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Food traceability technologies and foodborne outbreak occurrences
[ "Food supply chain", "Traceability technologies", "Foodborne outbreaks", "Health surveillance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Foodborne diseases affect 1 in 10 people and kill around 420,000 people every year worldwide, with one-third of deaths occurring in children aged up to five years. These cases are consequences of the contamination of food ...
Parallels and distinctions between health care quality improvement and health care disparities reduction
[ "Health services", "Quality improvement", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: For many years, the US health care system has focused on its failure to deliver appropriate care at the appropriate time to the appropriate patient with appropriate satisfaction. System approaches including total quality mana...
Evaluating course design principles for multimedia learning materials
[ "Multimedia", "Electronic resources", "Armed forces", "Junior managers", "Career development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper reports on evaluation studies of principles of course design for interactive multimedia learning materials. The evaluation studies included interviews, observation studies and the use of online questionnaires. A...
Exploring dualities of service innovation: implications for service research
[ "New service development", "Service innovation", "Failure" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Through a process of creative destruction, innovation can explain and provide a way forward for economic growth (Schumpeter, 1934). Service innovation is not only dynamic, evolutionary, non-linear and interactive but also ris...
Institutional investors and voluntary disclosure and transparency: the case of Egypt
[ "Egypt", "Corporate governance", "Institutional investors", "Agency theory", "Disclosure checklist", "Voluntary disclosure and transparency" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Corporate governance is an important element in enhancing both economic efficiency and investor confidence. Among the main principles of corporate governance are disclosure and transparency (OECD, 2004). Improvements of discl...
Reflective vicarious learning (RVL) as an enhancement for action learning
[ "Learning", "Education", "Action learning", "General management", "Executive training", "Vicarious learning", "Goldfish bowl exercise" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The fundamental assumption within the action learning is that \"there is no learning without action and no action without learning\" Revans (2011, p. 85). The premise is that learning can only take place through participation...
Exploring current enablers and barriers for sustainable proximity manufacturing
[ "Sustainability", "Reshoring", "Supplier selection", "Sustainable supply chain", "Local sourcing", "Manufacturing location decision" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the past few decades, companies have moved manufacturing from local high-cost countries to foreign low-cost countries, giving rise to the offshoring phenomenon. However, there seems to be a trend of bringing foreign m...
An investigation into manufacturing performance achievements accrued by Indian manufacturing organization through strategic 5S practices
[ "Manufacturing industries", "5S implementation", "Manufacturing performance achievements" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The manufacturing organizations are working under extreme pressures because of high competitive manufacturing environment in the national and international market. The extreme competitive pressures on the manufacturing org...
Is learning anytime, anywhere a good strategy for success? Identifying successful spatial-temporal patterns of on-the-job and full-time students
[ "Online learning", "Student performance", "Entropy analysis", "Full-time students", "On-the-job students", "Spatial-temporal patterns" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: With the rapid development of information and communication technology, online learning has flourished in recent years due to the flexibility of engaging anytime and anywhere. Sixty-five per cent of higher education instituti...
Examining the effects of source selection method on procurement outcomes
[ "Procurement", "Supplier performance", "Source selection", "Supplier evaluation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: One of the most hotly contested debates in defense procurement has been the choice of contractor selection method and the procurement outcomes resulting from that choice (Kashiwagi and Byfield, 2002; Lohfeld, 2015). The low-p...
Optimization model for transportation planning with demand uncertainties
[ "Controllable lead time", "Inventory control", "Simulated Annealing", "Stochastic demand" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Inventory systems that demonstrate demand uncertainty and variable lead time have received increasing attention in recent years (Lan et al., 1999; Ouyang et al., 2002; Song et al., 2010; Datta and Christopher, 2011). A num...
Enabling and leveraging ambidexterity: influence of strategic orientations and knowledge stock
[ "Entrepreneurial orientation", "Ambidexterity", "Market orientation", "Knowledge stock" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: To compete effectively, organizations need to pursue and acquire new knowledge as well as integrate and institutionalize acquired knowledge (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990; Crossan et al., 1999; Levinthal and March, 1993; March...
