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Entrepreneurial capabilities in MNEs subsidiaries. The case of the dialysis industry
Get PDFThis contribution approaches Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) subsidiaries as unit of analysis and aims at identifying their potential entrepreneurial behavior. The study analyses the development of entrepreneurial capabilities, coupling the management of International activities and the responsiveness to local needs: The focus is on the evolution from a traditional industry perspective, where the boundaries among industries and players are well defined and where firms must develop new capabilities of global sourcing and coordination of activities and competences provided by a number of partners to deliver value to local customers. This contribution focuses on the dialysis industry, a global oligopolistic one challenged by national responsiveness and global integration needs. In Italy, evolution in this industry is leading the main producers of technology to offer the public healthcare system an integrated service of dialysis treatment, inclusive of technologies, disposables, fluids and even personnel and building facilities. The industry also permits these global players to develop customer problem-solving capabilities and new capabilities
From technology to service provision in medical treatments: the case of the dialysis industry
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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
Co-location and business specific issues in the internationalisation of SMEs. Their impact on the growth and on the international performance of born global firms
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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
Valori e benessere psicologico.
No full textI valori appaiono come elementi costitutivi dell'identità personale e dell'identità sociale, nei quali si riverberano le influenze reciproche tra individui, società e culture. Oggetto costante della riflessione etica e filosofica, essi costituiscono, in epoca moderna, un punto di incontro tra scienziati sociali di diversa provenienza disciplinare - sociologi, politologi, economismi e psicologi - che si confrontano anche sulle diverse teorizzazioni e classificazioni. Nata in ambito propriamente psicologico-sociale, la teoria dei valori di Schwartz - presentata nel primo capitolo di questo volume - gode di un ampio riconoscimento sul piano della ricerca scientifica internazionale. I valori secondo questo contributo, sarebbero rilevanti nel predire il benessere individuale, il quale risulterebbe associato soprattutto al perseguimento di valori relativi alla crescita personale più che ai valori relativi al soddisfacimento dei bisogni confermando i risultati presenti in numerose ricerche del settore. Valori afferenti alle dimensioni apertura al cambiamento e auto-trascendenza vengono associati al benessere più di quanto lo siano il potere, il conformismo e la sicurezza. I risultati concordano inoltre con numerose altre indagini dedicate agli effetti positivi esercitati dalla regolazione autonoma sul benessere individuale: regolare il comportamento sulla base di motivazioni intrinseche, piuttosto che su motivazioni controllate dall’esterno, determina livelli più soddisfacenti di benessere. D’ altra parte occorre anche sottolineare che l’indagine ha confermato quanto già dimostrato da numerosi altri studi, a proposito della prevalente influenza sul benessere individuale dei tratti personali rispetto ai valori; ciò farebbe pensare al fatto che i valori abbiano un rapporto meno diretto con il benessere e che tale rapporto si realizzi attraverso l’interazione con altre variabili psicologiche e sociali
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
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