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Supply chain risk management and the performance of agro-industrial firms
No full textLa présente recherche a pour objectif de définir l'influence que peut avoir le management des risques de la supply chain aval sur la performance des entreprises agro-industrielles. Elle adopte une démarche comparative internationale entre le Cameroun (pays en développement) et la France (pays développé) pour scruter les concepts habituellement développés en amont de la supply chain (entreprise - fournisseur). Fondée sur le réalisme scientifique, deuxième courant post-positiviste, elle allie la théorie au terrain d'application pour appréhender les concepts inobservables. Sur la base d'une combinaison des données qualitatives obtenues à travers des entretiens semi-directifs auprès des manageurs de la supply chain, et quantitatives obtenues via l'administration d'un questionnaire sur des échantillons d'entreprises, elle examine les liens entre les construits envisagés. Ceci à travers l’analyse du contenu lexical et l'analyse par les équations structurelles à l’aide de la méthode des moindres carrées partiels (Partial Last Square, PLS). Il ressort des différentes analyses que le management des risques stratégiques influence positivement et significativement la performance des entreprises agro-industrielles. Ce lien est à la fois direct et indirect via la relation client. Par contre, le management des risques opérationnels entretien une relation négative mais non significative avec la performance. De même, la relation entretenue avec la clientèle influence négativement la performance contrairement à la théorie. Mais le management des risques stratégiques et une partie des risques opérationnels (prévisions) influencent significativement la relation client de l'entreprise. Cette relation est modérée par l'implémentation des systèmes d'information efficaces. Les promotions de vente n'influencent pas le lien relation client - performance, mais constituent un antécédent de la relation client de l'entreprise. Ces résultats proposent sur le plan théorique, une autre lecture de la théorie des coûts de transaction et de l’agence à travers l’impact positif du management de la sous-traitance sur la performance. De même la recherche suggère de ne pas isoler certains construits lorsqu'on envisage une recherche sur la théorie de la supply chain. Sur le plan managérial, les managers doivent se départir des activités dont ils ne sont pas détenteurs des compétences clés telles que les activités de transport à travers un développement des partenariats avec les LSP. Ils doivent aussi privilégier l'implémentation des systèmes d'information efficaces, ce qui constitue un gage de réussite dans l'orientation client de l'entreprise. Les recherches postérieures pourront s'intéresser à intégrer, à côté du CRM, les aspects de confiance, d'avantage concurrentiel, de la qualité du produit dans le modèle pour obtenir une meilleure mesure de leur impact sur la performance financière et non financière de l’entreprise.This research aim to determine the influence of downstream supply chain risk management on performance of agro-industrial firms. It adopts an international comparative investigation between developing economy (Cameroon) and developed economy (France) to examine the concepts actually improved upstream of the supply chain. Based on scientific realism, the second post-positivist paradigm, it combines theory with field investigation to understand unobservable constructs. Using a combination of qualitative data obtained through semi-direct interviews with supply chain managers, and quantitative data obtained through the survey of agro-industrial companies’ sample, it examines the possible links between Constructs. This is done through the lexical analysis and by the Structural Equation Modeling using the Partial Least Square method (PLS). Results show that strategic risks management positively and significantly influences the performance of agro-industrial firms. This link is both direct and indirect through customer relations. On the other hand, the operational risks management negatively (but not significantly) affects performance. Similarly, the customer relationship negatively affects firm performance, the contrary of theoretical predictions. But the management of strategic risks and part of the operational risks (forecasts) significantly influence the company's customer relationship. This relationship is moderated by the implementation of effective information systems. Sales promotions do not affect the relationship between customer and performance, but are antecedent of the customer relationship of foods companies These results propose another theoretical perspective of transaction costs and agency theories through the positive impact of outsourcing management on performance. Similarly, research suggests to not isolating certain constructs when considering a research on supply chain theory. From managerial implications, managers must divest themselves of activities where they do not possess key competences such as transport activities through the development of partnerships with LSPs. They must also privilege the implementation of effective information systems as a guarantee of success in the customer orientation of the company. Subsequent research may focus on integrating aspects of trust, competitive advantage, and product quality into the model, in order to better measure their impact on the financial and non-financial performance of CRM
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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