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Challenges for B2B research relevance: a top executive perspective
[ "B2B", "Relevance", "Executives" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A central notion in this view is that in any science, there should be some balance between the K [Knowledge], P [Problems], and I [Instruments] elements. If one of the three elements is allowed to dominate the other two, the ...
Categorizing web features and functions to evaluate commercial web sites: An assessment framework and an empirical investigation of Australian companies
[ "Worldwide web", "Commercial services", "Australia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Forrester Research Institute (2000) reported that business-to-consumer (B2C) business over the internet reached US$518 million in USA in 1996, and in 1997, the business-to-business (B2B) transactions reached US$10 billion. ...
Interdependence analysis of lean-green implementation challenges: a case of Indian SMEs
[ "Lean manufacturing", "Green manufacturing", "Critical success factors", "Interpretative structural modelling", "Interpretative ranking process" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In the current era of global competition, there is an emerging need to develop products with lower cost, high quality and variety, quick delivery, and also ensuring compliance with local as well as global environmental sta...
Characteristics of HS-15250 traction motors: a case study in quality control
[ "Electrical engineering", "Manufacturing systems" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nSynopsis: This paper discusses a case study involving the speed-load characteristics of HS-15250 type (DC series) traction motors being manufactured for use in Indian Railways. Maintaining the characteristics of traction motors within a pr...
Corporate growth: Our advice for directors is to buy "organic"
[ "Boards of Directors", "Corporate governance", "Business development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: There is consensus that financial markets reward corporate growth. Notably, however, different strategies to achieve growth are not evaluated equally. Corporate growth is commonly characterized as a dichotomy. There are \"org...
First-time managers: increasing chances of their success before the promotion
[ "Management development", "Professional development", "Career development", "Training", "Emergent manager", "Rookie manager" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Managing diverse teams with \"fairness, respect, and honesty\" in multinational companies (Buengeler and Den Hartog, 2015, p. 832), establishing strong relationships to retain highly mobile and self-directed knowledge workers...
A case study of district leadership using knowledge management for educational change
[ "Education reform", "Leadership", "School districts", "Knowledge management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Knowledge workers who are comfortable with innovation and change are necessary to keep up with today's fast paced developments in all industries. The education sector has a double demand to offer learning organizations that c...
Knowledge recommendation for workplace learning: a system design and evaluation perspective
[ "Workplace learning", "System evaluation", "Knowledge recommendation", "Learning attitude" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Learning in the workplace happens both formally and informally and creates opportunities to promote personal productivity and competencies (Ifenthaler, 2018). Workplace learning refers to learning in the workplace, learnin...
Coaching the coaches: A development program in a Hong Kong organization
[ "Performance", "Coaching", "Employee development", "Organizational development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Fixed Graphic\nCoaching processes in a Hong Kong organization: Through the services of an externally appointed professional coach, the purpose at a Hong Kong organization was to develop an internal coaching program and develo...
Women bus drivers and organizational change
[ "Organizational change", "Working women", "Narratives", "Gender practices" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Based on the testimony of a woman who spent her whole professional life performing a traditionally male job, this paper examines the social representation of gender in the labor field and the coexistence of social and persona...
The growing influence of social and digital media: Impact on consumer choice and market equilibrium
[ "Social media", "Product innovation", "Mass media", "High value products" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper developed a simple theoretical model illustrating the effects of mass media and social media on market equilibrium and consumer behavior. The basic assumption was that in modern food systems, firms play a key ro...
Explaining participation in the informal economy: a purchaser perspective
[ "European union", "Public policy", "Shadow economy", "Consumption", "Informal sector", "Undeclared work" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Until now, participation in the informal economy has been almost exclusively explained from a supply side perspective that evaluates the motives for people working in this sphere (Maloney, 2004; Ponsaers et al., 2008; Rodgers...
Disaster management and climate change adaptation: a remote island perspective
[ "Expectations", "Disasters", "Community", "Dependence", "Aid", "Remoteness" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Climate change is bringing with it an increase in severity of natural disasters, particularly affecting small island developing states (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2012; Deo et al., 2011; Terry, 2007; Mimura et...
