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Measuring general managers' performances: Market, accounting and combination-of-measures systems
[ "Measurement", "Performance", "General management", "Market yield", "Accounting systems", "Balanced scorecard" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A commonly cited management axiom is \"What you measure is what you get.\" This axiom works in practice because performance measures are linked to any of a number of incentives, both extrinsic and intrinsic, that employees va...
An evaluation of the revenue side as a source of fiscal consolidation in high debt economies
[ "Ireland", "Greece", "Portugal", "Spain", "Laffer curve", "Public debt" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As Greece was aided by IMF and European Union (EU) with two massive bailout packages, first in April 2010 and then again in October 2011, tension mounted on the streets of Athens. The lenders, however, sought even greater ...
Lean readiness - the case of the European pharmaceutical manufacturing industry
[ "Lean manufacturing", "Quality practices", "European pharmaceutical manufacturing industry", "Lean readiness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the past two decades, both manufacturing and service industries have been severely affected by new technological opportunities and challenges, which have set new levels for global, regional and local competition (Chow...
Diffusion of quality standards in the hospitality sector
[ "Diffusion", "ISO 9001", "“Q” Spanish standard", "Quality", "Hospitality", "Quality management", "Hotels", "Restaurants", "Spain" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: The proliferation of management system standards (MSSs) in recent years reflects the importance that businesses now attach to improving the efficiency of their management systems. Further evidence of this phenomenon is the ...
Integrating supplier knowledge in new product development projects: decoupled and coupled approaches
[ "New product development", "Knowledge sharing", "Suppliers", "Knowledge integration", "Knowledge combining" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Knowledge has been identified as a critical resource for the innovativeness, competitiveness and survival of the firm (Grant, 1996). New product development (NPD) in particular has been characterized as a knowledge-based acti...
A review of supply chain risk management: definition, theory, and research agenda
[ "Supply chain risk", "Theory", "Risk management", "Supply chain risk management (SCRM)", "Systematic literature review (SLR)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Various industrial trends including outsourcing, supply base reduction, just-in-time, and shorter product life cycles have increased firm exposure to supply chain risks (SCRs) (Colicchia and Strozzi, 2012; Trkman et al., 2016...
The impact of proactivity, leader-member exchange, and climate for innovation on innovative behavior in the Korean government sector
[ "LMX", "Proactivity", "Innovative behaviour", "Climate for innovation", "Government sector" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the current business environment, no organization is assured of survival without continuous innovation. Innovation has been identified as an imperative for prosperity, particularly in the rapidly changing and uncertain wor...
Assessing m-Health success in Bangladesh: An empirical investigation using IS success models
[ "User satisfaction", "IS success model", "Mobile health", "Quality of health life" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Healthcare is a serious concern in every society. In recent times, contemporary developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) introduced improved services both to medical service providers and receivers ...
The linkages among intellectual capital, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility
[ "Corporate governance", "Intellectual capital", "Corporate social responsibility" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The present study examines the interrelated linkages among three concepts: Corporate Governance (CG), Intellectual Capital (IC) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). There is an ongoing debate about each of these conc...
Microfinance and credit to the ultra poor
[ "Social capital", "Microcredit", "Economic philosophy/theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: There is a worldwide debate between the access to credit and the cost of credit. Access to loans has two features:\n2. Institutional credit to the poor: The share of institutional finance in rural household debt becomes ev...
The influence of corporate brand perceptions on consumer satisfaction and loyalty via controlled and uncontrolled communications: a multiple mediation analysis
[ "Corporate brand", "S-O-R model", "Consumer satisfaction and loyalty", "Controlled and uncontrolled communications", "Mediating effects" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent years, academic and managerial interest towards corporate branding has been growing (Balmer, 2012; Chang et al., 2015; Melewar et al., 2012; Siano and Palazzo, 2015; Veloutsou, 2015). Conceptually related to product...
The recontextualisation of youth wellbeing in Australian schools
[ "Social interventions", "Social skills", "Curriculum development", "Mental health and young people" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In this paper, Bernstein's (1990) theorization of social construction of pedagogic discourse is used to examine how two schools in Queensland, Australia, delivered well-being agendas through in-curricular programs. In doing s...
