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The dilemmas of middle management in the digitalization of public sector: evidence from an Italian government agency
No full textKinematical models of warped disks
No full textA new approach to study the morphology and kinematics of gaseous structures is presented, using a model where warped and twisted planes are simulated in the three dimensions, with gas moving in circular orbits. The kinematics and morphology of this gas are projected on the plane of the sky and compared with real images and long-slit spectral data. Due to its simplicity, this method is very versatile and can be applied to many different cases of warped gas structures: polar rings, tumbling potentials, and acquired gas settling to the main galaxy plane. It can be used in two different ways: as an heuristic approach to give a better estimation for the rotation curves, starting from the observational data (images and velocity) or to check the predictions of warped and twisted gas structure computed using - N-body simulations or dynamical - codes. The mathematical details of the model are discussed. Model results are compared to three galaxies: the model of NGC 660 is discussed in some details and those for the warped structure of the SB0 NGC 2217 and the polar ring galaxy AM 2020-504 are briefly presented
From preservation to entertainment: Accounting for the transformation of participation in Italian state museums
Full text linkThis study investigates the evolution of performance measures in Italian state museums, alongside the evolution of their role from preservation institutes to entertainment sites, remodelling themselves as participatory museums of the digital era. Italian autonomous state museums, and in particular four of these museums, were chosen as the main field of analysis because this category of state museums was affected the most by the move from the participatory to the entertainment model through successive reforms. Results underlined a renewed role for entertainment, which acted as a mediator between the notion of enjoyment and that of knowledge; the primary importance of the measure about the number of visitors, which assumed different nuances along the years; and the double function of digital technologies in entertaining visitors and providing new sources of measurement
Extragalactic Planetary Nebulae as Mass Tracers in the Outer Halos of Early-Type Galaxies
No full textExtragalactic Planetary Nebulae as Mass Tracers in the Outer Halos of Early-Type Galaxies
No full textIntrapreneurship in Higher Education: The Digital Learning Challenge
Full text linkDigital learning is challenging traditional higher education structures by enabling new strategic directions and entrepreneurial stimuli. The paper adopts the definition of intrapreneurship as the entrepreneurial orientation within existing organisations and explores that concept in the context of digital learning, focusing on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The three stages of intrapreneurship–formulation, deployment and evaluation–were explored through a multiple case study, alongside the duality between individual freedoms and organisational goals and constraints. Detailed results show the interaction and conflicts arising during the three stages of intrapreneurship, providing a framework of reference. The paper offers management and policy implications in the designing and monitoring of these organisational processes
The participative turn in Museum: The online facet
No full textThis study aims to explore the participative turn in Museums on social media, by analyzing the different stimulus that museums with complex code of access use to g democratize' themselves through a social media platform and how effective they are according to the online public response. Empirically, the analysis is carried out in nine Italian Archaeological State Museums, as exemplars of museums with complex code of access, analyzing the content of their posts and the interactions generated over one year. Seven, out of the nine museums evaluated showed a misalignment between the online efforts and the community engagement. Online users value more posts related to the permanent collection of the museums than gathering practical information to visit the institution
Co-existence? NPM in a network world
Full text linkThis chapter discusses the role and the importance of New Public Management (NPM), in a changing world, where the network paradigm has been adopted in public sector entities. The focus is on performance management, a seminal feature of the NPM since its inception, which has been hardly criticiszed by network proponents. In the NPM paradigm, performance management plays a central role which is intended to ensure an efficient and effective service delivery. The context in which NPM developed was characterised by an emphasis on accountability, pushing towards the disaggregation of the heavy public sector in subunits, with the desire to trace more easily the responsibility between input and outputs. This theoretical configuration of a single institution in charge of service delivery facilitated the promotion of measures for management and control. This chapter examines the tensions in three organisations which individually have NPM performance management systems, but which collectively have an overarching governance system
Special Issue on Performance Management in Public Services
No full textThis is a special issue on performance measurement in the public sector
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