Fostering informal learning at the workplace through digital platforms and information infrastructures

Increasing attention is paid to organisational learning with the success of contemporary organisations strongly contingent on its ability to learn and grow. Importantly, informal learning is argued to be even more significant than formal learning initiatives. Given the widespread use of digital technologies in the workplace, what requires further attention is how digital technologies enable informal learning processes. Drawing from Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) theory, in this paper we advance a conceptual model for examining this important topic. The two dimensional matrix presented provides a framework for both further research on digital artefacts used in informal learning, as well as the design of formative contexts for learning to occur.Increasing attention is paid to organisational learning with the success of contemporary organisations strongly contingent on its ability to learn and grow. Importantly, informal learning is argued to be even more significant than formal learning initiatives. Given the widespread use of digital technologies in the workplace, what requires further attention is how digital technologies enable informal learning processes. Drawing from Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) theory, in this paper we advance a conceptual model for examining this important topic. The two dimensional matrix presented provides a framework for both further research on digital artefacts used in informal learning, as well as the design of formative contexts for learning to occur.Uninvited Submission

Concept and measurement of political risk: from theory to practice

Concepts, definitions, challenges. Rating methodologies and the Arab Spring: a comparative analysis. Operationalization. The role of expert judgment.Concepts, definitions, challenges. Rating methodologies and the Arab Spring: a comparative analysis. Operationalization. The role of expert judgment.LUISS PhD Thesi

La cessione del contratto con clausola compromissoria

La cessione del contratto. L'arbitrato e la clausola compromissoria. Le vicende circolatorie della clausola compromissoria nella cessione del contratto. Collegamento negoziale e arbitrato. Brevi cenni sulla clausola compromissoria nella transazione e nel negozio di accertamento.La cessione del contratto. L'arbitrato e la clausola compromissoria. Le vicende circolatorie della clausola compromissoria nella cessione del contratto. Collegamento negoziale e arbitrato. Brevi cenni sulla clausola compromissoria nella transazione e nel negozio di accertamento.LUISS PhD Thesi

The discourses on the civil society and the State in the context of European and post-colonial narratives: Re-conceptualizing the civil society in Pakistan

Understanding the social contract as the justification of the State. The discourses on the State: a comparative perspective from early modern, modern and post modern era. Theory building on the State: the modernization, core-periphery (dependency), neo-dependancy and the world systems schools. The case of the civil society: evolution of the term since early times/historical and philosophical background. Theoretical approaches to civil society: normative and perspective features towards understanding the concept. The liberal and the non-liberal narratives to the discourses on the civil society. The Post-colonial studies approach towards understanding the civil society. Post-colonial theoretical framework: retracing the concept of civil society. The historiography of the politics of the governed in Pakistan: constructing the political narrative of the marginal fragments.Understanding the social contract as the justification of the State. The discourses on the State: a comparative perspective from early modern, modern and post modern era. Theory building on the State: the modernization, core-periphery (dependency), neo-dependancy and the world systems schools. The case of the civil society: evolution of the term since early times/historical and philosophical background. Theoretical approaches to civil society: normative and perspective features towards understanding the concept. The liberal and the non-liberal narratives to the discourses on the civil society. The Post-colonial studies approach towards understanding the civil society. Post-colonial theoretical framework: retracing the concept of civil society. The historiography of the politics of the governed in Pakistan: constructing the political narrative of the marginal fragments.LUISS PhD Thesi

Factor Models and Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium models: a forecasting evaluation

This dissertation aims to put dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) forecasts in competition with factor models (FM) forecasts considering both static and dynamic factor models as well as regular and hybrid DSGE models. The empirical study shows three main conclusions. First, DSGE models are significantly outperformed by the generalized dynamic factor model (GDFM) in forecasting output growth in both short and long run, while the diffusion index (DI) model outperforms significantly DSGE models only in the short run. Second, the most surprising result of the dissertation, we discovered that only the hybrid DSGE model outperforms significantly all other competitive models in forecasting inflation in the long run. This evidence falls out with recent papers that found just regular DSGE models able to generate significant better forecasts for inflation in the long run as well as papers where hybrid DSGE models are found to forecast poorly. Third, in most cases, the unrestricted vector autoregressive (VAR) model represents the worse forecasting model. Although our results are consistent with the prevalent literature who gives to factor models the role to forecast output variables and to DSGE models the role to forecast monetary and financial variables, this research documents that exploiting more information on many macroeconomic time series, through hybrid DSGE models, is important not only to obtain more accurate estimates, but also to get significantly better forecasts.This dissertation aims to put dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) forecasts in competition with factor models (FM) forecasts considering both static and dynamic factor models as well as regular and hybrid DSGE models. The empirical study shows three main conclusions. First, DSGE models are significantly outperformed by the generalized dynamic factor model (GDFM) in forecasting output growth in both short and long run, while the diffusion index (DI) model outperforms significantly DSGE models only in the short run. Second, the most surprising result of the dissertation, we discovered that only the hybrid DSGE model outperforms significantly all other competitive models in forecasting inflation in the long run. This evidence falls out with recent papers that found just regular DSGE models able to generate significant better forecasts for inflation in the long run as well as papers where hybrid DSGE models are found to forecast poorly. Third, in most cases, the unrestricted vector autoregressive (VAR) model represents the worse forecasting model. Although our results are consistent with the prevalent literature who gives to factor models the role to forecast output variables and to DSGE models the role to forecast monetary and financial variables, this research documents that exploiting more information on many macroeconomic time series, through hybrid DSGE models, is important not only to obtain more accurate estimates, but also to get significantly better forecasts.LUISS PhD Thesi

