Cecilia Manzo

• Ph.D. Economic Sociology
• Researcher at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Fab Labs are small workshops, open to the public, that offer tools and services for digital manufacturing, thus promoting social and economic innovation. For these reasons they can be considered «local collective goods»: they are created as part of the sharing economy and they are able to generate external economies, tangible and intangible, useful...

Makerspaces are collaborative public spaces where new forms of work are developed within the collaborative economy. Within makerspaces, Fab Labs are workshops, open to the public, that offer tools and services for digital manufacturing, thus promoting social and economic innovation from grassroots. Existing research has shown as freedom of access a...

The Economy of Collaboration The New Digital Platforms of Production and Consumption By Francesco Ramella and Cecilia Manzo Routledge 2020 Over the past few decades, the world economy has undergone radical trans- formations, in part connected to the expansion of the ‘digital economy’, in part to the growing interconnection via the internet of t...

Il capitolo è organizzato in tre paragrafi. Il paragrafo 1 è relativo alle professioni del futuro: si indaga la conoscenza degli intervistati del mondo del lavoro, le loro previsioni rispetto alle tendenze future e i loro interessi verso le professioni emergenti. Il paragrafo 2 indaga, invece, le competenze, a partire da un’autovalutazione degli in...

This chapter explores the supply and demand side of interest representation in two creative industries in Italy and how they influence working conditions. Relying on semi-structured interviews with key informants in graphic design and video game development, we will show that the arena of interest representation is dominated by non-traditional acto...

The creative industries are considered a strategic factor for the development of the European economy. They are nevertheless heterogeneous. Creative workers are polarised between those employed in large firms, who benefit from high wages and good working conditions, and those contracting out their skills to small and flexible organisations, who suf...

Come si diffondono conoscenza e informazioni all'interno di un network? Reti sociali e innovazione in viticoltura fornisce risposte a questa domanda, analizzando le dinamiche e i meccanismi di diffusione dell'innovazione tra le imprese vitivinicole. Partendo da alcuni dei più recenti contributi al tema dell'innovazione e combinandoli con l'analisi...

The creative industries are increasingly considered a strategic factor for the development of the European economy. Despite this, however, creative work is often represented as highly vulnerable, though heterogeneous across different industries. Still, most creative workers are, with some notable exceptions such as journalists or orchestras, reluct...

Fab Labs are small workshops, open to the public, that offer tools and services for digital manufacturing, thus promoting social and economic innovation. On this basis, these workshops can be considered as ‘local collective goods’: created as part of the sharing economy, Fab Labs are able to generate external, tangible and intangible economies, use...

In this paper we discuss to what extent these traditional industrial relations actors and institutions play a role in the creative industry in the Netherlands and to what extent collective interest representation is absent or new types of collective interest representation can be observed. Also, we analyse the state of play of job quality, the poss...

Innovative startups have been subject matter for discussion for some years now by the media and private and public actors who decide to invest in young entrepreneurs as a way of new employment and economic growth. Innovative entrepreneurship, although not yet significant in the Italian economy, has a significant impact on the construction of young...

If in the early days the spread of Internet has been often symbolized by the prefix “e” (e-mails, e-commerce, and so on), we can observe that “we” is emerging as a new keyword. This is because communities have been deeply reshaped by the advent of new communication technologies, social media to begin with. Even traditional professional communities,...

Privatization processes that involved municipal companies since the Nineties to the formation of multi-utility companies listed in the stock market, but with the majority of shares still in the hands of municipalities. Also, the “liberalized” markets were subject to uncertain regulation. In this new environment, companies faced mixed incentives tha...

If in the early days the spread of Internet has been often symbolized by the prefix " e " (e-mails, e-commerce, and so on), we can observe that " we " is emerging as a new keyword. This is because communities have been deeply reshaped by the advent of new communication technologies, social media to begin with. Even traditional professional communit...

The article analyses the boards of Italian listed companies and applies Social Network Analysis (SNA) to the members of board of directors of the former public enterprises in the Italian stock market. T e description of these networks is a useful tool to envisage what relational resources public enterprises hold through their members, compare them...

The spread of social media is creating new reputational mechanisms, even in professional environments. This paper takes into consideration a borderline case, “pro-am”. “Professional amateurs” are individuals that do not perform an activity as their primary job, and still maintain high professional standards. In particular, the paper focuses on “foo...

In the current economic and employment crisis, women-run enterprises represent an important opportunity to create new jobs and stimulate innovation. This article presents the results of empirical and comparative research based on ten case studies of small artisan firms. The study compared five small enterprises led by women with five extremely simi...