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Sul potere della minoranza assembleare in conseguenza dell'acquisto di azioni proprie
No full textThe paper comments on a ruling by the Italian Supreme Court that rules its own earlier standard on the calculation of majorities when the corporation has purchased its own shares. The decision implies the effect that the company's own shares are counted in quorums even when the law adjust them on the capital represented at the meeting. The consequence, as in the case examined, is that minorities see the contrary block of votes strengthened, while the majority shareholder may see its position weakened. The paper examines the reasons underlying the two different possible readings of the problem, agrees with the Supreme Court's ruling, and carries out further reflections on what are the possibilities of conventional derogation of the rule, as well as the possible negative impact on the corporation's operations, proposing some solutions in this regard
Aggregazioni e fusioni di imprese negli appalti pubblici: sinonimi o contrari?
No full textThe paper comments a ruling by the italian's highest administrative court which, in deciding on a joint venture between companies involved in the same public tender, referred to the European Court of Justice the question of whether this should be considered in contrast with the European principle of identity of participants in public tenders at all stages. The paper explaines the reasons underlying the problem and examined the possible interpretative and applicative solutions, also with reference to the ECJ's decision
L'esclusione del socio di società a responsabilità limitata
No full textThe paper examines the issue of the shareholder’s exclusion from the limited liability company, first, in its being fundamentally an exegetical problem; second, in its application, dwelling analytically on the individual problems posed by the phenomenon
Contractual freedom and majority rule: comparing Italian and French private companies
No full textThe paper represents a speech held in an Italian-French scholars’ seminar and concerns the comparison between the Italian limited liability company and the French société anonyme simplifié in the light if their access to capital market. The phenomenon is the result in both systems of a legislative innovation along the line of the incentive to opening the closed companies to the capital market. Despite of the intentions, however, it brings with several applicative problems given the tendentially unsuitable structure of these companies to represent and protect the interests of outside investors. In this regard, the Italian legal system has not adopted detailed regulations, leaving the solution of the problem to the work of the interpreters, while the France legislator has constructed the rules in such a way that them can be either dispensed with, or added to, along the line of the société anonyme’s regulations, depending on the case. The French solution is useful in guiding the elaboration of the same paradigms with regard to the Italian liability company
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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