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How can we help to develop Chinese and African managers? Building synergies through hybrid practice-based management partnerships
No full textThe insights from the studies in this edited collection heighten the need to understand the impact of the Chinese presence in Africa at the management and organisational levels. On paper, a China-Africa relationship is deemed to be intrinsic and mutually beneficial to both parties, but the evidence noted here and elsewhere is mixed and points to a crucial divide between the strategy and operations of Chinese firms across Africa. Such a divide is made worse by several factors, one of which is the lack of consideration of African management talent. With the majority of African employees being consistently engaged in low-skilled jobs and supported by inadequate HR policies, there are important questions around the value-added impact of Chinese investments in up-skilling African employees and managers by sharing managerial know-how and training to enable the progression of an African management talent base. This chapter explores the scope to do this by proposing a China-Africa Hybrid Practice-based Management Development (CAHPMD) framework, which looks at ways of co-creating conceptual and practical spaces for management development partnerships and synergies with African-based Business Schools (ABS) to educate and co-develop African and Chinese managers in a post-China-Africa era.</p
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The Nature of Emerging Digital Business Models in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Study of Cameroonian Cases
No full textDigital business models are increasingly being created in Sub-Saharan Africa, thanks to the digital revolution currently taking place across the continent. Whilst academic efforts in understanding such business models is still nascent, we use the explicit case of Cameroon in this paper to provide in-depth qualitative evidence of the nature of business models from the perspective of digital entrepreneurs. We note that although there is a considerable success in developing digital business models capable of creating both economic and societal value, these entrepreneurs face major challenges for value capture as they rely on weak notions of sustainable business models. By uncovering the type of value created and the value capture issues, we develop a framework that accommodates the managerial and policy implications for encouraging successful digital business models in SSA
International strategy in professional service industries : the case of the international marketing communications sector in the UK
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Organizational Collaboration: Themes and Issues
No full textMany organizations today operate across boundaries - both internal and external to the organization. Exploring concepts and theories about different organizational, inter-organizational and international contexts, this student reader aids understanding of the individual’s experience of working within and across such boundaries. The book adopts a critical approach to individual experience and highlights the complexities inherent in these different layers and levels of organizing.
Comprising a collection of key articles and extracts presented in a readable accessible way, this book also features an introductory chapter which provides an overall critique of the book. Each part features a brief introduction before analyzing the following key themes:
•managing aims
•power and politics
•cultural diversity
•international management perspectives
•the darker side of collaborative arrangements
Some of the readings will specifically address collaboration ‘head on’ whilst others will provide an important context or highlight significant theoretical and practical issues that are considered relevant and interesting within the framework of the themes presented. As such, this book differs from existing titles as it sits bestride collaboration and organizational behaviour / theory in order to inform learning of exchange relationships on inter-personal, intra-organizational, and inter-organizational levels. The articles included are selected as critical in approach, straddling and addressing the central contexts described above, and highlighting the experience-centred nature of learning that can be derived from the content presented
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
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