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Magazine article (E&M - 2020/2) Costabile Michele, Mazzù Marco Francesco

The Supply and Demand of Uniqueness

The need for differentiation and distinction, that in its extreme version reaches what is known as the “need for uniqueness,”[1] has a well-known psychobiological origin, and in that sense can be considered a natural necessity of the human race. However, there is no question that the basic need to feel or appear different, to distinguish oneself, has emerged with increasing intensity in ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/3) Perretti Fabrizio

Behind "Resilience" and "Mindfulness"

The concepts of "resilience" and "mindfulness," that are strictly correlated, deal with the management of emotions, stress scenarios, and the past. Yet they are often presented in a distorted manner, de facto legitimizing the source of the very problems they are called on to resolve.

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/1) Paolino Emilia

When Negative Emotions are Good for the Team

In work contexts, leaders are a source of emotional experience since they occupy a position that plays a leading role in the development of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes. For a team to develop a strong orientation towards learning, it is thus essential for there to be a leader able to effectively manage emotional strategies. While for some, negative emotions represent obstacles and ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/3) Perretti Fabrizio

Goodbye Workers?

This dossier is dedicated to work, and more specifically to workers in businesses and organizations in a broad sense. “Workers” is an almost outdated term that, similar to what happened with “laborers,” is now disappearing from the managerial vocabulary. In its place people speak of “human resources” and “human capital,” and no longer of “employees” but “associates.” Yet we ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Perretti Fabrizio

Celebrating Heroes: On Rewards in Corporations

A fundamental part of our social life is based on the universal need to have the respect, esteem and approval of the people around us. Public prizes and awards are some of the instruments that carry out this important social function. Initially limited to situations outside of employment fields not driven by commercial logic (sports, culture, civil and military valor), prizes and public awards of ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Simonella Zenia

The Boom of Sex Toys (Thanks to E-commerce)

1969. The year the first sex shop opened in Italy. Since then the number of such stores has grown, especially in the 1980s and ’90s. Today the approximately 500 “physical” stores present in Italy[1] must deal with the opening of an increasing number of stores present exclusively online. This is a trend taking place throughout Europe: for example, the Beate Uhse company, that had a chain of franchises ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/3) Fosti Giovanni, Perobelli Eleonora, Saporito Raffaella

The Irresistible Appeal of Hybrid Organizations in the Public Context

The growing requests for integration of social impact and financial returns of businesses,[1] the attention to issues of environmental and social sustainability in the private sector, and the Millennium Development Goals introduced by the United Nations are only some of the reasons for the popularity of the debate linked to hybrid organizations. But what is meant by hybrid organizations? These ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/1)

Operations and Supply Chains Tested by the Pandemic

In this difficult moment in history, the operations and supply chains of Italian companies have been sorely tried by the effects of the pandemic as never before. A survey conducted on almost 300 Italian companies belonging to various production sectors, photographed the situation of operations and supply chains during the first lockdown, and attempted to offer some predictions for the future.

Magazine article (E&M - 2017/5/6) Abolfathi Niloofar

Iran from the Inside

Con la riapertura dei rapporti commerciali in seguito all’accordo sul nucleare, l’Iran rappresenta secondo alcuni osservatori la più grande economia a (ri)entrare nel mercato globale dai tempi del crollo dell’Unione Sovietica. Si tratta di un’economia ampia e diversificata, in cui le risorse naturali (petrolio, gas, ma anche rame e zinco) hanno un peso significativo ma non totalizzante. Un ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2017/5/6) Molteni Luca

More Characters, Better Twitter?

Il 2016 ha rappresentato l’ottavo anno di effettiva operatività per Twitter, uno snodo spesso cruciale nella vita delle Internet companies. Nel corso dell’anno, il valore azionario dell’azienda ha toccato il minimo storico, sollevando numerosi interrogativi sul futuro di medio-lungo periodo della piattaforma social. Per far fronte alla dinamica sfavorevole, il CEO Jack Dorsey ha proposto di ...