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Gender-Sensitive Accountability in the Italian Cultural Content Industry: A Research Agenda
No full textMuseums and other cultural institutions are key actors in the Cultural Content Industry (CCI). They can play a strategic role in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 5 on gender equality. However, despite growing attention to museums’ social responsibility, gender inequalities in representation, pay, and access to leadership positions remain persistent across the cultural sector. In this context, the concept of Gender-Sensitive Accountability (GSA) is increasingly relevant, as it emphasizes the need for institutions to recognize, monitor, and address gender-based disparities through transparent and accountable policies.
This chapter provides an overview of the scientific literature on GSA in the Italian CCI, with a focus on museums and art galleries. The study adopts a concise bibliometric approach and analyzes 52 English-language publications (articles and book chapters) published between 1990 and 2024, retrieved from Scopus and Google Scholar. Through descriptive, bibliometric, and network analyses, the chapter identifies the main research trends, thematic clusters, and emerging gaps in the field.
The findings highlight a growing scholarly interest in recent years, but also reveal the limited integration of GSA into cultural governance and museum management practices. The chapter argues that stronger gender-responsive accountability mechanisms, equitable access to leadership opportunities, and targeted institutional policies are essential to promoting gender equality in Italy's cultural sector. It concludes by outlining policy implications and a research agenda for future studies on GSA in the CCI
Who's Afraid of Cultural Studies? Linguistics with a Twist
No full textThis contribution examines the conceptualisation of language as a signifying practice by tracing the ways in which Cultural Studies have been productively mobilised within the domain of English linguistics. Focusing on the development of a distinctive Neapolitan tradition, the article reconstructs how Cultural Studies provided theoretical and methodological resources for challenging formalist and structuralist approaches to language, enabling a reconceptualisation of linguistics as a discipline deeply embedded in social, cultural, and political processes.
Situating its discussion within the broader emergence of Cultural Studies in Italy from the mid-1980s onwards, the article highlights how scholars working at the Istituto Universitario Orientale of Naples drew on Stuart Hall’s theory of representation, Foucauldian discourse theory, and the postcolonial and feminist interventions of scholars such as Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti to reframe language as a site of meaning-making, power negotiation, and identity construction. In this perspective, linguistic analysis is no longer confined to describing abstract systems, but becomes an interpretive practice attentive to discourse, ideology, and historical situatedness.
By foregrounding marginality, transnationalism, and cultural hybridity as epistemological resources rather than limitations, the contribution illustrates how Cultural Studies enabled a form of interdisciplinary linguistics capable of engaging with questions of representation, subjectivity, and social transformation. It argues for a 'linguistics with a twist': an approach that integrates cultural theory into linguistic inquiry and reaffirms the relevance of Cultural Studies for understanding language as a socially embedded and politically consequential practice
The ecosystemic governance for impact (EGI) framework: coordinating innovation across actors, tools and value trajectories
No full textPurpose – This paper aims to propose the ecosystemic governance for impact (EGI) framework to help
innovation ecosystems generate lasting, stakeholder-aligned impact. By combining service-dominant logic
(S-D logic), digitalization and Industry 4.0 (D&I4), project management (PM) and benefit realization
management (BRM), the framework balances rigor with flexibility to coordinate actors, tools and value cocreation
processes.
Design/methodology/approach – The study employs an abductive, qualitative case study design drawing on a
national R&D project (Ditron-C). The analysis integrates data from interviews, project documents, field
observations and co-design artifacts, interpreted through four innovation management approaches.
Findings – The EGI framework structures innovation governance around four phases: co-visioning, co-design,
co-realization and co-evolution. Each phase supports structured planning and adaptive coordination among
actors, helping translate project outputs into sustained impact.
Research limitations/implications – Findings are based on a retail innovation project and validated through a
cross-sector application. While these cases support the transferability of the framework, further research could
examine the applicability of the framework across different ecosystems and in conditions of extreme power
asymmetries.
