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Google and Apple’s Gale of Creative Destruction.
Get PDFCreative destruction is an economic theory of innovation popularised by Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter. In
this paper, Schumpeter’s theories are used to explain how radical technological innovations in
information-intensive industries are influencing the erosion of traditional industry and market boundaries leading to
the emergence of new competitive business models and strategies. Developments in digital technology has resulted
in new technological shifts and market linkages resulting in dilemmas for the existing incumbents in traditional
industries who find themselves increasingly trapped and victims of a new innovation logic. The new value
innovation logic is being driven by entrepreneurs such as Page and Brin (Google) and Jobs (Apple) who are
currently in the process of revolutionising the economic structures of many industries and creating new markets and
organisational business models in a gale of creative destruction reminiscent of the theories developed by Sombart
and Schumpeter. This creation of new market models and their impact on established industries are explained
further in the value chain evolution theory and its corollary sustaining innovation classification-scheme. These
theories reinforce the view that innovators, thinking in new and radical ways, provide sustainable new market
developments and earn above the average revenues compared to incumbents, whose profit pools have eroded. This
paper researches and analyses the impact that Google and Apple are having upon a broad range of
information-intensive industries and the strategic options of the incumbent firms in the respective traditional
industries in response to this radical change. Its purpose is to provide explanations of why and how radical
innovators are able to redefine the rules of the market leading to economic growth and development.
Keywords: creative destruction, prosumer, monetize, incumbents, institutionalizatio
`Four-Closure`: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are Driving Business Model Innovation.
Get PDFThis paper explores the rapid growth of four internet-based corporations and critiques the extent to which the
Internet has developed from being simply a powerful tool and enabler of industry innovation to achieving status as
a fully-fledged technology-based business ecosystem. The need to develop new management theories, tools, and
techniques to compete with the “Gang of Four” (Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook) is also discussed in some
depth as well as providing a critique of traditional models/strategic approaches and more recent theories. This is
considered to be an important area of research because as a new class of Internet company emerges, incumbent
firms in traditional industries will need to know how to prepare for the new challenges that face them.
Keywords: business ecosystem, platforms, catalyst, infomediaries, white space, blue ocean strateg
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
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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