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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
Experiences and Organisational Contributions of South-Asian Women to Social Enterprises in New Zealand
No full textThe South-Asian diaspora has significance in the historic and social context in New Zealand. At present Asians are the third largest ethnic group in New Zealand (Statistics New Zealand, 2013). The social enterprises sector is one of the fastest growing sectors in New Zealand (Dart, 2004; Ministry of Economic Development, 2011). A growing body of literature emphasises the challenges faced by South-Asian diasporic women who have migrated across the world to acquire improved living conditions for themselves and their families (ILO & ADB, 2011). The experiences of South-Asian diasporic working women and understanding the organisational contributions made by them to social enterprises have remained relatively unexplored in organisational studies literature (Kim, 2011), so literature on this topic is limited and the lack of literature establishes a theoretical gap (Brah, 1993; Parreñas, 2001; Piper & Roces, 2003). The purpose of this research is to address this gap and to explore the experiences and organisational contributions of South-Asian diasporic women working in New Zealand social enterprises.
This qualitative research adopted a subjective approach under an interpretive paradigm with individual women as the unit of analysis. The study addresses the primary research question: ‘how do South-Asian working women contribute to social enterprises in New Zealand?’ and two sub-questions: ‘what challenges (if any) did the South-Asian women face in making these contributions?’ and ‘how did these women navigate these challenges?’ Findings are based on in-depth interviews with South-Asian women employees and their managers from three Auckland-based social enterprises. The study employed the thematic analysis method and revealed six themes for organisational contributions and four themes for experiencing and navigating challenges by South-Asian diasporic women. This study brings a positive and constructive dimension to the study of South-Asian women by highlighting their organisational contributions to New Zealand social enterprises
Coping With Fear of Failure: Experiences of Young Start-up Entrepreneurs
No full textFear of failure was studied in the field of psychology for more than 60 years before it was studied in other fields such as education, sports and entrepreneurship. In previous entrepreneurship research, fear of failure was often reported as a barrier that prevented individuals from starting up businesses. There is limited research on the experience of fear of failure across various stages of the entrepreneurship process such as the pre-start-up and early phase of the venture, particularly among young entrepreneurs. Thus, this thesis aims to explore fear of failure experiences among young start-up entrepreneurs who started their ventures within the past one to three years in the specific country context of Cambodia.
The key question that guided this thesis was “How do young entrepreneurs experience and cope with fear of failure in the context of new venture start-ups?”. This thesis employed a qualitative method to explore fear of failure experiences among young start-up entrepreneurs in Cambodia. The interviews were conducted with ten young entrepreneurs aged 25 to 32 years who had launched their businesses within the past one to three years.
The research findings revealed the two main sources of fear of failure, related to societal pressures and fear of challenges in business. The findings further provided a more nuanced picture of both the negative and positive effects of fear of failure, which had rarely been explored in previous research. Those negative and positive effects were seen in the form of altered business activities and decisions, and personal well-being, feelings and emotions being impacted. Interestingly, the findings provided initial empirical evidence of a range of strategies and behaviours of coping with fear of failure. Three main categories of coping were: planning, managing, and seeking support; self-management for mental and physical health; and purpose and meaning of the start-up
“Mudalalis” in Business and Society: A Critical Examination of Sri Lankan Entrepreneurs
No full textWe live in a world where we formulate different social identities and get evaluated by different social groups and societal stakeholders. In such a socially embedded world, stigma and legitimacy play important roles in business and privately. Stigma and legitimacy are complex, multi-level social constructs where social norms, beliefs, and values play a major role in their formation. In business contexts, they also influence the success and failure of entrepreneurs and their ventures in powerful ways by providing the foundation for the level of trust and acceptance between entrepreneurs and the other major stakeholders, like investors, customers, suppliers, and government regulators. Trust becomes crucial in overcoming the liabilities of newness, gaining access to limited resources, securing a reputation in the market, creating strategic partnerships, and ensuring long-term business viability. Despite their importance, management scholars observe an interesting paradox in the stigma-legitimacy relationship and their interplay. One group of management scholars posits that stigma and legitimacy exist on a single continuum – with legitimacy corresponding to a lack of stigma and the existence of illegitimacy. The other group suggests that stigma and legitimacy occupy two independent continuums. The single-continuum view suggests that both cannot coexist; if actors increase one, the other decreases. The view of two different continua, however, posits that stigma and legitimacy can coexist in an interdependent way, based on the audience or context. This theoretical tension and the highly socially embedded and contested nature of entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka represent the focal point of my PhD research.
