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Affected Labour in a Cafe Culture: The Atmospheres and Economics of 'Hip' Melbourne
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An exploratory study on the sexual intimacy of male hotel workers and foreign female tourists
No full textWOS: 000383526600010Depending on 47 semi-structured interviews conducted with mostly male hotel workers and participant observation, this qualitative exploratory study examines sexual intimacy between male hotel workers and female tourists within service interactions in apart (apartment) hotels and starred hotels in Mar-maris, Turkey. Drawing on practice theory, this study distinguishes between 'playful' and 'non-playful' service interactions. The findings reveal that playful service interactions enable individuals to interact spontaneously within a wide range of behavioral areas, in contrast to scripted interactions. Hence, playful service interactions enable workers and tourists to build sexual intimacy. Management attitudes to sexual intimacy depend on how service intimacy aligns with the hotel's economic interests. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Identity Work as an Event: Dwelling in the Street
No full textWOS: 000389590300005Depending on the dualisms of mind-body, subject-object, inside-outside, and so forth, most identity work studies in organization studies neglect the affective and material aspects of identity work. Drawing on an ethnographic study and practice theory, I analyze how the live-statue enacts her identity in the street. Her identity work can highlight the affective and material aspects of identity work beyond dualisms. Conceptualizing identity work as an event depending on existential feelings, I found that the live-statue's identity work depends on existential feelings of submission to the street that have both active and passive aspects, and which emerge from the process of to affect and to be affected. My study also highlights this process within situated interactions and material arrangements
I Am on a Long Narrow Road, Driving All Day and Night: Work Practices of Tour Bus Drivers
No full textYönetimci bakış, turizm sektöründe çalışmayı insan kaynakları yönetim pratikleri altında ağırlama alt sektörlerinde incelemektedir. Taşıma alt sektöründe çalışma ihmal edilen bir alandır. Ayrıca, genellikle birçok araştırma, turizmde çalışmayı turist-çalışan etkileşimi kapsamında ele almakta ve çalışanın diğer çalışanlarla olan ilişkilerini ihmal etmektedir. Bu araştırma, turizm sektöründe çalışan tur şoförlerinin çalışma pratiklerini ele almıştır. 40 yarı-yapılandırılmış görüşmeye dayanan araştırma tur şoförlerinin eğreti çalışma yaşamlarını ve onların turistler ve çeşitli çalışanlarla olan ilişkilerini göstermiştir.Managerial gaze analyses work in tourism sector under human resources practices within the hospitality sub-sector. Work in the travel sub-sector is a neglected field. Moreover, most researches address tourism work within tourist-worker relations and neglect tourism worker’s relations with other workers. This research analyses tour drivers’ work practices in the tourism sector. Depending on 40 semi-structured interviews, the research shows the precarious work life of tour drivers and their relations with tourists and diverse workers
Book review: Return to meaning: A social science with something to say
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The Impact of Financial Stability, Globalization, and Economic Stability on Ecological Footprint from the Perspective of EKC Hypothesis: New Evidence from a Fourier Panel Data Analysis for BRICS-T Countries
No full textAslan, Alper/0000-0003-1408-0921;The Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis, which states that the increase in growth up to a certain income level increases environmental pollution and the increase in growth after reaching this income level decreases environmental pollution, has recently started to be investigated by including economic development and financial development in the framework of this hypothesis to better investigate the hypothesis. This study aims to investigate the impact of financial stability, economic stability, globalization, energy use, and growth on the ecological footprint in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and Turkey. In addition, the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis is also tested while examining this relationship. The Panel Fourier approach is applied to test these relationships in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and Turkey over the period 1996-2022. The coefficient estimation results show that economic stability, economic globalization, growth, and energy use have a positive impact on the ecological footprint in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and Turkey, but financial stability reduces the ecological footprint. Moreover, an inverted-N relationship was found between economic growth and pollution in these countries, which means that the Environmental Kuznets Curve is invalid in these countries in the relevant period. The results obtained from causality analysis support the results of coefficient estimation. Accordingly, a unidirectional causality was found from explanatory variables to the ecological footprint in most of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and Turkey
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
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