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When stadium ownership meets Corporate Social Responsibility: The case of U.C. AlbinoLeffe
Full text linkThis article aims to understand the importance of having a stadium owned by a football club as an added value if it is designed and managed from a socially re- sponsible perspective in a context, that of Italian sport, which is still far from Eu- ropean standards in terms of infrastructure. The approach adopted focuses on the AlbinoLeffe Campus, serving as an example of how the ownership of a sports fa- cility can shape and reflect socially responsible policies and practices adopted by a football club. The study examines the distinctive characteristics of the stadium considering the logistical, infrastructural, and environmental aspects underpinning its construction to act as a strategic lever to implement Corporate Social Responsi- bility (CSR) initiatives, a prerogative of club ownership. Some important manage- rial implications emerge from the analysis: 1) the need for a sustainable manage- ment approach for the stadium considering logistical, infrastructural, and environ- mental aspects; 2) the implementation of CSR strategies aligned with the company and the stadium’s characteristics
Are Italian football clubs embracing sustainability?
Full text linkThe purpose of this study is to explore the approach of a sustainable governance in terms of sustainability strategies that firms have been implementing towards dif- ferent stakeholders. The study adopts the stakeholder theory lens to advance research on the area. A qualitative approach was used through semi-structured interviews with 17 participants employed in a total of 12 Italian professional football organiza- tions participating in the top division of football (Serie A). Specific themes regarding the sustainability (and CSR) strategies implemented by the 12 football clubs emerged from the in-depth interviews: a) sustainability approach (awareness), b) or- ganizational sustainability capacity in terms of human, financial and other core re- sources, networks and external relationships. This study sheds light on football clubs’ sustainability, representing a distinctive view in managerial literature
Exploring fans’ social identities, emotional attachment and subjective identity: A social identity approach to Italian football consumer-brand identity
No full textFrame of the research. Emotions are crucial elements in sports spectatorship and understanding in-depth how they
characterized stakeholders’ experiences is crucial for better addressing marketing and communication strategies.
Purpose of the paper. Adopting the social identity approach, this study explores the intense role of emotional
attachment in football fans concerning the identification with the team (i.e. fanship) and with the fellow fans (i.e. fandom);
fans’ subjective well-being perceptions is also investigated here.
Methodology. 22 semi-structured interviews were individually conducted with fans of two Italian Serie A teams. Both
convenience and snowball sampling were performed to recruit diverse participants. A manual coding was conducted via
NVivo 14 software.
Results. No major discrepancies between fans of the two teams were observed in terms of fanship, except for a sense
of higher identification with the city for fans of the team sharing the name with the hometown. Although one team
expressed more considerations relatively to other fellow fans, these considerations were frequently oriented to detaching
from specific political sub-groups. Fans of both teams underline both the positive and negative emotions attached to the
beloved teams; obsessive and irrational attitudes are highlighted and refer to the feeling of feeling protected and safe
with respect to the problems of daily life (i.e., sheltered) and the need to vent.
Managerial implications. Understanding how fans personally communicate their distinct identifications either with
the team or with the surrounding fan community as well as the peculiarities of their emotional attachment to the team
might be highly beneficial for marketers and managers working in the football industry.
Originality of the paper. This study investigates both fanship and fandom and explores the role of emotions in team
identification through in-depth qualitative research methods. Furthermore, it fills the gaps concerning team identification
research in the Italian football-centric sports system
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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