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Innovation policy and environmental sustainability as strategic tools for reaching higher performances. A regional empirical analysis to fi nd the best practice
No full textDespite the sector or the company’s size, the choice of the strategies is worth; it is about a set of different aspects included by firms into their own strategic and operating procedures. The general aim of this study is to analyse
how Italian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are tackling the challenges by
adopting more responsible and sustainable strategies and tools in order to create
social and economic value and to compete successfully. Moreover, the paper is focused on setting up a rulebook for family business SMEs in which are specified suggestions about overcoming the crisis and achieving the success
Social values and ethics for communicating the corporate identity
No full textThe ongoing changes – as both opportunities and threats – which are affecting the whole corporate system, push companies to look for competitive advantages and differentiation from competitors by making the best use of certain strategic levers; they are mainly represented by intangible resources (as harder to imitate) such as trade marks, brands, intellectual properties, ethics and social values (Colvin, 2007; Pellicelli, 2010).
All these values become more relevant if taking into consideration the company no more as a “single entity” but as a set of “human beings” whose primary object is the production of products and services for a specific market.
Consequently, as a set of human beings the company is more integrated with its reference society too and needs to communicate with both external and internal audience in a more effective and structured manner, covering different expectations, needs and cultures.
On the other hand, the social communication regards tools of sustainable and social statements which aim at underlining the value creation for all the stakeholders inside and outside the organization, as well as the added social and economic sustainable values for the community in which the company operates.
Accordingly, ethical principles and corporate social responsibility values are fundamental drivers for what is called integrated communication policies and are more and more reflected into the company’s mission.
Moreover during the last years – when communicating corporate policies and values – companies have included also their current and potential ethics and social responsibility attitude, as distinguishing factors among competitors.
The Ashridge model (Campbell, Yeung, 1991), confirms the statement: object, values, behaviours and strategies should be coherent and integrated so to give companies a clear orientation on their decisions, strategies and policies.
According to this, the aim of the present paper is to analyze – on both a quality and empirical level – the effectiveness of ethics and corporate social responsibility values as drivers for integrated communication.
A sample of Italian listed food and beverage companies will be considered so to establish if and how ethical principles and sharing corporate values have been built and implemented during the last years in a context which requires the spread of these values for increasing customers’ trust.
The expected results are to demonstrate the link between literature and empirical evidence concerning effectiveness of integrated communication and its impact on company’s financial results and – in particular – on value creation for shareholders
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
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
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
Innovation Policy and Environmental Sustainability as Strategic Tools for Reaching Higher Performances. A Regional Empirical Analysis to Find the Best Practice
No full textDespite the sector or the firm’s size, the choice of the strategies is worth; it is about a set of different aspects included by firms into their own strategic and operating procedures as corporate culture, strategic human resources management, empowerment, corporate social responsibility and sustainability, environmental issues focusing on product innovations and advanced technological processes.
The general aim of this study is to analyze how Piedmont (North-West Italy) SMEs are facing the challenges and changes that are happening into the business environment and what kind of strategies and tools they exploit to become more responsible, sustainable and competitive in order to create value for themselves and their stakeholders and to compete at a global stage.
Moreover, the paper is focused on setting up a rulebook for family business SMEs in which are specified suggestions about overcoming the crisis and achieving long terms goals
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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