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Knowledge-based social innovation for cultural endeavours revitalising urban structures
No full textUrban regeneration is a common challenge especially for post-industrial cities. Cultural and creative entrepreneurship is one possible option since culture-led urban development is a sustainable approach, involving different types of communities, increasing social cohesion, and cultural dynamism. The paper aims to understand how knowledge exchange is connected to social innovation and urban regeneration, analysing several situations in Romania. Several dimensions are considered, such as the role of the policy framework and public administration, the dynamics of the relationship between the actors involved, knowledge sharing processes, innovation drivers and the impact of cultural and creative initiatives on the urban, physical and mental fabric
Knowledge-based social innovation for cultural endeavours revitalizing urban structures
No full textUrban regeneration is a common challenge especially for post-industrial cities. Cultural and creative entrepreneurship is one possible option since culture-led urban development is a sustainable approach, involving different types of communities, increasing social cohesion, and cultural dynamism. The article aims to understand how knowledge exchange is connected to social innovation and urban regeneration. Several dimensions are considered, such as the role of policy framework and public administration, the dynamics of the relationship between the actors involved, knowledge sharing processes, innovation drivers and the impact of cultural and creative initiatives on the urban, physical and mental fabric
Stakeholders's Voices. Knowledge Transfer towards Public Administration
No full textKnowledge is a strategic tool for public administration. Therefore, knowledge management would affect organizational effectiveness. In the context of the new approaches of public management, especially considering the public value management point of view, knowledge transfer with stakeholders should be the norm. The present study identified a gap in the academic literature in relation to stakeholder management practices and how do public bodies involve their stakeholders in the decision-making processes. The paper proposes several lines of mapping the interactions between public administration and its stakeholders by considering the value attributed to stakeholders, the awareness of their needs and desires, as well as the degree of involvement into the decision-making processes
THE ECONOMIC CRISIS VERSUS THE CRISIS OF ECONOMICS
No full textThe authors draw a parallel between the economic and financial crisis of 2008 up to 2010 and the crisis of Economics as a scientific discipline. Both bankers’ greed, with their toxic products, and consumers’ greed who, most of them, had borrowed money to buy a second home, were the most important causes of the recent financial crisis. The recent financial crisis has shown us that the Economics itself is in crisis because it is grounded on hypotheses unproven by reality. It refers both to the assumption of spontaneous market regulation and to that of the capitalization of interest. The work demotes these assumptions and proposes as the solution a sustainable development in which the individual returns to the fundamental values: family, environment, community, partnerships, resource saving, communion with others. The main conclusion is that the economy should be understood from the following holistic approaches: economic, social, cultural, philosophical, political and spiritual. With regard to money (as the subjects and the main objects of Economics), the rich is the one who gives, the one who helps his fellows and not the wealthy people of these days who have perverted the economy so that to justify the usury, the speculation and the financial engineering
DEMENTIA TOURISM AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR DESTINATION REJUVENATION: SIMPLY A SUPPLY SIDE OFFER OR A NEED FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR CAREGIVERS?
