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Kaizen: a Japanese philosophy and system for business excellence
[ "Japan", "Continuous improvement", "Quality management", "Business excellence", "Genba", "Kaizen" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nMade in Japan: In attempting to decode the competitive success of industrial Japan, researchers and practitioners in the West, and those in the Anglosphere in particular, have identified with the tangible tools and techniques of the Japane...
Sustainability and academic air travel in Australian universities
[ "Australia", "Air travel", "Sustainability", "Mobility", "University", "Travel", "Air" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Environmental sustainability is now a common part of the policies and practices of Australian universities. Many universities have begun to publicly acknowledge the environmental impact of their energy, water and material use...
Environmental management control systems for carbon emissions
[ "Sustainability", "Carbon emissions", "Accounting tools", "Air travel", "Sustainability management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: An increasing number of global companies are building commitment to sustainability (Gray and Laughlin, 2012; Mio and Venturelli, 2013; Mio et al., 2015) and attempting to implement programmes and measures that will have le...
Overcoming knowledge barriers to health care through continuous learning
[ "IT assimilation", "Continuous learning", "Healthcare domain", "Knowledge barriers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The dramatic technological development affecting information technology (IT) and associated systems and services is leading to disruptive changes in the social and economic arenas (Del Giudice et al., 2016; Caputo and Wall...
Performance improvement, culture, and regimes: Evidence from the Ontario Municipal Performance Measurement Program, 2000-2012
[ "Canada", "Organizational culture", "Benchmarking", "Local government", "Performance improvement", "Performance regime" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the past two decades a number of important structural reforms have been implemented in public sector organizations, with many promising greater performance and improved accountability. A hallmark of these reforms is the ...
What matters to consumers of organic wine?
[ "Conjoint analysis", "Wine market", "Wine marketing", "Food and drink", "Alcoholic drinks", "Wines", "Organic foods", "Consumers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The factors determining consumers' wine preferences are quite well-researched. Apart from price and colour, the country of origin is an important attribute (Gil and Sanchez, 1997; Stolz and Schmid, 2006), in most countries...
The mediating effect of knowledge sharing on the relationship between trust and virtual team effectiveness
[ "Knowledge sharing", "Trust", "Team effectiveness", "Virtual team", "Personality-based trust", "Institutional-based trust", "Virtual team effectiveness", "Cognitive-based trust" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Advanced development in the world of information technology (IT) has provided the necessary infrastructure to support the development of new organizational forms. Virtual teams represent one of the forms of organizational ...
What would people do with their money if they were rich? A search for Hofstede dimensions across 52 countries
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Hofstede’s cultural dimensions", "Collectivism/Individualism", "Masculinity/Femininity", "Monumentalism/Flexibility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Approaches to the study of values in the cross-cultural literature\nMethod: Questionnaire design\nResults: A factor analysis across the 52 countries yielded four factors with eigenvalues over 1.00. Yet, the eigenvalues of the...
Enrolment scenario of LIS education in India through distance mode: a study
[ "Gender", "India", "Higher education", "Students", "Distance learning", "Library profession", "Distance education", "LIS education", "Students enrolment scenario", "LIS standardization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As long as the idea is to learn, there is no end to the ways and means of learning newer things & practices and so holds true about learning through different formal & informal means of education. Over a period, distance educ...
Neoliberal shareholder value and the re-privatization of corporations: The disengagement of "transformative" corporate social responsibility?
[ "Corporate governance", "Corporate social responsibility", "Shareholder value", "Corporations", "Neoliberalism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Anglo-American shareholder value ideology has become a well-established code of corporate governance in many parts of the world (Lazonick and O'Sullivan, 2000; Clarke, 2014). This governance \"rhetoric\" has become, undou...
Serving base-of-the-pyramid markets: meeting real needs through a customized approach
[ "Government aid", "Non‐governmental organizations", "Corporate philanthropy", "Corporate social responsibility", "Social entrepreneurship", "Economic development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: At the top of the global population pyramid (Figure 1) is the small percentage of the world's population that lives in relative affluence. Found primarily in mature/developed markets, these 24.2 million people (less than 1 pe...
The experiences of New Zealand-based children in consuming fruits and vegetables
[ "Children", "New Zealand", "Fruit and vegetables", "Schools", "Risk", "Nutrition" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In New Zealand and many other developed countries, children's consumption of fruits and vegetables is well below the recommended level and declining (Horne et al., 2009; Maddison et al., 2010; Vereecken and Maes, 2010; United...
