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New frontiers of managerial training: the LiVES project
No full textThe evolution of the Internet allowed the Web to become, among the different media, the most global, inter-active and dynamic medium to share information. Therefore, in the last decades, e-Learning has been widely used not only in the academic community, but also in the business sector. Within this context, thanks to their own competences, people can develop specific characteristics which may provide a competitive advantage for their organizations. The development and use of new technologies for the creation of three-dimensional (3D) Virtual Worlds set new challenges and enlarge the very idea of ‘learning environment’. This paper aims at inves-tigating the characteristics of training activities directed at the managerial class, in such a way as to increase their efficacy; it also analyses how the use of specific innovative technologies may be an effective solution.The evolution of the Internet allowed the Web to become, among the different media, the most global, inter-active and dynamic medium to share information. Therefore, in the last decades, e-Learning has been widely used not only in the academic community, but also in the business sector. Within this context, thanks to their own competences, people can develop specific characteristics which may provide a competitive advantage for their organizations. The development and use of new technologies for the creation of three-dimensional (3D) Virtual Worlds set new challenges and enlarge the very idea of ‘learning environment’. This paper aims at inves-tigating the characteristics of training activities directed at the managerial class, in such a way as to increase their efficacy; it also analyses how the use of specific innovative technologies may be an effective solution.Monograph's chapter
The Influence of Service Providers on the Transparency Between Citizens and Governments in the Internet Era
No full textInternet users are no more only content consumers, but also content provider. Citizens, individually or as
a group, have now the possibility of easily diffusing data and information, coming from official sources
and often intended to be kept confidential or restricted. This can promote the transparency in the
relationship between public organizations and citizens. To make it possible, subjects not directly
interested in the process of information diffusion, like the service providers, must be engaged. They
come then in the position to promote or hamper this phenomenon, and consequently the transparency. On
this background, this paper uses agency theory to investigate the “Cablegate” case involving WikiLeaks,
that gained widespread global attention for the diffusion of documents unveiling the activities of the US
diplomacy.Internet users are no more only content consumers, but also content provider. Citizens, individually or as
a group, have now the possibility of easily diffusing data and information, coming from official sources
and often intended to be kept confidential or restricted. This can promote the transparency in the
relationship between public organizations and citizens. To make it possible, subjects not directly
interested in the process of information diffusion, like the service providers, must be engaged. They
come then in the position to promote or hamper this phenomenon, and consequently the transparency. On
this background, this paper uses agency theory to investigate the “Cablegate” case involving WikiLeaks,
that gained widespread global attention for the diffusion of documents unveiling the activities of the US
diplomacy.Articles published in or submitted to a Journal without IF refereed / of international relevanc
Introduzione
No full textIl volume esamina i metodi e gli strumenti affinché le Piccole e Medie Imprese possano diventare competitive sul mercato globale, incrementando e consolidando le proprie capacità distintive, investendo sempre più sulle proprie risorse umane. I processi di apprendimento non formali ed informali, nonché lo sviluppo di metodologie adeguate, al fine di migliorare, rendere visibili e certificare le competenze all’interno delle imprese, sono diventati importanti temi di dibattito sia a livello comunitario che nazionale, in un momento in cui si vanno ridisegnando le politiche in materia di istruzione, formazione professionale e lavoro. Gli argomenti vengono analizzati in base alle nuove esigenze di cambiamento dei sistemi di riconoscimento e certificazione, esplorando ed approfondendo la tematica della gestione della conoscenza aziendale nelle PMI, con particolare riferimento alle nuove pratiche di validazione delle competenze acquisite attraverso modalità di apprendimento che richiedono una continua ridefinizione dei luoghi e dei tempi. Il volume nasce da un’ampia attività di ricerca dell’autore svolta nel campo dell’organizzazione aziendale, della gestione delle risorse umane e dei sistemi informativi aziendali, oltre che dall’esperienza maturata come docente di corsi universitari e la direzione di diversi Master. Se i suoi destinatari sono gli studenti di corsi di laurea e di Master, il volume può risultare utile a chi, già operando nel mondo del lavoro, voglia conoscere quali sono le nuove leve per incrementare il patrimonio esperienziale della propria organizzazione, sulle quali agire per sostenere il vantaggio competitivo in un mercato sempre più globale.Il volume esamina i metodi e gli strumenti affinché le Piccole e Medie Imprese possano diventare competitive sul mercato globale, incrementando e consolidando le proprie capacità distintive, investendo sempre più sulle proprie risorse umane. I processi di apprendimento non formali ed informali, nonché lo sviluppo di metodologie adeguate, al fine di migliorare, rendere visibili e certificare le competenze all’interno delle imprese, sono diventati importanti temi di dibattito sia a livello comunitario che nazionale, in un momento in cui si vanno ridisegnando le politiche in materia di istruzione, formazione professionale e lavoro. Gli argomenti vengono analizzati in base alle nuove esigenze di cambiamento dei sistemi di riconoscimento e certificazione, esplorando ed approfondendo la tematica della gestione della conoscenza aziendale nelle PMI, con particolare riferimento alle nuove pratiche di validazione delle competenze acquisite attraverso modalità di apprendimento che richiedono una continua ridefinizione dei luoghi e dei tempi. Il volume nasce da un’ampia attività di ricerca dell’autore svolta nel campo dell’organizzazione aziendale, della gestione delle risorse umane e dei sistemi informativi aziendali, oltre che dall’esperienza maturata come docente di corsi universitari e la direzione di diversi Master. Se i suoi destinatari sono gli studenti di corsi di laurea e di Master, il volume può risultare utile a chi, già operando nel mondo del lavoro, voglia conoscere quali sono le nuove leve per incrementare il patrimonio esperienziale della propria organizzazione, sulle quali agire per sostenere il vantaggio competitivo in un mercato sempre più globale.Prefaces and brief Introduction
