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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. ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/3) Conca Valter, Locatelli Mauro

Best Practices in Acquisition Contracts

Acquisition contracts are increasingly complex and structured. Corporate transactions, private equity deals, controlling and minority stakes, and pricing mechanisms complicate negotiations and influence the closing times of operations. Contracts have standard clauses with the application of very diverse perimeters and quantities as a function of the type of operation and the characteristics of the ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/4) Bellofiore Riccardo, Vertova Giovanna

Why We Should Go Back to Reading Marx

One of the new elements of neoliberalism is the possibility of capitalist accumulation that segments and divides the world of labor, rather than making it homogenous. Yet reunification of labor, that leads to collective awareness by workers to produce common struggles for the defense of their rights, is extremely complicated. To overcome the current crisis a new model of development is needed, that ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/4) Calabrò Antonio

A New Management of Global Markets

The fragmentation of global value chains in many economic sectors and the emergence of a "regional globalization" require a rethinking of internal demand limited to some large areas, such as Europe. Temptations for protectionist policies, whether in Europe or in single member states, must be offset with balanced economic development policies in the long-term, based on the advantages of maintaining ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/4) Zamagni Vera

State Intervention in the Economy? What Counts is Quality

Today's advanced countries, including Italy, were able to produce a revolution in industry, and then in services, thanks to entrepreneurship favored by the active role of the state and public institutions. In the first two decades after the Second World War, there was maximum exploitation of the impetus generated previously by public institutions. The active role of IRI, the special interventions ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/3) Vidè Francesco, Valotti Giovanni

New Bureaucracy? Make Way for Youth

Policies blocking turnover have caused a resizing and aging of the Italian public administration, raising the need to rejuvenate and upgrade the bureaucratic machine. To that end, it is essential to invest in processes of attraction and selection of young talent, competing in the labor market with private businesses. International experiences show the effective introduction of active recruitment strategies ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/4) Peretti Fabrizio

Carlo De Benedetti: Publishing between Passion and Business

In this wide-ranging interview, Engineer De Benedetti talks about his past experience as the publisher of Repubblica, and his new adventure at the head of Domani. There is also criticism of the current government and the new leadership of Confindustria, as well as some reflections on the relationship between capital and labor.

Magazine article (E&M - 2020/4) Pedersini Roberto

Industrial Relations in the Time of Globalization

The internationalization of markets has made businesses both weaker and stronger at the same time: weaker in the markets, faced with new global competition, and strategically stronger with respect to labor representatives.#Despite growing individualization in the relationships between workers and businesses, globalization and economic transformation have not changed the centrality of labor in our ...