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The Combined Effect of Market Orientation and Owner/Manager's Innovativeness on Innovation and Business Performance of Small and Medium Sized Manufacturing Firms in Pakistan
Full text linkThe study investigated various aspects of market orientation and owner/manager's innovativeness relationship with innovation and performance in the small and medium
sized manufacturing firms in Pakistan. The objectives of the study were 1) to examine the relationship and effect of market orientation and owner/managers innovativeness in
relation to innovation and performance, 2) to examine the relationship and effect of innovation in relation to performance, 3) to examine the combined effect of
owner/managers innovativeness and market orientation in relation to innovation and performance, and 4) to examine the level of owner/manager's innovativeness and market
orientation based on firm's and respondent's characteristics. This study used owner/manager's innovativeness, market orientation and innovation as they relate to firm overall performance. The innovativeness constructs used to measure the owner/manager's innovativeness and domain specific innovativeness had been widely used in consumer research studies. Based on the theories of Ricardian (1871), Penrose (1959), Schumpeter (1934) and Roger's Adoption of Innovation concept (2003), a model of relationship was proposed and developed to examine the relationships between market orientation, owner/manager's innovativeness, innovation and the small and medium sized firms' performance. To test the relationship of the variables in the model, data from 170 textile and apparel/garment manufacturing small and medium sized firms in Karachi-Pakistan were used. To test the relationship hypotheses of the study, correlation, multiple regression analysis, T-test and ANOVA were performed.
The correlation analysis suggested a significant and positive relationship among all the four variables used in the model. Multiple regression analysis result indicated that owner/manager's general innovativeness as well as innovativeness in product-strategy and process domain has a significant influence on the overall innovation. The general
innovativeness and innovativeness in product-strategy domain also significantly influenced the firm performance. Results from correlation and multiple regression analysis further suggested that market orientation and its three components appeared to be associated directly with innovations and firm performance. However customer
orientation, which is one of the key variables, appeared to cause a main effect on firm overall innovation and also SMEs overall performance. It is also proven in this study that among the three innovation strategies, only product innovation significantly influenced the firm performance.
One-way ANOVA results indicated that a significant difference of the level of owner/manger's general innovativeness and domain specific innovativeness in product-strategy and process domain. The result confirmed that younger managers and owners with higher qualification had better scores on innovativeness scale than the older and less qualified owner/managers. Other results of One-way ANOVA indicated that export oriented manufacturers were more market oriented than the non-export oriented. The
results findings further confirmed that small and medium-sized firms can be market oriented at any stage of their life cycle and did not need to be established firms in the
industry for being market oriented. Findings of this study showed that owner/manager's innovativeness permeated all the
variables in the model and had a positive influence to market orientation, innovation and firm performance. The study confirmed the existence of the linear relationship between all the variables and in relation to SMEs performance, and further suggested that manufacturing textile SMEs must focus on innovative owners and managers, who could build a strong market orientation culture for the firm and greater level of adoptions of innovations and firm performance
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
Emerg Infect Dis
No full textDuring December 2016-May 2017, an outbreak of chikungunya virus infection occurred across Pakistan. The East/Central/South African genotype was predominant. This study provides baseline data on the virus strain and emphasizes the need for active surveillance and implementation of preventive interventions to contain future outbreaks
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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