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Internationalizing Firms. International Strategy, Trends and Challenges
No full textThis book explores emerging trends in internationalization, analyzing the processes and steps that firms take when entering new markets. This timely contribution highlights the need for a deeper understanding of today’s internationalization process, critiquing existing literature and instead proposing a new paradigm based on a re-interpretation of the Resource-based View (RBV). Analysing the motives behind internationalizing, the factors affecting entry choices, and the challenges connected to outsourcing and offshoring, the authors present a new framework for understanding the reasons behind internationalization and the financial risks that are involved. With theoretical discussion and empirical case studies, this book seeks to offer an informed insight into internationalizing, making it an invaluable read for those researching entrepreneurship on a global scale, as well as managers and leaders of international firms
COMPETENZE CULTURALI E INTERNAZIONALIZZAZIONE DELLE IMPRESE
No full textNell’ambito delle strategie di sviluppo internazionale delle imprese, lo studio delle caratteristiche culturali degli host context, quale chiave di lettura per la gestione delle relazioni tra imprese di paesi diversi e per l’inserimento delle imprese in uno o più sistemi cognitivi di natura “globa- le”, può diventare un valido strumento di supporto alle scelte strategiche di internazionalizzazione. La conoscenza della cultura dominante nei diversi contesti può contribuire a ridurre l’incertezza insita negli approcci a merca- ti non familiari e può aiutare a trovare le soluzioni più idonee per il supera- mento dei conflitti che possono generarsi nei rapporti inter-organizzativi. I manager delle multinazionali sono ormai consapevoli dell’importanza di acquisire competenze culturali per il successo delle iniziative da intrapren- dere, di acquisire una capacità di riconoscere e combinare le diversità e di aprirsi ad esse per cercare di appropriarsi di nuove idee e di nuove cono- scenze.
ADRIANA CALVELLI - CHIARA CANNAVALE
COMPETENZE CULTURALI
E INTERNAZIONALIZZAZIONE DELLE IMPRESE
In un’ottica di completamento degli studi sul management internazionale, il lavoro, sistematizzando i risultati di un lungo e progressivo lavoro di ricerca, approfondisce il ruolo che le cultural competence hanno nei processi di internazionalizzazione delle imprese e punta alla comprensione delle culture dei diversi contesti, delle determinanti ad esse sottese e dell’impatto che le culture hanno sui comportamenti, pratiche e stili di leadership delle imprese locali
The replication of the Italian Industrial district model: cross-cultural issues
No full textThis paper aims to investigate the international replication of the Italian industrial district model, emphasising the role of cross-cultural issues. International management literature and empirical evidences show an Italian districts’ tendency towards internationalisation and interesting observations can derive from the evolution of Italian industrial districts and from the main characteristics of the new district models emerging in Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Some of these industrial clusters find their role model in Italian industrial districts and the ones showing the strongest similarities are those emerged in the areas characterised by a lower cultural distance, if compared with Italian cultural values. Stimulating research topics actually concern the internationalisation of Italian industrial districts and the different inter-firms relationships it can generate
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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