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Developing Equality in Merger of Equals: A Grounded-Theory Study
Full text linkThe goals of this thesis are to explore and discover a new understanding of the underlying dynamics of Post-Merger Integration (PMI) that lead to equality during a merger within the researcher’s organisation and develop a framework for informed action. Starting with a broad research question of ‘what are the factors that influence the construction of equality during PMI?’ that was followed by a foundational literature review that shed light on the complexity of Merger and Acquisition (M&A) and the lack of a theoretical framework that can explain the equality construction during PMI. M&A was found to be suffered from a high rate of failure that derived from a lack of understanding of the PMI dynamics that unfold across the process and the impact of the human factors. Becoming an equal employee within the merged company was founded as a critical success factor but there is a lack of understanding of how equality is constructed and unfolded during the PMI.
Applying Grounded Theory (GT) principles, using an iterative process of data collection through semi-structured interviews and theoretical sampling, constant comparison, and through theoretical coding discover an emerging theory grounded in data within the research field. Theoretical categories emerged to explain the basic social process of equality construct and how it unfolds during a PMI.
Scholarly, at the core of the discovered theory is that individuals developed their equality perception as an unfolding process through the PMI. Theoretical conceptualisations put forth the elements of influence, meaning and justice as the precursors of equality construction. Within these three theoretical categories, the results showed how these categories unfold through the stages of the PMI that enable equality to be developed. Based on the substantive theory and the collective data, informed actionable knowledge was developed that generates actionable plans to overcome the disintegrative dynamics of PMI.
Practically, the emergent theory and literature were the basis for developing actionable knowledge for short and long-term PMI strategies. This thesis concludes with a discussion on the implications for practice, research and suggestions for future research.
This research about the merger of equals, contributed to the construction of theory about the unfolding dynamics of a PMI process that shape equality creation through the integration of two merged companies
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
Service employment in advanced economies; a comparative analysis of its implication for economic growth.
Full text linkIn this study we traced the origin of the service sector concept, analyzed the development of service ermployment and sketched its significance for the economy. We used the internationally accepted concept of the service sector. Historically , this sector is determined as a residual consisting of activities which do not fit into the agricultural and industrial sector. However, in the seventies Hill formulated a definition of services which provides a theoretical basis to the accepted sector concept.
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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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