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The Usefulness of Sharing Social Impact Data. Early Findings from an International Benchmarking on SROI Assessments
Full text linkThis paper aims at investigating a perspective for the social impact measurability by collecting and analysing open data at the international level. Our goal is to shed light on the unlocked potential of the knowledge produced by a global community of scholars and practitioners engaged in social impact measurement processes. Global open data on social impact assessment (SIA) have been mapped and collected in a database using the impact chain as a reference point for choosing the variables. In this paper, we focus on the potential use of these data to enable forecasting analysis about the expected social value and to inform decision-making processes aimed at responding to complex social challenges. The early findings suggest the opportunity of a wider action research initiative, by engaging different typologies of stakeholders and organizations aimed at incorporating social impact as a key strategic driver
Raccogliere e valorizzare i dati sull’impatto. Quale contributo alla conoscenza?
Full text linkIl crescente interesse verso i temi della sostenibilità e dell’innovazione sociale apre nuove opportunità per declinare il grande potenziale dell’innovazione tecnologica a favore di obiettivi di impatto sociale ed ambien- tale. Allo stesso modo, tuttavia, la comunità scientifica che si occupa di questi temi si trova di fronte a nuove prove per rendere misurabili i risultati raggiunti: se da un lato tale sfida è ben avviata rispetto alla dimensione ambientale, grazie alla diffusione di standard ampiamente condivisi, dall’altro non si è raggiunto lo stesso livello di consapevolezza rispetto alla misurazione delle ricadute sociali.
Questa ricerca intende verificare la possibilità di superare il limite di misurabilità dell’impatto sociale integran- do innovazione sociale e innovazione digitale. Più nello specifico, raccogliendo i dati di misurazione di impatto sociale dalle fonti accreditate, si intende applicare metodi di big data analysis e business intelligence per costruire un set di informazioni utili per informare i processi di misurazione di impatto sociale e pervenire ad un data warehouse contenente benchmark su tutta la catena della teoria del cambiamento (input / attività / output/ outcome / social value / impact). I risultati mostrano un grande potenziale di informazioni generabili dalle tecnologie digitali per rendere più misurabili, affidabili e scalabili i processi di innovazione sociale
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
Strategic management in Italian Ministries: an empirical assessment of gains from and gaps in reforms
No full textNew development: Mitigating disvalue through a material understanding of public value co-creation
No full textPublic management scholars have recently recognized that there is a romantic bias towards public value co-creation, with cases of public value destruction, loss and/or appropriation often being neglected. To correct this fundamental issue, this article focuses on the opportunity for a material understanding of public value co-creation processes. The authors discuss why this material understanding is critical to mitigate disvalue and to facilitate the transformation of the public sector into an arena for co-creation
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
Government-Third Sector Relations and The Triple Helix Approach: Patterns in The Italian Social Innovation Ecosystem
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