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Author: Alkis Thrassou Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030458350 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 280
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SMEs are significant job creators and drivers of innovation and competition in most economic sectors. Furthermore, the traditional constraints of small and medium enterprises, such as geographic operations, are now being dissolved by technological developments. This means that there are new opportunities for SMEs, and their fundamental principles are being redefined: the aims, competencies, strategy, management, practice, and scope of these businesses are changing, with wide-ranging implications. This is the second part of a two volume work that incorporates scientific chapters on SME business theory and practice. Authors provide a balanced perspective of the present and future of SMEs across all business disciplines, for example management, strategy, marketing, economics and finance. While Volume I focuses on the individual SME and internal issues such as innovation, quality, and digitization, this second volume explores external issues such as contextual forces, the effects of the financial crisis, and macro-economic effects.
Author: Alkis Thrassou Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030458350 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
SMEs are significant job creators and drivers of innovation and competition in most economic sectors. Furthermore, the traditional constraints of small and medium enterprises, such as geographic operations, are now being dissolved by technological developments. This means that there are new opportunities for SMEs, and their fundamental principles are being redefined: the aims, competencies, strategy, management, practice, and scope of these businesses are changing, with wide-ranging implications. This is the second part of a two volume work that incorporates scientific chapters on SME business theory and practice. Authors provide a balanced perspective of the present and future of SMEs across all business disciplines, for example management, strategy, marketing, economics and finance. While Volume I focuses on the individual SME and internal issues such as innovation, quality, and digitization, this second volume explores external issues such as contextual forces, the effects of the financial crisis, and macro-economic effects.
Author: Valentina E. Albanese Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040176496 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 225
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This book is the outcome of an interdisciplinary research process aimed at capturing the complexity of the social mobilisation for climate change. It brings together various academic perspectives to understand the diverse forms of climate activism, challenging traditional notions of agency, space, justice, and legality. The reader will broaden their understanding of the social mobilisation for climate change and its interactions with new digital spaces. This book questions public authorities and big greenhouse gas emitters, individual and generational behaviors, artistic creations, territorial identities, legal systems, and even the idea of democracy. This broad overview results from a collection of concise contributions from scholars with different backgrounds, who employ a variety of tools and methodologies in their analysis, although delivering their findings in an accessible language. It is intended for students, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers in the areas of Climate Change, Digital Activism, Cultural and Legal Geography, Social and Spatial Justice, Human Rights and Environmental Law, Sustainable Cities, and Just Transition.
Author: AA.VV. Publisher: Marsilio Editori spa ISBN: 8829716855 Category : Art Languages : it Pages : 274
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L’Italia, con il suo immenso patrimonio di arte e cultura, costituisce un terreno straordinario per la sperimentazione di nuove pratiche di sostenibilità all’insegna del fattore culturale. Il XIII Rapporto dell’Associazione Civita sviluppa una riflessione proprio su questo ambito strategico sia per l’impresa che per l’organizzazione culturale contemporanee. In questi tempi ibridi e turbolenti, in cui gli attori economici e sociali sono alla ricerca di nuovi equilibri e punti di ancoraggio solidi e condivisi, è frequente rilevare come la sostenibilità sia parte integrante degli approcci manageriali di aziende alla ricerca di un’armonia fra profitto economico e generazione di “valore condiviso” con gli stakeholder, entrando di diritto anche nell’agenda delle politiche culturali. Tanto le imprese quanto i musei sono quindi chiamati a interpretare la contemporaneità e a guidare in modo innovativo il cambiamento, assumendo la sostenibilità integrale quale pilastro centrale del proprio operato, non solo con narrazioni suggestive, ma mediante azioni concrete e misurabili. La declinazione culturale della sostenibilità d’impresa è affrontata nella prima sezione del Rapporto, attraverso l’attività di ricerca del Centro Studi di Civita, arricchita da testimonianze di esperti e da una rassegna di iniziative attuate da imprese virtuose. La dimensione museale della sostenibilità è sviluppata nella seconda sezione del volume, con l’auspicio di contribuire a sensibilizzare un numero crescente di organizzazioni culturali italiane.
