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Demystifying knowledge management
[ "Knowledge management", "Human resource management", "Information systems" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The post-industrial society is widely classified as information economy or knowledge economy (Toffler, 1990; Pillania, 2008a). Knowledge has gained center stage in this knowledge economy (Pillania, 2005a, 2006a, 2007a, 2008b)...
Using quality management as a bridge in educating for sustainability in a business school
[ "Education", "Higher education", "Quality management", "Management theory", "Sustainable development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Many researchers agree upon the need for increased education with respect to sustainability and sustainable practices in the business curriculum, as was demonstrated in the recent special issue on \"Teaching about the Natural...
Customer-centered knowledge management: challenges and implications for knowledge-based innovation in the public transport sector
[ "Customer-driven innovation", "Knowledge dissemination", "Knowledge integration", "Knowledge-based innovation", "Public transport" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The public transport sector represents a significant industry and market in the developed world. However, it is a relatively underexplored field, with few studies demonstrating the role of knowledge management in society's...
Effects of cooking methods on carotenoids content of Omani kingfish (Scomeberomorus commerson L.)
[ "Fish (food)", "Cooking", "Nutrition", "Middle East" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Kingfish (Scomebermorus commerson L.) is an epipelagic species found throughout the coastal tropical waters and the Indo-Pacific (Govender et al., 2006). It represents an interesting species of fish both nutritionally and eco...
A global investigation of key turning points in business process maturity
[ "Business process re‐engineering", "Process management", "Business development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Competition in many industries has been based mainly upon strategic assets and on the ability to deploy these assets. Competition in today's global economy is now based upon capabilities, or \"complex bundles of skills and ac...
The role of owner/manager in adoption of electronic commerce in small businesses: The case of developing countries
[ "Iran", "Developing countries", "Electronic commerce", "Owner/managers", "Small businesses", "Top management", "Adoption" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As the major source of employment opportunities, development and commercialisation of innovation, and improvement of marketing competiveness in a globalised economy, small businesses (SBs) are regarded as the engine of eco...
Contracting out parks and roads maintenance in England
[ "England", "Parks", "Public services", "Contracting-out", "Local authorities", "Roads" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Marketization has long driven public service management (including roads and parks) in England, in attempts to enhance competition and improve quality (Boyne, 1998). This marked a shift from the traditional bureaucratic form ...
Open innovation and knowledge networking in a multinational corporation
[ "Competitive advantage", "Knowledge management", "Corporate strategy", "Knowledge sharing", "Collaborative technologies", "Multinational firm" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Open innovation is a strategic concept that rethinks the innovation process of firms in modern business. The idea of opening up firm boundaries to let distributed knowledge flow from industry environments into corporate innov...
Selecting internal and external supply chain functionality: The case of ERP systems versus electronic marketplaces
[ "Supply chain management", "Electronic commerce", "Business‐to‐business marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Value creation in supply chain management: Traditionally, supply chain processes have been characterized by great inefficiencies. In a typical firm, once demand has been recognized and until the actual placement of an order, a number of...
An intervariable approach to customer satisfaction and loyalty in the internet service market
[ "Perceived value", "Internet", "Attitudinal loyalty", "Behavioural loyalty", "Cognitive loyalty", "Functional satisfaction", "Intervariable approach", "Technical satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector continues to be a key enabler of economic and social development, bridging the digital divide and fostering an inclusive digital economy. The fixed broadband market i...
Understanding the food related experiences and beliefs of a specific group of low-income men in the UK
[ "Personal health", "Low pay", "Diet", "Gender", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Inappropriate nutrition is a significant causal factor for many major diseases afflicting all developed countries (Lambert, 2001; Department of Health, 1994; Department of Health, 1998). Over half the population in the UK are...
Measuring change attitudes in health care organizations: Psychometric evaluation of the "Change Attitude Scale"
[ "Structural equation modelling", "Health care", "Readiness for change", "Validation", "Change attitudes", "Reactions to change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Research has identified readiness for change as a leading facilitator of successful implementation (Rafferty et al., 2013; Weiner et al., 2008; Zapka et al., 2013). Readiness for change is defined as a \"[...] psychological s...
