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A Multi-paradigmatic Approach
No full textThe research was ontological with a practical focus and sought to contribute to an understanding of how agricultural decision support systems (DSS) entered into women's roles as farm partners on Australian family cotton farms. The case study focused on Australian women cotton growers on family farms in the Australian states of south east Queensland and northern New South Wales. Data collection was predominantly through semi-structured interviews with 32 participants during one pilot study, two main field studies as well as telephone interviews, over a period of three years. The participants were cotton growers, and cotton industry professionals, such as DSS developers, rural extension officers, researchers and educators, rural experimental scientists, and agronomists and consultants, all of whom advise cotton growers. At a recent Australian information systems conference, as first author, I presented a paper which reflected on the development and use of the pluralist research approach in the study. The authors had initially approached the study from an exclusively interpretivist perspective, viewing women's use of DSS and their roles in cotton farm management as socially constructed. However, the farm women's perceptions of the DSS as immutable, the need for cotton growers to accommodate their practices to industry targets to gain maximum benefit, and the insistence by the women that they were team members alongside their farm partners, prompted both authors to consider whether more than one research approach might be necessary to understand this complex problem. As a consequence, the main theories adopted to inform the study were structuration theory by Giddens (1984), diffusion theory by Rogers (1995), and gender relations theory by Connell (2002). Since these theories are based on opposing paradigmatic assumptions, the paper considered the problem of incommensurability between paradigms in information systems research and the possible role of structuration theory in overcoming the objective-subjective dualism. Although the authors are sensitive to issues of research rigour, the main concern of the study was in providing a relevant and useful interpretation of what was happening in the Australian cotton industry. The intention of the authors is to submit the paper to a quality journal for review. However, the existing version of the paper needs to be re-worked. The IFIP WG 8.2 workshop is a fitting forum in which to discuss the issues of theoretical pluralism and to offer suggestions as to how the paper can be progressed further.Griffith Business School, Dept of Employment Relations and Human ResourcesNo Full Tex
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
Divisibility and Duality: Rural Women and Farm Management in the Australian Cotton Industry
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"What's the Point?": Women's View of Diffusion and Duality of a Decision Support Tool in the Australian Cotton Industry
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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
'We work as a team really': Gender Homophily on Australian Cotton Farms
No full textThis paper is based on an ongoing study that looks at farm management practices by Australian women cotton growers using farm management software, most particularly an agricultural decision support system, CottonLOGIC. The study is informed through a theoretical framework of structu-ration theory as a metatheory for probing the recursiveness of farm management and technology usage, and diffusion of innovations theory as a lower-level theory for analysing software adoption characteristics. Empirical research indicates that effective information exchange flows from ho-mophilous communication. In this paper, the principles of homophily and heterophily in commu-nication networks were initially drawn from diffusion theory. The findings suggest that despite apparent gender disparities, the presence of empathy and shared goals between farming partners overrides 'gender heterophily' to become gender homophily. Therefore cotton growers are in-formed of scientific research through homophilous communication, influencing the construction and reconstruction of innovative software usage and existing farm management practices.Griffith Business School, Dept of Employment Relations and Human ResourcesNo Full Tex
A Single Case Pilot Study Exploring the Maturity of Business Intelligence Systems in the Not-For-Profit Sector
Get PDFThis paper describes a research-in-progress which is a qualitative single case pilot study of the Royal Flying Doctor Service Queensland section exploring the integration of business intelligence and sustainability in the not-for-profit sector in Australia. Preliminary findings suggest a low level of business intelligence maturity but a growing recognition of the value IT governance and a high awareness of sustainability principles
The Work Readiness of Master of Information Systems International Students at an Australian University: A Pilot Study
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