Author: Maurizio De Vita Publisher: Firenze University Press ISBN: 8866553034 Category : Architecture Languages : it Pages : 253
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A subject that is inexplicably little studied at present, or indeed not at all, is that of the quest for possible applications and feasible objectives in the energy requalification of existing buildings, existing or planned open spaces, old city centres and the monumental and diffuse cultural heritage. At the present time it is crucial that the issues, research and techniques linked to the possibilities of an aware use of energy are applied to the old city centres and the existing heritage. This must start from a knowledge and investigation of the traditional building materials and techniques, which are in themselves inherently sustainable (comprising both the ancient city and the consolidated modern city and their historic stratifications). The historic environment indeed represents an infinite cultural and environmental resource and a very high percentage of the global architectural heritage.
Author: Anna Maria Fellegara Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031349776 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 289
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This edited volume provides an innovative perspective on the future of food systems. The contributors analyse relevant issues for a sustainable and responsible food consumption and cover fundamental steps for a broader approach to the sustainability of meat-based products. The book presents several issues and solutions to engage food firms in a measurable ecological transition. Topics discussed include not only the pedagogical perspective on sustainable food consumption, the evolution of (meat-based) food production systems and the animal welfare perspective, but also the adaptation of firm’s strategies to the sustainable transition, the effects of climate change on agri-food firms’ governance structures and the evolution of consumers perceptions on meat-based products and the role of CSR labels. This book targets managers and entrepreneurs who work in the meat industry and are seeking to improve their socio-environmental performance and governance, accountants that works at the production of sustainability reports for food companies, researchers working at the cutting edge of the food and environmental fields, professionals working in the meat industry and researchers interested in the investigation of novelties in European food regulation.
Author: Marta Moccia, Vanina Ballini eds Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1470983974 Category : History Languages : it Pages : 118
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UrbanVoids(tm) presenta venti progetti basati sulla combinazione di più attività (commerciali, lavorative, infrastrutturali, residenziali e ambientali), ma ciascuno con una innovativa funzione trainante. Nascono così proposte di hotel per turismo giovanile, case auto costruite con orti urbani, mercati ecologici, spazi per campeggiatori, centri sociali di nuova concezione, edifici per la musica o contro l'emarginazione sociale. La valorizzazione piazze e slarghi degradati, o di vuoti abbandonati e lo studio di nuovi approcci bioclimatici, rappresentano aspetti qualificanti le proposte insieme all'utilizzazione di tecnologie informatiche (da google map a una rete di Blog) La forza di UrbanVoids(tm) non è però nei singoli aspetti, ma nel loro intreccio e sviluppo sinergico; le componenti si integrano, si valorizzano, trovano alimento e forza l'una dall'altra, diffondono una coscienza critica, generano le partnership necessarie a iniziare la realizzazione concreta di alcuni dei progetti proposti
Author: Carlo Arnaldo Vezzoli Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1848001630 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 308
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This volume is a technical and operative contribution to the United Nations "Decade on Education for Sustainable Development" (2005-2014), aiding the development of a new generation of designers, responsible and able in the task of designing environmentally sustainable products. The book provides a comprehensive framework and a practical tool to support the design process. This is an important text for those interested in the product development processes.
Author: Carmelina Bevilacqua Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030482790 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 2196
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This book presents the outcomes of the symposium “NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES,” held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26–28, 2020. Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and Innovation-driven Policies Towards Urban and Regional Transition, the book presents a multi-disciplinary debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic programs and decision support tools in connection with urban–rural area networks and metropolitan centers. The respective papers focus on six major tracks: Innovation dynamics, smart cities and ICT; Urban regeneration, community-led practices and PPP; Local development, inland and urban areas in territorial cohesion strategies; Mobility, accessibility and infrastructures; Heritage, landscape and identity;and Risk management,environment and energy. The book also includes a Special Section on Rhegion United Nations 2020-2030. Given its scope, the book will benefit all researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in issues concerning metropolitan and marginal areas.
Author: Alkis Thrassou
Author: Alkis Thrassou
Author: Valentina E. Albanese
Author: AA.VV.
Author: Maurizio De Vita
Author: Anna Maria Fellegara
Author: Marta Moccia, Vanina Ballini eds
Author: Silvia Passerini
Author: Carlo Arnaldo Vezzoli
Author: Carmelina Bevilacqua
Author: Sabina Alessi