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Clusters, economic performance, and social cohesion: a system dynamics approach
No full textCluster policies pervade all regions of the world to promote employment growth, innovation and entrepreneurship. Yet, research mostly focuses on cluster economic performance, but less on regional social cohesion, which is important when economic growth coexists with deprivation, poverty and inequality. The paper’s aim is to understand both the economic and the social dynamics of clusters by developing a theoretical model based on system dynamics. It shows that clusters with positive economic performance do not necessarily lead to regional social cohesion. Multiple positive economic-related feedback processes can be mitigated by negative social-related feedback processes. Implications for academics and policy-makers are proposed
Entrepreneurial ecosystems, regional clusters, and industrial districts: Historical transformations or rhetorical devices?
No full textFollowing the call for an assessment of recent developments and an understanding of the state-of-the-art of entrepreneurial ecosystems, this paper investigates the historical evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems, regional clusters, and industrial districts to untangle their necessary and specific dimensions and policy implications. It aims at reducing the gap between the increasing academic and policy interest in entrepreneurial ecosystems and the theoretical grounds upon which research and policies are based. To this end, it traces back the phenomena of ecosystems, clusters, and industrial districts to their origin, using critical realism ontology and historical organization studies as research methods. This paper contributes a historical and theoretical framework that provides academic rigor for understanding entrepreneurial ecosystems and policy rationales for evaluating economic development policies.Fil: Rocha, Hector. Universidad Austral; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Audretsch, David B.. Indiana University; Estados Unido
Personal Virtues and Firm Goals: An Aristotelian–Thomistic Approach
No full textThe major theme in virtue ethics, business, and management is “virtues in relation between individuals and firms as moral agents” (Ferrero I, Sison AJG, A survey on virtue in business and management (1980–2011). Universidad de Navarra, 2012). The main unit of analysis is neither the person nor the organization but the person in the organization. However, the conflicting framing self-interest versus others’ interests implicit in the dominant self-interest approach in both economic and management prevent theoretical development on harmonious relationships between personal motives and firm goals. The argument of this chapter is that, for an intrinsic alignment between personal motives and firm goals, it is necessary to find a view that considers both self-interest and other interests as ends, superseding the trade-off logic implicit in the self-interest view. For this purpose, furthering a previous work (Rocha HO, Ghoshal S, J Manag Stud 43:585–619, 2006), this chapter proposes an Aristotelian–Thomistic approach, which considers excellence as the main human motive and practical rationality as the main logic to allow an intrinsic alignment between personal motives and firm goals.Fil: Rocha, Hector. Universidad Austral. Instituto de Altos Estudios; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
Do clusters matter to firm and regional development and growth?: Evidence from Latin America
Full text linkPurpose – This paper aims to analyse the impact of clusters on development and growth at the firm and regional level in Latin America (LA). The past 20 years have witnessed an acceleration of cluster initiatives, assuming their positive impact on firm performance and regional development. However, theoretical development and empirical meta-studies in emerging countries to validate this assumed relationship are scarce. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews empirical evidence from a population of 123 studies and a sample of 45 empirical studies including 216 clusters in LA. Findings – It concludes that clusters contribute to both development and growth at the firm- and regional-level contingent to factors such as cluster stage of development, collective efficiency, the pattern of governance of the value chain and the sector in which the firm operates; however, clusters are also a potential source of socio-economic divides. Originality/value – Therefore, these results qualify the conclusions of studies of clusters in developed countries (Porter, 2003; Delgado et al., 2010).Fil: Rocha, Hector. Universidad Austral. Instituto de Altos Estudios; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
On the goals of family firms: A review and integration
Full text linkIn this article, we present a review and integration of 76 articles published in peer-reviewed journals from 1992 to 2016 in order to answer two research questions: what are the goals of family firms and how are they integrated according to extant research? We complement noteworthy prior efforts at synthesizing the goals of family firms by focusing on the theory-development elements behind research on this body of knowledge. Our findings are twofold: first, the goals of family firms are diverse and classified in dichotomous categories; second, the majority of studies integrate these goals based on a trade-off logic. We discuss contributions and suggestions for further research at the end of the paper.Fil: Vazquez, Pedro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Austral; ArgentinaFil: Rocha, Hector. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Austral. Instituto de Altos Estudios; Argentin
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
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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