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Green and social process patterns for sustainable businesses: lessons learned from Italian Benefit Corporations
Full text linkIn the last decades the attention of citizens and companies on sustainability issues has increasingly grown. Today companies are asked to consider economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability to operate in ways that secure long-term economic performance by avoiding detrimental social and environmental behaviour.
Such a growing attention towards sustainability has led to the introduction of new methods, approaches, and organizational models to consider sustainability within business. As to methods and approaches, in the present work, those offered by Sustainable Business Process Management are examined. As to the new organizational models, the attention is focused on Benefit Corporations.
Sustainable Business Process Management (S-BPM) – the managerial discipline that provides organizations with methods, approaches, and techniques to embed sustainability in the management of business processes – has recently emerged as a research stream of Business Process Management. In addition to traditional performance (i.e. time, quality, cost, and flexibility), in the case of S-BPM, the environmental and social performance are considered to properly manage business processes along their entire life cycle.
Benefit Corporations – innovative hybrid form of businesses that purse both profits and common benefit objectives – have also been established to mitigate negative externalities attributed to the enterprises’ narrow focus on profit maximization that has characterized the capitalism model. Such a model has generated prosperity and improved the quality of life, but not without undesirable, in many cases harmful, social and environmental consequences.
The dissertation aims to identify sustainable (green and social) process patterns that companies may adopt to undertake a sustainable transformation of their business processes. A sustainable process pattern provides reusable and practice-based solutions to environmentally and socially analyse, design and redesign a business process. By adopting the theoretical lens of process theory and a pragmatist qualitative research design, a qualitative content analysis of Benefit Corporations’ sustainability reporting documents has been conducted to systematically and objectively identify sustainable practices that Benefit Corporations implement to achieve their sustainability goals. Such sustainable practices have constituted the practical basis for the derivation of a set of thirty sustainable process patterns.
The dissertation has theoretical and practical implications. By analysing sustainable practices adopted by Benefit Corporations to achieve sustainability goals, it contributes to advance academic knowledge on Benefit Corporations and address some literature gaps. By providing a set of sustainable process patterns, it contributes to advance academic knowledge in the field of Sustainable Business Process Management. As to practical implications, the dissertation provides a handbook of sustainable practices (in the form of sustainable process patterns) that companies and process analysts may adopt to analyse, design, and redesign business processes, and make them more environmentally and socially sustainable
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
Teaching is not enough! Combining teaching and organizational learning mechanisms for involving healthcare professionals in a regional program for technology assessment
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