Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of ECONOMIA E DIRITTO DEL TERZIARIO (2/2011)

Responsabilità sociale dell'impresa, enti non profit, etica degli affari

Mon, 15 Jan 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Alpa Guido
The scenario in which is evolving the "social liability of enterprises" is very variegated. Indeed, the "social liability of enterprises" is started as an idea and then is turned into an intellectual opinion and into cultural and institutional initiatives, by enterprises, professional operators and groups, Agencies, Administrations, broad sectors of civil society, Governments and Parliaments. The social liability commits traders to assess- in a "sustainable development" - the effects of economic activities on target audience and environment, and to contribute in creating a social ethic: the "corporate body" - as in the anglo-american "formula" - is called to take awareness of the social dimension of development in which economic and collective needs is conflicting and comparing, and to contribute in protecting individual and collective rights and interests influenced by choices, behaviors and strategies of economic actions. The "social liability of enterprises" is one of the many possible answers to the gradual erosion of the welfare state, to the harms against the environment, to the creation of consumers needs, to the job insecurity, to the opacity of the contractual relationships, to the ungovernability of the markets globalization. This answer rests on the voluntary contribution of business operators and in a undefined space that goes beyond what is imposed by law.

Rischi dell'attività bancaria e tutela dei creditori delle banche

Mon, 15 Jan 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Ruozi Roberto
Presumably, faced with new banking crises, States should no longer intervene to save banks from bankruptcy unless taxpayers do not end up bearing the burden of the cost. Distressed public finances can no longer sustain the cost of bank bailouts, which should not be necessary if in the meantime different legal solutions to those currently in place could be found to manage banking crises and reduce the impact on savers. Moreover, the fate of the latter should be entrusted to the good management of assets and liabilities of banks as well as their attitudes and policies in respect of risks assumed or those that can be assumed.

Strategia di destinazione e d'impresa nel comparto alberghiero: quali confini?

Mon, 15 Jan 2012 8:00:00 GMT

The present paper investigates the link existing between the destination positioning, commercial mix, seasonality and performance of hotel businesses, measured using daily values of occupancy and prices. The research issue in the paper reflects on the importance that city strategy plays in defining seasonality patterns. Firm strategy is expected to be more relevant in managing prices, but not occupancy. In other words, firm strategy is, on average, unable to change seasonality structure, which is defined more at destination level. To explore the development of occupancy and prices in relation to the seasonalities of the destination, the study has collected daily data on occupancy, average room rates and revenues per available rooms. The results confirm the lesser role played by firm strategy in modifying seasonalities during the high seasons, when firms focus more on price management. By contrast, during low seasonalities, the variability of occupancy in the sample is decidedly higher. The findings are also stable if we exclude firms (hotel units) with abnormal (positive and negative) returns, suggesting a relative stability of occupancy patterns regarding firms’ competitive advantage or disadvantage.

L'albergo diffuso: una "formula" tutta italiana

Mon, 15 Jan 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Confalonieri Marco
The article is focused on the analysis of a particular kind of accommodation: the "albergo diffuso", a typical Italian phenomenon. "Albergo diffuso" can be an intelligent solution especially in little centres because its approach is not damaging to the environmental, using pre-existent buildings (houses, farmhouses, abandoned factories, etc.). As a result the "albergo diffuso" has positive economical and social impacts on the destination typical of sustainable tourism.

L'impatto turistico di un grande evento: La Louis Vuitton Cup in Trapani nel 2005

Mon, 15 Jan 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Di Betta Paolo, Noto Lidia
Special events are usually considered a factor of economic growth for a region and very effective instrument in urban marketing. They are still used as a means to justify expenditures (usually in infrastructures) that, whilst necessary to the region, are not really required by the event itself. Hence, special events ought not be considered the outright solution to overcome some structural problem; to solve which a new phase in programming regional development is required. An appropriate report on the effects of the event can change this attitude, starting from the accurate accrual of the expenditures, which would otherwise distort the evaluation of the impact. An instructive example comes from the Louis Vuitton Cup held in Trapani in 2005, which had limited effects, and only in the short run. In the long run, the effects are not positive because the event induced investments in receptive capacity without a corresponding increase in room utilization.

Uno strumento di gestione del patrimonio culturale: il caso dei siti UNESCO

Mon, 15 Jan 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Sibilio Parri Barbara
The sites contained in the UNESCO’s World Heritage List are characterized by the presence of valuable cultural heritages. The cultural operators of these sites are committed to projecting and to realizing a development process, which is quite complicated for several reasons. A planning and control process is effective in overcoming these difficulties. In this framework, the law 77 of 20th February 2006 in our country has introduced the Management's Plan, which aims to "grant the identification, protection, preservation, development and transfer of the heritage to the following generations". Specifically, the Management's Plan is a political and economic management tool for the cultural site in the medium and long term. This tool can drive the design, realization and control of the protection and development projects for the national heritage. The use of the Management's Plan has mainly resulted in the planning of cultural events aimed to protection and restoration, together with development activities, mostly short term, which had a considerable economic impact on the territory. The feeling obtained by observing the reality is that the ability to use the Management's Plan in the appropriate way are still missing: a comprehensive plan that puts together all the affected subjects in the long term has not been expressed, and its controlling functioning for the management has not been understood yet. It seems that it was mainly written to accomplish with the law requirements.

L'interpretazione della riforma di TPL a Genova: tra la creazione di una bad company e l'efficentamento del sistema

Mon, 15 Jan 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Burlando Claudia, Todeschino Andrea
This work tries to understand which are the effects of the reform on Local Public Transport (that took place after the 422/1997 law and its successive modifications) in the city of Genoa and in particular, which have been the criticalities and positive effects of this path in the perspective, if possible, of the transformation of the functioning of one single urban reality embedded in a reflection of the reform activities of other urban realities. The important moments of the choices made by the Public Administration are identified through an analysis of the normative and of the balance sheets in order to try to understand what have been the consequences of such choices from the efficiency point of view (in terms of a higher fiscal sustainability) and of the efficacy (from the point of view of an improvement of the quality of the offered services and an enhancement of the demand). Without the pretention of synthesising with positive or negative judgements such complex operation, the paper identifies what have been the unattended aspects and also some of the positive effects.

Nuove prospettive del diritto bancario e dell'intermediazione finanziaria - Atti del convegno

Mon, 15 Jan 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Piero Milano Gian

IRAT, schede bibliografiche

Mon, 15 Jan 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Gli autori di questo numero / Processo di referaggio degli articoli proposti per la pubblicazione. Norme per autori e collaboratori

Mon, 15 Jan 2012 8:00:00 GMT