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Leveraging environmental scanning methods to identify knowledge management activities in transportation
[ "Community of practice", "Knowledge sharing", "Research agenda", "Business drivers", "Environmental scanning", "Transportation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There are few reports in the peer-reviewed literature of efforts to assess or advance knowledge management (KM) practices at an economic sector level. The majority of the peer-reviewed literature focuses on KM practices and e...
Work in progress? How the credit crunch has its roots in the lack of integrated governance and control systems
[ "Financial forecasting", "Financial institutions", "Governance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Almost to the day, on the fifth anniversary of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) implementing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, financial markets suffered one of the most significant tightening in credit markets in a gen...
Knowledge valorisation: A route of knowledge that ends in surplus value (an example of the Netherlands)
[ "Knowledge valosization", "Social and economic valorization", "Surplus value" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Universities in many respects hold the key to the knowledge economy and society. It is vital that knowledge flows from universities into business and society (European Commission, 2003). In the 1990s was initiated the concept...
A start-up in interaction with its partners
[ "Relationship management", "Response strategies", "Interaction process", "Mode of interaction", "Portfolio collaboration", "Start-ups networking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Start-ups do not emerge in a vacuum. They build on the pre-existing resource constellations, activity patterns and a web of actors in the network (Snehota, 2011). To survive in this network, start-ups have to embed themselves...
Analyzing the dynamics of the global construction industry: past, present and future
[ "Lean production", "Construction industry", "Waste" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The term construction is generally used to describe the activity of the creation of physical infrastructure, superstructure and related facilities (Wells, 1985). Construction is also referred to as all types of activities ass...
Your Homes Newcastle scoops Investors in People gold: Communications and employee development place organization among the best
[ "Social housing", "Awards", "Employee satisfaction", "Organizational performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Watching a BBC2 documentary helped employees at a UK social-housing provider to learn more about what the future might hold when the headlines are being created.\nLearning and development: A direct link was made to improvemen...
Collective action competence: an asset to campus sustainability
[ "Sustainability literacy", "Collective action", "Action competence", "Social learning", "Collective action competence", "Free-choice learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Those involved in creating sustainable campus operations and communities focus on practical, cost-effective means to achieve positive outcomes. For the purposes of this article, such campus stakeholders are called \"campus su...
The impact of dependence and trust on supply chain integration
[ "China", "Manufacturing industries", "Supply chain management", "Channel relationships", "Supply chain integration", "Trust", "Dependence", "Performance", "Structural equation modelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Supply chain management (SCM) is the systematic, strategic coordination of business functions and flows of materials, products, information and money within a particular company and across the businesses in the supply chain...
Hierarchy the sectorial performance indicators for Brazilian franchises
[ "Competitiveness", "Analytic hierarchy process", "Brazilian franchises", "Multi-criteria decision aid", "Performance measurement systems" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over recent years, it is even more noticeable the manner organizations relate to one another and with their final costumer, in such way that is an increasing concern about how market is tending its actions in order to crea...
The changing nature of operations flexibility
[ "Flexible manufacturing systems", "Manufacturing industries" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Operations flexibility has never been a difficult attribute to justify. No one likes to be thought rigid, especially in a business function such as operations that has traditionally suffered a reputation for its sometimes unb...
The "dark side" of organisational career growth: Gender differences in work-family conflict among Italian employed parents
[ "Work–family conflict", "Gender differences", "Organizational career growth", "Organizational work–family support" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the present day, one of the most urgent societal challenges centres around balancing the two most important life domains for adults, work and family (e.g. Michel et al., 2011). Several recent transformations in working ...
An examination of restaurant loyalty programs: what kinds of rewards do customers prefer?
[ "Loyalty schemes", "Customer loyalty", "Fast foods", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Customer loyalty is the name of the game in today's highly competitive restaurant industry. It has been estimated that attracting a new customer is three to five times more costly than retaining an existing customer (Orr, 199...
Transformative learning: innovating sustainability education in built environment
[ "Transformative learning", "Curricula", "Higher education", "Asia-Pacific", "Built environment education", "Sustainability education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: sustainability education in the built environment: The further and higher education sector has acknowledged the importance of learning for sustainability through various declarations (Centre for Environment Education, 2007; U...
