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Assessing Brazilian electric power transmission auctions: A copula-based sample selection model
[ "Electric power transmission", "Auctions", "Copulas methods", "Roy/endogenous switching regression model", "C15", "C46", "E52" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Electricity is an important input in the context of our recent society evolution, as well as the quality of life of families and technological advances. The industrial production process and economic development depend on ...
Leader humility and employee organizational deviance: the role of sense of power and organizational identification
[ "Leader humility", "Organizational deviance", "Sense of power", "Organizational identification" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Employees may exhibit deviant behavior, defined as undesirable and expensive forms of voluntary employee behavior that violates significant organizational norms and threatens organizational well-being (Robinson and Bennett, 1...
Integration of the research library service into the editorial process: "Embedding" the librarian into the media
[ "Newspapers", "Information media", "Information services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Fairfax Media is the largest media organisation in the Australia Pacific region. The company incorporates long-standing metropolitan daily newspapers like the The Sydney Morning Herald in its 175th year and The Age (Melbourne...
International market selection and segmentation: perspectives and challenges
[ "International business", "Marketing opportunities", "Market segmentation", "Risk assessment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: International business is conducted in an increasingly globalized environment characterized by fewer barriers, growing competition, and greater opportunities for expansion. Still, notwithstanding the general trend to globaliz...
HRM and the use of personnel services: an empirical analysis of German firms
[ "Human resource management", "Outsourcing", "Personnel services", "Firms' characteristics", "Germany" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The analysis of make-or-buy decisions has a long-standing history in economic research. Many early articles on outsourcing focus on support functions (such as catering, cleaning, fleet management, or security) and, later o...
Moderating effects of environmental uncertainty on behavioural intentions in business markets - a study across theoretical perspectives
[ "Relationship marketing", "Environmental uncertainty", "Buyer-seller relationships", "Relationship value" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Many studies have recognized that relationship marketing (RM) efforts can improve outcomes of buyer-seller relationships (Palmatier et al., 2008; Morgan and Hunt, 1994; Streukens et al., 2011). However, RM can also be inef...
The impact of an educational intervention on breastfeeding
[ "Education", "Schools", "Children (age groups)", "Brazil" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Undoubtedly, maternal milk is the best feeding for young infants. It provides all the nutrients they need during the first six months of life, favors growth and development, is easily digested, avoiding cramps and nauseas, pr...
Public-good games and the Balinese
[ "Bali", "Culture", "Social norms", "Communities", "Local economies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Lietaer and De Meulenaere (2003) describe from an anthropological point of view how Balinese sustain their ancient culture in spite of the growing influence of the outer world. The lesson to be learnt from the Balinese is n...
Availability analysis of a generalized maintainable three-state device parallel system with human error and common-cause failures
[ "Operating systems", "Markov processes", "Error handling", "Quality control" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A device is said to have three states if it operates satisfactorily in its normal mode but fails in either of the two mutually exclusive failure modes. Two typical examples of a three state device are a fluid flow valve an...
Benchmarking award winning health care organizations in the USA
[ "Six Sigma", "United States", "Health care", "Benchmarking", "Process improvement techniques", "Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: 1.1 Purpose\n2 Methodology: Our objective in this study was to identify the process improvement techniques used by award winning health care organizations. To apply for the Baldrige award, each organization submitted an app...
The not-reading epidemic: reflections of a mid-service English teacher
[ "Literacy", "High school", "Motivation", "Assessment", "Reading", "Teaching literature", "Literacy teaching", "High-achievers", "Sustained silent reading", "Social and cognitive needs of adolescents" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: I have taught high school English for over 10 years in a suburban town in the southeastern USA. It is a true community school; many of the families have lived in the area for generations and feel strong ties to the community....
The effect of buyer's gender, risk-proneness, and time remaining in an internet auction on the decision to bid or buy-it-now
[ "Auctions", "Internet shopping", "Gender" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Internet auctions have become increasingly popular since their inception in mid-1990. In the US alone, close to a half million full- and part-time entrepreneurs make a living buying and selling a wide variety of products on e...
