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Tourism and work in the digital economy: how relationships between businesses and the professions are changing?
No full textCultural thematic routes and creation of value for the territory. Proposal for a managerial model
No full textIn order to reduce the negative externalities due to the mass tourism and its uneconomic concentration in some centers or in some periods of the year, it would be appropriate to diversify the heritage cultural offer. A decisive role can be assumed by the cultural thematic routes (CTR), which allow to promote new itineraries through the rich cultural heritage of peripheral and landscape areas, supporting it with a system of information services aiming to communicate the value of these historical places.
To intercept and adequately satisfy a wider and more complex demand for knowledge, culture and heritage from tourists, in an era characterized by the support of digital technology, in this paper a managerial model is proposed that uses some information and communication tools technology in order to improve cultural services, improving management effectiveness and efficiency, and going beyond the traditional approach of mere conservation of cultural heritage.
This study analyzes opportunities for the cultural and artistic sector from ICT approaches such as Business Process Management (BPM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). These models, already existing in many industrial contexts, could be extended to the tourism and cultural sectors. The aim is to extrapolate a meta-model capable of managing organizational variables and emerging critical issues in the evolution of cultural routes. The model will provide the guidelines to operators in the sector and to policy maker.
This aspect is critical to the success of replicable events as it provides an information management system that supports future planning with historical data.The investigated management model was applied to a specific case study: The “Francigena route” in Apulia Region
Balancing exploration and exploitation in public management: Proposal for an organizational model
Full text linkOver the last 30 years, a wave of reforms has reshaped the panorama of public administrations around the world, which have also stimulated debates on the subject reform in public sector relations. Much research has focused on discussing the validity of New Public Management (NPM) as a paradigm, including the recognition of regional versions of a number of universal problems in the Public Governance, NPM, and Public Value areas. This debate is focused on the need to give concrete answers to the new management needs of policy makers and to the growing demands of citizens. Increasingly public administration is based on meeting two needs: society requires creative, flexible, and innovation-oriented approaches, whilst economic pressures and budget cuts are forcing uses and models oriented toward efficiency, competitiveness, and cost savings. As regard the changing requirements of the public government, the new organizational system needs to incorporate the creativity, innovation capacity, and flexibility necessary to achieve sustainability and public value. The purpose of this research is to offer an organizational model, which balances exploration activities with those of exploitation, thus being able to meet the changing needs within the Administration, and the actions envisaged for its operations. This article also introduces the requirements for a decision support system to measure regional performance and service quality. It is hoped that we add to our knowledge and understanding of coordinated public policy and good governance that is effective even in these radically demanding Covid-19 times
Change in Perspectives in Cultural Tourism: A Sustainable Managerial Model for Cultural Thematic Routes Creating Territorial Value
No full textThe negative externalities due to mass tourism and its unprofitable concentration
in some artistic city centers or in some periods of the year can be
overcome by both a diversification of the cultural heritage offerings and the use of
new technologies. Firstly, cultural thematic routes (CTRs) allow for the promotion
of new itineraries through the rich cultural heritage of peripheral and landscape
areas, supporting them with a system of information services aiming to communicate
their value. Secondly, ICT approaches such as business process management (BPM)
and product lifecycle management (PLM), already existing in many industrial
contexts, could be extended to the cultural tourism sector. To intercept and satisfy
a wider and more complex demand for knowledge, culture, and heritage, this chapter
is aimed at proposing a sustainable managerial model applied to a specific case
study: the “Francigena Route” in the Apulia Region. It uses information and
communication technologies to develop new cultural services, improving management
effectiveness and efficiency, going beyond the traditional approach of mere
conservation of cultural heritage. The result is a model capable of managing organizational
variables and highlighting critical issues in the evolution of cultural
routes, providing strategic guidelines to both cultural and touristic operators and
policymakers
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
Assessing consumers’ behavioral intentions to adopt green technologies: A combined research framework
No full textThe adoption of green technologies, i.e., technologies affecting energy usage in
residential buildings is a highly debated research issue among researchers in
environmental behavior. During last decades, environmental management literature
focused on how governments or companies could develop strategies aimed at fostering
the adoption of these measures in order to effectively reduce the overall energy
consumption. This paper develops and applies a framework that combines the Ajzen’s
Theory of Planned Behavior and the analysis of perceived image’ to examine
consumers’ intention to adopt green technologies. First, we identified the impact of
Ajzen’s determinants (i.e., attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral
control) on consumers’ intention to adopt these technologies. Then, we determined the
perceived image of green technologies by identifying their attributes and, in turn, their
latent dimensions. Finally, we measured the impact of green technologies’ latent
dimensions on Ajzen’s determinants and behavioral intentions. Results showed that the
advantages/disadvantages related to green technologies were the psychological
determinants that influenced to a greater extent the intention to use them. Moreover,
the perception of such technologies as innovative, healthy and energy-independent was
the main determinants of the intention to adopt them in residential buildings.
Theoretical and managerial implications for marketers and policymakers were also
discussed
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