SMEs motivations for CSR: an exploratory study
[ "Internationalisation", "Norway", "Motivation", "CSR", "Maritime cluster" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the past, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been optional, but today's global and competitive business environment allows no firm to neglect the importance of social responsibility (Graafland and van de Ven, 200...
Effects of platforms on new product development projects
[ "Sweden", "Product development", "Manufacturing industries", "New product development projects", "Product platforms" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: This paper is about effects of product platforms on new product development (NPD) projects. Many companies constantly increase the product variety of their offerings, at the same time as they face decreasing product life cy...
An ontology-based web service framework for construction supply chain collaboration and management
[ "Ontology", "Supply chain integration", "Collaboration", "Construction supply chain", "Semantic web services", "Data mediation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The value of supply chain integration has been studied and identified in many industries such as the manufacturing industry (Arntzen et al., 1995). Supply chain integration reduces cost, improves responsiveness to changes, an...
Standardizing FM knowledge acquisition when information is inadequate
[ "Analytical hierarchy process", "Buildings", "Decision making", "Facilities", "Tacit knowledge" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The focus of facility management has shifted over time from maintenance of buildings and equipment (Becker, 1990) to the integrated workplace management for improved performance of the organization (Tay and Ooi, 2001). Com...
Local development through rural entrepreneurship, from the Triple Helix perspective: The case of a peripheral region in northern Portugal
[ "Self-employment", "Rural", "Entrepreneurship", "Knowledge transfer" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Entrepreneurship has been acclaimed as an important mechanism to promote economic growth and social value that develop communities (Ribeiro-Soriano, 2017). In particular, rural, peripheral and less-favoured regions, suffering...
Firm web visibility and its business value
[ "Webometrics", "Business value", "Shareholder value", "Advertising efficiency", "Online references", "Web visibility", "Web hyperlink analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Web sites have different web visibility and popularity. Web visibility refers to the extent to which a user is likely to encounter a reference to a web site in his or her web (or online) environment (Dreze and Zufryden, 20...
Case-based modeling for learning: socially constructed skill development
[ "Experiential learning", "Scripts", "Problem solving", "Case material", "Self-regulation of learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The purpose of this study is to present in detail the instruction and training method, case-based modeling (or, CBM). This paper does not provide empirical findings that support the efficacy of the method as there is other re...
Re-conceiving time in reference and information services work: a qualitative secondary analysis
[ "Reference services", "Academic libraries", "Phenomenology", "Sociology of time", "Qualitative secondary analysis", "Secondary analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Time is often perceived as something fixed and regular, a consistent structure with which we measure our lives. But in fact, our perception of time is all but fixed and regular. It speeds up when we are engaged in a task and ...
Interaction between satisfaction and incentives on online reviews
[ "Incentives", "Customer satisfaction", "Online review", "Moral judgement", "Electronic word-of-mouth", "Sensitivity of promotion" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Due to the anonymity of online transactions and information asymmetry, the risk of online shopping becomes more prominent. To reduce this risk, customers are increasingly inclined to refer to online reviews and conduct onl...
Mentorship programs in the manufacturing industry
[ "Workplace learning", "Literature review", "Construction industry", "Mentorship", "Workplace training", "Mentorship programs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The starting point for this study is the identification of a need to find effective competence development models in the manufacturing industry, and more specifically, the moulding industry. Previous development efforts have ...
Capturing the consumer value: the case of red lentils
[ "Consumer", "Attributes", "Relative importance", "Value chain", "Red lentils" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The seeds of leguminous plants, commonly known as \"pulses\" have traditionally been referred to as \"poor man's crops\" or \"poor man's protein\" (Kyi et al., 1997). However, pulses are now considered as a nutrient-rich whol...
Navigating the mutual knowledge problem: a comparative case study of distributed work
[ "Knowledge workers", "Tacit knowledge", "Virtual teams", "Distributed organization/teams", "Knowledge coordination", "Mutual knowledge problem", "Emergent practices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Teams spanning spatial and temporal boundaries represent a relatively recent change to the organization of work. \"Distributed\" or \"virtual\" teams are characterized by a combination of geographical dispersion, electronical...
Between substance and governance: Healthcare governance and the limits to reform
[ "Change management", "Governance", "Policy", "Political analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In developed and developing countries alike, health systems have undergone more or less continuous reform for the past several decades (Gaynor et al., 2015; Ramesh et al., 2015; Walshe, 2003b). Despite these extensive reform ...
