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Blockchain for supply chain traceability and anticounterfeiting: the oracles’ enabling role
Get PDFBlockchain and physical oracles in the Collectible Industry. Supply chain fairness and bargaining power in agriculture supply chain: the blockchain effect. Unlocking the Blockchain Potentials through Oracles: Empirical Evidences on Supply Chain Challenges and Performance
Un modello di business per gli acceleratori. Una structured literature review
No full textGli obiettivi principali di questo studio sono di fornire una migliore comprensione del fenomeno degli
acceleratori e di sviluppare un modello di business per queste organizzazioni. Per fare questo, è stata
impiegata una Structured Literature Review, ovvero un’analisi strutturata della letteratura. Grazie a questo
metodo è possibile garantire la ripetibilità della ricerca condotta e la validità dei risultati ottenuti. Inoltre, per
testare i risultati dell’analisi, sono stati intervistati dieci manager di acceleratori situati in Italia e in Slovenia. I
risultati di questo studio mostrano che la letteratura sugli acceleratori è ancora frammentaria e poco indagata.
Il modello di business risultante dall’analisi fornisce informazioni sul ruolo, le attività e le caratteristiche peculiari
di tali organizzazioni. Inoltre, essendo la società in senso lato tra gli elementi costitutivi del modello di business
adottato, questo studio fornisce informazioni significative sull'impatto sociale degli acceleratori nell'ecosistema
in cui operano. Il contributo principale di questo studio risulta dunque essere l'analisi approfondita di un filone
di ricerca poco indagato nella letteratura esistente, del quale viene fornita una prospettiva ampia e chiara del
fenomeno. Vengono inoltre illustrate possibili implicazioni per i manager, i responsabili politici e le future
opportunità di ricerca accademica
Business models for accelerators: A structured literature review
Get PDFPurpose:This paper aims to provide a better understanding of accelerators’ phenomenon, developing a business model framework for these organizations. The proposed framework aims to offer helpful guidance for practitioners and policymakers, together with various research opportunities for scholars.
Design/Methodology/Approach:The study employs a structured literature review methodology, which guarantees the repeatability of the research and the validity of the outcomes. Additionally, to further test the results of our analysis, we interviewed ten practitioners from some accelerators located in Italy and Slovenia.
Findings:Findings show that the literature on accelerators is still fragmented and under-investigated. The presented framework for an accelerator business model provides insights about the activity and the role of such organizations. The study offers fruitful avenues for future research on accelerators’ business models.
Research limitations/implications:Given the fragmented nature and the novelty of the literature on the topic, there may be relevant papers and reports missing in our analysis. Further research should investigate the role of accelerators in the ecosystem they operate in and provide a clear and shared definition in collaboration with all stakeholders.
Practical implications:The presented framework provides practitioners with useful insights for understanding an accelerator activity and valuable recommendations for managing these organizations in the future.
Social implications:Since we consider society among the key stakeholders of an accelerator’s business model, this study provides significant insights about the social impact of accelerators in the ecosystem they operate in. Relevant implications may be useful especially for policymakers.
Originality/Value:The main contribution of this study is the extent analysis of a novel topic in the entrepreneurial literature, providing a clear and broad perspective of the phenomenon. Furthermore, this study provides relevant insights on the role of accelerators in academic research as well as for practitioners and policymakers
Overcoming cognitive bias through intellectual capital management
No full textIntellectual Capital as the sum of Human, Structural, and Relational Capital is among the key resources for an organization to produce value. However, knowledge as an intellectual resource may show a dark side. Human Capital, for instance, is often affected by cognitive bias coming from knowledge and beliefs. Cognitive bias may negatively affect decision-making processes. Bias may be dangerous in all fields. However, the situation can be particularly critical in medicine, where statistics state how up to 75% of all clinical errors are of cognitive origins. The chapter aims at investigating if and how intangibles management can help to overcome cognitive bias. The work employs a case study approach analyzing BACRI, a digital platform in the field of pediatric medicine. BACRI, which stands for "Critical Child" in Italian, allows identifying young patients at risk who need immediate care. The case study shows how the joint effect of Structural Capital, Human Capital, and Relational Capital is the key to the overcoming of cognitive bias, in a virtuous circle. Intangibles management can so limit the dark side of knowledge
Il ruolo della blockchain per l'innovazione dei modelli di business
No full textAbstract
Questo studio analizza le potenzialità e gli effetti della blockchain sui modelli di business attuali e futuri.
Innanzitutto, la letteratura sulla blockchain viene analizzata seguendo un approccio strutturato e preciso
per identificare le caratteristiche principali della tecnologia e le sue possibili implicazioni sociali ed
economiche. Successivamente, l'analisi si concentra su come la blockchain influenza i modelli di
business. L'obiettivo è quello di creare uno strumento utile per l'innovazione dei modelli di business
attraverso la blockchain. Il quadro proposto intende migliorare la comprensione del fenomeno e
presentarsi come punto di partenza per la ricerca futura. I risultati di questo studio mostrano che la
letteratura sulla blockchain è ancora frammentata e poco indagata. Il modello di business risultante
dall’analisi fornisce informazioni sulla tecnologia e sull’impatto sui diversi buildign block del busienss
model canvas. Dunque, il contributo principale di questo studio risulta essere l'analisi approfondita di un
argomento ancora poco indagato. Le implicazioni per manager e accademici sono numerose. Infatti, da
un lato intende essere di concreta utilità per i manager che si trovano a dover integrare nei modelli di
business delle loro aziende la blockchian, dall’altro identifica alcune interessanti tematiche di ricerca
che necessitano di maggiori approfondimenti
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
How Genuino Applies Blockchain Technology in the Collectibles Industry
No full textThis chapter analyses the blockchain implemented by Genuino in the collectibles industry. Since collectibles are subject to high risk of counterfeiting and fake
replications, blockchain technology can help substantially to ensure transparency, originality, ownership, and data security and protection. Two methods to use
blockchain in the industry seem to be the most widespread today: creating digital native collectibles on blockchain and transposing physical objects into the blockchain by creating digital twins. By using blockchain, new consumer clusters emerge, highlighting the need to modernize both the traditional economies and the current business models
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
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