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The effects of management education on careers and compensation: A competency-based study of an Italian MBA programme
No full textThis study aims explores how the amount and the nature of learning accrued during an MBA – measured in terms of competency development – impact on career advancement and
compensation. Applying nonparametric statistical analysis on data from behavioral event interviews and survey questionnaires to a sample of 44 Italian MBA graduates, the study investigates: the type and extent of competency development during the MBA programme and the relationship between this competency development and post-MBA career and compensation.
The findings support the hypothesis that the degree of competency development during the MBA programme enhances career advancement, and that some competencies, like planning, result orientation, networking, organizational awareness, system thinking and use of technology, do so particularly, which is consistent with literature on career competencies. No relationship is found, instead, between competency development during the MBA and compensation.
Most of the outstanding research supports the hypothesis that the MBA enhances career advancement, but the evidence about how the skills and competencies associated with an MBA study impact on career outcomes is polarized and remains somewhat sketchy. Several scholars have examined the career outcomes for MBA graduates, but no specific study has addressed the issue of assessing whether and to what extent the competencies developed during the MBA programme impact on career outcomes. The study investigates this issue and explores the relationship between competencies development and career advancement
The balance between exploitation and exploration: leveraging on bundles of organizational solutions
No full textThis paper aims to contribute to this literature by disentangling the specific set of organizational solutions that support firms in achieving exploration and exploitation. The research question we aim to answer is the following: which bundles of organizational solutions impact on both exploration and exploitation orientations?
To address this research question a qualitative approach was chosen (Yin, 1994). A multiple case study was carried out across four medium enterprises located in Northeast Italy. The firms analyzed are leading companies in their sectors and in order to sustain their competitiveness they are refocusing the innovation
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process from an efficiency-driven approach towards one which is more based on experimentation activities. Consequently these cases represent an appropriate setting to investigate the impact of an extensive set of organizational solutions on exploration and exploitation orientations
EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION: DO ACTUAL BEHAVIORS MATCH INDIVIDUALS’ PERCEPTIONS?
No full textResearch on contextual ambidexterity assumes that an organization’s capacity to pursue simultaneouslyexploration and exploitation leverages on organizational solutions encouraging a balance between thesetwo learning orientations. However, still limited attention has been devoted to the investigation ofcontextual ambidexterity at the individual level of analysis. Starting from this gap, this paper addresses thefollowing research questions: How do individuals perceive the learning orientation requested to them bytheir job? Do individuals’ behaviors match their perceived orientation? How does thematching/mismatching between perceptions and behaviors can be explained? To address these issues amultiple case study across 16 managers and assistants of R&D and Sales units of four mediumenterprises located in Northeast Italy was carried out. Our findings show that the perceptions and theactual behaviors, as component of the personal ambidexterity, are distinct and independent. Perceivedand actual orientations emerge in various different combinations creating a mismatch at individual level aswell as some inconsistencies between different hierarchical levels and business units. The determinants ofthese inconsistencies can be explained by considering the individuals’ working experiences, their expertise and motivation and also the decisions and changes in the firm processes in which individualshave been involved
Re-designing International Supply chains: The Case of North East Italian Apparel Companies in Romania
No full textThe internationalisation of operations in Romania by North-East Italian companies is so an increasingly disruptive phenomenon that many commentators point it out as a sort of "unique" in industrial relocation and in the relationships between Western and Eastern European economies. This paper aims to analyse and understand, with regard to such mature industries like footwear and apparel, the why, what and how of the supply chain internationalisation of Veneto-based (i.e. the main North-East Italian region) companies in Romania. The study is based on 11 in-depth case studies of firms involved in relocating production to Romania. The Veneto-Romania case constitutes an example of: a) how robust and resilient existing industrial systems in Western European Economies can be, and b) how firms from emerging economies can be integrated into supply chains with positive outcomes for all the actors
Headspace volatile compounds during osmotic dehydration of strawberries (cv Camarosa): Influence of osmotic solution and processing time
No full textThe influence of the type of sugar in the osmotic solution and of the time of processing on the volatile compounds of strawberries was
studied, in order to optimize the technique as a pre-treatment to further processing. Strawberries of cultivar ‘Camarosa’, cut into 1 cm
thick slices, were subjected to osmotic dehydration at 30 1C for 1, 2, 4 and 6 h using either 60% (w/w) sucrose or 60% (w/w) sorbitol
solutions. Volatile compounds of fresh and processed strawberry slices were analyzed by static headspace—gas chromatography.
Osmotic treatments provoked a loss in volatile compounds due to the migration, mainly of esters, into the osmotic media. The variations
in the volatile pattern depended on both time of treatment and type of osmotic solution. The greater changes occurred after 2 h in
sucrose; with a promotion of fermentative volatiles (acetaldehyde, ethyl acetate), and a decrease in the other volatiles. Using sorbitol as
osmotic agent, the major variations in the volatile pattern occurred after 4 h of osmosis, and the fermentative process was less important
than in sucrose, as sorbitol could be less effective in forming a peripheral layer at the fruit surface and/in reducing tissue porosity
Re-designig International Supply Chains
No full textThe internationalization of operations in Romania by north-east Italian companies is so an increasingly disruptive phenomenon that many commentators point it out as a sort of "unique" in industrial relocation and in the relationships between Western and Eastern European economies. This paper aims to analyze and understand, with regard to such mature industries like footwear and apparel, the why, what and how of the supply chain internationalization of Veneto-based (i.e. the main region in north-east Italy) companies in Romania. The study is based on 9 in-depth case studies of firms involved in relocating production to Romania. The Veneto-Romania case constitutes an example of: a) how robust and resilient existing industrial systems in Western European Economies can be, and b) how firms from emerging economies can be integrated into supply chains with positive outcomes for all the actors
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
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