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Ecosocial Innovations as Part of Social and Solidarity Economy : Local Models for a Sustainable Development
2017
Este artigo apresenta o conceito de inovacoes eco-sociais. Conceito que remete para as organizacoes locais ligadas a economia social e solidaria cuja intervencao nao deixa de atender aos desafios sociais e ecologicos, podendo ser vistos como modelos de sucesso na operacionalizacao da sustentabilidade. Baseado num estudo comparativo multi-caso internacional, a partir de uma abordagem do Servico Social, o artigo procura mostrar o trabalho desenvolvido nestas iniciativas, salientando a importância das mesmas. Entrevistas recolhidas junto dos atores locais em quatro paises permitiram identificar sete caracteristicas comuns as diferentes experiencias estudadas. Destaca-se a identificacao de um p…
Cooperative Finance and Cooperative Identity
2012
The question addressed in this paper is whether the financial structure of cooperatives constitutes a badge of identity that differentiates cooperatives from other corporate legal forms such as capital-based companies.To this end, it examines features of their financial structure that are considered typical of cooperatives in a number of documents published by international organizations: the International Co-operative Alliance's Statement on the Co-operative Identity (ICA, Manchester, 1995); the International Labour Organization's R193 Promotion of Cooperatives Recommendation (ILO, 2002); Council Regulation (EC) No. 1435/2003 of 22 July 2003 on the Statute for a European Cooperative Societ…
Sorveglianza sui lavoratori, protezione dei dati personali ed azione collettiva nell’economia digitale
2019
Il saggio mette in luce i rischi legati alle concrete modalità di funzionamento e di organizzazione delle piattaforme digitali ed esamina il costante uso di una forza lavoro estremamente flessibile, con una disponibilità just-in-time, retribuita solo a prestazione, e sottoposta a fortissimi controlli elettronici.
Le questioni della sostenibilità economica
2016
La mancanza di un approccio economico di tipo sistemico, condiviso e partecipativo ha prodotto nell’economia di vaste aree del Mezzogiorno d’Italia una frammentazione di competenze, una scarsa flessibilità e un’insostenibilità dello sviluppo spontaneo, incontrollato e senza identità. Ancor di più questa condizione – accompagnata dagli egoismi e dai personalismi dei soggetti imprenditoriali, ma troppo spesso anche da quelli istituzionali – ha pesato sullo sviluppo delle aree a forte vocazione turistica. L’orientamento strategico dello sviluppo richiede alle comunità residenti, e più in generale a tutti gli stakeholder del territorio (imprese, commercio, imprese sociali, Pubblica Amministrazi…
Measuring agglomeration by spatial effects: a proposal
2015
In this paper we examine the influence of spatial dependence on the estimation of the effect of standard measures of agglomeration on local growth. The hypothesis is that the forces of agglomeration do not use up their effects inside a single local area but extend to wider geographic areas, particularly on the adjacent territories. To account for these spatial effects, we propose a modification of the traditional agglomeration index, suggested by Maurel and Sedillot (1999), including both agglomeration of economic activity within an area and neighbour effects, that is, the effect of agglomeration that comes from neighbouring areas. In the empirical exercise we compute the a-spatial and the …
Turkey's bid for EU membership, contrasting views of public opinion, and vote choice. Evidence from the 2005 German federal election
2008
Abstract This paper examines the effects of attitudes toward Turkey's entry into the European Union on vote choice in the 2005 federal election in Germany. Building on prior research, the paper contrasts the elitist and the policy voting view. The evidence shows that citizens' opinions about Turkey's accession to the European Union do not merely reflect group-memberships and political predispositions. They also play a role in influencing voting behaviour with support of Turkey's entry raising the likelihood to vote for the SPD or the Greens while reducing the probability to cast a vote for right-wing parties, the CDU/CSU and the FDP. Finally, low educated voters are disproportionately susce…
Innovation strategies geared toward the circular economy: A case study of the organic olive-oil industry
2018
Circular Economy (CE) focuses on the (re)design of processes and products aiming to minimize negative environmental impact, by reducing the use of non-renewable resources, increasing products durability, improving waste management and enhancing the market for secondary raw materials. In the management field very few contributions deal with the topic of CE as a model that firms can implement from a business model perspective. The aim of the present study is to describe, by using a case study in olive oil industry, how firms in practice adapt their business model towards CE paradigm and the influence of personal drivers and stakeholders in this adaptation. The findings reveal that circular ec…
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy, New York 1942
2008
Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950) lehrte an den Universitaten Czernowitz, Graz und Bonn. 1932 folgte nach zwei Gastprofessuren ein Ruf nach Harvard. Daruber hinaus war er zeitweise — allerdings mit weit weniger Erfolg — in der Privatwirtschaft und der Politik tatig. Zu seinen Hauptwerken zahlen neben dem erstmals 1942 auf Englisch erschienenen Spatwerk „Kapitalismus, Sozialismus und Demokratie“ seine Habilitationsschrift „Das Wesen und der Hauptinhalt der theoretischen Nationalokonomie“ (1908), die umfangreiche Arbeit „Konjunkturzyklen: Eine theoretische, historische und statistische Analyse des kapitalistischen Prozesses“ (1939) sowie die postum von seiner Frau herausgegebene „Geschichte…
Power laws and the market structure of tourism industry
2013
In this article, we use both graphical and analytical methods to investigate the market structure of one of the world’s fastest growing industries. For the German and Italian datasets, we show that the size distribution of tourism industry is heavy-tailed and consistent with a power-law behavior in its upper tail. Such a behavior seems quite persistent over the time horizon covered by our study, provided that during the period 2004–2009, the shape parameter is always in the vicinity of 2.5 for Germany and 2.6 for Italy. Size of the tourism industry has been proxied by the lodging capacity of hotel establishments: hotels, boarding houses, inns, lodging houses, motels, apartment hotels, touri…
Productivity, R&D Spillovers and Educational Attainment*
2012
Economists have long agreed that the local availability of a more qualified workforce generates significant spillovers. This study suggests that these externalities may arise because plants by having access to a more qualified workforce at a regional level, can benefit more from R&D spillovers than those located in areas with less qualified workforce. This hypothesis is tested on a sample of British establishments drawn from the Annual Business Inquiry over the period 1997–2002. The main results are consistent with our expectations that the regional differences in the industry-level educational attainment of the workforce available to a plant will condition its capability of absorbing R&D s…