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The impact of sustainability orientation on firm propensity to ally
No full textPurpose of the paper: The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of firm sustainability orientation, defined as the overall proactive strategic stance of firms toward the integration of environmental and social concerns and practices into their strategic and operational activities, on its propensity of making alliances.
Methodology: We validate our arguments using panel data on 10.509 unique firm-year observations over the period 2003-2017.
Findings: We find support for our baseline hypothesis: sustainability orientation has a positive impact on alliance formation. Additionally, we find that the hypothesized relationship is stronger for firms with lower expected value creation and for those that operate in opaque contexts.
Research limits: Our work represents an initial attempt to investigate the role of firm sustainability orientation in explaining firm alliance propensity. In so doing, we adopted a firm level perspective assuming alliance counterparts to be homogeneous, which represents the main limitation of this study. Other limitations, as well as topics for future research are discussed in the last section.
Practical implications: Our arguments and findings emphasize the critical role played by the way in which the firm manages the network of relationships in which it is embedded, in addition to the considerations about the type of relationship a firm owns that have been widely analysed. In particular, our study contributes to obtain a deeper understanding of the benefits of a stakeholder-oriented approach, which remains fundamental to encourage managers to adopt stakeholder theory practices in their behaviour.
Originality of the paper: To the best of our knowledge, this study represents the first attempt to study the relationship between firm sustainability orientation and its alliance propensity
The Impact of stakeholder orientation on innovation: An empirical investigation on firm patenting activity
Full text linkFraming of the research. The paper provides novel insights on how firms can boost
innovation output by developing a corporatewide orientation towards stakeholders. It
investigates the patenting activities of a sample of U.S. firms using a panel dataset.
Purpose of the paper. The aim of the paper is to analyze the effect of firm
stakeholder orientation, defined as the adoption of policies and management processes
to identify, understand, and integrate the interest of stakeholders in firms’ decision
making, on innovation output.
Methodology. We validate our hypotheses using a panel dataset of 5.608 unique
firm-year observation on firms’ patenting activity over the period 2002-2012.
Results. We find support for our baseline hypothesis on the positive impact of
increasing degrees of stakeholder orientation on the quantity of firms’ innovation
output. Moreover, the degree of stakeholder orientation has a positive impact on
innovation radicalness and originality, will decreasing the level of innovation
generality.
Research limitations. Our work contributes to an emerging debate on the
innovation potential of stakeholder orientation. It is based on a direct measure of
stakeholder orientation and, based on its methodology, it is not possible to exclude
biases related to unobservable managerial preferences. Moreover, we use patents as a
proxy for innovation output being aware of its limitation.
Managerial implications. Our results suggest the importance of nurturing
stakeholder relations to foster knowledge exchange and reciprocal learning, which are
crucial for firms’ innovativeness. Moreover, our study highlights the importance of
stakeholder orientation in the pursuit of radical and original technological trajectories.
Originality of the paper. Studies on the innovation impact of stakeholder
orientation are still limited and mostly focused on exogenous determinants in
limited timeframe. Our study introduces the degree of stakeholder orientation as a
key construct to predict innovation that accounts for heterogeneity across firms and
stakeholder categories
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
Impact orientation and venture capital financing: The interplay of governmental, social impact and traditional venture capital
Full text linkIn addition to traditional venture capital (VC), governmental VC and social impact VC investors have emerged as alternatives to fund entrepreneurial ventures, especially start-ups that incor- porate social and/or environmental objectives into commercial operations. Using a sample of 15,510 VC-backed start-ups, we show that impact-oriented ventures are more likely to receive funding from alternative VCs. Both social and environmental orientations increase the chances that a start-up secures funding from impact VCs while social orientation drives results for gov- ernment VCs. Importantly, we also show that impact-oriented ventures are more likely to secure investment from traditional VCs when impact and governmental VCs co-invest
Impaired heteronymous somatosensory motor cortical inhibition in dystonia
No full textA typical pathophysiological abnormality in dystonia is cocontraction of antagonist muscles, with impaired reciprocal inhibitory mechanisms in the spinal cord. Recent experimental data have shown that inhibitory interactions between antagonist muscles have also a parallel control at the level of the sensorimotor cortex. The aim of this work was to study heteronymous effects of a median nerve stimulus on the corticospinal projections to forearm muscles in dystonia. We used the technique of antagonist cortical inhibition, which assesses the conditioning effect of median nerve afferent input on motor evoked potentials (MEPs) elicited by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in ipsilateral forearm extensor muscles at rest. Nine healthy subjects and 10 patients with torsion dystonia participated in the study. MEPs and somatosensory evoked potentials were normal in patients. In healthy subjects, median nerve stimulation at 15- to 18-msec intervals inhibited the test MEPs in forearm extensors. In dystonic patients, median nerve stimulation delivered at the same conditioning-test intervals elicited significantly less inhibition of the test MEP. On the whole, these data suggest an impaired sensory-motor integration in dystonia and, more specifically, the decreased antagonistic cortical inhibition could suggest that functional interactions between antagonist muscles are primarily impaired at the cortical level. (C) 2003 Movement Disorder Society
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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