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L'Università nella prospettiva della responsabilità sociale: un modello di Governance Multistakeholder
No full textIl governo dell’università dopo la legge n. 240/2010, le criticità : Statuti e codici etici, il quadro aggiornato
No full textDiversi filoni di letteratura si occupano del tema della governance universitaria, tant’è vero che gli approcci sociologici, quelli propri delle scienze politiche fino ai contributi degli economisti hanno proposto spunti interessanti per il dibattito in corso. Tuttavia,la letteratura sul tema ha trascurato un’analisi esaustiva dell’ambiente istituzionale, gettando luce solamente su alcuni aspetti isolati, mancando quindi di considerazioni d'insieme in grado di tener conto delle numerose interdipendenze che caratterizzano il contesto universitario.
In questa direzione ci preme ricordare un’importante analisi condotta da Scott Masten che indaga le ragioni alla base dei meccanismi di academic authority che caratterizzano le strutture di governo delle università americane. Si tratta di un’analisi della governance universitaria e, in particolare, dei meccanismi di checks and balancesdi cui la partecipazione dei docenti al governo dell’università ne è un esempio. Lo studio è stato supportato dai dati provenienti da un primo questionariocondotto nel 1971 condotto dalla AAUP (American Association of UniversityProfessors) sull’intera popolazione degli atenei statunitensi,replicato poi nel 2002 da Kaplan. La teoria proposta da Masten combina elementi propri della teoria neo-istituzionalista dell’impresa con una spiegazione della governance democratica delle università basata soprattutto sulla politicalsystemtheory . Noi ci proponiamo di percorrere in profondità il primo aspetto, studiando l’applicazione della teoria neo-istituzionalistae dei suoi sviluppi al contesto universitario, mostrando come essa sia in grado di spiegare la ratio dei meccanismi di checks and balances che caratterizzano gli assetti di governance universitari.Illustrando altresì come sia il sistema americano che quello italiano rispondono, seppur con modalità differenti, a un’esigenza del processo decisionale propria dell’istituzione universitaria: quella di valorizzare l’investimento in conoscenza dei soggetti fondamentali, vale a dire professori e ricercatori, garantendo, allo stesso tempo, che la conduzione dell’università torni a vantaggio anche di tutti i portatori di interesse (stakeholder) che interagiscono con l’università, dagli studenti e le loro famiglie, al personale tecnico-amministrativo che vi lavora, al finanziatore pubblico o privato
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
Justice and Corporate Governance: New Insights from Rawlsian Social Contract and Sen’s Capabilities Approach
Full text linkBy considering what we identify as a problem inherent in the ‘nature of the firm’—the risk of abuse of authority—we propound the conception of a social contract theory of the firm which is truly Rawlsian in its inspiration. Hence, we link the social contract theory of the firm (justice at firm’s level) with the general theory of justice (justice at society’s level). Through this path, we enter the debate about whether firms can be part of Rawlsian theory of justice showing that corporate governance principles enter the “basic structure.” Finally, we concur with Sen’s aim to broaden the realm of social justice beyond what he calls the ‘transcendental institutional perfectionism’ of Rawls’ theory. We maintain the contractarian approach to justice but introduce Sen’s capability concept as an element of the constitutional and post-constitutional contract model of institutions with special reference to corporate governance. Accordingly, rights over primary goods and capabilities are (constitutionally) granted by the basic institutions of society, but many capabilities have to be turned into the functionings of many stakeholders through the operation of firms understood as post-constitutional institutional domains. The constitutional contract on the distribution of primary goods and capabilities should then shape the principles of corporate governance so that at post-constitutional level anyone may achieve her/his functionings in the corporate domain by exercising such capabilities. In the absence of such a condition, post-constitutional contracts would distort the process that descends from constitutional rights and capabilities toward social outcomes
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
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