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Sharing economy: seeing through the fog
Full text linkPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to delineate the current state of the art of sharing economy (SE) research and practice. It provides a new framework to help managers and academics to consider this field with the right managerial and theoretical lenses. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic literature on the SE was conducted, resulting in the analysis of 114 articles in the management literature. This was completed by the empirical investigations of business model and industry of 32 members of three national associations promoting SE: SE UK, Ireland and Denmark. Findings: Papers dealing with SE themes focus on consumers’ motivations, impact on the society, market and policy, as well as the revenue model. SE businesses can be differentiated depending on whether their assets are new or re-used and the transaction is permanent or temporary. Based on this matrix, the study reveals four archetypes of SE businesses: “on-demand renters,” “lifecycle extenders,” “seller aggregators” and “ephemeral matchmakers.” Research limitations/implications: The paper outlines a significant gap between what is current focus of the academic literature and the reality of SE purposes and businesses. This provides goals for future research. Practical implications: The framework and clustering of business model archetypes may help managers and entrepreneurs dealing with SE to better understand the underlying value drivers behind those business models. Originality/value: There are some discrepancies between the SE themes emerging from the management literature and the business model diversity of SE companies. This research aims at helping scholars and managers to position themselves in the field
Technology-enabled multi-sided platforms in B2B relationships: A critical analysis and directions for future research
Full text linkThe concept of Multi-Sided Platforms (MSPs) has significantly impacted the management field by facilitating
interactions between distinct, interdependent groups, revolutionizing numerous industries. While extensive
research has examined platform models, further exploration of MSPs in Business-to-Business (B2B) settings,
particularly at the supply chain level, remains necessary. This paper critically examines the role of technology-
enabled MSPs within B2B environments, highlighting their distinct challenges and opportunities for supply chain
ecosystems. We review existing literature on B2B platforms, classifying studies according to the main platform
typologies: transactional, innovation, and orthogonal. We identify three key roles these platforms play in supply
chain management: enabling information sharing and collaboration, enhancing existing processes, and supporting
transformation. Additionally, we investigate five central themes in B2B relationships: power dynamics
and governance, resource allocation and optimization, communication dynamics, competence development and
learning, and resilience and adaptability. The findings underscore the transformative potential of MSPs in B2B
contexts, particularly in driving innovation, improving operational efficiencies, and creating new forms of value.
These insights also serve to introduce the eight papers in this special issue and frame three propositions for future
research
The platforms’ DNA: drivers of value creation in digital two-sided platforms
Full text linkWith the advent of the digital economy, two-sided platforms have gained significant momentum over the last two decades. Contrary to traditional businesses, two-sided platforms do not have linear value creation; instead, they create value by enabling interactions or exchange between two different groups of customers. This configuration creates challenges as well as opportunities and calls for an in-depth investigation in the digital context. This research investigates how digital platforms create value in two-sided platforms. The paper is based on a multiple-case study of four leading digital companies. The sampling is based on a theoretical and replication logic. Both primary and secondary sources are used for the research. This paper indicates that the value created by those digital platforms is based not only on their ability to reduce transaction costs and resolve frictions between two sides, but also on four other drivers (trustworthy environment, data-driven expansions, personalised services, and engagement mechanisms). These drivers enhance and enrich the basic value proposition of matchmaking. The four drivers build upon one another, bringing together two matching value propositions and forming a structure that is represented as the two-sided DNA
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
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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