Introducing web components into the LIS graduate curriculum
[ "Information technology", "HTML5", "LIS", "LIS curriculum", "Web components", "Web development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As of July 2017, there are over 91 million websites using HTML5 (BuiltWith, 2017). This fact may lull library and information science (LIS) educators into a sense of complacency: HTML5 is here and the world of the Web seems t...
The past as more than prologue: a call for historical research
[ "History", "Inequality", "Equality", "Achievement gap", "Historical research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In 1965, the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) in the USA sought to equalize educational opportunity through federal aid to disadvantaged schools. Today, 50 years later, school administrator...
Do analysts' recommendations reflect co-opted boards?
[ "Board independence", "Corporate governance", "Agency theory", "Analyst", "Analyst recommendation", "Co-opted boards", "G32", "G34" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: It is widely believed among regulators and scholars that the independent directors could ensure effective corporate governance and board independence by monitoring the actions of management and ensuring that management act...
Efficient use of medical IS: diagnosing chest pain
[ "Information systems", "Medical diagnosis", "Decision making", "Medical decision making", "Medical informatics", "Electronic medical record", "Medical simulations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The healthcare sector has been integrating information technologies (IT) heavily in the recent years. However, despite the increasing use of IS by clinicians, there has been little research documenting the effectiveness of...
Network-based innovation: the case for mobile gaming and digital music
[ "New product development", "Regional innovation systems", "Casual gaming", "Customer focused design", "Digital music", "Network-based innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Open innovation models have been widely studied in innovation management, competitive strategy and policy making fields in the past decade (Chesbrough, 2006; Koberg et al., 2003; Gassmann and Enkel, 2004; Prahalad and Rama...
Which firms export? An empirical analysis for the manufacturing sector in the MENA region
[ "Probit model", "MENA region", "Export decision", "Export intensity", "Fractional logit model", "Government ownership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A wide range of empirical studies has analysed the factors that influence the export behaviour of manufacturing firms in many countries[1], but detailed investigations for firms located in countries of the Middle East and ...
Knowledge strategies of school administrators and teachers
[ "Knowledge sharing", "Knowledge management", "Teachers", "Malaysia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Knowledge management is associated with learning organizations (Sallis and Jones, 2002). Within a learning organization, people apply several learning strategy to improve their skills and capacity. Swan et al. (2002) suggeste...
Individual environmental scanning as a barrier to collective processes in organizations: A view based on the illusion of control
[ "Environmental scanning", "Individual environmental scanning", "Illusion of control" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Information is one of the most important assets of organizations. Companies are enhancing their processes to access and interpret data, turning them into strategic advantage. If in the past years, analytics was an IT issue...
Negative disclosures in corporate social responsibility reporting
[ "Disclosure", "Content analysis", "CSR reporting", "Culture", "Transparency", "Global reporting initiative" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: For many firms around the world, reporting on corporate social performance (CSP) has become an accepted method of addressing corporate social responsibility (CSR) expectations from society and corporate stakeholders. CSR can ...
Net social capital processes
[ "Social capital", "Networking", "Entrepreneurialism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this issue.\nIntroduction: Much of the work of the IMP group of researchers has been focused upon buyer-seller relationships. However, there e...
How does IIP deliver the lifelong learning agenda to SMEs?
[ "Investors in people", "Small enterprises", "Business Links", "Case studies", "Consultants", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: IIP can no longer be described as a major new innovation seeking to enhance UK competitiveness. It has been with us since 1991 and, although revised and modified, its aims remain fundamentally the same, namely encouraging fir...
Career profiles in the "new career": evidence of their prevalence and correlates
[ "Careers", "Attitudes", "Career satisfaction", "Career guidance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Contemporary literature typically describes careers as \"boundaryless\", suggesting they are enacted across traditional boundaries of organizations and occupations (Arthur and Rousseau, 1996), and as \"protean\", meaning they...
Professionalism as social responsibility in procurement and administration
[ "Procurement", "Professionalism", "Factor analysis", "Administration", "Social responsibility", "Job tasks" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the past couple of decades, public procurement practitioners have been struggling to define their occupation as a profession (Callender and Mathews, 2000; Thai, 2001; McCue and Gianakis, 2001; Prier and McCue, 2009; Prie...
