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Renewable energy from the production residues of vineyards and wine: evaluation of a business case
2010
Enhancing performance management and sustainable organizational growth through system-dynamics modelling
2012
Organizational growth and performance management provide two important research topics for both enterprises and public sector organizations. Improving performance levels, or at least keeping them stable over time, is a hot topic not only for business executives and entrepreneurs, but also for managers and policy makers in public and non-profit institutions. How best to design Planning & Control (P&C) systems to support organizational performance management and assessment in a sustainability perspective? This paper illustrates the need for a methodological framework that would link system dynamics to P&C systems so as to support decision-makers in managing organizational performance, as well…
Development of taxonomy for Spanih Credit Institutions
2012
This article describes the classification of stakeholders. The goal is to find distinct profiles of credit institutions, depending on their degree of concern about CSR. 57 Spanish credit institutions answered a survey. The results show the interest of such institutions in CSR in relation to the whole Spanish financial sector. The article distinguishes 3 clusters depending on the institutions' approach to CSR, that is, whether they focus on employees, society or regulations.
La actitud de las entidades de crédito españolas hacia sus empleados, desde una perspectiva de responsabilidad social empresarial
2012
Es cada vez mayor el convencimiento de que la repercusión de las actividades de una entidad de crédito en los derechos humanos de sus empleados y de las comunidades locales sobrepasa el ámbito de los derechos laborales. El objetivo es evaluar si las entidades de crédito con mayor sensibilidad hacia la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (RSE) implementan prácticas de valores compartidos con sus empleados. El trabajo de campo se realizó a través de una encuesta contestada por 57 entidades de crédito españolas. En comparación con otros tipos de entidades, los bancos presentan una valoración de los empleados significativamente mayor. Así, estos tienen un mayor compromiso organizacional. De este…
The changing structure of banking firms and industry: an analysis through the European banks' balance sheets
2013
This paper analyzes the changing structure of the Italian and European banking firms and industry. The main aim is to identify the fundamental changes of the underlying economics of banking through the analysis of banks’ balance sheets. In this paper, we provide evidence that commercial banks have progressively moved from traditional banking to new forms of financial intermediation. The paper discusses the implications of this changes in terms of business models of banking firms, business operations of banks, structure of the financial system and banking industry. The research points out that the role of traditional bank is in decline. It is changing the fundamentals of banking business. Ba…
Essays on Risk Disclosure: Evidence from the Banking Industry
2021
Ostacoli e determinanti dell’innovazione: un’analisi sulle imprese siciliane di successo
2010
Utilizzando i dati raccolti con un'indagine diretta presso un campione molto esteso di imprese siciliane di successo, si analizza la percezione degli ostacoli a innovare e le principali determinanti che contribuiscono a spiegare il fenomeno dell'innovazione in Sicilia
Interfirm Network Analysis in Marginal Tourist Destinations: The Mediator Company in Business Relationships
2022
The literature on tourist destinations and the use of empirical approaches evidence the need to adopt this model to increase tourism economies. In model application, the enterprises, and local stakeholders, sometimes represent limitations or opportunities. This article opens the view to tourist destination networks, described as relational structures that can influence and determine the destination-building process. The Network Analysis methodology offers a better understanding of inter-firm relational dynamics when applied in a small context, and in this case, the application was undertaken on the island of Sicily, in Menfi town and its hinterland. Findings show the presence of a company t…
Recupero delle ex Officine Ducrot, oggi Cantieri culturali alla Zisa a Palermo
2013
Il costante aumento della popolazione delle grandi città, ha indotto i comuni a reperire, spesso in maniera più o meno disordinata, nuove aree edificabili destinate, soprattutto, ad edilizia residenziale. Tale attività ha soventemente portato ad inglobare, all’interno delle città, particolari strutture come ad esempio, carceri, mercati ortofrutticoli, mercati ittici, agglomerati industriali, ecc. Nello specifico, le attività industriali, in seguito ad oculate pianificazioni, hanno spesso abbandonato gli antichi siti, per trasferirsi in aree industriali moderne e idoneamente attrezzate. La memoria, prendendo in esame le “Officine Ducrot”, realizzate alla fine dei XIX secolo a Palermo, vuole …
Influencia de los factores de contingencia en el desarrollo del cuadro de mando integral y su asociación con un rendimiento mejor. El caso de las emp…
2016
En este trabajo se analiza la relación entre algunos factores de contingencia, el nivel de uso del cuadro de mando integral (CMI) y el beneficio percibido gracias a su aplicación. El CMI es una herramienta capaz de ofrecer a los responsables de las organizaciones una visión completa de cómo a través de la integración de medidas financieras y no financieras se ejecuta la estrategia. Del análisis realizado sobre la base de los datos obtenidos de las sedes centrales de 61 empresas españolas de productos y servicios se deduce que el grado de formalización y estandarización en las empresas tiene una influencia directa y positiva en el desarrollo del CMI hacia niveles más integradores y orientado…