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SVILUPPO RURALE E I NETWORK PLACE-BASED DELLE AREE MARGINALI: IL CASO SICILIA

Turismo relazionale

2007

Il turismo, inteso come viaggio di conoscenza e come svago, esiste da sempre, almeno da quando l’uomo ha manifestato l’esigenza di scoprire quello che gli stava intorno, di allargare quindi la propria sfera di conoscenza e di influenza nel territorio circostante. Con il suo aprirsi “a tutti” e con l’introduzione dell’aspetto simbolico dello status sociale, il turismo ha assunto una connotazione sempre più di“moda”, avviandosi in una direzione gestita da logiche industriali di “massa”2. Logiche economiche centrate sulla ricerca del massimo profitto, come unico parametro valido per la misura della performance aziendale che mostrano oggi, quanto mai prima, i loro difetti e le loro profonde con…

Enhancing repopulation in a decaying historical neighborhood through collaborative networking: A Dynamic Performance Governance approach

2022

Historic centers, as the internationally recognized heritage of the cities, and among the most valuable assets in urban Italy, have been underutilized, devitalized, and wasted (Pellegrini & Micelli, 2019). In fact, urban degradation has been pervasive and remaining also in other industrialized countries (Serrano et al., 2016). Many historic centers have been affected by urban deterioration and depopulation for the past two centuries (Pough & Wan, 2007), and the problem persists today. This research underlines the importance of employing a collaborative governance perspective in designing policies, in terms of not only fostering effective local governments' agendas but also promote active ci…

Adopting a Dynamic Performance Governance Approach to Frame Interorganizational Value Generation Processes into a University Third Mission Setting

2022

In recent years, the literature on Higher Education policy and management emphasized an increasingly entrepreneurial role played by Universities in contributing to the socio-economic development of their regional and local areas. Besides Education and Research, this crucial role identifies a Third Mission to be fulfilled by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), which entails social engagement, networking and collaboration with other stakeholders to generate sustainable community outcomes. This chapter introduces the use of the Dynamic Performance Governance approach to analyze the academic network value generation processes underlying Third Mission activities in Universities. The emerging f…

RE-CONCEPTUALIZING A SICILIAN DESTINATION THROUGH THE ACTORNETWORK THEORY: THE ROLE OF A GASTRONOMIC FESTIVAL TO RUN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF A TE…

2013

The paper describes San Vito Lo Capo – a tourist destination on the west cost of Sicily – by considering its human and not human (material and immaterial) elements. To depict this tourist destination, so to map and analyze the different involved elements and to understand the inner mechanisms of its functioning, the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is exploited. A special focus is on the “Cous Cous Fest” and the role it’s played in the last seventeen years for the tourist (economic) development of the destination.

Governance Structure and Knowledge Sharing and Creation in Inter-Firm Networks

2006

Italian experiences in Life Cycle Assessment of olive oil: a survey and critical review

2010

Robustness of dynamic gene regulatory networks in Neisseria

2014

Gene regulatory networks are made of highly tuned, sparse and dynamical operations. We consider the case of the Neisseria meningitidis bacterium, a causative agent of life-threatening infections such as meningitis, and aim to infer a robust net- work of interactions across sixty proteins based on a detailed time course gene expres- sion study. We consider the problem of estimating a sparse dynamic Gaussian graphical model with L1 penalized maximum likelihood under a structured precision matrix. The structure can consist of specific time dynamics, known presence or absence of links in the graphical model or equality constraints on the parameters. The authors developed a new optimization algo…

Causal models for monitoring University of Palermo ordinary financinf fund

2012

Student mobility: A systemic approach to preferential patterns in higher education

2022

The thesis is a collection of three essays with a “fil rouge”, namely the study of Italian student mobility, 2008 to 2017, analyzed systemically. The main objective of the thesis is to develop statistical methods suitable to identifying preferential mobility patterns starting from the micro-data of a mobility network and applying these methods to reveal preferential patterns of mobility among Italian students with a particular focus on students from Sicily. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that chain migration, within the framework of a network analysis, has been applied to the study of Italian student mobility. In each of the three chapters, there are data analysis tool…