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Monaci e signori nella valle sublacense in epoca medievale: architettura monastica e signorile. Analisi e documentazione archeologica delle strutture edilizie per una geografia del costruito
Full text linkLa ricerca proposta comprende quale area di interesse l’archeologia dell’architettura e intende rispondere a determinate domande ancora aperte sulle metodologie costruttive, sulle committenze, sulle maestranze e sulle influenze stilistiche esterne che nel corso del medioevo, dal X al XVI secolo, hanno segnato l’Abbazia di Subiaco e i suoi possedimenti, analizzando l’architettura laica e quella monastica
Treni turistici e storici, valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale locale e sviluppo dei servizi turistici in Puglia
No full textTourist railways and historic trains is now a worldwide phenomenon with different
forms and methods, joined by elements of economic, environmental and social sustainability.
The tourist interest has been amplified by two ‘multiplier’ factors in line with market trends:
‘train travel’ as an “experience” and the “experience” to be enjoyed along the route or at the
destinations (i.e. excursions, meetings, activities, workshops, events, stories). The intention is
to demonstrate that the goal for a tourist destination that operates tourist trains is to achieve a
coherent offer capable of integrating these two "multipliers". In 2020 (declared ‘Tourist Train
Year’ in Italy), railway mobility is now perceived as an important tourism asset. And the
revival of the tourism industry (within the broader framework of the international economy)
will have to take this into account, after the current crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The demand connected to tourist railways and touristic trains is growing strongly both in the
countries with the longest tradition and in Italy, where, in the last two years, there have been
significant numbers of passengers, turnover and related activities being developed. Even in
Puglia,where tourist railway lines are not currently active, their enormous potential could be
exploited due to their unique characteristics that are distinguishable from the existing local
historical railways that spread throughout the territory and by the wide cultural heritage, by
the synergy with the paths, the cycle routes and the paths for trekking and horse riding. This
paper identifies some strategic nodes related to programming activities; the business model
and management choices, the planning of territorial marketing, the creation and development
of attractions and enhanced itineraries, events, paths, characterized by themes and passions.
The investment in this new form of tourism will be useful to the community and easily pay
back the ‘start-up’ and operating costs. Starting from the existing cultural heritage (composite,
widespread and fragmented) with low levels of accessibility, the process towards the desired
objectives and impacts is defined
Participatory governance and its effectiveness: challenges and opportunities
No full textThe general aim of this paper is to explore possible links between decision-making in public sector, citizen involvement, and the effectiveness of public policies. This historical moment, characterized by the succession of two crises, namely the financial one of 2008 and that of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21, seems to require the promotion of a new administrative culture in public administration as well as management tools that can promote sustainable public policies and community participation. The promotion of this change could be applied through the concept of participatory governance, which is put into effect when the community becomes the central subject of public policies through tools of direct democratic participation. From this perspective, stakeholders should not only be the recipients of transparent and accountable information from public bodies but also the central subjects of governmental decision-making processes. In theory, participatory budgeting may be the ideal tool for the realization of participatory governance. Participatory budgeting originated in the late 1980s with the well-known experience of Porto Alegre. After that, it spread to the rest of the world through a process that was not always uniform or linear. In recent years, it has regained the attention of scholars and new cases of concrete application. Therefore, the present study aimed to answer the following research questions by discussing the most relevant theories and analyzing empirical research results:
- What is the level of diffusion of participatory governance and participatory budgeting in Italian local municipalities?
- What are the main reasons behind the adoption of participatory budgeting?
- How could participatory governance influence the decision-making process of public bodies?
A two-step research approach was adopted for this study. The first step was a web-based survey on participatory budgeting experiences in Italian municipalities. In total, 136 experiences with participatory budgeting processes between 2015 and 2020 were identified. The second step involved the selection of a sample population of municipalities with relevant experiences of participatory budgeting (based on its persistence over time, the amount of financial resources addressed to participatory processes, and the number of people involved). In this step, individual research interviews were conducted with the people in charge for the participatory policies, in order to investigate issues related to the motivations and effectiveness of participatory budgeting practices. The results show that, although there has been a recent increase in the use of participatory tools, some doubts emerge about their real effectiveness in influencing decision-making processes. Nevertheless, the diffusion of a new culture of participation seems to favor, for the future, the development of participatory processes characterized by a greater degree of effectiveness
L’evoluzione del ruolo delle ICT e della digitalizzazione nella pubblica amministrazione per una gestione più efficiente ed efficace delle risorse umane
No full textThe search for efficient and effective performance has always been a central theme in public
management studies. The current context has seen a significant impact from the pandemic on the
methods used to carry out work tasks. Therefore, a reflection on the evolution of work conditions within
the public sector toward managerial efficiency and effectiveness seems particularly relevant. In the
Italian context, more than 10 years have passed since the so-called “Brunetta reform” (from the name
of the then Minister of Public Administration, who this year found himself in the same role), consisting
of Legislative Decree 150 of 2009, which addressed the optimization of public work productivity and
the efficiency and transparency of public administrations. This regulatory intervention constitutes a
milestone for the Italian public administration, and numerous studies have already been produced on its
impact on the management of the Italian public sector. Among the central elements of the correct
application of this reform are the role of technological change and the ability of management to use new
technological solutions to increase the efficiency of production processes. Information and
communication technologies (ICT) and the digital governance era have posed important challenges by
stimulating public organizations’ capacity for innovation. These elements were particularly relevant
during the pandemic period, with the almost obligatory use by all public administrations of more or less
intense forms of smart working. Theories on change management are also linked to these concepts, in
which management must demonstrate that it is able to proactively manage internal and external change
instead of waiting for change to occur in the social context. Starting from these premises, this work will
