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Product development kpis: A case study analysis in food and fashion companies
Full text linkTwo of the main industries that are currently paying huge attention to Product Development (PD) are Food & Fashion (F&F). Even if the remaining supply chain processes (production, distribution, sales) are managed in different ways and dissimilar outsourcing policies are adopted, PD is the most valuable process that both the industries are emphasizing. In the Italian context, F&F also represent two of the three excellences of the Made in Italy (Furniture is the third element), also known as "3F". Therefore, this research constitutes a progress of a previous work, which has examined critical success factors, PD features and PLM functionalities in the two sectors. The aim of this study is to analyse how to control, to monitor and to enhance PD through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in F&F companies. From the methodological point of view, case study is adopted as a research strategy, designing two questionnaires with a common structure in order to obtain the required information. Indeed, different companies, belonging to the sectors of interest, have been selected and interviewed. As a result, KPIs are identified and classified. Moreover, a comparison between the previously listed metrics is performed and the drivers affecting similarities and differences are highlighted. This research helps to fill the literature gap, given the few contributions related to product development in the F&F supply chains. It also represents a valuable insight for practitioners who are trying to improve business processes and to increase the control over product development
Lean and industry 4.0 principles toward industry 5.0: a conceptual framework and empirical insights from fashion industry
Full text linkPurpose: Examining synergies between Lean, Industry 4.0, and Industry 5.0 principles, the aim is to showcase how Lean's focus on people enhances Industry 5.0 implementations, leading to the development of the Lean 5.0 paradigm. In addition, insights from artisanal industries, like the fashion one, are specifically collected. Design/methodology/approach: First, a literature review was conducted to define a comprehensive framework to understand how Lean fits into the Human-Centric (HC) paradigm of Industry 5.0. Second, a case study was employed to give empirical insights and identify practical initiatives that brands can pursue, involving two best-in-class leather goods brands located in Italy. Findings: A conceptual framework to pave the way for new paradigm Lean 5.0 was defined and validated through a case study. To path the way for a case study in the fashion industry, the Lean HC paradigm is detailed into domains and related categories to group practices. The empirical insights demonstrate that Lean HC actions can be effectively supported by Industry 4.0 technologies in traditional sectors like the fashion industry, shifting towards Industry 5.0. Practical implications: The proposed framework and related practices can be used by companies to facilitate their transition towards Industry 5.0, leveraging on Lean Manufacturing. Originality/value: The innovative contribution of the present work mainly refers to the proposed conceptual framework, encompassing Lean, HC and Industry 4.0 and introducing Lean 5.0 paradigm. The case study enriches the empirical contributions in the fashion industry
Firm's characteristics and sustainability in the TCL industry
No full textThe Textile, Clothing and Leather (TCL) sector is one of the world's largest industries, while also one of the most polluting, being a huge consumer of water, electricity and chemicals, and discharging massive quantities of waste to land. During the last decade, stakeholders' pressure on sustainability has challenged TCL companies to transform general environmental sustainability concepts into business practices, from the definition of a sustainability strategy to the implementation of coherent practices and operative actions. TCL companies reacted differently to this challenge, from a passive to a more proactive and committed approach. In such context, the goal of this paper is to analyse which are firm's characteristics that discriminate between different corporate environmental sustainability approaches in terms of: 1) importance of stakeholders involved in the sustainable strategy; 2) implementation level of different sustainable practices; and 3) competitiveness factors achieved through the implementation of a sustainable strategy. Results show that clothing and leather companies have a higher commitment to sustainability in all the corporate environmental management areas, while mixed findings can be drawn from the analysis of firm's size. No significant differences have been found in terms of competitive advantage strategies
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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