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Closed-loop supply chain transparency: consumers’ reaction to retailers’ information disclosure
No full textConsumers are increasingly demanding in terms of supply chain transparency (SCT); however, it still remains an open issue for retailers. The transition toward closed-loop supply chains (CLSC) is involving consumers as active parties in the supply chain management processes, especially in the textile and clothing industry. In fact, consumers participate in take-back programs by actively acting as suppliers in the closed-loop process and decide whether to buy new products or products composed by recycled materials. In applying the signaling theory the current study aims at investigating which is the impact of disclosing closed-loop supply chain information on consumers’ purchase intention and consumers’ intention to participate in take-back programs. Three scenario-based survey experiments with consumer participants are developed. The first and second study investigates the efficacy of breadth closed-loop SC transparency, with closed-loop SC visibility and closed-loop SC traceability as the manipulated independent variables, respectively on consumers purchase intention and consumers intention to participate in take-back programs. The third study examines the efficacy of when to disclose information on consumers intention to participate in take- back programs. The research findings contribute to the advancement of the literature investigating consumer centricity in supply chain management and provide retailers with valuable insights on strategic investments in transparency
Objects and Subjects in the Left Periphery: The case of a-Topics
No full textA parallel is highlighted between the linguistic behavior of young Italian-speaking children as emerged in recent experimental work (Belletti and Manetti 2017) with comparative data from other Romance languages such as Balearic Catalan and (previous stages of) Spanish in the domain of a-Topics. A possible path from a-Topics to DOM is drawn, building on previous proposals in Belletti (2017a). a-Marking of topics concerns direct object DPs. A proposal is sketched out as to why subject DPs could not be a-marked when they are also topics in terms of a possibly conflicting requirement arising from the simultaneous satisfaction of both the Topic criterion with a-marking and the Subject criterion (in the sense of Rizzi 2006)
Aspetti comunicativi e interculturali nell’insegnamento delle lingue. Cittadini europei dal nido all’università
No full textAspetti comunicativi e interculturali nell’insegnamento delle lingue.
Cittadini europei dal nido all’universita
Plurilinguismo e università
No full textIl presente contributo
nasce da un progetto di ricerca, in corso di svolgimento, con il prof. Enrico Borello dell’Università de-gli Studi di Firenze, riguardante la situazione di apprendimento/insegnamento delle lingue in Italia con particolare riferimento alla formazione universitaria fiorentina
Negation and negative copulas in Bantu
Full text linkThe main aim of this work is to further speculate on the many syntactic similarities, already discussed in previous work, which may be observed in Bantu and Romance languages. In particular, this work analyses the expression of negation in Bantu, a phenomenon which involves different elements and multiple positions. Crucially, Bantu negation is generally encoded in a specialized prefix, which shows up at the left edge of the complex verbal form; however, negation may also interfere either with tense feature – at least in languages, like Swahili, which exhibit morphologically different tense/aspect infixes in affirmative and negative clauses – or with modality, encoded in the final inflection. This recalls the situation observed also in Romance varieties and especially in Northern Italian dialects
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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