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The potential economic sustainability and social impact offered by biosimilar drugs in the light of a managerial Systems and Service view
No full textThis work moves from evidence of a pharmacoeconomic exploratory study of the case
experienced at the Potenza Local Health Authority in Italy about a strategy for pharmaceutical
expenditure containment based on the ‘switch’ from the so-called ‘originators’ drugs to
biosimilar ones adopted in recent years (Saviano et al., 2022) 3 . The study of the case highlights
that, despite the various scientific evidence of the equal effectiveness and safety of biosimilar
drugs compared to the originators, and the rigorous rules for the switch, there is still resistance
to biosimilars by both doctors and patients that needs to be understood and addressed (Claus et
al., 2017; Ho, 2021; Gasteiger & Petrie, 2022). The Authority adopted a governance strategy of
stakeholder engagement based on a multi-actor sharing of choices and promotion programs that resulted decisive to get the expected consensus by doctors. This approach based on sharing information and decisions, however, would not be equally effective in getting the consent of the patients; there is, in fact, an irreducible information asymmetry that does not allow patients to access and understand the same kind of information. Hence, the acceptance of biosimilars by patients would only rely on a trusted relationship with the prescriber doctors. A different engagement strategy, indeed, should be adopted to overcome the possible resistance by patients to share the overall commitment to the sustainability of pharmaceutical care. This is where a managerial and marketing perspective can be effectively integrated into pharmacoeconomic analyses.
This short premise, in fact, is aimed to highlight the importance of integrating interpretative
contributions from different theoretical perspectives and research streams under the common
general view of business administration studies. Hence, it is highly agreed on the need for a
dialogue and an interdependent, transversal, and circular vision between the various
disciplinary streams of business administration knowledge which, despite their specificities,
receive inspiration from the unitary and still current matrix from which Italian scholars draw a
common origin (https://aidea2023.it/)
Leveraging the cultural value of ancient (tomatoes) varieties: toward a biodiversity marketing approach to enhance Agriculture as a driver for Sustainability
No full textDue to economic interests in producing varieties resistant to diseases, insects, and climate change, ancient tomato varieties in the Mediterranean area have been neglected causing biodiversity loss. By reversing the common view of agriculture and sustainability, this work shifts attention from investigating how to make agriculture more sustainable to how to make agriculture a driver for promoting sustainability.
The hypothesis is that marketing can successfully support strategies that leverage the cultural value of biodiversity. Accordingly, this study aims to explore the current interest in marketing studies for biodiversity to identify possible paths to follow for driving attention to ancient tomato varieties as a strategy for promoting sustainability
La didattica laboratoriale nella modularità e nel curricolo di storia
No full textQual è il significato della didattica laboratoriale per la storia? Di fronte all'inflazione del termine laboratorio, il problema è quello di cogliere la specificità delle attività didattiche laboratoriali nell'interazione tra insegnante e allievi e tra allievi e nel ruolo che esse giocano nei processi di insegnamento e di apprendimento, come snodo in cui gli allievi imparano a fare operazioni cognitive attraverso le pratiche operative su testi e su fonti di ogni genere
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
In Search of Protection: Unaccompanied Minors in Italy
No full textThis paper examines the issue of unaccompanied minors arriving in Italy and how Italy has responded to their need for protection. It contains ¡ve complementary sections. Section 1, authored by Pietro Demurtas, provides a statistical overview of unaccompanied minors in Italy between 2014 and 2017. In particular, it discusses unaccompanied minors who request political asylum, those in government reception facilities who do not, and those who have left reception centers without seeking asylum and have become "untraceable." The second section by Mattia Vitiello addresses why unaccompanied minors leave their countries of origin and how they transit to Italy and elsewhere. This section highlights the role of families in the decision to migrate and the migration process. It distinguishes unaccompanied minors who largely seek to "escape from" particular conditions from other migrants who are in search of a better life for themselves and their families. The third section by Marco Accorinti covers Italian reception policies and policymaking challenges, with a particular focus on implementation of Italy's System for the Protection of Asylum Seekers and Refugees. The section argues for reception procedures and interventions that are tailored to the particular vulnerabilities and needs of unaccompanied minors. Section 4, authored by Aldo Skoda, c.s., offers a psychosocial analysis of the phenomenon of unaccompanied child migration. It describes strategies to build the competencies, sense of agency, and resilience of unaccompanied minors. The final section, authored by Carola Perillo, details the demands and requirements of acting in the "best interests" of unaccompanied minors. It ends by setting forth minimum principles of protection for unaccompanied minors, which should inform both the Global Compact on Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees
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
The Imposed Digital Innovation of ‘Service’ Pharmacy in Italy: Towards Phygital Market relationships?
No full textThe Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), established by the Italian
government after the COVID-19 pandemic, promotes a deep rethinking of healthcare services
indicating the necessity to leverage telemedicine and teleassistance and, more in general,
technological innovation. In this evolutionary context, little attention is devoted to how Italian
pharmacies should technologically change although they are expected to play an ever more
relevant role in the future market relationship with citizens/patients through the institution of the ‘services pharmacy’. On the basis of this premise, this study discusses how the physical, digital, and social dimensions of service may redefine the future systems configurations of pharmacies in Italy
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
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