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Supply chain strategy and the role of suppliers: evidence from the Indian sub-continent
[ "Performance", "Firm performance", "Structural equation modeling", "Empirical research", "Supply chain management", "Supplier management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizations are increasingly recognizing that an effective supply chain strategy can be a driver of long-term competitive advantage. Moreover, they are viewing supply chain strategy as an important element of overall busine...
The Millennium Development Goals and Production Engineering training
[ "Education for sustainable development", "Sustainable development", "Industrial/Production Engineering", "Millennium Development Goals", "Training for sustainable development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the context of Education for Sustainable Development (Leal Filho, 2010), although a great variety of social sectors, such as the mainstream media, the government and the academy in general are discussing eventual advanc...
Reconsidering e-business strategy and the impact on supply chains
[ "Internet", "Operations and production management", "Supply chain management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nTiming research against the hype cycle of the Internet technologies: It was 2001 when we addressed the issue of internet-based supply chains using a global database of manufacturing companies (The International Manufacturing Strategy Surve...
Exploring the quality of corporate environmental reporting: Surveying preparers' and users' perceptions
[ "Content analysis", "Environmental reporting", "Reporting quality", "Disclosure index", "Multidimensional quality model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: There is an emerging consciousness that sustainability matters and that the corporations should take an active role in addressing sustainability issues (Bebbington et al., 2017; Deegan, 2017). It has become common for comp...
The impact of information sharing legislation on cybersecurity industry
[ "Cybersecurity information sharing", "Cybersecurity industry", "Economic impact", "Real option theory", "Quasi-experiment", "Difference-in-difference" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The importance of protecting firm data has been emphasized ever than before. Many empirical studies have proven that security breaches cause enormous economic damages to firms, in terms of decreased market value of breache...
The challenges and future of trade unionism in Algeria: a lost cause?
[ "Employee relations", "Algeria", "International standards", "Trade Unions", "Workers’ rights" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the nineteenth century, Engels (1845/1994) described trade unionists' struggle to gain power as \"a long series of defeats of the working-men, interrupted by a few isolated victories\" (p. 243). Guaranteed freedom of assoc...
Understanding students' emotional reactions to entrepreneurship education: A conceptual framework
[ "Entrepreneurship education", "Pedagogy", "Emotion", "Emotional ecology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Entrepreneurship education and early exposure to (simulated) new venture creation are important determinants in students' propensity to have a positive attitude towards starting a new business (Phan et al., 2002) and their ab...
Business coaching: challenges for an emerging industry
[ "Business improvement", "Coaching", "Facilitation", "Organizational change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Business coaching is a growth industry still in its infancy. As yet, organizations involved in the work of business coaching are still unsure about how to sell it, position it, or define it in terms of the nature and benefits...
Nutrition status of HIV+ children in Botswana
[ "HIV", "Botswana", "Nutrition", "Children", "Child and adolescent health", "AIDS", "Community-based interventions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Malnutrition in children has been a persistent problem in Botswana even before the HIV epidemic (McCall et al., 1986; Tharakan and Suchindran, 1999; Nnyepi, 2007). Under-nutrition can aggravate the burdens associated with dis...
Ownership structure and board structure: are corporate governance mechanisms interrelated?
[ "Boards of directors", "Corporate governance", "Corporate ownership", "Greece" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The majority of research conducted on empirical corporate governance has concentrated on the role of ownership structure and board of directors as principal governance mechanisms. According to theory, ownership and board s...
An application of network data envelopment analysis with fuzzy data for the performance evaluation in cargo sector
[ "Fuzzy sets", "Performance measurement", "Cargo sector", "Network data envelopment analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Logistics can be defined as a collection of dynamic activities which forms the connection between production and consumption (Bartolacci et al., 2012). Cargo sector is a fast growing and highly competitive sector which per...
From humanitarianism to family building: Genres of security implications of child adoption as a management strategy for infertility
[ "Security", "Child adoption", "Infertility management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Child adoption is a practice designed to assure a life of stability and dignity for children whose parents are unwilling, or for one reason or the other, unable to care for them (Cardarello, 2009). Boswell (1988) in \"Kindnes...