Forecasting the US fashion industry with industry professionals - part 1: Materials and design
[ "Forecasting", "Design", "Fashion industry", "Fabric production processes", "United States of America" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Experts have made numerous forecasts regarding what changes will emerge and mark our \"global village\" in the coming decades. Similar to predictions made for the future of other fields, Wolfe (1999) predicted that technology...
Creative economy assessment: a case study of Kish Island
[ "Creative industry", "Creative city", "Creative economy", "Kish Island" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The world is currently struggling with a serious financial and economic crisis that started in 2007-2008. Until recently, it was the support of a knowledge-based economy that was viewed as the most efficient tool in the fight...
Asylum, welfare and work: reflections on research in asylum and refugee studies
[ "Employment", "Integration", "Forced labour", "Welfare", "Asylum seekers", "Destitution" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the past 30 years asylum has become an issue of great political significance, public interest, and media coverage in Britain. Policies and laws designed to deal with asylum seekers have proliferated, as have the resource...
Driving forces of road freight CO2 in 2030
[ "Forecasting", "CO2 emissions", "Delphi survey", "Road freight transport" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Road freight transport is usually considered to be a derived demand; a result of the exchange of goods within and between economies. The production of goods results in tonnes lifted and tonne-kilometres moved within the trans...
Corporate social responsibility and environmental reporting in controversial industries
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Content analysis", "Annual reports", "Environmental reporting", "Controversial industries" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the last few decades, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has received a large amount of attention in research and in practice (Lindgreen and Swaen, 2010; McWilliams and Siegel, 2001; Pedersen, 2010). In particular, in...
About and on Behalf of Scriptum Est by Vesa Suominen
[ "Librarians", "Politics", "Library users", "Value analysis", "Philosophy", "Educational institutions", "Epistemology", "Information industry", "Gadamer" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Books that put library and librarianship (L&Lship) in a philosophical perspective are a rare commodity. When they do exist, they tend to either single out a particular aspect of the library - like the concept of information o...
Foreign business ownership and domestic entrepreneurial exports
[ "Foreign direct investment", "Export intensity", "Domestic entrepreneurship", "Export propensity", "Foreign employment", "Local labour markets" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Although, a vast majority of policy makers have sought to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) (Girma et al., 2001), there has been considerable debate about the impact that FDI has upon home grown enterprise (Pathak et al...
Skills, training and development within an insular labour market: The changing role of catering managers in the healthcare environment
[ "Labour market", "Skills", "Health services", "Hospitals", "Catering industry", "Hospitality management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: There is a general trend within developed economies for a weakening of labour market characteristics and for an increasing interchange of skills and labour between different sectors of the economy. This is reflected in educat...
Six ways to be an effective leader: Adapting to modern challenges and competition
[ "Leadership", "Character", "Organizational commitment", "Trust", "Virtual leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: What makes a good leader? The text books are full of examples such as Jack Welch or Steve Jobs as major figures in business who have led major corporations effectively with certain styles. Their high profile and media images ...
Wealth measurement and the role of built asset investment: an empirical comparison
[ "Organization", "Sustainability", "Economic growth", "Investment", "Built assets", "Wealth measurement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Wealth measurement\nThe role of investment in built assets: As countries go through stages of development, so the need for different levels and types of built asset changes. From meeting basic needs in subsistence level econo...
International strategy for SMEs: criteria for foreign markets and entry modes selection
[ "International marketing strategy", "Entry mode selection", "International market selection", "Small- and medium-size enterprises" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: One of the most frequently researched topics in international marketing over the past 40 years has been that of the internationalization process of firms (Fletcher, 2001).\n2. Theoretical background: 2.1 IMS\n3. Methodolog...
Master of Business Administration (MBA) student outcomes in Vietnam: Graduate student insights from a qualitative study
[ "Vietnam", "MBA", "Higher education", "Management learning", "Graduate student experience" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper provides insights into the experiences of Vietnamese graduates of offshore master of business administration (MBA) programmes in Vietnam. These are considered in light of recent international higher education (HE) ...
Refuting fake news on social media: nonprofits, crisis response strategies and issue involvement
[ "Fake news", "Crisis response strategies", "Crisis management", "Social media", "ELM", "Information processing", "Brand image", "Reputation", "Consumer privacy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: The speed through which information disseminates online, along with the pervasiveness of social media, has accelerated the transmission of fake news. The propagation of fake news is attributed either to the financial gain tha...
