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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
Conquering the American market : ABN AMRO, Rabobank and Nationale-Nederlanden working in a different business environment, 1965-2005
No full textThe dissertation highlights the expansion of Dutch financial companies in the American market during the last forty years. It aims to explain in which activities they expanded successfully and in which activities they failed. Three important Dutch companies were studied: ABN AMRO, Rabobank and Nationale-Nederlanden, and five activities were analyzed: retail, corporate and investment banking, and life and non-life insurance. The companies were studied in their institutional environment in order to understand how multinationals cope with different national business systems. To make the problem of different national business systems concrete, I used two ideal types as described in the relevant literature: liberal market economies (LME) and coordinated market economies (CME). Did Dutch companies coordinate their activities primarily via hierarchies and markets (LME) or more via networks (CME)? Did they transfer elements of the Dutch business system to their American activities or did they adapt to the American system? The first chapter discusses the expansion of retail and corporate banking, and of life and non-life insurance. Special attention is given to Dutch and American banking legislation. Chapters 2 and 3 deal with the management process after an acquisition: the shaping of the organizational structure and human resource management respectively. Based on annual reports profitability and market share are analyzed in chapter 4. Chapter 5 deals with the expansion of investment banking. The conclusion looks back on the main developments and explains the success and failures of the Dutch companies in the American market in the context of different national business systems. The study makes clear that some elements of the Dutch business system, such as its colonial past and open, international economy, favored international expansion. Moreover, the Dutch state was supportive in the development of large financial companies. The risk-avoiding attitude of the companies was seen as a positive factor as well. The study also concluded that the Dutch companies combined Dutch and American elements of the two business systems, which became in particular apparent in the organization and management of the American organization and which was the outcome of a process of trial and error. In organizing and managing investment banking activities the Dutch companies were less successful in combining the Dutch and American business system, because this sector resembled much more the characteristics of an LME. The detailed analysis revealed large differences in business system within America. There were geographic differences (for example between New York and the Midwest) and differences between activities (commercial versus investment banking).These differences partly explain why Dutch companies have been more successfully in certain activities than in others. In the 1990s ABN AMRO and ING imported more elements compatible with the LME in their organization, whereas elements of this ideal type were less visible at Rabobank. The extent of change depended on two variables: the degree of internationalization and the company’s legal structure. Dutch institutions, such as corporate governance and the financial market, have changed during the past forty years as a result of external developments (liberalization of capital markets, development of European market). The Dutch financial companies had to react to these institutional changes, but they were not passive actors. They influenced the extent and the content of change. In short, multinationals and business systems influence and change each other
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
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
The institutional evolution of labour market institutions in Europe and entrepreneurship
No full textLabour mobility is an important condition for entrepreneurship. Present policies call for deregulation of the labour market institutions as the preferred mechanism to stimulate entrepreneurship. However, in Deliverable 2.5 we argue that an a-historical one-size-fits-all approach is likely to be misguided in the much more diverse European setting compared to a country like the United States
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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