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Brand name and promotion in online shopping contexts
[ "Internet shopping", "Consumer behaviour", "Brands", "Promotional methods", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: According to the US Department of Commerce, online retail sales were $108.7 billion for 2005 (US Census Bureau News, 2007), an increase of 23.4 percent from 2005. Moreover, in the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas, on...
Antecedents of continuous change in educational organizations
[ "Educational change", "Structural equation modelling", "Continuous change", "Public school teachers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Despite conceptual richness, theoretical plurality, the question of how to bring successful change to schools is a top concern among scholars and practitioners, as most interventions either have failed to achieve their target...
Equity-oriented design in open education
[ "Open education", "Design research", "Annotation", "CSCL", "Equity-oriented design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Being honest about designing has the potential to aid us - and others - in acquiring insights for and about learning. By, in effect, holding back on what we suggest are authentic aspects of designing, we wonder if we are limi...
Service quality and customers' purchase intentions: an empirical study of the Indian banking sector
[ "SERVQUAL", "Service", "Purchase intentions", "Regression" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Regulatory changes in the banking industry have been numerous and have reduced or eliminated barriers to cross-border expansion, creating a more integrated global banking market. Structural changes have resulted in banks bein...
Opportunities and constraints: the current struggle with BPMN
[ "Process management", "Modelling", "Standards", "Research work" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Since the first lines were scratched into the dirt, people have been drawing pictures to help them explain things. People understand graphics - be it as part of Google Earth, in their Tom Toms, in software development proje...
The cost-effectiveness of insulin analogs and regular insulin for diabetes control: a case study in Iran
[ "Diabetes mellitus", "Insulin analogs", "Regular insulin", "Incremental cost-effectiveness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Individual and public health is the most important aspect of human life (Sadock and Sadock, 2011). Diabetes is the most prevalent disease caused by metabolic disorders and the fifth leading cause of mortality in Western socie...
Research libraries in a modern environment
[ "Academic libraries", "Transformation", "Research libraries", "Scholarly communication", "Strategic development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The world of research libraries is a quite complicated place to inhabit and investigate. Although it may seem that there is a clear understanding of what a research library is, if we define a research library by its affiliati...
(Responding to) Youth epistemologies to create a third space: a reclamation of learning in an English language arts classroom
[ "Critical pedagogy", "English language arts", "Social justice", "Youth epistemologies", "Third space" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Many public schools and, in particular, English language arts classrooms, are currently spaces where \"learning has become disturbingly conflated with achievement\" (Patel, 2016). For many minoritized and marginalized youth, ...
An information system model in Chinese herbal medicine manufacturing enterprises
[ "Information systems", "Pharmaceuticals industry", "Alternative medicine", "Process planning", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: For two decades since the early 1970s, computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) has received a great deal of attention from top management of corporations to officials of government departments responsible for industry in m...
From forest firefighting doctrine to digital battlefield: a case study
[ "Geographical information system", "Forest fire suppression management", "Means dispatching", "Software system", "Tactical situation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Fires affect forest ecosystems in a recurrent fashion. Except in particularly cold or wet zones, they occur on every continent, including in northern latitude areas such as Canada and Russia. Moreover, the phenomenon is perce...
Who is included in VET, who not?
[ "VET", "Inclusion", "Disadvantaged groups", "Switzerland" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Like other countries, Switzerland seeks to promote the inclusion of people having difficulties to access the regular educational structures. Considering the importance of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) system ...
Exploring SME market orientation: an organisational learning perspective
[ "Workplace training", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Market orientation", "Learning industry", "Textile industry", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper discusses research findings associated with at knowledge transfer partnership assignment designed to develop the level of market orientation within a UK based textile company. The study adopts a mixed methods appro...
Career sustainability during manufacturing innovation: A review, a conceptual framework and future research agenda
[ "Innovation", "Sustainability", "Manufacturing", "Career", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Fueled by advancements in automation and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the global manufacturing industry is undergoing a transformation, characterized by unmanned production systems and platforms. Use of smart ma...
