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Surveillance archive: using reports in business history
Get PDFIn a narrow sense, this essay is meant to encourage business historians to consider (and reconsider) the variety of public and private reports, which can provide insights into the operation of firms and industries. U.S. bank examiner reports tell us about how nineteenth century banks operated within a Republican political economy; European Union reports shine light on the differences and similarities between firms operating in various national markets and their relationship to increased economic integration; equity analyst reports present a forensic financial analysis while also revealing a company’s history. More broadly, this essay is also an invitation to reflect on reports as a nexus of surveillance and power. Indeed, such paperwork is power (the tricky bit is figuring out just what sort of power it is, and who wields it)
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 Spread of the Modern Central Bank and Global Cooperation, 1919-1939. Edited by Barry Eichengreen and Andreas Kakridis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xx + 422 pp. Paperback, $34.99. ISBN: 978-1-009-36754-7.
Get PDFPlastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control
No full textPlastic Capitalism is a history of the bank credit card industry from its origins in the early 1950s until the relocation of card-issuing banks to places like Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Wilmington, Delaware, in the early-1980s. Bankers, the book shows, embraced credit cards as a new source of growth and profit within the highly regulated financial system of the early post-World War II years. Although they initially developed card plans within the system’s regulatory boundaries, bankers eventually used cards to transform postwar consumer credit markets and escape the rules entirely. Until the 1980s, however, other stakeholders—state and federal policymakers, consumer and labor groups, and even concerned U.S. Presidents—used the financial system’s regulatory levers to constrain bank card plans. They shaped financial industry rules to match their expectations for economic fairness and the appropriate role of unsecured credit in American’s rapidly changing consumer society. They did so, often, by turning to the states. U.S. financial policy worked through a dynamic, evolving, and flexible relationship among state and federal rules. Banks, however, ultimately turned federalism to their advantage. In the early 1980s, large firms like Citi and Chase Manhattan relocated their card plans to South Dakota and Delaware, states with the weakest consumer regulations. The banks created “on-shore” financial havens that exported lax laws across state lines, drawing Americans into an exploitative credit economy over which they had little control. Federalism, which had been a source of regulatory strength, became instead a vehicle for driving regulatory weakness
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
The Financialization of U.S. Public Pensions, 1945-1974
No full textData on state and local pension investments, hand collected from the U.S. Census, the Annual Report of the Comptroller (New York), and the Annual Reports of the State Treasurer and State Auditor (North Carolina)
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