Vita e Pensiero

The case study deals with Luxottica, an Italian company world leader in the design, manufacture, distribution and sale of eyeglasses. Developed by a process of negotiation and coordination with the trade unions and employees in 2009, Luxottica’s corporate welfare aims to develop both corporate social responsibility and corporate citizenship...

This essay is focused on a interesting case of social innovation for an ancient charity institution of the city of Brescia, Lombardia, Italy. The Congrega della Carità Apostolica, in fact, while it is a traditional religiously inspirited catholic congregation, nevertheless in the last years has changed its way of to be present in the local context as a social resource. In this new perspective, the Congrega is now a new actor of an innovative welfare system...

Subject of this paper is the analysis of an innovative method of response to the needs of “fragile” children, that is, those children/young people (Italians and foreigners) without reference adults that are able to take responsibility for the children themselves: this method is represented by the figure of the volunteer legal guardian...

This article offers a reflection on the concept of second welfare. The analysis starts from the challenges to the traditional welfare state to investigate whether second welfare can be regarded as a solution aiming to propose interventions...

The article faces the question of social powers’self-regulation that emerge as a result of processes related to globalization, both at global, national and local level...

This study analyses the main legal issues arising in the field of the medical liability litigation. In particular, the author outlines the problems related to the existence of a large number of proceedings (even though the damage compensation claims are usually not as relevant) and the burdens connected to their management in charge of the medical operators and of the insurance companies, notwithstanding the possible negative outcome of the litigation. Subsequently the author identifies the possible advantages, as well as the limits connected to the resort to the devices of alternative dispute resolution, describing the most significant experiences in the field of the conciliation and the mediation.