School administrators' direct and indirect influences on middle school math teachers' turnover
[ "School leadership", "Teacher turnover", "Instructional quality", "School climate", "Induction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Researchers continue to spotlight the alarming number of beginning teachers that both exit the profession and move from their original school, with as many as 50 percent of teachers leaving within their first five years (Papa...
Intellectual capital disclosure by Chinese and Indian information technology companies: A comparative analysis
[ "China", "Disclosure", "India", "Information technology", "Intellectual capital", "Accounting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the new information age (Schneider and Samkin, 2008), the economy is increasingly driven by knowledge (Bontis et al., 1999; Curado et al., 2011; Dzenopoljac et al., 2016; Schneider and Samkin, 2008; Liao et al., 2013; L...
The distribution strategy selection for an e-tailer using a hybrid DANP VIKOR MCDM model
[ "DEMATEL", "VIKOR" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Advancement of information technology has given rise to internet-based business models which are either product specific or service specific. The web retailing or e-tailing implies the offering of items and administrations...
An intellectual journey into the historical evolution of marketing research in brand switching behavior - past, present and future
[ "Perceived value", "Brands", "Product features", "Consumer behavior", "Relationship", "Brand switching" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Generally, brand represents a name, term, design, symbol or any feature that identifies one company's product from those of other companies. Switching from one brand to another is a critical issue for a company because it ind...
Exploring perceived risk in building successful drone food delivery services
[ "Image", "Perceived risk", "Willingness to pay more", "Desire", "Drone food delivery services", "Intentions to use" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The recent development of new technology has completely transformed the way business has been implemented. The hospitality and tourism industry is also widely adopting new technology. For example, self-service technology, suc...
The effect of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations on mobile coupon sharing in social network sites: The role of coupon proneness
[ "China", "E-commerce", "Information management", "Mobile communications" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: As an effective mobile marketing approach, mobile coupon (m-coupon) has been widely adopted by mobile commerce merchants. Juniper-Research (2012) predicted that the total redemption value of m-coupons globally will exceed ...
The 14-layered framework for including social and organizational aspects in security management
[ "Data security", "Information management", "Research", "Communication management", "Communication technologies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Adequately deployed information systems provide the means to increase the potential as well as the effectiveness and efficiency of business processes. However, the extensive use of information technology (IT) also comes wit...
Beyond censorship: politics, teens, and ELA teacher candidates
[ "Politics", "Literacy teaching", "English language arts", "Critical literacy", "Censorship" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The stakes are high for the 2018 US midterm elections, in which all of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate and 39 of the 55 state/territory governorships will be contested. With a ...
Online learning: An effective means for developing small business owner-managers' capabilities?
[ "Online learning", "Management development", "Online discussion forum", "Small business owner-managers" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Small business contributes significantly to the Australian economy, providing jobs and engendering local, regional and national economic development. Unfortunately, many small businesses do not survive and inadequate manageri...
How to scope configuration projects and manage the knowledge they require
[ "Knowledge management", "Knowledge acquisition", "Configuration projects", "Product documentation", "Product modelling", "Scoping" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Configurators have entered a new stage of maturity and have recently received increased attention from both researchers and practitioners. Configurators support decision-making processes in the sales and engineering phases...
Assessing students' multimodal compositions: an analysis of the literature
[ "Assessment", "English teaching", "New literacies", "Multimodality", "Multiliteracies", "Composition" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Attention to multimodal compositions in the field of English Education has proliferated over recent decades. Multimodality - meaning making and texts that incorporate multiple modes, or different channels of communication - i...
How online media synergy influences consumers' purchase intention: A perspective from broadcast and interactive media
[ "Synergy", "Source credibility", "Online broadcast media", "Attitude towards the brand", "Online interactive media", "Cognitive responses" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Marketers use multiple online media to cultivate brand value and build brand assets (Nadeem et al., 2015). Shifting from multiple media, marketers take advantage of online media to optimize reach and exposure frequency to ...
Thought works for ThoughtWorks: Recruitment process ensures that company gets the people it wants
[ "Human-resource management", "Computer software", "Recruitment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: When Sachin Dharmapurikar, an expert programmer, heard about the recruitment process at ThoughtWorks India (TWI), he could not believe his ears. He thought: \"No company would invest this much time and management effort on re...
