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The Indian Yearbook of Comparative Law 2020
No full textThis yearbook is a compilation of thematically arranged essays that critically analyse emerging developments, issues, and perspectives in the field of comparative law. It comprises three parts wherein the first part focuses on public law and its related issues, the second part engages with issues in the field of private law, and the third part discusses general themes in comparative law. The yearbook includes papers on comparative study between universalism and Asian exceptionalism under human rights perspective, reclaiming the German concept of the rule of law "Rechtsstaat", the Guarantee Clause in global constitutionalism, administrative justice, constitution and culture, and the category of the 'stranger' in modern legal and political thought. The Yearbook touches upon various issues, e.g., forest protection and the idea of Justice, the application of defamation law on politicians, the intersection of customary law relating to child marriage in different countries, hybrid statehoodand Buddhist nationalism. Further, scholarly work on the themes of comparative law, customary law, environmental law, and constitutional law is also highlighted. The yearbook intends to seamlessly tie together discussions on both public and private law aspects of comparative law. It encourages readers to gain a nuanced understanding of the working of the law, legal systems and legal cultures while aiding deliberations on the constituents of an ideal system of law
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
SUSTAINABILITY-ORIENTED INNOVATION CAPABILITIES IN INDONESIAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY
No full textSustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) has recently been generating considerable attention among researchers and practitioners. However, despite the growing attention, to date, research on SOI from the capability perspective is still under-explored. To follow up on this opportunity, this study aims to investigate the capabilities required to develop SOI at the firm-level in the Indonesian manufacturing industry. The key research questions proposed are related to, how do firms approach SOI, what barriers they face, and what specific SOI capabilities are needed to become a more sustainable innovator. Understanding existing firms’ SOI approach is crucial to provide a path to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Awareness of SOI barriers is also critical to develop sustainable innovative practices. Both the SOI approach and SOI barriers are pivotal to identify further the specific capabilities required to be a sustainable innovator.
The nature of this research is exploratory, considering the fact that the research on SOI from a capability perspective is still lacking, and very limited empirical data is available in emerging economies context. The data collection approach used is semi-structured interviews. Archival documentation and site visit are also used as other sources of data. In total, 33 semi-structured interviews were conducted involving 25 different firms with diverse characteristics in terms of industry and size. Data were analysed using radar charts and thematic analysis approaches, supported by visualisation of the thematic map and data structure technique. Indonesia is chosen as a context for this study, considering its status as a typical developing country that has a large market but faces enormous challenges in developing innovative and sustainability practices in firms.
The findings of this study suggest that the majority of firms studied adopted SOI with an operational optimisation approach, and no firm is found to be following systems building approach. However, firms in different transition phases between SOI approaches were identified. The prominent SOI barriers faced by firms internally was ‘lack of resources’, while externally was ‘lack of demand’ for SOI products. The findings also suggest that firms following a more advanced SOI approach face fewer barriers than firms with a basic SOI approach. Further, there was no difference in ordinary SOI capabilities between firms that followed advanced and basic SOI approaches; however, differences were found in their dynamic SOI capabilities. Firms with higher dynamic SOI capabilities have better orientation in both innovation and sustainability as well as a better integration (Intra and inter-organisational; exploitation and exploration; manufacture and end-of-use) than firms with lower dynamic capabilities. It helps them overcome various SOI barriers and adopt SOI approach at the advanced level.
This study provides noteworthy contributions to the academic literature by providing a more complete picture of SOI phenomena. It first discussing the SOI approach, then SOI barriers, and SOI capabilities. Moreover, this study also considers a balanced and holistic perspective in the analysis by involving dynamic capabilities as an overarching theoretical foundation combines with the pertinent theoretical concept in the innovation and sustainability field, including innovation management capability (IMC), natural resource-based-view (NRBV), and social resource-based-view (SRBV). The unique contributions of this study for practitioners include assisting them in understanding their SOI approach, potential SOI barriers, and specific capabilities required to develop themselves to become a more sustainable innovator. For policymakers, this study could be useful to help them in evaluating existing firms’ SOI approach as an important step to realise Indonesia’s ambition to become a more innovative and sustainable economy.
The originality of this study lies in the synthesis of SOI dimensions based on the evolution of SOI literature to present as well as based on underlying theories and concepts. More specifically, this study has introduced ambidexterity as one of the SOI dimensions that have never been used before in SOI literature. This study has also provided new evidence to enhance SOI literature in the form of discovery of the transition phase between SOI approaches that did not exist in previous conceptual frameworks. Empirical data from an emerging economy has been analysed in this study, which is still under-explored in SOI literature. In the Indonesian context, this is one of the first studies to understand SOI approaches. Lastly, the capability-based perspective in this study is a follow-up to the research direction suggested in past literature in SOI, which highlights important contributions to the SOI body of knowledge
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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