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Continuous and Discontinuous Innovation. Overcoming the Innovator Dilemma”
No full textChallenged by competition pressures and unprecedented pace of change, firms can no longer choose whether to concentrate on the needs of today’s customers or on the anticipation of those of tomorrow: they must be excellent in both. This requires managing two related balancing acts: on the one side, being excellent in both exploitation and exploration of their capabilities and, on the other side, being excellent in managing both incremental and radical innovation.
These balances are critical since exploitation and exploration, on the one side, and incremental and radical innovation, on the other, require different approaches that have traditionally been considered difficult to combine within the same organization. Working on evidence and discussion from the 7th CINet Conference held in Lucca (Italy) in 2006, this Special Section is aimed at contributing to theory and practice on these two complex balancing acts that today represent a hot issue in innovation management
Rigamonti E., Boccoli G., Gastaldi L., Corso M. (2024) The Effects of HR Analytics on Employee Wellbeing: A Research in the Italian Context
No full textNurses knowledge and attitudes towards living kidney donation : a survey at two Italian renal units.
No full textEnvironmental Changes and Human Impact durig the Bronze Hage in Northern Italy: On-site Palynologica Investigation at Fondo Paviani, Verona
No full textIn The valli Grandi Veronesi are, an alluvional lowland in the lower Venetian plain (northern Italy). In order to detect the environmental changes, human impact and land-use practices, a project on palaeoenvironmental investifation has started on the site on Fondo Paviani in the Valli Grandi Veronesi, where little is known about the environmental history of the region during this time frame. The results of a palynological investigation, concernig sampes from the on-site stratigraphic sequence, will be presented, the preliminary main traits of the vegetation surrounding the site at a local scale
Role of Cultural Diversity in Innovative Performance of International Business Collaborations
Full text linkInternational business (IB) collaborations can create a difference in the performance of the firms. Some previous studies had doubt if this superior performance is due to the internationalization itself or is related to the characteristics of one of the partners. However, here it is argued that difference in performance can be due to the characteristics of dyad between the partners, i.e. cultural distance. We tested the role of cultural distance (cultural diversity) between partners, while considering a network of countries. Social network analysis (SNA) is applied by utilizing UCINET software. This study built a database of around six hundred thousand patents data from The United States Patent and Trademark Office, and analyzed innovations resulting from cross-cultural collaborations. The result illustrates that increase in cultural distance decreases the number (quantity) of innovations, but has an inverted U-shape relationship with the quality of innovations. Researches which studied the relationship between cultural diversity and innovation in IB, mainly either conclude diversity hinders innovation or promotes it. This study fills this gap by analyzing two important dimensions of innovation i.e. quantity and quality of innovation
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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