Implementing an open source integrated library system (ILS) in a special focus institution
[ "Project management", "Koha", "Open source", "Integrated library system", "Library systems", "Special focus institutions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: Open source ILS trends\nSelecting a new ILS system: In 2010, the campus libraries of God's Bible College (GBC) began to look for a new solution to their current ILS. GBC is a private, special-focus college in Cincinnati, Ohio, ...
Which retail services are co-located?
[ "Retail", "Factor analysis", "Co-location", "Retail location" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The retail sector consists of activities that are highly location-sensitive. Interaction between consumers and retailers in the sector require stores to be located in close proximity to consumers. Given that all stores should...
Ecological footprint: a tool for environmental management in educational institutions
[ "Ecological footprint", "Educational institutions", "Environmental management", "Sustainability", "Colombia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The role of higher education institutions (HEI) as leaders by example has gained increasing attention (Ryan et al., 2010), and the topic of sustainability is no exception. Educational institutions not only play a fundament...
The effect of different higher education fee policies on education: A comparison between England and Germany
[ "Higher education", "Educational ideology", "Germany", "England", "Impact of policy on education", "Tuition fee policy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Higher education (HE) sectors form an important part of societies and their economy, on which the members of a society depend for their individual and collective future benefit. Financial resources play an important role i...
Improving flow in the OR: How Lean process studies can lead to shorter stays in the recovery ward
[ "Process design", "Lean thinking", "Business process re-engineering/patient focussed care", "Continuous quality improvement", "Care pathways" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Quebec is a Canadian province of 8.3 million inhabitants with a public health system in which the state acts as the main insurer and administrator. Hospital administrations have to ensure growth and safety activities within a...
Improving safety for patients with allergies: an intervention for improving allergy documentation
[ "Patients", "Auditing", "Governance", "Quality", "Risk management", "Safety" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Drugs and other substances used in hospitals can trigger allergic reactions in susceptible individuals (Lenler-Petersen et al., 1995; The International Collaborative Study of Severe Anaphylaxis, 1998). Thong et al. (2003) est...
eBraille: a web-based translation program for Japanese text to braille
[ "Communcation technologies", "Braille", "Audiovisual aids", "Disabled people" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Braille is a reading and writing system for the blind and the visually impaired that uses six tactile raised dots. It was invented by a blind Frenchman, Louis Braille, in 1825 (Jimenez et al., 2009). Worldwide acceptance o...
Spontaneity and international marketing performance
[ "Performance", "Contingency theory", "International marketing", "Decision-making", "Exporting", "Spontaneity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The international environment is characterized by the interdependence of markets, intensified competition, fragmented customer needs, and rapid change. Conventional wisdom argues that formal planning enables a company to alig...
A hybrid of state regulation and self-regulation for remuneration governance in Australia
[ "Australia", "Corporate governance", "Agency theory", "Institutional theory", "Regulation", "Director and executive remuneration" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In the past decade, director and executive remuneration or (hereafter as remuneration) has become a contentious issue, one that is often associated with, and believed to share some causal factors common in a series of corpora...
Patterns of vendor-managed inventory: findings from a multiple-case study
[ "Supply chain management", "Vendor relations", "Inventory management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: In a vendor-managed inventory (VMI) program the supplier is responsible for making replenishment decisions on behalf of the buyer (Waller et al., 1999; Chopra and Meindl, 2001; Simchi-Levi et al., 2003). To enable the funct...
Resistance to change in BPM implementation
[ "Change management", "Resistance to change", "Business process management (BPM)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In today's competitive business environment, organizing a company around functions, or work around tasks, is no longer appropriate. Business activities need to be seen, not in terms of functions, departments or products, but ...
Exploring mentoring and leadership development in health care organizations: Experience and opportunities
[ "Mentoring", "Leadership", "Development", "Health services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Mentoring plays an important role in career development by helping to provide both professional guidance and psychosocial support to employees (Baugh and Scandura, 1999; Hunt and Michael, 1983; Noe, 1988; Ragins and Cotton, 1...
Migrants as ascenders: reflections on the professional success of migrant apprentices
[ "Gifted apprentices", "Successful migrant", "Intercultural settings", "Migrant workers", "Apprenticeships" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: At least one-third of adolescents in German-speaking countries today are born and raised in intercultural settings, with either one or both parents of foreign origin. This finding, published in recent integration reports (...
