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The relationship of cement consumption and economic growth : an updated approach
Full text linkPurpose: This research aims to make an update how much volume of cement is needed for Indonesia, to disclose cement consumption for Indonesia and the relationship between cement consumption and several variables as inflators that influence cement consumption. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology used is regression analysis and descriptive analytics. The data period taken is primarily within the period of 2010-2018, but cement consumption and other variable inflators have been assessed within a longer period of 2007-2018. Findings: The findings are that national economic growth as inflator for cement consumption is no longer proven as by nature to develop robust models but must access of more than one predictor. Based on findings, by calculating cement consumption based on real consumption at every project are better than rely-on national economic growth. Practical implications: The recent model of cement consumption has been no longer as the inflator of economic growth and vice versa. An update for the cement consumption is urgently needed. Economic growth is no longer a predominantly inflator for the cement consumption. There is no obligation to consume more cements in purposing to drive economic growth. Originality/value: This research has been developed by the author from yearly observations and experiences at the cement sector in Indonesia.peer-reviewe
A failure innovation strategy of acquisition during excess capacity: Financial approach based on case study at the state-owned cement holding PT Semen Indonesia (Persero) Tbk
No full textThis research aims to prove that wide gap between theories and practices in terms of acquisition that should be positive to drive performance of the acquirer but the distinctive things happened in Indonesia was not according to the preliminary design planned. The failure acquisition of Semen Indonesia (SMGR) over Holcim Indonesia (SMCB) in 2018 due to what had been done during excessive capacity should be priority to strengthen interns than acting to intervene outside. This study elaborates a case study, mixed-type research, and presents by explanatory design. It comes to find that acquisition during excess capacity is a failure step taken by PT Semen Indonesia (Persero) Tbk. Many corporate steps are taken to a polish performance of the SMCBacquiree but so far failing and endangering the whole performance. To compensate and withhold the climb-down due to oversupply, the management engineering of market intervention had been done. Big portions of market's regions previously belong to SMGR had been handed over to SMCB to help increase its performance. The forced switching to polishing SBI's performance is hurting all of the holding's members. SBI enjoys improving market but at the same time endangers the performance of the whole groups of holdings. This research contributes to updating the present development of recent corporate actions of popular merger and acquisition are both previously labeled as the best corporate strategy for decades
Claiming Incentive Logistics at the Heavy 4th Tuban Cement Project in Indonesia: a Practical Guidance
Full text linkThis practical research aims to be guidance for investors who intend to claiming projects' incentives offered by Indonesia's government. Many of them failed to claim such incentives due to lack documents fulfillment since preparation, they mostly unaware, when it needed just realized requiring many revisions and finally came to end-rejection. Scope of this paper is in Indonesia for investors who are in preparation-stage to do project investments. It comes to conclude that remodeling logistics' execution can successfully reduce to only 7% of logistics costs or far below than Doing Business' finding. Methodology applied was changing Incoterms to be free on board (FOB) instead of cost and freight (CFR)
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
Economic Foreign Logistics Cost Analysis at the Cement Project of Pt Semen Indonesia
Full text linkCement is primarily product to build massif infrastructure while Indonesia was experiencing shortage of production last decade. Due the situation, cement projects were rampant in period 2008-2015 to anticipate further surprise demand. However to build a new cement plant is quite difficult due to high cost of logistic. In this paper, four projects of Indonesia state’s owned Semen Indonesia at Java and outside Java were examined to explore total logistic cost contributed by sea freight and domestic section. According this research total logistic cost came from foreign source was 6.464% while domestic contribution was 1.363% against total investment cost; however limitation of infrastructure contributes 27,129% against domestic path. Key Words: Cement, Logistics, Project, Foreign, Domesti
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
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