Search results for " GOVERNANCE"

Testing for external sustainability under a monetary integration process. Does the Lawson doctrine apply to Europe?

2015

Monetary integration, and more specifically, the creation of a monetary union in Europe, raises new economic questions concerning its functioning and governance. In particular, we focus on the implications of high and persistent current account deficits for the economic performance of monetary union members in the medium term. Recent literature has argued that conventional measures of external sustainability are misleading because they omit the effects of capital variations on net foreign asset positions due to, among others, stock or debt market crises. In this paper we revisit external sustainability making use of the database developed by Lane and Milesi-Ferretti (2007) that includes the…

EUROPA 2020 IN SICILIA: SPIN-OFF DI RICERCA, DISTRETTI HIGH-TECH E STRATEGIE DI INNOVAZIONE ISTITUZIONALE

2014

Gli indicatori di posizione che quantificano le priorità della strategia Europa 2020 denunciano un ritardo nello sviluppo della Sicilia rispetto alle altre regioni italiane. Per ridurre tali divari si propongono strategie trainate dall`innovazione quali ad esempio distretti tecnologici e spin-off di ricerca. Dopo un excursus di letteratura volto a mettere a confronto queste due forme di innovazione tecnologica ed organizzativa, viene proposto un esercizio empirico che intende verificare quanto la creazione di imprenditorialità da parte dell’Università può contribuire alla riduzione dei divari di sviluppo. Si intende proporre alcune suggerimenti di policy per aumentare la loro efficacia nell…

2018

The article critically discusses the practice of describing children’s special educational needs (SEN) in early childhood education and care (ECEC) pedagogical documents. Documentation is understoo...

Family Council From A Cultural Approach: the case of eastern european countries

2021

The family council is a formal mechanism of the family governance in family businesses that aims to give a voice to all members of the family, and to unify the interests of all members. These interests are identified with the purpose of the family, necessary to achieve a long-term legacy, and the sustainability of the company. However, the establishment of the family council is a topic that is still at an incipient stage, both in the literature and for practitioners, so our contribution advances the understanding of family governance within the sphere of family businesses culture and context. For that purpose, we rely on two cultural indexes widely accepted in the literature. We have taken …

Chi governa la finanza pubblica in Europa?

2012

Toward ‘Vaccine Internationalism’: The Need for an Equitable and Coordinated Global Vaccination Approach to Effectively Combat COVID-19

2021

International audience

Planning in the Era of Information and Communication Technologies. Discussing the "label: Smart" in South-European cities with environmental and soci…

2016

In the last decades, planners have explored various approaches to sustainable urban planning and development. Scholars widely argued the limits to uncontrolled physical growth, to the exploitation of resources, and the necessity of finding alternatives. Within the general framework of sustainability, urban planners are in the search for approaches aimed at coping with current uncertainties that cities have to face, based on the deterioration of natural-socio-cultural environments and uncontrollable economic and financial flows. Notwithstanding, the rise of post-industrial urban economies has introduced Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as successful devices that are proposed…

Dominant and emerging approaches in the study of higher education policy change

2012

The purpose of the article is to analyse recent literature on higher education policy change. Based on the review, three different approaches are distinguished: structural, actor and agency. In the structural approach the dynamic of policy change originates in well-established structures. The actor approach focuses on either individual or institutional actors as the drivers of policy change. The agency approach understands higher education policy change as an interactive process between various actors and domains within transient structures. We will also present two emerging, alternative approaches: actor-network theory, which takes interaction as a starting point and proposes that no organ…

PROBLEMS OF UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONAL GOVERNANCE IN CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

2012

The problem identified in all Europe and other countries is the following: 21th century expectations from society have enlarged the university goals, and in order to reach these goals, university needs new governance processes both at institutional and state level. Along with traditional university goals of providing higher education studies and research, there is an increase of university participation in social activities, as well as global competitiveness. Businesses insist that studies are resulted in higher education compliance with labour market, and research results’ transfer to investments of national economy. The institutional governance issues are becoming more complicated and the…

Innovation and networks in rural areas. An analysis from European innovative projects

2014

Abstract Innovation is a central factor for the development of rural areas, both in terms of diversification and increased competitiveness, also related to new structures of governance. The creation, adoption or adaptation of innovations is particularly complex, requiring the right combination of local knowledge (often tacit and implicit) with expert knowledge (often more explicit and formalised), as well as the support of extensive networks. This paper analyses a number of innovation projects in several European rural areas, through the data collected via in-depth interviews. It examines the projects' contributions and the role played by stakeholders in each stage of the projects. On the o…