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Can you directly motivate employees? Exploding the myth
[ "Motivation (psychology)", "Psychological contracts", "Human resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As managers, we are in the \"motivation game.\" Central to this is the \"deal\" between the employer and the employee; or to put it into more fashionable language, the psychological contract. The management literature encoura...
Connected learning in international learning projects: Emergence of a hybrid learning system
[ "Connected learning", "Hybrid learning system", "Peer connection" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The digital age has provided new possibilities for learning. The youth of the digital era spend much time online, networking, searching, sharing and creating information (Kafai and Peppler, 2011). This kind of networking a...
Workforce engagement: case study of an award-winning leadership model
[ "Workforce engagement", "Management training", "Internal communication", "Wellbeing", "Performance management", "Employees" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Within four years Julia's House, the Dorset (UK) children's hospice, achieved the following results:* quadrupled income;* increased output (number of hours of care for children) 20-fold with only a three-fold increase in staf...
Validation of the instrument IMAQE-Food to measure effectiveness of food quality management
[ "Quality management", "Food industry", "Measurement", "Quality assurance", "Production methods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Food production systems exhibit specific characteristics like a restricted shelf life, hidden safety risks, temporary availability, and heterogeneous products (van der Spiegel et al., 2004; Luning et al., 2002). To manage the...
Perceptions of environmental management systems: An examination of the Mexican manufacturing sector
[ "Environmental management", "Human resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The need for environmental management in Mexico\nReview of the literature: Environmental management systems\nMethods: Research setting, sample, and procedure\nResults: Prior to testing our hypothesis, we confirmed the discrim...
Best practices in emergency medicine: what we have to consider if we wish to get it right
[ "Best practice", "Emergency department", "Health policy", "Quality measures" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A best practice is a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark. In addition, a \"best\" practice can evolve to become better as improv...
Trust in and through labelling - a systematic review and critique
[ "Social theory", "Confidence", "Trust", "Food labelling", "Food supply", "Food systems" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Food labelling is positioned at the interface of the consumers' point of purchase and the regulation and functioning of the market (Kolodinsky, 2012). It is therefore a highly prized opportunity to impart information at the e...
Social organization and its impact on economic growth in China
[ "Human capital", "Entrepreneurship", "Economic growth", "Social organization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Economic development is the result of multiple factors. Many studies have highlighted the important role of for-profit firms and their effects on economic activity. Firms supply goods and services that families demand. In ...
Compulsory purchase and compensation update - 2016
[ "Compensation", "Reform", "Compulsory purchase", "No-scheme world", "Loss payments", "Planning assumptions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: After many years of complaints about the unfairness of the compensation code, and the seeming disinterest of the government in doing anything about it, the government finally seems to be getting its act in place and we are se...
Optimizing the environmental attitudes inventory: Establishing a baseline of change in students' attitudes
[ "Australia", "Sustainability", "Education for sustainability", "Environmental attitudes inventory", "Students’ attitudinal change", "University experience" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The role of tertiary education institutions in preparing graduates with the environmental awareness, knowledge and tools to help address critical global environmental challenges has become well recognized (Shephard, 2008; Aig...
The strategic impact of performance appraisal on corporate governance dynamics
[ "Management development", "Strategic planning", "Management evaluation", "Planning evaluation", "Decision optimization", "Business administrators", "Performance indicators", "Start-up economics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In terms of corporate governance, the rate of board evaluations has been declining in recent years (Bebchuk and Hamdani, 2009), that is, by a little more than half a percentage point per year. This has resulted in a reduct...
Researching business interaction: introducing a conceptual framework and methodology
[ "Interaction", "Sensemaking", "Relationships", "Qualitative research", "Business networks", "Template analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The objective of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework and a methodology for researching business interaction. Business interaction is a complex phenomenon, and trying to understand it poses several challenges fo...
KPIs for performance measurement of e-fulfillment systems in multi-channel retailing: An exploratory study
[ "Economic performance", "Key performance indicators", "Customer expectation", "E-fulfilment", "Multi-channel retail" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A majority of traditional store-based retailers are becoming multi-channel retailers by opening an additional online channel. At the same time, formerly pure online retailers (e.g. Amazon, Zalando, etc.) are opening stores...
