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A pathway to a vital labour movement in China?: a case study of a union-led protest against Walmart
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"Workplace Social Support, Adjustment, and Motivation of Chinese Rural Migrant Workers"
No full textUsing data drawn from a cross-organizational sample of 632 Chinese rural migrant workers (CRMWs), the authors examine the relationships between workplace social support and two common measures of worker motivation: turnover intention and work engagement. Taking a context-sensitive approach the authors identify three sources of workplace social support for CRMWs: Laoxiang (native-place fellows) coworkers, local coworkers, and supervisors. Further, drawing on social psychological perspectives the authors propose adjustment, a variable that crosses work and life domains, as a new mechanism through which workplace social support links with worker motivation. Finally, by viewing workplace social support as social capital and applying social network analysis to the institutional and cultural context surrounding CRMWs, the authors hypothesize on the relative importance of different sources of workplace social support to CRMWs’ motivation (in descending order): Laoxiang coworkers, supervisors, and local coworkers. Results of multilevel analysis largely support these hypotheses. The authors discuss theoretical and practical implications of these findings and suggest directions for future research
Third-party reactions to supervisory mistreatment: a multilevel moderated mediation model
No full textIntegrating a relational perspective with recent theoretical development on third parties’ moral emotions, we developed a multilevel moderated mediation model that explained why and how third parties reacted to supervisory mistreatment of their coworkers and what factor at the supervisor-level moderated their different reactions. We tested this model with three-wave survey data collected from a sample of 882 team members and 109 team leaders. The results showed that third parties, who received favorable treatments from the exchange relationship with victimized coworkers, would feel morally guilty for supervisory mistreatment of their coworkers. To alleviate guilt, third parties would react to both the victim and perpetrator. In addition, supervisor’s power distance orientation had opposing cross-level moderation effects, which strengthened the positive influence of moral guilt on victim-target reaction (i.e., coworker aid), whereas weakened the positive effect of moral guilt on perpetrator-target reaction (i.e., report mistreatment to a higher-level authority). Both theoretical and practical implications were discussed
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
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