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Performance management analysis: a case study at a Dutch municipality
[ "Performance management", "Behaviour", "Government", "The Netherlands" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroducing the performance management analysis: In order to make a performance management system successful, i.e. it is regularly used by managers and results in improved organisational performance (Moriarty and Kennedy, 2002; Propper and...
Making customer engagement fun: Customer-salesperson interaction in luxury fashion retailing
[ "Customer loyalty", "Relationship marketing", "Sales", "Fashion retailing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the last decades, luxury retail sectors have experienced dynamic growth, which has doubled to $220 billion in USA (Demos, 2007; Gumbel, 2007). According to a recent report, the worldwide luxury market increased by 13 per...
The enhanced participant-driven photo elicitation method for everyday life health information behaviour research
[ "Qualitative research", "Information behaviour", "Qualitative method", "Photo elicitation", "Activity tracking technology", "Health information behaviour", "Visual method" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The emerging wearable and ubiquitous computing technologies enable people to have access to new types of health information outside of traditional healthcare settings (e.g. clinics, hospitals). For example, activity tracke...
How to increase organizational commitment through transactional leadership
[ "PLS", "Autonomy", "Partial least squares", "Australia", "Organizational commitment", "Competence", "Transactional leadership", "Relatedness", "Contingent reward", "Psychological need satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In this paper we address an abiding issue in leadership research: Why and how do some leaders have a more positive impact on followers than other leaders? To address that question, we primarily take what Hosking (2011, p. ...
A health audit for corporate entrepreneurship: innovation at all levels: part I
[ "Entrepreneurialism", "Strategic management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the twenty-first century, knowledge and the ideas flowing from it are a more important source of competitive advantage than a firm's physical assets are. Knowledge is information that is laden with experience, judgment, in...
Developing a methodology for assessing virtual teams' performance perception
[ "Virtual teams", "Operation strategy", "Performance measures", "Comprehension", "Operations management", "Perception" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Organizations have become more distributed across geography and across industries. The nature of teams has changed significantly because of changes in organizations and the nature of the work they do. Relationships between...
Cities in the experience economy: the rise and the future of urban leisure formats
[ "Trends", "Urban leisure", "Urban tourism", "City tourism", "Structured experiences concept", "Experienscape", "Experience economy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Since human and creative capital became the theoretical background of urban development, consumption, leisure and tourism have been recognised as crucial drivers of city competitiveness and regeneration of urban space (cf. Cl...
An empirical study of a novel managing customer power model and business performance in the mobile service industry
[ "Customer satisfaction", "Flexibility", "Service quality", "Call centre", "Questionnaires research", "Waiting time", "Business process modelling (PM)", "Business performance", "Change management", "Customer differentiation", "Mathematical model", "Priority queue" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: One of the major challenges of business process model (PM) is that the business environment and business processes (BPs) can change rapidly (Hvolby and Trienekens, 2010; O'regan and Ghobadian, 2002; Neubauer, 2009). The bu...
Local government modernization in Albania: Historical background and the territorial reform 2015-2020
[ "Decentralization", "Albania", "Local autonomy", "Territorial reform" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As evidenced by other scholars, since the fall of Communism in 1991, Albania has applied its first governmental reforms. These reforms have been focused on the whole public sector and institutional building, driven by the ...
Lessons in building capacity in sexuality education using the health promoting school framework: From planning to implementation
[ "Action research", "Education", "Health promotion", "School", "Health promoting schools", "Sexuality", "Sex education", "Sex and relationships education", "Community health interventions", "Health promotion programme planning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The health promoting schools model (HPS) is rarely implemented in relation to sexuality education. The patchy and ad hoc nature of sexuality education, the lack of trained teachers, concerns about parental and community backl...
The Physical Internet - review, analysis and future research agenda
[ "Business model innovation", "Grand challenge", "Autonomous logistics", "Intelligent Cargo", "Open logistics", "Physical Internet" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Logistics today is not environmentally and socially sustainable. Freight transportation accounts for 7 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions (Stern, 2008) and cost efficiency is often achieved by drivers working under po...
"How to use it more?" Self-efficacy and its sources in the use of social media for knowledge sharing
[ "Researchers", "Barriers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the last few years, social media has been increasingly used as a tool for communicating and sharing. Facebook, Twitter LinkedIn, YouTube and others are frequently utilised to facilitate sharing of ideas, pictures, comme...