Climate change and variability perceptions in Ga-Dikgale community in Limpopo Province, South Africa
[ "Temperature", "Climate change", "Changes in rainfall patterns", "Seasonal changes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper assesses climate change and vulnerability perceptions in the South African rural community of Ga-Dikgale. Perceptions of climate change and its threats to rural communities are among major challenges faced by sc...
Understanding variations in the consumption of functional foods - evidence from Croatia
[ "Functional foods", "Croatia", "Determinants of consumption" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Since the early 1990s, functional foods have attracted increased attention from food marketers interested in identifying high-value growth opportunities, in an industry which is characterised overall by low margins. Sanders (...
Development of managers' emotional competencies: mind-body training implication
[ "Emotional intelligence", "Managers", "Emotional competencies", "Mind-body training", "Quasi experiment", "Self-development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The fact that management has such an interpersonal nature has drawn the attention of researchers and practitioners from the field of emotional intelligence (EI) (Fowlie and Wood, 2009). Consequently, this paper seeks to put t...
Innovation adoption across self-service banking technologies in India
[ "Marketing", "Service", "Consumer behavior", "Banking", "Banking industry", "Self-service" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the changing scenario from product-centric to customer-centric approaches, the focus of marketers has shifted toward their customers and more deliberately on their experiences (Garg et al., 2010; Yousafzai, 2012). Many ...
The effects of hedonic/utilitarian expectations and social influence on continuance intention to play online games
[ "Online game", "Flow theory", "Social cognitive theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As more and more of online games adopt human-to-human interactivity, the motivation for a gamer to play is rarely just the user interface of the game alone. As a result, the fantasy and entertainment experienced in online gam...
An axiological measure of entrepreneurial cognition
[ "Entrepreneurs", "Decision making", "Cognition", "Opportunity recognition" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Understanding what makes entrepreneurs \"tick\" has captivated academics and the business press alike for half a century (Ilonen et al., 2018; Markman and Baron, 2003; McClelland, 1961; Sarasvathy and Venkataraman, 2011; Shav...
Achieving flexible manufacturing competence: The roles of advanced manufacturing technology and operations improvement practices
[ "Flexible manufacturing systems", "Advanced manufacturing technologies", "Operations management", "Competences" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Firms are seeking ways to respond quickly to changes induced by customers, competitors, and technologists, and flexibility has become an important tool in this struggle for success. Flexibility is the organization's ability...
On the role and importance of core assumptions in the field of entrepreneurship research : A neurophilosophical perspective
[ "Legitimacy", "Neuroscience", "Assumptions", "Boundaries", "Field of entrepreneurship research", "Neurophilosophy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The boundaries and legitimacy of the growing field of entrepreneurship research have recently become subject to closer scrutiny. Following the work by Low and MacMillan (1988), a common approach has been to identify the centr...
New product performance and the benefit of periodically changing the relative influence balance between marketing and R&D
[ "Integration", "Pharmaceutical industry", "New product development", "Relative influence changes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: New product development (NPD) is a complex process that involves different functional areas, particularly R&D and marketing, which have to be aligned to achieve organizational goals (Bogers and Lhuillery, 2011; Gemser and ...
Issues and challenges in financing the poor: case of Baitul Maal Wa Tamwil in Indonesia
[ "Financing", "Qualitative analysis", "BMT", "Issues and challenges", "Peculiarities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: For a Muslim-majority country such as Indonesia, Islamic microfinance is potentially the best model for fund mobilization among the poor people because it provides a combination of social intermediation and social capital ...
Innovations from the Halcrow-Cardiff University strategic collaboration
[ "Innovation", "Partnership", "Water industry", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In water engineering consultancy, the processes that stimulate and manage innovation are not well established, but innovation is not a new phenomenon and is as old as humankind. There seems to be something inherently \"human\...
Social media and the world of work : A strategic approach to employees' participation in social media
[ "Social media", "Strategic management", "Internal communications", "Reputation management", "Employees involvement", "Employee social media use" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As one of the most defining developments of our time, social media has fundamentally changed people's private and professional lives. It is no longer a trend or playground for first movers, but communications professionals' m...