The impact of career visions on work attitudes: a longitudinal approach
[ "Career goal", "Job satisfaction", "Turnover intention", "Goal‐setting theory", "Careers", "Career satisfaction", "Employees turnover" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Researchers have argued that the study of career goals can bring a new perspective to the understanding of work attitudes, such as job satisfaction and turnover intention (Pomaki et al., 2004). This is because employees' atti...
The dimensions of authenticity in terroir products
[ "Marketing", "Conceptual/theoretical", "Scale development/testing", "Wines" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Applied primarily to food and wine products, terroir is a French term which broadly but imprecisely links a product to a specific place. Nonetheless, today a debate brews, particularly in the wine industry regarding the actua...
Riding the Waves of Innovation
[ "Organizational development", "Creativity", "Innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The cover of the book promises to \"Harness the power of global culture to drive creativity and growth.\" Riding the Waves of Innovation offers new perspectives and strategies for encouraging the growth of innovation and crea...
How to develop a research agenda in two days: "Gender in organisations in the MENA region Think Tank"
[ "Gender", "MENA", "Stakeholders", "Assumptions", "Think Tank" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A total of 22 participants attended the \"Women in Organisations ThinkTank (MENA)\": 2 organisers, 4 leaders, 16 participants. Participants exampled diversity in action - working together over two days to theorise women in or...
Creating social value through orchestration processes in innovation networks: The case of "Garbage Ladies" as a social entrepreneurial venture
[ "Gender", "Women entrepreneurship", "Social entrepreneurship", "Innovation network", "Network process", "Orchestration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Social entrepreneurship, commonly defined as \"entrepreneurial activity with an embedded social purpose\" (Austin et al., 2006), has emerged as a distinct research area with a developing body of literature (Nicholls and Huybr...
Country-of-origin (COO) brand loyalty and related consumer behaviour in the Japanese wine market
[ "Japan", "Consumer behaviour", "Survey research", "Scale development/testing", "Brand loyalty", "Country-of-origin", "COO", "Meta-analysis", "Wine market" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Brand loyalty is an increasingly prevalent theoretical construct in the literature (Rundle-Thiele, 2007) and similarly country-of-origin (COO) loyalty is an important concept for marketers (Papadopoulos, 2004). The COO effect...
Mothers' non-standard working and childcare-related challenges: A comparison between lone and coupled mothers
[ "Finland", "United Kingdom", "The Netherlands", "Childcare", "Lone mothers", "Non-standard work hours" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Working outside of standard \"9 to 5\" weekly hours which is characteristic of \"24-hour\" economies (Presser, 2003) has the potential to intensify the pressures working mothers experience in combining work and childcare. Com...
The effect of adding oat flour on the nutritional and sensory quality of wheat bread
[ "Baking properties", "β-glucans", "Oat flour", "Oat-wheat bread", "Sensory evaluation", "New product", "Nutrition" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Cereal products, and especially bread, make up a high proportion of the human diet. Many baked products are made with wheat flour devoid of valuable nutrients (Shewry and Hey, 2015; Ceglinska, 2017). The low-yield wheat flour...
The next phase in servitization: transforming integrated solutions into modular solutions
[ "Servitization", "Capabilities", "Modularity", "Ambidextrous performance", "Integrated solution" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the strategic move of \"servitization,\" manufacturers transform their business by integrating product and service elements into their offering. In the early stages of the servitization process, manufacturers may provid...
The changing nature of the traditional expatriate psychological contract
[ "Expatriates", "Psychological contracts", "Human resource management", "Qualitative methods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A key theme in the international human resource management (IHRM) literature concerns global staffing. At the level of managing the individual employee, a significant volume of research has centred on the \"expatriate cycle\"...
The evolution of marketing research
[ "Marketing", "Qualitative research", "Service", "Research", "Hospitality", "Quantitative research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This study reviews hospitality marketing research published in the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (IJCHM) from the first issue through Vol. 25. During this span of 25 years, hospitality marketing...
Collection evaluation: a foundation for collection development
[ "Assessment", "Collections management", "Project evaluation", "Information media", "Resources" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Globally, librarians spend enormous sums of money to acquire collections. National, state, and local economies vary widely, as do individual library budgets; but most librarians spend a large percentage of their budgets to ac...
