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The significance of supply chain management with regard to the attainment of value and strategic objectives for municipalities within South Africa : a case study
Get PDFThesis (MPA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Supply chain management (SCM) in the public sector in general, as well as the municipal
sphere in particular, has received increasing prominence over past few years. Although
the focus is mainly due to the impact of fraud and corruption in public sector procurement,
this author is of the opinion that SCM can also create value and aid in the attainment of
strategic objectives. The study revealed that supply chain management is described as a
process in literature, whilst it is described as a system by government. Of significance to
this, is that both literature and government view SCM as a means to add value. The study
also revealed that in order for SCM to add value and to contribute to the attainment of
strategic objectives, it is important that SCM forms part of the performance management
(PM) system of an organisation. Performance measurement tools, such as the balanced
scorecard, benchmarking, improvement and other measurement tools, were introduced as
tried and trusted methods for measuring SCM performance. The study was embarked upon because the author was of the opinion that municipalities in
South Africa only implement SCM because it is required by legislation. Thus, this theory
was tested at Hessequa Municipality and it was found that the current emphasis was on
compliance at Hessequa Municipality. This was done by means of studying documentary
evidence and through interviews conducted with various internal and external stakeholders
either directly or indirectly affected by the SCM processes of Hessequa Municipality. The
study tested Hessequa Municipality’s readiness to progress towards performance
management and measurement by using the financial capability model for SCM as utilised
by the Western Cape Government to ascertain the level of SCM implementation at
municipalities. It was found that Hessequa Municipality meets almost all the compliance
and control requirements, with only two areas that require slight attention before full
compliance is achieved. Through the interviews conducted, the study also tested
Hessequa Municipality’s willingness to progress to the next level and found that there was
indeed a willingness to progress towards managing and measuring SCM activities.
In conclusion, the study recommended that Hessequa Municipality uses a phased-in
approach when it sets processes in place to progress towards performance managing
SCM. That when developing performance indicators for SCM, it be aligned to the
performance management system and targets of the municipality. It also recommended
that a combination of the tried and trusted methods be used to measure SCM performance. Finally, it recommended that the municipality eradicates the silo approach to
doing business and adopts a more integrated approach by firstly integrating its internal
processes before embarking upon integrating the actions of all the agents within the
supply chain.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Voorsieningskanaalbestuur (VKB) in die openbare sektor oor die algemeen sowel as in die
munisipale omgewing in besonder, het gedurende die afgelope jare al hoe meer na die
voorgrond getree. Alhoewel die fokus hoofsaaklik toegeskryf word aan die impak van
bedrog en korrupsie op verkryging in die openbare sektor, is die skrywer van mening dat
VKB ook waarde kan toevoeg en tot die die behaling van strategiese doelwitte kan bydra.
Die studie het aan die lig gebring dat VKB in literatuur as ’n proses beskryf word, maar
deur die regering as ’n stelsel beskryf word. Wat egter van belang is, is dat beide die
literatuur en regering VKB as ’n middel beskou om waarde toe te voeg. Die studie het ook
openbaar dat, ten einde vir VKB om waarde toe te voeg en tot die behaling van strategiese
doelwitte by te dra, dit belangrik is dat VKB ’n deel vorm van die prestasiebestuurstelsel
van ’n organisasie. Prestasiemetingsinstrumente soos die gebalanseerde telkaart,
doelwitstelling, verbetering en ander metingsinstrumente is ingestel as bewese metodes
om VKB-prestasie te meet. Die studie is onderneem omdat die skrywer van mening was dat munisipaliteite in Suid-
Afrika slegs VKB implementeer omdat wetgewing dit vereis. Hierdie teorie is by Hessequa
Munisipaliteit getoets en daar is gevind dat die huidige klem op voldoening aan
wetsvereistes is. Die toets is gedoen deur dokumentêre bewyse te bestudeer, asook deur
onderhoude te voer met verskeie interne en eksterne rolspelers wat óf direk óf indirek deur
die VKB-prosesse van Hessequa Munisipaliteit geraak word. Die studie het Hessequa
Munisipaliteit se gereedheid om na prestasiebestuur en -meting te vorder, getoets deur
van die finansiële vermoë-model gebruik te maak wat deur die Wes-Kaapse Regering
gebruik word. Hierdie model word gebruik om die vlak van VKB-implementering by
munisipaliteite te bepaal. Daar is gevind dat Hessequa Munisipaliteit aan feitlik alle
vereistes vir nakoming en beheer voldoen, buiten twee gebiede wat geringe aandag verg
alvorens volle nakoming behaal word. Deur onderhoude te voer, het die studie ook
Hessequa Munisipaliteit se bereidwilligheid getoets om na die volgende vlak te vorder.
Daar is gevind dat daar inderdaad ’n begeerte was om na die bestuurs- en
metingsaktiwiteite van VKB te beweeg.
Laastens het die studie aanbeveel dat Hessequa Munisipaliteit ’n infaseringsbenadering
gebruik wanneer prosesse in plek gestel word om na VKB-prestasiebestuur te vorder. Wanneer prestasie-aanwysers vir VKB ontwikkel word, moet dit met die prestasiebestuurstelsel
en -doelwitte van die munisipaliteit belyn word. Dit word ook aanbeveel dat ’n
kombinasie van die beproefde en getoetste metodes gebruik word om VKB-prestasie te
meet. Die laaste aanbeveling is dat die munisipaliteit die silo-benadering van sake doen
uitwis en ’n meer geïntegreerde benadering aanneem. Die interne prosesse moet eers
geïntegreer word, waarna die handelinge van al die rolspelers in VKB geïntegreer word.Master
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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