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Travailler dans la recherche privée au sortir d'une école d'ingénieur

2011

In this paper, we analyse the incentives for graduates from engineering schools to work in R&D activities. First, we focus on the remuneration of R&D activities in private companies. The results suggest clearly a lower remuneration of R&D in comparison to other activities, all things being equal. Then, we test the hypothesis of a "taste of research". According this hypothesis, engineers working in R&D activities are willing to accept lower earnings due to intrinsic benefits they get from their work. The results do not fully validate this hypothesis. Indeed, engineers involved in R&D activities have a greater dissatisfaction about the remuneration they receive, but also concerning many aspec…

SalarySecteur privéR & DR&DIngénieurEngineer[SHS.EDU] Humanities and Social Sciences/EducationPrivate SectorSalaire[SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and FinanceJob SatisfactionSatisfaction au travail
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Assessment of Social Services’ Disaster Risk Management: Case Finland

2017

Local actors are crucial in disaster risk management; thus, their capacities should be assessed periodically. In this study, local social services’ preparedness plans were assessed using Emergency Management Program Measurement and quantitative document analysis. The specific aim was to study how social service areas of various sizes were prepared for disasters in Finland. The results showed that disaster risk management capacity varied significantly between large and small service areas. Larger areas were better prepared for supporting management, and had better procedures to activate their response, modern public information and deeper cooperation with the private sector and the civil soc…

Service (business)021110 strategic defence & security studiesCivil societyEmergency managementSocial workbusiness.industry05 social sciencesEnvironmental resource management0211 other engineering and technologiesSocial Welfare02 engineering and technologyManagement Monitoring Policy and LawPublic relationsPrivate sector0506 political scienceManagement Information SystemsPreparedness050602 political science & public administrationbusinessRisk managementJournal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
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Scritti in onore di Pellegrino Capaldo

2014

La qualità dei servizi è stata riconosciuta come un rilevante aspetto caratterizzante la performance dell’azienda pubblica, analogamente alla capacità di operare secondo criteri di efficienza e nel rispetto dei vincoli di bilancio. Sebbene sia possibile riscontrare alcuni significativi casi di adozione di politiche di customer satisfaction nelle amministrazioni pubbliche italiane, a tutt’oggi il tema presenta significative criticità, specialmente in ordine agli aspetti metodologici e agli strumenti operativi che consentano di integrare dette politiche nel sistema di programmazione e controllo delle aziende che erogano tali servizi. Il presente lavoro adotta una diversa prospettiva di analis…

Settore SECS-P/07 - Economia AziendaleQuality in delivering public services has been recognised as a major issue challenging performance in the public sector as well as the ability to operate effectively and within budget constraints. Empirical findings shown by the literature demonstrate that concrete efforts have been produced towards the evaluation and improvement of satisfaction levels of citizens and other Public Administration’s ‘customers’. However still today this issue portrays many unresolved criticalities particularly concerning the methodological approaches and operative tools to adopt in order to integrate ‘customer satisfaction’ programs with the wider organisational control system in each public administration. This paper adopts a non-conventional view of the ‘customer satisfaction’ concept. This is currently meant as a matter of social reporting or even statistical analysis based on the users’ perceptions on the level of provided services by a given (front office) unit in the public sector. Here an inter-institutional perspective is adopted with a view to map the overall value chain leading to the final product delivered to citizens or the community. Inside this chain tracking the underlying administrative products delivered by back-office units to their ‘internal clients’ in the public administration is recommended as a fundamental step to understand how to improve performance in satisfying citizens’ needs. This should also require a proper link between the administrative units’ goals and performance measures to the desired efficiency and effectiveness of processes leading to the attainment of administrative products providing the basis of the final services delivered to the private sector. Based on first empirical findings from field analysis in the Italian context the paper aims to outline an approach which could assist both politicians and managers to better assess and improve performance according to a customer satisfaction perspective.
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Mafia-type organizations in Italy: diffusion, impact on the private sector, research paths,

2013

Settore SPS/07 - Sociologia Generalemafia private sector extorsion impact organized crime costs
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WORK–FAMILY CULTURE IN FOUR ORGANIZATIONS IN FINLAND

2005

The main objective of this study was to examine work–family culture in four organizations in Finland (n=1,114). Specifically, we attempted to clarify whether perceived work–family culture would vary according to gender, economic sector and type of organization. Furthermore, we investigated whether these perceptions would be related to employee self-reported well-being. The study data were gathered during 2001 by a questionnaire filled in by personnel from four different organizations, i.e. a municipal social and healthcare department (n=496), a municipal education department (n=232), a paper mill (n=183) and an IT organization (n=199). The first two organizations represented the public sect…

