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Understanding short- and long-term implications of “myopic” fleet maintenance policies: a system dynamics application to a city bus company
2010
Financial losses recorded in city bus companies often force managers to implement restructuring strategies aimed at improving business results. However, such decisions may not produce the expected consequences for a number of reasons. Both the internal and external environment in which such companies operate can make the design and implementation of long-term sustainable policies quite difficult. In fact, the result may be that decision makers introduce "effective" policies in a company subsystem, while ignoring the medium- and long-term implications of such decisions in the performance of the whole company. With the aim to detect the main causes underlying "myopic" fleet maintenance polici…
The analysis of the sicilian wine sector, the bottling firms, the volumes of manufactured products, the turnovers, the locations
2008
The sicilian wine secotr, seen from different angles, is characterized by sceneries that situate it at the centre of the regional economy. The assessment of the increase of the manufactured product, at a disadvantage of bulk wine production, has the goal of stimulating the Sicilian wine companies in following the example of other Italian companies. Moreover, this vaste social and economic Sicilian reality highlights the need for policy-making decisions for all the stakeholders involved.
How the Love of Truth Affects the Role of the Researcher : References to the “Third Mission” of Universities and References to the Field of Business …
2023
This chapter discusses and highlights the role and, therefore, the responsibility of the researcher, of the scholar, in the context of a university institution, which is not usually limited to knowledge, but also to its transfer into the sphere—in primis—of the universitas studiorum, as well as scolarium (in addition to magistrorum), starting with the concept of “truth” and, subsequently, that of “love”1. Certain prescriptive considerations, which could involve the aforementioned role and, therefore, the ethics of the modus operandi of the researcher in question, with inevitable references to the purposes of their work and their goal of progress for mankind and society, will tendentially be…
The promotion of a tourist destination through the definition of the "concept" in a sensorial perspective
2016
According to Anholt, the brand of a tourist destination expresses and sustains its identity; it should depict the main characteristics of the territory and its contents and for this reason it should represent the synthesis, the result rather than the starting point of its promotion. At the operational level there is a widespread tendency of the policy makers to develop the brand strategy of a destination by launching advertising campaigns that enlighten the territorial attractors, aiming to stress the tourist appeal of some geographical areas. In this case the main strategic efforts are usually oriented to develop and support a “comparative" advantage rather than a “competitive” one. An inn…
The production management of hazelnuts in province of Cuneo, under a system dynamics approach. How the dormice affect its performance.
2019
The production of hazelnuts represents an important resource in several Italian rural areas. Sicily and Piedmont, ones of the most important producers of hazelnuts, are affected by the presence of a rodent (Glis Glis), that has reduced considerably the production of hazelnuts. This project aims to show the complexity of the issue by using a System Dynamics (SD) approach to help the decision-makers to implement an optimal policy to improve the performance of production management of hazelnuts, taking as example the case of Province of Cuneo. By using the case of Province of Cuneo where Policy-makers have applied some policies to reduce the impact of the presence of the rodent, a SD microworl…
Generalising Theories Explaining the Different Modes of SME Development and the Associated Growth Trajectories
2010
Previous research has identified two forms of “abnormal” growth – styled as business dwarfism and gigantism - which can both lead to missed opportunities for owners/entrepreneurs and local economies, and even to business crisis and collapse. It has also shown that stunted and inflated growth phenomena, rather than being characterised by completely different rules and rationales, are closely related and that certain fundamental structures and processes underpin both those forms of ab-normal company growth behaviour. This paper reports an examination of a further SME phenomenon – what we have chosen to call "micro-giants". These are companies that would be categorised as rela-tively small fir…
A Physiological Approach to Analysing SME Growth Patterns and to Understanding the Distinctions and Similarities between Normal and Abnormal Growth
2010
Building on earlier work on abnormal SME growth trajectories, this paper investigates to what extent the analysis can be extended to the study of an unusual but “normal” growth pattern. The detailed case histories of two firms which might be called micro-giants are presented. These are companies that would be categorised as small firms but are actually competing, and competing successfully, in non-niche markets with much larger firms, or even multinational giants. The resource based view and modelling approaches developed in the earlier non-normal growth situations is then applied to these cases. It is argued that by viewing the management of strategic assets as part of the normal business …
La Magna Curia dei Maestri Razionali del Regno di Sicilia
2011
Il saggio è una storia dell'organo di controllo e giurisdizione contabile dalla sua istituzione nel 1240, con riferimenti agli uffici finanziari dello Stato di Sicilia sin dallo sbarco normanno, fino alla sua definitiva soppressione nel 1869, attraverso i diversi cambiamenti di nomi e di funzioni. Esso presenta anche una mappatura delle risorse archivistiche disponibili, con la presentazione di alcuni campioni, soprattutto riguardanti in particolare i "riveli" (dichiarazioni) di epoca moderna (XVII secolo)
Trattato del Modo di tenere il Libro Doppio Domestico col suo Essemplare (1636) Saggio introduttivo
2022
Questo saggio introduttivo correda la ripubblicazione, in testo integralmente traslitterato, del celeberrimo Trattato di Flori del 1636 con cui il principio di competenza economica e lo stesso conto economico trovano la loro origine nella letteratura contabile. Esso vuole essere soprattutto una guida ragionata alla sua lettura in cui si compendia il dibattito sin qui disponibile e si fornisce una chiave di lettura sull'impatto dell'opera nella più generale Storia della Ragioneria. Per far ciò il saggio riprende la storiografia in materia ad oggi disponibile, presenta i dati biografici dell'Autore, espone – sia pure con il dovuto grado di sintesi – i contenuti del testo. Posta questa ricostr…
G. Catalani, F. Ricci e G. Maggiordomo: tre autori di aritmetica mercantile
2006
Il presente lavoro, inserendosi nel contesto più ampio del volume, persegue l’obiettivo di “dar voce” ad alcuni autori che, seppur “minori”, hanno contribuito alla formulazione ed alla evoluzione della disciplina ragioneristica. L’idea di fondo è stata quella di verificare, in primo luogo, l’esistenza di scritti citati da fonti autorevoli e di procedere poi alla registrazione delle notizie riferite alle caratteristiche concettuali, editoriali e fisiche del documento, allo scopo di poterne successivamente indagare i contenuti con riferimento alle scritture in uso ed alle costruzioni di pensiero del tempo. Si è partiti dalla celeberrima catalogazione delle opere di «computisteria e ragioneria…