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Technology brands in the digitally-based and network economy. Setting the background
PublicationThis chapter defines and draws a general picture on Digital Technologies and Technology Brands’ meaning in the current economy. It contextualises the role and channels of digital technology’s impact on their shaping technology brands in network economy. It briefly explains why digital, innovative technologies constitute a perfect background and environment for technology brands of global scope. It discusses the place of technology...
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Individual Characteristics and Cognitions of Students with Different Levels of Entrepreneurial Intensity
PublicationRESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The objective of the current paper is to verify in what way university students who declare high individual level of entrepreneurial intensity differ from those who are characterized by its intensity level. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: A statistical analysis of obtained survey results was conducted. The group of research participants included 413 business students. Following statistical methods were used...
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L'industria e la Storia. La lezione di Giorgio Mori
PublicationThe wide contribution of Giorgio Mori for a better understanding of the long-term historical relationships between history and industry is the focus of this chapter. By analysing the long list of books and articles written all along his scientific and academic life it is possible to trace a sort of fil rouge that permits to appreciate the huge effort made by this scholar in offering a fresh and never banal interpretation of the...
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CEE Trade in Services: Value-Added Versus Gross Terms Approaches
PublicationThis article assesses the impact of the determinants of service exports in both value-added terms and gross terms for seven Central Eastern European economies in 1995–2011. The results confirm the importance of increasing labor productivity and highly skilled and medium-skilled workers in the growth of trade in services. Exports of services are also supported by linkages between domestic services, especially business services,...
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Ciągłe doskonalenie w zarządzaniu ciągłością działania
PublicationPrzedsiębiorstwa chcąc osiągnąć przewagę konkurencyjną poszukują nowych sposobów wyróżnienia się na rynku. Starają się doskonalić swoje procesy i zapewnić im ciągłość. Oznacza to, że powinny one zarządzać ciągłością działania. Jednak samo utrzymanie ciągłości działania nie wystarczy, aby móc sprawnie funkcjonować na dynamicznie zmieniającym się rynku. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie powiązań pomiędzy ciągłym doskonaleniem oraz...
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Approaching Secure Industrial Control Systems
PublicationThis study presents a systematic approach to secure industrial control systems based on establishing a business case followed by the development of a security programme. To support these two fundamental activities the authors propose a new method for security cost estimation and a security assessment scheme. In this study they explain the cost evaluation technique and illustrate with a case study concerning the assessment of the...
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Multidisciplinary Open System Transferring Knowledge for R2B Development
PublicationDespite many efforts, there is still a serious problem in transferring knowledge from research to business. The problem is especially visible in Poland – the cooperation of R2B is ineffective. We are trying to solve this problem using some IT support. The manuscript presents some solutions developed at the Gdańsk University of Technology. In particular, the platform called “MOST Knowledge” is deeply described. Its layer architecture,...
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Corporate social responsibility and project management: towards a better understanding of their relationship
PublicationThe main purpose of this article is to identify the fields of convergence, if any, between two management concepts and business practices, namely Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Project Management (PM). To achieve the formulated goal, a systematic literature review (SLR), including bibliometric analysis, LOESS regression analysis, and text mining, was performed. This analysis allowed us to distinguish five categories...
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Addressing the Weaknesses of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods using Python
PublicationThe book aims to draw attention to the weaknesses in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methods and provide insights to improve the decision-making process. By addressing these weaknesses, it seeks to enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of MCDM methods in selecting the best alternatives in various fields. The book covers popular MCDM methods such as TOPSIS, ELECTRE, VIKOR, and PROMETHEE. It compares traditional methods with...
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CSR in Polish SMEs: From Perception to Love: Examples of Socially Engaged Firms from Pomeranian Region
PublicationNotwithstanding the worldwide increasing awareness of the importance of social issues in nowadays business management, Polish small and medium enterprises seem to remain in the group of followers, certainly not leaders of corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement, and this despite an important dissemination efforts by numerous institutions. The aim of this paper is to present the bumpy road to the implementation, still incomplete,...
