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This study aims to investigate the existing link between Total Quality Management (TQM) and Sustainability, consistent with the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) approach. For this purpose, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was carried out, which resulted in a corpus of 139 scientific articles covering the period from 1996 to 2023. Two research questions were answered: (1) What are the main research methodologies adopted in literature to analyze the relationship between TQM and Sustainability? (2) Which are the mostly used CSFs of TQM for achieving Sustainability? Based on this analysis, a thorough explanation of why TQM can be considered the catalyst of Sustainability is presented. The results indicate how four CSFs of TQM, which are Human Resources Management 'HRM', 'Process management', 'Customer Focus' and 'Continuous Improvement', recur and intersect with each other in literature. Finally, from a managerial perspective, this research represents a significant contribution in establishing the importance of a TQM-oriented management approach to achieve Sustainability, providing insights and understanding to guide managers/decision-makers to enhance sustainability in quality improvement processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to reconstruct the long and multifaceted intellectual biography of Mario Alighiero Manacorda (1914-2013). The analysis will focus on the four phases of Manacorda's educational research: the Marxism pedagogy (1960s-1970s), the history of education (1970s-1980s), the relationship between laicity and schooling (1980s-1990s) and the history of sport (2000s). The contribution also attempts to show how Manacorda interprets these four themes in the light of the cultural paradigm of Marxism and in particular through the works of Marx, Engels and Gramsci. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to highlight some of the unique characteristics of Mario Alighiero Manacorda’s Storia illustrata dell’educazione, demonstrating its originality in the field of historical-educational studies related to iconography. Firstly, the work’s dual purpose, which is both popular and scientific, will be examined in relation to Giunti’s publishing policy. Then, the limits and potential of the work will be identified in order to show that, as is often the case with avant-garde works, it is not free of contradictions. These contradictions can still be read today in a way that is fruitfully for future historical-educational research on iconography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]