La risoluzione stragiudiziale delle controversie nei settori bancario e finanziario: Arbitro Bancario Finanziario e Arbitrato Consob
No full textI modelli processuali di tutela del risparmiatore. L'Arbitro Bancario Finanziario. L'arbitrato nel settore del mercato mobiliare: l'arbitrato amministrato dalla camera di conciliazione e arbitrato istituita presso la Consob.I modelli processuali di tutela del risparmiatore. L'Arbitro Bancario Finanziario. L'arbitrato nel settore del mercato mobiliare: l'arbitrato amministrato dalla camera di conciliazione e arbitrato istituita presso la Consob.LUISS PhD Thesi
L'arbitrato societario
No full textLa collocazione dell'arbitrato societario nel sistema giuridico italiano. Peculiarità e profili problematici dell'arbitrato societario.La collocazione dell'arbitrato societario nel sistema giuridico italiano. Peculiarità e profili problematici dell'arbitrato societario.LUISS PhD Thesi
1. Convergence of Rules and Standards due to Courts' learning effect – A theoretical model. 2. From theory to empirical practice: do Courts really experience learning effect in applying law? Evidence from Tort Law. 3. Refusal to supply an IPR: L'approccio antitrust comunitario tra passato, presente e futuro
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Un Welfare State per le classi medie: Democristiani e Socialisti in Francia e Italia, 1945-1958
No full textIn the history of welfare state, the publication of the Beveridge Report in 1942 represents one of the biggest
steps toward the creation of a complete social security system for all the citizens of a state. Influenced by
ideas and purposes of such report, political parties in France and Italy tried to imagine a more efficient and
inclusive welfare system for their own countries, with the aim of extending the benefits of social legislation
to middle class – especially non-salaried middle class workers (peasants, craftsmen, shop owners). For both
Socialist and Christian-Democratic parties, the middle class was problematic for two main reasons. Firstly,
from an ideological point of view, it proved the fallacies of Marxist theory about social evolution towards
two major classes – proletariat and bourgeoisie; at the same times it highlighted the need of a more precise
definition of the ideology of “inter-classism” professed by Christian-Democratic parties. Secondly, the vote
of non-salaried middle class workers was of fundamental importance for parties engaged in the election
game. The aim of this research is to analyse the way by which French and Italian Christian-Democratic and
Socialist parties tried to adapt their ideology and politics to the needs and requests of non-salaried middle
class. In this process, the extension of welfare state benefits was seen as a major element for the social and
political integration of this group of citizens. To this end, the research takes into account the position
regarding the issues of welfare state and middle class adopted by four parties – Mouvement Républicain
Populaire (MRP), Democrazia Cristiana (DC), Section Française de l’Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO), Partito
Socialista Italiano (PSI) – in their congresses, in the party press, and finally in the bills and in Parliamentary
debates.In the history of welfare state, the publication of the Beveridge Report in 1942 represents one of the biggest
steps toward the creation of a complete social security system for all the citizens of a state. Influenced by
ideas and purposes of such report, political parties in France and Italy tried to imagine a more efficient and
inclusive welfare system for their own countries, with the aim of extending the benefits of social legislation
to middle class – especially non-salaried middle class workers (peasants, craftsmen, shop owners). For both
Socialist and Christian-Democratic parties, the middle class was problematic for two main reasons. Firstly,
from an ideological point of view, it proved the fallacies of Marxist theory about social evolution towards
two major classes – proletariat and bourgeoisie; at the same times it highlighted the need of a more precise
definition of the ideology of “inter-classism” professed by Christian-Democratic parties. Secondly, the vote
of non-salaried middle class workers was of fundamental importance for parties engaged in the election
game. The aim of this research is to analyse the way by which French and Italian Christian-Democratic and
Socialist parties tried to adapt their ideology and politics to the needs and requests of non-salaried middle
class. In this process, the extension of welfare state benefits was seen as a major element for the social and
political integration of this group of citizens. To this end, the research takes into account the position
regarding the issues of welfare state and middle class adopted by four parties – Mouvement Républicain
Populaire (MRP), Democrazia Cristiana (DC), Section Française de l’Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO), Partito
Socialista Italiano (PSI) – in their congresses, in the party press, and finally in the bills and in Parliamentary
debates.LUISS PhD Thesi
From Rational to Behavioral: New Tendencies in Decision Theory and Cognitive Psychology and their Impact on the Routine Level Analysis of Organizations
