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This research aims to contribute to the scientific debate on financial performance in football organizations by evaluating the enabling role of talent management practices. Grounded in Resource-Based Theory (RBT) and Transaction-Cost Economics (TCE), the analysis highlights the financial impact of strategic decisions made by sports directors. Using a two-step machine learning approach, the study reveals that investing in academies can yield higher financial returns. The findings confirm that teams adopting this strategy are better positioned to meet the financial objectives set by international and national regulators, such as UEFA and FIFA. By addressing the knowledge gap on the role of youth sector development in financial performance, this research offers valuable insights for both academia and sports management.

The present study aims to investigate the use of digital resources in the context of volun-tary/activist organizations dealing with migration. Twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with young members of 13 organizations of the area of Bologna. The results from thematic analysis show that digital tools can improve youth social justice engagement and strengthen the community as a whole. These resources also allow better access for migrants to opportunities that could foster their empowerment and social inclusion, thus promoting social justice. However, the potential of these tools isn’t fully exploited, partly because of the difficulties in using them with migrants in a situation of vulnerability. Within a social justice pro-motion framework, the results suggest the necessity of supporting the digital literacy of the whole community.

This article contributes to research into the sociology of age and health specifically focusing on youth and the period of transition to adulthood in asthmatic patients. Although there is a vast quantity of international literature which examines these phases of life, only rarely has research focused on chronic illness. By exploring the role of the patient as an active player in medical treatments, the article deals with the relationships between young asthmatics with profession-als and with parents in order to show how age constructions and transitions happen within health care trajectories.

The book offers an articulate analysis of “planet alcohol”, integrating different perspectives and disciplinary approaches. After an overview of the social meaning of alcoholic drinks in the history of Italy, framed by a set of cultural consumption models, it addresses the main issues of the collective and social dimension of alcohol. Then the book looks at the young’s world, at their way of experiencing the relationship with alcoholic drinks, describing some significant experiences in prevention and health promotion.

This article describes and analyzes how members of QS communities conceptualize and in-terpret data about themselves, and in particular, about their health. Our methodology is based on twenty semi-structured interviews with members of Quantified-self communities based in Turin, Italy and Cambridge, U.K. The results of these interviews show how self-measurement practices help to facilitate better management of one’s health, especially when health-management is considered in a broader framework of general self-improvement. Furthermore, although self-tracking heightens users’ health-related competence - and in turn, seems to reduce the traditional jurisdiction of doctors - an overarching frame of medicalization remains intact; indeed, the alleged "scientificness" of the self-quantification involved in self-tracking itself exemplifies the medicalization of daily life.

Over the past few years, there has been a growing discussion about cashlessness. In several countries, economists, policy markers and financial institutions have advocated for a transition towards digital transactions, arguing that cashlessness can become an instrument of governance pivotal to the achievement of a more transparent and inclusive society. Conversely, cash has been described as a symbol of deviance, a symptom of illegal activities such as tax evasion and corruption. This paper focuses on the transition towards cashless transactions in India. Drawing on Noemi Klein’s definition of the shock economy, it argues that demonetisation in India can be considered as a shock therapy meant to facilitate the pursuit of a pro-corporate agenda. In a cash-based economy like India, demonetisation created a state of shock that forced large sectors of the population to adapt to digital transaction, in a process that undermined informal activities and used fear as a levy to push forward an agenda that largely benefited big credit card companies, the IT sector and fintech.

The study of the relationship between car accidents by young people and alcohol use is very interesting. The national statistics highlight that if numbers are small - about 3% of total - car accidents related to alcohol or other psychoactive substances abuse have the most serious consequences, especially for the youngest people (Higson e Winter, 2003; Sweedler, Biecheler e Laurel, 2004; ISTAT, 2008). From reading statistics two observations appear: the phenomenon is probably underestimated and there are not enough studies about psychological causes inducing young people to driving after drinking. It is to improve the knowledge about this phenomenon, both from the epidemiologic and psychological view, that the "Sportello per i Giovani" in the P.S. of Hospital S. Eugenio in Roma has been created. The Sportello in P.S. is a prevention model - Active Prevention (Carbone, 2003; 2009) - which, on the one hand, wants to know how many youngsters go to P.S. because of accident traumas and with which psychological characteristics, on the other hand, wants to offer a prevention space for each type.

The paper presents a transdisciplinary reflection on emergencies that young people with disabilities find themselves in today. Compared to the population of young people and university students, those with disabilities have a greater risk of having "limited worlds" to experience themselves as adults. In this paper, we will consider one of the most difficult dimensions: work and job inclusion. It uses a case study in a productive organisation focused on recognising the capacity to work of intellectually impaired persons. The process of labour inclusion through apprenticeship transcends purely technical questions and brings reflections on the concept of hospitality. The paper concludes that education is a powerful tool to promote important themes of social cohabitation and to build real opportunities to the youngsters to experiment themselves in the role of adults.

Over the last decades, Italian university reforms have put increased pressure on academics and researchers towards greater productivity and accountability. These changes have generated an ‘overtime culture’, which is one of the main determinants of workaholism, over-commitment, and presenteeism among academics. The consequences of such changes are not gender-neutral: women – more often disadvantaged in academic careers than men – might be more affected by increased work pressure and more likely to work excessively to avoid career penalties. By using an original web-survey of about 1300 academics from four Italian universities, this article investigates gender differences in workaholic behaviours (i.e., working at night, on Sundays, etc.), and their link with the way researchers perceive the recruitment processes and gender disparities. The authors found that women are more workaholic than men, and this is explained by perceptions of gender equality in their working environment.

Genetics and predictive tests are changing breast cancer prevention, both in terms of subjective experience and risk reducing practices. The aim of the article is to address two main research questions: What does the genetic information mean for subjects? How does prevention and risk-reducing practice change in relation to genetic information? Through qualitative research on breast cancer experience conducted in Italy at the National Cancer Institute of Rome, it was possible to answer these questions by including women who received a genetic response for the BRCA mutation. What emerges is that the genetic information shapes risk-reducing prac-tice, fostering genetic responsibilities within the family. This seems to encourage woman to perceive radical risk-reducing strategies such, as a mastectomy or oophorectomy, as the main - and often mandatory - solution to face breast cancer risk thereby underestimating the health risks and psychological burden involved in preventive surgery.

Un libro assolutamente unico nel suo genere: per imparare a vendere i prodotti, gli accessori e il fashion made in Italy, ricordandosi che accogliere correttamente è il primo passo per vendere. Attraverso brevi e divertenti racconti tratti dall’esperienza diretta e reale, esercizi pratici e incursioni un po’ sfacciate tra le tradizioni dei vari popoli, il libro offre un supporto operativo a coloro che sono e saranno, quotidianamente, a contatto con clienti provenienti da ogni parte del mondo.

L’articolo è tratto dello studio elaborato dal centro studi Utilitatis "Yellow Book - I dati sul servizio di distribuzione del gas naturale in Italia". La pubblicazione affronta il tema della regolazione della distribuzione del gas naturale in Italia, partendo dalla descrizione degli attuali - e futuri - assetti istituzionali (modelli di governance e forme di gestione degli operatori), cui segue una approfondita analisi delle tariffe applicate all’utenza e la corrispondente spesa delle famiglie. L’articolo passa, poi, ad esaminare le grandezze economiche e patrimoniali riportate nei bilanci dei principali distributori nazionali, aggregati per classi dimensionali. Nella terza parte del lavoro si affronta il tema delle gare per l’affidamento del servizio, offrendo una visione critica dei criteri di selezione scelti dagli enti affidanti e degli esiti delle procedure stesse.