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Unpacking the combined effects of job scope and supervisor support on in-role performance
[ "Supervisor support", "In-role performance", "Job characteristics theory", "Job scope", "Social support theory" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Organizations of various sectors are not giving proper attention toward the importance of social context in highly challenging working environment for employees. The social context in highly challenging work settings plays a vital role in shaping em...
Family firms, board structure and firm performance: evidence from top Indian firms
[ "India", "Family firms", "Corporate governance", "Firm performance" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Family businesses are the most dominant among publically traded firms across the world (Shleifer and Vishny, 1986; Burkart et al., 2003; Anderson and Reeb, 2003; La Porta et al., 1999). In Continental Europe, about 44 per cent of publicly held fi...
Sustainable organisational learning - a lite tool for implementing learning in enterprises
[ "Evaluation", "Organizational learning", "Competence development", "Learning technology", "Learning transfer" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Unstable and dynamic societal and business environments are making it more imperative than ever that organisations have the ability to operate its learning processes in order to optimise competence development, performance and innovation (Brinkerhof...
The Irish wine market: a market segmentation study
[ "Ireland", "Wines", "Market segmentation", "Brands", "Marketing" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The Irish wine market has experienced unprecedented growth in the last from 15 to 20 years. From 1990 to 2007, total wine sales in Ireland have more than quadrupled, increasing from 1.7 to 7.6 million cases. In the 13 years between 1994 and 2007, wi...
Consumers' utilization of reference prices: the moderating role of involvement
[ "Internal reference price", "External reference price", "Market‐based reference price", "Involvement", "Reference price utilization", "Consumer behaviour", "Prices" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: There is ample empirical evidence in support of the important role that reference prices (both internal and external) play in determining consumers' evaluations of posted prices (for comprehensive reviews of the many operationalizations of reference...
E-campaigning versus the Public Official Election Act in South Korea: Causes, consequences and implications of cyber-exile
[ "South Korea", "Politics", "Legislation", "Elections", "Internet", "Social networking sites", "E‐campaign", "Election law", "Cyber‐exile", "YouTube", "Network analysis" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: In South Korea, restrictions on political speech surrounding elections are more stringent than in many other countries. The Public Official Election Act (hereinafter POEA, enacted in March 1994 as a result of integration of four different election l...
Reframing integration: Information marginalization and information resistance among migrant workers
[ "Intermediaries", "Migrants", "Integration", "Information behaviour" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: In this study, I present the findings from a qualitative investigation that explored the other side of the issue of integration of migrants; that is, the views and perceptions of information intermediaries working with migrants in Israel about the i...
Narratives of (in)active ageing in poor deprived areas of Liverpool, UK
[ "United Kingdom", "Liverpool", "Elderly people", "Social policy", "Poverty", "Deprivation", "Active ageing", "Narratives" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: I see they've been killing cats again [...] "Better bring mine in, then. Background to the case study: Demographic change has stimulated reviews of concepts of ageing, with "active" ageing emerging as an important focus (WHO, 2002; Walker, 2010; DES...
Children's perceptions of obesity as explained by the common sense model of illness representation
[ "Qualitative research", "Children (age groups)", "Obesity", "Individual perception" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Childhood obesity is a growing global health concern, with physical, emotional and social consequences frequently persisting into adulthood (Daniels et al., 2005; Must and Strauss, 1999; Doak et al., 2006; Reilly et al., 2003). Wang and Lobstein ...
The hegemonic gender order in politics
[ "Gender", "Discourse analysis", "Politics", "Critical feminist perspective" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Despite the ongoing increase of women in the top positions of hierarchy, they continue to be underrepresented in politics occupying 19.5 percent of seats worldwide, 22.8 percent in Europe, 22.6 percent in the Americas and 42.0 percent in Nordic coun...
The role of frequent engagement in alliances in firm likelihood to patent: First wave alliances in UK bio-pharmaceuticals
[ "Innovation", "Pharmaceutical industry", "Strategic alliances", "Patents", "Biotechnology", "C33", "M10", "O32", "D74" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: As the popularity of strategic alliances is increasing and such alliances are becoming an integral component in business development, attention in the research community has moved towards an exploration of their role in firm performance and innov...
Smartphones and wine consumers: a study of Gen-Y
[ "Wine", "M-commerce", "Social Networks Systems", "Y-generatio" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: "Omnichannel" has become a buzzword in retail for good reason. New technologies, such as mobile devices and social media, combined with better data, bring the long-time dream of a unified cross-channel shopping experience within reach. In practice, ...