Ageing and employers' perceptions of labour costs and productivity: A survey among European employers
[ "Denmark", "France", "Germany", "Italy", "The Netherlands", "Poland", "Sweden", "Employers", "Older workers", "Direct labour costs", "Employees productivity", "Ageing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Employers play a key role in older workers' labour mobility and possibilities to retain their jobs. Barriers for employers to hire or retain older workers are often attributed to an increasing wage-productivity gap. For in...
The short-term response of the Hispanic noncitizen population to anti-illegal immigration legislation: The case of Arizona SB 1070
[ "Hispanic population", "Illegal immigration", "Synthetic control", "J61", "J68" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Immigration legislation and its consequences are among the most important topics in the public policy debates in the US. In recent years, a series of measures at the federal and state levels have modified the immigration s...
Managing online creativity for improving innovation performance
[ "Innovation performance", "Online creative climate", "Online creativity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As extensive research documents the importance of creative climate to innovation performance (e.g. Baer, 2012; Isaksen and Akkermans, 2011), it is no surprise that actively establishing creative climates in various environ...
Improving check-in (C/I) process: an application of the quality function deployment
[ "House of Quality", "Quality function deployment", "C/I process", "Hotel reservation system", "Voice of Hotel" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Quality management is a crucial element for hotel management, namely, from long waiting and processing times, inadequately attending guest enquiries, to an impolite staff behavior, lack of staff competency and unwillingness t...
Board director disciplinary and cognitive influence on corporate value creation
[ "Corporate governance", "Board of directors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Corporate governance literature has shown that the majority of studies that examined the board composition has largely focused on board independence and size (Dalton et al., 1998; Jackling and Johl, 2009; Bhagat and Bolton...
Determinants of Nordic entrepreneurship
[ "GDP", "R&D sector", "Barriers of entrepreneurship", "Entrepreneurial activity", "Nordic region", "Unemployment rate" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Promoting entrepreneurship has recently become one of the key targets of the European Union's cohesion policy (European Commission, 2016). Entrepreneurship is considered by researchers, public authorities and stakeholders ...
Discovering the unfolding of service innovations
[ "Service innovation", "Ethnography", "Research paper", "Critical events" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the service innovation literature, the innovation process has interestingly been modeled either as a strongly structured and sequential process (see de Brentani, 2001; Song et al., 2009) or as an unstructured and circul...
Impact of critical chain project management and product portfolio management on new product development performance
[ "Survey", "Theory of constraints", "NPD performance", "Critical chain", "Product portfolio" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: For marketable new product development (NPD) performance, it is essential that the initial decisions of the process are taken properly, because they will justify and restrict future decisions. One of the principal decision...
A survey on integrated IS and competitive advantage
[ "Information systems", "Integration", "Competitive advantage", "Business development", "Italy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The purpose of this research is to study the means by which \"IS integration\" generates an organizational competitive advantage. We suggest that IS integration generates an organizational competitive advantage through the...
Operational risk capital charges (Basel II): factoring in external loss data to the internal datasets
[ "Banking", "Basel II", "Basel IV", "Consortium data", "Loss data", "Operational risk" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Financial services firms are increasingly required by regulators to factor in external loss data to their internal data sets when using a loss distribution approach (LDA) to estimate operational risk exposures. As it trans...
On establishing the core competency identifying model: A value-activity and process oriented approach
[ "Core competences", "Value analysis", "Process analysis", "Computer applications" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: In the past few years, the progression of human resources on training and development gradually portrayed the importance of quickly and objectively establishing its core competency[1]. Numerous studies indicated that the co...
The assurance of food safety in supply chains via relational networking: A social network perspective
[ "Food safety", "Empirical research", "Supply chain management", "Social network theory", "Business relationships", "Relational networking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In his seminal work on the theory of human motivation, the psychologist Abraham Maslow (1943) developed a hierarchy of needs for human motivation that rests on the physiological need for food. Food safety, which can be def...
Risk matrix for factors affecting time delay in road construction projects: owners' perspective
[ "Risk management", "Road construction", "Time delay", "Risk matrix", "Construction management", "Construction operations", "Risk analysis", "Palestine" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The construction industry has changed rapidly over the past ten years; companies are faced with more risk and uncertainty than before. Clients are more likely to engage in litigation when things go wrong. Risk in construct...