Challenge accepted! Distinguishing between challenge- and hindrance demands
[ "Well-being", "Motivation", "Job demands", "Job characteristics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Research on the job demands-resources (JD-R) model (Demerouti et al., 2001) has shown that various characteristics of employees' work have important implications for employee well-being. Traditionally, a distinction has been ...
Push and pull factors influencing Mainland Chinese MEd students in Hong Kong
[ "Hong Kong", "Master’s degree", "Mainland Chinese students" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The global competition for international students has become more intense and fierce in recent years (Branco Oliveira and Soares, 2016; Cheng and Yuen, 2016). Many countries such as Canada, Germany, Australia, the USA and the...
How to help your country while traveling for your company
[ "Citizens", "Religion", "Politics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Historically, people of the world have had a love affair with America. Among other things, they have admired our culture, our products and our optimistic can-do personalities. In recent years, however, there has been a signif...
Presentational format and financial consumers' behaviour: an eye-tracking study
[ "Consumer", "Information processing", "Eye tracking", "Investor", "Attention", "Neurofinance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The financial services sector is one of the most highly regulated industry in the world (Anning-Dorson et al., 2017). In order to raise the level of consumers' protection, the European Commission has recently introduced th...
The moderating effect of efficiency and non-market capability in relationship between government involvement and resources to performance of water supply companies (PDAM) in Sulawesi, Indonesia
[ "Performance", "Efficiency", "Resources", "Government involvement", "Non-market capability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A corporate organization has multiple goals, for example, individual goals, i.e. for the interests of the owner, other parties and the company's stakeholders (Madura, 2006). The objective is a desired condition to be reali...
The role of mindfulness on employee psychological reactions to mergers and acquisitions
[ "Mindfulness", "Resistance", "Organizational change", "Merger and acquisition" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are normally untaken as a strategic move by companies to integrate some or all parts of two organizations, with the primary objective of combining strengths to cultivate synergy (Clark et al....
Self-concept orientation and organizational identification: a mediated relationship
[ "Collectivism", "Organizational identification", "Social identity", "Self esteem", "Impression management", "Managerial psychology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizational identification (OrgID) has been defined as perceived oneness with an organization and the experience of the organization's successes or failures as one's own (Mael and Ashforth, 1992). As such, the individual h...
Minimizing losses at red meat supply chain with circular and central slaughterhouse model
[ "Sustainability", "Circular economy", "Food supply chain", "Emerging country", "Grey prediction", "Red meat loss" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years, combating food loss and waste has become a major societal challenge throughout the world. Especially, the implementation of circular business models and policies can make sustainable contributions to this ...
User-centred authentication feature framework
[ "Framework", "Computer security", "Memory", "Authentication", "Persuasion", "Computer users" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: For over 20 years, researchers have proposed numerous varieties of novel authentication systems, yet no proposals have globally replaced text passwords. Researchers are advocating the use of different schemes suitable for ...
A conceptual model of management learning in micro businesses: Implications for research and policy
[ "Small enterprises", "Business support services", "Learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The term \"micro business\" has gained currency over the past ten years with these businesses generally defined as businesses employing less than people (Stanworth and Gray, 1991; Storey, 1994; Johnson, 1999). They make an im...
Customer experience - a review and research agenda
[ "Customer experience", "Experience", "Co-creation", "Service experience", "Customer value" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Customer experience has emerged as an important marketing concept aimed at creating a unique, pleasurable and memorable experience. It is a relatively new concept, in both theory and practice, which has gained larger atten...
A formula of consensus in theoretical descriptions of the reality spectrum: The unification of conceptual "halves"
[ "Marketing theory", "Inventory management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper introduces frameworks and processes to identify and manage conceptual opposites (i.e. so-called \"halves\") in research literature. There are numerous halves in theoretical descriptions of the reality spectrum that...
Reputation entrenchment or risk minimization? Early stop and investor-manager agency conflict in fund management
[ "Fund management", "Investments", "Risk management", "Modelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the last three decades, rapid growth of funds, in both numbers and size of assets, has been realized by both academic researchers in financial economics and practitioners in financial markets. Issues in fund management,...