What makes you feel attached to smartwatches? The stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) perspectives
[ "Behaviour change", "Structural equation modelling", "Empirical study", "Partial least squares", "Human computer interaction (HCI)", "User satisfaction", "IT-enabled social innovations", "Hypothesis testing", "Disruptive technologies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: According to Gartner's hype cycle, wearable computing devices were regarded as one of the most important emerging technologies among end-user electronics, and it had been predicted that over 100m wearable devices will be ship...
Authentic leadership and creativity: The intervening role of psychological meaningfulness, safety and work engagement
[ "India", "Creativity", "Work engagement", "Authentic leadership", "Psychological safety", "Psychological meaningfulness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: With the increased instances of corporate fraud and scams being reported across the globe, the need for more positive, genuine and value-based form of leadership has come to the fore. Stakeholders expect a high degree of i...
An integrated fuzzy approach for classifying slow-moving items
[ "Fuzzy AHP", "Inventory classification", "ABC analysis", "Slow moving", "Type-2 fuzzy sets" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Inventory management is a crucial operations management topic that requires considering conflicting objectives, minimizing inventory costs vs maximizing customers' satisfaction. Determining appropriate operating policies f...
Technology readiness of teenagers: a consumer socialization perspective
[ "Technology adoption", "Structural equation modeling", "Quantitative research", "Technology readiness", "Surveys" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The modern world is exposed to rapid innovations and regular introduction of cutting-edge technologies and interactive digital services. As per the International Telecommunication Union (2017) report, developed countries have...
The effect of green purchasing on purchasing performance: the moderating role played by long-term relationships and strategic integration
[ "Green issues", "Supply chain management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The growing environmental awareness of consumers and other stakeholders has meant that an increasingly larger number of organisations have recognised the importance of properly managing their interaction with the natural e...
Market segmentation and pricing strategies based on product platform
[ "Marketing theory", "Pricing", "Product management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In order to satisfy the ever-increasing diversity of consumers' needs, many firms choose to increase the types of products offered. Over the past decade, both market turbulence and the need for product variety have increas...
Older workers and organizational change: corporate memory versus potentiality
[ "Older workers", "Australia", "Qualitative methods", "Case studies", "Organizational change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: While public policy makers in most industrialised nations have recently been promoting the cause of older workers in an effort to counter shortfalls in labour supply and escalating costs of social welfare due to demographi...
Advantages and disadvantages from enforcing emission restrictions within emission control areas
[ "Environmental regulations", "Environmental sustainability", "Emission control areas", "Emission restrictions", "Green vessel scheduling", "Marine transportation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Maritime transportation plays a vital role for international trade. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development indicates that the international seaborne trade increased to 9.8 billion tons in 2014, as compared ...
Philosophical foundations for Indigenous economic and political rights
[ "Self-determination", "Legitimacy", "Aboriginal and common law system", "Cultural context of choice", "Indigenous rights" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Indigenous rights emerged in the aftermath of the process of decolonization that formalized the independence of many former colonies of European nations during the 1950s and 1960s. United Nations member states drew a line bet...
The model of relationships between pay for individual performance and work engagement
[ "Work engagement", "Pay for individual performance", "Pay level", "Pay satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction - pay for individual performance (PFIP) and work engagement (WE): an unexplored relationship: PFIP is a compensation system in which level of pay is linked to individual employee work performance. It is assumed that PFIP leads...
The concept of competence: a thematic review and discussion
[ "Review", "HRD", "Competence", "Competency", "Concept of competence", "Employee competence" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The resource-based view of the firm posits that resources are the key driver of organizational outcomes (Wernerfelt, 1984). Among the resources an organization can use to gain competitive advantage (Barney, 1991; Mitrani et a...
Experiencing information use for early career academics' learning: a knowledge ecosystem model
[ "Informal learning", "Early career academics", "Information experience", "Informed learning", "Knowledge ecosystems" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper explores the informed learning experiences of early career academics (ECAs) while building their \"developmental networks\" (Higgins and Kram, 2001) for professional and personal learning and development. The notio...
Always different?: exploring the monstrous-feminine and maternal embodiment in organisation
[ "Femininity", "Abjection", "Maternal embodiment", "Monstrous-feminine", "Psychoanalysis", "Work/organization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Monsters are often typified by their relationship with alterity, uncontrollability, liminality and unknowable differences and by their frightening presence, their power, excessiveness and quantitative differences that organis...
