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The impact of daily flow on employees’ daily innovative behavior: disentangling the within-level mediation effect of job involvement and the cross-level moderation effect of person-organization fit
No full textEmployees' innovative behavior is a crucial catalyst for public organizations' survival, development, and growth in service quality and problem-solving capabilities. Drawing on the broaden-and-build theory and self-determination theory, we proposed a conceptual model to delineate the dynamic within-person impact of the universal human experience flow on innovative behavior. We tried to disentangle the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions by taking into consideration both job involvement and person-organization fit. We followed 106 public organizational employees' self-reports on daily flow, job involvement, and innovative behavior at work for two consecutive weeks. Data analyzed via multi-level structural equation modeling revealed that daily flow exerts a positive impact on innovative behavior through job involvement at the within-person level. Such impact is moderated by person-organization fit at the between-person level, indicating a more substantial indirect effect of flow on innovative behavior via job involvement for employees with higher (versus lower) person-organization fit. Taken together, our findings elucidate how and when flow predicts innovative behavior on a daily basis, providing empirical evidence for the role of daily flow at work in facilitating employees' daily innovative behavior. Theoretical and managerial implications for nurturing employees' innovative behavior in public organizations are put forward
The Relationship Between Perceived Residential Environment Quality (PREQ) and Community Identity: Flow and Social Capital as Mediators
No full textThe wide-spread novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has posed severe challenges to people’s
life especially their life style. Due to the residential confinement contingency, people
were restricted in their study, work and leisure within constrained residential community.
The physical environment of residential community therefore became the main activity
place and it thus played a significant role for facilitating inhabitants’ daily activities
and influencing community identity. Based on the eudaimonic identity theory, this study
explored how the spatial dimensions of perceived residential environment quality (PREQ),
activity experience (i.e., flow) and social capital, would impact on urbanities’ residential
community identity during Covid-19. Results from 508 Chinese residential inhabitants
analyzed via structural equation modeling suggested that: a better degree in the spatial
dimensions of PREQ would predict a stronger community identity; flow and social capital
mediated the relationship between the spatial dimensions of PREQ and the inhabitants’
community identity. The implications of such accounts for our understanding of community
identity are then discussed, considering the important meaning of the relationships
between people and the perceived physical properties of their residential place
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
Expanding social, psychological, and physical indicators of urbanites' life satisfaction toward residential community: a structural equation modeling analysis
Full text linkAttention on, and interest in, life satisfaction has increased worldwide. However, research on life satisfaction focused toward the urban dwellers' residential community is mainly from western countries, and the limited research from China is solely focused on the geriatric population via a narrowly constrained research perspective. This study, therefore, aimed to investigate urbanites' life satisfaction toward their community, combining the psychological (behavioral community engagement, mental state of flow, and cognitive community identity), physical (PREQIs-perceived residential environment quality indicators: e.g., green area), and social perspectives (social capital). The proposed conceptual model was tested on a regionally representative sample of 508 urban community residents in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. Data were analyzed via a structure equation modelling approach in AMOS software. Findings suggested that all of the psychological, physical and social factors contributed to a prediction of life satisfaction. Specifically, social capital mediated the path from community engagement and flow to life satisfaction, and community identity mediated the path from flow experience and green area to life satisfaction. Additionally, social capital contributed to predict life satisfaction through its influence on community identity. Findings provide suggestions for urban designers and policymakers to focus on creating an urban community equipped with green area, which helps to promote physical activities that are flow-productive, to enhance residents' identification to their residential community and, therefore, increase life satisfaction
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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