Distributed database damage assessment paradigm
[ "Distributed databases", "Risk assessment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Distributed database systems have been widely used in web-based applications and mission-critical programs. It has been shown that the major advantages for employing distributed database management systems include high reli...
The role of business in public diplomacy
[ "Trust", "Intangible assets", "Organizational behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Contemporary business can be a powerful force for global change. A consensus is building that it is proper, and in some cases preferable, for business to marshal its resources to solve problems on a global stage. Business has...
Nokia: a case study in managing industry downturn
[ "Strategic management", "Market system", "Process management", "Mobile communication systems", "Telecommunications" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nSuccess in a dynamic industry: No industry is stable over time. Industries will always experience changes as they progress, some with shorter time frames, others with longer time frames, but eventually change will affect every industry. In...
Optimal re-allocation of mooring areas for yachts
[ "Optimization model", "Mooring area re-allocation", "Yacht management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Yacht tourism is an emerging form of leisure tourism in the coastal regions. It not only contributes significantly to the development of the economy (Chen et al., 2016) but also creates new job opportunities (Stone, 2000)....
Household accounting in Australia: a microhistorical study
[ "Accounting", "Australia", "Accounting history", "Accounting procedures" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper constitutes Part 2 of a study on household accounting in Australia between the 1820s and the 1960s. Part 1 compared and contrasted household accounting, as prescribed in advice literature, with evidence of actual a...
Perspectives on sustainability in humanitarian supply chains
[ "Sustainability", "Contingency theory", "Humanitarian supply chain", "Disaster relief", "Humanitarian organisation", "Aid effectiveness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The rationale underlying humanitarian aid is to help people in need. The SPHERE (2011) standards state two principles guiding humanitarian operations: \"those affected by disaster or conflict have a right to life with dignity...
Establishing a knowledge-based organisation: Lesson learnt and KM challenges in Malaysian organisation
[ "Knowledge management", "Well-being", "Employee satisfaction", "KM challenges" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In this era of globalisation, knowledge of the economy has gained significant importance. The current economy is more knowledge-intensive than the past. Triggered by technological innovation, knowledge has become an asset ...
Integrating sustainable development into operations management courses
[ "Teaching", "Sustainable development", "Operations management", "Action research", "Universities", "Sweden" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Sustainable development (SD) courses are now frequent in higher level engineering education in universities worldwide (Lourdel et al., 2005; Anderberg et al., 2009). Generally speaking, SD seems to be treated in standalone ...
US real estate as target assets for European investors: New empirical evidence of diversification benefits
[ "Portfolio diversification", "Empirical study", "Foreign real estate investment", "Real estate investment", "Real estate risk management", "Real estate asset allocation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The diversification of real estate portfolios is a central topic in academic research as well as for market participants. Real estate portfolios can typically be diversified by property types, region, etc. Both, theoretical d...
Ethics, responsibility and sustainability orientation among economics and management masters' students
[ "Ethics", "Portugal", "Gender", "Economics and management education", "Responsibility and sustainability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Education and research on business ethics, corporate social responsibility and corporate sustainability [ethics, responsibility and sustainability (ERS)] in schools of economics and management have developed enormously ove...
Planning practices: a multiple case study in the high-performing banks
[ "Planning", "Banking", "Strategy", "CEO", "Flexibility", "Decision" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: How organisations develop strategies has been one of the most fiercely debated topics in strategic management (Grant, 2013). Strategies are the result of top managers engaging in deliberate, rational analysis (Chandler, 1962/...
"I just want to teach": Queensland independent school teachers and their workload
[ "Teachers", "Job satisfaction", "Grievances", "Stress", "Australia", "Workplace" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: While most teachers find their work extremely satisfying (Hakanen et al., 2006; Timms et al., 2007), it is acknowledged by many researchers that teaching is a stressful occupation (e.g. Friedman, 2000; Howard and Johnson, 200...
HR missing the point of process perspective: Content focus not enough for an effective learning experience
[ "Leadership development", "Learning", "Learning processes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Whether it's way back in our schooldays, or more recently at staff development courses, we've all experienced that feeling of being on the receiving end of someone's well-chosen words while feeling slightly detached from what...
