Suchergebnisse

Introduzione: la sicurezza sul lavoro in Italia / di Marco Frey -- Il continuo processo di miglioramento della sicurezza sul lavoro in Barilla / di Marco Frey, Luca Ruini, Laura Campra -- Il tema della sicurezza nel reporting di sostenibilità: evidenze nel settore dell'igiene urbana / di Massimo Battalgia, Marco Frey, Emilio Passetti -- Il ruolo dei comportamenti civici nell'efficacia dei modelli organizzativi HSE: evidenze empiriche dall'esperienza di ENI / di Francesco Testa, Fabio Iraldo

This volume addresses different issues related to green innovation procurement as well as exploring the challenges involved in public procurement. It offers a broad array of perspectives, addressing both general, abstract problems of optimal public procurement and concrete cases of national or even local public procurement systems

"With up to 20% of GDP being used on public procurement, it accounts for a significant part of the global economy. This volume addresses different issues related to green innovation procurement as well as exploring the challenges involved in public procurement. The studies offer a broad array of perspectives, addressing both general, abstract problems of optimal public procurement and concrete cases of national or even local public procurement systems. The evidence presented covers a variety of different countries including, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands and several African countries. Reflecting the different areas of expertise of the authors, the studies draw from Economics, Engineering, Law and Organization approaches to public procurement and use both theoretical and empirical methods to produce a comprehensive analysis. Accordingly, they contain policy suggestions that are likely to be useful for the design of policies in these areas of public procurement, which are hotly debated topics both in the policy and academic circles."--

Purpose
Analyzing how and what the local multi-utility AIMAG learned through the 2012 Northern Italy earthquakes, the purpose of this paper is to "normalize" the organizational learning (OL) triggered by disasters.


Design/methodology/approach
Seven managers who experienced the earthquakes were interviewed. The collected data are supplemented by archival materials. The analysis was conducted based on the 4I model (Crossan et al., 1999), using the qualitative data analysis tool "NVivo."


Findings
The earthquakes audited AIMAG's knowledge repositories, revealing its weakness and strength. When the earthquakes struck, individuals intuited the situations based on their previous experience, interpreting the need to respond to the interruptions and begin recovery immediately. The collective interpretation formed the basis for joint actions, which integrated the group learning at the organizational level. The effective cognition and behavior were instituted to the organization, and the new knowledge was absorbed into the organization's knowledge repositories awaiting the next audit.


Originality/value
The concept of "learning through disasters" is advocated. By perceiving disasters as a series of interruptions that may have happened before and may re-occur, the learning is connected to organizations' past and future through knowledge repositories. In addition, by analyzing data based on the multi-level OL model, the learning triggered by disasters was observed to occur throughout the organization at individual, group and organizational levels, in which routines played a critical linking role.

AbstractThis paper investigates the relationship between the business orientation to sustainability read under the lens of viable systems, and the operational and local dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The study deals with the experience of an Italian company operating as a monopolist in the energy industry, and it focuses on three innovative power transmission lines built in the 2000s. All the construction processes are analysed in order to explore both the operational effects and local impacts from a sustainability perspective. Embedding sustainability in a company actively contributes to the SDGs and creates a new interpretive model.

AbstractThis paper explores which are the drivers and their interactions that can lead organizations to adopt radical sustainable innovation (SI) in unfavorable contexts. We identify external and internal drivers of SI adoption, and we conceptualize sustainable intrapreneurship as an additional driver. We report and discuss the findings from a case study in the water sector based on interviews and secondary data collected among eleven water utilities in Israel, Italy, and Spain. We provide new insights on how interactions between external and internal drivers can generate dynamic cycles that gradually shift utilities from a reactive to an embedding and system change approach in adopting SI. Within this process, networks and sustainable intrapreneurship act as interactive drivers that catalyze internal and external drivers. The study links testable propositions in a conceptual model describing the dynamics triggering SI adoption and argues for the relevance of sustainable intrapreneurship for addressing the systemic nature, complexity, and ambiguity of SI adoption.

AbstractThis study investigates the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate ability (CA) associations on perceived corporate reputation (PCR) and the relationship between the two associations in different cultural environments. By focusing on electricity providers, we carried out a questionnaire survey within BRICS capital cities—that is, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—and tested a conceptual model via structural equation modelling. Results showed that, grouping BRICS together, CSR and CA associations predicted PCR, and CA association partially mediated the relationship between CSR association and PCR. When analysing each country separately, these relations were confirmed only for Brazil, China, and South Africa. These findings extend the literature on consumers' corporate associations by differentiating between CSR and CA among different cultural environments. Managers should avoid replicating business strategies in different cultural systems, coordinating such strategies to maximise PCR. The paper concludes with suggestions for coordinating CSR and CA within business development strategies.