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Reflections on the measurement of organizational democracy. Conceptual, epistemological, and methodological aspects
Full text linkThis chapter does not aim to review the enormous literature accumulated so far but rather focuses
on the construct of Organizational Democracy (OD). Battilana (2018) provided a state‐of‐the‐art
discussion on OD and its related concepts, such as hierarchy, self‐management, empowerment, and
workplace democracy. Instead, this chapter has a methodological nature, attempting to propose
measures to calculate a sort of Organizational Democracy Degree (hereafter, ODD), resulting from
the combination of different variables that are supposed to vary from a minimum corresponding to
a typical large capital‐based corporation to a maximum corresponding to a small cooperative. The
lack of and need for appropriate and customized tools are, in different ways, also underlined by
Sean Geobey in Chapter 8 and Daniela Venanzi in Chapter 21. Hence, the topic does not concern
the legitimation or viability of a more democratic degree but rather how to calculate it and how to
compare different organizations in this respect. In fact, as we will see, a large cooperative could
be less democratic than its capital‐based specular form, that is, a firm of the same size working in
the same industry but not owned by external (non‐workers) owners. Furthermore, because a single
capital‐ or labor‐based firm could evolve over time toward a higher or lower ODD, it is important
to acknowledge this from many different perspectives, including those of managers, unions, policymakers,
and researchers
Determinants of Electronic Participation in Decision Making: a Case Study
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to investigate participation in decision making mediated by e-mail (e-PDM) among organisational members that are in similar hierarchical positions. Data analysis, based on an empirical research conducted in an Italian governmental agency, investigates the factors which affect the adoption of horizontal e-PDM in the workplace and to what extent this is mediated by the interplay between technology and social context. Our results suggest that social structuration of technology and social processes in organisations do have an impact on e-mail use for participative purposes, and that, along with group characteristics, leadership plays a major role in enabling work group members to increase horizontal e-PDM
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
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