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Smart City nella prospettiva economico aziendale. Inquadramento teorico e implicazioni manageriali
No full textNegli ultimi decenni si è sviluppato un intenso e proficuo dibattito sulla smart city, ed è emerso un nucleo di conoscenze multidisciplinari, tuttora in evoluzione, e la diffusione di soluzioni efficaci per fronteggiare rilevanti problemi economico-sociali. Il presente lavoro propone una interpretazione in chiave economico-aziendale del fenomeno della smart city, i cui tratti peculiari sono stati ricercati nell’alveo degli studi economico-aziendali e dell’azienda pubblica in particolare. Dall’analisi è emerso come molti dei caratteri che qualificano tale organismo socioeconomico – quali la natura di sistema aperto, autonomo, dinamico e duraturo, la connaturata esposizione ai rischi e l’attuazione di piani e programmi per il raggiungimento dei fini istituzionali –, siano rintracciabili e risultino addirittura amplificati nel modello di smart city qui proposto. Ne deriva una caratterizzazione di smart city che migliora in funzione della capacità di soddisfare i bisogni della comunità di riferimento, che si rigenera nella ricerca continua dell’accrescimento del valore delle proprie risorse e dello sviluppo integrale delle persone che ne fanno parte, che rinforza la propria capacità di risposta agli shock esterni e rinsalda le relazioni e i legami collaborativi tra attori sociali in vista della creazione e diffusione di valore pubblico. L’elevata complessità tipica del modello smart city e le dinamiche socio-ambientali in atto segnalano l’esigenza di definire adeguati sistemi di misurazione della performance atti a supportare il processo decisionale della governance urbana, delineando per questa via un promettente ambito di ricerca per gli studi economico-aziendali nel prossimo futuro
Le tecnologie digitali a supporto dell’intelligenza urbana: l’evoluzione “data driven” delle città
No full textLe tecnologie digitali hanno ormai assunto un ruolo chiave nel migliorare “l’intelligenza” delle città e aumentare la “resilienza” delle loro comunità di fronte a fenomeni quali cambiamenti climatici, disuguaglianze economiche e sociali, disastri naturali, pandemie, ecc.
Alla luce di tali rischi ed alle sfide che dal loro fronteggiamento discendono, le città devono dotarsi di infrastrutture e strumenti tecnologici avanzati e potenziare quelle già esistenti al fine di monitorare l’evolversi dei fenomeni ambientali, sociali, economici, condividere e diffondere conoscenza e, ove necessario, intervenire tempestivamente per ridurre i rischi e/o gestire le emergenze in corso. Il presente lavoro esamina il legame tra “intelligenza urbana” e tecnologie emergenti, attraverso una disamina delle principali applicazioni di tali tecnologie a livello urbano
I servizi pubblici e la governance del "gruppo pubblico locale"
No full textI servizi pubblici e la governance del "gruppo pubblico locale". I servizi pubblici in Italia: profili evolutivi; Gruppi pubblici tra forma, indirizzi e vincoli; La governance del gruppo pubblico locale: modelli e criticità emergenti; La programmazione, il controllo economico e la misurazione delle performance nel gruppo pubblico locale; Considerazioni conclusive. Le peculiarità italiane
The 1908 earthquake of Messina. An accounting perspective on the city’s reconstruction between faith and Fascism
No full textThis article focuses on the 1923–1937 period when the rise of Benito Mussolini’s Fascist regime drove public works programmes. The 1908 earthquake almost destroyed Messina and, in the Fascist period Angelo Paino, the new Metropolitan Archbishop of Messina, fostered the reconstruction of the ecclesiastical heritage of the city and surrounding villages. Primary and secondary sources were collected and analysed to investigate the role of accounting and calculation practices in interpreting the urban reconstruction programme that the Fascist government actively supported. This research contributes to accounting history research adding the new reading of accounting, disasters and urban reconstruction, and highlighting the relations between the Fascist regime and the Catholic Church within an urban reconstruction programme following one of history’s major catastrophes. We obtained several findings, including an interpretation of the Fascist regime’s reconstruction of the city’s churches and key public buildings as an instrument of consensus among the Catholic
electorate
Blockchain and art market: resistance or adoption?
