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Managing Transport Safety in the Context of Global Competition, 2016
No full textThis project focus on the consequences of internationalizing on transport safety and measures to maintain transport safety under internationalizing. The public debate around the possible safety consequences of internationalization and increased competition is highly politicized. The aim of this project was to generate research-based knowledge of the consequences of this development. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews. For further information about ”Managing Transport Safety in the Context of Global Competition, 2016”, please contact the principal investigator
Paradoxes of power: Dialogue as a regulatory strategy in the Norwegian oil and gas industry
Get PDFThis paper explores how the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway applied dialogue as a key feature in the regulatory strategy and practice over a ten-year period from 2009 to 2019. The analysis, drawing on theories on regulation and sensemaking, explores power relations and identity construction in encounters between the regulator and regulatees. The data material comprises texts from web-sites, documents, investigation reports and focus group interviews. We conclude that the dialogue is embedded with paradoxes, infused with power, yet functions as a potent policy instrument. The power base of the regulatory authorities partly depends on enterprises’ and the industry’s need for a good reputation. We expand the theoretical framework by highlighting paradoxes of power and introducing the concepts of ‘sensesharing’ and ‘conditional sensegiving’
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
Dialogue in asymmetrical power relations - Modern safety regulation?
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to explore power, sensemaking and identity construction within a regulatory regime in the petroleum industry that emphasises dialogue and trust as a desired and prioritised mode of working. Based on a qualitative study, the analysis documents that dialogue becomes an arena for sensemaking among unequals, and that the regulator employs the process of identity construction as a means to promote regulatory compliance.acceptedVersionThis is an [Accepted Manuscript] of an article published by Taylor & Francis in [Prevention of Accidents at Work: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Prevention of Accidents at Work (WOS 2017), October 3-6, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic] on [25 September 2017], available at https://doi.org/10.1201/978131517757
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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