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Voluntary and community organizations and their changing role in interorganizational relations
No full textThe community and voluntary sector sits alongside the state sector and the private sector. As such, it is sometimes referred to as the 'third sector'. Organizations within this sector play a number of important and active roles in society. For instance, they may focus on:\ud
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• providing services to strengthen communities; \ud
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• mutual aid and self-help for members of organizations; \ud
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• policy advocacy or campaigning;\ud
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• advocacy on behalf of individuals, and;\ud
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• expressing and fostering culture and identity. \ud
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Some of these roles are either relatively new or have changed over the years. Many of them involve different types of interorganizational relations (IORs). For instance, as an advocate for change on behalf of their constituents, voluntary and community organizations (VCOs) have often formed coalitions involving a number of VCOs working together. In their role as a service provider, they have always relied on other organizations, to some extent, in terms of funding their programs. This is especially true in terms of their relationships with government agencies and/or foundations. In addition, they have often worked together with each other in order to better serve their clients. More recently, in terms of their relationships with government, they have become involved in a more active role, one in which they work alongside government agencies and other stakeholders in new forms of collaborations. \ud
While IORs are often presented as new and innovative measures it is important to be aware that interorganizational relationships and arrangements between voluntary sector organizations as well as with government have been a common feature of service delivery within this arena. Indeed, most if not all of the countries explored in this chapter (for example, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and USA) have long histories of interaction between organizations and sectors in the delivery of services and to a lesser extent the development of policy (Brinkerhoff, J. 2002; Brown and Keast 2005; Lyn 1980; Najam 2000; Perri 6 1994, 1997; Quiggan 1999). \ud
In this chapter we highlight the changing role of VCOs, with an emphasis on their role as a partner with government and others. In unpacking the changing relationships between VCOs and key stakeholders, we draw on extant literature including a suite of case studies undertaken across a number of sectors and from a range of disciplines including public administration, community and urban development, and integrated service delivery
Voluntary and community sector partnerships: current inter-organizational relations and future challenges
No full textThe community and voluntary sector sits alongside the state sector and the private\ud
sector. As such, it is sometimes referred to as the ‘third sector’. Organizations within\ud
this sector play a number of important and active roles in society. For instance, they\ud
may focus on:\ud
providing services to strengthen communities;\ud
_ mutual aid and self-help for members of organizations;\ud
_ policy advocacy or campaigning;\ud
_ advocacy on behalf of individuals; and\ud
_ expressing and fostering culture and identity.\ud
Some of these roles are either relatively new or have changed over the years.\ud
Many of them involve different types of inter-organizational relations (IOR). For\ud
instance, as an advocate for change on behalf of their constituents, voluntary and\ud
community organizations (VCOs) have often formed coalitions involving a number\ud
of VCOs working together. In their role as a service provider, they have always relied\ud
on other organizations, to some extent, in terms of funding their programmes.\ud
This is especially true in terms of their relationships with government agencies\ud
and/or foundations. In addition, they have often worked together with each other\ud
in order to better serve their clients. More recently, in terms of their relationships\ud
with government, they have become involved in a more active role, one in which\ud
they work alongside government agencies and other stakeholders in new forms of\ud
collaborations
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
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
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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