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Does better-informed consumer lead to more conscious consumption? Sustainability in the wine sector : the case of ethical and fair-trade supply chain in the Italian wine industry
Get PDFMuch research, in the field of sustainable certification, has been focusing on the environmental
aspect of the three-pillar definition of sustainability. This is valid for many sectors, and for the
wine industry too. Nevertheless, there are raising concerns and requirements to adopt due
diligence practices in many wineries across the world for respecting human rights. An
emergency has been identified in the Italian supply chain; Scandinavian monopolies have
started to take action to ensure Italian imported products are not contributing to the phenomena
of caporalato.
Customers however, and the market, still are not fully aware nor relate fair trade actions to the
field of wine; the same definition of sustainability for oenology is not well defined and widely
shared. Hence this thesis aims to research the ethical implications of wine production and the
potential influence on customers’ choices as well as positive implication for wine producers’
competitiveness and profitability. The focus is on the Italian situation and its relationship with
the Norwegian market. Vinmonopolet presence and initiatives have been observed and
considered when structuring the research around Norwegian customers’ knowledge and
interest. This is because Norwegians are advanced on sustainability and ethical matters in other
industries, here their relations with wine have been explored.
Nevertheless, the intertwined dimensions of ethics and environmental concerns are not easily
isolable, and customers are mainly interested in the more known and spread concept of
environmental friendliness and chemical avoidance in wine. Therefore, the broad definition of
sustainability in wine has been here addressed.Pesquisas no campo da certificação sustentável têm se concentrado sobre o aspecto ambiental
da definição dos três pilares de sustentabilidade. Isto é válido para muitos setores, também para
a indústria do vinho.
Existem crescentes preocupações e pedidos para tomar as devidas práticas de cuidado em
vinícolas em todo mundo pelo respeito aos direitos humanos. Uma emergência foi detectada na
cadeia de suprimentos italiana; os monopólios escandinavos começaram a intervir para garantir
que os produtos importados não contribuam para o fenômeno da contratação ilegal.
Os clientes e o mercado ainda não estão plenamente conscientes e não vinculam as ações de
comércio justo ao setor vitivinícola; para enologia
a própria definição de sustentabilidade ainda não está bem compartilhada.
Esta tese tem como objetivo pesquisar as implicações éticas da produção de vinho e a influência
potencial nas escolhas do cliente; a implicação positiva para a competitividade e rentabilidade
dos produtores de vinho. O foco está na situação italiana e sua relação com o mercado
norueguês. As iniciativas da Vinmonopolet foram observadas na estruturação de pesquisas em
torno do conhecimento e interesse dos noruegueses. Como os noruegueses estão à frente em
termos de sustentabilidade e questões éticas em outras áreas, foram exploradas suas relações
com o vinho.
No entanto, as dimensões entrelaçadas de preocupações éticas e ambientais não são facilmente
isoladas. Os clientes estão interessados principalmente no mais conhecido conceito
generalizado de respeito pelo meio ambiente e contraste com a química no vinho. Portanto, uma
ampla definição de sustentabilidade do vinho foi abordada aqui
Acting on the Norwegian Transparency act: interpretation and implementation
Get PDFThe chapter delves into the ramifications of Norway’s Transparency Act (Åpenhetslo-ven, 2021), which was enacted on 1stof July, 2022, compelling businesses to fosterhuman rights and fair working conditions in their supply chains through enhancedtransparency. It scrutinizes the interpretation and operationalization of The Actwithin two distinct companies, employingthe Knowledge Transfer as Translation(KTT) theory–traditionally applied to knowledge transfer within corporate culture–to navigate The Act’s conversion into corporate actions. This exploration uncovers theobstacles and divergent compliance strategies among the firms, showing that TheAct’s indeterminate language and the specific resources and individuals within eachcompany lead to varied corporate reactions. Despite The Act’s objective to improvesupply chain transparency, the lack of clear norms or a unified understanding of thelegislation at this early stage results in inconsistent applications. The study also positsthat KTT offers a valuable framework for examining the enactment of not only ab-stract cultural issues but also tangible legal mandates, suggesting its broader applica-bility in legal interpretation and corporate action alignment.Acting on the Norwegian Transparency act: interpretation and implementationpublishedVersio
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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