CICLO DI VITA DEL PRODOTTO E CULTURA DI IMPRESA

2014

Il presente lavoro evidenzia la importanza della componente culturale nella gestione del prodotto lungo l’arco della sua vita, soprattutto nelle ultime fasi. Particolare attenzione viene prestata alla cultura creativa ‐ come reazione al declino del prodotto ‐ e al conseguente orientamento al cambiamento organizzativo.

Pareto or log-normal? Best fit and truncation in the distribution of all cities

2015

In the literature, the distribution of city size is a controversial issue with two common contenders: the Pareto and the log-normal. While the first is most accredited when the distribution is truncated above a certain threshold, the latter is usually considered a better representation for the untruncated distribution of all cities. In this paper, we reassess the empirical evidence on the best-fitting distribution in relation to the truncation point issue. Specifically, we provide a comparison among four recently proposed approaches and alternative definitions of U.S. cities. Our results highlight the importance to look at issue of the best-fitting distribution together with the truncation …

Le relazioni tra le fasi della vita del prodotto e gli assetti strategici e strutturali delle imprese

2013

PARETO OR LOG-NORMAL? BEST FIT AND TRUNCATION IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF ALL CITIES*

2015

In the literature, the distribution of city size is a controversial issue with two common contenders: the Pareto and the log-normal. While the first is most accredited when the distribution is truncated above a certain threshold, the latter is usually considered a better representation for the untruncated distribution of all cities. In this paper, we reassess the empirical evidence on the best-fitting distribution in relation to the truncation point issue. Specifically, we provide a comparison among four recently proposed approaches and alternative definitions of U.S. cities. Our results highlight the importance to look at issue of the best-fitting distribution together with the truncation …

Pareto or log-normal? A recursive-truncation approach to the distribution of (all) cities

2012

Traditionally, it is assumed that the population size of cities in a country follows a Pareto distribution. This assumption is typically supported by finding evidence of Zipf's Law. Recent studies question this finding, highlighting that, while the Pareto distribution may fit reasonably well when the data is truncated at the upper tail, i.e. for the largest cities of a country, the log-normal distribution may apply when all cities are considered. Moreover, conclusions may be sensitive to the choice of a particular truncation threshold, a yet overlooked issue in the literature. In this paper, then, we reassess the city size distribution in relation to its sensitivity to the choice of truncat…