Leadership and fulfillment of the three basic psychological needs at work
[ "Transformational leadership", "Transactional leadership", "Management by exception‐active", "Need fulfillment", "Autonomy", "Competences", "Relatedness", "Leadership", "Behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A basic assumption of self-determination theory is that human beings are motivated by three inherent psychological needs; the needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness, respectively (Deci and Ryan, 2000). Several work-re...
McDonald's and nPower train to retain: Companies recognize career development is an inclusive business
[ "Career development", "Older workers", "Organizational development", "Retention", "Trainers", "Training" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nEmployees need to \"fit in\" and see their way ahead: Middle management in the USA division of a global restaurant chain, and call-center trainers employed by one of the largest utility companies in the UK might not, on the face of it, app...
Going international? Important factors executives should consider!
[ "Globalization", "Restaurants", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: According to National Restaurant Association (NRA), restaurant-industry sales are forecasted to advance 5 percent in 2007, reaching $535 billion and have an overall economic impact of $1.3 trillion, including sales in related...
Editorial: the role of the editor - managing fair play
[ "Reviewers", "Authors", "Editors", "Refereeing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The role of an editor is akin to that of a soccer referee. Soccer referees take advice from assistant referees (who run up and down the touchline and signal), but ultimately, they are responsible for the final decisions. The ...
Perceived barriers to consumption of freshwater fish in Morocco
[ "Fish", "Consumer perceptions", "Morocco" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Fish is generally recognized as a nutritious and healthy source of food. In recent years, several studies have recommended that fish must take a prominent position in the human diet due to their nutritional and therapeutic pr...
Swipe right on personality: a mobile response latency measure
[ "Personality", "Selection", "Psychometrics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Mobile Internet usage has been growing with recent estimates suggesting that as much as 65 percent of digital media are being consumed on mobile devices (Goovaerts, 2016). For many, mobile devices are becoming the primary sou...
Emergence of the entrepreneurial university in evolution of the triple helix: The case of Northeastern University in China
[ "Entrepreneurialism", "Universities", "Innovation", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: A university-industry-government triple helix based upon independent institutional spheres in which each can interact freely and \"take the role of the other\" has been identified as form of social organization that is high...
Gender role beliefs and fathers' work-family conflict
[ "Gender differences", "Work-family issues", "Fathers", "Work-family conflict", "Gender roles", "Social roles", "Work demands", "Family demands" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Work-family conflict describes the negative interactions between work and family that occur due to incompatible demands stemming from work, family, or both domains. In the last 20 years, work-family conflict has become a germ...
Still growing after all these years? The resilience of the "Personal Growth model of English" in England and also internationally
[ "Identity", "English teaching", "History of English teaching", "Personal Growth", "Models of English" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This article is intended to be an important critique and re-interpretation of the \"Personal Growth\" (PG) model of English, articulated by John Dixon in Growth Through English, originally in 1967. It aims to be original in i...
Effects of nature-based mindfulness training on resilience/symptom load in professionals with high work-related stress-levels: findings from the WIN-Study
[ "Mindfulness", "Intervention", "Work-related stress", "Nature-based mindfulness training", "Stress prevention" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Mindfulness is a psychological technique intended to focus attention on the present moment without judgment. Originating in Asian philosophy and Buddhist traditions (Greco and Hayes, 2011), the approach was made available and...
Bus drivers take the learning-center route to better basic skills: Partnership with trade union brings benefits for all
[ "Buses", "Skills training", "Employee development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Thousands of bus drivers are on the route to success because of a training initiative by First Bus UK and the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU). The company, which runs 9,300 buses in 40 towns and carries 2.8 million...
Time-varying correlations between stock and direct real estate returns
[ "Constant correlation", "Time‐varying risks", "Dynamic conditional correlations", "Stock returns", "Direct real estate returns", "Real estate", "United States of America", "United Kingdom", "Ireland", "Australia", "Hong Kong", "Singapore" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Stocks and real estate are two important asset classes in investors' portfolios. The aggregate market value of equities in the Morgan Stanley Capital International-All Country World Index (MSCI ACWI), which covers 85 percen...
