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From palm to kepayang oil: addressing structural power asymmetries between ‘Outsiders’ and ‘Insiders’ in the transition to sustainable farming practices
No full textBalancing "protective disguise" with "harmonious advocacy": social venture legitimation in authoritarian contexts
No full textThis paper seeks to advance understanding of how new social venturescan gain legitimacy in authoritarian contexts. Through a study of a newdisability rights organization in post-revolutionary Egypt, we theorizehow authoritarianism poses distinct challenges for social ventures thatrequire different legitimation strategies than those commonly reported inthe literature. Specifically, we use our case study to build a theoreticalmodel that suggests social ventures need to achieve optimal assimilationby balancing protective disguise with harmonious advocacy. By explicitlytheorizing social venture legitimation in authoritarian contexts, weadvance the budding literature on social venture legitimation that has sofar predominantly considered legitimation in more democratic contexts.Moreover, our study shows that organizational legitimacy may need tobe conceptualized differently when examining social ventures—andindeed other forms of organization—in authoritarian regimes
Intermediated legitimation: how founders build new venture legitimacy among make-or-break audiences
No full textMany new ventures enter relationships with intermediaries, thereby ceding control to an organization that becomes a make-or-break audience for them. These settings foster intense experiences, suggesting that participating founders are likely to face a distinct set of challenges as they seek to build their venture’s legitimacy. Yet we lack a systematic analysis of new venture legitimation processes in the context of this critical audience type. To build new understanding of these important dynamics, we conducted an ethnographic study of three ventures in an Australian accelerator. Our study reveals three distinct legitimation pathways that ventures may follow when seeking legitimacy from a make-or-break audience—the obedient, pragmatic, and rebellious paths. We find that these pathways are jointly shaped by the expectations of the audience, the emotional experiences of founders, and founders’ reactions to these emotions in the context of perceived venture performance. We contribute to organizational scholarship by identifying a novel set of new venture legitimation pathways that incorporate emotion, conceptualizing “venture work” as a distinct type of social-symbolic work designed to legitimate startups and shedding new light on the role of new venture support organizations in entrepreneurial ecosystems
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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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