Towards global music digital libraries: A cross-cultural comparison on the mood of Chinese music
[ "Digital libraries", "Cross-cultural", "Chinese music", "Mood perception", "Music digital libraries", "Music mood" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Music seeking and consumption are no longer confined by the boundaries of country, region or culture today (Lee et al., 2013). Music, as a cultural object, may be perceived differently by people from different cultural backgrounds, imposing a cha...
An integrative model for understanding team organizational citizenship behavior: Its antecedents and consequences for educational teams
[ "OCB", "Educational teams", "Team innovation" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: Today schools operate in dynamic environment, each struggling to gain a competitive edge (Orr and Orphanos, 2011). This environment reinforces the understanding that schools should strive to employ teachers who are willing to go the extra mile, name...
Decision '08: event marketing or product sampling?
[ "Sampling methods", "Marketing strategy", "Product trials", "Target markets", "Direct marketing" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: Recent trends in the evolution of marketing have delivered return on investment (ROI)-driven brand managers to an important crossroads. Should they choose event marketing or consumer sampling? Can it ever be both? If so, under what circumstances? If...
Strategic megabrand management: does global uncertainty affect brands? A post-9/11 US/non-US comparison of the 100 biggest brands
[ "Terrorism", "Brands", "Uncertainty management" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article. Introduction: from brand management to megabrand strategies: The objective of this research article is to shed light on the evolution of brand managemen...
Future employment selection methods: evaluating social networking web sites
[ "Selection", "Recruitment", "Social networks", "Internet" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: Within the past few years, the phenomenon of social networking web sites (SNWs) on the internet has exploded into the mainstream. Further, this online information has begun to be used for purposes beyond its intended use. Owing to the vast amount of...
What factors influence firm perceptions of labour market constraints to growth in the MENA region?
[ "MENA region", "Labour regulations", "Labour skill shortages", "Labour market constraints", "Bivariate probit model" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Stringent labour market constraints are expected to pose serious obstacles to firm performance and economic growth. A wide range of literature finds that rigid labour regulations would induce lower labour force participation and higher unemployme...
Shared brands and sustainable competitive advantage in the Brazilian wine sector
[ "Marketing strategy", "Qualitative research", "Competitive strategy", "Brands", "Interviews", "Geographical indications", "Sustainable competitive advantage", "Shared brands", "Collective brands", "Sector brands" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: A brand can be seen as a strategic asset that helps a company to be more competitive. In the same way that companies invest in brands, countries can also be seen as such (Anholt, 2005; Huang and Tsai, 2013; Kotler et al., 2006). In considering th...
Ensuring good governance in Singapore: Is this experience transferable to other Asian countries?
[ "Singapore", "Governance", "Government policy", "Corruption", "Good governance", "Government effectiveness", "Policy context", "Public policy" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The People's Action Party (PAP) won the May 30, 1959 general election and assumed office and attained self-government from Britain on 3 June 1959. Singapore was a different place then because it was a poor third world country, afflicted with a serio...
The role of the marketing function in small and medium sized enterprises
[ "Marketing strategy", "Small to medium‐sized enterprises", "Competitive advantage", "United States of America" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: A precept of the marketing concept contends that business achieves success by determining and satisfying the needs, wants, and aspirations of target markets. Few would argue that this determination and satisfaction of target market wants and needs i...
Multivariate robust estimation of inequality indices
[ "Development", "Distributive justice", "Income distribution", "Welfare economics" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: A single "extreme" observation can make an inequality index estimator uninformative, i.e., meaningless. Frequently, survey data are used to calculate inequality within an economy; we expect that survey data will contain both outliers and so-calle...
Learning about environmental issues: Postgraduate and undergraduate students' interpretations of environmental contents in education
[ "Environmental engineering", "Education", "Higher education", "Learning" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Looking across Swedish higher education, the last few years have seen an increase in the number of environmental courses being offered at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. According to a survey conducted by the National Agency for Higher Ed...
Improving ITIL compliance using change management practices: a finance sector case study
[ "Information technology", "Service management", "Information technology infrastructure library", "Organizational change management", "Organizational change", "Change management" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1 Introduction: Service firms are searching for ways to deliver higher levels of information technology (IT) service as well as demanding more from their information systems (IS) groups, expecting quick responses to new business opportunities, to support critical...
Organizational unlearning as changes in beliefs and routines in organizations
[ "Learning organizations", "Memory", "Organizational culture", "Organizational change" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Rapid changes and unpredictable events occur in the business environment. These changes are, in part, the result of market growth or technology development, and they create turbulence that can destroy the existing competencies of an organization (Tu...