The concept of trust in disasters: the Slovenian experience
[ "Disaster", "Trust", "Public", "Disaster and emergency management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Trust between stakeholders is widely regarded as a precondition of successful disaster response. This paper contributes to the recent research in the field by exploring the issue of trust with regard to disaster response in S...
Live, Eat, Love: life equilibrium as a driver of organic food purchase
[ "Organic food", "Purchase intentions", "Health consciousness", "Extrinsic quality attributes", "Intrinsic quality attributes", "Life equilibrium" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Organic food, by definition, contains fewer harmful additives and more primary and secondary nutrients than conventional food, and it should carry no additional risk of food poisoning (Chen, 2009). Together with the eviden...
Questioning clerkship: applying Popper's evolutionary analysis of learning to medical student training
[ "Educational management", "Knowledge building", "Medical reform training practices", "Popper’s evolutionary analysis of learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Popper's evolutionary analysis of learning is founded on the notion that theories cannot be proven; they can only be disproven. This notion is commonly illustrated by considering the theory that \"all swans are white,\" and r...
The internal rate of return (IRR): projections, benchmarks and pitfalls
[ "Performance measurement", "Property valuation", "IRR", "Expected rate of return", "Internal rate of return", "Target rate" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In a previous Education Briefing (French and Patrick, 2015), we looked at the plethora of yields and benchmarks that are used in the finance world. This concluded that yields, in all their forms, are simply expressions (norma...
Ethics in college and university admissions: a trilogy of concerns and arguments
[ "Ethics", "Trust", "Organizational behaviour", "Universities", "Admissions", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The admissions process at colleges and universities can pose many ethical dilemmas for admissions officers as well as for prospective students seeking to gain entrance to institutions of higher education. Framed primarily fro...
Exploring privacy and trust for employee monitoring
[ "Organizational culture", "Compliance", "Trust", "Commitment", "Communication privacy management", "Employee monitoring" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The world has been transformed by the technologies developed throughout the Industrial Age. New technologies, such as e-mail, global positioning system, wireless communication, and telematic units, have changed the convent...
Facility management knowledge development in Malaysia: Added value in hospitality managerial competency
[ "Knowledge", "Facilities management", "Training", "Competencies", "Hospitality management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Facility Management (FM) encompasses various disciplines to ensure workplace environment functionality by implementing integration between people, place, process and technology (IFMA, 2009). In Malaysia, facility management i...
Understanding counterfeit consumption
[ "Cultural influences", "Perceived risk", "Behavioural psychology", "Brand confusion", "Consumer ethics", "Counterfeit" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Past research on counterfeit consumption has mainly focused on luxury goods (Wilcox et al., 2009; Phau and Teah, 2009; Commuri, 2009) and on pirated counterfeit media and software (Shoham et al., 2008). These studies generall...
Emotional and cultural intelligence in diverse workplaces: getting out of the box
[ "Cultural intelligence", "Emotional intelligence", "Workplace diversity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The composition of the workforce is changing. Globalization, increased immigration, and technological change has resulted in increased diversity in organizations, placing new demands with respect to the contemporary workplace...
Educational reform in Ghana: the leadership challenge
[ "Leadership", "Schools", "Principals", "Training", "Ghana" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The history of education in Ghana documents reform in the colonial period and post-independence. In the colonial era, Governor Guggisberg (1919-1927) formulated 16 principles, which advocated comprehensive elementary educatio...
Learning environment and student effort
[ "Student satisfaction", "Learning environment", "Student effort" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Student effort is assumed to be a vital determinant for successful educational outcomes. It is thus important to study how student effort can be stimulated. Natriello and McDill (1986) find that teachers', parents' and peers'...
Online experiences and virtual goods purchase intention
[ "Virtual goods", "Involvement", "Flow", "Interactivity", "Social identity", "Purchase intention", "Social networks", "Customer behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Virtual goods are new media elements utilized by members for representation, expression, and communication in online environments (Kim et al., 2011). Virtual goods have no intrinsic value and are intangible. Unlike physical g...
The impact of globalization on consumer acculturation: A study of urban, educated, middle class Indian consumers
[ "India", "Consumer behaviour", "Globalization", "Acculturation", "Brands", "Indian consumers", "Predisposition towards foreign brands", "Consumer acculturation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Contemporary research works (Cleveland and Loroche, 2007; Steenkemp and de Jong, 2010; Zhang and Khare, 2009) consider globalization as a pivotal force that impacts consumers world over. Such impact is more prominent among th...