Analyzing data from a pretest-posttest control group design: The importance of statistical assumptions
[ "Experiment", "Regression", "Assumptions", "Homogeneity of regression slopes", "Quantitative methods", "Statistical tests" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: For several decades, researchers in the human resource development (HRD) field have been interested in determining if an intervention has made a change in knowledge, skills and/or attitudes. As noted by Russ-Eft and Hoover (2...
Inadvertent returns to theatre within 30 days (IRT30) of surgery: An educational tool to monitor surgical complications and improve our performance as surgeons
[ "Outcomes", "Clinical governance", "Surgery", "Clinical audit", "Morbidity and mortality", "Safety and/or clinical risk management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Surgical complications lead to poor patient outcome and may be a reason to change clinical and/or surgical practice. At present there is an increasing trend towards monitoring the quality of patient care, however, the quality...
What drives green persistence intentions?
[ "Green experiential satisfaction", "Green co-creation", "Green need for cognition", "Green persistence intentions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The World Commission on Environment and Development, and the International Hotels Environmental Initiative act as a catalyst for green practices (Tzschentke et al., 2004). To respond to customers' environmental concerns, hote...
Quality assessment of city bus service based on subjective and objective service quality dimensions: Case study in Guwahati, India
[ "Benchmarking", "Objective service quality dimensions", "Quality improvement measures", "Passengers’ perception" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Urban growth and population expansion in the recent years across the world are resulting in an increased demand in the existing transportation infrastructure especially in the urban areas. This increased demand in transpor...
Sending mobile messages to different social ties in modern urban life: How do anxiety and time-shortage matter?
[ "Social networking (e.g. Facebook", "Second life)", "Information", "Social network analysis", "Virtual identity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The inhabitants of today's cities usually fill multiple roles and are required to manage several tasks simultaneously. As a modern communication tool, mobile messaging can help individuals connect with various social groups a...
Examining the relationship between perceived organizational support, transfer of training and service quality in the Malaysian public sector
[ "Public sector", "Malaysia", "Transfer of training", "Service quality", "Perceived organizational support" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Transfer of training refers to the consistent application of knowledge, skills and attitudes, gained during training, to the workplace (Blume et al., 2010). An employee is considered to have transferred the training to his...
How travel agency reputation creates recommendation behavior
[ "Perceived value", "Reputation", "Flow experience", "Recommendation behavior", "Tour leader performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Due to tense and stressful jobs, people today may seek to release their work pressure through vacation travel (UCDAVIS Health System, 2012). Thus, along with growing demand for travel, various travel activities involving high...
Household food waste reduction: Italian consumers' analysis for improving food management
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Structural equation model", "Household food waste", "Attitude to reduce" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The way to produce and consume food has a huge impact on the planet's resources (Wrap, 2009). There is no doubt that to move toward a sustainable future involves a profound transformation of the food sector, because this f...
Oil spill incidents and pipeline vandalization in Nigeria: Impact on public health and negation to attainment of Millennium development goal: the Ishiagu example
[ "Pipelines", "Vandalism", "Personal health" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Background: Oil undoubtedly is one of the influential commodities in the world market today. It is also a highly priced product of the extractive industry. Unfortunately, the process involved in its exploration, extraction and transport...
Branding of learning and development: evidence from research
[ "Brands", "Learning", "Training" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Learning and development functions in organizations often complain that they find it difficult to get over their message to potential customers in the organization. They may be concerned that their courses do not get the take...
Exploring the influence of cultural elements on Chinese manufacturing quality
[ "Manufacturing systems", "Quality", "Influence", "Cross‐cultural management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Rapid political and economic changes, fast growth of manufacturing output, abundant and cheap work force, as well as wisdom of an old civilization made today's China an attractive target for foreign direct investments. Man...
Understanding third sector performance measurement system design: a literature review
[ "Measurement", "Nonprofit", "Literature synthesis", "Voluntary sector" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The complexities associated with measuring the performance of third sector organizations continue to dominate discourse in third sector literature (see Moxham, 2009; Carman, 2010; Packard, 2010). Such research has argued that...
