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Business Models and Virtual Worlds: The Second Life Lesson
No full textVirtual Worlds seem to offer firms new opportunities for managing the convergence among technology, organization and business. The complex relation between people and their avatars and the capability to engage users into active participation yielded relevant insights in marketing and business model literature. At the same time, firms may find it difficult to manage and operate in a digital space, in which rules and behaviors may differ from the real world. This article emphasizes the issues and insights suggested in business literature. Special attention is given to the role of Virtual Worlds in innovating firms’ business models, focusing on the evidences obtained by Second Life. A framework is proposed to explain why value extraction should be carefully evaluated when firms intend to integrate Virtual Worlds into their business models
Second Life: a Turning Point for Web 2.0 and E-Business
No full textThis work analyses the issues that firms must challenge with Web 2.0
tools. In particular, we focus on the metaverse, and Second Life is our case study.
We find this platform is able to mash–up web-based features with distinctive as-
pects of the metaverse. We propose a theoretical framework that explains how the
enactment of an environment gives rise to processes of engagement and creation
of communities of prosumers. These aspects are unexplored yet and may represent
a future and fascinating challenge for Management and IS disciplines
Beyond e-business models: the road to virtual worlds
No full textVirtual Worlds (or, VWs) are an intriguing field of research. In particular,
VWs appear to create new opportunities for integrating the business of the firm with
Information Technology (or, IT). This article is a first attempt to address the topic of
how owning andmaintaining a VWcan impact on the businessmodels of firms and on
the literature on business models, and VWs are examined in order to understand the
relationship between them. A qualitative methodology is proposed to sketch a radar
map framework, which is able to identify value drivers and the subsequent impact
on elements of value proposition. Although they need to be tested and verified, the
findings provided in this work might offer support for firms looking to VWs as a new
way to implement a winning business model. Finally, suggestions for empowering
future research are proposed and examined
Values, Beliefs, artifacts and avatars. Cultural issues mediated by Virtual Worlds
No full textAlthough Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) systems are increasingly
used in the e-age, their performance may be undermined by their limits. In par-
ticular, lack of interactivity and inadequate modes of communication makes
CMC unable to deal with intercultural challenges. Virtual Worlds (VWs),
namely graphical representations of an online environment, may be useful tools
to overcome such limitations. However, limited research is conducted on cul-
tural processes that take place in-world. This work aims to shed some light on
these processes and how they may affect business activities and collaborative
practices. Whilst the research is largely theoretical, we hypothesize it may offer
some useful insights to understand pros and cons of VWs as business platforms
How to compete in metaverse: The Business Models in the Second Life
No full textSecond life (henceforward, SL) has captured the interest of many scholars and practitioners. Indeed, the entrance of many real world companies, attracted by the potentialities of Virtual Worlds (henceforward, VWs), has been interpreted as the signal for the discovery of new web-based business models. Therefore, in this work, we address the topic of how VWs, and SL in detail, can impact on the business models of the firms. In doing so, we are going to examine the literature about business models and VWs, in order to define how they interact each other. As a result, we propose a mapping framework able to support companies in determining the characteristics of VWs able to impact on business models. The major findings of this work, which is a work-in-progress relatively to VWs and business models studies, aims to determine which aspects of the former may affect the latter. In particular, we identified three main valuable areas: gaining new sources of value, catching the opportunities raised by a co-opetitive environment and finally extending the market to the V-commerce
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
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