The effect of relational selling on life insurance decision making in India
[ "Decision making", "Insurance", "Trust", "Investors", "Agent", "Relational selling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The core competence of any financial service industry can be built by cultivating professional relationships established on interaction intensity, the act of friendship, trust and transparency in financial dealings, and fulfi...
Interlending trending: a look ahead from atop the data pile
[ "Interlibrary loan", "Library trends", "Change management", "Libraries", "Resource sharing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2001, I was fortunate enough to attend the 7th IFLA Interlending and Document Supply (ILDS) conference in Ljubljana where there was a lot of talk about whether ILL had any future. Leaf through the conference program and yo...
Users' experiences of the People's Network workstations in Conwy Public Libraries
[ "Public libraries", "Wales", "User studies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground to the People's Network and its evaluation: Two reports of the late 1990s from the Library and Information Commission (LIC), New Library: The People's Network (LIC, 1997) and Building the New Library Network (LIC, 1998), paved t...
Future business schools
[ "Business schools", "Globalization", "Educational planning and administration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: For a long time already business schools have ranked among the most successful and best appreciated institutions of higher education. Students come in large numbers, with high expectations and they go with valuable qualificat...
Implementation of service profit chain initiatives in a franchise system
[ "Profit", "Service levels", "Retention", "Sales" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers can be found at the end of this article\nIntroduction: The aim of this study is to evaluate service profit chain initiatives in a defined franchise system in the home entertainment industry. ...
Owning and implementing labour market research: A partnership of academics, trade unions, equality advocates and local government officers in the UK
[ "Partnership", "Gender", "Employment", "Labour market", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The research partnership discussed in this paper is funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) of the European Union (EU). As those who respond to funding tenders know, the nature of a call for proposals can have an important i...
Cournot-Bertrand competition: a revisit of strategic trade policy in the third-market model
[ "Brander-Spencer model", "Rent-shifting", "Strategic trade policy", "Strategic variable" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The seminal papers of Spencer and Brander (1983) as well as Brander and Spencer (1985) have shown that R\n2. The models: Our models follow all the assumptions of Brander and Spencer (1985) with only two modifications: the ...
Illuminating the black box of entrepreneurship education programmes: Part 2
[ "Entrepreneurship education", "Enterprise education", "Entrepreneurship education programmes", "Contextualization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent decades entrepreneurship education (EE) has grown rapidly in higher education institutions, with the aim of empowering individuals to transform and become better entrepreneurs (Warhuus et al., 2017; Zeng and Honig, ...
An exploratory study on how SMEs are open to external sources of information
[ "Open innovation", "SMEs", "Openness", "External sources of information", "Multivariate probit model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Innovation is largely dependent on external sources of information (ESI) (Battisti et al., 2014; Rodriguez et al., 2016). Thus, innovative firms mostly rely on downstream and upstream value-chain ESI such as suppliers and ...
The ICT environment, financial sector and economic growth: a cross-country analysis
[ "Communication technologies", "Internet", "Finance", "Economic growth", "Method of moments" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The availability of finance for businesses is very challenging phenomenon especially in the developing world. It is also important that what channels are to be used for improving access to finance. Electronic finance, the ...
Engaging customers in value co-creation or co-destruction online
[ "Qualitative research", "Co-creation", "Services marketing", "Customer engagement", "Co-destruction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Marketers increasingly regard engagement as an umbrella term for marketing mechanisms that deliver competitive advantages to companies that use engagement strategies (Baldus et al., 2015). With increased application of tec...
Retrospective: the effect of guarantees on consumers' evaluation of services
[ "Service quality", "Service delivery", "Service design", "Cue to quality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Our Journal of Services Marketing article (Ostrom and Iacobucci, 1998) was riding a swell of interest and occurrence, on the parts of both companies and customers, of exploring what service guarantees might do to strengthen l...
Skill underutilization and collective turnover in a professional service firm
[ "Professional service firms", "Collective turnover", "Skill underutilization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Understanding the causes and consequences of employee turnover is of considerable importance to management scholars and practitioners. Whereas most of the research on employee turnover has focussed on individual turnover (Gri...
