Innovative Accreditation Standards in Education and Training The Ita
The aim of this book is to examine how technical and institutional factors affect the responsiveness of public and private organisations to a change in accreditation standards, with specific reference to the vocational educational and training (VET) secto
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Innovative Accreditation Standards in Education and Training The Italian Experience in Ethical Standards and the Impact on Business Organisation
Innovative Accreditation Standards in Education and Training
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Pietro Previtali
Innovative Accreditation Standards in Education and Training The Italian Experience in Ethical Standards and the Impact on Business Organisation
Pietro Previtali Economics and Management Science University of Pavia Pavia Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-16915-6 ISBN 978-3-319-16916-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-16916-3
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Organisational Theories and Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 A Comparison of Organisational Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 The Classical Organisational Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 The Structural Contingency Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Organisational Ecology, Resource Dependence and Transaction Cost Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 The New: Institutionalism and Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Ethical Challenge: An Italian Way Through Organisational Models and Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 Ethics and the Responsibility of Legal Persons in Italy: The Legislative Decree n. 231/2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 The Company’s Responsibility and Organisational Models . . . . . . 2.3 Compliance and Organisational Models:
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