Present and correct: Understanding the impact of mindfulness on leadership
[ "Leadership development", "Emotional intelligence", "Mindfulness", "Organizational leadership", "Leadership performance" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Review: When does a fad turn into a trend, and then an accepted habit or custom? We have all played our part in fad over the years, from looking after virtual pets (remember Tamagotchi, anyone?) to dancing the Macarena at some cousin's wedding. These all-consumin...
Technology adoption for the integration of online-offline purchasing: Omnichannel strategies in the retail environment
[ "Technology and innovation management", "Digital transformation", "In-store technology", "Omnichannel retailing", "Pioneering strategy" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The current retail scenario is characterized by a huge consumers' demand of entertaining and effective shopping experiences. This implies an extension of traditional offers through innovative technologies, by maintaining the same quality of service ...
The consumer's expectation formation process over time
[ "Service levels", "Customer service management", "Customers", "Perception" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article. Introduction: The concept of consumer expectations has a rich theoretical and empirical history in the marketing literature. Expectations have been view...
The importance of confidence in leadership role: A qualitative study of the process following two Swedish leadership programmes
[ "Reflection", "Confidence", "Leadership development", "Developmental leadership (DL)", "Leadership programme", "Understanding Group and Leader (UGL)" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: As stated by the Swedish trade union for leaders (Ledarna, 2014) half a million people in Sweden hold leadership positions, 50 per cent of whom find the work mentally demanding and 40 per cent experience not having enough time to fulfil their leader...
"Fool me once, ...": deception, morality and self-regeneration in decentralized markets
[ "Markets", "Deception", "Morality", "Purchasing decisions", "Preferences", "Rumour spreading" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Markets are one of the most robust forces in nature and society. Even after the most calamitous tragedy, market relations will recover with an exceptional vitality as individuals engage again in trading relations that are crucial for their survival ...
Employees master the Nuances of travel retailing: New learning system helps staff to stay up to date
[ "Retailing", "Employee development", "Travel industry" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: Traditionally, businesses in the airport retail sector experience a high degree of labour turnover - or churn. Moreover, although similar in many ways to the rest of the retail sector, airport retail is a more pressured environment because customers...
Management systems: integration or addition?
[ "Management systems", "Integration", "Management techniques", "Case studies" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: A management system may be defined as a set of inter-related organizational processes, sharing resources to achieve several organizational goals. In this context an organizational management system includes planning, product/service realization, mon...
The use of national registries data in three European countries in order to improve health care quality
[ "Quality improvement", "National Health Service", "Benchmarking", "Sweden", "Portugal", "United Kingdom" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Quality of care is considered a multidimensional concept that has been given different meanings and definitions in the literature, all over time.There was a time, not so long ago, when quality could be defined by saying "I know it when I see it". No...
Certifying a university ENT clinic using the ISO 9001:2000 international standard
[ "Quality management", "ISO 9000 series", "Quality standards", "Ear", "Nose and throat medicine", "Germany" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: To keep treatment efficient and quality assured, highly specialised treatments in some cases for rare illnesses with complicated healing processes have to be integrated into an overall quality plan. To cope with changing clinical routines, organisat...
Doctoral boot camps: from military concept to andragogy
[ "Writing", "Boot camp", "Education", "Research culture", "PhD" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: "Publish or perish" is an old adage in academia that embodies the pressure for academics to conduct research and publish. Such pressure is a direct consequence of universities' fervour to build a strong reputation, which according to Linton et al. (...
Capability, social capital and opportunity-driven graduate entrepreneurship in Tanzania
[ "Entrepreneurship", "Social capital", "Tanzania", "Capability approach", "Conversion factors" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: In Tanzania, annually, about 700,000 graduates enter the labor market but only 40,000 of them find jobs at the government or established companies despite this being their preferred place of work (Ngalomba, 2013). The rest of them continue their edu...
Consumer preferences for wine applying best-worst scaling: a Spanish case study
[ "Consumer behaviour", "Market segmentation", "Marketing strategy", "Wines", "Spain", "Consumer psychology" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The commercialisation of wine in Spain is problematic due to two concrete circumstances:1. the decrease in wine consumption[1] because of a consumer shift toward substitute drinks; and2. the greater presence of national and foreign wine in the inter...
Intellectual capital performance of financial institutions in Malaysia
[ "Intellectual capital", "Financial institutions", "Malaysia", "Knowledge economy" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The recent changes in the global economy, consisting of complex, dynamic and competitive environment have led to a difference between the modern approach of value creation and the traditional way of monitoring operations. In meeting these challenges...
