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Governing business dynamics in complex contexts
No full textPurpose – The paper is to highlight the peculiarities of Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME) and its proposals with reference to network and systems theories, such as the Many-to-Many, and the Viable Systems Approach (VSA).
Methodology/approach – Conceptual analysis based on new developments in SSME, Many-to- Many and (VSA), dealing with the thesis that these scientific proposals are coherent and complementary, and that theories can benefit one from the other when comparing their principles and scientific proposals.
Findings – Many-to-Many logic and SSME are theories grounded on networks, value co-creation and systems. Also (VSA), a grand theory and interdisciplinary approach is grounded on systems thinking and resource-based theory. Considering its broad view, with inferences from biology, sociology and mechanics, it represents an interpretative lens for complex phenomena. In this direction, (VSA) seems to be suitable for analysing service systems being its capacity to move from holism to reductionism, respecting the single characteristics of each entity of the context. Many-to- Many and SSME are focused on the comprehension of Service in general, which can be represented by a complex systems dynamic, in which value is created and exchanged in terms of service among multiple entities. According to (VSA), every system, in order to be viable, always governs its relations among supra-systems and sub-systems, looking for harmonic behaviour (consonance) that aims at survival and development, by satisfying supra-systems expectations and rewarding sub- systems. In this direction, (VSA) can contribute to improve and develop these disciplines.
Research implications – SSME and Many-to-Many are gradually being integrated. The research implies that the network theories, and specifically (VSA), could considerably support this integration by contributing with its own scientific proposals. In brief, we believe that the (VSA)‟s view on business purposes, value creation and the management of relations are strongly coherent with the view proposed or tacitly implied by SSME and Many-to-Many approach.
Practical implications – The academic audience is encouraged to critically analyse network and systems theories, and in particular the (VSA) proposal and theories, in order to verify the possibilities and ways it could contribute to scientific advancements in Service Science and Many- to-Many. To a practitioner audience, it offers ideas for the enhancement of government business dynamics through the awareness of network and systems approach.
Originality/value – Many contributions have focused on the SSME and Many-to-Many logic, highlighting the significant integration between the two scientific proposals. This paper is written with the intention to give a further contribution and broaden the perspective of network and systems theories, introducing possible further inferences by virtue of (VSA)
Architettura finanziaria, rischio e effetto distretto nelle medie imprese industriali italiane
No full textThe research objectives of the paper are twofold:
1) to map patterns of financial architecture a la Myers (1999) of the Italian manufacturing medium-sized companies (hereafter MSEs), in order to identify and classify their more frequently observed behaviors in terms of ownership, governance, and financial structure
2) to verify whether, and under which conditions, the financial architectures has a significant impact on the firm's risk taking behavior.
The hypothesis is that the Italian MSEs' risk taking attitude is influenced by ownership (equity invested in the firm, number of owners, ownership concentration, subjective and behavioural characteristics of the owners like age, social and cultural background, value system, entrepreneurial culture, risk attitude, etc.) and governance (number and composition of boards, owners' involvement in management, founder/CEO duality, degree of formalization of the decision-making process, role/contribution of the younger generation, etc.).
The traditional approach, internationally, analyzes ownership and governance using a "stand alone" approach, referring to general and abstract models of financial architecture (for example, family versus non-family business). On the contrary, this paper tries to empirically identify and specify which aspects of the financial architecture (and which qualifications of these aspects) have a more relevant impact, trying to quantify their impact, both as "stand alone" determinants, and as more frequently observable combinations. The risk-taking profile is analyzed with reference to the innovation strategy. In fact, this strategy represents an extended risk taking behavior: it is characterized by high investments and sunk costs in the creation of new skills/advantages, and extended lags between investment and results. Furthermore, it can drastically change the competitive position, the organizational arrangements, and the internal and external relationships.
The analysis is conducted on the Mediobanca-Unioncamere universe of the Italian manufacturing MSEs in the mechanical and textile-clothing-leather industries, during the 2000-2002 period (i.e. 1459 firms)
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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