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DISTINCTION BETWEEN CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS ON THE ETHICAL AND PRACTICAL LEVELS
No full textCorruption is one of the persistent problems of the societies over the years and it affects the credibility of public institutions and its ambassadors in front of the citizens and of the other related countries. This phenomenon eludes the rules, the transparency and the impersonal and impartial aspect of public actions, but, also, the responsibility for all these irregularities, being the opposite of the public integrity concept. The paper tries to investigate if the ethical principle about bribe or, extensively, about corruption is put into practice in the same way as it is ethically perceived by the citizens of nations. After this comparison and taking into consideration the results from it, the paper reveals that the national integrity systems are key factors for the corruption phenomenon and can be real solutions for this if they are well designed and well implemented at the level of public sector
Corruption and National Competitiveness in Different Stages of Country Development
No full textAbstractThe aim of this study is to analyse if competitiveness is influenced by corruption and to show the nature of this influence. Analysing the national competitiveness data from The Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013 and the data about corruption from Corruption Perceptions Index 2012, the results are expected to reveal the existence of a strong positive connection between these two indexes, corruption significantly influencing the competitiveness of a country. Also, the relation between these variables is analysed distinctively related to different stages of country development. The results of every group are revealed and discussed separately
PUBLIC INTEGRITY AND THE DIVERGENCE FROM IT
No full textPublic Integrity is one of the public sector’s essential objectives to attain. In contradiction, as a divergence from it, corruption is one of the persistent problems of the societies over years and it affects the credibility of public institutions and its ambassadors in front of the citizens and of the other related countries. All nations complain of corruption and, as it is observed in the Corruption Perception Index 2012, no country has a maximum score which shows that a country is totally clean. In this context, the study of the most important elements of the public integrity concept, the identification of what causes the divergence from it and the solutions detection become a relevant option for economic literature. In this context, the main objective of this paper is to emphasize the public integrity concept and its main aspects and to make a comparison between countries to achieve a large perspective of the world’s public integrity juncture
Different Levels of Corruption Influence on the Main Components of the Macroeconomic Environment
No full textAbstractA country that isn’t able to control and eliminate the problem of corruption suffers important losses at the economic and social wellness level. The aim of this study is to analyze if the components of the macroeconomic environment are influenced by corruption and to show the nature of this influence. Analyzing the corruption data from Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 and the data for the Government budget balance, Gross national savings, inflation, Gross general debt and Country credit rating from The Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014, the results are expected to reveal the existence of strong, but different connections between these variables
The Impact of the National Competitiveness on the Perception of Corruption
No full textAbstractCorruption is one of the persistent problems of the societies over years and it affects the credibility of public institutions and its ambassadors in front of the citizens and of the other related countries. Around the world, all nations complain of corruption and, as it is observed in the Corruption Perception Index 2012, no country has a maximum score which shows that a country is totally clean. Corruption, as a public institutions’ manner of action, will influence and affect the economical outcomes, being materialized in the decline of the national competitiveness. This is the most frequent approach in the discussion about the correlation between these two variables. Contrary, the aim of this study is to analyze if corruption is influenced by national competitiveness and to show the nature of this influence. Analyzing the national competitiveness data from The Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013 and the data about corruption from Corruption Index 2012, the results reveal the existence of a strong positive connection between these two indexes, the level of national competitiveness significantly influencing the perception of corruption from a country. It is observed from the analysis that countries rated as having a small national competitiveness rate are perceived to be more corrupt than the more competitive countries. In conclusion, the standard of living, the rate of employment, the productivity, the commercial equilibrium, the national attractiveness, the ability of objective implementation, the flexibility and ability of sustaining growth which define the national competitiveness concept are direct determinants of the corruption perception
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
THE VALUE OF INTEGRITY IN THE REPORTS OF WORK
Get PDFThe most important aim of this paper is to identify the main general ethical values conducting to personal integrity, to build the general ethical values pyramid and, so, helping to improve the reports of labor for having positive results on the economic field. In this context, the human psychological development theory thorough by Maslow is exploited as example for the building of a human values hierarchy necessary to the individual as a social being to engage in normal interactions with the others. These general values are an imperative for the person’s integration in society, also contributing to his belonging society’s welfare and to its performance
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