Offshore-onsite subgroup dynamics in globally distributed teams
[ "Globalization", "Team working", "Knowledge sharing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The continuing trend towards globalization and the spread of advanced information and communication technologies have encouraged a transition to distributed, virtual work practices, thereby leading to an increasing use of glo...
Ecological modernisation and citizen engagement
[ "Citizen engagement", "Ecological modernization", "Environmental movement", "Experts and citizens", "State and citizens", "Technologically oriented decision making" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Is citizen engagement realisable in ecological modernisation-based environmental governance? (Insights from the Wonthaggi desalination plant in Victoria, Australia).\nIntroduction: Ecological modernisation (EM) theory has bee...
The status of intervention research in HRD: Assessment of an applied discipline and potential for advancement
[ "Training", "Practitioners", "Human resource development", "Applied research", "Conducting research", "Intervention research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Human Resource Development (HRD) scholars have made use of a variety of research methodologies and methods (Bartlett, 2005; Bates, 2005; Hansen, 2005; Ruona, 2005; Russ-Eft and Hoover, 2005; Thompson, 2005). The application a...
Catastrophe forecasting: seeing "gray" among the "black boxes"
[ "Forecasting", "Peer review", "Data analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A catastrophe is, by its very nature, rare. In insurance parlance, it can be described as an event whose severity is so far out on the loss distribution that its frequency is necessarily low[1]. One inevitable result of the r...
From customer satisfaction to customer delight: Creating a new standard of service for the hotel industry
[ "Hospitality management", "Hotels", "Customer satisfaction", "Customer delight", "Hotel operations", "Content analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Hotels frequently receive customer feedback. One type of feedback concentrates on the negative aspects of a service experience. A stream of literature about service recovery exists to instruct industry managers about what to ...
Internationalization of SMEs and market orientation: A study of customer knowledge, networks and cultural knowledge
[ "India", "SMEs", "Market orientation", "Networking", "Customer knowledge", "Cultural knowledge", "Market sensing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Internationalization of firms and market entry into foreign markets is an extensively researched topic (Weerawardena et al., 2017; Coviello et al., 2017). Extant literature emphasizes that research on internationalization is ...
Acculturation: An exploratory study of clothing consumption among Black African women in London (UK)
[ "United Kingdom", "Consumer behaviour", "Women", "Acculturation", "Ethnic groups", "Clothing", "Market segmentation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Evidence suggests that most of the developed countries including the UK have population characterised with diversity of people from different ethnic minority groups. Specifically, it has been shown that people of ethnic minor...
Multiview as social informatics in action: past, present and future
[ "Philosophical concepts", "Communication technologies", "Social interaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper is intended to pay tribute to the inspiration provided by Rob Kling by showing how his ideas (Kling, 1980, 1999) about Social Informatics in general and the use of web models in particular, have helped us to formul...
Studer Group(r) ' s evidence-based leadership initiatives: Comparing success and sustainability in two health systems
[ "Organizational theory", "Hospital management", "Organizational change", "Health services", "Qualitative research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the healthcare sector, organizational change is vital, not only for improving the quality and processes of care delivery, operational efficiencies, and improving patient outcomes, but also for ensuring a positive financial...
Incorporating aleatory and epistemic uncertainties in the modelling of construction duration
[ "Aleatory uncertainty", "Epistemic uncertainty", "Construction duration", "Prediction", "Bayesian model averaging", "Monte Carlo simulation", "Fuzzy logic" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the past few decades, the quest to improve on subjective nature, and hence accuracy of conventional construction duration prediction methods such as detailed analysis of work to be done, and deducing from the client's...
The dual opening to brand heritage in family businesses
[ "Brand heritage", "Branding", "Corporate communication", "Corporate identity", "Family business", "History", "Family firms", "Germany", "Sweden" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Communication of company history seems to increase in popularity. Delahaye et al. (2009) have identified corporate history as a specific literary genre that has given rise to the emergence of specialised producers of corporat...
