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Industria 4.0 e lavoro: Lo sviluppo di competenze per la trasformazione digitale
No full text“The changes are so profound that, from the perspective of human history, there has never been a time of greater promise or potential peril.” Con queste parole Klaus Schwab, fondatore e Chairman del Word Economic Forum, descrive l’epocale cambiamento che la quarta rivoluzione industriale, da cui Industria 4.0, promette al mondo dell’industria. Il termine Industrie 4.0 è stato originariamente introdotto nel 2011 durante l’Hannover Messe, una fiera internazionale sulle tecnologie industriali, ed è stato utilizzato dal Governo Federale Tedesco per lanciare un progetto di crescita industriale e tecnologica del Paese che ha coinvolto diversi stakeholder (imprese, istituti di credito, Ministero per gli Affari Economici e l’Energia e il Ministero dell’Istruzione e della Ricerca) e ha garantito alla nazione un ruolo da protagonista in un processo di cambiamento che si sta estendendo alle principali economie industriali a livello mondiale. Comprendere la natura di questa trasformazione è vitale per non rimanere arretrati in una corsa che sta facendo evolvere in maniera radicale il modo di concepire l’impresa, ma la vera sfida è riuscire contemplare attentamente i potenziali rischi e delineare una prospettiva di crescita che consenta di superare le difficoltà che attendono le aziende e gli individui. In questo capitolo vengono analizzate le principali caratteristiche di Industria 4.0, discutendone opportunità e rischi indotti. In particolare, è esaminato l’impatto della quarta rivoluzione industriale sulle competenze professionali e sull’occupazione, riportando dati e tendenze rilevati in ricerche internazionali, con riferimento alla situazione italiana. Infine, viene introdotto il caso Emilia-Romagna come esempio di riferimento di una visione strategica d’insieme capace di coinvolgere vari stakeholder nel processo di innovazione, preservando le peculiarità del territorio
Now It Makes More Sense: How Narratives Can Help Atypical Actors Increase Market Appeal
Full text linkExtensive research shows that atypical actors who defy established contextual standards and norms are subject to skepticism and face a higher risk of rejection. Indeed, atypical actors combine features, behaviors, or products in unconventional ways, thereby generating confusion and instilling doubts about their legitimacy. Nevertheless, atypicality is often viewed as a precursor to sociocultural innovation and a strategy to expand the capacity to deliver valued goods and services. Contextualizing the conditions under which atypicality is celebrated or punished has been a significant theoretical challenge for organizational scholars interested in reconciling this tension. Thus far, scholars have focused primarily on audience-related factors or actors’ characteristics (e.g., status and reputation). Here, we explore how atypical actors can leverage linguistic features of their narratives to counteract evaluative discounts by analyzing a unique collection of 78,758 narratives from crafters on Etsy, the largest digital marketplace for handmade items. Marrying processing fluency theory with linguistics literature and relying on a combination of topic modeling, automated textual analysis, and econometrics, we show that categorically atypical producers who make more use of abstraction, cohesive cues, and conventional topics in their narratives are more likely to overcome the evaluative discounts they would ordinarily experience
Combining research and academic citizenship: Emergent patterns in Italian Business Schools
No full textResearch performance has been the driver of recent higher education reforms and the main parameter to evaluate academics for tenure promotion. The growing emphasis placed on scientific productivity has, however, cast a shadow over academics’ commitment to other activities vital to university functioning, such as teaching, impact, and service activities. In this study we explore the relationship between research and academic citizenship, i.e., the service behaviors and roles oriented towards institutional service, public engagement, and the growth of a discipline, in a research-focused higher education system.We looked for academics’ outcomes in terms of scientific productivity and engagement with academic citizenship in a sample of 728 Italian academics in business and management schools, using a two-step clustering approach to unravel patterns of behavior. Our results show a multi-faceted picture of six clusters, ranging from a large group of unengaged academics to a small cohort of academics able to successfully combine research and academic citizenship. Other clusters display an overriding focus on research or on a single type of academic citizenship. We contribute to the understanding of academic citizenship and its complex intertwining with research
Tell Me Your Story and I Will Tell Your Sales: A Topic Model Analysis of Narrative Style and Firm Performance on Etsy
Full text linkStrategy scholars have widely recognized the central role that narratives play in the construction of organizational identities. Moreover, storytelling is an important strategic asset that firms can leverage to inspire employees, excite investors and engage customers' attention. This chapter illustrates how advancements in computational linguistic may offer opportunities to analyze the stylistic elements that make a story more convincing. Specifically, we use a topic model to examine how narrative conventionality influences the performance of 78,758 craftsmen selling their handmade items in the digital marketplace of Etsy. Our findings provide empirical evidence that effective narratives display enough conventional features to align with audience expectations, yet preserve some uniqueness to pique audience interest. By elucidating our approach, we hope to stimulate further research at the interface of style, language and strategy
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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