Community participation in the management of palm leaf manuscripts as Lanna cultural material in Thailand
[ "Community participation", "Thailand", "Indigenous knowledge", "Buddhism", "Collection management", "Palm leaf manuscripts" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: A number of communities in Northern Thailand have rich and unique cultural traditions distinct from that of Siam that dominates Thai national culture. Lanna is one such important local identity. Lanna was a powerful region...
Component based life cycle costing in replacement decisions
[ "Maintenance management", "Construction machinery", "Engineering economics", "Genetic algorithm (GA)", "Life cycle costing (LCC)", "Parallel machine replacement problem (PMRP)" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The term life cycle costing (LCC), which has been appeared in the literature since 1965, refers to an approach for estimating the sum of all costs of the equipment incurred to its consumer from purchase to salvage; meaning...
Data use within an education-centered cross-sector collaboration
[ "Equity", "Accountability", "Cross-sector collaboration", "Data use", "Educational reform", "College and career readiness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Throughout the past few decades, educational leaders have been involved in numerous initiatives. One significant reform involves the use of data to support school improvement (Datnow et al., 2013). Although some evidence sugg...
Time lag assessment between research funding and output in emerging technologies
[ "Nanotechnology", "Patents", "Research", "Fund management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Forecasting emerging technologies is a challenging task due to little or no availability of historical data (Daim et al., 2006). Bibliometric analysis and patent study provide the best insight into such technology areas (de M...
Joint route planning under varying market conditions
[ "Distribution management", "Outsourcing", "Transportation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Fierce competition in global markets, the shortening of product life cycles, and the heightened expectations of customers are examples of trends that cause profit margins to shrink. As a result, companies show a strong tend...
Automated building information modeling for fault detection and diagnostics in commercial HVAC systems
[ "Automation", "Facility management", "Building information modeling", "Fault detection and diagnostics", "HVAC system repair", "Operation and maintenance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The National BIM Standard Project Committee defines building information modeling (BIM) as:\nMethodology: Case study\nFuture work: The HVAC performance deterioration is modeled as a linear mapping, but performance is a subjec...
Environmental attitudes and behaviors among secondary students in Hong Kong
[ "Hong Kong", "Environmental attitudes", "Student attitudes", "Education for sustainable development", "Environmental education", "Environmental behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Historically associated with environmental education, education for sustainable development (ESD) aims ideally to not merely teach students abstract content knowledge about the environment, but to help also students understan...
Organizational culture differences and post-acquisition performance: The mediating role of employee attitudes
[ "Employee attitudes", "Leaders", "Post-acquisition performance", "Transitional economies", "Organizational culture differences" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are an important mechanism through which companies can achieve growth, access new markets, and improve their competitive advantage. Although companies engage in M&A with optimism, empirical evid...
Gender perspective on life insurance demand in Ghana
[ "Ghana", "Life insurance demand", "Male/female household head" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The growth of insurance in Africa is generally low and declining. Compared to the average global rate of 6.5 percent, Alhassan and Biekpe (2016) posit that Africa's insurance penetration rate of 3.65 percent in 2012 is low...
Can a socially responsible casino better retain its management staff? From an internal customer perspective
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Chinese management and leadership", "Gaming research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Developing and maintain good ethics and working practices in the workplace have been considered very important for organizations of all kinds. According to Schmeltz and Denmark (2012), recent developments in these areas ha...
Israel ' s failed experiment with American-style welfare reform
[ "Public policy", "Welfare reform", "Activation policy", "Policy convergence", "Welfare to work" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: From the 1960s to the 1980s, the discourse that surrounded income maintenance programs focussed on the problem of poverty with the objective being to provide financial support above subsistence level and allow the unemployed ...
Implemented and perceived high-performance work system and its effect on branch performance: A 2-1-2 mediational multilevel approach
[ "China", "Implemented high-performance work system", "Perceived high-performance work system" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the past two and half decades, empirical studies of strategic human resource management (SHRM) have explored the relationships between different human resource (HR) practices and organizational performance (Paauwe et al....
Developing a Six Sigma maintenance model
[ "Productive maintenance", "Six sigma", "Performance measures", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction to TPM and the Six Sigma approach: Total productive maintenance (TPM) is a maintenance program, which employs a strategy for maintaining plant and equipment to its optimum level of operational effectiveness. Primarily the T...
