Sviluppo o nanismo? Verso una consapevole valutazione della crescita sostenibile e dei rischi di perdurante stasi dimensionale nell'impresa familiare: un approccio di "System Dynamics"

I processi di apprendimento nella piccola e micro-impresa familiare, in ordine al governo dello sviluppo e a quello del “mancato sviluppo” hanno costituito oggetto di precedenti lavori da parte di chi scrive. In particolare, si è focalizzato il tema della prolungata assenza di crescita dimensionale lungo un periodo tale da abbracciare almeno tre generazioni della famiglia proprietaria, fenomeno comunemente definito come “nanismo aziendale”. Quali sono il rischi del “nanismo”? Quali quelli connessi ad una non adeguata valutazione di una crescita dimensionale, intesa come effetto di una decisione di “uscita dal nanismo”? Come rimuovere i vincoli che contraddistinguono lo status di “impresa na…

Qué podemos aprender de nuestra experiencia de trabajar con protocolos familiares

L'Organizzazione e la gestione amministrativa dei rapporti di lavoro

La performance delle imprese incubate nel Consorzio ARCA nel periodo 2003 – 2011: talune valutazioni sull’efficacia degli incubatori di imprese

The Paper presents an analysis of the performance of the startups promoted by business incubator at the University of Palermo, providing a contribution to the debate on the "third mission" of the university and the creation of favorable conditions for its implementation. Il Paper presenta un'analisi delle performance delle imprese promosse dall'incubatore di imprese dell'Università di Palermo, fornendo un contributo al dibattito sulla "terza missione" dell'università e sulla creazione di condizioni favorevoli alla sua realizzazione.

Management Simulator as an Instrument to Aid Turning “Stunted Growth” Round in Family Businesses

This paper is the fourth in a series which has described the role and construction of simulation models and a ‘Management Flight Simulator’ that could aid the entrepreneur-owners of so-called ‘dwarf’ or ‘stunted growth’ small firms to break out from the constraints holding them back. While the research presented to date has highlighted the issues in such companies, and has suggested that in many situations relatively simple changes only might be needed to unleash the growth potential of such firms, effecting such changes is not likely to be that “simple” in real life. It has to be possible for affected owner-entrepreneurs to understand a number of factors: that there is a problem (or opport…

La Empresa Familiar Multigeneracional

The general aim of this work, “From the Founder to Multigenerational Family Business: The Family’s Crucial Role as an Owner for Longevity”, is to contribute in discovering the reasons why family businesses manage to survive. The conceptual approach taken as the starting point for this work, the information examined and the research methodology pursued by the authors involve criteria that are clearly different from those followed by the works from other scholars on the same topic. The conceptual approach taken here springs from the conviction that the basic key to understanding the success of a multigenerational family business lies in the qualities of the people who form the ownership group…

Using a Dynamic Performance Management approach to reinforce the benefits of territorial strategic planning

The purpose of this paper is to present how system dynamics (SD) can be used to enrich performance management in local government and to foster a common shared view of the relevant system’s structure and behavior among stakeholders for territorial strategic planning. We begin by framing how dynamic complexity through SD modeling can support consensus building among different stakeholders within a territory, which moves beyond the traditional view of strategic planning within the context of a single jurisdiction. A Dynamic Performance Management (DPM) approach, as shown by our case-study, may help such players to overcome possible barriers to collaboration because of its support to better de…

Combating illegal phenomena in Professional Football in Italy: the strengths and weaknesses of the actual model of governance

A recent report about football sector in Italy highlights the reduction of competitive equilibrium of the teams, as shown by their poor performances in Europe, the reduction of fans in the stands, the economic losses and the increasing of debts. In a previous research, we analyse the governance model established in Italy in the professional football sector, and we realize a taxonomy framework helpful for identifying appropriate tools and procedures to overcome them (Cincimino, Tomaselli, Carini, 2012). In this research we focus on a particular category of the taxonomy framework of pathologies. The aim is to explore how to contrast the illegal pursuit of football club objectives and extra cl…

Il Patto di Famiglia Quale Strumento per la Gestione del Rapporto Famiglia-Impresa

The interrelation between socio-spatial and institutional context and family business characteristics

Tomaselli, Agrò, Fazio e Fricano show how family firms draw strength from the regional institutional context (where the region is properly intended as an administrative sub-unit at national level), as well as contribute to its evolution via their own actions. The variation in family competencies and internal dynamics lead to differences in family firms's overlla performance. The relationship with the regional institutional system in mutually sinergic - even marginal family businesses add their voice to whole, resulting in grater collective political influence, and at the same time the institutions at the regional level provide some degree of legitimacy to all players.