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The Attitude of Polish Entrepreneurs to the Fact of Staging the Mega Sport Event - the Case of Pomeranian SMEs Towards Euro 2012
PublicationIn the course of preparations to the 2012 European Football Championship (Euro 2012) many doubts have arisen as to the actual cost-benefit balance affecting the hosting country. The event is accompanied by intense promotion of the agglomeration and the region, especially abroad. In effect, one can anticipate the competitive position of both the region and the businesses operating there to improve. The investigation whether the...
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The Pomerania Design Faktory as an Example of 50+ Entrepreneurship Promotion
PublicationThe article presents one of the programmes carried out by The Gdańsk Entrepreneurs' Foundation and The Gdansk Labor Office in 2013/14, dedicated to seniors. It is a great example of an innovative project aimed at the activation of individuals aged 50+ by using their own talents and interests in business. It also shows the results of intergenerational cooperation because the trainers — especially the designers — were much younger...
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MODELE TRANSFERU BIZNESU DOSTOSOWANE DO POTRZEB FIRM RODZINNYCH Z SEKTORA MSP W REGIONIE MORZA BAŁTYCKIEGO – CELE I ZADANIA W PROJEKCIE INBETS BSR
PublicationOpisano kontekst i cele projektu Innovative Business Transfer Models for SMEs in the BSR (INBETS BSR) współfinansowanego z Europejskiego Funduszu Rozwoju Regionalnego w ramach Programu Regionu Morza Bałtyckiego w latach 2014-2020. W projekt zaangażowanych jest czternastu partnerów z regionu Morza Bałtyckiego: Danii, Estonii, Finlandii, Litwy, Łotwy, Niemiec, Polski, Rosji i Szwecji. Rolę lidera projektu pełni Baltic Sea Academy...
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Intelligent Knowledge-Base Model for IT Support Organization Evolution
PublicationThe goal of the paper is building the knowledge-based model for predicting the state of the IT support organization. These organizations, critical for development of various business sectors, are facing the problem of their transformation. It is the result of the fundamental change in the role of the IT organizations in the current economy. The complexity of the processes, the difficulty adjusting the operations and limited ability...
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Remote Work Support Needs of Employees with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Poland: Perspectives of Individuals with Autism and Their Coworkers
PublicationBackground and Aims: With remote work becoming more common across industries, employees with autism may experience different work support needs from neurotypical peers. However, the specific remote work needs of this group of employees are underexplored in the literature. We aim to propose ways to assess workplace digital adaptation needs for individuals with autism and a framework for communicating these needs to employers. Methods:...
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Bridge of Knowledge: an Internet platform for R2R and R2B transfer of knowledge and promotion of cooperation
PublicationCurrently, the European Commission puts emphasis on supporting collaboration between universities and business. There are many possible ways to create a strong relationship between both these parties. Positive results of such cooperation lead to increased competitiveness of the global market and, in consequence, bring significant growth of innovation. The cooperation between research-to-research (R2R) and research-to-business (R2B)...
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Entrepreneurs' intention to use tax relief
Open Research DataThe dataset presents the results of research conducted by the author among Polish entrepreneurs in 2017–2020. The diagnostic survey method was used to collect primary data among enterprises from the SME sector. The measurement instrument was a survey questionnaire developed by the author. This study is a key piece of research. The aim was to examine...
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Koncepcja badań nad wielopłaszczyznową analizą współpracy uczelnie-biznes w Polsce
PublicationArtykuł porusza kwestie związane z określeniem i badaniem wielopłaszczyznowej współpracy uczelni z biznesem (UBC – University Business Cooperation) w Polsce. Prezentowane w literaturze modele współpracy nie przedstawiają zależności między poszczególnymi płaszczyznami współpracy, a jedynie je przywołują. Analiza wybranych czynników sukcesu współpracy, wzrostu efektywności i przedsiębiorczości akademickiej, dysfunkcji współpracy...
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Entrepreneurial Education and Attitude among Young Generations in a Gender perspective: the Case of Polish Education System
PublicationThis article is an attempt to analyze the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions of young people: male and female students of Polish high schools and universities. The author makes an effort to verify the impact of the exposure to the business education and entrepreneurs on the decision to start-up. Special emphasis will be placed on the gender differences when discussing a respective factors’...
