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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
No full textUniversity of Vaas
La sociologia in dialogo con l’approccio relazionale simbolico negli studi sulla generatività della famiglia
No full textLa generatività rappresenta uno dei concetti più rilevanti nella riflessione
di Eugenia Scabini e una delle principali tematiche rispetto alle quali
è possibile un’analisi interdisciplinare: il concetto di generatività infatti
compare anche nei lavori dei sociologi del Centro di Ateneo Studi e
Ricerche sulla Famiglia dell’Università Cattolica che si riconoscono nella
prospettiva sociologica relazionale, che condivide alcuni presupposti
dell’approccio relazionale-simbolico in psicologia.
Questo contributo costituisce il tentativo di mettere in dialogo i risultati
della nostra ricerca, in ambito familiare, con il pensiero di Eugenia
Scabini, rispetto al tema della generatività
Parent-adolescent communication in foster, intercountry adoptive and biological Italian families: gender and generational differences.
No full textThere is a paucity of studies aiming at comparing how parents and children in different family structures cope with the challenges settled down by the adolescence transition; in particular, there are few studies aimed at comparing adoptive and foster families. In order to partially fill this gap, the principal aims of the present study were to verify whether there are differences in parent-child communication among foster, intercountry adoptive and biological families according to the adolescents¿ gender and to compare the perceptions of parents and adolescents concerning parent-child communication.
Data were elaborated on two levels: a generational level (adolescent¿s and his/her parents¿ perceptions among the three family groups) and a dyadic level (mother-child and father-child perceptions).
The sample was composed of 276 Italian families with adolescents aged between 11 and 17 (81 foster, 98 international adoptive and 97 biological families). Subjects (mothers, fathers and children) filled out a questionnaire including the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale (Barnes and Olson, 1985).
Results highlighted that in foster families parent-child communication showed more difficulties both from the adolescent¿s point of view and from the parents¿ one. Whereas adoptive adolescents assessed a more positive communication with both their parents than their peers living in biological and foster families did.
At a dyadic level, some differences emerged among the three groups. In biological families, a more pronounced distance emerged between parents and children. In adoptive families, father and adolescent share more similar perceptions, whereas it emerged a significant discrepancy between mother and child. A higher level of perceptual congruence between adolescents and parents was found in foster families. Gender differences also turned up: mothers experienced a more open communication with their children than fathers did, and adolescents and above all females communicated better with their mothers than with their fathers in all three family groups
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
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