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Navigating a crisis: The case of Norwegian early stage firms and the impact of the coronavirus
Full text linkMaster's thesis in Business innovationThe purpose of this research is to explore the nature of a start-up organization during a period of crisis and provide great contextual value on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis in understanding how it impacts newly established technological firms. Through a thorough literature review, a theoretical frame was developed which focused on the structure of firms and the ways in which they behave and respond during ongoing public, health, and economic crises such as the current COVID-19 crisis in which many firms find themselves.
The outcome of this mixed-method research of 54 innovative start-ups across Norway serves to provide some interesting insights and may indicate the potential motivation for further research exploring how firms respond during an asymmetric shock such as COVID-19. The first-hand feedback from entrepreneurs provides a few unexpected insights, which further enhances the value of the research
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
Innovation: the driving force of sustainability within the fashion industry
Full text linkTransparency has become one of the most prominent consumer demands, and research has shown that the concept of transparency can be an essential tool in product, process, and business model innovation. The fashion industry is linked to a lot of major environmental problems and is considered the second-worst polluting industry in the world. The growing focus on both sustainability and the effect of transparency has influenced the research question “How does the demand for transparency add pressure and advance innovation centered around sustainability?”
Added pressure has been put on the fashion industry, as the consumers are expressing their desire for sustainable fashion, showing willingness to pay more for sustainable clothes. In response, ethical production within the fashion industry has increased and numerous brands have developed policies, programs, and initiatives. Findings from The Fashion Transparency Index, such as a consistent improvement in most of the sections and increased focus on areas concerning sustainability, suggest that there is in fact a desire for being perceived as sustainable. However, not all numbers indicate a commitment to innovative activities related to sustainability. A lot of the major brands share more concerning their policies compared to how they actually apply these policies and the results they have achieved after implementation. Four different brands were presented through a comparative case study, where the focus on innovation activities related to sustainability was reviewed. All brands highlighted the importance of sustainability. The top-ranking brand showed a commitment to sustainability by heavily investing in innovation to further sustainability in the fashion industry, whereas the other brands essentially gave an impression of presenting a false image of being sustainable. Findings presented in the Fashion Transparency Index, such as the consumption area and the implementation, as well as the impression some of the brands gave, suggests that proper action towards sustainability has not been made. Instead, there has been an increase in the concept of greenwashing within the fashion industry
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
The entrepreneurial discovery process outside the EU A case study approach using 3 Norwegian regions
Full text linkSmart specialisation has attracted increasing attention from policy makers in Europe after its conception in 2014, while having also been made an ex-ante conditionality for EU funding through the European Regional Development Fund. Norway, a non-EU country has however been lagging behind in terms of getting involved with smart specialization as an approach to regional innovation policy. The paper compares three Norwegian regions observed and planned efforts to the theoretical framework of entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP), a key element considered the heart of smart specialization. The comparative study makes use of the principles and fundamental components accompanying the process, specifically engagement from triple and four helix stakeholders and their roles, governance and bottom-up characteristics, and instruments and activities used to carry out an EDP. All regions are found to adhere to the guidelines and principles of an entrepreneurial discovery process, set by the European Commission, while differences are displaying in terms of their conceptualization of the process, level of engagement by stakeholders and concrete activities used to accomplish it
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
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