Establishing mercury-free medical facilities: a Malaysian case study
[ "Hospital management", "Mercury", "Mercury-free medical facility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Mercury is a toxic element that harms humans and the environment. Mercury management has intensified through the Minamata Convention on Mercury United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 2009 to protect human health and t...
Managing career lengthening in France: why such inertia?
[ "Inertia", "Career lengthening", "Career scripts", "Institutional approach" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nThe changing landscape of careers in France: The aging of the European population has consequences for the balance of social accounts and economic growth. Since the Laeken European Council in December 2001, several meetings have contribute...
Retrospective: a cross-sectional test of the effect and conceptualization of service value revisited
[ "Customer value", "Service co-creation", "Service dominant logic (SDL)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The 30th anniversary of the initial publication of the first marketing journal devoted to the study of service, Journal of Services Marketing, is an excellent time for celebration and reflection. Those 30 years have seen dram...
Digital competences of the workforce - a research topic?
[ "Big data", "Research agenda", "Workforce", "Curriculum design", "Digital competences" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In 2017, the main challenges for companies are neither technological trends, disruptive innovations, nor new customer behaviour. Their main duty is to adapt their culture, mindset, and competences to the new, digital way o...
Effects of quality antecedents on e-learning acceptance
[ "Information quality", "Service quality", "System quality", "Instructor quality", "E‐learning acceptance", "Structural equation modelling", "Taiwan", "Learning methods", "Attitudes", "Workplace learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Recently, the application trend of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and Web-based technologies on education provides online educational approaches to conduct teaching and learning (Liu et al., 2009; Lee, 2010...
RFID and buyer-seller relationships in the retail supply chain
[ "Buyer‐seller relationships", "Identification", "Supply chain management", "Retailing", "Radiofrequencies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Radio-frequency identification (RFID), a technology that facilitates the tracking and manipulation of physical items, is now a major technological trend. According to experienced early adopters, knowledgeable industry leaders...
Savings operations with random commencement and conclusion
[ "Savings operations", "Profitability", "Risk quota", "Probability of survival", "Saving quota", "G22", "G23", "H55" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In this paper, we propose a novel modality of random savings operations (Gil Pelaez, 1993), by considering that both the commencement and the end of the savings period are subject to some contingencies or eventualities who...
Momentum building for more women in senior appointments
[ "Gender equality", "Career advice", "Changing culture", "Pay differences", "Quotas" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This article is a follow-up to two previous articles, namely \"Removing the boardroom glass ceiling\" (Hurn, 2012) and \"Are cracks appearing in the boardroom glass ceiling?\" (Hurn, 2013). It has been prompted by gradually i...
Research on the quality stability evaluation and monitoring based on the pre-control chart
[ "Average run length (ARL)", "Evaluation guidelines", "Monitoring guidelines", "Pre-control chart", "Quality stability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Along with the continuous improvement of the quality control requirements and the enhancement of the quality supervision, the improvement of quality management maturity needs a set of quality stability evaluation and monitori...
Do union-management learning partnerships reduce workplace conflict?
[ "Trade unions", "Learning partnerships", "Managing conflict" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Managing conflict in the workplace has long been acknowledged as a key challenge for all organisations (Costantino, 1996; ACAS, 2006; Ridley-Duff and Bennett, 2011). Similarly, the value of promoting learning in the workpl...
Organizational and managerial challenges in the path toward Industry 4.0
[ "New technology", "Innovation", "Industry 4.0" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The concept of Industry 4.0, identified as the fourth Industrial Revolution, was initially introduced in Germany in 2011 (e.g. Lu, 2017; Sanders et al., 2016) referring to the integration of physical objects, human actors,...
Transition from school-based training in VET
[ "Educational inequality", "Vocational education", "Apprenticeships", "Child welfare clients", "Dual system", "Prestigious progression routes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The dual system of vocational education and training (VET), which combines classroom-based training and periods of apprenticeships, is often praised for effectively integrating young people into the labor market (Noelke and H...
Governance for health in the Anthropocene
[ "Sustainability", "Health services", "Human development", "Anthropocene", "Ecological change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: We are entering the Anthropocene, a new geologic epoch that - as its name implies - is being caused by humanity. We have become a force that rivals nature: our activities are causing the climate to change, the Earth to heat u...