Inter-firm opportunism: a meta-analytic review and assessment of its antecedents and effect on performance
[ "Meta-analysis", "Inter-firm opportunism", "Performance", "Competitive advantage", "Organizational performance" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article.\n1. Introduction: Opportunism is an important management concept and has received great attention from researchers (Chung and Ji...
Foresight for smart globalization
[ "Globalization", "Poverty", "Human resource development", "Complexity theory", "Philanthropy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: past and present of the Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller, Sr, envisioned and established the Rockefeller Foundation during the early years of the twentieth century, an era of momentous transition and consequence ar...
Retail kiosks: how regret and variety influence consumption
[ "Decision making", "Consumer behaviour", "Shopping centres", "Risk assessment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A trip to the local mall shows that many brands and products are being offered in more cost-effective environments such as retail kiosks. A kiosk is generally defined as an area inside a store or mall that offers a variety of...
The role of involvement and variety-seeking in eating out behaviors
[ "Consumer behaviour", "India", "Catering industry" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: \"Eating out\" as a phenomenon has been widely examined in the literature. A dominant approach in the literature to explain this phenomenon has been through the context of Food Away From Home (FAFH). FAFH studies have larg...
Beyond reach: an extended model of global brand effects
[ "Perceived brand globalness", "Extended conceptualization", "Global consumer culture positioning", "Perceived market reach", "Perceived standardization" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The globalization of markets has led many multinational corporations to restructure their brand portfolios, favoring fewer brands that offer global business potential (Ozsomer et al., 2012; Schuiling and Kapferer, 2004). As a...
Fairness and financial services in Australia and the United Kingdom
[ "Fairness", "Customers", "Financial services", "Australia", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nFairness and financial services: background: Introduction\nFindings: In presenting the findings, we first provide the relevant figure with details of the data, before offering pertinent observations. When interpreting the figures, remember...
High-tech, innovative products: identifying and meeting business customers' value needs
[ "Product innovation", "Purchasing", "Influence", "Medical products" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this issue.\nIntroduction: A cornerstone of offering high-tech, innovative products is to identify, determine, and develop appropriate value e...
State strategic information system plans: An assessment integrating strategy and operations through performance measurement
[ "Strategic planning", "Information technology", "US states" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In 2010 Public Administration Review published a supplemental issue focussed on the future of public administration. While the issue was vast in coverage, two topics emerged as essential aspects of the future of public admini...
The role of storytelling in navigating through the storm of change
[ "Organizational culture", "Organizational learning", "Education", "Storytelling", "Communication", "Organizational change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Most organizations undertake planned change efforts annually and major change once every five years (Kotter and Schlesinger, 2008). Competition, laws, the environment and technological advances often drive planned change (Kot...
A review of the efficacy and safety of key ingredients of over-the-counter products for weight management
[ "Obesity", "Food safety", "Nutrition", "Food products" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The obesity epidemic in Western countries has put tremendous strain on conventional methods of treatment. With more than half of the adult population in the UK overweight or obese (National Audit Office, 2001) and one in ten ...
Beyond technology acceptance: understanding consumer practice
[ "Consumer research", "Communication technologies", "Consumer behaviour" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: It is widely accepted that developments in consumer research within marketing have contributed to a paradigm shift in the field of consumer behaviour. According to Meamber and Venkatesh (2000, p. 88):... consumer behaviour is...
Individual antecedents of ACAP and implications of social context in joint engineering project teams: a conceptual model
[ "Ability to utilize knowledge", "Individual differences", "Joint project teams", "Micro-level antecedents of absorptive capacity (ACAP)", "Multidimensional absorptive capacity (ACAP)", "Social context" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Cohen and Levinthal's (1990) concept of absorptive capacity (i.e. ACAP) - defined as a firm's ability to recognize the value of external knowledge, assimilate it, and commercially utilize it - has attracted scholarly inque...
Economic design of x-bar control chart under hybrid maintenance policy
[ "Maintenance policy", "Machine degradation state", "Statistical process control" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Nomenclature\n1. Introduction: Product quality is a key issue to affect the enterprises' profits. During the production process, the variation of product quality would occur owing to wear of tools, material hardness, machine ...
