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"Human Capital Inadequacy and Poor Labor Market Regulations as Obstacles to Firm Performance in Emerging Countries". Presentazione per la 45ma EBES (Eurasia Business and Economics Society) Conference, 11-13 ottobre 2023.
No full textIdee persistenti e idee declinanti: appunti sulle politiche di sostegno al reddito nel pensiero politico-economico e nel dibattito corrente,
No full text"Different income, different trust? The last decade trends of social capital in Italian macroregions", presentazione al XXII Workshop CiMET (Italy’s National University Centre for Applied Economic Studies), Lecce, 11-13 giugno 2025.
No full text"Heterogeneous Links Between Corruption and Innovation in a Global Economy". Preprint available on preprint.org: https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202412.1912.v1.
No full textThis study examines the impact of corruption on innovation in businesses from a compar-
ative standpoint, demonstrating that the relationship is undoubtedly heterogeneous between busi-
nesses and nations. There are two primary research questions addressed: i) In the countries under inspection does corruption help or hinder the innovative activities? ii) To what degree is the insti-
tutional framework and business strategy (domestic and international presence) influencing the re-
lationship between corruption and innovation? We use the V and VI surveys (2012–2016 and 2018–
2019) of EBRD-World Bank Business Environment and Performance Survey, with a balanced panel with 3584 establishments across 22 countries, economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The findings show two key points about the link between corruption and innovation: (1) the importance of institutional settings for the link’s strength and even direction when EU and non-EU countries are compared and (2) the diverse effects of corruption at the firm-level, when foreign and domestic ownership is considered: the “greasing” effect is particularly relevant for foreign firms in weak institutional environments but appears useless, if not sanding, for foreign firms in settings with stronger controls over corruption
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
Countries and Firms Explaining Managerial Performance
No full textA large body of research in recent years result in the growth of knowledge about better or worse
management practices. However, comparative research using firm-level data has been limited by the
different styles on management and by the unavailability of homogeneous data sources, especially
in former transition and Asian countries. This study fills this gap, by using the firm-level survey
by EBRD and World Bank (BEEPSV-MENA ES, 2012-2014) and by looking at the determinants of a
Management Quality Score (MQS) for more than 17.000 firms in 36 countries of Central Asia, Eastern
Europe and Northern Africa. We find that both, country and firm characteristics, matter for managerial
skills but they weight differently. In fact the country-groupings change, accelerate or dampen the
impact of firms characteristics on management performance so that different channels are conducive
to better managerial practices. Competition, education, and technology are the important channels for
the high-income countries, whereas global value chain participation and ownership are the significant
channels for the low-income countries. In particular, GVC participation enhances significantly manage-
rial practices of firms in low-income countries especially for the lower quartile firms. Hence, this study
provides empirical support for an interplay between country and firm characteristics in transitional and
emerging markets. In addition, it provides support for an enhanced connection between business
environment reforms devoted to managerial upgrading and industrial policy devoted to enhancing
best-performing firms characteristics. As such, it suggests that only their complementary and targeted
use can support management and business practices upgrading
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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