Total quality index of commercial oyster mushroom Pleurotus sapidus in modified atmosphere packaging
[ "Modified atmosphere packaging", "Oyster mushroom", "Phylogenetic analysis", "Pleurotus sapidus", "Total quality index" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: In the past ten years, the consumption and production of commercial oyster mushrooms (OMs) have been increasing globally (Jafri et al., 2013). The Pleurotus species are known for having a unique flavour, a good texture profile and for being nutri...
Knowledge retention and aging workforce in the oil and gas industry: a multi perspective study
[ "Oil and gas", "Knowledge retention", "Old age retiring workers" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Knowledge retention has become an important and inevitable activity in organizations these days due to changing demographics and the graying of employees, and there is an inexorable threat to the organizations for knowledge loss when employees le...
Be structured in managing talent: Don't leave sustainable competitive advantage to chance
[ "Leadership development", "Competitive advantage" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: So much of organizational life is structured: even "flat" organizations have hierarchies; once created, the management of knowledge is codified; customer loyalty is dependent upon collated and archived data. Yet, when the future of most businesses i...
Warranty implementation and evaluation: a global firm's case
[ "Warranties", "Warranty policy", "Warranty management", "Warranty implementation", "Global firm", "High‐tech product", "Consumer protection" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: In order to be effective, a company's service program must set performance standards and benchmarks to assess its service (i.e. warranty) performance on a regular basis (Kleyner, 2010; Vigoroso, 2006; Chu and Chintagunta, 2011; Boyd and Walker, 1990...
Dialogued-based activation - a new "dispositif"?
[ "Social welfare", "Citizen participation", "Decentralised control", "Empowerment", "Human resource management", "Social benefits" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: In most European countries the so-called individual action plan (IAP) has become a major policy instrument in providing active welfare for social benefit claimants (OECD, 2001, 2007). An IAP is a written contractual-style signed "agreement" between ...
The governance of vulnerability: regulation, support and social divisions in action
[ "Vulnerability", "Welfare", "Agency", "Youth", "Social control" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Somewhat by stealth, the concept of vulnerability has crept into a raft of contemporary welfare and criminal justice policies and practices. The notion now occupies a relatively uncharted position in long-running debates about who requires or "deser...
Ecologies of interests in social information systems for social benefit
[ "Network analysis", "Knowledge integration", "Collaboration", "Case study", "Community", "Social computing" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: The recent explosion of social media applications has led to wide-ranging discussions of how these technologies can be integrated into more traditional information systems. Concurrently, there has been a rise in the use of the term "social inform...
Probing the progress of the external dimension of the Bologna process
[ "Cooperation", "Harmonization", "Reform", "Internationalization", "Convergence", "Bologna" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Globalization of knowledge brought about a fundamental reconsideration of Europe's traditional systems of higher education through the signing of the 1999 European Bologna Process higher education reform. The attractiveness of this reform, 20 years ...
A pilot whole-school intervention to improve school ethos and reduce substance use
[ "Schools", "Substance misuse", "Social inclusion", "Australia", "United States of America" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Rates of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use (henceforth termed substance use, SU) among UK young people are among the highest in Europe (Hibbel et al., 2004; NatCen and NfER, 2007). While many young people experiment with substances, frequent/ear...
Managing product returns for reverse logistics
[ "Distribution management", "Returns", "India", "Reverse scheduling" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Effective and efficient management of product returns is an intriguing practical and research question. Growing green concerns and advancement of reverse logistics (RL) concepts and practices make it all the more relevant. Three drivers (economic, r...
Perceived organizational support as a mediator of the relations between individual differences and psychological contract breach
[ "Psychological contracts", "Organizational culture", "Affective psychology", "Work ethic", "United States of America" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: Over the past 20 years there has been a great deal of research attention devoted to the study of employees' psychological contracts (e.g. Coyle-Shapiro and Conway, 2005; Dabos and Rousseau, 2004; De Cuyper and De Witte, 2006; Deery et al., 2006; Ho ...
Unfold studio: supporting critical literacies of text and code
[ "Critical literacy", "Computational thinking", "Literacy", "Design-based research", "Computer science education", "Computational literacy", "Multiliteracies", "K-12 computer science education" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Literacy is about much more than learning to read and write. The practices which emerge within networks of people and texts often have prosaic goals such as conveying messages, documenting agreements and establishing authority, but they can profound...