An empirical approach of the distinctive aspects for socioeconomic development
[ "Social capital", "Economic development" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: A great paradox of this generation is the increasing scale and scope of global economic affairs reawakening sensitivities to local dynamics. Resolution depends on overcoming two corresponding trends: increasing inequality and...
Applying sustainability indicators to the social enterprise business model: The development and application of an indicator set for Newport Wastesavers, Wales
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Social accounting", "Organizational change" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Social enterprises\nCase study of Newport Wastesavers: Introduction\nMethodology: The researchers worked with three senior members of staff at Wastesavers to develop a set of sustainability indicators. The first stage of the ...
R&D portfolio management practices in Brazilian electric power utilities
[ "Project portfolio management", "Power utilities", "R&D", "Survey" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Companies engage in research and development (R&D) as an investment to their future product and service offerings (Martinsuo et al., 2014), and managing a set of R&D projects as a portfolio has become a common practice (Da...
Independent non-executive directors strategic role - some evidence from Malaysia
[ "Corporate governance", "Independent directors" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The board of directors is central to the understanding of the concept of corporate governance (Zahra and Pearce, 1989). The power to govern a corporate rests firmly with the board, and by acting on behalf of the shareholde...
Embracing complexity in performance-based contracts for road maintenance
[ "Performance management", "Contracting", "Governance", "Maintenance", "Asset management", "Roads" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the last 15-20 years more and more road authorities have turned to performance-based contracts (PBCs) for road maintenance. Many policy makers have used possible savings to illustrate the benefits (ten Heuvelhof et al...
Becoming a competent teacher in education for sustainable development: Learning outcomes and processes in teacher education
[ "Case study", "Teacher education" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Education - and particularly education for sustainable development (ESD) - plays a central role in forming a society's capacity to address some of the most pressing challenges faced today (Barth et al., 2016). This trend i...
Strengthening the call for top-down gender diversity: Exploring the relationship between productivity and gender diversity in top management teams
[ "Employee productivity", "Social justice", "Top management team", "Gender diversity", "Board gender diversity" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In 2015, just 19 per cent of the senior executives in the largest 500 companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) were women, which illustrates the source of underlying gender-centric tension that persists wi...
Shaping mega-event flagships: a case study of Expo Center of Expo 2010 Shanghai, China
[ "Mega‐event flagship", "Triple‐C Gap", "Case studies", "Early stages", "Expo Center", "Buildings", "Project management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Triple-C Gap\nThe Expo Center: In line with the process model, this study takes three steps. First, planning rationales behind the Big 4 are explained to define the strategic role of EC. Next, pressing issues in the early...
Supplier selection and management strategies and manufacturing flexibility
[ "Supply chain management", "Suppliers", "Malaysia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Supply chain management (SCM) is a popular topic today. Firms are using effective SCM to support their multiple manufacturing goals such as flexibility, cost, quality and delivery (Wacker, 1996). In today's competitive and un...
A structural equation model for enhancing effectiveness of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) major projects: End-user's perspective
[ "Project management", "Product objectives", "Formative measurements" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The significant growth of the oil and gas industry over recent decades has made it one of the largest and most active industries worldwide, where oil and gas are deemed as being part of the world's most important resources...
Business practices within South Asian family and non-family firms:: A comparative study
[ "Family firms", "Small enterprises", "Entrepreneurs", "Business policy", "Ethnic groups", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Influences that have shaped ethnic entrepreneurs, is due in part to the exposure of an ever-present enterprise ideology (Goffe, 1996). Consequently, such entrepreneurs are better informed and educated, and have a wide range o...
The maturity of supply chain sustainability disclosure from a continuous improvement perspective
[ "Sustainability", "Disclosure maturity levels", "Principal component analysis", "Supply chain sustainability", "Sustainability criteria", "Business-to-customer", "Business-to-business" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Supply chains are facing growing risks due to greater complexity of products and services, fluctuating energy prices and volatile financial markets. Their strategic goals are set to reduce costs, improve customer services,...
The role of subjective norms in theory of planned behavior in the context of organic food consumption
[ "Pakistan", "Organic food", "Structural equation modelling", "Consumer behaviour", "Subjective norms", "Buying intention" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the past few years, many studies have investigated the linkage between diet and life threatening diseases (Ulbricht and Southgate, 1991; Doll and Peto, 1981). As a result, those studies generated awareness among peopl...