Too much R&D? - vertical differentiation and monopolistic competition
[ "Research and development", "Monopolies", "Competitive strategy", "Product design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Based on the results of the Fourth Community Innovation Survey (CIS4) conducted by the European Statistical Office, in 2004 about 40 percent of European firms, which account for more than 260,000 enterprises, undertook res...
Empirical research on competitiveness factors: Analysis of real estate industry of Beijing and Tianjin
[ "Real estate", "Competitive strategy", "Mathematical modelling", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Intensive competition in Chinese real estate markets requires enterprises to improve competitiveness. These improvements not only benefit the enterprises themselves, but also have a direct impact on the competitiveness of the...
New drivers and challenges in a multi-polar world
[ "Strategy", "Multipolar world" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Much of the volume of research on M\nGlobal trends: The world is moving from an era of geographically-concentrated economic power to another characterized by multiple centers of economic and business activity. The economic do...
The organizational value of Xennials: A microgeneration placed to smooth workplace tension
[ "Millennial", "Generation X", "Microgeneration", "Xennial", "Generational theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Business magazines across the globe regularly include commentary on the traits of the latest generation to significantly enter the workforce, which is currently the Millennial generation. Very scarce academic attention has be...
The portrayal of early accountants in nineteenth century Portuguese literature
[ "Portugal", "Fiction", "Accountants", "Stereotype", "Literary realism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The phenomenon of occupational stereotypes has stimulated research across occupations (Glick et al., 1995; Lee et al., 2001; King et al., 2006; Harendza and Pyra, 2017), including explorations of the accountant stereotype in ...
A field-level examination of the adoption of sustainable procurement in the social housing sector
[ "Procurement", "Public sector", "Consortia", "Sustainability", "Coopetition", "Social housing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Sustainability is receiving an ever-increasing amount of attention from the media (Thogersen, 2006) and over the last decade has found its way onto many boardroom agendas, owing largely to stakeholder pressure (Eesley and ...
Foodservice employee substance abuse: is anyone getting the message?
[ "Employee awareness", "Substance abuse", "Prevention policies", "Harm reduction", "Drug prevention", "Foodservice employee" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The call for organizational mechanisms to address substance abuse has been dispensed by Hospitality and Tourism Management researchers since the first issues of top Hospitality and Tourism academic journals (Peters, 1988; Qui...
"I'll always be in debt": Irish and UK student behaviour in a credit led environment
[ "Debts", "Credit", "Students", "Consumer behaviour", "Ireland", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "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: Except as a technical topic within economics or finance, credit is a much-neglected issue in the social sciences ...
Twenty-one success sutras for chief executives: How to lead during turbulent times
[ "Performance", "Top management", "Leadership development", "Organizational development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: \"Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you\", said management guru, Peter F Drucker.\nConclusion: Chief executives frequently fin...
Survival strategies of built environment organisations in a challenging economy
[ "Challenging economy", "Competitive strategies", "Construction organization: survival strategies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The global financial crisis that hits most countries around the world in 2007, which is considered to be the most devastating economic event since the great depression in 1929 (Papademos, 2009), left industries in most countr...
Predicting employee performance through organizational virtuousness: Mediation by affective well-being and work engagement
[ "Performance", "Work engagement", "Affective well-being", "Organizational virtuousness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizational Virtuousness (henceforth, OV) is defined as the presence of an environment where integrity, humanity, forgiveness and trust are flourished, supported and propagated (Cameron et al., 2004). Academic literature i...
How to evaluate sustainability of supply chains? A dynamic network DEA approach
[ "Data envelopment analysis", "Sustainable supply chain management", "Efficiency evaluation", "Food supply chain", "Dynamic DEA", "Network DEA", "Slacks-based measure" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Supply chain is a purposeful combination of interconnected and interdependent organization. Although, units of supply chains are separated legally, they are connected by flow of material, information, and finance. Providin...
National culture and the standardization versus adaptation of knowledge management
[ "Knowledge management systems", "Knowledge transfer", "Knowledge creation", "National cultures", "Standardization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: To compete in the global market, multinational companies (MNCs) need to develop the ability to manage knowledge (Bartlett and Ghoshal, 1998). Knowledge is important in international business because it can reduce managerial u...
