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At the receiving end of supply network intervention: The view from an automotive first tier supplier
No full textAs companies are increasingly responsible for all ingredients that make up their products, the requirement to increase visibility and exert control over the entire supply network has been identified as key imperatives. However, little research to date has examined the consequences of supply network control on the suppliers that are at the receiving end of it. This paper reports on research into the dynamics of supply network intervention and the effects on the companies that are subject to attempts to control a supply network, particularly in the context of new product development. The paper discusses the case of an automotive component supplier and its role in a specific vehicle development project. The case study shows how the supplier was a victim of its customer's attempt to ‘supply chain manage’ the project, giving the supplier little control over key activities such as the choice of suppliers of key components and little influence on commercial and technical agreements. The perspectives of both vehicle manufacturer and supplier are debated to reveal the drivers for and problems associated with supply network intervention. The paper discusses the theoretical and managerial implications of the study and concludes by raising some serious questions about the negative effects of intervention strategies
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
Současné přístupy ke spáse: David Ford, David Hart and Aloysius Pieris
No full textDiplomová práce Současné přístupy ke spáse podává přehled aktuálních problémů křesťanské soteriologie na základě představení, zhodnocení a diskuze tří současných autorů: irského anglikánského teologa Davida Forda, amerického ortodoxního teologa Davida Harta a srílanského katolického teologa Aloysiuse Pierise. Práce je členěna do tří hlavních částí: v první části se autor zabývá tradičními křesťanskými obrazy spásy a vztahem mezi christologií a soteriologií, t.j. vztahem mezi osobou a dílem Ježíše Krista. Obsahem druhé části je představení soteriologických koncepcí tří současných autorů. Východiskem pro jejich hodnocení a vzájemné srovnání je teze amerického katolického teologa Davida Tracyho o třech základních teologických žánrech: praktické, fundamentální a systematické teologie. Závěrečná část práce diskutuje hlavní témata a problémy současné soteriologie tak, jak se objevily v diskusi se zmíněními autory. Klíčová slova soteriologie, spása, vykoupení, David Ford, David Bentley Hart, Aloysius PierisThe aim of the present thesis is to offer an expository account of the themes and problems in contemporary Christian soteriology based on the introduction and evaluation of three contemporary soteriological concepts of the Irish Anglican theologian David Ford, the American orthodox theologian David Bentley Hard and the Sri Lankan catholic theologian Aloysius Pieris. In the Introduction the reasons for the choice of the topic, structure and method of this study are presented. Part I offers a brief overview of the key soteriological images and a discussion on the relationship of Christology and soteriology. Part II explores the theology of salvation of the three aforementioned contemporary theologians based on David Tracy's distinction of different but mutually interrelated notions of truth in practical, fundamental and systematic theology. Part III offers a discussion of the main soteriological themes and problems that were discovered. In the Conclusion Tracy's multifaceted hermeneutical concept of truth is argued to allow soteriology to affirm plurality of theology and, at the same time, to avoid the danger of falling into relativism unconcerned with criteria of truthfulness. Keywords Soteriology, salvation, redemption, atonement, David Ford, David Bentley Hart, Aloysius PierisInstitute of oecumenical studiesInstitut ekumenických studiíProtestant Theological FacultyEvangelická teologická fakult
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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