Engineering information modeling in databases: needs and constructions
[ "Database management systems", "Modelling", "Industrial engineering" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: To increase product competitiveness, current manufacturing enterprises have to deliver their products at reduced cost and high quality in a short time. The change from sellers' market to buyers' market results in a steady d...
Exploring the service quality in the e-commerce context: a triadic view
[ "Customer satisfaction", "Service quality", "Supply chain", "E-retailing", "E-service", "Logistics service" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As the internet and its wide application to business has grown, so too has online shopping in many countries (Weltevreden, 2008). Electronic commerce (e-commerce) brings huge business opportunities (such as product sales a...
Developing and validating a multi-dimensional scale for operationalizing industrial service offering
[ "Industrial services", "Manufacturing firms", "Measurement development", "Service business", "Service offering" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Manufacturing firms are increasingly shifting the focus of their businesses from tangible products to intangible services (Antioco et al., 2008; Fang et al., 2008; Gebauer et al., 2011; Jacob and Ulaga, 2008). The reasonin...
Recruiting and retaining of Indigenous Probations Officers: Steps to creating diverse workplaces that reflect community cultures
[ "Diversification", "Culture", "Recruitment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Fuller participation in the labor market for Indigenous people in Canada is often linked to a history of colonization and, according to a Royal Commission report, a record of dislocation and isolation, racism, violence and po...
Beyond silence and rumor: Storytelling as an educational tool to reduce the stigma around HIV/AIDS in South Africa
[ "Storytelling", "HIV", "South Africa", "Health education", "Rural regions", "Personal health" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: At present HIV/AIDS poses an enormous threat to Sub-Saharan Africa. The HIV/AIDS pandemic is considered to be one of the most severe crises confronting societies, especially in developing countries. Responding adequately is a...
ISS rises to the challenge of effective HR management: Time and attendance system improves efficiency and productivity
[ "Attendance", "Skills reviews", "Health and safety requirements", "Facilities", "Service operations", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: HR services and development director Richard Bishop-Laggett concedes that effective employee management is not the easiest of tasks at facility-services provider ISS.\nEffective management of remote workers: Richard Bishop-La...
Improving global competitiveness with branding strategy: Cases of Chinese and emerging countries' firms
[ "Brands", "Corporate branding", "Globalization", "Emerging markets", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: During the first half of 2009, the FTSE International Emerging Markets Index from the Financial Times was up 41.1 percent, whereas the FTSE All World Developed Markets Index was up only 7.2 percent (Oakley, 2009). During th...
Bridging the gap between disclosure and use of intellectual capital information
[ "Financial analysis", "Disclosure", "Intangible assets", "Intellectual capital" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Increasing competition, new business sectors and technological developments have led to the decreasing relevance of financial statements and the increasing relevance of narrative reporting (Lev and Zarowin, 1999; Breton and T...
An investigation into software development process formation in software start-ups
[ "Computer software", "Product development", "Ireland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: For many small and start-up software companies, implementing controls and structures to properly manage their software development activity is a major challenge. Administering software development in this way is usually achie...
Small details that make big differences : A radical approach to consumption experience as a firm's differentiating strategy
[ "Service innovation", "Experience", "Customer behavior", "Customer requirements", "Service delivery system", "Service encounter" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Service organizations operate in a highly competitive marketplace where it is imperative to produce high-quality services that delight customers, thereby creating and building strong customer-firm relationships (e.g. Barwise ...
Dissidents with an innovation cause? Non-institutionalized actors' online social knowledge sharing, solution-finding tensions and technology management innovation
[ "Resistance to change", "Innovation driver/enabler/factors/process", "Shared knowledge", "Web services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Attitude change has long been regarded as an important factor enabling technology management innovation (Reychav and Weisberg, 2009; Birkinshaw et al., 2008; Fisher, 2012). Birkinshaw et al. (2008, p. 829) define management i...
Gratitude in the workplace: The right kind of thanks
[ "Relationship management", "Appreciation", "Gratitude communication", "Sincerity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Conventional wisdom has it that the best things in life are free. Some would argue that different forms of gratitude fall into that category. And why not? A well-timed thank you here and there demands virtually nothing in cos...
