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Isomorfismo e decoupling nelle dinamiche di governance dei musei statali italiani
No full textObiettivi. Il lavoro analizza le dinamiche di governance dei musei statali italiani in chiave situazionista. Il focus è su: il ruolo giocato dagli attori (Direttori/executive) coinvolti nella governance del patrimonio artistico-culturale nazionale; le pressioni istituzionali in grado di orientare le condotte dei Direttori dei musei; l’attivazione di processi isomorfici e di decoupling da parte di quest’ultimi. Metodologia.Il lavoro ha previsto una ricerca on-field che ha coinvolto la popolazione dei Direttori responsabili delle organizzazioni museali italiane, tesa a verificare la presenza di processi isomorfici e di decoupling nelle condotte strategiche dagli stessi adottate. A tal scopo sono state condotte le seguenti analisi: descrittiva, cluster e tavole di contingenza. Risultati. L’analisi sul campo ha consentito di rilevare, in prima istanza, un prevalente orientamento alla conservazione del patrimonio artistico-culturale del campione indagato a fronte di una limitata propensione alla valorizzazione dello stesso. In seconda istanza ha fatto rilevare la propensione dei Direttori ad adottare condotte strategiche isomorfiche e di decoupling. Limiti della ricerca.La prospettiva situazionista nel puntare ad una rappresentazione più realistica del fenomeno, non fornisce allo studioso un set di pratiche di governace prescrittive “pronte per l’uso”. Implicazioni pratiche.La rilettura della governance delle organizzazioni museali in chiave situazionista sollecita gli operatori del settore a rivedere la portata di modelli predittivi e, al contempo, puntare sulla capacità di lettura del contesto competitivo oltre che istituzionale. Originalità del lavoro. Il contributo fornisce al lettore l’opportunità di riconoscere nei processi isomorfici e/o di decoupling la naturale conseguenza di un framework normativo frammentato
The relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and financial performance. An empirical analysis on a sample of italian listed firms
No full textThis paper tries to examine the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and some Corporate Financial Performance (CFP). CSR is measured by an index of corporate social responsibility disclosure while ROA, ROS andROE are used to measure CFP. The CSR disclosure index gives information about the engagement of firm in corporate, CSR, and staff strategy, social, community, and political investment, environment, consumer, and supplier awareness, voluntary reports and certifications. We test our hypothesis on a sample of Italian listed firms, specifically, our sample is composed both by the 64 companies listed on the STAR market and by a sample of control, composed by the 20 listed companies with the higher capitalization, for a total of 84 corporations. We have hand-collected the data from the annual report and any other available document present in the institutional website of each corporation, for the 2012-2013 financial year. We use the Tobit Regression Model, whose analyses were performed using the statistical software SPSS© and Gretl©. The result of this study indicates that we cannot state that there is a positive relationship between CSR and CF
How Universities institutionalize ‘good’ managerial practices? Some evidence from the Italian cultural sector
No full textThe paper examines the role of Universities in the ‘managerialization’ process of the Italian artistic-cultural heritage. Universities are, in a very broad sense, institutions whose mission is to promote and support the dissemination of knowledge and the development of new skills in the society. They do so essentially through the research and teaching activities. At the same time, Universities, together with other institutional actors, “select” the knowledge to be transferred to the Students, via their undergraduate curricula and programs, and the practices to be applied to the workplace, via professional masters and similar educational schemes.
Based on the evidence of the proliferation of professional courses aiming at spreading the managerial culture into the Italian cultural sector, we adopt the new-institutionalism perspective to draw a quali-quantitative analysis of the offer of managerial masters (both first and second level) from Italian Universities. The main aim of the research is to observe if and how the dissemination of selected “good” managerial practices is attributable to isomorphic processes based on the pursuit of legitimacy and consensus in a certain institutional context. In order to observe the presence of “normative isomorphism” in these processes, we here present a content analysis on the most recurrent profiles of masters activated by Italian Universities that are consistent with the issues of the cultural heritage sector
How Health Care moves on the Web: the case of Health Social Network
No full textThe paper focuses on health social network, as websites where patients can find medical information at a number of different levels –since services offered range from emotional support to self-tracking and to clinical trial access. To monitor them, in 2005 the World Health Organisation (WHO) founded the Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe), with the scope to certify health-care-on-the-web through an ethical code (HON, Health On the Net). It has been realized in order to facilitate the distribution of useful and reliable information on the web among citizens. Moving from a previous empirical contribute, and subsequently revised with the additionof a new area based to a set of items referring to economic and relational returns, we have carried out a research aiming atinvestigating potential relations between the rating and the economicand relationalbenefitsgained by an eHealth website. In addition, through descriptive and correlation analyses,it has been possible to weigh the attributes (referring to theeconomicand relational returns) due to the positioning of a website
The professionalization process of cultural manager : an isomorphic view
