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Accountability disclosure of SOEs: comparing hybrid and private European news agencies
No full textPurpose – This paper aims to explore the financial and non-financial accountability disclosure patterns of
state-owned enterprises (SOEs), as hybrid organizations.
Design/methodology/approach – Adopting the hybridity concept and resorting to stakeholder
theory, this paper works on a comparison between the accountability disclosure patterns of hybrid and
private organizations operating in the same industry. European national news agencies are selected as
units of analysis and an extensive web content analysis is performed on three categories of
information.
Findings – SOEs are found to disclose a broader spectrum of information than private organizations, and
differences between them have been found. Nevertheless, both financial and non-financial disclosures are
underdeveloped in the two organizational types.
Research limitations/implications – This paper illustrates how hybridity explains SOEs’
accountability disclosure patterns. Results could not be complemented through information on
disclosure through alternative channels. Future studies are encouraged to perform simultaneous
comparisons among hybrid, public and private organizations, as well as considering industry
specifics.
Practical implications – As web accountability disclosure helps to address the demands of distant
stakeholders, efforts are needed to enhance SOEs’ web accountability disclosures and not to undermine
democratic accountability relationships.
Originality/value – This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the accountability mechanisms
and style of SOEs. Using a framework for hybrid organizations provides an understanding of how
SOEs, as hybrid organizations, disclose information for accountability. In turn, this allows, and then
promotes, the investigation of social phenomena by conceiving hybridity as a standalone institutional
space
Time-related factors affecting performance management systems implementation in municipalities
No full textPerformance management systems (PMSs) are being increasingly implemented in public sector organisations, although with varying degrees of success. Our study considers time-related factors as drivers which influence the implementation of PMSs. We have identified several time-related factors that play a role in the effective implementation of these systems. In particular, our findings show how time-related concepts – duration, paths, windows of opportunity, cycles, causal mechanisms and multiple perspectives – help to understand the final configuration of PMSs
Municipal Performance Measurement in Practice: Which Factors Matter?
No full textPerformance management systems (PMSs) are being increasingly implemented in public sector organizations, although it is usually argued that a gap exists between the intended and the actual results. The purpose of this paper is to understand the factors that affect the use and implementation of PMSs in municipalities and how these drivers could influence their effectiveness. A multiple case study approach is used with extensive document analysis and direct interviews in four municipalities (two in Spain and two in Italy) that have implemented effective PMSs. Findings provide evidence of the factors that play a role in the implementation of these systems. In particular, time related concepts–duration, paths, windows of opportunity, cycles, causal mechanisms, and multiple perspectives–help to understand the time related factors which have a positive impact on final configuration of PMS
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
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