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Port Supply Chain Management: best practice and case history
No full textLo Special Issue dedicato al tema della Supply Chain Management portuale intende privilegiare un approccio multidisciplinare agli argomenti in discussione, focalizzando l’attenzione degli studiosi su alcuni aspetti strategici dell’intermodalità dei sistemi logistici portuali e della competitività di tali sistemi, anche attraverso lo studio di case history e best practice nazionali ed internazionali.
L’adeguamento delle aree logistiche portuali, l’introduzione del concetto di intermodalità e l’utilizzo di tecnologie innovative in grado di garantire un’efficiente interoperabilità, sono temi imprescindibili per uno studio adeguato della Supply Chain Management portuale.
L’obiettivo è quello di approfondire i molteplici aspetti dei sistemi di Supply Chain Management (SCM) applicati all’ambito portuale e retro-portuale, esaminando anche le problematiche connesse al trasporto urbano ed alla sua integrazione con la logistica portuale.
I contributi dovranno focalizzarsi sulle best practice nazionali e internazionali - basandosi su lavori empirici, case history e indagini bibliometriche – descrivendo esperienze innovative e di successo, nonché individuando quei fattori strutturali e di contesto in grado di valorizzare la logistica del territorio.
Gli items di maggior interesse per lo Special Issue, che potranno essere sviluppati dagli autori, sono i seguenti:
1. Analisi comparativa sulla Supply Chain Management portuale;
2. Competitività dei sistemi logistici e intermodali portuali nazionali: esperienze d’impresa e case history;
3. Intermodalità dei sistemi di gestione del flusso di merci lungo la logistic value chain portuale;
4. Città portuali e loro integrazioni con i sistemi di Logistic Supply Chain;
5. Piattaforme di Business Intelligence utilizzabili per la logistica portuale;
6. ITC quali fattori di valorizzazione dell’interoperabilità dei sistemi di infomobilità marittima, urbana e su gomma;
7. Servizi di E-government destinati alle imprese della logistic supply chain portuale.The Special Issue dedicated to Port Supply Chain Management (SCM) privileges a multidisciplinary approach with a focus on strategic aspects of port logistic system inter-modality and competitiveness, by means of case histories and national and international best practices.
Port logistics in terms of adaptation, the concept of inter-modality and the use of innovative technologies for efficient interoperability, represents an essential theme for updating studies on port supply chain management.
The scope for papers pivots on the analysis of various aspects of the port supply chain management system applied to ports and retro ports by examining issues of urban transport integrated with port logistics. Contributions should be related to national and international best practices – based on empirical studies, case history and bibliometric analysis – debate relative to innovative and successful experiences and the indentifying of structural and contextual factors for enhancing logistic syst
Coming back to life: how business families revitalize dead money through family foundations
No full textThis paper examines how business families use family foundations to revitalize “dead money” while increasing the reputation of the business family and its firms through charitable giving. The Wang & He (2018) model is applied from 2001 to 2019 to a sample of 100 US family foundations (two for each federal state) with about USD 1 million in assets. Results indicate that business families revitalize “dead money” through family foundations by investing it across different revenue sources, namely bonds, cash investments, and stocks, generating inflows in terms of dividends, interests, and net gains due to asset sales. However, family foundations hold much of these inflows as disposable net equity. Therefore, their administrative structure remains too basic, preventing operating margins from growing. Nonetheless, family foundations stay highly involved in charitable giving to do well to the reputation of the business family and its firms while doing good to soci- ety. Overall, we conclude that business families, through family foundations, par- tially succeed in revitalizing “dead money”
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
Port Logistics and Management: Reflections on Evolution in Progress
No full textIl tema della Supply Chain Management è apparso da poco tempo negli studi di management, in modo particolare in relazione alla logistica portuale. In precedenza, infatti, sono prevalsi diversi approcci teorici al tema, legati ai mutamenti che si sono verificati nei modi di produzione e distribuzione dei beni dell’economia reale.La rilevanza dell’argomento è divenuta tale anche nel settore della logistica portuale, tant’è che, nell’ultimo decennio, sono apparsi con frequenza studi e analisi sulla SCM portuale, volti ad approfondire determinati aspetti legati all’intermodalità ed alle connesse problematiche del trasporto urbano, all’utilizzo di tecnologie innovative in grado di garantire un’efficiente interoperabilità dei sistemi di mobilità marittima, urbana e su gomma, all’integrazione logistica tra le città portuali e i terminal terrestri retroportuali.The theme of the Supply Chain Management has appeared recently in management studies, particularly in relation to port logistics. Previously, in fact, it has prevailed different theoretical approaches to the topic, linked to changes that have occurred in the ways of production and distribution of goods in the real economy. The relevance of this topic has been seen even in port logistics field, so much that, in the last decade, frequent studies and analysis on SCM port have appeared. To deepen certain aspects related to intermodal and the related issues of transport urban use of innovative technologies; to ensure efficient mobility systems interoperability maritime, urban and road, logistics integration between port cities and inland terminals
Predicting SMEs’ default risk: evidence from bank-firm relationship data
No full textThis paper uses a probit model on a unique dataset including 13,081 Italian firms and 111 co-operative banks involved in the lending process to provide empirical evidence suggesting that the use and violations of credit lines and long-term loans overruns predict the 1-year and 2-year probability of default (PD), controlling for balance sheets indicators and time varying bank characteristics, captured by bank-time fixed effects. In addition, when combined with accounting data, credit-related indicators obtained from private internal banking sources improve the SMEs’ default prediction. The marginal benefit of the bank-firm specific information is also assessed by comparing the default prediction accuracy of a model that incorporates the accounting information with that of a full model, including also private information. In terms of heterogeneity, our results reveal that the association between the balance sheet indicators and data on bank-firm relationships and the default probability can vary across sectors and geographies, highlighting the importance for banks of specific analysis to better assess risk at the firm level
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