Public entrepreneurship and sub-clinical psychopaths: a conceptual frame and implications
[ "Toxic leadership", "Corporate psychopaths", "Psychopathic leaders", "Public entrepreneurship", "Public sector leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The field of public entrepreneurship has elicited a fair amount of research interest during the past few decades. Despite many proponents, the body of literature should be examined given its anti-traditionalist orientation an...
Communicating crisis: how culture influences image repair in Western and Asian governments
[ "Case studies", "Communication management", "Crisis management", "Cross‐cultural management", "National cultures", "Rhetoric", "Disaster management", "Government policy", "United States of America", "Taiwan" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A veteran practitioner once said:A good image - one that's well made and well cared for is something that stands the test of time, it is something that can survive everything - scandal, change, bad earnings (Lerbinger, 1997, ...
New food processing technologies as a paradigm of safety and quality
[ "Electric fields", "Hydrostatics", "Food safety", "Quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Food preservation techniques can be classified as traditional, such as those based on the effects of temperature, in the reduction of water activity or pH, and the addition of preservatives; or other processes referred to as ...
A gravitational model of international retail market selection
[ "International business", "Retailing", "Managers", "Marketing decision making" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: International retailing is the subject of considerable research interest and it is in the process of theoretical development (Alexander and Doherty, 2009). Existing research provides valuable perspectives on issues such as th...
Critical evaluation of two models for entrepreneurial education: An improved model through integration
[ "Entrepreneurialism", "Educational development", "Training" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In a desperate attempt to stimulate entrepreneurial activity, policy makers often rely on success stories, anecdotes and cases to demonstrate the utopia that will result when entrepreneurial activities take off. This will cre...
The transformation of the e-tailing field: a bibliometric analysis
[ "Retailing", "Bibliometric", "E-tailing", "Co-word" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Observing the development of an academic field is critical for the transfer and use of knowledge toward practical life. Journals, authors, citations and articles shape or describe a particular field, making it possible to ...
Gaps between competence and importance of employability skills: evidence from Malaysia
[ "Skills", "Malaysia", "Employability", "Workforce", "Hospitality", "TVET" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Malaysia needs high-skilled workforce to support growth of the industry. With dynamically changing job market and progressive technological change, employees are expected to keep abreast of global economics (Singh et al., ...
Exploring the development of library makerspaces in China
[ "Content analysis", "Technology adoption", "Service model", "Chinese libraries", "Makerspace", "Policy guidance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Because of the expansion of physical spaces, improvement of functionalities and introduction of smart devices, contemporary libraries devote increased efforts to the renovation of spaces and innovation of services to adapt to...
Optimization of the simultaneous pickup and delivery vehicle routing problem based on carbon tax
[ "Low carbon", "Environmental degradation", "Global warming", "Vehicle routing problem", "Carbon tax", "Adaptive genetic hill-climbing algorithm", "Simultaneous pickup and delivery" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The increasing global warming and environmental degradation have aroused widespread concern in the world (Xue et al., 2017). In order to slow down the bad development trend of the environment, developing a low-carbon econo...
A hidden deterioration in equal pay achievements? The case of employee benefits during the Greek recession
[ "Utility", "Recession", "Gender", "Employee benefits", "Greece", "Employee rewards" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The debate and research over the gender pay gap and equal remuneration are very rich and multifaceted, yet still topical, as the gender pay gap is a persisting phenomenon across the world (Figueiredo et al., 2015; Alaez-Aller...
Intelligent assignment in clusters to enhance collaboration and innovation
[ "Innovation", "Fuzzy logic", "New product development", "Analytical hierarchy process (AHP)", "Supply networks", "Virtual organizations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Large enterprises reduce input costs through global sourcing by allocating best available suppliers (Yucenur et al., 2011). Therefore the supply chain is integrated as an economizing strategy (Ursino, 2015), interacting li...
Assessing new employee orientation programs
[ "Career development", "Employees", "Socialization", "Employee orientation programs", "New employees" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: New employee orientation (NEO) programs have been shown to socialize newcomers and increase their knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) upon completion. These types of programs are perhaps the most influential piece of an em...
Analyzing supplier development criteria for an automobile industry
[ "Supply chain management", "Suppliers", "Supplier evaluation", "India" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Supply chain management (SCM) is the term used to describe the management of the flow of materials, information, and funds across the entire supply chain, from suppliers to component producers to final assemblers to distri...
