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From R&D to practice: how can a domestic appliances manufacturer implement servitization?
No full textThe following dissertation is focused on the concept of servitization in manufacturing, an innovative and extant topic, strongly connected to Industry 4.0 phenomenon. The first reference to this subject dates back to 1980s, but only recently servitization in wider terms has been deeply explored. Given the latest economic crises, modern enterprises and the market in general felt the urge to innovate their current business models in order to differentiate from rivalry and improve the relationship they have with their customers. A way to pursue the tasks of differentiation from rivalry and customer loyalty is to scout a new value proposition, like the one interconnected with servitization. Exploring previous literature it is possible to infer a literature gap on three main points: focus only on the service industry rather than the manufacturing one; shortage of models to support service innovation implementation; lack of critical and in-depth evaluation of performance in practice. The aim of this work is therefore to conceptualize an explanatory business model, based upon previous literature. A proper model could in facts address manufacturing companies to define and adjust their strategy, business practices and organization in order to support servitization and remain competitive. Given the extent of the topic, the focus will be placed on household goods industry only. A practical case will be taken into consideration in order to create a proper business model that could possibly be replicated onto other industries' cases. In particular the model will be developed onto Whirlpool EMEA Corporation. The research approach adopted in this dissertation is based on three different elements: literature review, leverage on Engineering Ingegneria Informatica's experience on IoT and action research. The analysis will result in creating guidelines for best practice and elaborate a new business model. The comprehensive analysis consists of eight sections, each of which is aimed at considering a specific topic.La presente tesi di dottorato è focalizzata sul tema della servitizzazione nel settore manifatturiero, un argomento innovativo ed attuale, fortemente interconnesso al fenomeno conosciuto come Industria 4.0. Il primo richiamo in letteratura di questo argomento risale agli anni ottanta, ma solo più recentemente la servitizzazione in senso stretto è stata esplorata in tutte le sue sfaccettature. A causa delle recenti crisi economiche, le imprese contemporanee e più in generale l'intero mercato sentono la necessità e l'urgenza di innovare il proprio modello di business al fine di differenziarsi dalla concorrenza e di migliorare la relazione con i propri clienti. Una soluzione per riuscire a differenziarsi dalla concorrenza e per fidelizzare la clientela deve necessariamente fondarsi su una nuova proposizione di valore, come ad esempio quella interconnessa alla servitizzazione. Esplorando la letteratura pregressa è possibile notare tre principali lacune: focus solo sul settore terziario e non su quello manifatturiero; carenza di modelli a supporto dell'implementazione dell'innovazione di servizio; assenza di valutazione critica e dettagliata delle perfomance una volta avvenuta l'implementazione.
L'intento di questa produzione consiste perciò nel concettualizzare un modello di business esplicativo, prendendo spunto dalla letteratura precedente. Un modello appropriato di fatto aiuterebbe le aziende a definire ed a riadeguare strategia, prassi manageriali ed organizzazione, al fine ultimo di garantire la salvaguardia della competitività sul mercato. Vista la vastità dell'argomento, l'attenzione verrà unicamente posta sul settore del bianco (elettrodomestici). Verrà preso in considerazione anche un caso concreto, col fine di creare un modello di business coerente da poter replicare anche su altri settori. Nello specifico il modello verrà sviluppato sull'azienda Whirlpool EMEA. L'approccio di ricerca adottato in questa tesi si basa su tre elementi differenti: la revisione della letteratura precedente, la rielaborazione dell'esperienza pregressa di Engineering Ingegneria Informatica nell'ambito IoT (Internet delle Cose), ed infine il binomio formato da ricerca ed azione. L'analisi sarà finalizzata all'elaborazione di un nuovo modello di business ed alla creazione di linee guida per l'implementazione della servitizzazione. L'analisi approfondita dell'argomento consiste in otto sezioni, ognuna delle quali si pone l'obiettivo di esaminare in dettaglio un argomento specifico.Discipline manageriali, finanziarie e giuridiche per la gestione integrata d'aziend
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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