Law and Organizational Studies for Promotion of Diversity and Inclusion (LOSPD)
The goal of this doctoral course is to consider the person with disabilities in their uniqueness and in a multidimensional view. Our focus is not only on material needs, but also on existential, relational, emotional and educational needs, so that an individualized path to independent living can be developed, recognizing and valuing the role of families and caregivers.
The training is centered on a fruitful dialogue between Private Law and Business Organization, articulated in several activities: institutional teaching (strongly connected to doctoral students’ research projects and ordinary students’ training interests), internships, workshops, conferences and seminars, both in Italy and abroad. All activities of the LOSPD training pathway are aimed at students acquiring skills to recognize and value the rights of people with disabilities, in their social and existential condition, both in private relationships and in large, medium and small public and private organizations.
The course is based on an approach through which students can acquire soft skills necessary to consider the promotion of diversity as a fundamental value of a plural and inclusive society.
The course declines two levels of training and research, geared toward the critical and informed reading of legislative contexts and regulatory solutions, as well as organizational cultures and design dynamics of micro and macro organizational structure:
– vertical, in-depth and intra-disciplinary approach, as specialization is a source of competitive advantage in the processes of academic training and understanding of reality;
– horizontal, with inter-disciplinary work, as issues of inclusion, from a sustainable and long-term perspective, in themselves cover multiple domains of knowledge, inside and outside academic walls.
Particular attention, in this regard, is paid to certain archetypes (e.g. sound, color, word, etc.) that, in the coding process, they become art (thus music, drawing, theater, etc.) in the belief that perception is a diriment criterion of the processes of construction of individual and organizational subjectivity, which find in Private Law and Business Organization two fundamental disciplinary statutes that intercept disability issues.
The doctoral program is characterized by the international approach of the training course, aimed at assigning to the country-system Italy and the proposing university the strategic role of the engine of internationalization, offering other countries and partner universities – including through shared research work – a method of building and actively implementing Welfare.
The course is aimed at doctoral students and ordinary students, in the vein of a vision of learning that stimulates the attention of all enrollees to a comparison between people involved at different times in their own educational cycle. Of course, the teaching load and assessment method will be balanced with respect to the life stage that each student or doctoral student goes through. Regarding the educational offerings intended exclusively for ordinary students, please refer to the “Ordinary Course” section.
By way of example but not limited to, the main research tracks in the Area are:
– Inclusion and sensory
– Inclusion and sports
– Inclusion and new technologies
– Inclusion and the arts
– Inclusion and urban regeneration
– Inclusion, strategic management and entreprenuership
– Inclusion and public administration
– Inclusion and schools
– Inclusion and intersectionality
These research tracks see our area active on the following major publication venues:
Organization, Organization Studies, Jus Civile, Journal of Law & Society, Culture and Organization, Media Culture & Society, Person and Market, Law and Society, Disability & Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics Environment & Responsibility, Journal of Law Economics & Organization, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, European Journal of Privacy Law & Technology, Civil Justice, Critical Perspectives in Accounting, Creativity and Innovation Management, Familia, Journal of Private Law, Studies in Higher Education, Journal of Business Law
Louis Mary Sicca
University of Naples Federico II
University of Naples Federico II
University of Naples Federico II
University Essex
University of Naples Federico II
University of Naples Federico II
University of Warsaw
Alma Mater – University of Bologna
University of Naples Federico II
University of Naples Federico II
Luisa Grillo
Maddalena Romano
Alice Serra
Alexander Silvestri
XXXVIII cycle
Angelo D’Onofrio
Valeria Duraccio
Joseph Esposito
LOSPD teaching is a moment of intergenerational and interdisciplinary transmission of knowledge and, at the same time, a privileged seat of research, a place of circulation, sharing and evolution of ideas. It is an opportunity for experimentation with local actors, immersing oneself in institutions and companies, including through the participation and classroom testimony of those who experience organizations from different summits. In short, the classroom as a place of synthesis of the University’s First, Second and Third Missions.
The training activity is spread over four years.
Teaching activities are distributed over the first and second years. Throughout the four-year period, students are engaged in pursuing their own research project.
All courses provided are also open to ordinary SSM students, with the intention of fostering dialogue between students and scholars going through different stages of their education and research cycles. The work done in the classroom (and also the final assessment exams) will be appropriately calibrated, respecting these differences. Please refer to the “Ordinary Course” section for an educational offering designed exclusively for ordinary students.
