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Ouverture de ‘Wine Global Competition. Emerging Issues’
Full text linkThe global wine market is undergoing a profound transformation, after years of stable behavior that, however, heralded the perfect storm unleashed in recent years. For a careful observer, the seeds of change have been there for many years, as the contributions collected in this volume demonstrate. The authors present the evolution of supply, demand, and trade in international wine markets for each of the main wine-producing countries — the United States, Australia, Spain, France, and Italy — and analyze the causes of this change and potential economic intervention policies
SME Food Suppliers versus Large Retailers: Perspectives in the International Supply Chains, DSI Essays Series n. 13, McGraw-Hill, Milano
No full textThe market share of international retail chains substantially increased from the beginning of the nineties. The supplier’s market has been adapted to the evolutions of retailers’ market in terms of modified purchasing processes. Due to these changes, the requirements for food industry suppliers grew in number
and quality.
The paper shows how the relationship between suppliers and retailers is affected by several important changes, above all at international level. In particular, the analysis is focused on the Italian food SME suppliers related with large retailers.
In-depth interviews to 89 Italian food SME suppliers have been conducted in 2008. Results have been analyzed and compared to the retailers’ point of view, resulting from public reports (such as Annual report, CSR report, etc.).
Considering the selection criteria used by retailers, one of the main results of the analysis is that the growth of small and medium suppliers is stimulated when they operate with international large retailers. At the same time, the pressure on
price and the required organizational qualifications lead to a selection process in which smaller manufacturers seem to be the more vulnerable actors
L’umanesimo nell’economia globalizzata. Visione, strumenti, responsabilità.
No full textLa Collana, composta da un volume introduttivo e 16 volumi suddivisi per facoltà universitaria, per un totale di 228 contributi, diretta da don Emilio Bettini e il prof. Cesare Mirabelli vuole affiancare il dibattito che si è tenuto a Firenze durante i giorni del Convegno Ecclesiale (9-13 novembre 2015). Al suo interno prende forma "un progetto di grande respiro che ha impegnato sedici facoltà universitarie nella elaborazione concreta di un pensiero guidato dall’idea innovativa di nuovo Umanesimo: ampliamento degli orizzonti della razionalità, curiosità, apertura all’incontro con l’altro, disponibilità piena verso altre culture e discipline, desiderio di trovare nuove connessioni creative fra le idee".The collection, made up of an introductory volume and 16 volumes divided by university faculty, for a total of 228 contributions, directed by Don Emilio Bettini and prof. Cesare Mirabelli wants to support the debate that was held in Florence during the days of the Church Meeting (9-13 November 2015). Inside takes shape "a major project which involved sixteen universities in the concrete elaboration of a thought guided by the idea of innovative new Humanism: widening horizons of rationality, curiosity, openness to the encounter with the other, availability full of other cultures and disciplines, desire to find new creative connections between ideas.
Corporate social responsibility in the relationships between large retailers and Italian small and medium food suppliers
No full textThis paper presents an overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR) drivers within retailers’ supply chains, following a multiple perspective of the different players involved. The study is focused on the relationship between European retailers and Italian small-medium enterprises in the food sector. In particular the analysis examines the effects of the large retailers’ CSR initiatives on the small suppliers involved in supply chains where large retailers are leaders. The research identifies that small and medium Italian manufacturers adapt their processes and tools to the CSR requirements of large retailers. When food Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are strongly involved as suppliers of international large retailers, they reach a higher level of consciousness in CSR relevance and, above all, they are more capable of managing CSR activities by adopting standards and certification systems
CSR for Retailers' Led Channel Relationships: Evidence from Italian SME Manufacturers
Full text linkThis paper analyses the adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies by small and medium manufacturers which are involved in supplying relationships with large retailers. The purpose of the paper is to examine CSR drivers within large retailers' supply chains. A quantitative empirical research was conducted focusing on the food sector, as a sector in which traceability, supplier's coordination and control are critical to the supply chain. Data collection was performed through a questionnaire addressed to 89 Italian SME manufacturers to explore the main factors influencing the adoption of CSR and the level of formalization of the related policies. Findings revealed the key role of large retailers for the establishment of a sustainable/ethical supply chain. An attenuation of the hierarchic/conflictual perspective in buyer-seller relationships emerged, with a reduction of margin-compression effects for smaller suppliers as a consequence of power imbalances. A relevant consequence of CSR is a relationship development model in which all the involved subjects can benefit, including smaller partners inside the supply chains
CSR within Large Retailers International Supply Chains
Full text linkThe importance of CSR has recently increased in all economic sectors. Particularly in the retail sector, large international retailers are investing heavily to cope with the ethical demands of consumers and increase their own awareness of CSR issues. Key international retailers have begun to offer some ethical products, consolidating their approach to CSR through offers related to sustainable development and greater fairness in terms of distribution of benefits among all actors in the supply chain. This article discusses the role of ethics and the CSR approaches of retailers in the management of international supply chains. In particular, it illustrates policies and tools adopted by firms that have implemented a CSR approach to managing supply chain relationships
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
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