Benchmarking company performance from economic and environmental perspectives: Time series analysis for motor vehicle manufacturers
[ "Benchmarking", "Performance measure", "Time series forecasting", "Motor vehicle manufacturer" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Growing concerns on the environmentally sustainable development call for data analysis from both economic and environmental (E&E) perspectives. For instance, to access the E&E performance of different countries, data analysis has been performed v...
The eight imperatives of effective adult learning: Designing, implementing and assessing experiences in the modern workplace
[ "Assessment", "Adult learning", "Learning design", "Training effectiveness" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: A senior HR leader once commented: "There is no getting around the fact that lots of us in HR and talent management are not really good at facilitating adult learning with our people... We tend to throw information at people and hope that it sticks....
Trust building in supply chain partners relationship: an integrated conceptual model
[ "Supply chain management", "Trust", "Channel members", "Channel relationships", "Supply chain relationships", "Concept of trust", "Trust building models", "Perspectives of trust", "Perspectives of risk" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Trust is often referred as an essential element for successful supply chain partner's relationship. Spekman and Davis (2004) argued that trust is at the heart of managing risk and a prerequisite (Kasperson et al., 2003) in supply chain. Agarwal and ...
Why does bank screening matter? Private information and publicly traded securities
[ "Securitization", "Policy analysis", "Bank screening", "Information production" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: This paper develops a general equilibrium model to trace how privately produced bank screening information affects the prices of publicly traded securitizations[1]. The model demonstrates that while ex ante screening can reduce the risks of a sec...
Educational alliance for a sustainable Toronto: The University of Toronto and the City's United Nations University (UNU) Regional Centre of Expertise
[ "Higher education", "Sustainable development", "Canada", "Centres of excellence" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Urban theorist, Mike Davis, points out that the present global urban population of 3.2 billion is "larger than the total population of the world in 1960" as each week, cities absorb a million babies and migrants (Davis, 2004). Accompanying such grow...
Multi-plant improvement programmes: a literature review and research agenda
[ "Knowledge transfer", "Literature review", "Process improvement", "Global operations management", "Improvement program", "Production system" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1 Introduction: Many multinational corporations (MNCs) have strategically used the steeply increasing globalisation of the past two decades to grow internationally through acquisitions, mergers and green field establishments in foreign markets. As economic condit...
Global careers in the Arabian Gulf: Understanding motives for self-initiated expatriation of the highly skilled, globally mobile professionals
[ "Expatriates", "Labour market", "Migrant workers" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: Increasingly, people's careers are becoming global (Tams and Arthur, 2010). A growing number of executives acquire global assignment experience, at least in Western contexts (Andresen et al., 2012; Briscoe et al., 2012; Reiche and Harzing, 2011). Co...
The impact of managerial commitment and Kaizen benefits on companies
[ "Kaizen", "Educational level", "Managerial commitment", "Partial least squares (PLS)" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Western companies tend to manage their business activities by establishing short-term benefits, but this may prevent them from identifying and meeting beyond their immediate needs; in addition, short-term process planning can limit the corporate ...
Raw vegetable salad consumers in full-service restaurants
[ "Consumer", "Food consumption", "Food service", "Restaurants", "Socio-demographic variables", "Food behaviour" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: In recent decades an increase has been observed in various countries in the number of meals eaten away-from-home as also in the number of establishments in the foodservice sector. It was estimated in 2009 that of the total amount spent on feeding, 4...
Beyond accessibility: empowering mobility-impaired customers with motivation differentiation
[ "Motivation", "Disabilities", "Resorts", "Self-determination theory", "Effects comparison", "Seemingly unrelated regression" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: People with mobility impairments (PwMIs) is a fast-growing yet largely underrated travel market for hospitality/tourism businesses. In the USA alone, about 6.89 million adults are mobility impaired (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2...
Ethan learns to be a learning organization: Culture change prompts greater openness and empowerment
[ "Performance", "Employee relations", "Recruitment", "Organizational Culture", "Learning organization", "Remuneration" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: An Indian design, sales and manufacturing company that has grown significantly over the past 35 years became a learning organization through an unusual set of circumstances. Self-managed development, empowerment and creativity: In other words, HR is...
Responsible property investing: what the leaders are doing
[ "Corporate social responsibility", "Sustainable design", "Ethics" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Man really is the only animal that builds his terrarium around him as he goes and real estate is really the business of building that terrarium. So we have a tremendous ethical content, a tremendous social purpose (James A. Grasskamp, pioneer of ...