A multi-agent architecture to support B2C e-Marketplaces: the e-ZOCO case study
[ "Electronic commerce", "Internet" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The consolidation of the Internet as an everyday technology has opened a new environment of business opportunities (Laudon and Laudon, 2005). Many firms have expanded their business in the past decade to take advantage of ...
Systematic review and meta-regression analysis of technical efficiency in dairy farms
[ "Dairy farms", "Frontier models", "Meta-regression", "Technical efficiency" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Dairy farms is one of the most important economic activities worldwide. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Asia is the world's largest milk producer in total volume, followed by Europ...
CEO communication: engagement, longevity and founder centrality: An exploratory study in Italy
[ "Corporate communications", "CEO communication", "CEO longevity", "CEO personal social media", "Founder centrality" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper tackles the increasing importance of the chief executive officer (CEO) in the communication strategies of large companies. Several authors in the academic and business communities have emphasised the role of CEOs a...
Adopting and managing open data: Stakeholder perspectives, challenges and policy recommendations
[ "Collaboration", "Stakeholders", "Finland", "Policy recommendations", "Open data", "Open government" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: This paper presents a case study that investigates various roles of open data stakeholders in the context of the country, that is, universally well-known today as a global pioneer of the open knowledge movement, which expl...
Capturing knowledge from lessons learned at the work package level in project engineering teams
[ "Project teams", "Engineering", "Knowledge management", "Consultancy" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The STBQ method of project engineering management is a work package (WP)-based method intended to help consulting firms successfully execute the detailed engineering and design phase of heavy industrial projects (Herbst, 2...
Moral foundations and judgment: conceptualizing boundaries
[ "Consumer behavior", "Moral judgment", "Morality", "Moral foundation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Consumers regularly encounter moral behavior-related information about firms (e.g. Enron), brands (e.g. Tylenol), and individuals (e.g. President Trump). As morality is considered to be a significant foundation for consumers'...
Closed-loop supply chain activities and derived benefits in manufacturing SMEs
[ "Supply chain management", "Research", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Product life cycle" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Contextual factors such as the tightening of environmental regulations, increasing product returns due to consumer dissatisfaction, and the identification of business opportunities related to the residual value of end-of-life...
Compromising gender identities: Stay strategies of women in gender-atypical information technology firms in Sri Lanka
[ "Information technology", "Job embeddedness", "Discourse analysis", "Developing countries", "Gendered organizations", "Digital divide" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The experiences of women in gender-atypical work contexts (e.g. information technology (IT) firms) continue to garner scholarly attention, given the rise in women entering non-traditional work domains (Wallace, 2014) and t...
Investigating the impact of knowledge flow enablers on SC performance in Indian manufacturing organizations
[ "Supply chain", "Knowledge flow" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In today's business world, to survive worldwide competitive rivalries and superior performance among organizations, supply chain (SC) is widely regarded as an important element (Pan et al., 2013). Maqsood et al. (2007) arg...
A study of hotel information technology applications
[ "Hotels", "Information", "Technology led strategy", "Hong Kong" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction and literature review: The traditional hotel industry has placed great emphasis on the provision of quality service to guests. With the increasing demand for intensive information from customers and hotel practitioners, hotels...
Credit unions, co-operatives, sustainability and accountability in a time of change: A case study of credit unions in Cyprus
[ "Governance", "Co-operatives", "Financial crisis", "Credit unions", "Co-operative principles" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The 2008 financial crisis and associated aftershocks stimulated much debate regarding financial probity, accountability and governance. Commentators from a range of professional and academic backgrounds called for more transp...
Preaching the Holy Trinity of recruitment management: Coaching success with goals, performance and buy-in
[ "Coaching", "Management development", "Leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Speak of training to many executives, and memories of stifling meeting rooms filled with flip charts of SMART objectives and aimless brainstorming will flit across their minds before they say what a valuable tool it is for pr...
