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Tecnologia, organizzazione e lavoro nella quarta rivoluzione industriale: due studi di caso comparati nel settore manifatturiero
Full text linkThis paper questions the existence of a one best way towards digitalisation by contrasting the success stories of two Italian middle-size manufacturing companies.
Both companies boast a history of excellence in technological innovation and in economic performance and recently launched important projects of digital transformation. However, one company seems to perceive digitalisation as a further step in the “traditional” sequence of efficiency-enhancing innovations aimed at substituting for human effort. In contrast, the other company frames digital technologies as means of stronger process integration, whose success is enabled by formal organisational tools in support of change management
Resilience, complexity, and digital transformation: Three case studies in the valves industry
Full text linkBased on on-site visits, interviews with managers, and available documents the cases studied in this paper provide successful examples of digital transformation. Our anal-ysis points out two main empirical findings. First, for all companies the digital trans-formation represents an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary process. Second, the successful firms examined confirm our research hypothesis by display-ing configurations of digital technologies that align with internal resilience level and external complexity
Organisational paths to the digital transformation: Two case studies
No full textThis paper questions the existence of a one best way towards digitalisation by contrasting the success stories of two Italian middle-size manufacturing companies
In search for a successful digital transformation: Three case studies in the valves industry
No full textThis paper resorts on the concept of resilience to justify the existence of different yet effec-tive approaches to the digital transformation by contrasting the success stories of three Ital-ian companies in the valves industry. The hypothesis underlying this study is that digital technologies aligned with the resilience level of the adopting organisation support an ap-propriate engagement with the external environment. The case studies of digital transfor-mation examined in this paper point out three main findings. First, for all companies the digital transformation represents an evolutionary rather than a revolutionary process. Sec-ond, resilience has a continuous nature that increases with the coherent intensification of its underlying components. In each company a unique blend of resources and cognitive tools enable the design and the enactment of consistent routines and meta-routines. Third, digital technologies adoption patterns align with the resilience level of each company and with the organisation engagement with the external environment. When the resilience model focuses on the shift to a new equilibrium the adoption process is centrally governed, and organisa-tional change is limited. In contrast, when the resilience model focuses on coping with con-tinuous and unpredictable change the digital transformation involves more decentralised decision making and significant organisational change
Resilience, complexity and digital transformation: three case studies in the valves industry
Full text linkPurposeThis paper shows how the interplay between organisational resilience and environmental complexity justifies the existence of differentiated yet successful approaches to digital transformation.Design/methodology/approachA multi-case method is applied to test our research hypotheses by contrasting the digital transformation of three Italian companies in the valves industry.FindingsDifferent combinations of technological and organisational tools, hence diversified digital transformations, can be successful, provided that they are supported by a coherent set of resilience factors and allow for the implementation of strategic approaches aligned with the resilience capacity of the firm.Practical implicationsAwareness that resilience capacity shapes digital transformation and the strategies available to engage with external complexity should focus managers to invest in the alignment and the reinforcement of the factors underlying organisational resilience.Originality/valueMost literature so far focused on the antecedents to digital transformation. In contrast, this paper focuses on the transformation process and highlights how the resilience capacity of the firm affects the unfolding of digital transformation and the emergence of diversified yet successful paths. In addition, in contrast with a dichotomous approach to external complexity this paper shows that digital transformation involves a mix of complexity reduction and complexity absorption strategies
Resilience Capability and Successful Adoption of Digital Technologies: Two Case Studies
No full textThis chapter illustrates how resilience capability affects digital transformation by means of the case studies of two Italian middle-sized manufacturing companies that implemented important investments in digital technologies in recent years. Both companies show significant levels of resilience, which nevertheless result from different combinations of resilience drivers. One company displays a control-oriented model of resilience aimed at controlling change in the external environment, whereas the other one is characterized by a learning-oriented model of resilience intended for absorbing complexity. This difference reflects in the design and the execution of investments in digital technologies. The first company seems to perceive digitalization as a further technological innovation in line with a traditional pursuit of efficiency. In contrast, the other company frames digital technologies a solution to increase the integration of organizational processes, besides technical ones
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
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