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The emergence of Italy as a fashion country: Nation branding and collective meaning creation at Florence's fashion shows (1951-1965)
No full textWe analyse the emergence of Italy as a fashion country with a reconstruction of the history and impact of the collective fashion shows that Giovanni Battista Giorgini organised in Florence in 1951-65. Our cultural analysis highlights the role events play in the mobilisation of local actors and the creation of nation brands, which we conceive as ongoing narrations built on a country’s material and symbolic resources that differentiate its image in valuable ways for export markets. Despite their decline, the Florentine shows created an intangible asset that facilitated the ascent of Milan as Italy’s fashion capital in the 1970s
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
3D- and spatial analysis GIS-tools for the study of sequences of relict sub-planar erosion surfaces
No full textAppropriate 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
Turismo e territorio: la competitività delle destinazioni turistiche
No full textIn anni di crescente dibattito e affermazione del ruolo dei territori e dei fattori locali per lo sviluppo
economico, il settore turistico rappresenta un ambito dove questa relazione si presenta con particolare
rilevanza. Evidenza, questa, che deriva anzitutto dalla centralità della destinazione nel processo di scelta ed
esperienza del turista e dal fatto che a livello di destinazione si manifestano le principali dinamiche economiche e
sociali tipiche del settore. Ma non solo. Il turismo si caratterizza oggi per fenomeni significativi di cambiamento
sia nella domanda sia nella struttura dell’offerta, che impongono una maggiore pressione competitiva alle
imprese del comparto, spesso frammentate e di piccola e media dimensione. Le destinazioni turistiche stesse
devono affrontare un ambiente competitivo più complesso e dinamico, che richiede il superamento delle
tradizionali attività di promozione istituzionale del settore e l’adozione di logiche innovative, dove il territorio
non è più da considerarsi solo quale collettore di flussi turistici, ma quale elemento di valore ed agente attivo di
sviluppo. In questo contesto è pertanto necessario comprendere quali siano i principali fattori che determinano
l’attrattività e competitività delle destinazioni turistiche. Lo scritto si pone l’obiettivo di mettere in luce le
dinamiche sopra descritte al fine di evidenziare la logica sottostante l’adozione di un approccio territoriale quale
risposta necessaria – sebbene non esclusiva naturalmente - alle attuali esigenze del comparto. La disanima dei
fattori di competitività turistica oggi maggiormente dibattuti porterà ad incentrare l’attenzione su tre aspetti che
risultano particolarmente rilevanti: anzitutto – e fondante rispetto alla possibilità dei territori di esplicare la loro
abilità di differenziazione e di creazione di valore aggiunto – l’adozione di logiche distrettuali, che presentano
però specificità proprie rispetto ai distretti di matrice industriale. In secondo luogo l’attrattività turistica delle
destinazioni dipende fortemente dall’immagine delle stesse e dalle scelte strategiche di promozione e
comunicazione adottate, che poco spazio lasciano oggi a spontaneismo e improvvisazione. Infine, e trasversale,
l’affermarsi delle nuove tecnologie ha favorito l'emergere di destinazioni integrate in modo innovativo, dando il
giusto rilievo a tutte le articolazioni del territorio, supportando la governance delle destinazioni e garantendone
una gestione operativa più efficac
Opening the network: Bridging the IMP tradition and other research perspectives
No full textThis paper introduces the theme of this Special Issue, that brings together some of the most significant papers presented at the 2006 IndustrialMarketing & Purchasing (IMP) Group Conference. By proposing “opening the network” as the conference theme, our ambition was to provide a forum for new perspectives, alternative research methods and new empirical contexts, and so help IMP scholarship to continue evolving. After some preliminary remarks, we briefly introduce the papers and their contribution to the theme of this Special Issue. A first group of studies stimulates reflection in the field by contrasting IMP scholarship with ideas and points of view developed in related fields of inquiry. The second group, on the other hand, may be seen as an endogenous development of IMP scholarship, while the third group represents a response to a critique often addressed at the markets-as-networks approach: its dearth of managerial relevance
Innovation in Symbolic Industries. The Influence of Critical Audience's Evaluations on Fashion Companies' Behavior
No full textInnovation is typically considered as one of the main sources of a company’s competitive advantage. However, within symbolic industries, innovative behavior also represents a threat to a specific company identity, which is one of its core assets in order to gain domain consensus. Innovation menaces existent identity and fashion companies need to avoid diluting their identity while innovating. Fashion companies are strongly facing a trade-off between “disrupting” and maintaining a consistent fit with the needs and expectations of consumers, or “keep” their own identity and avoid brand dilution. From this viewpoint, the presence of a strong stylistic identity might act both as an advantage and a constraint that affects the evolution of business. In this paper, we aim at clarifying if and when companies are more reluctant to change in order to preserve their own identity. The common assumption is that the older an organization, the greater is its reputation, the lower its orientation to pursue radical innovation in order to preserve its own identity. In this paper we test this hypothesis and prove that older and better established companies might actually have huger incentives to innovate compared to younger and smaller organizations, which still struggle to affirm their own identity. Older and better established companies are more positively oriented towards continuous change, not only because they have more means to finance it, but also because need to pursue innovation in order to enhance market opportunities and create new needs in their targeted segments of customers
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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