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Kompetenskrav för hållbarhetsgranskning : En kvalitativ innehållsanalys av jobbannonser inom EU
No full textProblematization: Previous studies have focused on examining the competencies required of sustainability auditors through the auditor’s perspective. However, there is a gap in research when it comes to examining competence by analyzing the market and its different demands on auditors and non-auditors. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to increase understanding of the competency requirements within sustainability auditing practice and find out if there are variations in the requirements between auditors and non-auditors. Frame of reference: The section begins with the purpose of sustainability assurance and the different components of competence through the competence tree. Then previous research related to competence within sustainability assurance, structured according to the different components of competence is presented. The section ends with a review of resource-based theory, new institutional theory and the analytical model for the study. Method: The study was carried out using a qualitative method, where a qualitative content analysis was applied. The study’s sample consists of 30 job advertisements in different countries in the EU for external sustainability assurance providers, with a division into audit firms and non-audit firms. Empirical evidence and analysis: The result shows both similarities and differences in the demand for competence in education, experience, knowledge and personal characteristics. Audit firms focus strongly on business financial competence, while non-audit firms demand specific competence in sustainability areas. At the same time, the study identifies certain similarities and a certain harmonization in the industry in terms of skills in demand. Conclusions: Auditors and non-auditors require a diverse and complementary set of competencies toeffectively ensure sustainability and meet the varying needs of different businesses. Market analysis reveals that an auditor’s experience and knowledge are more crucial for sustainability assurance than previously emphasized. The study has contributed to an increased understanding of the competence required in practice for sustainability assurance based on the market’s demand.Problemdiskussion: Tidigare studier har fokuserat på att undersöka den kompetens som krävs hos hållbarhetsgranskare genom granskarens perspektiv. Dock finns det ett gap i forskningen när det kommer till att undersöka kompetensen genom att analysera arbetsmarknaden och dess olika krav på revisorer och icke-revisorer. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att öka förståelsen för kompetenskraven inom hållbarhetsgranskning och ta reda på om det finns variationer i kraven mellan revisorer och icke-revisorer. Teoretisk referensram: Avsnittet inleds med syftet för hållbarhetsgranskning och kompetensträdets innebörd. Därefter presenteras tidigare forskning om kompetensbegreppet, strukturerad enligt kompetensträdets olika delar. Avsnittet avslutas med en genomgång av den resursbaserade teorin, nyinstitutionell teori, isomorfism samt legitimitetsbegreppet, och introducerar en analysmodell. Metod: Studien har utförts med hjälp av en kvalitativ metod, där en kvalitativ innehållsanalys tillämpats. Studiens urval består av 30 jobbannonser inom olika länder i EU för extern hållbarhetsgranskning, där uppdelning är revisionsbyråer och icke-revisionsbyråer. Empiri och analys: Resultatet visar både likheter och skillnader i efterfrågan på kompetens inom utbildning, erfarenhet, kunskaper och personliga egenskaper. Revisionsbyråer fokuserar starkt på företagsekonomisk kompetens, medan icke-revisionsbyråer efterfrågar specifik kompetens inom hållbarhetsområden. Samtidigt identifierar studien vissa likheter och en viss harmonisering i branschen när det gäller efterfrågade kompetenser. Slutsatser: Revisorer och icke-revisorer kräver en mångsidig och kompletterande uppsättning kompetenser för effektiv hållbarhetsgranskning och för att möta de varierande behoven hos olika företag. Analysen av arbetsmarknaden visar att en revisors erfarenhet och kunskap är viktigare för hållbarhetsgranskning än vad som beaktats i tidigare studier. Studien har bidragit till en ökad förståelse för den kompetens som krävs i praktiken för hållbarhetsgranskning baserat på marknadens efterfrågan
Kompetenskrav för hållbarhetsgranskning : En kvalitativ innehållsanalys av jobbannonser inom EU
No full textProblematization: Previous studies have focused on examining the competencies required of sustainability auditors through the auditor’s perspective. However, there is a gap in research when it comes to examining competence by analyzing the market and its different demands on auditors and non-auditors. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to increase understanding of the competency requirements within sustainability auditing practice and find out if there are variations in the requirements between auditors and non-auditors. Frame of reference: The section begins with the purpose of sustainability assurance and the different components of competence through the competence tree. Then previous research related to competence within sustainability assurance, structured according to the different components of competence is presented. The section ends with a review of resource-based theory, new institutional theory and the analytical model for the study. Method: The study was carried out using a qualitative method, where a qualitative content analysis was applied. The study’s sample consists of 30 job advertisements in different countries in the EU for external sustainability assurance providers, with a division into audit firms and non-audit firms. Empirical evidence and analysis: The result shows both similarities and differences in the demand for competence in education, experience, knowledge and personal characteristics. Audit firms focus strongly on business financial competence, while non-audit firms demand specific competence in sustainability areas. At the same time, the study identifies certain similarities and a certain harmonization in the industry in terms of skills in demand. Conclusions: Auditors and non-auditors require a diverse and complementary set of competencies toeffectively ensure sustainability and meet the varying needs of different businesses. Market analysis reveals that an auditor’s experience and knowledge are more crucial for sustainability assurance than previously emphasized. The study has contributed to an increased understanding of the competence required in practice for sustainability assurance based on the market’s demand.Problemdiskussion: Tidigare studier har fokuserat på att undersöka den kompetens som krävs hos hållbarhetsgranskare genom granskarens perspektiv. Dock finns det ett gap i forskningen när det kommer till att undersöka kompetensen genom att analysera arbetsmarknaden och dess olika krav på revisorer och icke-revisorer. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att öka förståelsen för kompetenskraven inom hållbarhetsgranskning och ta reda på om det finns variationer i kraven mellan revisorer och icke-revisorer. Teoretisk referensram: Avsnittet inleds med syftet för hållbarhetsgranskning och kompetensträdets innebörd. Därefter presenteras tidigare forskning om kompetensbegreppet, strukturerad enligt kompetensträdets olika delar. Avsnittet avslutas med en genomgång av den resursbaserade teorin, nyinstitutionell teori, isomorfism samt legitimitetsbegreppet, och introducerar en analysmodell. Metod: Studien har utförts med hjälp av en kvalitativ metod, där en kvalitativ innehållsanalys tillämpats. Studiens urval består av 30 jobbannonser inom olika länder i EU för extern hållbarhetsgranskning, där uppdelning är revisionsbyråer och icke-revisionsbyråer. Empiri och analys: Resultatet visar både likheter och skillnader i efterfrågan på kompetens inom utbildning, erfarenhet, kunskaper och personliga egenskaper. Revisionsbyråer fokuserar starkt på företagsekonomisk kompetens, medan icke-revisionsbyråer efterfrågar specifik kompetens inom hållbarhetsområden. Samtidigt identifierar studien vissa likheter och en viss harmonisering i branschen när det gäller efterfrågade kompetenser. Slutsatser: Revisorer och icke-revisorer kräver en mångsidig och kompletterande uppsättning kompetenser för effektiv hållbarhetsgranskning och för att möta de varierande behoven hos olika företag. Analysen av arbetsmarknaden visar att en revisors erfarenhet och kunskap är viktigare för hållbarhetsgranskning än vad som beaktats i tidigare studier. Studien har bidragit till en ökad förståelse för den kompetens som krävs i praktiken för hållbarhetsgranskning baserat på marknadens efterfrågan
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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