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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
Sustainability operations strategies : the impact of HRM and organisational practices on the triple bottom line
No full textL’obiettivo di questa ricerca è di studiare come la sostenibilità in termini di triple bottom line può essere sviluppata nelle strategie di operations attraverso pratiche organizzative e di gestione delle risorse umane (ad esempio teamwork, training, e coinvolgimento dei lavoratori).
Infatti le aziende di tutto il mondo stanno incontrando difficoltà a definire e implementare programmi che migliorano contemporaneamente le dimensioni ambientale, sociale ed economica e ottimizzano eventuali tarde-off. Inoltre la letteratura nell’area di operations management si è focalizzata principalmente sulla relazione tra aspetti tecnici e sostenibilità trascurando il ruolo di pratiche organizzative e di gestione delle risorse umane. Per colmare questo gap e fornire indicazioni alle aziende su come gestire complesse strategie di sostenibilità nelle operations, la ricerca si articola in tre fasi: problem setting, problem solving and problem extension.
L’obiettivo della fase di problem setting è di testare empiricamente l’impatto delle pratiche organizzative e di gestione delle risorse umane sulle performance ambientali e sociali al fine di comprendere se tali pratiche possano essere effettivamente utili per lo sviluppo di strategie di sostenibilità nelle operations. Per fare questo sono stati analizzati i dati relativi a 377 aziende partecipanti all’International Manufacturing Strategy Survey del 2009.
I risultati mostrano come le pratiche organizzative e di gestione delle risorse umane impattano sulle performance di sostenibilità. In particolare, il training ha sia effettivi positivi su performance ambientali e sociali e un’interazione positiva con i programmi sociali. Il coinvolgimento dei lavoratori e gli incentivi hanno un impatto diretto positivo sulle performance sociali. Mentre il teamwork interagisce positivamente con i programmi ambientali.
Per interpretare i risultati emersi nella prima fase della ricerca e per studiare la sostenibilità come un unico costrutto relativo a aspetti ambientali, sociali ed economici, è stata condotta la fase di problem solving. In questa fase il ruolo delle pratiche organizzative e di gestione delle risorse umane nella definizione e implementazione di strategie di operations, relative a sostenibilità ambientale, sociale ed economica, è stato studiato attraverso 11 casi di studio nel settore alimentare.
Responsabilità organizzativa (top-management commitment, team cross-funzionali e ruoli legati alla sostenibilità nelle operations) e commitment dei lavoratori (training, coinvolgimento del lavoratori e comunicazioni bidirezionali) verso la sostenibilità risultano avere un ruolo positivo.
In particolare la responsabilità organizzativa e il commitment dei lavoratori permettono di definire un set di programmi ambientali e sociali che ottimizzano i trade-off; il commitment dei lavoratori è cruciale anche nell’implementazione dei programmi mitigando possibili trade-off legati alla fase implementativa e impatta direttamente sulle performance.
Nelle fasi di problem solving e setting, sono stati analizzati solo programmi ambientali e sociali; mentre programmi strettamente legati alla dimensione economica della sostenibilità sono stati trascurati. Nella fase di problem extension, questa ultima classe di programmi è stata considerata in termini di lean manufacturing. Questo è infatti un programma ritenuto dalla letteratura fondamentale per il conseguimento di performance operative e economiche positive mentre il suo impatto sulle dimensioni ambientali e sociali è tutt’oggi dibattuto.
In particolare questa fase della ricerca si focalizza sul ruolo della responsabilità organizzativa e sul commitment dei lavoratori verso la sostenibilità nell’integrazione della lean manufacturing nelle strategie di sostenibilità. Risultati empirici sono stati prodotti attraverso la conduzione di 5 casi di studio cross-settoriali e 5 casi nel settore alimentare.
I casi mostrano che le pratiche organizzative e di gestione delle risorse umane legate alla lean manufacturing facilitano lo sviluppo della responsabilità organizzativa e del commitment dei lavoratori verso la sostenibilità. Inoltre la responsabilità organizzativa impatta positivamente sulla definizione di pratiche lean (Just-in-time, Total Quality Management and Total Preventive Maintenance) ottimizzando possibili trade-offs e integrando lean e programmi di sostenibilità. Infine il commitment dei lavoratori facilita l’implementazione di programmi lean, ambientali e sociali mitigando sfruttando possibili sinergie e migliorando le performance sfruttando la filosofia del miglioramento continuo.
