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Gli strumenti finanziari partecipativi quale meccanismo di Creditor Engagement
No full textObiettivo del lavoro è quello di esaminare il complesso rapporto che si instaura tra
creditori e debitori, nella fase delicata del concordato preventivo. Recenti esperienze
documentano che l’utilizzo degli Strumenti Finanziari Partecipativi (SFP), all’interno
dei concordati preventivi, sembrerebbe esercitare effetti negoziali positivi. Gli
SFP, in alcuni casi, appaiono in grado di facilitare i rapporti di engagement tra creditore
e debitore, spingendo i creditori a sostenere l’omologa del concordato.
L’uso degli SFP faciliterebbe, quindi, la difficile negoziazione dei rapporti tra
creditori e debitori, favorendo il raggiungimento di un equilibrio tra tutti i player
interessati, col duplice scopo di tutelare i creditori, ma, soprattutto, di assicurare
continuità e stabilità all’impresa.
In quest’ottica, si cercherà di rileggere gli SFP quale meccanismo di creditor
engagement, con evidenti riflessi: da un lato, gli SFP potrebbero consentire una più
facile negoziazione dei rapporti tra le parti, semplificando ed agevolando l’omologazione
del concordato; dall’altro, il creditor engagement migliora la partecipazione
dei creditori alla vita ed al governo societario dell’impresa e può assicurare agli
stessi l’ottenimento di ulteriori benefici anche nel periodo successivo all’esecuzione
del concordato.
Il lavoro è suffragato da un’analisi di alcuni casi riguardanti aziende italiane che
hanno utilizzato gli strumenti finanziari partecipativi nell’ambito di procedure concorsuali
An integrative framework for supply chain rating: from financial-based to ESG-based rating models
No full textCredit risk rating systems are frequently criticized because of their short-term focus and their narrow view of the firm as an entity isolated from its network of relationships. This paper aims at overcoming these limitations of traditional rating systems by proposing an integrated model of supply chain rating, based on both financial and non-financial variables and including environmental, social and governance (ESG) indicators to embrace a long-term orientation of value creation. Enlarging the scope of evaluation from the single company to its supply chain, we realize an integrated ESG–financial model which evaluates both financial and sustainability aspects of organizations, based on the supply chain they belong to. This model is especially useful for evaluating the potential growth of small and medium enterprises which, differently from large corporations, are usually more opaque to financial markets, and present lower disclosure intensity. Therefore, this measurement system can be adopted by both financial institutions, to evaluate potential borrowers, and individual companies, to make internal assessments or to evaluate the performance of their downstream and upstream partners
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
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