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A study of quality management practices in TQM and non-TQM firms: Findings from the ASEAN automotive industry
[ "Automotive industry", "Quality management", "Total quality management", "ISO 9000 series", "Organizational restructuring", "South East Asia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This study presents findings on the current state of Total Quality Management (TQM) in the automotive sector in the Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) region. The necessity to maintain competitiveness has led to m...
Outsourcing strategies for radical innovations: does industry clockspeed make a difference?
[ "Outsourcing", "Corporate strategy", "Manufacturing industries" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Outsourcing decisions - which are frequently referred to in the literature by aliases such as \"vertical integration\" or \"make-buy judgments\" - are an important aspect of most firms' overall strategic plans (Anderson and W...
Corporate social responsibility and business ethics: conceptualization, scale development and validation
[ "Business ethics", "Corporate social responsibility", "Scale development", "Brand trust", "Brand attitudes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics (BE) are important in establishing brand attitudes. Firms recognize the importance of positive impact on stakeholder through CSR initiatives and ethical conduct. Brand...
Successor selection in family business using theory of planned behaviour and cognitive dimension of social capital theory: evidence from Ghana
[ "Intention", "Cognitive dimension", "Family business", "Succession", "Theory of planned behaviour", "Trust" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Succession has been a major issue in family-owned businesses (FOB's); the intention to pass on control of the business to the next generation is a factor that distinguishes family business from non-family business (Garcia ...
The changing role of the salesperson: how should salespeople act today?
[ "Salespeople", "Sales managers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Nature and development of the sales position: The sales position has particular characteristics compared to other jobs. Unlike other workers, salespeople are physically distanced from their coworkers, which contributes to social and psy...
"We are still here": the stories of Syrian academics in exile
[ "Syria", "Higher education", "Exile", "Collaboration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Of the 15 named authors of this paper, 12 are Syrian academics currently living in exile in Turkey, and the remaining 3 are UK-based academics. Our collaboration took place through the Council for At Risk Academics' (Cara) Sy...
Capital structure dynamics: China and India (Chindia) perspective
[ "Capital structure", "Speed of adjustment", "Partial adjustment mechanism", "Target leverage", "System generalized method of moments (GMM)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The roots of capital structure theories emerge from the renowned irrelevance proposition of Modigliani and Miller (1958), following, which many streams of theories have been developed to aid the managers in financing decis...
Gender inequality in employment: Editors' introduction
[ "Employment", "Equal opportunities", "Sexual discrimination", "Gender" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In October 2008, the Centre for Employment Studies Research at the University of the West of England, UK, held a one-day research event on gender inequality in employment. As co-organizers, we decided to put together paper...
Systematic review of hospitality CRM research
[ "Customer relationship management", "CRM", "Relationship marketing", "Review", "Hospitality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In a highly competitive environment, the effort of hospitality firms to constantly enhance product and service quality is necessary but insufficient to improve their businesses. A key success factor is the quality relation...
Child labour, future earnings and occupation choice: evidence from Ghana
[ "Earnings", "Endogeneity", "Child labour", "Occupational choice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Child labour and its related issues have become a challenge for many developing countries, including countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. In western Africa, the cocoa farms of Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire pose the greatest challenges ...
Changes in family dynamics predict purchase and consumption
[ "Family", "Marketing", "Food industry", "Consumer psychology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The constantly changing world has had an impact on business, family, and government in a variety of ways. Hirschautt (2004) points out that:[...] if nothing else, the uncertainty in today's world reminds us to enjoy the compa...
Relationship transparency for partnership enhancement: an intellectual capital perspective
[ "Relationship transparency", "Partnership enhancement", "Intellectual capital", "Knowledge management", "Case studies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article.\nIntroduction: It is widely accepted that enhancing relationships with business partners is essential to business survival, grow...
Addressing Public Health informatics patient privacy concerns
[ "Information management", "Information technology", "Public health", "Freedom of information", "Informatics", "Patient privacy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Public Health strives to achieve social benefit for all members of society, and public trust is fundamental in that relationship. The growing volume, velocity and vulnerabilities of \"big data\" and linked data in today's wir...
