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Organizing practices of university, industry and government that facilitate (or impede) the transition to a hybrid triple helix model of innovation (2015)
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© 2015 Elsevier Inc. Drawing on the contemporary turn to discursive practices we examine how the organizing practices of industry, university and government facilitate (or impede) developing countries transition to a hybrid triple helix model of inno... Read More about Organizing practices of university, industry and government that facilitate (or impede) the transition to a hybrid triple helix model of innovation.

A conceptual framework for the implementation of quality management systems (2015)
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© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Some evidence suggests that Quality Management Systems (QMSs) make a positive contribution towards the competitiveness of organisations. However, evidence also suggests that organisations find their implementation difficult... Read More about A conceptual framework for the implementation of quality management systems.

Data-driven and adaptive leadership contributing to sustainability: global agri-food supply chains connected with emerging markets (2015)
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© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Despite numerous promises on the links between data-driven and adaptive leadership, non-financial sustainability and financial sustainability, scholars have not conducted enough empirical research to test the links based on globa... Read More about Data-driven and adaptive leadership contributing to sustainability: global agri-food supply chains connected with emerging markets.

Waste minimisation through deconstruction: A BIM based Deconstructability Assessment Score (BIM-DAS) (2015)
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© 2015 Elsevier B.V. The overall aim of this study is to develop a Building Information Modelling based Deconstructability Assessment Score (BIM-DAS) for determining the extent to which a building could be deconstructed right from the design stage. T... Read More about Waste minimisation through deconstruction: A BIM based Deconstructability Assessment Score (BIM-DAS).

Developing green supply chain management taxonomy-based decision support system (2015)
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© 2014 Taylor & Francis. The aim of this paper is to develop a comprehensive taxonomy of green supply chain management (GSCM) practices and develop a structural equation modelling-driven decision support system following GSCM taxonomy for managers... Read More about Developing green supply chain management taxonomy-based decision support system.

"You don't take anything for granted": The role of anthropology in improving services, policies, and parenting practices for adoptive families (2015)
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© 2015 American Anthropological Association. This article examines the impact of the transnational adoption research of an interdisciplinary group of researchers (AFIN). Since 2004, AFIN has successfully developed several research projects with the p... Read More about "You don't take anything for granted": The role of anthropology in improving services, policies, and parenting practices for adoptive families.

On the nurturing of strategic foresight: The Ubuntu perspective (2015)
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. We draw on ideas from the African humanistic philosophy of Ubuntu with existing approaches to propose alternative ways of nurturing strategic foresight in practice. Delineating Ubuntu as a transient organizing philosophy, we show... Read More about On the nurturing of strategic foresight: The Ubuntu perspective.

Analysis of critical features and evaluation of BIM software: towards a plug-in for construction waste minimization using big data (2015)
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© 2016 Taylor & Francis. The overall aim of this study is to investigate the potential of Building Information Modelling (BIM) for construction waste minimization. We evaluated the leading BIM design software products and concluded that none of the... Read More about Analysis of critical features and evaluation of BIM software: towards a plug-in for construction waste minimization using big data.

Multidimensional individualised Physical ACTivity (Mi-PACT) - a technology-enabled intervention to promote physical activity in primary care: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2015)
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© 2015 Peacock et al. Background: Low physical activity is a major public health problem. New cost-effective approaches that stimulate meaningful long-term changes in physical activity are required, especially within primary care settings. It is beco... Read More about Multidimensional individualised Physical ACTivity (Mi-PACT) - a technology-enabled intervention to promote physical activity in primary care: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Economical impact of RFID implementation in remanufacturing: a Chaos-based Interactive Artificial Bee Colony approach (2015)
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© 2013, Springer Science+Business Media New York. In the modern manufacturing arena, environmental and economical concerns draw considerable attention from both practitioners and researchers towards remanufacturing practices. The success of remanufac... Read More about Economical impact of RFID implementation in remanufacturing: a Chaos-based Interactive Artificial Bee Colony approach.

Anthropological accounts of leadership: Historical and geographical interpretations from indigenous cultures (2015)
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© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. This paper critiques contemporary leadership theory through a historiography of anthropological accounts. Through this review, the paper highlights a number of nuances in the conceptualisation of leadership from differin... Read More about Anthropological accounts of leadership: Historical and geographical interpretations from indigenous cultures.

Waste effectiveness of the construction industry: Understanding the impediments and requisites for improvements (2015)
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© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Construction industry contributes a large portion of waste to landfill, which in turns results in environmental pollution and CO2 emission. Despite the adoption of several waste management strategies, waste r... Read More about Waste effectiveness of the construction industry: Understanding the impediments and requisites for improvements.

Crossing into the digital realm (2015)
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This article reports on a discussion with a group of qualitative researchers working with digital and online research. The conversation took as its starting point the social and technological changes that make distinctions between on and offline selv... Read More about Crossing into the digital realm.

Temporary versus permanent employment: Does health matter? (2015)
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Poor health may inhibit active participation in the labour market and restrict the types of employment available to an individual. This paper uses recent survey data from New Zealand and employs a bivariate probit approach (to address sample selecti... Read More about Temporary versus permanent employment: Does health matter?.

Impact of the Financial Crisis on Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions and Concentration in the Global Banking Industry (2015)
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© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The global banking industry has seen dramatic changes in the past 40 years. Most recently, the financial liberalization of emerging markets and the global financial crisis have significantly impacted the market share of... Read More about Impact of the Financial Crisis on Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions and Concentration in the Global Banking Industry.

Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review (2015)
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© The Author(s) 2014. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature suggests CSR initiatives extend beyond meeting the immediate interests of stakeholders of for-profit enterprises, offering the potential to also enhance performance. Growing disil... Read More about Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review.

IT, outsourcing, real estate, and China: An old economy business leader’s take on boom sectors in India (2015)
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This article features an interview with Gaurav Dalmia, Chairman of Landmark Holdings. He is a third generation tycoon from the Dalmia group, an Indian business conglomerate. Today the family-owned business powerhouse has interests in cement, industri... Read More about IT, outsourcing, real estate, and China: An old economy business leader’s take on boom sectors in India.

An intelligent load manager for PV powered off-grid residential houses (2015)
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© 2015 International Energy Initiative. This paper proposes a management system based on certain rule set implemented by Modified Mild Intrusive Genetic Algorithm (MMIGA) that will optimize the load allocation to match the house owner affordable sola... Read More about An intelligent load manager for PV powered off-grid residential houses.

Role of G protein-coupled receptor kinases 2 and 3 in μ-opioid receptor desensitization and internalization (2015)
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There is ongoing debate about the role of G protein-coupled receptor kinases (GRKs) in agonist-induced desensitization of the μ-opioid receptor (MOPr) in brain neurons. In the present paper, we have used a novel membrane-permeable, small-molecule inh... Read More about Role of G protein-coupled receptor kinases 2 and 3 in μ-opioid receptor desensitization and internalization.

Support and compliance with 20 mph speed limits in Great Britain (2015)
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. There are a number of challenges relating to both the support of and compliance with speed limits. The introduction of 20 mph limits in Great Britain is no exception: the recent rise in the deployment of thes... Read More about Support and compliance with 20 mph speed limits in Great Britain.