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Magazine article (E&M - 2015/02) Gatti Stefano

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 ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2012/02) Laureiro Daniella

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 ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2012/05) Castellaneta Francesco

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 ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2012/03) Conti Raffaele

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, ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2012/04) Vlasic Goran

Market driving strategies

Ever since market orientation was conceptualized and provided managers with a framework for managing sustainable competitive advantage (Kumar, Jones, Vankatesan, Leone 2011), firms have increasingly been recognizing customers as kings, focusing on satisfying their needs, and asserted customer centricity as their key value. This narrow understanding of the marketing concept led firms to struggle in ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2012/03) Di Stefano Giada

Knowledge, Innovation, and Social Norms in Creative Industries