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    Overcoming ‘departmentalism’ to facilitate SDG achievement: evidence from Italian state universities

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    There are several barriers to the holistic integration of sustainability in universities, among which the ‘departmentalism’, a mono-disciplinary approach in setting up university structures that prevents different scientific fields from collaborating and co-operating to improve education and research, and, thus, SDG achievement. This article examines whether and how promoting interdisciplinarity within organizational structures in university governance impacts the sustainability orientation of the value proposition in terms of education and research. This study uses a mixed-method approach and focuses on Italian state universities. The article contributes to the public management literature and the broader sustainability literature by advancing the understanding of the impact of departmentalism on SDG achievement in the context of higher education

    Assessing the impact of tourism on hospitals’ performance in a coastal destination

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    Tourism represents one the most relevant industries in promoting the development of a destination, but tourism and its seasonality can produce negative outcomes. The additional demand caused by tourism can strongly affect public service providers which cannot adapt their supply to seasonal variations as a result of organisational, financial and institutional limitations. This work focuses on hospital services in an Italian coastal destination and it aims to explain the impact tourism and its related seasonality have on the performance of hospitals in a coastal destination. The activity of three hospitals located in Gallura, a region in the northeast of Sardinia, Italy, has been analysed. The analysis has been carried out using data on hospitals admission from 2014 and 2015.The study highlights the critical impact tourism can have on the activity of healthcare providers in a coastal destination, identifying the reduction of hospital performance and a potential cause of bed crises
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