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Drilling down the viable system theories in business, management and accounting: A bibliometric review
No full textThe aim of this paper is to trace the scientific landscape (authors, scientific papers, topics most frequently dealt with, relationships between them) of the studies concerning the viable system model (VSM) and the viable system approach (vSa), carried out in the period 1990–2018 within the scientific framework of systems thinking by scholars in business, management and accounting (BMA). The methodology adopted herein is based on a scientometric approach, bibliographic mapping and clustering. The analysis was carried out following a three-step procedure: bibliographic coupling of scientific contributions (153 articles recorded in Scopus in the considered period), co-occurrence of the main author keywords and analysis of co-citations. This paper examines for the first time the entire scientific body of knowledge about viable system theories (VSTs) in BMA areas using recent joint mapping and clustering tools
Approccio Sistemico Vitale e piattaforme smart per una formazione evolutiva
No full textNello specifico, il presente lavoro propone di facilitare il processo di acquisizione e di ampliamento della conoscenza tramite tecnologie abilitanti che possano profilare e clusterizzare ciascun utente interessato all'apprendimento multimediale, in base alla Varietà informativa dallo stesso posseduta. e' possibile, in tal modo, rendere il percorso di apprendimento personalizzato, oltre che efficiente ed efficace, al fine di delineare un modello innovativo di formazione evolutiva
Rome was not built in a day. Resilience and the eternal city: Insights for urban management
No full textResilience has been intensely investigated as the viable quality of individuals, groups, organizations, and systems to respond productively to notable change without engaging in an extended period of regressive behaviour. Recently, there has been growing attention to the relationship between resilience and cities. To contribute to this stimulating debate, this paper first provides the theoretical framework and links the concept of resilience to urban studies. Subsequently, it enlightens, through a systems perspective and the aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) methodology, the possibility to enrich the information variety endowment of urban policymakers, generated by new information units, to foster resilience capabilities in the urban context. Specifically, a large-scale text analysis study was conducted on the city of Rome to understand the sentiments expressed within the text generated online by citizens and visitors. The positive or negative sentiments linked to the hidden problems of the urban context were organized within collective perception-based maps for each of the analysed points of interest (POIs). Since cities represent complex decision-making contexts, this study aimed to outline a methodology and a tool that would help foster resilient thinking in urban policies by enriching the diversity of the information variety endowment of urban decision-makers
Viable Systems Approach and Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis for governing the territory
No full textPurpose of the paper: This paper proposes a conceptual model of support to the decision-making process of the territory governing body, which provides a picture representative of the variety of expectations, perspectives and interests present in the reference context, allowing for greater awareness of the interventions that could be aimed at solving urban problems. Methodology: The proposed model, based on Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA), aims to highlight, through the theoretical lens of the Viable Systems Approach (VSA), the sentiments of all the actors involved in a dynamic and complex viable system such as the territory. Findings: The study leads to an exposition of shared evaluations on the levels of “sentiment” as perceived by the community in relation to an urban point of interest, leading the territory governing body to achieving the conditions necessary for the emergence of context consonance. Research limits: The logics outlined through a first experimentation, carried out exclusively on a single urban point of interest, should be extended to an urban area of interest and to a more sophisticated model, aiming to perform more accurate analyses. Practical implications: The model presents itself as a valid support system to decision making in relation to territory dynamics, proposing community-shared evaluations regarding the potentialities and latent critical flaws of urban contexts from which to define future courses of action. Originality of the paper: The originality of the paper lies in combining, in a single model, the VSA, interpretative lens of reality, and the ABSA, adapting it to the environmental context
Destination Mobility Management in the light of service research: the “good practices” of South Tyrol"
No full textPurpose – The work presented herein refers to the theoretically framework of Service
Research. In particular, in Tourism, the “service-centred” way of thinking and acting has been
clearly visible and generalized over time, implying important reconsideration both in
definitions and in strategies. Moreover, the integrated proposals of service research and
systems thinking have positively contaminated the observation of tourism phenomenon,
mainly with reference to territorial development strategies. Starting from this, in this paper
we apply the resulting theoretical considerations on new processes of value generation
through the deepening of the cited concepts in Tourism and one of its main systemic,
dynamic and evolved expressions: Destination Management.