Households' acceptability of local (Ofada) rice based on quality attributes in South-West, Nigeria
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Consumer purchasing decisions", "Consumer choice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The quantity of rice in Africa has been estimated to be around 21.9 million metric tons (MMT), and this has been attributed to the combined effects of income, urbanisation, population growth, and maybe other factors such a...
Rethinking household demand for food diversity
[ "Index", "Entropy", "Consumer demand", "Food diversity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: According to the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), food variety is an essential component of a healthy diet (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2015). The DGA encourages variety across food subgroups, w...
The impact of engaging leadership on performance, attitudes to work and wellbeing at work: A longitudinal study
[ "Leadership", "Performance management", "Team performance", "Management attitudes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nLeadership and culture: Earlier formal study of leadership can be seen to have passed through four more or less distinct stages, from the \"trait\" theories of the 1930-1950s, through the \"behavioural\" theories of the 1950-1960s and the ...
Psychometric sifting to efficiently select the right service employees
[ "Recruitment", "Dependability and safety instrument", "Psychometric test", "Recruitment efficiency", "Selection", "Service employees", "Subordinate service roles", "Recruitment effectiveness", "Situational judgement test" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Service employees in subordinate service roles are crucial for operational efficiency and service quality (Bowen and Schneider, 2014). By their very nature, these roles are stressful, and as such, inappropriate selection a...
To purchase or not to purchase US products: role of religiosity, animosity, and ethno-centrism among Malaysian consumers
[ "Religiosity", "Malaysia", "Animosity", "Ethnocentrism", "US products" ]
[ { "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.\nIntroduction: Favorable or unfavorable disposition of consumers towards a country results in acceptance or rejection of product...
Women's financial planning for retirement: Systematic literature review and future research agenda
[ "Women", "Citation analysis", "Financial planning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The financial planning entails a comprehensive assessment of one's current and future financial status. It is an ever-evolving process of meeting one's life goals (be it buying a house, children's higher education, setting...
Experience and attitude towards luxury brands consumption in an emerging market
[ "Luxury brand consumption", "Consumer behaviour", "Post-purchase behaviour", "Consumer attitude", "Consumer experience", "India" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Irrespective of which social class the individual belongs to, luxury has always fascinated people. According to Heine and Phan (2011), consumers distinguish luxury products based on six major characteristics: price, qualit...
Peter Medway: of his time?
[ "Curriculum history", "English teaching", "Curriculum English", "Constructions of English", "Peter Medway" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: For English teachers of my generation, the intellectual pantheon of the British world have rightly been figures such as Barnes et al. (1969) of Language, the learner and the school, Language and learning (1970) and From commu...
Developing competitive advantage using the triple bottom line: a conceptual framework
[ "Sustainability", "Triple bottom line", "Competitive advantage", "Supply chain management", "Business-to-business marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Corporate sustainability models have become increasingly fashionable in academic research over the past 20 years. In addition to financial accountability, these sustainability models often include some form of environmental/b...
The nursing quality indicator framework tool
[ "Patient experience", "Nurse’s knowledge", "Nursing quality indicators", "Structure-process-outcome" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In performance-managed health services across the world, there is an emphasis on \"Ward-to-Board\" accountability for nursing quality. Although healthcare systems may differ, all have a common goal: to improve service quality...
Understanding the metrosexual and spornosexual as a segment for retailers
[ "UK", "Structural equation model", "Survey", "Consumer lifestyle", "Metrosexuality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the USA, department stores such as Nordstrom and Macy's are creating separate sections dedicated to men, cosmetics chains such as Ulta have rolled out in-store boutiques called the Men's Shop, and CVS Pharmacy has creat...
Why are you watching? Video surveillance in organizations
[ "Surveillance", "Decision making", "Uncertainty", "Panopticon", "Ethics", "Transparency", "Data access", "Equality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: As video cameras and their associated equipment have become less costly and easier to obtain, organizations have increasingly turned to their use as a means to address safety concerns. Business owners situate video cameras at...
Entrepreneurship and small businesses in Russia: a review of empirical research
[ "Entrepreneurialism", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Russia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Entrepreneurship and small businesses started to emerge in the Soviet Union after the economic reconstruction that took place in the late 1980s and at the beginning of the 1990s. The changes in the Soviet system led to the...
