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How do universities shape founding teams? Social proximity and informal mechanisms of knowledge transfer in student entrepreneurship
Full text linkThis paper investigates informal mechanisms of knowledge transfer (KT) from a local
university to entrepreneurial teams comprising students and recent graduates. While the
extant literature on university-industry KT largely focuses on formal mechanisms aimed at
stimulating entrepreneurial initiatives in high-tech (HT) sectors, it overlooks the effect of
university-industry KT on nascent entrepreneurship in low-medium tech (LMT) sectors. To
fill this gap in the literature, we carry out a mixed-method analysis that exploits a dataset of
154 new business ideas (and 535 team members) presented at a business plan competition
in Rimini from 2010 to 2017. Our findings highlight a robust relationship between educational
field and the R&D intensity of entrepreneurial projects: students take advantage of
the knowledge acquired at university to develop entrepreneurial projects with higher technological
content than those planned by non-graduates. Furthermore, the empirical evidence
shows that the local university nurtures the formation of ties among students and
recent graduates enrolled in the same courses and fosters their efforts to launch new ventures.
Finally, the qualitative analysis identifies relevant and non-traditional mechanisms of
KT that are being exploited by nascent entrepreneurs to develop their business ideas in the
LMT and HT sectors
ICT Support to the Reconstruction of Social Meanings after a Disaster
No full textIn this paper we briefly discuss how ICT and its applications may impact on the process of social reconstruction of meanings developed by communities affected by a disaster. In particular we refer to the LAquila case (hit by a major moment magnitude 6.3 earthquake on April 6, 2009), an extra-ordinary situation in which the sudden loss of the private sphere of people homes as well as of the ordinary work and public environments makes the availability of virtual spaces crucial for social interaction and for the re-definition of the lost identity (both at individual and at community level). The paper presents the main characteristics of the EagleVox platform, to show how the combination of mobile ICT technology, social web, and semantic technology is suitable for supporting the social recovery process
Thompson’s legacy on education
No full textAt the 50th anniversary of James D. Thompson’s fundamental book, Organizations in Action, TAO Digital Library proposes a reflection on this great master’s legacy and the evolution of organizational studies. Twelve researchers, from different disciplinary fields, analyze both the texts utilized for teaching and the contribution of several important journals, particularly in recent decades. The outcome is an overall picture that may stimulate different, divergent evaluations and, even more importantly, desirable, deeper reflections
Un'altra via. Scritti su agire sociale e organizzazione dedicati a Bruno Maggi
No full textNel volume sei studiosi di varia appartenenza disciplinare (organizzazione, sociologia, medicina) riflettono sull'influenza che l'opera di Bruno Maggi ha avuto sul loro percorso di ricerca e sulla loro produzione teorica. I temi trattati, che riguardano il cambiamento organizzativo nelle imprese e nel lavoro, e i suoi rapporti con la tecnologia, la negoziazione, l'apprendimento, la regolazione giuridica, la salute, richiamano il percorso scientifico di Maggi, rendendo omaggio al suo originale contributo all'interpretazione dell'agire sociale: la teoria dell'agire organizzativo. La sua riflessione teorica, la sua attività di ricerca e di insegnamento hanno mostrato come, seguendo quanto ha chiaramente indicato l'epistemologia delle scienze umane e sociali, si possa percorrere un'altra via rispetto alle consuete e opposte visioni dell'oggettivismo e del soggettivismo
J.D. Thompson’s Organizations in Action 50th anniversary: a reflection
No full textAt the 50th anniversary of James D. Thompson’s fundamental book, Organizations in Action, TAO Digital Library proposes a reflection on this great master’s legacy and the evolution of organizational studies. Twelve researchers, from different disciplinary fields, analyze both the texts utilized for teaching and the contribution of several important journals, particularly in recent decades. The outcome is an overall picture that may stimulate different, divergent evaluations and, even more importantly, desirable, deeper reflections
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
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