Strengths-based leadership assessments miss the target - and the species
[ "Development", "Leadership development", "Team development", "Organization development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: There has been a decades-long debate in the leadership development field about the validity and efficacy of strengths-based assessment.\nClinical psychology: The \"bible of psychiatry\", the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ...
Branding in B2B: the value of consumer goods brands in industrial markets
[ "Brand awareness", "Brands", "Business-to-business marketing", "Brand equity", "Business-to-business branding", "Top of mind" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Following the recent world economic crisis and the associated decrease in demand, some business-to-business (B2B) companies are aiming to leverage the brand image of their products to increase both their market share and p...
Consumer online purchase behavior of local fashion clothing brands: Information adoption, e-WOM, online brand familiarity and online brand experience
[ "E-WOM", "Consumer’s purchase behaviour", "Fashion clothing", "Information adoption", "Online brand experience", "Online brand familiarity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Fashion clothing houses are no longer expecting profitable growth and expansion by purely focusing on the traditional marketing strategies only; instead, in a favorable market condition, the firms' marketing mix requires t...
The effects of employee behaviours on customer participation in the service encounter: The mediating role of customer emotions
[ "Service encounter", "Customer emotions", "Customer participation", "Employees’ in-role behaviour", "Employees’ organizational citizenship behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Increasingly, researchers are recognising the significance of incorporating customers as a resource and co-producer in value co-creation (Prahalad and Ramaswamy, 2000; Vargo and Lusch, 2004). This emergent perspective shifts ...
Proactive entrepreneurial behaviour, market orientation, and innovation outcomes: A study of small- and medium-sized manufacturing firms in the UK
[ "Innovation", "Market orientation", "Innovation capability", "New product development", "Entrepreneurialism", "Customer orientation", "Proactive entrepreneurial behaviour", "Competitor orientation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The pursuit of innovation is an important tactic that firms use to compete in an increasingly dynamic and complex global marketplace (Baker and Sinkula, 2009; Hong et al., 2013; Zhou et al., 2005). This is particularly true f...
The performance impact of industrial services and service orientation on manufacturing companies
[ "Performance", "Servitization", "Industrial services", "Service orientation", "Service strategy", "Service structure" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: To overcome the challenges of increasing competition, many traditional manufacturing firms are moving from industrial goods toward the provision of services and solutions (Antioco et al., 2008; Helander and Moller, 2008; Wind...
Unconscious bias: thinking without thinking
[ "Retention", "Unconscious bias", "Workplace diversity", "Brain" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: An individual makes countless decisions in a day without even being aware of them. The solutions to various problems can be influenced by unconscious biases. It refers to a situation which we are unaware of and which happens ...
National intellectual capital: comparison of the Nordic countries
[ "Intellectual capital", "Sweden", "Denmark", "Norway", "Finland", "Iceland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The five Nordic countries are among the world's top 20 most wealthy. Based on 2006 GDP per capita (PPP) in US dollars, Norway (47,800); Denmark (37,000); Finland (34,819); and Sweden (31,600) ranked number 3, 6, 12, and 19, r...
The impact of leadership coaching in an Australian healthcare setting
[ "Leadership", "Healthcare", "Coaching", "Australian healthcare", "Transfer of coaching" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In common with public health services in much of the Western world, the Australian public health system operates under considerable stress and pressure. Australian public health services are expected to deliver optimal perfor...
The nature and potential of corporate governance in developing countries: Zambian perceptions
[ "Corporate governance", "Zambia", "Corruption", "Isomorphism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Overview: This paper provides detailed insights regarding the perceptions of corporate governance in Zambia, a nation with a recent political history that differs from many of its continental neighbours, but which continues to experienc...
How understanding workforce data can invigorate your organization: An interview with Tim Ringo, co-author of Calculating Success
[ "Big data", "Workplace analytics", "Workplace performance", "Strategy", "Human capital management", "Workplace", "Human capital" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In recent years, the quantity of data generated by organizations has increased dramatically, and this trend shows no sign of abating. While this abundance of information poses an analytical challenge, it may also hold the key...
