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Il governo e la gestione dei dati nelle organizzazioni
No full textI temi legati ai dati vanno assumendo sempre più rilevanza nel panorama delle condotte organizzative. La loro trattazione, oggigiorno, trova collocazione in una letteratura molto vasta e in continua evoluzione, che appare come un insieme di contributi decisamente variegati, sia sotto il profilo contenutistico-teorico, che metodologico-applicativo. Assumendo il punto di vista dell’analisi organizzativa, questo lavoro, presentato nella forma di una monografia scientifica, si prefigge di realizzare un triplice scopo: isolare i concetti più rilevanti nell’ambito del governo e della gestione dei dati; proporne un ordinamento teorico-pratico esprimibile in termini di processi, persone e strumenti; promuovere una visione della Data Governance e del Data Management come aggregati strategico-operativi complessi, la cui integrazione nel sistema organizzativo è condizione irrinunciabile per la generazione, attraverso i dati, di benefici economici e sociali consistenti
Growing Thanks to Whom? The Impact of Staff on Demand on Organizational Growth Dynamics: Evidence from Sweden.
Full text linkYoung fast-growing companies operating in the digital economy represent a tendency which has, so far, been little explored by academic literature that has, until now, not been able to form a systematic approach to this topic. Among the many factors that can help to explain their rapid evolutionary dynamics, some researchers (Ismail, 2013; Burke, 2015) underline the so-called use of Staff on Demand, that is to say freelance workers. In other words, freelance personnel. One usually thinks that not having stable relationships with the companies for which they work, contractors can help to streamline organizational processes and therefore favour faster growth. By means of a multiple case study, this paper will show that, contrary to belief, Staff on Demand represents an important but not crucial presence for fast-growing companies. The case study was carried out on a number of recently formed Swedish companies. The collection of data and the interviews with their founders, CEOs and HR Officers, clearly show that the most important role is still played by full time employees and that the presence of Staff on Demand does not affect in any substantial way the growth of a company or of Human Resource management
Digitalies. Opportunità e insidie della digitalizzazione nei nuovi scenari organizzativi.
Full text linkIl Covid ha stravolto le nostre abitudini lavorative e, nel futuro che ci attende, la digitalizzazione si candida ad essere la “nuova normalità”. Proprio per questo, il ruolo delle organizzazioni nella società non è mai stato così in bilico tra utopia e distopia. Perché digitalizzare non significa necessariamente essere sostenibili
Liberalism Untold. Why A Genuine Liberal Thought Still Doesn’t Exist.
Full text linkFrom a political-philosophical standpoint, liberalism has its roots in its focus on individuals’ negative liberty, which entails the removal of any obstacle that might potentially hinder their actions. As Bobbio (1978) suggests, our agency can be limited at a social level by customary, legislative or moral norms. We can define the entirety of these norms as the nomos driving our day-to-day actions. Liberal thinkers usually argue that the state should regulate citizens’ lives as little as possible. From this perspective, they seem to be mostly concerned with setting people free from the invasive nomos of public institutions. However, is this political approach genuinely liberal? Based on the original, and thus genuine, meaning of the term nomos, the answer is no.
A real safeguarding of negative liberty should be aimed at the removal of any nomos curtailing people’s independence, not just the nomos of the state.
Within the context of the informal economy, for instance, poverty, marginality and precarious work have grown into veritable rules. When seen from this perspective, workers’ disadvantage is indeed a nomos regulating, restricting, and limiting individual agency. Why has liberalism failed to promote the removal of this kind of nomos that curtails people’s negative liberty with equal strength as that of the state? Is deregulation truly the solution to all the ills of the market? Should those who self-identify as liberals oppose or embrace a public nomos working against the spread of the nomos of job insecurity? This work claims that a genuinely liberal approach should be based on an etymological and broader understanding of the term nomos. It will also examine how private enterprises can favor the spread of this approach and safeguard workers’ negative liberty
L’età dell’indulgenza digitale. Lo smart working alla sfida della digital sobriety.
Full text linkL’emergenza legata alla diffusione del Covid-19 ha stimolato massicciamente il ricorso allo smart working. Questo, nella retorica che va prendendo forma, è pressoché unanimemente descritto come il lavoro del futuro, grazie al quale si potrà realizzare un armonico equilibrio tra le esigenze di riassetto occupazionale e le istanze proprie di una crescita sostenibile. In questo quadro, se da un lato i benefici derivanti della digitalizzazione dei processi di lavoro sono opportunamente enfatizzati, dall’altra parte i pesanti impatti che le soluzioni ICT generano sull’ambiente non vengono presi minimamente in considerazione. Questa omissione rende l’emergente retorica sullo smart working non solo incompleta, ma anche potenzialmente fuorviante. Il presente contributo intende riportare l’attenzione sul tema della “sobrietà digitale”, la quale, se opportunamente considerata, potrà fornire indicazioni utili a orientare la flessibilità lavorativa verso una sostenibilità finalmente autentica
Exponential atlases: a metaphysical approach to the organizational rapid growth.
