scholarly journals The regional research policy of the Austrian federal states

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (54) ◽  
pp. 227-241
Author(s):  
Thomas Eisenhut
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
Regional Research ◽  
Federal States ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Specific Working

AbstractThis research focuses on the regional research policy of the federal states. The paper analyses the existing academic research sources of the regional research policies and answers questions of the regions's analysis.The methodology uses specific working papers essential for the European region's and sources of the Austrian public administration. Concerning the empirical part, this paper uses qualitatively focussed structured guideline surveys. The research will facilitate discussions on aspects of methodological approaches to research, data capture and analysis, perceived research outcomes and contributions to the body of knowledge.Essential is the separation of subvention policy, which means the matter of distinct locational competition and it occurs the establishment of co-production within the regions to present itself mutual externally to persist in the global contest.The findings indicate that even through this concept for success is highly influenced by funding's that are not very controllable by the regions, such as the federal states, and it is a positive prototype for prospective similar cases.

scholarly journals Developing a Wine Experience Scale: A New Strategy to Measure Holistic Behaviour of Wine Tourists

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 8055
Author(s):  
Vasco Santos ◽  
Paulo Ramos ◽  
Nuno Almeida ◽  
Enrique Santos-Pavón
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Wine Tourism ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Validation Tool

This study develops a scale to measure wine tourism experiences and was tested in Portugal, in two of the main wine tourism centres: Porto and Madeira. The wine experience scale combines experience traits with the traditional approach to scales related to wine tourism. The development of the scale follows the most recognised validated procedures. Data were collected from a total of 647 international wine tourists in the wine cellars of the two main fortified wine tourism regions visiting areas: Porto and Madeira. Structural equation modelling (SEM-AMOS) was used as the main analysis and validation tool. The resulting 18-item wine experience scale comprises four major dimensions: (1) Wine storytelling, (2) wine tasting excitement, (3) wine involvement, and (4) winescape. All these showed reliable and validated indicators. This new scale presents a valid new tool to better measure and evaluate experiences in a wine tourism setting. This study offers a broad range of use for academics, managers, planners, and practitioners. It shows how a new measurement tool focused on the wine tourism experience in terms of several outcomes and applications, addressing important practical managerial implications, can have an impact on academic research. Most previous tourism scales still fail to measure the specifics of wine settings. This is the first scale that comprises the dimensions of experience with wine senses, applied in a relevant wine destination where research is still limited. The results are relevant in boosting the increasingly recognized awareness of Portugal as wine tourism, as well as bringing experience scales to the body of knowledge.

Establishing the foundational elements of a public procurement body of knowledge

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-251
Author(s):  
Clifford P McCue ◽  
Eric Prier ◽  
Joshua M Steinfeld
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
The Body ◽  
Job Tasks ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Technical Competencies ◽  
Logical Process

Public procurement scholars have been striving to identify technical and behavioral competencies to drive toward professionalization. However, there is no vetted body of knowledge that practitioners and scholars can use to establish roles and responsibilities. This empirical study outlines a logical process to identify the foundational elements of the body of knowledge, specifically technical competencies, serving as the building blocks for advancement toward a recognized profession. Findings suggest that 87 job tasks can be classified under 6 job domains that contain many of the components and conceptual constructs for the field of public procurement. These domains can improve understanding of the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary in public administration.

Knowledge and use of self-archiving options among academic librarians working in universities in Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 119 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 145-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebikabowei Emmanuel Baro ◽  
Eriye Chris Tralagba ◽  
Ebiere Joyce Ebiagbe
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Use Of Self ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Scholarly Output ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of the study is to investigate the extent to which academic librarians in African universities know and use self-archiving options to make their papers visible globally. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was designed using SurveyMonkey software to collect data from 455 academic librarians working in 52 universities in Africa. Findings The study revealed that the academic librarians in Africa are aware of ResearchGate, institutional repository, personal website/server, kudos and Mendeley and they actually upload papers to self-archiving platforms such as institutional repository, ResearchGate, academia.edu and personal websites/servers. Factors such as increased exposure of one’s previously published work, provides exposure for works not previously published (e.g. seminar papers), broadens the dissemination of academic research generally and increases one’s institutions’ visibility were among the options the academic librarians rated as very important factors that motivate them to submit their scholarly output to the self-archiving options. It was also found that majority of the academic librarians in Africa checked the publishers’ website for copyright policy compliance before submitting their papers to the platform. Practical implications The study called for academic librarians in developing countries to voluntarily sign-up to register with self-archiving options such as ResearchGate, kudos, Mendeley.com, academia.edu and others to enable them self-archive their published papers for access globally by students, researchers, etc. Originality/value The findings of this study will add to the body of knowledge by bringing to light the extent of awareness and use of self-archiving options by academic librarians in universities in Africa.

