has led to increasing cultural, ethnic and linguistic diversity in classrooms across the co...
Employee well-being and turnover intention: Evidence from a developing country with Muslim culture
[ "Culture", "Turnover intention", "Work engagement", "Life satisfaction", "Muslim", "Embeddedness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Developing nations in Asia are facing increasing pressure to attain a higher level of automation and digitalization under a new round of global industrial restructuring, causing the problems regarding employee turnover and we...
Vacancy chains and the business cycle. Stringing together job-to-job transitions in micro data
[ "Italy", "Business cycle", "Job-to-job mobility", "Matched employer-employee data", "Search and matching", "Vacancy chain" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Employment adjustments occur primarily through job-to-job flows that exhibit a definite cyclical pattern, while flows into and out of unemployment play a secondary role. The present paper examines the dynamics of labour ma...
Measuring achievement of learning organizations in construction
[ "Learning organizations", "Knowledge management", "Decision support systems", "Construction industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The transformation of organizations from production-oriented entities to proactive learning entities that continuously leverage knowledge to improve production is a primary objective of organization leaders and management res...
Innovation and technology transfer in Chinese agriculture
[ "Innovation", "Agriculture", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nThe background: The transfers of scientific and technological achievements in the agricultural sector, despite consistent improvement over the years, remains as low as around 40 per cent. It is estimated to be only half of that of develope...
On the value of response time characteristics in robust design of supply flow
[ "Congestion", "Disruption management", "Response time", "Robustness", "Strategic stock", "Volume flexibility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The number of catastrophes which disrupts the supply chain performance has increased dramatically within the last decade. Ford stopped production in five plants due to the air traffic suspension after the terrorist attacks...
Influencing risk taking in competitive environments: an experimental analysis
[ "Tournament", "Risk taking", "Code of conduct", "Justification", "Risk behaviour", "M14", "M41", "M50" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the question of how compensation schemes affect employee risk taking is back on boards' agendas. The crisis highlighted that finance institutions in particular must reconsider thei...
Brand vulgarity
[ "Brand image", "Branding", "Offensiveness", "Brand vulgarity", "Ironic marketing", "Profanity", "Risqué marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Royal Bitch [...] Sassy Bitch [...] Jealous Bitch [...] Tasty Bitch [...] Sweet Bitch [...] Happy Bitch [...] Like a slap across the face, Bitch grabbed the attention of a certain type of consumer [...] The thing is, if you c...
Gossip and emotion in nursing and health-care organizations
[ "Stress", "Research", "Nursing", "Health services", "Individual behaviour", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper explores the relationship between gossip and emotion in healthcare organizations. It draws upon findings of exploratory research with qualified nurses working in a range of settings in the UK that addressed the nee...
The effect of packaging and brand on children's and parents' purchasing decisions and the moderating role of pester power
[ "Packaging", "Brand", "Children’s purchasing decision", "Parent’s purchasing decision", "Pester power" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Emphasis on the importance of packaging and brand is ongoing because it has been recognized that they play a key role in making people want to buy products (e.g. Levin and Levin, 2010; Maher, 2012).\n2. Review of relevant ...
An English-for-specific-purposes motivated analysis of corporate sustainability reports: An analysis of text and context
[ "Genre analysis", "Greenwashing", "Corporate sustainability reports" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Background and literature review\nMethodology: Study sample\nFindings: Table I shows the frequencies of the rhetorical moves in the CSRs. It is of note that the maximum frequency for each move was 12 (N=12).\nDiscussion: The ...
The impact of locus of control on job stress, job performance and job satisfaction in Taiwan
[ "Stress", "Performance management", "Job satisfaction", "Taiwan", "Individual behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This study examined the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the work-related behavioral measures of job stress, satisfaction and performance of professional accountants who work for Certificated Public Accountant ...
Differential affective reactions to negative and positive feedback, and the role of self-esteem
[ "Feedback", "Self esteem", "Performance management", "Behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In their article examining the influence of feedback sign on mood, Kluger et al. (1994) note the importance of considering multiple dimensions of affect in studying reactions to feedback. With the research described in this r...
Situational leadership theory: a test from a leader-follower congruence approach
[ "Flexibility", "Leadership style", "Effective leadership", "Situational leadership theory", "Partnering for performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership theory (SLT) is often cited in academically orientated management textbooks, and is among the most widely known leadership theories popular in management training programs and sch...
Does consumer customization strategy always benefit the platform firm's profit?
[ "Production strategy", "Product customization", "Consumer customization", "Pricing decision", "Self-customizing process" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years, many IT-based platform firms (e.g. Shapeways, Ponoko and Zazzle) have increasingly utilized consumer customization strategies to discover the value of designing unique products by consumers themselves (Won...
Facebook and sustainable development: a case study of a French supermarket chain
[ "Sustainable development", "Social media", "Marketing", "Retail", "Facebook", "Responsible communication" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction and purpose: Social media, online communities, social networks - digital communication platforms have continued to proliferate since 2004, the year in which Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook at Harvard University. Originally re...