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Challenges in Geographically Distributed Information System Development : A Case Study

2021

Geographically distributed information system development (ISD) projects are more and more common, especially among organisations operating in global markets. Distributed ISD yields potential competitive advantages by developing new products near the target markets, utilizing global labour markets, and exposing the organisation to innovations, ideas and new paradigms. However, distributed ISD also presents challenges and problems which organisations must take into consideration. The pivotal challenge is usually communication. People working on the same project in different locations find it difficult to communicate due to lack of formal and informal face-to-face communication, different wor…

Bridge over Troubled Water: Italy and the Black Mediterranean

2022

Since ancient times, Italy has served as a bridge between Africa and Europe, facilitating exchanges of goods, crops, legends, human beings, and deities. In recent decades, this role has come back to everyone’s attention because of the flows that have turned the Mediterranean into one of the main crossroads on the global migratory chessboard. Several young Africans have embarked the Mediterranean Passage. Some have arrived to the opposite shore, whereas some have not. The survivors have reshaped the history of the African Diaspora. The history of the Black Mediterranean resonates with that of the Black Atlantic. Moreover, the considerable presence of an African Italian community inevitably l…

Individualizzazione, (neo)liberismo e disagio socio-familiare

2019

L’intento di questo saggio è quello di proporre una riflessione critica sui modi in cui è rappresentato il disagio sociale – anche da parte di uomini e donne nelle loro rappresentazioni di sé – nella società contemporanea, criticandone la supremazia quale risultato del processo della cosiddetta individualizzazione della società e mostrandone i nessi, particolarmente complicati, con il (neo)liberismo – che ha tra i suoi principi e valori cardine la sovranità dell’individuo – per delineare infine alcune delle conseguenze che esso ha sulle strutture socio-familiari della contemporaneità. The intent of this essay is to propose a critical reflection on the ways in which social unease is represen…

Trade And Environment: A Historical Perspective

2015

Abstract The relation between international trade and environmental and social issues has deep historical roots, having been manifest ever since the first industrial revolution. Ironically, the expansion of industrial activities marked, besides the exit from economic backwardness, the commencement of an inexorable war of men against nature. Concomitantly industrialization laid the groundwork for an explosive increase in international trade, which made the latter responsible for increasing environment degradation and social rights infringement. The removal of trade barriers in the first decades after the Second World War as well as the subsequent regulation induced by globalization rendered …

Mercury beats Minerva? : essays on the accelerating impact of market logic permeating higher education

2015

The challenges brought by the Euro

2013

Due to the crises we all go through, crises which was felt simultaneously in all the States of The European Union, the globalization being even more present, a possible improvement of the economy could not be but a unitary solution, as well as the adoption of the Euro as a unique currency. Though, the solution is to create a Fiscal Union within the member states, taking into account the economical characteristics of each country, in general and according to their resources and expenses available on every economical branch. The purpose of this article is to analyse the issues concerned with the Fiscal Union for the Euro zone.

Managing Economic Solution for a global sustainable Development

2010

We live in an imperfect world. The poverty, the disease, the lack of education, the environmental destruction, the energy crisis, the overpopulation, the increasing consumption of resources, the deforestation and desertification, the biodiversity loss, the pollution, the emissions of greenhouse gases, the climate change, water supply, human violence etc. are all current issues. What can be done to provide adequate solutions to these problems? How to respond to these issues?

PREMISES OF GASTRONOMIC TOURISM

2013

Since the competition among tourism destinations has risen, local culture has developed into a competitive advantage and a priceless resource of new products and services to attract and captivate tourists. Gastronomy plays a vital role in the process of attracting tourists because food has an important part in the tourist experience, plus gastronomy developed over the year's styles and tastes and become a critical source of establishing patterns in postmodern civilization.

Towards a Great Design of Conceptual Modelling

2020

Humankind faces a most crucial mission; we must endeavour, on a global scale, to restore and improve our natural and social environments. This is a big challenge for global information systems development and for their modelling. In this paper, we discuss on different aspects of conceptual modelling in global environmental context. The paper is the summary of the panel session “The Future of Conceptual Modelling” in the 29th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases. peerReviewed

Policy is what happens while you’re busy doing something else: introduction to special issue on “language” indexing higher education policy

2016

Traditionally, language has had three functions in higher education. It has been seen as a medium of teaching; as a means of archiving knowledge in different text depositories like books and libraries; and as an object of theoretical study (Brumfit 2004, 164). Brumfit’s typology acknowledges the fact that language somehow crosses the everyday experience of everyone working, studying or otherwise engaged at universities—in other words, in knowledge production. In recent years, however, two major trends in higher education policies have challenged Brumfit’s classification and called for attention to language in a new way: internationalization and globalization policies on the one hand, and kn…