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Digital Humanities and e-commerce: considerations on digital monographs
No full textHumanities, Commerce and Monographs are three terms that have been existing since a very long time. Nowadays, all of them are often conceived in a digital way that implies a radical change of paradigm in their main features. The aim of the article is to investigate the possibility of interaction between digital humanities and e-commerce, by their application to the genre of digital monographs. For digital monograph we mean born-digital, long-form, media-rich, scholarly publications, that reject the print-based form (and so the e-book format) and take advantage of the methods and tools of digital humanities. In particular, they re-think the traditional textuality of the essays that becomes “liquid” and multimodal. Because of publishing, obsolescence, discoverability, use, evaluation, etc. these products have to be hosted on a publishing platform that is suitable for the scholarly needs both of the authors and of the final users. The link with e-commerce arises from the need of the publishers of selling the research outputs, especially in countries where the academic publishing system is not based on University Presses but on commercial ones. The study wants to reflect on how the logic of profit and the cultural logic can coexist in a digital publishing platform: is it possible to overcome the «monograph crisis»? What are the major problems about selling an academic monograph? What business models could be the most suitable for this kind of publications? In what way can a publisher improve customer loyalty? The thesis of the article is that the digital enhancement of the monograph plays a key role in the sale. The opportunities offered by the digital humanities, in fact, are not only a matter of format; they are, indeed, what makes the substantial difference in the quality of the scientific communication. They make the authors and the publishers able to offer the consumer something that neither the print version, nor the e-book can do. First of all, a digital monograph allows a direct link with primary and secondary sources; secondly, it supports different layers of fruition and a larger accessibility. Moreover, it gives, both the author and the reader, the possibility to better represent and understand the complexity of the research work and of the methods and tools that are used. On the other hand, the article considers the infrastructure for producing and hosting these products and its importance in the development of a cultural community based on scholarly value creation. It’s only setting this goals that a digital publishing project could realize the ambition of selling his products and so make the project sustainable. After discussing these aspects, the article postulates a possible functioning business model of subscription based on the concept ofcultural engagement. The conclusions concern the requirement of an editorial workflow that links together all the phases, from the author’s composition work to the reader’s purchase method
The distortionary effects of tariff exemptions in Argentina
No full textTariff exemptions for exporters are widely used by many countries as aninstrument for providing export incentives. This author argues that when tariff exemptions are granted as a means of industrial regional promotion to an industry independently of its export performance, the tariff exemptions lose their potential as an export promotion instrument. The case of Argentina is of interest because it exemplifies the practice of many developing countries. A simple model is used to show that the indiscriminate use of duty exemptions has several undesirable effects : 1) duty exemptions deprive the government of revenues; 2) the more widespread the exemption, the less effective they become as an instrument for export promotion; 3) exemptions widen the variability of effective protection rates of industries in relation to their capital intensity; and 4) exemptions increase the demand for imports more than an export subsidy does, because output in the competing input industry contracts.Environmental Economics&Policies,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Economic Theory&Research,Consumption,Export Competitiveness
Post trade liberalization policy and institutional challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean
