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Key antecedents and consequences of blockchain technology adoption in the wine industry: a multiple case study analysis
No full textPurposeThe present study aims to identify the antecedents and consequences of blockchain adoption in the wine industry from the absorptive capacity perspective through a multiple case study approach.Design/methodology/approachA multiple case study approach was utilized, wherein data was gathered through semi-structured interviews and secondary sources of information from the five Italian innovative wineries.FindingsThe results show that the dynamic capabilities of wineries and the creation of strategic partnerships are common conditions for the adoption of blockchain technology (BCT). In addition, findings reveal that creating value for all supply chain stakeholders and preventing counterfeit products are the most important consequences of BCT adoption.Research limitations/implicationsThis study fills a gap in the literature by investigating the drivers of BCT technology adoption under two theoretical lenses, Absorptive capacity and Dynamic capability theories, confirming the usefulness of these two theories in explaining the process of innovation adoption.Originality/valueThe originality of our research study lies in its investigation of the antecedents and consequences of BCT adoption in the wine supply chain, focusing specifically on the role of dynamic capabilities, knowledge acquisition and assimilation, strategic partnerships and open interactions with external actors in driving technological innovation and the successful implementation of BCT in the wine industry. By offering empirical data on the drivers and impacts of BCT adoption, as well as theoretical implications for technological innovation and value creation in the wine sector, our study contributes to filling gaps in the existing literature and provides practical insights for wineries and AgTechs seeking to integrate BCT into their business models
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
Developing an Innovative Blockchain-based Model to Contribute to the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Italy
Get PDF2020 - 2021One of the most crucial collective efforts in history for improving the lives of billions of people is Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). The aim of the seventeen (SDGs) s included in the 2030 agenda represents the global
action plan of the United Nations to eradicate poverty, protect the planet, and make certain prosperity for all. Although
it has been five years since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, the assessment of the implementation of the SDGs in
Italy demonstrates that, overall, Italian cities have achieved 53% of the implementation of the SDGs from 100 percent
full achievement. In many situations, the investigation verifies the gap between the country's north and south. Given
that the use of the transformational power of blockchain to achieve the SDGs looks promising, the goal of this study
is to explore how blockchain may improve the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Italy. In this regard, we proposed
an innovative Ethereum Blockchain platform for improved implementation of the SDGs. The framework of the
platform includes three basic modules (data module, sustainability module, and governance module) derived from the
novel ICT framework to implement the 2030 Agenda by Kostoska and Kocarev in 2019. Based on the layers of the
Saunders research onion (Saunders et al., 2009), the type of researcher's view in this research is the interpretive view
of phenomena. In this research, a qualitative approach and the strategy of the systematic literature review and thematic
analysis have been adopted. For collecting and analyzing research data, the semi-structured interview method has been
used. The statistical population of this research is in the stage of systematic literature review, studies from 2015 to
2020 in the field of blockchain and its applications according to the seven stages of a systematic review of Scaringella
& Radziwon (2018), and in the field of content analysis, the statistical community consists of experts and university
professors, and administrators who have a background of study or implementation in the field of understanding
blockchain theories and models and their applications, especially in the field of sustainability. In the thematic analysis
stage, relying on the purposeful snowball sampling method, finally, eight of the mentioned experts have been selected
and interviewed. After studying the reviewed articles, first, all the applications of blockchain obtained in the articles
have been extracted according to the three modules of data, governance, and sustainability by textual content analysis
method and relying on the researcher's knowledge of the mentioned applications. In this research, the six-step method
of Braun & Clarke (2006) has been used for the thematic analysis method, and after extracting the basic, organizer,
and global themes from the interviews the thematic network has been drawn, and the results from the thematic analysis
have been Integrated with the systematic literature review results. The final set of the blockchain use cases proposed
in this research for the improved implementation of the three modules (data, sustainability, and governance) could be
written in Solidity language on the Ethereum blockchain. and in accordance with the development challenges in the
Italian cities to be customized and implemented through smart contracts. The originality of the dissertation consists
of developing an innovative Ethereum blockchain platform to adopt the potential of blockchain technology to
implement the 2030 Agenda considering existing discussions in governance science, sustainability science, and data
science. Consequentially, due to its comprehensive and structured nature, superior to existing approaches. The
dissertation findings offer insights to the policymakers and authorities at the regional and national levels on how to
implement the 2030 Agenda through blockchain-based innovative solutions in Italy to reduce territorial inequalities
between places in Italy. and provides support knowledge to define Italy's sustainable development strategy towards
achieving the 2030 Agenda in Italy. [edited by Author]XXXIV cicl
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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