Institutional knowledge: Acquisition, assimilation and exploitation in internationalisation
[ "Learning", "Knowledge management", "Internationalization", "Market entry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Institutional differences between countries impact economic growth and create obstacles to internationalisation (Globerman and Shapiro, 2002) and international marketing efforts. Institutional knowledge, such as knowledge ...
The relationship between non-audit fees and audit quality: dealing with the endogeneity issue
[ "Earnings management", "Audit quality", "Auditor independence", "Non-audit services", "Financial reporting quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This research studies the effects of the provision of non-audit services (NAS) on audit quality by considering audit fees, non-audit fees, and abnormal accruals simultaneously in a system of three equations. Recent studies...
Exploring the bank selection criteria in India: scale development and validation
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Scale development", "Validation", "Customers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Banks are beginning to realize that customer retention provides a sustainable and competitive advantage that is not easily replicated by its competitors. On the other hand, today's customers, who are often aware and educated ...
Emerging technology sustainability
[ "Knowledge transfer", "Innovation", "Sustainable development", "High-tech innovation", "Chemical industries", "R&D management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: For the prior century, technology alone was the driving force for invention and application of that invention. Today, new terms are associated with technology and whether they will be adopted or accepted. One of these is sust...
Customer experience formation in today's service landscape
[ "Individual level", "Systematic literature review", "Contextual lens", "Customer experience formation", "Service landscape" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Interest in customer experience (CX) has increased exponentially over the past decades among service researchers and practitioners. Many researchers now consider CX to be a key research priority in the contemporary service...
Cybersecurity and information security - what goes where?
[ "Information security", "Boards of directors", "Cybersecurity", "Cyber security governance", "Information security governance", "ISO 27032" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: It is clear from newspaper reports, academic articles, security-related conference proceedings and many other studies that cyber space, and specifically cybersecurity, is a topic currently attracting considerable interest ...
A cross-cultural perspective on relational exchange
[ "Cross-cultural", "Buyer-supplier relationships", "Relational norms" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years, international business-to-business (B2B) relationships have become increasingly crucial. Relationships with emerging markets are of particular interest because their high growth rate and unexploited market...
Assessing the essential pre-conditions of an authentic sustainability curriculum
[ "Economic growth", "Sustainability education", "Authenticity in higher education", "Ethics in higher education", "Mindfulness in higher education", "Neoliberal ideals" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In higher education (HE) literature the adjective \"authentic\" occurs in various contexts including knowledge construction and academic performance (Newmann et al., 1996), assessment (Bosco and Ferns, 2014), teaching science...
School-aged children and decisions for studying abroad in Canada
[ "Canada", "Student mobility", "International education", "Early study abroad", "School-aged children" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: International student mobility trends and relevant statistics are typically described in relation to post-secondary education (e.g. OECD, 2016; Eurostat, 2017). However, the study abroad phenomenon among school-aged children ...
How do Party organizations' boundary-spanning behaviors control worker unrest? A case study on a Chinese resource-based state-owned enterprise
[ "Boundary-spanning behaviour", "New work-unit system", "Party organization", "State-owned enterprise", "Worker unrest" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: At the 2011 National Conference on Cooperation and on Constructing Harmonious Labor Relations, the President of PR China, Mr Jinping Xi, stated that a \"combination of the powers of the Party and government, mass organization...
Bullying among support staff in a higher education institution
[ "Bullying", "Mental health services", "Universities", "Workplace" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The context of the research\nMethods: Target group\nResults: The questionnaire\nDiscussion: The study was small but intensive and it is hoped that it may have contributed, in a modest way, to the emerging field of research in...
School and emotional well-being: a transcultural analysis on youth in Southern Spain
[ "Health education", "Adolescents", "Emotional well-being", "School environment", "Culture and health", "Migrant health" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: Promoting positive social and emotional development during childhood and adolescence is increasingly seen as a fundamental objective for schools. The school is increasingly conceived as a place for the development of life skill...
