Knowledge management as a key stone of sustainable welfare in the Italian rural areas

Titolo Rivista RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'
Autori/Curatori Francesco Zecca, Natalia Rastorgueva
Anno di pubblicazione 2017 Fascicolo 2017/1
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 19 P. 183-201 Dimensione file 242 KB
DOI 10.3280/RISS2017-001012
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Sustainable well-being in the rural areas directly depends on their sustainable development. However, sustainable management in contemporary agriculture does not come easy for farmers due to different challenges and quality standards. To meet these challenges and to achieve sustainable development, the agricultural enterprises need an informational support. Therefore this article offers knowledge management as a tool for facilitating agricultural performance and enhancing quality of rural life. Practical application of knowledge management is quite complicated due to its intangible characteristics. Hence, the paper is targeted at developing sustainable organizational model of knowledge management affordable for small and medium enterprises. This model was created after contentanalysis of the literature and was verified through an executed survey. The Italian agriculture was considered as a context for this study.

Il benessere nelle aree rurali dipende direttamente dalla sostenibilità del loro sviluppo. Tuttavia una gestione sostenibile dei processi produttivi nelle aree rurali non è semplice da parte degli agricoltori a causa della necessità di affrontare le di-verse problematiche correlate all’applicazione dei principi di sostenibilità. Per rispondere a queste sfide le imprese agricole hanno bisogno di un supporto informativo in grado di indirizzarne le scelte. Il presente contributo intende dimostrare come il knowledge management può favorire la sostenibilità nelle aree rurali migliorandone la qualità della vita. Lo sviluppo del modello ha avuto come riferimento dimensionale le piccole e medie imprese. Il modello è stato messo a punto attraverso l’analisi della letteratu-ra ed una verifica empirica condotta attraverso la somministrazione di un questionario. Come contesto relazionale è stato preso a riferimento il settore agricolo Italiano.

Keywords:Knowledge management, sostenibilità, benessere, agricoltura italiana, disseminazione.

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Francesco Zecca, Natalia Rastorgueva, Knowledge management as a key stone of sustainable welfare in the Italian rural areas in "RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'" 1/2017, pp 183-201, DOI: 10.3280/RISS2017-001012