A toolkit for women: the mis(sed) management of gender in resource industries

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 802-813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Laplonge
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Human Practice ◽  
Definition Of

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show the extent to which work on how to manage gender in resource industries fails to draw on the body of knowledge which explores gender in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – This paper explores the efficacy of a recently published toolkit within the context of the current debate about gender in resource industries (such as mining, and oil and gas). Findings – The Australian Human Rights Commission’s toolkit speaks to this debate, but fails to analyse existing strategies to deal with the “gender problem”; it simply repeats them as successful examples of what to do. The authors of the toolkit also fail to ask a question which is fundamental to the success of any intervention into gender: what is the definition of “gender” on which the work is based? Originality/value – The debate about gender in resource industries fails to take into consideration contemporary ideas about gender as they have appeared in academic research and human practice.

scholarly journals Paradigm Shift: Robust Response of Reinventing Government Movement to New Public Administration Using Econometrics

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Mohammad Naim Azimi ◽  
Mohammad Reza Farzam
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
The Body ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
New Public ◽  
Reinventing Government ◽  
Competing Hypotheses ◽  
Quantitative Economics ◽  
Robust Response

This paper focuses on the paradigm shift from a traditional government into a new public administration using quantitative economics in testing the robust response of the shift. Though, we follow the conception of Frederickson (1991); Behn (1995) and Kirlin (1996), we are not concerned of the body of knowledge in such transformation, rather we are concerned on how to offer foundational base of quantitative literature for planning and implanting of the new public administration in Afghanistan for the purpose of which, we use a set of cross –sectional data obtained through an objective questionnaire from 221 targeted public employees in Kabul City and using a set of statistics and econometric models in testing the competing hypotheses. The results show that all the identified proxies in measuring the variables associated with the shift process are highly significant and support the robust response towards the stated shift to the new public administration in the country.

scholarly journals Content analysis of published articles in the South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Jordaan ◽  
Melanie Wiese ◽  
Karim Amade ◽  
Ermi De Clercq
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
South African ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
South African Journal ◽  
The South ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Periodic Analysis ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
African Journal

The publication of academic research is important for its contribution to the body of knowledge. A periodic analysis of journal content leads to the identification of research practices; while it also identifies the challenges that researchers face. The South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences (SAJEMS) is considered to be one of the leading publications in the field of economic and managerial research in South Africa. The SAJEMS was selected as the unit of analysis; and a content analysis was conducted on 257 articles published during the seven-year period 2004 - 2010. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the input and output factors relating to published articles, including questions on authors and article content, such as the various methodological approaches. The findings revealed that there has been a decrease in co-authored articles during the period 2005-2008. Although the contribution by practitioners increased significantly in 2005 and 2008, the majority of the articles are still authored predominantly by academics. It is promising to see that international authors were involved in nearly 20 per cent of the articles contributed. When it came to the methodological approaches, the articles employed largely non-probability sampling designs. Furthermore, almost two-thirds of the articles published in SAJEMS were based on quantitative research designs. This content analysis reveals the current research practices published in the SAJEMS. It provides food for thought for academics. 

