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The Macroeconomic Context: Strengths and Weaknesses
The decision of whether or not to invest significance public resources for the development of transport infrastructure has been, and is, at the center of public debate in Italy. On the one hand are the supporters of the absolute necessity of boosting public investment, especially in the sector of large-scale works, and on the other those who consider such choices useless or even harmful. So starting ...
Industrial Relations in the Time of Globalization
The internationalization of markets has made businesses both weaker and stronger at the same time: weaker in the markets, faced with new global competition, and strategically stronger with respect to labor representatives.#Despite growing individualization in the relationships between workers and businesses, globalization and economic transformation have not changed the centrality of labor in our ...
Business-Labor: Equal Status and Common Planning
The pandemic has highlighted the fragilities and deep inequalities that characterize the current economic system. At the same time, a process has begun that requires a profound change, the participation of workers in business decisions. Fifty years after Italy's "Workers' Statute" was passed, the time has come to define a new statute that guarantees the same rights and protections, independent of ...
Work and Institutions in the Global Fast Fashion Market
Economic globalization and the vigorous managerial efforts to minimize labor costs in the fast fashion sector have had the consequence of devaluing the work of employees, standardizing their duties, and gradually reducing investments in training. A comparative analysis between the United States and Italy has shown that, despite the greater regulatory safeguards present in our country, the levels of ...
Multicultural Leadership as a Lever for Success
The Chinese companies that invest in Italy are increasingly numerous and diversified by sector. In the last decade of pre-Covid globalization they have more than doubled, reaching 722 companies with 42,600 employees and 24.5 billion euros in overall turnover. The greatest boom was recorded from 2012 to 2018 and is explained in part by “China’s Go Global Policy,” with which China intends to push ...
The New Silk Road. One, None and a Hundred Thousand
Some time ago, a friend who works for a non-governmental organization was interviewed by a journalist regarding the risks linked to some Chinese projects to construct coal-fired power plants in a certain country of Southeast Asia. Although the local authorities had promised to work towards a carbon-free future, some of these projects had not been abandoned, and the journalist wanted to know if the ...