In conclusione questa ricerca offre diverse implicazioni teoriche e manageriali. Il ruolo delle pratiche organizzative e di gestione delle risorse umane nello sviluppo della sostenibilità è stato empiricamente provato. Indicazioni in relazione alla configurazione di tali pratiche più efficace in termini di sostenibilità sono proposte. In particolare, la responsabilità organizzativa e il commitment dei lavoratori sono identificate come le pratiche organizzative che impattano positivamente su: i) definizione dei programmi di sostenibilità ottimizzando i trade-off; ii) implementazione dei programmi e diffusione di comportamenti più sostenibili; iii) integrazione della lean manufacturing con le strategie di sostenibilità. Responsabilità organizzativa e commitment dei lavoratori permettono infatti di bilanciare l’orientamento al breve e al lungo termine, sviluppare innovazioni e diffondere la visione di sostenibilità come triple bottom line.The aim of this research is to understand how sustainability in terms of the triple bottom line can be developed in operations strategies via Human Resource Management (HRM) and organisational practices (e.g., teamwork, training, and employee involvement). Companies are struggling to define and implement effective sustainability programs that enhance environmental, social and economic sustainability and optimise possible trade-offs. Moreover, although the operations-management literature has focused mainly on technical aspects, HRM and organisational practices may also be relevant to enhancing programs effectiveness and directly impacting sustainability. To this end, the study has been divided into three phases: problem setting, problem solving and problem extension.
The problem setting phase empirically tests whether HRM and organisational practices should be implemented to attain higher environmental and social performance and thus establishes whether these practices should be considered when developing sustainability in operations. Evidence is derived from data on 377 companies in the assembly industry that participated in the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey 2009.
The results show that some HRM and organisational practices are related to sustainability. In particular, training exerts both a direct positive effect on environmental and social performance and a positive interaction between social programs and performance. Worker involvement and incentives have a direct positive impact on social performance. Teamwork is highlighted as a relevant practice in implementing successful environmental programs.
To interpret the significant and non-significant relationships suggested in problem setting phase and sustainability in a holistic fashion, the problem solving phase explores how HRM and organisational practices might be leveraged to define and implement sustainability operations strategies in terms of the triple bottom line to optimise trade-offs. Empirical results are provided via 11 explanatory case studies in the food industry.
Organisational responsibility (top-management commitment, cross-functional teams and sustainability-related roles in operations) and worker commitment (training, worker involvement and bi-directional communications) positively impact sustainability. Specifically, organisational responsibility and worker commitment define the set of environmental and social programs, composing sustainability strategies and optimising trade-offs; worker commitment is also crucial in implementation, enhancing the effectiveness of the programs, mitigating trade-offs due to implementation, and directly impacting sustainability.
In problem setting and problem solving phases, only environmental and social programs have been considered; programs directly related to the economic and operational aspects have been excluded. However, in problem extension, the inclusion of operations-related programs is considered. Specifically, lean manufacturing has been considered the most significant program given its recognised role in increasing operational and firm performance, as well as the current discussion in the operations management literature about its impacts on environmental and social performance. This study focuses on the role of organisational responsibility and worker commitment to sustainability in achieving integration between lean manufacturing and sustainability operations strategies. Evidence was gathered from 5 cross-industry case studies and 5 case studies in the food industry.
The results show that HRM and organisational practices related to lean manufacturing facilitate organisational responsibility and worker commitment to sustainability. Moreover, organisational responsibility positively impacts the definition of lean bundles (Just-in-time, Total Quality Management and Total Preventive Maintenance) optimising trade-offs and a new set of integrated lean sustainability programs. These latter programs leverage both sustainability and operations principles to enhance overall sustainability. Additionally, worker commitment enhances implementation of the lean philosophy to positively impact the role of environmental programs in the mitigation of economic-environment trade-offs by continuous improvement. Finally, worker commitment is crucial to implementing lean bundles for positive impacts on environmental and social performance.
Thus, the research has theoretical and managerial implications. The role of HRM and organisational practices in sustainability development is empirically proven. Then, some guidance regarding configuration of HRM and organisational practices to enhance sustainability in terms of the triple bottom line in operations is provided. Specifically, organisational responsibility and worker commitment promote the following: i) definition of sustainability programs to optimise trade-offs; ii) implementation of sustainability programs to increase the effectiveness and diffusion of sustainable behaviours; and iii) integration of lean manufacturing and sustainability operations strategies.
Organisational responsibility and worker commitment are crucial to balance short and long term perspectives, enhance innovations and spread the triple bottom line view.DIPARTIMENTO DI INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE25CORSO, MARIAN
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
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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