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Crouch, C, VX1704
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/379812Surname: CROUCH
Given Name(s) or Initials: C
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX1704
Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 2558193624
Item: [2016.0049.12105] "Crouch, C, VX1704
Crouch, C A, VX30793
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/379813Surname: CROUCH
Given Name(s) or Initials: C A
Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX30793
Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 16658193625
Item: [2016.0049.12106] "Crouch, C A, VX30793
The territorial governance of the shadow economy
Full text linkThe findings of studies of local economies can be applied to those concerned with 'shadow' and illegal activities. These activities need to be seen not as situations with an absence of governance and markets, but as constituting particular kinds of governance-this often being concerned with ensuring the functioning of markets. A scheme for modelling this type of governance is proposed, and is then used to formulaic a critique of most of the prevailing policy approaches to trying to counter the shadow economy and to encourage the 'emersion' of firms from it. Some instances of policies that are better grounded in an appreciation of the reality of the shadow economy as a social order are also cited
Governance caleidoscopica, debolezza istituzionale e sviluppo locale (articolo in rivista fascia A settore 14/D1)
No full textAttempting to avoid the excessive embeddedness and path dependence considered to have been associated with many past forms of local economic development, authorities are increasingly likely to favour light and fragmented arrangements. Institutions are rarely allowed to have much power, and their structures are frequently subject of reorganisation, even though the component elements that came together to make the reorganised forms are often the same. These governance patterns therefore resemble a kaleidoscope. The authors are critical of such policy approaches. They point out that frequent change prevents learning and the establishment of trust. Paradoxically, the net result is a strengthening of central governmental forces. They consider examples from a range of European countries, concentrating on cases from the UK and Italy. In the latter in particular there is evidence of dissatisfaction with fragmentation on the part of local actors, who often try to establish more substantive structures for steering development programmes[...
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
The governance of global supply chains
No full textThis chapter aims at investigating the impact that more sustainable sourcing policies carried on by many multinational companies are having on the local suppliers. Thus, it is crucial to understand the process through which CSR is coming to developing countries, to investigate the effects triggered by CSR strategies on the enterprises that are managing to comply with international standards and regulations, and to assess the effectiveness and feasibility of these binding CSR policies.
Actually, CSR is reaching Southern enterprises as a mandatory requirement for the continuation of business relationships with foreign partners. So, instead of promoting more advanced business practices, the need for sustainability risks becoming an unaffordable barrier to entry for local suppliers. Within this context, balanced and supportive relationships along the supply chain and between local suppliers and their stakeholders seem to be needed to foster new solutions to achieve sustainability targets. More collaborative models of governance based on innovative partnerships could be the way to help firms in developing countries to address new sourcing requirements, to get support from their stakeholders, and to improve their reputation in the international markets
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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