Luca Mazzara

University of Bologna | UNIBO · Department of Management DiSA

Local government networks often develop in unpredictable environments and, as a consequence, their abilities and resources have to be prepared for flexible responses, the so-called “dynamic capabilities”. One of the most desirable capacities they might reach is resilience, understood as the skill to cope with unpredicted dangers after they become r...

This chapter focuses on performance measurement and management systems (PMMS) in the inter-municipal cooperation context by considering the development of new capabilities required to exploit the digital governance potentialities in which data integration is essential. The analysis relied on the advent of digital governance, the Italian public info...

The concept of Buon Vivere (Good Living) is a set of good practices and fundamental principles that inspire communities to create new foundations based on the values of equality, sustainability, responsible innovation, an ethical economy, and knowledge. These are the fundamental elements of a society capable of putting people and the relationships...

Da tempo sviluppatasi in buona parte di Europa, la pianificazione strategica sta trovando un deci-so e nuovo impulso anche nel nostro Paese. Grazie ad un'azione incentivante volta a far collabora-re i territori, tradizionalmente alquanto frammentati e spesso in sterile competizione tra loro, al fine di coniugare lo sfidante conseguimento di rilevan...

This paper aims at systematically reviewing and analyzing the literature on performance measurement and management systems in the inter-municipal relationships, also considering the related combination with big data, business intelligence, analytics, blockchain, as well as artificial intelligence. The public management literature, in fact, highligh...

Taking the role of a facilitator, the EU has published recommendations to steer sustainability policies in local governments. The authors analysed strategic plans published by Italian local governments and found that the EU’s recommendations had zero effect. The way forward is for local governments to be required to produce sustainability policies.

Internationally, the concept of sustainability development (SD) has been of increasing relevance since the Brundtland report was published. The European Commission (EC) has published a variety of documents that encourage member states to adopt SD strategies. This article analyses fourteen voluntary contemporary strategic plans (SPs) of Italian loca...

Internationally there is an increasing relevance for the concept of sustainability development (SD), since the Brundtland report has been published. This has led governments and international institutions to promote organisations sustainability behaviours. The European Commission (EC) has published a variety of documents that encourage itself (Com(...