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CSR in Polish SMEs- from perception to infatuation. Examples of socially engaged firms from Pomeranian Region
PublicationDespite the increasing worldwide awareness of the importance of social issues in con-temporary business management, Polish small and medium-sized enterprises seem to re-main in the group of followers, certainly not leaders, of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement, and this despite important dissemination efforts by numerous institu-tions. The aim of this paper is to present the bumpy road to the (still incomplete)...
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Entrepreneurial education and attitudes among young generations in a gender perspective: the case of Polish educational system
PublicationThis paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions of young people: male and female students of Polish high schools and universities. The author makes an effort to verify the impact of the exposure to the business education and entrepreneurs on the decision to start-up. Special emphasis will be placed on the gender differences when discussing a respective factors’...
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Visual Management as the support in building the concept of continuous improvement in the enterprise
PublicationThe following article presents one of the selected tools of the Lean Management concept – visual management. This method enables enterprises to strengthen their process of continuous improvement. Due to the support of visual management, it is possible to manage information more effectively by the managerial board and to improve communication process within in the particular company. In the first part, the author describes the concept...
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Evolution of End-User Participation in IT Projects.
PublicationThis chapter is aimed at presenting a review of evolutionary design paradigms which determine the end-user’s role in IT (Information Technology) projects across recent decades. This review covers different perspectives starting from technology-oriented sequential software development lifecycles, through user-centred approaches, ending finally in contemporary service design approaches supported by e-business and social media. Finally,...
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PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION IN ORGANISATIONS OF REPETITIVE ACTIVITIES
PublicationThe study presents the implementation of projects in organisations that achieve business objec-tives through the implementation of repetitive actions. Projects in these organisations are, on the one hand, treated as marginal activities, while the results of these projects have significant impact on the delivery of main processes, e.g. through the introduction of new products. Human capital and solutions in this field bear impact...
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Knowledge management in the processes of project requirements analysis
PublicationAuthors, based on one of popular software project management methods as RUP fo-cused on one of most important discipline in project management as requirements management. Authors decomposed the role of the business analyst and present methodological and realizational processes of knowledge managament in traditional and applied sources of knowledge tied with this role. An experiment was conducted in four project teams of all sizes,...
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On the Agile Mindset of an Effective Team – An Industrial Opinion Survey
PublicationIn this paper we present the results of an opinion survey among 52 agile practitioners who evaluated the importance of 26 selected elements of the agile mindset to the effectiveness of an agile team. In total, we have identified 70 unique agile mindset elements based on 11 literature sources and 5 interviews with industry experts. 7 elements belonged to the “support for business goals” category, 20 to the “relationships within...
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Effective Decision-Making in Supply Chain Management
PublicationProper decision-making in Supply Chain Management (SCM) is crucial for an appropriately functioning mechanisms. The paper presents how IT technologies can impact on an organization and process realization. Especially Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) standard and the Cloud Computing (CC) paradigms are taken into account. A general model of decision-making is proposed and based on a specific practical example is analyzed using...
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Automated anonymization of sensitive data on production unit
PublicationThe article presents an approach to data anonymization with the use of generally available tools. The focus is put on the practical aspects of using open-source tools in conjunction with programming libraries provided by suppliers of industrial control systems. This universal approach shows the possibilities of using various operating systems as a platform for process data anonymization. An additional advantage of the described...
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Data from the Survey on Entrepreneurs’ Opinions on Factors Determining the Employment of the Gdańsk University of Technology Graduates
PublicationThe dataset includes data from a survey on factors determining the employment of the Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk Tech) graduates’ in the opinion of entrepreneurs. The survey was conducted in 2017. The research sample included 102 respondents representing various firms from the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The study concerned i.a. factors determining the decision to hire a candidate, methods of recruiting employees,...