Transformational leadership, knowledge sharing, organizational climate and learning: an empirical study
[ "Transformational leadership", "Organizational climate", "Knowledge-sharing behavior", "Organizational learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: There is increasing recognition that the capacity of an organization depends on the learning potential of its workforce. Accelerated globalization of the workforce requires more innovative approaches to overcome barriers impa...
The role of anticipated emotion, desire, and intention in the relationship between image and shopping center visits
[ "Shopping centres", "Shopping", "Consumer behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An important topic in retailing is predicting the frequency at which consumers will visit a shopping center. The importance of frequency of shopping center visits is evidenced by:* its use as a dependent variable in a number ...
A proposed new psychological model for judgement and decision-making: Integrating the tri-partite model with hemispheric difference
[ "Relational leadership", "Cognitive psychology", "Intelligence", "Shared leadership", "Cerebral hemispheres", "Judgement and decision-making" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: This paper considers the implications for leadership development of a proposed new psychological model based on the integration of two distinct fields of research in cognitive science and neuroscience, namely, judgement and d...
Relaxation of employment protection and labour reallocation
[ "Difference in differences estimation", "Employment protection", "Labour reallocation", "Policy evaluation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Employment protection legislation (EPL) is comprised of regulations that limit the employer's ability to dismiss the worker without delay or cost (Pissarides, 2001). In other words, EPL imposes legal restrictions on dismis...
Towards a service-dominant professional identity: An organisational socialisation perspective
[ "Servicing", "Professional services", "Socialization", "Public administration", "Sweden" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The emergence of service-dominant (S-D) logic (Vargo and Lusch, 2004) and its subsequent prominence in the marketing literature has led to a reorientation of marketing research (Lusch and Vargo, 2006; Lusch et al., 2007; Va...
Boosting the leadership capacity of supervisors in low-skilled occupations: Lessons from New Zealand in designing an autonomy-supportive training programme
[ "Low-skilled occupations", "Supervisory skills", "Self-determination theory", "Autonomy-supportive training", "Leadership styles", "New Zealand" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Training for supervisors of low-skilled teams has received far less attention than leadership upskilling in those responsible for managing professional level teams, which identifies a gap for the management style of lower ski...
Open accelerators for start-ups success: a case study
[ "Case studies", "Open innovation", "Business failures", "Accelerators", "Strat-ups" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Schumpeter (1934) underlines the importance of new firms as key drivers of economic development, industrial evolution and innovation as they are founded to convert innovative ideas into commercial products (Beckman et al., 20...
Study of Pakistan consumer goods company shows positive effect of managers' ethical behaviour
[ "Creativity", "Organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB)", "Ethical leadership style (ELS)", "Psychological contract fulfilment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A study of 248 employee-supervisor dyads at a consumer goods multinational in Pakistan has shown the positive impact of ethical leadership on employee performance. The research demonstrated the effect on both organizational c...
Veblen on globalization: further clarification
[ "Globalization", "Industrial societies", "International trade" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In a recent issue of this journal, McCormick (2006, p. 529) noted that:Readers of Wellington and Zandvakili's article \"Globalization and Inequality According to Veblen\" (2004) might come away with the idea that Thorstein Ve...
Outdoor challenge training for MBA students: Is it really worth doing it for the team?
[ "Teambuilding", "Master of business administration", "Case studies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Whatever the organization, when it comes to producing results the importance of effective teamwork is rarely questioned. Managers and human resource teams alike are constantly looking at ways of improving working relationship...
A study of women in top business roles: the case of the wine industry
[ "Gender", "ANOVA", "Secondary data", "Chi-square", "Top management roles" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Statistics across the world suggest that, in the absence of gender quotas, women appear to struggle to reach top roles in business firms (Catalyst, 2014; HRReview, 2013; Marcus Evans, 2013; WGEA, 2012). However, in some cases...
Stimulating employee learning: the confluence of case-based and self-regulated learning
[ "Adult learning", "Self-regulation", "Metacognition", "Constructivist", "Case-based", "Situational cognition" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In organizations, competent self-regulated learners, contrasted with employees who are less inclined to attend to and adjust their own learning processes, tend to be more effective employees. Research has demonstrated that se...