Emotional stability and switching barriers in the retail banking context
[ "Customer loyalty", "Banks", "Emotional stability", "Switching barriers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The traditional product-oriented approach is largely being replaced by a customer-oriented approach that utilizes the principles of relational marketing, which mainly comprises customers' loyalty. Studies conducted by many au...
Managing STEM learning: a typology and four models of integration
[ "STEM education", "STEM learning", "Integrated learning", "Integrated STEM learning", "Multiple thinking", "Paradigm shift in learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The movement toward integrated learning aims to support young people with development of new qualities of life-long education, action learning, creativity, high level thinking and multiple local and global perspectives (Fineg...
Examining the key determinants towards online pro-brand and anti-brand community citizenship behaviours: A two-stage approach
[ "Social support", "Social identity theory", "Artificial neural network", "Online community participation", "Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis", "Community citizenship behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Online communities are widely known as web-based online services supporting and facilitating information exchanges among community members (Malinen, 2015). One major feature of online communities is the member engagement w...
Institutional sustainable purchasing priorities: Stakeholder perceptions vs environmental reality
[ "Sustainability", "LCA", "Packaging", "Purchasing", "Supply chain management", "Food waste" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Like many involved with purchasing, institutional food purchasers face multiple stakeholders with competing agendas. Institutional purchasers often confront more stakeholder pressure than those in other industries as institut...
Integrating animal disease epidemics into disaster risk management
[ "Preparedness", "Community-based disaster risk management", "Epidemics", "One Health" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The One Health concept draws attention to the interconnectedness between people, animals, ecosystems, and public health, emphasizing the importance of a holistic approach that considers these relationships to improve wellb...
Field of study choice: using conjoint analysis and clustering
[ "Conjoint analysis", "Area of study", "Decision support systems and marketing", "Higher education and preferences" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Choosing one's area of study from among a wide selection of higher education programs, particularly considering the substantial growth of academic institutions in recent years, has become a great challenge to students. Sel...
The applicability of cluster theory to Canada's small and medium-sized apparel companies
[ "Garment industry", "Cluster analysis", "Trade", "Canada", "Globalization", "Small to medium‐sized companies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction and background to the study: The Canadian apparel industry, which is primarily made up of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), was comprised of approximately 2,700 establishments in 2005 (Industry Canada, 2005). It accounted f...
Trumped up data
[ "Equal opportunities", "Government policy", "Research and development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The purpose of this paper is to speculate, based on evidence to date, about the possible changes in American government policy with respect to the collection, dissemination, and analysis (use) of quantitative data that many s...
Entrepreneurial leadership in retail pharmacy: developing economy perspective
[ "Entrepreneurs", "Leadership", "Leaders", "Training needs", "Entrepreneurship", "Learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The area of leadership is continually developing and evolving. The concept of entrepreneurial leadership represents a key stage in this development and provides a new paradigm within a growing body of literature from both emp...
Consuming material authenticity in the age of digital reproduction
[ "Authenticity", "Digital reproduction", "Embodied consumption", "Social constructionist grounded theory", "Vinyl records" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Using the lens of authenticity and informed by data collected via a qualitative methodology, this paper examines the passion for vinyl records on the part of sellers and the relationship that exists between vinyl records and ...
Information and food blogging as serious leisure
[ "Food products", "Photography", "Information media", "Personal needs", "Blogs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nInformation and serious leisure: In the last five years there has been a growth of interest in the role of information in \"serious leisure\", defined by the principal theorist of the field as:...the systematic pursuit of a [...] core acti...
Assessing the learning experience in a business process re-engineering (BPR) course at the University of Bahrain
[ "Business process re‐engineering", "Learning", "Case studies", "Lectures", "Process management", "Bahrain" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Keeping in pace with the tough competition and immense technological developments in nowadays business world, business organisations and educational institutions need to work hand-in-hand to meet these challenges. Although de...
Inter-library access solution in Hong Kong academic libraries
[ "University libraries", "Interlending", "Hong Kong" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Providing interlibrary onsite access for eligible users to eight academic libraries in Hong Kong is one of the resource sharing and interlibrary lending schemes for the eight government funded university libraries in Hong Kon...