Supply chain quality management: an empirical study
[ "Quality management", "Supply chain management", "Hotel performance", "Supply chain quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Along the trend of globalization, it is necessary to improve quality beyond a firm's boundaries to supply chain (Benaissa et al., 2010). Integrating quality management (QM) and supply chain management (SCM) is the effectiv...
The role of learning management in agile management for consensus culture
[ "Technology", "Learning", "Agile management", "Consensus culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Today, there is a change and renewal in education. The merits of information technology and digitalization foster changes and development in the education system. With this change, it has become inevitable for schools and adm...
Selecting a condition monitoring system for enhancing effectiveness of power transformer maintenance
[ "Maintainability", "Analytic hierarchy process", "Condition monitoring", "Decision making grid", "Power transformer", "Testability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Electricity is widely considered as an invaluable good in humanity development. Currently, its production, transmission and distribution are not only committed with the local market satisfaction, but with a high quality an...
TQM practices and employees' role stressors
[ "Total quality management", "Iran", "Manufacturing SMEs", "Role conflict", "Role ambiguity", "Role overload" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The term of quality has significant meaning to both producer and customer's view. Organizations need to highly on brining high quality product and services to their customer for their survival in the business world (Ismah e...
Exit, voice, loyalty, and neglect reactions to frequency of change, and impact of change: A sensemaking perspective through the lens of psychological contract
[ "Sensemaking", "Psychological contract", "Organizational change", "Employee behaviours", "Frequency of change", "Impact of change", "Successful past changes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The rapidly changing nature of the workplace environment has become an inevitable part of contemporary organizations in this era of disruption and change. The implementation of major changes as a strategic driver in organizat...
Sustainable imaginaries: a case study of a large suburban Canadian university
[ "Sustainability", "Higher education", "Imaginaries", "Sustainability council", "Sustainability policy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The concept of sustainability within large and complex institutions such as universities might best be described as a concept with a long history, but a short past. Institutions, whether they are businesses, governments or th...
The influence of cognitive tasks on mentoring provided: Investigating the moderating influence of professionally educated staffs
[ "Professional education", "Cognitive tasks", "Mentoring provided", "Preschools" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Preschools in Norway have undergone major changes during the last ten years as a consequence of the political aim of providing preschool attendance for all children aged 1-5 years. Educational and organisational changes have ...
Perceptions of control legitimacy in information systems development
[ "Information systems development (ISD)", "Management control", "Multiple case studies", "IS performance", "Control legitimacy", "Socio-emotional side effects", "ISD performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Controlling information systems development (ISD) is a fundamental but also highly challenging task (Kirsch, 1996). Managers (controllers) exercise control - including the use of formal policies and standards, periodic status...
Hospital safety climate: Factors affecting perceptions of safety in a Norwegian hospital
[ "Hospital", "Risk", "Nurses", "Safety", "Care", "Patients" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An ongoing challenge and concern in hospitals is the issue of patient risk and safety and the quality of care from this perspective. Previous research has shown that different organizations and settings have a higher standard...
Lessons learnt from complaints by surgical patients
[ "Hospitals", "Complaints", "Patient care", "Surgery", "Customer satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A complaint is defined as \"an expression of dissatisfaction that requires a subsequent response\" (DoH, 1996). The current complaints scheme was introduced 1 April 1996 following a review conducted by a committee, chaired by...
Creating competitive edge through improved customer relationship management
[ "Customer relationships", "Customers", "Best practice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This article describes some of the Best Practices for Improved Customer Relationship Management in order to gain competitive edge and market dominance. According to the 2008 Executive Survey by Gartner and Forbes.com, retaini...
Innovation in micro enterprises: reality or fiction?
[ "Ireland", "Metrics", "Innovation", "Entrepreneurs", "Micro enterprises" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper examines innovation in micro enterprises in order to assess whether innovation is effectively practised and measured in micro enterprises. In this paper we ask three questions in relation to micro enterprises: do m...
Valuing prior learning: Designing an ICT artifact to assess professional competences through text mining
[ "Assessment", "Proof of concept", "Text mining", "Design science", "Professional competences", "Validation of prior learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The validation of prior learning (VPL) is the process of \"assessing and recognizing a wide range of skills and competences which people develop through their lives and in different contexts, for example through education,...
