Smart city initiatives, public real estate strategic management and new venture creation.

During the last decade, academics have been involved in an interesting debate around the development of the so called Smart City Initiatives. In the prevailing mind-set, the success of the aforementioned initiatives has been based on pillars like ICT infrastructures, human capital, mobility, environment etc. This chapter focuses on the role played by public property assets within the framework of the Smart City initiatives, with a specific focus on those programs that aim to stimulate the creation of entrepreneurial ecosystem. More in detail, the research provides a theoretical and analytical scheme helping policy makers opt for the most suitable choices relating to the public property port…

La valorizzazione del patrimonio immobiliare quale leva strategica dei programmi Smart City

La valorizzazione del patrimonio immobiliare quale leva strategica dei programmi Smart City

Il lavoro propone un modello d’analisi a supporto dei processi di gestione strategica del portafoglio immobiliare degli enti locali. Esso assume il vincolo della carenza di risorse finanziarie e inquadra queste scelte nell’ambito delle iniziative “Smart City”, che consentono di coniugare la valorizzazione di questi asset immobiliari con gli obiettivi di promozione dell’innovazione e della competitività del territorio. This paper provides a theoretical model aimed at supporting the decision-making process for public real estate portfolio management. In a context of enduring financial constraints, Local Governments could manage the aforementioned process under the framework of the “Smart City…

Il reporting per segmenti nei settori del trasporto pubblico locale e della cura della salute. Esperienze a confronto.

This paper examines issues of cost and revenue allocation that arise when segment reporting is carried out in local public transportation and healthcare companies. It also presents reports by segment schemes that can be used by companies operating in the aforementioned sectors. The research was carried out with the qualitative methods of participant observation and document analysis. this study focuses on the-oretical principles that have been derived from experiences carried out in the design and implementation of a segment reporting system in two companies operating in the public transportation and healthcare sectors. The analysis of the issues and solu-tions adopted by the companies obse…

Enterprise Start-Up in the Euro-Mediterranean Area. The case-study of Mazara Del Vallo’s Fishing District and Consortium

Over the last twenty years, the European Union’s policies aiming to foster the entrepreneurship in the Euro-Mediterranean countries have failed. The theoretical model underlying these policies is inconsistent with the characteristics of the entrepreneurial ecosystems of these countries.Since no enterprise can survive in the long run if it has inconsistent characters with the ecosystem in which it operates, in Euro-Mediterranean countries it is necessary to adopt a specific theoretical model on start-up business, different from the one described by the international literature. The fundamental principles of this theoretical model therefore must be drawn from the common characteristics of suc…

The “Start-up a Business” Strategy in the Succession Process Planning at the Top of Family Firms.

In small family firms, succession to the top is very critical stage of their lives. A high percentage of these firms do not survive their founder. When the successor takes the reins of the company, he has no experience and reputation. For this reason, he very often fails to allow the family firm to survive after its founder. Although many streams of research address succession in family businesses, significant gaps in the literature remain in the field of the strategies that can mitigate the vulnerability of the family firms when the old leader retires and a new leader takes the reins of the company. The underlying argument in this paper is: By starting up one’s own company some years befor…