Making cultural differences matter? Diversity perspectives in higher education
[ "Higher education", "Qualitative research", "Diversity perspectives" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The student population in higher education has become more culturally diverse in many countries (Banks, 2007), partly due to the increasing educational level of migrants and a higher percentage of migrants enter the higher ed...
Measurement of social development: evidence from India
[ "Human development", "Development expenditure", "Non-development expenditure", "Social development index", "Social indicators", "Social sector" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Social development is a multidimensional and complex phenomenon and it is one of the alarming issues concerned with the human welfare. It is also directly related to the development of peace, freedom, stability and securit...
Sustainability reporting: external motivators and internal facilitators
[ "Sustainability reporting", "External pressures", "Operational control", "Strategic control" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Today, with more serious concerns about environmental and social conditions, the business and investment communities are demanding and relying on various types of sustainability[1] (economic, environmental and social) informa...
Buying decision-making process for poultry meat
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Buying behaviour", "Poultry", "Country of origin", "Europe" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. The poultry meat market: Poultry meat is an important segment of the consumption structure of various meat types. Changes in the nutritional habits call for growth of consumption of this type of meat. In the part of the study in questio...
A valid and applicable measurement method for knowledge worker productivity
[ "Viewpoint", "Productivity measurement", "Knowledge worker", "Principle", "Fuzzy DEA" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Currently, the number of knowledge workers and their rate of growth are larger than those of manual workers (Drucker, 1999; Xiao and Nembhard, 2014). Consequently, knowledge worker management and particularly knowledge wor...
The power of platforms
[ "Business development", "Innovation", "Profit", "Markets", "Shareholders" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nThe quest to sustain profitable growth: Every CEO has one core mandate from investors: to profitably grow the company. But this is easier said than done.There is a long list of companies that once appeared to be nearly invincible and were ...
Improving the effectiveness of employee learning: Why online tools can make a difference
[ "Workplace learning", "Employee development", "Technology", "Employee characteristics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nRole of learning in organizational development: Learning is rightly regarded as a critical component of any organization's growth and prosperity. In today's rapidly evolving business environment, it is difficult to see how firms can remain...
Making the sale
[ "Online marketing", "User experience", "Usability testing", "A/B testing", "Conversion rate", "Digital library services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: He was known as the \"Rattlesnake King\". Clark Stanley, born in 1854, was a former rancher from Texas when he began marketing what he called \"Snake Oil Liniment\", and he billed the concoction as the best treatment availabl...
Benchmarking deep-sea port performance in the Hamburg-Le Havre range
[ "Competitiveness", "Industrial performance", "Data Envelopment Analysis", "Logistics", "Corporate strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years, deep-sea ports in the Hamburg-Le Havre (HLH) range have changed from public utilities that focus on transport activities to companies that also focus on more advanced commercial activities (such as value-a...
Network service organisation: a multiple pilot study
[ "Property management", "Workplace", "Business support services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the new workplace environment of different business support functions, information must flow freely between groups with connected functions and up and down the corporate hierarchy (Joroff and Bell, 2001, p. 8). The operati...
Productivity trends in the United States
[ "Productivity rate", "Economic trends", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: This paper investigates productivity growth and technical progress bias in the United States[1]. We build on a large body of recent literature that (unlike Solow, 1957) takes a flexible functional forms approach in a multip...
Complexities in innovation management in companies from the European industry: A path model of innovation project performance determinants
[ "Innovation", "European industry", "Innovation performance", "Innovation potential", "Organizational capabilities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Due to increased global competition, fast development of technologies and changing customer demands, firm performance is increasingly dependent on the continuous improvement and introduction of new products. As innovation is ...
Young talent blooms at Tulip: Opportunities to grow for graduates and apprentices
[ "Food industry", "Training", "Graduates", "Apprenticeships", "Industrial placements", "Awards" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A UK food company has launched a scheme to provide first-hand experience across the industry to young people at every level of education.\nExposure to supermarket buyers: After graduating from university with a business degre...
Gives you wings or not? Exploring the impact of viewers' responsibility attribution and surprise on their attitude, identification and trust
[ "Crisis communication", "Trust", "Identification", "Inoculation theory", "Real-time rating", "Responsibility attribution" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In today's competitive markets, trust, a positive attitude toward brands and stakeholder-company identification are invaluable assets for companies. Trust, attitude and identification can play a mitigating role by softening t...