Unveiling the legal effect of collective agreements in China
[ "Substitution effect", "Chinese labour law", "Collective agreement", "Implementation of law", "Labour Contract Law", "Labour disputes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent decades, a number of regulations have been issued to frame collective bargaining and collective agreements in China[1]. In accordance with Chinese labour laws, at the industrial sector and enterprise level, branches...
Native American cultural influences on career self-schemas and MBA fit
[ "Native Americans", "MBA", "Career theory", "Career locus", "Career self-schema", "Cultural influences" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Native Americans[1], also called American-Indians, are the indigenous people of the USA. Approximately 1.7 million American-Indians and Alaska Natives are enrolled in 566 tribes recognized as sovereign nations by the United S...
NCSS notable trade book lesson plan: the girl who buried her dreams in a can
[ "Women's rights", "Lesson plan", "Critical social studies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBook Title: The Girl Buried Dreams in a Can (2015) by Tererai Trent.New York, NY: Viking Books for YoungReaders.Recommended for ages 4-8ISBN: 978-0-6700-1654-9.Recommended for grades preK-3.This plan has been adapted for upper grades 4-6.T...
Building information modelling to support maintenance management of healthcare built assets
[ "Organisational performance", "Healthcare", "Information integration", "Built asset management", "Building information modelling", "Asset maintenance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The way we look at our buildings and other physical assets, such as plant and equipment, has changed gradually. Built asset management (BAM) professionals and scholars increasingly recognise that built assets should add value...
Leaders should be first among equals: Center stage belongs to middle managers
[ "Empowerment", "Leadership", "Authority", "Mentors", "Career development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nAmbition and talent: Anyone who has been an employee for many years, and has worked for several different companies during that time, will know that it's extremely difficult to make sweeping statements about bosses.In a few cases they migh...
Entering the base of the pyramid market in India: A corporate social entrepreneurship perspective
[ "International marketing", "India", "Corporate social responsibility", "Corporate social entrepreneurship", "Base of the pyramid (BoP)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the past decade, there has been growing interest in how multinational corporations (MNCs) can enter the base of the pyramid (BoP) market (London and Hart, 2004; Schuster and Holtbrugge, 2012; Tasavori et al., 2014; De...
Are head injury guidelines being met?
[ "Injuries", "Clinical audit", "Standards", "Hospitals", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Significant concerns have been raised over the last few years about the care of head injured patients in the UK (Bartlett et al., 1998). NICE guidelines for head injury care were finalised in June 2003 (National Collaborating...
Corporations and development: The barriers to effective corporate social responsibility (CSR) in a neoliberal age
[ "Corporate governance", "Development", "Corporations", "Neoliberalism", "Shareholder value", "Corporate social responsibility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Corporations possess a considerable amount of influence and power in international finance. They undertake the provision of a wide range of products and services, catering to an \"emerging\" international market (Wheeler and ...
Promoting resource sharing through consortia: a case study of Shanghai Library
[ "Library consortia", "Resource sharing", "Document supply", "Interlibrary loan", "China", "Shanghai" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Chinese library consortia were first established in the late 1990s and have developed rapidly since 2002. A few of the most successful library consortia are:* the State Science and Technology Library (NSTL) and the science li...
Non-enforceable implementation of enterprise mobilization: An exploratory study of the critical success factors
[ "Critical success factors", "Learning", "Telecommunications" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 1997, at a time when the mobilization trend was not yet apparent, Chander (1997) suggested that the mobility afforded by wireless communications could greatly increase the applicability and value of enterprise information ...
What factors explain the price of top quality wines?
[ "Economics", "Pricing", "Quality assessment", "Econometric model", "Economic sectors", "Hedonic model", "Quality ratings", "Wine prices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Given the growing supply of wines and the large number of new consumers with purchasing power but lacking knowledge of the subtleties of high-quality wines, expert opinions are used for consumers as proxies for quality.\n2...
Developing a consumer relationship model of corporate social performance
[ "Trust", "Corporate social performance", "Corporate social responsibility", "Relationship marketing", "Shared values", "Behavioural loyalty (Retention", "Referral", "Ease of voice)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: With tightening reporting standards, increases in competition, and widely held mistrust of corporations, there is great pressure on businesses to be socially responsible. This pressure has resulted in an enhanced focus on cor...
