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Promoting digital innovation in the public sector: Managerial and organisational insights from a case study
No full textThe world of public administration, particularly in countries characterised by a ‘Napoleonic’ administrative culture, is unwilling to self-renew. However, the reduction of funds linked to austerity policies, the demand for better services, and the numerous opportunities linked to digitalisation, impose a rethinking of public administration. The case of the ‘Digital Transformation Team’ (DTT), launched in Italy, yet contrary to what usually happens in Italian reform processes, provides interesting indications of how it is possible to innovate in a context usually resistant to change
The effect of e-mail use and adoption on organizational participation: the case of a public administration
No full textImproving organisational participation is becoming more and more important as organisations are trying to shift from
a bureaucratic model based on work specialisation and division of labour towards knowledge-intensive organisations built on
competence sharing and team working. The aim of this paper is to investigate participation in decision making mediated by
e-mail (e-PDM) among organisational members that are in similar hierarchical positions. The conceptual background of the
study integrates the organisational theories on PDM and the computer-mediated communication (CMC) literature. Data analysis,
based on an empirical research conducted in an Italian governmental agency, investigates the factors that affect the adoption of
horizontal e-PDM in the workplace and to what extent this is mediated by the interplay between technology and social context.
Our results suggest that social structuration of technology and social processes in organisations do have an impact on e-mail
use for participative purposes, and that, along with group characteristics, leadership plays a major role in enabling work group
members to increase horizontal e-PDM.Improving organisational participation is becoming more and more important as organisations are trying to shift from a bureaucratic model based on work specialisation and division of labour towards knowledge-intensive organisations built on competence sharing and team working. The aim of this paper is to investigate participation in decision making mediated by e-mail (e-PDM) among organisational members that are in similar hierarchical positions. The conceptual background of the study integrates the organisational theories on PDM and the computer-mediated communication (CMC) literature. Data analysis, based on an empirical research conducted in an Italian governmental agency, investigates the factors that affect the adoption of horizontal e-PDM in the workplace and to what extent this is mediated by the interplay between technology and social context. Our results suggest that social structuration of technology and social processes in organisations do have an impact on e-mail use for participative purposes, and that, along with group characteristics, leadership plays a major role in enabling work group members to increase horizontal e-PDM
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
Knowledge Transfer and Internet Technology in Industrial Districts
No full textThe major aim of this paper is to analyse how Internet
can impact on knowledge transfer in Industrial Districts
(IDs). In order to achieve this goal after the description of
principal IDs characteristics and of the knowledge
transfer process in IDs we summarise the degree of
adoption of Internet technologies in Italian IDs and finally
we transpose the knowledge transfer model in the web
scenario. In the conclusions we highlight the main causes
of resistance to the adoption of Internet in IDs
Structuring of Genre Repertoire in a Virtual Research Team
No full textGenres are considered “as socially recognized types of communicative actions that are habitually enacted by members of a community to realize particular social purposes” (Orlikowski and Yates, 1994, p. 542). This paper investigates the evolution of an e-mail-based genre repertoire and questions whether it is related to the degree of complexity associated to different tasks and to the phases of group development. The analysis has been carried out by studying the case of an international research team involved in a European project that principally collaborates through e-mail and other CMC technologies in order to execute different kinds of tasks
Organizational Consequences of E-mail Adoption and Diffusion: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Results
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