Tweeting to a job: HCL's recruitment campaign on Twitter
[ "Branding", "Recruitment", "Social media" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: HCL Technologies, founded in 1976, is India's fourth largest information technology (IT) company. This US$5bn company has offices in 31 countries and recruits some 30,000 employees annually in 24 countries. Despite pioneering...
Direct vs indirect e-government adoption: an exploratory study
[ "India", "Adoption", "E-government", "Direct adoption", "Indirect adoption", "Intermediary" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can serve multiple purposes from providing education to being a medium for accessing public services (Garcia-murillo and Velez-ospina, 2017). ICT has been shown to be an in...
Impacts of strategic orientations on new product development and firm performances: Insights from Saudi industrial firms
[ "New product development", "Firm performance", "Entrepreneurial orientation", "Market orientation", "Strategic orientations", "Technology orientation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The concept of strategic orientation is gaining more attention in the literature of strategic management, marketing and entrepreneurship as a core concept determining the performance of organizations and an important way t...
Antecedents of philanthropic behavior of health care volunteers
[ "Volunteering", "Health care volunteer", "Philanthropic behavior", "Social network" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The objective of this article is to propose a model on antecedents of philanthropic behavior of health care volunteers (HCVs) in the health care sector. There are several other terms such as prosocial behavior and altruism wh...
Exploring customer engagement valences in the social services
[ "Social services", "Customer engagement", "Engagement objects", "Disengagement", "Engagement valences" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Customers are motivated to engage within a service relationship for a number of reasons. Customers may demonstrate positive engagement, defined as \"positively-valenced brand-related cognitive, emotional and behavioral activi...
Does the concept of "creating shared value" hold water?
[ "Creating shared value", "Stewardship", "Water", "Resource", "Water stewardship", "Water strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Water is an increasingly stressed resource, recognized as one of the key societal, environmental and sustainability challenges of the twenty-first century (Morrison et al., 2010). Statistics attest to management challenges, w...
Positing a framework for cultivating spirituality through public university leadership development
[ "Leadership development", "Public four-year institutions", "Self-authorship", "Spiritual development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nWhy do we need to foster spirituality among college students?: Spirituality has been defined as a lens through which people construct meaning and understanding of universal rules about kindness, civility, relativity, and perseverance (Stew...
Do wages and job satisfaction really depend on educational mismatch? Evidence from an international sample of master graduates
[ "Job satisfaction", "Educational mismatch", "Instrumental variable", "Ordered model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper finds its collocation in the literature on job-education mismatch, by addressing the impact of mismatch on job satisfaction, accounting for unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error. This work aims to provi...
Safety capital: the management of organizational knowledge on occupational health and safety
[ "Occupational health and safety", "Intellectual capital", "Organizational processes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Recent research on business economics reveal that the source of competitive advantage is taking an intangible nature relating to organizational knowledge and capabilities. In this context, we find that Occupational Safety ...
Sustainability in bioscience fieldwork: Practical information from a UK agricultural research institute
[ "Sustainable development", "Academic staff", "Sciences", "Behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Practical sustainability in science: a neglected area\nMaterials and methods: Questionnaire distribution and return rate\nResults: General information\nDiscussion: General information: sustainability values\n", "role": "u...
Lean service system design: a simulation-based VSM case study
[ "Lean service", "Simulation", "Value stream mapping", "Construction and technical services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As in manufacturing sectors, service organizations are also forced to improve their operations. All organizations use methodologies to improve their systems to be more competitive. It is shown in many studies that the lean...
Barriers to enter in foreign markets: evidence from SMEs in emerging market
[ "Bangladesh", "Emerging markets", "Internationalization", "Market entry", "Small-to-medium-sized enterprises" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The economic development and sustainability of growth both for developed and developing countries depend primarily on small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which play a key role in generating income, creating employment opport...
Corruption and brand value
[ "Institutions", "Corruption", "International marketing", "Stakeholder theory", "Marketing capabilities", "Brand value" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Multinational enterprises (MNEs) based in emerging economies and newly industrialized countries have emerged rapidly in the last decade, yet most of these firms lack marketing capabilities and strong brands (Ramamurti, 2012; ...