Civil Service resiliency and coping
[ "Stress", "Civil Service", "Employee productivity", "Personal health" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It is not what happens to you that matters, but how you take it (Selye, 1936, p. 32).Hans Selye's quote serves as a central theme for this article on occupational stress, resiliency and coping. Regardless of the work and/or l...
Changing facets of higher education in management: a students' perspective
[ "Students", "Management education", "Structural equation modelling", "Placements", "B-school", "Effective teaching–learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: There are many ways in which students can learn. All of these methods are wholly or partially managed and facilitated by faculty members and thus bring out the best ways of teaching and learning (Tootoonchi et al., 2002; V...
Poets House Showcase: selected titles 2011
[ "Poetry", "Special collections", "Collection development", "United States of America", "Collections management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The Showcase is Poets House's annual, all-inclusive exhibition of more than 2,000 poetry books, chapbooks, broadsides, and multimedia works published in the USA. Poets House, a nonprofit literary organization founded by Poet ...
How and why medically-trained managers undertake postgraduate management training: A qualitative study from Victoria, Australia
[ "Clinical leadership", "Clinician manager", "Health administration", "Management training", "Medical administration", "Medical management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: Hospitals are large complex organisations. Doctors are expected to be clinical leaders and are moving into senior management roles in hospitals (Edmonstone, 2009; Empey et al., 2002; Ham et al., 2010). However, specific managem...
Tourism and mobile devices: provenance of academic research through a bibliometric study
[ "Hotel", "Tourism", "Smartphone", "Application", "Mobile device" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In a world in which mobile technology has evolved from being an extra complement in our lives to constituting an essential need, to such an extent that, in developed societies, this technology could be included within the ...
Taking patients' voices into account within quality systems: a comparative study
[ "Quality systems", "Patients", "Hospital management", "United Kingdom", "Taiwan" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Quality has become one of the more pressing issues as diverse reform measures are adopted (Friedenberg, 1997). Walshe et al. (1991) argue that quality assurance in healthcare consists of two interconnected activities. One is ...
Survey research in finance: views from journal editors
[ "Surveys", "Finance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: According to Rea and Parker (1997), surveys have become a widely used research technique in many disciplines. However, the acceptance and credibility of survey-based research appear greater in some business disciplines than i...
Transformational change by a post-conventional leader
[ "Transformational change", "Adult development", "Action logics", "Leadership agility", "Post-conventional leadership", "Retrospective study" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Transformational change is particularly challenging to achieve in organizations, and the failure rate for change initiatives is high (Burnes, 2009; Greenwood and Hinings, 1993; Lee et al., 2012). Nevertheless, research in the...
Balanced scorecard metrics and specific supply chain roles
[ "Performance", "Supply chain", "Balanced scorecard", "Food industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: An agri-food supply chain (ASC) is a network of individual companies that delivers agricultural products to end consumers (Christopher, 2005). However, within an ASC there is a greater tendency for companies to keep their ...
How food regulators communicate with consumers about food safety
[ "Food safety", "Risk communication", "Consumers", "Food regulation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Food regulation is an important part of public health; specifically it reduces morbidity and mortality associated with consuming food that could be contaminated with microbial pathogens and other hazards (Antle, 1999). Food r...
Impacts of Lean Six Sigma on improving a higher education system: a case study
[ "Quality improvement", "Lean Six Sigma", "Case study", "Process management", "Higher education institutions", "Education systems" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The ability for an organization to adapt quickly to changing market conditions while simultaneously delivering high levels of customer service at superior quality and low cost are no longer differentiators in the competiti...
Big talk, small talk: the perils of a networked world
[ "Networking", "Learning", "National cultures", "Self managed learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: First a joke from a Finn about their desire for silence and their lack of small talk:There is a story about two Finns traveling together along a track, going to a town market for the day. They progress in silence, but as they...
Sustainable supply chain management in the oil and gas industry: A review of corporate sustainability reporting practices
[ "Sustainability reporting", "Oil and gas", "Sustainable supply chain management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The number of oil and gas (O\n2. Overview of sustainability reporting studies of O&G industry: The O\n3. Methodology: Company selection\n4. Results: This section presents the results of the content analysis conducted using...
Where gender equality remains a myth, minority representation of women in architecture
[ "Gender equality", "Architecture", "EU", "Diversity", "Minority representation", "Male-dominated" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nEquality objectives in the EU: Achieving equal opportunity for all was one of the driving forces behind the creation of the European Union (EU) in the mid-twentieth century. In its different guises since then, the constitution has issued v...