Cluster resources and competitive advantage: A typology of potentially strategic wine cluster resources
[ "Strategy", "Competitive advantage", "Value creation", "Wines", "Typology", "Strategic resources", "Wine cluster" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Clusters have a potentially important role in the process of competitive advantage creation by firms belonging to them, the underlying assumption being that cluster (local or regional) resources influence the value of the f...
Who benefits from training: big guy or small fry?
[ "SMEs training", "Malaysia", "Human resource development fund", "Training schemes", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Training" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over many years, different countries have deployed various policies and strategies to encourage firms to play a bigger role in training their own employees. In Malaysia, the most prominent is the Human Resource Development Fu...
Information technology maturity stages and enterprise benchmarking: an empirical study
[ "Communication technologies", "Statistical testing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Now, enterprise managers are in need of a definite roadmap for maximizing IT performance. Accordingly, IT evaluation methodology must be built on the grounds of a \"maturity model,\" also called the \"stages theory,\" not o...
Knowledge sharing enablers, processes and firm innovation capability
[ "United Arab Emirates", "Knowledge sharing", "Innovation capability", "Top management support", "Knowledge self-efficacy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the field of knowledge management, the role of knowledge sharing has often been neglected by organizations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) because of the scarcity of relevant research (Ahmad and Daghfous, 2010). This ...
School autonomy and 21st century learning: the Canadian context
[ "Canada", "Policies", "School autonomy", "Twenty-first century learning", "School divisions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In this paper, we report on the policy and practice contexts for school autonomy and twenty-first century learning in Canadian provinces. In general, we focus on the province of Alberta, which appears to have the most develop...
The viable decision maker for CAS survival: how to change and adapt through fitting process
[ "Complex adaptive systems", "Value co-creation", "Decision making", "Change", "Service research", "VSa" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Nowadays rapid evolution in technology and resulting hypercompetition (D'Aveni et al., 2010) requires organizations the capacity to adapt in order to survive. Indeed, the ability in changing and adaptation according to ext...
Development of food products with addition of rapeseed presscake fermented by Rhizopus: Sensory properties and consumer acceptance
[ "Consumer attitudes", "Sensory evaluation", "Fermentation", "Rapeseed", "Rhizopus" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Various factors limit the acceptance of plant proteins by consumers. These include sensory properties, e.g. \"beany\" taste and lack of texture, and the mental association of plant proteins - especially from pulses and oilsee...
Changing agents of change in neoliberally framed organizations
[ "Gender", "Human resource management", "Globalization", "Activism", "Change management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, Article 1.\nEquity and merit in the vanguard of globalizing neoliberal ideas and practice: Aotearoa as a case in poin...
An empirical analysis of intra industry trade in manufactures between Korea and ASEAN
[ "Korea", "ASEAN", "Determinants", "Intra-industry trade", "Manufactures", "Panel data" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Economic relations between Korea and ASEAN have expanded significantly over the past decades. Corresponding to ASEAN's potential as one of the largest emerging markets, Korea's trade with ASEAN has been growing remarkably....
RFID-based intra-supply chain in textile industry
[ "Globalization", "Supply chain management", "Radiofrequencies", "Textile industry", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: In accordance with the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing at the World Trade Organization (WTO), one of the agreements made was the complete removal of quotas worldwide beginning 2005 (World Trade Organization, 2008), thus ...
An analysis of the environment and competitive dynamics of management education
[ "Competitive analysis", "Demographics", "Globalization", "Entrepreneurship", "Strategic management", "Business schools" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Despite being acknowledged as one of the major success stories in higher education over the last 30 years, business schools are at a crossroads in their development (Pfeffer and Fong, 2002). They currently face an image and i...
Impact of parenthood on women's careers in the IT sector - a study in the Indian context
[ "Gender", "Career development", "Diversity management", "IT sector" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Until recently, the traditional career advancement model, characterised by full-time, long-term organisational employment and continued commitment to one's organisation, has always formed the basis for studying gender issues ...
Segmenting public universities based on their stakeholder orientation
[ "Segmentation", "Public universities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Contemporary public universities must pay special attention to the aspirations and needs of their key stakeholders (Mainardes et al., 2014). Indeed, universities are expected to satisfy the demands of various audiences, inclu...
