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Prestazioni tecniche, funzionali e morfologiche del verde - Technical, functional and morphological performance of the green
No full textBusiness Model in Air Transport: Evolution of Innovation Concept
Get PDFWith the advent of the knowledge society, new opportunities,
business models and concepts have emerged in most industrial sectors and in
particular in the transport sector. The European air travel market, dominated
by airlines, influenced to varying degrees from their countries of origin, has
been, since the early nineties, completely revolutionized by the entrance in
the competitive arena of several small companies, which, in accordance with
the principles of „disruptive innovation‟, have completely changed the field
of passenger transport. To understand how this was possible, it is necessary
to investigate, just with the help of these new tools of Strategic Management
as the business models, about the way in which these airlines are able to
generate their business and create value.
This work aims to analyse the close relationship between innovation of
product / service and corporate business model in order to understand the
dynamics of the relationship. Various contributions from literature showed
how the concept of innovation within the company has evolved over the
years and what were the approaches used to study it. This analysis begins
with the study of the contributions of Schumpeter, the first economist to
write about innovation and author of the dynamic development model and
creator of the first distinction between innovation and invention. His theories
have made a major contribution in this area, but none the less were also
constructively criticized by other economists such as Freeman, who
introduced the concept of incremental innovation and analysed the factors
triggering innovation. Albernathy and Clark then added another fundamental
element of analysis: the competitive environment. They studied the influence
of innovation on those factors that are considered essential to achieve a
competitive advantage. The same Albernathy, with Utterback, then studied
the dynamics of innovations over time. Each of the cited authors analysed
the phenomenon of innovation in a different light and all of their
contributions allows for a broad and comprehensive concept. The picture is completed by adding the recent contributions of Christensen, who has taken
up and deepened the concepts of "sustaining innovation" and " disruptive
innovation" and, especially, began to highlight how essential it is that
innovation is supported by a suitable business model. In this regard, he has
shown that even the same business model can be object of innovation and
that this type of innovation is one of the main drivers of the creation of
competitive advantage
Use of stone resources in the Vesuvian area: architecture and landscape - Uso delle risorse lapidee nell'area vesuviana: architettura e paesaggio
No full textIl verde e il paesaggio dei sistemi ambientali antropizzati - The green and the landscape of environmental systems humanized
No full textMorfologia e morfometria del settore ionico del Golfo di Taranto.
Get PDFIl versante Ionico del Golfo di Taranto è caratterizzato dalla presenza di alti strutturali e bacini che
rappresentano l’espressione morfologica di sistemi di faglie pleistoceniche transpressive. La dorsale di
Amendolara si estende per 45 Km in direzione N130°E, ed è caratterizzato dalla presenza di tre alti
batimetrici minori (denominati Amendolara, Rossano e Cariati). Verso NE, la dorsale di Capo Spulico si
estende per 40 Km in direzione !N115°E.
Durante la Campagna Oceanografica “Teatioca” sono stati acquisiti 1100Km2 di dati batimetrici
multibeam e profili sismici monocanale ad alta (Sparker) ed altissima risoluzione (Subbottom Chirp).
L’analisi integrata dei nuovi dati ha consentito di ottenere una sintesi morfostrutturale preliminare dell’area
sud-orientale del Golfo di Taranto [Santoro et al., 2012].
L’insieme dei dati morfometrici evidenzia un ruolo chiave nell’attività traspressiva della faglia che borda
a SW la dorsale di Amendolara, in quanto la regolarità dei pendii rivolti a S è legata alla deformazione e
sollevamento dei versanti, che tende a superare l’effetto dei processi erosivi (versanti a controllo morfostrutturale).
Il processo di basculamento guidato dall’azione della faglia sembra essere all’originedei processi
responsabili dell’erosione gravitazionale canalizzata sui pendii esposti a nord (versanti a controllo morfosedimentario).
Sette ordini di terrazzi sono stati riconosciuti sul top del Banco di Amendolara, attraverso tecniche di
analisi dei picchi nel diagramma di distribuzione delle quote [Passaro et al., 2011]. Tale dato e le statistiche
sui profili estratti dal DTM testimoniano la presenza di tassi differenziali di sollevamento ed un complessivo
tilt (verso E) del settore frontale ionico dell’Appennino Meridionale, in accordo con quanto suggerito in
letteratura [Ferranti et al., 2009].
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northern Calabria Apennines, southern Italy. Tectonophysics, 476 (1-2), 226-251.
Passaro, S., Ferranti, L., de Alteriis, G., (2011). The use of high resolution elevation histograms for mapping
submerged terraces: a test from the Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea and the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. Quat. Int.,
232, 1-2, 238-249.
Santoro, E., Ferranti, L., Passaro, S., Burrato, P., Morelli, D., (2012). Morphometric analysis in the offshore
of the southern Taranto Gulf: unveiling the structures controlling the Late Pleistocene-Holocene
bathymetric evolution. Rend. On. Soc. Geol. It., 21 (2), 1132-1135
Retail Concentration: The shopping streets
Get PDFChanges in consumer lifestyle strongly affect the retail demand, forcing the distribution system to reorganize and reposition its offer. Shopping proves to be a differentiating “activity”, given that buying behavior is even more characterized by psychological and emotional factors, thus the purchased goods and the stores patronized become lifestyle symbols.
However, a dualism between the retail dynamic needs and the existing spatial conditions exists. The former, especially in the case of fashion and shopping goods, requires a strategic position as close to customers as possible, namely huge spaces, attractive locations where the consumer need for experience and entertainment is met. The latter could be modified gradually and partially, determining a location hierarchy that results from wider changes in politics, economy and society.
