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Organisational flexibility and possibilities for its assessment
Full text linkOverall changing environment requests changes in organisation management, one of them being organisational flexibility.
The aim of the paper is to characterise organisational flexibility and the advantages for its application, and to discuss different ways of its assessment.
Materials and methods are content analysis, logical-constructive methods and analysis of survey results performed by the author.
Main results – there are both advantages and disadvantages of organisational flexibility, however, in case it is properly applied advantages may be more. Different methods may be used for assessing organisational flexibility, none of them being superior over others.
Conclusions – basing on the survey results the author concludes that there are still ways for increasing flexibility in most of the Latvian organisations
Implementation of Labour Market Regulating Factors for Entrepreneurship Development in Latvia
No full textPromocijas darbam izvirzītā hipotēze – izmaiņas darba tirgu regulējošo faktoru kopumā veicinātu uzņēmējdarbības attīstību Latvijā, tomēr uzņēmēji ne vienmēr ir gatavi piemērot šādas izmaiņas.
Promocijas darba pirmajā nodaļā iekļauta analīze par darba tirgus elastības un darba tirgu regulējošo faktoru konceptuāliem pamatiem un to ietekmi uz uzņēmējdarbības attīstību, sīkāk analizējot minimālās darba algas, nepilna laika nodarbinātības, kā arī aktīvās un pasīvās nodarbinātības politikas nosacījumus. Otrā nodaļa veltīta uzņēmējdarbības attīstības un darba tirgu regulējošo pasākumu novērtējumam Latvijā. Trešajā nodaļā autore analizējusi Īrijas, Nīderlandes un Zviedrijas pieredzi ekonomiskās lejupslīdes pārvarēšanā un uzņēmējdarbības attīstības veicināšanā. Savukārt ceturtajā nodaļā autore pētījusi, kādas ir alternatīvas pilnveidot uzņēmējdarbības un darba tirgus jomu Latvijā, novērtējot minimālās darba algas paaugstināšanas un diferencēšanas iespējas atkarībā no iedzīvotāju vecuma; noteikt nepilna laika darbu, kā arī to, kāda ir valsts nepieciešamība iesaistīties darba tirgu un uzņēmējdarbību regulējošo pasākumu koordinēšanā, īpaši aktīvās nodarbinātības politikas jomā.
Promocijas darbā ir 181 lappuse (kopējais lappušu skaits ar pielikumiem – 198). Darbā ievietoti 35 attēli un 46 tabulas. Literatūras un avotu sarakstā iekļautas 219 vienības.
Atslēgvārdi: uzņēmējdarbības attīstība, organizāciju vadība, darba tirgus, minimālā darba alga, nepilna laika nodarbinātība, aktīvās un pasīvās nodarbinātības politikas pasākumi.Research hypothesis - changes in the set of labour market regulating factors would promote entrepreneurship development in Latvia, however entrepreneurs are not always ready to apply such changes.
The first part of the doctoral thesis is theoretical. Analysis of conceptual fundamentals on labour market flexibility and labour market regulation factors and their influence on entrepreneurship development is included, by providing more detailed analysis of minimum wage, part-time employment, active and passive labour market policy conditions. The second part of the doctoral thesis is devoted to the evaluation of entrepreneurship development and labour market regulation aspects in Latvia. In frames of the third part the author provides an analysis of the following countries - Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden, concentrating on their experience in fighting economic slowdown and promoting entrepreneurship development. The fourth part of the thesis is devoted to analysis of measures for improving entrepreneurship and labour market performance in Latvia, by assessing possibilities for minimum wage increase and differentiation based on inhabitants age, increase of part-time employment, as well as state necessity for involvement in coordination of entrepreneurship and labour market regulation factors.
There are 181 pages in the doctoral thesis (total number of pages including appendices – 198). 35 figures and 46 tables are included in the thesis. 219 sources of literature are included in the list of references.
Key words: entrepreneurship development, organization management, labour market, minimum wage, part-time employment, active and passive labour market policy measures
Aptauja par attālināto darbu
No full textAptauja ir veikta projekta "Ekonomiskais, politiskais un juridiskais ietvars Latvijas tautsaimniecības potenciāla saglabāšanai un konkurētspējas pieauguma veicināšanai pēc pandēmijas izraisītas krīzes (reCOVery-LV)" ietvaros.
Aptaujas mērķis ir novērtēt kā sabiedrība uztver valsts politikas atbilstību krīzes radītām sekām.
Aptaujas rezultāti tika izmantoti zinātniskā raksta un monogrāfijas sagatavošanai.Aptaujas par attālināto darbu mērķis ir uzzināt iedzīvotāju pieredzi un viedokli par attālināto darbu.Aptauja veikta VPP "COVID-19 seku mazināšanai" projekta reCOVery-LV VPP-COVID-2020/1-0010 ietvaros
Students workload during their study process: evidence from Latvia
Full text linkPurpose: The purpose of the paper is to provide analysis on students’ workload in Latvia by researching the differences among study branches and modes of studies, and to find the correspondence of the real study workload to the officially regulated – 40 hours per week.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Analysis are based on the survey results performed in 2013 where 2917 students representing most of the Latvia’s higher education institutions provided answers on their study workload. Statistical calculations are used for data analysis.
Findings: The research results reflect that students in general spend less than 40 hours per week on their studies. In most cases devote less numbers to individual work, if compared to the number of hours spent in classes, the study directions of psychology, sociology being an exception. More than 56% of full-time students and 72% of part-time students consider the workload should be increased - in most cases they would prefer having more contact hours. In almost all the higher education institutions students do report on irregular workload that turns to be high in certain weeks and much weaker in others.
Research limitations/implications: The response rate - more than 3% students of higher education institutions and 7% of colleges is comparatively high, the data still doesn’t allow providing detailed analysis on each higher education institution and on each study level.
Practical implications: The research results and research methodology can be used by higher education institutions, in order to measure the students workload as well as to gain.
Social implications: Education is one of the most important tools for promoting person\u27s professional and personal development. In this regard – better quality in education will always promote better carrier possibilities for students.
Originality/value: The research draws a framework on the measurement possibilities of students workload. In addition, this is the first research in Latvia, involving more than 2900 respondents’ opinions, thus providing a representative sample
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
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