Past progress and future directions in conceptualizing customer perceived value
[ "Customer satisfaction", "Perception", "Value analysis", "Visual perception", "Modelling", "Electronic point of sale" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Customer perceived value is a strategic imperative that firms must pay attention to, and has become a major focus of interest in marketing (Parasuraman, 1997; Parasuraman and Grewal, 2000; Woodruff, 1997). Despite the interes...
Do consumers like food product innovation? An analysis of willingness to pay for innovative food attributes
[ "Contingent valuation", "Willingness to pay", "Food innovation", "Food-Related Lifestyle" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: \"Innovation is the lifeblood of successful companies\" (Brown and Teisberg, 2003) and is crucial for companies to achieve their objectives in terms of profitability, growth and stability over time (Grunert and van Trijp, ...
An empirical investigation of the relationship between e-government development and the digital economy: the case of Asian countries
[ "Asian countries", "Digital economy", "E-government development", "Multidimensional approach", "Technology adoption model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In present times, digital economy pervades insurmountable prospects for world economy, influencing different sectors such as energy, banking, retail, publishing, transportation, education, health and media (OECD, 2015; Wor...
Transformational leadership, organizational justice and organizational outcomes: A study from the higher education sector in Syria
[ "Transformational leadership", "Organizational commitment", "Higher education", "Job satisfaction", "Organizational justice", "Transactional leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Previous research studying leadership style and organizational behavior (Walumbwa et al., 2004; Sun and Henderson, 2017) generated concepts of organizational commitment (OC) (Yousef, 2016) and job satisfaction (JS) (Blake et ...
Springboard contributes to Royal Mail's continuing success
[ "Learning", "Development", "Confidence", "Skills", "Springboard", "Women’s issues" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A women's development programme is playing an important part in changing the working culture built up over some 400 years at the UK's Royal Mail. Royal Mail is the UK's designated Universal Postal Service Provider, delivering...
Mobile information services in libraries: a review of current trends in delivering information
[ "Mobile information services", "Mobile technology", "Libraries", "Information professionals", "Librarians", "Mobile libraries", "Smartphones", "Information services", "Information delivery means" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Mobile Web is defined as \"a web in which users are able to access information from any location, regardless of the type of device used\" (Villoldo and Salom, 2012). The use of mobile devices to access the Internet and sea...
RiskTRACK: the five-factor model for measuring risk tolerance
[ "Risk management", "Factor analysis", "Risk tolerance", "G11", "G20" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In light of recent volatility in financial markets and investor confidence in those financial markets, it has become increasingly imperative for financial advisors to understand their clients' risk tolerance. Risk toleranc...
Modeling of product sales promotion and price discounting strategy using fuzzy logic in a retail organization
[ "Fuzzy logic", "Automated model", "Dynamic price discounting", "Lot size", "Price intelligence", "Product sales promotion" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Nomenclature\n1. Introduction: In this research study, single item dynamic pricing and sales promotion problem with lot sizing and supplier selection is considered, in which back orders and shortages are not allowed. The sing...
Investigating identity fraud management practices in e-tail sector: a systematic review
[ "Literature review", "Identity fraud", "Identity theft", "Managerial practices", "E-tailer", "Fraud management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: E-commerce has changed the ways of doing business by offering unlimited opportunities to online retailers like reduction in operation costs, effective customer relationship and boundary-less services. However, these opport...
Performance management implementation challenges in Ghana's local government system: Evidence from the Sefwi Wiawso Municipal Assembly
[ "Performance management", "Implementation", "Ghana", "Challenges", "Local government" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Local governments in Ghana play vital roles in development at the local level. The acknowledgement of local governance by the 1992 Constitution makes a structure for residents' support in decision making and governance. The D...
Are overqualified employees bad apples? A dual-pathway model of cyberloafing
[ "Anger", "Cyberloafing", "Perceived overqualification", "Moral disengagement", "Moral identity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Due to the economic recession and reduced employment opportunities, overqualification has become a common phenomenon in organizations (Hu et al., 2015; Zhang et al., 2016). The statistical data indicated that 20-25 percent of...
"Good" news from nowhere: imagining utopian sustainable accounting
[ "Engagement", "Integrated reporting", "Sustainability", "Stakeholder", "Morris", "Utopia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nPreamble: In the social accounting literature, there have been many attempts to develop alternate constructions of what has, today, become known as \"sustainability reporting\" (see, e.g. Antheaume, 2004; Bebbington et al., 2001; Bent, 200...