A model of entrepreneurship education in franchising - application of outside-in marketing with a behavioural focus
[ "B2B", "Entrepreneurship", "Education", "Entrepreneurship education", "Behavioural", "Outside-in marketing", "Pre-intervention stage", "Decision-making", "Franchise" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Firms develop relationships with many types of organisations such as educational institutions that can be important in relationship management, innovation and entrepreneurship development in a business network, especially for...
Performance assessment of manufacturing SMEs: a frontier approach
[ "Performance measurement", "Data envelopment analysis", "Manufacturing industry", "Turkish SMEs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Impact of globalization supported by enhancement in new technology has altered the way of doing business in today's contemporary world. The way of achieving and surviving in this ambiance is to apprehend the important alters ...
Not just the taste: why adolescents drink alcopops
[ "Alcohol", "Alcoholic drinks", "Young people", "Adolescents" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Ready-to-drink alcohol products (RTDs), commonly referred to as \"alcopops\", have been a source of much controversy since their introduction in the mid-1990's (Forsyth, 2001). In Australia, there is increasing evidence that ...
An investigation of competitive pricing among apparel retailers and brands
[ "Clothing", "Retailers", "Brands", "Pricing", "Competitive strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Pricing is a dimension that can be identified from the perspective of the customer as well as that of the retailer/manufacturer (Sivakumar, 2000a, p. 294).Price defines a firm's competitive position in the market and consumer...
Organizational positioning and planning of sustainability initiatives: Logic and differentiators
[ "Hospitals", "Planning", "Triple bottom line", "Corporate social responsibility", "Sustainability", "Positioning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A strategy is the ability not only to decide what to do, but also what not to do (Porter, 1996). By choosing some activities and not others, an organization can position and differentiate itself from its competition (Leona...
Managers' psychological challenges in implementing corporate responsibility in supply chains
[ "Sustainability", "Supply chain management", "Management", "Corporate responsibility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Research on supply chain management (SCM) has, over time, become increasingly intertwined with various different concepts of corporate responsibility, such as corporate social responsibility (CSR), triple bottom line (TBL) an...
Embeddedness and turnover intentions in extra roles: A mixed-methods analysis of the United States Marine Corp Reserve
[ "Embeddedness", "Turnover", "Extra roles", "Role conflict" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Much is known about what drives turnover in organizations. However, organizational behavior research has generally focused on primary work or home roles and has neglected other roles in which individuals engage such as volunt...
Bullying in the workplace: How HR practice can be improved
[ "Workplace bullying", "Human resources", "Organizational culture", "Complaints" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A firm's human resources (HR) department has a significant responsibility with regard to providing the workplace with a positive environment. Such a clearly demanding task becomes more difficult still when incidents of bullyi...
A paradoxical approach symbiotic to postmerger integration: a French longitudinal case study
[ "Longitudinal case study", "Merger process", "Paradoxical approach", "Symbiotic integration", "Postmerger integration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are pervasive phenomena in business development strategies (Cartwright and Schoenberg, 2006; Donnelly et al., 2005). Their world volume exceeded 5,000 trillion dollars in 2015 (Dealogic, 2015)....
Transaction convenience in the payment stage: the retailers' perspective
[ "Sweden", "Customer service", "Retailers", "Cash free society", "Payment forms", "Transaction convenience" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper focuses on the transaction part of service convenience (Berry et al., 2002). Transaction convenience deals with the activities that consumers need to complete to acquire the right to use a certain product or ser...
Social inequality and access to social capital in microfinance interventions
[ "Microfinance", "Inequality", "Self-help groups", "Social capital", "India" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Empowerment of weaker sections through poverty alleviation programs brings a key element of social justice to the development discourse. Among others, microfinance projects through group-based financial operations such as ...
The importance of industrial ecology in engineering education for sustainable development
[ "Australia", "Universities", "Curricula", "Sustainable development", "Industrial ecology", "Engineering education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: This paper presents the results of the introduction of the concept of industrial ecology in the engineering curriculum to enhance students' knowledge of engineering for sustainable development (ESD). Many professional engin...
