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Entrepreneurial intentions of young women in the Arab world
No full textPurpose – Female entrepreneurship is a growing segment in the context of developing countries and has the
potential to become a driving force for economic development. However, research suggests that females are
less inclined toward entrepreneurship when compared to their male counterparts. This fact is related to a
complex mix of causes such as the belief that entrepreneurship is a male domain, certain conditions within the
economic and social environment and a general lack of confidence with regards to succeeding in such
activities. Barriers to female entrepreneurship are prevalent in the patriarchal Arab world. The purpose of
this paper is to measure the perceptions of female Jordanian business students with regards to the
socio-cultural barriers to entrepreneurship. It also looks at the conduciveness of the education they are
receiving in terms of new venture creation.
Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 254 female business students from two universities in
Jordan was asked to evaluate various factors within the entrepreneurial ecosystem, including the business
education they are currently receiving. A factor analysis has been performed to show which relevant elements
may prevent young women from engaging with entrepreneurial activities. A comparison of perceptions about
the educational system has also been presented to understand how a supportive educational environment
may affect the previous analysis.
Findings – The results indicated that a strong supportive education system to some extent may reduce the
perception of potential barriers for entrepreneurship but the overall impact can be limited. Conversely,
an educational system lacking a supportive environment and concrete initiatives can deeply affect and
worsen the fears of engaging in entrepreneurship amongst female students.
Originality/value – The role of women in the Arab world is quite marked and the reluctance of
women to take a more decisive engagement in entrepreneurship may be reinforced by conservative,
societal traditions. A supportive education system has the potential to act as a catalyst to encourage active
female participation in the entrepreneurial domain, thus helping to spur economic development in
the region
The socio-economic context of female entrepreneurship in the MENA Region: A comparison of Jordan and Sudan
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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
Environment, Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions of Women in the MENA Region: Evidences from Jordan
No full textFemale entrepreneurship is a growing segment in the context of developing countries and has the potential to become a driving force for economic development. However, research suggests that females are less inclined towards entrepreneurship when compared to their male counterparts. This fact is related to a complex mix of causes such as the belief that entrepreneurship is a male domain, certain conditions within the economic and social environment and a general lack of confidence with regards to succeeding in such activities. Middle Eastern societies are predominantly patriarchal in nature. The role of women in society is quite marked and the reluctance of women to take a more decisive engagement in entrepreneurship may be reinforced by conservative, societal traditions. A supportive education system has the potential to act as a catalyst to encourage active female participation in the entrepreneurial domain. A sample of two hundred fifty-four female business students from two universities in Jordan were asked to evaluate various factors within the Jordanian entrepreneurial ecosystem, including the business education they are currently receiving. The results indicated that a strong supportive education system to some extent may reduce the perception of potential barriers for entrepreneurship, but the overall impact can be limited. Conversely, an educational system distant and lacking of supportive and concrete initiatives can deeply affect and worsen the fears of engaging in entrepreneurship amongst female students
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
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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