This scientific-disciplinary group contains only the scientific-disciplinary field (SSD) of the same name, Business Organization (ECON-08/A).

The ongoing or completed research activity of the Socio-Organizational Area includes the following scientific-disciplinary field (SSD) afferent to GSD 13/ECON-08:
 

• Business Organization (ECON-08/A)
  formerly SECS-P/10 Business Organization
  Analysis, design, implementation, conduct and evaluation of organizational structures and processes, human resource management and, in general, all elements that may influence the organizational behavior of individuals, groups, companies of any kind and organized networks among them operating under the constraints of efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability. Within the aforementioned perspective, the field deals with, among others, the following topics: organizational actors and institutions, organizational and intra/inter-organizational forms and structures, governance and coordination and control systems, and operational systems; the organization of work and processes for the production of goods and services with both in-presence and remote modes and forms of work, including in relation to the use of enabling technologies and dedicated digital platforms; decisions on the use of technologies and their transfer and impact on arrangements, processes, human resources and behavior, including in relation to digitization and artificial intelligence; the organization of information systems, organizational learning, knowledge management and decision-making processes, including those supported by digital technologies; the organizational dimension in business strategies, business models and the organizational environment; organizational change, organizational forms that foster creativity, learning, innovation, and managerial practices that support transition processes, including digital ones; organizational processes, forms, and structures that support entrepreneurship, business creation, generational transition, and organizational development at different stages of the life cycle of organizations; organizational behavior, the management and enhancement of people and groups to support work performance and to promote their well-being and motivation to work, including through the design and implementation of entry, evaluation and incentive systems, the development of skills and professionalism, the management of inter- and intra-organizational mobility paths and diversity management; roles, power dynamics and leadership; organizational cultures and identities; labor markets and industrial relations, as well as ethical aspects related to these phenomena.

This scientific-disciplinary group contains only the homonymous scientific-disciplinary field (SSD) General Sociology (GSPS-05/A).

The ongoing or completed research activity of the Socio-Organizational Area includes the following scientific-disciplinary field (SSD) afferent to GSD 14/GSPS-05:

• General Sociology (GSPS-05/A)
  già SPS/07 Sociologia generale formerly SPS/07 General Sociology
  Includes scholarly and teaching activity that builds the epistemological, theoretical, methodological and historical foundations of sociology. It includes the development of quantitative and qualitative methodologies for surveying, information processing, and data construction; the design and implementation of longitudinal surveys, surveys and panels, network analysis, ethnographic, biographical, and case studies, and experiments in the co-production of observations in study contexts; the development of models and techniques for the simulation, explanation, prediction, and monitoring of social phenomena; and the construction of scenarios and strategies for evaluating interventions. The field develops the categorical and theoretical-methodological apparatuses aimed at:
  • understanding and explaining the structuring processes of social practices, networks and groups; the processes of institutionalization and de-institutionalization of social action; and the forms of order, differentiation and inequality in access to various capacitation resources;
  • understanding of the forms of subjectification and the cultural, structural and regulatory configurations of social action at the individual and collective levels, and its affective, unintentional and emergent outcomes;
  • cultural-historical understanding of social transformations and the various forms, actors, devices and techno-scientific apparatuses that support them.

  The field provides tools of reflexivity to individual and collective subjects and social systems, also contributing to the elaboration of future social scenarios and their value systems. These tools are relevant in the various areas of decision-making, critical examination of specific social problems, design and evaluation of public and organizational interventions, with particular reference to social policy, welfare, and theoretical, procedural and deontological aspects of social service. Teaching and training are aimed at the acquisition of professional skills with a broad social characterization necessary for reflexivity of action. In research and teaching, the field is specified according to the following articulations: theories and history of sociology; comparative social systems; methodology and techniques of social research; epistemology and survey models of the social sciences; strategies for analysis and presentation of sociological data; social studies of science and technology; political-social ecology; sociology of innovation; sociology of health, medicine and sport; evaluation of social policies and interventions; social innovation and sustainability; social policies, models, systems and regimes of welfare; principles, fundamentals, methods and ethics of social service; planning, organization and management of social policies and services.

This scientific-disciplinary group accommodates research and teaching that, in the connection between social, political and legal change and with reference to the theory and methods of sociology, is devoted to the theoretical and empirical analysis of the forms of construction, legitimation and transformation of political power and differentiation from other social powers; and to the analysis of the processes of legal institutionalization of the normative dimensions of societies and their specificity with respect to other forms of institutionalization.

