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INFLUENCE OF STRATEGIC COLLABORATIONS ON THE COMPETITIVENESS OF PRIVATE COLLEGES IN NAKURU TOWN
No full textFULL TEXTCollaboration is currently one of the key elements of institutional competitiveness. In the face of continuous world economic changes, competition allows many institutions to improve and accelerate their collaboration processes. Universities as traditional sources of knowledge might be involved in such kind of collaboration. The increasing demand related with education of the population has led to the entry of a large number of private players in the education sector. This has also resulted to the development of competition among the private colleges or private universities for attracting good students as well as high revenue. Private colleges and private universities are also trying to adopt competitive intelligence in their action plan to get recognition as well as value for their college or university. The aim of this study was to establish the Influence of Strategic Collaborations on the Competitiveness of Private Colleges in Nakuru town. More specifically, the study sought to determine the influence of strategic financial allocation, explore the influence of strategic expansion, and assess the influence of strategic alliances on competitiveness of private colleges in Nakuru town. The study was grounded upon the Theory of Evaluation, Resource Based View Theory and the Resource Dependence Theory. This study adopted descriptive design. The target Population of the study consisted of six colleges. The study, being census, was conducted at Nairobi Aviation College, Tec Institute, Nakuru College of health sciences, Tracom College, Kenya Institute of Professional Counseling and Professional Studies and Lake Nakuru Hotel and Tourism Management College. Senior College management heads were targeted. Data collection instruments incorporated questionnaires, mainly structured in a 5-point Likert scale which were distributed to respondents through “drop and pick later” method. The researcher assessed the reliability and validity of data collection instruments with experts and through piloting. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression coefficients, after entering the raw data into the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The research findings indicated that strategic financial allocation, strategic expansion and strategic alliances could explain 50.7% of the variations in the dependent variable which is strategic collaborations on the competitiveness of private colleges in Nakuru town. Regression of coefficients results showed that strategic financial allocation and competitiveness were positively and significantly related (r=0.281, p=0.000), strategic expansion and competitiveness were positively and significantly related (r=0.186, p=0.000) and finally strategic alliances and competitiveness were positively and significantly related (r=0.313, p=0.000). The study may be of benefit and significant in enabling new private colleges determine whether university-college collaborations are a necessary strategy as a diversification strategy. At the end competitive advantage achieved by colleges or universities can be considered ethically and legally correct if it is beneficial for the students, parents and the society. The study recommends due attention on collaborative activities between the universities and colleges be sensitized since they can contribute to the success of future joint curriculum development project. Further research could also be undertaken between universities and industry context to understand the mechanisms by which universities transfer Research & Development knowledge in order to increase industry competitiveness and efficiency as well as overall economic and social development
INFLUENCE OF STRATEGIC COLLABORATIONS ON THE COMPETITIVENESS OF PRIVATE COLLEGES IN NAKURU TOWN
No full textFULL TEXTCollaboration is currently one of the key elements of institutional competitiveness. In the face of continuous world economic changes, competition allows many institutions to improve and accelerate their collaboration processes. Universities as traditional sources of knowledge might be involved in such kind of collaboration. The increasing demand related with education of the population has led to the entry of a large number of private players in the education sector. This has also resulted to the development of competition among the private colleges or private universities for attracting good students as well as high revenue. Private colleges and private universities are also trying to adopt competitive intelligence in their action plan to get recognition as well as value for their college or university. The aim of this study was to establish the Influence of Strategic Collaborations on the Competitiveness of Private Colleges in Nakuru town. More specifically, the study sought to determine the influence of strategic financial allocation, explore the influence of strategic expansion, and assess the influence of strategic alliances on competitiveness of private colleges in Nakuru town. The study was grounded upon the Theory of Evaluation, Resource Based View Theory and the Resource Dependence Theory. This study adopted descriptive design. The target Population of the study consisted of six colleges. The study, being census, was conducted at Nairobi Aviation College, Tec Institute, Nakuru College of health sciences, Tracom College, Kenya Institute of Professional Counseling and Professional Studies and Lake Nakuru Hotel and Tourism Management College. Senior College management heads were targeted. Data collection instruments incorporated questionnaires, mainly structured in a 5-point Likert scale which were distributed to respondents through “drop and pick later” method. The researcher assessed the reliability and validity of data collection instruments with experts and through piloting. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression coefficients, after entering the raw data into the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The research findings indicated that strategic financial allocation, strategic expansion and strategic alliances could explain 50.7% of the variations in the dependent variable which is strategic collaborations on the competitiveness of private colleges in Nakuru town. Regression of coefficients results showed that strategic financial allocation and competitiveness were positively and significantly related (r=0.281, p=0.000), strategic expansion and competitiveness were positively and significantly related (r=0.186, p=0.000) and finally strategic alliances and competitiveness were positively and significantly related (r=0.313, p=0.000). The study may be of benefit and significant in enabling new private colleges determine whether university-college collaborations are a necessary strategy as a diversification strategy. At the end competitive advantage achieved by colleges or universities can be considered ethically and legally correct if it is beneficial for the students, parents and the society. The study recommends due attention on collaborative activities between the universities and colleges be sensitized since they can contribute to the success of future joint curriculum development project. Further research could also be undertaken between universities and industry context to understand the mechanisms by which universities transfer Research & Development knowledge in order to increase industry competitiveness and efficiency as well as overall economic and social development
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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