Continuous improvement of maintenance process for the cement industry - a case study
[ "Maintenance management", "Continuous improvement", "Case study", "Heavy industries" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The increasing demand for cement products and the need for cost reduction reinforce the need for continuous maintenance improvement (CMI). Maintenance management concerns the maximum use of available maintenance resources ...
Panel report: the dark side of the digitization of the individual
[ "Digitalization of the Individual (DOTI)", "Digital technologies", "Dark side", "Panel" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Over the last two decades, digitally-supported technologies such as social media, video games, fitness trackers, autonomous cars, voice-activated personal assistants, smart watches and robots have permeated personal life d...
Reliability and validity of the "leadership competencies and engaging leadership scale"
[ "Leadership competencies", "Engaging leadership", "Reliability", "Validity", "Impact on staff", "Leaders", "Leadership" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Our understanding of the nature of leadership, which has changed over the decades, can be seen to have gone through five main stages (Alban-Metcalfe and Alimo-Metcalfe, 2009). Thus, the \"trait\" or \"Great Man\" theories of ...
Good HR, Bad HR: Silo mentalities and communities of practice
[ "Communities of practice", "Human resource management", "Competences", "Silos" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nReview: It is one of the most common refrains within the walls of the modern organization - \"we need to break down silos,\" \"we need to stop siloed thinking,\" and \"we need to change the silo mentality.\" Anyone would think there is a w...
The integrated resource-based and transaction cost approach to the growth process of firms
[ "Resource-based view", "Transaction cost theory", "Firm boundaries", "Decisional rules", "Firm growth", "Growth process" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Company growth[1], with regard to increasing its scope and size, is at the core of entrepreneurship, strategic management and organization studies, due to the importance and challenging nature of this research problem. Bot...
What determines the work values of employees in a Middle Eastern cultural context? Evidences from Jordanian organizations
[ "Jordan", "Work values" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Henderson and Thompson (2003) and McDonald and Wilson (2011) defined values as the preferences and priorities which provide meaning and motivation to a person. This view was also addressed by Hirsch and Fischer (2013) in a re...
The impact of Big Data analytics and data security practices on service supply chain performance
[ "Malaysia", "Big Data analytics", "Data security", "Service supply chain", "Services supply chain performance", "Supply chain innovation capabilities" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Consumer behavior, the business environment and market turbulence have changed the way in which services companies conduct business. In the current era, a service company must practice service supply chain management knowl...
Use of multiple methodologies for developing a customer-oriented model of total quality management in higher education
[ "SERVQUAL", "Interpretive structural modelling (ISM)", "Higher education", "Path analysis", "Quality function deployment (QFD)", "Total quality management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Educational institutes in India have been quick at responding to demands for greater accountability and responsiveness by government, public and private agencies. The focus is on meeting increased pressures monitoring syst...
What we know and need to know about the gamification of advertising: A review and synthesis of the advergame studies
[ "Need for cognition", "Literature review", "Congruence", "Persuasion knowledge", "Advergame", "Brand placement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Digital games are widespread and have grown into a mass medium that reaches billions of people across the globe and attracts players of all ages (Vashisht and Royne, 2016). At the same time, advertising in digital games has a...
Shopping for yourself versus shopping for someone else
[ "Shopping", "Gift shopping", "Shopping for self", "Shopping for someone else", "Shopping trip outcomes" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Understanding customers' in-store experiences is of great importance in today's hyper-competitive retailing environment and a 2014-2016 Marketing Science Institute priority is \"understanding customers and the customer experi...
Non-executive director's motivation to continue serving on boards: a self-determination theory perspective
[ "Boards of directors", "Motivation (psychology)", "Non-executive directors", "Self-determination theory", "Supervisory boards" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Motivating non-executive directors (hereafter NEDs) to continue serving on boards is considered pivotal to corporate governance (Lorsch and Mac Iver, 1989; Van den Berghe et al., 2011) and even firm performance (Hillman and D...
Roadmapping the convergence of technologies for services over broadband: A benchmarking effort
[ "Strategic planning", "Services industries", "Mix mapping", "Digital technology", "Broadband networks" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Technology Roadmapping (TRM) which is getting broad attention in technology industry is a technique that helps organizations to do strategic planning and align technology with business objectives. This paper presents creation...