Construction efficiency: a tale of two developed countries
[ "Australia", "USA", "Key performance indicators", "Construction efficiency", "High-rise buildings", "Purchasing power parity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Doctoral research by Crow (2004) identified that best practice on commercial building projects in Australia is achieved in <10 per cent of cases. A few years earlier, the Cole Royal Commission was established to investigate w...
How to measure the efficacy of VET workplace learning: the FET-WL model
[ "Training efficacy", "Training evaluation", "VET and the labour market", "Vocational education and training", "Workplace learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The experience of workplace learning (WL) is a key part of vocational education and training (VET) studies, because it offers the students the opportunity to put into practice the skills they are learning at school; and it...
The double-edge resource-based view of logistics performance and governance in Asian countries
[ "Corruption", "Governance", "Asian countries", "Logistics performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The impact of tariff barriers on trade has decreased in the past decade due to globalisation and geographical regionalisation (Marquez-Ramos and Martinez-Zarzoso, 2011; Sakyi et al., 2017; Cho and Lee, 2017). In an interna...
Sustainability of Indian management education institutions: Perspectives from leaders in academia
[ "Sustainability", "Higher education", "India", "Management education", "Business school", "Sustainability education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Today, the buzzword all around is \"sustainability\"; it has affected many organizations and individuals, including education institutions. Education is a key tool to provide opportunity to the young generation to acquire kno...
The impact of mycoprotein on blood cholesterol levels: a pilot study
[ "Organic foods", "Vegetables", "Proteins", "Personal health", "Blood" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Raised serum cholesterol, particularly low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is a risk factor for coronary heart disease (British Heart Foundation, 2009). Certain food ingredients are believed to exert a reducing effect o...
Health care managers learning by listening to subordinates' dialogue training
[ "Listening", "Dialogue training", "Intervention programme", "Leadership communication", "Manager learning", "Observing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Middle managers in health care today are exposed to extensive demands on their leadership concerning administration and economy (Degeling et al., 2003; Dellve and Wikstrom, 2009), organizational change and learning, quality o...
Workplace violence: a case in Malaysian higher education institute
[ "Workplace violence", "Working environment", "Management style", "Co‐worker relationship", "Violence", "Malaysia", "Higher education", "Educational institutions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Historically, managers place less attention to the issue of workplace violence. Normally, this issue is treated as very personal and need not be looked into seriously. However, nowadays, managers begin to give priority to ...
Performance expectancy and use of enterprise architecture: training as an intervention
[ "Training", "Structural equation modelling", "Technology acceptance", "Performance expectancy", "Enterprise architecture" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Enterprise architecture (EA) directs the alignment of information systems, organizational processes, and firm strategy and can be defined as the organizing logic for an organization's IT infrastructure and business process...
A comparative assessment of performance and productivity of health centres in Seychelles
[ "Community health centres", "Productivity rates", "Performance measures", "Seychelles" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Republic of Seychelles consists of an archipelago of 115 islands in the South-Western Indian Ocean. It has a population of 82,474 people; 25 per cent are 0-14 years, 66.9 per cent are 15-64, and 7.9 per cent are 65 years ...
Explorative learning strategy and its impact on creativity and innovation: An empirical investigation among ICT-SMEs
[ "Innovation", "Malaysia", "ICT-SMEs", "Compositional creativity", "Improvisational creativity", "Explorative learning strategy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Creativity can either be improvisational or compositional (Sawyer, 1992). \"Improvisation is not just something individuals do but it is a learned capacity that organizations can manage\" (Cunha et al., 2015, p. 511). For org...
Continuous quality improvement using a practice improvement model
[ "Health services", "Medical practice", "Clinical audit", "Continuous improvement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Practice improvement methods are a variety of quality initiatives with the aim of altering clinical practice in order to improve or create more effective interventions for end-service users. Cape and Barkham's (2002) practice...
Knowledge management processes, knowledge worker satisfaction, and organizational performance: Symmetric and asymmetrical analysis
[ "Knowledge management processes", "Knowledge worker satisfaction", "Organizational performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) require teamwork, association, and effort, Knowledge Management (KM) can fill in as an impetus for upgraded cooperation and investigation (Ramjeawon and Rowley, 2018; Iqbal et al., 2019...
