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Oltre l’ibrido: l’integrazione tra economicità e socialità negli obiettivi d’azienda
No full textThe debate about organizational purpose enlarged during last two decades as a consequence of different determinants such as the economic and financial crisis started in 2008, the increased attention of public opinion on environmental and social aspects of business, or the efforts of UN about sustainable development. Also, legal forms of business evolved to enlarge the institutional goals of for-profit organizations, for example, by introducing the figure of “benefit corporation” (società benefit) in Italian law. The increased attention to the so-called hybrid forms of business is not free from some theoretical and practical risks, first the disavowal of the tradition of Italian Economia Aziendale that affirmed the inseparable bond between economic and social goals into the purpose of each business based on the principle of the common good. The present paper starts from the theoretical background of Italian Economia Aziendale about the topic of the objectives of the business, and it aims to discuss the following research proposition: each business has a social significance linked to the purpose of common good, that actualizes itself in different aspects of management. To reach this goal, the paper discussed the international literature about hybrid organizations and adopted a qualitative research design. In detail, the authors perform a multiple case study composed of 22 businesses, different in legal forms and market approach. Data were collected by interviews, and content analysis of institutional documents, and the findings were discussed by adopting a framework derived from previous literature. The main results of the analysis confirmed the research proposition and highlighted some critical aspects of a business. First, the crucial role of the common good purpose emerged in the original historical goals of businesses that need a continuous actualization to adapt managerial choices to the environmental dynamics. Nonetheless, the development of practices requires the continuity of the original purpose. Second, the legal form is not a significant determinant to define the nature of organizational goals, but only a practical tool to reach these goals. Finally, the analysis of the multiple case study allowed to show how organizational and managerial practices are affected by the common good purpose, such as for how businesses interpret the concept of sustainability
Indagine epidemiologica sullo stato di salute degli addetti alla produzione e riparazione carrozze ferroviarie: uno studio prospettico storico di mortalità.
No full textBACKGROUND:
Epidemiological studies of cancer risk due to occupational exposure to asbestos in production and repair of railway rolling stock has so far given consistent results for mesothelioma, but conflicting evidence for lung cancer.
OBJECTIVES:
The main purpose of this study was to investigate risk for mesothelioma and lung cancer in relation to estimated patterns of exposure in the occupational environment of railway rolling stock manufacture and repair.
METHODS:
A historical prospective study approach was adopted. The mortality experience of the study population was compared to that of the population of the Veneto Region. Two historical cohorts of workers employed in two plants manufacturing and repairing railway coaches were followed up for mortality. A total of 1,621 workers were enrolled in the study from the first factory, and 1,190 from the second.
RESULTS:
An elevation of both pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer was reported in the two factories with SMRs of 21.52 (CI 95%=1.64-32.29) and 6.46 (CI 95%=1.33-18.88), and 1.26 (CI 95%=1.01-1.54) and 1.18 (CI 95%=0.81-1.66) respectively. The two excesses however showed different patterns in relation to historical exposure estimates, which appear to correlate with mesotheliomas but not with lung cancer. An elevation of mortality for non-neoplastic respiratory diseases was associated with employment during periods when it was estimated that exposure was at higher levels in one of the two firms.
CONCLUSIONS:
The results confirm the high carcinogenic risk deriving from asbestos exposure, although inconsistencies were found between target organs in relation to exposure estimates, and the existence of time periods in production in which cancer risk was different
LA GEOGRAFIA DELLE MALATTIE NEL COMUNE DI VENEZIA
No full textAnalisi spaziale della distribuzione delle malattie nella popolazione del Comune di Venezi
Il network etico come risposta alle sfide gestionali del Terzo settore: il caso di ADOA Verona
No full textIl presente contributo si propone di analizzare un case study, per alcuni aspetti, unico nel suo genere (o, quantomeno, pionieristico), focalizzando l’attenzione sulla forma organizzativa del network etico come strumento a supporto delle organizzazioni a movente ideale. L’obiettivo è porre in luce come nel caso analizzato la formula reticolare etica offra occasioni di sviluppo alla managerialità del singolo ente, nonché alla crescita del sistema economico e sociale in cui lo stesso è immerso e preserva dal rischio isomorfico. In particolare, l’articolo è teso a dare evidenza di come il fondamento etico/valoriale del network consenta di ottenere vantaggi di natura economica, gestionale e strategica in un contesto di relazioni fiduciarie che abbattono i rischi (ed i relativi costi) connessi alle asimmetrie informative ed alle dinamiche di transazione contrattuale
Design of a packaging machine and virtual commissioning via modular hardware-in-the-loop simulations
No full textThis paper describes an implementation of a model-based methodology to validate an innovative Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) scheme applied to a mechatronic modular structure for a packaging machine. This new HIL environment is implemented by means of a unique CPU and allows use of an ordinary personal computer for the HIL simulation of a module of the packaging machine, without any other hardware tool. The research includes identification of modular building blocks through a suitable model-based systems design, with SysML models, Simulink models, and Beckhoff TwinCAT software. The novel HIL scheme is presented accompanied by experimental results of a composite module, which consists of four sub-modules
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
Exploitingelectronic health archives for epidemiological purposes: an experience using a standardized approach to estimate diseases in different Italian areas
No full textThe availability of Electronic Health Archives (EHA) has increased remarkably over the last twenty years.
As part of a joint projcet of the Italian Association Of Epidemiology (AIE) and the Italian Association of Medical Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology (SISMEC), a workgroup of experts was set up in 2005 with the aim of comparing various experiences and of standardizing the procedures by which electronic sources can be integrated. In particular, the workgroup dim was to estimate the frequency of certain major diseases using standard algorithms applied to EHA.
This volume is published with the purpose of making available in a common publication the methods and the results obtained. The results from a multicentre study using a standard approach to probabilistic record-linkage procedures are also included in a specific chapter.
Eleven Italian centres from five Italian regions with an over all population of 11,932,026 collected and treated more than 21,374,426 records (year 2003) from five electronic information sources: death certificates, hospital discharge records (including outpatient discharges), drug prescriptions, tax- exemptions, and pathology records in order to estimate the frequency of the following diseases: diabetes, ischemic heart diseases, acute myocardial infarction, stroke, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, obstructive lung diseases. For each pathology a specific algorithm was developed and used by all centres for the identification of the prevalent/incident cases of the selected diseases. Standardized methods were used to estimate the rates.
The results confirm the need for a common standard approach to produce estimates based on EHA, considering the variability of the quality and of the completeness of the archives, and the difficulties of standardizing record-linkage operations in the various centres. The main achievement of this work,was the elimination of the variability due to the use of different algorithms to identify cases using EHA
Assessing and summarizing temperature effects in native and migrant residents in Torino, 1972-2002
No full textL’impiego delle onde elettromagnetiche per la disinfestazione da organismi xilofagi. La sperimentazione
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