Simulation for emergency care process reengineering in hospitals
[ "Business process re‐engineering", "Simulation", "Health services", "Hospitals", "Modelling" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizations reengineer their business processes to contain costs, improve efficiency, and stay competitive in the marketplace. With escalating healthcare costs, hospitals also seek ways to contain costs and provide quality ...
From reflection to action: a case study of an art psychotherapy group which drew on occupational therapy perspectives
[ "Art therapy", "Recovery", "Occupational therapy", "Group therapy", "Adult mental health", "Art psychotherapy", "Mental health", "Adult" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This article is a case study of an art psychotherapy group which drew on occupational therapy perspectives to help people with mental health difficulties move forward in their recovery, describing the process, outcomes and se...
The field of accounting: Exploring the presence and absence of accounting in Cambodia
[ "Cambodia", "Accounting profession", "Kampuchea Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Auditors (KICPA)", "Khmer Rouge" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: While authors have presented the rise of the accounting profession as a response to the rise and development of industrial society, some have argued that it is a way to preserve and reproduce privilege and others have seen...
Change in the library: the viewpoint of a columnist
[ "Resources", "Libraries", "Knowledge", "Internet", "Budgets", "Patron" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: As a columnist for the journal New Library World and then Information and Learning Science over the course of a decade, writing the column, \"What's New in Libraries\", I have explored numerous considerations regarding what h...
How screening criteria change during brand development
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Brands", "Product development", "Change management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article.Despite the increasing sophistication of new product development (NPD) research, the reliance on traditional, well-tried approach...
Effects of self-service technology on customer value and customer readiness: The case of Internet banking
[ "Self‐service", "Customer relations", "Virtual banking" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The advancement of information technology means conventional face-to-face services are being replaced with innovative self-service technology (SST), as in Internet banking (Hensmans et al., 2001; Waite, 2006), which sets t...
Exploring academic reputation - is it a multidimensional construct?
[ "Reputation", "Academic reputation", "Reputation dimensions", "Reputation evaluation", "Reputation measurement", "University reputation" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: During the last 30 years studying reputation has become the focus of research in various scientific disciplines (Dowling, 1988; Helm, 2007; Wartick, 2002). This has been additionally spurred on by numerous scandals in the cor...
Does a firm's bond IPO influence monitoring by private lenders?
[ "Agency cost of debt", "Bond IPO", "Debt covenants", "Private debt monitoring" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: When a lender grants debt to a firm, it faces potential agency costs. The source of this agency cost is the conflict between the creditors and the firm's managers and shareholders. Managers serve the interests of sharehold...
Long-term satisfaction of post disaster resettled communities: The case of post tsunami - Sri Lanka
[ "Success factors", "Community satisfaction", "Post tsunami", "Resettlements" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Sri Lanka was hit by its worst ever disaster and national tragedy caused by natural hazards on 26 December 2004, leading to tremendous destruction and the devastation of human lives and property, as well as severely affect...
Do no harm and do more good too: connecting the SDGs with business and human rights and political CSR theory
[ "Human rights", "Leverage", "Sustainable development goals (SDGs)", "Political CSR", "Moral legitimacy", "Risk-based due diligence" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The adoption of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) (UN, 2015) in 2015 instituted a new paradigm in development through the explicit recognition of the role of businesses to contribute to sustainable development together...
ICT possession among Congolese SMEs: an exploratory study
[ "Emerging economy", "Small- and medium-sized enterprises", "DR Congo", "ICT possession" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the past two decades, the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has generated a great deal of interest among researchers, governments, and international or...
Unveiling corporate values in a crisis-prone world: a cross-cultural study
[ "Corporate culture", "Crisis management", "VUCA", "Crisis communication", "National culture", "Core values" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Rising public expectations are forcing organizations to become more conscious, responsive and proactive (Hogan, 2009). Particularly, the increasing ease of accessing and disseminating information easily makes individuals m...
Developing teenagers' views on their health and the health of their future children
[ "United Kingdom", "Adolescents", "Personal health", "Health education", "Adolescent health", "Schools", "Hospitals" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Recent research has highlighted the importance of lifestyle choices at an early age, not only on the future health of the individuals, but also on the health of their future children (Crozier et al., 2009; Inskip et al., 2006...