Le Adr e i poteri giustiziali presso le Autorità indipendenti (i casi di Bankitalia, Consob e Agcom)

Adr e arbitrati istituzionalizzati. L'arbitro bancario finanziario presso Bankitalia e la Camera di conciliazione e arbitrato presso la Consob. L'arbitrato presso l'autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni.Adr e arbitrati istituzionalizzati. L'arbitro bancario finanziario presso Bankitalia e la Camera di conciliazione e arbitrato presso la Consob. L'arbitrato presso l'autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni.LUISS PhD Thesi

Search phase and the openness effects in MNEs

In this work we focus on the search phase that precedes the knowledge transfer process. We argue that it is important to closely analyze this phase as, the common understanding of problem developed in this phase has a significant im-pact on the stages that follow. In this analysis we focus on two key factors: open-ness and the richness of media of communication that foster the openness within Multinational Corporation (MNC) environment. Furthermore, we also try to ex-plore the degree of knowledge transfer due to an open environment. Openness is a change that can be induced at the MNE level by the Headquarter (HQ), the effects of this change are behavioral in nature and can be observed at the subsidiary level in the type of media of communication usedIn this work we focus on the search phase that precedes the knowledge transfer process. We argue that it is important to closely analyze this phase as, the common understanding of problem developed in this phase has a significant im-pact on the stages that follow. In this analysis we focus on two key factors: open-ness and the richness of media of communication that foster the openness within Multinational Corporation (MNC) environment. Furthermore, we also try to ex-plore the degree of knowledge transfer due to an open environment. Openness is a change that can be induced at the MNE level by the Headquarter (HQ), the effects of this change are behavioral in nature and can be observed at the subsidiary level in the type of media of communication usedMonograph's chapter

The Role of Civil Society in a Fragmented and a Weak Arab State: Developing or Fragmenting the State? Analyzing the Mujtama Ahli, Mujtama Taefi and Mujtama Madani in Lebanon

Discussing Civil Society in the Middle East. Civil Society Liberal Democracy and the Lebanese State. Weak States; Failed States and the Case of Lebanon. Mujtama Ahli, Mujtama Taefi and the State in Lebanon. Development of the Mujtama Madani and the State of Lebanon.Discussing Civil Society in the Middle East. Civil Society Liberal Democracy and the Lebanese State. Weak States; Failed States and the Case of Lebanon. Mujtama Ahli, Mujtama Taefi and the State in Lebanon. Development of the Mujtama Madani and the State of Lebanon.LUISS PhD Thesi

La Banca Mondiale fra ricostruzione e sviluppo: il caso del primo prestito all'Italia, 1947-1951

Le origini e la fisionomia dei primi anni della Banca internazionale per la Ricostruzione e lo Sviluppo. Come e perché fu creata e come si configurò nei primi anni di attività. La macroeconomia della Banca Internazionale per la Ricostruzione e lo Sviluppo nei primi anni. Come e perché prestava. La Banca Internazionale per la Ricostruzione e lo Sviluppo e la prima richiesta di prestito dell’Italia, 1947-1949. Dalla ricostruzione allo sviluppo: l’Italia come laboratorio degli economisti della BIRS.Le origini e la fisionomia dei primi anni della Banca internazionale per la Ricostruzione e lo Sviluppo. Come e perché fu creata e come si configurò nei primi anni di attività. La macroeconomia della Banca Internazionale per la Ricostruzione e lo Sviluppo nei primi anni. Come e perché prestava. La Banca Internazionale per la Ricostruzione e lo Sviluppo e la prima richiesta di prestito dell’Italia, 1947-1949. Dalla ricostruzione allo sviluppo: l’Italia come laboratorio degli economisti della BIRS.LUISS PhD Thesi

I consigli della autonomie locali

Origini e fonti della disciplina dei consigli delle autonomie locali. Composizione, organizzazione e funzionamento dei consigli delle autonomie locali. Le funzioni dei consigli delle autonomie locali.Origini e fonti della disciplina dei consigli delle autonomie locali. Composizione, organizzazione e funzionamento dei consigli delle autonomie locali. Le funzioni dei consigli delle autonomie locali.LUISS PhD Thesi