Waste services' performance assessment: The case of Tuscany, Italy

Identifying Public Policies to Promote Sustainable Building: A Proposal for Governmental Drivers Based on Stakeholder Perceptions

“…In addition, articles based on the analysis of qualitative and quantitative variables have also been found in the literature. Namely, Romano et al [54] evaluated the performance of waste services in Tuscany, using external operational variables associated with the estimation of efficiency, and determining that the adoption of the zero-waste strategy is related to higher efficiency in the waste collection service, where privatisation is not associated with a significant improvement in performance results. Smith and Blizard [55] analysed the qualitative and quantitative variables in the effects of urban sprawl on economic mobility in the United States, finding that the spillover effects of social capital, poverty, access to employment, housing stock, and quality of life education are negative.…”

“…For this purpose, the standard deviation (SD) and Pearson's coefficient of variation were used (Equation ( 1)). This method has been used in similar studies in different research fields with categorical and quantitative variables [54][55][56][95][96][97]. The SD is a commonly used measure of variation and is defined as follows [98]:…”

Local government efficiency: reviewing determinants and setting new trends

“…It should be stressed that in this type of literature, the measurement of local efficiency from a global approach is common, compared to other research streams focused on specific services such as the local police (Davis and Hayes, 1993); fire services (Jaldell, 2019); libraries (De Witte and Geys, 2013); educational services (Ferraro et al., 2021); water supply (Brettenny and Sharp, 2016; Benito et al., 2019); waste collection and street cleaning (Worthington and Dollery, 2001; Guerrini et al., 2017; Pérez‐López et al., 2018, 2021a, 2021b; Romano et al., 2020; Benito et al., 2021); maintenance of regional roads (Kalb, 2014); and urban public transport (Campos‐Alba et al., 2020). This is because the municipalities are multiproduct organizations in which the joint use of inputs generates a variety of outputs (Cherchye et al., 2014).…”

Zero Waste. Gestione dei rifiuti e trasformazioni sociali

“…Un primo livello dove osservare tali trasformazioni è quello dei rapporti di potere che si stabiliscono tra gli attori protagonisti dei processi di innovazione socio-tecnica. Lo schema tradizionale del trasferimento tecnologico (Van de Ven 2000;Rogers 2003;Ramella 2015;Marciano et alii 2020) vede una divisione del lavoro tra gli attori dei sistemi di innovazione per cui l'azienda privata esprime i bisogni, le Università o i centri di ricerca rispondono attraverso soluzioni puntuali, gli istituti di credito finanziano le innovazioni e ne ricavano profitti o equities. È il modello della tripla elica (Etzkowitz e Leydesdorff 2000), che comprende diverse varianti sullo stesso tema: ad esempio, che la spinta iniziale al processo innovativo avvenga in ambito di R&S -come conseguenza di opportunità offerte dall'applicazione di nuove tecnologie e conoscenze -e sia intercettato da strutture di venture capital e poi offerto ad aziende o incorporato in nuove aziende (il «modello Silicon Valley», cfr.…”