Are the most highly cited articles the ones that are the most downloaded? A bibliometric study of IRRODL | Avello Martínez | The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning

Are the most highly cited articles the ones that are the most downloaded? A bibliometric study of IRRODL

Raidell Avello Martínez, Terry Anderson

Abstract

Publication of research, innovation, challenges and successes
is of critical importance to the evolution of more effective distance
education programming. Publication in peer reviewed journal format is
the most prestigious and the most widespread form of dissemination in
education and most other disciplines, thus the importance of
understanding what is published and its impact on both researchers and
practitioners. In this article we identify and classify the leading
articles in arguably the leading peer reviewed journals in this
discipline.

The journal The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
(IRRODL) is a peer reviewed academic journal that has been published
since 2000. The journal has published between 3 and 6 issues annually
with between 50 and 111 research articles per volume. In order to assess
the general and the particular impact of highly cited articles this
work describes the main bibliometric indicators of the IRRODL journal
and these are compared with the total galley views in all formats, PDF,
HTML, EPUB and MP3, that IRRODL publishes. In addition to identifying
characteristics of the most widely cited articles this research
determines if there is a correlation between the articles most highly
cited by other publishing researchers and the number of views,
indicating interest from both practitioners and research communities.
The results show a significant and positive relationship between the
total number of citations and the number of views received by articles
published in the journal, indicating the impact of the journal extends
beyond active publishers to practitioner consumers.

Keywords

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning;
IRRODL; Highly cited papers; Google Scholar; Research trends; Open and
Distance Learning

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The Effect of Innovation Types on the Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis

The Effect of Innovation Types on the Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis

Francis Boachie-Mensah, Innocent S. K. Acquah

Abstract

Innovativeness has been touted as one of the fundamental
instruments of growth strategies to enter new markets, to increase the
existing market share and to provide the company with a competitive
edge. Despite this acknowledgement, there is lack of research into how
innovation contributes to the performance of small and medium sized
enterprises. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of
innovation on organisational performance of small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis. The research
design used was survey research design whilst the research approach was
quantitative research approach. Simple random sampling technique was
used to collect data from 243 owners/owner managers of SMEs in the
Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis through self-administered questionnaires.
Partial least squares (PLS) structural equation modelling (SEM) was used
to test the hypotheses postulated. The study revealed that all four
different types of innovation significantly influence organisational
performance positively, except the product innovation/organisational
performance relationship, which was positive but not significant. The
results also suggest that innovation accounted for more than fifty one
percent of the variation in organisational performance. It was,
therefore, recommended that managers of SMEs pay critical attention to
the implementation of innovation activities in their firms due to its
positive impact of performance.



Keywords: Innovation, organisational performance, small and medium-sized enterprises

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Communication in global entrepreneurial virtual teams: a systematic literature review / Yu, Tian

Communication in global entrepreneurial virtual teams: a systematic literature review

Tekijä:	Yu, Tian
Otsikko:	Communication in global entrepreneurial virtual teams: a systematic literature review
Vuosi:	2015  Kieli: eng
Laitos:	Johtamisen laitos
Aine:	MSc program in Entrepreneurship
Asiasanat:	yrittäjyys; entrepreneurship; tiimityö; team work; etätyö; remote work; virtuaalitodellisuus; virtual reality; kansainvälinen; international; viestintä; communication
Sivumäärä:	92
Kokoteksti:	» hse_ethesis_13974.pdf   koko: 2 MB (1060878)
Avainsanat:	Global Virtual Team, Communication, Entrepreneurship, Systematic Literature Review, Leadership, Team Effectiveness, Team performance, Trust, Culture, Communication channel, Communication Behavior, Communication Technology
Tiivistelmä:	Objective of the Study: Global virtual team has become a commonplace in organizational structure and been widely used in entrepreneurial teams, such as born globals. Communication is recognized as a critical factor and challenge in GVT, nevertheless, researchers have merely touched the field of communication in global entrepreneurial virtual team. This study aimed to fill this research gap and found out what can global entrepreneurial teams do to achieve effective communication. Methodology and the Theoretical Framework: As very little literature existed about entrepreneurial GVT communication, this study conducted a systematic literature review on GVT communication in general and applied the synthesized findings to entrepreneurial team literature. Findings and Conclusions: The research showed that while communication plays a vital role in GVT functioning, it also specifically plays as a team performance factor, a human resource practice, a leadership practice, a trust building factor, a team member's boundary management strategy, an information delivery tool, a knowledge sharing channel and a team process facilitator. Factors that affect communication in entrepreneurial GVT include leadership, culture, technology, trust, language, communication behavior, communication channel, communication frequency/timing, training, interpersonal relations, interaction, task interdependence, communication wastes identification, degree of virtuality, coordination and awareness. Some factors depend on each other and communication is always a value that plays between these variables. To achieve effective communication in entrepreneurial GVT, the practitioners should address effective leadership practices.

