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Reusing Former Industrial Areas in the North-West of Italy
No full textThe essay discusses the architectural and territorial value of heritage in a comprehensive process of urban regeneration. The focus is on the Italian North-West, and the responses to the processes of deindustrialization in the region. The chapter offers a selection of best and worst practices in the North-West, which has experienced heritage approaches ranging from complete conservation to complete abandonment. The author suggests a stronger integration between heritage redevelopment and urban regeneration to use the full potential of heritage in regional culture. This should be linked to the collective imagery in the region, which would allow for more rooted and effective transformations of neighborhoods, cities and the postindustrial environment
Decision-making processes in family businesses: an extension of the garbage can model
No full textThe article proposes an alternative perspective on decision-making processes in family businesses. Despite the relevance of the topic, little research has been undertaken in this field. We argue that the explanatory power of the garbage can model can successfully apply to family businesses in order to analyze decision-making processes with unconventional, yet insightful conceptual lences. The presented framework embodies fragmented attention and participation to issues, problematic definition of preferences and goals, and unclear technologies and processes to reach objective
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
Does total-factor productivity drive housing prices? A growth-accounting exercise for four countries
Full text linkHousing prices diverge from construction prices after 1997 in four major countries. Besides, total-factor productivity (TFP) differences between construction and the general economy account for the evolution of construction prices in the US and Germany, but not in the UK and Spain.Este documento analiza el papel de las diferencias en crecimiento de la PTF entre el sector de la construcción y la economía en su conjunto para explicar la evolución de los precios reales de la vivienda. Para ello, primero se comparan las sendas de precios de construcción y vivienda en Estados Unidos, Reino Unido, Alemania y España. Se encuentra que, si bien ambos precios siguen tendencias similares antes de 1997, a partir de esa fecha divergen en todos los países. En segundo lugar, se realiza un ejercicio de contabilidad del crecimiento para calcular la contribución de la PTF relativa sobre el precio real de la construcción. Los resultados indican que las diferencias en PTF explican en su mayor parte la evolución de los precios de construcción en Estados Unidos y Alemania, mientras que en Reino Unido y España estos parecen haber sido el resultado de la evolución de los salarios
y los retornos al capital
Le conseguenze dell’innovazione tecnologica sulle forme di controllo del processo di lavoro in quattro "fabbriche 4.0"
No full textL’affermazione di Industria 4.0 (I4.0) ha rivitalizzato l’interesse, da sempre centrale per gli studi organizzativi, per il controllo nei luoghi di lavoro. Il presente contributo analizza, attraverso evidenza empirica, il modo in cui le tre forme di controllo del lavoro (a supervisione diretta, burocratico e sociale) si manifestano in quattro imprese metalmeccaniche del territorio bolognese che hanno avviato un processo di trasformazione tecnologica riconducibile a I4.0. I risultati della ricerca suggeriscono che l’adozione delle nuove tecnologie permette il consolidamento delle forme di controllo burocratico, aprendo al contempo alla possibilità di rafforzare tutte le forme di controllo e di riconfigurare, attraverso una più stretta integrazione, la loro relazione reciproca. In ultima istanza, tuttavia, il tipo e la misura del rafforzamento e della riconfigurazione delle forme di controllo dipendono dal contesto organizzativo in cui tali tecnologie sono implementate
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
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