"Wasta" and women's careers in the Arab Gulf States
[ "Women", "Networking", "Organization", "Wasta", "Manager", "Arab Gulf States" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Women remain under-represented in management and leadership positions worldwide, and the situation varies from country to country. For example, in 2013, women held 24 per cent of senior management positions globally, with onl...
Red or blue meeting rooms: does it matter? The impact of colour on perceived productivity, social cohesion and wellbeing
[ "Individual perception", "Rooms", "Design", "Colours, Meeting rooms", "Colour influences", "Red and blue", "Perceived productivity", "Wellbeing", "Social cohesion", "Employees productivity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: impact of colour on people: The physical environment has influence on how people function and experience the world with their senses (Schneider, 1987). People constantly interact with and reflect on their surroundings (For...
Systematic risk-analysis to support a living maintenance programme for railway infrastructure
[ "Risk analysis", "Barrier analysis", "Common safety methods (CSM)", "Living maintenance programme", "Railway infrastructure", "Reliability-centred maintenance (RCM)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The European railway sector has during the latest decades undergone major changes that have had large impact on the operation and maintenance of both infrastructure assets and rolling stock (Alexandersson, 2009; Alexanders...
Integrated technology-organization-environment (T-O-E) taxonomies for technology adoption
[ "Adoption", "Technology", "T-O-E taxonomies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Innovation and/or technology adoption is an area of IS that has earn extensive inquiries (see Benbasat and Barki, 2007; Awa, Baridam and Nwibere, 2015; Awa, Ukoha and Emecheta, 2015; Metaxiotis, 2009). Scholars (Gangwar et...
Climate change vulnerability assessment for Can Tho city by a set of indicators
[ "Climate change", "Vulnerability indicators", "Mekong Delta" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Located in the Mekong Delta region, Can Tho is Vietnam's fourth largest city, with a population estimated at 1.4 mn. The rapidly growing urban metropolis is divided into nine districts: Ninh Kieu, O Mon, Binh Thuy, Cai Ran...
The evolving nature of the marketing-supply chain management interface in contemporary markets
[ "Marketing", "Supply chain management", "Marketing strategy", "Business model evolution" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In the business community, there is an overwhelming trend of technology - big data, digital devices and artificial intelligence - being used for any business and marketing strategy.\n", "role": "user" }, { "conten...
The contribution of e-HRM to HRM effectiveness: Results from a quantitative study in a Dutch Ministry
[ "Human resource management", "Worldwide web", "Computer based learning", "The Netherlands" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: E-HRM, the use of web-based technologies for human resource management practices and policies, is maturing within organisational life. Much is claimed and expressed about the advantages of e-HRM, but scientific proof of these...
Leveraging public-private partnerships to improve community resilience in times of disaster
[ "Disasters", "Partnership", "Supply chain management", "Communities", "Disaster", "Community relations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: While disasters are indelibly located within a specific impact area, the consequences and subsequent response extend well beyond the impact zone. From the highest levels of government to the individual citizen living in a v...
Impact of social support and presence on swift guanxi and trust in social commerce
[ "Trust", "Social commerce", "Social support", "Repurchase intention", "Presence", "Swift guanxi", "Social sharing intention" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: With the development of social media and the technology of Web 2.0, social commerce is gaining increasing popularity nowadays. In China, the number of the internet users has reached 829 million, with the coverage of 59.6 p...
Exploring job responsibilities and requirements of US textile and apparel sourcing personnel
[ "Job scope", "Skills", "Responsibilities", "Sourcing", "Supply chain management", "Textile industry", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Globalization has fundamentally changed the nature of today's business (Dickerson, 1999; Lakshman, 2007). As the nature of businesses has changed, the characteristics of industry personnel's job responsibilities have changed ...
Impact of social network heterogeneity and knowledge heterogeneity on the innovation performance of new ventures
[ "Innovation", "New ventures", "Social network", "Knowledge heterogeneity", "Network heterogeneity", "Theory of inventive problem solving" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the past two decades, there has been increasing focus on the topic of business innovation. However, literature has focused on the innovation performance of large organizations in Western countries (Dosi, 1988; Dougher...
Strategic talent management scholarship: a review of current foci and future directions
[ "Systematic review", "Strategic talent management", "Talent strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The concept of strategic talent management (STM) has recently provoked a \"significant research interest, as both large multinational enterprises (MNEs) and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are competing at attractin...
