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Female transnational entrepreneurship and smart specialization policy
No full textThis article focuses on the issue of transnational female entrepreneurs, who are currently the subject of interest by policymakers. For this purpose, an analysis of smart specialization policies used in the European Union is conducted as a way of understanding entrepreneurial behavior. In-depth interviews with female immigrant entrepreneurs in Portugal are conducted as a way of considering how diaspora networks in terms of people having the same cultural heritage can facilitate transnational entrepreneurship. Findings show that smart specialization policies can help female entrepreneurs manage their business ventures and undergo appropriate training programs. This helps with encouraging family engagement with business activities that makes use of transnational networks. In this way, increased numbers of female transnational entrepreneurs can be encouraged to create a more open and global entrepreneurial ecosystem
The Importance of E-Commerce and Customer Relationships in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textA digital transformation in the world, the purchase of products, or possible services, is just a click away through e-commerce. The online consumer is increasingly knowledgeable and demanding. That’s why in online shopping it is important to maintain the good relationship between the company and the customer. This investigation aims to study the importance of the e-commerce in the context of a COVID-19 pandemic and relationship with customers. In terms of methodology, the questionnaire was used, with the sample consisting of 306 individuals who shopped online at least once. The results show that, since the quarantine of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the individuals have started to use e-commerce more often. Data also show a positive and significant relationship between the dimensions of the e-commerce scale and the relationship with customers. It is expected that this study will contribute to the increase in the scientific knowledge of retailers, and a better identification of products purchased online, the type of actions valued by consumers, as well as the relationship of customers with the e-commerce. This knowledge can be essential for the definition and the implementation of policies and management strategies for the e-commerce platforms that enhance better organizational results.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Transforming relationship marketing: Strategies and business models in the digital age
No full textRelationship marketing builds and maintains long-term relationships with customers through value creation and delivery. This book examines the key principles of relationship marketing and online relationship marketing. It looks at three main areas of relationship marketing as understanding relationship marketing and the continuum, the drivers and scope of relationship marketing, and how organisations should restructure for successful relationship marketing in the digital context.
The book also addresses the opportunities and challenges associated with the implementation of relationship marketing in various types of organisation and suggests different effective relationship-building strategies and techniques for successful customer relationship management.No Full Tex
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
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
Encouraging female entrepreneurship in Jordan: Environmental factors, obstacles and challenges
Get PDFThe number of female entrepreneurs and their contribution to the economy is steadily rising. Yet research suggests that female entrepreneurs face more challenges and barriers than their male counterparts. This is expected to be even more prevalent in Islamic contexts, which are characterised by conservative and patriarchal societies. In this research, 254 female business students from a private and a public university responded to a questionnaire that gauges their perceptions about potential barriers to entrepreneurship in Jordan and whether the business education they are receiving helps to prepare them for future entrepreneurial activity. Our results help to form a basis on which a deeper understanding of the phenomena can be achieved through more in depth future research. Among the main environmental factors that worry potential female entrepreneurs are the weakness of Jordanian economy, lack of finance, fear of risk, gender inequality and inability to maintain a work and private life balance. Our results also show that students are really not aware of the opportunities available to them and are unable to make a proper assessment. We call on both universities and the Jordanian government to put more emphasis on practical entrepreneurial education and encouraging women to play a much more active role within the workforce
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
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