The application of a hybrid simulation modelling framework as a decision-making tool for TPM improvement
[ "Discrete event simulation", "System dynamics", "Decision making framework", "Total productive maintenance (TPM)", "TPM practices", "Hybrid modelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Many problems in production are multifaceted and involve human-related actions/inactions. Udo and Ebiefung (1999) claim that several technical and social changes occur in a system, and where workers are involved, self-inte...
The peculiarities of knowledge management processes in SMEs: the case of Singapore
[ "Knowledge sharing", "Knowledge creation", "Knowledge reuse", "Case study in Singapore", "Knowledge management processes", "Small medium enterprises" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are often referred to as the backbone of the economy as they provide the source for jobs and social cohesion (OECD, 2012). In fact, over 90 percent of OECD member countries' enterp...
Lawyers and the "new extraction" in Africa
[ "Africa", "Global political economy", "Political sociology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction. The \"new extraction\" in Africa: a challenge for policy and scholarship: Over the past 15 years, the African continent has gained renewed prominence as a \"mining frontier\" (see Campbell, 2009) in a context marked by the in...
Non-profit organization's innovative donor management-the identification of salient factors that drive donor loyalty
[ "Trust", "WOM", "Innovative donor management", "Attitude towards beneficiaries", "Intention to continue donation", "Self-esteem", "Non-profit organization marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The persistent upsurges in the number of non-profit organizations (NPO), coupled with the growing requirement of the provision of services by NPOs have brought in their trial some challenges in donor acquisition and managemen...
Market power, competition policy and developing economies: Divergent conditions within African and Caribbean economies
[ "Market system", "Profit", "Competitive strategy", "Caribbean", "Sub Saharan Africa" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The 1990s saw the escalation in the number of countries establishing competition policies. In particular Sub-Saharan African economies embraced the opportunity to implement policies that reflected their changed economic st...
"Happy slaves"? The adaptation problem and identity politics in the writings of Amartya Sen
[ "Adaptation problem", "Amartya Sen", "Benthamite utilitarianism", "Identity politics", "John Stuart Mill", "Mary Wollstonecraft" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The utilitarian approach attaches no intrinsic importance to claims of rights and freedoms [...] It is sensible enough to take note of happiness, but we do not necessarily want to be happy slavesAmartya Sen (1999a, p. 62).In...
Constructing career competency model of hospitality industry employees for career success
[ "Career development", "Competency", "Core employability", "Career success", "Hospitality industry", "Hospitality services", "Hotels" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: New career development has been defined as a boundary-less career path (Arthur, 1994). People who are employed in the hospitality and convention industries follow a self-directed career, and they typically apply career mobili...
The real mission of pricing: beyond numbers to management partner
[ "Organization", "Collaboration", "Pricing", "Strategy", "Growth", "Revenues", "Tools", "Talent", "Competitors", "Discounting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Building an effective pricing function, or upgrading an existing one, is increasingly on the top management agenda. Pricing is the next management lever to grow profits and revenues, and companies with a centralized pricing f...
E-learner experiences: key questions to ask when considering implementing e-learning
[ "E‐learning", "Learning methods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In May 2004, Ashridge published a research report based on case studies, surveys and interviews held at 29 of their \"virtual learning resource centre\" client companies. A number of themes recurred when it came to the issue ...
Strategic benchmarking of service pricing based on the value added
[ "Value", "Service operations", "Pricing", "Market performance", "Revenues", "Strategic benchmarking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Benchmarking is a tool to compare product attributes, quality attributes, operations, and processes (Panwar et al., 2013; Asrofah et al., 2010). Benchmarking studies have previously focussed on the supply chain, including ...
The evolution of stakeholder management practices in Australian mega construction projects
[ "Organization", "Management", "Construction", "Case study", "Strategic management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A megaproject is \"a project or aggregates of such projects characterized by magnified cost, extreme complexity, increased risk, lofty ideas and high visibility, in a combination that represents a significant challenge to ...
Not just a pretty face: economic drivers behind the arts-in-business movement
[ "Innovation", "Design", "Product differentiation", "Arts" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Look closely and you will notice that recent enthusiasm for innovation in business includes an aesthetic component, a rising interest in the uses and effects of art and the methods of art making in businesses of all kinds. Th...
