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Reputation and Status in the High-Quality Wine Industry
Full text linkThis dissertation seeks to understand how and when firms actively build reputation, how firms adjust product quality in response to sudden status changes, how existing reputation and status influence price levels. The empirical setting for all three studies is the high-quality wine segment of Bordeaux, France
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
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Strategic Pricing Decisions: Cognitive and Organizational Influences on Competitive Interactions
Full text linkThis dissertation encompasses three papers that empirically examine ongoing competitive interactions in retail gas markets. Each paper takes a different empirical approach to examine how organizational and cognitive factors influence pricing decisions in this market.The first essay examines how multi-unit franchisee ownership and corporate ownership influences competitive behavior reflected in pricing. I use a panel dataset of pricing decisions of multi-unit franchisees and company-owned gas stations to compare two competing mechanisms by which ownership form influences pricing, double marginalization and strategic delegation. I find that franchisees charge higher average prices, supporting the greater influence of double marginalization on price. Contrary to agency theoretic predictions, firm size and geographic dispersion have a negative influence on the price of multi-unit franchisee stations.The second essay explains how spatial distance and competitor similarity influence firm identification of a relevant competitors. In contrast to prior studies that have used surveys to identify competitors managers saw as most important, I identify a firm’s competitors by examining the competitive actions and responses of units using data that isolates the timing of price changes in the Los Angeles retail gas market. Consistent with predictions, I find that retail gas stations monitor a small number of rival stations. The results demonstrate that distance to a rival and similarity between competitors on price and the number of pumps at a station interact to influence the weights assigned to competitors. The findings suggest that managers categorize competitors based on a smaller number of key dimensions than previously theorized.The third essay takes a behavioral approach to examining competitive market factors that lead to systematic pricing errors using non-experimental data. While management researchers have studied the causes of suboptimal pricing decisions, previous research has emphasized experimental or aggregate corporate data rather than pricing and performance data from actual competitive interactions. I utilize a hand-collected, longitudinal dataset of prices and performance outcomes for 26 retail gas stations to determine a daily, station specific profit-maximizing price. These prices are then compared to the actual prices charged to assess the accuracy of station pricing decisions. I find that the number of competitors in a market have a positive influence on the accuracy of pricing decisions at low numbers of competitors but a negative influence at high numbers of competitors. Stations with a visible competitor that compete head-to-head set more accurate prices than stations without a competitor visible competitor
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Attention Dynamics in Entrepreneurial and Technology Firms
Full text linkThis dissertation applies the behavioral theory of the firm (BTOF) and the attention-based view (ABV) to examine how founder attention influences strategic change and goal setting in entrepreneurial and technology firms. In the first chapter, I explore how performance across competing organizational goals affects founder attention to strategic change. Using detailed data from email correspondence and financial performance of a digital marketing startup from its inception in 2016 through 2022, I address a key gap in the entrepreneurship and ABV literatures, which recognize the importance of founder attention but have lacked the granular data needed to develop and test theories in this area. The second chapter, utilizing a quasi-experimental simulation-based dataset, examines how groups and individuals differ in their attention to factors influencing goal-setting behavior. This paper addresses a significant gap in the organizational goal-setting literature, which acknowledges the importance of varying decision-making structures but lacks empirical evidence on how groups and individuals differ in setting organizational goals
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
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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