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Who shall get more? How intangible resources and aspiration levels affect the valuation of resource providers
Full text linkIn this study, we identify the effects of reputation and status by determining how they are differently valued by organizations that are concurrently pursuing different goals. Building on research on intangible assets and on aspiration levels, we develop a framework to explain organizations??? valuation of resource providers. We expect organizations to value resource providers who possess a specific type of intangible asset higher as their performance, relative to aspirations, decreases on the outcome more closely tied to that particular asset. We also expect to observe this sensitivity primarily when the organization has a low level of the intangible asset in question. Based on this framework, we derive specific hypotheses using the differential relationships between reputation and status, as two types of intangible assets, and product quality and revenues, as two types of goals. We find support for our hypotheses using a longitudinal dataset on National Basketball Association teams and players
Who shall get more? How intangible assets and aspiration levels affect the valuation of resources
No full textCombining findings from the research streams on intangible assets and problemistic search, we develop a framework to explain the valuation of resources by organizations. Similar to search behavior and resource acquisition patterns, we expect organizations to value resources more as they encounter problems those resources can help solve. We study this by considering two intangible assets, reputation and status, brought by resource providers to organizations, and two outcomes, product quality and revenues. Building on recent research that has found reputation to be more closely tied to product quality, and status to be more closely tied to revenues, we expect organizations to value resource providers possessing an intangible asset more as they encounter performance problems on the outcome more closely tied to that particular asset. Furthermore, we also expect this sensitivity to manifest itself primarily when the organization has a low stock of the particular intangible asset they are in need of. We find support for our hypotheses in a sample of NBA players and team
What’s in it for them? Advantages of higher status partners in exchange relationships
No full textIn addition to the overt and material exchange they engender, affiliations among firms are also a source of status through status transfer. Through the mechanism of status transfer, a focal actor that establishes relationships with higher status others will enhance his status and, subsequently, enjoy those benefits associated with higher status. However, if lower status actors gain in status and derive subsequent benefits by affiliating with higher status actors, what is in such affiliations for the higher status actors? Why do we observe affiliations between high and low status actors at all if high status actors face reduction of their status? The answer lies in the fact that while low status actors gain through the implicit status transfer, high status actors derive greater benefits in terms of the overt material exchange such relationships entail. In other words, low status actors gain in status and derive associated benefits in their future transactions whereas high status actors gain by being able to secure greater attendance and effort regarding the overt, material, exchange in the current relationship. Using longitudinal data from racing team and engine supplier relationships in Formula One Racing, we find support for the idea that actors higher in status are able to derive greater material benefits in relationships with those lower in status
The status of status research: A review of the types, functions, levels and audiences
No full textOur review of 154 articles published over the last decade portrays an evolution of status research. This body of literature has transitioned from viewing status as a monolithic construct to appreciating its inherently multidimensional nature, characterized by diverse types, functions, levels, and audience structures. Although this shift has expanded our knowledge, it has also introduced increased complexity and fragmentation. To systematize this scattered work on a multifaceted view of status, we develop a comprehensive framework that integrates the diverse research findings. For each constituent part of this framework, we review key themes and insights in the literature and outline future research directions. Our goal is to provide a clear roadmap to navigate the increasing complexity of status research, encouraging more precise theorizing and transversal exploration across the different dimensions of status
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
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