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Learning through Listening: Conversations for Strategic Change in a Healtcare Provider
No full textThe aim of this paper is investigate the role of conversation in strategic change so as to enhance both theory and practice in this respect. As an investigation on how conversations shape change processes in practice, we reflect on an interpretive case study in a health care organization. Through an OD project complemented by semi-structured interviews with participants, we gained a set of data and experiences that allows us to inquire into the relationship between conversations and change in more depth
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
Understanding stakeholders : towards a theory of responsiveness in organizations
No full textTHESIS 7146This study investigates the nature of responsiveness in organizations and its relation to dialogue as a reflective mode of conversation. Responsiveness as a theme emerged from the practical experience of the author in an organization development project with a residential care provider for people with physical and sensory disabilities. While consulting strategy, stakeholder management and organizational learning literature acknowledges the relevance of responsiveness, none of the approaches proposes a comprehensive concept of responsiveness and its implications for communication with stakeholders. The implicit model of responsiveness in all three literatures consists in a reactive, behaviorist stimulus-response model. Therefore, it is suggested to explore dialogue as an appropriate conversational mode that holds promise to facilitate reflective conversations with and among stakeholders. The process quality of responsiveness and dialogue requires an interpretive case study approach as the outer frame and a participator)\u27 mode of inquiry as the inner frame of this investigation. Two research questions are addressed: What is the nature of responsiveness? What is the relation between dialogue and responsiveness
Collaborative Inquiry for Change and Changing: Advances in Science-Practice Transformations
Full text linkThe overall context of this special issue is that in this volatile, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous contemporary world, collaboration between researchers of different disciplines, between researchers and practitioners, and between institutions is imperative. This special issue presents seven papers with different approaches to collaborative inquiry. Each one provides a perspective of the way collaborative inquiry can address multilevel, multistakeholder, and longitudinal change in the current dynamic and constantly changing environment in which organizations reside. Taken together, the contributions in this volume make a powerful statement concerning the emerging significance of the collaborative inquiry paradigm and its potential future
Building the capacity for learning and change through reflective conversation
Full text linkConversation is central to the process of organizational learning and change. Drawing on the notion of reflective conversation, we describe an action research project, "learning through listening" in Omega, a residential healthcare organization. In this project, service users, staff, members of management committees, trustees, managers, and central office staff participated in listening to each other and in working together towards building capacity for creating their own vision of how the organization could move into the future, according to its values and ethos. In doing so they developed ways of engaging in reflective conversation that enabled progress towards a strategic direction
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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