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Governing Hybrid Municipal Enterprises through Sustainability: Balancing Tensions and Creating Public Value - Evidence from Three Studies
No full textMunicipally owned enterprises (MOEs) are central hybrid actors in local governance, yet research still lacks an integrated understanding of how they manage competing logics and contribute to sustainable public value. Three gaps persist: (1) the literature is fragmented and rarely connects organisational, institutional, and systemic levels; (2) sustainability is treated mainly as disclosure rather than as a governance and sensemaking mechanism; (3) the political and discursive role of MOEs in municipal arenas remains largely unexplored. This dissertation addresses these gaps through a three-part multilevel qualitative design. A grounded literature review reinterprets MOE scholarship through a micro–meso–macro lens, identifying cross-level misalignments as structural sources of hybrid tensions. A case study of an Italian MOE shows how sustainability and SDG reporting become tools for navigating paradoxes, aligning strategy, and shaping organisational identity. A discourse analysis of municipal council debates reveals how political actors mobilise MOEs rhetorically to construct legitimacy, responsibility, and ESG priorities. Overall, the dissertation offers a systemic understanding of how sustainability operates across organisational, institutional, and political arenas, advancing theory and practice on hybrid governance and sustainable public value creation.
Navigating hybridity through SDG reporting: a case study of a municipally owned enterprise (MOE) in Italy
No full textPurpose: This study investigates how Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) reporting is used by a municipally owned enterprise (MOE) in Italy to navigate the paradoxes and governance tensions inherent in hybrid public organisations. Design/Methodology/Approach: The research adopts a qualitative single-case study design, relying on semi-structured interviews with senior managers and document analyses of sustainability reports and financial statements from 2022 and 2023. The company was selected for its voluntary engagement in SDG reporting and exposure to hybrid tensions. Findings: Results show that SDG reporting in the company has evolved from symbolic, narrative-driven disclosures to more structured practices that align with strategic planning and resource allocation. Between 2022 and 2023, the number of reported SDGs increased; references to sub-targets became more explicit; and links between reporting, financial decisions, and stakeholder expectations were strengthened. Reporting supported internal coordination, identity construction, and the negotiation of key paradoxes. Examples of such paradoxes included autonomy versus control and public value versus efficiency. Theoretical and Practical Implications: The study contributes to paradox theory by demonstrating how SDG reporting can serve as a sensemaking and governance tool in hybrid settings. It also extends the literature on public-sector sustainability reporting by showing how global frameworks can be adapted locally to manage complexity. Practically, the study highlights the value of embedding reporting in a company’s strategic and operational processes to reinforce legitimacy and coherence. Originality/Value: This is one of the first empirical studies on SDG reporting by an Italian MOE. The findings offer novel insights into hybrid accountability and sustainability governance under voluntary disclosure regimes
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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