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“Membership Dynamics in an Insurance Group: Ingroup (local Agency) and Outgroup (Company)”
No full textResearch context regards branch agencies of the of an insurance company: the characteristics of such organizations are the dynamics of interdependence between agencies and head office. The study comprised all 19 insurance agencies of one company operating in the province of Verona, with 61 employees and 19 General Insurance Agents (80 interviewees). Individual determinants have been codified: job role characteristics, personal details and sense of power within the organization; and the following psychosocial determinants: cohesion, entitativity and confidence. Results show that Ingroup/Outgroup perceptions are affected by a combination of individual and psychosocial elements, but there are differences if the questions are related that to local agency group or to head office. With head office, the influence of the individuals aspects prevail, whereas correlations regarding psychosocial variables are much stronger in the agencies. We have verified hypotheses in which some psychosocial variables sensitively weigh upon dynamics of organizational membership, and therefore continuous monitoring of such psychosocial elements are strategically important in the "co-construction" of an organizational culture are verified, and appear as: - work satisfaction is bound to the affective elements of membership; - evaluation of the General Sales Agents reveals a pressure to conform: the more the employee aligns him/herself to the local agency culture, the more the manager (GSA) will evaluate positively his /her agency. - there is a relationship between the parameters of productivity of the agencies and the Intragroup cohesion indicators
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Cosmopolitismo vs internazionalismo: la questione dello "stile" agli esordi di Gabetti & Isola
No full textIl testo intende analizzare il debutto mediatico di Gabetti & Isola sulle pagine di "Casabella-Continuità" nella primavera del 1957 non in relazione al dibattito sul Neo-liberty che seguirà ma nella prospettiva di una mutata sensibilità italiana nei confronti della disciplina del progetto architettonico determinata dalla esperienza della Seconda Guerra Mondiale
Il monumento sulla sabbia. L’Agorà de Tronquoy, Ciudad Abierta, Valparaíso
No full textNel 1992 venne pubblicato un numero della nuova serie della rivista «Zodiac» diretta da Guido Canella che celebrava i cinquecento anni della scoperta dell’America 1 e raccoglieva diversi progetti di importanti architetti latinoamericani e una successione di saggi sull’architettura di quel continente scritti da illustri studiosi della cultura sudamericana. Tra i vari contributi compariva un breve testo scritto in prima persona plurale, che raccontava, in forma quasi epica, delle gesta di un gruppo di docenti architetti, poeti, filosofi e scultori, fino ad allora quasi completamente sconosciuto in Europa e sicuramente in Italia 2 appartenenti alla Scuola di Valparaíso in Cile. Questa esperienza oggi molto conosciuta perché
anch’essa entrata a far parte del sistema globale delle università di architettura nel mondo, rappresentava allora e rappresenta tutt’ora una delle sperimentazioni più rilevanti, dal secondo dopoguerra a oggi, dell’architettura e dell’insegnamento nell’America Latina e non solo
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Monumento hic et nunc. I memoriali di John Hejduk per Dag Hammarskjöld e Jan Palach
No full textIl testo propone la lettura compositiva di due progetti per monumenti di John Hejduk. Il primo progetto è quello pensato per New York e dedicato a Dag Hammarskjöld, Segretario Generale delle Nazioni Unite del 1961-1963. Il secondo è quello dedicato alla memoria di Jan Palach a Praga, del 1991. Nel testo è messo in evidenza il legame concettuale e figurativo tra i due progetti. In particolare sono stati evidenziati i temi compositivi e una loro estensione teorica e culturale in rapporto al tema del monumento come parte della città. accanto alle estensioni teoriche e culturali il testo ha messo in evidenza l’importanza della dimensione simbolica per l’invenzione compositiva
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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