Collaboration between designers and facility managers: Comparing the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Middle East
[ "Facility management", "Collaboration", "Effectiveness", "Design process", "Designers", "Early involvement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: For large, multi-use buildings to operate at their maximum efficiency, it is vital that there should be good communication between designers and the facility management professionals who will oversee the daily operations of t...
Virtue theory and organizational behavior: an integrative framework
[ "Virtue theory", "Organizational virtue", "Virtue ethics", "Virtuous management development", "Virtuous organizations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: There has been considerable growth in recent years in the field of virtue theory and organizational behavior. According to MacIntyre (see Fernando and Moore, 2014), virtues are exercised particularly inside practices and t...
Benchmarking accountability of local government authorities in public procurement in Tanzania: A methodological approach
[ "Benchmarking", "Local government authorities", "Public procurement", "Compliance standards", "Public accountability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Accountability in public procurement has remained one of the most challenging issues in the developing countries. The capacity of government institutions of accountability in oversight function for managing public resource...
The future of leadership development: how can L&D professionals design and develop our next generation of leaders?
[ "Development", "Leadership development", "Organization development", "Coaching", "Learning", "Management development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In writing our book, \"Real Leaders for the Real World\" (Meager and McLachlan, 2014a, 2014b), we conducted research with over 60 leaders from multinational organizations to small business owners and entrepreneurs. These lead...
Trust and governance of global value chains: The case of a Brazilian beef processor
[ "Value chain", "Buyer‐seller relationships", "Meat", "Food products", "Trust", "Brazil" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Developing countries still rely largely on spot market transactions and old business practices. In order to comply with international regulation and certifications, changes in the relationships within the supply chain have be...
Hospitality REITs and financial crisis: a comprehensive assessment of market quality
[ "Volatility", "Hospitality", "Liquidity", "Financial crisis", "REIT", "Market microstructure" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Although real estate investment trusts (REITs), have long been popular with investors, the growing importance of the REIT structure in the hotel industry (H-REITs) has recently gained attention. Kim and Jang (2012a, b) fin...
Green productivity indexing: A practical step towards integrating environmental protection into corporate performance
[ "Continuous improvement", "India", "Pollution" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Worldwide, industries are undergoing the fundamental transition process involving LPG formula (Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization). These changes introduced more competition among companies, as well as the enviro...
Barriers to innovation in service SMEs: evidence from Mexico
[ "Innovation", "Mexico", "SMEs", "Services", "Barriers to innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the last decades, innovation has been considered in the literature of business and management sciences as one of the essential strategies that organisations can follow to achieve their objectives and goals (Fagerberg et...
Series of successive B2B contracts: impact on contract length and rental rate
[ "B2B", "Contract length", "Day rate", "Oil drilling industry", "Project duration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Many B2B contracts involve the delivery of services over a period of time. Examples include the provision of lifting services by a crane company to a construction company and the provision of oil well drilling services by ...
Latin American female business executives: an interesting surprise
[ "Leadership", "Work-life balance", "Ambition", "Challenges and barriers", "Women executives", "Women\n\t\t\t\t\t'\n\t\t\t\ts ascension" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In most nations of the world, the status of women has risen dramatically in the past half-century, including in Latin American nations (Hausmann et al., 2012). However, women\nChallenges that may disadvantage female managers ...
The power of brand passion in sports apparel brands
[ "Consumer–Brand relationship", "Brand passion", "Attitudinal brand loyalty", "Iranian consumers", "Sports apparel brands" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organisations constantly look for strategies to establish and maintain emotional connections with consumers (Malar et al., 2011) based on the premise that these bonds could result in positive outcomes such as greater loyalty ...
Organisational status and efficiency: the case of the Spanish SOE "Paradores"
[ "Public sector organizations", "Centralized control", "Organizational effectiveness", "Hotel and catering industry", "Spain" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The basic aim of the research we summarise here is to provide further evidence on the effect on public enterprise (PE) economic performance brought about by the introduction of changes in organisational status and managemen...
Evaluating the integrated reporting journey: insights, gaps and agendas for future research
[ "IIRC", "Case studies", "Integrated reporting", "Development of integrated reporting", "Idea journey" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Integrated reporting (IR) has evolved rapidly since the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC--subsequently renamed the International Integrated Reporting Council) was founded in 2010 (Fries et al., 2010) and ...
