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Three essays on ethical consumption and social responsibility
Full text linkA recent literature on Corporate Social Responsibility in economics – reviewed in Chapter 1 – shows that not all the consumers who declare to be socially concerned purchase ethical products. Such divergence does not seem to be fully explained by potential price differences. Starting from this consideration, we develop Chapters 2 and Chapter 3.
In Chapter 2 we present a partial equilibrium model in which firms choose either to be ethical (i.e. to commit to Corporate Social Responsibility) or standard. The group of socially concerned consumers desire to have a market where ethical firms operate, but they consider the goods produced by the two types of firms as entirely homogeneous. We investigate how the size of the group of socially concerned consumers affects firms' decisions to commit to ethical production.
In Chapter 3, we present a general equilibrium model in which an increase in income may induce socially concerned consumers to switch from standard to ethical products, rather than consuming more standard goods. The economy is divided into two sectors -- the standard and the ethical -- and only a group of workers receive a share of profits in addition to their wages. We study the conditions under which there exists a virtuous circle which ties together increases in the size of the ethical sector to reductions in income inequality.Una recente letteratura sulla Responsabilità Sociale d’Impresa – che presentiamo nel Capitolo 1 – evidenzia come solo una quota di consumatori che si dichiara “socialmente responsabile” acquisti i prodotti delle imprese etiche . Questa divergenza non sembra dipendere interamente da eventuali differenze nei prezzi dei beni. A partire da queste considerazioni, sviluppiamo il lavoro contenuto nel Capitolo 2 e nel Capitolo 3.
Nel Capitolo 2 presentiamo un modello di equilibrio parziale dove le imprese decidono se essere etiche (aderendo ad una Responsabilita’ Sociale d’Impresa) o standard. Il gruppo di consumatori etici desidera un mercato dove operino le imprese etiche, ma considera i beni prodotti dalle due imprese come perfetti sostituti. Studiamo come la dimensione del gruppo dei consumatori etici influenzi la decisione delle imprese di investire o meno nella produzione etica.
Nel Capitolo 3 presentiamo un modello di equilibrio economico generale dove i consumatori etici, oltre un certo livello di reddito, preferiscono acquistare i beni etici anzichè acquistare una quantità maggiore di beni standard. Assumiamo che solo un gruppo di lavoratori riceva, oltre al proprio salario, i profitti realizzati dalle due diverse imprese e troviamo le condizioni affinchè vi sia un circolo virtuoso tra l’espansione del settore etico e la riduzione della diseguaglianza di reddito
The Role of Income Distribution in the Diffusion of Corporate Social Responsibility
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between corporate social responsibility (CSR) growth and income distribution. We present a general equilibrium model where social responsibility enters both firms' and consumers' decisions. At equilibrium, different degrees of CSR diffusion may arise. We study the conditions under which there exists a virtuous circle which ties increases in the diffusion of CSR to reductions in income inequality. Under certain circumstances, any policy which promotes CSR diffusion induces a reduction in income inequality. By contrast, when such conditions are not satisfied, only redistributive policies may generate the virtuous circle
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
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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