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Sharing is caring for the environment: But why would managers resist shared mobility?
No full textThe debate on carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction strategies for a sustainable environment continues unabated. Thus, this study proposes and validates a model for understanding essential factors that can explain resistance to managers' bus-sharing system (MBS). MBS is a sustainability strategy where organizations have well-maintained buses to transport 10–15 managers to and from work. By drawing on an extended status quo bias theory, the study sampled and analyzed 234 responses from managers using the partial least square structural equation modeling. The results show that perceived switching benefits (PSWB) and perceived switching costs (PSWC) relate to perceived value and influence resistance to the proposed MBS. Meanwhile, managers' family/personal life conflicts and perceived prestige concerns increase the PSWC. These findings have essential theoretical implications for sustainability scholarship and inform organizations to adopt family-friendly policies to reduce resistance to MBS.Horizon Europe (HORIZON) - Sustainable Horizons - European Universities designing the horizons of sustainability (SHEs) [101071300
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
Measuring the acceptance and impact of digitalization of performance management systems: Evidence from an emerging economy in Africa
Get PDFSystémy řízení výkonnosti (PMS) v organizacích, se staly předmětem časté kritiky, která se týkala problémů spojených s jejich papírovou formou, byrokratickými mechanismy až po skutečnost, že často nepřinášejí očekávané výsledky. Ke zmírnění těchto problémů, spojených s PMS byla doporučena digitalizace. V literatuře však existuje jen málo poznatků o procesech spojených s digitalizací PMS a o faktorech, které vedou k jejímu přijetí a ovlivňují výkonnost zaměstnanců. Tato studie rozšiřuje teorii šíření inovací (IDT) a představuje výzkumný model (TOP model), čímž se snaží tuto mezeru ve zdrojích literatury minimalizovat. Model integruje technologické (T) faktory (relativní výhoda, komplexnost) z IDT s organizačními (O) faktory (digitální schopnosti firmy, podpora managementu) a osobními (P) faktory (spokojenost s prací, osobní inovativnost a postoj) s cílem predikovat schopnost přijetí digitalizace PMS organizací a její dopad na výkonnost zaměstnanců. Studie využívá metodu kombinovaného výzkumu a zahrnuje 11 rozhovorů a 492 dotazníkových šetření z ghanských bank, zdravotnických zařízení a profesionálních účetních firem. Data byla analyzována pomocí tematické obsahové analýzy a modelování strukturálních rovnic metodou parciálních nejmenších čtverců (PLS-SEM) a následně pomocí pokročilých analytických technik, jako je hodnocení kvadratických vztahů, analýza matice významnosti a výkonnosti a kvalitativní komparativní analýza fuzzy množin (fsQCA). Zjištění ukazují, že firma, která se snaží digitalizovat svůj PMS, by měla identifikovat a digitalizovat své pracovní procesy, vytvořit systém pro generování digitálních dat a databázi velkých dat a používat program umělé inteligence. Dále studie nalezla matici přijetí digitalizace PMS (PDAM) pro řízení systémových i behaviorálních problémů spojených s přijetím digitalizace PMS. Výsledky také ukazují, jakou roli hrají TOP faktory při předpovídání přijetí digitalizace PMS. Výsledky rovněž ukázaly, že TOP faktory se vzájemně kombinují a přispívají tak k objasnění rozdílů v přijímání PMS a výkonnosti zaměstnanců. Tato zjištění, která mají důležité teoretické a manažerské důsledky, byla podrobně rozebrána v páté kapitole této práce.Several concerns about performance management systems (PMS) in organizations have been raised, ranging from their paper-based form and bureaucracy to their failure to produce desired outcomes. Digitalization has been proposed to mitigate these PMS challenges. However, scant knowledge exists in the literature about the processes involved in PMS digitalization and the factors that motivate its acceptance and impact on employee performance. To minimize this knowledge gap in the literature, this study extends the innovation diffusion theory (IDT) and proposes a research model (TOP model). The model integrates technological (T) factors (relative advantage, complexity) from the IDT with organizational (O) factors (firm digital capabilities, management support) and personal (P) factors (job satisfaction, personal innovativeness, and attitude) to predict the acceptance of PMS digitalization and its impact on employee performance. The study uses a mixed-method approach, drawing 11 interview responses and 492 survey samples from Ghana's banks, healthcare, and professional accounting firms. The data were analyzed using thematic content analysis and partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and further reinforced with advanced analytical techniques such as quadratic relationship assessment, importance-performance matrix analysis, and the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Findings indicate that a firm seeking to digitalize its PMS should identify and digitize its work processes, establish a digital data generation system and database for big data, and use an artificial intelligence program. The study also found a PMS digitalization acceptance matrix (PDAM) for managing system and behavioral issues associated with PMS digitalization acceptance. The findings also demonstrate the role of TOP factors in predicting PMS digitalization acceptance. Finally, the results show that TOP factors interact in varied combinatorial ways to explain the variation in acceptance of PMS and employee performance. These findings, which have important theoretical and managerial implications, have been fascinatingly discussed in chapter five of the study.Ústav podnikové ekonomik
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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