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Note ai saggi di Gian Primo Cella e Giorgio Grampa
No full textConsiderazioni sulle condizioni per la formazione delle rappresentazioni condivise e dell'ordine social
Negoziati politici. I partiti italiani tra strategia e argomentazione
No full textIl volume analizza il travagliato confronto tra i principali attori del sistema politico italiano nel biennio che va dalle elezioni nazionali del febbraio 2013 all’insediamento al Quirinale di Sergio Mattarella, nel febbraio del 2015. Le trattative tra i partiti sono state interpretate utilizzando un approccio non politologico ma prettamente organizzativo: quello della negotiation theory e, più in generale, della teoria dell’azione organizzata di M. Crozier ed E. Friedberg.
In una negoziazione le parti confliggono non tanto sulle modalità con cui ripartire i vantaggi derivanti dal reciproco scambio di beni o prestazioni, come sottolineato dai modelli contrattuali di natura economica, ma sul contenuto delle regole che presiedono alla loro cooperazione. In virtù della loro condizione di interdipendenza stabile, infatti, gli attori negoziali -attraverso azioni strategiche e argomentative- sono interessati a (ri)definire le regole di reciprocità che governano le loro relazioni.
In tale prospettiva, gli attori sono impegnati: da una parte, ad incrementare il proprio potere negoziale attivando aree di incertezza per l’interlocutore, cioè minacciando di sospendere prestazioni previste da precedenti accordi (azioni strategiche), senza peraltro rimettere in discussione le regole fondamentali che governano la loro relazione di lungo periodo; dall’altra, a condizionare le scelte dell’interlocutore appellandosi, per la soluzione del conflitto, a quei principi generali condivisi che il partner non può sconfessare, pena la cessazione stessa del rapporto (azione argomentativa), senza nel contempo introdurre eccessivi vincoli per la propria azione.
La possibilità di giungere a uno stabile e soddisfacente accordo dipende dalla capacità delle parti di gestire questi delicati trade-off
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
LEARNING THROUGH PARTICIPATION: A UNIVERSITY-LED INITIATIVE FOR WORKPLACE INNOVATION
No full textThis paper traces the methodological evolution of a university-led project designed to foster workplace participation in Italian manufacturing firms. Over four yearly editions, the project, developed in collaboration with trade unions and companies, brought together students and shop stewards to codesign solutions to real-workplace organisational challenges. Although initially structured as a training initiative, the project progressively shifted toward a more participatory, interactive format. This paper examines how the project evolved over time in line with an action research approach, adapting to emerging tensions, constraints, and participant feedback. Rather than presenting action research as a fixed toolkit, the paper highlights its nature as a processual and situated practice that demands continuous calibration. The insights generated will be useful to researchers and practitioners navigating
participatory projects in contested or evolving contexts, especially where structural asymmetries shape engagement dynamics, as well as to members of institutions dedicated to the provision of academic education or vocational and workforce training
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
Hypotheses for an interpretative model of organizational decision-making at strategic level.
No full textDispelling 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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