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Error-driven emergence of ownership competences: evidence from early ventures
No full textThis study explores how early-stage startup founders develop ownership competences—matching, timing, and governance—through error-driven learning processes. Using a grounded theory approach, we analyze data from 96 Italian startup founders, examining the cognitive and behavioral responses to errors during their entrepreneurial journey from founders to owners. Our findings reveal three distinct cognitive approaches to errors—avoiding, hedging, and embracing—that shape how founders engage with errors and influence their learning mechanisms. While avoidance limits competence development, hedging facilitates episodic learning, and embracing fosters systematic learning, driving iterative adaptation and innovation. By synthesizing entrepreneurial cognitive approaches with specific learning mechanisms, we uncover how errors trigger the emergence of ownership competences, transitioning founders from founders to owners. This research advances effectuation and competence-based theories by positioning learning from errors mechanisms as critical junctures
Phoenix Rising: The Owner's Journey of Family Business Sale and Revival through Ownership Competence
No full textPhoenix Rising: The Owner's Journey of Family Business Sale and Revival through Ownership Competence
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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
Phoenix rising: the owner's journey of family business sale and revival through ownership competence
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALEQuesta ricerca analizza l'evoluzione del ruolo dei proprietari nella creazione di valore e nei processi decisionali delle imprese familiari. Contrariamente alla prospettiva tradizionale che vede i proprietari come azionisti passivi, questo studio enfatizza il ruolo strategico dei proprietari come strateghi attivi. In particolare, tre tipi di competenze - matching, governance e timing - sono identificate come cruciali nella creazione di valore. Questa ricerca estende l'attenzione alle famiglie imprenditoriali e alle loro dinamiche uniche, in particolare durante eventi significativi come la vendita dell'azienda familiare. La vendita viene analizzata per i suoi impatti finanziari, psicologici ed emotivi sui proprietari. L'indagine affronta la mancanza di un'analisi completa nella letteratura attuale, soprattutto per quanto riguarda le competenze dei proprietari nelle fasi decisionali e post-vendita. Conducendo interviste semi-strutturate a famiglie imprenditoriali multigenerazionali di Italia e Danimarca, questo studio approfondisce l'influenza delle competenze della proprietà sulle loro manovre strategiche durante gli eventi di vendita. La tesi elabora un quadro di riferimento che mostra come l'applicazione efficace delle competenze proprietarie consenta ai proprietari di imprese familiari di affrontare le sfide associate alla vendita della propria azienda. Questa ricerca mira a caratterizzare le competenze di proprietà e a rivelare come possono essere sfruttate in situazioni critiche, arricchendo la comprensione delle famiglie imprenditoriali come proprietari.This research investigates the evolving role of owners in value creation and decision-making processes within family businesses. Contrary to the traditional perspective of owners as passive shareholders, this study emphasizes the owners' strategic role as active strategists. In particular, three types of competences - matching, governance, and timing - are identified as crucial in value creation. This research extends its focus to business families and their unique dynamics, particularly during significant events such as the sale of the family business. The sale is explored for its financial, psychological, and emotional impacts on owners. This investigation addresses the lack of comprehensive analysis in current literature, especially on ownership competences in decision-making and post-sale phases. By conducting semi-structured interviews with multi-generational business families from Italy and Denmark, this study delves into the influence of ownership competences on their strategic manoeuvring during sale events. The thesis elaborate a framework showing how the effective application of ownership competences enables family business owners to navigate challenges associated with the sale of their business. This research aims to characterize ownership competences and reveal how they can be leveraged in critical situations, enriching the understanding of business families as owners
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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