use a case study of an Italian Municipality of medium size. More specifically, the analysis will focus on
the business unit of “human resources management” and examine four temporal phases, which will be
divided according to the technological evolutions that have characterized the organization. In particular,
we will analyze the opportunities that influence the management of human resources, such as
technological innovation, communication with service users, salary, and finally the “informal employee
network.” The latter is represented by the balance between rigid and formal personnel management with
a more unofficial and informal approach, which can improve the organizational climate and induce
employees to work with greater impulse and dedication. In this sense, the staff must be involved in the
achievement of the administration’s objectives, which must not be seen as imposed by the politicians,
but rather as a goal to be achieved through the joint and united effort of all subjects belonging to the
organization. A fundamental aspect is represented by a coherent evaluation system, which allows
efficient performance measurement and encourages employees to improve their performance through
reward systems. The case in question presents the opportunity for a more general analysis of the
management systems of human resources management—a central element in the current scenario of the
public administration, which is trying to recover from the pandemic emergency—while also taking
advantage of what has been learned during that event
Centri storici tra città del mercato e città dei cittadini
No full textIn the last few years, historical centres have witnessed a new centrality both in scientific and political- administrative terms, not only as essential parts of the city, nor even as fundamental keys to understanding the broader urban and territorial dynamics, but above all because they constitute attractive "objects" for urban marketing strategies. The cities have long considered tourism as a fundamental opportunity for economic gain, and have particularly valued the historical centres in which a large majority of monuments and objects of greatest artistic and architectural interest are concentrated. The profound changes that have characterized the increasingly experiential tourist phenomenon have even reinforced the great interest which developed around historical centres. These places, in fact, also condense the very identity as well as the history of the cities and offer the tourist an unprecedented emotional charge, to which no other urban space compares. This sort of "concentration" of experience opportunities has not only made the historical centres an element of great tourist attraction, but has also forced them to always remain faithful to the image of themselves consolidated by tradition and by marketing so as not to betray the expectations of the tourists themselves. The result was a process of museization, freezing, but their reduction to a "theme park" (Amendola 2015), as the processes that characterize cities like Florence and Venice clearly show. The strategic use of collective imagination thus becomes a strength of the tourist strategies for the cities and, at the same time, a critical point of the urban and social development of the historical centres (Settis 2014). When history is reduced to an object to be sold on the market and therefore simplified to make it immediately usable, the city ends up coinciding with the image of itself and ceases to represent a field of experience for its citizens.
Hence, more than any other urban site, historical centres are divided and disputed between the city of market and that of citizens (Emerson, Smiley 2018), between the city that is redefined, rewrites itself or remains immobile to make itself attractive for its tourists, and what it knows and can be a place of growth and experience for its inhabitants. The historical centres ceases to be experienced by its historical residents, pushed out both by the disappearance of the nearby shops and by the traditional meeting points that they become under the weight of the tourist potential, and by the opportunity to transform the houses into more profitable B&Bs or even into luxury homes to sell to wealthy professionals or foreigners. The historical centres thus find themselves at the crossroads of a series of phenomena which, albeit contradictory like museization and gentrification, generate a dramatically coherent final effect, i.e. the acquisition of a strongly touristic section of the historical centre and at the same time the loss of its identity traits. This critical area is the space of urban regulation policies, where the possibility of a difficult and necessary mediation is played out between the needs of these different urban subjects who claim a legitimate right to the city (Lefebvre 1967)
The evolution of the roles of ICT and digitization in public administration and more efficient and effective management of human resources
No full textThe search for efficient and effective performance has always been a central theme in public management studies. The current context has seen a significant impact from the pandemic on the methods used to carry out work tasks. Therefore, a reflection on the evolution of work conditions within
the public sector toward managerial efficiency and effectiveness seems particularly relevant. In the Italian context, more than 10 years have passed since the so-called “Brunetta reform” (from the name of the then Minister of Public Administration, who this year found himself in the same role), which
addressed the optimization of public work productivity and the efficiency and transparency of public administrations. This regulatory intervention constitutes a milestone for the Italian public administration, and numerous studies have already been produced on its impact on the management of
the Italian public sector. Among the central elements of the correct application of this reform are the role of technological change and the ability of management to use new technological solutions to increase the efficiency of production processes. Information and communication technologies (ICT) and the digital governance era have posed important challenges by stimulating public organizations’ capacity for innovation. These elements were particularly relevant during the pandemic period, with the almost obligatory use by all public administrations of more or less intense forms of smart working. Starting from these premises, this work will use a case study of the Municipality of Ferrara. More specifically, the analysis will focus on the business unit of “human resources management” and examine four temporal phases, which will be divided according to the technological evolutions that have characterized the organization. In particular, we will analyze the opportunities that influence the management of human resources, such as technological innovation, communication with service users, salary, and finally the “informal employee network.” The latter is represented by the balance between rigid and formal personnel management with a more unofficial and informal approach, which can improve the organizational climate and induce employees to work with greater impulse and dedication. A fundamental aspect is represented by a coherent evaluation system, which allows efficient
performance measurement and encourages employees to improve their performance through reward systems. The case in question presents the opportunity for a more general analysis of the management systems of human resources management—a central element in the current scenario of the public administration, which is trying to recover from the pandemic emergency—while also taking advantage of what has been learned during that event
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
The relationship between the myocardial fibres development and the interstitial tissue in the human heart.
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