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The derivative usage by listed and non-listed Italian Firms for corporate risk management
La scarsa trasparenza sull’uso dei derivati nei bilanci delle imprese è all’origine della scarsa conoscenza degli schemi di comportamento delle imprese per quanto riguarda l’impiego di tali strumenti. Questo articolo esamina le pratiche di gestione del rischio delle imprese italiane, sia quotate sia non quotate, per un’ampia varietà di rischi d’impresa: rischi di cambio, di tasso di interesse, ...
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 “Workers” is an almost outdated term that, similar to what happened with “laborers,” is now disappearing from the managerial vocabulary.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 ...
Negotiating Styles: the Impact of Culture
In today's world, negotiations increasingly involve people belonging to different cultures, and individuals belonging to different cultures tend to have different negotiating styles. These differences cannot be ignored, given that they can have a significant impact on the outcome of transactions, agreements, and collaboration. In a soon to be published study by Leonardo Caporarello, a comparison is ...
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 ...
The Meeting/Clash Between Material and Imaginary
Our readers may wonder why, on our 50th anniversary, our magazine has decided to dedicate so much attention to the year 1969. The answer, as we will attempt to illustrate in this dossier, is because some of the events from that year were very important for the issues we still deal with today; more so than the events of 1968, another symbolic year whose importance and legacy have recently been the ...
Where the Rail System Begins
From the Kingdom of Italy to the new 2016 procurement code, the history of the Italian railway system shows how the succession of different political objectives and legislative changes has made the role of evaluation techniques very difficult, too often leaving to political decisions, with can change rapidly, the task of planning and financing the works. In our country, this has generated numerous ...
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 ...
The Open Fiber Project: how and why
Founded in 2017 to pursue the goals of the "Gigabit society" indicated by the European Union, the Open Fiber project set an investment plan of 6.5 billion euros to cable 19 million residential units with an entirely fiber optic network, equal to two-thirds of the country by 2023. The company is working in 271 large cities and 8,000 small towns spread out around all 20 Italian regions.
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 ...
The Hotel Sector in Italy
From 2005 to 2019, real estate investments in the Italian hotel sector went from 494 million euros to 3,250 million euros, a total increase of 557 percent. These numbers are extremely encouraging, but in the past fifteen years the sector has had to defend itself from the effects of the 2008 crisis.