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Creation of supplier assessment based on ISO 20400 : A case study at a Swedish industrial company
No full textSocial and environmental aspects are areas that has become increasingly important for companies and their supply chains. The ISO 20400 standard has been developed to guide companies, including how to evaluate suppliers based on the social and environmental aspects prior to a purchasing decision. Since ISO 20400 is a relatively new standard, there is no research examining how companies practically can implement the standard in their supplier assessment. The purpose of this study was to examine how a company practically can develop an assessment model of suppliers based on various aspects within ISO 20400 using Analytical Hierarchy Process. The model AHP is mainly used to compare different alternatives, and then choose the most suitable one. The study also examined how the company can benefit from using a supplier assessment model based on a sustainability perspective in their purchasing processes. The aim of the study was to increase knowledge about the ISO 20400 standard and how it can be implemented in a company’s supplier assessment. A qualitative case study with an abductive approach was carried out in a Swedish steel producing company. To answer the purpose of the study and to develop the new supplier assessment model based on ISO 20400, two interviews were conducted with two experts in the company. The study resulted in a new supplier assessment model from a sustainability perspective together with how the company can benefit from using it. One limitation in this study is that the supplier assessment model is not holistic in supplier assessments, but only addresses sustainability aspects. The study has contributed to show how the standard ISO 20400 can be seen as a sustainability system integrated into a supplier assessment using the AHP- model. The study has been based on obtained information on needs from empirical data as well as previous research on topics in sustainability and supplier assessments.Sociala och miljömässiga aspekter är områden som blivit alltmer viktiga för företag och dess leverantörskedjor. Standarden ISO 20400 är utvecklad för att guida företag, bland annat för hur de ska kunna granska leverantörer utifrån de sociala och miljömässiga aspekterna inför ett inköpsbeslut. ISO 20400 är en relativt ny standard och ingen forskning finns som undersöker hur företag praktiskt kan implementera standarden i sin leverantörsbedömning. Syftet studien var att undersöka hur ett företag praktiskt kan ta fram en bedömningsmodell av leverantörer utifrån olika aspekter inom ISO 20400 formad med hjälp av Analythical Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP-metoden används för att jämföra olika alternativ för att sedan kunna välja det lämpligaste alternativet. Studien undersökte även hur företaget kan gynnas av att använde sig utav en leverantörsbedömning utifrån ett hållbarhetsperspektiv i sitt inköpsarbete. Studien syftade till att öka kunskapen kring standarden ISO 20400 och hur den kan implementeras i ett företags leverantörsbedömning. En kvalitativ fallstudie med en abduktiv ansats genomfördes på ett svenskt ståltillverkande företag. För att kunna besvara studiens syfte samt utveckla en leverantörsbedömningsmodell utifrån ISO 20400 genomfördes två intervjuer med två experter i företaget. Studien resulterade i en ny leverantörsbedömningsmodell från ett hållbarhetsperspektiv tillsammans med förklaringar till hur företaget kan gynnas av att använda sig av modellen. En av studiens begränsningar är att leverantörsbedömningsmodellen inte är helhetsomfattande gällande leverantörsbedömningar, utan tar enbart upp hållbarhetsaspekter. Studien har bidragit till att visa hur standarden ISO 20400 kan ses som ett hållbarhetssystem som inkluderats i en leverantörsbedömning med hjälp av AHP-modellen. Studien har baserats på inhämtad information om behov från empirisk data samt tidigare forskning kring ämnen inom hållbarhet och leverantörsbedömningar
Creation of supplier assessment based on ISO 20400 : A case study at a Swedish industrial company
No full textSocial and environmental aspects are areas that has become increasingly important for companies and their supply chains. The ISO 20400 standard has been developed to guide companies, including how to evaluate suppliers based on the social and environmental aspects prior to a purchasing decision. Since ISO 20400 is a relatively new standard, there is no research examining how companies practically can implement the standard in their supplier assessment. The purpose of this study was to examine how a company practically can develop an assessment model of suppliers based on various aspects within ISO 20400 using Analytical Hierarchy Process. The model AHP is mainly used to compare different alternatives, and then choose the most suitable one. The study also examined how the company can benefit from using a supplier assessment model based on a sustainability perspective in their purchasing processes. The aim of the study was to increase knowledge about the ISO 20400 standard and how it can be implemented in a company’s supplier assessment. A qualitative case study with an abductive approach was carried out in a Swedish steel producing company. To answer the purpose of the study and to develop the new supplier assessment model based on ISO 20400, two interviews were conducted with two experts in the company. The study resulted in a new supplier assessment model from a sustainability perspective together with how the company can benefit from using it. One limitation in this study is that the supplier assessment model is not holistic in supplier assessments, but only addresses sustainability aspects. The study has contributed to show how the standard ISO 20400 can be seen as a sustainability system integrated into a supplier assessment using the AHP- model. The study has been based on obtained information on needs from empirical data as well as previous research on topics in sustainability and supplier assessments.Sociala och miljömässiga aspekter är områden som blivit alltmer viktiga för företag och dess leverantörskedjor. Standarden ISO 20400 är utvecklad för att guida företag, bland annat för hur de ska kunna granska leverantörer utifrån de sociala och miljömässiga aspekterna inför ett inköpsbeslut. ISO 20400 är en relativt ny standard och ingen forskning finns som undersöker hur företag praktiskt kan implementera standarden i sin leverantörsbedömning. Syftet studien var att undersöka hur ett företag praktiskt kan ta fram en bedömningsmodell av leverantörer utifrån olika aspekter inom ISO 20400 formad med hjälp av Analythical Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP-metoden används för att jämföra olika alternativ för att sedan kunna välja det lämpligaste alternativet. Studien undersökte även hur företaget kan gynnas av att använde sig utav en leverantörsbedömning utifrån ett hållbarhetsperspektiv i sitt inköpsarbete. Studien syftade till att öka kunskapen kring standarden ISO 20400 och hur den kan implementeras i ett företags leverantörsbedömning. En kvalitativ fallstudie med en abduktiv ansats genomfördes på ett svenskt ståltillverkande företag. För att kunna besvara studiens syfte samt utveckla en leverantörsbedömningsmodell utifrån ISO 20400 genomfördes två intervjuer med två experter i företaget. Studien resulterade i en ny leverantörsbedömningsmodell från ett hållbarhetsperspektiv tillsammans med förklaringar till hur företaget kan gynnas av att använda sig av modellen. En av studiens begränsningar är att leverantörsbedömningsmodellen inte är helhetsomfattande gällande leverantörsbedömningar, utan tar enbart upp hållbarhetsaspekter. Studien har bidragit till att visa hur standarden ISO 20400 kan ses som ett hållbarhetssystem som inkluderats i en leverantörsbedömning med hjälp av AHP-modellen. Studien har baserats på inhämtad information om behov från empirisk data samt tidigare forskning kring ämnen inom hållbarhet och leverantörsbedömningar
Plant Records Accession Log 21, 19826 - 20400, 1903-11-15 - 1904
No full textPlant Records Accession Log 21. Accession numbers begin with 19826 and ends with 20400. Accession dates start November 15, 1903 and end in 1904
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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