Cultural comparison for the acceptance of online apparel customization
[ "Customization", "Retailing", "International marketing", "National cultures", "China", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The strategies of firms have been shifting from concentrating on market segments to focusing on individual customers (Wind and Ranagaswamy, 2001; Simonson, 2005). Adopting this marketing trend, e-retailers are featuring custo...
Cigarette smoking practice and attitudes, and proposed effective smoking cessation measures among college student smokers in China
[ "Cigarettes", "Smoking", "Students", "China", "Attitudes", "Smoking education", "Smoking cessation", "Personal health" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Although the health hazards of cigarette smoking for men and women are well-documented (Liu et al., 1998; Li et al., 2008; Mao et al., 2009), studies have indicated a continuously high smoking rate among the adult population ...
I am the very model of a special purpose vehicle
[ "Special purpose vehicle", "Balance sheets", "Financing", "Regulation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nI am the very model of a special purpose vehicle (with apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan): I am the very model of a Special Purpose Vehicle,I've names derived from vegetable, animal and mineral,,My principles are sound, and my ethics just im...
Digital entrepreneurship in a resource-scarce context: A focus on entrepreneurial digital competencies
[ "Context", "Cameroon", "Digital entrepreneurship", "Entrepreneurial digital competencies", "Resource-scarce environment", "Small digital businesses" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Digital entrepreneurship, defined as the practice of pursuing \"new venture opportunities presented by new media and internet technologies\" is attracting worldwide attention (Davidson and Vaast, 2010, p. 8). It is similar to...
An importance-performance analysis for supplier assessment in foreign-aid funded procurement
[ "Assessment criteria", "Developing country", "Foreign-aid funded procurement", "Importance-performance matrix", "Supplier assessment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Foreign-aid is a principal source of public sector revenue in many developing countries (McGillivray and Morrissey, 2001). It is generally understood as the transfer of resources from developed countries to developing count...
Optimization of actuator performance using robust engineering and feature selection methodologies: A case study
[ "Actuators", "Torque", "Taguchi methods", "Experimental design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: An actuator is an integral part of control valves. The actuators are used to control the opening and closing of valves (Sclater, 2007). The customer may not always want to open or close the valve fully. So the control valv...
Articulating the value of training: linking training programs to organizational goals
[ "Training evaluation", "Budgets", "Learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Learning and development (L&D) professionals who cannot articulate the real value of interventions to their clients (internal or external) will never earn themselves a place in the boardroom.\nThe line of sight approach: The ...
Opposing positions in M&A research: culture, integration and performance
[ "Merger", "Acquisition", "Culture", "Integration", "Performance", "Acculturation", "Acquisitions and mergers", "Organizational culture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Without doubt mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have become one of the most popular internationalization and growth strategies, thus significantly shape our international business environment. Although more than 50 percent of...
Multicultural markets and acculturation: implications for service firms
[ "Acculturation", "Ethnic marketing", "Multicultural marketing" ]
[ { "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 literature acknowledges the interconnectedness of people across the world through various manifestations of c...
Factors affecting universities' ability to foster students' entrepreneurial behaviour: An empirical investigation
[ "Italy", "Entrepreneurial university", "Attitude", "Entrepreneurship education", "Intent", "Master of business administration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In modern societies, universities play a key role, not only in knowledge transmission but also in business creation. In the last century there have been significant academic revolutions through which universities are today...
The effect of inconsistent word-of-mouth during the service encounter
[ "Services", "Word of mouth", "Inconsistency", "Service quality", "Purchase intention", "Customer services quality", "Perception", "Consumer behaviour", "China" ]
[ { "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: Word-of-mouth (WOM) has been recognized as an important factor influencing consumer decision making (e.g. Mangold...
Aligning computing ethics for strategy making in higher education (HE): A contrarian view - who knows?
[ "Higher education", "Educational policy", "Systems integration", "Educational institutions", "E-Learning", "Strategic planning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Increasingly, information technology (IT) and computing ethics is having a pervasive impact on everyday working practices within modern university and professional environments (Procario-Foley and Bean, 2002; Gorniak-Kocikows...
