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Neue Steuerungsinstrumente - Überwindung der Bürokratie oder Bürokratie im neuen Gewand?
No full textTurbulente Unternehmensumwelten drängen auf einen Wechsel der Managementparadigmen. Im Rekurs auf Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung in Telekommunikationsbetrieben wird festgestellt, dass neue Steuerungs- und Führungsinstrumente dabei eine Schlüsselrolle spielen und sie in dieser Branche intensiv genutzt werden. Es zeigte sich jedoch, dass die Möglichkeiten, die mit diesen Instrumenten für einen nicht bürokratischen, diskursiven Koordinationsmodus und für eine Ausweitung der Beschäftigtenpartizipation entstehen, nicht ausgeschöpft werden. Hat aber Bürokratie in erster Linie nur ihr Gewand gewechselt und werden die neuen Steuerungsinstrumente überdies dazu verwendet, wirtschaftliche Risiken auf abhängig Beschäftigte zu verlagern, handelt es sich eher um einen Formwandel der Bürokratie und der Paradigmenwechsel steht noch aus
Wellness Customers and Their Needs
No full textWe present observations on wellness customers whom we interviewed in wellness hotels (N=41) and a hot springs resort (N=107) in 2009 and 2010. Among the customers interviewed, only a small number are dedicated to a “healthy lifestyle” based on continuous physical activities (for example, fitness) and the regular consumption of wellness services. For the majority, wellness is something special, a kind of self-indulgent gratification, allowing them to rest and compensating for work stress. The use of wellness services is seen as a positive programme in contrast to the consultation of medical doctors, whose behaviour is perceived as instrumental and standardized. Wellness satisfies three needs: (1) instant relaxation and the improvement of well-being; (2) the (therapeutic) interaction which accepts the client and his/her individuality thoroughly; (3) the mixture of innocuous intimacy of bodily contact, emotional care and spiritual animation. This chapter is part of the results of a study on the professionalization of wellness services in Germany (Grant 01FB08023 of the German Ministry of Research and Education), in which service providers and customers were studied. Theoretically it refers to service research, professionalization theory and symbolic interactionism
Enterprise Boundaries and Employee Representation: Deutsche Telekom and NTT Compared
Get PDFThis paper investigates how employee representation affects, and is affected by, the way corporations structure themselves. In the analytical framework employed in the paper, the structure of the corporation and national labour institutions constitute key constraints on the goals of unions and management, but their strategic choices and interactions also alter and transform those structures. This perspective attempts to reconcile classical approaches to strategy (e.g. by Chandler) with institutional or systemic accounts (e.g. by Hall and Soskice) by examining industrial relations as structured interaction. The interaction between corporate strategy and labour strategy, for instance, may give rise to an outcome other than what is predicted on the basis of existing national institutional arrangements. Our approach is therefore a less deterministic version of institutionalism, allowing scope for strategy that is rooted in the contested nature of institutional and organisational boundaries. Empirical analysis of the telecommunications sector - Deutche Telekom in Germany and NTT in Japan -- reveals that such structured interaction has led to markedly different outcomes, despite a broadly similar corporate strategy of diversification. In particular, we find that a relatively centralised managerial structure within the DT Group is matched with a decentralised works council structure and a declining presence of the unions (Verdi and IG Metall) at the DT companies, leading to a great diversity of human resource systems within the corporate group. By contrast, in Japan, despite a relatively weak position of the holding company in the NTT Group, the presence of a highly centralised NTT Union resulted in the application of a uniform human resource system for the whole corporate group.
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
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