Beyond reduction: climate change adaptation planning for universities and colleges
[ "Universities", "Canada", "Climate change", "Climate change adaptation", "Climate change planning", "Adaptation assessment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Background: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007b) confirmed climatic change is occurring as a result of human activities. The impacts of climate change affect every aspect of society. Common impacts include flooding...
Review of empirical research on knowledge management practices and firm performance
[ "Performance", "Review", "Empirical", "Knowledge management", "Knowledge management practices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Nowadays, the decisive drivers for firm performance are the differences in the firms' knowledge bases and capabilities of using and developing knowledge (Grant, 1996; Kogut and Zander, 1992; Spender and Grant, 1996). The p...
Probing on the institutional arrangements of supervisory functions in the governance of listed companies in China
[ "China", "Legislation", "Stakeholder analysis", "Corporate governance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In practice, there has been inadequate restraint over the behaviors of the major shareholders of the listed companies in China. Problems such as the unfulfillment of directors and the executives, etc., have deteriorated th...
Czech civil sector face-to-face with freelance activism
[ "Volunteering", "East-central Europe", "Freelance activism", "Member activism", "Voluntary organizations" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Well-known American sociologist, Robert Putnam et al. (1993), in the spirit of Alexis de Tocqueville, views civil society organizations (CSOs) as schools of democracy, that is, as places where citizens are socialised to the v...
Optimizing a workplace learning pattern: a case study from aviation
[ "Simulation", "Reflective practice", "Learning through practice", "Performance assessment", "Practice-based learning", "Workplace learning patterns" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Preparing people for the workplace is a significant and enduring task for society. Although there have been broad and ongoing critiques on how learning within training settings transfers to the workplace (Billett and Choy, 20...
Africa 2060: what could be driving the good news from Africa?
[ "Africa", "Developing countries", "Emerging economies" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The 2010 Football World Cup hosted by South Africa has once again shone a spotlight on the continent. The tournament's theme song - \"This time for Africa\" sung by Shakira - resounds on television sets, iPods, and stereo sys...
CARVER+Shock method and its application in a catering company in Poland
[ "Poland", "Catering", "CARVER+Shock", "Food defence", "Food terrorism" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: According to leading food security experts, food and water supplies are at risk of both accidental and deliberate contamination due to the wide farm-to-table continuum and to the inherent characteristics of product manufactur...
A hospital recreation room quality improvement intervention
[ "Quality improvement", "Hospital environment", "Long-stay patient", "Needs-based", "Recreation facilities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: There is little literature that specifically examines recreation or day room provision in an acute hospital - a topic not commonly researched by nurses. Some research has been carried out into hospital-built environments by nur...
Managing information flow and design processes to reduce design risks in offsite construction projects
[ "Design management", "Risk management", "Project management", "Quality of information", "Design risks", "Offsite construction" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Responding to the ever-increasing complexity and demanding requirements associated with the design and construction of buildings, many construction professionals are still striving to secure more innovative ways of facilitati...
Music, musicians and information seeking behaviour: A case study on a community concert band
[ "User studies", "Information behaviour", "Information research", "Concert band community", "Music information", "Survey" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Modern information technologies and the rapid availability of information resources on the web, has changed beyond doubt the way musicians express themselves, communicate and seek information in order to enhance their prac...
Does gender matter? A study of trust and its outcomes in the manufacturing sector in mainland China
[ "China", "Trust", "Gender", "Supervision", "Organizational citizenship behaviour", "Knowledge sharing" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The differences between men and women in leadership positions have occupied the attention of researchers for many years (Hoyt, 2010; Kanter, 1977; Koenig et al., 2011; Powell, 1990; Ryan et al., 2011; van Engen and Willemsen,...
Leaving employees to their own devices: new practices in the workplace
[ "Information technology", "Adoption logics", "BYOD", "CIO", "Consumerization", "Individualization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In the past, organizations, and their information technology (IT) departments in particular, chose which IT and applications their workers would use, as well as why, how and when they could use them. In modern organizations, ...
Making our leaders look out of the window: The importance of blended approaches to leadership development
[ "Leadership development", "Learning development", "Training", "Human resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: For those people who live outside the US and do not share its intimate relationship with baseball, they will have always been slightly perplexed at some of the terminology used in business that originates from that sport. Phr...