Social influences on young people's sexual health in Uganda
[ "Sexual health", "HIV", "Prevention", "Young people", "Uganda", "Africa", "Empowerment", "Rural regions", "Youth" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Two key messages drive the widely endorsed joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) 2011-2015 strategy, getting to zero (UNAIDS, 2010). The first is the need to intensify HIV prevention by implementing more comprehensi...
Does unit pricing influence store price image dimensions and shopping intentions for retail stores?
[ "Behavioural pricing", "Shopping intention", "Store price image", "Unit pricing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: When assessing price information provided by a retailer, customers are confronted not only with the package price of a product but also with its unit price. The unit price indicates what a given product costs per unit of meas...
Power and politics in gender research: a research note from the discipline of accounting
[ "Feminism", "Gender", "Accounting", "Politics", "Management power" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A symposium addressing both research methodology and gender gives an ideal opportunity to consider how these two issues inter-relate in a number of ways and contexts. This research note offers a brief insight into the discipl...
Embodied refusals and choreographic criticalities: Seventh grade boys of color writing "Mute"
[ "Storytelling", "Critical literacy", "Embodiment", "Black boyhood", "Black feminist theory", "Superheroes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the spring of 2017, a group of seventh-grade boys, five of whom identified as Black and one of whom identified as Latino, worked together in a weekly in-class, superhero storytelling project. In this project, students were...
Responses of the Yellow River basin vegetation: climate change
[ "Climate change", "NDVI", "Land use", "Spatial–temporal variation", "Environmental policy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The correlation between global climate change and the terrestrial ecosystem is one of the core subjects in scientific research on global climate change (Zhang, 1993). According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cha...
Have "European politics" and EU policy making replaced the politics of member state countries?
[ "European Union", "Economic policy", "Social policy", "Immigration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In order to assess the contribution of former and current politicians it is necessary to examine key themes. These would include economy, trade unions, populist themes social justice and foreign policy. The impact of the Euro...
Exposure of chlorpyrifos in toddlers living in an agricultural area in Sakon Nakhon province, North-East Thailand
[ "Young children", "Agricultural area", "Blood cholinesterase", "Chlorpyrifos" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Agriculture is the primary occupation in Thailand, and 46.54 per cent of the land area is devoted to agriculture. Most of agriculture area (63.85 per cent) is located in the northeastern part of the country[1]. Pesticides are...
Turkish school principals' earthquake experiences and reactions
[ "Earthquakes", "Natural disasters", "Principals", "Turkey", "Case studies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: At 3.01 am, on August 17, 1999 an earthquake registering 7.4 on the Richter scale hit the northwest part of Turkey, centering on the cities of Izmit, Adapazari, and Istanbul. This earthquake caused deaths of more than 17,000 ...
Writing a scientific publication for a management journal
[ "Research methods", "Management science", "Publications" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The purpose of this paper is to:* encourage researchers to use data and ideas they already have to in order to prepare a publication;* give guidance about to how to structure a paper and get it published; and* raise debate in...
Monitoring trends in research student experience
[ "Research student experience", "Quality assurance", "Student feedback" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In Australia, in the past decades increasing attention has been paid to the quality of research education by universities, governments, prospective employers and industry partners. The success of research students and quality...
Implicit assumptions in high potentials recruitment
[ "High potential", "Recruitment", "Pharmaceutical industry", "Segmentation", "Human resource management", "Targeting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Only flexible companies that proactively learn and adapt will sustain themselves in ever-changing environments (Collins, 2001). Accordingly, learning capability is a common and important element in talent definitions (Ready e...
Expected scenarios of environmental threats in Iraq compared with Kuwait's case
[ "Kuwait", "Iraq", "Warfare", "Oil industry", "Fire", "Sustainable development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Historical background\nConclusion: Blowing up the Iraqi oil wells or diverting their flows into the rivers Tigris and Euphrates are considered as the worst possible scenarios that may happen at the \"cradles of civilization\"...
