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El método Delphi como técnica de diagnóstico estratégico. Estudio empírico aplicado a las empresas de inserción en España
2014
ResumenEl trabajo tiene como objetivo realizar un diagnóstico estratégico de las empresas de inserción en España, identificando sus principales debilidades, amenazas, fortalezas y oportunidades, y las posibles medidas a implementar para mejorar su situación. Para ello, se utiliza el método Delphi como técnica basada en un cuestionario a expertos, incluida dentro de las metodologías cualitativas de la Dirección de Empresas, apropiada para trabajos exploratorios y en los que las técnicas cuantitativas no proporcionan suficiente información. Los resultados del estudio demuestran que estas empresas presentan una escasa cualificación de sus recursos humanos y una excesiva dependencia financiera …
The Finnish pulp and paper industry: a case study in media as stakeholder
1998
Presents and analyses a current discourse surrounding social and environmental responsibility in the Finnish paper industry between 1970–1995. Addresses theoretical modes of social responsibility and related environmental issues. Media as forum for debate and discourse are described and the campaign to protect Finnish wild forestry is discussed. Implications for strategic communication theory and practice are considered.
Alignment of strategy and structure in local government
2020
Strategic positioning and structural alignment in the public sector is a neglected area of research. This paper analyses the strategic positions of prospectors, defenders and reactors and structural alignment in Norwegian municipalities. Top managers responding to a survey perceived that the municipalities did align their organizational structures to the strategic positions for prospectors and defenders, but not for reactors, as hypothesized, but these relationships were modest. The top managers often found it difficult to provide consistent responses on their organizations’ choices of strategic positions. The authors show that many Norwegian municipalities have minimal alignment of their o…
Handling Uncertainty of Strategic Ambitions—The Use of Organizational Identity as a Risk-Reducing Device
2015
Organizational identity can be designed to reduce the risks of uncertainty about future states of public organizations and the inherent potential issues related to evaluation and assessment. As such, organizational identity may shape a congruent and credible self-representation of the university, where a consistent narrative articulates compliance to diverse institutional frameworks, commitment to organizational distinctiveness, and a sensible rationale for strategic change. By examining the strategic plans of four European universities over a 10-year period of major organizational change, the paper discusses the subtleties of the specific combinations of the three different functions and t…
Un nuovo compito antico come la pianificazione: integrare il paesaggio nel piano. L’esperienza di Calonge
2013
Il contributo esplora le possibilità offerte dagli strumenti di valutazione ambientale, se inscritti in un processo di pianificazione urbana, in funzione della piena integrazione del paesaggio nella prassi urbanistica. Dopo l’iniziale riflessione in merito alla distanza tra la pianificazione urbanistica e la pianificazione ambientale, si fa riferimento alle novità introdotte dalla Direttiva europea del 2001 in materia di valutazione ambientale di piani e programmi. Successivamente, viene presentato il caso studio di un piano urbanistico approvato in Catalogna. La scelta di questa regione è dovuta al fatto che, oltre ad avere implementato processi di Vas nella pianificazione, conta sul suppo…
Foreword 2 in Strategic Environmental Assessment: Integrating Landscape and Urban Planning
2016
Il contributo costituisce l'introduzione al volume di Fabio Cutaia, che raccoglie gli studi da lui avviati negli anni del dottorato di ricerca in pianificazione e continuati successivamente in occasione di varie esperienze di ricerca in contesti nazionali ed internazionali. Il lavoro di Fabio Cutaia, attraverso un attento esame delle questioni aperte e di casi di studio, consente di pervenire ad una prima sistematizzazione del tema della Valutazione ambientale strategica in particolare per quanto attiene il ruolo che tale valuzione può avere nel riconnettere le discipline della pianificazione urbanistica e della pianificazione del paesaggio. Il testo, sviluppando in dettaglio la questione d…
New directions for the biopharma industry in Canada: modelling and empirical findings
2008
PurposeThe main purpose of this study is to identify features and trends shaping the business models currently prevailing in the Canadian biopharma industry, by disaggregating the business model analysis into four key areas: value creation, investment strategy, business strategy, success factorsDesign/methodology/approachResults arise from an empirical fieldwork of qualitative nature, undertaken by the end of 2004, involving deep interviews to a broad variety of key stakeholders of the biopharma industry in the Quebec region, including biopharma firms, large pharma firms, venture capital funds, research centers and recognized experts from consultancy firms and Universities.FindingsBiopharma…
The effects of populism as a social identity frame on persuasion and mobilization: evidence from a 15-country experiment
2020
This article investigates the impact of populist messages on issue agreement and readiness for action in 15 countries (N = 7,286). Specifically, populist communicators rely on persuasive strategies by which social group cues become more salient and affect people's judgment of and political engagement with political issues. This strategy is called ‘populist identity framing’ because the ordinary people as the in‐group is portrayed as being threatened by various out‐groups. By blaming political elites for societal or economic problems harming ordinary people, populist communicators engage in anti‐elitist identity framing. Another strategy is to blame immigrants for social problems – that is, …
Nonlinear rocking of rigid blocks on flexible foundation: Analysis and experiments
2017
Abstract Primarily, two models are commonly used to describe rocking of rigid bodies; the Housner model, and the Winkler foundation model. The first deals with the motion of a rigid block rocking about its base corners on a rigid foundation. The second deals with the motion of a rigid block rocking and bouncing on a flexible foundation of distributed linear springs and dashpots (Winkler foundation). These models are two-dimensional and can capture some of the features of the physics of the problem. Clearly, there are additional aspects of the problem which may be captured by an enhanced nonlinear model for the base-foundation interaction. In this regard, what it is adopted in this paper is …
Piani strategici 2.0 per un Mezzogiorno propulsivo
2010
La pianificazione strategica in molte delle pratiche attuali, soprattutto nel Mezzogiorno, ha assunto forme manieriste e rituali piuttosto che continuare a sperimentare e declinare nei contesti locali i suoi aspetti innovativi, propulsivi, selettivi e negoziali. Ha innalzato agli altari un proceduralismo che rasenta il velleitarismo, una partecipazione che annega nella demagogia, un allontanamento dell’orizzonte temporale che nasconde il rifiuto della responsabilità. In questo processo di mutazione della pianificazione strategica verso il dogma si sono persi anche la carica volontaristica e l’orizzonte ambizioso dei soggetti pubblici e privati, che addirittura costruivano insieme il tavolo …