In search of transparency: ANTi-History, memorials and resistance
[ "Resistance", "Historical research", "ANTi-History", "Historic turn", "Clandestine memories", "Sites of memory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In align with the call for reflections about uses of methodology in management history, this paper seeks to outline and discuss the constitution of the Memorial of Resistance of Sao Paulo (MRSP), by adopting the ANTi-History ...
The sustainability of outcomes in temporary co-production
[ "Co-production", "Co-creation", "Capacity", "Creating sustainable outcomes", "Temporary co-production", "Temporary use of vacant spaces" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Building on the research of Mark H. Moore (1995) about creating public value, public administration scholars have recently shifted their attention to the co-creation of public value (Payne et al., 2007; Fledderus et al., 2...
Embracing the sobering reality of technological influences on jobs, employment and human resource development: A systematic literature review
[ "Robotics", "Technological unemployment", "Endangered jobs", "Human skills", "Skill-polarized workplace", "Technological influences on jobs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In today's high-tech and robotized environment, one can easily observe many examples of rapid changes that significantly influence how we function at home as well as in the workplace. For example, Toyota recently announced an...
Information literacy and learners' satisfaction: The mediating role of social networking technology usage
[ "Literacy", "Social", "Satisfaction", "Technology", "Networking", "Information", "Learners" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Educational scholars have focussed their attention on developing flexible pedagogies that can provide deep knowledge and reliable learning opportunities to learners (Bruce, 1995; Drotner and Kobbernagel, 2014; Hicks and Sinki...
Factor analysis of global trends in twenty-first century leadership
[ "Global leadership", "Organizational challenges", "Zones of leadership", "Leadership", "Corporate strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The corporate world has experienced profound changes in the early years of the twenty-first century. Countless challenges in a rising global economy have forced leaders worldwide into uncharted territory and have perhaps rede...
Public sector accrual accounting: institutionalising neo-liberal principles?
[ "Public sector accounting", "New Zealand", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In a newspaper article, Stiglitz (2003) argued that the reforms advocated by experts, often backed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), are \"more often based on ideology than economic science\". Stiglitz warned that alt...
Corporate disclosure and foreign share ownership: empirical evidence from African countries
[ "Equity", "Corporate disclosure", "Frontier markets" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Management of firms needs to communicate the performance and governance of the firm to outsiders given the divorce between corporate insiders and outsiders (investors) that characteristics listed firms in most stock market...
The role of training and empowerment in environmental performance: A study of the Mexican maquiladora industry
[ "Environmental management", "Human resource management", "Environmental performance", "Mexico" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A wide range of forces influence the way in which corporations react to environmental issues. A proactive approach is the model for sustainable business, which seeks to go above and beyond compliance. In fact, regulation, law...
Private equity and the UK market: some "real" concerns
[ "Equity capital", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The growth of private equity has been the focus of critical political and press attention over the past 12 months in the UK[1]. The City financial and regulatory authorities have, for a much longer period, been observing and ...
Unpacking knowledge management practices in China: do institution, national and organizational culture matter?
[ "China", "Institutional theory", "Knowledge management", "Organizational culture", "National cultures" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Knowledge is recognized as a core competency, a main source of competitive advantage and value creation for organizations throughout the world. This notion is particular evident in the Chinese context as China positions itsel...
Transformational leadership influence on unit performance: Cross-level moderated mediation evidence
[ "Knowledge sharing", "Transformational leadership", "Absorptive capacity", "Cross-level moderation mediation evidence", "Unit performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Research on transformational leadership (TFL) indicates that TFL can be defined as the style of leadership that can engage the organization's employees and encourage them to achieve the firm's targets. Transformational leader...
Exploring urban retailing and CBD revitalization strategies
[ "United States of America", "Urban areas", "Commercial centres", "Retail marketing", "Redevelopment", "Regeneration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, downtowns or central business districts (CBDs) housed the retail and services core of US cities. Thus, urban retailing was integral to a city's economic and social cli...
Development and quality evaluation of health-promoting functional carabeef cookies
[ "Carabeef cookies", "Functional ingredients", "Guar gum", "Orange pulp fiber", "Sodium caseinate" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The significant growth of snack food industry over the world has brought a perceptible change in the consumption pattern of food items as well as in profitability of snack food industry. Technological advancement, particularl...
