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Intellectual Capital and Business Performance in Professional Football Clubs: Evidence From a Longitudinal Analysis
Get PDFThis paper aims to explore the impact of intellectual capital efficiency (ICE) on firm performance in the context of professional football clubs. In particular, our aim is twofold: (1) to provide measures of ICE specifically tailored to professional football businesses; and (2) to empirically investigate whether some dimensions of ICE, namely, human capital and relational capital efficiency, are positively associated with sporting performance, here used as a proxy for business performance. This paper develops a quantitative analysis of club-level panel data using the statistical technique known as mixed-effects linear regression for longitudinal analysis. The research spans a time period of five years and specifically the sporting seasons from 2007/2008 up to 2011/2012. The empirical findings of this study provide tentative evidence that ICE, especially as far as relational capital is concerned, is positively associated with on-pitch performance of professional football businesses. On the counterpart, the results for the impact of human capital efficiency (HCE) do not consistently come out with the (positive) expected signs. More specifically, our findings suggest that relational capital efficiency, meaning the ability to develop and nurture positive business relationship with relevant external stakeholders, is a significant consideration for football club managers; on the other, they might shed light on the actual business model of professional football clubs that, in our analysis, does not appear consistent with the long-held hypothesis of winning maximization. The main limitation of this study lies in the fact that our indicators do not fully capture all relevant dimensions of the intellectual capital (IC) construct
Consortia as public network. The case of an Italian industrial consortium
Get PDFThis research is placed in the literature under the subject of public networks for the development of territorial areas. Generally, studies on organizational strategy on the network are heading to more specialized areas of research. A topic that has recently been gaining an increasing interest is the influence of the social environment on the behavior and performance of the network of public and individual members (Meneguzzo, Cepiku, 2008). The work takes as a reference the case of industrial consortia - legal institutions governing joint initiatives for the conduct of certain business activities - both by private and public entities. In particular, it aims to provide an alternative reading that revisits the industrial consortium as an intermediate solution in the management of public goods (Ostrom, 1990). On the theoretical basis of Ostrom’s approach (1990), the work aims to provide an alternative reading for the governance of industrial consortia, because there wouldn’t be the only public/private dichotomy, but rather a plurality of combinations. Using a qualitative research methodology, the study will be enriched by a case history of an Italian industrial consortium, located in the Lazio regio
Il ruolo degli intangible nell'informativa esterna d'impresa: l'analisi di un campione di aziende operanti nel settore manifatturiero
No full textIntellectual capital efficiency and business performance: empirical evidence from the professional footbal sector in Italy
No full textTihis paper aims to explore the significance of intellectual capital (intangible assets) to firm performance in the context of professional football clubs. Specifically, it investigates whether the efficiency of intangible assets investments affect positively the sporting performance in a sample of Italian top-tier football clubs
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
Degradation of Biomass Pellets during Transport, Handling and Storage: An experimental and numerical study
No full textPresently, biomass pellets play a significant role in energy transition scenarios worldwide. Due to the lack of local supplies, many countries import their pellets from countries with enormous resources. For instance, in Europe, a big share of pellets is imported from the USA, Canada, and Asian countries. Pellets are normally transferred in bulk using ocean vessels with a capacity of up to 40,000 metric tons. Due to mechanical forces and environmental changes throughout the transport and storage steps, pellets are prone to degradation. This may degrade pellets physically or chemically. As a result, fines and dust are generated. Moreover, as pellets absorb and adsorb moisture from the environment, the moisture content and the heating value of pellets may change, and this may also weaken the physical structure because of swelling. The presence of fines and dust may lead to self-ignition and dust explosion, material loss, equipment fouling, and environmental and health issues. The goal of this dissertation is to investigate to what extent biomass pellets degrade during transport and storage. To achieve this, first, we conducted an extensive literature review to reveal the factors that affect the extent of degradation of pellets. Moreover, we studied the commonly used methods to assess the quality parameters and the degradation behavior of pellets in detail. Then, we carried out a series of experiments on physical and chemical degradations of pellets from laboratory to large-scale and analyzed them in the operational and environmental context. By conducting these experiments, we unveiled the relationship between the laboratory test results and the pilot or large-scale transport impact on the proportion of generated fines. Furthermore, a model in the discrete element method (DEM) was developed and used to simulate the breakage pattern of individual pellets under the compression test. The model shows high fidelity in simulating the breakage behavior of pellets under compressive forces in two directions.Large Scale Energy Storag
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
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