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PENGEMBANGAN KETAHANAN PANGAN DI DESA KANDRIS KECAMATAN KARUSEN JANANG KABUPATEN BARITO TIMUR
No full textDesa Kandris adalah salah satu desa di Kecamatan Karusen Janang, Kabupaten Barito Timur, Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia. Desa Kandris Kec.Karusen Janang , Kab. Barito Timur dengan luas Wilayah 228 ha/m2 berdiri sejak 12 Maret 2007 dengan jumlah penduduk sebanyak 385 jiwa. Tujuan dari pembuatan artikel ini yaitu agar dapat mengembangkan ketahanan pangan yang ada di desa Kandris Kecamatan Karusen Janang Kabupaten Barito Timur. Kemudian, metode yang kami pakai dalam pembuatan artikel ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif agar dapat mendeskripsikan keadaan yang akan diamati di lapangan dengan lebih spesifik, transparan, dan mendalam. Hasil dari pembuatan artikel ini diharapkan dapat membantu meningkatkan perekonomian desa melalui kegiatan penanaman palawija berupa tanaman kangkung , bayam kacang panjang dan semangk
Corporate governance and society disclosure: the application of legitimacy theory / Joanne Shaza Janang
Get PDFIt is important for companies to adhere to society’s values and norms by engaging in corporate social responsibility activities to remain legitimate, which in turn, translated into disclosures in annual reports. Corporate governance mechanisms have been used as explanatory factors in determining the level of CSR disclosures. This study aimed to investigate the corporate governance related motivating factors (audit committee, CSR committee, board size and independent directors) in influencing society disclosure in the Malaysian companies’ annual reports using the legitimacy theory. The control variables examined were size, industry type and leverage. The level of society disclosure examined against the Modified Society Disclosure Index (MoSDI), which was comprehensively developed based on the society indicator of Global Reporting Initiative Version 4.0, preliminary observation on 2016 NACRA winners’ annual reports and past literature. MoSDI comprises 50 items with nine main categories. The analysis involved 78 top companies’ annual reports and sustainability reports from the year 2014, 2015 and 2016 respectively. Based on the findings, it was found that, on average for three years, society disclosure is relatively low at 34.75%, whereby out of 50 items examined, on average, the companies in Malaysia disclosed 17 items. Specifically, the extent of society disclosure for the year 2014, 2015 and 2016 were 33.64%, 36.00% and 34.61% respectively. The hierarchical regression analysis results found that independent directors and company’s size were significantly associated with the level of society disclosure. By complying with good corporate governance practice, awareness can be raised and preventive measures can be taken in addressing society’s issues through proper society disclosure. In addition, legitimacy gap can also be reduced via society disclosure. This study contributes to the CSR literature by specifically examining the relationship between corporate governance mechanisms and society disclosure using the legitimacy theory. Theoretical implication and implications on government and policy makers, companies, communities and education system are also provided in the thesis
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
Corporate governance and technical efficiency of government linked companies (GLCs) in Malaysia: a stochastic frontier approach / Jennifer Tunga Janang
Get PDFThe performance of government linked companies (GLCs) has been the subject of scrutiny from both the perspective of academic research and policy formulation. With trade liberalization and increasing global market competition, GLCs efficiency becomes relevant to ensure sustainable economic growth not only for the Malaysian economy but to remain as key players in the regional and international markets. Corporate governance and how it has affected firm performance is a much-debated issue and there is voluminous literature aimed at understanding its role in maximizing firm profitability and market value. However, studies on its effects on the economic efficiency as another indicator for performance are still minimal. This study’s objectives are two folds: First, applying the Stochastic Frontier analysis with inefficiency effects model, in estimating technical efficiency of GLCs against selected foreign owned firms (FFs) as international benchmark. The analysis uses 31 GLCs and 15 FFs listed in Bursa Malaysia over a period between 2001 and 2012 (12 years). Second, applying a similar model to the 31 GLCs over the same period, and allowing inefficiency effects to be a function of a set of explanatory variables, that measures corporate governance mechanism
Corporate governance and technical efficiency of government linked companies (GLCs) in Malaysia: a stochastic frontier approach / Jennifer Tunga Janang
Get PDFThe performance of government linked companies (GLCs) has been the subject of scrutiny from both the perspective of academic research and policy formulation. With trade liberalization and increasing global market competition, GLCs efficiency becomes relevant to ensure sustainable economic growth not only for the Malaysian economy but to remain as key players in the regional and international markets. Corporate governance and how it has affected firm performance is a much-debated issue and there is voluminous literature aimed at understanding its role in maximizing firm profitability and market value. However, studies on its effects on the economic efficiency as another indicator for performance are still minimal. This study’s objectives are two folds: First, applying the Stochastic Frontier analysis with inefficiency effects model, in estimating technical efficiency of GLCs against selected foreign owned firms (FFs) as international benchmark. The analysis uses 31 GLCs and 15 FFs listed in Bursa Malaysia over a period between 2001 and 2012 (12 years). Second, applying a similar model to the 31 GLCs over the same period, and allowing inefficiency effects to be a function of a set of explanatory variables, that measures corporate governance mechanism. The results indicate that the GLCs estimated efficiency levels have improved over time. The levels tend to slowly converge with the FFs that represent international standard. The top GLCs are found to have been catching up faster, although they are still below the frontier of best practice. Labour input, as measured by staff costs and other personnel expenses, is found to have a strong and negative relationship with output generation, suggesting overcapacity in human capital. Thus, this study recommends GLCs should embark on capital intensive, human talent and productivity driven policy to ensure investment in labour input would not lead to further inefficiency. When incorporating corporate governance mechanism to examine GLCs technical inefficiency, and controlling for firm sector and size, the results show government ownership, board remuneration, change in directors, and the independence of the Board Audit Committee are significantly important in explaining technical efficiency. While ownership structure and directors’ incentive have been considered key corporate governance mechanisms to mitigate agency problem, this study finds that the effectiveness of the board is more relevant to address economic growth of the firm, thus supports the revised Malaysian Code of Corporate Governance, 2012 that propagate the importance of an effective Board of Directors
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
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