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La finanza ad impatto sociale
No full textL’obiettivo principale del presente lavoro è quello di approfondire,
teoricamente ed empiricamente, una tematica alquanto dibattuta e
innovativa all’interno del panorama finanziario dell’economia sociale,
ovverosia la valutazione dell’impatto complessivamente generato dai
finanziamenti di venture philanthropy (VP). Il presente lavoro contribuisce ad avanzare le conoscenze sugli indicatori di impatto applicati alla venture philanthropy. In primo luogo, fornisce una revisione sistematica della letteratura scientifica inerente la finanza a impatto sociale e la venture philanthropy,
fornendo una elaborazione approfondita delle caratteristiche distintive,
degli obiettivi e dei risultati principali associati agli investimenti “ad
impatto”. In secondo luogo, analizza empiricamente i progetti “ad
impatto sociale” finanziati dagli operatori di VP italiani e britannici
negli ultimi due decenni
Fund managers acting as impact investors: Strategies, practices, and tensions
Full text linkUsing a multi case-study analysis, we shed light on the strategies, practices, andtensions of fund managers acting as impact investors. Results show that while somefund managers experience tension between the social and financial aspects of spe-cific, although relevant, components of the business model, other fund managersexperience challenges throughout the business model. The governance componentemerges as the most relevant issue and this may help explain why impact washing isa key topic in the impact investing discussion. Relevant implications for practitionersand policy makers are also discussed
Impact Investing: Il quadro italiano
Full text linkL’”Impact Investing: Il quadro italiano” offre una descrizione dello stato dell’arte della finanza ad impatto sociale in Italia, delle sue origini, delle principali aree di impatto e strumenti finanziari che la caratterizzano, delle reti nazionali ed internazionali che si sono costituite e delle caratteristiche di questo fenomeno, che è ancora ad uno stadio di sviluppo embrionale.
L’analisi del fenomeno dell’impact investing è stata condotta ponendo grande attenzione al problema definitorio e terminologico, analizzando le differenti teorie predominanti e le caratteristiche che definiscono questa strategia di investimento, oltre al suo collocamento rispetto al più ampio mercato della finanza sostenibile.
L’obiettivo dell’analisi è non solo l’individuazione degli attori che caratterizzano questo mercato, delle caratteristiche del fenomeno, dei settori e delle aree di impatto principali e degli strumenti finanziari che consentono l’incontro tra la domanda e l’offerta, ma anche la mappatura delle principali reti nazionali ed internazionali che effettuano ricerche sul tema in modo tale da individuare le principali barriere all’incontro tra la domanda e l’offerta e le lacune della letteratura di riferimento
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
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