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La rilevanza dell’esperienza e delle reti di contatti dell’imprenditore per la velocità di internazionalizzazione: uno studio delle PMI in Italia e negli Stati Uniti
No full textStato dell'arte e gli obiettivi. L' attuale contesto economico riflette la complessa integrazione delle economie globali. La rapida evoluzione dei mercati internazionali creano un sacco di sfide e di incertezze per le imprese internazionalizzate. Le attività internazionali sono in aumento e le modalità di internazionalizzazione stanno diventando sempre più diversificate. Tuttavia, dato il fatto che le risorse e il potere di mercato sono limitati, il processo di internazionalizzazione delle piccole e medie imprese (PMI) differisce significativamente da quello delle multinazionali. E interessante notare che un numero crescente di imprese, in particolare nell’ambiente dell’alta tecnologia come le cosi dette aziende “Born Global” si espandono all’estero sempre più velocemente. Nonostante il grande sforzo che è stato fatto, alcune recensioni critiche dello stato dell'arte in questo campo di ricerca hanno sottolineato la necessità di approfondire la nostra comprensione della velocità di internazionalizzazione e di alcuni determinanti: la formazione/l’esperienza professionale e i contatti dell’imprenditore. L'obiettivo di questo progetto di ricerca è stato quello di analizzare l’impatto di questi determinanti di cui sopra sul ritmo di internazionalizzazione delle piccole e medie imprese in Italia e negli Stati Uniti.
Revisione della bibliografia. In Italia, la revisione della bibliografia è stata facilitata grazie al database - Sebina Open Library- della Biblioteca Sebastiano Brusco di Modena. Negli Stati Uniti invece, la ricerca è stata condotta alla Hamline University, School of Business, ed ha reso possibile di avere accesso ad una vasta gamma di bibliografia rilevante per la ricerca di cui sopra. La bibliografia principale utilizzata in questa tesi è stata presa dai seguenti database: Business Source Premier della Biblioteca Bush Memorial dell’Università di Hamline, Uniworld Database, Hoovers International Company Database e Reference USA Database. Nel complesso, gli studi teorici ed empirici sulla rilevanza dell’esperienza e delle reti di contatti dell’imprenditore sull’internazionalizzazione accelerata o graduale sono stati trovati nelle seguenti riviste : International Business Review, European Management Journal, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Journal of World Business, International Small Business Journal, etc.
La tesi contribuisce anche alla bibliografia di riferimento, analizzando alcuni fattori dell'internazionalizzazione delle imprese dall’Italia e dagli Stati Uniti. Le aziende provenienti dagli Stati Uniti sono uniche ed interessanti da studiare perché hanno diverse dimensioni e condizioni di mercato rispetto alle PMI italiane. Quindi, lo scopo di questa tesi è anche quello di richiamare l'attenzione di ricerca per completare la bibliografia esistente sulla velocità dell’internazionalizzazione delle PMI in una prospettiva comparata fra questi due paesi.
Metodologia della ricerca. Per quanto riguarda la metodologia di ricerca, è stato scelto il metodo dei casi di studio multipli. Il campione degli intervistati è stato selezionato nel caso italiano, dall’annuario della Confindustria di Modena, e nel caso degli Stati Uniti con il contributo del database accennato prima.
Riassumendo, basandoci sulla nuova bibliografia riguardante l’ internazionalizzazione delle aziende, sono stati esaminati i seguenti fattori specifici che possono influenzare la velocità del business internazionale: (1) l’importanza dell’esperienza professionale e della formazione dell’imprenditore, (2) il ruolo della rete di contatti dell’imprenditore.State of the art and goals. The current economic environment reflects the complex integration of global economies. Rapidly changing international markets create a lot of challenges and uncertainty for internationalizing companies. International activities are increasing and the modes of internationalization are becoming increasingly diverse. However, given limited resources and market power, the internationalization process of small and medium-sized enterprises differs significantly from that of established multinationals. Interestingly, an increasing number of enterprises, especially in high technology environments such as “Born Global” firms internationalize faster and faster.
Despite the great effort that has been done, some critical reviews of the state of the art in this field of research pointed out the need to deepen our understanding of the speed of internationalization and its determinants: entrepreneur’s experience and networks. The aim of this research project was to analyze the influence of those above mentioned determinants on the internationalization pace of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) from Italy and the United States.
Review of the literature. In Italy, the literature review was elaborated thanks to the database Sebina Open Library of the Sebastiano Brusco Library from Modena. While in the United States, the research conducted in the at Hamline University, School of Business, made it possible to have access to a wide range of literature relevant to the above research. The main literature used in this thesis was taken from the database called Business Source Premier (of the Bush Memorial Library, Hamline University), Uniworld Database, Hoovers International Company Database, Reference USA Database. Overall, the theoretical and empirical studies on the relevance of entrepreneur’s experience and networks on the accelerated or gradual internationalization were found in the following journals: International Business Review, European Management Journal, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Journal of World Business, International Small Business Journal, etc.
The thesis also contributes to the literature by analyzing some factors of the internationalization speed, from Italy and the United States, which has received relatively little attention. Firms from the United States are a unique and interesting setting to study because they have different sized and market conditions than Italian SMEs.
So, the purpose of this thesis is also to draw research attention to complement the existing literature on the internationalization pace of SMEs.
Research methodology. As regards the research methodology, it was chosen the multiple-case method as a research strategy. The sample of respondents was chosen in the case of Italy, from a database from Confindustria, Modena, and in the case of USA with the contribution of the above mentioned databases.
Summing up, it was examined the following specific factors that may influence the speed of international development: (1) the importance of entrepreneurs’ professional experience and education, (2) the role of networks
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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