Service innovations enabled by the "internet of things"
[ "Internet of things", "Business modelling", "Intermediating", "Network processes", "Service innovations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It is often said, in contemporary economic and political debates, that we live in a \"service society\". It is argued that growth, employment, efficiency, international competitiveness as well as living standards in society d...
How the exchange relationship affects employee commitment: The mediating role of organizational trust
[ "Organizational commitment", "Organizational trust", "Social exchange", "Economic exchange" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Trust is a crucial element of social relations within an organization. In the interpersonal level, while employees' trust in managers affects their attitudinal, behavioral and performance outcomes (e.g. job attitudes, inte...
Objectives priority in university strategy map for resource allocation
[ "University", "DEMATEL", "Strategic planning", "Balanced score card", "Strategy map" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Diverse changes in universities' environment such as globalization, increasing information technology, internationalization of education and research collaborations emerge the essence of competitive advantages for universi...
Validity and reliability: the Iranian version of Lawton IADL in elderly community dwellers
[ "Mental health", "Validation", "Elderly community", "Lawton IADL" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: The normal aging process leads to decreased functional abilities, this process is accelerated by acute illness, advanced chronic disease and long stays in hospital, resulting in less independence and decline in physical and men...
Robert Owen: a historiographic study of a pioneer of human resource development
[ "Robert Owen", "Human resource development", "Historiography", "Work reform", "Social reform", "Communitarianism", "Utopianism", "British industrial revolution", "British factory system", "Management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: As post-Colonial America continued the practice of indentured servitude as its \"original labour force\" and managed labor through ownership of \"bound white servants\" (Galenson, 1981, p. 32), back in Scotland the nineteenth...
A historical approach to realistic job previews: An exploration into their origins, evolution, and recommendations for the future
[ "Recruitment", "Human resources management", "Realistic job previews" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Throughout the history of organizations there has been a need to exchange information about the content of the work that needed to be performed. This information has been essential in helping workers to be able to successfull...
Self-gifting guilt: an examination of self-gifting motivations and post-purchase regret
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Retailing", "Post-purchase regret", "Self-gifting" ]
[ { "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: Gift giving motivations around ritual occasions, particularly Christmas giving, are a well-researched area (Clark...
Assessing sustainability performance of high-tech firms through a hybrid approach
[ "Assessment", "High-tech firms", "Sustainability performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Report shows that economic development brings unprecedented energy consumption and environmental pollution. In total, 60 per cent of the world's ecosystems are deteriorating du...
Predicting corporate failure: some empirical evidence from the UK
[ "Business failures", "Bankruptcy", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: In the post Enron-Andersen debacle era, there has been widespread debate among various stakeholders in the quest to identify firms likely to go bankrupt and/or become financially distressed (Gerald, 2002). Notwithstanding t...
Ethical attribute and brand concept congruity enhances brand evaluations
[ "Social responsibility", "Sustainable brands", "Conspicuous consumption", "Brand concept", "Ethical attributes", "Perceived congruity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Under the guidance of its former CEO Indra Nooyi, Pepsi Co. introduced Pepsi Next - an aspartame-free cola beverage brand. This introduction coincided with a strategic modification of Pepsi Co.'s brand portfolio through the a...
Impact of brand personality and consumer ethnocentrism in China's sportswear market
[ "Brand personality", "Consumer ethnocentrism", "China", "Sportswear", "Country-of-origin", "Purchase intention", "Brands", "Ethnocentrism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The success of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, along with China's rising economy, has instilled a new national confidence and pride in many Chinese citizens. According to surveys conducted by the Boston Consulting Group in 20...
An integrated framework for ISO 9000 motivation, depth of ISO implementation and firm performance: The case of Taiwan
[ "ISO 9000 series", "Motivation (psychology)", "Business performance", "Taiwan" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The application of standardized quality system models (e.g. ISO 9000) in business is considered to be a most important phenomenon in recent times in quality management development and globalization (Dick, 2000). According to,...
After the disaster: Using the Big-Five to predict changes in mental health among survivors of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake
[ "Mental health", "Disasters", "Earthquake", "Personality", "Big-Five", "Emotional stability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: On 22 February 2011, a moment magnitude (M\nMethod: Participants\nResults: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between personality and changes in psychological distress following the 22 February 2011 Chri...
