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Proposal for a governance decision-making model in a Portuguese Public University (PPU)
No full textThe primary aim of this thesis is to establish principles for a governance decision-making model in a Portuguese Public University (PPU) and for the system which supports it. The proposed model assumes a comprehensive understanding of how the decision making process is developed in the current context of change within the Portuguese higher education system. The literature review suggests a management change in the university organization must be based upon a deep understanding of the “invisible glue” which crafts institutional cultures, strengthening traditional values such as collegiality and autonomy in a new entrepreneurial culture. This change model presumes mechanisms of systematic integration of external evaluation towards continuous improvement according to Total Quality Management models. In this case study, 30 interviews were performed at two organizational levels (University and Faculties) allowing for the characterization of the current governance model and, most importantly, to propose a governance and decision-making model based upon the critical needs of the strategic decision-makers. The study of governance and decision-making processes, when applied to PPU, makes evident the critical importance of principles such as collegiality and democratic management. The proposed governance model, empirically tested and validated, with approximately 2000 quotations structured into 5 levels, for a total of 366 codes, is based upon five integrated and inter-related sub-systems: strategic mission definition, governance, structuring of the decision-making process, decision-making support system and performance assessment systems. Finally, the model’s external validity was evaluated. First, in an attempt to evaluate its adequacy regarding TQM criteria a comparative analysis was performed with the Baldridge Education Criteria for Performance Excellence, and verified through a correspondence matrix specifically created with this purpose. Secondly, the remaining 12 PPU heads of administration were queried regarding the interest of each individual university in light of the model.</p
A case study of a certification process: the University of Coimbra
No full textThe current presentation focuses on the case study of a quality certification project implementation, in accordance with standard NP EN ISO 9001:2000. This project was implemented in the Central Support Services of a Portuguese Public University, the University of Coimbra. As a project of organisational change, which is guided towards strategic objectives to improve the internal movement of autonomic tension and Faculty decentralisation, the approach intends to reflect upon a management double perspective: at the executive management level of a project and at the level of strategic management of change
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
Formulação de estratégias deliberadas e emergentes : o contexto de incubação de empresas na Região Centro
No full textDissertação de mestrado em Gestão, apresentada à Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, sob a orientação de Margarida Mano.A concecao estrategica tem sido objeto de estudo em diferentes perspectivas:
enquanto processo na mente do decisor, na sua roupagem estritamente formal e mais
recentemente, assente em praticas informais. Muitas questoes envolvem a forma
como o processo de concecao estrategica se desenrola em diferentes contextos,
nomeadamente em contextos especificos de inovacao como e o caso incubacao de
empresas, conjugando profissionalismo, hipercompetitividade e a necessidade de
assegurar elevadas taxas de sobrevivencia empresarial.
O presente estudo interessa-se em perceber como ocorre a formacao de estrategias
em empresas incubadas, analisando a relevancia do formalismo e planeamento face a
estrategia que emerge das circunstancias empresariais. Pretende-se tambem, a partir
da observacao dos gestores dessas organizacoes, estudar como estes compreendem
conceptualmente a estrategia e como esta e afetada pela realidade de incubacao.
Para atingir tais objetivos, este estudo, de cunho descritivo-exploratorio, recorreu
inicialmente a uma investigacao participante que fundamentou o posterior
desenvolvimento do questionario junto a uma amostra de 52 empresas pertencentes
as incubadoras de base tecnologica da Regiao Centro em Portugal.
A analise dos resultados evidencia que a estrategia que emerge informalmente
aparece enquanto dominante no processo de formacao estrategica nas empresas
incubadas, mesmo diante de recursos e conhecimento que viabilizariam a existencia
de uma estrategia de natureza mais deliberada. Em contraponto, o conceito
predominante na mente dos estrategas remete a ideia formal de estrategia enquanto
plano. Regista-se a influencia positiva da assistencia e monitorizacao, bem como dos
recursos oferecidos pela incubadora na formulacao deliberada de estrategias e
tambem a relacao positiva do network com a concecao de estrategias emergentes
A autorregulação a partir dos resultados da avaliação interna e externa de uma organização escolar
No full textDissertação de mestrado em Educação (Gestão da Formação e Administração Educacional) apresentada à Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbr
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