Consequently, all cities are experiencing a renewal process in their shopping “spaces”; retailers are competing for a front space on the streets in order to gain more visibility – through huge and sparkling stores - and “label” their products through values, symbols, and emotional/entertaining experience.
This paper investigates the spatial/territorial dimension of consumption, analyzing the concentration phenomenon among shops from the same sector or complementary ones. By exploiting agglomeration economies shops can be positioned in the consumers’ mind, firstly, with the street’s collective image and then with the shop’s specific image.
The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which shopping streets (also referred to as the high street, downtown or city centre) provide retail concentration
Editorial special issue who will benefit from the transition to the circular economy?
No full textOver the last two decades, the enormous impact of the take-makewaste linear economic model has pushed the academic research
(Uphadhayay et al., 2024; Anaruma et al., 2022; Schoggl ̈ et al., 2020;
Ghisellini et al., 2016; Su et al., 2013) and stakeholders of worldwide
socio-economic systems (such as policy makers, consumers, non-profit
organizations, media) to focus their attention towards the development and adoption of consumption and production models oriented
towards the Circular Economy paradigm (Ellen Mac Arthur Foundation,
2024). Societal stakeholders have been increasingly involved in programs, policies, and strategies aimed at transitioning towards CE (Clube
and Tennant, 2023; Van Bueren et al., 2023). Consequently, the Circular
Economy is gaining momentum (Kirchherr et al., 2023) and is attracting
much of the debate on the search for sustainable solutions (Evans, 2023;
De Lima, 2022; Terra dos Santos et al., 2022) to support the diffusion of
consumption (Shevchenko et al., 2023) and production patterns with
lower impacts on resources leveraging longer lifetimes for enhanced
environmental conservation (Luzzati et al., 2022) and socially just
(Costanza, 2023; D’Urzo and Campagnaro, 2023; Persson and Hinton,
2023; Pitkanen ̈ et al., 2023; Vanhuyse et al., 2022) and cost-effective
waste management supply chains (Zerbino et al., 2023) and systems
(Harala et al., 2022).
Countries are adopting CE strategies, programmes and policies
(Guarnieri et al., 2023; Rebehy et al., 2023; Remme and Jackson, 2023;
Lazarevic et al., 2022) and integrating CE in their sustainability agendas
(Pynol Alberich et al., 2023) even if in a diversified manner, both in EU
(such as between Northern-Western and Southern-Eastern states and
regions) (Awad, 2023; Arsova et al., 2022; Van Langen and Passaro,
2021) and non-EU countries such as Brazil (Guarnieri et al., 2023;
Rebehy et al., 2023) and China (Agutiono et al., 2023; Wang et al.,
2022). Furthermore, consumers/citizens are becoming more aware of
the CE concept and its potential in relation to climate change (Eurobarometer, 2023) and more environmentally responsible in their daily
life (Greene et al., 2024) but showing a resistance to radically change
their consumption habits (Bigliardi et al., 2022).
In terms of physical material flows the adoption of the CE model is
still at the early stage in the worldwide economy since the circularity
rate is only 7.2% (Circular Economy Foundation, 2024), although some
EU countries (e.g. Netherlands and Belgium) have achieved a higher
circularity rate and are able to send back to the economy more than 20%
of the recovered materials (EUROSTAT, 2023). Therefore, it is important
to understand at this initial stage the CE potential of contributing to
mitigate climate change and natural resources consumption (Ghisellini
et al., 2023) but also of pursuing a more sustainable human development
(Clube and Tennant, 2023; Nogueira et al., 2023; Tiep Le, 2022) and
reduce the injustices of the linear model of production and consumption
(Persson and Hinton, 2023; Pitkanen ̈ et al., 2023; Velancia et al., 2023;
Vanhuyse et al., 2022). In other terms, this SI intends to understand
more broadly who the beneficiaries of the CE are.
Particular attention has been dedicated to encouraging the analysis
of the environmental and social impacts and benefits resulting from CE
implementation from a large perspective across R principles beyond
recycling, policy programmes, research projects, methods, scales (micro,
meso, macro and ahead). Moreover, the SI was also intended to stimulate the discussion around the emerging visions of CE model beyond the
mainstream and having the potential of promoting simultaneously at all
scales the values of environmental consciousness and adaptiveness, social justice, qualitative public well-being beyond purely quantitative
economic growth
Statistical analysis of the circular economy for the intervention policies of the NRRP
No full textPurposeThis paper deals with analyzing the relationships between the domains of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Missions envisaged by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). Specifically, the authors refer to Mission 2 (Green revolution and ecological transition) and to the statistical indicators related to the M2C1 component (Circular economy and sustainable agriculture).Design/methodology/approachThe numerous data available were analyzed at a regional level using multivariate statistical methodologies (Totally Fuzzy and Relative method) capable of summarizing the various information to evaluate the current situation relating to the "circular economy and sustainable agriculture" component. The presence of multiple updated data allows for the development of a holistic approach to the evaluation of the local government policies in place and to be able to monitor the progress of the subsequent intervention policies of the Italian government.FindingsNo Findings.Originality/value NRRP represents an opportunity for development for the area, providing for reforms and substantial investments for the promotion of circular economy solutions, the improvement of the capacity for efficient and sustainable waste management, the strengthening of the infrastructures for treatment of waste and separate collection, the reduction of the North/South gap
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