Applying technology road-maps in project selection and planning
[ "Project planning", "South Korea" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Globalization of markets and new business practices are prompting firms to reconsider their competitive strategies (Mikkola, 2001). Among the various influences on strategy, the increasing complexity of technologies and short...
Reconnection in the UK food chain: Bridging the communication gap between food producers and consumers
[ "Communication", "Consumers", "United Kingdom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The image of farming has been tainted by a series of food safety related incidents dating back to the salmonella scare in the late 1980s, followed by the BSE crisis during the 1990s and culminating with the foot and mouth out...
Radical economics and our current predicament
[ "Economics", "Social economics", "Economic conditions", "Economic theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: A massive fall in the stock market, the collapse of a great bank, the bankruptcy of corporations like General Motors, and the emergence into common parlance of mysteriously menacing terms like \"quantitative easing \" suggest...
Is boredom proneness related to social media overload and fatigue? A stress-strain-outcome approach
[ "Social media", "Information overload", "Communication overload", "Social media fatigue", "Boredom" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In 2012, the average person spent 90 min per day consuming social media. In 2018, that figure has risen to 136 min per day (Statista, 2019). Evidence of our social media obsession is around us. One only has to look at a bu...
The marketing myths and consumers' fear of marketing
[ "Advertising", "Marketing", "Product positioning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Which scenario has a basis in marketing reality?*Scene 1: Last December, a 34-year-old Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death by a predawn crowd rushing into a store as they eagerly sought to be the first in line for special...
Pure vs speculative risk: False choice; sham marriage
[ "Risk assessment", "Financial risk", "Insurance", "Financial services" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: As a young statistician cutting my professional teeth in the world of insurance, I was an early and easy convert to the creed of financial services \"convergence\". Like many others, I found the traditional distinction betwee...
The role of uncertainty in performance information disclosure
[ "Public sector", "Uncertainty", "Public administration", "Information disclosure", "Performance reporting", "Organization information processing theory" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Over the last few years, there has been an increased focus on performance reporting in OECD countries, particularly under public sector reforms. The New Public Management and Reinventing Government movements have given new em...
The linkages between business strategies, culture, and compensation using Miles & Snow's and Hofstede culture framework in conglomerate firms
[ "Strategy", "Compensation", "Employee benefits", "Culture dimensions" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: In recent years, there has been remarkable increase in competition virtually in all areas of the business. The term compensation is used to indicate the employee's gross earnings in the form of financial rewards and benefi...
Intrapreneurship: outside the project box and into the unknown
[ "Case study", "Innovation", "Banking sector", "Intrapreneurship", "Project", "Intrapreneur", "Meta-model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: In May 2017, Fiducia & GAD IT AG, an IT service provider in the banking sector, published a call on its intranet: \"Speedboat seeks Crew.\" The aim was to create an intrapreneurship program that would combine the advantages o...
Social embeddedness, formal labor supply, and participation in informal work
[ "Embeddedness", "USA", "Informal economy", "Informal work", "Self-provisioning" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It was long assumed among development scholars that as the process of capitalist modernization advanced, markets for labor, goods, and services in industrial and post-industrial economies would increasingly occur within the s...
Procurement as a shared service in English local government
[ "Public procurement", "Local government", "Purchasing groups", "England" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: This paper is concerned with the emergence of a new organisational structure for procurement, that of procurement as a shared service. Traditionally discussions on procurement organisational models have been focussed on wheth...
Consumer acceptance of mobile payment across time: Antecedents and moderating role of diffusion stages
[ "Perceived risk", "Mobile payment", "Affect heuristic", "Diffusion stages", "Positive emotion", "WeChat payment" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: The fast advancement of communications, mobile technologies, and the proliferation of mobile devices has increased the importance of mobile payment (m-payment) services for users (Baptista and Oliveira, 2015). Although m-p...
Does transformational leadership build resilient public and nonprofit organizations?
[ "Transformational leadership", "South Korea", "Organizational resiliency", "Successive typhoons", "Nonprofit organizations", "Emergency management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Understanding factors that build resiliency among public and nonprofit organizations in urban settings, which is characterized by an organization's ability to respond and recover from a disaster, continues to be a timely and ...
