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The contribution of social enterprises to rural economies.
No full textCEEDR assessed the social and economic impact of social enterprises to rural economies and communities and, in the process, develop and refine a methodology that can be used as an impact assessment tool by academics and policy makers at a national level
Mapping the regional social enterprise sector.
Full text linkCEEDR have been commissioned to carry out research to understand the nature of social enterprise activity in the South East Region and the factors inhibiting/driving growth. This involves the collation of different databases of existing social enterprises and the identification of emerging social enterprise through detailed neighbourhood studies. The existing support system is also mapped and the forms of intervention required are also identified
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
Evaluation of the support for enterprising communities pilot project.
Full text linkCEEDR were commissioned to carry out the evaluation of four pilot projects offering advice to social enterprises. The impact of this advice is examined by looking at benefits to the users of services, employees, and the wider community. The study also examined examples of good practice in solving barriers and constraints faced by social enterprises. The results were widely disseminated through social enterprise peer groups, various social enterprise representative organisations and to a range of policy audiences
Early assessment of the impact of BIS equity fund initiatives
Full text linkCEEDR provided an early assessment of the economic effectiveness of four equity funds (Enterprise Capital Fund, Capital for Enterprise Fund, Aspire Fund and Early Growth Fund) that the Government has introduced in recent years to address market failures in the provision of finance to SMEs. The research, largely undertaken by Professor North and Dr Baldock involved 51 in-depth qualitative face-to-face and extended telephone interviews with SME managers in order to provide analysis of the impacts of the government equity funds on successful and unsuccessful applicant businesses and the extent to which alternative sources of equity and debt finance were considered and sourced
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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