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DUALITY. Shades of meaning
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47063.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 05 december 2005Promotores : Huijgen, F., Espejo, R.322 p
Cybernetics of Value Co-creation
Full text linkThe paradigm shift from value creation to value "co-creation" calls for a deeper grasp of organizational learning in marketing theory. This paper adopts a cybernetic view of the process of value co-creation to shed light on its relevant aspects and to supply a framework to implement operations and strategies to foster this process. Can cybernetics help to better understand the process of value co-creation? Can the Viable System Model (Beer, 1979) be a sound approach to shape a more effective value co-creation process able to achieve higher satisfaction and value?
In this theoretical paper we will show how cybernetic can be effectively used to give a positive answer to both questions abov
In search of a possible evolutionary principle of management theory and practice
No full textStarting from the view of economy as the field in which the sustainable dynamics of a society are expressed (Barile S., et al. 2013, 2014; Espejo, R., 2014), the aim of this work is to investigate the hidden and sensitive relation which links together the evolution of the managerial theories and that of production systems, integrating an empirical and a theoretical approach.
The main question of research is summarized as follows:
Is there (and if there is, is it possible to discover and isolate) a general low through which explain the conjunct evolution of the managerial theories and the production systems?
The work applies the conceptual framework of the Viable Systems Approach (VSA) (Barile S., 2000, 2009, 2013; Golinelli, 2000, 2010; Barile et al., 2012; Basile and Caputo, 2017; Calabrese et al., 2017; Tronvoll et al., 2017) merging a theoretical and a practical perspective. In particular, two studies are mentioned in order to create the conceptual context from which to start the analysis: Simone et al. (2014) focus on the “epistemological element” which relies under and connotes the birth and the development of an economic theory (from mercatura and industrial and commercial technique to management); Massaroni et al. (2014) give to their analysis an empirical connotation, focusing on the evolution of the industrial models of production with reference to some key sectors of the economy, underlining the passage from craft production and mass production to modular production. The work aims to make interpretative hypothesis of the evolutionary dynamics theorized and observed by discussing them conceptually and highlighting theoretical and practical implications: from these studies, it seems to emerge a cause-effect relation, chained to the firm-environment dynamic, which connotes the development of productive models and the evolution of managerial theories
Cybernetics of Value Cocreation for Product Development
No full textIn marketing theory, the shift from the paradigm of value creation to value ‘cocreation’ calls for a deeper grasp of the interactions between producers and customers. Marketing studies have widely focused on the value cocreation concept, but so far, the mechanism through which consumers can be involved in the process of value cocreation through product development had found little space in marketing studies. In this theoretical paper, we aim to fill this gap and pave the way towards a better understanding of the mechanisms of value cocreation for product development through second-order cybernetics. We conceive the market arena as a physical or virtual place where communications of value propositions produce eigenforms driving the eigenbehaviours of producers and customers towards shared meaningful objects. Based on these assumptions, we offer a framework based ont he viable systems model and the law of requisite variety to shed light on processes of interaction between producers and consumers in the market arena. The proposed framework can be an effective tool
for the managers involved in product design and marketing to contribute to a firm’s policies by supplying a clearer picture of the systemic relations involved in the value cocreation for product innovation and product development
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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