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On antecedents of organizational innovation: how the organizational learning, age and size of a firm impact its organizational innovation
Get PDFThe main goal of this thesis is to increase the understanding of how a company can improve its organizational innovation performance. Organizational innovation in this thesis means innovation in management practices, workplace organization, and the external relations of a firm.
The focus was on how a firm’s age and size as well as the antecedents that are considered as the components of organizational learning impact the organizational innovation in a firm. To collect the data for investigating the phenomenon in question a quantitative survey method was applied.
The data was collected in Latvia and the Central and Northwestern Economic Regions of Russia. The regression analysis and the structural equation modeling methods have been employed for the purpose of the data processing. The study provides evidence that the organizational innovation performance in a firm is exposed to the components of the organizational learning as well as to a firm’s age. The main contribution of the study is the input into increasing the understanding of the theory of organizational innovation. In comparison with the previous studies in order to provide more focused research this study breaks down organizational innovation into subtypes and analyzes the last ones separately. The study also makes an attempt to compare a firm’s organizational innovation in two countries at the level of specific practices. These two countries are Latvia and Russia, which are rarely in focus in the research on organizational innovation.
The results of the study can be useful for firms’ managers and policymakers for better understanding how to make a company more efficient in terms of innovation performance.ei tietoa saavutettavuudest
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
Energiamurroksen ennakoidut vaikutukset 2030: Tuulivoima
No full textTämä case-julkaisu liittyy Suomen Akatemian strategisen tutkimuksen neuvoston rahoittamaan Smart Energy Transition (SET) -hankkeeseen (293405) (www.smartenergytransition.fi). SET-hanke tutkii, miten Suomi voi hyötyä hajautetun ja vaihtelevan uusiutuvan energian ympärille nousevista murroksellisista teknologioista. Kyse on ratkaisuista, joissa energiaa voidaan varastoida tai sen tarvetta ohjata vaihtelevan tuotannon mukaan (kysyntäjousto). Näihin ratkaisuihin liittyvät olennaisesti uudet digitaaliset ratkaisut, kuten esineiden internet. Samalla murrokseen liittyy myös kehitys, jossa rakennusten ja liikenteen energian tarve pienenee, energiaomavaraisuus kasvaa, ja rakennukset ja liikennevälineet muodostavat yhä kiinteämmän osan energiajärjestelmää
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
A troublesome emergence:A marketing primer on Russian retail banking
Get PDFThe transition process of the formerly socialist economies of Eastern Europe dates back more than a decade. Whereas a few countries now entering the European Union experience significant progress some others, most notably the former CIS-countries including Russia, lag behind. Despite the central role of its subject matters for such market development, marketing has conceded ground to economics concerning the understanding of transition economies. This paper attempts to provide a remedy in this regard by presenting the results of a study undertaken in the retail banking sector in Saint Petersburg. Central to the argument is the idea that by looking into both horizontal and vertical market features, here competition and consumer loyalty, marketing provides an analysis where patterns appear which are not evident in conventional neoclassical scrutiny.transition economy; market construct; competition; consumer loyalty
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