Understanding intention to continuously share information on weblogs
[ "Worldwide web", "Social theories", "Information transfer", "Expectation", "Communication technologies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Weblogs (or blogs) are a new type of media that have recently become popular among differing groups and users on the World Wide Web. Millions of people use blogs in varying ways, including publishing information, transferr...
Life-cycle information management using open-standard BIM
[ "BIM", "Information delivery", "COINS", "Life-cycle", "Object types", "Systems engineering" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the life-cycle of construction projects, there are many actors that are involved who need to share information. The management of this information in the life-cycle is often inefficient and error prone. Through the diff...
Student real-time visualization system in classroom using RFID based on UTAUT model
[ "Computer software", "Educational innovation", "Computer applications", "Interactive devices", "Teaching aids" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Teachers play a major role in enhancing the learning experience of the student. In this era of technological advancements, teacher-student relationship has been hugely facilitated by the usage of online teacher-student com...
Pied piper to the Y generation: What type of leadership meets the needs of a twenty-first century workforce?
[ "Leadership", "Baby boomers generation", "Creative thinking", "Innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nLeadership is the key to success: Good leadership is one of the keys to success in any organization, and some would argue that it is the master key. However, defining \"good\" leadership is a much more difficult task today than it was a qu...
Innovation and metamorphosis towards strategic resilience
[ "Innovation", "Organizational metamorphosis", "Strategic resilience", "Problem formulation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Great strides have been made towards the understanding of the importance of resilience to organizational renewal and survival (Linnenluecke, 2015; Vogus and Sutcliffe, 2007). Many studies describe what a resilient organizatio...
The effects of intelligible irrelevant background speech in offices - cognitive disturbance, annoyance, and solutions
[ "Well-being", "Background speech", "Cognitive performance", "Noise abatement", "Open-plan offices", "Speech intelligibility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Telephones left ringing and people talking to each other or on the phone have repeatedly been shown to be the most disturbing noise sources in offices (Ayr et al., 2003; Banbury and Berry, 2005; Haapakangas et al., 2008; S...
Sustainable business models: a literature review
[ "Sustainable business models", "Practices of sustainable models", "Systematic review of the literature" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: World population growth accelerated economic development, requiring a greater demand for the resources needed for economic and industrial activities, and generating environmental impacts (Bocken et al., 2014). This demand ...
A quality function deployment strategy for improving mobile-government service quality in the Gulf cooperation council countries
[ "Service quality", "Quality function deployment", "House of quality", "Business process management", "Mobile government" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Recent rapid developments in information and communications technology have led governments to adopt various initiatives to improve the quality of the services they deliver to enhance the relationship between the citizens ...
Innovation by harmonizing continuity and change
[ "Innovation", "Change management", "Company performance", "Management strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Managing innovation in a competitive environment requires honing existing capabilities for retention of stability and generating new capabilities in keeping with discontinuous change requirements (Utterback, 1994). There i...
Game on for virtual work and play: Engaging learners' interest with online role-play
[ "Design", "Games", "Massively multiplayer online role‐playing games", "Performance", "Training", "Training methods", "Transformational leadership", "Virtual worlds", "Computer games" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nThey call it \"gamification\" but will it work for you?: The lifestyle of people who spend more time at work than they should at the expense of a fulfilling social and family life is aptly described in the proverb \"All work and no play ma...
Visual management in production management: a literature synthesis
[ "Lean production", "Literature", "Production management", "Kanban" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Contemporary society has experienced an explosion of the visual (Baudrillard, 1994; Lester, 2013), which permeate our everyday lives through photos, videos, television, mobile devices, web pages, signs, electronic boards a...
Car crisis and renewal: how Mercedes succeeded with the A-Class
[ "Dynamic capabilities", "Automobile industry", "A-Class", "Brand humility talk scheme", "Downward vertical line extension", "Mercedes-Benz", "Organizational/product/process/marketing innovation", "Premium brand" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In mature industries, downward vertical (line) extension has become an increasingly popular strategy, particularly in consumer goods markets, and automobile industry players are no exception. This phenomenon originated two de...
Do extra ingredients on the package lead to extra calorie estimates?
[ "Packaging", "Heuristics", "Added food ingredients", "Calorie estimation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: People love to mix food up, for instance, coffee with milk, cake with fruit or vegetables with mayonnaise, as the added ingredients can bring better taste. A food blogger listed 72 food pairings that he considered as most del...