Promoting synergistic innovation in logistics service outsourcing
[ "Inter-organizational relationship management", "Logistics service outsourcing", "Logistics service performance", "Synergistic innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Inter-firm interactions on innovation are an important source for firms to obtain resources for developing innovation capability (Cavusgil et al., 2003; Nooteboom, 1999; Sammarra and Biggiero, 2008). For example, prior resear...
Role of human behaviour attributes in mobile crowd sensing: a systematic literature review
[ "Internet of Things", "Systematic literature review", "Mobile devices", "Human behaviour", "Mobile crowd sensing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Today, the number of devices equipped with ubiquitous computing and communication capability is increasing tremendously. This growth is attributed to the low-cost air-interfaces, reduction in cost and size of chipset and t...
Linking leadership and justice to organizational commitment: The mediating role of collective identity in the hotel industry
[ "China", "Hotel industry", "Commitment", "Transformational leadership", "Procedural justice", "Collective identity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: High turnover rate is a universal problem in the hospitality industry (Faldetta et al., 2013), and the global yearly turnover rate in hotel industry is 60-300 per cent, which is much higher compared to that in the manufacturi...
Service behaviours of highly committed financial consultants
[ "Austria", "Financial service consultants", "High commitment", "Service behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: This study examines the customer-oriented behaviours of highly committed service providers engaged in face-to-face communication with customers in the financial-services industry. Although the rise of electronic banking (e-...
How do employed women perceive the reconciliation of work and family life? A seven-country comparison of the impact of family policies on women's employment
[ "Denmark", "Germany", "France", "Finland", "United Kingdom", "Sweden", "Switzerland", "Women", "Employment", "Labour market", "Social policy", "Family" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: From a social policy perspective, it is increasingly viewed as desirable that women who have interrupted their employment to fulfil important societal tasks, such as the care and rising of children and the care of relatives...
Information and communication technology workforce employability in Malaysia
[ "Information technology", "Educational institutions", "Training", "Curriculum", "Skills", "Malaysia", "Labour specialization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: ICT has become the key enabler in business success, and an essential element in the foundation of today's dynamic business environments (Bailey and Mitchell, 2006). As ICT offers more opportunities and strategic value to orga...
Driving new narratives: women-leader identities in the automotive industry
[ "Women" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It is no secret that women and cars have a unique relationship. Throughout history, women have played powerfully-complex roles in several fields and contexts. Over time, this influence has touched one of the USA's most treasu...
Big Data and corporate reporting: impacts and paradoxes
[ "Paradoxes", "Big Data", "Corporate reporting", "Accountants’ role", "Big Data state of mind", "Future developments" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The digital revolution in the past few decades had led to the \"pervasive phenomenon of Big Data\" (Moffitt and Vasarhelyi, 2013, p. 2), which, in recent years, has caused quite a hype. \"Data is the new oil\" is one of th...
The importance of $4.45
[ "Fiction", "Accounting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nThe importance of $4.45: Amid the papers on my office deskOld invoices total 4.45I decided to pay them and extinguish my debtIt matters that 4.45The cashier joked that my invoice was poorOld account codes that would never doBut I said not ...
Capital structure and business process management: evidence from ambidextrous organizations
[ "Innovation", "Ambidexterity", "Capital structure", "Finance", "Leverage", "Business process management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It is generally accepted that a company's financial behavior is the result of a complex mix of conditions, both internal and external to the firm; these may affect its investment decisions and its growth opportunities.\nTheor...
SME perspectives on business support services: The role of company size, industry and location
[ "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Business policy", "Business support services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is an emerging view that small firms and entrepreneurs are of vital importance for the economic development. Acs and Audretsch (2003) refer to the emergence of the entrepreneurial society and Reynolds et al. (2000) has ...
Arts entrepreneurship education in the UK and Germany: An empirical survey among lecturers in fine art
[ "Entrepreneurial skills", "Higher education institutions", "Arts entrepreneurship education", "Fine art lecturers", "Fine arts" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Research aim\nResearch design and methodology: The analysis of fine art students' educational situation at HEIs in the UK and Germany from lecturers' perspectives is cross-sectional. The survey was conducted from 20 January t...