The effect of plain packaging format in cigarette labeling on smoking intent and brand likability among young non-smokers in Macau
[ "Brand familiarity", "Brand likability", "Cigarette labeling", "Lab experiment", "Plain packaging", "Smoking intent" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The linkage between smoking and lung cancer has become very obvious ever since the publishing of the findings of Doll and Hill (1950)'s study examining 1,732 cases in 20 hospitals in London. In 1981, evidence was also foun...
Emotion effects on choice deferral: The moderating role of outcome and process accountability
[ "Emotion", "Anger", "Fear", "Choice deferral", "Outcome accountability", "Process accountability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. (William James)\nConceptual overview and hypotheses development: Choice deferral and incidental affect\nStudy 1: Accountability type moderates emot...
Exploring the development of supply chain international joint ventures
[ "Supply chain management", "Joint ventures", "International relations", "Emerging markets" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Emerging economies are making valiant efforts to reform their economic systems to boost growth and living standards (El-Said and McDonald, 2001). In Eastern Europe's emerging markets, interests in supply chain partnering acro...
Independence of judiciary in Bangladesh: an overview
[ "Bangladesh", "Colonial rule", "Executive interference", "Judicial system", "Judiciary", "Judicial independence", "Legal personnel" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Independence of judiciary is certainly a foundation stone of rule of law, good governance and democratic practice all over the world. It protects the weak from the powerful; the minority from the majority; the poor from the...
Neoliberal challenges in context: a case of Hong Kong
[ "Hong Kong", "Accountability", "Privatization", "Neoliberalism", "Government expenditure", "School governance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Despite that its definition is highly contentious, neoliberalism is generally an analytical concept widely used in academia, media and public policy discussions to describe economic and social policies, forms of governance an...
Discharge planning in a cardiology out-patient clinic: a clinical audit
[ "Quality Improvement", "Attendance", "Cardiology", "Discharge planning", "Nurse specialist", "Outpatients" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Out-patient (OP) services are a critical component provided to those with a chronic disease. Implementing positive discharging procedures from OP clinics is a key performance indicator (KPI), recommended by the Health Service...
On the pursuit of clinical excellence
[ "Health services", "Clinical governance", "Patient care", "Best practice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: \"The pursuit of excellence has been my objective in life\" is the inscription on the United States Congressional Gold Medal given in 2008 to the renowned heart surgeon Dr Michael DeBakey by an Act of Congress enacted in 2007...
Navy Nurse Corps manpower management model
[ "Manpower planning", "Markov processes", "Recruitment", "Medical management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The Navy Nurse Corps (NC) is part of a team of professionals that provides high quality, economical health care to approximately 700,000 active duty Navy and Marine Corps members, as well as 2.6 million retired and family ...
Unlocking the laboratory: autonomous wireless sensor authentication in practice
[ "Wireless sensor network", "Mobile technology", "SunSPOT", "Security", "Authentic learning", "Practical", "Learning methods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Pervasive networking concepts, where many different wireless networking technologies are transparently integrated into everyday objects and activities, are increasingly prevalent in everyday situations. Looking to the futu...
Commentary: do brands compete or coexist? By Sheth and Koschmann. From brand to subcategory competition
[ "Branding", "Brand loyalty", "Brand awareness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The conventional marketing strategy is to engage in what I call brand preference competition, which focuses on making a brand preferred among the choices considered by customers in a defined subcategory. The challenge is to b...
Implementation and user acceptance of research information systems: An empirical survey of German universities and research organisations
[ "Technology acceptance", "Quality management", "Database management", "Research information", "Research information system (RIS)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The volume of research activities, structures and staff is steadily growing, and research institutions must be able to answer to increasing demands on research evaluation and reporting by researchers, funders, authorities and...
Systems, networks, and ecosystems in service research
[ "Systems thinking", "Service ecosystems", "Service systems", "Service networks", "Viable systems approach" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Consider parallel trends that mark modernity. First, global flows of materials, energy, information, money, and people are interconnected. In such a setting, complex, urgent issues cannot be solved in isolation or from a sing...
