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Planning Contracts in Southern Italy, 1986-1997: a Preliminary Evaluation
No full textIn this paper we analyse the so called “planning contracts” which were adopted by the Italian Government in 1986 to promote industrial development in the South, that is the least favoured area of the country. The paper is organised in two sections. First, we present a full and detailed picture of the planning contracts as they stood in December 1997, reconstructed on the basis of the CIPI (Inter-ministerial committee for industrial policy) and CIPE (Inter-ministerial committee for economic planning) deliberations and discuss the degree to which investment plans and objectives of regional policy coincide. Second, we attempt a stylisation by means of a simplified model. The aim of the exercise is basically to make some considerations of a methodological nature of the coherence between the contractual plan and the objectives of regional policy which should be pursued through the instrument of the planning contracts. The conclusions of our paper underline that interest in the planning contracts can be attributed to the offer of a public incentive which is "agile" and designed as far as possible to suit the specific case, so that it may attract productive capital from stronger areas to the less developed ones. However we suggest that the requisites of the planning contract need to be reformulated. In particular, the outpayments should be linked, at least in part, to progress made towards the objectives of the policy of technological and employment re-balancing. In this way the management will not “inflate” employment in the first period and reduce it when its contractual commitment expires. In this sense the ex-ante, initinere and ex-post evaluation mechanisms for the planning contracts would need to be thoroughly reconsidered
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
The internationalisation of the automotive supply chain : empirical evidence from Italian firms
No full textThe aim of this paper is to study the characteristics of the internationalisation process and to identify its determinants in a representative sample of 786 firms in the Italian automotive chain. We carried out a a multinomial logit and an ordered probit analyses. The main findings of the econometric analyses based on the available micro-evidence are that: a) the firms in the Italian supply chain engage in complex modes of internationalisation; b) the individual firm’s characteristics play a significant role in the probability of internalization; c) the firms located in the province of Turin have a clear localisation advantage, because of an “industrial district” effect. We also observe that internationalisation is negatively correlated to the share of Fiat, the Italian dominant car maker, in the supplier’s sale
The competitive repositioning of automotive firms in Turin : innovation, internationalisation and the role of ICT
No full textFollowing the increasing competitive pressure and the emergence of new industrial poles within the auto industry, Italian firms have been the protagonists of an intense reorganisation, which is still ongoing. This case-study involves 13 supplier firms, operating in the automotive industry, localised in Turin, that have adopted a series of strategies aimed at improving their international competitiveness. The empirical findings show that there is a particularly strong innovative drive for the interviewed firms to position themselves in activities with greater added value and to undertake internationalisation strategies, from the 'lighter' to the more 'complex' forms, coupled with a use of information and communication technologies epresents a case of excellenc
Optimal Parking of Transit Aircraft in an Airport with Overlapping Parking Places
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Internationalisation and the agglomeration effect : evidence from the Italian automotive supply chain
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to study the characteristics of the internationalisation process and to identify its determinants in a representative sample of 786 firms in the Italian automotive chain. We carried out a a multinomial logit and an ordered probit analyses. The main findings of the econometric analyses based on the available micro-evidence are that: a) the firms in the Italian supply chain engage in complex modes of internationalisation; b) the individual firm’s characteristics play a significant role in the probability of internalization; c) the firms located in the province of Turin have a clear localisation advantage, because of an “industrial district” effect. We also observe that internationalisation is negatively correlated to the share of Fiat, the Italian dominant car maker, in the supplier’s sale
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