No full textBlockchain technology is currently stimulating a broader process of social and industrial transformation impacting several potential areas of adoption (e.g. transactions, tracking and tracing solutions, authenticity, etc ...). The acceptance of this technology represents a major challenge for the art ecosystem. The literature around relations and applications of blockchain in the art market is fragmented and fails to provide an understanding of the current/potential opportunities of this application. This paper explores how blockchain is being adopted in the art sector. By using a perspective of mobilizing organizational and institutional field theory, this study performs an explorative qualitative analysis based on semi-structured interviews with 15 experts from the art market. The findings underline the complexity of effective implementation of this technology, the contradictory positions regarding the benefits and business opportunities it offers, as well as the market players’ resistance to change and trust. The theoretical and practical implications are also discusse
Conflict Management and Negotiation in Family Business Succession: Critical Literature Review and research agenda
Full text linkThis paper intends to stimulate a serious debate on the topic of conflict in family businesses
and the theory of negotiation as a tool to resolve these conflicts. The methodology is based on
the collection and systematization of the main literature on these topics. The study results
show that, despite the literature on conflict management is highly developed as well as
literature on family business, scholars and researchers have not yet deepened several areas
of conflict management in family businesses, so the two fields of literature are yet not well
integrated. The paper then proposes a research agenda identifying the issues and research
gaps that should be explored by researchers in order to reach a more mature literature on
conflict resolution in family businesses
Disaster management and emerging technologies: a performance-based perspective
No full textPurpose: This paper aims to analyse how emerging technologies (ETs) impact on improving performance in disaster management (DM) processes and, concretely, their impact on the performance according to the different phases of the DM cycle (preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation). Design/methodology/approach: The methodology is based on a systematic review of the literature. Scopus, ProQuest, EBSCO and Web of Science were used as data sources, and an initial sample of 373 scientific articles was collected. After abstracts and full texts were read and refinements to the search were made, a final corpus of 69 publications was analysed using VOSviewer software for text mining and cluster visualisation. Findings: The results highlight how ETs foster the preparedness and resilience of specific systems when dealing with different phases of the DM cycle. Simulation and disaster risk reduction are the fields of major relevance in the application of ETs to DM. Originality/value: This paper contributes to the literature by adding the lenses of performance measurement, management and accountability in analysing the impact of ETs on DM. It thus represents a starting point for scholars to develop future research on a rapidly and continuously developing topic
Making a Step Forward Towards Urban Resilience. The Contribution of Digital Innovation
No full textStarting from ‘wicked problem’theory as the landmark for framing disaster events in terms of policy issue for city governments, this chapter highlights the contribution provided by Big Data analytics and digital innovation in dealing with disaster risks. The research aims at answering the following question: what is the role that ‘smart technologies’ play in strengthening urban resilience to disaster risks
Smart and Resilient Cities: Best Practices from Disaster Risk Management Strategies
No full textThe chapter investigates, through document analysis, the themes of urban smartness and disaster risk management in the conceptual perspective of resilience, exploring some best practices at the urban level in those countries that are most exposed to the occurrence of natural disasters.
For this purpose, a country risk profile was preliminarily determined, drawing information from the Inform Risk Index. After the identification of countries with the highest score in terms of exposure to natural hazards, the analysis was conducted at the “urban” level, with the aim to verify the presence of a city resilience strategy that takes into account disaster risk management issues. The analysis was conducted on cities that adopted both a disaster risk management plan and a city resilience strategy developed under the 100RC Framework.
The results show a focus of resilience city strategies on the aspect of disaster preparedness, while there is a lower propensity, in some observed cases, for the full integration of smart city drivers in dealing with disasters, and, more generally, in defining a comprehensive approach to urban resilience
An Evolutionary Transparency Approach to Public Accountability
Full text linkThe concept of accountability reflects the growing importance that transparency has assumed in Italy and elsewhere. The evolutionary path of transparency in the Italian public sector from the post-war period to the present day emerges as in increasingly pervasive transparency, both in form and substance. The general, specific, and prospective guidelines are aimed at: strengthening the constitutional principles of impartiality and the good performance of public administrations; increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of public administration activities, safeguarding public finances and preserving public management legitimacy; measuring and externally communicating the value created; producing and organising meaningful data in support of open government policies to increase the welfare of the economy
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