The greying church: the impact of life expectancy on religiosity
[ "Beliefs", "Religion", "Life expectancy", "Churches", "Decision making" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Many religious establishments have reported a steep decline in outward religious expression and participation in recent years. According to the latest estimates of the World Values Survey Dataset (2009)[1], the percentage o...
Internal control information disclosure and corporate governance: evidence from an emerging market
[ "Ghana", "Disclosure", "Corporate governance", "Financial reporting" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The role of good corporate governance practice in the management of corporate organisations cannot be underestimated (Agyeman et al., 2013). According to Elliot and Elliot (2013, p. 804), a good governance system will ensu...
Effects of power concepts and employee performance on managers' empowering
[ "Empowerment", "Performance management", "China" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Researchers and leaders worldwide have called for the empowerment of employees to help their organizations compete successfully in the highly competitive marketplace (Deming, 1993; Kirkman and Rosen, 1999). Leaders are to ass...
Unveiling the effects of figurative meanings in manipulated online hotel reviews on consumers' behavioral intentions
[ "Figurative meaning", "Language manipulation", "Linguistic error", "Online hotel review", "Review rating", "Purchase intentions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Online reviews assist travelers in making choices, comparing services, and planning their trips. Given the experiential nature of hotel services, customers often rely on information in online reviews and comments posted by ex...
Attitudes and orientation toward vegetarian food in the restaurant industry: An operator's perspective
[ "Vegetarianism", "Restaurants", "Attitudes", "Managerial perspective", "Menu choices", "Vegetarians" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Vegetarian: a person who eats only side dishes (Lieberman, 1983, p. 213).\nBackground literature: Vegetarianism and vegetarians\nMethodology: In order to address the objectives of the study, face-to-face structured interviews...
The supervised as the supervisor
[ "Relationships", "Supervision", "Doctoral students", "Difficulties", "Research supervisor" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Barnacle and Mewburn (2010) and Ryland et al. (2009) explain that completing a doctorate changes people. Doctoral study involves different people in different contexts from different disciplines who change in different ways. ...
Anchor-store quality in malls: an economic analysis
[ "Retailing", "Pricing", "Shopping centres", "Anchor stores", "Game theory", "Econometrics", "United States of America", "Canada" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Anchor stores, the small number of large-sized tenants found in most shopping malls, are valued by mall developers for their ability to attract shoppers as well as non-anchor tenants to malls (Brueckner, 1993; Benjamin et ...
Edible insects and young adults in a north-east Italian city an exploratory study
[ "Preference", "Traditional food", "Consumer acceptance", "Edible insects" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Humans have eaten insects for thousands of years. Up to now edible insects have been consumed as an important source of protein, as emergency food, and as delicacies (Durst and Shono, 2008). All tropical continents and eve...
Self-efficacy: core of employee success
[ "Self-efficacy", "Commitment", "Persistence", "Performance", "Motivation", "Self-regulated learning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: This article will help managers improve workplace outcomes by increasing worker self-efficacy. Self-efficacy - how strongly someone believes in her or his own capabilities - helps determine how well someone actually performs ...
Governance and control in networks: a case study of the Universal Postal Union
[ "Institutional carrier", "Institutional entrepreneurship", "Inter-governmental", "Management control", "Network governance", "Public service" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This study analyzes the governance, accounting and control mechanisms in one of the oldest and largest inter-governmental networks[1]: the Universal Postal Union (UPU). The UPU was formed in 1875 as a treaty organization resp...
The role of leadership in international retail divestment
[ "Leadership", "Retailing", "Divestment", "Decision making", "Organizational restructuring" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent years, there has been a growing body of work that has sought to examine the divestment activity of international retail companies (Alexander and Quinn, 2002; Burt et al., 2005; Cairns et al., 2008; Palmer, 2004). Th...
Challenges in conducting and publishing research on the Middle East and Africa in leading journals
[ "Middle East", "Africa", "Academic research", "Delphi study", "Marketing/international business/advertising journals" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: International marketing research in emerging markets (EMs) is scarce. The relatively few papers drawing on data from EMs published in influential marketing journals include Batislam et al. (2007), Erdem et al. (2006), and ...