Formulating, Implementing and Maintaining Family Protocols

Exploring the intersection of e-commerce and context in family business in China: the effects on organisational form and identity

This chapter melds these interests of understanding how the context of e-Commerce and family business affects organisational form and subsequently organisational identity by integrating a narrative about the development of family business and e-Commerce in China with an exploratory analysis of two Chinese family businesses. Institutional theory informs this discussion (Scott, 2008: Suddaby, Elsbach, Greenwood, Meyer and Zilber, 2010). After describing why businesses adopt e-Commerce, and illustrating the contextual conditions in China that foster the development of private enterprises such as family businesses, and the adoption of e-Commerce, the chapter subsequently explores the question “…

The Governance of the Football Sector in Italy. A Conceptual Framework for Overcoming Some Pathologies

The government of professional football sector is a complex issue, for the numerous threats to the proper conduct of sporting activities (such as the extended dimension of the interest on illegal betting), for the involvement of sports entities in social activities, and for the greater interest which assumes the economic dimension. Moreover, an effective governance model should prevent, rather than cure, the manifestation of problems within the professional clubs. In Italy, the current model of governance of football is formally openness, but it does not exert a preventive action fully effective of the problems that professional clubs must face. By proposing a conceptual framework, focused …

The intersection between family dynamics and e-commerce strategy in family businesses: Empirical investigation in China

This book chapter aims to contribute to increase our understanding of how e-Commerce strategy is designed, implemented, and influenced by family dynamics in family businesses, in China. Our research followed an exploratory and qualitative approach to analyse e-Commerce adoption by three Chinese family businesses, two of which were located in Beijing and one in Xinjiang. We used semi-structured interviews with key informants in the firms, focused on business history, business resources, as well as its corporate and e-Commerce strategies, and the family influence on the adoption of such strategies. The interviews were prepared based on the findings of a preliminary review of the literature on…

The Nexus Knowledge-Market and Innovation in University Education: Lessons Learned from University Start Ups

The pace of evolution of the university education lags behind the changes in the labour market and it is necessary to accelerate the innovation in the University education to prepare young people to face a new world order. An empirical search among a relevant sample of the start ups of the University of Palermo has been carried out in order to identify possible guidelines for the innovation of several curricula. The authors selected the founders of the new companies as privileged witnesses of the connection between knowledge and market due to their experience gained in commercialize knowledge acquired through their university education. The empirical search pointed out several regularities,…

Family Firms in the Wind of Change

The model of governance of the professional football sector in Italy: a critical analysis

The current model of governance of football in Italy has been formally followed by the clubs, but does not effectively address the manifestation of problems such as illegal betting or match fixing. By proposing a taxonomy of pathologies to which professional football is exposed, we highlight some gaps for the identification of tools and procedures useful for the reorientation of club management towards the satisfaction of sporting, economic, social and communicative dimensions.

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Developing IRT Approach in the Area of Central Southern Sicily Through Governance and Strategic Planning

The paper presents a case study concerning the development of IRT approach in the area of central southern Sicily, the ample portion of territory surrounding Agrigento and its Archeological Area known as “The Valley of Temples”. This has been inscribed in the Unesco List of World Heritage in 1997, due to the fact that Agrigento was one of the greatest cities of the ancient Mediterranean world, and it has been preserved in an exceptionally intact condition. Its great row of Doric temples is one of the most outstanding monuments of Greek art and culture. Despite this uncommon characteristic, touristic development in the area is still latent and the “Valley” has become somehow a bulky presence…

Protocolo Familiar: sus resultados

L'obiettivo di questo libro è di riferire circa i principali risultati conseguiti da "protocolli familiari". Dopo una breve rassegna della letteratura sugli strumenti di pianificazione strategica nel contesto delle aziende familiari e sull'evoluzione del concetto di protocollo familiare, vengono presentati i risultati di una ricerca condotta in Spagna su un campione di cinquanta imprese familiari estratte fra le circa novanta che hanno redatto un protocollo familiare avvalendosi dell'assistenza professionale di persone direttamente coinvolte nella Cattedra di Family Business dello IESE. Obiettivo della ricerca è di identificare i risultati - positivi o negativi, duraturi o passeggeri - dire…

