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A Community Beyond The Single Market. The Cecchini Report and the Making of Europe 1992
No full textThis paper examines the role of informal advising on EC politics through the lens of The Cost of Non-Europe, a policy paper better known as the ‘Cecchini Report’. Indeed, this research initiative stands out as one of the major outputs of the private-public nexus at the supranational level prior to the Maastricht Treaty. Drafted between 1986 on the behalf of EC Commission President Jacques Delors, the Cecchini Report represents a key milestone in the creation of the Single Market. Besides, it paved the way for all subsequent policy papers on the European economic integration, including the recent Draghi Report. So far, this initiative has been studied from a technical and economic perspective, overlooking its ideological, sociological, and political features and aims. This paper seeks to address this gap through an extensive comparison of new archival evidence. This comparison sheds light on the political vision of EC elites in the early neoliberal era and offers a privileged look at the idea of Europe 1992. The case study of the Cecchini report also provides insights into the Delors Commission’s attempts to promote the EC’s international identity through public diplomacy and scientific dissemination
Weaving AI into Society: The Co-Evolution of Artificial Intelligence and the social fabric of organizations
No full textBefore outlining the structure of the present dissertation, this section offers a narrative and discursive reflection on the path that led to this work, which represents the culmination of my Ph.D. journey. My interest in the study of technology emerged naturally in response to the widespread enthusiasm surrounding the advent of technologies commonly associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Smart contracts, blockchain technology, and cloud computing are just a few examples of the technologies (and buzzwords) that were dominating public debate at the time. Numerous best-sellers and essays talked about how these technologies were transforming industries and society. These narratives emphasized how technologies could enable coordinated action without trust, control without central authority, and enforce decisions without human intervention. These narratives were not purely theoretical; in my daily experience, I was already observing anecdotal evidence of how common aspects of everyday life, such as shopping, mobility, and even dating, had become increasingly dependent on digital technologies. From this perspective, technologies appeared to be continuously influencing behaviors and decisions, gradually taking over many defining aspects of human existence. It seemed to me that technology was reshaping the very experience of being human.
However, the fascination and apprehension elicited by this perception were tempered by the sense that it represented only a partial view. At that time, my growing interest in the works of historians such as Thomas Hughes and Melvin Kranzberg convinced me that there was more to this story. In one of his works, Kranzberg recounts an anecdote in which, after a concert, a lady praised Fritz Kreisler's violin for its beautiful music. Kreisler, holding the instrument to his ear, replied, "I don't hear any music coming out" (Kranzberg, 1986, p. 558). Indeed, the experience of music is not merely the product of the violin itself but rather the result of the interaction between technology, humans, and various socio-cultural factors. These factors are also crucial in explaining why violins exist in their present form, as Kranzberg later noted:
“Man is a constituent element of the technical process. Machines are made and used by human beings. Behind every machine, I see a face—indeed, many faces: the engineer, the worker, the businessman or businesswoman, and, sometimes, the general and admiral. Furthermore, the function of the technology is its use by human beings—and sometimes, alas, its abuse and misuse” (Kranzberg, 1986, p. 558).