Practical implications – In practice, EGI helps managers move beyond checklists and dashboards, providing a
scaffold that keeps negotiations open and makes impact visible over time.
Social implications – The framework promotes inclusive governance and participatory alignment among
ecosystem actors, enabling innovation processes to support lasting and mutually negotiated impact.
Originality/value – This paper proposes a mid-range theoretical framework that reframes innovation
governance as a reflexive and ecosystemic process
Rito abbreviato, reato continuato e favor rei. Una decisione teleologicamente orientata delle Sezioni Unite.
No full textCon la decisione in commento, le Sezioni Unite tentano di ricomporre il contrasto interpretativo sorto in relazione alla riduzione di pena da applicare in caso di rito abbreviato ex art. 442, co. 2, c.p.p., in ipotesi di continuazione tra delitto e contravvenzione. La modifica del coefficiente di riduzione previsto per quest’ultimo in caso di accesso al rito speciale, passato da un terzo alla metà in virtù della c.d. riforma ‘Orlando’, ha infatti rispolverato la vexata questio della natura unitaria o meno del reato continuato; che, se affermata, dovrebbe rendere inoperativa quella disposizione. La soluzione offerta, condivisibile, si segnala per il suo rigore metodologico e per la centralità che in essa assume la finalità di massimizzare gli effetti favorevoli dei due istituti coinvolti.With this decision, the Joint Sections attempt to resolve the conflict of interpretation that has arisen regarding the penalty reduction to be applied in the case of the summary procedure pursuant to art. 442, paragraph 2, of the Code of Criminal Procedure, in the event of a continuation between a crime and a misdemeanor. The change in the reduction coefficient for the latter in the case of access to the special procedure, increased from one-third to one-half under the so-called ‘Orlando’ reform, has in fact revived the question of the unitary nature of a continuing crime; if affirmed, this would render that provision inoperative. The proposed solution, which is acceptable, is notable for its methodological rigor and the centrality it places on the goal of maximizing the beneficial effects of the two institutions involved
Efficiency of separate waste collection under regional policies: spatialstochastic frontier evidence from Italy
No full textSeparate waste collection (SWC) production plays a key role in waste management,necessitating active participation from both governments and households. This studyaims to analyse the impact of regional environmental policies (direct effects) andneighbourhood influences (indirect effects) on households’ efficiency in SWCproduction. To achieve this, the study defines a household-level SWC productionfunction that integrates regional environmental policies to assess their effects onhousehold efficiency. The spatial stochastic frontier analysis is then applied toquarterly data from 2002Q1 to 2020Q1, covering Italian regions and sourced fromofficial datasets (Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) and the Italian Institutefor Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)), using appropriate strategies toaddress potential endogeneity. The results reveal that household composition affectshow time is allocated to SWC activities and highlight the positive impact of regionalenvironmental policies on household efficiency
Fom E- Commerce Directive to Digital Services Act (DSA): Strengthening users’ safety and security through “by-design” risk management
No full textFin dagli anni ’90, la Comunità europea ha adottato atti finalizzati a stabilire una disciplina per la
Società dell’Informazione, applicando un approccio marcatamente mercantilistico focalizzato sull’e-commerce. Nel
tempo, si è affermata una sempre maggiore consapevolezza del ruolo tutt’altro che neutro svolto dalle piattaforme
digitali. Il presente saggio analizza l’evoluzione della regolazione dei servizi digitali dell’UE, che ha condotto ad un
progressivo riconoscimento della responsabilità delle piattaforme nel determinare le dinamiche commerciali e
sociali come uno strumento di rafforzamento della sicurezza individuale e sistemica dello spazio virtuale.Since the 1990s, the European Community has adopted acts to regulate Information Society,
adopting a highly mercantilist approach focused on e-commerce. During this time, awareness arose about the role
“anything but neutral” played by online platforms. The present paper analyses the evolution of EU digital service
regulation, which has led to a gradual acknowledgement of platforms’ responsibility for shaping commercial and
social dynamics as a means to strengthen the safety and security of the online space