Foresight of cyber security threat drivers and affecting technologies
[ "Foresight" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The cyber security industry emerged rapidly in recent years due to mounting cyber threats and increasing cyber hacking activities. Anticipation is critical capacity in this area, but existing research studies are more conc...
The keys that unlock entrepreneurialism in employees: ... and some examples of firms that use them successfully
[ "Performance", "Entrepreneurship", "Start-up businesses" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: What moves an individual to search for business opportunities and then work to bring them to fruition?\nWhat we know about entrepreneurial employees: Scholars who study entrepreneurial behavior suggest that the drive to engag...
Change and learning strategies in large scale change programs: Describing the variation of strategies used in a health promotion program
[ "Strategy", "Change management", "Organizational development", "Organizational learning", "Change agents", "Large scale change programs", "Sweden" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A large part of organizational change attempts are recognized as failures (e.g. Higgs and Rowland, 2000; Hughes, 2011). Lack of empirical evidence underlying many approaches to change management, and the need for more empiric...
Problematising practice, learning and change: practice-theory perspectives on professional learning
[ "Professional Learning", "Coproduction", "Practice", "Rationality", "Emergence", "Professional practice", "Sociomaterialiity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper contributes to research on learning at work through an engagement with what has been termed the \"practice turn in contemporary theory\" (Schatzki et al., 2001, p. 7) and the positing of a specific \"practice epist...
Learning analytics made in France: the METAL project
[ "Data mining", "Data collection and storage", "Educational data", "Multi-source data", "Teacher and learner dashboards" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The domain of learning analytics (LA) has recently evolved from using data for predicting which learners are at risk of dropout/academic failure, to studying how to improve the learning experience and academic outcomes of ...
Multi academy trusts in England: a scenario of cooperation with universities
[ "England", "UK universities", "Multi academy trust" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nUniversities and multi academies trusts (MATs): A popular model of governing the pre-university sector in England is the MATs (Department for Education, 2016). In a MAT, a single trust with its members, trustees and governors is responsibl...
Founding conditions influence level of benefit offerings at US startups
[ "Employee benefits", "Startups", "Founding conditions", "Healthcare insurance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A study examined four founding conditions of 4,148 start-ups in the United States to assess which ones had the biggest influence on their long-term employee offerings, such as health insurance, paid holidays and tuition reimb...
"Oh, stop! You flatter me": ingratiation in retail settings
[ "Retail", "Impression management", "Ingratiation", "Flattery" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the blockbuster American movie Pretty Woman, Richard Gere's character (Edward Lewis) takes Julia Roberts' character (Vivian Ward) on a shopping trip on Rodeo Drive, where, in one store, Edward Lewis demands that the retail...
Utilising a virtual world to teach performance appraisal: An exploratory study
[ "Performance appraisal", "Feedback", "Role play", "Human resource development", "Teaching" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The last ten years have seen considerable advances and penetration of IT applications in teaching, training and development. Clearly, people charged with the teaching and training of human resource development (HRD) need to i...
A model to define and assess the agility of supply chains: building on humanitarian experience
[ "Supply chain management", "Aid agencies", "Flexible organizations", "Modelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction and research questions: One of the particularities of humanitarian logistics is the level of uncertainty they have to cope with. Every day, in many parts of the world, humanitarian workers are confronted with various forms o...
Fostering an action-reflection dynamic amongst student practitioners
[ "Continuing development", "Critical thinking", "Students" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In this paper we seek to relate current theories and practices in regard to the nurturing of critical reflection amongst students on our accredited Master's programme in human resource management (HRM), accredited by the Char...
The next generation at work - business students' views, values and job search strategy: Implications for universities and employers
[ "Students", "Business studies", "Careers", "Career development", "Education", "Strategic planning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Canada, like many industrialised countries such as the UK and the USA, is anticipating a shortage of skilled workers (Corporate Leadership Council, 2005a, b). For example, Canada could lack 1.5 million skilled workers by 2010...
Using classification schemes and thesauri to build an organizational taxonomy for organizing content and aiding navigation
[ "Classification schemes", "Controlled languages", "Information systems", "Singapore" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Taxonomies are related to classification schemes and thesauri in components and differ from them in scope and roles. Taxonomies share a hierarchical structure as a backbone with classification schemes, and share with thesauri...