Strategic approach to breakdown maintenance on construction plant - UAE perspective
[ "Construction", "Pareto analysis", "Cause effect analysis", "Failure mode effect analysis", "Fault tree analysis", "Plant and equipment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction:: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) construction industry is expected to witness a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 20 percent from 2010 to 2013, according to the \"UAE Construction Industry Outlook for 2012\" report ...
Proximal and distal influences on project creativity in international marketing teams
[ "Creativity", "International marketing projects", "International marketing teams" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent years, the emergence of global market opportunities, novel work practices, and cross-national collaboration have fostered significant changes in how contemporary multinational corporations function and compete. Corr...
Well-being orthodox theories and Islamic views
[ "Economic philosophy/theory", "Well-being", "Virtue ethics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Well-being is considered to be one of the most important goals in all societies. Human well-being as the ultimate goal of human activities has been studied in social sciences and particularly economics. Moreover, in welfare e...
STEPS: a knowledge management maturity roadmap for corporate sustainability
[ "Construction industry", "Corporate strategy", "Sustainable developement", "Knowledge management", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Following the UN World Summit for sustainable development at Johannesburg in 2002, the global consequence of the commercial activities of organisations has been subjected increasingly to the \"sustainability\" microscope. Cor...
Intra-professional hierarchies: the gendering of accounting specialisms in UK accountancy
[ "Gender", "Accounting profession", "Accounting specialisms" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Over the last few decades the accounting profession in the Anglo Saxon context has undergone profound change. Developments such as the increasing numbers and success of women in various fields (Broadbent and Kirkham, 2008),...
Years purchase revisited: quarterly in advance cash flows
[ "IPD", "Valuation", "Advance", "Annuity", "IPF", "YP" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The underlying arithmetic of valuing any asset class is the same. It is the arithmetic of cash flows and compound interest. Yet the language and conventions of real estate differ from those of other assets or finance discipli...
A total energy efficiency evaluation framework based on embodied energy for the construction industry and the spatio-temporal evolution analysis
[ "Construction", "Estimating", "Novel method" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The rapidly expanding scale of construction industry in China has made great contributions to the urbanization and economic development. Meanwhile, as a typical resource energy-intensive industry, the construction industry...
Integrating quality function deployment and benchmarking to achieve greater profitability
[ "Quality function deployment", "Customer satisfaction", "Benchmarking", "Competitive analysis", "Product design", "Quality improvement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As the search for new tools, techniques, and strategic paradigms to meet and, more appropriately, exceed the ever-increasing customer expectations rages on in the new millennium, two methodologies - benchmarking and quality f...
Work hours, work intensity, satisfactions and psychological well-being among hotel managers in China
[ "China", "Hotel and catering industry", "Managers", "Hours of work", "Stress" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Chinese economy has developed rapidly over the past 20 years with economic experts predicting that China will have the world's largest economy by the middle of the 21st century. Because of China's growing importance there...
Examining prospective buyer attitudes toward four food product traits
[ "Green attitudes", "Social desirability bias", "Antibiotic-free meat", "Gluten-free", "Humanely-raised meat" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Items in food categories with extra attributes (e.g. antibiotic-free, humanely-raised) appeal to specific consumer groups. Products with some of these food traits have grown in popularity. For example, Nielsen (2018) reported...
Industry culture influences pseudo-knowledge sharing: a multiple mediation analysis
[ "Organizational culture", "Knowledge management", "Knowledge sharing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nI. Introduction: Advocates portray knowledge sharing as an engine of economic growth and a source of competitive advantage (Liebowitz and Chen, 2002). In the knowledge-based theory of the firm (Grant, 1996), knowledge-sharing firms maximiz...
Disintermediation in the apparel supply chain
[ "Supply chain", "Small to medium-sized enterprises", "Fashion", "Apparel" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It could be argued that the apparel industry has over the last 20 years acted as a microcosm of global industrial change, exemplified by changes in industry structure, relationships, globalisation and information and communic...
How can we solve the puzzle of strategic climate management and appreciate its long-term effects?
