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Design combination potential and get it done: An analysis of the drivers of technological performance in Mergers and Acquisitions
No full textThe paper explores the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on technological performance. We posit
that the post-acquisition technological performance is positively related to the technological combination potential of the
merging firms and to their ability to realize this potential. In turn, the combination potential depends on M&As motives
aimed at complementing firms’ technological resources, whereas firms’ ability to realize their potential is significantly
influenced by their prior experience in M&As and technology integration
Disentangling the automotive technology structure: a patent co-citation analysis
No full textWhile most technological positioning studies were traditionally addressed by comparing firms technological patents classes and portfolios, only a few of them adopted science mapping patent co-citation techniques and none of these seeks to understand the impact of collective cognition on the technology structure of an entire industry. What is the firms technological positioning landscape within an high collective cognition sector? What is the groups technological positioning evolution? How do technology structures shift according to different economic scenarios? Through a strategic lens we contribute to technology strategy literatures by proposing an invention behavior map of automotive actors at a firm, groups and industry level. From Derwent Innovation Index, about 581,000 patents, 1,309,356 citations and 1,287,594 co-citations relationships between (a) the main 49 firms assignees of 1991–2013 and (b) the main 28 or 34 groups assignees by considering three timespan 1991–1997, 1998–2004, 2005–2013, were collected. Results: (1) most of the companies are located close together, depicting the sector technology structure as highly dense; (2) the market leaders do not coincide with technology production leaders and not necessarily occupy central technological positions; (3) the automotive groups considerably varies in the three timespan in terms of position and composition; (4) the market leaders groups occupy technological remoteness positions during economic growth timespan; (5) the sector technology structure is highly dense during growth, strongly scattered and lacking of technologically center positioned actors after economic decline. Finally, strategic implications supporting central locating or suburb R&D positioning planning and M&As recombinational partners decision making are discussed
Features of top-rated gold open access journals: An analysis of the scopus database
No full textPurpose: The goal is to identify the features of top-rated gold open access (OA) journals by testing seven main variables: languages, countries, years of activity and years in the DOAJ repository, publication fee, the field of study, whether the journal has been launched as OA or converted, and the type of publisher. Sample: A sample of 1910 gold OA journals has been obtained by combining Scopus SJR 2012, the DOAJ, and data provided by previous studies ( Solomon, 2013). Method: We have divided the SJR index into quartiles for all journals' subject areas. First, we show descriptive statistics by combining quartiles based on their features. Then, after having converted the quartiles into a dummy variable, we test it as a dependent variable in a binary logistic regression. Contribute: This work contributes empirically to better understanding the gold OA efficacy of data analysis, which may be helpful in improving journals' rankings in the areas where this is still a struggle. Findings: Significant results have been found for all variables, except for the types of publishers, and for born or converted journals
Third mission and espoused values of Italian universities: an investigation on official documents
No full textThis study examines the espoused values of Italian universities that emerge from statutes with the aim of eliciting patterns of representation of the third mission, which embraces all the activities by which universities contribute to the economic and social development of society. Since all statutes were updated between 2011 and 2012 because of a law enacted on 30 December 2010, n. 240, it is timely to use Italian universities to highlight current patterns of representation. Using a qualitative content analysis performed with Atlas.Ti (Muhr, 1994), seventy-five statutes were analyzed by focusing on core missions, functions attributed to the third-mission activities, and primary tasks of the organization vis-à-vis its environment. By relying on the systematic association between codes created to extrapolate the embodied meaning of the text and units of analysis, results have shown four organizational archetypes in the third mission: 1) Need for coherence, with an emphasis on the need to respect the functions of public institutions regarding the third-mission activities; 2) Exploitation, which focuses on patent disclosure; 3) Openness to participating in external change and satisfying external needs; and 4) Old School, with a focus on entrepreneurial activities as a source of funding. Our analysis leads to proposals for future research
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
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