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Teokset ovat vapaasti luettavissa ja tulostettavissa henkilökohtaista
käyttöä varten.
Aineiston käyttö kaupallisiin tarkoituksiin on kielletty.

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Firms are
increasingly collaborating with outside partners to access external
knowledge that will enable them to successfully innovate and remain
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individuals can be better coordinated through implicit values and norms
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detail how a knowledge-friendly organizational culture influences
absorptive capacity. Therefore, the author analysis the relationship
between organizational culture and absorptive capacity and shows how a
knowledge-friendly organizational culture should be designed to support
the absorption of external knowledge in SMEs. © Springer Fachmedien
Wiesbaden 2014. All rights are reserved.

ISBN: 978-365805552-3;3658055510;978-365805551-6
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Hossein Gholizadeh

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Abstract:
    

Despite the vital role of paper publication and
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citations. Accordingly, with a focus on policy perspectives, this paper
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Vol 11, No 16 (2015)

Effective Factors for Increasing University Publication and Citation Rate

Effective Factors for Increasing University Publication and Citation Rate

Masoomeh Shahbazi-Moghadam, Hadi Salehi, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Marjan Mohammadjafari, Hossein Gholizadeh

Abstract

Despite the vital role of publication and citation in higher
education institutions, literature on publication exercises is
relatively scarce. There are a number of factors which influence the
rate of university publication and citation. Accordingly, with a focus
on policy perspectives, this paper discusses publication exercises by
addressing the factors that can boost or decrease publication rate for
HEI. The investigated zones are divided into two macro and micro levels,
in which macro level deals with global policy and micro level is
related to local and university policies. The effective factors and
their relevant criteria are traced in all the three aforementioned
policies.

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Organizational culture and absorptive capacity: The meaning for SMEs

Organizational Culture and Absorptive Capacity: The Meaning for SMEs

Volume 9783658055523, 1 May 2014, Pages 1-279

Organizational culture and absorptive capacity: The meaning for SMEs

  (Book)

Zerwas, D. 

 

Fachbereich Informatik, Institut für Management, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz-Landau, Germany

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Abstract

Firms are
increasingly collaborating with outside partners to access external
knowledge that will enable them to successfully innovate and remain
competitive in the marketplace. To apply external knowledge, they must
have a distinctive capacity to absorb knowledge. One of the main
influencing factors for absorptive capacity is a knowledge-friendly
organizational culture, because the knowledge absorbing behavior of
individuals can be better coordinated through implicit values and norms
than through structural coordination instruments. When focusing on an
organization's overall behavior, it is important to investigate in
detail how a knowledge-friendly organizational culture influences
absorptive capacity. Therefore, the author analysis the relationship
between organizational culture and absorptive capacity and shows how a
knowledge-friendly organizational culture should be designed to support
the absorption of external knowledge in SMEs. © Springer Fachmedien
Wiesbaden 2014. All rights are reserved.

