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Gestione sostenibile della supply chain: ruoli, attori e strumenti. Un’indagine esplorativa sulle supply chain del tessile-abbigliamento
Full text linkIl presente lavoro si propone di indagare un’evoluzione degli approcci alle tematiche relative alla sostenibilità, ponendo in evidenza come nel corso degli ultimi anni, la sua gestione sia divenuta una prerogativa dell’intera catena di fornitura piuttosto che di una singola impresa. Nonostante sia stato ampiamente evidenziato in letteratura che la sostenibilità perseguita a livello strategico da un'unica impresa sia una condizione importante, questa tesi dimostra la necessità di andare oltre tale visione che si rivela essere non più sufficiente nell’era dell’economia globale. Ciò vuol dire che l’impresa che vuole gestire con successo la supply chain sostenibile e ottenere maggiori benefici deve considerare il grado con cui anche i partner commerciali realizzano il business responsabile (Dyllick e Hockerts, 2002; Bai e Sarkis, 2010). Questo a conferma del fatto che “sustainability to be durable, companies must ‘‘build’’ beyond their own borders” (Ageron et al., 2011, p.169). Considerando anche che gli attori delle supply chain qui analizzati operano all’interno di contesti più ampi, l’implementazione e il management delle pratiche da loro promosse, dovrebbe assumere una visione più estesa allo scopo di guardare oltre una singola impresa e orientare gli sforzi verso l’industria di riferimento nel suo insieme. Il lavoro è strutturato in 3 parti. Nella prima parte sono state evidenziate le relazioni che intercorrono tra l’impresa e quella che in senso lato viene detta sostenibilità. Questo approfondimento introduttivo si è reso necessario per comprendere come l’impresa possa coniugare i comportamenti responsabili al suo interno per poi diffonderli nelle supply chain di riferimento. Infatti, l’obiettivo del secondo capitolo, dopo una descrizione dei trend nello scenario competitivo attuale, è quello di porre in evidenza i principali processi nei quali le supply chain sono attualmente coinvolte e discutere gli strumenti che le imprese possono adottare per diffondere le pratiche sostenibili all’interno delle catene di fornitura. In tal senso è stato evidenziato come il servizio logistico può contribuire alla gestione sostenibile della supply chain in virtù della loro presenza durante l’espletamento di diversi processi. L’ultima parte della tesi, sviluppata anche durante il periodo di ricerca all’estero presso il Social Innovation Center dell’Insead (Fontainbleau), analizza il contributo delle supply chain operanti nel settore tessile-abbigliamento allo sviluppo sostenibile. In questa parte sono stati rappresentati i primi risultati della ricerca condotta, progettata e sviluppata dall’autore insieme alla Sustainable Apparel Coalition (associazione no profit di riferimento in ambito internazionale per i diversi membri della supply chain nella misurazione delle performance di sostenibilità). Nella presente tesi confluiscono alcune tematiche precedentemente approfondite nel corso di dottorato di ricerca insieme agli articoli pubblicati sulle riviste nazionali e internazionali e contributi a convegni nazionali e internazionali
Quality and Renewal of Public Administration: The TQM approach and the CAF European model
No full textAs the citizen/customer role and their satisfaction have gradually been embracing the specific issues of New Public Management, the public administration policy makers have begun to examine instruments and models that focus on quality. The attention has therefore fallen on approaches which aim to improve the ‘internal’ effectiveness and efficiency of organisations and the ‘external’ satisfaction of the customer through typical management procedures based on Total Quality Management (TQM). In order to introduce the principles of TQM in Public Administration, the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) model has been used. CAF is a management instrument for organisations, which has been specially made to promote the culture of quality, the adoption of instruments connected to TQM and the dissemination of self-assessment activities in European Union public administrations. The structure of the CAF has taken its shape and substance from the EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) model for excellence which, when the CAF was created, already represented a widespread, commonly used reference model by European businesses. Based on solid estimates, we can confirm that the CAF represents the EFQM model ‘translated’ for public administrations. Italy is one of the European countries where the CAF has received more significant attention and has been more widely disseminated. This paper aims to introduce the CAF model, highlighting its main structure and principles, in order to show how this may adequately meet the needs of quality coming from a public administration. The use of CAF model in the Italian public administration may, therefore, be considered as a benchmark for other 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
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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