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Outsourcing to trusts: a social exchange analysis of the employee experience
Full text linkThe outsourcing of public services often involves public sector workers transferring their employment
to a private or non-profit company, yet little is known about what this transition is like for the
employees themselves. This thesis investigates the employee experience of ‘being outsourced’ in the
public leisure sector, which is an under-researched area, and concentrates attention toward the
implications for the employment relationship. The research draws on social exchange theory as way
of conceptualising the employment relationship and henceforth explores changes to it during the
process of outsourcing. The research is primarily based on three longitudinal case studies (leisure
services outsourced to Leisure Trusts) which includes the collection of 85 semi-structured interviews.
In general, the findings suggest that the pre-transfer experience of outsourcing is likely to be a difficult
emotional process to go through, with post-transfer implications including the worsening of terms and
conditions and less than expected developmental opportunities. Yet, despite the difficulties of the
transition, the findings also challenge the notion that the longer-term post-transfer implications are ‘all
negative’ for employees, especially with regards to the quality and socioemotional side of the
employment relationship – however these latter outcomes seem to be heavily dependent on the values
and managerial style of the Leisure Trust managers, as well as any changes made to terms and
conditions.
Key Words: The Employment Relationship; Social Exchange Theory; Public Service Outsourcing;
Leisure Trusts; Critical Realis
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
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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
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