No full textArgentina, Chile, Colombia, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay undertook extensive trade reform at a time of crisis, at which time institutional reform was difficult to undertake. Many of the countries had become members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in the late 1980s and anticipated institutional reform. Only later did they reform trade policymaking institutions to bring them somewhat in line with trade policy regimes and GATT rules. These countries have all used reference prices and antidumping provisions of GATT, rather than safeguards, to provide relief from import surges. They have all tried to centralize trade policy by moving it from different agencies into a single agency. Despite liberalization, some sectors -- including automobiles, textiles and agriculture -- remain protected. Lessons the author draws from experience in these coutries: 1) the deteriorating macroeconomic situations are the main challenge to maintaining open trade policy; 2) trade policymaking must be constantly reviewed to prevent reversals, and the costs of protection must be communicated to the public at large; 3) There must be short-run measures to help domestic activities adjust to short-run price movements and alleviate pressure for protection. The danger -- such measures (unrelated to long-run price trends) can become permanent. 4) external commitments (through WTO or customs unions) can be used to discourage a return to protection; 5) extending reform (to labor and capital markets and the regulatory framework) will help maintain and extend trade liberalization. Allowing factors of production to move smoothly from one activity to another could help prevent the buildup of pressures that lead to protection; 6) an institution to consider exceptional protection should be advisory (independent of day-to-day trade policymaking), so that it works steadily, free from administrative pressures and exigencies. Requests for protection must be handled openly and transparently, with the findings subject to public scrutiny. Procedures for granting relief through safeguards and similar mechanisms must reflect all interests, including those of consumers, exporters, and users of the product; and 7) the analysis to establish injury must conform to high technical standards. The criteria to consider trade policies must reflect national interests, not those of any particular sector.Economic Theory&Research,Common Carriers Industry,Trade Policy,Environmental Economics&Policies,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Economic Theory&Research,Trade Policy,Environmental Economics&Policies,Transport and Trade Logistics
Transaktioiden automatisointi: Toimittajien valinta verkkointegraatioprojekteihin
No full textThe focal company’s sourcing division wants to find and select the most suitable suppliers for business-to-business integration (B2Bi) projects where the supplier enterprise resource planning (ERP) system will be linked to their own ERP back-end through SAP Business Network digital sourcing ecosystem (DSE) platform to increase transaction automation. The challenge comes from finding the most optimal 10% out of a pool of 376 direct material suppliers for doing so and then prioritizing them in an appropriate manner. Because B2Bi projects take vast amount of time, money and resources, the suppliers selected should satisfy multiple criteria to be considered worthy. The study aims to find the prerequisites and criteria that make a supplier suitable and pinpoint challenges that may arise from mutual process alignment efforts. For doing so, a benefit-to-effort two-times-two matrix is constructed and suppliers compared against it to see which enablement strategy would work the best for them.
The study helps the focal company in devising an ideal supplier selection process and timetable for the upcoming integration projects and works as a prediction tool on what is to come per individual supplier. Limited research seems to have explored supplier selection process, criteria or best practices for integration timeline optimization. Even though the study comes with refined scope and limitations, the main contribution is the method in which supplier selection logic can be built through multiple criteria-setting and input gathering to mitigate risks and to identify the essential resources and knowledge necessary for successfully completing strategic projects.Tutkitun yrityksen hankintaosasto haluaa löytää ja valita sopivimmat toimittajat liiketoimintojen v alisille integraatioprojekteille (B2Bi), joissa toimittajan toiminnanohjausjärjestelmä (ERP) liitetään yrityksen oman ERP:n takajärjestelmään SAP Business Network digitaalisen hankintaekosysteemin (DSE) alustan kautta.
Haasteena on löytää optimaalisimmat 10% 376:n suoran materiaalitoimittajan joukosta tähän tarkoitukseen ja priorisoida heidät asianmukaisella tavalla. Koska B2Bi-projektit vaativat suuren määrän aikaa, rahaa ja resursseja, valittujen toimittajien tulee täyttää useita kriteerejä tullakseen harkituiksi.
Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on löytää ne edellytykset ja kriteerit, jotka tekevät toimittajasta sopivan, sekä tunnistaa haasteet, jotka voivat syntyä yhteisten prosessien linjaamiseksi. Tätä varten luodaan hyöty vs. vaiva kaksi-kertaa-kaksi -matriisi toimittajien vertailemiseksi, jotta voidaan selvittää, mikä aktivointistrategia toimii heille parhaiten. Tutkimus auttaa kyseistä yritystä laatimaan ihanteellisen toimittajan valintaprosessin ja aikataulun tuleville integraatioprojekteille ja toimii ennustetyökaluna yksittäisten toimittajien projektien kulun arvioinnissa. Aikaisemmin on rajoitetusti tutkittu toimittajan valintaprosessia, kriteereitä tai parhaita käytäntöjä integraation aikataulun optimoinnissa, jolloin tutkimus tuo rikastetun näkökulman rajatussa ympäristössä. Sen keskeisin panos on menetelmä, jonka avulla toimittajan valintalogiikkaa voidaan rakentaa useiden kriteerien ja tietojenkeruun kautta riskien vähentämiseksi sekä välttämättömien resurssien ja tietämyksen tunnistamiseksi onnistuneen strategisen projektin toteuttamiseksi
Comunitarismo y Derechos Colectivos
No full textWorking Paper N° 22The author distinguishes metaphysical from practical communitarianism, and within the latter he sorts out three different varieties, viz value-, ethical, and techno-legal outlooks. Metaphysical communitarianism is alleged to involve a concealed ideological element, which leads its adherents to stereotypes when trying to capture the essence of the modem self. He goes on to examine possible foundations for the claim that minorities, or other ethnic and cultural groups have collective rights, either moral or legal in nature. Kymlicka' s attempt to vindicate collective rights on liberal Dworkinian foundations is shown to be inimical to the communitarian construal of such rights. Spector tries to uncover a diversity of flaws in the practical communitarian justifications of moral and legal collective rights, and claims that rights are essentially linked to the exercise of rationality, particularly of second-order evaluative capacities. In the end, practical communitarians' case for collective rights needs - he claims -, if it is to maintain the connection between rights and rationality, embracing meta-normative and normative relativism, whose application to political action is argued to yield consequences at odds with widespread ethical intuitions.Este Documento forma parte de la serie Working Papers (ISSN 0327-9588), publicada por la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella entre 1993 y 200
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Law and Literature.
No full textMaría José Falcón y Tella invites us on a fascinating journey through the world of law and literature, travelling through the different eras and exploring eternal and as such current issues such as justice, power, resistance, vengeance, rights, and duties. This is an unending conversation, which brings us back to Sophocles and Dickens, Cervantes and Kafka, Dostoyevsky and Melville, among many others. There are many ways to approach the concept of "Law and Literature". In the classical manner, the author distinguishes three paths: the Law of Literature, involving a technical approach to the literary theme; Law as Literature, a hermeneutical and rhetorical approach to examining legal texts; and finally, Law in Literature, which is undoubtedly the most fertile and documented perspective (the fundamental part of the work focusses on this direction). This timely volume offers an introduction to this enormous field of study, which was born in the United States over a century ago and is currently taking root in the European continent
Between continuity and change in the institutionalization of social sciences : the Torcuato Di Tella Institute and the Corporation of Economic Research for Latin America
No full textEn este trabajo se analiza la trayectoria institucional de dos organizaciones de investigación en ciencias sociales: la Corporación de Investigaciones Económicas para Latinoamérica ( CIEPLAN ), de Chile, y el Instituto Torcuato Di Tella ( ITDT ), de la Argentina. La primera sección de este trabajo hace una revisión de la trayectoria histórica del ITDT , procurando identificar sus momentos más significativos, los hitos de su desarrollo y los atributos organizacionales básicos. La segunda hace lo propio con el CIEPLAN . La tercera parte consiste en un análisis conjunto cuya intención es presentar algunas reflexiones sobre el proceso de institucionalización de ciencias sociales alimentadas por la experiencia de los dos casos estudiados. A modo de conclusión, se presentan algunas reflexiones sobre los aprendizajes acumulados y sobre las consecuencias para la formulación de políticas de apoyo a estas organizaciones.In this work, the author analyzes the institutional record of two organizations devoted to social sciences research: Chiles’s Corporation of Economic Research for Latin America (CIEPLAN) and Argentina’s Torcuato Di Tella Institute (ITDT). The first part revises the historical path followed by ITDT, trying to identify its most significant moments, the milestones in its development and basic organizational attributes. The second part introduces a similar study regarding CIEPLAN . The third part consists of an overall analysis aimed at offering some reflections upon the process of institutionalization of social sciences nourished by the experience of both cases studied. Finally, the author introduces some thoughts concerning the knowledge accumulated and its impact over the making of policies supporting these organizations
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