No full textThe dissertation is conceived as a monographic essay and aims to put together and make sense of differentiated streams of research (decision theory, cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, strategic management) with the purpose of contributing to the development of a theory of organizational action. Routine behaviors are in particular identified as the nexus of individual decision making and organizational outcomes. The work is structured as a journey through different although interrelated theoretical worlds. Chapter 1 examines the crisis of rational models of reality and the social dimension of knowledge. Chapter 2 focuses
on decision theory and presents the main results of the behavioral approach to decision making. A
laboratory empirical research is presented as a model for testing learning phenomena in presence of
repeated behavior. Chapter 3 discusses the validity of qualitative research methods, with a specific
emphasis on narrative approach. Chapter 4 uses the results and insights derived from the previous chapters
and builds on the recent literature on organizational routines, studying two routine‐level cognitive mechanisms (sense‐making and enactment) to build descriptive tools useful in process analysis. An example of empirical case‐study is then presented, with the aim of a first validation of the theoretically built concepts. The research contributions are manifold. First, a substantive review of an almost dispersed literature is done. Second, a theory building effort gives new research tools for a meaningful description of the organizational routines and processes. Third, two empirical approaches are suggested as living examples of research in this field, respectively at the individual and the organization level.The dissertation is conceived as a monographic essay and aims to put together and make sense of differentiated streams of research (decision theory, cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, strategic management) with the purpose of contributing to the development of a theory of organizational action. Routine behaviors are in particular identified as the nexus of individual decision making and organizational outcomes. The work is structured as a journey through different although interrelated theoretical worlds. Chapter 1 examines the crisis of rational models of reality and the social dimension of knowledge. Chapter 2 focuses
on decision theory and presents the main results of the behavioral approach to decision making. A
laboratory empirical research is presented as a model for testing learning phenomena in presence of
repeated behavior. Chapter 3 discusses the validity of qualitative research methods, with a specific
emphasis on narrative approach. Chapter 4 uses the results and insights derived from the previous chapters
and builds on the recent literature on organizational routines, studying two routine‐level cognitive mechanisms (sense‐making and enactment) to build descriptive tools useful in process analysis. An example of empirical case‐study is then presented, with the aim of a first validation of the theoretically built concepts. The research contributions are manifold. First, a substantive review of an almost dispersed literature is done. Second, a theory building effort gives new research tools for a meaningful description of the organizational routines and processes. Third, two empirical approaches are suggested as living examples of research in this field, respectively at the individual and the organization level.LUISS PhD Thesi
Political Liberalism for Muslim Majority Societies
No full textPolitical liberalism is the main theory of John Rawls in the last period of his intellectual life. Since the theory was developed by Rawls in a book with the same name (referred as PL in this book), an extensive body of literature were created to analyze the different dimensions of this theory. Particularly speaking, the book and the theory have found a large audience in liberalism and religion debates. However, only a few number of works which are only produced in the last years, focus on the relationship between political liberalism and Islam, and far less address this subject within the context of Muslim majority societies. On the other hand, among the extensive literature which are produced on Islam and democracy issue in the recent years, very little number of them look towards this subject from an analytic political philosophy framework. This dissertation tries to fill this gap in the literature. This dissertation can be regarded as an application of Rawls’s theory of political liberalism to Muslim majority societies. However,
many arguments of this dissertation are applicable to all nonwestern societies, regardless of whether they are Muslim or nonMuslim. Furthermore, it should be added that our reading of Rawls in this dissertation presumes the continuity between Rawls’s main works, that is A Theory
of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism (1993), and the Law of Peoples (1997). This thesis contains five chapters. The first chapter can be regarded as an introduction to whole the work. Justifying the major question of this dissertation, in the first chapter we have tried to answer some of the main the possible objections which may be pointed towards this type of research. Then, the rest of the thesis is divided into two parts: part one on justification and part two on stability. Each of these parts contains two chapters. These two parts are correspondent to two stages of Rawls’s political philosophy. In the part one we have tried to develop a universal reading of Rawls by focusing on the ideas of the reflective equilibrium (chapter II) and the original position (chapter III). In chapter two we have argued that all deliberating persons in the world, no matter in which society they live, can get involved with a
dialogue with Rawls and his constructivist argument for justice as fairness via the reflective equilibrium as justificatory tool which is available in political liberalism. In chapter three we have claimed that political constructivism and particularly speaking the idea of the original position, models reasonable and rational individuals who hold reasonable comprehensive doctrines, no matter in which part of the global civil society they live. In addition, we implement that only specific conceptions of society and person, that is the conceptions of society as a fair system of cooperation and the persons as free and equal citizens, are modeled in political constructivism as part of the idea of the reasonable.