Towards a shared understanding of the service experience - a hospitality stakeholder approach
[ "Hospitality industry", "Service experience", "Stakeholder", "Service eco-system", "Community of practice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The competitive sustainability of organizations is becoming progressively more challenging. A globalized market place, with informed consumers and competitors, makes the provision of a meaningfully differentiated selling prop...
Formation of remote education as a means of restoration of Russian recessive regions' economy
[ "Modern Russia", "Formation of remote education", "Recessing region", "Restoration of economy", "I25", "R11", "H12" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The 2008 global financial crisis influenced the economy of modern Russia's regions. Under the influence of the crisis, the number of recessing regions in the Russian economic system increased. Traditional practices of the res...
Untapped: strategies for success in underserved markets
[ "Management strategy", "Marketing strategy", "Recruitment", "Purchasing", "Target markets", "Corporate social responsibility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Domestic and international underserved markets represent a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity that is largely untapped. Recent estimates show that the total purchasing power of all ethnic minorities in the USA will top $1.5 tr...
Inventory financing in supply chains: A logistics service provider-approach
[ "Supply chain management", "Retailing", "Cost of capital", "Interest rates", "Switzerland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Starting point\n2. Related research: This section provides an overview of related research in order to gain a comprehensive outline of the current state of inventory financing in supply chains by LSPs (see Figure 1). From ...
Evolution and effect of LEAN bundles: a longitudinal study
[ "Performance", "Benchmarking", "Lean production", "Best practices", "QCA", "Bundles" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Economic turbulence is forcing firms to reformulate their strategies (Mascarenhas and Aaker, 1989; Zarnowitz, 1985). As it has been suggested that firm practices should be aligned with firm strategy (Kim and Arnold, 1996),...
Towards a universal model of internet banking adoption: initial conceptualization
[ "Services marketing", "Scotland", "Internet banking", "Bank marketing", "Financial services marketing", "Online consumer behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In this paper we report the findings of a study in which we explored the conceptual development of a universal model of antecedents of retail customer adoption of internet banking (IB). We believe that such a universal mod...
Leadership, development and learning mechanisms: System transformation as a balancing act
[ "System transformation", "Leadership", "Change management", "Learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Transformation is an integral part of any living system. As pointed out by Bartunek and Louis (1988) and Beckhard (2006) system transformation presents a major set of challenges to any system. A unique example of such living ...
Organization development (OD) and change management (CM): whole system transformation
[ "Organizational development", "Organization development", "Change agent", "Organization change", "Whole scale change", "Whole system transformation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Nanotechnology, globalization and healthcare will be leading stimulants of more change occurring during the remaining years of our lives than since the beginning of recorded civilization thousands of years ago (Sullivan et al...
Exploring the effective restaurant CrM ad: The moderating roles of advertising types and social causes
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Advertising", "Cause-related marketing", "Cause category" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Companies are increasingly seeking to align themselves with social and environmental organizations, as the public's interest in such causes continues to grow (Chang and Cheng, 2015). These alignments create new avenues for ma...
For diversity scholars who have considered activism when scholarship isn't enough!
[ "Activism", "Identity", "Scholarship", "Borders", "Systemic oppression" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: For those of you who are knowledgeable about African-American art forms, you likely immediately recognized the title of my talk, \"For diversity scholars who have considered activism when scholarship isn't enough\" is derived...
Brands portfolios and competitive advantage: an empirical study
[ "Brands", "Brand management", "Strategic marketing", "Competitive advantage" ]
[ { "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: Marketers are looking to create and maintain a competitive advantage in a complex and changing environment (Shock...
Organized retailing in India: upstream channel structure and management
[ "Organized retailing", "Upstream channel relationship", "Supply chain structure", "Transparency", "Trust", "India", "Retailing" ]
[ { "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.\n1. Introduction: ... it is a cultural thing if you ask me. We Indians would like to deal on a very personal level (Manager, Sup...
Reducing wrong intraocular lens implants in cataract surgery: 3 years of experience with the SEIPS framework in Singapore
[ "Error analysis", "Patient safety", "System thinking", "Incident reporting", "Clinical risk management", "Root cause analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Background: Operating rooms (ORs) have constantly been reported to be high-risk areas for preventable patient harm (Haynes et al., 2009; Langelaan et al., 2010; Leape et al., 2009). Surgical complications are estimated to be 3-17 per ce...