Role of school leadership and climate in student achievement: The mediating role of parental involvement
[ "Climate", "School leadership", "Parental involvement", "Students’ academic achievement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030 is a comprehensive plan from the Government of Abu Dhabi for the long-term transformation and diversification of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) economy. Fundamental to this plan is the re...
The professional basis of development work: suppose the person you are assisting to learn decides to leave the organization
[ "Mentoring", "Coaching", "Organizational learning", "Development strategies", "Engagement and learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: I have just finished listening to an online lecture where the chairman made a comment about coaching that if the person leaves the organization as a result of the coaching, it would be a bad thing. His suggestion was that thi...
Workaround behaviour in information systems research
[ "IT management", "Information systems (ISs)", "Workaround behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Organizations are increasingly seeking to improve the level of productivity of their employees, especially with the use of information systems (ISs) and mobile technologies (MT). However, the new information technology (IT...
Classification of pork quality by hierarchical cluster analysis
[ "Colour", "Euclidian distance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The problem of quality defects in pork is of interest to scientists and the meat industry. Genetics, on-farm nutrition, pre-slaughter stress and post-slaughter processing are associated with variations in pork quality (Warner...
Design for maintenance accessibility using BIM tools
[ "Facility management", "BIM", "Accessibility checking", "Design for maintenance accessibility", "Revit add-in development", "Solibri model checker" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: With the development of building information modeling, knowledge sharing between facility management and design professionals has become more possible. BIM technology has been used in the design and construction phases; there...
Anticipation of organizational change
[ "Positioning", "Healthcare", "Anticipation", "Sensemaking", "Organizational change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It is well established in organization studies that technology and information technology (IT) implementations affect relationships in organizations (e.g. Barley, 1986; Orlikowski, 1992; Perrow, 1967) and that for an IT imple...
Strengthening knowledge sharing and job dedication: The roles of corporate social responsibility and ethical leadership
[ "Knowledge sharing", "Corporate social responsibility", "Ethical leadership", "Job dedication" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: To date, business organizations are facing serious competition in the knowledge economies around the globe. To successfully tackle such competition, the organizations should effectively synthesize professional knowledge am...
Decentralized decision making and educational outcomes in public schools: Evidence from Pakistan
[ "Retention", "School autonomy", "Budget", "Decentralized decision making", "Parent–Teacher Councils", "Rural primary schools" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In line with the spirit of devolution of power to the lower tiers of service delivery, the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) gave a certain degree of autonomy to all the public schools in the province in 2006-2007. The...
Managed IT services: the role of IT standards
[ "Communication technologies", "Outsourcing", "Service levels" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Business depends on IT to provide a standard operating environment for conducting business activities. Managing complex and diverse IT infrastructure environment is becoming increasingly challenging. Scalability and flexibili...
Advancing the Big Five of user-oriented care and accounting for its variations
[ "User satisfaction", "User-oriented care", "Service quality", "Elderly care", "Individualized care", "Person-centred care" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A robust finding reported in previous research is that the care process is a strong predictor of user satisfaction in health care (Hall and Dornan, 1988). The care process is defined as the way care is performed at the interp...
"How has the dark knight risen?" Chronicle of union revitalization from India
[ "India", "Global South", "Strategies for union revitalization", "Union revitalization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The decline of labor unions over the last 30 years has led to an interest in both union decline (Bryson et al., 2011) and revitalization, as researchers have looked for clues as to why unions decline and whether decline can b...
Reengineering the seaport container truck hauling process: Reducing empty slot trips for transport capacity improvement
[ "Transport capacity", "Empty-truck", "Truck appointment system", "Process reengineering", "Transportation", "Transport management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A seaport is considered to be an important part of a supply chain (Heaver, 2002; Bichou and Gray, 2005; Tongzon and Heng, 2005; Wang and Cullinane, 2006; Panayides and Song, 2008, 2009). Since a port is part of a cluster of o...