Get PDFThe paper investigates the ‘professionalization’ process of the Italian
cultural heritage. In particular, it aims to propose an own interpretation of
the ‘professionalization’ process, as a dissemination of ‘good’ practices,
adopting the point of view of new institutionalism theory. This theoretical
approach frames the professionalization process, and then that of
managerialization, as the material and symbolic conditioning that the
institutions have on human behavior: the professional has the ability of
government and management; through professional training will be
ensured the dissemination of the same capacity and then the ‘good’
practices. In this scenario Italian universities seem to contribute to the
dissemination of artistic-cultural heritage management practices. This
research, which has purely theoretical aims, starts from a quick reference
to the regulatory framework evolution and a synthesis of scientific debate
on the governance of cultural heritage; then, it will propose a reflection of
the role that Universities currently have in the diffusion process of
professions for the government and management of cultural heritage. In
this way, the paper links the governance of the artistic-cultural heritage
with the ‘training process’ that universities do for professionalizing human
resources. University nowadays are conducting training projects for
‘cultural manager’, sometimes anticipating the decision of Public
Administration, trying to condition them, sometimes following its strategic
directions.Este artículo investiga el proceso de ‘profesionalización’ de la herencia cultural italiana. En particular, pretende proponer una interpretación propia del proceso de ‘profesionalización’, como una diseminación de ‘buenas’ prácticas, adoptando el punto de vista de una nueva teoría del institucionalismo. Este enfoque teórico enmarca el proceso de profesionalización, y después el de gerencialización, como el material y la condición simbólica que las instituciones tienen sobre el comportamiento humano: un profesional, tiene le habilidad de gobernar y gestionar; a través de la formación profesional la diseminación de la misma capacidad y de las ‘buenas’ practicas será asegurada. En este escenario, las universidades italianas parecen contribuir a la diseminación de las prácticas de gestión del patrimonio artístico cultural. Esta investigación, que tiene fines puramente teóricos, comienza con una rápida referencia a la evolución del marco regulatorio y a la síntesis del debate científico sobre la gobernanza del patrimonio cultural; después, propondrá una reflexión sobre el papel que las universidades tiene actualmente en el proceso de difusión para el gobierno y la gestión del patrimonio cultural. De esta manera, este artículo relaciona la gobernanza de la herencia artístico cultural con el ‘proceso de entrenamiento’ que las universidades realizan para profesionalizar recursos humanos. Hoy en día, las universidades están conduciendo proyectos de entrenamiento para ‘gestor cultural’, a veces anticipando la decisión de la administración publica, tratando de condicionarles, otras, siguiendo su dirección estratégica
L’adozione dell’ICT in un campione di musei europei
No full textIl lavoro analizza l’adozione delle ICT per la promozione del patrimonio artistico-culturale rispetto ad un campione
di musei di 10 città Europee a vocazione turistica che nel 2014 abbiano superato le 100.000 visite (Parigi, Barcellona, Londra,
Amsterdam, Roma, Berlino, Vienna, Stoccolma, Lisbona e Helsinki). Il lavoro, dopo una preliminare analisi della letteratura sul tema, ha previsto una field analysis quali-quantitativa volta a: proporre un modello di posizionamento in grado di esaminare la tendenza dei musei ad implementare soluzioni ICT; esplorare la predisposizione dei musei ad investire in alcune tecnologie di ICT in ragione di ‘dimensione museale’ e ‘assetto di governance’. A tal scopo sono state condotte le seguenti analisi: descrittiva, fattoriale, cluster e discriminante.
L’analisi on field ha consentito di rilevare una diversa propensione all’adozione dell’ICT dei musei di grandi dimensioni rispetto a quelli con flussi di visitatori più contenuti, così come dei musei con governance pubblica rispetto a quelli privati. Il lavoro è al primo stadio di sviluppo e, pertanto, appare opportuno: verificare la completezza delle variabili utilizzate per analizzare le dinamiche del fenomeno; incrementare il campione per aumentarne il livello di rappresentatività rispetto alla popolazione dei musei europei.
Le riflessioni proposte nel contributo appaiono interessanti per gli studiosi, così come per gli operatori del settore, offrendo una descrizione, seppure parziale, del fenomeno.
Originalità del lavoro. Il contributo fornisce al lettore un interessante strumento di riflessione circa la propensione all’innovazione rinvenibile, seppure limitatamente al campione indagato, nelle organizzazioni museali a livello europeo
The Governance Dynamics in Italian State Museums
No full textThis chapter analyses the governance dynamics of Italian museum organizations adopting a ‘situationist’ perspective in order to detect: the role played by the actors (e.g. directors/executive) involved in the governance of the National artistic-cultural heritage; the influence of the political system on the conducts of the directors of the museums; the power relations among these actors and the National Institutions. This work proposes a summary of the scientific and political debates. In particular, the political debate is presented through a brief reconstruction of the Italian institutional framework. The analysis of both of debates help us to identify the so-called ‘recurring themes’ that have fed the political agenda and the research hypotheses of major scholars. Finally, the last sections provide a new reading of the dynamics of museums governance by using some conceptual categories of the theoretical ‘situationist’ approach
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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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