Maurizio Busacca
Biographic Data
| ID | 3559153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurizio Busacca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurizio |
| FAMILY NAME | Busacca |
| SIGNATURE | BUSACCA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6774-1098 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Recensioni
Coscarello M. Ecosistemi dell'innovazione. Gli incubatori come strategia di innovazio-ne sociale e territoriale. Milano: Fran-coAngeli, 2024. - Angelini A., Scalia M. (a cura di). Ecolo-gia, economia e società. Dizionario per la sostenibilità. Bari: Adda Editore, 2025. - Alteri L., Barile A., De Nardis P. (a cura di). Roma malata. La capitale tra marke-ting urbano e marginalità sociale. Roma: Carocci, 2025. - Brossard B., Chandler A. Explaining M…
Recensioni
Coscarello M. Ecosistemi dell'innovazione. Gli incubatori come strategia di innovazio-ne sociale e territoriale. Milano: Fran-coAngeli, 2024. - Angelini A., Scalia M. (a cura di). Ecolo-gia, economia e società. Dizionario per la sostenibilità. Bari: Adda Editore, 2025. - Alteri L., Barile A., De Nardis P. (a cura di). Roma malata. La capitale tra marke-ting urbano e marginalità sociale. Roma: Carocci, 2025. - Brossard B., Chandler A. Explaining M…
Latin America's grassroots approach to social innovation
In a world experiencing profound environmental, technological, and demographic shifts, welfare systems are being fundamentally reshaped, highlighting social innovation (SI) as crucial for addressing emerging societal challenges. This research examines the distinctive Latin American approach to SI, exploring its role in transforming regional welfare states whilst bridging the gap between Latin American and European perspectives. The theoretical fr…
Bytes, barriers, and logics
Purpose This study examines the digitalisation of active labour market policies in Italy’s Veneto region, exploring how organisations navigate institutional pressures for digital adoption in a fragmented welfare system. Design/methodology/approach A multi-site ethnographic approach was employed, involving 400 h of observation and 96 semi-structured interviews across public employment services, municipal social services, social enterprises, and fo…
Street Level Burocrats, welfare locale e transizione digitale
The article examines the adoption of digital innovation in the context of local welfare, focusing on the practices of labour market operators and social workers engaged in active labour market policy interventions in the region of Veneto. Through an ethnographic research, it highlights how three dimensions influence the adoption of technologies: institutional logics, organisational context, and professional discretion. Organisations tend to avoid…
Street-level netocracy
Purpose The paper aims to analyse the meaning and extension of discretionary power of social service professionals within network-based interventions. Design/methodology/approach Empirically, the paper is based on a case study of a network-based policy involving private and public organisations in the Northeast of Italy (Province of Trento). Findings The paper identifies netocracy as a social policy logic distinct from bureaucracy and professiona…
Innovazione sociale urbana e impresa artigiana
In questo articolo esploriamo il potenziale di innovazione sociale (IS) dell'im- presa artigiana attraverso 6 iniziative realizzate a Venezia tra il 2015 e il 2021. Emerge che l'impresa artigiana può dare un forte impulso ai processi di IS me- diante l'utilizzo condiviso e creativo di competenze cognitive e tecniche. Inoltre, il potenziale di IS è tanto più grande quanto maggiore è la capacità di riconoscere l'IS come esito di un processo sociale…
Social investment e innovazione sociale
This article provides a critical reflection on the relationship between two seasons of policy that have greatly influenced the Italian welfare state over the last twenty years: social investment and social innovation. Integrating bibliographic analysis and field research, the article explores two public policies promoted by the Veneto Region in the field of the family and youth. While highlighting both many instances of both continuity and discon…
Creativity and Social Capital
This article explores six craft-based urban social innovation initiatives implemented in Venice between 2014 and 2021, considered decisive for the candidature of the city in the New European Bauhaus programme. Adopting a qualitative approach based on multiple case study methods, it reconstructs how the promotion of traditional craft enterprises entered the local policy agenda through mechanisms that strengthen the embeddedness of the issue. The a…
Spazi collaborativi
Collaborative spaces are capturing growing interest of scholars from different disciplines, but their studies tend to be mainly focused on the analysis of the organization and cooperative mechanisms within these spaces rather than on the territorial embeddedness of these collaborative spaces. This paper aims at investigating how collaborative spaces can be influenced by their social and economic context. In order to achieve this, it presents the …
Lavoro sociale tra Social Investment e New Public Management. Il caso degli Operatori del Mercato del Lavoro in Veneto