Are not-for-profits learning from for-profit-organizations? A look into governance
[ "Governance", "Non-profit organizations", "Board of directors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction and background: Governance has been extensively linked to performance in For-Profit Organizations (Coles et al., 2001). In the case of Not-for-Profit Organizations, governance is related not only to the performance of the orga...
Multiple effects of human resource development interventions
[ "Technical training", "Coaching", "Job satisfaction", "Employee involvement", "Performance management", "Human resource development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The rapidly accelerating rate of technological innovation forces organizations to invest in employees' training and development interventions. Consequently, human resource development interventions (DI) such as non-technical ...
The missing link to patient engagement in Italy: The role of health literacy in enabling patients
[ "Value co-creation", "Patient behaviour", "Patient engagement", "Health literacy", "Health service co-production" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: the quest for patient empowerment: Patient empowerment is a well-rooted concept, which inspires the evolving trends of health care systems all over the world (Saltman, 1994). Simultaneously, the engagement of patients in t...
Urban Indian adolescents practise unhealthy dietary behaviours
[ "India", "Adolescents", "Fast food", "Snacking", "Meal skipping" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There has been a major rise in the prevalence of obesity among Indian adolescents during the last decade (Shukla et al., 2016; Subashini et al., 2015). Obesity is recognised as an important risk factor for non-communicable di...
Adoption of interorganizational system standards in supply chains: An empirical analysis of RosettaNet standards
[ "Standards", "Data analysis", "Electronic commerce", "Malaysia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The current business environment is getting more competitive and organizations are increasingly focusing on operating as efficient as possible. One way for organizations to be efficient and achieve competitive advantages over...
Emerging threats for MNC subsidiaries and the cycle of decline
[ "Multinational companies", "Subsidiaries", "Value chain", "Resources", "Innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: One of the primary threats evidenced in both the academic and practitioner press is the potential for multinational corporations (MNC) to shift their domestic and foreign subsidiary operations to lower cost locations, includi...
Origins of the commercial hospitality industry: from the fanciful to factual
[ "Hospitality services", "History" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Exploring the historical roots of commercial hospitality has practical value to the contemporary hospitality industry; O'Connor (2005, p. 267) highlighted: \"only once an understanding of hospitality's origins and its place i...
Fairness, legitimacy and the regulation of home-sharing platforms
[ "Sharing economy", "Fairness", "Regulation", "Legitimacy", "Ride-hailing", "Home-sharing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: By popularizing asset-sharing among private individuals, the so-called \"sharing economy\" has ushered in a variety of technological, economic and societal advances (Hamari et al., 2016; Malhotra and Van Alstyne, 2014). Howev...
You can't always get what you want? Leadership expectations of intrapreneurs
[ "Transformational leadership", "Intrapreneurship", "Implicit Leadership Theory", "Leadership expectations", "Young employees" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: You cannot expect your employees to exceed the expectations of your customers if you do not exceed your employees' expectations of managementHoward Schultz, CEO, Starbucks.In today's dynamic context, organizations seek new wa...
Consumer sociability and service provider expertise influence on service relationship success
[ "Personality traits", "Relationship marketing", "Consumer behaviour", "Customer relations", "United States of America" ]
[ { "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.\nHypotheses: Perceived expertise of the service provider\nMethod: A total of 15,000 questionnaires were mailed to a random sampl...
A holistic model of the servicescape in fast casual dining
[ "Crowding", "Satisfaction", "Social servicescape", "Physical servicescape", "Fast casual restaurants" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Recently, a growing body of research has developed concerning the effects of social servicescape in the hospitality industry. Generally speaking, social servicescape can be seen as an extension of Bitner's (1992) concept o...
Impact investing in South Africa: managing tensions between financial returns and social impact
[ "Africa", "Paradox", "Tensions", "Impact investment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: There has been increased the optimism about economic growth in much of the African continent (Perry, 2012); yet, hopes have also been tempered by concerns (Manson, 2015; Mbele, 2016). Running in parallel to this narrative ...
Entrepreneurial orientation and the mediating role of organisational learning amongst Indian S-SMEs
[ "India", "Organizational learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Entrepreneurial behaviours have attracted significant attention in both the popular press and academic literature, with such behaviours being encouraged by governments as they are considered key drivers in a country's economi...
