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The Cinder and the Furrow on the Sand: Deconstructing Organizing for an Ethics of Survivance
No full textDeconstruction has been a long-standing method used for analysing texts within the framework of a narratological tradition that underscores its discursive and linguistic nature. In contrast, we propose to understand deconstruction as a therapeutic endeavour for the ongoing revelation of repressed elements characterising organisational life, such as materiality, bodies, and Otherness. This perspective acknowledges the character of the trace as an archetypal model of textuality, a fusion of materiality and ideal that discourse analysis can only partially capture. In the organising realm, silence becomes a trace, alongside bodies, artefacts and the entirety of materiality. Viewing deconstruction as a therapeutic process also allows for exploring the repressed in terms of a différance which reveals existential interdependence. Through the process of deconstruction, we unveil the inherent and fundamental unity within differences and oppositions, thereby acknowledging our shared existence with the Other. Processing individual and collective suppressed elements inherent to organising thus lays the groundwork for an ethics of survivance finding its ideal momentum in the mortal encounter with the limits and finiteness of others
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
Performing accountability during a crisis: insights from the Italian government’s response to the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
Full text linkThis paper analyses the form that government accountability takes during a crisis. Based on 52 press conferences, declarations, and speeches made by Italian central government officials in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the paper shows that accountability was enacted, in practice, through Goffmanian performances, in three separate ways. First, performances aimed at defining the crisis, first as a situation under control, and later as an emergency. Second, performances served to allocate responsibility for ending the crisis, first to the government and then to the citizenry. Finally, performances allowed to establish a hierarchy of the values that would justify the crisis response policies – preserving access to healthcare as opposed to safeguarding other economic, individual and social interests. Variations in the elements of performances gave rise to three shifting configurations of accountability – paternalistic, political, and communal - that followed the evolution of the crisis. Collectively, the findings deepen our understanding of the role that accountability has in the justification of the crisis response policies
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
Discovering and Understanding Performance Measurement in a Context of Ambiguity
Full text linkThe objective of this chapter is to demonstrate how pragmatic constructivism (PC) can enhance our understanding of accounting in the public sector and strengthen its role, with particular reference to the issue of ambiguity. The usefulness of PC in supporting the understanding of accounting stands on its epistemological assumptions that establish a base to evaluate the validity of existing performance measurement systems in avoiding ambiguity
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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