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GLI ORIENTAMENTI DEL PERSONALE DI VENDITA E LE NUOVE PROSPETTIVE NELLA SALES AMBIDEXTERITY
No full textProduct Returns and Customer Value: A Footware Industry Case
No full textManaging the flow of product returns is increasingly recognized as a strategically important activity that spans different functions within and across firms, especially in terms of marketing and operations. We focus specifically on managing returns in the shoes industry. In order to explore the phenomenon of returns management, a qualitative research methodology was chosen to generate an in-depth analysis given the currently limited understanding of the present research topic. Our results suggest that returns management is recognized an increased role in inter-functional alignment and that this phenomenon is linked to different elements of the relationship valu
WOMEN’S BIRTHPLACE CHOICE
No full textThe present work intends to explore choice dynamics and outcomes related to birth and its health treatment. Although these types of issues are usually studied by medical literature, this works try to include a consumer behavior perspective over the topic. Particularly, this work’s aim is to explore pregnant women (and new mothers’) healthcare choice behavior. This work focuses on the process of mothers’ birthplace choice, taking into account the possible influencing factors. Although most of the healthcare information search and location choice is faced by medical literature, this works wants to address the same issue, which are in fact classic consumer behavior issues, providing new insight and multidisciplinary interest over this topic. In order to address this aim, the literature review was undergone following two different streams: firstly, mother care and childcare international literature was revised, to provide a general state of art, but also to foresee the emerging issues and the possible information sources which pregnant woman access to deal with those, secondly the literature studying the individual choice of the health treatment place/location within the consumer behavior literature. The value of this research is not only in providing a different perspective over mother care, including a consumer behavior side, studying the determinants of women’s decision process and their specific weight, implying also interaction with the social context (both digital and geographic), but also in enabling all stakeholders to be more aware of this. In particular, this allow implications in terms of institutions, policy makers, healthcare providers, healthcare financers, professionals and maternity care users involvement, who then would be able to consult a complete picture of the sentiment towards this theme, from the perspective of the key subjects, the number one stakeholder: pregnant women and new mothers
La localizzazione del sito web delle imprese italiane: i risultati di un'indagine empirica
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Forum Convegno SIM 2010 "Marketing & Sales oltre la crisi"
No full textForum Convegno SIM 2010 "Marketing & Sales oltre la crisi"
Titolo Rivista: MERCATI E COMPETITIVITÀ
Autori/Curatori: A cura di Silvio Cardinali
Anno di pubblicazione: 2011 Fascicolo: 2 Lingua: IT
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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
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