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Overall Conclusion of the Book
Full text linkIn many Asian countries, the questions of limits to growth and the challenges of overcoming such limits are clearly at work today. Japan is facing quickly an ageing and shrinking population, a situation that South Korea is bound to face in the near future too. China is facing the problem of the exhaustion of its export-led growth model based on low factor prices, as well as the unprecedented problem of environmental degradation. Food supply is still of concern in most Asian countries and, over the long run, climate change is projected to diminish the agricultural productivity growth potential. A paramount issue is thus the environmental constraint and the transition of these countries to energy-saving methods of production. China is shifting quickly to the use of electric cars whereas Japan still faces uncertainty in terms of its nuclear energy programme. Some of these challenges can be analysed and tackled at the micro-economic level,—the level of the firm—, whereas other challenges are better apprehended at the nation specific level, while many other still are to be tackled at the international level, particularly as far as international relationships are concerned
Developmeent of Matrix Accounting as the Game Based Learning (GBL) tool for employee’s training and development.
No full textThis study explores the recent adoption of matrix accounting as a game-based learning (GBL) tool for training and development. We administered an open-end survey questionnaire to the participants of a Management Game (MG) workshop using matrix accounting to obtain score sheets, and performed inductive research based on an exploratory analysis of the data to examine the characteristics of MG that uses matrix accounting. The results show that matrix accounting is an effective learning and development tool. In addition, our findings are also used to build a theoretical construct indicating which characteristics of matrix accounting contribute to the development of accounting skills and knowledge
Urban-rural differences in social policies: the case of the hukou system in China
No full textIn the 1950s the People’s Republic of China introduced a household registration system to keep under control the internal migration from rural to urban areas. This registration system is called hukou system. All Chinese citizens are classified as either urban or rural hukou holders with limited possibilities of changing their status. Having an urban or rural hukou is a key determinant of the quality of the social policies provided to citizens. Social policies designed for urban hukou holders are based on the availability of higher levels of economic resources. There is a wide literature showing that China presents stark differences between rural and urban areas in well-being indicators and these differences always suggest better quality of life in urban areas. This chapter contributes to the literature that investigates the determinants of these differentials by documenting the different social policies individuals with rural and urban hukou have been eligible to since the hukou system introduction. We will offer an overview of the main features of the social policy schemes with respect to education, health care, income protection, housing and pensions that are designed for rural and urban individuals
Lifelong Learning Policy and Regional Development: Evidence from an EU Case Study
Full text linkLearning throughout life can be found in many cultures, ancient civilizations, and religions in Asia and the EU. Many countries and communities regard lifelong learning as essential to their education goals, human resource improvement and development frameworks. At the European level, one of the most important tools that operate in this area is the European Social Fund. It explicitly supports lifelong learning, through measures and interventions that foster the economic, employment and social objectives of the EU and the Member States. This study seeks to measure, with a case study, the impact of lifelong learning on regional development. Lifelong learning is defined as all purposeful learning activities, undertaken throughout life, on an ongoing basis, with the aim of improving knowledge, skills, and competence within a personal, civic, social and/or employment-related context.
Beyond the benefits, lifelong learning represents an advantage for the regional economy. Our research demonstrates its positive effects on a wider scale both in terms of its direct impact on domestic demand and on the performance of the local economies. A higher skilled workforce attracts more investment, contributing to improving the well-being of the local population. A survey and an econometric model are used to analyse the case study. The results can be extended to other areas with similar demographic and economic characteristics, including Asian ones
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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