Search results for "Estate"

The dynamics of private property: between individual rights and common interests

2021

The present research explores the tension implicit in the right to property as an exclusionary right. The conceptualization of the right to property as a necessary component of individual freedom stands at odds with a universal exercise of the right in the context of scarcity. Both moral and economic considerations align in the necessity for property, but these justifications are of a principally divergent order. The natural law perspective is predominantly anchored in the atomic – the interest of the individual in personal freedom and well-being. The focal point of the economics approach is in the aggregate – the benefit to be reaped in the rights’ systematic application. The present work …

"Signore, che pazzi questi mortali!" Un percorso intorno al "Midsummer Night's Dream" di Benjamin Britten

2017

Il saggio prende le mosse dal "Midsummer Night's Dream" di William Shakespeare e dalle sue versioni e interpretazioni musicali a partire dal XVII secolo e descrive la genesi, la struttura e lo sviluppo drammaturgico dell'opera di Benjamin Britten, proponendone una dettagliata descrizione musicale.

Ambidextrous Leadership, Social Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Operational Performance

2019

In the knowledge era, new forms of organizing and managing firms emerge to adapt to new situations. One such new form of organizational management is ambidextrous leadership. Ambidextrous leadership combines opening leader behaviors, such as promoting creativity, and closing leader behaviors, such as accomplishing objectives and adhering to norms. Thus, the aim is to demonstrate that a social orientation is not at odds with measures of operational performance other than profitability. The purpose of this study is to examine how ambidextrous leadership is linked to social entrepreneurial orientation and how this in turn affects operational performance. This is done through a rigorous review …

The Dynamics of (De)Stigmatization : Boundary construction in the nascent category of organic farming

2020

This study finds that it is possible for organizations in emerging categories to resist stigmatization through discursive reconstruction of the central and distinctive characteristics of the category in question. We examined the emerging market of organic farming in Finland and discovered how resistance to stigmatization was both an internal and an external power struggle in the organic farming community. Over time, the label of organic farming was manipulated and the practice of farming was associated with more conventional and familiar contexts, while the stigma was diverted at the same time to biodynamic farming. We develop a process model for removal of stigma from a nascent category t…

2021

Although professional agency has become an increasingly crucial issue in work organizations, investigators lack a brief instrument to measure it. This paper introduces a short measure to explore professional agency at work. Our aim was to shorten the original 17-item Professional Agency Measure, while also exploring its usability for cross-validating questionnaire datasets, and investigating the relationship between professional agency and work engagement. Three dimensions of professional agency emerged, with three items per dimension, across the domains of healthcare, real estate services, and information technology (all within Finland). All the dimensions (Influencing at work, Participati…

Life Cycle Impact Assessment applied to cactus pear crop production for generating bioenergy and biofertiliser

2020

Among the potential uses of cactus pear, the generation of bioenergy (biogas) and biofertiliser (digestate), from the Anaerobic Digestion (AD) of cladodes and fruits, is surveyed in this paper. Data for Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) was drawn from a farm located in Roccapalumba (Palermo, Sicily, Italy), where three cultivars were cultivated: 1) yellow pulp cultivar; 2) red pulp cultivar; 3) white pulp cultivar. LCIA was applied to six scenarios: 1) current dry crop; 2) current irrigated crop; 3) dry crop for fruit and bioenergy production; 4) irrigated crop for fruit and bioenergy production; 5) dry crop for bioenergy production; 6) irrigated crop for bioenergy production. According t…

Financial Sustainability and Morphogenesis of Urban Transformation Project

2015

The urban transformation projects are very complex and have to be examined from several points of view (socio-cultural, environmental, infrastructural, administrative, and economic-financial) to determine their sustainability. This study aims to test the financial analysis as a tool for outlining the morphogenesis of the project’s characteristics and exploring the frontiers of the financial feasibility especially when the urban projects, according to Italian laws, involve Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). A financial model is applied to a case study (the transformation of an abandoned railway area) in which the absence of an adequate returns on investment, because of the crisis of the rea…

Effects of Vermicompost, Compost and Digestate as Commercial Alternative Peat-Based Substrates on Qualitative Parameters of Salvia officinalis

2021

Peat is a common substrate used for the cultivation of potted plants. However, the use of peat in horticulture has recently been questioned from an environmental standpoint, since it is a non-renewable resource and plays a major role in atmospheric CO2 sequestration. The aim of this work was to assess the potentialities of substrates obtained from vermicompost, compost and anaerobic digestion processes to partially substitute peat for sage (Salvia officinalis L.) cultivation. Therefore, we planned an experiment to assess the effect of these substrates on essential oil (EO) yield and composition, as well as on leaf nutrients concentration of sage plants. The three substrates were mixed with …

The Educational Construction of a Social Person and the Unexpected Development of a Human Being

2008

The phenomenon of migratory flows, always present in human history, is today analyzed in such a way as to define a boundary, an us and a them. From the point of view of the host society, the problem is seen in terms of the legitimate conditions of “entry”. But in actual fact, migratory flow modifies the social composition of the political community and therefore could lead to the obligation of also observing phenomena from the migrant’s point of view.

Industry vs. Services

2017

This chapter examines the difficulties of the country to emerge as an industrial power, despite the rich mineralization of the country, which has given birth to a proliferation of mines and conflicts focusing on the environmental and social consequences of mining. More than the lack of abundant energy reserves, the choices of the economic and political leaders have not been conducive to an industrial takeoff similar to neighboring countries. The steel and garment industries have never been very strong, the automobile cluster of Laguna province is much less impressive than what is seen in Thailand, and the high-tech industry works mostly for foreign companies, in the absence of any major ind…