Employment security and workers' moonlighting behavior in Ghana
[ "Ghana", "Job security", "Employment contract", "Employment security", "Moonlighting", "Trade union" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Nations in the developing world have been striving for decades to raise the living standards of their populace with fluctuating successes. One cardinal feature of these developing countries has been the high incidences of pov...
What drives credit risk of microfinance institutions? International evidence
[ "Risk management", "Credit risk", "Microfinance institutions", "Debt enforcement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In order to boost for self-employment and income-generating projects, microfinance provides financial services to low-income clients that are often excluded from traditional banking services (Ledgerwood, 1999). It has grow...
Knowledge transfer within relationship portfolios: the creation of knowledge recombination rents
[ "Inter-organizational relationships portfolio", "Knowledge recominbination rents", "Recombination processes", "Inter-organizational relationships", "Relationship management", "Alliance and network portfolio", "Exploration/exploitation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In recent years, the strategic management of knowledge has increasingly turned its attention to the relational rents that can be created through inter-organizational relationships, partnerships and alliances (Dyer and Singh, ...
Extended TPB model to understand consumer "selling" behaviour: Implications for reverse supply chain design of mobile phones
[ "Consumer selling behaviour", "Extended TPB model", "Mobile phone waste", "Reverse supply chain design" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Traditionally, many businesses have focused on improving their forward supply chain (i.e. manufacturer-wholesaler-retailer-consumer) for their products. However, as the present global business environment becomes increasin...
Young and unionised in the UK? Insights from the public sector
[ "Industrial relations", "Public sector", "Trade unionism", "Union responses", "Young workers", "Trade union membership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper analyses the initiatives of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union in its attempts to engage with young people in the British Civil Service. Whilst existing academic work on the unionisation of young peo...
Learning-path types, motives and strategies: an analysis of empirical research in occupations in The Netherlands
[ "Learning types", "Learning motives", "Learning, Learning path", "Learning strategies", "Human resource development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Employees today are often the facilitators of their own skills, learning, and professional development, both inside the workplace and externally, to progress in their careers. Research into how employees learn and develop is ...
Succession in family business: multi-source perspectives
[ "Interviews", "Family business", "Generational succession", "Leadership transition", "Multi-source perspective" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Leadership succession is a significant challenge for many family businesses. Family-business succession (FBS) is often complicated by the interplay between family (\"nonbusiness\") and business considerations (i.e. the idiosy...
Mobile shopping among young consumers: an empirical study in an emerging market
[ "Mobile shopping", "Convenience dimensions", "Stage of purchase", "Consumption experience", "Continuance usage intention", "Youth", "India" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The ubiquitous presence of mobile networks has resulted in growth of mobile commerce (m-commerce) via hand-held devices (Mahatanankoon, 2007). Technological advancement has offered opportunities for consumers to exercise thei...
The importance of tools in the data lifecycle
[ "Academic libraries", "Research support", "Research lifecycle", "Research infrastructure", "Data lifecycle", "Tools criteria" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In writing about economic growth, economists have long recognised technological advances as the \"key driving force\", with innovation an important pillar (Kim and Nelson, 2000, p. 1). The World Economic Forum (2014) has o...
Food choices and service evaluation under time constraints: the school lunch environment
[ "Schools", "Service delivery", "Food choices", "Hospitality services", "Social economics", "Time constraints", "School lunch", "School food service" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Background: Time is a finite economic resource and has been extensively studied in terms of its allocation to daily activities, such as eating and drinking (Kaufman et al., 1991; Cheng et al., 2007; Gummerson and Schneider, 2013). In ge...
Shifting sands of research domains, migrating knowledge clouds and academic journals as Zeppelins (editorial considerations in mid-2012)
[ "Migrating knowledge clouds", "Evolution of academic division of research domains", "Managing knowledge dissemination", "Knowledge management", "Change management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: We are witnessing a number of very serious tectonic movements in the immaterial layer of human knowledge wrapping the material planet and linking the less immediately material, though brain anchored minds. What will be the co...
Adapting smart specialisation to a micro-economy - the case of Malta
[ "Innovation", "Malta", "Micro-economies", "Small firms", "Smart specialisation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Smart specialisation is a strategic approach predicated upon the need for regions to concentrate resources on key areas of economic potential. In the past, regional innovation strategies were frequently hampered by deficienci...