Do HRD practices affect perceived market performance through operational performance? Evidence from software industry
[ "India", "Operational performance", "Market performance", "Human resource development practices", "Software companies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Organizations are increasingly focusing on improving their human resource development (HRD) practices to enhance their marketing effectiveness and profitability (Chapman et al., 2016; Liao et al., 2016; Lin et al., 2017). The...
Exploring the conceptualisation of Intangibles in law and accounting in the USA: A historical perspective
[ "Law", "Intangibles", "Taxation", "Accounting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Accounting is a field of research and practice upon which territorial debates and battles have been long formed. Within this plethora of liaisons dangereuses, probably one of the most investigated relates to accounting and...
Primary health care services: workplace spirituality and organizational performance
[ "Organizational performance", "Workplace spirituality", "Inner life", "Meaningful work", "Primary health care", "Sense of community" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: An important business trend amidst the current crises in the western and particularly, European economies, is to stress the need for organizations to be flexible in adjusting to their changing environments. Effective organiza...
The fruits of Business Process Management: an experience report from a Swiss bank
[ "Business process re‐engineering", "Automation", "Production processes", "Communication technologies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Business competition in the financial services industry has increased substantially over the last decade. On the one hand, margins have become smaller (due to world-wide competition in some segments), on the other hand custom...
Fuzzy risk assessment for electro-optical target tracker
[ "Electro-optical target tracker", "Fuzzy FMECA", "Fuzzy risk priority numbers", "Technology index", "Technology readiness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Design and development of electro-optical target tracker system (EOTTS) is most challenging for short-range homing guided missile (SRHGM). EOTTS is part of the target tracking system that acquires and tracks the target unt...
CEO social capital and contingency pay: a test of two perspectives
[ "Management power", "Remuneration", "Chief executives", "Merit pay" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Chief executive officer (CEO) pay is effectively negotiated between the CEO and the board (Yao and Appelbaum, 2009), yet pay that far exceeds the compensation of the average employee is often seen as \"excessive\" (Scoffield,...
HRM policies play critical role workers in reducing staff turnover in Chinese hotels
[ "Human resource management practices", "Turnover intention", "Macau", "Hotel employees" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A study of hotel workers in the Chinese province of Macau has shown the vital role of human resource management (HRM) in reducing staff turnover. The in-depth interviews with 15 employees revealed that the way in which HR dep...
Sustainable goal setting: a large-scale case in management practice
[ "Performance management", "Motivation", "Public administration", "Productivity", "Goal setting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Almost half a century of research on goal setting has yielded many insights on the positive psychological effects of having high and clear goals in one's work (Locke and Latham, 2002). The easiness with which such findings we...
Citation classics published in knowledge management journals. Part III: author survey
[ "Scientometrics", "Academic research", "Serendipity", "Knowledge management", "Author survey", "Citation classics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Systems thinking, end in mind; reverse scenario thinking; holistic approach to topics, when I write a sentence, I pretend I'm the reader and then write the sentence for the reader. This process is repeated over and over. M...
Opportunities and opportunism with high-status B2B partners in emerging economies
[ "Socialization", "Partner selection", "B2B relationships", "Foreign-local interfirm relationships", "Partner status", "TSIs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Foreign business-to-business (B2B) firms entering emerging markets face many challenges. One is the selection of a local partner to help the foreign firm strategically navigate the cross currents of connectivity and uncert...
Transformational leadership with innovative behaviour: Examining multiple mediating paths with PLS-SEM
[ "Transformational leadership", "Job autonomy", "Affective commitment", "Innovative work behaviour", "Supportive management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Innovation is a strategic priority for many organisations in contemporary business environments (Slater et al., 2014). However, to achieve this priority, organisations must deliberately engage in novel ways of service deliver...
Digimums' online grocery shopping: the end of children's influence?
[ "Children's influence", "Digimums", "Online buying", "Strategy", "Smart shopper", "Online socialisation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Children play a major role in influencing family purchasing (Norgaard et al., 2007; Drenten, 2008; Gaumer and Arnone, 2010; Chaudhary, 2018): Research shows that children influence 80 per cent of family food purchasing (Hunte...
