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Rezension zu: Thomas Fischer (Hg.), Die Krise des 3. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. und das Gallische Sonderreich. Akten des Interdisziplinären Kolloquiums Xanten 26. bis 28. Februar 2009
No full textRezension zu:
Thomas Fischer (Hg.), Die Krise des 3. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. und das Gallische Sonderreich. Akten des Interdisziplinären Kolloquiums Xanten 26. bis 28. Februar 2009, Zakmira 8 (Wiesbaden 2012
Technologie(n) und Organisation.
No full textGERMAN ABSTRACT: Der Beitrag schlägt eine einheitliche Lesart der Bedeutung der Digitalisierung für organisatorisches Handeln vor, die an den von J. D. Thompson (1967) eröffneten theoretischen Weg anknüpft und deren heuristischer Wert am Beispiel von Amazon als digitalem Konglomerat veranschaulicht wird. Ausgehend von der Unterscheidung zwischen Verkettungs-, Vermittlungs- und Intensivtechnologie (Thompson) wird argumentiert, dass aufgrund der sequenziellen Struktur der Algorithmen die digitale Technologie als Verkettungstechnologie einzuordnen ist. Als solche setzt sie Standardisierung voraus und schreibt diese weiter fort. Neuartig ist, dass die algorithmische Verkettung und die darauf aufbauende Vernetzung die Rigidität der analogen Verkettung überwinden und somit das Anwendungsfeld der Verkettungstechnologie erweitern. Es wird gezeigt, wie beide Dimensionen Amazon kennzeichnen. Zum einen führt das algorithmische Management in den Verteilungszentren zur Industrialisierung von manueller Dienstleistungsarbeit, die Arbeitsverdichtung und erhöhte Kontrolle der Arbeitsleistung nach sich zieht. Zum anderen findet im Bereich der Vermittlungstechnologie, wo Amazon ebenso wie auch die anderen digitalen Plattformen zu verorten sind, eine neuartige Hybridisierung („algorithmische Vermittlung“) statt. Diese Hybridisierung geht bis in den technischen Kern von Amazon hinein und begründet die Quelle seiner Innovationsstärke und wirtschaftlichen Macht.
**** ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The article proposes a unified reading of the importance of digitalization for organizational action, which follows the theoretical path opened by J. D. Thompson (1967) and whose heuristic value is illustrated using the example of Amazon as a digital conglomerate. Starting from the differentiation between long-linked (concatenation), mediating and intensive technologies (Thompson), the article argues that because of the sequential structure of the algorithms digital technology has to be understood as a long-linked technology. As such it presupposes standardisation and develops it further. What is new is that the algorithmic sequence and the network based on it overcome the rigidity of the analogous inter-linkage and thus extend the field of application of the concatenation technology. The article demonstrates how these two dimensions characterise Amazon. On the one hand the algorithmic management in the distribution centers leads to the industrialisation of manual work in the service sector which implies work intensification and increased control of the work performance. On the other hand a new form of hybridisation („algorithmic mediation“) takes place in the field of the mediating technology which forms the basis of Amazon as well as the other digital platforms. This hybridisation extends into the technical core of Amazon and constitutes the source of its innovation strength and its economic power
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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