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Organizing the Public Realm - Sub-theme (n. 22) of Annual Conference of the European Group on Organisational Studies "The Organizing Society - Annual Conference", Bergen, Norway, July 6- 8, 2006
No full textSub-theme 22:
Organizing the Public Realm
Convenors:
Vando Borghi - Department of Sociology, University of Bologna, Italy [email protected]
Daniel Cefai - University of Paris X – Nanterre, France
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Ota de Leonardis - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy [email protected]
Call for papers:
The public realm - as a sphere of several intersecting processes and agencies – has been characterised in the last decades by many substantial transformations. According to many observers, the public realm can be referred to as (1) the social property (public services; public access to the concrete conditions of social citizenship, such as health, social protection, education, etc.) and as (2) the possibility of having voice in the process of constituting the public good (the idea of public interest requiring collectivised expression; the public as public sphere, according to debates opened by Dewey, Habermas, etc.).
We have witnessed significant changes in the structures and processes of defining and enacting the public realm. This takes place in spaces, times and practices of the public in itself, and in the fields of social and labour market policies; business and economic activities; public administration; health services and so on. The role and activity of both private and public organisations and institutions have been deeply reshaped. The change ‘from government to governance’, on the one hand, and the transformations of private organisations on the other are both relevant in the metamorphosis of the public realm.
These transformations come from many different sources:
The introduction of market-like practices in public institutions;
An increasing plurality of actors involved in the organisation of the public realm;
New demands for de-standardised and individualised services/goods;
A redefinition of citizens in terms of consumers;
A growing attention to the environmental and social limits to economic action
The relationship between public and private can develop in different directions. There has been a shift of social responsibilities from the collective to the private sphere and also a rising emphasis on corporate social responsibility. These are examples of divergent development trends in the relationship between the private and public spheres. Of course, some of these trends may be taking place on a (political) rhetorical level. Social discourses have to be part of the inquired processes, however, since they are not separable from the organisational phenomena to which they refer.
Important organisational and institutional changes can be explored and discussed. Relevant questions that may be addressed are:
What does organising the public realm mean today? Which kind of institutional actions, processes, spaces, subjects, forms of co-ordination among actors, etc. can we appropriately classify as public? In which way is the public restructured as a place for organizing a discourse in the interest of the ‘public good’?
The convergent / divergent paths in the public-private relationship: How has the relationship between the private and the public sphere been reshaped during the last decades? Do we see different development trends in different contexts?
What role does the shift ‘from government to governance’ play in this picture?
The social effects of organisational and institutional changes: How do these changes affect social daily life? In which ways are gender relationships affected?
The public relevance of private (economic) organizations: How do private firms influence the public realm?
Vando Borghi (email: [email protected]) is Researcher at the Dept. of Sociology, University of Bologna. He works at the Faculty of Political Sciences, where he teaches “Sociology of Organization” and “Organization and Entrepreneurship”. He is a member of the ‘core group’ of the Active Social Policy European Network (http://..