"Let the community decide"? The vision and reality of soundness-only peer review in open-access mega-journals
[ "Economics", "Electronic publishing", "Electronic journals", "Publishing", "Free publications", "Journal publishers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Peer review is a fundamental element of scholarly publishing. The process, which involves research papers submitted to journals being assessed by experts in the field in order to inform the decision to accept or reject pap...
Econometric investigation of internet banking adoption in Greece
[ "Greece", "Adoption", "Internet banking", "Logit model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The study of the economics of diffusion of new technologies has received growing attention in recent years. \"Diffusion is the process in which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the mem...
Unpacking the combined effects of job scope and supervisor support on in-role performance
[ "Supervisor support", "In-role performance", "Job characteristics theory", "Job scope", "Social support theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizations of various sectors are not giving proper attention toward the importance of social context in highly challenging working environment for employees. The social context in highly challenging work settings plays a ...
Family firms, board structure and firm performance: evidence from top Indian firms
[ "India", "Family firms", "Corporate governance", "Firm performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Family businesses are the most dominant among publically traded firms across the world (Shleifer and Vishny, 1986; Burkart et al., 2003; Anderson and Reeb, 2003; La Porta et al., 1999). In Continental Europe, about 44 per ...
Sustainable organisational learning - a lite tool for implementing learning in enterprises
[ "Evaluation", "Organizational learning", "Competence development", "Learning technology", "Learning transfer" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Unstable and dynamic societal and business environments are making it more imperative than ever that organisations have the ability to operate its learning processes in order to optimise competence development, performance an...
E-campaigning versus the Public Official Election Act in South Korea: Causes, consequences and implications of cyber-exile
[ "South Korea", "Politics", "Legislation", "Elections", "Internet", "Social networking sites", "E‐campaign", "Election law", "Cyber‐exile", "YouTube", "Network analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In South Korea, restrictions on political speech surrounding elections are more stringent than in many other countries. The Public Official Election Act (hereinafter POEA, enacted in March 1994 as a result of integration of f...
Reframing integration: Information marginalization and information resistance among migrant workers
[ "Intermediaries", "Migrants", "Integration", "Information behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In this study, I present the findings from a qualitative investigation that explored the other side of the issue of integration of migrants; that is, the views and perceptions of information intermediaries working with migran...
Narratives of (in)active ageing in poor deprived areas of Liverpool, UK
[ "United Kingdom", "Liverpool", "Elderly people", "Social policy", "Poverty", "Deprivation", "Active ageing", "Narratives" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: I see they've been killing cats again [...] \"Better bring mine in, then.\nBackground to the case study: Demographic change has stimulated reviews of concepts of ageing, with \"active\" ageing emerging as an important focus (...
Children's perceptions of obesity as explained by the common sense model of illness representation
[ "Qualitative research", "Children (age groups)", "Obesity", "Individual perception" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Childhood obesity is a growing global health concern, with physical, emotional and social consequences frequently persisting into adulthood (Daniels et al., 2005; Must and Strauss, 1999; Doak et al., 2006; Reilly et al., 2...
The hegemonic gender order in politics
[ "Gender", "Discourse analysis", "Politics", "Critical feminist perspective" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Despite the ongoing increase of women in the top positions of hierarchy, they continue to be underrepresented in politics occupying 19.5 percent of seats worldwide, 22.8 percent in Europe, 22.6 percent in the Americas and 42....
The role of frequent engagement in alliances in firm likelihood to patent: First wave alliances in UK bio-pharmaceuticals
[ "Innovation", "Pharmaceutical industry", "Strategic alliances", "Patents", "Biotechnology", "C33", "M10", "O32", "D74" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As the popularity of strategic alliances is increasing and such alliances are becoming an integral component in business development, attention in the research community has moved towards an exploration of their role in fi...
Smartphones and wine consumers: a study of Gen-Y
[ "Wine", "M-commerce", "Social Networks Systems", "Y-generatio" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: \"Omnichannel\" has become a buzzword in retail for good reason. New technologies, such as mobile devices and social media, combined with better data, bring the long-time dream of a unified cross-channel shopping experience w...
Towards global music digital libraries: A cross-cultural comparison on the mood of Chinese music
[ "Digital libraries", "Cross-cultural", "Chinese music", "Mood perception", "Music digital libraries", "Music mood" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Music seeking and consumption are no longer confined by the boundaries of country, region or culture today (Lee et al., 2013). Music, as a cultural object, may be perceived differently by people from different cultural bac...
