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Managing on the edges in public sector organizations. Multilevel governance implications
Get PDFThe object of analysis of this doctoral thesis is the managerial dimension of multilevel governance. The research, composed by three papers aims to pass in a gradual way through different stages of methodological knowledge. Indeed, the perspectives chosen are grounded in three streams of thought: Positivism, Realism and Critical Realism. The typology includes a literature review, a quantitative and a qualitative analysis. The mechanisms observed are: multilevel governance (MLG), inter-governmental relations (IGR) and the translation of programmes of government (Rose and Miller, 1992). The first work ‘A managerial vision on multilevel governance and inter-governmental relations: a literature review’ focuses on the literature highlighting the managerial mechanisms of MLG. In particular, it explores the overlapping definitions between MLG and IGR and the existence of performance indicators. The methodology (mainly grounded in the positivist stream of thought) relies on PRISMA, Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (www.prisma-statement.org). This uses systematic methods to identify relevant researches throughout 27-item checklist and a four-phase flow diagram. The second work ‘Do temporary incentives to inter-municipal cooperation work?’ analyses whether temporary financial incentives to municipal cooperation lead to lasting outcomes. The outcomes are represented by the institutionalization of this cooperation typology. In particular, the paper analyses some possible variables that induce the consolidation of Inter – Municipal Associations. The methodology (mainly grounded in the philosophical school of Realism) refers to Realist Evaluation. The third work ‘Anti-corruption as a programme of government’ concerns the programmes of government and their translation processes through managerial instruments with particular attention to anti-corruption programme of government. The methodology combines ontological realism and epistemological subjectivism, relevant perspective in Critical Management Studies
Anti-corruption as a programme of government : between centres of calculation and local practices.
No full textThis paper looks at government programmes and their implementation through managerial translations. It considers anti-corruption measures and analysis how the translation mechanism of such a government programme works. In particular, what are the managerial tools that sustain its enactment? The first and conceptual section outlines the contribution of an interdisciplinary approach to managerial literature. It deals with the moral issue, as part of moral concerns that support political rationalities, and highlights its relation with the development of an anti-corruption discourse and its “industrialization”. The documental analysis focuses on the translation mechanism from international settings to national level with particular attention to the enactment of Italian Law No. 190 in November 2012. The main results show a progressive introduction of managerial measures to fight corruption translated from international governance standards, in a period of economic crisis and national political de-legitimation
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
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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