No full textMany tourism destinations worldwide have lost their attractiveness and reached
stagnation. In order to enable them to find a way to rejuvenate they need to find new
innovative offers and explore new target markets. Recent changes in the population, in
particular the aging factor, enable to identify new promising markets, such seniors. Seniors
are considered as an important new target market to invest in since they have spending
power to travel and they travel for longer time and off-season. Although seniors are an
interesting market, they bring with them the effects of ageing, i.e., disability. Among
different disability, dementia plays an important role. This made policy makers and
businesses starting to be interested in dementia tourism. Some supply led initiatives have
already been created, but further insights are needed to understand whether people with
dementia and their caregivers are interested in such offers. This paper aims to explore this
further. The qualitative findings of this research shows that people with dementia and their
caregivers will benefit of such tourism offers, and they are willing to participate in them if
extra-care is offered. This shades positive lights on the fact that such an offer could be
successful. However, it is important to notice that not every caregiver is positive in making
their beloved one participating in such activities, and they won’t be willing to participate
as well. As a matter of fact, factors such as the level of cognitive impairments, and the level
of behavioral impairments influence the possibility to join such activities. The willingness
of joining such activities is also influence by the family bond: husbands and wives are more
prone to participate than children. This depends as well on the perception of tourism as a
beneficial activity by caregivers, and the need of diversion, respite, and enjoyment of time
together. If caregivers do not see tourism as something positive for their wellbeing and the
one of the beloved one they will not be interested. Last but not least the lifestyle before
dementia and past experience of tourism in early stage of dementia influence strongly the
willingness to participate. With this in mind the markers should spend time in making sure
that this offer will be appealing to their target market before starting an initiative, which
although being extremely good in theory, might not be actually needed in the reality
Benefit companies in Italy: development perspectives and evaluation standards
No full textBenefit Corporation could be one of the possible reactions to having a new model
of capitalism and business management because there is a combination of economic
activities with the common satisfaction of social needs. In 2016, the Italian legal system
introduces the case of the Benefit Company. Italy becomes the first state to acquire a
discipline in this area of for-benefit companies, the analysis of the discipline configures the
Benefit Companies as a context solution that mutates, as far as possible, the discipline of
Benefit Corporation. The Italian Benefit Society is seen as a revolutionary step forward, in
a traditionally static and sometimes obsolete context and the new law has generated a
strong interest and enthusiasm and many companies have already decided to become a
Benefit Company. The following paper is intended to illustrate the process that led to the
birth of the B Corp movement and its first evolution in the United States with the legal
legitimacy of the Benefit Corporation and then in Italy with the discipline of the Benefit
Company. The objective is to verify the responses of the Italian context to the new
legislation on Benefit Company, with particular reference to three aspects: 1. If the Benefit
Company will be able to become an appropriate vehicle for entrepreneurs who want to
operate in a sustainable way; 2. If the Benefit Company will be able to represent an
interesting business model for those long-term investors looking for companies able to
simultaneously generate economic and social benefits; 3. If the Italian experience will be
able to produce a "domino effect" among other EU Member States that facilitate the
dissemination of the "B" approach and, consequently, promote the establishment of
companies with a strong positive impact measured with standard verifiable on social and
environmental performance
Public Organisations as Sustainable Communities
No full textPublic organisations should contribute to value creation moving towards sustainability as a vision for strategy and action, redesigning trust-based relationships with stakeholders and sustaining governance networks within ecosystems. As organisations seeking sustainability, public organisations should evolve as communities developing strategic, managerial and technological sources to enable and facilitate public value creation within society. Public organisations should achieve sustainability and develop the community adopting a logic service view as strategic choice, strengthening transformational and ethical features of public managers as leaders, and developing the potential of information technology by driving the transition from using technology in government to developing digital, smart, lean and open platforms for value creation, innovation and networking as sources that enable public organisations as sustainable communities
Knowledge management in the UK higher education Institutions: what type of outcomes do higher Education partnerships attain?
No full textThis research paper sought to examine the role and contribution of KnowledgeManagement (KM) in UK Higher Education Institution (HEI) partnerships outcomes. The author conducted a qualitative research making use of semi-structured interviews with nine elite respondents who for the purpose of this research were defined as individuals that have been involved in initiating, developing and managing HE partnerships at executive levels. The analyses demonstrate that HEI partnerships may produce a wide range of outcomes depending on the external factors, purpose, length, specialism, and priorities of the collaboration. Nevertheless, this research has identified 18 partnership outcomeswhich are grouped into three categories such as academic, financial and marketing and managerial outcomes. Results of the research infer that performing in accordance to partner’s expectations helps overcome trust related issues thus building confidence in partners. The establishment of confidence might lead towards exploring other collaborative possibilities and therefore be able to have a combination of academic, financial and marketing and managerial outcomes at the same time. Results show that nurturing and supporting the application of KM activities is essential in allowing the HE partners to share, transfer, apply and absorb the knowledge needed to attain the intendedpartnership outcomes. The extent to which knowledge is exchanged and distributed within and across HEI partners might encourage the development of new products and services which in return helps an HEI to minimize risk through portfolio diversification and establish a sustainable business model
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