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Poland's economic relations with Kazakhstan
PublicationBefore 2019, economic relations between Poland and Kazakhstan were regulated by 22 international agreements. Poland has been trading with Kazakhstan since the 1990s. Overall, Kazakhstan had a positive trade balance with Poland, with the exception of the 1996–1998 and 2006–2007 periods. Polish foreign investment in Kazakhstan was not very impressive; the first investments started only in 2005. In 2019, about 200 companies with Polish...
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Key logistics processes in project management based on organisation of an international training session-case study
PublicationImprovement of processes, including the logistics processes forms one of the essential aspects of modern business entities functioning. Search for the solutions allowing for quicker and less costly method of realisation of particular activities in highly significant, especially in the conditions of a dynamically changing environment in which the organisations have to function. It is a natural field occuring principally both in...
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SERVICE ORIENTED SCENARIOS FOR SUPPORT ENTERPRISE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PublicationIn the paper, a service oriented architecture is used to describe various scenarios of human-oriented enterprises. They can be modeled by BPMN to show basic information flow. We consider business scenarios to present another modeling solution called service orchestration or service mashup. That approach gives an opportunity for the right management through taking the best possible choice of services, or composition of services....
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Exploring application relationships within enterprise system by matching messages in enterprise log
PublicationWith data becoming their key asset, large enterprises require data governance processes to maintain its quality. Because a large portion of business value in enterprise systems is usually delivered by legacy applications without proper documentation, there is a need for a better understanding of these applications and the data produced by them. In this paper, we present an approach to collecting insights into the data managed by...
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NETWORKS, STAKEHOLDERS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSYSTEMS IN CURRENT POLISH ECONOMYGUT
PublicationThis book is dedicated to widely understood entrepreneurship and financial system in different polish ecosystems. In particular, there is described influence of supporting entrepreneurship to investment development in Walbrzych agglomerations communes with the results of questionnaires for varied groups of inhabitants, entrepreneurs and territorial self-governments. There is also presented analysis of relations within academic...
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Wroclaw University of Technology Knowledge Repository - project objectives
PublicationKnowledge Repository is a project created in the Library and Scientific Information Centre of Wroclaw University of Technology (WrUT). Its main task will be collecting, sharing, and promoting scientific publications of researchers, postgraduates and students of WrUT. It will be also used for bibliometric analysis and reporting research output of WrUT scientific community.Knowledge Repository will closely cooperate with other databases...
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Model of Rules for IT Organization Evolution
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to introduce the Model of Rules for IT Organization Evolution which shall be in compliance with the Generic IT Organization Evolution Model. Due to its general nature, a set of practical adjustments is proposed in order to adapt the Generic Model to the IT Service Management domain. Further, two sets of rules describing the evolution of the IT Service Management area are defined based on two types of rules...
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Developing Prognostic Models of Organization Evolution
PublicationThe work focuses on the problem of measuring evolution of IT organizations. Changes in business influence functioning of the IT organization. IT departments or companies must ensure that the needs of their parent company/customers will be met. Therefore they must constantly evolve. Following question can be raised: is it possible to support process of changes the IT organization to run it smoother, faster, easier but with reduced...
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Zastosowanie założeń koncepcji efektuacji w organizowaniu wydarzenia kulturalnego – studium przypadku
PublicationThe paper presents how the effectuation model, which stems from the business studies, can be applied as a tool for analysing the activities undertaken as part of culture organisation. The key element of this model involves the control-based approach to the future instead of making predictions about the future. The outline of the theoretical background is followed by the results of the qualitative research, where the answers were...
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Inter-governmental Collaborative Networks for Digital Government Innovation Transfer -Structure, Membership, Operation
PublicationDigital government refers to the transformation of government organizations and their relationships with citizens, business and each other through digital technology. It entails digital innovation in processes, services, organizations, policies, etc. which are increasingly developed and tested in one country and transferred, after adaptation, to other countries. The process of innovation transfer and the underlying information...
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Gdańsk Urban Initiative Laboratory
PublicationGdansk is Poland's principal seaport, situated on the southern edge of the Gdansk Bay on the Baltic Sea. The city is the capital and largest city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Gdansk, in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia and the resort town of Sopot, and suburban communities, jointly forms Poland's fourth largest metropolitan area, with a population approaching 1.4 million. The pathways towards the Micro ULL FWE Nexus Square...