Appropriating the abject: an anthropophagic approach to organizational diversity
[ "Developing countries", "Diversity", "Work identity", "Difference", "Cultural studies", "Postmodernism", "Multicultural societies", "Abjection", "Organizational anthropology", "Anthropophagic movement" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: It was my hint to speak, such was my process: and of the Cannibals that each other eat: the Anthropophagi, and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders (William Shakespeare, Othello, I:iii, pp. 141-144).\nThe idea of t...
The impact of reverse logistics onto green supply chain competitiveness evidence from Serbian consumers
[ "Reverse logistics", "Green supply chain", "Competitiveness", "Product return option", "Serbia" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The implementation of green initiatives tends to cover all phases and activities of one supply chain process (Dheeraj and Vishal, 2012; Bacalan, 2000; Delmas and Montiel, 2009), so it is possible to distinguish between green ...
Not your typical "historian": Archiving successes and lessons learned during emergency response
[ "Lessons learned", "Documentation", "Communications", "Incident management system", "Public health emergency" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nBackground: Response to domestic and international disasters by the US Government\nThe proposed historian role: combining communications and documentation: Purpose\nHistorian as a communications function in action: Hurricane Matthew in Hai...
Opening to open source: Analysing the awareness and use of open source integrated library system by LIS professionals in India
[ "India", "Library management", "Library profession", "Open source software", "Integrated library system", "LIS professionals" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: During the past decade, an unprecedented surge of interest in open source software (OSS) has been seen around the world, and the adoption of OSS has also increased tremendously because of accessibility and availability of ...
Process integration for paperless delivery using EPC compliance technology
[ "Materials management", "Tracking", "Process efficiency", "Modelling", "Systems analysis" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1 Introduction: Modern supply chain management depends heavily on the capture and processing of information. To make traceability feasible and easily deployable across a supply chain, the development of supply network information systems s...
Why and when do people hide knowledge?
[ "China", "Employees behaviour", "Individual psychology", "Knowledge management", "Knowledge‐based psychological ownership", "Organization‐based psychological ownership", "Territoriality", "Knowledge hiding" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: In an increasingly complex, knowledge-based and turbulent economy, the competitive advantages of more and more organizations depend on effective knowledge management. To gain and sustain competitive advantages, organizations ...
Productivity growth in the winery sector: evidence from Italy and Spain
[ "Italy", "Conceptual/theoretical", "Wines", "Spain", "Econometric model" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. Introduction: Growing competitiveness among wineries and the globalization of the wine market have given rise to an economic environment in which it is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to survive. The emergence of new wine-...
Development of corporate governance codes in the GCC: an overview
[ "Qatar", "Corporate governance", "Bahrain", "UAE", "MENA", "Kuwait", "Oman", "Saudi Arabia", "Gulf", "GCC" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is a group of six countries: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). These countries share similar characteristics in terms of their ethnicity (Arab), ...
Experimenting lean dynamic performance management systems design in SMEs
[ "System dynamics", "Case studies", "Entrepreneurial capabilities", "Insight models", "Lean dynamic performance management", "Small and micro-firms" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n1. A learning-oriented approach to managing small and micro-business sustainable development: Small and micro-enterprises (European Commission, 2003) display distinctive characteristics from the majority of their larger competitors, not on...
Liberal gender equality and social difference: an institutional ethnography
[ "Equal opportunities", "Gender diversity", "Gender differences", "Institutional ethnography", "Maternity", "Gender diversity and inclusion" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\nIntroduction: Organizations are increasingly focusing on equality of opportunity, in terms of increasing the proportion of women employees in their organizations. They attempt this through affirmative actions that aim to develop women empl...
The strategic pursuit of mix flexibility through operators' involvement in decision making
[ "Flexibility", "Decision making", "Human resource management" ]
[ { "content": "Summarize the following paper into structured abstract.\n\n__NO_TITLE__: Customized cars, personalized bikes, custom-made jeans, and assembled-to-order computers reflect the paradigm shift from mass production to customization. To appeal to increasingly sophisticated and diverse markets in a fast-...