Piervito Bianchi

Piervito Bianchi
University of Foggia | UNIFG · Department of Economics

Economics, PhD

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April 2006 - November 2015
University of Foggia
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  • Professor (Assistant)

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Publications (20)
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Universities seek out of its keenness to preserve the environment and to enhance its environmental performance, by paying attention to social responsibility, to enhance its reputation in society. The current study examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental performance (EP) through the moderating role o...
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The EU provides financial support to promote economic development, but the results of development policies are affected by different of actors, among which public administration is particularly important. The goal of this paper is to investigate both the role of local authorities in the management of European structural funds intended for entrepren...
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Wood arboriculture (or forestry) experienced significant growth in Italy in the early ‘90s; this growth was favored by the issuance of the EEC Reg. 2080/92, followed by Reg. 1257/1999. Despite the opportunity to take advantage of the abundance of land to produce timber, the timber industry in Italy is not yet developed and enhanced. The mountain ec...
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Tourism is a relevant sector in terms of social development, considering its contribution to the quality of life for people with special needs. Accessible tourism, by virtue of its complexity, requires the development of studies on the collaboration among different actors. This leads to this article’s research interest in the public—private partner...
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The financial crisis has made the theme of economic development particularly significant. Analysis of this topic cannot ignore a key actor, that is, public administration. Here, we focus on all the Italian municipalities ( n = 7,978), analyzing the relationship between local public policies (in terms of municipalities’ governance and local governme...
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An emerging segment of tourism demand is represented by accessible tourism, i.e. tourism activated in public spaces in the absence of any kind of barrier (architectural, cultural, sensorial, attitudinal, communicational and informational barriers) and, from a business competitiveness point of view, accessibility represents the precondition of any s...
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Responsible tourism provides a particular lens by which to consider how to improve the sustainability of tourism with the ambition to enhance the positive impacts of mainstream tourism, while reducing the negative ones. In this view, facilitating travel for people with disabilities represents an exceptional opportunity, and the idea that what is ac...
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Although regulations designed to meet the necessities of tourists with disabilities are allowing disables to travel more, they are still encountering barriers and discriminatory practices. A relevant obstacle in making the tourist policy effective is represented by the lack of information and communication about needs and expectations of disabled c...
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The importance of improving accessibility to tourism services and understanding the needs of disabled people is nowadays largely recognized in the literature. In this framework, the present paper tests the suitability of a participatory approach involving stakeholders in the definition of a trademark specification for dealing with a complex issue s...
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The paper investigates how information systems in inter-organizational networks can be improved over time. The paper focuses on home care services for elderly people. DeLone and McLean's conceptual model of information system success was used to understand changes in the quality of the case study information system. The analysis highlights the impo...
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Strategic management literature supposes that strategic planning and implementation processes can improve public administrations performance. However, there is little empirical evidence about this linkage and it could prevail a bureaucratic approach in strategic planning. Therefore, using one of the strategic management levers (the quality of perfo...
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Purpose Considering a micro performance perspective, the paper analyzes whether and to what extent the adoption of better performance management systems could improve the performance levels of a public university. Design/methodology/approach With reference to a period of four years (2011-2014), the quality of performance management systems of n....
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The aim of the research is to identify the factors which enable / restrain public managers’ learning from past experience. The article draws upon research undertaken in Italian local governments after the last performance-based reform (2009). It gives evidence of the ways of learning in organizations characterized by a bureaucratic administrative c...
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Until now very little research has been carried out on the performance of health and human services networks in evolution. In particular, previous studies mainly referred to "centrally governed services networks" in the US context. According to Provan and Kenis (2008), these networks are "lead organization-governed", and are different from the "par...
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Local governments represent an important moving force in promoting sustainable development policies as they make up the level of governance closest to the citizens. The aim of this article is to examine whether Italian local governments exercise de facto their vital role in fostering sustainable development policies. In particular, we analyzed muni...
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Performance management has become an important element of the reform agenda of public sector around the world. However, scholars and practitioners highlight that many public administrations do not manage performance very well. A ‘litmus test’ of the success of a performance-based reform is observing whether public managers use performance informati...
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In recent years there has been a growing belief that cultural policies are very important drivers of the public value creation process. Many scholars show that cultural policies can generate social, economic, and political advantages. However, until now the importance of cultural policies in the social and economic growth of a country has been just...
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