Job satisfaction in developing countries: An evidence from a matched employer-employee survey in Vietnam
[ "Job satisfaction", "Generalized order logit model", "Vietnam labour economics", "J50", "O15" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The economic reform that Vietnam embarked upon in the late 1980s to change from a centrally planned economy into a market economy has helped the country to reach the status of a lower \"middle-income\" country in 2010. High a...
Cost of quality consideration following product launch in a present worth assessment
[ "Cost of quality", "Present worth" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It has long been held that field failures, though regrettable, might need to be accepted at some level. The economic feasibility of better products - gold plated and bullet proof designs - has limits. Juran (1962) suggested t...
Career control, career dialogue and managerial position: How do these matter for perceived employability?
[ "Employability", "Career control", "Career dialogue", "Managerial role" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Employability is an important topic for current work and careers. It refers to chances and competences to obtain work and to continue to work in the future (see e.g. Forrier and Sels, 2003; Van der Heijde and Van der Heijden,...
Transparency: a two-way mirror?
[ "Open management", "Corporate governance", "Utility programs", "Ethics", "Trust" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: For a few decades, the word transparency has been used very extensively, notably in the field of corporate governance. It has been endowed in most discourses with every virtue. This omnipresence and the lack of critical analy...
The need to apply new theories to "Sport CSR"
[ "Culture (sociology)", "Corporate social responsibility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Sport provides an interesting paradox; on the one hand, it generates much respect and even adulation through the endeavours and achievements of athletes and is widely recognised for providing many benefits to society. On the ...
The impact of R&D sourcing strategies on basic and developmental R&D in emerging economies
[ "Basic and developmental R&D", "Emerging economy firms", "R&D sourcing strategies", "Governance modes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Different contexts have unique environmental features (Chen and Miller, 2007). For instance, developed economies are characterized by a strong institutional background and a higher level of technological development. By co...
Retail evolution model in emerging markets: apparel store formats in Brazil
[ "Brazil", "Emerging markets", "Apparel store formats", "Big middle theory", "Low income consumers", "Retail evolution model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Diversification in retail formats has arisen as a result of the dynamic character of business models developed by retailers, who create, alter, and discard formats in response to changes in the competitive environment (Reynol...
A destination's gastronomy as a means for holiday well-being
[ "Tourist behaviour", "Well-being", "Information sources", "Local food", "Destination gastronomy", "Meal" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The topic of well-being has entered a diverse set of fields with different interpretations, such as economics and national well-being (e.g. Everett, 2015), management and organisational well-being (e.g. Koopman et al., 2016),...
Stakeholder engagement in sustainability accounting and reporting: A study of Australian local councils
[ "Stakeholder engagement", "Stakeholder theory", "Social", "Environmental", "Local councils", "Sustainability accounting and reporting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The involvement of stakeholders in the accounting and reporting process enables organisations to identify and incorporate their material concerns, issues, perceptions, needs and expectations (ACCA, 2005; Bebbington et al.,...
Knowledge transfer from business schools to business organizations: the roles absorptive capacity, learning motivation, acquired knowledge and job autonomy
[ "Vietnam", "Absorptive capacity", "Knowledge transfer", "Job autonomy", "Learning motivation", "In-service training business students" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the age of knowledge economy, knowledge is a crucial asset that creates a firm's sustainable competitive advantage (Nonaka, 1991). Nonaka observes the following:\nTheory and hypotheses: Theoretical background\nResearch met...
Correlates of career priority and family priority among hospital-based nursing staff
[ "Women", "Career priority", "Family priority", "Nursing staff" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There has been increasing interest in the career prospects of professional and managerial women as organizations strive to increase their human capital (Wittenberg-Cox and Maitland, 2008). In an increasingly competitive busin...
Beekeeping as a family artisan entrepreneurship business
[ "Family business", "Artisan entrepreneurship", "Beekeeping" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper focusses on ethnic Albanians and Macedonians who are beekeepers in the Republic of Macedonia, a transition economy which was formerly a part of the Yugoslavia federation. While the importance of entrepreneurship im...