Restless and confused: Emotional responses to workplace bullying in men and women
[ "Bullying", "Individual psychology", "Individual behaviour", "Gender", "Workplace", "Canada" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Bullying has been described as a \"persistent pattern of negative acts\" (Lee and Brotheridge, 2006, p. 353). A considerable amount of research over the past decade has found that targets of bullying are likely to experience ...
The acquisition puzzle and mispricing: evidence of over-optimism
[ "Mergers and acquisitions", "Abnormal return", "Valuation", "Acquirers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The extant literature is categorical that acquirers who issue equity to finance their takeover underperform in the long run (Shleifer and Vishny, 2003). It is suspected that such acquirers are overpriced at the time of acq...
Product brand differentiation and dual-channel store performances of a multi-channel retailer
[ "Product differentiation", "Marketing strategy", "Distribution channels and marketing", "Game theory", "Marketing research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The surge in the growth of information technology has given businesses an unprecedented marketing opportunity for easy and vast access to customers and for firms. According to ComScore Networks, online retail spending in 2006...
"Robots do not replace a nurse with a beating heart": The publicity around a robotic innovation in elderly care
[ "Innovation", "End users", "Human–computer interaction (HCI)", "IT innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Due to the megatrend towards an ageing population, technology is expected to play an increasing role in elderly-care services (e.g. Kapadia et al., 2015; Malanowski, 2008; Peine et al., 2015). There is also a high turnover...
Political business cycles and economic growth in Africa
[ "Africa", "Economic growth", "Political business cycle" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction and background: For some decades now, economists have focused much of their attention on assessing macroeconomic variations as an interaction between government behavior and market forces. This led to the development of the...
Great expectations? Female expatriates' perceptions of organisational performance and development reviews in supporting access to international assignments
[ "Gender", "Women", "Careers", "Expatriates", "Organizational justice", "Performance and development reviews" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Expatriation generates career capital (Dickmann et al., 2018) and acts as a precursor to leadership (Dickmann and Baruch, 2011). Yet, women comprise only 25 per cent of organisationally assigned expatriates industry wide (San...
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation has the right prescription for diversity: Company earns top slot in annual ranking
[ "Equal opportunities", "Pharmaceutical industry", "Awards" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A focused strategic diversity and inclusion plan, the support of senior executives and a commitment to accountability helped Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NPC) - which has doubled the number of women in its top-level ...
Preparing for natural hazards: normative and attitudinal influences
[ "Social norms", "Attitudes", "Natural disasters", "New Zealand" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In areas susceptible to experiencing adverse natural hazard (e.g. earthquakes, floods, hurricanes) consequences, adopting protective measures (storing food and water, securing household items and furniture to prevent injury, ...
An autoethnographic account of a pragmatic inclusionary strategy and tactics as a form of feminist activism
[ "Higher education", "Autoethnographic", "Feminist institutionalism", "Feminist activism", "Pragmatic inclusionary strategy", "Tactics" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Universities have historically been hierarchically male dominated institutions with men constituting the majority of those in senior academic and management positions in a masculinised structure and culture, which reinforces ...
Gray marketing and its impacts on brand equity
[ "Brand equity", "Grey marketing", "International trade" ]
[ { "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.\nI. Introduction: Owing to the emergence of trade blocks, such as the European Union and the NAFTA, and the two landmark court d...
Interview with Mike Campbell, HR Director of easyJet: Interview by Rachel Brown
[ "Human resource management", "Customer service management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Mike Campbell joined easyJet in October 2005 as People Director. Before joining easyJet Mike worked at Wedgwood in a broad role as Director of People and Brands and Managing Director for Canada, Australia and Pan-Asia. Prior ...
Bond audit, a method for evaluating business relationships
[ "Channel relationships", "Strategic audit", "Service improvements", "Relationship marketing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A focus on cooperative industrial business relationships has become increasingly important in studies of industrial relationships. Demands for lower prices and an increase in profits, shorter product cycles and global comp...
Women chairs in academic medicine: engendering strategic intuition
[ "Gender", "Women", "Leadership", "Hospital management", "Management development", "Grounded theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Academic medicine in the USA is searching for ways to \"reframe the narrative\" of diversity and develop a \"strategic diversity leadership\" approach for selecting students, training culturally competent physicians, engaging...
