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Personale på vej mod vidensøkonomien:teoretiske overvejelser til studie af virksomheder, personale og arbejdsmarked ved årtusindskiftet
No full textInformation og kommunikation under en fusionsproces: En undersøgelse af mellemledernes rolle under fusionen af Brønderslev og Dronninglund Kommuner i et kommunikativt perspektiv
Get PDFThe difficult balancing act -: A realistic evaluation of 'the tool box' in Project Active Clarification in the municipality of Slagelse
No full textStatslige idealer og virkeligheden i kommunerne: En kortlægning af kommunernes brug af Arbejdsmarkedsstyrelsens benchmarks på sygedagpengeområdet
Get PDFThe Danish Government has suggested that a way to achieve a more effective public sector is by benchmarking the performance levels of the Danish municipalities. In the future, a rise in the number of state-driven benchmarks can be expected, measuring the performances of the municipalities of Denmark. The state level actors are expecting the municipalities to use the benchmarks as an instrument for improving their performances. The goal of this thesis is to investigate how the municipalities utilize state-driven benchmarks in the area of sickness benefits, compared to the expectations of the state level actors - expectations that are summarised in a theoretical constructed organisation recipe. Though a series of phone interviews with nineteen municipalities, it has not been possible to present a short and general answer to this question. Instead, we found that the municipalities have utilized the benchmarks in several different ways and therefore, the conclusion of the thesis is made up by various tendencies that sum up the municipalities’ use and non-use of the benchmarks. Many municipalities did not use the benchmarks in accordance with the organisation recipe due to financial reasons. Many municipalities consider the steps that are expected by the state-level actors too cost demanding. Especially the efforts to follow up on the benchmarks fell short of the expectations of the state-level actors. Only a minority of the municipalities conducted a supplementary analysis to find out the causes of their performance in the benchmarks. Many municipalities also failed to establish new co-operations with municipalities that performed well in the benchmarks, an important point in the organisation recipe. There were some positive tendencies, seen in the light of the expectations of the state-level actor, there were some positive tendencies. Some municipalities followed the organisation recipes all the way, while others used alternatives to the state-driven benchmarks - thereby indicating that the state does not have to encourage municipalities in order for them to focus on performance and efficiency. This after all is the ultimate goal of the state driven benchmarks
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
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