ISBN: 978-365805552-3;3658055510;978-365805551-6
Original language: English

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-05552-3_1Document Type: Book

Publisher: Springer Fachmedien

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Creating value through virtual teams: A current literature review

Australasian Journal of Information Systems

Volume 18, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 257-269

Creating value through virtual teams: A current literature review  (Article)

Chatfield, A.T. , 

Shlemoon, V.N. , 

Redublado, W. , 

Darbyshire, G. 

School of Information Systems and Technology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

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Abstract

Globally, virtual
teams (VT) as ICT-enabled emergent network organisation forms have
gained international validity by innovative organisations, with a
corresponding surge of interest in understanding how organisations can
leverage VT to create business value. Despite growing deliberations in
VT literature on managing VT, tasks and outcomes, however, creating
business value through VT remains an unresolved theoretical and
pragmatic conundrum. A review of prior relevant literature is essential
to advancing knowledge. The paucity of published review articles seems
to have impeded the field's accumulation of VT knowledge. This research,
therefore, reviews the current literature on case studies of VT to
address the question: What are organisational challenges in creating
business value through VT in the organisation? The key challenges found
in the literature are effective communication, knowledge sharing, trust,
and interpersonal skills in the new virtual boundary-less environment.
Drawing on the IT business value model, we also discuss their
resource-based implications.

Author keywords

Business value creation; Literature review; Organisational challenges; Resourcebased implications; Virtual teams

ISSN: 14498618Source Type: Journal
Original language: English

Document Type: Article

Publisher: Deakin University, School of Information Systems

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Nader Ale Ebrahim


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Manufacture, Faculty of EngineeringUniversity of Malaya (UM) - Research
Support Unit, Centre of Research Services, Institute of Research
Management and Monitoring (IPPP)



Date Posted: June 17, 2013

Accepted Paper Series

288 downloads





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Hub Zwart


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National Research University Higher School of Economics



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National Research University - Higher School of Economics



Date Posted: January 27, 2013

Last Revised: October 28, 2013

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Tobias Preis ,
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Warwick Business School - Behavioural Science Group
,
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,
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and
University College London



Date Posted: October 29, 2012

Accepted Paper Series

118 downloads





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George E. Lasker (Ed.), Advances in Education. Vol. VIII,
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Vladimir A. Fomichov and
Olga S. Fomichova


National Research University Higher School of Economics
and
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Date Posted: July 22, 2012

Accepted Paper Series

20 downloads





Fomichov, V.A. And Fomichova, O.S. Cognitonics as a New Science and its Significance for Informatics and Information Society.

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National Research University Higher School of Economics



Date Posted: July 22, 2012

Accepted Paper Series

17 downloads





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Uri Simonsohn


University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School



Date Posted: July 22, 2012

Last Revised: January 31, 2013

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7573 downloads





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Michelle N. Meyer


Union Graduate College - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Bioethics Program



Date Posted: July 13, 2012

Accepted Paper Series

31 downloads





God, Galileo, and Government: Toward Constitutional Protection For Scientific Inquiry

Washington Law Review, Vol. 53, 1978


Richard Delgado
and
David Millen


University of Alabama - School of Law
and
affiliation not provided to SSRN



Date Posted: July 13, 2012

Accepted Paper Series

33 downloads





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Office of Chief Counsel, Food and Drug Administration



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Date Posted: May 31, 2012

Working Paper Series

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The Monist, Volume 95, Issue 3, July 2012.


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University of California, San Diego



Date Posted: May 26, 2012

Last Revised: July 14, 2014

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305 downloads





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Javidi, T. (2010). ‘A Reflection on the Possibility of Religious Education’. Philosophy of Education, No.3. pp. 75-88,


Tahereh Javadi


affiliation not provided to SSRN



Date Posted: May 22, 2012

Accepted Paper Series

15 downloads





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Bioethics, Vol. 26, Issue 5, pp. 242-250, 2012


Jonathan Kimmelman


McGill University - BioMedical Ethics Unit



Date Posted: May 12, 2012

Accepted Paper Series

1 downloads





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Brian A. Nosek
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Date Posted: May 04, 2012

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434 downloads





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Patrizio E. Tressoldi ,
Massimiliano Martinelli
,
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and
Sara Cappato