Full text linkAccording to Greek mythology, Atlas held up the sky on his shoulders. Nowadays, the term atlas refers to “a book of maps or charts” (1). In this paper, the term is used in both senses. On the one hand, the purpose is to understand the conditions favoring – hold up – the birth and the evolution of exponential organizations. On the other hand, the goal is to draw a concept map that allows us to identify the interactional dynamics among the actors involved in this evaluative process. In other words, first I'll try to know who “holds up the sky” (static interpretation), and then we will see who “lives in it” (moving interpretation). The idea is that disruptive innovation mediates the relationship between environmental/organizational features (conditions) and exponential growth (phenomenon). So far, little consideration has been given to the favorable conditions that can allow organizations to become exponential. This paper aims to pave the way for future systematized research on the ExO’s genesis and development
Fast-growing companies: a new breed of organizations? Scenario analysis and managerial implications of an emerging phenomenon
No full textWhile the phenomenon of fast-growing enterprises is becoming increasingly significant, managerial literature still does not provide many theoretical or empirical studies about them. Some scholars call such enterprises “Unicorns” or “Exponential Organizations”, but we still do not have a detailed account of neither the contextual factors that are favorable to their appearance, nor the approaches that these companies utilize to manage their processes and human resources. First, this study aims at analyzing the environmental conditions that facilitate the exponential growth of an enterprise. Then, in more detail, I will focus on some startups that are considered “fast-growing companies”. Through a multiple case study conducted in Sweden, I provide qualitative evidence in order to test my hypotheses, with a specific focus on HRM practices. I found several interesting results, including the idea that the presence of Staff on Demand (contractors, freelancers, moonlighters, etc.) is not perceived by the managers of these companies as a crucial factor for the company’s growth, contrary to most stipulations currently available in the sparse literature on this subject. For this reason, besides providing some theoretical proposals and empirical evidence, I also hope that my study will encourage further studies in the organizational and managerial literature about this new and interesting phenomenon.La letteratura manageriale non si è ancora occupata in maniera sistematica delle imprese a rapida crescita, pur trattandosi di un fenomeno in continua ascesa. Alcuni studiosi parlano di “Unicorns” o di “Exponential Organizations”, senza approfondire adeguatamente quali siano, da una parte, i fattori di contesto che ne determinano la comparsa e, dall’altra, quali siano esattamente gli approcci che i manager adottano, dal punto di vista della gestione dei processi e delle Risorse Umane. Il presente lavoro cerca di analizzare le condizioni ambientali che maggiormente favoriscono la crescita esponenziale di un’organizzazione. Dopodiché, spostandosi ad un livello di maggior dettaglio, analizza concretamente alcune startup considerate “fast-growing companies”. Attraverso un multiple-case study condotto in Svezia, si è tentato di scoprire se le proposizioni teoriche abbiano un effettivo riscontro nella pratica, soprattutto dal punto di vista delle HRM practices. Su questo fronte, in particolare, emerge che la presenza del cosiddetto Staff on Demand (contractors, freelancers, moonlighters, ...) all’interno di una giovane impresa è percepita come non cruciale ai fini della crescita. Oltre a quello di fornire evidenze teoriche e pratiche, lo scopo di questo lavoro è quello di stimolare, in futuro, la nascita di ricerche specificamente focalizzate su questa ancora largamente inesplorata tipologia di organizzazioni
Autonomia e libertà nelle nuove occupazioni.
No full textAutonomy at work has been defined in many ways, but not all conceptualizations have the same coherence and heuristic efficacy . This book follows the literature that interprets autonomy, according to its etymological meaning, as the ability to produce one’s own rules and, therefore, to govern one’s own processes of action. In relation to autonomy, the recent rise of freelancers and independent workers, the diffusion of coworking, the organizational choices of work in the gig economy, the use of advanced technologies, and proactivity at work are explored and discussed
From the Unusual to the Useful: Digital Platforms and Co-Working Spaces as Instruments for Human Resource Management in Emerging Economic and Organizational Environments
Full text linkIn this present economic situation, the use of freelance workers, whose role in organizations runs side by side with that of full time workers, is becoming increasingly more important. The joint presence of these two very different forms of human resource, represents an important challenge to Human Resource Management, which has to adequately exploit the qualities of those who work within the organization, irrespective of the type of contractual ties they may have. Managerial literature has come up with limited contributions on this topic and without finding effective solutions to the integrated management of such an assortment of human resources. In this paper we contribute to fill this literature gap by proposing a conceptual model concerning how using digital platforms and co-working spaces may facilitate the company’s human resource management. This particular model outlines how these two instruments can assist the work of HR managers, especially with the conception and implementation of recruitment and motivational processes.</jats:p
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