Active Labour Market policies are a pillar of the Social Investment (SI) strategy. The article aims at analysing the transformations of social work following the introduc- tion of PALs in a context where ideas, organization and practices inspired by New Public Management (NPM) – quasi-markets, planning and performance measure- ment – influence users’ activation, capacitation and empowerment. The analysis of the Labour Market Service Workers’ expe…
Academics are back in town
The article deepens the city-university relationship from the perspective of social innovation initiatives. It introduces the critical dimension of the new political economy of cities into the triple helix analytical model to help understand the quality of interactions between the actors involved in those initiatives. To do so, the study investigates how the triple helix works in the field of social innovation: it adopts a comparative approach an…
Smart City e innovazione sociale
For over twenty years the term smart city has entered the urban agendas of cities around the world and has established itself as one of the most influential urban paradigms. Although there is no common definition of smart city, the different actors involved in the dedicated policies agree on the definition of a city in which investment in technology and human capital is aimed at improving the quality of life of citisens. However, some empirical e…
Città intelligenti e innovazione sociale
Smart city e social innovation sono due tra le locuzioni che hanno maggiormente influenzato le politiche urbane nel corso degli ultimi 15 anni, tra le poche a non essersi trasformate in buzzword ma ad aver consolidato la loro presenza nelle politiche a vari livelli, nelle strategie organizzative delle imprese pubbliche e private e nei tentativi di mobilitazione di forme di intelligenza sociale variamente intesa
Bytes, barriers, and logics
Purpose This study examines the digitalisation of active labour market policies in Italy’s Veneto region, exploring how organisations navigate institutional pressures for digital adoption in a fragmented welfare system. Design/methodology/approach A multi-site ethnographic approach was employed, involving 400 h of observation and 96 semi-structured interviews across public employment services, municipal social services, social enterprises, and fo…
Latin America's grassroots approach to social innovation
In a world experiencing profound environmental, technological, and demographic shifts, welfare systems are being fundamentally reshaped, highlighting social innovation (SI) as crucial for addressing emerging societal challenges. This research examines the distinctive Latin American approach to SI, exploring its role in transforming regional welfare states whilst bridging the gap between Latin American and European perspectives. The theoretical fr…
Creativity and Social Capital
This article explores six craft-based urban social innovation initiatives implemented in Venice between 2014 and 2021, considered decisive for the candidature of the city in the New European Bauhaus programme. Adopting a qualitative approach based on multiple case study methods, it reconstructs how the promotion of traditional craft enterprises entered the local policy agenda through mechanisms that strengthen the embeddedness of the issue. The a…
Città intelligenti e innovazione sociale
Smart city e social innovation sono due tra le locuzioni che hanno maggiormente influenzato le politiche urbane nel corso degli ultimi 15 anni, tra le poche a non essersi trasformate in buzzword ma ad aver consolidato la loro presenza nelle politiche a vari livelli, nelle strategie organizzative delle imprese pubbliche e private e nei tentativi di mobilitazione di forme di intelligenza sociale variamente intesa
Academics are back in town
The article deepens the city-university relationship from the perspective of social innovation initiatives. It introduces the critical dimension of the new political economy of cities into the triple helix analytical model to help understand the quality of interactions between the actors involved in those initiatives. To do so, the study investigates how the triple helix works in the field of social innovation: it adopts a comparative approach an…
Smart City e innovazione sociale
For over twenty years the term smart city has entered the urban agendas of cities around the world and has established itself as one of the most influential urban paradigms. Although there is no common definition of smart city, the different actors involved in the dedicated policies agree on the definition of a city in which investment in technology and human capital is aimed at improving the quality of life of citisens. However, some empirical e…
Città intelligenti e innovazione sociale
Smart city e social innovation sono due tra le locuzioni che hanno maggiormente influenzato le politiche urbane nel corso degli ultimi 15 anni, tra le poche a non essersi trasformate in buzzword ma ad aver consolidato la loro presenza nelle politiche a vari livelli, nelle strategie organizzative delle imprese pubbliche e private e nei tentativi di mobilitazione di forme di intelligenza sociale variamente intesa
Lavoro sociale tra Social Investment e New Public Management. Il caso degli Operatori del Mercato del Lavoro in Veneto
