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Project practitioners in practice: an investigation of project management competency in the oil and gas sector.
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to critically examine project management competency requirements from the perspectives of practitioners in the oil and gas industry. Furthermore, the study will explore how project managers enter the profession and how they acquire the competencies required to practice. The research will also explore whether the APM competency framework adequately reflects the role of practicing project managers. The study used both practice theory and career theory as a lens to explore the socially constructed nature of project management and give insight into how project managers develop themselves and their careers. The research takes a social constructionism approach and employs a qualitative methodology. Data has been gathered through semi-structured interviews with project management practitioners in the oil and gas sector to explore practitioner's concepts of competence and explore their route into the profession and project managers use their experience to build their careers. The findings suggest that rather than being an accidental profession there are defined routes into the profession that are established, though informal career paths. This is contrary to much of the literature that contends that one of the key challenges for project management development is the lack of career pathways. The findings of this study indicates that there is a defined path into the project management through a process of career crafting. Project management competency is achieved largely through informal learning and competency development through social learning. The findings here align with practice theory and the methods in which social networks develop and reproduce practice. The focus on social learning and interaction in practice theory where practices are developed, replicated, sustained and constantly renegotiated suggests that practice theory is valuable lens for understanding the process of project management competency development. The study also identifies a misalignment in the conceptualisation of practitioner and professional body understanding of project management competency. There is a degree of misalignment between the competencies identified by the practitioner and those outlined in the APM competency framework. The skills most highly valued by practitioners are soft skills, but also meta skills which are higher level cognitive skills which allow for the integration of skills and the ability to be flexible and apply in situational contexts. The findings indicate that competency frameworks need to be more adaptable, context specific and incorporate meta skills. This study is significant as it addresses a number of knowledge gaps in terms of project managers' career paths, competency development, key competencies and a misalignment between the current APM competency framework and project managers' perception competence. The study suggests that there are established career routes into project management and that it is not an accidental profession. This may inform how the shape and structure of project management career paths are viewed and may provide insight into developing more structured career paths for project managers. The work contributes to theoretical insights into project management by using practice theory and career theory to validate the socially constructed nature of project management
An exploration of the extent to which project management tools and techniques can be applied across creative industries through a study of their application in the fashion industry in the North East of Scotland.
Get PDFThis exploratory research took the form of a qualitative study that aims to investigate the extent to which project management tools and techniques can be effectively applied across the creative industries through a study of their application in the fashion industry in the North East of Scotland. The research uncovered challenges which could influence the transferability of project management tools and techniques in more creative industries and these include: a need to be flexible and reactive; the importance of reflecting on success and lessons learnt; and a tension between the creative and analytical mindsets. Conclusions are drawn as to the pan industry value of project management tools and techniques and it is believed that these could be adapted and their value demonstrated better in the creative industries
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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