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Innovazione: concetti introduttivi
Full text linkL'innovazione è un fattore-chiave per il successo delle organizzazioni. Chi innova, infatti, ha più possibilità di battere la concorrenza e crea maggior valore per gli investitori, i dipendenti, i clienti e le altre parti interessate. L'innovazione, qualunque sia la sua natura (tecnologica, organizzativa, di marketing, ecc.) gioca, dunque, un ruolo sempre più importante nella vita delle organizzazioni, perché da essa dipende l’aumento della produttività, la capacità di competere e, in ultima analisi, la possibilità di avere un successo durevole.
Tuttavia, sebbene l'importanza dell'innovazione sia ampiamente riconosciuta, non è altrettanto facile fare in modo che essa diventi parte integrante di un'organizzazione. Dotarsi della capacità di innovare, per molte aziende rimane una sfida irrisolta. L'innovazione, infatti, richiede l'esplorazione di percorsi nuovi e mai sperimentati e scelte manageriali coraggiose che potrebbero portare anche a fallimenti. I modelli standard di remunerazione delle prestazioni che premiano i risultati a breve termine e puniscono duramente gli insuccessi, tendono a dissuadere i manager dal provare nuove soluzioni a favore di metodi collaudati che offrono risultati prevedibili. Il presente capitolo presenta una introduzione sintetica ma completa delle conoscenze necessarie per approfondire questo importante e attuale tema
Innovazione nel modello di business
Full text linkL’innovazione oggi è considerata il fattore determinante del successo competitivo di un’impresa. Tuttavia essa non riguarda soltanto i prodotti e i servizi e, soprattutto, non nasce solamente dallo sviluppo o dall’introduzione di nuova tecnologia. Molti casi di successo imprenditoriale degli ultimi decenni, infatti, non possono essere spiegati se si considera l’innovazione un processo ancorato o dipendente da un avanzamento puramente tecnologic
Theories and methods in CSR communication studies. A systematic review
No full textPurpose
The aim of this paper is to provide a review about Corporate Social Responsibility Communication (CSRC) from a methodological point of view. Scholars have increasingly shown interest in this topic, however, there has been no review of how different methodologies have contributed to advancing knowledge in this field.
Design/methodology/approach
We searched title, abstract, and related keywords through a sets of terms related to CSR (e.g. cor- porate ethical; corporate environmental; social responsibility; corporate accountability) and Com- munication (e.g. communica*; reporting; disclosure*; dialogue*; sensemaking). We narrowed down the amount of 3173 papers resulted by the search by considering only papers published on top and field-related journals. Then we classify papers into conceptual versus empirical papers. The final dataset is made by 556 empirical papers.
Findings
We coded each empirical paper by: 1) the research design (qualitative, quantitative and mixed me- thods), 2) the research method in terms of type of data collection and data analysis, 4) the unit of analysis, 5) the sample and 6) the context in which the study has been conducted.
Research limitations/implications
Future research will delve deeper into four main areas: 1) identify the main research domains of CSR Communication literature; 2) match research domains of CSR communication literature with me- thodological approaches; 3) provide a comprehensive framework of the theories and methods avai- lable in CSRC research; 4) employ co-citation analysis and content analysis on the collected papers.
Originality/value
The present paper systematically reviews methods and techniques employed in the CSR Commu- nication literature
Theories and methods in CSRC research: a systematic literature review
No full textPurpose – The authors have systematically reviewed 534 corporate social responsibility communication (CSRC) papers, updating the current debate about the ontological and epistemological paradigms that characterize the field, and providing evidence of the interactions between these paradigms and the related methodological choices. The purpose of this paper is to provide theoretical and methodological implications for future research in the CSRC research domain.
Design/methodology/approach – The authors used the Scopus database to search for titles, abstracts and related keywords with two queries sets relating to corporate social responsibility (e.g. corporate ethical, corporate environmental, social responsibility, corporate accountability) and CSRC (e.g. reporting, disclosure, dialogue, sensemaking). The authors identified 534 empirical papers (2000–2016), which the authors coded manually to identify the research methods and research designs (Creswell, 2013). The authors then developed an ad hoc dictionary whose keywords relate to the three primary CSRC approaches (instrumental, normative and constitutive). Using the software Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, the authors undertook an automated content analysis in order to measure these approaches’ relative popularity and compare the methods employed in empirical research.
Findings – The authors found that the instrumental approach, which belongs to the functionalist paradigm, dominates the CSRC literature with its relative weight being constant over time. The normative approach also belongs to the functionalist paradigm, but plays a minor yet enduring role. The constitutive approach belongs to the interpretive paradigm and grew slightly over time, but still remains largely beyond the instrumental approach. In the instrumental approach, many papers report on descriptive empirical analyses. In the constitutive approach, theory-method relationships are in line with the various paradigmatic traits, while the normative approach presents critical issues. Regarding methodology, according to the findings, the literature review underlines three major limitations that characterize the existing empirical evidence and provides avenues for future research. While multi-paradigmatic research is promoted in the CRSC literature (Crane and Glozer, 2016; Morsing, 2017; Schoeneborn and Trittin, 2013), the authors found no empirical evidence.
Originality/value – This is the first paper to systematically review empirical research in the CSRC field and is also the first to address the relationship between research paradigms, theoretical approaches, and methods. Further, the authors suggest a novel way to develop systematic reviews (i.e. via quantitative, automated content analysis), which can now also be applied in other literature streams and in other contexts
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
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