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International sourcing effectiveness in the fashion industry: the experience of Italian industrial districts
No full textRelazioni di agenzia e collaborazione per la sostenibilità nelle catene di fornitura globale
No full textIl volume analizza il legame tra politiche di CSR e decisioni di global
sourcing concepite da grandi imprese internazionalizzate. Attraverso
la chiave di lettura offerta dalla Teoria dell’agenzia, vengono approfondite
le collaborazioni tra concorrenti finalizzate a migliorare l’efficacia
e l’efficienza delle relazioni di fornitura. Tali collaborazioni muovono
dalla necessità di migliorare la conoscenza delle problematiche
di sostenibilità nei contesti a elevata incertezza ambientale e propongono
un modello di intervento, alternativo a quello della singola impresa,
per rispondere alle esigenze di sicurezza provenienti da consumatori
e altri stakeholders
Horizontal collaboration and social responsibility in the telecommunications sector: a literature through the agency theory
No full textLa logistica nel florovivaismo
No full textDopo un’analisi descrittiva e statistico-economica del comparto florovivaistico marchigiano, nel lavoro sono illustrate i principali vincoli e le opportunità connesse ad un miglioramento della logistica. L’analisi mostra un’offerta ancora frammentata e non adeguata a soddisfare completamente le esigenze della domanda. Sebbene siano presenti forme di associazionismo a livello orizzontale, il coordinamento verticale di filiera è quasi del tutto assente. Viene proposta in conclusione una serie di possibili interventi migliorativi, da realizzare tanto sul versante trasportistico, quanto in quello logistico in senso stretto e, complementarmente, attraverso opportune azioni di marketing territoriale
Strategic and organisational determinants of performance in Italian management consulting firms
No full textThis study focuses on the determinants of performance of
management consulting firms. These firms are successful examples of
organisations whose ability to incorporate knowledge into the service provided
to the clients is critical to their success. The study aims to explain the process
by which specific strategic choices and distinctive organisational practices of
these firms influence their performance in ways not found in other settings.
Specifically, we propose that service and geographic diversification have a
positive impact on the performance of management consulting firms. We also
propose that partnership leverage, as a distinctive organisational practice
developed to increase the retention and commitment of personnel, influences
the performance of these firms. We test the theoretical predictions using data
from a large sample of Italian management consulting firms and adopting a
multilevel linear regression model. Our results support the hypotheses, provide
interesting insights and suggest further research
Diversification, family involvement and firm performance
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of product and geographic
diversification on the performance of Italian manufacturing firms and evaluate the moderating role of
family involvement.
Design/methodology/approach – The hypotheses have been tested by using a fixed-effects panel
data regression model.
Findings – Results show a linear relationship between product diversification and firm performance and
an inverted U-shaped relationship between geographic diversification and firm performance. Moreover,
when considering the status of the family firm, family ties have a negative moderating role on the
performance of companies that are product and internationally diversified.
Originality/value – By providing theoretical explanations and empirical evidence, the study extends
the diversification-performance research by testing this relationship in an unexplored context
(i.e. Italy), and by identifying a still not well explored contingency factor (i.e. family involvement).
In doing so, diversification and family involvement literatures are brought together and the results
show the importance of the type of owner regarding the impact of product and international
diversification on firm performance
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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