Entrepreneurial orientation in dynamic environments: The moderating role of extra-organizational advice
[ "Ghana", "SMEs", "Developing economy", "Entrepreneurial orientation", "Firm performance", "Extra-organizational advice" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) research has blossomed over the years (e.g. Kropp et al., 2008; Rauch et al., 2009; Soinen et al., 2013). EO is a strategic posture that reflects the specific processes, practices, and behavio...
Widening managers' self awareness when hiring migrant workers: European perspectives on how managerial attitudes impact career outcomes
[ "Migrant worker", "Attitude toward migrants", "Acculturation expectancy", "Human capital expectation", "Self-transcendence values" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Migrants are a valuable asset for the companies operating within an individual country, and achieving their smooth integration into both work and societal roles is contingent, in part, upon how they are received by hiring man...
Decision-making model for the evaluation of industrialized housing systems in Ethiopia
[ "Architecture", "Construction", "Addis Ababa", "Analytical hierarchy process (AHP)", "Decision support system (DSS)", "Expert choice comparion (ECC)", "Industrialized housing systems (IHSs)", "Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Decision making for the evaluation and selection of appropriate industrialized housing systems (IHSs) for application in housing developments has increased due to the advancement of the project performance they deliver par...
A novel attribute-based dynamic content area layout for internet newspapers
[ "Newspapers", "Internet", "Electronic media", "Design", "Data structures" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The improvements in technology and telecommunication have also affected broadcasting in a positive way. Nowadays, e-commerce websites and internet newspapers are becoming more common. Published newspapers are still very po...
Sexualization of the work environment and emotional exhaustion: The case of emerging India
[ "Employee behaviour", "Emotional exhaustion", "Occupational health and safety", "White collar workers", "Work psychology", "Sexualization at work" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: There has been an extensive discussion of sexualized behavior in the workplace for the past 30 years (Fleming, 2007). Some of this interest may have been triggered by the introduction of the term \"sexual harassment\" in the ...
The impact of market orientation on NSD and financial performance of hospital industry
[ "Market orientation", "Financial performance", "Hospitals", "Turkey" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: In today's changing and developing global world, services dominate the economic landscape of the postindustrial OECD economies and they are also among the fastest growing sector in emerging countries, typically accounting f...
Patient involvement in a professional body: reflections and commentary
[ "Primary Care", "National Health Service", "Doctors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The primary stated objective of most medical royal colleges is to set the standards of practice for doctors (Chisholm and Askham, 2006). However, they also exert considerable influence over the structure of the National Healt...
Evaluating customers' behavioral intentions in less significant financial institutions
[ "Motivation", "Service quality", "Customer satisfaction", "Behavioural intentions", "Perceived value", "LSFIs" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the current competitive scenario, companies achieve better performance levels if they are able to increase their efficiency, provide high quality products/services, and improve the relationship with their customers. Lon...
Impacts of increased house advantages on reel slots
[ "Pricing", "Casino management", "Casino marketing", "Operations analysis", "Revenue optimization", "Slot machines" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Most gaming operators in the world depend on revenue from electronic gaming devices (EGDs), notwithstanding notable exceptions such as Las Vegas Strip resorts, with their diversified revenue bases, and casinos located in s...
Motivating and supporting collaboration in open innovation
[ "Innovation", "Intermediaries", "Online operations", "Communities", "Motivation (psychology)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Towards understanding of open innovation and customer collaboration\nTransformation from individual customisation to OI: Transformation from market orientation to customer-centric strategies\nVirtual collaboration in online c...
Why it is so hard to evaluate training in the workplace
[ "Training evaluation", "Workplace learning", "Performance management", "Continuous improvement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Training itself has no inherent value; its worth is dependent on performance gains it catalyzes, the performance gaps it addresses, and the opportunities it can help create in a given environment (Graber et al., n.d.).\nTrain...
Industry clusters: an antidote for knowledge sharing and collaborative innovation?
[ "Knowledge sharing", "Innovation", "Collaboration", "Industry clusters", "Facilitators", "Relational framework", "Collaborative innovation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper draws on data gathered during the course of research undertaken in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates and the Hunter and Central Coast Regions of New South Wales in Australia in order to examine how knowledge sharing ...
