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Il ruolo del capitale intellettuale nel successo delle strategie di merger & acquisition delle start-up
Full text linkThe article proposes a case study of a Merger and Acquisition (M&A) processes in Italy between a temporary agency and an innovative start-up. The aim of the study is to investigate which component of the intellectual capital affects the trust of the companies involved in the M&A process. Results show the key role of trust in start-up’s human capital for the integration of the innovative service into the acquiring company. We suggest that the success of the M&A is given by our model named “circular vision of intellectual capital”
Social Incubators and Accelerators for Migrant Entrepreneurs: Exploratory Insights From Italy
No full textWhile the literature about entrepreneurial ecosystems has burgeoned, scholars have started to critically examine their inclusiveness in terms of equitable access to resources, networks, and related power for diverse entrepreneurs. In this regard, migrant entrepreneurs represent a category that, far from being homogeneous, deserves attention due to the pervasive racialized patterns in entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial support organizations are important pillars that can foster equal and inclusive entrepreneurship practices. This chapter provides evidence about how two neglected types of support organizations, namely social incubators and accelerators, support migrant entrepreneurs. The analysis of explorative data, collected through semi-structured interviews with specialists from one social incubator and one social accelerator in Italy, highlights the pivotal role of governance and organizational structures, targeting and selection processes, and services provided. The chapter provides several insights that contribute to the literature on entrepreneurial support organizations, along with practical recommendations
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
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
How do entrepreneurial pre-incubation programs work?
Full text linkOver the past decade, pre-incubation programs have received increasing attention from scholars in entrepreneurship. Despite the great attention and interest from scholars, policy makers, and aspiring entrepreneurs, however, there remains a need to understand how entrepreneurial pre-incubation programs work. This thesis aims to shed light on the role of pre-incubation programs in guiding aspiring entrepreneurs in transforming their business ideas into new ventures. To achieve this, it provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge on entrepreneurship teaching and learning in pre-incubation programs. Then, it analyses whether career preferences of early-career academics drive their entrepreneurial learning in pre-incubation programs. Finally, it estimates the effect of entrepreneurship education treatment on subsequent business creation. The thesis contributes to several strands of literature. First, it contributes to the literature on entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial ecosystem. Second, it enriches the literature on entrepreneurial learning in pre-incubation programs. Third, it contributes more broadly to the literature on the whether and how pre-incubation programs work. Finally, it provides implications for policy makers, managers, and entrepreneurs. To do so, the research uses primary and secondary data collected from Start Cup Emilia-Romagna, a pre-incubation programs in Italy. The data were analyzed using qualitative and quantitative methods
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