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2ND WORKSHOP ON VISUALISING, MEASURING AND MANAGING INTANGIBLES AND INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL
No full textThe 1st workshop on Visualising, Measuring and Managing Intangibles and Intellectual Capital, held in Ferrara (Italy) on October 18-20, 2005 was a great success, showing the ever growing theoretical and practical importance of the subject area of intangibles and intellectual capital for organizations. Both companies and institutions and the academic world show their conviction that in the 21st century business enterprises are rapidly changing and that the major levers of such a discontinuity have an intangible nature and are largely dependent upon organisational knowledge creation, accumulation and appropriation. Brands, research and innovation, quality of management, competencies and capabilities, organisational culture and climate are only a few examples of those decisive intangible assets. Organizations are furthermore becoming increasingly involved in complex networks of alliances deriving their value and growth primarily from intangibles. Knowledge intensive organizations in a multitude of industries – ranging from pharmaceutical, biotech, software up to education – have indeed solid economic reasons for developing and knowing more about their intangibles. Indeed, also in the management and reporting of public sector entities (universities, cities, regional hubs) intangibles and intellectual capital seem to be increasingly recognised as key-resources.
Whereas physical and/or financial assets can be regarded as commodities to which many economic agents have equal access, economic (added) value is largely due to the exploitation of growth opportunities drawing on unique non-physical – i.e. intangible –, assets and on distinctive organizational designs and processes. Also financial markets and “infomediaries” (e.g., financial analysts) appear to attribute a significant value to company information on intangibles.
In this new setting, touching the heart of many disciplines (accounting, finance, organisation, management, industrial economics, and policy making), new frameworks need to be developed and tested. Managerial performance evaluation and compensation are today less based on traditional (financial) performance metrics, while organizational designs have to take into account that intangible assets need to be managed on the basis of different and broader conceptual and operational frameworks that call for scholarly investigation.
The 2st EIASM Workshop on “Intangibles and Intellectual Capital” aims to further work on the road that was hit last year and hopes to re-invite and attract all the scholars who wish to give a contribution to this field from a variety of perspectives – offering them a unique platform to present their research plans and findings –, and to exchange views and ideas with colleagues of the same or other disciplines interested in intangibles and intellectual capital issues
4TH WORKSHOP ON VISUALISING, MEASURING, AND MANAGING INTANGIBLES & INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL
No full textAfter three largely successful scientific events in 2005 (Ferrara), 2006 (Maastricht) and 2007 (Ferrara) , the annual EIASM Workshop on intangibles and intellectual capital research issues is affirming itself as the most important and consolidated regular occasion in Europe for scholars from different fields to present and discuss their works in such a rapidly expanding area.
The attendance of more than 100 scholars in each of the previous Workshops, as well as the submission of around 80 papers in both these instances, demonstrate the vitality of this research field and its continuous, and actually growing, appeal for scholarly inquiry.
Indeed, it is today generally recognised that business enterprises are rapidly changing, where the major drivers of such a discontinuity have an intangible nature and are largely dependent upon organisational knowledge creation, accumulation and appropriation (e.g. patents). Brands, research and innovation, quality of management, competencies and capabilities, organisational culture and climate are only a few examples of those decisive intangible assets. Firms are also becoming increasingly involved in complex networks of alliances deriving their value and growth primarily from intangibles. Knowledge intensive organizations in a multitude of industries – ranging from pharmaceutical, biotech, software up to education – have indeed solid economic reasons for developing and knowing more about their intangibles.
Also not-for-profit entities (such as universities, cities, regions, hubs) seem more and more often to realize that their very raison d’être is intangible in nature, that is to contribute to collective knowledge, well-being and well-offness.
A new research arena has therefore emerged and attracted the attention of a large and diversified number of scholars.
Alongside those well-known research issues, new intangibles-related topics appear to emerge and intertwine with the more explored ones. For instance, the role of technology (i.e., XBRL) and institutions (i.e., SEC, Japanese Governments, EFFAS) in pushing and expanding information on intangibles and IC and its uses and users; the macro-perspectives on intangibles measurement and management; the financial analysis of such information and its usefulness; the probing of the linkage between intangibles and value creation; the ambiguous relationship on theoretical and practical grounds of IC management reporting with sustainability, social, and environmental counterparts; the modelling, measurement, and management of risks conceived as intangible liabilities (e.g. reputational risk); and so on.
In the light of the above considerations, the 4th EIASM Worksop on “Visualising, Managing, and Measuring Intangibles and Intellectual Capital” intends to propose itself as a further step towards the widening and strengthening of the scholarly “intangibles community”. A distinctive aspect of such a community is its profound interdisciplinary nature and its open attitude towards all the scientific areas and disciplinary angles in the studying of intangibles. In confirming this feature, this Workshop aims to attract all the scholars who wish to give a contribution to this field from various perspectives – offering them a unique platform to present their research plans and findings –, and to exchange views and ideas with colleagues of the same or other disciplines interested in intangibles and intellectual capital issues
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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