Better than sex: further development and validation of the consumption gender scale
[ "Market segmentation", "Gender identity", "Fluid gender", "Gender schema theory", "Media planning", "Psychological scale development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interests, likes, dislik...
Ambidextrous leadership and team innovation
[ "Transformational leadership", "Innovation", "Creativity", "Ambidextrous leadership", "Closing", "Opening" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Innovation - the generation and implementation of new and potentially useful ideas (West and Farr, 1990) - is an essential outcome in most contemporary workplaces because it contributes to companies' performance, growth, and ...
Navigating the wilderness of becoming professional
[ "Graduates", "Workplace learning", "Skills", "Mentoring", "Working practices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The wilderness is often conceived as a place where persons can become confused or get into a wild condition (Nash, 1982) and the \"wilderness years\" as a time of uncertainty where the vastness of life, choices and roles bewi...
Investigating homeworkers' inclination to remain connected to work at "anytime, anywhere" via mobile phones
[ "Mobile communication systems", "Homeworking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: \"Homeworking\" involves individuals undertaking traditionally office-based paid employment from home by means of information and communications technology (ICTs) on a full-time or part-time basis (Lal and Dwivedi, 2008, 2009...
Advancing organizational corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda: Implications for training and development
[ "Training and development", "Corporate social responsibility", "Organizational strategy", "Human resource development", "CSR practice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been an emerging idea and priority in the business world for the past few decades as a result of a pressure to be both ethically and socially responsible. Although the concept has ...
A framework for understanding the interaction of uncertainty and information systems on supply chains
[ "Supply chain management", "Uncertainty management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: While uncertainty is a major topic in the supply chain literature and has been looked at for some time (Davis, 1993; Geary et al., 2002), there is a tendency to lump various sources of supply chain complexity under the rubric...
Retrospective: tracking the impact of communications effectiveness on client satisfaction, trust and loyalty in professional services
[ "Professional services", "Signalling theory", "Client relationships", "Interpersonal communications" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Communication is a human activity that links people together and facilitates relationships. It may be defined as \"The human act of transferring a message to others and making it understood in a meaningful way\" Andersen (200...
Workplace stress and well-being across cultures: research and practice
[ "Cross‐cultural studies", "Stress", "Personal health" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: There is an increasing need for more cross-cultural management research and writing. More business is becoming global and international. As a result, more organizations are working with business partners in other countries. T...
Examining the effects of network externalities, density, and closure on in-game currency price in online games
[ "Network externalities", "Online games", "Network density", "Network closure", "Price function" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have become an important component of electronic business. The total generated revenue of MMORPGs around the world was about $19 billion in 2011 and is expected to rea...
The government whistleblowers in generating audit quality (a survey on provincial audit boards in South, Central, and West Sulawesi, Indonesia)
[ "Audit quality", "Whistleblowers", "Audit board", "Auditor’s commitment", "Auditor’s ethic", "Auditor’s independence" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Audit quality is the probability where an auditor discovers and reports violation in the accounting system of their clients (DeAngelo, 1981). In the public sector, Government Accountability Office defines the audit quality...
How ethical leadership influences creativity and organizational innovation: Examining the underlying mechanisms
[ "Creativity", "Knowledge sharing", "Organizational innovation", "Psychological empowerment", "Ethical leadership", "L86", "M12", "O30" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Innovation has long been acknowledged as one of the major factors for a firm success (Elrehail et al., 2018; Woodman et al., 1993; Zacher and Rosing, 2015) and the economic growth of a country (Capello and Lenzi, 2014; Dru...
Comparative review of UK-USA industry-university relationships
[ "Economic sectors", "Universities", "Knowledge transfer", "United States of America", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It has long been recognised that universities contribute to regional and national systems of innovation through the supply of trained \"knowledge workers\" (Mowery and Sampat, 2005) and \"information\" (Salter et al., 2000). ...
Knowledge management and knowledge creation in academia: a study based on surveys in a Japanese research university
[ "Knowledge management", "Surveys", "Universities", "Knowledge creation", "Japan" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Research on knowledge management (KM) came into being in the early 1990s. With the growth of information technology and knowledge economy, KM has gained very strong and quick development in the business field in past more ...
