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Storie di imprese
No full textAlcuni tra i più significativi casi di cambiamento organizzativo negli ultimi decenni nelle più importanti imprese operanti in Italia
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
Recensione di “B. Maggi (a cura di), Interpretare l’agire: una sfida teorica, 2011, Carocci, Roma- ed. originale: PUF, Parigi, 2011”
No full textLa recensione presenta il volume dedicato all’agire sociale, un tema elettivo delle scienze umane e sociali, e quindi centro di interesse di molteplici discipline come la psicologia, la sociologia, il diritto, la linguistica, l’economia, le scienze dell’educazione, la riflessione interdisciplinare sull’organizzazione e molte altre ancora. Seguendo lo stesso originale schema espositivo, i capitoli dell’opera affrontano temi centrali per le discipline coinvolte: il corso dell’azione sociale e delle sue conseguenze nel loro rapporto specifico con la regolazione e il potere; il ruolo del pensiero e del linguaggio rispetto all’attività di lavoro; la socializzazione come regolazione dell’agire sociale, tra autonomia e eteronomia; il lavoro d’organizzazione delle attività professionali; il rapporto tra apprendimento organizzativo e strutturazione organizzativa; gli sviluppi nel diritto del lavoro in relazione a più ampi cambiamenti sociali, economici, culturali e politici di lunga durata; e ancora: la razionalità tecnica delle azioni, la ri-produzione di routine organizzative, la capacità dei soggetti nel lavoro organizzato di affermare i propri punti di vista e interessi anche entro configurazioni sociali fortemente asimmetriche; il rapporto tra analisi del lavoro, pensiero e linguaggio nei servizi di inserimento, orientamento e transizione professionale; il rapporto tra cambiamento tecnologico e organizzativo nell’ambito della progettazione industriale o con riferimento agli strumenti e alle tecniche di intelligenza artificiale e di supporto alle decisioni; il rapporto tra formazione e analisi del lavoro con riferimento al mestiere degli insegnanti; il contributo della contrattazione collettiva del tempo di lavoro alla strutturazione delle imprese, ecc. La coerenza interna è un’importante caratteristica dell’opera. Le teorie presentate convergono verso un comune modo di intendere l’azione e l’attività, che riconosce i soggetti agenti come protagonisti della propria storia, individuale e collettiva. I processi di azione e decisione intenzionali e (limitatamente) razionali rappresentano quindi il centro delle analisi, che portano così a comprendere, e forse a governare, l’incessante mutamento sociale
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
The relevance of Giddens' structuration theory for organizational research
Full text linkAnthony Giddens' Structuration Theory is probably one of the sociological theories more directly referenced and more widely used, in a variety of ways, in organizational research. Why is that, and what does it mean for organizational research? In this paper we explore this issue by reviewing some early, influential contributions, within the organizational field, that used Giddens' theory as the main reference. We will show that the actual utilizations of such theory are very heterogeneous in many relevant concepts, although they are all moved by similar theoretical needs. We also propose that in order to properly answer to those needs, organizational research should focus on some key elements that, while being central in Giddens' contribution, are not always interpreted consistently by "Giddensian" organization scholars. Finally, we will argue that it is possible for the organization reflection, even when it is not built upon Structuration Theory, to share and realize Giddens' main "message" to the organizational discipline: the need for an organization theory truly based on an epistemological view that allows to overcome the objectivist / subjectivist dilemma
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