This concepts are analyzed by referring to the “good practices” of South Tyrol, particularly
to a project related to enhance transports to make the destination better accessible.
Design/Methodology/approach – Starting from the theoretical framework of Service
Research, we focus on the conceptualization of Destination Management that we integrate
with the Service Dominant Logic perspective (Vargo, Lusch, 2004, 2006, 2007). These
theoretical frameworks are applied to the analysis of the “good practices” of South Tyrol.
Findings – The analysis of the South Tyrol case study highlights several key elements for
the development and economic growth of the territory, that can be conceived as a network
of networks, imagined as a viable service system for the offer and quality of life that it can
favor, as well as interpretable as a smart service system (Spohrer et al., 2008; Barile, Polese, 2010) that is able to remain adaptive and to respond appropriately to the changing needs of
the context over time.
Research limitations/implications – Although the study presented herein is essentially
qualitative and descriptive, it could be a good starting point for further analysis that put in
relation the role in fostering the service equipment of a specific destination with the touristic
development of specific territorial areas.
Originality/value – The analysis of interconnected territorial systems, and the
management of complexity resulting from their increasingly articulated organizations, are
well suited to a global analysis that enables a more effective assessment of the potential of
a territory
Combining Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Managing Collective Knowledge in Unpredictable Environment—Insights from the Chinese Case in Facing COVID-19
No full textThe increasing fluidity of social and business configurations made possible by the opportunities provided by the World Wide Web and the new technologies is questioning the validity of consolidated business models and managerial approaches. New rules are emerging and multiple changes are required to both individuals and organizations engaged in dynamic and unpredictable paths. In such a scenario, the paper aims at describing the potential role of big data and artificial intelligence in the path toward a collective approach to knowledge management. Thanks to the interpretative lens provided by systems thinking, a framework able to explain human-machine interaction is depicted and its contribution to the definition of a collective approach to knowledge management in unpredictable environment is traced. Reflections herein are briefly discussed with reference to the Chinese governmental approach for managing COVID-19 spread to emphasise the support that a technology-based collective approach to knowledge management can provide to decision-making processes in unpredictable environments
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
Come superare l’human lock-in? Una rilettura in chiave sistemica del rapporto tra tecnologia, training policy e conoscenza
No full textFin dall'antichità, l'uomo ha sempre cercato di evolversi, trovandosi immerso, negli anni, in un processo di sviluppo tecnologico continuo ed inevitabile. Affinché l'innovazione scientifica non generi "disoccupazione tecnologica", è necessario semplificare e intensificare il processo di apprendimento tecnologico tramite politiche ad hoc, al fine di garantire la continua acquisizione di nuova conoscenza specifica in un mercato del lavoro in continuo mutamento.
Il contributo, sviluppato sulla base dell'Approccio Sistemico Vitale (aSv), lente interpretativa della realtà, attraverso l'individuazione dei fattori che intervengono nei processi di sviluppo ed apprendimento tecnologico, perviene alla formalizzazione di un modello concettuale che fa emergere il rapporto ricorsivo di relazione e interazione tra tecnologia, training policies e T-shaped knowledge. Il modello, dunque, evidenzia l'importanza che rivestono le training policies, soprattutto in un settore complesso e in continua evoluzione come quello tecnologico ed in una società "a costo marginale zero", nel facilitare il processo di acquisizione e di ampliamento di conoscenza.
Tali politiche si traducono in una serie di interventi volti ad un ripensamento dei classici metodi di formazione, affinché individui con background differenti non si ritrovino "intrappolati" in rigidi percorsi formativi (human lock-in), ma, al contrario, siano capaci, attraverso la dotazione di schemi generali, di gestire con successo l’ampia variabilità tecnologica.
Il lavoro offre interessanti spunti per la ricerca, poiché evidenzia la ricorsività e la dinamicità dei processi di sviluppo e di apprendimento tecnologico, che spingono l'Organo di Governo a porre in essere una serie di politiche atte a ridefinire l'approccio alla gestione della conoscenza
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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