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Handbook on Accounting and Control in Family Business - Capitolo 4. Performance measurement in family business, di Paola Vola
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Factors affecting the involvement of women in family business governance. The role of the generational stage
No full textThe chapter analyzes female involvement in medium-sized family businesses in Central Italy. The empirical
analysis focuses on 233 firms over the period 2007-2014, to understand how female representation
in corporate governance has evolved in recent years, and to pinpoint the factors tending to encourage/
discourage female involvement in the board of directors. A descriptive analysis was conducted, enabling
a fuller understanding of how female involvement in governance roles has evolved over the years. A
regression analysis was performed to determine if and how specific governance characteristics – such
as family ownership and generational stage – may have a bearing on the female presence on the board.
The results confirm that female representation is favorably influenced by a strong family presence in the
ownership of the business, while family firms under first-generation control exert a negative influence
on female involvemen
Collaborative Governance: a Successful Case of Public and Private Interaction in the Port City of Naples
No full textThis study explores policies of collaborative governance between public and
private actors through a specific case that sees the development of city areas
previously abandoned or landlocked. It employs the case study methodology,
analyzing the specific case of San Vincenzo’s Pier in the port city of Naples.
The analyzed case reveals that a collaborative public
private approach
might overcome typical bureaucratic-public hurdles to the development of
cities, especially their abandoned areas.
Cases of public
private collaboration have strongly increased in the last
decade in order to overcome classic public failure and to develop a more par-
ticipated form of governance; therefore, the research question is aimed to
understand which are the possible policies to put in action for an effective
collaborative governance among public and private actors. It offers practical
implications for public managers by demonstrating that the development of
policy networks, comprising both public and private actors, is necessary for developing new ideas and for overcoming typical limits of both private and
public administrations
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
Reading between the lines: innovation strategies in small and medium-sized family firms. An exploratory study
No full textThis chapter contributes to strategic management studies in family firms by focusing on innovation strategies as drivers to guarantee firm survival across generations. Specifically, built on the construct of family business innovation posture and based on the content analysis of 10 small and medium family firm narratives, this chapter identifies the figure of the father as the cornerstone in whom innovation strategies have their origin and their evolution as firm-driven, family-driven, and/or market-driven. The chapter proposes a model that highlights the dimensions of family heterogeneity and provides new insights into the relationship between the role of the father figure and three drivers related to family business innovation: product and production quality, past knowledge, and risk-taking propensity
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
Dilemmi della mente e del potere: la costruzione della realtà amministrativa tra percezione e razionalità
Full text linkCome si prendono decisioni nella pubblica amministrazione? Quali sono i limiti cognitivi dei funzionari pubblici? In che modo bias, euristiche e percezioni distorte influenzano la qualità delle scelte collettive? In questo volume, Luca Gnan affronta questi interrogativi con rigore e profondità, offrendo un’analisi teorica e operativa del processo decisionale pubblico. Il libro esplora le dinamiche individuali, di gruppo e organizzative della decisione, con particolare attenzione alla gestione dei conflitti, all’uso delle tecniche partecipative e alla comunicazione dei risultati
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