Age and work-related stress: a review and meta-analysis
[ "Meta-analysis", "Aging workforce", "Irritation", "Life-span psychology", "Work stress" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: As a consequence of ongoing demographic changes, the workforce is becoming older in many industrialized countries. In the USA, for instance, the employment rate of older workers rose from 32.4 percent to 37.2 percent between ...
Innovation is good, fitness is better
[ "Business improvement", "Design", "Corporate strategy", "Innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The struggle to succeed in business spawns any number of principles, beliefs, new notions, and adherence to past great ideas. Over time, how many of these principles persist? Is there a link between survival and the quality o...
Personal networks and knowledge transfer in inter-organizational networks
[ "Knowledge transfer", "Best practice", "Learning organizations", "Information management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Some work carried out on the topic of inter-firm knowledge transfer show that interpersonal relations are of great importance to inter-firm exchanges (Hansen, 1999; Ingram and Roberts, 2000; Reagans and McEvily, 2003; Rodan...
Investigating the influence of TQM, service quality and market orientation on customer satisfaction and loyalty in the Indian banking sector
[ "Customer satisfaction", "Customer loyalty", "Market orientation", "Service quality", "Banking sector", "Total quality management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent decades, due to rising global competition and to achieve better business performance, organizations are focusing substantially on total quality management (TQM) practices. TQM is seen as a broad set of management...
Library cooperation in Turkey: the results of a survey of ILL librarians in higher education
[ "Survey", "Higher education", "Turkey", "Resource sharing", "Document supply", "ILL" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The concept of \"cooperation\" can be defined as individuals acting together by uniting their strengths for a common purpose. We see that mankind has realized cooperation as an obligation of communal living since the beginnin...
The role of the university in accelerated learning and innovation as a regional ecosystem integrator
[ "Social entrepreneurship", "Innovation", "Accelerated learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper presents an adaptation of a program that is at the intersection of two dynamic force fields. The first relates to imperatives impinging upon and inherent in higher education. The second ties to the concept of ecosy...
The antecedents of relational capital in key exporter-importer relationships: An institutional perspective
[ "National cultures", "Croatia", "Relational capital", "Institutional distance", "Export", "Buyer-seller relationships", "Relational bonding norms", "Reliance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Globalization tendencies significantly influence a firm's desire to explore new and distant markets. By going international, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) strive to achieve further growth, especially when the dome...
Evaluation of MGNREGA: data envelopment analysis approach
[ "Governance", "Efficiency", "DEA", "Welfare policy", "Policy evaluation", "MGNREGA", "Efficiency benchmark" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: India, battling the twin problems of poverty and unemployment since the turn of the twentieth century, has relied heavily on policy directives as a course-correction action. Successive governments, faced with widening chas...
Value relevance of voluntary disclosure: evidence from Turkish firms
[ "Turkey", "Disclosure", "Public companies", "Voluntary disclosure", "Capitalization", "Firm value", "Market capitalization", "Value relevance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Voluntary disclosure in the annual reports and in other information media has been one of the rapidly growing research areas in the accounting field. In this, several factors have played important roles. Among them are dev...
A meta-synthesis approach to specify components of future banking
[ "Best practices", "Meta-synthesis", "Future banking", "Mega-trends" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Banking regarded as a canonical industry in every economy's financial system. Economists consider banks as mediators, which reduce transaction costs between depositors and borrowers (Mishkin, 2004). Bankers see modern bank...
Sensory evaluation of commercial ready-to-eat rice between trained panelist and consumer
[ "Consumer acceptability", "Descriptive analysis", "Brown rice", "Ready-to-eat cooked rice", "White rice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is considered to be the most important crop and staple food in Korea. However, rice consumption per capita steadily decreased from 135.6 kg in 1979 to 72.8 kg and then decreased to 62.9 kg in 2015 (K...
A cost-benefit case for RFID implementation in hospitals: adapting to industry reform
[ "Technology", "Operations management", "Facilities management services", "Tracking", "Healthcare", "Cost efficiency" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The healthcare sector in the USA is currently undergoing rapid growth and transition. Changes in reimbursement and incentives to improve quality of care by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are leading the transi...
