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An Empirical Investigation on the Complementarity between Internal and External Lean Bundles
No full textSequencing supply chain improvement initiatives: an empirical analysis on the high performance manufacturing database
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Reorganization within the fashion and luxury industry to re-design value chains: an empirical study
No full textThis research aims to study Italian fashion and luxury firms to understand how companies can react to the current crisis in order to remain competitive, explain how companies can redesign their value chain to improve their efficiency, evaluate new managerial and organizational models that support business development. The multiple-case study method is adopted to investigate these research questions. We conducted 11 in-depth case studies using a semi-structured interview protocol specifically designed for this research
Sequencing supply chain improvement initiatives: an empirical analysis on the high performance manufacturing database
No full textThe implementation and effects of supply chain management (SCM) initiatives have been widely investigated. However, the issue of which sequences of improvement initiatives companies undertake to improve their performance within a supply chain perspective has not been studied in sufficient depth. Some studies on the sequences of improvement initiatives at supply chain level suggest that the external competitive context plays a critical role in influencing future initiatives to be launched. This study provides an initial analysis of the large data set provided by the High Performance Manufacturing (HPM) international survey, with the aim of investigating supply chain improvement initiatives launched by a large number of companies, from various countries, in different industries. The paper aims to identify the existence of common paths of improvement, and to refine and extend theory on the sequences of SCM improvement initiatives. It was found that three main paths to improvement seem to exist. They differ in the number, sequence and type of initiatives launched
How the Fashion and Luxury Industry Challenges the Crisis Redesigning Value Chains
No full textThe fashion and luxury industry is part of the Made in Italy fashion system that represents an important constituent of the Italian industrial system,
where Italian apparel sector represents 7.1% of the national manufacturing industry turnover, with 516,700 employees, 59,750 firms and total
revenues of 52,835 million euro in 2006. However, the industry turnover has been -15.1% in the first quarter of 2009, due to the global crisis and
fierce low labour cost country competition. This research project aims at studying Italian fashion and luxury apparel firms to: understand how
companies can react to the current crisis in order to remain competitive; to explain how companies can redesign their value chain to improve their
efficiency; and to
evaluate new managerial and organizational models that support business development. The multiple-case study method is adopted to investigate
these research questions. We conducted 12 in-depth case studies using a semi-structured interview protocol specifically designed for this research
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
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