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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, ...
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 ...