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HUVAYDONING "ROHATI DIL" DOSTONI TARKIBI
No full textUshbu maqolada Xo‘janazar Huvaydoning “Rohati dil” dostonining tarkibi, dostondagi hikoyat va rivoyatlarning ma’naviy barkamol shaxslarni kamol toptirishdagi ahamiyati haqida bayon qilinadi
Factors influencing firm’s environmental performance in Malaysia / Rohati Shafie
Get PDFThe changes in the global environmental conditions have placed great challenges to the governments, industries and societies. Business organizations are often blamed to be the sources of these environmental problems. Their role in mitigating these problems shall not be underestimated. Higher environmental performance can be translated into eco-advantage which enhances a firm’s competitiveness. Drawing from the resource-based theory, this study aimed to examine the internal and external factors influencing the environmental performance of firms certified under the ISO 14001 in Malaysia. Five hypotheses were generated by taking into consideration two internal factors (i.e. environmental policy and environmental training) and three external factors (i.e. regulatory stakeholders’ pressure, community stakeholders’ pressure and customer pressures). The total population of the study was 643 firms. Thus, this study employed census, with all the 643 firms used in the study. Five (5) face-to-face interviews and thirty (30) pilot tests from 15 firms were conducted to pretest the survey questionnaire. A total of 628 questionnaires were mailed to the respondents after excluding 15 firms from the pilot test. A total of 268 manufacturing firms responded to the questionnaires. In this research, structural equation modeling was applied to test the hypotheses. It was found that the “environmental policy”, “environmental training”, “regulatory stakeholder’s pressures” and “customer pressures” influenced the firm’s environmental performance in which “customer pressures” was found to be the dominant factor. Two novel findings included the positive impact of regulatory stakeholder’s pressure on (1) the firm’s environmental policy; and (2) the firm’s environmental training. This research provide a model to synthesize both internal (environmental policy and environmental training) and external (regulatory stakeholder’s pressure and customer pressures) constructs that influence a firm’s environmental performance. Findings from this study may motivate managers to integrate environmental agenda as the firm’s corporate strategy. The empirical results and the findings shed lights on the practitioners as to how to enhance a firm’s environmental performance through green practices incorporated in both the internal factors (i.e. environmental policy and environmental training) and external factors (i.e. regulatory stakeholders’ pressure, community stakeholders’ pressure and customer pressures). In addition, this research provides an aspiration to firms that have yet to implement EMS practices and to encourage them to be more eco-friendly
Factors influencing firm’s environmental performance in Malaysia / Rohati Shafie
Get PDFThe changes in the global environmental conditions have placed great challenges to the governments, industries and societies. Business organizations are often blamed to be the sources of these environmental problems. Their role in mitigating these problems shall not be underestimated. Higher environmental performance can be translated into eco-advantage which enhances a firm’s competitiveness. Drawing from the resource-based theory, this study aimed to examine the internal and external factors influencing the environmental performance of firms certified under the ISO 14001 in Malaysia. Five hypotheses were generated by taking into consideration two internal factors (i.e. environmental policy and environmental training) and three external factors (i.e. regulatory stakeholders’ pressure, community stakeholders’ pressure and customer pressures). The total population of the study was 643 firms. Thus, this study employed census, with all the 643 firms used in the study. Five (5) face-to-face interviews and thirty (30) pilot tests from 15 firms were conducted to pretest the survey questionnaire. A total of 628 questionnaires were mailed to the respondents after excluding 15 firms from the pilot test. A total of 268 manufacturing firms responded to the questionnaires. In this research, structural equation modeling was applied to test the hypotheses
Stakeholder’s pressures on the firm’s environmental strategy in Malaysia / Rohati Shafie and Loke Siew Phaik
Get PDFThe triple focus on “the environment”, “quality”, and “profit” has become a new business mindset motivating the
firms to achieve and sustain their competitiveness through better environmental strategy. Although firms are
motivated to do so, higher operational costs resulting from the extra prevention and clean-up costs (thus lowering
the profitability) often inhibit such willingness. This paper seeks to propose a research framework that analyzes
the stakeholder‟s pressures on a firm‟s environmental strategy. Four propositions were generated. The firm‟s
commitment to go green can significantly improve its environmental performance. The findings from a focus
group with six industry panels are included to illustrate the proposed model
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
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