Making HR count: How to validate a "soft" function through employee-engagement strategy
[ "Employee development", "Human resource management", "Human resource management research" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Kate Feather is an HR professional at PeopleMetrics, Philadelphia. In her article, \"Helping HR to measure up: arming the 'soft' function with hard metrics\", she establishes how HR, typically viewed as a discipline which doe...
Quality of physical surroundings and service encounters, airfare, trust and intention during the flight: Age-group difference (young, middle-aged, and mature)
[ "Age", "Airlines", "Service encounter", "Intention", "Airfare", "Quality of physical surroundings" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: For the past few decades, the low-cost segment offering affordable airfares to passengers has been one of the fastest growing sectors in the aviation industry (Forgas et al., 2010). This airline sector has been a major contri...
Strategic leadership competencies: what is it and how to develop it?
[ "Deliberate practice", "Experience density", "Strategic leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Strategic leadership involves dealing with issues commonly addressed by a firm's top management team. Developing strategic leadership competencies is distinct from developing supervisory skills or developing leaders to lead o...
Living dangerously: Oplosan, gambling and competition as everyday risk-taking in Java and East Kalimantan Indonesia
[ "Indonesia", "Gambling", "Poverty", "Oplosan", "Preman", "Risk-taking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nOn oplosan: Late at night, in 2004, I happened to be at Pasar Pagi, the wooden, makeshift market of Samarinda Seberang, a fast-growing urban area just outside the provincial capital of East Kalimantan across the giant Mahakam river. I had ...
Moderation effect on Islamic banking preferences in UAE
[ "Islamic financial services marketing", "Adoption of Islamic banking", "Awareness on Islamic banking", "Demographic impact in Islamic banking", "Level of Islamic financial literacy", "Moderation effect on Islamic banking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The essence of Islamic finance is that it strictly adheres to the rules of Sharia (Islamic law) in its day-to-day operations, and one of the most distinctive features of Islamic finance is the avoidance of interest in all ...
Shared leadership and gender: all members are equal ... but some more than others
[ "Social networks", "Gender", "Directive leadership", "Network centrality", "Shared leadership", "Supportive leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Despite of the steady growth of female representation in leadership positions, mainly at lower levels of responsibility (Catalyst, 2004, 2010), gender inequalities continue to be found in leadership. Particularly in group set...
Job demotions in the workplace: Some influential factors
[ "Human resource management", "Gender", "Education", "Careers", "Career mobility", "Demotion" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Organizations evolve and technology seems to advance almost incessantly. Such developments have massive implications for workers. Career mobility is one area significantly affected by the opportunities and threats that emerge...
Cognitive capacity for processing work-family conflict: an initial examination
[ "Job satisfaction", "Cognition", "Stress", "Employee attitudes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Recent work-family research has helped clarify the antecedents and consequences of work-family conflict (WFC) (see Eby et al., 2005; Kossek and Ozeki, 1998, for recent reviews). We know that situational (e.g. role conflict an...
Are leadership values different across generations? A comparative leadership analysis of CEOs v. MBAs
[ "Leadership", "Values", "Aeneid", "Traits" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Most experts agree that the traits of a successful leader do vary depending on time and context (Heames and Harvey, 2006; Zaccaro et al., 2004), across sectors (Stogdill, 1948) and generational labels such as Baby Boomers Gen...
Raising the next generation of public servants? Parental influence on volunteering behavior and public service career aspirations
[ "Careers", "Public sector organizations", "Employees behaviour", "Social psychology" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Researchers have long sought to explain what causes people to elect public service careers and to participate in prosocial behaviors, such as volunteering. The link between motives and voluntary or non-task behaviors is of pe...
Health care accreditation surveyor styles typology
[ "Assessment", "Reliability management", "Health services", "Australia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Surveyors are a core part of a health care accreditation program. They are the eyes, ears and hands of any accrediting organisation, without which the accreditation process is unsustainable. Essentially the surveying role inv...
From philanthropy to strategic corporate sustainability: a case study in India
[ "India", "Corporate social responsibility", "Corporate sustainability", "Corporate philanthropy", "Chemicals industry", "Emerging economy firms", "Small-firm CSR manifestation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Indian companies have been practising social responsibility, albeit with deep philanthropic underpinnings and rooted in tradition, spirituality and ethics, since ancient times. Traditionally, Indian companies viewed corpor...