Judicial activism and human rights in Bangladesh: a critique
[ "Bangladesh", "Human rights", "PIL" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role judiciary plays in ensuring human rights in Bangladesh through judicial activisms. The role of judiciary has many facets such as judicial review, judicial supervision, judicial...
The impact of process mapping on transparency
[ "Management activity", "Knowledge mapping", "Continuous improvement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Process mapping enables representation and analysis of business processes. Process maps are just one means of visualizing and controlling the activities of an organization and collectively these visual approaches have been ch...
Lessons in disaster management as learned from Korean NGOs
[ "South Korea", "Emergency management", "International NGOs", "Social practices or culture", "Transnational disaster management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Disasters can hit anyone, anywhere. For this reason, every nation normally has their disaster management system. Its extent differs depending on the nation's capacity in terms of priorities, budget, politics and relevant poli...
Understanding business networks from a mixed network and system ontology position: A review of the research field
[ "Complex adaptive systems", "Agent-based modelling", "Network boundaries", "Causal networks", "Encapsulation", "Network ontology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The affinity between IMP industrial networks and complexity theory has been noted (Wilkinson and Young, 2005, 2013; Wilkinson, 2008). Drawing on many accounts of systems facing turbulent environments in biology, chemistry,...
The effects of IT: from performance to value
[ "Firm performance", "Firm value", "IT capability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: In studies of IT-enabled organization performance, scholars usually use accounting-based measures or financial market-based measures to measure the impact of IT on firms (Bharadwaj et al., 1999). That is, previous studies h...
Learning how to learn: How innovation can be hampered and overcome
[ "Learning organizations", "Knowledge management", "Innovation", "Strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: What are the obstacles to successful innovation? This question taxes the minds of senior managers and directors daily around the world, but in large organizations it is difficult not only to overcome these obstacles, but to i...
Shari'ah-compliance ratings of the Islamic financial services industry: a quantitative approach
[ "Sharīʿah governance", "Islamic banking portfolio", "Sharīʿah-compliance ratings", "Sharīʿah audit", "Islamic financial services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Islamic financial system (IFS) was proposed, as per the Islamic worldview, because of many violations of Shari'ah norms in the conventional financial system. Major objections include practicing riba (interest and usury), ...
"Fish out of water": understanding decision-making and coping strategies of English as second language consumers through a situational literacy perspective
[ "English language", "Consumers", "Literacy", "Immigrants", "Individual behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In a recent trip to France, the first author, not conversant in French, experienced being a \"fish out of water\" in negotiating the consumer context and completing marketplace transactions. Mishaps and inconveniences resulte...
Analysing ar-rahnu in the context of informal credit market theory: Evidence from women micro-entrepreneurs in Malaysia
[ "Sharīʿah compliance", "Ar-rahnu", "Informal credit market theory", "Women micro-entrepreneurs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Previous studies have shown that the formal credit market (banking in particular) commonly refuses to extend credit facilities to all income groups in the economy because ofbecause of the high credit risks involved and many o...
Real estate risk: heavy tail modelling using Excel
[ "Heavy tails", "Modelling risk", "Spreadsheet models", "Stable distributions", "Cash flow model", "Real estate investments", "Stable laws" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Real estate investment - as any other form of investment - represents the idea that the investor forgoes immediate consumption, but instead provides funds in exchange for future returns. This behaviour is motivated by the exp...
Technological mediation in the future of experiential tourism
[ "Technology", "Mediation", "Experience", "Tourism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The rapid development of technology has revolutionised the tourism experience. As suggested by Benckendorff et al. (2014), contemporary technology can play a wide variety of roles within travel and tourism. It can enable and ...
An exploration of organizational factors in new product development success
[ "Product development", "Resources", "International marketing", "Diversification", "Biochemistry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article.\nThe conceptual model and research hypotheses: Our proposed framework examines the relationship between the organizational facto...
Determinants of best HR practices in Chinese SMEs
[ "China", "Antecedents", "Small and medium-sized enterprises", "Human resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Despite the recognized importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the global economy there has been a relative dearth of research into their adoption of human resource management (HRM) practices (Wager, 1998; ...