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The role of feminisms on entrepreneurial behavior and strategy
Full text linkFeminist cultures integrate values that can trigger relevant social changes and challenge stereotypes and prejudices through an intersectional perspective. Across various spheres of society, feminist cultures contribute to opening social environments to groups previously excluded based on stereotypical narratives. In addition, feminist cultures promote and disseminate values that can trigger phenomena of social and environmental value creation.
The entrepreneurial world has been historically tainted by excluding narratives that delegitimize the entrepreneurial action of entire social groups. The dominant entrepreneurial archetype has been characterized by utilitarian values and the motivation for the generation and maximization of profit. Nonetheless, the entrepreneurial landscape has gradually enriched itself with entrepreneurial phenomena not adhering to the dominant narrative, which are rooted in entrepreneurial personalities with heterodox value systems and not exclusively economic motivations. Feminist entrepreneurship is emerging as a rapidly expanding phenomenon in this context. However, the relationship between feminisms and entrepreneurship has been largely neglected by the attendant literature.
The aim of this dissertation is therefore to explore the domain of feminist entrepreneurship. After conducting a systematic review of the extant literature, the work focuses on the analysis of the values, motivations, and business practices underlying and characterizing feminist entrepreneurship. Adopting a qualitative pragmatic approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted to investigate, in light of the theory of planned behavior and motivational studies, the value systems and entrepreneurial motivations of 12 entrepreneurs self-identifying as feminist. A thematic analysis of the interviews transcripts allowed the feminist values shared among the interviewees to be identified as gender equality, caring, openness and inclusivity, and reflexivity. These values were consistent with the motivational instances reported by the entrepreneurs (namely, the generation of not solely economic impacts, challenge, and self-realization), thus informing motivational studies of the correspondence between values and motivations. Additionally, the reported values serve as motivational prerequisites for the adoption of feminist business practices regarding relationships with customers and employees.
The research entails several impacts at the research, managerial, and societal levels. The dissertation contributes to illustrating the cognitive-behavioral modalities through which cultural values are reflected in entrepreneurial motivation, providing a novel insight from a subgroup neglected by previous literature. Simultaneously, the research contributes to delineating the theoretical boundaries of feminist entrepreneurship, first analyzing its research context and then expanding its understanding through qualitative investigation. From a managerial perspective, this research enables an initial expansion of knowledge regarding entrepreneurial motivations, which can be beneficial for the development of more inclusive and heterogeneous entrepreneurial training programs. On the societal level, the research contributes to investigating an entrepreneurial phenomenon in which ethical values seem to align with motivations and business practices, the understanding of which could enable its diffusion with evident implications in terms of social value generation
Interdipendenze tra partecipazione a reti di pratiche, identità professionale e identificazione organizzativa ed effetti sugli scambi di conoscenza tra gruppi professionali
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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
il-1 gene complex polymorphisms in systemic sclerosis patients with severe restrictive lung physiology
No full textTherapy efficacy can be monitored by a sensitive and precise yet inexpensive HIV p24 antigen assay
No full textMeasurement of plasma RNA has become widely used for the management of HIV infected patients. The high costs have limited its use to 2-3 times per year or after the onset of clinical symptoms. Although the aggressive combined therapy has induced a sustained reduction of the HIV viremia to undetectable levels, an increasing high percentage of patients are experiencing treatment failure. Since a surprisingly high number of antiretroviral drugs are available and more will be soon, the monitoring of treated patients should be done more frequently. We suggest that the new “3Plus” format of the p24 antigen assay, which is comparable to viral RNA with respect to sensitivity and specificity, should be used to frequent monitoring antiretroviral treatment. During the past few years significant progress has been made: 1) interferen-ce by antibodies has been eliminated by boiling diluted samples for 5 minutes; 2) the sensitivity has reached the ~70 fg/reaction with the use of a signal amplification (ELAST) step; and 3) the kinetic reading of the colorimetric signal, assisted by the Quanti-Kin software, guarantees a dynamic range of 102-107 fg/ml. Recently the American Medical Association and the International AIDS Society (15:9, 2000) have positively reviewed and published these studies from Schüpbach and our group.
The antiretroviral treatment monitoring of 23 adult patients and in 25 children in Switzerland and 110 patients in Italy provided convincing evidences that this simple, inexpensive and easily automatable p24 procedure is a suitable tool for patients management. We believe that further studies are warranted and we invite others to join us in this task
Interdipendenze tra partecipazione a reti di pratiche, identità professionale e identificazione organizzativa ed effetti sugli scambi di conoscenza tra gruppi professionali
No full textThis paper advances the perspective that the individuals' willingness to perform extra role behaviors directed at coworkers, like knowledge sharing, is simultaneously influenced by individuals’ strength of organizational identification and by their evaluation of the strength of identification of the potential recipients of such behaviors. Through an ethnography in a hospital unit where four professional groups operate jointly, we show how highly identified actors appraise the level of identification of the members of different professional groups on the basis of the observations of the extra-role behaviors that colleagues enact. Only when highly identified individuals perceive congruence between the level of identification expected and displayed by colleagues are they motivated to devote time and effort to share knowledge with these latter. Moreover, our findings show that knowledge transfer between different professional groups can be interpreted as an unexplored type of organizational citizenship behavior. In fact, knowledge transfer implies the unrequired sharing of operational practices specific to a professional group with members of different professionals groups, which enables these latter to perform, in their turn, extra role behaviors to benefit the organization.
More generally, our study suggests extensions to the model of organizational identification and to the framework for exploring the relationship between organizational identification and organizational citizenship behaviours
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