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Il livello di disclosure volontaria del modello di business all’interno del prospetto informativo di quotazione
Get PDFIl presente studio ha l’obiettivo di riconoscere il livello di disclosure volontaria del modello di business adottato da tre imprese manifatturiere nella redazione del prospetto informativo (PI) di quotazione per investigare se e in che modo eventuali differenze nel livello di disclosure possano dipendere da differenze tra i loro modelli di business (riconducibili, in primis, alla tipologia d’innovazione adottata). Si sono condotte alcune interviste con il top management delle imprese al fine di comprendere in profondità i meccanismi di generazione del valore di ciascuna. Inoltre, lo sviluppo di due metodologie di content analysis (qualitativa e quali-quantitativa) sulle sezioni narrative dei PI ha consentito di identificare i temi strategici trattati e la loro importanza relativa evidenziando come solo alcuni siano “comuni” a tutte le imprese considerate. L’analisi dei temi strategici “esclusivi” ha quindi permesso di riconoscere il livello di disclosure volontaria del modello di business nei PI e ha rivelato come le imprese caratterizzate da un modello di business fondato sull’innovazione design-driven e technology-push presentino una minore propensione alla disclosure delle proprie risorse distintive
Determinism vs. solidarism: the philanthropic approach of foundations
No full textExtant research shows that foundations adopt two broad management approaches for achieving their strategic outcomes. One body of literature focuses on the deterministic approach, in which foundations are managed like for-profit organisations. The other argues for managing foundations with a solidarist approach, in which foundations are guided by the solidarity of interests found in natural interdependencies of various members of the society. Proponents of each of these two approaches argue that their approach would result in generating better social value. Based on the survey of 201 leaders of Italian foundations, and supplemented by data collected from archival sources, this study investigates the association between the approach adopted and performances. Results of the study support the capacity of both approaches to generate positive performances if properly implemented, while, on the opposite, foundations that lack a clear management approach, report lower social performance and asset utilisation
Beyond the money: grantors supporting their grantees
Get PDFThis study analyses the relationship between grant-making foundations (grantors) and operative nonprofit organizations (grantees) to determine whether a positive association exists between foundations' intervention beyond the money and grantees' organizational capacity development. Data are collected using a survey of grantees who received funding from a Foundation of Banking Origin (FOB) in the context of Italy. The analyses portray three capacity-building factors that FOBs can deploy in addition to the financial grant, namely, operative support, goal alignment, and performance oversight. The results endorse our hypotheses that both the amount of operative support provided by the foundation and the higher perception of goal congruence between grantor and grantees are positively correlated with the organizational capacity of the grantee. Our results also suggest that the benefits of increased oversight prevail over the drawbacks
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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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