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Long lasting wineries: managing family business and succession in Tuscany region
No full textPaper on family business in the wine industry. The attention is focused on long lasting family wineries in Italy.
The paper analyses the family governance models in the wine industry with reference to the oldest firms operating in Tuscany (long lasting wineries). Tuscan wine firms show a strong ability to manage succession over a number of generations. We will endeavour to identify the critical variables in the family governance models of wine companies. We will point out the specific system of succession in the wine industry, which takes on distinctive characteristics compared with the dynamics of other small and medium Tuscan firms. Finally, with reference to two representative family firms, we will underline some specifics in the mechanisms of governance in long lasting Tuscan wineries able to guarantee the continuity of the family model. To do this we use a qualitative approach, realizing interviews with managers and owners of each company.
The analysis evidences two principles: 1) The family business doesn‟t seem a transitory element of governance models in wine firms in Tuscany; even in the presence of a renewal of the existing actors; the family model appears to be a permanent structure in the industry, able to adapt to a changing scenario. 2) The Tuscan wine firms seem to have identified efficient mechanisms in managing the generational transition process working with old and new generations, internal managers and external consultants.
These first reflections are useful both to those operating in the industry and to researchers, and are worthy of further future study to overcome the following limitations: number of firms analyzed; variables considered; lack of international comparative analysi
Managing succession in family business: successful lessons from long lasting wineries in Tuscany
No full textThe paper analyses the family governance models in the wine industry with reference to the oldest firms operating in Tuscany (long lasting wineries). Tuscan wine firms show a strong
ability to manage succession over a number of generations. We will endeavour to identify the critical variables in the family governance models of wine companies. We will point out the
specific system of succession in the wine industry, which takes on distinctive characteristics compared with the dynamics of other small and medium Tuscan firms. Finally, with reference
to four representative family firms, we will underline some specifics in the mechanisms of governance in long lasting Tuscan wineries able to guarantee the continuity of the family
model. To do this we use a qualitative approach, realizing interviews with managers and owners of each company.
The analysis evidences three principles: 1) The family business doesn’t seem a transitory element of governance models in wine firms in Tuscany; even in the presence of a renewal of
the existing actors; the family model appears to be a permanent structure in the industry, able to adapt to a changing scenario. 2) The Tuscan wine firms seem to have identified efficient mechanisms in managing the generational transition process working with old and new generations, internal managers and external consultants. 3) The Tuscan long lasting wineries
doesn’t show an homogeneous model of development but different strategic solutions in terms of family business model.
These first reflections are useful both to those operating in the industry and to researchers, and are worthy of further future study to overcome the following limitations: number of firms
analyzed; variables considered; lack of international comparative analysi
Produzione aziendale di ammendanti di qualità ottenuti con processi di maturazione controllata di letame e tralci di potatura in cumulo
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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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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