Sociology and Political Sciencebusiness.industryEconomic sectorPublic sectorGeneral Social SciencesDevelopmentPublic relationsPrivate sectorWork (electrical)Organizational behaviorWell-beingHealth careJob satisfactionDemographic economicsSociologybusinessCommunity, Work & Family
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Investing in Sports Facilities: The Italian Situation Toward an Olympic Perspective. Confidence Intervals for the Financial Analysis of Pools

2015

Given the current economic crisis, there is a lack of investments also for public sport facilities, which are vital to the urban quality of the city and the quality of life of its citizens. The situation is serious in Italy, especially after the failure of public policies for funding of major events (World Cup, 1990; Winter Olympics, 2006). Some recent laws (147/2013) have revived the sector with particular atten-tion to the medium size facilities but have neglected the small structures that represent the basic activities. In case of the latter, a convergence of objectives is needed between public administrations and private investors. Therefore, public au-thorities should think in terms of…

Sports facilitiesFinancebusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectPerspective (graphical)Public policyConvergence (economics)Private sectorSports facilities · Project financing · Financial evaluationProject financingports facilities · Project financing · Financial evaluationSustainabilitySports facilities; Project financing; Financial evaluationFinancial analysisSettore ICAR/22 - EstimoQuality (business)BusinessInvestment performanceFinancial evaluationmedia_common
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Current challenges and prospective analysis of the Third Sector of Social Action (TSSA) in Spain

2020

This paper analyses the current conditions and future challenges faced by the Third Sector of Social Action (TSSA) in Spain to consolidate itself as an institutional sphere of sustainable welfare and as a strategic actor in the development of social policies. The empirical basis of this work has been obtained with the use of qualitative methods such as in-depth interviews, focus groups and the mixed method of Delphi. The use of these methods is aimed at interpreting TSSA leaders' discourses, the collective voice of Non-governmental organisations (NGO) managers and representatives, and the opinions of experts on: the nature and past development of the sector. This research was carried out un…

Strategic planningEconomics and EconometricsThird Sector Welfare State NGO social base Social Policy European Union sustainability financial crisis.Sociology and Political Sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectPublic policyUNESCO::CIENCIAS ECONÓMICASPublic administrationPrivate sectorActive citizenship:CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS [UNESCO]Focus groupPolitical scienceSustainabilityWelfareQualitative researchmedia_commonCIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y cooperativa
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STRATEGIC PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT IN GOVERNMENTAL AND PRIVATE SECTOR IN LATVIA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT

2012

Management issues can be divided in two large groups: governmental, with its specific aims, methods and challenges, and private sector responsible for economical results, competitiveness and state revenues. Although these sectors have so much in common in sustaining the state, striving for excellence, fulfilment of European Union 2020 strategy and for the best results, they are at the same time very different. By theory and practice, one of the greatest methods how to improve performance, is benchmarking- both looking for the best in the concrete field and in different area. In the article authors compare strategic planning and management issues in governmental and private sector, thus iden…

Strategic planningGovernmentEntrepreneurshipbusiness.industryBenchmarkingPublic relationsPrivate sectorEconomicsmedia_common.cataloged_instanceEuropean unionMarketingbusinessSWOT analysisManagement processmedia_commonEuropean Integration Studies
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The logic of pressure groups and the structure of the public sector

1987

Structure (mathematical logic)Economics and Econometricsbusiness.industryEconomic policyEconomic sectorPolitical Science and International RelationsPublic sectorBusiness sectorPublic administrationPrivate sectorbusinessTertiary sector of the economyEuropean Journal of Political Economy
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Social Responsibility Initiative Implementation in the Public Sector in Latvia

2014

The public sector provides many different jobs in Latvia; however, the number of people employed in the public sector is small. Sometimes private sector organisations with a socially responsible culture are more attractive for specialists. The authors propose to evaluate Social Responsibility’s (SR) importance, benefits, and ways of possible implementation for several types of public sector organisations.
 The objective of this paper is to enquire what kind of activities organisations need to carry out to be included in the Sustainability Index rating and overview the possible reasons of difficulties encountered by public organisations.
 The authors describe the structure of the p…

Sustainable developmentEnvironmental Sustainability Indexbusiness.industryPublic sectorPublic relationsPrivate sectorbusinessSocial responsibilitySocialiniai tyrimai
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