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An empirical analysis of supply and manufacturing risk and business performance: a Chinese manufacturing supply chain perspective (2018)
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© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: This study aims to explore the importance and impact of supply and manufacturing risk management upon business performance within the context of Chinese manufacturing supply chains. Design/methodology/appr... Read More about An empirical analysis of supply and manufacturing risk and business performance: a Chinese manufacturing supply chain perspective.

Managing international development: (Re)positioning critique in the post-2008 conjuncture (2018)
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Despite earlier neglect, International Development (ID) has begun to receive some attention from the Critical Management Studies (CMS) community over the last two decades. This paper reviews existing CMS work that engages with ID and outlines directi... Read More about Managing international development: (Re)positioning critique in the post-2008 conjuncture.

Policy discussion for sustainable integrated electricity expansion in South Africa (2018)
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Emerging reports have shown that despite Eskom's continued investment in increasing electricity supply capacity to grid connected and off-grid households, there has been a steady decline in electricity consumption (kWh/month/indiv... Read More about Policy discussion for sustainable integrated electricity expansion in South Africa.

Towards an efficient one-class classifier for mobile devices and wearable sensors on the context of personal risk detection (2018)
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In this work, we present a first step towards an efficient one-class classifier well suited for mobile devices to be implemented as part of a user application coupled with wearable sensors in the context of personal risk detection. We compared one-cl... Read More about Towards an efficient one-class classifier for mobile devices and wearable sensors on the context of personal risk detection.

A lean-TOC approach for improving Emergency Medical Services (EMS) transport and logistics operations (2018)
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The improvement of transport and logistics performance of Emergency Medical Services (EMSs) systems has been mainly addressed through mathematical modelling, operations research,... Read More about A lean-TOC approach for improving Emergency Medical Services (EMS) transport and logistics operations.

A Big Data analytics approach for construction firms failure prediction models (2018)
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Using 693,000 datacells from 33,000 sample construction firms that operated or failed between 2008 and 2017, failure prediction models were developed using artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM), multiple discriminant analysis... Read More about A Big Data analytics approach for construction firms failure prediction models.

A Lean transportation approach for improving emergency medical operations (2018)
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper extends the approach of Lean transportation to improve the performance of emergency medical processes (EMP) by adapting its main concepts into the main characteristics... Read More about A Lean transportation approach for improving emergency medical operations.

Sports clubs’ use of social media to increase spectator interest (2018)
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This research aims to give an insight into social media as an online marketing medium used by sports clubs. The research intention is to understand how social media is used to increase customer interactivity and spectator interest... Read More about Sports clubs’ use of social media to increase spectator interest.

From feeding-back to feeding-forward: managerial feedback as a trigger of change in SMEs (2018)
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© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore and theorize the process of managerial feedback in relation to change in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach: This research embraces a q... Read More about From feeding-back to feeding-forward: managerial feedback as a trigger of change in SMEs.

Examining energy sufficiency and energy mobility in the global south through the energy justice framework (2018)
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd The widespread adoption of the energy justice framework notwithstanding, arguments offered have not been able to provide tangible definitions of sufficientarianism and energy mobility. Considering widening disparities on what cons... Read More about Examining energy sufficiency and energy mobility in the global south through the energy justice framework.

Subband index carrierless amplitude and phase modulation for optical communications (2018)
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Subband index carrierless amplitude and phase modulation (SI-CAP) is proposed and investigated in this paper to improve the performance of multi-band CAP (m -CAP). The bit-error-rate (BER) analysis of the proposed SI-CAP is derived and verified throu... Read More about Subband index carrierless amplitude and phase modulation for optical communications.

How eWord of mouth valences affect price perceptions (2018)
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The influence of electronic Word of Mouth (eWOM) on consumers' perceptions of price, allowing for consumers having different price acceptability levels, was examined through nine online experiments. Three valences of eWOM were systematically examined... Read More about How eWord of mouth valences affect price perceptions.

The effect of ‘smart’ financial incentives on driving behaviour of novice drivers (2018)
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Recent studies have demonstrated that financial incentives can improve driving behaviour but high-value incentives are unlikely to be cost-effective and attempts to amplify the impact of low-value incentives have so far proven dis... Read More about The effect of ‘smart’ financial incentives on driving behaviour of novice drivers.

Innovation capabilities and performance: are they truly linked in SMEs? (2018)
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© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: In an environment where business uncertainty is the norm, developing innovation capability in an organisation is increasingly important. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects that innovat... Read More about Innovation capabilities and performance: are they truly linked in SMEs?.

Does business model experimentation in dynamic contexts enhance value capture? (2018)
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Copyright © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Established theory suggests that firms experiment with business models in dynamic contexts. However, the relationship between business model experimentation and organisational performance remains unclear... Read More about Does business model experimentation in dynamic contexts enhance value capture?.

The nurturing of ‘good’ capitalists: Prisoners and private prison labour (2018)
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This paper draws on a ten-month ethnographic study of private prison work in a UK prison to drawn attention to the prevalence of neoliberalism; even in an institution as secreted and isolated as a prison, the neoliberal ideology can flourish. Prisone... Read More about The nurturing of ‘good’ capitalists: Prisoners and private prison labour.

Critical design factors for minimising waste in construction projects: A structural equation modelling approach (2018)
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© 2018 Notwithstanding that efforts made at the design stage of building construction projects have significant impacts on project outcome, most waste management efforts are usually focused on construction stage. This is albeit the understanding that... Read More about Critical design factors for minimising waste in construction projects: A structural equation modelling approach.

Relational job crafting: Exploring the role of employee motives with a weekly diary study (2018)
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© The Author(s) 2018. In this weekly diary study, we integrated research on job crafting to explore the associations between expansion and contraction oriented relational job crafting, work engagement and manager-rated employee behaviours (work perfo... Read More about Relational job crafting: Exploring the role of employee motives with a weekly diary study.

Captive in cycles of invisibility? Prisoners’ work for the private sector (2018)
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© The Author(s) 2018. This article critiques a case of modern prison-labour by exploring prisoners’ attitudes towards the prison-work they undertake while incarcerated. The study is based at a privatised male prison in the UK, assigned the pseudonym... Read More about Captive in cycles of invisibility? Prisoners’ work for the private sector.

Ryan E. Smerek, Organizational learning and performance: The science and practice of building a learning culture (2018)
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This is a book review of Ryan E. Smerek, Organizational Learning and Performance: The Science and Practice of Building a Learning Culture, Oxford University Press: New York, NY, 2018; 190 pp., ISBN: 978019064837-4, $45