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Learning out of the box using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®/
Full text linkThe LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) methodology was born in the 1990s within the LEGO® Group to (re)-innovate managerial practices and has over time undergone significant development in various sectors including education, supported by constructivist learning theories. It affirms itself among the serious games due to the use of LEGO® bricks originally created for playful purposes, declined for the LSP methodology as an expressive, communication and collaboration tool, of co-construction and creative solution of real problems. In this essay we intend to present LSP as a methodology for learning "out of the box" within educational contexts aimed at adults, outlining its strengths and weaknesses, as well as outlining scenarios for future development
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
Open Source Intelligence: implicazioni psico-sociali
No full textL’Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) è la raccolta, validazione ed analisi di informazioni ai fini di intelligence, attingendo materiale da fonti aperte, ovvero accessibili o non classificate. Con il presente lavoro si vuole evidenziare la rilevanza di tale attività anche a fini sociali e di organizzazione aziendale, oltre che di sicurezza nazional
Managing Digital Transformation (Revisited): Some Reflections
No full textThe present chapter situates within the burgeoning debate about the role of innovation in societal progress, particularly on the intricate and multifaceted relationship between workers and technology led by the digitalization of work. The digital area involves revisiting work and employment with job sectors using technology as the means for work, businesses, and organizations realizing ventures through technology. Moreover, digitalization is not only reimagining how work is performed (e.g., remote work, augmentation, advanced automation, collaborative robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc.) but also leading to revisiting workers’ relationships with work, organizations, and society. The disparate aspects of the digitalization of work echo the imperative for reflections on its definitions and implications. In parallel with the revisitation of work and employment in the digital era, the chapter revisits the role of human resources management. It proposes a series of reflections on what it means and what it takes to manage digital transformation. It does so by assuming a human-centric perspective that emphasizes the centrality of humans (workers) in digital transformation. Firstly, the chapter argues that the role of human resources in change management is the nexus between workers and organizations. It then discusses the role of leaders in driving this revolution and the role of organizational culture as a means for supporting workplace transformation. It concludes by reflecting on talent acquisition and workers’ training and education as fundamental processes to develop the required skills in the workforce
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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