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The Role of Serial Crowdfunding in Startup Firms’ Innovative Activities
No full textCrowdfunding (CF) has attracted increasing attention from researchers and many studies have been conducted in order toshed light over a variety of aspects of the phenomenon, especially when a start-up is involved in.Recently, CF has been investigated also in the light of the “seriality” of CF campaigns, i.e. the participation to more than one campaign by the startup. The existing studies in this stream of research, focus mainly on how “serial CF” affects the management of the subsequent campaigns and their performance, thus adopting a merely “tactical” perspective on the phenomenon. More importantly, there is a lack of in-depth studies over the actual processes characterizing serial CF and its role in innovation strategies and practices.Consistently with the above mentioned gaps in literature, the main goal of this paper is thus to analyze more in depth the role of serial CF in innovation strategies adopted by start-up firms, shedding light on the micro-processes involved, in line with the recent call for exploring the “non-financial” dimension of CF.To this aim the paper adopts a qualitative methodology based on an exploratory case-study of a company actively exploiting multiple CF campaigns mostly as opportunities for innovation. The case offers offers insights over the role of serial CF in innovation processes
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
"It-could-work!" Multistakeholder governance mechanisms for firms' regeneration: An opportunity for SMEs in times of crisis
No full textThis study addresses workers buyouts as a form of governance suitable for designing and implementing solutions to business crises from a socially responsible and multistakeholder perspective. In recent years, there have been repeated phases of economic crisis that have led to increased business crises, resulting in great damage to society as a whole as well as the real lives of the people involved. Business crises affect managers and employees working at firms in crisis, which in turn impacts their families. Using a single case study approach, this research focuses on the governance changes leading to a workers buyout and the formation of a cooperative firm. It explores in depth the conditions that enable the start-up of a workers buyout and the critical issues faced by the new form of governance. In particular, the study focuses on how external stakeholders can play a crucial role in a firm’s entrepreneurial relaunch. The findings show that the experience of a workers buyout can represent a meaningful model for relaunching on a new entrepreneurial path that offers new opportunities to a firm, its managers and its workers from a multistakeholder and sustainable perspective
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
Recensione del libro «L'evoluzione della consulenza manageriale in Italia: caratteristiche della domanda e sfide dell'offerta consulenziale», Wolters Kluver Italia - CEDAM, Milano, 2019 di Linda Gabbianelli
No full textInnovative SMEs’ circular economy practices amidst the COVID-19 crisis: A policy incentives focus
No full textSpecific interventions enabling innovative SMEs to access finance during crisis are of extreme relevance for their survival. Governments’ incentives related to SMEs during the pandemic have generally focused on grants, deferral of tax and debt payments, and the extension or simplification of the provision of loan guarantees to enable SMEs accessing credit (OECD, 2020). At the European level, policy response to crisis is routed towards the establishment of a Recovery plan for the years 2021-2027 that will prioritize specific funds for the transition to a green climate-neutral economy.
Regarding the SMEs’ context, the transition toward sustainability has also been widely recommended by European Institutions due to their relevant environmental impact (Bontoux and Bengtsson, 2015). Thus, COVID-19 pandemic could represent an opportunity for SMEs to innovate their strategy around sustainability and survive the crisis (Pencarelli et al., 2020; IbnMohammed et al., 2021; Prieto-Sandoval et al., 2021). To the actual state of the art, the role of public policies to provide financial supports to sustainability innovation in time of COVID-19 crisis is under-investigated, especially when focusing on innovative SMEs. Based on this premise, and considering the Italian context, this study aims at analyzing how COVID19-related incentives issued through the Law 77/2020 (Recovery Decree) focused to innovative SMEs have supported circular economy (CE) as sustainability-oriented innovations
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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