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Country’s technology and innovation, and corporate environmental innovation, environmental performance and financial performance
No full textSocietal concerns regarding climate change have increasingly intensified in recent decades. These climate change concerns, coupled with the increasing trend to account for and value the natural environment, have compelled firms to operate in a more environmentally friendly way to ensure their legitimacy and satisfy stakeholders’ demands.To achieve business success, firms undertake to improve their environmental outcomes and balance the relationship between their environmental and economic performance. Many studies have conducted empirical research in these fields, but they still have limitations. Moreover, there is a lack of research exploring the role of country-level resources (i.e. country-level technology and innovation (CLTAI)) on firms on these topics. Consequently, the investigation of the relationships between CLTAI, corporate environmental innovation (CEI), environmental outcomes and economic performance is of significant interest. Motivated by this interest, this thesis examines: 1) the associations of CEI and CLTAI with corporate environmental performance (CEP) and the moderating effect of CLTAI on the CEI-CEP association; 2) the associations of CEI and CLTAI with corporate carbon intensity (CCP) and the moderating effect of CLTAI on the CEI-CCP association; 3) the associations of CEP and CLTAI with firm value and profitability (FVP) and the moderating effect of CLTAI on the CEP-FVP association.Based on the resource-based view, natural resource-based view, network theory, spillover effect and the extant empirical research, this thesis develops its hypotheses. Using a cross-industry sample of firms from 45 countries in 2008-2020 and employing multilevel regression models, the study uncovers several key findings: 1) CEI is positively associated with CEP but is not necessarily associated with lower CCP; 2) different aspects of CEP are variably related to firm value; 3) CLTAI positively correlates with CEP and negatively with CCP; 4) CLTAI investments are positively associated with firm value in the long term, but it is negatively associated with firms’ profitability; 5) CLTAI moderates the relationships between CEI and CEP, CEI and CCP as well as CEP and FVP.This thesis makes significant contributions by elucidating the varying associations of CEI with CEP and CCP and by revealing the effectiveness of CEI in dealing with environmental issues. It also contributes to bridging the gaps in both technology and innovation and the firm performance literature by disclosing that firms’ environmental outcomes and economic performance are associated with not only firm-level resources but also country-level resources, i.e. CLTAI, and extend the moderators of the CEI-CEP, CEI-CCP and CEP-FVP associations. On this basis, this thesis provides valuable insights to businesses, policymakers and researchers, emphasising the importance of country-level technology and innovation resources in driving sustainable corporate practices and enhancing firm performance
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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