The ongoing or completed research activity of the Socio-Organizational Area includes the following scientific-disciplinary field (SSD) afferent to GSD 14/GSPS-07:

• Sociology of Political Phenomena (GSPS-07/A)
  formerly SPS/11 Sociology of Political Phenomena
  Deepens, also from a gender perspective, the modes of socialization, participation and representation, particularly in the transformations of democracies. It analyzes the social, cultural and communicative processes and conflicts in which the political sphere and its public institutions take shape, the asymmetries of power and the construction of elites and leaderships, the processes and patterns of decision-making, political institutionalization and administrative action, also with reference to the dimensions of political ecology and international relations. The research activities that characterize this area are concerned with theories, concepts and methods of empirical research for the analysis of historical processes of construction, legitimation and change of political power, at the local, regional, national and supranational levels and their differentiation from other social powers.

This scientific-disciplinary group encompasses scientific and didactic-training activity that uses a sociological perspective to analyze economic, labor, organizational and territorial processes, delving, on the one hand, into the complex of formal and informal activities of production, distribution, exchange and consumption of goods and services that construct the dynamic relationship between society and the economy and, on the other hand, into the relationship between society and issues of the environment and territorial development, the evolution of urban and rural systems and the consequences on the social fabric. In this perspective, the group deals with the functioning and transformations of socio-economic, labor and territorial systems with related inequalities including those of class, gender, generations, and ethnicity; the organizations and professions that make up these systems; industrial relations and processes of innovation and development; and modes of regulation, emphasizing the centrality of social and institutional factors and mechanisms in the explanation at the micro, meso and macro levels, studied with qualitative and quantitative methodologies according to a theoretically grounded empirical-analytical approach. In addition, the group addresses the analysis of the dynamics of social life in its spatio-temporal dimension and relationship with natural and anthropogenic materiality, both from the perspective of local institutions and from the perspective of communities and organizations at various scales, urban and rural. In the area of research and teaching, the group is specified according to thematic articulations: economic sociology, sociology of labor, sociology of development, industrial relations; study of innovation processes, sociology of organization, professions, finance, enterprise of business networks and welfare systems in their interaction with the production system; study of the relationship between technological-organizational change and labor, local and supra-local development; social impact of economic processes also in terms of production and reproduction of inequalities. The group also includes urban sociology, including the problems of living, neighborhoods, urban times and mobility in advanced metropolitan societies; sociology of migration, borders and ethnic relations; sociology of local communities, tourism, agriculture and rurality; sociology of environment and sustainability, including the impact of public policies, land management and natural and anthropogenic risk, mobilizations, participatory processes and everyday practices; and relations with the animal and plant world.

The ongoing or completed research activity of the Socio-Organizational Area includes the following scientific-disciplinary fields (SSDs) pertaining to GSD 14/GSPS-08:
 

• Sociology of Economic and Labor Processes (GSPS-08/A)
  formerly SPS/09 Sociology of economic and labor processes
  Study of the relationship between society and the economy and the complex of formal and informal activities of production, distribution, exchange and consumption of goods and services. Study of the functioning and transformations of socio-economic and labor systems, and their inequalities; the organizations and professions that make up these systems; systems of social protection, industrial relations; processes of innovation and development in time and space, as well as modes of regulation. The field, as a whole, is divided into various applied specializations ranging from economic and labor sociology, industrial relations, the study of processes related to innovation, territorial development, formal and informal organizations, professions, welfare systems in their interaction with the production system, to the social impact of the economy and the transformations due to the production and distribution of wealth also in terms of inequalities.
   
• Sociology of environment and territory (GSPS-08/B)
  formerly SPS/10 Sociology of environment and territory
  Analysis of the environment-society relationship at the sociological level, both from the perspective of urban social systems and from the perspective of local communities and rural systems. The field is divided into the areas of urban sociology, environment, tourism, migration, ethnic relations, agriculture and local communities, looking more specifically at the problems of quality of life, sustainability, urban regeneration, urban times, mobility, socio-environmental conflicts, cultural identities and technological and social innovations. The field develops research on different spatial scales and considers the actions of actors-from individuals to groups, from organizations to local, central, and transnational institutions-and the resulting consequences, in processes of environmental and territorial governance at the level of politics and policy, and in related participatory processes. Methodologically, the field uses quantitative and qualitative approaches; it also produces and integrates specific expertise in case study analysis using geolocation techniques, with statistical data from various sources.

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