The second part of the dissertation is concerned with the stability of justice as fairness within the context of Muslim majority societies. Explaining overlapping consensus as the most reasonable basis of social unity and the main account of stability in political liberalism, in chapter IV we discuss how a constitutional consensus, based on a modus vivendi, develops into an overlapping consensus, when a democracy is established for the first time in a Muslim
majority country. Living under just institutions, in addition to justificatory ethics, has a major role in shifting the comprehensive doctrines of citizens in this process. Defining justificatory ethics as declaration plus conjecture, we also argue that political liberalism is not indifferent to the role of religious arguments in stability of justice as fairness in a religious society.
Chapter V is a work of justificatory ethics in favor of an Islamic full justification for the political conception of justice as fairness in the Muslim majority context, based on Mehdi Haeri Yazdi’s Philosophy and Government. This chapter demonstrates that Islamic philosophical and legal tradition may include the fundamental ideas of persons as free and equal citizens and society as affair system of cooperation, as the primary and necessary ideas in constructivist
justification for justice as fairness. In the first section of this final chapter I explain what this thing called Islamic philosophy is. In second part of this chapter I will explain guardianship of the jurist doctrine (velayat-e faqih). As the main basis for contemporary Shiite version of the idea of an Islamic state, this idea is much criticized by Haeri Yazdi as an unreasonable account of Islamic political theory. In the third part of chapter V we give an account of Haeri Yazdi’s argument for priority of Islamic philosophy to Islamic jurisprudence. This section includes
Haeri’s counterarguments against guardianship of the jurist.
In the fourth section we explain how Haeri’s Islamic contractarianism based upon the concepts of agency contract (aqd-e vekalat) and joint ownership (malekiyat-e musha)—already available in Islamic private law and philosophy— paves the way for full Islamic justification for
the political conception. The fifth section is concerned with a linguistic analysis of the notion of
community, based on the distinction already made in Islamic philosophy between universal (kolli) and whole (kol). This section can be read as an argument in favor of individualism. The sixth and final section includes an Islamic declaration on the incompatibility of the voluntary
nature of Sharia, with the coercive and oppressive nature of state power. As a complement to the ideas of Haeri Yazdi in this regard, I also mention Mohamad Fadel’s view on hudud Islamic penalties. Being complementary to each other, these six sections of chapter V constitute a full Islamic justification for the possibility of overlapping consensus between Shiite Islam and justice as fairness.Political liberalism is the main theory of John Rawls in the last period of his intellectual life. Since the theory was developed by Rawls in a book with the same name (referred as PL in this book), an extensive body of literature were created to analyze the different dimensions of this theory. Particularly speaking, the book and the theory have found a large audience in liberalism and religion debates. However, only a few number of works which are only produced in the last years, focus on the relationship between political liberalism and Islam, and far less address this subject within the context of Muslim majority societies. On the other hand, among the extensive literature which are produced on Islam and democracy issue in the recent years, very little number of them look towards this subject from an analytic political philosophy framework. This dissertation tries to fill this gap in the literature. This dissertation can be regarded as an application of Rawls’s theory of political liberalism to Muslim majority societies. However,
many arguments of this dissertation are applicable to all nonwestern societies, regardless of whether they are Muslim or nonMuslim. Furthermore, it should be added that our reading of Rawls in this dissertation presumes the continuity between Rawls’s main works, that is A Theory
of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism (1993), and the Law of Peoples (1997). This thesis contains five chapters. The first chapter can be regarded as an introduction to whole the work. Justifying the major question of this dissertation, in the first chapter we have tried to answer some of the main the possible objections which may be pointed towards this type of research. Then, the rest of the thesis is divided into two parts: part one on justification and part two on stability. Each of these parts contains two chapters. These two parts are correspondent to two stages of Rawls’s political philosophy. In the part one we have tried to develop a universal reading of Rawls by focusing on the ideas of the reflective equilibrium (chapter II) and the original position (chapter III). In chapter two we have argued that all deliberating persons in the world, no matter in which society they live, can get involved with a
dialogue with Rawls and his constructivist argument for justice as fairness via the reflective equilibrium as justificatory tool which is available in political liberalism. In chapter three we have claimed that political constructivism and particularly speaking the idea of the original position, models reasonable and rational individuals who hold reasonable comprehensive doctrines, no matter in which part of the global civil society they live. In addition, we implement that only specific conceptions of society and person, that is the conceptions of society as a fair system of cooperation and the persons as free and equal citizens, are modeled in political constructivism as part of the idea of the reasonable.