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF FRANJO LEONARDIS ARCHBISHOP OF BAR (1644-1645)
No full textTema rada jest životni put i djelovanje trogirskog patricija i arhiđakona trogirske crkve Franje Leonardisa, od 1636. godine misionara Kongregacije za širenje vjere na području Paštrovića, a koncem života i barskoga nadbiskupa. Ukazuje se na dosadašnja saznanja u znanstvenoj literaturi, donosi njegov sažet životopis te podrobno raščlanjuju dosad neobjavljeni dokumenti Leonardisova oporuka i njezin dodatak (kodicil), pohranjeni u Državnom arhivu u Zadru i Istorijskom arhivu u Kotoru. Na kraju rada objavljuje se njihov cjelovit prijepis.Franjo Leonardis (1595-1645) was a descendant of Leonardis and Andreis, noble families of Trogir. He was educated in Rome (studies of philosophy and theology), and in 1625 he obtained his PhD. When he returned to Trogir he became archdeacon and assistant of contemporary bishop Pace Giordano. In 1636 he was sent to Paštrovići (Montenegro) to help the Church reunion with the Orthodox churches. During the following years Leonardis had significant successes regarding the union, and the peak was church union with the Monenegro vladika Mardarije (1640). On the other hand, in spite of the extraordinary efforts, negotiations with Pajsije the patriarch of Peć did not have positive results. In 1644, though he did not want to become prelate, Leonardis was appointed to become archbishop of Bar. However, he did not perform this duty long, since he passed away in Kotor at the beginning of September 1645. In this article, on the basis of the literature and archival documents that are kept in the archives in Zadar and Kotor, the author analyses life path of Franjo Leonardis together with his relations with crucial contemporary persons in ecclesiastical life of Boka kotorska and Albania. Moreover, in the appendix of the article author delivers transcription of Leonardis’s testament and its annex (codicil)
A Miniature Direct-Drive Hydraulic Actuator for Wearable Haptic Devices based on Ferrofluid Magnetohydrodynamic Levitation
No full textHydraulic and pneumatic actuators in haptics offer the advantage of soft and compliant interfaces, with the drawback of cumbersome driving devices and limited modulation capabilities. We propose a miniature hydraulic actuator based on a linear electromagnetic motor with an embedded ferrofluid sealing. The solution has two main advantages: it shows no static friction due to the magnetohydrodynamic levitation effect of the ferrofluid, and the output force can be scaled (by varying the radius of the actuator) without introducing noise and friction of mechanical reduction mechanisms. Moreover, soft and compliant interfaces in the form of actuated pouches can be obtained on wearable devices with embedded actuators. As a concept prototype, we present here a compact and soft haptic thimble integrating the proposed actuator: experimental characterization at the bench, and perception experiments with the final prototype, evaluate the low-noise rendering capability of the method
Assessing the default risk by means of a discrete-time survival analysis approach
No full textIn this paper, the problem of company distress is assessed by means of a multi-period model that exploits the potentialities of the survival analysis approach when both survival times and regressors are measured at discrete points in time. The discrete-time hazards model can be used both as an empirical framework in the analysis of the causes of the deterioration process that leads to the default and as a tool for the prediction of the same event. Our results show that the prediction accuracy of the duration model is better than that provided by a single-period logistic model. It is also shown that the predictive power of the discrete-time survival analysis is enhanced when it is extended to allow for unobserved individual heterogeneity (frailty). Copyright 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Bilancio scientifico del Convegno
No full textIl saggio fa un bilancio del volume dedicato al rapporto tra guerre totali e popolazione civile
Default risk analysis via a discrete-time cure rate model
No full textCure models represent an appealing tool when analyzing default time data where two groups of companies are supposed to coexist: those which could eventually experience a default (uncured) and those which could not develop an endpoint (cured). One of their most interesting properties is the possibility to distinguish among covariates exerting their influence on the probability of belonging to the populations’ uncured fraction, from those affecting the default time distribution. This feature allows a separate analysis of the two dimensions of the default risk: whether the default can occur and when it will occur, given that it can occur. Basing our analysis on a large sample of Italian firms, the probability of being uncured is here estimated with a binary logit regression, whereas a discrete time version of a Cox’s proportional hazards approach is used to model the time distribution of defaults. The extension of the cure model as a forecasting framework is then accomplished by replacing the discrete time baseline function with an appropriate time-varying system level covariate, able to capture the underlying macroeconomic cycle. We propose a holdout sample procedure to test the classification power of the cure model. When compared with a single-period logit regression and a standard duration analysis approach, the cure model has proven to be more reliable in terms of the overall predictive performance
La scuola di analisi storica del sistema internazionale
No full textIl saggio inquadra la produzione storiografica di Massimo de Leonardis nel contesto dello sviluppo della letteratura sulle relazioni internazionali
Grandi eventi, Olimpiadi e comuni alpini: costruire un'eredità olimpica condivisa nelle vallate olimpiche
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