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Environmental Sustainability in Industrial Electronics: An empirical investigation of different strategic inter-firm relationships
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Sustainability, resilience and innovation in industrial electronics: a case study of internal, supply chain and external complexity
Full text linkThe electrical and electronic equipment industry is key to climate and energy transitions, but its activities have a signifcant environmental footprint. Tangible improvements in the sustainability of this sector are difcult because of the layers of complexity that characterize this industry’s products, processes and supply chains. This
article analyzes the diferent facets of complexity relevant to sustainability in the
industrial electronics sector, by implementing an in-depth longitudinal case study of
a leading Italian business-to-business multinational company. We identify three core
dimensions of complexity management that are pivotal for corporate sustainability:
internal complexity, supply chain complexity and external complexity. We fnd that
handling sustainability in complex production systems with multitier and multiproduct value chains presents organizational and managerial challenges but also ofers
new competitive opportunities for resilience and innovation. Once the appropriate
metrics, know-how and information fows are established, our results highlight the
transferability of sustainable innovations in these complex environments
The role of power asymmetries in implementing multi-tier sustainable supply chains initiatives
No full textThis work examines multi-tier sustainable supply chain management initiatives in the electronics industry. The work identifies the practices adopted by electronics companies to implement sustainability across their supply chains (SCs) and distinguishes the power levers that influence cascading the sustainability practices in the upstream SC. The multiple case study research shows that requirements and assessment are the most widespread practices along multi-tier SCs, whereas incentives are limited to first-tier suppliers. Collaboration and training display potential but are not yet implemented. Size and purchasing volume remain the most significant sources of power, although suppliers’ substitutability counterbalances the power of large buyers
The role of alliance portfolio diversity for corporate decarbonization, circular economy and eco-innovation
Full text linkAmid growing societal and regulatory pressure to demonstrate environmental responsibility, firms are increasingly engaging in environmental alliances to address complex sustainability challenges. However, the implications of having a diverse portfolio of green alliances for a business’ progress toward environmental goals remains insufficiently understood and long-term empirical evidence on this relationship is still scant. This study adopts a novel resource-based and knowledge-based perspective to examine how environmental alliance portfolio diversity—across technological, industrial, and functional dimensions—shapes corporate environmental performance. Using data from 280 multinational companies and 1,539 environmental alliances spanning 2002–2023, our analysis reveals that all three dimensions of diversity are positively associated with overall corporate environmental performance, emission reductions, more efficient resource use, and green innovation within firms. These findings underscore the strategic importance of alliance portfolio diversity in advancing sustainability, decarbonization, and circularity goals and provide actionable insights for firms seeking to enhance specific non-financial performance metrics
Innovations for decarbonization under weak regulatory constraints
No full textInnovations for decarbonization are crucial for our world's sustainable future. This
article explores the impact of weak regulatory frameworks on sustainability-oriented
innovation strategies for decarbonization in the industrial electronics sector. The
research aims to understand how companies adapt their innovation strategies to
voluntary decarbonization targets and how the perceived regulatory context affects
incentives for eco-innovation. The study employs a multiple case study approach,
collecting primary data through interviews and secondary data from public sources. The
results reveal the challenges companies face in implementing effective innovation
strategies due to unpredictable and non-rigorous carbon policies. In the absence of
strong regulations and transparent criteria, firms are less incentivized to invest in
innovative solutions for carbon emissions reduction. We found evidence that in most
cases, absent any regulatory pressure or mandatory mechanism for transparent and
homogeneous information disclosure, companies prefer strategically to limit ecoinnovation. Moreover, this context of uncertainty seems to favour opportunistic
behaviour
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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