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From state-owned smokestacks to post-industrial dreams : The Finnish government in business, 1970–2010
2020
While state-owned enterprises (SOEs) used to be considered obsolete tools for governmental intervention in the economy, in recent years governmental intervention in the business sector has re-emerged as a topic of debate. However, scholarship on the changes in and the modernisation of the SOE model is limited. In this article, we examine how the Finnish state’s ownership policy adapted to the requirements of economic globalisation between the 1970s and the 2010s. We show that the attitude towards globalisation was pragmatic and aimed at safeguarding the competitiveness of domestic companies. The state-owned company system was gradually adapted to meet new needs, losing most of its original …
Peer interaction and pioneering organizational form adoption : A tale of the first two for-profit stock exchanges
2021
Building on a historical case study on the first two stock exchanges to adopt the now globally dominant for-profit organizational form, the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1993 and the Helsinki Stock Exchange in 1995, we argue that interaction among socially proximate peers contributes to pioneering organizational form adoption within an industry, particularly when such forms are introduced by established organizations. Peer interaction can induce a search for technically efficient organizational forms through the sharing of collective experiences, the establishment of collective assumptions, and a joint search for solutions. Together, these factors contribute to the legitimization of novel or…
PANDEMIA NEL CAPITALISMO DEL XXI SECOLO
2020
In recent months much has been written and said about the pandemic, produced by coronavirus SARS-CoV2, which results in COVID-191 and which is causing deaths all over the world, affecting above all those social strata that, due to their own living conditions, do not know how to defend themselves. The book returns to the subject, examining the interactive play of the different factors that lie at the root of this dramatic social phenomenon and that constitutes yet another warning, from the most unheeded, about the real conditions of our planet and the possibility that life can continue to reproduce in it. Within the analysis of these different factors we wanted to pay particular attention to…
Pandemia e neoliberismo: un incastro perfetto. Diseguaglianza, povertà e marginalità
2022
Il contributo si sofferma sulla diffusione del Sars-Cov-2 quale epifenomeno della gestione capitalistica neoliberista del pianeta e sul suo ruolo rivelatore, per un verso, di tutte le contraddizioni e i disastri del neoliberismo, e detonatore, per un altro verso, delle nuove strategie capitalistiche per una nuova fase di accumulazione del capitale. Dentro a questo quadro cercheremo di far luce sulla ulteriore spinta alla crescita delle diseguaglianze, delle povertà e delle marginalità sociali ed economiche di cui è responsabile il modo di produzione capitalistico ma che la pandemia sta accentuando, consentendo agli attori economici, individuali e istituzionali di usare quest’ultima come ali…
El Trabajo penitenciario: ¿De qué partimos y hacia dónde nos dirigimos?
2017
Il Progetto per le acque del parco sud di Milano
2013
The history of the cities shows as disinterest towards suburbs and bad government produced degradation in all the Countries of the planet. The project - Energy of the Memory - is located into the Agricultural Park in the south area of Milan. The project integrates the secular witness of the farms into the landscape by raising awareness of the generations for the culture of safeguard of the park, and for a cutting-edge production. Within this “geographic restoration” there is the integration of a matrix energy linked to water. The project gives indications of territorial policy and involves the re-use of architectural and hydric systems, with a new vocation for workshops and ecoterritorial m…
Razzismo, razzializzazione e valorizzazione del capitale all'epoca del capitalismo globale
2013
Capitalismo e coesione sociale. Qualche considerazione sul ruolo attuale della sociologia
2015
Negli ultimi venti anni, grazie al predominio dell’ideologia della globalizzazione e dell’impresa globalizzata, imposto dai think thank del liberismo internazionale, e forse anche ad una eccessiva specializzazione delle scienze sociali, il tema delle disuguaglianze crescenti determinate dal modo di produzione capitalistico, e quello correlato dell’integrazione sociale e della coesione sociale all’interno dell’economia capitalistica, sono rimasti nella penombra dell’analisi delle scienze sociali e della sociologia (Bowles, 2009), in Italia (Gallino, 2012) più che in altri paesi, dove al contrario si assiste da molti anni ad una crescente attenzione nei confronti delle trasformazioni del capi…
Social media influencer: a new hybrid professionalism in the age of platform capitalism?
2023
International audience; Chapter 13 Social media influencer: a new hybrid professionalism in the age of platform capitalism? by P. Sedda and O. Husson, analyses the way social media influencers, acting in the context of communities of practice, participate in redefining professionalism and professional practices in marketing and communications fields while promoting social values or advocating for a cause of public interest. Using a methodological approach based on interviews and ethnographic observation, the study considers the influencer as a specific case of “hybrid professionalism” (Noordegraaf 2007) in which quantitative performance criteria, prescribed by platforms, are combined with c…
Les théories de la gouvernance : de la gouvernance des entreprises à la gouvernance des systèmes nationaux
2006
(VF)L'objectif de cet article est de faire une synthèse des théories de la gouvernance. Dans la première partie sont présentées les théories micro de la gouvernance en opposant les théories cognitives aux théories diciplinaires. La seconde partie est dévolue aux théories macro de la gouvernance sur la base de la distinction entre les théories fondées sur l'appropriation de la rente organisationnelle et celles accordant un rôle dominant à la production. Cette synthèse met en évidence que la vision financière de la gouvernance n'est qu'un cas très particulier qui présente de nombreuses limites;(VA)The objective of this article is to make a survey of the different corporate governance theories…