Paul Mbatia
Biographic Data
| ID | 198623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Mbatia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Mbatia |
| SIGNATURE | MBATIA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Has the Internet Reduced Friendship? Scientific Relationships in Ghana, Kenya, and India, 1994-2010
Has the Internet changed the pattern of social relations? More specifically, have social relations undergone any systematic change during the recent widespread diffusion of new communications technology? This question is addressed using a unique longitudinal survey that bookends the entire period of Internet diffusion in two African nations and one Indian state. We analyze data on nine professional linkages reported by a population of agricultura…
Accountability and Inaction: NGOs and Resource Lodging in Development
From the late 1980s, research on NGOs had a normative focus and was vulnerable to changing donor preoccupations. This article contributes a new conceptual approach, analysing the practices through which relationships and resources are translated into programmes and projects. The theoretical justification for this move combines the new ethnography of development practice with a re-agency approach to transactions across time and space. The study is…
Collaboration Paradox: Scientific Productivity, the Internet, and Problems of Research in Developing Areas
We examine the ways in which the research process differs in developed and developing areas by focusing on two questions. First, is collaboration associated with productivity? Second, is access to the Internet (specifically use of email) associated with reduced problems of collaboration? Recent analyses by Lee & Bozeman (2005) and Walsh & Maloney (2003) suggest affirmative answers to these questions for US scientists. Based on a comparative analy…
Collaboration Paradox: Scientific Productivity, the Internet, and Problems of Research in Developing Areas
We examine the ways in which the research process differs in developed and developing areas by focusing on two questions. First, is collaboration associated with productivity? Second, is access to the Internet (specifically use of email) associated with reduced problems of collaboration? Recent analyses by Lee & Bozeman (2005) and Walsh & Maloney (2003) suggest affirmative answers to these questions for US scientists. Based on a comparative analy…
Accountability and Inaction: NGOs and Resource Lodging in Development
From the late 1980s, research on NGOs had a normative focus and was vulnerable to changing donor preoccupations. This article contributes a new conceptual approach, analysing the practices through which relationships and resources are translated into programmes and projects. The theoretical justification for this move combines the new ethnography of development practice with a re-agency approach to transactions across time and space. The study is…
Collaboration Paradox: Scientific Productivity, the Internet, and Problems of Research in Developing Areas
We examine the ways in which the research process differs in developed and developing areas by focusing on two questions. First, is collaboration associated with productivity? Second, is access to the Internet (specifically use of email) associated with reduced problems of collaboration? Recent analyses by Lee & Bozeman (2005) and Walsh & Maloney (2003) suggest affirmative answers to these questions for US scientists. Based on a comparative analy…
Accountability and Inaction: NGOs and Resource Lodging in Development
From the late 1980s, research on NGOs had a normative focus and was vulnerable to changing donor preoccupations. This article contributes a new conceptual approach, analysing the practices through which relationships and resources are translated into programmes and projects. The theoretical justification for this move combines the new ethnography of development practice with a re-agency approach to transactions across time and space. The study is…
Has the Internet Reduced Friendship? Scientific Relationships in Ghana, Kenya, and India, 1994-2010
Has the Internet changed the pattern of social relations? More specifically, have social relations undergone any systematic change during the recent widespread diffusion of new communications technology? This question is addressed using a unique longitudinal survey that bookends the entire period of Internet diffusion in two African nations and one Indian state. We analyze data on nine professional linkages reported by a population of agricultura…
Economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · The Internet (2 works) · Accountability (1 works)