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Green Management in SMEs of Bangladesh: Present Scenario, Implementation Obstacles and Policy Options
Get PDF‘Be green’ is a global slogan today. It is necessary to protect our mother planet Earth from the unabated destructive economic activities that put everything here under the threat of extinction. Management of all organizations should be aware of ‘Save the Earth’ movement and be restrain from all activities damaging to the Earth. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in manufacturing and service industries occupy a major share of the economic activities in every country. In Bangladesh, SMEs account for about 45 percent of manufacturing value addition, about 80 percent of industrial employment, about 90 percent of total industrial units and about 25 percent of the labour force. The total forest in Bangladesh is 17.5% and the deforestation rate is 0.18%. Therefore, SME sector in Bangladesh should undertake the green management and measures to be green to contribute to the efforts of keeping the country green as well as keeping the Earth green. Unconcerned and reckless economic activities caused much damage to our water, forest, air, and other sides of human living and environment. The research is undertaken to know how far the owners/owner-managers of SMEs have executed green management issues, what obstacles they face and what policy and operational measures to be taken to implement green management. Green management refers to the production of goods or generation of services by using such strategies, technologies and workplace practices that aims at reducing industrial waste, minimizing pollution, recycling wastes, doing paperless operations, and producing environmental friendly products and services. The outcomes are obvious- preservation of the natural conditions of the Earth, protection of consumers /end users of the product and the employees of the firm from any kind of injuries caused by the process or by the products, and building image and economic gain for the organization.
Green management is the continuous application of an integrated preventative environmental strategy in production and marketing processes to reduce risks to human and the environment. Under these circumstances, every productive organization shall have to take numerous measures to produce green products for the protection of people and the Earth from physical hazards. SME sector, being the largest productive sector in Bangladesh, shall perform its business operations maintaining sustainable green policies and actions. No study has so far been done in Bangladesh in this area of ‘Green management in SMEs ‘. So, this would be the pioneer study. This is an exploratory research. The study is based on primary data. Primary data are collected by a set of questionnaire with dichotomous questions from the owner-managers /managers of 120 SMEs. Simple statistical methods have been used to analyze and interpret data. The result of the study shows that very small number of SMEs are becoming aware of and taking action to keep our Earth green. Therefore, positive motivational measures shall have to be taken to encourage them towards green management by the government and business owners as well as good business forum of Bangladesh. 
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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