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The gamified workplace: managing the geographically dispersed workforce
No full textThe world economy has made it difficult for businesses to survive due to which they create global teams to address strategic issues. These teams use tools such as emailing, videoconferencing and knowledge management systems to access a wide range of human resources worldwide. They provide low-cost customer entry by operating across time zones 24/7. Gamification can be a powerful technique for creating diversity at work. Having a geographically diverse workforce is necessary for organizations doing business globally that want to reach new markets and foster a culture of excellence. It encourages creativity, innovation, and access to different skills, expertise, and experience which provides a competitive edge. This also applies when companies are involved in joint ventures, alliances or mergers. This chapter attempts to review the gamification literature to find appropriate strategies as well as principles for addressing the challenges of managing geographically diverse teams. We bring in the industry perspective by providing examples of some of the practices of using gamification to understand the structural dynamics of managing global teams
Nudging customer-centricity: A case for entrepreneur’s perspective-taking
Full text linkThe customer is the final, arguably the most pertinent, judge of entrepreneurial ideas. In this dissertation, I underscore the importance of customer-centricity in the new venture ideation process. An entrepreneur endeavoring to generate venture outcomes that are novel, useful, and suitable for adoption by the customer must use the customer’s perspective as a yardstick in such determination. Accordingly, in the first essay, I introduce two kinds of perspective-taking and assess their impact on the quantity and quality of new venture ideas the entrepreneur generates. I also integrate regulatory focus theory with perspective-taking and assess the impact of promotion focus and prevention focus at the idea generation and idea selection phase. To test my hypotheses, I deploy a scenario-based randomized experiment with a multi-group between-subject design and perform a replication study. In the second essay, I endeavor to simultaneously assess the antecedents and outcomes of perspective-taking in the entrepreneurial context. Hence, I integrate the agency-communion model of narcissism and the narcissistic admiration and rivalry concept to underscore the impact of communal narcissism, narcissistic admiration, and narcissistic rivalry on the quality of new venture ideas. I highlight how these different forms of narcissism directly, and through their association with perspective-taking, influence the quality of new venture ideas. I deploy a cross-sectional design and perform a replication study to test my hypotheses. Overall, by making a case for customer-centricity in entrepreneurship, this dissertation has implications for entrepreneurship research and practice
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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