[ "Organizational change", "Sustainable development", "Climate change", "Sustainability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The topic of climate change has been studied in recent years in order to understand how its effects influence the daily operations of organizations (Winn et al., 2011). In general, organizational managers seek to mitigate and...
The Zombie Library: books reanimated via QR codes
[ "Collections management", "QR codes", "E‐books", "E‐book collections promotion", "Electronic resources" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: How does one promote e-books and encourage serendipitous discovery when e-books do not exist in the physical world? One solution to these two issues can be through the use of QR (Quick Response) codes on book dummies. By labe...
Creating a culture of innovation: How can small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) compete?
[ "Innovation", "Creativity", "Organizations", "Security", "Risk taking", "Research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Innovation and creativity are prerequisites to successful development of both new processes and new products. Therefore, these attributes are essential for companies wishing to remain competitive. But where do these necessary...
Bringing business education to life: case activities as an innovative approach to get away from "teaching to the test"
[ "Innovation", "Creativity", "Pragmatism", "Teaching", "Learning", "Creative thinking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: How can we effectively develop students in real time business skills when they are not yet working in the real business world? How can we help students to develop creative, flexible mindsets that will enable them to hit the g...
Handling of production disturbances in the manufacturing industry
[ "Manufacturing", "Maintenance", "Overall equipment effectiveness", "Production disturbances" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Today's production systems are required to deliver high productivity, resource efficiency, and flexibility, and these requirements will continue to rise in line with the realization of digital manufacturing. There is a str...
Let's get personal: the little nudge that improves document retrieval in the Cloud
[ "Documents", "Personal information management", "Cloud-based repositories", "Folders", "Group information management", "Nudging" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Cloud-based document storage is growing fast and is projected to overtake local storage by 2020 (Anderson and Rainie, 2012). Applications such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon Drive, Apple's iCloud and Microsoft's OneDrive...
School ethical climate and teachers' voluntary absence
[ "Ethics", "Affective psychology", "Absenteeism", "Teachers", "Israel" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Work absence is a conspicuous problem in educational institutions. In 2000, pay for absent teachers was estimated as $2 billion per year in the USA, and EUR300 million in the UK (Bowers and Mclver, 2000). In a recent large-sc...
Benchmarking Six Sigma application in Brazil: Best practices in the use of the methodology
[ "Six Sigma", "Best practice", "Quality improvement", "Benchmarking", "Brazil" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: International Organisation for Standardisation - ISO and other total quality management (TQM) models are seen as assisting organisations in the journey towards business excellence (Soltani and Lai, 2007). Other relevant ma...
Support your local communities of practice: Learning and continuous change
[ "Development", "Engagement and learning", "Organizational change and learning", "Organizational learning", "Work-based learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nLearning from communities of practice: Because communities of practice (CoPs) were originally identified and encouraged (Brown and Duguid, 1991), organizations have made progress in learning basic lessons about what works and what does not...
Information logistics for continuous dependability improvement
[ "Sweden", "Availability performance", "Dependability improvement", "Information logistics", "Railway" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Today, there is increasing demand to utilize the railway system for transports of both passengers and freight. Unfortunately, there is a lack of infrastructure capacity, which leads to unwanted traffic disturbances. Two wa...
Applying threshold concepts to finance education
[ "Faculty", "Threshold concepts", "Statistics", "Students", "Mathematics", "Finance curriculum" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper investigates the finance curriculum using threshold concepts as both a theoretical framework and a research methodology. The paper identifies the threshold concepts in finance, providing a base from which educators...
Academic social networking sites for researchers in Central Universities of Delhi: A study of ResearchGate and Academia
[ "Social networking", "Universities", "Delhi", "Academia & ResearchGate", "Academic social networking sites", "Social media" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The evolving world of the internet has given rise to new products and services including blogs, podcasts, wikis and social networks that offer instructors and students' radically new ways to communicate and learn new and e...
Willingness to pay for "taste of Europe": geographical origin labeling controversy in China
[ "Marketing", "Consumer research", "Country-of-origin", "Geographic indications", "Geographical origin label" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years, more attention has been placed to the use of geographical origin labels by regulators, marketers, and consumers for food products. This is largely due to increased incidences of food-related scares and the...