Therefore, interdisciplinary participation of doctoral students and ordinary students from the School’s different research areas is encouraged.
Throughout the four years, students participate in a weekly (Thursday) meeting to share research advancements, in a cycle structured as follows: a “round-robin,” in which each in turn presents the state of the art of his or her own chapter of placement that will later enter the thesis paper, gathering from the community (the other students of all years, research directors, research fellows and regular students interested in participating) comments and stimuli aimed at improving their paper. A “turnaround” in which each presents to the same community the further advancements, also accrued in light of the comments gained in the previous round. In this way each of us contributes to the research reflections of others and is enriched by each other’s point of view. The end point of this experience is the delivery to one’s Director of Research and then to the College of Teachers each year of a “placement chapter,” the fundamental basis for the development of the thesis work.
Teaching activities are divided into core courses with a final examination, seminar activities, and activities in language training, computer science, research design, and the exploitation of its results.
FIRST YEAR
– attendance of core courses (each involves ten two-hour meetings and final test). Each course has the dual function of, on the one hand, laying the foundations of Private Law and Business Organization with specific reference to disability studies, and on the other hand, suggesting and stimulating insights and insights that each student can decline and curve in the construction of his or her own research project;
– Active participation in weekly Thursday research progress meetings;
– Active participation in research workshops, conferences and seminars organized by the Ph;
– Participation in conferences of undisputed international and national prestige on topics related to their thesis organized by other universities and research organizations;
– Submission of Positioning Chapter I viewed and approved by the Director of Research, to be submitted to the College of Education. Prerequisite for passing to the next year.
– Submission of a progress report on the research project as a whole, including the state of the art and a three-year plan, together with an account of seminars and courses attended and a bibliography relevant to the research.
SECOND YEAR
– attendance of core courses (each includes ten two-hour meetings and final test). Each of these courses has the dual function, on the one hand to lay the groundwork of Private Law and Business Organization with specific reference to disability studies, and on the other hand to suggest and stimulate insights and insights that each student can decline and curve in the construction of his or her own research project;
– Active participation in weekly Thursday research progress meetings;
– Active participation in research workshops, conferences and seminars organized by the Ph;
– Participation in conferences of undisputed international and national prestige on topics related to their thesis organized by other universities and research organizations;
– Submission of Positioning Chapter II viewed and approved by the Research Director, to be submitted to the College of Education. Prerequisite for passing to the next year.
– Submission of a progress report on the research project as a whole, including the state of the art and a three-year plan, together with an account of seminars and courses attended and a bibliography relevant to the research.
THIRD YEAR
– active participation and sharing in the coordination activity of weekly research progress meetings (back and forth rounds), both by presenting their own research developments related to the third year and by offering support of ideas and experiences gained to students in subsequent rounds;
– Active participation in research workshops, conferences and seminars organized by the Ph;
– Participation in conferences of undisputed international and national prestige on topics related to their thesis organized by other universities and research organizations;
– Possible teaching assistant activity;
– Submission of Positioning Chapter III viewed and approved by the Director of Research, to be submitted to the College of Education. Prerequisite for passing to the next year.
FOURTH YEAR
– active participation and sharing in coordinating the weekly research progress meetings (back and forth rounds), either by presenting their own research developments related to the fourth year, or by offering support of ideas and experiences gained to students in later rounds;
– Active participation in research workshops, conferences and seminars organized by the Ph;
– Participation in conferences of undisputed international and national prestige on topics related to their thesis organized by other universities and research organizations;
– Possible teaching assistant activity;
– Completion and delivery of the thesis.
Courses in this Area are open to both doctoral and ordinary students. Interdisciplinary participation from different areas of the School is therefore strongly encouraged.
The materials proposed in the respective Syllabuses, are expected to be read first e not after lectures, so that they can be studied in greater depth during the course and make the classroom interaction between lecturer and learner and any guests more active and fruitful, thus experiencing classroom presence as the construction and synthesis of higher education.
The purpose of the lectures is to accompany doctoral and ordinary students in learning the theoretical and methodological constructs of Private Law and Business Organization, starting from some theoretical premises and then advancing along gradual levels of depth, until developing conceptual frameworks that enable them to intercept and understand the concrete aspects that concern disability, both in private relationships and with large, medium and small public and private institutions and companies.