An integrative model for understanding team organizational citizenship behavior: Its antecedents and consequences for educational teams
[ "OCB", "Educational teams", "Team innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Today schools operate in dynamic environment, each struggling to gain a competitive edge (Orr and Orphanos, 2011). This environment reinforces the understanding that schools should strive to employ teachers who are willing to...
Decision '08: event marketing or product sampling?
[ "Sampling methods", "Marketing strategy", "Product trials", "Target markets", "Direct marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Recent trends in the evolution of marketing have delivered return on investment (ROI)-driven brand managers to an important crossroads. Should they choose event marketing or consumer sampling? Can it ever be both? If so, unde...
Future employment selection methods: evaluating social networking web sites
[ "Selection", "Recruitment", "Social networks", "Internet" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Within the past few years, the phenomenon of social networking web sites (SNWs) on the internet has exploded into the mainstream. Further, this online information has begun to be used for purposes beyond its intended use. Owi...
What factors influence firm perceptions of labour market constraints to growth in the MENA region?
[ "MENA region", "Labour regulations", "Labour skill shortages", "Labour market constraints", "Bivariate probit model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Stringent labour market constraints are expected to pose serious obstacles to firm performance and economic growth. A wide range of literature finds that rigid labour regulations would induce lower labour force participati...
Shared brands and sustainable competitive advantage in the Brazilian wine sector
[ "Marketing strategy", "Qualitative research", "Competitive strategy", "Brands", "Interviews", "Geographical indications", "Sustainable competitive advantage", "Shared brands", "Collective brands", "Sector brands" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A brand can be seen as a strategic asset that helps a company to be more competitive. In the same way that companies invest in brands, countries can also be seen as such (Anholt, 2005; Huang and Tsai, 2013; Kotler et al., ...
The role of the marketing function in small and medium sized enterprises
[ "Marketing strategy", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Competitive advantage", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A precept of the marketing concept contends that business achieves success by determining and satisfying the needs, wants, and aspirations of target markets. Few would argue that this determination and satisfaction of target ...
Multivariate robust estimation of inequality indices
[ "Development", "Distributive justice", "Income distribution", "Welfare economics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A single \"extreme\" observation can make an inequality index estimator uninformative, i.e., meaningless. Frequently, survey data are used to calculate inequality within an economy; we expect that survey data will contain ...
Learning about environmental issues: Postgraduate and undergraduate students' interpretations of environmental contents in education
[ "Environmental engineering", "Education", "Higher education", "Learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Looking across Swedish higher education, the last few years have seen an increase in the number of environmental courses being offered at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. According to a survey conducted by the Natio...
Improving ITIL compliance using change management practices: a finance sector case study
[ "Information technology", "Service management", "Information technology infrastructure library", "Organizational change management", "Organizational change", "Change management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Service firms are searching for ways to deliver higher levels of information technology (IT) service as well as demanding more from their information systems (IS) groups, expecting quick responses to new business opportunit...
Present and correct: Understanding the impact of mindfulness on leadership
[ "Leadership development", "Emotional intelligence", "Mindfulness", "Organizational leadership", "Leadership performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nReview: When does a fad turn into a trend, and then an accepted habit or custom? We have all played our part in fad over the years, from looking after virtual pets (remember Tamagotchi, anyone?) to dancing the Macarena at some cousin's wed...
Technology adoption for the integration of online-offline purchasing: Omnichannel strategies in the retail environment
[ "Technology and innovation management", "Digital transformation", "In-store technology", "Omnichannel retailing", "Pioneering strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The current retail scenario is characterized by a huge consumers' demand of entertaining and effective shopping experiences. This implies an extension of traditional offers through innovative technologies, by maintaining the ...
The consumer's expectation formation process over time
[ "Service levels", "Customer service management", "Customers", "Perception" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article.\nIntroduction: The concept of consumer expectations has a rich theoretical and empirical history in the marketing literature. Ex...