Trust, behavior, and high school outcomes
[ "Students", "Discipline", "Achievement", "Secondary education", "Trust", "Schools", "Student behaviour", "High school", "School reform" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In spite of decades of policy and legislation intended to improve schools, closing the achievement gap has proven elusive (Braun et al., 2010; Mitchell et al., 2011; Reardon, 2011; Timar and Maxwell-Jolly, 2012). One reason m...
Supply chain technologies, interorganizational network and firm performance: A case study of Alibaba Group and Cainiao
[ "Technology", "Firm performance", "Case study" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Supply chain scholars have recognized that interorganizational networks can furnish resources that convey various benefits, such as increase supply chain capital, inspire firm innovations and enhance operational efficiency (e...
Relationship configurations for procuring from social enterprises
[ "Social procurement", "Social impact", "Social enterprises", "Supply network", "Quadratic relationship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The procurement function plays a critical role in operationalising social sustainability within companies and across supply networks (Carter and Jennings, 2004; Schneider and Wallenburg, 2012). Procurement's role is accentuat...
DEA-ADALINE: an approach to improve the relative efficiency of 3PLs providers
[ "Data envelopment analysis", "Adaptive linear neuron network", "Decision-making units", "Third-party logistics service providers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent studies on third-party logistics (3PLs) service providers, it is observed that there are inherent risks in outsourcing decisions. Logistics service providers have to adopt new approaches and technologies in order...
The impact of Public Private Partnerships on education: A case study of Sewell Group Plc and Victoria Dock Primary School
[ "Public sector organizations", "Private sector organizations", "Education", "Partnership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Education was the top priority for the new Labour Government in 1997 (CBI, 2005). It was recognised that long-term under-performance in education could not be ignored. Following the failure of traditional approaches to raise ...
Factors influencing savings among land reform beneficiaries in South Africa
[ "Agricultural development", "Savings", "Collective groups", "Land reform beneficiaries" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Land and the resources on it provide economic, socio-cultural and environmental goods and services that add to human well-being (Hebinck and Shackeleton, 2011). Most rural poor in developing countries including South Afric...
Promotional phrases as analogical questions: inferential fluency and persuasion
[ "Persuasion", "Analogical questions", "Inferential fluency", "Persuasion awareness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Picture an advertisement that asks at the beginning, \"Do you agree that the scalp needs to be protected from the sun?\" Now, imagine a different version asking, \"The face needs to be protected from the sun. Do you agree tha...
The psychological consequences of power on self-perception: implications for leadership
[ "Power", "Leadership", "Self-construal", "Perspective taking", "Cognitive psychology", "Behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: During his first electoral campaign for the presidency of the USA, Barrack Obama suggested:\n2. Theoretical framework: power and the self: 2.1 Power: a multifaceted construct\n3. Understanding the relation between power an...
Supporting progression to HE: the role of colleges and vocational courses
[ "BTEC", "Possible selves", "Student identities", "Transition to HE", "Vocational courses", "Widening participation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Socio-economic status and social class have been identified in the UK and other countries as impacting on higher education (HE) access, integration, retention and success (Reay et al., 2010; Gale and Parker, 2015; Thomas and ...
Alternative mentoring: an HRD key for a rapid changing work environment
[ "Formal mentoring", "Alternative mentoring", "Managerial development", "Traditional mentoring", "Inter-organizational mentoring" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Traditional mentoring is a HRD technique based on a relationship in which an experienced mentor guides a young inexperienced mentee with the aim of facilitating knowledge transfer, implementing generational transition, helpin...
Stakeholder competency in evaluating the environmental impacts of infrastructure projects using BIM
[ "Project management", "Infrastructure", "Competency", "Environmental impact", "Risk assessment", "BIM" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Building information modelling (BIM) is a digital representation of a project's physical and functional characteristics. At its simplest level, BIM provides a common environment for all information defining a building, facili...
Obliterate knowledge management: everyone is a knowledge manager!
[ "Knowledge management", "Deductive databases", "Worldwide web", "Electronic commerce" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In my last few articles I have considered the future of the internet and the emergence of cloud computing as changing the competitive dynamics in information industries. I continue this exploration in this article, sharing so...