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The multidimensionality of Public Value in the Integrated Plan of Activities and Organization
Full text linkThe Italian government is undergoing a new wave of reforms, which are encouraged and
incentivized by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) under the Next
Generation EU program. One of the primary reforms introduced in the early stages of the
NRRP is the Integrated Plan of Activities and Organization (PIAO). This new planning tool is
designed to replace a list of function-specific planning documents introduced gradually
through previous reforms over the last few decades. One of the most innovative and futuristic
developments introduced by the PIAO is its aim to guide the government's administrative
actions toward creating public value. This paper examines how public value is understood and
how public administrations aim to maximize its maximization. The study uses a content
analysis approach of the sections within the different regions of the Italian state that discuss
the definition and methods of creating public value due to Nvivo 14 software.
The study analyzes the strategies adopted for creating public value through this analysis.
Additionally, the study reveals similarities and differences in the definitions and perceptions
of public value across the various Italian regions. Overall, the analysis will contribute to
implementing new planning tools
A new season for PPPs between strategy and sustainability perspective. A comparative analysis in the Italian Healthcare Sector
No full textThe different varieties and intensities of crises over the past decade have led to a renewed
vision of instruments for public intervention in collaboration with the private sector. The same
COVID-19 crisis has strained infrastructure projects globally, and in particular public-private
partnerships (PPPs), at all stages and in all sectors—with implications for governments, providers
of infrastructure assets and services, their financiers, and end-users. Over the years, public-private
partnership, with its various peculiarities, has become strategically important in areas where,
previously, only public companies/public agencies operated. In particular, several management
experiments aimed at introducing the use of special formulas of PPP in the management of public
health authorities. The purpose of this study is to examine the strategic aims of PPPs and its
viability in terms of sustainability.Case study methodology was chosen to achieve the objectives of
the study. The Azienda USL Toscana and the ASL Pedemontana were identified as the two selected
cases study. The main reasons for those choices are the subject of the survey, the operational
differences between the Tuscany region and the Veneto region and the methods of data collection.
The cases were developed through information collected by literature review; desk analysis of
documentation provided by corporate managements and private partners and by conducting semi-
structured interviews with actors involved in decision-making processes.
Interviews were conducted with the Project Manager (the RUP of ASL Pedemontana and the
Director of S.I.O.R Department of Azienda USL Toscana) of the public health authorities. In the
private sector, both Chief operating officers were interviewed as project financing coordinators. A
STEFANIA SIMONI
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Department of Management
University of Venice
SALVATORE RUSSO
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Department of Management
University of Venice
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qualitative approach was used to analyze the interviews. In fact, through coding, respondents' views
were highlighted. Finally, two evidences tree were constructed and the collected data were
compared in order both to identify diffent practices and to archive a shared understanding of the
phenomenon.
The analysis of the project revealed very different management models. The current analysis has
identified the main key problems of project financing: information asymmetry, the inadequacy of
certain skills and difficulties in risk allocation. Through our analysis, we were also able to identify
strategic choices for achieving better social, economic and financial outcomes.
The evidences collected will make it possible to make more effective and efficient choices in the
development of future projects between private actors and public institutions
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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