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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 ...

From the platform economy to the ecosystem economy: how AI is rewriting global competition

Amazon, Alibaba, Apple and Google are the champions of the platform economy. But a new frontier is emerging: the ecosystem economy. Unlike a platform, which has a clearly defined center and a dominant player that controls the rules of the game, an ecosystem is a networked set of relationships in which multiple companies, organizations and communities collaborate. There is no longer a single infrastructure ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Dossi Andrea, Meloni Gianluca

In Management Control the Goal Is to Align Measures and Strategies

Relevance, systemic approach, ability to influence, and ability to generate trust are the four key principles in order to inspire the mission, logics, models, activities, and skills of the Management Planning and Control System (MPCS). Referring to those principles, it is possible to give substance to the concept of "partnership with business," understood as the ability to effectively interface with ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Cameran Mara, Ditillo Angelo, Pettinicchio Angela

How Technology Helps Auditors an Companies

Auditing activities require, and will increasingly require, the availability of knowledge and skills that allow for properly analyzing and using data and information obtained thanks to new technologies.#We can expect a significant impact due to technological transformation in terms of efficacy and efficiency of auditing services provided to clients, but that impact will not necessarily take place ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Caiozzo Paola

The Challenges and Methods of Remote Sales

A survey conducted by SDA Bocconi sheds light on the behavior of sellers during the months of the lockdown and the evolution of remote selling during the pandemic .

Magazine article (E&M - 2022/2) Stabilini Giuseppe

Procurement and AI: Applications, Results, and Future Prospects

An investigation conducted by SDA Bocconi highlights the degree of implementation of AI technologies in the various phases of the purchasing process during the pandemic .

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Basaglia Stefano

Conflict Management Is The Great Challenge

On an organizational level, some interpersonal conflicts can be managed by working on how identity is expressed and interpreted; for conflicts that regard encounters/clashes between the identity of single workers and that of organizations, a collective identity and culture can be made more elastic in order to include more diversity. In the case of intractable conflicts, the only solution is the exclusion ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2021/4) Cuomo Simona, Simonella Zenia

Managing Disability Beyond the Stigma

In Italy, the degree of adoption of policies and practices on the subject of disability is still low. The few cases of success are determined more by personal factors (individual motivations) and contingent factors (a good boss, sensitive colleagues), than by the systematic efforts of HR and organizations. This shows that businesses are neither equipped in terms of knowledge and skills to manage the ...