The role of values and leadership style in developing OCB among Arab teachers in Israel
[ "Organizational commitment", "Transformational leadership", "Organizational citizenship behavior", "Individual values" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) has become one of the more researched outcomes in the field of organizational behavior and industrial psychology (Ehrhart and Naumann, 2004), as shown in several comprehensive literat...
Mapping out Arab international book fairs: Investigating the development of the Muscat book fair
[ "Oman", "Libraries", "Arab book fairs", "Book fairs", "Book publishing industry", "Muscat international book fair", "Reading habits" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Book fairs play an important role and involve several participants in the publishing industry and the advancement of knowledge enquiry (Moeran, 2010). The history of book fairs dates back more than five centuries, with the Fr...
How organisations can affect employees' intention to manage enterprise-specific knowledge through informal mentoring: a vignette study
[ "Mentoring", "Self-determination theory", "Perceived organisational support", "Vignettes", "Knowledge management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Mentoring is regarded as one of the major ways in which organisations can manage their knowledge. As Wickert and Herschel (2001) state, knowledge management (KM) depends upon human interaction. Creating mentoring relations ca...
Contradictory results on environmental concern while re-visiting green purchase awareness and behavior
[ "Pakistan", "Environmental concern", "Consumers", "Green purchase behavior", "Green product awareness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A healthy environment is the outcome of educated society. Countries should devise and implement policies to increase environmental education for a sustainable environment. With the increase in population, vehicles and cutt...
Needs of patient with advanced stages of cancer in a Thai community: Mixed method approach
[ "Palliative care", "Cancer patients" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Cancer is a potential life-threatening disease. In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) projected that the number of annual new cancer cases will rise from 14m in 2012 to 22m within the next two decades[1]. In high-incom...
Total factor productivity growth and its contribution: lessons from the Chinese construction industry pre- and post-2008 financial crisis
[ "Construction industry", "Total factor productivity growth (TFPG)", "2008 financial crisis", "Lessons" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Total factor productivity growth (TFPG) and its contribution (TFPGC) have vital strategic implications in promoting the competitive advantage of the construction industry. Although there are still some slight differences i...
Banking patronage motives of the urban informal poor
[ "Urban communities", "Poverty", "Disadvantaged groups", "Banking", "South Africa", "Social economics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers can be found at the end of this article.\nIntroduction: In developing nations such as South Africa, India and Indonesia, the vast majority of consumers are poor by international standards. On...
Work-family culture in academia: a gendered view of work-family conflict and coping strategies
[ "Gender", "Conflict management", "Family roles", "Design of work", "Portugal", "Academic staff" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Higher-education institutions have been going through a major transformation with a significant impact on the role and working practices of the academics (Barry et al., 2001). In the context of the \"increasingly economistic ...
Blogs and the design of reflective peer-to-peer technology-enhanced learning and formative assessment
[ "Blogs", "Peer‐to‐peer learning", "Formative assessment", "Technology‐enhanced learning", "Online learning", "Higher education", "Students", "Sweden" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The body of research concerning the design of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) (Kukulska-Hulme and Jones, 2011; Laurillard, 2008a) and educational technology (Januszewski and Molenda, 2008) is growing rapidly (Balacheff et ...
Heuristics versus econometrics as a basis for forecasting international inflation differentials
[ "Heuristics", "Forecasting", "Deflation", "Exchange rate regime", "International inflation differentials" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This article addresses the topic of forecasting inflation in countries that consider fixing their exchange rate or that already live with a pegged currency. For the purpose of forecasting, we will present three simple heur...
Organisational capabilities: antecedents and implications for customer value
[ "Organizational culture", "Market orientation", "Human resource management", "Customer service management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organisational capabilities enable organisations to deliver superior customer value consistently (Narver et al., 2004). Hult and Ketchen (2000) identify four capabilities:1. market orientation;2. entrepreneurship;3. innovativ...
What is your recession playbook?
[ "Recession", "Economic growth", "Corporate strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: By the time you read this column, the National Bureau of Economic Research may declare the USA to be in recession. Economists define a recession as a decline in the gross domestic product for two or more consecutive quarters....
