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Globalization, Local Economic Development and the Branch Plant Region: The Case of the Aberdeen Oil Complex
No full textCUMBERS A. (2000) Globalization, local economic development and the branch plant region: the case of the Aberdeen oil complex, Reg. Studies 34, 371-382. In recent years, there has been considerable debate over the consequences of globalization for local economic development. For some, globalization is seen as strengthening the position of transnational corporations (TNCs) and core regions over branch plant regions. For others globalization offers opportunities for the latter to create local advantages, particularly if they can construct more effective 'learning' relationships with the branch plants of transnational corporations. This paper contributes to this debate through a case study of the Aberdeen oil complex in the North East of Scotland. It suggests that while there are opportunities for branch plant regions to upgrade their activities in the short term, they still face huge structural problems in creating more sustainable forms of competitive advantage. CUMBERS A. (2000) Mondialisation, développement économique local et régions ¤ a établissements: étude de cas du complexe pétrolifèrè a Aberdeen, Reg. Studies 34, 371- 382. Dans les dernières années, les conséquences de la mondialisation pour le développement économique local est un sujet très controversé. Certains considèrent la mondialisation comme la consolidation du positionnement des sociétés transnationales et des régions centrales par rapport aux régions ¤ a établissements. D'autres estiment que la mondialisation leur offre des possibilités de développer des atouts locaux, notamment s'ils réussissent à établir des rapports d'apprentissage plus efficaces avec les établissements des socie ´te ´s transnationales. A partir d'une e ´tude de cas du complexe pétrolifère à Aberdeen dans le nord-est de l'Écosse, cet article cherchè a contribuer au débat. On laisse supposer que les régions ¤ a établissements se trouvent confrontées ¤ a d'énormes problèmes structurels afin de développer un avantage compétitif plus durable, bien que des possibilités d'améliorer leurs activités se présentent ¤ a court terme. CUMBERS A. (2000) Globalisierung, wirtschaftliche Entwicklung am Ort und die Zweigstellenregion: der Fall des Ö lkomplexes von Aberdeen, Reg. Studies 34, 371-382. In den letzten Jahren wurde die Frage der Folgeerscheinungen der Globalisierung für wirtschaftliche Entwicklung am Orte vielfach diskutiert. Während manche Globalisierung als Stärkung der Stellung staatenüberschreitender Körperschaften (transnational corporations= TNCs) und der Kernregionen im Verhältnis zu Zweigstellenregionen betrachten, sehen andere sie als sich letzteren bietende Gelegenheit, Ortsvorteile zu schaffen, besonders wenn es ihnen gelingt, effektivere 'Lern' beziehungen mit den Zweigstellen staatenu ¨berschreitender Unternehmen aufzubauen. Dieser Aufsatz trägt zu der Debatte bei, indem er eine Studie des Falles des Ö lkomplexes um Aberdeen im Nordosten Schottlands vorlegt. Er weist darauf hin, daß Zweigstellenregionen, obschon ihnen Möglichkeiten zur kurzfristigen Verbesserung ihrer geschäftlichen Unternehmungen offenstehen, sich bei der Schaffung nachhaltigerer Formen von Wettbewerbsvorteilen immer noch enormen Strukturproblemen gegenübersehen.Globalization, Branch Plants, Learning Regions, Oil-RELATED Development,
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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