1,720,962 research outputs found
Strategic Awareness and Growth Strategies in Small Enterprises
No full textThis paper is based on an empirical study, founded on the case-study method, carried out on 49 SMEs localized in the Pesaro-Urbino province seeking to analyze the entrepreneurs’ perception about their own competitive position and the main actual or future strategies defined in order to defend or strengthen it.
Starting from theoretical studies and empirical evidences, the paper focuses on three aspects.
Firts, it analyzes the strategic awareness degree of local entrepreneurs about exogenous threats and opportunities and endogenous strengths and weaknesses.
Local SMEs have different degree of actual (“where the company is”) and perspective (“where the company might go”) awareness. Entrepreneurs are often unable to identify the resources and capabilities where their competitive advantage is based on and sometimes they undervalue their strengths being more aware of their weaknesses. Local entrepreneurs are also lacking in analyzing and recognising threats, opportunities and successful factors of the competitive environment where they live.
Then, the paper examines the actual or future strategic policies planned or predicted by entrepreneurs to defend or strengthen their competitive position, focusing on cooperation and internationalization strategies.
The companies studied have several alternatives of qualitative and quantitative growth to an horizon. The paper focuses on the main difficulties which hinder SMEs in achieving their strategic plans, above all on international markets.
Finally, the paper discusses some implications for local institutions who seek to assist the competitive growth of local SMEs. Implications are draw in terms of information, training, relationship management, services offering and finance
Il ruolo della consapevolezza strategica nei processi di crescita delle PMI. Riflessioni teoriche ed evidenze empiriche
No full textIl paper analizza il tema della consapevolezza strategica e la sua relazione con i percorsi di crescita delle PMI.
Dalla ricerca empirica, realizzata su 49 PMI della provincia di Pesaro-Urbino, emerge che gli imprenditori locali mostrano una forte propensione alla crescita, sia di tipo qualitativo che quantitativo, sintetizzabile in tre principali tipologie di percorsi: crescita tramite internazionalizzazione, crescita esterna basata sulle alleanze strategiche e crescita basata sull’innovazione intesa in senso ampio. L’indagine evidenzia la scarsa capacità degli imprenditori locali di valutare la situazione aziendale interna ed esterna al fine di selezionare le opzioni strategiche e di identificare gli interventi attuativi, il tutto penalizzando l’implementazione dei progetti strategici deliberati e/o emergenti ed i processi di crescita.
Il paper si conclude con alcune proposte di intervento tese ad aiutare i piccoli imprenditori ad incrementare il proprio grado di consapevolezza strategica, nella prospettiva del Knowledge Management
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
The Sustainable Management of Museums: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence from Marche Region
No full textThe theme of sustainability in museum management is still underdeveloped in the international literature, despite the potential benefits for all subjects involved (museums, local people, customers, etc.).
Considering this gap and the distinctive features of Italian museums, the objective of this study is twofold. Firstly, to provide a conceptual model applying the principles of sustainable development to the enhancement of cultural heritage and, secondly, to analyze the case of Marche Region. The research aims both at analysing strengths and weaknesses of Regional Museum System and measuring museums’ sustainability orientation.
After analysing the three dimensions of sustainability – environmental, social and economic – and their possible application to museum management, the research presents a quali-quantitative survey organised in two steps: 1) the analysis of Marche Region’s laws and planning documents; 2) the submission of a structured questionnaire to 61 museums.
The survey shows a full awareness of the benefits of sustainable management by museums analyzed. However, the lack of a managerial approach to the government of museums compromises their ability to transfer this orientation in the operational policies. In this sense, the Region has a role of key-player, defining a model of governance based on cross-sector and aimed at overcoming the structural constraints of museums, in order to ensure their survival and their contribution to the sustainable development of tourist local system
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
- …
