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The Influence of Church Sponsorship on Organisational Culture in Private Universities: A Case of Nairobi, Kenya
Get PDFThis study examines how church sponsorship influences the organizational culture of private universities in Nairobi, Kenya. It explores the impact of governance involvement and material support on institutional values, leadership, and autonomy. Guided by Resource Dependence and Stakeholder Theories, a correlational research design was used. Data were collected from 215 respondents across six church-sponsored universities using structured questionnaires. Denison et al.'s (2014) Organizational Culture Survey measured organizational culture. Church sponsorship shapes university culture through governance participation and material contributions. Sponsors influence governance via board representation, policy formulation, and leadership appointments. Material support includes financial aid, infrastructure investments, and scholarships. The study evaluates how these factors contribute to institutional identity and operations. Findings reveal a moderate positive correlation between church sponsorship and organizational culture. Governance involvement (r = 0.247, p < 0.01) and material support (r = 0.265, p < 0.01) significantly enhance institutional culture. While governance input strengthens institutional identity, excessive administrative influence may threaten autonomy. Material support, particularly financial aid and infrastructure, plays a critical role in shaping university sustainability. These insights contribute to discussions on faith-based higher education governance. Strategic governance by church sponsors fosters a strong institutional culture, but direct administrative control should be minimized. Sponsors should prioritize long-term infrastructural investments aligned with institutional goals. Future research should explore mediating factors such as leadership styles to deepen understanding of faith-based university governance. Key words: church sponsorship, organizational culture, governance involvement, material support, faith-based higher education DOI: 10.7176/JEP/16-5-18 Publication date: May 30th 202
The Influence of Church Sponsorship on Organizational Culture in Private Universities: A Case of Nairobi, Kenya
No full textThis study examines how church sponsorship influences the organizational culture of private universities in
Nairobi, Kenya. It explores the impact of governance involvement and material support on institutional values,
leadership, and autonomy. Guided by Resource Dependence and Stakeholder Theories, a correlational research
design was used. Data were collected from 215 respondents across six church-sponsored universities using
structured questionnaires. Denison et al.'s (2014) Organizational Culture Survey measured organizational culture.
Church sponsorship shapes university culture through governance participation and material contributions.
Sponsors influence governance via board representation, policy formulation, and leadership appointments.
Material support includes financial aid, infrastructure investments, and scholarships. The study evaluates how
these factors contribute to institutional identity and operations. Findings reveal a moderate positive correlation
between church sponsorship and organizational culture. Governance involvement (r = 0.247, p < 0.01) and
material support (r = 0.265, p < 0.01) significantly enhance institutional culture. While governance input
strengthens institutional identity, excessive administrative influence may threaten autonomy. Material support,
particularly financial aid and infrastructure, plays a critical role in shaping university sustainability. These
insights contribute to discussions on faith-based higher education governance. Strategic governance by church
sponsors fosters a strong institutional culture, but direct administrative control should be minimized. Sponsors
should prioritize long-term infrastructural investments aligned with institutional goals. Future research should
explore mediating factors such as leadership styles to deepen understanding of faith-based university governance
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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