The second part of the dissertation is concerned with the stability of justice as fairness within the context of Muslim majority societies. Explaining overlapping consensus as the most reasonable basis of social unity and the main account of stability in political liberalism, in chapter IV we discuss how a constitutional consensus, based on a modus vivendi, develops into an overlapping consensus, when a democracy is established for the first time in a Muslim
majority country. Living under just institutions, in addition to justificatory ethics, has a major role in shifting the comprehensive doctrines of citizens in this process. Defining justificatory ethics as declaration plus conjecture, we also argue that political liberalism is not indifferent to the role of religious arguments in stability of justice as fairness in a religious society.
Chapter V is a work of justificatory ethics in favor of an Islamic full justification for the political conception of justice as fairness in the Muslim majority context, based on Mehdi Haeri Yazdi’s Philosophy and Government. This chapter demonstrates that Islamic philosophical and legal tradition may include the fundamental ideas of persons as free and equal citizens and society as affair system of cooperation, as the primary and necessary ideas in constructivist
justification for justice as fairness. In the first section of this final chapter I explain what this thing called Islamic philosophy is. In second part of this chapter I will explain guardianship of the jurist doctrine (velayat-e faqih). As the main basis for contemporary Shiite version of the idea of an Islamic state, this idea is much criticized by Haeri Yazdi as an unreasonable account of Islamic political theory. In the third part of chapter V we give an account of Haeri Yazdi’s argument for priority of Islamic philosophy to Islamic jurisprudence. This section includes
Haeri’s counterarguments against guardianship of the jurist.
In the fourth section we explain how Haeri’s Islamic contractarianism based upon the concepts of agency contract (aqd-e vekalat) and joint ownership (malekiyat-e musha)—already available in Islamic private law and philosophy— paves the way for full Islamic justification for
the political conception. The fifth section is concerned with a linguistic analysis of the notion of
community, based on the distinction already made in Islamic philosophy between universal (kolli) and whole (kol). This section can be read as an argument in favor of individualism. The sixth and final section includes an Islamic declaration on the incompatibility of the voluntary
nature of Sharia, with the coercive and oppressive nature of state power. As a complement to the ideas of Haeri Yazdi in this regard, I also mention Mohamad Fadel’s view on hudud Islamic penalties. Being complementary to each other, these six sections of chapter V constitute a full Islamic justification for the possibility of overlapping consensus between Shiite Islam and justice as fairness.LUISS PhD Thesi
Global Public Reason: an internal account and multiple justificatory strategies
No full textThe Idea of Democracy’s Public Reason and the Implications
of the Plurality of Ethical Convictions. Legitimacy and Consensus in Non-Liberal Societies. Public Reason: Internal Reasons and Problems with External Reasons and Relativism. A Redefinition of the Conception of Overlapping Consensus
and Reasoning from Within. Global Public Reason: International Relations and Deliberation.The Idea of Democracy’s Public Reason and the Implications
of the Plurality of Ethical Convictions. Legitimacy and Consensus in Non-Liberal Societies. Public Reason: Internal Reasons and Problems with External Reasons and Relativism. A Redefinition of the Conception of Overlapping Consensus
and Reasoning from Within. Global Public Reason: International Relations and Deliberation.LUISS PhD Thesi