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From Skin Care to Health Care: Female entrepreneurship, profitability and humanistic management in Veralab case
No full textThis work aims to highlight how distinctive features of Humanistic Management and
Entrepreneurship can be pursued in SMEs, enhancing female entrepreneurship role and
contributing to overcome economic crisis such as the one caused by the Covid-19
pandemic. The study presents an enquiry into how increasing profitability and fostering
dignity and health safety in workplace can be simultaneously pursued by adopting an
entrepreneurial vision belonging to the humanistic management approach. Consequences
of Covid-19 outbreak and its containment lockdown measures has been hitting hard on
SMEs and Italian economy. Unlike previous economic crisis, female work has been
especially affected. Against this scenario, Veralab Re-Forme Srl has reached wide
popularity thanks to its unprecedented good economic results during the pandemic year
2020 (among the “champions” according to ItalyPost study center) and the virtue-based
business model pursued by its owner and founder Cristina Fogazzi resting on intangible variables that are at stake within entrepreneurial vision and goals. Drawing from the
analysis of the case-study the role of humanistic values adopted by the entrepreneur are
thus discussed to assess the relationship between good economic performance and covidcontainment
best practices and point out how the humanistic features of the business model
have impacted on the firm’s success in troubled times
SEPARABLE POTENTIALS FROM GAMOW STATES
No full textBALDO M, FERREIRA LS, Streit L. SEPARABLE POTENTIALS FROM GAMOW STATES. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 1985;32(3):685-689
Eigenvalue problem for Gamow vectors and a separable approximation for the N-N interaction
No full textBaldo M, Ferreira LS, Streit L. Eigenvalue problem for Gamow vectors and a separable approximation for the N-N interaction. Physical Review C. 1987;36(5):1743-1746
Gamow vectors as solutions of a non-hermitian eigenvalue problem
No full textBaldo M, Ferreira LS, Streit L. Gamow vectors as solutions of a non-hermitian eigenvalue problem. Nuclear Physics A. 1987;467(1):44-60
Bottom-Up or Top-Down: Which is the best approach to improve CSR and Sustainability in local contexts? Reflections from Italian experiences
No full textSustainability Reporting and Performance Measurement Systems: How do Small- and Medium-Sized Benefit Corporations Manage Integration?
Full text linkAbstract: Benefit Corporations and B Corps represent alternative models of enterprise, often referred to as “hybrid companies” that bridge the for-profit and not-for-profit models. Italy is the first country outside the USA to pass Benefit Corporation legislation and introduce the Società Benefit . A large number of Italian Benefit Corporations are small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs), since SMEs are widespread within the entrepreneurial fabric and have great relevance in the Italian socio-economic context. A key issue in the emerging debate on small- and medium-sized Benefit Corporations concerns how these companies—with limited reach and considerable financial and human resource constraints—can effectively absorb their added social responsibility. In particular, such firms need to manage their dual mission, integrate social and environmental goals in their business model, and incorporate accountability mechanisms, all while scaling up and garnering the necessary resources to be economically competitive. Starting from these premises, this paper focuses on the performance measurement and reporting systems that are adopted by SMEs that are also Benefit Corporations, and investigates whether benefit impact assessment indicators integrate into an overall sustainability performance management system . To achieve this goal, an exploratory case-based analysis on seven small- and medium-sized Italian-certified Benefit Corporations is presented
Introduction to the proceedings of the Piccola Impresa/Small Business 5th Workshop: “Beyond the crisis: what is the future for small businesses? Challenges, opportunities and lessons learned”
Full text linkIn this volume, we are pleased to present the proceedings of the 5th Workshop organised by the journal Piccola Impresa/Small Business in collaboration with the Association for the study of small enterprises (ASPI), the Research Center on Entrepreneurship and Small-medium firms (CRIMPI), the Italian Academy of Business Economics (AIDEA) and the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB). The workshop title was “Beyond the crisis: what is the future for small businesses? Challenges, opportunities and lessons learned”, and it took place online on December 4-5, 2021.
The aim of the conference was to bring together scholars of entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises, to discuss the emerging issues following the Covid-19 pandemic.
As we have highlighted in the call for papers of the workshop and a previous editorial published in the journal mentioned above (Pencarelli et al. 2021), the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the largest public health crisis in living memory, with serious—and still unpredictable—consequences for the global economy. Available data clearly shows that SMEs have particularly suffered from economic downturn: their inherent weaknesses have amplified and accelerated the effects of the crisis compared to larger firms (Cowling et al., 2020; OECD, 2020). Notably, in Italy, the Covid-19 outbreak has challenged SMEs’ survival after a decade of a slow and incomplete recovery (CERVED, 2020, 2021)
Stakeholders
No full textStakeholders are individuals, groups or organisations that have an influence in the decisions of an entity because of their interest (“stake”) explained by the fact that stakeholders can affect or are affected by the activities of the entity. Stakeholders salience (or relevance) depends on their interest, understanding, and capacity to assert their involvement in the entity’s decision-making, planning and development. Specific stakeholder attributes—power, legitimacy, and urgency— help to identify and assess the degree of salience of each type of stakeholder. Managers of DMOs, CVBs, travel agencies, hotels or other tourism entities mainly dedicate their attention to salient stakeholders, whose legitimacy is strongly related to their contribution to the achievement of managers objectives. However, given that stakeholders significantly affect an organization’s strategy and marketing performance, the stakeholders’ perspectives serve as an important basis for analysing the competitiveness of CVBs and DMOs and to assess a destination’s marketing performance
Why Chicken? Fileni (Italy): Between Taste, Circular Economy and Attention to the Territory
No full textThe agrifood system has a huge impact on several features concerning sustainability, including food safety and food security policies. In this vein, investigating why and how companies’ business models incorporate these issues, has been gaining momentum within the scientific, political and managerial agenda. Do agrifood companies only implement strategies addressed to product quality and their characteristics of health, hygiene and sanitation or, in a broader sense, do they incorporate aspects relating to environmental and social sustainability? To answer these questions, this chapter introduces a case study relative to an Italian agrifood company (Fileni Group) that is among the leading European chicken farm and meat producers. The Group has embraced a circular economy putting into practice several strategies of eco-innovation through a regeneration production system based on the use of renewable sources, respect for animals, minimising waste, protecting the environment and generating socio-economic benefits to the territory and the local community. The case analysis allows us to point out the sunken reasons for food safety that rest on an ethical-driven business model, rather than on opportunistic reasons
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