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Readiness of small and medium enterprises to apply total quality management standards: Evidence from Kosovo
Get PDFApplying effective management methods for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is a crucial commitment to compete in the market. Total quality management (TQM) is a well-known systematic method that increases business competitiveness and improves performance. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to examine the gap between current SMEs’ management quality in relation to the management standards recommended by TQM. This quantitative research was conducted with representatives of 76 relevant SMEs out of 370 contacted through the official platform for business registration. Firstly, 12 relevant critical success factors (CSFs) have been identified and validated with Cronbach’s alpha and item statistics and further applied to measure SMEs’ performance. One sample statistic is applied for CSF indexing, and one sample t-test is used to test the raised hypothesis. According to the research findings, human resource management performs with an average score of 3.95 out of 5, information management 3.89 out of 5, and continuous improvement 3.77 out of 5, while customer focus performs with a low score of 3.32 out of 5, and training and education with 3.14 out of 5. The raised hypothesis confirms that SMEs are not at the level of TQM standards, and this is supported by a reliability value of alpha (p = 0). This paper contributes to the literature by providing insights into current SMEs’ management quality and offers a validated model, which can be applied to measure SMEs’ managerial quality
Lean Six Sigma Based Administration Municipal Services versus Current Ones: Measuring the Gap from Civil Servants Perspective
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The study compares the ideal municipal administrative services based on Lean Six Sigma with the current quality of administrative services provided by municipality, from the perspective of civil servants. Municipal civil servants have been interviewed and their responses have been analyzed. 12 Critical Success Factors (CSFs’) and 36 sub factors have been used for the realization of the research. Statistical methods: Descriptive, Sample t-test, Independent t-test and One Way Anova have been used for the analysis. This research measures the gap, provides statistics and conclusions of the civil servants estimation differences regarding municipal administrative services, civil servants compliance for the identified gap and offers recommendations for administration service improvement in the future.</jats:p
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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