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Health care as a worldwide concern. Insights on the Italian and Indian health care systems and PPPs from a VSA perspective
No full textPurpose – Health is a fundamental populations’ need and an integral part of the socio-economic
development of a country. However, it is required to explain the growing role of the private sectors in
addressing various health care needs. The purpose of this paper is to analyse potential contribution,
criticalities and conditions of success of public-private partnership (PPP) as a strategy to face the
complexity of nationally relevant Italian and Indian service systems.
Design/methodology/approach – The methodology is built upon the basis of the viable systems
approach (VSA) integrated with the fundamental interpretative elements of service science and
service-dominant logic to contextualize interpretation to the management of service systems
benefitting from recent advances in these research fields.
Findings – A VSA-based general framework of reference is built that is useful for analysing any
relational context in which different aims and expectations need to be harmonized to make the
collaboration effective. On the basis of this framework, first insights on Italian and Indian health care
PPPs are proposed, highlighting key elements of analysis and criticalities that may challenge a
positive conclusion on health care PPPs.
Practical implications – The implications of the study are both theoretical and practical. From a
theoretical perspective, the study contributes to the scholarly understanding of complex health care
system in Italy as well as in India with particular reference to the public-private collaboration
phenomenon. It also suggests theoretical approaches in the form of a generic VSA-based framework as
applicable. From a practical perspective, the study stimulates managers to a critical reflection about
current health care management approaches which are reflected in the adoption of PPPs solutions.
Originality/value – The paper discusses relevant worldwide decision-making challenges, such as
the equality in the populations’ access to health service, suggesting managers the way to create
conditions of consonance among the diverse stakeholders for a successful health care PPPs
Insights on Italian and Indian health care systems from VSA perspective
No full textPurpose – Health is considered to be an integral part of the socio-economic development of a country. The purpose of the paper is to analyze potential contribution, criticalities and conditions of success of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) as a strategy to face the complexity of nationally relevant Italian-Indian service systems.
Design/methodology/approach – The methodology is built upon the basis of the Viable Systems Approach (VSA) as integrated with the fundamental interpretative elements of Service Science (SS) and Service-Dominant Logic (SDL) to contextualize interpretation to the management of service systems.
Findings –PPPs appear to be an interesting solution when resources are scarce leading to a positive conclusion.
Practical implications – From theoretical perspective, the study contributes to the scholarly understanding of complex health care system in Italy and India. It also suggests a generic framework for VSA as applicable. Also from practical perspective, the study stimulates managers to a critical reflection about current health care management approaches.
Originality/value – The paper proposes a new approach to the study of health care, capable of highlighting relevant aspects of the system’s dynamics, shifting focus from its structural, objective description to its systems, subjective interpretation. The paper also discusses decision making challenges, such as the equality in the populations’ access to health service, suggesting managers to leverage on creating conditions of consonance among the diverse stakeholder for a successful health care PPPs
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
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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