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A decade of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business: a bibliometric analysis
Full text linkThe purpose of this paper is to offer a complete overview of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB). By using Scopus and Google Scholar databases to analyse the most cited papers and the most prolific authors, the article provides a map of the knowledge produced and disseminated by IJESB taking 809 papers into consideration. Furthermore, through keywords correlation analysis, the authors highlight the most relevant topics and the relative importance in terms of number of citations, by analysing how they are clustered together. Finally, the paper shows the past, the present, and the future trends in IJESB through a representation of the average emergence date of each keyword
From governance to organizational effectiveness: the role of organizational identity and volunteers’ commitment
No full textThe present study unpacks the relationship between non-profit organizations’ (NPOs) governance and organizational effectiveness by investigating the mediating role of volunteers’ organizational identity (OI) and their organizational commitment. While management scholars have traditionally focused on for-profit organizations to investigate the mechanisms underlying governance related issues, noteworthy insights may be derived from the analysis of NPOs due to the emerging societal importance of the Third Sector. Stakeholders are progressively requiring a better definition and implementation of NPOs’ governance, to ensure their effective and long-term sustainability at the service of the community. However, the extant literature has mainly focused on NPOs’ board mechanisms, thus neglecting the critical stakeholders that play a crucial role in the governance of these organizations, such as volunteers. Building on an “enlightened” stakeholder theory perspective, this study proposes and empirically tests a conceptual model that explains the linkages between NPOs’ governance effectiveness and organizational effectiveness. Specifically, volunteers’ OI and commitment to the NPO are hypothesized as the underlying mechanisms explaining such a relationship. Bootstrapped multi-mediation analysis was used on a sample of 300 respondents who volunteered in NPOs located in 10 Italian provinces. Results confirmed the role of OI and volunteers’ commitment as partially mediating variables on the relationship between NPOs’ governance effectiveness and organizational effectiveness. Both theoretical and practical implications for NPOs’ managers are provided, along with suggestions for future research by stressing the importance of the NPO governance phenomenon and the significant role played by volunteers
Consumers Engagement and Value Co-Creation in Social Media Brand Communities: Evidences from Italian Runners Communities
No full textObjectives. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how consumers identification and engagement in social media
brand communities are relevant antecedents of their brand loyalty intention and electronic-word of mouth (E-WOM).
Since E-WOM may considered as a proxy to measure consumers propensity to participate in brand co-creation, the
present study assessed which factors influence brand co-creation in social media brand communities.
Methodology. A survey was administered online to members of Italian Nike+ communities. Structural Equation
Modeling (SEM) was selected as the main methodology of analysis.
Findings. The results show that consumers identification in the community influences consumers engagement,
which in turn influences brand loyalty intention. Moreover, this relation is mediated by consumers trust. Additionally,
brand loyalty intention was related with consumers’ propensity to diffuse online positive contents concerning the firm.
Research limits. The research considered only three Italian brand communities initiated by a single brand. In order
to achieve full generalizability future researches should try to replicate our results in a multi brand study.
Practical implications. From this research, it has been empirically demonstrated how value perceived by
consumers - which derives from their engagement in community activities - is related with brand loyalty intention and
E-WOM - which may be considered respectively as forms of strategic capital and economic value for the firm resulting
from co-creation.
Originality of the study. This research is one of the first studies that empirically tests from a consumers
perspective the relation between community engagement and co-created strategic capital and economic value for the
brand
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
The Path from Consumer-Based Brand Authenticity to Consumer-Based Brand Equity: The Mediating Role of Brand Identity
No full textConsumer behavior scholars are progressively stressing the importance of consumer-based brand authenticity (CBBA) and consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) to better understand the role of authenticity in increasing a brand’s value. However, the relationship between such two constructs has received scarce attention. To fill this gap, the present study builds on a social identity perspective of customer-brand relationship by hypothesizing brand identity as a mediating variable between CBBA and CBBE. Bootstrapped mediation analysis was used on a sample of 536 Italian consumers of Coca Cola. The results confirm the proposed mediating effect and provide both theoretical and practical implications to brand strategists, along with interesting avenues for future research
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
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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