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How Dare You Replace My Deliveryman?! Acceptance of Last-Mile Transportation Innovations – A Qualitative Perspective
Get PDFE-commerce continues to grow at double-digit rates. While many e-tailers are presumably delighted with their prospering businesses, this growth also poses challenges. Logistics networks are reaching their capacity limits, which is why firms are looking for new solutions that enable fast, reliable, and cost-efficient delivery. Of special interest is the particularly costly last-mile. Against this background, this paper qualitatively examines which factors influence the acceptance of three last-mile transportation mode innovations, namely, (1) drones, (2) robots, and (3) crowd delivery. To this end, 29 interviews were conducted with e-commerce customers to gain insights into how they view such concepts. Logistics service providers and e-tailers can use the findings to increase acceptance of such solutions by means of targeted communication. The results also form the basis for further research, as they can be used to operationalize the theory of planned behavior (TPB) constructs of “attitude”, “subjective norms”, and “perceived behavioral control”
Can Gamification Help to Unlock the Full Potential of Preventive Returns Management Measures in E-Commerce? – A First Empirical Analysis
No full textThe increasing success of e-commerce causes a steadily rising number of returns. Consumer returns are both an economical and an ecological problem. Therefore, it is essential to influence consumer behavior and prevent returns before they occur. One potential approach to influence behavior is gamification. This study investigates the effect of gamification on consumer return behavior, drawing on the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991) and the Technology Acceptance Model (Venkatesh & Davis, 1996). During the online experiment with 456 participants, we observed the participants’ return attitude, perceived behavioral control, subjective norms, return intention, perceived usefulness, and perceived enjoyment. Participants were introduced to a fictitious online shopping community “VIP Club”, and then randomly assigned to one of three different settings: (1) no gamification, (2) gamification with an individual incentive, and (3) gamification with a social incentive. The results suggest that gamification approaches can make a valuable contribution to preventive returns management
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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