If and when social and economic leader-member exchange relationships predict follower work effort : The moderating role of work motivation
[ "Social exchange", "Leader-member exchange", "Intrinsic motivation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: According to leader-member exchange (LMX) theory, leaders do not treat all subordinates alike, but rather differentiate between subordinates and develop a high-quality exchange relationship with some, and a low-quality exchan...
The devil's dictionary of business strategy
[ "Lexicon", "Dictionaries", "Strategic terms", "Management strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: accounting n. The fanciful and avant-garde attempt of a group of bohemian green-eye-shade-wearing rebels to assign objective value to the various flailings of humans on earth.actionable adj. Having achieved such a level of ob...
Construction contractors integrating into facilities management
[ "Facilities", "Innovation", "Construction industry", "Sweden" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In many cases, firms that operate in the market for facilities management and deliver facilities services have their origins in a particular service or ability, from which they have expanded their service offerings to include...
Lean Six Sigma in policing services: A case study from an organisational learning perspective
[ "Public sector", "Six Sigma", "Lean", "Lean Six Sigma", "Organizational learning", "Police services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This view point paper is developed from one of the pilot case studies undertaken by Police Scotland in partnership with Heriot-Watt University. Like many public sector organisations, the police service has faced significant b...
Integrity, ethical leadership, trust and work engagement
[ "Work engagement", "Integrity", "Trust in leader", "Ethical leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Identifying the situations that foster work engagement of employees is vital for the sustainability and growth of organisations (Bakker and Demerouti, 2008; Den Hartog and Belschak, 2012; Tims et al., 2011). Engaged employees...
Creative use of technology for learning and development: avoiding controlling tendencies
[ "Learning", "E‐learning", "Training" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nE-learning problems: E-learning approaches and related uses of technologies have grown. Some of the early errors of merely translating boring paper material into boring screen material have moved on (but many of these errors persist). I st...
Blurred roles and elusive boundaries: On contemporary forms of oversight surrounding professional work
[ "Professional associations", "Accounting and auditing regulation", "Boundary work", "Independent oversight", "Professional regulation", "Regulatory space" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Economic and financial crises often lead to changes in laws, rules, and mechanisms of control (Hancher and Moran, 1989). Professional scandals are no exception as they also provoke calls for regulatory changes (Woods et al...
Books as a knowledge translation mechanism: citation analysis and author survey
[ "Knowledge management", "Intellectual capital", "Relevance", "Academic research", "Citation analysis", "Scientometrics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Knowledge management and intellectual capital (KM/IC) is a burgeoning scholarly management discipline which has existed for just over a decade. Despite this, it has already gained recognition within the business community ...
Developing a typology of disruptive customer behaviors: Influence of customer misbehavior on service experience of by-standing customers
[ "Netnography", "Service experience", "Customer misbehaviour", "Customer-to-customer interactions", "Disruptive customer behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Misbehaviors and actions of other customers present in a service encounter can have significant effects on by-standing customers' service experiences (Bitner et al., 1994). Customer misbehavior refers to \"behavior in exchang...
Why teams achieve higher negotiation profits than individuals: the mediating role of deceptive tactics
[ "Deception by commission", "Deception by omission", "Deceptive negotiation tactics", "Individual negotiator", "Negotiation profit", "Negotiation team" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In many business negotiations, teams are involved rather than individual negotiators because the negotiation task is generally rather complex (Wilken et al., 2013). Existing research - in particular, the great many studies th...
Country-of-origin effects in service evaluation in emerging markets: some insights from five West African countries
[ "Country of origin", "Emerging markets", "Ethnocentrism", "Culture", "West Africa" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: International service providers, such as McDonald's and Walt Disney, often face the strategic dilemma of how to position their service offerings in other cultures in part because of the \"American\" appeal of their market off...
Waters gets the measure of creating value from service: Engineers given customer accounts to manage as their own
[ "Customer service", "Training", "Customer relationships", "Engineers", "Organizational change", "Customer service management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: What's the best way to train a field service team? The most obvious answer is to ensure they are experts in the products or technologies they are servicing.\nHighly qualified personnel: It is little wonder that Waters' servic...
