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L’emploi des travailleurs âgés dans les entreprises de Grèce
No full textWhen facing the dilemma about retaining or retiring aging personnel in firms, from the view-point of businesses, the choice of the theoretical interpretation seems sensible as it involves numerous parameters that are closely related to transfer of knowledge, optimal utilization of abilities and performance criterion. All these parameters represent important ingredients of a potential competitive advantage for an economy in situation of hysteresis. All in all, it concerns perception in a game of prevailing rationalities. Hence, from an epistemological point of view, the choice of an explanatory theory is also sensible, as the author is quite convinced that the divisions in the scientific-research community and consequently narrow-mindedness of academic approaches impede a productive understanding of relations and a managerial engineering of choices. Thus, in the Greek case demographic imbalances, institutional paradoxes and a severe economic and social crisis render the issue of the employment of the 55-64, a central but still insufficiently explored issue. The thesis deals with the way managerial choices are made on a number of institutional arrangements that occur upon several internal and external factors: regulations, laws, collective agreements, flexibility and mobility arrangements, ergonomics and individual career planning, at the firm level within specific geographical and institutional boundaries, affecting both labor market, firms etc. In a parallel way, the thesis explores the paths through which social system, general context and the Greek variety of market economy tend to affect the participation of aged workers in the employment from late 90s up to nowadays. These two aspects (organizational and institutional), as hypothesis, have been tested empirically resulting to a number of critical fields that have been identified, for both managerial and institutional action to fostering aged workers employment. Reshaping Greek economy passes through transforming its productive model, applying institutional reforms and optimizing the use of available resources. The thesis contributes to the ongoing debate by analyzing the issue of the participation of older workers in Greek firms and it adds value with practical proposals for both firm’s management and public policy’s decision making.(ECGE - Sciences économiques et de gestion) -- UCL, 201
There is always something new emerging from Africa
Get PDFThis paper focuses on the political and economic significance of Africa for a declining Europe, from a Greek vision and perspective. We argue that major ongoing developments (covid-19 included) and those perspectively announced pose dilemmas and the burden of engineering of choice, to decision-makers. As there are no country-level solutions that could be sufficient to address contemporary complex issues such as migration flows, pandemias, sustainable growth, climate change and multiple inequalities, we explore a possible new moral basis for future Euro-African coordination and collaboration
Les choix managériaux de gestion des ressources humaines «âgées». Une approche comparative
Get PDFΣτις μέρες μας, οι διοικήσεις των επιχειρήσεων– σε σχεδόν όλες τις ευρωπαϊκές χώρες – έχουννα αντιμετωπίσουν, ολοένα και περισσότεροεπιτακτικά, το ζήτημα της διαχείρισης του γη-ράσκοντας ανθρώπινου δυναμικού τους. Τοζήτημα της απόδοσης, της ανταγωνιστικότηταςκαι η πρόκληση για αξιοποίηση των διαθέσι-μων πόρων γίνονται έντονα. Στο προσκήνιοέρχονται. μια σειρά από επιλογές και διλήμματαπου απαιτούν αποφάσεις και δράσεις πάνω σεθέματα όπως η ευελιξία, η κινητικότητα, η εργο-νομία, ο προγραμματισμός της σταδιοδρομίας,η μεταφορά γνώσεων και η κατάρτιση. Εντόςτης επιχείρησης πολλοί είναι οι δρώντες πουσυνεργάζονται, διαπραγματεύονται αλλά καισυγκρούονται με αποτέλεσμα τη δημιουργίαμιας σειράς «εσωτερικών θεσμικών ρυθμίσεων» Αυτές οι τελευταίες, μαζί με άλλες «θεσμικές ρυθμίσεις σε επίπεδο του κράτους μέσα στοοποίο η εταιρία είναι εγκατεστημένη», διαμορ-φώνουν τις συνθήκες διαχείρισης του ηλικιακάώριμου» ανθρώπινου δυναμικού από τις επιχειρήσεις. Στόχος της παρούσης ανάλυσης είναινα εξηγήσει τις διαδικασίες αυτές ελπίζοντας νασυμβάλει, με ένα σχέδιο υποδείγματος, σε μιακαλύτερη κατανόηση των σχετικών θεμάτων.Managerial choices and ageing of humanrecourses. A comparative approach.When talking about retaining or retiring “elder”human resources in firms, from the viewpointof business the choice of the theoreticalinterpretation seems sensible as it involvesnumerous parameters that are closely relatedto transfer of knowledge, optimal utilizationof abilities and performance criterion, all ofthem representing important ingredients of apotential competitive advantage. Hence, froman epistemological point of view, the choiceof an explanatory theory is also sensible, as theauthor is quite convinced that the divisions inthe scientific-research community and consequentlynarrow-mindedness of academic approachesimpede a productive understandingof relations1 and the managerial engineeringof choices. Thus the article deals with the waymanagerial choices are made on a number ofinstitutional arrangements that occur uponseveral internal and external factors such asregulations, laws, collective agreements, flexibilityand mobility arrangements, ergonomicsand individual career planning, at the firmlevel within specific geographical boundaries,affecting both “aged” workers and the firm
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
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