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Identification and Relevance of Environmental Corporate Cultures as Part of a Coherent Environmental Policy
No full textIntrinsic CSR and competition: doing well amongst European SMEs
No full textThis edited book is at the intersection of the discussion on family-owned business, the CSR agenda and company competition in Europe. The authors contribute to the debates on corporate social responsibility by arguing that formal management systems are not the one-size-fits-all solution they are typically presented to be. Exploring alternative interpretations of the profile environmental management activities have in SMEs, the book evaluates the way in which cultural and ethical values are embedded in European SMEs in order to drive and orientate CSR successfully without following the mainstream ‘systems’ approach. It addresses several values of thought within the CSR debate such as intrinsic CSR, the role of virtue ethics and moral theory in corporate culture, environmental sustainability and vision-driven CSR. Focusing on a European perspective, the book heuristically explores an alternative model for the integration of CSR, innovation dynamics and economic success driven by intrinsic values rather than extrinsic post-decision rationalisations.
This is the kind of research that we need more in the field of Business,
Ethics and Society. It is based on good theoretical ideas, and these ideas
are developed through case analysis and illustration. The study of CSR
has been the province of large corporations for far too long, and this
volume, focusing on Central-European SMEs and family firms, develops
and extends the idea of intrinsic CSR to smaller enterprises. From
the historical analysis of the Honorable Merchants to more contemporary
firms we see the relevance and development of key CSR ideas. The
essays cover the territory both broadly and deeply.
There is a new story of business that is emerging all over the world.
“Business as solely concerned with profits” is an idea whose time has come and
gone. As research and practice move forward we will see many more frameworks,
arguments and analyses of business that do not separate “economic”
from “social”. This book is a welcomed addition to this burgeoning literature
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
Sustainability of the Transport and Mobility System through Shared Vehicle Services Car-sharing and Ride-sourcing in Urban China
Get PDFInnovations in the transport and mobility sector have emerged over the past decades under the umbrella term of the sharing economy. Ride-sourcing and car-sharing are two examples of such innovations. Ride-sourcing companies, such as Uber and Didi Chuxing, have attracted attention mostly in media even though academic research on ride-sourcing is relatively young and rare, especially considering its social sustainability from the perspective of consumers. Likewise, car-sharing has been developed in the western markets over a longer period that the service in China only started over the past few years. Therefore, there is a research gap on social aspects of car-sharing in the Chinese context. This research aims to evaluate the social impact of these two types of vehicle sharing services in the urban China.The research was conducted through mixed-methods. The researcher targeted on two cities in China, Beijing and Guangzhou. To explore the services’ impact on social sustainability, a series of qualitative interviews were conducted with key stakeholders, such as service providers, transport planning experts, drivers and passengers of ride-sourcing and users of car-sharing. Additionally, a quantitative approach was used to assess the impact of either service on consumers’ attitude and behaviour towards travelling and towards vehicle ownership. Through logistic regression analysis, the relationship between different mobility styles and their corresponding influence over attitude and behaviour was established. For instance, the research results indicated that the more frequent usage of carpooling mode within ride-sourcing was linked with a positive attitude on the sharing practice and this mode displayed significant influence on forgoing or delaying private vehicle ownership. Whereas frequent use of car- sharing in China did not necessarily lead to any significant vehicle ownership reduction.To author’s knowledge, this is the first research that explored ride-sourcing and car-sharing in detail in Chinese social sustainability context. With different sharing modes, the results can help policymakers to tailor the design of sustainable mobility strategies for transport sector. For example, efforts should be made on improving the convenience of public transport, especially buses, in order to compete with the increasing use of sharing services. At the same time, the shared use of car-sharing fleets in the form of carpooling should also be promoted to potentially curb the demand for private car ownership. The emphasis on urban spaces in this research can also inspire other regions undergoing urbanisation to build a more sustainable transport and mobility system
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
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