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Tecnomodel Case
No full textTecnomodel originated in the early 1990’s when Daniele Scotucci and Daniela Funari were united in matrimony. They had varied career paths in the footwear industry, and now with their marriage and entrepreneurial passions integrated, they decided to form a new company that included their technical and creative skills. They set about starting a successful entrepreneurial venture by deconstructing and revising the process of designing and manufacturing high-end shoes in Italy. Tecnomodel, a high-end service company, occupies a well-defined
competitive position in the value chain of the high-value footwear industry. Technomodel offers a one-stop-shop for capturing the creative muses of famous designers. The organisation converts the idea/design into computer sketches that are then translated into operational manufacturing steps with estimated development costs and raw material requirements, and finally developed into a prototype that can be seen, touched and worn. All of this is operational within a fraction of time in which other firms function under the traditional process. “From the idea inception to the project process, to a functional prototype”, this is the simple, but powerful, logic of the service provided by the company. The process begins with the transfer of a shoe sketch into a CAD/CAM application, and then produces a prototype alongside a detailed digital user manual containing all the relevant information regarding the details of producing the shoe on a large scale base. This innovation was a breakthrough in the traditional value chain of the shoe industry. The Tecnomodel business model allows the major brand designers to separate the engineering phase from the manufacturing activity, which gives these designers the opportunity to maintain high quality standards and to control
production costs. At the end of 2009, after a period of rapid growth, the entrepreneurs felt that if they wanted to further develop their business then they had to think about a new growth strategy. Three different options have been discussed: 1. To offer new services; 2. To enter new foreign markets; 3. To start an upward vertical integration process. Each of these options has their own trengths and weaknesses, and making a decision was becoming more complex. The entrepreneurs wanted to know, “which of these options could offer Tecnomodel the required opportunity to grow in the long-term?” Daniele wanted to make a choice as soon as possible. Daniela, however, was more cautious, she was not fully convinced about the opportunity to develop according to these three options
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
Drivers e barriere della servitization: uno studio esplorativo nel settore calzaturiero
No full textScopo dell’articolo è esplorare il fenomeno della servitization nel settore calzaturiero italiano, al fine di ampliare la conoscenza sulle variabili che possono favorirne o impedirne l’implementazione nelle relazioni business to business (B2B). Coerentemente con lo scopo esplorativo del lavoro quindi, è stato utilizzato un approccio qualitativo tramite interviste in profondità. Nonostante i limiti, dal confronto fra i risultati ottenuti e la letteratura sul tema emergono importanti implicazioni e alcune linee guida per la ricerca futura
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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