As I am Sri Lankan, I have decided to conduct my study in the emerging South Asian context of Sri Lanka, where entrepreneurs are typically referred to as Mudalalis. The indigenous term Mudalali carries a negative connotation, implying a ‘money lover’ and contributing to the stigmatization of Sri Lankan entrepreneurs, which is not a desired career path in Sri Lanka, contrary to many other emerging markets. Such stigmatization significantly impacts the actions and behaviours of Sri Lankan entrepreneurs as a mainstream social group (not a marginalized minority group), posing challenges to their long-term survival in the market. However, the situation also creates a unique space for entrepreneurship researchers to explore the intersection of stigma and legitimacy against the backdrop of religion and colonial history. Since the legitimization of stigmatized mainstream groups has not been widely studied in the entrepreneurship literature, my study has particular theoretical significance.
Positioned within the interpretive paradigm, I have employed a qualitative thematic analysis to understand the sources and types of Sri Lankan entrepreneurs’ stigma, their stigma mitigation strategies, ways in which they seek to legitimize themselves in the eyes of the general public and on specific legitimacy-building mechanisms Sri Lankan entrepreneurs employ as individual, for their ventures, and collectively as a social group. Employing elite informant interviews, I have collected data from 30 Sri Lankan entrepreneurs. I present my findings in two empirical papers, one focusing on the relationship between stigma and legitimacy (i.e., Paper 1) and the other focusing on legitimacy and the micro-macro translation of legitimacy-as-perception (i.e., Paper 2). The study in Paper 1 employs an abductive qualitative approach. The findings draw on stigma sources and mitigation strategies proposed by Zhang et al. (2021), exploring both the relational nature of stigma and its multiple levels (Aranda et al., 2023). The findings reveal novel insights into the social identity stigmatization of mainstream entrepreneurs, highlighting various sources (i.e., moral, associational and tribal stigma) and characteristics of stigma (i.e., centrality, disruptiveness and malleability). My findings also point to specific strategies Sri Lankan entrepreneurs use to mitigate the stigma associated with their social identity. These strategies include strategies, like, boundary management, dilution, reconstruction, and emotional work – collectively reflecting the complex and multi-level nature of entrepreneurial stigma where social cognition plays an important role against the backdrop of specific institutional logics (i.e., religion, profession and the market) and colonial history.
The second empirical paper explores the multi-level nature of the entrepreneurial legitimacy of Sri Lankan entrepreneurs. Employing the less studied legitimacy-as-perception perspective introduced by Suddaby et al. (2017), the paper examines the multi-level nature of entrepreneurial legitimacy, and the cross-level effects of their associational stigma linked to Mudalalis. The qualitative thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with 30 Sri Lankan entrepreneurs reveals novel insights into the entrepreneurial legitimation processes at the individual, firm, and collective levels. Perhaps most importantly, it shows how Sri Lankan entrepreneurs use their ventures as vehicles for external social legitimation, not just internal self-identity and self-esteem. Furthermore, my findings also point to an agent-object duality within the process of entrepreneurial legitimation at individual, firm and collective levels, again driven by multi-level socio-cognitive mechanisms. In pursuing social legitimacy, Sri Lankan entrepreneurs engage in three important legitimacy-building mechanisms across all three levels, namely, differentiation, symbolism and distancing. While being stigmatized through their association with Mudalalis, Sri Lankan entrepreneurs also at the same time also perpetuate the stigma against the Mudalalis, thus acting as both victims and perpetrators of the social stigma of the Mudalalis
Experiences and Organisational Contributions of South-Asian Women to Social Enterprises in New Zealand
No full textThe South-Asian diaspora has significance in the historic and social context in New Zealand. At present Asians are the third largest ethnic group in New Zealand (Statistics New Zealand, 2013). The social enterprises sector is one of the fastest growing sectors in New Zealand (Dart, 2004; Ministry of Economic Development, 2011). A growing body of literature emphasises the challenges faced by South-Asian diasporic women who have migrated across the world to acquire improved living conditions for themselves and their families (ILO & ADB, 2011). The experiences of South-Asian diasporic working women and understanding the organisational contributions made by them to social enterprises have remained relatively unexplored in organisational studies literature (Kim, 2011), so literature on this topic is limited and the lack of literature establishes a theoretical gap (Brah, 1993; Parreñas, 2001; Piper & Roces, 2003). The purpose of this research is to address this gap and to explore the experiences and organisational contributions of South-Asian diasporic women working in New Zealand social enterprises.
This qualitative research adopted a subjective approach under an interpretive paradigm with individual women as the unit of analysis. The study addresses the primary research question: ‘how do South-Asian working women contribute to social enterprises in New Zealand?’ and two sub-questions: ‘what challenges (if any) did the South-Asian women face in making these contributions?’ and ‘how did these women navigate these challenges?’ Findings are based on in-depth interviews with South-Asian women employees and their managers from three Auckland-based social enterprises. The study employed the thematic analysis method and revealed six themes for organisational contributions and four themes for experiencing and navigating challenges by South-Asian diasporic women. This study brings a positive and constructive dimension to the study of South-Asian women by highlighting their organisational contributions to New Zealand social enterprises
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