Prediction of restoration factor for various maintenance types of railway systems using analytical hierarchy process
[ "Preventive maintenance", "Imperfect maintenance", "Corrective maintenance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Most of the industrial systems (such as trains, nuclear power plants, planes, etc.) are maintained in operating condition through maintenance activities carried out to restore or retain the health of their deteriorating or...
Performance monitoring by managerial teams
[ "Organization design", "LEN models", "Management teams", "Performance measurement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper explores the design of management teams when the critical task facing individual managers is monitoring the performance of worker teams and producing performance measures under uncertain information environments...
Students' experiences of ability-based streaming in vocational education
[ "Drop-out", "Organization of school", "Streaming", "Vocational education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Since 1993, Danish governments have pursued an ambitious goal of ensuring that 95 per cent of a youth cohort completes upper secondary education. Consequently, educational institutions are under a great deal of pressure to in...
Accounting legislation, corporate governance codes and disclosure in Jordan: a review
[ "Jordan", "Corporate Governance", "Accounting legislation", "Disclosure practice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: It has been argued that the amount of information disclosed by companies varies across countries depending on the level of economic development, reporting legislation forces, professional accounting practices and the exist...
Learning agility: the "X" factor in identifying and developing future leaders
[ "Learning agility", "Leadership development", "Succession planning", "Learning", "Learning methods", "Leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Leaders of the future need to be better than the leaders they replace because the challenges are greater, the speed faster, the competition tougher, and the marketplace increasingly global. In short, the leaders of today and ...
Multicultural marketplaces: New territory for international marketing and consumer research
[ "International marketing", "Cultural diversity", "Multicultural marketplaces", "Intergroup relations", "Multicultural competence", "Transnational networks" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: History is laden with examples of cities, regions, countries in which people from different cultures have lived together. Often this was confined to geographically proximate cultures or defined by trade routes. However, radic...
Improving change management: how communication nature influences resistance to change
[ "Change management", "Communication", "Company performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It is already a common sense that changes are no longer happening sparsely, but are the pattern for nowadays. As well as widely announced scenarios of broader, faster changes (Eisenhardt, 1989a, b; Burnes and James, 1995) org...
Population growth, income growth and savings in Ghana
[ "Economic growth", "Gini index of Ghana", "Energy consumption", "Gross savings" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: National savings are critical to the development of every nation. It is so important that when less developed capital markets channel funds inefficiently from surplus units to deficit units for various productive activitie...
Improving integration of human resources into quality management system standards
[ "ISO 9001", "People", "Human resources", "Business management standards", "ISO 9004", "Quality management system standards" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Considerable attention in the quality movement has been dedicated to measuring and improving the technical aspects of quality management. While there is no doubt that this focus on product and process attributes is essenti...
Micro determinants of the extent of credit rationing amongst SMEs in Ghana
[ "Ghana", "SMEs", "Credit rationing", "Micro determinants" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are important agents of economic growth across the world (Kongolo, 2010; Ayyagari et al., 2011). These enterprises promote innovation and entrepreneurship. They are found to be lab...
Application of fault tree analysis to the service process: service tree analysis approach
[ "Services", "Customers", "Boolean functions", "Data analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Owing to the rapid changes throughout the service industry, complexity of the service process has significantly increased. Consequently, in-depth analysis of the service process becomes imperative for those who are in charge ...
The revenue and logistics costs of convenience store chains in Taiwan
[ "Location", "High-density expansion", "Agglomeration", "Store clustering", "Spatial analysis", "Logistics costs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: One of the most notable changes in the global retail market over the past thirty-five years has been the rise of convenience store (c-store) chains (Marshall, 2016, 2018; Rybaczewska and Sparks, 2020). Boasting more than 1...
The impact of incentive framing format and language congruency on readers' post-reading responses to email advertisements
[ "Incentives", "Framing theory", "Email marketing", "Discount", "Language congruency" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Defined as the approach of using electronic mail to deliver promotional or commercial messages to targeted people (Laudon and Traver, 2018), email marketing is known as essential for tourism and hospitality businesses in e...