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What editors talk about when they talk about editors? A public discourse analysis of market and aesthetic logics
No full textIn this paper, we address the topic of the changing relationships between market and aesthetic logics in fields of cultural production with a focus on public discourse. We explore the contemporary Italian literary field and examine editors’ public discursive reconstructions of their work related to the media to understand the particular shape of market and aesthetic logics in their public discourse and explain the influencing factors. Using a text analysis of 87 media interviews combining topic modeling and multiple correspondence analysis, we inductively explore how editors narrate their work. Far from incorporating a market discourse, editors mostly maintain an idiosyncratic discourse focusing on aesthetic values, experience with books and publishers, intellectual status and skills. Surprisingly, publishers’ sizes and geographical locations, but not the industry structure or professional role within the field, are organizational factors that account for the balance between market and aesthetic discourses as editors working for medium-sized publishers are more prone to address aesthetic issues, while editors working for large publishers are more prone to refer to personal experience, and only editors working for small publishers explicitly refer to the market logic
Beyond Dualism? Exploring the Polyphonic Dimension of Cultural Productions
Full text linkThe purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and interplay of the logics that inform the day-to-day work of small cultural productions. Positioned in the literature on cultural and creative industries, it embraces a discourse perspective and in particular the concept of “polyphony” as an analytical lens. Empirically, the paper draws on a case study of a music association, in which the authors especially followed the production of a music festival. What emerges is a situation of pluralism of discourses, a variety of relations among these discourses, and fluidity of discourses across actors and roles, which lead the authors to question, at least in part, the presupposed artistic vs. business dualism within which cultural productions and creative industries are instead typically framed
Shades of theory: A topic modelling of ways of theorizing in accounting history research
Full text linkThe article aims to explore ways of theorizing in accounting history research. The article draws on findings originating from a semi-automated text analysis by means of topic modelling of 1,300 accounting history papers published between 1996 and 2015 across six journals most relevant to the discipline. Findings show the presence of a whole range of ways of theorizing at different levels of abstraction (from narrating to conceptualizing to theorizing settings to grand theorizing). Different ways of theorizing tend to be associated not only with specific research objects but also with specific journal types. Overall, both narrating and grand theorizing are relatively decreasing in favour of mid-range theorizing approaches, which seem to be on the rise
Struggles as triggers in a design-thinking journey
Full text linkThe scholarly and practitioner literatures have both described the potential benefits of Design Thinking (DT) to develop innovations. Innovation processes are widely characterized by continuous competing demands, which generate tensions. The paper analyzes a DT innovation journey, focusing on the struggles and triggers of participants as they work through conflicting demands. Following a qualitative inductive research design, the study reports on the experience of a group of management students exposed intentionally for the first time to the introduction of DT practices in a class setting. The originality of the paper lies in the fact that it analyzes participants' particular points of view, including feelings and cognitions, during the overall process. This angle allows identifying and describing three main struggles and triggers (destabilizing, non-deciding, abstracting) for new adopters in each step of the DT process, which represent a cultural clash with their background. The study contributes to a better understanding of DT by acknowledging its challenges and costs, to be able to apply it as an organizational resource when facing competing demands. Moreover, it aims to provide some initial steps on how to move organizations to a culture based on collaboration and experimentation, able to better cope with innovation tensions
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
Accounting for accounting history: An Exploratory study through topic modeling approach
Full text linkThis paper contributes to the growing history of accounting history by analysing
the contents of all papers published in Accounting History, one among the leading journals of
the field, through a recent and promising analytical technique called Topic Modeling. Based
on literature, we know what accounting history is about, but we know less how the
accounting history field has evolved. By adopting Topic Modeling, an automated procedure
for coding the content of corpus of text based on Bayesian statistic, the paper complements
prior assessments of the accounting history literature by providing accurate measures about
the relative prevalence of research areas and their evolution over time. The analysis
highlights three sets of topics not uncovered by previous categorizations. In particular, the
‘Regulation’ topic, that refers to
international accounting standards and auditing regulation,
appears to be overlooked by previous reviews. In terms of dynamics we find that the
‘Technical core of accounting’ decreased in importance overtime in favour of more
variegated and fragmented foci of research: this finding may substantiate the claimed shift
from a conception of accounting as a technical practice to the one of accounting as a social
practice, that is the transition from the so called ‘traditional’ to ‘new’ accounting history.
Moreover, we see a pluralisation in the range of issues that are under the lenses of accounting
historians. Finally, our analysis suggests that the way in which accounting history is
presented or ‘talked about’ has not changed much in the last 20 years
Damage evolution in composite bonded joints under fatigue loading
No full textIn the present paper the evolution of fatigue damage in composite bonded joints is extensively analysed and discussed, with particular reference to the influence of layer orientation at the adhesive-adherend interface, corner geometry at the end of the overlap area and stacking sequence. Single lap bonded joints manufactured from autoclave-moulded laminates were investigated under tension-tension fatigue loading. Two laminate lay-ups [45/02]s and [452/0]s , two overlap lengths (20 and 40 mm) and two corner geometry (square edge and fillet) were considered.
The evolution of fatigue damage, a crack initiation followed by propagation up to a critical length, was investigated at macroscopic and microscopic level, by monitoring stiffness trends and by optical and SE microscopic observations and is extensively discussed in the paper.
The presence of a 45° oriented layer at the adhesive-interface layer makes damage patterns and crack paths much more complicated with respect to 0° interface joints, previously investigated by the authors. As a result the resistance to crack propagation is increased
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