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Spillover Effect Occurrence in Tricity
PublicationThe key topic of this paper is a spillover effect from multinational companies to the local business environment in Tricity. The purpose of the research is to examine whether spillover effect is present in Tricity, to what extent, and, more importantly, what should be the reaction of the local authorities to the results. Based on qualitative interview-based research conducted with the multinational corporations’ employees, spillover...
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Knowledge Sharing and Managing Intellectual Capital in the Times of COVID-19: Evidence from Polish Restaurant Industry
PublicationPurpose: The aim of this paper is to show how restaurants in Poland managed their intellectual capital (IC) in the COVID-19 crisis and how knowledge sharing (KS) helped them to survive in those dynamically changing conditions. Methodology: The study is based on qualitative research – semi-structured interviews with a few restaurant owners and managers responsible for the business operations during...
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Bridging the Gap Between Legitimacy and Neutralisation Strategies in Sustainability Reporting
PublicationAmid global sustainability challenges, such as climate change, companies operating in different industries face increasing demands for accountability and transparency. To meet these demands, sustainability reporting (SR) has become a mainstream business practice in communicating companies’ positive and negative sustainability impacts. This short paper aims to increase our understanding of how companies may release negative information...
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Poszukiwanie dobrych odpowiedzi na źle postawione pytania, rzecz o przedsiębiorczości kobiet
PublicationWomen entrepreneurship has been the subject of research for many years and its results are often compared against the men entrepreneurship results. The conducted research has often been aimed at identification/recognition of the differences between the entrepreneurs of opposite gender. The lack of satisfactory proof for the existence of the differences has been attributed by some determined researchers to inappropriate research...
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Workflow patterns applicable to virtual knowledge-based organizations
PublicationWorkflow is a term specifying how to automate a business process, in whole or part during which documents, information or tasks are passed from one participant to another for action, according to a set of procedural rules. Workflow is therefore directly applicable in virtual knowledge-based organizations, where information is exchanged via electronic documents. In the literature, is presented a complete list of workflow control-flow...
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Generalized access control in hierarchical computer network
PublicationThe paper presents the design of the security layer for a distributed system located in the multizone hierarchical computer network. Depending on the zone from which a client’s request comes to the system and the type of the request, it will be either authorized or rejected. There is one common layer for the access to all the business services and interactions between them. Unlike the commonly used RBAC model, this system enforces...
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Evaluation of Selected Innovation Policy Instruments on the Example of Poland
PublicationThe main purpose of the paper is to analyze and evaluate the selected instruments of innovation policy in Poland: cooperative relations, business environment institutions and innovation centers, supported within Priority Axis V of OP IE 2007-2013. The evaluation was made on the basis of the four criteria: complementarity, adapting to the needs of businesses, the impact on the innovation and durability of the provided support. The...
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Complex Predictive Solution for Computerized Processes in Tire Industry
PublicationFollowing increasing market needs of productivity, cost reduction and safety requirements, computerized industry are faced to finding optimum between economic aspects of business and safety-related risk management. Modern factories equipped with computerized processes and extended diagnostic tools to support operator do not often use of all information’s which comes from the equipment. Some of the relations between the events are...
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Labour resources in Azerbeijan
PublicationThe article aims to assess the changes of the Azerbaijani labour resources through deductive analysis of historical data and observation of changes in the structure of resources based on generally available macroeconomic data. Analysis shows that, during the period considered, the population of Azerbaijan increased, with a majority living in cities. Universal access to education enabled a growing group of Azerbaijanis to complete...
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Quantitative Storytelling in the Making of a Composite Indicator
PublicationThe reasons for and against composite indicators are briefly reviewed, as well as the available theories for their construction. After noting the strong normative dimension of these measures—which ultimately aim to ‘tell a story’, e.g. to promote the social discovery of a particular phenomenon, we inquire whether a less partisan use of a composite indicator can be proposed by allowing more latitude in the framing of its construction....