Research 2.0 and Research Data Services in academic and research libraries: priority issues

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (6/7) ◽  
pp. 345-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tibor Koltay
Keyword(s):  
Research Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Data Services ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Local Environments ◽  
Data Stewardship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of Research Data Services (RDSs), consisting of research data management, data curation and data stewardship, and data literacy education in supporting Research 2.0. Besides this, theory and principles, as well as selected examples of best practices in the relevant fields are presented. Design/methodology/approach A literature-based overview of actual insights on tasks and roles that academic and research libraries have to fulfil in order to react to the developments generated by the appearance and growing importance of Research 2.0 is provided. Taking the wide spectre of related issues into account, the discussion is limited to RDSs. Findings Even though Research 2.0 is evolving in different countries and some local environments in dissimilar ways, its data-intensive nature requires the helping presence of academic libraries and librarians. Being an emerging phenomenon, it will undoubtedly take several different shapes as it works itself out in time, but librarians should try to discover service niches, which may not be covered by other academic organisations, or their coverage is only partial or even unsatisfactory. Research limitations/implications Taking the wide spectre of issues into account, the review of literature is limited to the period between 2014 and 2016. Originality/value The paper intends to add to the body of knowledge about the relationship between RDSs and Research 2.0, as well as about the association between the components of the former.

scholarly journals Feminist geopolitics: A contested and rebellious offspring of geopolitical knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-212
Author(s):  
Srdjan Korac
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Critical Geopolitics ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Feminist Geopolitics ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Methodological Approaches

The paper discusses the general features of the theoretical, epistemological, and methodological framework of a feminist approach in the early 21st-century Geopolitics with the aim to discover how its proponents challenge the established ?truths? of (neo)classical geopolitics and make innovative interventions to ?repair? and improve the knowledge produced in critical geopolitics. Being the most recent offspring of geopolitical knowledge that emerged only three decades ago, feminist geopolitics provoked an immediate backlash from the colleagues from the mainstream political geography in terms of recognising its disciplinary position. The author gives an overview of the body of a significant feminist geopolitical work drawn up based on a selected batch of most important international journals and edited volumes published since 2001. The author argues that the contribution of theoretical, epistemological and methodological insights of feminist geopolitics should be located in counterbalancing of the rigidity of the discipline mainstream, and in insisting on the analysis of the intersections of the public (state, global) and the private/intimate (body, home), interrelatedness of embodied life practices and abstract/bureaucratic geopolitical projects, as well as on the introduction of post-positivist methodological approaches and techniques. The paper systemises the most important feminist research questions, and particularly legitimate topics of the day, which were ignored or missed by the mainstream geopolitical research. The author concludes that the feminist approach still remains a dissident body of knowledge within the geopolitical thought, but with an emancipatory potential in creating theoretical and political space in which to articulate a more responsive notion of geopolitics - taken both as knowledge and practice - that might address victimisation of marginalised population entangled in imperial projects.

The role of academic libraries in research data service (RDS) provision

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 783-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly H. Yu
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
Data Service ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Current State

Purpose Propelled by fast-evolving computational technology and cloud-based data storage, the increasing ease in research data collection is outstripping the capacity in research data service (RDS) in academic institutions. To illustrate the challenges and opportunities in providing RDS, the author provides a systematic review of the RDS offered in academic institutions and libraries by combining existing literature and survey data collected from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). In addition, the RDS websites of 2013 ARL survey-participating institutions are also examined. The aim of the paper is to provide an environmental scan of the current state of RDS provision in academic institutions, to add to the body of knowledge of RDS development, and to inform and enable academic libraries to make strategic RDS plans. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyzes the strategies used and levels of RDS provided by reviewing recent literature, exploiting existing survey data from ARL and ACRL, and examining RDS websites of the 2013 ARL survey-participating institutions, in areas that reflect the life cycle of RDS provision including research data management planning, metadata consultation and tool provision, data archiving, institutional repository provision and data sharing and access. Findings The overall offerings of the library-led research data services in ARL research-intensive institutions have shown signs of increasing. Increased engagement and expanded scope and level of services are two noticeable trends in academic library RDS provision. Academic libraries are taking advantage of open access repositories by advising researchers to use the available resources alongside their local repositories for data safe-keeping and sharing. Discussions on RDS policy and infrastructure development are inadequate or largely non-existent. Originality/value Through systematically reviewing current literature, drawing on the results of available surveys on RDS offerings by academic libraries conducted between 2009 and 2014 and examining and further reviewing the websites of these 2013 ARL survey-participating institutions, the author presents the current state of academic library activities in RDS provision, and provides a critical evaluation of the scope and level of services currently being offered in academic libraries, and the opportunities in RDS development, to add to the body of knowledge of RDS provision by academic institutions.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document