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Competitiveness in New Technology-based Firms: Between Local High-Tech Clusters and Global Technological Markets
No full textThis paper adopts a resource-based view (RBV) and analyses what
conditions support the local and international competitiveness of small
companies in both their local high-tech clusters (HCs) and global markets. The
question we are trying to address in this paper is therefore: what makes the
resources in a new technology-based firm (NTBF) sources of competitive
advantages both within its local industrial network and on global markets? We
argue that NTBF resources (especially those related to knowledge and expertise
of firms) are likely to achieve both goals solely if they are both locally
homogeneous and globally heterogeneous. Resources that fail to fulfil these
two conditions can only be effective in one (or maybe neither) of these two
external environments
The electricity market in its delicate balance between profit and public utilities: a proposal in a systemic view
No full textAbstract
The article addresses the broad theme of the related party transactions (RPTs) and criteria for a related party definition, focusing on problems affecting the utilities to the reforms of privatization and regulation of their markets and considering in particular the field of electricity. These aspects are in fact problems of significant impact on strategic, organizational and managerial.
The study has different purposes: (a) to shed light on a topic, that, despite its potential impact, has not yet deserved great attention in governance studies; (b) to stress possible inconsistencies in the most popular theories in the literature regarding RPTs (conflict of interests and efficient transaction), both, to some extent, ideologically biased and unable to offer a proper picture of these heterogeneous dealings; (c) to suggest a more balanced and pragmatic approach, less influenced by a suspicious attitude (typical of the conflict of interests theory), possibly more consistent with their economic rationale (as suggested by the efficient transactions hypothesis) as well as social fac-tors and governance practices.
To this end the study is largely based on literature review and on the analysis of the characters that in the past and today have characterized the Italian electricity sector
Competitiveness in New Technology-based Firms: Between Local High-Tech Clusters and Global Technological Markets
No full textThis paper adopts a resource-based view (RBV) and analyses what
conditions support the local and international competitiveness of small
companies in both their local high-tech clusters (HCs) and global markets. The
question we are trying to address in this paper is therefore: what makes the
resources in a new technology-based firm (NTBF) sources of competitive
advantages both within its local industrial network and on global markets? We
argue that NTBF resources (especially those related to knowledge and expertise
of firms) are likely to achieve both goals solely if they are both locally
homogeneous and globally heterogeneous. Resources that fail to fulfil these
two conditions can only be effective in one (or maybe neither) of these two
external environments
The electricity market in its delicate balance between profit and public utilities: a proposal in a systemic view
No full textAbstract
The article addresses the broad theme of the related party transactions (RPTs) and criteria for a related party definition, focusing on problems affecting the utilities to the reforms of privatization and regulation of their markets and considering in particular the field of electricity. These aspects are in fact problems of significant impact on strategic, organizational and managerial.
The study has different purposes: (a) to shed light on a topic, that, despite its potential impact, has not yet deserved great attention in governance studies; (b) to stress possible inconsistencies in the most popular theories in the literature regarding RPTs (conflict of interests and efficient transaction), both, to some extent, ideologically biased and unable to offer a proper picture of these heterogeneous dealings; (c) to suggest a more balanced and pragmatic approach, less influenced by a suspicious attitude (typical of the conflict of interests theory), possibly more consistent with their economic rationale (as suggested by the efficient transactions hypothesis) as well as social fac-tors and governance practices.
To this end the study is largely based on literature review and on the analysis of the characters that in the past and today have characterized the Italian electricity sector
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
Second Order Regular Variation, Convolution And The Central Limit Theorem
No full text. Second order regular variation is a refinement of the concept of regular variation which is useful for studying rates of convergence in extreme value theory and asymptotic normality of tail estimators. For a distribution tail 1 \Gamma F which possesses second order regular variation, we discuss how this property is inherited by 1 \Gamma F 2 and 1 \Gamma F 2 . We also discuss the relationship of central limit behavior of tail empirical processes, asymptotic normality of Hill's estimator and second order regular variation. 1. Introduction. In this paper we assume that the distribution function F is concentrated on [0; 1). The tail 1 \Gamma F (x) is regularly varying with index \Gammaff, ff ? 0 (written 1 \Gamma F 2 RV \Gammaff ) if (1.1) lim t!1 1 \Gamma F (tx) 1 \Gamma F (t) = x \Gammaff ; x ? 0: The distribution tail 1 \Gamma F is second order regularly varying with first order parameter \Gammaff and second order parameter ae (written 1 \Gamma F 2 2RV (\Gammaff; ae)) if ther..
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
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