Active Labour Market policies are a pillar of the Social Investment (SI) strategy. The article aims at analysing the transformations of social work following the introduc- tion of PALs in a context where ideas, organization and practices inspired by New Public Management (NPM) – quasi-markets, planning and performance measure- ment – influence users’ activation, capacitation and empowerment. The analysis of the Labour Market Service Workers’ expe…
Creativity and Social Capital
This article explores six craft-based urban social innovation initiatives implemented in Venice between 2014 and 2021, considered decisive for the candidature of the city in the New European Bauhaus programme. Adopting a qualitative approach based on multiple case study methods, it reconstructs how the promotion of traditional craft enterprises entered the local policy agenda through mechanisms that strengthen the embeddedness of the issue. The a…
Spazi collaborativi
Collaborative spaces are capturing growing interest of scholars from different disciplines, but their studies tend to be mainly focused on the analysis of the organization and cooperative mechanisms within these spaces rather than on the territorial embeddedness of these collaborative spaces. This paper aims at investigating how collaborative spaces can be influenced by their social and economic context. In order to achieve this, it presents the …
Innovazione sociale urbana e impresa artigiana
In questo articolo esploriamo il potenziale di innovazione sociale (IS) dell'im- presa artigiana attraverso 6 iniziative realizzate a Venezia tra il 2015 e il 2021. Emerge che l'impresa artigiana può dare un forte impulso ai processi di IS me- diante l'utilizzo condiviso e creativo di competenze cognitive e tecniche. Inoltre, il potenziale di IS è tanto più grande quanto maggiore è la capacità di riconoscere l'IS come esito di un processo sociale…
Social investment e innovazione sociale
This article provides a critical reflection on the relationship between two seasons of policy that have greatly influenced the Italian welfare state over the last twenty years: social investment and social innovation. Integrating bibliographic analysis and field research, the article explores two public policies promoted by the Veneto Region in the field of the family and youth. While highlighting both many instances of both continuity and discon…
Street Level Burocrats, welfare locale e transizione digitale
The article examines the adoption of digital innovation in the context of local welfare, focusing on the practices of labour market operators and social workers engaged in active labour market policy interventions in the region of Veneto. Through an ethnographic research, it highlights how three dimensions influence the adoption of technologies: institutional logics, organisational context, and professional discretion. Organisations tend to avoid…
Street-level netocracy
Purpose The paper aims to analyse the meaning and extension of discretionary power of social service professionals within network-based interventions. Design/methodology/approach Empirically, the paper is based on a case study of a network-based policy involving private and public organisations in the Northeast of Italy (Province of Trento). Findings The paper identifies netocracy as a social policy logic distinct from bureaucracy and professiona…
Latin America's grassroots approach to social innovation
In a world experiencing profound environmental, technological, and demographic shifts, welfare systems are being fundamentally reshaped, highlighting social innovation (SI) as crucial for addressing emerging societal challenges. This research examines the distinctive Latin American approach to SI, exploring its role in transforming regional welfare states whilst bridging the gap between Latin American and European perspectives. The theoretical fr…
Bytes, barriers, and logics
Purpose This study examines the digitalisation of active labour market policies in Italy’s Veneto region, exploring how organisations navigate institutional pressures for digital adoption in a fragmented welfare system. Design/methodology/approach A multi-site ethnographic approach was employed, involving 400 h of observation and 96 semi-structured interviews across public employment services, municipal social services, social enterprises, and fo…
Recensioni
Coscarello M. Ecosistemi dell'innovazione. Gli incubatori come strategia di innovazio-ne sociale e territoriale. Milano: Fran-coAngeli, 2024. - Angelini A., Scalia M. (a cura di). Ecolo-gia, economia e società. Dizionario per la sostenibilità. Bari: Adda Editore, 2025. - Alteri L., Barile A., De Nardis P. (a cura di). Roma malata. La capitale tra marke-ting urbano e marginalità sociale. Roma: Carocci, 2025. - Brossard B., Chandler A. Explaining M…
Recensioni
Coscarello M. Ecosistemi dell'innovazione. Gli incubatori come strategia di innovazio-ne sociale e territoriale. Milano: Fran-coAngeli, 2024. - Angelini A., Scalia M. (a cura di). Ecolo-gia, economia e società. Dizionario per la sostenibilità. Bari: Adda Editore, 2025. - Alteri L., Barile A., De Nardis P. (a cura di). Roma malata. La capitale tra marke-ting urbano e marginalità sociale. Roma: Carocci, 2025. - Brossard B., Chandler A. Explaining M…
Political science (10 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Italian Social Issues and Migration (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works)