Therefore, in keeping with the tradition that holds Law and Economics together, it is considered essential that the single curriculum that characterizes the LOSPD area allows students with a legal background to gain full mastery of the content learned in Business Organization courses and – likewise – all students with an economics background to gain full mastery of the content learned in Private Law courses.
a.a 2023/24 – I semester – Davide Bizjak (University of Naples Federico II) – Organization theory
a.y. 2023/24 – II semester – Guglielmo Faldetta (University of Enna Kore) – Business Ethics
a.y. 2022/23 – I semester – Davide Bizjak (University of Naples Federico II) – Organization theory
a.y. 2021/22 – I semester – Davide Bizjak (University of Naples Federico II) – Organization theory
a.y. 2021/22 – Semester II – Teresa Anna Rita Gentile (SSM) – Adaptive e-learning for disability
The following activities are managed in concert with other SSM doctoral programs.
Language courses: Italian language courses for foreigners, as well as English, French, German and Spanish are offered by the University Language Center.
Computer skills: The School organizes short courses to train doctoral students in the critical use of digital resources and familiarize them with tools such as searching and managing online sources.
Research management, knowledge of research systems and funding sources: The School organizes training activities on funding opportunities.
Enhancement of Research Results and Intellectual Property: The School organizes activities on the dissemination of scientific research, the protection of research results and authors, the protection of intellectual property, and patent procedures in national and international contexts.
For the transition to the next year, please refer to what is stated in the “Teaching Organization” section.
“LOSPD – Research Advances. Thursday Meetings” consists of two meetings spaced out in time: one outward and one return. In the first meeting, each student presents his or her ideas by receiving feedback from the SSM community; in the second meeting, each student presents follow-up on the basis of the comments received and enriched by the study carried out in the intervening period since the first meeting, proposing for collegial discussion the progress actually accrued, thanks in part to the ideas developed during the work done in the classroom by actively participating in the core courses (please refer to the section “Organization of Teaching”).
“LOSPD – Research Advances. Thursday Meetings” is open to the entire SSM community, regardless of area, under the banner of genuine circulation of ideas and concepts between disciplinary fields.
2021-2022 – LOSPD – Research Advances: Thursday Meetings.
En attendant … wonders about how delicate and important is the relationship between “being” a scientific community and “participating” to the life of a scientific community.
En attendant … is a cycle of international seminars. A cloistered experience. To be together, with a high level of focusing.
En attendant … aims to prepare the LOSPD academic community and its members for competition at the international conferences of leading international scientific societies: A year-round 365 days.
En attendant … is based on the awareness of how complex the relationship between means and ends always is: in the history of philosophy as well as in the theories and practices of Law and Organizing. When “being” a scientific community, it gives weight to the importance of the processes that engenders research products.
En attendant … believes that the internationalization of research is both an object and a method and pays great attention to the processes (how-to-do), as well as on the results and performances (what to do/get). When “participating” in the life of a scientific community means constructing-togheter significant research products that effectively represent the result of an underlying research endeavor.
En attendant … do not uses to practice “defend your paper”. We strongly believe that a researcher should know how to listen critically, and after having listened to others, going on “work on it.” Doing exactly this, standing by and “working on it” is, nowadays, perhaps the missing piece among adults in permanent competition … en attendant.
En attendant… provides the opportunity for participants to publish their work in progress in pIJ.
En attendant… is designed and developed by Luigi Maria Sicca (Coordinator LOSPD – SSM) together with Edoardo Mollona (member of the Scientific board LOSPD – SSM) and Luca Zan within puntOorg International Research Network and is part of the academic research and teaching proposal of the LOSPD Area of SSM.
Doctoral students are offered the opportunity to study and do research abroad and conduct their own research through co-tutorship agreements.
Universities and international research centers with which members of the Scientific Council have research collaborations:
– University of Essex
– University of Gothenburg
– Humboldt University of Berlin
– McGill University of Montreal
– New York University (NYU)
– University of Warsaw
– European Academy of Management
– European Group of Organization Studies
– puntOorg International Research Network
Course length: 4 years
Scholarship: € 19,000 gross annually.
In addition to the scholarship, each student has a fund available for research activities.