As environmental and social challenges intensify, regenerative practices in supply chain management (SCM) are emerging as a transformative approach, shifting focus from sustainability to the active restoration of socio-ecological systems. The present study analyses how regenerative principles, including poly-rhythmicity, proportionality, and reciprocity, enhance supply chain resilience through systemic renewal. A comprehensive review of 33 high-impact […]
The purpose of the study is to explore the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs), digital skills, internal and external information integration and hospital resources and to analyse the moderating effects of operational contingencies in terms of operational efficiency and service complexity, adopting the contingent resource-based view perspective. The study utilizes a Hierarchical Moderated […]
The controversial topic must be led out of fixed patterns of thought, as it has ceased to be simply the continuous representation of an image, instead shifting the paradigm towards a new construction of history. The ever-present idea and practice of re-presenting again what is missing must be seen in the new perspective of “re-construction”, […]
Digital transformation is revolutionizing the healthcare industry, and the use of digital technologies is generating large amounts of data that can be used to support the healthcare decision-making process. The use of data leads to several improvements in healthcare, such as treatment selection or diagnosis process. The utilization of healthcare services is one of the […]
Although different studies investigated the SW phenomenon during last years and its evolution during the pandemic, reporting several benefits and advantages, there seems to be a lack of studies investigating whether and to what extent the SW can really impact on company’s performance. It is not clear to what extent smart working, especially in the […]
The topic of public service improvement has received great attention all over the world in recent decades, in both private and public sectors. While there is a huge literature investigating components which are critical in formulating an organization strategy for achieving service quality improvement, in both public and private organizations, namely organizational variables affecting service […]
This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing debate concerning the role of collaborative public-private relationships in fostering innovation in public procurement. We focus on a particular form of public procurement that relies on the collaboration between the private and the public sector, namely the public-private partnerships (PPPs). In particular, the paper aims at overcoming […]
Purpose –Water scarcity is one of the main problems facing humankind, due to the population increase and the obsolescence of water distribution pipelines. Water services providers offer the defense that they are operating as efficiently as they can, given their specific circumstances, and that further increases in efficiency to reduce levels of leakage would require […]
Purpose – This paper presents the preliminary results of a research aimed at mapping the knowledge interactions between universities and industries in Southern Italy. We focused on a specific type of knowledge interactions, namely “research services”, that are activities that firms give to universities and that are regulated by specific contracts establishing objectives, deliverables and […]