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Measures of Efficiency of Agricultural Insurance in Italy, Economic Evaluations
No full textRisk management policy in agriculture has become particularly prominent nowadays, considering the evolution of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and climate change. Moreover, the Word Trade Organization places constraints on it. In this context, (1) the aim is to analyze the causes of the loss of effectiveness of the Italian insurance system, unable to deal with the specific coverage demand from agriculture. (2) The analysis is carried out through the economic evaluation of convenience in adhering to the instruments offered by the insurance market to winegrowers in the Controlled and Guaranteed Denomination of Origin (DOCG) area of Conegliano-Valdobbiadene. (3) The study highlights that the subsidized coverage alone is not the most adequate measure of agricultural policy. Adhering to preferential programs implies the drafting of a supplementary insurance policy to minimize the loss function. (4) The current insurance system impasse demonstrates that the producer hardly accepts to policies which do not convert into an immediate income benefit. The European risk management regulation confirms its limits in terms of usefulness and efficiency of the agrarian policy. (5) The prediction of probabilistic increase of severe-weather patterns makes the search for innovative risk assessment models more urgent, models which can combine the different needs of stakeholders: farmers, insurance companies, and society
Performative Pedagogy and Choreography for the Classroom. A Cognitive Perspective
No full textAdopting a cognitive perspective, this article presents how choreography is a fundamental part of teaching and why teaching can be considered a performance. It opens with a description of choreography as a cognitive process of planning and reflection about the pedagogical choices to make in the classroom, that can eventually materialise in the actual lesson. It describes the choreographic presence of the teacher, involuntary when teachers are not aware of their body language, and performative when they opt for teaching methodologies based on performance. Adopting performative choreographic techniques in the classroom sustains embodied learning at different levels, increasing multi-modal, affective and aesthetic engagement. The article provides specific examples of choreographic strategies for didactic purposes which explore cognitive and literacy processes, expression and management of emotions, and the approach to cultural and social issues
Scaling Deep or Scaling Up? How Relational Mechanisms Affect the Scaling of Social Innovation
No full textWhile literature on social entrepreneurship has recently turned attention to how social enterprises manage the relational dynamics of social innovation, most empirical studies have focused on the formation of partnerships and alliances as a driver of the development of social innovation. This paper contributes to the scholarly debate by further unpacking the relational mechanisms required to ensure the partnership success in scaling social innovation. By problematizing the relationship between relational mechanisms and the achievement of different scalability objectives, we hypothesize that the development of social innovation partnerships characterized by process-based trust is conducive to their success in better serving the needs of a given community (i.e., scaling deep) in particular under conditions of environmental uncertainties, while brokered access and formal mechanisms enhance partners’ ability to expand their initiatives in new communities (i.e., scale up). We develop our context- specific hypotheses in the Italian social innovation field based on an original database of Italian social innovation partnerships
Category Spanning and the Paradox of Strategic Conventionality in the Italian Opera
No full textWhile literature on categories has recently turned attention to how organizations can mitigate the “illegitimacy discount” (Zuckerman, 1999) of category spanning, most empirical studies have tested this effect in the context of a market-maker audience. This paper contributes to the scholarly debate by further unpacking the conditions in which a market-taker conservative audience can reward category spanning and the resulting hybrid products. By problematizing the relationship between degrees of categorical contrast and categorical features, we hypothesize that a conservative audience can positively reward organizations that blend the features of two high-contrast categories when the combined entity preserves the core features of the category that reflects conservative audience expectations while hybridizing peripheral attributes. Furthermore, we introduce the paradox of “strategic conventionality”: while producers strategically increase the conventionality (Durand & Kremp, 2016) of hybrid products to attract attention, external audiences penalize highly conventional hybrids based on assessments of perceived inauthenticity (Carroll & Wheaton, 2009). We develop our context- specific hypotheses in the Italian opera sector based on an original panel data of opera houses’ programming decisions
La renna in Lapponia: ecologia, mitologia, magia
No full textIl saggio illustra una serie di caratteristiche di rilevanza antropologia della renna nell'ambito storico-culturale dei Saami della Lapponia, tenendo conto delle particolarità etologica ed ecologiche in connessione con i significati simoblici mitici e magico religiosi
IL CREDITO TRIBUTARIO NEL CONCORDATO FALLIMENTARE. CONSIDERAZIONI SULL’AMBITO DI APPLICAZIONE E SULLA FUNZIONE DELLA C.D. TRANSAZIONE FISCALE
No full textL’articolo affronta il tema del trattamento del credito tributario nell’ambito del concordato fallimentare. Il punto di partenza è rappresentato dalla constatazione che né il legislatore né la giurisprudenza si sono mai preoccupati di regolamentare la sorte del credito erariale nell’ambito del concordato fallimentare. Ciò nonostante, considerazioni di ordine sistematico suggeriscono due soluzioni per prospettare, almeno sul piano teorico, la possibilità di giungere alla falcidia del credito erariale nell’ambito del concordato fallimentare: l’applicazione delle disposizioni dettate in tema di transazione fiscale o l’applicazione delle regole generali del concordato fallimentare. La scelta impone un’attenta riflessione sulla ratio e sulla funzione della transazione fiscale, chiarendo, in particolar modo, se questa si ponga o meno in posizione derogatoria rispetto al principio dell’indisponibilità del credito tributario