Workplace bullying and intention to leave: a moderated mediation model of emotional exhaustion and supervisory support
[ "Workplace bullying", "Supervisory support", "Emotional exhaustion", "Intention to leave", "Hospitality sector", "Moderation-mediation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Retention of employees is one of the major concerns of any organization. Turnover of talented employees is pervasive and an expensive problem in the hospitality industry (Tan et al., 2019; Barron, 2008) and the same is also t...
The impact of online reputation on hotel profitability
[ "Quantitative content analysis", "Online hotel reviews", "EWOM", "Hotel reputation", "Latent semantic analysis", "Hotel performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Online customer reviews represent a form of electronic word of mouth (eWOM). Reviews are considered to be more successful in influencing consumer behavior, compared to traditional marketing tools (Phillips et al., 2017). They...
Why worker-supported collective bargaining may still fail: Union strategies and supply chain structure in South China
[ "Supply chain", "Collective bargaining", "Enterprise union", "Industrial structure", "Production regime" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: All of a sudden, the capital becomes a \"giant\", which ties assemblers and suppliers together. We laborers are not tied together - there is no strong association of unions. We are only workers and unions in an individual sup...
Developing the C-shaped QFD 3D Matrix for service applications with a case study in banking services
[ "Quality function deployment (QFD)", "C-shaped matrix", "Concurrent function deployment (CFD)", "Sepah Bank" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Quality function deployment (QFD) was initially a planning technique for product development applied at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited in the Kobe Shipyard, Japan, in 1972 (Cheng et al., 2015). It is defined as \"how ...
Lifeworld as "unit of analysis"
[ "Research methods", "Information behaviour", "Critique", "Phenomenology", "Practice theory", "Lifeworld" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Research in human information behaviour, in aspiring to account for everything that concerns both humans and information, seems to strive toward holism like a bean sprout to the sun. With roots in the system-centred positivis...
The relationship between perceived service quality of antenatal care and use among rural women in Ghana
[ "Ghana", "Rural areas", "Antenatal care", "Perception of quality", "Pregnant women" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Maternal health is a matter of concern to governments, civil society, policy makers, and other stakeholders (Mugilwa et al., 2005). Therefore, it has received attention at several platforms and fora, including the just-ended ...
Mobilizing customer relationship management: A journey from strategy to system design
[ "Mobile communication systems", "Relationship marketing", "Customer relations", "Business planning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the late 1990s, at the peak of the e-commerce boom, overly optimistic expectations were geared towards internet-based commerce's next level: mobile commerce (MC) or m-commerce (Feldman, 2000). After the e-commerce bubble h...
The effect of information technology on the agility of the supply chain in the Iranian power plant industry
[ "Flexibility", "Agile supply chain", "Information technology integration", "Iranian power plants", "IT infrastructure" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The ASC comprises companies that are legally separate but whose terms of operation are linked. Such companies include suppliers, designers, manufacturers and distribution centers. Companies are interlinked by forward mater...
Practice makes perfect: how mindfulness can change coaching for the better: An interview with Liz Hall, author of Mindful Coaching
[ "Mindfulness", "Coaching", "Learning and development", "Human resource management", "Technology", "Stress management", "Emotional intelligence", "Well‐being", "Leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Liz Hall is editor and co-owner of Coaching at Work Magazine. She has won awards for both her journalism and coaching, including the Periodical Training Association's Journalist of the Year Award, and the Association for Coac...
Coordination in a composite green-product supply chain under different power structures
[ "Composite green-product", "Green supply chain", "Power structure", "Green cost-sharing contract" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: List of abbreviations\n1. Introduction: Manufacturing is an important part of the global economy and a key industry to promote the development of green products (Cai et al., 2018; Liu et al., 2016). Given the increasing sever...
Decision-making models for promoting consumption of low energy-intensive broadband terminal products in the Chinese telecommunication industry
[ "Game theory", "Sustainable consumption", "Carbon tax", "Eco-friendly subsidy", "Low energy-intensive product", "Telecommunication manufacturer" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Nomenclature\n1. Introduction: Due to the stricter regulations and pressures from stakeholders such as non-governmental organizations, manufacturers have been required to be responsible for carbon emissions of their products ...
Improving the quality of school health evaluations
[ "Health education", "Quality", "Schools", "Young people" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Evaluations of school health interventions are being commissioned across the world at an increasing rate. Funding authorities want to know if their resources are actually making a difference. And they have every right to expe...