The importance of confidence in leadership role: A qualitative study of the process following two Swedish leadership programmes
[ "Reflection", "Confidence", "Leadership development", "Developmental leadership (DL)", "Leadership programme", "Understanding Group and Leader (UGL)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As stated by the Swedish trade union for leaders (Ledarna, 2014) half a million people in Sweden hold leadership positions, 50 per cent of whom find the work mentally demanding and 40 per cent experience not having enough tim...
Employees master the Nuances of travel retailing: New learning system helps staff to stay up to date
[ "Retailing", "Employee development", "Travel industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Traditionally, businesses in the airport retail sector experience a high degree of labour turnover - or churn. Moreover, although similar in many ways to the rest of the retail sector, airport retail is a more pressured envir...
Certifying a university ENT clinic using the ISO 9001:2000 international standard
[ "Quality management", "ISO 9000 series", "Quality standards", "Ear", "Nose and throat medicine", "Germany" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: To keep treatment efficient and quality assured, highly specialised treatments in some cases for rare illnesses with complicated healing processes have to be integrated into an overall quality plan. To cope with changing clin...
Doctoral boot camps: from military concept to andragogy
[ "Writing", "Boot camp", "Education", "Research culture", "PhD" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: \"Publish or perish\" is an old adage in academia that embodies the pressure for academics to conduct research and publish. Such pressure is a direct consequence of universities' fervour to build a strong reputation, which ac...
Capability, social capital and opportunity-driven graduate entrepreneurship in Tanzania
[ "Entrepreneurship", "Social capital", "Tanzania", "Capability approach", "Conversion factors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In Tanzania, annually, about 700,000 graduates enter the labor market but only 40,000 of them find jobs at the government or established companies despite this being their preferred place of work (Ngalomba, 2013). The rest of...
Total quality index of commercial oyster mushroom Pleurotus sapidus in modified atmosphere packaging
[ "Modified atmosphere packaging", "Oyster mushroom", "Phylogenetic analysis", "Pleurotus sapidus", "Total quality index" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the past ten years, the consumption and production of commercial oyster mushrooms (OMs) have been increasing globally (Jafri et al., 2013). The Pleurotus species are known for having a unique flavour, a good texture pro...
Knowledge retention and aging workforce in the oil and gas industry: a multi perspective study
[ "Oil and gas", "Knowledge retention", "Old age retiring workers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Knowledge retention has become an important and inevitable activity in organizations these days due to changing demographics and the graying of employees, and there is an inexorable threat to the organizations for knowledg...
Be structured in managing talent: Don't leave sustainable competitive advantage to chance
[ "Leadership development", "Competitive advantage" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: So much of organizational life is structured: even \"flat\" organizations have hierarchies; once created, the management of knowledge is codified; customer loyalty is dependent upon collated and archived data. Yet, when the f...
The governance of vulnerability: regulation, support and social divisions in action
[ "Vulnerability", "Welfare", "Agency", "Youth", "Social control" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Somewhat by stealth, the concept of vulnerability has crept into a raft of contemporary welfare and criminal justice policies and practices. The notion now occupies a relatively uncharted position in long-running debates abou...
Ecologies of interests in social information systems for social benefit
[ "Network analysis", "Knowledge integration", "Collaboration", "Case study", "Community", "Social computing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The recent explosion of social media applications has led to wide-ranging discussions of how these technologies can be integrated into more traditional information systems. Concurrently, there has been a rise in the use of...
A pilot whole-school intervention to improve school ethos and reduce substance use
[ "Schools", "Substance misuse", "Social inclusion", "Australia", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Rates of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use (henceforth termed substance use, SU) among UK young people are among the highest in Europe (Hibbel et al., 2004; NatCen and NfER, 2007). While many young people experiment with ...
Unfold studio: supporting critical literacies of text and code
[ "Critical literacy", "Computational thinking", "Literacy", "Design-based research", "Computer science education", "Computational literacy", "Multiliteracies", "K-12 computer science education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Literacy is about much more than learning to read and write. The practices which emerge within networks of people and texts often have prosaic goals such as conveying messages, documenting agreements and establishing authorit...
Benchmarking company performance from economic and environmental perspectives: Time series analysis for motor vehicle manufacturers
[ "Benchmarking", "Performance measure", "Time series forecasting", "Motor vehicle manufacturer" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Growing concerns on the environmentally sustainable development call for data analysis from both economic and environmental (E&E) perspectives. For instance, to access the E&E performance of different countries, data analy...