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Un racconto allo specchio. la costruzione del mito mafioso attraverso le sue immagini
2009
Using now the cultural models, now those of organizational and structural theories, the Cosa Nostra studies risk sometimes to achieve results spoiled by approximation and partiality. If we want to deepen the research on the impact that the media representation of the mafia produces within the criminal context or in the social construction of the phenomenon, it is essential to use tools able to frame the issue in its complexity. With this background, the paper reviews some relevant cases which clearly show how information, literature, cinematography help to give shape and strength to criminal organization: from the journalistic investigations on the "Provenzano case”, to the television seria…
Bernardo Provenzano e le regole del disordine
2006
L’eco mediatica che ha accompagnato la recente cattura di Bernardo Provenzano, induce ad un’attenta riflessione sull’effettivo ruolo svolto dal capo mafia corleonese all’interno dell’organizzazione criminale e nel nostro immaginario. Ma richiede anche un ripensamento sul significato attribuito alla parola mafia, spesso utilizzata in forme estensive e a-specifiche che ne amplificano o sottovalutano la reale portata, rendendo approssimativi e sfuggenti l’analisi e gli interventi. Da qui i rischi, quanto mai attuali, di forme di mitizzazione, fondate su letture apologetiche, su ottiche difensive, su strumentali omissioni.
Os Últimos Chefões. Investigaçao sobre o governo da Cosa Nostra
2013
A secular e transnacional Cosa Nostra é desnudada nesta obra de Alessandra Dino, professora de Sociologia Jurídica na Universidade de Palermo. Pela atuação de seus últimos e poderosos chefões – que se infiltraram na política e fizeram florescer uma burguesia mafiosa – tem-se a plena idéia de um sistema criminal com poder corruptor, postura parasitária de grudar e se infiltrar no poder do Estado. Tudo com plano diretor e estratégico, ética ambígua e cerimônias de iniciação usadas para a sujeição e disciplina interna. No particular, contam os colaboradores de Justiça, na cerimônia de iniciação e constituição de vínculo indissolúvel, a solene perfuração do dedo indicador (aquele usado para aci…
Leaders’ Style, Self-Sacrifice, and Team Identification
2013
Leadership is a group feature that directly impacts on team identification. Effective leaders are especially capable of fostering group cohesiveness and promoting efficacy in goal attainment. We assessed the relationship between transactional and transformational leadership style, team identification, and leader self-sacrifice. Participants were 186 call center employees who were headed by a leader who operated with either a transactional or a transformational leadership style. The employees reported their level of team identification and leader self-sacrifice. Results show how, in either the transactional or transformational leadership condition, levels of leadership and self-sacrifice wer…
Fostering transformational teacher agency in Finnish teacher education
2018
In this article, we studied how well teacher education in Finland is able to answer the changing needs of the contemporary world. More precisely, we focussed on the question of how well an alternative teacher education model guides teacher students’ agency towards a transformational view of the teaching profession, making it possible for schools to enable social change. This question was studied in the framework of critical social pedagogy. The data for this article was collected ethnographically by observing meetings in the Critical Integrative Teacher Education (CITE) programme at the University of Jyväskylä in 2015–2017. The analysis is based on a theoretical background in which we outli…
Leadership in virtual teams: a comparison of transformational and transactional leaders
2009
The effects of transactional and transformational leadership on groups in which people interact in a virtual manner were analyzed and specifically the level of satisfaction and perception of the style adopted were evaluated. Results indicated that a transformational style is more satisfying than a transactional style, and that a transformational leader is judged to be better than a transactional leader.
Preferred Coach Leadership Behaviour in Elite Soccer in Relation to Success and Failure
2008
Multidimensional models of leadership in sport suggest that in order to maximize performance there should be congruence between the actual coaching behaviour and behaviours preferred by players. This study examined the preferred coaching leadership behaviours in prolonged periods of perceived success and failure in eighty-eight elite soccer players in Norway using the Leadership Scale for Sport (LSS). The three preferred behaviours were Positive Feedback, Training & Instruction, and Democratic Behaviour in both scenarios. All preferred behaviours (except Autocratic Behaviour) were higher in the unsuccessful scenario (p <.01). Negative relationships existed between age/experience and…
Co-evolutionary coupling leads a way to a novel concept of R&D - Lessons from digitalized bioeconomy
2020
Given the increasing role of research and development (R&D) in competitive markets in the digital economy while confronting the dilemma between R&D expansion and a productivity decline, transformation of the R&D model has become a crucial subject for global digital leaders. The authors of this paper postulate that neo open innovation harnessing the vigor of external innovation resources which then developed into a new concept of R&D that self-transforms during an R&D process initiated by Amazon by coupling with users. The authors further develop these postulates by proposing the embedding of a growth characteristic identical to biological coupling. An empirical analysis focusing on the fore…
Cross-lagged associations between problem behaviors and teacher-student relationships in early adolescence
2017
This study investigated the cross-lagged associations between teacher-student relationships and problem behaviors in a sample of 440 Finnish students (half of them identified as being at risk of reading difficulties). The degree to which these associations were moderated by a child’s gender, academic performance, risk for reading difficulties, parental education, and having the same teacher over 2 years was examined. The teachers evaluated the students’ problem behaviors and reported closeness and conflict with a particular student. The results showed that the higher the students scored on externalizing problems in Grade 4, the more conflict teachers reported 2 years later. Moderator analy…
Think transformational leadership – Think female?
2015
This study examines whether the behaviors of transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership are perceived as being more typical of female or male leaders. In a questionnaire study, 113 participants in Germany were asked to rate the probability of occurrence of a specific leadership behavior for male and female leaders, respectively. A diagnostic ratio for each leadership behavior allows the determination of the direction and degree of gender-specific evaluations. As predicted, transformational leadership is believed to be more typical of female leaders. Nevertheless, inspirational motivation and idealized influence attributed are rated as being gender neutral. For transactio…