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Competenze per l’apprendimento organizzativo – un approccio simoniano
No full textAlla fine degli anni Ottanta, nel riproporre AdministrativeBehavior al pubblico italiano, a più di 40 anni di distanza dallaprima pubblicazione, Vittorio Mortara affermava che il testo diSimon era al contempo un classico e un programma di ricercaancora in gran parte da svolgere. Molti passi in avanti sonostati fatti in questo senso; tuttavia, quella e successive operedi Simon sono tuttora fonti euristiche per l’analisi e la progettazione organizzativa. Nel presente contributo ci rifacciamo al tema della Bounded Rationality, in particolare all’incertezza dei processi organizzativi. La nostra riflessione congiunta ha come obiettivo il confronto e l’incontro tra la teoria dell’apprendimento organizzativo e la metodologia della ricerca-intervento: due campi di riflessione che, tradizionalmente, hanno trattato temi in buona parte simili ma spesso senza un reciproco esplicito richiamo. Anche se i contorni sono più sfumati, possiamodire estremizzando che il primo campo studia come cambianoi processi organizzativi; il secondo fornisce strumenti operativiper orientare il mutamento; sempre semplificando notevolmente,si potrebbe anche dire che lo stesso argomento è trattato in uncaso prevalentemente all’interno di teorie a base enunciativa enell’altro prevalentemente in teorie a base predicativa. L’incontrotra i due ambiti è garantito da una scelta epistemologica chiara,che funge da «bussola» per la selezione di riflessioni dai duecampi tra loro compatibili. Questi dunque, molto sinteticamente,gli argomenti che il lettore troverà nelle pagine seguenti
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
Apprendimento organizzativo e ricerca-intervento. L'organizzazione degli individui
Full text linkL'articolo conduce una critica delle concezioni di mainstream dell'apprendimento orgaizzativo e lo definisce invece come sviluppo della conoscenza organizzativa stricto sensu e cioè lo sviluppo della capacità di un processo di regolare il proprio (continuo) mutamento. Conseguentemente, la lezione per quanto concerne gli interventi a supporto dell'apprendimento organizzativo è in radicale opposizione rispetto alle indicazioni del mainstream: la consulenza esterna non solo è inutile ma può anche risultare dannosa qualora venga usata come mezzo di legittimazione di scelte totalmente eteronome rispetto alle esigenze di regolazione espresse dal processo. La nostra proposta di ricerca-intervento rifiuta l'idea di un ricercatore/consulente esterno che sarebbe dotato di una razionalità superiore a quella dei soggetti che danno vita quotidianamente ai processi. Allo stesso tempo non nega l'importanza dei saperi disciplinari rispetto alle competenze prodotte nei processi. L'incontro tra le diverse forme di sapere può essere favorito attraverso l'acquisizione di un metodo di analisi da parte dei soggetti che danno vita ai processi; metodo che permetta di acquisire una diversa forma di consapevolezza dei bisogni espressi (non ultimo il bisogno di ben-essere), né superiore né inferiore, bensì complementare a quella che esplicitamente o tacitamente appartiene al loro quotidiano act meaning. Nella seconda parte del saggio si propone una sintetica illustrazione di un caso empirico di ricerca-intervento avviato nel 2006 nell'Ateneo di Modena e Reggio Emilia e tuttora in corso. Nelle conclusioni interpretiamo tale esperienza e valutiamo la sua congruenza rispetto alle varie dimensioni della precedente proposta teorica
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
The relevance of Giddens' structuration theory for organizational research
Full text linkAnthony Giddens' Structuration Theory is probably one of the sociological theories more directly referenced and more widely used, in a variety of ways, in organizational research. Why is that, and what does it mean for organizational research? In this paper we explore this issue by reviewing some early, influential contributions, within the organizational field, that used Giddens' theory as the main reference. We will show that the actual utilizations of such theory are very heterogeneous in many relevant concepts, although they are all moved by similar theoretical needs. We also propose that in order to properly answer to those needs, organizational research should focus on some key elements that, while being central in Giddens' contribution, are not always interpreted consistently by "Giddensian" organization scholars. Finally, we will argue that it is possible for the organization reflection, even when it is not built upon Structuration Theory, to share and realize Giddens' main "message" to the organizational discipline: the need for an organization theory truly based on an epistemological view that allows to overcome the objectivist / subjectivist dilemma
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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