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Firm Characteristics, Corporate Restructuring and Performance in Malaysia
Get PDFThis study examined the relationship between specific characteristics of the firm
such as board of directors' ownership, institutional ownership, concentrated
ownership, debt ratio and levels of diversification which had been identified in
the literature as the determinants of corporate restructuring and corporate
performance before and after restructuring. Ninety three debt restructuring firms
and ninety six asset restructuring firms listed on the Bursa Malaysia (formerly
known as Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchanges) between 1990 and 2002 firms were
selected as the final samples.
The findings of the study showed that the presence of board of directors in the
ownership of the firm prior to debt restructuring and asset restructuring did not
support the argument that when board of directors become owners, the
ownership would lead to improved performance of the firm in terms of return on
total assets (ROA) and return on operating cash flow (RCF). Also, prior to debt
restructuring, institutional ownership and concentrated ownership had negative relationship o n performance. However, prior to asset restructuring, institutional
ownership had significant positive relationship while concentrated ownership
had negative relationship on performance. The findings also revealed that the
ownership structure had no significant relationship with firm's performance
following debt restructuring but had significant relationship with performance
fol lowing asset restructuring. In conclusion, in Malaysia, the firm's ownership
structure played a role in determining performance only following asset
restructuring but not debt restructuring
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
Additional Evidence On Board Ownership, Firm Performance And Level Of Diversification: The Case Of Malaysian Firms
Get PDFThis study attempts to examine the relationship between level of diversification and
board ownership using bivariate correlation analysis. It further analyses using partial
correlation analysis if any of the selected variables act as a common cause variable that
correlates level of diversification and firm performance and develop a final estimated
regression model using the selected variables extracted from 121 listed companies on the
Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchanges (KLSE). Only concentration of ownership and degree of
shareholders' control shows significant positive correlation. In the multiple regression
analysis, dividend policy remains to be the predictor variable for Tobins' Q as a measure
of firm performance but with a small R squar
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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