Self-organized innovation networks from the perspective of complex systems: A comprehensive conceptual review
[ "Complex systems", "Self-organization", "Innovation networks", "Self-organizing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Innovation is the driving force of long-term economic and social change (Fagerberg and Verspagen, 2009; Becheikh et al., 2006; Stock et al., 2002), and firms innovate through new products, new production methods or transpo...
Teacher perceptions of empowerment and promotion during reforms
[ "Career development", "Leadership", "Israel", "Professional development", "Education management", "Teacher development", "School autonomy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2011, the Israeli Ministry of Education (2011) developed a new policy entailing two educational reforms: one for elementary and middle schools (called \"Ofek Chadash (New Horizon)\"), and one for high schools (called \"Oz ...
Sex and relationship education: bridging the gap between research and practice
[ "Sex education", "Social policy", "Social dynamics", "Cultural studies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: This special issue of Health Education examines the issue of sex education and aims to stimulate debate among academics, policy makers and educators. A key concern in many areas of public policy is the extent to which researc...
Understanding the roles of cultural differences and socio-economic status in social media continuance intention
[ "Cross-cultural issues", "Social networking (e.g. Facebook, second life)", "Cross-national study", "Social network analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Social media, as enabled by the widespread diffusion of high-speed internet, has become a popular method of communication that allows users to generate and exchange information with others (Kaplan and Haenlein, 2010). Accordi...
Differential impacts of information technology on cost and revenue driver relationships in banking
[ "Cost drivers", "Income", "Communication technologies", "Banking", "Organizational performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Information technology (IT) spending in the US economy has increased by more than two orders of magnitude since 1970 and yet productivity, especially in the service sector, has not kept pace. This phenomenon has been dubbed t...
A dynamic and adaptive scenario approach for formulating science & technology policy
[ "Russia", "Forecasting", "Foresight", "Scenario planning", "Backcasting", "Science and technology policy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Future-oriented technology analyses in the form of Foresight, futures and forecasting are all crucial for a prosperous, sustainable and resilient future. However, rapid and unprecedented changes in the world bring challeng...
Resettlement and rehabilitation issues in Uttaranchal (India) with reference to natural disasters
[ "Disaster management", "Landslides", "Natural disasters", "Rehabilitation", "Land" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Uttranchal, by virtue of its geographical setting, is vulnerable to minor changes. Hence any activity disapproved by mountain ecosystem triggers a disaster. We cannot stop disaster happening but can certainly take some steps ...
A hybrid AHP/DEA-AR model for measuring and comparing the efficiency of airports
[ "Data envelopment analysis", "Airport performance evaluation", "Assurance region" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: From the last quarter of the 20th century, capital flows have transcended national dimensions and reached international dimensions as a consequence of the globalization process and investors have begun to purchase assets, ...
Social enterprise in Antebellum America: the case of Nashoba (1824-1829)
[ "USA", "Social entrepreneurship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. But where do we not see change? What is there in the physical world but change? And what would there be in the moral world without change? [- Frances Wright, Founder of Nashoba, (In...
A framework to review performance measurement systems
[ "Performance measurement (quality)", "Performance management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Performance measurement systems (PMS) have been at the top of the research and business agenda over the last few years. Businesses realised the importance of a multi- dimensional and balanced performance measurement system as...
Effects of the classification system in international SAR: The case of the 2015 Nepal earthquake
[ "INSARAG", "International disaster relief", "Search and rescue", "2015 Nepal earthquake" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent years, many countries send international search and rescue (SAR) teams beyond their state borders in response to massive scale earthquakes. However, deployments of international SAR teams need a lot of costs as they...
The impact of variety of orders and different number of workers on production scheduling performance: A simulation approach
[ "Simulation", "Analysis of variance", "Backward scheduling", "Forward scheduling", "Make-to-order", "Shop floor" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Scheduling is defined as the allocation of resources over time to accomplish specific tasks. It can be considered as an integral part of the shop floor production planning process and control system. Scheduling in productio...
