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Sur la construction d'indicateurs de séparation propriété-contrôle
No full textBance Philippe. Sur la construction d'indicateurs de séparation propriété-contrôle. In: Revue économique, volume 39, n°6, 1988. pp. 1219-1222
Étude des "déterminants" des comportements des entreprises publiques
No full textCet article donne une interprétation théorique d'ensemble des comportements des entreprises publiques. Il montre tout d'abord l'incapacité des analyses et des modèles économétriques traditionnels à rendre compte globalement de ces comportements, dont les trajectoires se sont avérées fluctuantes, complexes et s'écartant parfois très sensiblement de celles des entreprises privées au cours des dernières décennies. La formalisation bute en effet sur le caractère polymorphe des comportements des entreprises publiques : ceux-ci dépendent de la confrontation d'options différentes d'un État actionnaire cherchant à les impliquer dans des "missions publiques" (au rang desquelles figurent la stimulation de l'activité économique ou le desserrement de la contrainte budgétaire) et d'un management soucieux d'émancipation. Plus explicitement, ces comportements sont la résultante de la coexistence de déterminants idéels (de représentations) et de déterminants matériels (de facteurs objectifs) qui conditionnent les relations État-management. Les déterminants idéels correspondent tout d'abord aux cycles des représentations économiques dominantes qui influent sur le comportement de l'Etat à l'égard de ses entreprises. Les représentations que se font les autorités du rôle des entreprises publiques dans la reproduction politique en constituent un second aspect. Enfin, l'image des entreprises publiques dans l'appareil d'Etat est également influente. Quant aux déterminants matériels, ils correspondent d'une part à la situation économique et au type de déséquilibre du moment. Ce sont, d'autre part, les contraintes propres des entreprises publiques. Leur situation financière (très dépendante des sollicitations précédentes de l'Etat) conditionne largement leur aptitude à répondre à différentes missions publiques, tout comme leur positionnement sectoriel (à travers le degré de concurrence et la demande potentielle qui en résultent).Bance Philippe. Étude des "déterminants" des comportements des entreprises publiques. In: Politiques et management public, vol. 12, n° 3, 1994. pp. 1-19
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
Contesting the future of public finance?
No full textThe article discusses the future of public spending and the explanations offered for observed patterns of public spending in relation to GDP. It identifies three key issues.
The first is that there are specific upward economic pressures on public spending, from the stimulus, healthcare, and infrastructure investment. Even if the stimulus packages can be unwound with no lasting increase in spending, the effect of the other two will be significant. Healthcare will be especially relevant in the north, but the south has major infrastructure needs in addition to climate change policies, for roads, electricity, water, the overwhelming majority of which will be done via public finance.
The second is that policies in relation to all of these areas are the subject of intense conflicts (with the possible exception, so far, of climate change policies). This is especially true in the field of healthcare, where we have noted conflicts between popular movements and governments, business interests and government, and, at least potentially, governments and international institutions such as the IMF. It shows the importance of recognising conflicts of major economic groupings as central to the dynamic on public spending, and the degree to which these interests are pursued regardless of evidence on the best option for healthcare or even economic efficiency. This includes the international institutions: the IMF (and the EU, and the OECD) is quite clear that it wants a fiscal result through major cuts in public spending, despite evidence that this is the worst choice for health and efficiency.
The third is that, whether in forecasting future trends or explaining past trends, the patterns are outcomes of multiple and multi-level conflicts whose results are not simply predictable
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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