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Il ruolo delle reti a supporto degli ecosistemi imprenditoriali
No full textNell’ultimo decennio il fascino del potenziale degli ecosistemi imprenditoriali ha catturato l’interesse di numerosi studiosi nonché l’attenzione di professionisti e responsabili politici orientando scelte attuative di politiche di sviluppo di molti paesi. L’emergere di ecosistemi imprenditoriali è un fenomeno globale, la creazione di nuove imprese è diventata gradualmente una fonte critica di crescita economica e un elemento essenziale per lo sviluppo di una specifica area geografica. Ma nonostante gli ampi interessi
accademici e politici, da un punto di vista teorico, l’elaborazione del concetto di ecosistema imprenditoriale lascia ancora aperti diversi interrogativi con riferimento agli elementi che ne caratterizzano la configurazione, alle relazioni fra le diverse parti interessate, ai fattori e dinamiche che possano guidare il processo imprenditoriale, accrescere il valore e contribuire al successo dell’ecosistema.
Il volume descrive come la costituzione di reti consenta ai diversi attori di connettersi, di attivare collaborazioni, di accedere a risorse e opportunità ed esplora il ruolo strategico delle reti nella creazione di un ambiente favorevole che possa supportare lo sviluppo di nuove progettualità e la crescita di un ecosistema imprenditoriale
The business model transition toward sustainability. A case of an Italian firm operating in the energy industry
No full textEnd-of-life management of oil and gas offshore platforms: challenges and opportunities for sustainable decommissioning
No full textPurpose of the paper: The decommissioning of offshore platforms represents a significant and controversial challenge that has gained attention over the years due to its environmental, social, and economic impact. This work aims to investigate stakeholders’ perceptions regarding the future of offshore platforms and to explore dimensions of sustainability related to decommissioning.
Methodology: An analysis was carried out based on two rounds of empirical inquiry, a range of primary data collected through multiple-choice questionnaires and in-depth interviews.
Findings: The analysis shows that stakeholders perceive reuse as an opportunity to minimise the impacts according to an environmental, economic, and social perspective. While the multipurpose platform represents an opportunity for the future, it also presents challenges.
Research limitations: The study relies only on qualitative analysis techniques and on a limited sample and geographical area.
Practical implications: The analysis offers several insights into the decommissioning scenario according to a sustainable and circularity perspective and contributes to the decommissioning debate by providing information about decommissioning programs, stakeholders’ impacts, and future planning considerations.
Originality of the paper: The study contributes knowledge to the field and useful managerial insights, highlighting stakeholders’ perception in the Italian context and exploring dimensions of sustainability and main SDGs related to the issu
Making smart cities resilient harmonising technologies and human-centricity
No full textRecent crises have underscored the need for smart cities to evolve, better complementing their technological infrastructure with social, cultural, and environmental dimensions to stay resilient over time. The literature calls for further research into the essentials of smart cities towards a more participatory, human-centered approach that can collaboratively enhance the diverse aspects of urban resilience. This comprehensive approach enables cities to leverage various resources to absorb, adapt, transform, respond, and continue functioning in the face of disturbances. This paper seeks to contribute to the fragmented research on smart city resilience by examining the core multidimensional components of urban resilience and identifying the key actions that these cities undertake to achieve it. Following a preliminary theoretical framework, a comparative case study analysis of six European smart cities was conducted. The findings offer valuable insights for both theory and practice, providing scholars, policymakers, and public managers with guidance for conceptualising, developing, and implementing effective resilience-based policies and strategies. However, this study is somewhat limited by the relatively small sample size of the analyzed case cities and by the qualitative design of the content analysis, in which the semantic approach implies a certain influence of researchers’ interpretation on the coding process
Towards a resilient perspective for the future of offshore platforms. Insights from a data driven approach
No full textPurpose: This study aims to investigate the collective perception regarding the future of offshore platforms and frame the main categories of meanings associated by the community with the investigated phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach: A data driven approach has been conducted. The collection of the peoples’ opinions has been realized on two specific social network communities as follows: Twitter and Instagram. The text mining processes carried out a sentiment and a cluster analysis. Findings: The sentiment analysis of the most frequent words has been shown. The following four main homogeneous categories of words are emerged in relation to the decommissioning of offshore platforms: technological areas, green governance (GG), circular economy and socio-economic sphere. Research limitations/implications: The alternative use of the offshore platforms, including tourism initiatives, aquaculture, alternative energy generation, hydrogen storage and environmental research, could improve the resilience of communities by offering the development of new jobs and the growth of local and innovative green businesses. Practical implications: The adoption of a circular model and GG initiatives aims to limit the input of resources and energy, minimize waste and losses, adopt a sustainable approach and realize new social and territorial value. Originality/value: The analysis underlines the importance to adopt a systems perspective, which takes into account the social, economic and environmental system as a whole, the different phenomena that occur and the variety of categories of stakeholders, from users to local governments that participate in the territorial development
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
An ecosystems perspective on the reconversion of offshore platforms: Towards a multi-level governance
No full textThe decommissioning of offshore platforms has been increasingly discussed due to its economic, social, and environmental impacts. The high complexity of this multilevel context pushes for the adoption of a service ecosystem view to explore the value propositions and actors' relations involved in resource exchanges. This study follows a mixed-method approach based on semistructured interviews conducted with oil and gas stakeholders and content analysis of the secondary data collected. The results highlight the ecosystem elements and identify the main drivers for sustainable growth in the process of the reconversion of oil and gas assets. A “meta” level is theorized to investigate how the actors' purposes can be harmonized with an ecosystem's goal to encourage the diffusion of a sustainable-oriented culture in the context of offshore decommissioning. In this sense, the study provides several insights for researchers and professionals in both the local and national governance field and the oil and gas industry
Toward a sustainable decommissioning of offshore platforms in the oil and gas industry: A pestle analysis
No full textThe growing complexity of environmental challenges has progressively led to the emer-gence of Sustainable Business Models (SBMs) able to embed economic, environmental, and social flows in a unified value network. All sectors are demanding innovative and sustainable solutions, including the oil and gas industry, which aims to address the issues about the decommissioning of offshore platforms. However, although the relevant literature highlighted the potentialities related to a multi‐reuse of these structures, the effect of Sustainable Decommissioning (SD) on macro‐envi-ronmental factors is still an open question. Based on these considerations, this study follows a Po-litical, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental (PESTLE) analysis according to semi‐structured interviews conducted with oil and gas key informants and stakeholders in the Italian context. The results of the analysis can provide a novel thinking for addressing the challenges related to a sustainable decommissioning of offshore platforms and shed light on the importance of synergistic efforts by local entrepreneurship and institutional arrangements to combine economic and environmental sustainability with social needs. This paper can contribute to the emerging field of sustainable business models related to the decommissioning of offshore platforms and suggests avenues for future research
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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