Stress-strength reliability models involving generalized gamma and Weibull distributions
[ "Generalized gamma distribution", "Weibull distribution", "Maximum likelihood estimation", "Confidence interval", "Stress–strength reliability" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The stress-strength probability plays an important role in the reliability theory. If Y is the strength of a system which is subjected to a stress X, then R = P(X < Y) measures the performance of the system. Also, R may be...
Models of work-based learning, examples and reflections
[ "Organizational change", "Higher education", "Work-based learning", "Models of WBL", "WBL partnerships", "Work-related learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nWork-based learning (WBL) in higher education: Among the most significant changes which have occurred in UK Higher Education over the past 30 years is the introduction and development of WBL[1] into the university curriculum. While this ha...
Service quality scales in online retail: methodological issues
[ "Methodology", "Service quality", "Scales", "Online retail" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Worldwide business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce sales will grow by 17.7 percent in 2015 to reach $177.1 trillion (Emarketer.com, 2014). This growth is due to increasing internet and mobile users in emerging markets, the bo...
A "Tower of Babel"? - interrelations and structure of leadership constructs
[ "Transactional leadership", "LMX", "Consideration", "Transformational leadership", "MASEM", "Laissez-faire leadership", "Initiating structure", "Leadership dimensions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Although considerable theoretical and empirical leadership research efforts have been conducted, there is still much debate as to what leadership exactly is (Mulla-Feroze and Krishnan, 2000). In a comprehensive review of lead...
Text classification: neural networks vs support vector machines
[ "Artificial intelligence", "Neural nets", "Knowledge management", "Document management", "Classification" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The emergence of the current digital age has brought both new opportunities and unprecedented challenges to organizations. Survival in this turbulent and ever-changing networked global world requires organizations to contin...
Effectiveness of a herbal supplement (Zotrim(tm)) for weight management
[ "Obesity", "Health foods", "Diet" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: State-funded treatment of obesity in the UK is relatively scarce in relation to the problem. An industry-funded audit of 340 Primary Care Organisations (Dr Foster, 2004) found that less than 50 per cent of these offered an ob...
Global products marketing strategy of two European MNCs in Vietnam
[ "Market entry", "Product marketing strategy", "Brand performance", "Product standardization and adaptation", "Multinational corporations", "Fast moving consumer goods" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Extensive research on the subject of standardization versus adaptation has revealed that the recent literature was able to highlight the significant ambiguity surrounding the achievements of previous investigations (Akgun et ...
Quality of health care: an absolute necessity for public satisfaction
[ "Quality", "Patient care", "Health services", "Assessment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Pledging quality in health care services ought to be a priority for any health care system. The notion of quality in health services has emerged more strongly because of the rising costs of treatments, constrained resources a...
Valuing the investment in organizational training
[ "Training", "Return on investment", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In today's ever-changing business climate, as organizations seek ways to remain competitive they have significantly increased their efforts to develop the knowledge, skills, and capabilities of each employee to maximize their...
Sustainability-driven innovation and the Climate Savers' programme: experience of international companies in China
[ "China", "Innovation", "Sustainability", "WWF Climate Savers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It is clear that sustainability is becoming a major driver of innovation. On the one hand there is growing concern about resources, energy, climate change, pollution and other issues. WWF reports suggest that lifestyles in th...
Consumer acceptance and market success: Wal-Mart in the UK and Germany
[ "Retailing", "Consumer behaviour", "International marketing", "Germany", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Wal-Mart entered the European market in 1997 via Germany by acquiring 21 Wertkauf and 74 Spar Handel stores, all of which were changed into Wal-Mart superstores. In 1999, the company's reach was extended to UK through the acq...
Understanding and overcoming negative impacts of tourism in city destinations: conceptual model and strategic framework
[ "City tourism", "Conflict mechanisms", "Host-guest relations", "Overtourism", "Tourism impact studies", "Visitor management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Tourism is subject to massive growth. Projections made by the World Tourism Organisation anticipate a growth to 1.8 billion international arrivals worldwide till 2030. Based on its World Tourism Monitor, IPK states that city ...