Università di Padova
,
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,
University of Padua - Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale
and
University of Padua



Date Posted: April 02, 2012

Last Revised: January 17, 2014

Working Paper Series

127 downloads





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Patrizio E. Tressoldi and
Andrei Khrennikov


Università di Padova
and
Linnaeus University - International Center for Mathematical Modelling in Physics and Cognitive



Date Posted: April 02, 2012

Last Revised: August 18, 2012

Working Paper Series

27 downloads





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Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence: The Case of Non-Local
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Università di Padova



Date Posted: March 29, 2012

Working Paper Series

12 downloads





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Perspectives on Psychological Science, Vol. 7, pp. 109-118, 2012,
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Gregory Mitchell


University of Virginia School of Law



Date Posted: March 13, 2012

Last Revised: January 31, 2015

Accepted Paper Series

238 downloads





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Lorenzo Ductor


Massey University



Date Posted: February 02, 2012

Working Paper Series

57 downloads





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Hans-Diedrich Kreft


shuccle AG



Date Posted: December 19, 2011

Last Revised: December 27, 2011

Working Paper Series

69 downloads





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Fact-Standard Dualism Contra 'Value-Free' Social Science Karl R. Popper
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Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 1-18, March 1983
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Fred Eidlin


Charles University



Date Posted: November 28, 2011

Last Revised: December 05, 2011

Accepted Paper Series

100 downloads





Deprofiled Arguments in Coextension Path Fictive Motion


Ryan Dewey


Case Western Reserve University - Department of Cognitive Science



Date Posted: September 19, 2011

Working Paper Series

58 downloads





‘Follow
the Innovation’ – The Second Year of a Joint Experimentation and
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ZEF Working Paper Series No. 63


Mehmood Ul Hassan
and
Anna-Katharina Hornidge


University of Bonn - Center for Development Research (ZEF)
and
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Date Posted: June 09, 2011

Working Paper Series

17 downloads





The Biography of Scientists as a Means of Communicating Science: Analogies Concerning a Hermeneutic or Empirical Problem


Maria Francisca Carneiro


Federal University of Paraná



Date Posted: May 13, 2011

Working Paper Series

12 downloads





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Robert E. Martin


Centre College



Date Posted: May 10, 2011

Last Revised: November 12, 2011

Working Paper Series

287 downloads





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TOWARDS A SEMANTIC WEB: CONNECTING KNOWLEDGE IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH,
pp. 429-489, B. Cope, M. Kalantzis, L. Magee, eds., Chandos Press, 2011


Richard Vines
and
Joseph Firestone


University of Melbourne - eScholarship Research Centre
and
affiliation not provided to SSRN



Date Posted: March 02, 2011

Working Paper Series

40 downloads





Research Data: Who Will Share What, with Whom, When, and Why?

RatSWD Working Paper No. 161


Christine L. Borgman


UCLA



Date Posted: November 26, 2010

Last Revised: July 05, 2011

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100 downloads





Perspectiva
Narrativa Sobre 'Historia del Tiempo', de Stephen Hawking (Stephen
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Universidad de Zaragoza



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Analele Universităţii din Craiova, Seria Filosofie, Nr. 26 (2/2010), ISSN: 1841-8325,


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Stefan cel Mare University



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Henry Sauermann
and
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Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
and
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business



Date Posted: July 01, 2010

Last Revised: August 18, 2014

Accepted Paper Series

447 downloads





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Center for Research and Teaching of Economics (CIDE) - Division of Economics



Date Posted: June 20, 2010

Working Paper Series

104 downloads





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Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, Vol. 30, No. 9, 2010


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University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law



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Working Paper Series

120 downloads





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IACM 23rd Annual Conference Paper


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HEC Montreal - Department of Human Resources Management



Date Posted: May 22, 2010

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66 downloads




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Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference 2010: Law, Institutions & Human Behavior


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Umea University Deptartment of Physics



Date Posted: May 15, 2010

Working Paper Series

SSRN CSN: Science (Topic)