Real estate private equity: the case of US unlisted REITs
[ "Real estate", "Equity capital", "Property finance" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Private equity funding of institutional-grade commercial real estate in the US has historically come from wealthy individuals and pension funds. These sources remain dominate today as evidenced by the recent wave of real estate public-to-private ...
Knowledge management in law firm business
[ "Knowledge management", "Communication technologies", "Small enterprises", "Lawyers", "Norway" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1 Introduction: A law firm can be understood as a social community specializing in the speed and efficiency in the creation and transfer of legal knowledge (Nahapiet and Ghoshal, 1998). In recent years, law firms have been undergoing significant changes. Most lar...
Revisiting the New Zealand apple industry: the impacts of change
[ "Agriculture", "Fruits", "New Zealand" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The pip fruit sector is a significant industry in New Zealand, the efficiency with which the industry uses its resources has been said to impact on the economy as a whole (NZBR, 2001). Unfortunately, recent times have seen New Zealand face a number ...
Perception is reality: change leadership and work engagement
[ "Transformational leadership", "Mediation", "Work engagement", "Change leadership", "Organizational change", "Employee perceptions" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: The world is dynamic. Globally, leaders assess the environment and enact organizational change to pursue opportunities and conquer challenges. Organizations that adapt and innovate remain viable. However, enacting change has had less than a stell...
Is there a silver bullet to career success for women?
[ "Diversity", "Engagement and learning", "Management development", "Gender difference", "Progression of women", "Retention of women" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: Fixed Graphic Men and women are not the same: Review of the literature suggests that the key to career success for female talent is somewhere else. All of these diversity initiatives start from the premise that men and women are equal. I agree that ...
What firm characteristics determine women ' s employment in manufacturing? Evidence from Bangladesh
[ "Manufacturing firms", "Bangladesh", "Female employment" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: On 24 April 2013, Rana Plaza, an eight-storey commercial building in Savar, a sub-district of the Greater Dhaka Area, Bangladesh, collapsed. The building, owned by the family of a prominent politician, housed a large number of garment factories t...
The learning conference
[ "Conferences", "Knowledge sharing", "Learning", "Learning methods" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Why do we pay to get lectured at?: Every so often, business managers, administrators, knowledge workers and professionals convene for events that are dedicated to learning and knowledge sharing but which actually produce very little learning. The "professional co...
A hazard analysis methodology for the South African abattoir hygiene management system
[ "CCP", "Control point", "Hazards analysis", "HACCP", "Hygiene management system", "Meat safety" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. The South African hygiene management system (HMS): The adoption of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems to manage food safety hazards in the food sector has been widely reported. In the South African Meat Industry, the HMS is used at abattoir...
Estimating ICU bed capacity using discrete event simulation
[ "Intensive care unit", "Hospital beds", "Bed capacity", "Service levels", "Rejection rate", "Discrete event simulation" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Intensive care units (ICU) in hospitals cater for critically ill patients who need immediate attention such as emergency cases and surgery recovery. Due to the critical patient conditions, the requests for the ICU beds have to be processed with n...
The humanitarian imperative for education in disaster response
[ "Disaster", "Education", "Protection", "Humanitarian", "Response", "Emergencies", "CFS", "EiE" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The growing number of humanitarian crises around the world that have multiple contexts and forms has caused renewed thinking about how we go about the business of disaster response and humanitarian aid. This is true not just for how we deliver aid, ...
No we won't! Teachers' resistance to educational reform
[ "Israel", "Teachers", "Strikes", "Internet", "Educational reform", "Resistance", "Policymaking", "Social media", "Politics" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: Over the last few decades, national governments have frequently used policy-led reforms as a means of improving school system operation, learning processes and student outcomes (Gaziel, 2010; Hess and Kendrick, 2007; Spillane et al., 2002). These go...
Understanding "disengagement from knowledge sharing": engagement theory versus adaptive cost theory
[ "Knowledge sharing", "Adaptive cost theory", "Disengagement", "Engagement theory", "Knowledge hoarding" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Knowledge sharing is critical for organizational success (Alavi and Leidner, 2001; Birkinshaw and Sheehan, 2002), yet there have been a variety of reasons why employees fail to share their knowledge. For example, employees' desire to protect thei...
Antecedents of innovation in industry: The impact of work environment factors on creative performance
[ "Work environment" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Ongoing uncertainty in the modern business environment requires managers to strive to find suitable alternatives for a business to survive and develop. Creativity and innovation are increasingly important in relation to developing skills in organiza...