Motivations and obstacles for fashion renting: a cross-cultural comparison
[ "Perceived enjoyment", "Attitudes", "Perceived risks", "Collaborative fashion consumption", "Cross culture", "Fashion renting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Negative environmental influences of the textile and apparel industry have been increasing worldwide over the years. This situation is more prominent in the two major apparel consumption countries, the USA and China. Appro...
Performance improvement CME for quality: challenges inherent to the process
[ "Learners", "Challenges", "Continuing professional development", "Performance improvement", "Providers", "CME" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In most cases Continuing Medical Education (CME) providers are partially adhering to the American Medical Association (AMA) CME definition. They are certainly providing adequate traditional continuing education; i.e., maintai...
The role of the chief information security officer in the management of IT security
[ "IT strategy", "Chief information security officer", "CISO", "IT security governance", "Reporting structure", "Security breaches" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The past couple of years have witnessed a proliferation and ubiquitous use of Information Technology (IT) resources in many organizations' business processes. This is evidenced by, in addition to the traditional IT resourc...
Management by values (MBV): a new philosophy for a new economic order
[ "Change management", "Strategic management", "Leadership", "Organizational culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Whereas values were once considered by managers as \"too soft\" to be included in any serious approach to management, they have now become a central part of mainstream management (Dolan and Garcia, 2002; Dolan et al., 2003). ...
Influence of event characteristics on assessing credibility and advice-taking
[ "Decision-making", "Credibility", "Advice-taking", "Event characteristics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Managers face decisions at work every day and the extent to which these decisions are accurate is critical to the effective functioning of organizations (Nutt, 1993). These decisions often require considering the perspectives...
Learning paths of customer-facing professionals in the digital age
[ "Informal learning", "Learning network theory", "Work environment", "Digital competencies", "Learning motives", "Learning paths", "Learning themes", "Learning activities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The world is digitizing (Bilbao-Osorio et al., 2013; Dobbs et al., 2015; OECD, 2013). Digital technologies generate, store and process data in binary format (0, 1) (Rouse, 2017). Companies such as Amazon, Apple and Google hav...
Education and teenage childbirth in Uganda: Understanding the links from the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey
[ "Uganda", "Education", "Teenage childbirth", "Natural experiment", "Fuzzy regression discontinuity design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Teenage childbirth is linked to numerous adverse outcomes on women and their children including implications on labor market participation, earnings, and general health (Angrist and Evans, 2012; Chevalier and Viitanen, 200...
Relationship between strategic human resource management and firm performance: A contingency perspective
[ "Human resource management", "Organizational performance", "Taiwan" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Rapid environmental change, globalization, competition to provide innovative products and services, changing customer and investor demands have become the standard backdrop for organizations. To compete effectively, firms m...
Research on the construction of seamless learning platform based on open education
[ "Mobile learning", "Open education", "Seamless learning platform", "Ubiquitous learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: With the further development of social informatization, ever-changing technologies, such as internet and cloud platforms, change people's thinking, learning, production and lifestyle profoundly. With the development of mob...
Wisdom of crowds: the effect of participant composition and contribution behavior on Wikipedia article quality
[ "Online community", "Wikipedia", "Wisdom of crowds", "Cox regression", "Knowledge collaboration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Online communities for knowledge collaboration have introduced a new knowledge generation model. This is, typically, exemplified by Wikipedia, wherein many people participate in writing a wiki article, and everyone can sup...
Managing environmental building performance through IT systems
[ "Environmental building performance", "Sustainability", "IT system", "IWMS", "EMS", "BMS" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Sustainability and environmental building performance: Sustainable buildings, green buildings, smart buildings. Nowadays, many terms try to communicate that some buildings are better performing than others, when it comes to their enviro...
Interactive Network Branding: demonstrating the importance of firm representatives for small and medium-sized enterprises in emerging markets
[ "Croatia", "Small- and medium-sized enterprises", "Emerging markets", "Corporate branding", "Business network", "Interactive Network Branding", "SME" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The concept of Interactive Network Branding (INB) has recently been introduced (Koporcic, 2017; Koporcic and Halinen, 2018; Koporcic and Tornroos, 2019a, 2019b). As a novel concept, INB has its roots in the relationship ma...