Building professional capital within a 21st century learning framework
[ "Professional development", "Professional capital", "Collaborative leadership", "21st century learning", "Adult learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Our educational system, which has been historically rooted in the traditional model of education, is under pressure to meet the demands of a rapidly changing twenty-first century, for acceptance and response to change. School...
Simultaneous determination of production lot size and preventive maintenance schedule for unreliable production system
[ "Lot size", "Preventive maintenance", "Quality", "Inventory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nI. Introduction: Considerable research has been undertaken to enrich the classical Economic Manufacturing Quantity (EMQ) model (see Silver et al. (1998)). A great number of these research efforts aimed at extending the EMQ model to single ...
Curriculum development through critical collaborative professional enquiry
[ "Professional learning", "Curriculum development", "Collaborative professional enquiry", "Practitioner research/inquiry", "Teacher agency" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: In recent years, we have witnessed changing fashions in curriculum policy (Priestley and Biesta, 2013) in many countries. A particular trend is an apparent reinstatement of the teacher as an active agent of change in developing...
Classifying emerging knowledge sharing practices and some insights into antecedents to social networking: a case in insurance
[ "Knowledge sharing", "Insurance supply chain", "Social networking tools", "Supply chain dominance and influence" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizations have always considered knowledge sharing as pivotal to competitive advantage (Taylor, 2007; Tohidinia and Mosakhani, 2010), and as such, finding the right mechanisms for sharing knowledge across staff (and incre...
Testing FMCG innovations: experimental real store versus virtual
[ "Virtual store", "Experimental real store", "Innovation", "Shopper", "Behaviour", "Attitudes", "Shops", "Shopping", "Fast moving consumer goods" ]
[ { "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.\nIntroduction: The fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) environment is becoming increasingly challenging in terms of innovation. As...
The rise of social networking sites: An empirical investigation applying demographic differences and the technology acceptance model
[ "Gender", "Age", "Information privacy", "Technology acceptance model", "Social networking sites" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the past few decades, social networking sites (SNSs) have captured the attention of a huge number of people and have substantially enhanced cybernetic involvement by allowing participants to keep connected with each o...
French private sector shows huge divergence of attitudes to religious diversity
[ "Religion", "Flexible", "Secularism", "Accommodations", "Common ground" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A study of the management of religious diversity in private businesses in France found large divergences in company policy. The researchers uncovered three important strategies, two of which embraced religious minorities in a...
Health coalition collaboration network, perceived satisfaction and success
[ "Social network analysis", "Community health", "Not-for-profit" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: Chronic disease is a pervasive public health issue in the United States accounting for almost 90% of the nation's annual health care expenditures in 2017 (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2017). In 2014, it was report...
Asymmetric Open Government Data (OGD) framework in India
[ "India", "Asymmetry", "Open data", "Open Government Data", "Open citizen", "States" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Government has most of the information related to various administrative dimensions (Aichholzer and Burkert, 2004). Of late, there is an increasing impetus to \"open\" the government data which was hitherto reserved in sil...
School leadership and management in South Africa: Findings from a systematic literature review
[ "Leadership development", "South Africa", "School leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: South Africa celebrated 20 years of democracy in 2014 and this seems to provide a good opportunity to review the progress made in developing an integrated education system, to replace the previous racially stratified system. ...
Sainsbury's puts the convenience into training: New college develops leaders for expanding network of local stores
[ "Leadership development", "Awards", "Retailing", "Supermarkets" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has opened a college to train management teams for its fast-expanding network of local convenience stores.\nThe space to focus and develop: The college has six training rooms and will be run by \...
Forgotten contributions to scientific management: work and ideas of Karol Adamiecki
[ "Management history", "Scientific management", "Frederick Taylor", "Contribution", "Idea adoption", "Karol Adamiecki" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In March 1903, F.W. Taylor for the first time presented his rules and methods stating a fundamental thought that the issue of labor organization can and ought to be resolved according to strictly scientific principles, and no...
Including transcendental needs in a unified model of motivation
[ "Motivation", "Personality", "Scale development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Most solid management practices are based on models of human motivation, whether the classic Maslow pyramid (Maslow, 1943) or newer conceptions such as the one Forbes (2011) has constructed to apply academic motivation resear...