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Doing Business and Working in Sub-Saharan Africa
L’Africa, al di là degli stereotipi, non è un’entità culturale omogenea. L’articolo evidenzia le differenze tra paesi africani, le influenze delle culture ex coloniali e la loro inedita fusione con le culture africane, nonché la presenza di imprenditori, trader e dirigenti di azienda africani di origine straniera, dalla Cina all’Olanda, in un mix composito di ibridazione culturale. Secondo ...
Value-Focused Management: Achieving More with Existing Resources
In these turbulent days where businesses are struggling for their survival they must do the paradigm shift and deliver more using existing resources.
Banking union and fiscal backstops
The banking union is an epochal institutional change, comparable in many respects to the introduction of the euro in 1999. Besides the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), the banking union comprises a Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) with its Single Resolution Fund (SRF), and a harmonized system of deposit insurance schemes. The new institutional architecture is certainly an important step forward ...
Fantastical thinking, transportation and persuasion in advertising
Nowadays using advertising narratives is becoming a priority for companies that want to capture customers’ attention (Hogan 2003). Narrative advertising (i.e. story-like format advertisements which contain rich details thematically and temporally related (Adaval, Wyer 1998; Wells 1989) are able to engage individuals (Hirschman 2010). This is the case of the new Dior campaign (2011) crafted ...
The resurgence of M&A. Interview with Mr. Gregg Lemkau, Global Head M&A Goldman Sachs
Dear Mr. Lemkau, 2014 seems a very good year for M&A. Recent announced mega deals (see, for example, in the Cable TV, social media and pharmaceutical business) have opened the year in a risk on mood for corporations and investors. Can you please give us your point of view about the driving forces behind this renewed upward trend? We are certainly seeing a resurgence of M&A activity in ...
A Glance at the Future. The Effects of Anticipated Disclosure of Concept Products on Consumer Evaluation of Marketed Products
In 2010 Canon introduced to the public its Wonder Camera concept, a futuristic reflex camera that is currently under development at Canon’s lab, and that is forecasted to be launched on the market in 2030. The concept camera has been presented as implementing many breakthrough innovations. For instance, it features a single integrated lens with unprecedented focal length whereas current reflex cameras ...
Pension Funds’ Long Term Investment: A Huge Potential Demand. Interview with Mr. Raffaele Della Croce, Lead Manager, Long-term Investment Project, OECD
Looking back at the past few years, the spectrum of possible interested investors in infrastructure is now much broader. Can you please provide an overview of the different channels to infrastructure investments available to the private sector? Infrastructure can be financed using different capital channels. The evolution of the capital markets shows that financial innovation develops new financial ...
The Cognitive and Neuropsychological Foundations of Strategic Decision-Making
My research seeks to uncover the cognitive and neuropsychological foundations of strategy. I take an attention modulation perspective to understand how decision making processes differ among managers and innovative entrepreneurs. Attention has been recognized as being the chief bottleneck in organizational activity (Simon 1971). I have always found puzzling how different organizational leaders ...
The double-edged sword of experience in strategic decisions. Evidence from the private equity sector
Research objective The overarching objective of my research is to contribute to our understanding of the positive and negative experiential learning factors linked to the development of organizational capabilities in strategic tasks. Experience is both an opportunity and a restriction – a resource and an obstacle for change, a space to explore and a prison. To gain insights into the puzzling ...
Chance or Necessity? Exploring the determinants of technological breakthroughs
Introduction I would like to wholeheartedly thank the members of my committee – i.e. Alfonso Gambardella, Andrew A. King, and Gianmario Verona – for their advice, guidance, and support along the PhD years and in the development of my dissertation. This work greatly benefited from insightful interactions with Wilbur Chung, Paola Cillo, Elena Dalpiaz, Emmanuelle Fauchart, Jennifer Jordan, Adam Kleinbaum, ...