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The Impact of Big Data Analytics Capability and Organisational Resilience on Firm Competitive Performance: An Empirical Study in the UAE
No full textThis study aims to investigate the linkage between big data analytics capability (BDAC), organisational resilience and firm competitive performance (FCP). Drawing on the resource-based view and the dynamic capability, this research posits that BDAC, conceptualised as a resource capability, plays as an antecedent and a crucial enabler boosting the resilience capabilities of firms, both strategically and operationally. Simultaneously, it seeks to explore the dynamic nature of strategic and operational dimensions of organisational resilience as crucial mediating mechanisms, translating insights derived from BDAC to attain a competitive performance within disruptive business environment. This study employs a quantitative approach, utilizing Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling to analyze the perceptions and practices of top management in a diverse range of industrial firms in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The sample comprises 229 responses from firms of different sizes and sectors. The findings demonstrate that a strong BDAC has a positive direct and indirect impact on the FCP. For the indirect path, this study contributes to a comprehensive understanding of the role of strategic resilience and operational resilience as mediating mechanisms, confirming their positive serial mediation effect, thus revealing novel linear pathways between BDAC and FCP. In the other hand, the findings unveil new relationships concerning organisational resilience components, antecedents, and outcomes. They indicate a positive and significant relationship between strategic and operational resilience. Moreover, the findings show that BDAC has a positive and significant effect on strategic resilience, while its effect on operational resilience is fully mediated by strategic resilience. Finally, both strategic and operational resilience exert a significant and positive effect on the FCP. This study makes a significant theoretical contribution indicating that researchers should reconsider the immediate consequences of big data investments and instead concentrate on the ways in which BDAC can be utilised to facilitate and bolster organisational capabilities. On the other hand, it contributes to the dynamic capability theory by unveiling the components of a dynamic resilience capability, their antecedents, and outcomes. The framework for organisational resilience presents a notable implication to the field of practice in UAE or elsewhere. This framework serves to underscore the paramount significance of resilience capabilities, encompassing both strategic and operational dimensions
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
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
The influence of psychological climate for caring and perceived insider status on the relationship between managerial caring and positive employee well-being
Full text linkLearning the factors that positively impact employee well-being is not a new stream of study. The care and support provided by managers can influence employees’ motivation and overall well-being. The positive emotional environment created by a caring climate can significantly impact how individuals feel and function in their professional lives. Additionally, perceived insider status, which reflects a sense of belonging and integration, can positively affect self-esteem and well-being. Social identity theory posits that positive well-being occurs when individual employees feel that they are surrounded by a climate of care signaled by the direct manager and overall employee acceptance within the organization, which ultimately influences their overall positive well-being. This study collected data from 197 employees working in the service sector in different industries within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) through survey questionnaires using a convenience sampling technique. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) version 4 was used to analyze the dataset and test the hypotheses. The results indicate that managerial caring relates positively to positive employee well-being. Furthermore, a psychological climate of care and perceived insider status serially mediate the relationship between managerial caring and positive employee well-being. Thus, this study offers new insights into the importance of managerial care in employees’ positive well-being within their organizations, as well as the caring model among managers and employees. Managers who show and develop an atmosphere of care toward employees enhance their positive well-being
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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