Brave new world: service robots in the frontline
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Ethics", "Artificial intelligence", "Privacy", "Service robots", "Markets" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The service sector seems to be at an inflection point with regard to productivity gains and service industrialization similar to the industrial revolution in manufacturing that started in the eighteenth century. Rapidly impro...
Integrating search engine capacity and gender preference within a social media captured authority locus of control
[ "Social media", "Search engine optimization", "User behaviour", "Barnard’s theory of authority acceptance", "Search engine technologies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: 1.1 Strategic and tactical importance of online search engines\n2. User engagement and search engine technologies: Google initially created the idea of ranking page searches on the internet based on how many other pages li...
Competitive intensity and inefficiency in European container ports: An empirical investigation using SFA
[ "Stochastic frontier analysis", "Inter-port competition", "Port policy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the past two decades, development of a common policy framework regulating the governance of major European seaports has been in progress. Simultaneously, several governments of European Union member states have implem...
Serial commitments clearance in Rastin Banking
[ "Commitment", "Collateral", "Commitment clearing", "Guarantee", "Rastin Banking", "Serial commitments" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Rastin Banking[1] is a new operational Islamic banking system which, by studying theoretical and operational banking difficulties and on the basis of the latest scientific and technical innovations in the field, presents lega...
An analysis of consumer reactions to green strategies
[ "Green marketing", "Green product", "Sustainable", "Green operations", "Environmental", "Ecological", "Environmental management" ]
[ { "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: Sustainability has become the mantra for companies seeking to create a competitive advantage in the global market...
Education and employment in two Chilean undergraduate programs
[ "Employment", "Student satisfaction", "Chile", "Inequality", "Psychology program", "Teaching program" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Recent, massive university student protests in Chile were motivated in part by doubts about the quality of teaching and learning (Espinoza and Gonzalez, 2013). The democratic governments that came into power after 1990 had...
Brand evaluation, satisfaction and trust as predictors of brand loyalty: the mediator-moderator effect of brand relationships
[ "Brands", "Brand relationships", "Trust", "Brand loyalty", "Brand evaluation", "Consumer satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this issue.\nIntroduction: Brands are complicated entities. They serve several valuable functions, including acting as marketers of the offeri...
Social media marketing and communications strategies for school superintendents
[ "Twitter", "Technology", "Stakeholders", "Social media", "Schools", "Blogs", "Social networking", "Effective communication", "Online video", "Podcasts", "Superintendents", "Social CRM" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The ever-expanding social media landscape has increased the opportunities for people to communicate with one another at any time and in any location. Smartphones, iPads, and other technology devices permit a constant flow of ...
The importance of role sending in the sensemaking of change agent roles
[ "NHS", "Human resource management", "Organizational change", "Communication", "Qualitative research", "Organizational restructuring" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Healthcare reconfiguration is challenging, and the use of champions or change agents has been widely accepted as best practice (Soo et al., 2009; MacFarlane et al., 2011; Chreim et al., 2012). Change agent sensemaking, in par...
Lean manufacturing performance in Indian manufacturing plants
[ "India", "Manufacturing industries", "Lean production", "Lean manufacturing", "Manufacturing", "Manufacturing performance", "Manufacturing operations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Lean manufacturing, often coined as Toyota production system (TPS) in academic literature, started in Toyota Motor Manufacturing Company after the Second World War when most Japanese organizations including Toyota were conf...
Exploring the relationship between financial inclusion and assets accumulation in South Africa
[ "Social welfare", "Poverty", "Quantile regression", "Financial inclusion and poverty", "Assets building", "Ordinary least square" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Recently asset building and financial inclusion have been used as a strategic intervention to achieve multiple outcomes: consumption smoothing and capacity development of the poor through asset accumulation. This innovativ...
Assessing the current state of information security policies in academic organizations
[ "Security policies", "Qualitative analysis", "Mixed methods", "Policy analysis", "Academic institutions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Data breaches in the corporate sector have been on the rise for several years with companies such as Yahoo (Fahey and Wells, 2016), Target (McGrath, 2014), MySpace (Perez, 2016) and many more suffering highly publicized an...