New Model of Governance of Football Sector in Italy. The Identification of Some Gaps for the Overcoming of Pathologies

A dynamic performance management approach to support local strategic planning

In spite of efforts devoted in the last decades to local strategic planning, such field of research and practice has been frequently characterized by a lack of implementation. We argue here that this phenomenon is due to the limitations of the static and linear approach to local strategic planning in fostering the development of common shared view among policy makers on the relevant system's structure and behavior. By means of a case-study, we illustrate how an approach based on system dynamics modeling applied to Performance Management can be useful to overcome such weaknesses. The proposed approach enhances a better understanding of the causes and effects related to adopted policies, unde…

Alcune considerazioni sullo sviluppo integrale delle aziende familiari

Protocolos Familiares: sus resultados

Cibo, salute e stili di vita per la rigenerazione rur-urbana

La dieta mediterranea si basa sulla tradizionale composizione alimentare e sui prodotti che sono stati per secoli indissolubilmente connessi ai paesaggi agricoli e marini del mediterraneo, con le loro dimensioni ecologiche, culturali sociali ed economiche della biodiversità. Nella nostra regione abbiamo sviluppato programmi regionali per attuare strategie di prevenzione primaria delle malattie croniche non trasmissibili ad alta prevalenza attraverso l'educazione e la consulenza comportamentale e nutrizionale (FED), insieme a progetti di ricerca e innovazione finalizzati al recupero dell'identità territoriale attraverso il consumo e la produzione sostenibili del cibo prossimale e sua trasfor…

Nurturing Entrepreneurial Culture and Attitudes in Universities: Experiences at the University of Palermo

The aim of this paper is to contribute in the debate about academic entrepreneurship and the role of universities focusing on the analysis of the long term process of establishing and running an university incubator, and on the relationship between perseverance and results in promoting the exploitation of academic research and contributing to cultural change in an area where entrepreneurial spirit is not part of tradition. The paper focuses on analysing the experience gained at the University of Palermo in promoting and supporting, for the last ten years, the creation of innovative business initiatives and academic start-ups through the incubator run by the Consorzio ARCA. The paper present…

Il bene dell'azienda. Scritti in onore di Vittorio Coda

Dopo avere esposto gli elementi che caratterizzano l’agonismo calcistico, e sintetizzato le caratteristiche salienti delle società di calcio professionistiche, si applica a tale categoria di aziende la concezione di “bene” sviluppata negli interventi di Coda, Sorci e Vergara, e si delinea un approccio economico-aziendale alla creazione del valore in logica di bene dell’azienda. A tale scopo sono stati adattati alla tipologia di aziende in esame gli strumenti della catena del valore, dell’analisi delle forze competitive che caratterizzano la struttura di un settore industriale e dell’analisi degli stakeholder. Si è quindi messo in evidenza come alle tradizionali dimensioni di natura sportiva…

Measuring and Managing the Performance of Territories as a hybrid field of study and practice: a System Dynamics Approach

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how system dynamics (SD) modeling can be used to enrich performance management in local government and to foster a common shared view of the relevant system’s structure and behavior among stakeholders for territorial strategic planning. This is a quite hybrid field of analysis in performance measurement/management. In fact, in this context, performance is not primarily related to the single institutions in a regional area; it is rather associated to the territory where they operate. We begin by showing how framing dynamic complexity through SD modeling can support consensus building among different stakeholders in a territory. This shifts the atten…

Estructura y contenido de los protocolos familiares

Evoluzione della Società, scenari del mondo del lavoro e prospettive per i saperi umanistici

Out-of-pocket costs in gastrointestinal cancer patients: Lack of a perfectly framed problem contributing to financial toxicity

Abstract Fighting cancer is an economically expensive challenge for both health care payers, and the patients and their families and the median costs for cancer care are rapidly increasing in the last decade. Although both direct and indirect costs of medical assistance have been a frequent source of distress and contention, however analysis of the non-medical expenses incurred directly by cancer patients has not received adequate attention. Developing a deeper understanding of so-called "out-of-pocket" costs may be necessary. Out-of-pocket costs for medical care range from 7 % to 11 % of medical costs for all payers. However, the range of out-of-pocket costs shows considerable variability …

El Poder Como Servicio

Family Protocols in Spain: a survey on ten years of experience

Alcune riflessioni sui piani strategici territoriali

Un modelo del hombre

Il mediatore immobiliare dal “prodotto” alla “prestazione” grazie alla costellazione del valore