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CSR reporting and legitimacy theory: Some thoughts on future\ud research agenda
No full textAlthough there is growing research that examines CSR reporting within the context of developing nations, few attempts have been made to theorize this phenomenon. The aim of this study is to explore the possibility of using the legitimacy theory as a plausible explanation for CSR reporting practices by organizations within the context of developing nations. In terms of the future direction of the applicability of the legitimacy theory, there appears to be a number of subject areas or legitimacy threatening incidents to be researched within the context of developing nations
Using Internet for creating investor relations
No full textThe article presents the opportunities offered by the use of Internet for creating investor relations, whose development, that can be noticed in recent years, has been juxtaposed with the changes at capital markets, particularly in the area of corporate governance. The meaning of investor relations was compared with the requirements binding in Poland and was illustrated by the practices of the WSE listed companies. The first part of the paper discusses the investor relations and points to their functions, tasks and the role in corporate governance system. The benefits from using Internet for creating investor relations in order to improve the transparency of listed companies and to increase the activity of shareholders were described in the second part of the article. Finally, in the third part the author presents the practices of selected Polish WSE listed companies in the context of using websites for creating investor relations
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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Gender diversity on boards in Norway and the UK: a different approach to governance or a case of path dependency?
No full textA number of countries have taken initiatives to improve gender diversity on their corporate boards. This intervention was considered essential to promote mentoring and educational development of women leaders, and also due to higher media attention and political pressure (Grosvold et al., 2007). Diversity management in these countries has been carried out in one of three ways, namely coercive (through legal intervention), liberal (seeking voluntary corporate commitment) and collaborative (cooperative measures in cooperation with stakeholders) (Whitehead and Normand, 2011). Norway is the first country to adopt mandatory gender quotas on boards of their public companies (Ahern and Dittmar, 2012), while the UK has achieved it through voluntary targets adopted by companies on recommendations by regulatory agencies (Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (DBIS, 2015)
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
Socialinė verslo atsakomybė steigėjų kontroliuojamose kompanijose
No full textTransition process had a significant impact on the corporate governance in Poland leading to the emergence of new control patterns and institutions. The transition changed the characteristics of shareholder structure of companies shifting ownership from public to private hands. The implemented reforms not only led to privatization of state owned enterprises, but also contributed to the development of newly founded companies. Currently, companies set up after 1989 constitute a dominant group of listed companies’ population depicting their specific corporate governance characteristics. These companies reveal ownership concentration and are often controlled by founders adopting pyramidal structures. The article presents the phenomenon of pyramidal structures discussing the ownership structure of Polish listed companies. It also illustrates the issues with data as well as short presentation of case studies of three founder’s controlled companies, which use pyramids and reveal strong control by their founders.Pereinamuoju laikotarpiu atsiradusios naujos kontrolės formos ir institucijos turėjo didelę įtaką socialinei verslo atsakomybei Lenkijoje. Šiuo laikotarpiu pasikeitė kompanijų akcininkų struktūra, valstybės nuosavybė perėjo privatiems savininkams. Įgyvendinant reformas ne tik buvo privatizuotos valstybės valdomos įmonės, bet ir steigiama daug naujų kompanijų. Šiuo metu kompanijos, įsteigtos po 1989 m., sudaro dominuojančią listinguojamų kompanijų dalį. Šios kompanijos pasižymi ir specifinėmis socialinės verslo atsakomybės formomis. Šioms kompanijoms būdinga privataus kapitalo koncentracija ir jos dažnai kontrolipuojamos jų steigėjų, pritaikant piramidinę struktūrą. Straipsnyje pristatomas piramidinės struktūros fenomenas ir aptariama Lenkijos listinguojamų kompanijų nuosavybės struktūra. Aptariami klausimai iliustruojami duomenimis ir trijų steigėjų kontroliuojamų kompanijų, pritaikiusių piramidines struktūras, atvejų analizės pavyzdžiais
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