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    Dalle Organizzazioni alle Orgonizzazioni

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    Se un tempo la produzione era sviluppata da singole e modeste organizzazioni produttive, o da un numero limitato di aziende tra loro complementari nel processo produttivo, oggi le reti di organizzazioni produttive sono sempre più solide e dotate di inerzia. Non ha senso pensare alla produzione se non in forma di rete produttiva nella quale, volontariamente o di fatto, ogni azienda è collegata a numerose altre, fornitrici di materie, componenti, macchinari ed altri fattori di produzione Le reti produttive sono ovunque l’uomo agisca per soddisfare i propri bisogni e le proprie aspirazioni. Non riguardano solo la produzione ma anche il consumo; non esiste consumo senza produzione, ma, reciprocamente, non esiste produzione senza consumo. Per rendere conto del formarsi delle reti produttive sempre più ampie e connesse, due impostazioni appaiono particolarmente interessanti, nell’ambito della teoria dei sistemi: la prima considera le aziende quali sistemi adattativi che spontaneamente ed inevitabilmente generano le reti produttive, intese quali sistemi adattativi complessi; la seconda considera le organizzazioni produttive quali oloni che, nella loro disposizione olarchica plurilivello, generano le reti produttive, nel cui ambito il progresso appare quale inevitabile conseguenza dell’ordinamento olarchico del Kosmos produttivo. Questo studio considera la seconda impostazione, presentando il modello olarchico dell’analisi delle reti produttive, nell’assunto che in una economia della conoscenza, nella quale diventano tenui i limiti di tempo e di spazio, il fenomeno produttivo sempre più debba essere riferito non a singole unità aziendali quanto, piuttosto, ad un sistema di aziende (rete sovra-aziendale) o di unità operative (rete infra-aziendale) che si concepisce nella forma di network operativo, informativo e cognitivo

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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