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Strategic Management of Public–Private Partnerships: Actors, Aims, and Capabilities
No full textIn the last 20 years, Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have substantially modified business assets in critical sectors, such as those related to public utility services. In several cases, the cooperation between public and private actors has been a determinant at both the local and national level in the maintenance or improvement of the development of resources, dynamic and ordinary capabilities, and competences that are fundamental to ensuring the innovation of services and processes for the firms, together with the satisfaction of the stakeholders’ interests. This chapter examines, from a strategic perspective, the roles and functions of the public–private interplay in the development of critical business. How much the PPP managing capabilities are a determinant to learning, increasing, and developing the knowledge and business innovation as a whole is specifically highlighted
Value Creation Through Public–Private Partnerships in the Healthcare Sector: A Managerial Analysis of Italian Healthcare Organizations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textThe recent pandemic has highlighted the weaknesses and the strengths of the Italian Healthcare System, revealing the importance of a cooperative behavior among involved actors. The paper shows how Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) may contribute to pursue the strategic objectives aimed at correctly replying to the healthcare needs. In more details, the paper highlights the role of PPPs in valorizing the interdependencies existing among actors and reveals the possibility of adopting PPPs to manage appropriate and effective healthcare services. At this aim the paper focuses on the activities conducted by the Scientific Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare Institute to face the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights their capacity of exploiting relationships and building PPPs. The analysis of the case study of Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori better elucidates the possibility of value creation through PPPs in the Healthcare Sector
Reuse of Fishery Waste for Chromium(III) Removal from Wastewater
No full textDuring last fifteen years many efforts have been done to consider some industrial residues as adsorbent materials able to remove heavy metals, dyes and other pollutants from industrial wastewaters. Use of residues as non conventional adsorbents is economically convenient as traditional adsorbents are characterized by high costs which tends to limit their applications despite good performances often related to adsorption processes. The number of tested residues as low-cost adsorbents is not negligible, as testified by a considerable number of papers dealing with this specific subject. Among others agro-industrial ones, such as coffee and tea waste, sugar waste, rice ad wheat residues, pistachio and peanut hulls, strawberry leaves, grass waste, almond and hazelnut shells, and oil mill solid residues, play a primary roles for dyes and heavy metals removal, and have been proved efficient also for cyanide and ammonia nitrogen adsorption. For heavy metals fly ashes have also been tested with good results. Starting from the encouraging results reported in these papers, it has been carried out an experimental research aimed at investigating the possibility of re-using wastes coming from fishery industry for the removal of chromium from tannery wastewater. Tannery industry is one of the prominent activity in Italy, producing about 5 thousands billion Euros per year, and covering about 70% of European production and a little less than 20% of word production. Tanneries use large amount of chromium to stabilize animal hides, so it is not rare to find, in spent tanning baths, Cr(III) concentrations reaching several thousands milligrams per liter. It follows that chromium removal from tannery wastewater represents a big priority for environment conservation. The reason for testing fishery waste as adsorbent material, particularly wastes coming from crustacean processing, is due to the high content of chitin into fish shells, which is the compound from which is obtained, by de-acetylation, chitosan, a well known chelating compound frequently used as chromium sequestrating agent. Moreover fishery waste disposal represent a big deal not only in Italy, but also in many other countries, such as Canada, Japan, and Alaska, characterized by an ancient tradition of seafood consumption.
The most important characteristic of the study presented in the paper is the use of the residues simply washed and grinded without recourse to any other processing, and the comparison made with performances obtained using more traditional adsorbent materials
Strategic environmental management in the european health care sector: the case of innovative governance of IRRCSs
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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
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
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