Silvia Sacchetti

Università degli Studi di Trento | UNITN · Department of Sociology and Social Research

Care services pose new challenges and opportunities for the implementation of sustainable HRM practices related to worker involvement and well-being because of their relational nature. The article is framed in terms of the job demands and resources model and discusses the impact of sustainable HRM (SHRM) practices on organizational performance in t...

The COVID-19 pandemic both accelerated social and household inequalities and made them more visible as the spatial and social divide between work and home life was broken down. Historically, during times of crisis or huge systematic change, women have served as shock absorbers. Shock absorption of systemic change by women, as well as that of our pl...

A needs theory of governance is introduced and discussed, in which the new institutionalist economics, which consider selfishness and opportunism as the main behavioral principles, are confronted with a new theory in which the organization, as a social system, is embedded in the broader social and cultural context and in a network of social relatio...

The article constructs a model of firm governance that considers the wider effects of economic activity, thus bridging the organisational level and the macro level. The theoretical framework builds on Hansmann’s ownership model and introduces an alternative. The “total cost model” advanced directs attention to concerns that are not entirely address...

Le persone in condizione di svantaggio psichico faticano ad entrare e rimanere nel mercato del lavoro in quanto possono avere maggiori difficoltà nel soddisfare le aspe&ative lavorative delle imprese. Le organizzazioni che si occupano di inserimento lavorativo rappresentano uno strumento importante per supportarne l’inclusione professionale a&raver...

Organisational governance should not be detached from its effects. Based on this premise, this paper presents a selection of relevant theoretical elements and normative concerns for the study of governance and its consequences. Specifically, the paper considers a combination of resource integration mechanisms (contract, authority and cooperation) a...

This paper considers resource coordination as a problem of allocation and distribution of resources in organisations pursuing social aims, or social enterprises (SEs). These goals are close to the Polanyian idea of the primacy of society over self-regulating markets and to reciprocity as mechanism of coordination of the economic activity that is di...

Purpose – This study aims to examine the relationships between the rules that a cooperative membership decides upon and members’ motives for action. It considers individual self-interest in relation with motives that are consistent with the values of cooperation. Design/methodology/approach – This paper comprises two parts. The first is theoretica...

Lean production human resource management (HRM) practices, which are deemed to increase firms’ competitiveness through a skilled and empowered workforce, have arisen in the context of for‐profit companies. The same attention to lean HRM practices has not been paid in non‐profit organizations. In turn, few studies have looked into the adoption of fo...

Purpose This study investigates how the creation of social value occurs in different organisational fields, and how it is implemented by organisations that are typically associated with member welfare and social objectives. The purpose of this study, specifically, is to analyse how social responsibility is implemented in organisational forms that d...

This paper considers resource coordination in production systems featuring the presence of enterprises and organizations pursuing social, health-related, educational, cultural, and environmental aims, or social enterprises (SEs). The resource coordination problem is one of allocating and distributing resources towards these aims. By their very natu...

The new agri-food market is considered a detrimental factor for the competitiveness and financial equilibria of agricultural cooperatives. According to this view, as a result of market saturation and globalisation processes, shifting investments to supply chain forward activities (e.g., for brand development or for research and development activiti...

Il saggio prende in esame il problema degli squilibri irrisolti nei processi di sviluppo territoriale e nei percorsi intrapresi da diverse categorie e comunità di interesse, e problematizza le ricette che negli anni ‘90 si basavano sulla diffusione dell’economia della conoscenza e sul coordinamento delle risorse da parte delle organizzazioni di mer...

Multistakholding is a way to share, or democratise, decision-making power among stakeholders within organisations. Anaysis, however, has not fully considered the role of this form of private governance. This paper builds on the observation of past and recent governance experiences in cooperative firms, where sharing decision-making power was associ...

The paper builds a model of firm governance that considers the wider effects of production activity, thus bridging the organizational level with the macro level. The theoretical framework of the paper builds on Hansmann’s governance model and introduces an alternative (Hansmann, 1996). The “total cost model” introduced in the paper directs attentio...

This work is motivated by the question of how organisational governance can address the needs of vulnerable groups. This paper offers a conceptual reflection on how the production of complex health-related services, such as aspects of preventive psychiatric illnesses, can be governed to the benefit of users and communities society more broadly. The...

The study of multi-stakeholdership (and multi-stakeholder social enterprises in particular) is only at the start. Entrepreneurial choices which have emerged spontaneously, as well as the first legal frameworks approved in this direction, lack an adequate theoretical support. The debate itself is underdeveloped, as the existing understanding of orga...

What the contributions in this volume have tackled is the possibility for an institutional dynamism that impacts not only on the characteristics of ‘localities’ and their position in a hierarchical and ordered system of relationships, but on the nature of the system itself. Is hierarchy a necessary and desirable condition for the development of eco...

Previous analysis suggests links between the development of economies and the stimulation of people’s creativity. Both inter- and intra- country variations in development (Henderson et al., 2001) are associated with such links. Over recent years these arguments have often been framed in terms of achieving regional ‘competitiveness’ in a global mark...

This book presents an entirely new approach to knowledge, creativity and social organisation. The first part of the book provides a trenchant critique of current globalisation, of multinational corporations, the WTO, and intellectual property rights. The rest of the book outlines an alternative globalisation based on inclusion, democratic participa...

If we had to frame the context of this book, we could evoke concerns about economies, the loss of critical capacity within them and, more broadly with respect to society. The decay of critical thinking with respect to what happens in society is, in a sense, the decline of democracy. What we mean is that if we do not exercise our critical thinking a...

The chapter presents some preliminary research findings in Italian local production systems to advance a way to interpret patterns of knowledge life cycles inside local production systems.