Could formalized State Business Relations lead to economic growth? Business participation, government representation and institutions
[ "Institutions and institutional analysis", "Economic growth", "Formal State Business Relations", "O43", "D73", "D85", "P48" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Much in the literature has been said on state and business failures. Works such as Hausmann et al. (2008), Hausmann and Rodrik (2003), Leftwich and te Velde (2010), te Velde (2009) and United Nations Industrial Development...
What happiness at work is and how to use it
[ "Performance", "Productivity", "“Happiness at work”", "Mindset", "Potential" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Happiness at work. That short phrase can sound pretty flaky taken in isolation. But research and scholarship are showing time and again (Boehm and Lyubomirsky, 2008) just what an important subject this for driving top line gr...
A perspective on gender in management: The need for strategic cross-cultural scholarship on women in management and leadership
[ "Gender", "Leadership", "Management", "Women", "Equality", "Cross-cultural" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Midway through the second decade of the twenty-first century, gender-based challenges continue to be a topic of great interest around the globe. Joshi et al. (2015) recently reported that \"gender equality appears to be at th...
Agricultural structure and farmers' interconnections with rural communities
[ "Farmers", "Agricultural structure", "Rural communities", "Social connectivity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Processes related to rural development are tied to historical developments. At the local level of single farm households, however, existing interrelations and networks can be seen as representations of the connectivity of far...
The perceived importance of core soft skills between retailing and tourism management students, faculty and businesses
[ "Training", "Soft skills", "Education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The twenty-first century workforce has experienced tremendous fluctuation due to the changing workplace environment, increased education of employees, and advances in technology; consequently, the old way of preparing student...
Strategic IT management: how companies can benefit from an increasing IT influence
[ "Business performance", "IT business value", "Empirical results", "Strategic IT management", "IT department’s influence" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The value of information technology (IT) and its contribution to corporate performance has been one of the most discussed topics in the literature for years. Both scientists and practitioners agree that effective informati...
Patient perceptions of quality: analyzing patient satisfaction surveys
[ "Quality", "Regression", "Healthcare", "Analytics", "ACA", "Patient satisfaction surveys" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Healthcare facilities are entering an era of increased oversight and heightened expectations concerning both reduced costs and measureable quality. The US Affordable Care Act aims to provide more healthcare coverage while ...
Satisfaction of learning, performance, and relatedness needs at work and employees' organizational identification
[ "Organizational identification", "Learning needs satisfaction", "Performance needs satisfaction", "Relatedness needs satisfaction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizational identification (OID) concerns the perception of psychological oneness with one's organization (Ashforth and Mael, 1989). It is believed that identification is a process in which an employee comprehends the sign...
2006 Poetry Publication Showcase: selected titles
[ "Poetry", "Literary criticism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Poets House, it needs to be said, is not a warehouse of past dreams but an ongoing experiment in cultural imagination (Stanley Kunitz).\nIndividual authors: Adamson, Robert, The Goldfinches of Baghdad, Flood Editions, Chicago...
The selection of sharing ratios in target cost contracts
[ "Target costs", "Risk management", "Sweden", "Contracts", "Construction industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A target cost contract reinforces collaboration between the contractor and the client by letting them share economic gains or losses (Bresnen and Marshall, 2000). In the broader partnering literature, such arrangements have m...
Assessing the benefits of B2B trade cycle integration: a model in the home appliances industry
[ "Order processing", "Invoicing", "Activity based costs", "Electronic commerce", "Payments" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: In the last decades, supply chain collaboration has been extensively studied by academics and its relevance in boosting company performances has been widely recognized. Integration of the B2B trade process (or order-to-paym...
Innovation in Swedish hotels
[ "Innovation", "Hotels", "Hospitality", "Sweden" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Innovation in tourism and hospitality is vital for business survival, competitiveness and growth (Orfila-Sintes and Mattsson, 2009; Ottenbacher, 2007; Sundbo et al., 2007). Its positive impact on customer preference, service ...
Oral health status and behaviour of Mauritians visiting private dental clinics
[ "Personal health", "Personal hygiene", "Dentistry", "Health education", "Mauritius" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Dental caries and periodontal infections are the most common oral diseases. The former is a multifactorial condition, which affects people worldwide and of all ages (Jawed et al., 2006) representing a major cause of tooth los...