Human resource management impact on knowledge management: Evidence from the Portuguese banking sector
[ "Service sector", "Knowledge management", "Training", "Human resource management", "Career development", "Retention" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: This paper focuses on questions of organizational knowledge, human resources and the dynamics of relations developed between them, within the dominant perspectives and assumptions in people management. The literature suggests that knowledge manag...
Role of virtues in the relationship between shame and tendency to plagiarise: Study in the context of higher education
[ "Emotions", "Graduate education", "Plagiarism", "Virtues", "Quasi-experiment" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Plagiarism is the unlawful use of another author's ideas or words and representing them as one's genuine work. A Roman, Martial, defined the term "plagarius", a Latin word, which means kidnapper. Martial claimed that another poet had "kidnapped h...
A study into the reasons for process improvement project failures: results from a pilot survey
[ "Process improvement", "Survey", "Project management", "Continuous improvement projects", "Project failures", "Six Sigma project failures" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: The need for business process improvement (BPI) has become indispensable to overcoming contemporary challenges and achieving and sustaining competitive advantage (Antony and Gupta, 2019). Various structured continuous improvement (CI) approaches ...
Dynamic benchmarking methodology for quality function deployment
[ "Benchmarking", "Quality function deployment", "Analytical hierarchy process", "Competitors", "SWOT analysis" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1 Introduction: A competitive advantage, generally, can be gained if a company produces a product that not only addresses what the customer values most, but also performs better than its competitors in terms of quality, cost, and timeliness. However, these two fa...
Ensuring environmental performance in green leases: the role of facilities managers
[ "Landlord", "Tenant", "Environmental performance", "Green lease", "Split incentive", "Green lease schedule", "Facilities manager" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Improving the environmental performance of commercial properties is very challenging due to the range of stakeholders involved in its operation; for example, tenants may not be interested in maintaining the original sustainability features of a buil...
Healthcare managers' perception of economies of scale
[ "Economies of scale", "Hospital size", "Qualitative content analysis" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: This paper presents findings from a qualitative study of how healthcare managers perceive economies of scale and the underlying mechanisms. Previous research on economies of scale in healthcare is dominated by quantitative approaches and does not dr...
Robust-optimum multi-attribute age-based replacement policy
[ "Replacement control", "Maintenance", "Costs", "Age‐based replacement policy", "Multi‐attributes", "Robust design", "Optimization" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: The age-based replacement policy is known as the most common maintenance policy (Wang, 2002). This policy consists of replacing an item when it reaches a certain time of life, topt (the optimum replacement time), or when it fails, whichever occurs f...
All the world wide web's a stage: Improving students' information skills with dramatic video tutorials
[ "Information literacy", "Library instruction", "Videos", "Academic libraries", "Marketing", "Turkey" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Academic libraries have been using video, in various changing formats, for more than three decades as a means of library instruction and orientation. However, the recent expansion of the internet, and particularly of video-sharing websites such as Y...
Interorganizational drivers of channel performance: a meta-analytic structural model
[ "Relationship marketing", "Meta-analysis", "Relational view", "Interorganizational governance", "Marketing channel performance", "Political-economy analysis" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Identifying and managing interorganizational drivers for superior marketing channel performance are critical to a firm's success in the market. These interorganizational drivers not only result in greater value to customers through enhanced chann...
The impact of social and contractual enforcement on reseller performance: the mediating role of coordination and inequity during adoption of a new technology
[ "Performance", "Coordination", "Mediation", "Contractual enforcement", "Inequity", "Social enforcement" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Network theorists have observed that firms are embedded in a web of dyadic relationships that span geographies and industries (Anderson et al., 1994). Networks of business relationships are thought to be systems of information sharing and disseminat...
The effects of value appropriation strategies in channels on intangible firm value
[ "Value appropriation", "Marketing channels", "Channel integration", "Channel compression", "Franchise", "Intangible firm value" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Value appropriation is an important goal for strategic marketing planning (Mizik and Jacobson, 2003). Few studies have explored the value appropriation role of marketing actions and programs, except appropriability regime in product innovation ma...
Resale pricing as part of franchisor know-how
[ "Franchising", "Know-how", "Resale pricing", "Knowledge management", "Capabilities", "Pricing strategy" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Franchising has been growing in many countries and in many industries (Hoy et al., 2017). Even though US fast-food franchise chains are the archetypal franchise chains, franchising is neither limited to the US market nor to the fast food industry...