Acknowledging the “human dimension” of technology inevitably fostered my curiosity not only concerning how technology was reshaping the social fabric of society and organizational structures but also about how these elements, in turn, influenced technology. During my journey, these ideas were further developed through engagement with diverse research traditions that recognize the interdependent and co-evolving relationship between technology and social structures (e.g., Weick, 1990a; Kallinikos et al., 2013; Orlikowski and Scott, 2008; Leonardi, 2011). These perspectives have inevitably shaped the arguments presented in this work. As will be discussed in more detail, the materiality of technologies and social action are considered here as two sides of the same coin, continuously shaping one another in a dynamic equilibrium. The present dissertation represents an attempt to understand a part of this ever-changing flow and its implications, particularly in the specific case of AI technologies
Regolamenti
No full text1. Premessa. — 2. L’ambigua natura dei regolamenti, tra atti normativi e atti amministrativi, tra diritto costituzionale e diritto amministrativo. — 3. La scarna disciplina del potere regolamentare nella Costituzione repubblicana. — 4. La disciplina dei regolamenti governativi e ministeriali nell’art. 17 della l. n. 400/1988. — 5. L’art. 117, comma 6, Cost. e la sua interpretazione. — 6. La prassi: la “fuga dal regolamento”, nelle sue varie stagioni, e le spinte alla (ri-)legificazione. — 7. I tempi di esercizio del potere regolamentare del Governo: la (paradossale) maggiore flessibilità della legge rispetto al regolamento. — 8. Un tentativo di porre rimedio ai tempi lunghi di adozione dei regolamenti: gli allegati al nuovo Codice dei contratti pubblici contenenti gli atti attuativi. — 9. I regolamenti governativi nella giurisprudenza costituzionale e in quella del giudice comune (ordinario e amministrativo)
Hey, PiErre! The Role of AI-Enabled Chatbots in Geographical Brand Management
No full textThis research aims to investigate the role AI-enabled chatbots play
in branding activities, with a focus on quality food products. By adopting grounded theory methodologies for data collection and analysis applied to the exemplar case of the chatbot built by the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium, this study reveals the role AI chatbots can play in
geographical brand management, demonstrating the potential chatbots
have in building brand knowledge by conveying a geographical brand’s
distinctive attributes, values, heritage and personality, and illustrating
the AI-enabled chatbot’s ability to enhance hybrid brand experiences
by increasing the hybrid dimension of relationships with the brand.
Our work proposes an AI branding framework that shows the role that
AI plays in building strong brands in the context of rapid technological innovation. This study has significant managerial implications, as it
demonstrates how AI-enabled chatbots can be a valuable ally for brand
managers to reinforce symbolic meaning and experiential value
Le norme agevolative in tema di deduzione degli interessi passivi e il divieto di interpretazioni correttive: verso la fine di tale deprecabile prassi?
No full textData cleaning and enrichment through data integration: networking the Italian academia
Full text linkWe describe a bibliometric network characterizing co-authorship collaborations in the entire Italian academic community. The network, consisting of 38,220 nodes and 507,050 edges, is built upon two distinct data sources: faculty information provided by the Italian Ministry of University and Research and publications available in Semantic Scholar. Both nodes and edges are associated with a large variety of semantic data, including gender, bibliometric indexes, authors' and publications' research fields, and temporal information. While linking data between the two original sources posed many challenges, the network has been carefully validated to assess its reliability and to understand its graph-theoretic characteristics. By resembling several features of social networks, our dataset can be profitably leveraged in experimental studies in the wide social network analytics domain as well as in more specific bibliometric contexts
The Mission (Im)possible of Climate Action through Quixotic Institutional Work
Full text linkThe ‘iron cage’ of the (neo- ) liberal- capitalist system prioritizes economic returns
over climate protection. Formerly powerful nation- states are subordinated to the rule of markets,
whereas business elites have been freed from substantial responsibility for social and environ-
mental concerns. While we agree in principle with the Point that a reassertion of state power
may facilitate more decided climate action, our Counterpoint adopts a cultural institutionalist
perspective that highlights the embeddedness of actors in a broader cultural order. From this
perspective, actors enact scripts while often lacking substantive agency towards protecting the
natural environment. Cultural change in meanings, myths, practices, and rituals is needed to re-
model the currently dominant scripts and templates of modern, liberal- capitalist ‘world society’,
including the script of state actorhood. We suggest the notion of ‘quixotic institutional work’ as
a way of envisioning and prefiguring alternative cultural templates when both the physical and
the social reality start showing cracks due to the climate crisis. Quixotic institutional work fol-
lows the logic of appropriateness rather than consequential purposiveness, and thus constitutes a
different, often overlooked and mocked, form of agency for systems change relevant in the light
of powerful forces towards maintaining an unsustainable world order
Family firms in entrepreneurial finance: the case of corporate venture capital
No full textWe show that families are an engine of venturing activities: almost 30 percent of corporate venture capital (CVC) deals in the US from 2000 to 2017 originated from family firms. Family firms, primarily those led by family CEOs, orchestrate CVC activities differently than non-family firms: they syndicate more often and with more reputable investors, join larger syndicates, and make more proximate deals (geography- and industry-wise). This approach to corporate venturing maps into performance results: family CVC-backed ventures exhibit a higher likelihood of successful exit. Collectively, our results shed light on the important, and largely unexplored, role of family firms in CVC