Development of Lean Six Sigma training module: evidence from an emerging economy
[ "Manufacturing industries", "Factor analysis", "Lean Six Sigma (LSS)", "COARSE approach" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In this era of global economic integration and technological advancement, there is a rising demand in customers' needs, with different tastes in choice for product quality (George, 2003). With the increased competition and...
Inter-organizational social capital as an antecedent of a firm's knowledge identification capability and external knowledge acquisition
[ "Spain", "Absorptive capacity", "External knowledge acquisition", "Biotechnological and pharmaceutical industries", "Inter-organizational social capital", "Knowledge identification capability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: External knowledge acquisition is a process by which firms integrate knowledge from their environment into their existing knowledge bases (Fey and Birkinshaw, 2005). Knowledge acquisition is also an essential capability fo...
Detection of malicious traffic on back-bone links via packet header analysis
[ "Internet", "Firewalls", "Control systems", "Data security", "Computer networks" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In this study, internet back-bone traffic has been investigated with respect to potential security problems and many security-related anomalies in packet headers have been found. Internet traffic contains many erroneous pa...
Industry analysts - how to conceptualise the distinctive new forms of IT market expertise?
[ "Biography of artefacts", "Conceptual models of expertise", "Industry analysts", "Institutionalizing expertise", "Sociology of professions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper examines the emergence of a distinctive new form of expert labour - industry analysts who provide research for enterprise technology buyers and producers. Over the last three decades they appear to have gained cons...
Employee turnover: features and perspectives
[ "Turnover" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: We want to retain our best people. The aims of this viewpoint are to provide the manager or supervisor with some research-grounded information regarding why people tend to remain in an organization, and possible actions a man...
Communities of practice as stimulating forces for collective learning
[ "Learning", "Knowledge sharing", "Group work" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In today's world, organizations have to learn constantly, in order to respond flexibly to changes in the environment and to stay competitive. For becoming or sustaining a learning organization, management has the task to make...
Replacing the ideology of information by exploring domains of knowledge: A case study of the periodization of Philippine history and its application to information studies
[ "Philippines", "Asia", "History", "Wikipedia", "Domain analysis", "Wikis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In an article written in 1995 Phil Agre argues that we need to view the concept of information as an \"object of certain professional ideologies, most particularly librarianship and computing [...]\" (p. 225). It serves \"to ...
Individuals, teams and organizations score with gamification: Tool can help to motivate employees and boost performance
[ "Motivation", "Employee engagement", "Gamification" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Employee engagement is dubbed a recipe for individual and organizational success and, therefore, organizations across the globe are investing in it.\nDefining gamification: Gamification is more than just a game. It is the use...
Rethinking value proposition tools for living labs
[ "Value", "Value proposition", "Living labs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As living labs have become instruments for user involvement in various development and research activities, the academic interest in living labs has increased. Interest has mainly focussed on the methodologies used in livi...
Client perceptions of barriers to partnering
[ "Change management", "Partnership", "Procurement", "Perception", "Construction industry", "Sweden" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In many countries, the construction industry has, over a long period, attracted criticism for its relationships, with conflicts and disputes, poor collaboration, lack of customer focus and end-user involvement cited as signif...
Using a storytelling intervention in schools to explore death, dying, and loss
[ "Public health", "Storytelling", "Children", "Death", "Dying", "Bereavement", "End of life care" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Death is often a source of fear and anxiety and is generally avoided as a topic of conversation (Kellehear, 2014). In the UK, 1 in 29 children (approximately one child in every class) will be bereaved of a parent or sibling, ...
Information literacy literature in the social sciences and humanities: a bibliometric study
[ "Information literacy", "Quantitative analysis", "Bibliometric study", "Information literacy instructions", "SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)", "Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Information literacy has a number of characteristics and reveals people's desire to achieve educational, social, occupational and economic goals (Crawford and Irving, 2009; Lloyd, 2005; Lloyd and Williamson, 2008). Zurkowski ...
Knowledge management practices: An exploratory study at the Malaysian higher education institutions
[ "Knowledge management", "Knowledge sharing", "Tacit knowledge management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Knowledge management (KM) plays a dynamic role in the higher education institutions (HEIs) success, particularly through effective planning, organising, monitoring and coordinating the KM assets related to intellectual capita...