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How is social entrepreneurship possible? A multilevel study on social-entrepreneurial activity enabling mechanisms
No full textARTICLE 1 - Hybridization of diverging institutional logics through common-note practices
An analogy with music and the case of social enterprises - ABSTRACT - Hybrid organizations exhibit high degree of innovativeness, but also instability due to the conflicting institutional logics underpinning their activities. We enrich the discussion on how to reconcile conflicting logics in hybrid organizations using the analogy with music theory. In particular, we get inspiration from a technique used to modulate conflicting harmonies by means of the notes they have in common (common-notes) to derive ideas on how to compose conflicting logics by means of the practices they have in common. We illustrate these ideas in the specific case of social enterprises, showing that practices able to “unblock” a marginalized individual’s value creation capabilities can be considered common-note practices allowing the social enterprise to fruitfully and sustainably combine commercial and social welfare logics.
ARTICLE 2 - Made in Carcere: Freedom through empowerment for convicted women! - ABSTRACT - In this paper we analyze the case of Made in Carcere, an innovative social enterprise that creates and shares social and economic value with one of the most disadvantaged stakeholder groups in society: convicted women. Relying on an extensive database that covers eight years of activity, we propose a micro-level analysis of the processes adopted by Made in Carcere to empower its target stakeholders. We show that this complex effort is successfully unfolded through two macro-processes: the creation and management of a safe space, and allowing convicted women to reach and experience the external environment. Our work provides evidence of an exceptional organization that successfully confronts the restrictive and disempowering setting of prisons by empowering women through an innovative approach of human integral development. ARTICLE 3 - Mechanisms and boundaries of collective action in social entrepreneurship. - ABSTRACT - New frontiers in social entrepreneurship research are moving from the idea of the social entrepreneur as a single individual in favour of a larger model based on a multiplicity of subjects. In this paper we aim at moving this perspective onward and claim we should adopt a higher level of analysis considering the collective of subjects mobilized by the entrepreneur(s) to be really able to capture the social impact of the undertaken economic activity. Moreover, using a case study, we identify two mechanisms useful to draw the boundaries of such collective, the unit of analysis at the basis of this new perspective.ARTICLE 1 - Hybridization of diverging institutional logics through common-note practices
An analogy with music and the case of social enterprises - ABSTRACT - Hybrid organizations exhibit high degree of innovativeness, but also instability due to the conflicting institutional logics underpinning their activities. We enrich the discussion on how to reconcile conflicting logics in hybrid organizations using the analogy with music theory. In particular, we get inspiration from a technique used to modulate conflicting harmonies by means of the notes they have in common (common-notes) to derive ideas on how to compose conflicting logics by means of the practices they have in common. We illustrate these ideas in the specific case of social enterprises, showing that practices able to “unblock” a marginalized individual’s value creation capabilities can be considered common-note practices allowing the social enterprise to fruitfully and sustainably combine commercial and social welfare logics.
ARTICLE 2 - Made in Carcere: Freedom through empowerment for convicted women! - ABSTRACT - In this paper we analyze the case of Made in Carcere, an innovative social enterprise that creates and shares social and economic value with one of the most disadvantaged stakeholder groups in society: convicted women. Relying on an extensive database that covers eight years of activity, we propose a micro-level analysis of the processes adopted by Made in Carcere to empower its target stakeholders. We show that this complex effort is successfully unfolded through two macro-processes: the creation and management of a safe space, and allowing convicted women to reach and experience the external environment. Our work provides evidence of an exceptional organization that successfully confronts the restrictive and disempowering setting of prisons by empowering women through an innovative approach of human integral development. ARTICLE 3 - Mechanisms and boundaries of collective action in social entrepreneurship. - ABSTRACT - New frontiers in social entrepreneurship research are moving from the idea of the social entrepreneur as a single individual in favour of a larger model based on a multiplicity of subjects. In this paper we aim at moving this perspective onward and claim we should adopt a higher level of analysis considering the collective of subjects mobilized by the entrepreneur(s) to be really able to capture the social impact of the undertaken economic activity. Moreover, using a case study, we identify two mechanisms useful to draw the boundaries of such collective, the unit of analysis at the basis of this new perspective.LUISS PhD Thesi
Social Entrepreneurship and Empowerment: Safe Space and Bridging In The Case Of MadeInCarcere
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Social Entrepreneurship and Empowerment: Safe Space and Bridging In The Case Of MadeInCarcere
Get PDFMade in Carcere: Integral Human Development in Extreme Conditions
No full textThis paper analyzes the case of Made in Carcere, an innovative social enterprise providing jobs to one of the most margin-
alized groups in society: convicted women. Relying on an extensive database that covers 8 years of activity, we propose a
micro-level analysis of the processes adopted by Made in Carcere to foster the integral human development of convicted
women, its target stakeholders. We show that this complex effort has successfully unfolded through two macro-processes:
creating a safe space for experimentation and allowing convicted women to bridge their experience to the outside reality. Our
work provides evidence of an organization that successfully confronts the restrictive and dehumanizing setting of prisons by
means of market mechanisms that can foster convicted women’s integral human development
360° Detection and tracking algorithm of both pedestrian and vehicle using fisheye images
No full textAll-around view is a mandatory element for autonomous vehicles. The European V-Charge project seeks to develop an autonomous vehicle using only low-cost sensors. This paper presents a detection and tracking algorithm that covers all the area around the vehicle using 4 fisheye cameras only. The algorithm is able to detect pedestrians and vehicles and track them, using cylindrical images. This paper presents the whole pipeline, from the image un-warping to the classification and the tracking algorithms, together with some results
Intracranial and Spinal Dural Arterio-Venous Fistula (DAVF): A Surgical Series of 107 Patients
No full textIntroduction Dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) is a challenging condition in vascular neurosurgery. Development of new endovascular techniques has progressively modified treatment strategies; however, surgery is still considered a valid option of treatment of this pathology. Materials and Methods From a retrospective analysis of our database, we selected 107 patients who underwent surgical treatment for DAVFs. Patients were grouped into five categories according to the Borden and Cognard classifications. Patients and treatment characteristics/outcome is reported. Results At admission, 30 (28%) patients presented with intracranial hemorrhage. Fifteen (14%) had seizure, whereas nearly half of the patients presented with non-aggressive symptoms, including headache (10, 9.3%), cognitive impairment (8, 7.5%), gait disturbance, and imbalance (8, 7.5%). The majority of patients underwent surgical treatment of fistulas; in some cases, we elected combined surgical-endovascular (obliteration) treatment. Conclusions Management of DAVF requires a multidisciplinary assessment and treatment strategies including surgical, endovascular, and radiosurgical treatment. The data reported confirmed that surgical treatment of DAVFs is associated with a good clinical and radiological (complete occlusion of the fistula) outcome in all cases, with a low rate of complications
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
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