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Diversity Management: An Extensive Terrain Still to Be Explored
The world of diversity management in SMEs is a terrain that has been little explored. In the databases of academic studies there are few contributions dedicated specifically to this theme, and precise data is lacking on the spread and adoption in SMEs of policies and practices of diversity management. Focusing attention on Italy, the survey on the spread and adoption of these practices conducted in ...
Facing the New Normal: Skills, Resources, and Leadership
While the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Italian industrial system is well-documented by statistical data that easily generates agreement between scholars and practitioners, a broad and unresolved debate regards the elements of excellence, factors of vulnerability, and conditions of development of that type of economic actor. The ability to adapt, proactiveness, flexibility, ...
SMEs and Continuity of Success in the New Scenarios of Competition
Businesses have always been involved in the fascinating process of seeking success, challenging themselves with the goal of understanding what to do to improve their results, in the difficult search for a response on how to act in tough situations. In all historical periods, those emerge who are better able to interpret the competitive context to be faced and to construct an effective synthesis that ...
A Complex Three Years that Bring Problems and Opportunities
From 2020 to today, Italian small enterprises have been living through “interesting times,” as the Slovenian sociologist Slavoj Žižek would say, to use a euphemism. In these three years, our enterprises have been affected by various types of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events: the health emergency, the war crisis, growing inflation, and most recently the energy crisis. As in the past, this ...