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Fashion system: the case of Italy
No full textThe aim of the research is to analyze the Italian “fashion system” and its commercial relations with the rest of the world. This paper tests the hypothesis that the Italian “fashion system” can be considered particularly representative at world level, thanks to the recognised creative and quality characteristics of the Made in Italy products. The main findings suggest that the Italian “fashion system” is particularly representative at international level, as Made in Italy products are appreciated worldwide and make fashion a symbol of the Italian economy. In addition, Italian companies have great abilities in the fashion system, due to investment in quality, innovation and creativity
Corporate Governance in Listed Italian Family Firms: Impact on Performance and Comparison with Non-Family Firms
No full textThe main goal of this study is to analyse within listed Italian firms the impact of the board composition on performance, comparing this impact between family and non-family firms.
This variable has a significant impact on business performance. Indeed, a lot of studies underline the importance of the board composition through the composition-performance relationship, also if this relationship considers only financial indicators to measure the performance.
The research method is the analysis of a sample composed by listed Italian family and non-family firms (FTSE MIB and STAR) and the data used were taken from AIDA database and the “Borsa Italiana” website, which is the Italian website containing the official data of listed companies.
Family firms considered for the purposes of this study were chosen following two criteria: first, the family controls a relevant percentage of the ownership and, second, at least one family member has a management role and participates in the board.
This study contributes to the literature on family corporate governance and shows that the family involvement has a positive effect of company performance.
Further research will have the aim of eliminating the limitations of our study. In particular, we would like to increase the number of companies of the sample, considering all the listed companies on the Italian stock market and the non-listed ones; it could also be interesting to compare Italian listed companies with non-Italian ones
Direct Compensation and Risk Management: A Key Study from the Insurance Sector
No full textThis paper examines the business model of an Italian company (TIS) that manage the claims for non-life insurance companies with innovative solutions. When a policy-holder make a claim for a loss or damage, the insurer may decide either to repair, rebuild or replace the property or to offer a cash settlement. To provide these services, many insurance companies have started developing strategic relationships directly with building firms, repairers, specialist suppliers and project managers, in order to find reliable contractors that will repair or replace the policy holder’s property quickly, with high quality and at a low cost. Opposite to other EU Countries, in Italy many insurance companies are still providing only cash settlement, with higher costs and a higher level of fraud illegal claims risk
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
Smart city governance: exploring the institutional work of multiple actors towards collaboration
Get PDFPurpose: To address the growing pressure to foster effectiveness, sustainability and quality of life, local governments have focused on developing policies and initiatives designed to make their cities smarter. Despite the growing attention paid to this issue, an important but under-investigated issue is represented by the smart city governance. In this regard, in light of the claimed need for collaboration, the purpose of this paper is to investigate why and how different institutional works carried out by multiple actors may explain the way in which collaborative governance can be constructed in the context of a smart city. Design/methodology/approach: A rich in-depth case study has been carried out exploring the experience of a smart city in the north of Italy. The study explores the institutional works done by multiple actors (Lawrence et al., 2013) and their influence on the governance of the smart city. Findings: Collaboration is perceived to be instrumental in making a city smart, during the design and implementation phase, while generating new challenges that must be overcome by an integration of the political, technical and, especially, cultural work of the collective actors involved. Originality/value: Despite governance is recognized as a crucial factor for realizing a smartness-orientation, it is scarcely investigated. The main value of the current research is thus its contribution to overcome this gap providing new empirical evidence on the role of multiple actors in the smart city context
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