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Supporting sustainability: the role of Management Control Systems in family SMEs, cap. 1, in AA.VV. (a cura di Cantino V., De Vincentiis P., Racca G.), Risk management: perspectives and open issues- A multi-disciplinary approach
No full textEuropean countries share a concern about business investment: because of the financial
crisis, wealth creation is decreasing and business confidence is weak. At the same time,
social problems like unemployment, underemployment, and poverty are increasing.
In this context, the need to promote economic development consistent with social and environmental
concerns has drastically emerged.
There is an increasing opportunity to assess value creation from a sustainability standpoint
and with a social responsibility approach.
This is what we can define as a “social responsible business model”, based on value creation
for stakeholders. In the new context, also the concept of value creation has to be
changed from value creation for shareholders to value creation for all stakeholders. Value
creation also embed sustainable value (based on a triple bottom line approach), and social
responsibility. Since FFs pursue both economic and social objectives, we can say that there
is a lot of social responsibility in FFs. Family firms (FFs) seems to be likely to adopt the
triple-bottom line paradigm (economic, social, ecological performance) according to their
characteristics: literature affirms that additional feature that distinguishes FFs from NFBs
is their desire to preserve the family’s socioemotional wealth and the pursuit of nonfinancial
outcomes.
In the EU environment, SMEs (especially family SMEs) not only contribute significantly to
the European GDP and employment, but they are also recognized to adopt business models
more sensible to social issues and stakeholder needs.
Although sustainability has been discussed in management control literature to highlight
the need of sustainability control systems (SCSs), little is known about the mode of integration
between SCSs and traditional management control systems in family SMEs.
In order to support SMEs in developing more responsible, innovative and competitive
business models, this paper proposes to study the role of sustainability control systems
(SCSs). In this article we examine the management control literature and family business
literature with the purpose of proposing a sustainable business model. We summarize literature’s orientation, in order to identify the drivers of adoption of SCSs and their role in
the business model. Starting from a summary of the main FFs features, we will discuss the
following research questions:
-What are the interactions between different forms of social responsibility in FFs?
-How can we transfer the family firms’ attitude to social responsibility in a sustainable
business model?
-What are main elements of a sustainable business model that can leverage on family
firms business model?
-What are different tools, mechanisms, solutions needed to adopt and implement a sustainable
business model?
In summation, sustainability and social responsibility challenges are huge and fast growing:
family SMEs can reply to these challenges, supporting positive sustainable development
outcomes, with more responsible, innovative and competitive business model
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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