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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
Overview of fashion brand internationalization: theories and trends
No full textThe importance of brand in fashion business cannot be overemphasized. This chapter reviews the essence of fashion brand management, discussing the concepts of brand and brand equity, fashion brand development and management, and communication. The fashion brand communication section introduces the use of emergent social media and fashion blogs along with traditional media in the luxury and premium fashion industry. Challenges and trends in branding and communication in the fashion industry are also discussed. The challenges around luxury brands, such as counterfeit goods, commoditization, brand dilution, and brand avoidance are explained with prominent examples. In the subsequent section, trends in branding and communication are detailed: luxury brands’ offering online selling, limited edition, guerrilla marketing, pop-up stores, reinforcing brand equity by offering experiential spaces
Brands as Core Assets: Trends and Challenges of Branding in Fashion Business
No full textThe importance of brand in fashion business cannot be overemphasized. This chapter reviews the essence of fashion brand management, discussing the concepts of brand and brand equity, fashion brand development and management, and communication. The fashion brand communication section introduces the use of emergent social media and fashion blogs along with traditional media in the luxury and premium fashion industry. Challenges and trends in branding and communication in the fashion industry are also discussed. The challenges around luxury brands, such as counterfeit goods, commoditization, brand dilution, and brand avoidance are explained with prominent examples. In the subsequent section, trends in branding and communication are detailed: luxury brands’ offering online selling, limited edition, guerrilla marketing, pop-up stores, reinforcing brand equity by offering experiential spaces
Product Innovation: Core to Continued Success
No full textAbstract Innovation means a new product, a new process, a new business practice, or a new form of organization. It is key to the creation of competitive advantages in any organizations and increasingly at the center of the strategy. Innovation can be largely classified into three: product innovation, process innovation and business model innovation. Among these three, this volume focuses on product innovation and discusses the comprehensive picture of product innovation happening in the global fashion industry at three levels- materials, style and product development- with ample examples and references to global fashion brands. Emphasizing that innovations in materials driven largely by technological standard may not tell the whole story occurring in the industry, authors alert readers to pay attention to the innovation in style, which may serve core competitive advantages for fashion brands and other mature industries where functions or technologies matter less critical. This chapter concludes that the global fashion industry is truly the sector where diverse technologies emerged in many different sectors are merged and synthesized and utilized to solve the needs and concerns of ultimate end users-consumers
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
Process Innovation in the Global Fashion Industry
No full textThe nature of the fashion business requires novelty and speed, which can be effectively fulfilled through process innovation. Subsequent to Volume 3 on product innovation in the global fashion industry, this book is devoted to process innovation. Process innovation is an improved way of doing things across the entire supply chain, including management, to expand efficiency in terms of cost, quality, and service. Process innovation is all about enhancing speed, accuracy, and efficiency, which are often internal processes and therefore invisible to customers. Still, leading fashion companies constantly engage in process innovation because doing so allows their product innovations to become even more visible and effective. Yet hidden, process innovations can contribute to a company’s profit, thus serving as a means to an end, rather than being a stand-alone goal per se.
With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, new digital technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, machine-generated algorithms, virtual reality, robotics, and automation have become a reality and serve as an important means to develop process innovations in the fashion industry. Examples of process innovations include creating an agile supply chain, the Enterprise Resource Planning system, robot manufacturing such as Adidas’ speed factory, Stitch Fix’s subscription and styling service based on machine-generated algorithms, and using the programmed robot Chatbot as a customer service tool.
Process innovation, however, is not always led by new technologies. Process innovations in the areas of administrative improvements such as work routines, information flow, and organization structures are often led by visionary leaders and human resources. Encompassing both hard- and soft-sides, this book aims to comprehend process innovation in a broader sense. In this book, you will find that process innovation occurring in the global fashion industry goes beyond the adaptation of new, innovative system and technologies.
After the introductory overview in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 deals with Italian brand Patrizia Pepe that was established in the 1970’s as a micro family business, mainly using OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) for production. Patrizia Pepe evolved through continued innovation into a company worth 113 million Euros in 2016, with 289 employees. The company’s process innovation can be epitomized as “thinking organization,” which leads to product and organizational innovations, and “collaborative experimentation” with supply chain partners, which creates a more flexible supply chain.
Chapter 3 focuses on Japanese lifestyle retailer MUJI’s process innovation. MUJI’s process innovation is unique in that its brand as well as the design concept itself is a process innovation through which MUJI provides customers with very simple products at reasonable prices, therefore making their products widely accessible to global consumers.
Chapter 4 discusses leading swimming wear brand Arena’s process innovation in terms of its organizational structure, production, logistics, distribution, and IT management. While Arena is known for its innovative high-performing swimwear, its ownership has been transferred multiple times from Adidas to five different investment funds. The case shows how organizational changes – consolidation of separately-run offices in France, Italy and Germany to a single company headquarters in Tolentino, Italy - can improve operational efficiency.
The case reviewed in Chapter 5 is American subscription and style service start-up Truck Club, established in 2009 and later acquired by high-end department store Nordstrom. Trunk Club not only introduced a unique business model (i.e., customized style service with a flexible subscription), but also innovated its process for offering customized styling for its clients through offering personal stylists online as well as in offline locations called Clubhouses, as well as utilizing machine-generated artificial intelligence.
We hope this volume provides companies and academia alike with practical insights for enhancing process innovations among fashion companies. This book was made possible with the help of many brilliant individuals. Our primary and sincere thanks goes to the authors who shared in the common cause of bringing new knowledge to leaders in the global fashion industry, and who devoted their time and enthusiasm to this book. Each case was developed via one-on-one interviews with key informants, observations, and visits to stores and factories. Without the industry leaders’ inputs the rich information provided in this volume would not be possible
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