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Magazine article (E&M - 2021/2) Dossi Andrea, Pippo Federico

Value Strategies and Cost Deductibility for Intragroup Services

The internationalization of activities is one of the most effective strategies able to generate value for business. Multinational enterprises are able to do so exploiting economies of scale, economies of scope, and geographic diversification, in order to reach the best performance along three key determinants of value: current efficiency, risk management, and innovation and learning. The intersection ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/2) Moretti Anna

The Italian Automotive Sector between Innovation and Business Networks

The economic crisis that has hit the automotive sector due to the Covid-19 pandemic has had significant effects on supply and demand, de facto accelerating the technological transition and paradigm shift that had already begun in this sector. The Italian supply chain has accumulated a significant gap over the years compared to its international competitors in terms of research and development and ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Perretti Fabrizio

Americanism and Managerial Models

From the postwar period to today, Europe has always looked with admiration and envy to the greatness of America, thinking that the gap with the United States could be closed by creating an economic union or importing managerial models that are often containers of ideology more than organizational techniques. However, it is not sufficient to increase the size of markets or uncritically import some ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Lanza Andrea, Simone Giuseppina, Luberto Gaetano

The Renewer’s Dilemma in the Management of Collective Turnover

The renewal of human capital in businesses represents a need that it both strategic and operational at the same time. There is no avoiding this issue, and the timeframe in which it takes place can have a significant impact not only on a company’s results, but at times even on its very survival. Putting off such an operation can in fact mean the loss of a significant component of shared experience. ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Caporarello Leonardo

Negotiation: How Important is Cultural Background?

An activity present in every human community and society, but carried out following norms, methods, and behavior that can be very different depending on different cultural backgrounds: this is how we could describe negotiation in an intercultural perspective. In a world of globalized business, in which organizations and professionals increasingly find themselves interacting with colleagues and ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Brechbühl Hans, Abbatemarco Nico

The Hidden Challenge of Digital Transformation

Digital transformation has brought many challenges to enterprises in the last ten years. The consumerization of information technology has produced a shift from traditional legacy user interfaces and software to the need for consumer-grade, user-friendly interfaces and experiences at work. The proliferation of mobile technologies and the internet of things has expanded boundaries far beyond the physical ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Meregalli Severino, De Rossi Leonardo Maria, Diaferia Lorenzo

How to Draw Value from Data in the Post-Digital Era

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently estimated that by the end of 2020, the total of data stored globally should reach the volume of 44 Zettabytes, which means having a quantity of bytes forty times greater than the number of stars in the universe. In the world of big data and digitalization, imaginative references such as those of the WEF on the growth of data volume have by now become ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Micacchi Lorenza, Valotti Giovanni

The Issue of Corporate Governance in Public Utilities

Public utilities, companies operating in the sectors of water, the environment, energy, and transport, have a profound impact on quality of life, being responsible for basic infrastructure and the provision of the main services in the collective interest of the population. In the history of our country, these companies grew in monopoly conditions, as a direct representation of the public entities ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Bilotta Nicola, Botti Fabrizio

Big Tech Finance between Efficiency and Market Choices

The banking industry is undergoing a process of deep transformation driven principally by technological innovations that at the same time have impacted not only the efficiency of the sector, but above all the competition involving various categories of new actors. In addition to challenger banks and fintech startups, the international market has seen the growth of big tech finance. Unlike the ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/3) Cristini Guido

Online vs Offline Distribution Goes Beyond

The traditional levers of the retail mix are still fundamental for the creation of a bond of trust with the end customer, but must be accompanied by tools and methods that, in the context of the digital economy, have proven to be particularly effective. Methods of purchase increasingly take place based on the active participation of the consumer in the construction and personalization of the service. ...