LIBRI DI ELENA GORI

Sustainable Development Goal 5 aims to achieve women’s full and effective participation as well as equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making. Our research focuses on the higher education sector and aims to analyse the current gender gap in Italian universities. Specifically, this paper studies the effective presence of women in leadership role through the disclosure provided in gender reports. The research approach is based on a content analysis of the gender reports published by Italian universities, collecting information about the presence of women in academic leadership roles (such as rector, board of directors, school president, department director, etc.). This research has an exploratory nature as, to the best of our knowledge, previous studies have not analysed this topic in Italian higher institutions. It also represents a possible bridge between two different research areas: gender gap studies and social reporting. The results provide an instrument for evaluating the effectiveness of the gender policies in the university sector for national policymakers (such as the Ministry of Education and Italian Rectors Conference) and rectors and board members of higher institutions.

Il volume costituisce un percorso di lettura, in chiave aziendale, finalizzato alla valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale dei musei ecclesiastici. Per rendere efficace questo obiettivo è necessario dotarsi di metodologie e strumenti organizzativi e gestionali che consentano di ottimizzare i processi di definizione degli indirizzi strategici, di programmazione e attuazione delle azioni da intraprendere, nonché di valutazione e comunicazione dei risultati, attraverso anche un dialogo con gli stakeholder.

Negli ultimi anni, il settore turistico è stato caratterizzato da una crescente concorrenza e da una particolare attenzione alla sostenibilità delle scelte strategiche, anche in seguito alle indicazioni provenienti dall’Unione europea. La Regione Toscana ha creato gli Osservatori turistici di destinazione, mentre la Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña ha optato per una gestione accentrata. L’articolo, mediante il metodo della case analysis, analizza i due approcci evidenziandone le caratteristiche, i punti di forza e di debolezza. I risultati dimostrano che le scelte strategiche hanno, spesso, natura dicotomica e, al tempo stesso, come strategie con una comune matrice conducano a soluzioni applicative opposte. L’articolo costituisce inoltre una delle prime analisi sui risultati prodotti dai modelli strategici applicativi legati alla rete Necstour.

Railways are the first example of a modern business that States have regulated and which, in many cases, has contributed significantly to the economic success of industries connected to it but also of the State. The "Società anonima italiana per la costruzione di automobili terrestri e marittimi San Giorgio" has a hundred years history, began in Genoa in 1905. From the earliest years, it produced wagons and carriages for the Italian State Railways. The article, by an archive documental analysis, explores the contribution of the enlargement of the Italian railways to the development of San Giorgio, also highlighting the link between the trend of State orders at the national level and the strategies adopted by San Giorgio and its results. The result is a complex alliance with lights and darks.

Public Governance issues are a focal point in the debate about Local Public Utilities (LPUs). In the last decades the organizations providing Public Services in European countries are experiencing key changes in their governance and control systems. The exponential growth of shared entities managing local public utilities resulted in a new role for local authorities, which now have to lead real business holdings of public limited companies delivering services to citizens. The Italian picture is characterized by an odd dichotomy between the mission of the local authority and the activities of the LPUs. Indeed, local governments need to keep LPUs under control and to be able to define how to provide services, in keeping with the principles of social rights and equity. The research aims at verifying the state of the art of Italian local authorities governance on their LPUs by means of a semi-structured survey with multiple-choice questions. The questionnaire has been submitted to a selected sample of Italian local authorities with more than 20,000 inhabitants (515 entities). The main result of this study confirms the previous research: local authorities need to develop a structured multidimensional information system in order to better evaluate and control the competitive, social and environmental performances of their LPUs. To date, few local authorities use governance mechanisms to control their group of LPUs, while the vast majority lacks the required tools and consequently cannot apply appropriate governance on LPUs entities.