Obiettivi del paper: Il paper propone un modello concettuale di supporto al processo decisionale dell'Organo di Governo territoriale, che fornisce un quadro rappresentativo della varietà di aspettative, prospettive e interessi presenti nel contesto di riferimento, consentendo una maggiore consapevolezza degli interventi volti a risolvere le problematiche urbane.Metodologia: Il modello proposto, basato sulla tecnica di Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA), attraverso la lente del corpus teorico dell'Approccio Sistemico Vitale (ASV), è capace di mettere in luce i sentimenti degli attori presenti in un sistema vitale dinamico e complesso quale è il territorio.Risultati: Il lavoro perviene all' esposizione di valutazioni condivise sui livelli di "sentiment" percepiti dalla comunità rispetto ad un punto di interesse urbano considerato, guidando l'Organo di Governo territoriale nel porre in essere le condizioni per l' emergere di consonanza di contesto.Limiti della ricerca: Le logiche delineate in una prima sperimentazione, condotta esclusivamente su un punto urbano, dovranno essere estese ad un' area d'interesse e ad un modello più sofisticato, per compiere analisi territoriali più accurate.Implicazioni pratiche: Il modello si presenta come un valido supporto al processo di decision making territoriale, proponendo valutazioni condivise riguardo le potenzialità e le criticità latenti legate ai contesti urbani da cui trarre future linee d' azione.Originalità del paper: L' originalità del paper risiede nel combinare, in un unico modello, l'ASV, lente interpretativa della realtà, con l'ABSA, adattando quest'ultima al contesto territoriale.Parole chiave: processo decisionale; approccio sistemico vitale; Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis; governo del territorio; modello di supporto alle decisioni; consonanza Viable Systems Approach and Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis for governing the territoryPurpose of the paper: This paper proposes a conceptual model of support to the decision-making process of the territory governing body, which provides a picture representative of the variety of expectations, perspectives and interests present in the reference context, allowing for greater awareness of the interventions that could be aimed at solving urban problems.Methodology: The proposed model, based on Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA), aims to highlight, through the theoretical lens of the Viable Systems Approach (VSA), the sentiments of all the actors involved in a dynamic and complex viable system such as the territory.

The aim of this paper is to trace the scientific landscape (authors, scientific papers, topics most frequently dealt with, relationships between them) of the studies concerning the viable system model (VSM) and the viable system approach (vSa), carried out in the period 1990–2018 within the scientific framework of systems thinking by scholars in business, management and accounting (BMA). The methodology adopted herein is based on a scientometric approach, bibliographic mapping and clustering. The analysis was carried out following a three‐step procedure: bibliographic coupling of scientific contributions (153 articles recorded in Scopus in the considered period), co‐occurrence of the main author keywords and analysis of co‐citations. This paper examines for the first time the entire scientific body of knowledge about viable system theories (VSTs) in BMA areas using recent joint mapping and clustering tools.

This paper aims to propose a methodological lens to the assessment of technological innovations in healthcare based on the principles of social, economic, and political sustainability. Starting from the consideration of a lack of a unified interpretative framework of health technology assessment, using a content analysis of the relevant literature on the topic, we identified both the scientific perspectives adopted by the scholars and the most widely discussed topics. Consequently, the less explored scientific areas were framed, and, therefore, those more susceptible to further investigation came to light. The result is an overall picture which highlights the absence of unified and generally accepted approaches to evaluation, together with the lack of awareness on the fact that the multiplicity of methods adopted is essentially connected to the multiplicity of innovations, for each of which a method (or a set of methods) of preferable evaluation can be prefigured. Based on these observations, we propose a general reference framework for evaluation, based on the Viable Systems Approach (vSa), and a schematic outline of the connections between the complexity of innovations and the evaluation methodologies.Sustainability 2018, 10, 4748 2 of 22 other relates to the increasingly demanding policy makers and funders, who require greater evidence for new and existing therapies [6].Adopted primarily in the USA in the 1970s [7,8] and rapidly spread in Europe in the following decades, HTAs are currently being introduced in most countries of the world [3]. During the 1970s, the focus was to summarize the evidence concerning studies on the cost effectiveness of health interventions. Afterwards, at the end of the 1990s, HTA widened its focus from the evaluation of only large, expensive and machine-based technologies also to smaller technologies and healthcare, addressing broader issues (organizational, social implications, and ethics) [7]. Currently, the health technology assessment processes critically evaluate reimbursement submissions of pharmaceuticals, simple medical devices, and complex medical devices, such as hospital technologies [9], vaccines, procedures, health services, and public health interventions. Therefore, they are becoming an important tool to support health policy decisions in many countries [9].Nowadays, the importance of HTAs has increased further, also spreading in Central and Eastern European countries. HTA activities have a national focus associated with the Ministry of Health and, by influencing health policy documents of the European Commission, it seems likely that, in the future, the HTA will be institutionalized somehow as part of the EU's activities. The task of applying HTA techniques for the evaluation of new health technologies is devolved to the different government support bodies (e.g., NICE in the UK, IQWIG in Germany, and AGENAS in Italy).Thus, HTAs act to define a policy research approach that examines the short and long-term social, economic, and political consequences of the applicatio...

The main purpose of this contribution is twofold: from a scientific point of view, to interpret the symbiotic logic through the framework of the Viable Systems approach (vSa), and from a managerial viewpoint, to provide the actors of industrial symbiosis initiatives, at any stage of their life cycle, with a guide to the most promising web-based solutions in terms of defining the best configuration for the symbiotic network. The article, therefore, aims to provide an in-depth study of the existing literature, which is still not exhaustive, and to consider synoptically and comparatively the modern platforms capable of supporting industrial symbiosis initiatives. The objective was pursued by examining 10 existing and functioning Web-based platforms, of which only a few were previously explored in the previous literature, while the recognition of the latter was carried out on a bibliometric basis to articulate in more detail the existing gap based on a panel of contributions as large as possible. The joint consideration of the literature review and the examination of the existing and functioning platforms shows an articulated framework of approaches, proposed models, and classification schemes of their functions, which allows us to conclude that given the sectoral, territorial, and specific characteristics of the materials addressed by each platform and considering the different cycles existing in eco-industrial parks (water, energy, by-products, etc.), the most promising way for their implementation is to consider multiple platforms to fully exploit the contribution of each of them. As for the management implications, the suggestion is to integrate the results obtained from the different platforms and to evaluate the configurational alternatives with multi-criteria procedures.

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