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Management control in Moroccan universities: an exploratory study
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After having been the prerogative of industrial and commercial companies in the 1980s, management control has spread to other fields in order to pursue the same objective: supporting organizations in the management of their performance. However, research that has studied management control in new domains has demonstrated the difficulty of establishing itself in these domains. Among these domains, we mention the public sector and more particularly universities or higher education institutions. The factors that can block the implementation of management control are many and depend on the context in which universities are operating. Some factors may be exogenous and therefore linked to the external environment, while others may be endogenous, linked to management systems, the human factor, strategy or culture.
This article examines these factors (whether endogenous or exogenous) in the Moroccan context, in Moroccan universities. This is a qualitative study whose objective is to study how management control is practiced in Moroccan universities and what are the elements that can make its implementation difficult.
Keywords : Management control, Performance, University
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
Le Nouveau Management Public au Maroc, quels apports ?
No full textLes organisations publiques, y compris les universités, ont fait preuve, pendant longtemps, d'énormes déficiences. A partir des années 80, l'amélioration de leur performance est donc devenue un enjeu majeur faisant appel à certaines réformes de la gestion publique regroupées sous l'expression du " Nouveau Management Public" ou la "nouvelle gestion publique". Il s'agit d'une nouvelle approche importée du secteur privé devant permettre de dépasser les défaillances, en termes de performance et de rendement, que connaît le secteur public. L'ère du Nouveau Management Public (NMP) a commencé en mobilisant les réformes britanniques et américaines comme un phénomène ou un mouvement unifié qui a ensuite été exporté dans le monde entier. L'esprit du Nouveau Management Public est d'apporter de nouvelles notions comme l'efficacité, l'efficience et la pertinence. En d'autres termes, développer une culture de performance et d'évaluation dans le secteur public. Cependant, et après 30 ans, le NMP soulève aujourd'hui, la question de son utilité et son apport à l'organisation publique. Dans le contexte marocain, certaines réformes ont été entreprises en s'inspirant des apports du NMP. A travers cette communication, nous essayerons, dans une première partie de présenter une analyse historique du Nouveau Management Public de façon globale. Nous présenterons également une revue sur les apports et les principes de ce Nouveau Management Public. Dans une deuxième partie, nous procéderons à une réflexion sur les réformes entreprises au Maroc dans le cadre du Nouveau Management Public
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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