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Risk-Bearing Capacity in the Risk Management Process: Concept and practical Application of a KPI-based Scoring System for Analysis of Family Farms
No full textAs risk management has gained in importance it has become a focal issue in research, literature, and agricultural consulting. Existing concepts, however, more or less left aside the aspect of (monetary) risk-bearing capacity, that is to say the financial resilience of agricultural holdings although it clearly impacts the risk assessment as such and especially the selection of appropriate tools to effectively manage risks (and opportunities). This text links the traditional four-tier approach to systematize the process of risk management (risk identification, assessment, management, and control) to a method of defining (by oneself) the risk-bearing capacity that can be applied in agricultural practice by farm managers. Here, the usual way of presenting the risk portfolio is used. The method is based on concise figures taken from the annual accounts of the business. In this text 8 key indicators are discussed that provide reliable insight into the financial viability of a business enterprise from the risk perspective. These indicators are used in practice and take account of both business and private elements in family farms. The practicality of the concept is confirmed by a transregional analysis of case studies and is validated on the basis of the extensive database covering the network of test farms run by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). Model calculations for one arable farm, one specialised pig fattening farm and one dairy farm plus one "Verbundbetrieb" (farm with standard contribution margin between 50 and 75 percent of the business branch) complete the picture. They also demonstrate practical solutions for risk management that are a useful complement to existing approaches to manage risks
Risk-Bearing Capacity in the Risk Management Process: Concept and practical Application of a KPI-based Scoring System for Analysis of Family Farms
No full textAs risk management has gained in importance it has become a focal issue in research, literature, and agricultural consulting. Existing concepts, however, more or less left aside the aspect of (monetary) risk-bearing capacity, that is to say the financial resilience of agricultural holdings although it clearly impacts the risk assessment as such and especially the selection of appropriate tools to effectively manage risks (and opportunities). This text links the traditional four-tier approach to systematize the process of risk management (risk identification, assessment, management, and control) to a method of defining (by oneself) the risk-bearing capacity that can be applied in agricultural practice by farm managers. Here, the usual way of presenting the risk portfolio is used. The method is based on concise figures taken from the annual accounts of the business. In this text 8 key indicators are discussed that provide reliable insight into the financial viability of a business enterprise from the risk perspective. These indicators are used in practice and take account of both business and private elements in family farms. The practicality of the concept is confirmed by a transregional analysis of case studies and is validated on the basis of the extensive database covering the network of test farms run by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). Model calculations for one arable farm, one specialised pig fattening farm and one dairy farm plus one "Verbundbetrieb" (farm with standard contribution margin between 50 and 75 percent of the business branch) complete the picture. They also demonstrate practical solutions for risk management that are a useful complement to existing approaches to manage risks
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
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