Clinical governance, education and learning to manage health information
[ "Clinical governance", "Health informatics", "Quality improvement", "Education", "Complex adaptive systems", "Health services", "United Kingdom" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Policy documents introduced clinical governance as a mechanism by which the public can be assured that NHS organisations have comprehensive and robust systems in place for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high st...
Brazil's image and Brazilian personality: a systematic review from the viewpoint of cordiality
[ "Personality", "Country image", "Brazilian people", "Cordial man" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: In an age of increasing globalization, countries around the world face intense competition for development factors: exports, investment, tourism, students and skilled labor (Rojas-Mendez, Papadopoulos, & Alwan, 2015). Thus, to be successful, coun...
Pragmatic thought as a philosophical foundation for collaborative tagging and the Semantic Web
[ "William James", "Charles Sanders Peirce", "Pragmatism", "Folksonomy", "Collaborative tagging", "Semantic Web" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: When it first appeared, collaborative tagging, or folksonomy, was celebrated for the diversity of perspectives it was capable of representing and its expression of those perspectives through natural language. More recently, however, concerns abou...
Transforming the nature and scope of new product development
[ "New product development", "Product development", "Blue ocean strategy", "New product failure rates", "Market crowding", "Corporate strategy" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: An executive summary for managers and executive readers can be found at the end of this article. Introduction: In 1976, Shelby Hunt commented on the nature and scope of marketing and in so doing, transformed how both business and non-business organi...
Questioning worth: selling out in the music industry
[ "Marketisation", "Authenticity", "Worth", "Inspired worlds", "Musicians", "Selling out" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: At a time when society craves authenticity, the notion of selling out presents significant challenges (Beverland, 2005b; Hede et al., 2014; Hietanen and Rokka, 2015). This is pertinent when consumers yearn for alternatives to the offerings created b...
Social media monitoring: aims, methods, and challenges for international companies
[ "Social media", "Monitoring", "International companies" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: This research paper aims at clarifying social media monitoring from the perspective of international companies. A systematic literature review was used to seek current insights on the methods used, and so illuminate not only the benefits but also...
A risk analysis model for mining accidents using a fuzzy approach based on fault tree analysis
[ "Risk analysis", "Fuzzy logic", "Fault tree analysis", "Chrome mining" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Upon evaluation of the long-term accident statistics, it is inferred that the mining sector carries the risk of accidents above average when compared to the other sectors (Azapagic, 2004). Because the mining sector includes many high-risk activit...
Foresight and futures in Europe: an overview
[ "Forward planning", "Europe" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Europe has a long history of futures work or foresight, as Masini (1978) outlining the early development of the field shows. From the foundation of "Prospective Studies" by Berger in the 1950s; through the work of de Jouvenel and the foundation of t...
A micro intellectual capital knowledge flow model: a critical account of IC inside the classroom
[ "Bottom‐up", "Collaboration", "Intellectual capital", "Knowledge flows", "Micro intellectual capital", "Social learning theory", "Team‐based learning", "Learning" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. 1. Introduction: Universities are seen as a major contributor to the intellectual capital (IC) of both their region and their nation (Sanchez and Elena, 2006). Broadly, IC is the collection of intangibles which "allows an organisation to transfer a collection of ...
An absorptive capacity interpretation of Six Sigma
[ "Six sigma", "Operations management", "Performance management" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Six Sigma continues to emerge as a key business improvement approach in many leading organisations. The number of publications on the technology and management aspects of Six Sigma has significantly increased from the late 1990s onwards (Antony, 200...
Robert McNamara's "11 lessons" in the context of theories of strategic management
[ "Strategic planning", "Ethics", "Military actions", "War" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: A film produced in 2003 (The Fog of War) portrayed Robert McNamara's recollections of his life and the lessons that he identifies from them. There are 11 lessons in all, mainly drawn from his experiences as Secretary of Defense in the USA. Mr McNama...
Attitudes towards aging and older people's intentions to continue working: a Taiwanese study
[ "Elderly people", "Attitudes towards aging", "Subjective norm", "Intention to continue working", "Attitudes", "Personal experiences", "Taiwan" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. Introduction: Population aging is one of the most challenging issues of the twenty-first century, facing both developed and developing countries worldwide. In the developed world, there has already been a substantial amount of research on aging and work to help u...
Apprehending mindsets in employee development
[ "Mindset", "Performance", "Motivation", "Coaching" ]
Summarize the following paper into structured abstract. __NO_TITLE__: The psychological concept of mindset can inform HR practitioners and managers about important elements of employee personality with regard to goals, performance, motivation, and attitudes. While the concept of mindset has been studied extensively fo...