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Rendere sociali le imprese. Impatto sociale, confini dell’impresa e rete di stakeholder
No full textE’ possibile ampliare il concetto di impresa sociale fino a comprendere imprese for
profit posizionate fuori dai confini fissati dalla definizione ex lege? La risposta a questa
domanda necessita di un cambio di punti di vista: la gestione dell’eventuale surplus
non può più essere una discriminante di ciò che viene inteso come impresa sociale.
E’ necessario muovere l’attenzione verso i processi che invece permettono di realizzare
l’impatto sociale a prescindere da ciò che accade dal lato degli eventuali profitti. Fatto
ciò, è quindi importante capire quale determinante di questi processi può essere posta
alla base della creazione di impatto sociale anche in presenza di soggetti che perseguano
fini for profit. In particolare, l’impresa for profit dovrà essere vista nel contesto del più
ampio network di stakeholder che deve essere mobilitato per raggiungere i fini sociali.
La mobilitazione degli stakeholder ha il ruolo fondamentale di “far quadrare il cerchio”,
cioè di permettere ad attori for profit di raggiugere fini sociali, e di poter quindi essere
assimilati concettualmente all’idea di imprese sociali. Questo tuttavia non può avvenire
lasciando invariate le organizzazioni che decidono di intraprendere questa strada (non
ancora riconosciuta, e forse difficilmente catturabile, dalla legge). Appare evidente, infatti,
come la mobilitazione degli stakeholder a fini sociali influenzi profondamente i confini
dell’impresa: quando gli attori operano sulla base di valori condivisi finalizzati a raggiungere
un certo impatto sociale, le imprese parte del network devono optare per comportamenti
trasparenti, rendendo ulteriormente permeabili i propri confini. Per rendere evidente
questo processo, andremo ad analizzare un network di organizzazioni costituito da
piccole imprese manifatturiere, organizzazioni non profit e gruppi di acquisto solidale che,
senza rinunciare ognuno alla propria vocazione, hanno sviluppato un modello virtuoso di
produzione finalizzata sia al raggiungimento di un impatto sociale che alla sostenibilità
economica delle imprese partecipanti. In questo caso vedremo che le imprese for profit
possono mobilitare una rete di stakeholder a fini sociali a patto di gestire la propria filiera
attraverso quella che chiameremo global openness, intesa non solo come trasparenza
dei processi interni all’impresa ma anche come necessità di rendere trasparente
l’intera catena del valore, ben oltre i propri confini e quelli dei propri partner diretti
The role of rehabilitation in juvenile low back disorders
No full textBoth children and adolescents are frequently affected by low back pain--mainly when they are involved in sporting activities--but they rarely ask for medical help, because their symptoms are often mild and self-resolving. However, in the young patients who seek orthopaedic evaluation, especially in referral centres, there is a high incidence of organic causes of their back pain. Mechanical, developmental, inflammatory and tumoural or tumour-like disorders are the most frequent aetiologic factors. A diagnosis of psychosomatic back pain should be made only when all the other possible organic causes have been excluded. Rehabilitation is part of the treatment of low back disorders in children and adolescents. Postural low back pain is likely to be resolved by physical therapy alone. In other disorders that initially require medical, orthotic or surgical treatment, rehabilitation plays an important role either in combination with them or as a subsequent treatment
Made 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 marginalized 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.This paper analyzes the case of Made in Carcere, an innovative social enterprise providing jobs to one of the most marginalized 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
Trattamento chirurgico delle fistole durali arterovenose delle fossa cranica posteriore: una serie di 18 casi
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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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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