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Brand image benefits and satisfaction: roles of symbolic, functional, social, and experiental benefits
No full textThe aim of this study is to examine the effects of brand image benefits of symbolic, functional, social and experiential on the overall satisfaction. A survey using 400 respondents is used to measure these effects. The theoretical and statistical relationships among these constructs are developed and verified by Smart Partial least square (PLS) statistical software. Results show that symbolic, experiental, and functional benefits are significant predictor of overall satisfaction, with experiental benefits as the most important followed by functional benefits. This study provides important implications on marketing and brand positioning
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
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
Unlocking the Potential for Problem Solving Creativity through Transformational Leadership
Full text linkResearch aims: This study analyzes the influence of personal characteristics (PC), creative work environment (CWE), cognitive skills (CS), and transformational leadership (TL), on creative problem solving (CPS) in the work environment.Design/methodology/Approach: Questionnaires were distributed for data collection. The questionnaire covers aspects including personal characteristics, cognitive skills, transformational leadership, creative work environment, and problem-solving creativity. This study involved 146 respondents from various tourism service industries. Regression analysis was used to test the relationship between independent, mediated, and dependent variables using structural equation Modeling (SEM).Research finding: The study shows that transformational leadership had a positive and significant influence on creative work environments. In addition, creative problem-solving is significantly influenced by the creative work environment and cognitive skills, although there is no significant influence between creative problem solving and personal characteristics.Theoretical Contribution/originality: The theoretical contributions of these findings reinforce the importance of transformational leadership in creating work environments that support creativity and strengthen the relationship between the creative work environment and creative problem-solving and cognitive skills. Practitioners Contribution/implications: Transformational leadership development through training and development is key for organizations to ensure leaders have the necessary skills to create creative work environments. Investment in creating work environments that support creativity involves the allocation of resources and efforts for workspace structuring and innovative policy development, along with efforts to enhance their capabilities in solving problems creatively.Research limitation/implications: The study's respondents were confined to one provincial area, specifically the Special Region of Yogyakarta. Expanding the study to multiple provinces would yield more comprehensive results
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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